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纳丁·多里斯 17 海军首领就国防资金问题猛烈抨击里夫斯

作者：马克·尼科尔 国防编辑

英国皇家海军首领昨日就国防资金不足的问题，对瑞秋·里夫斯发起了极其猛烈的抨击。

第一海务大臣的这一番抨击直指财政大臣，敦促她在为时太晚之前，使英国的国防支出与英国敌对国家的投入相匹配。圭恩·詹金斯上将的这次演讲是他在几天之内第二次为增加国防开支而奔走呼吁。

与此同时，乌克兰总统弗拉基米尔·泽连斯基访问了唐宁街，会见基尔·斯塔默爵士及其他欧洲领导人，以推动和平谈判保持在正轨上。

第一海务大臣警告称，英国正处于将北大西洋输给俄罗斯的边缘，这可能会让弗拉基米尔·普京将英国与其盟友隔离开来，并摧毁英国的海底能源与通信基础设施。

圭恩爵士表示：“俄罗斯继续向其北方舰队投入数十亿资金。进入我方海域的入侵次数增加了 30% [由”

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摘要：阴雨有风

英国今日：早晨以持续降雨和强劲南风为主，至傍晚逐渐转为阵雨。随着气温下降，云量增加，随后风向转为西南风。最高气温 15℃。

今日天气

	上午9点	中午12点	下午3点	下午6点	晚上9点
伦敦	12℃	14℃	14℃	14℃	12℃
普利茅斯	13℃	14℃	13℃	12℃	11℃
卡迪夫	13℃	14℃	13℃	11℃	10℃
伯明翰	12℃	14℃	15℃	13℃	10℃
曼彻斯特	13℃	15℃	15℃	13℃	11℃
纽卡斯尔	11℃	13℃	14℃	13℃	10℃
格拉斯哥	9℃	13℃	14℃	12℃	10℃
阿伯丁	9℃	10℃	12℃	12℃	10℃
贝尔法斯特	13℃	14℃	12℃	9℃	8℃

5日预报

	周三	周四	周五	周六	周日
伦敦	14℃	12℃	12℃	12℃	12℃
普利茅斯	13℃	12℃	11℃	12℃	12℃
卡迪夫	13℃	12℃	10℃	11℃	12℃
伯明翰	12℃	11℃	10℃	10℃	11℃
曼彻斯特	12℃	11℃	9℃	10℃	11℃
纽卡斯尔	11℃	10℃	9℃	9℃	10℃
格拉斯哥	11℃	11℃	9℃	10℃	11℃
阿伯丁	10℃	10℃	8℃	8℃	9℃
贝尔法斯特	10℃	10℃	8℃	8℃	9℃

欧洲预报

城市	今日天气	℃	℉	明日天气	℃	℉	城市	今日天气	℃	℉	明日天气	℃
日内瓦	晴	12	54	晴	12
阿姆斯特丹	多云	13	55	多云	13	55	里斯本	雨	17	63	晴	17
布鲁塞尔	晴朗	14	57	多云	13	55	马德里	薄雾	14	57	雨	11
法兰克福	晴朗	12	54	雨	11	52	巴黎	晴朗	15	59	多云	13
							罗马	晴	17	63	晴	16

昨日全球天气

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城市< / td>< colspan="2">当地时间正午< / >< / tr><><>天气< / ><>摄氏度 华氏度< / >< / ><><>新德里< / ><>晴< / ><>22 72< / >< / ><><>纽约< / ><>多云< / ><>5 41< / >< / ><><>尼斯< / ><>晴< / ><>15 59< / >< / ><><>奥斯陆< / ><>雨< / ><>6 43< / >< / ><><>帕尔马< / ><>晴朗< / ><>17 63< / >< / ><><>巴黎< / ><>阵雨< / ><>16 61< / >< / ><><>珀斯< / ><>晴< / ><>29 84< / >< / ><><>布拉格< / ><>晴朗< / ><>12 54< / >< / ><><>罗得岛< / ><>晴< / ><>18 64< / >< / ><><>里加< / ><>多云< / ><>2 36< / >< / ><><>罗马< / ><>晴< / ><>15 59< / >< / ><><>新加坡< / ><>晴朗< / ><>29 84< / >< / ><><>斯德哥尔摩< / ><>雨< / ><>7 45< / >< / ><><>斯特拉斯堡< / ><>多云< / ><>15 59< / >< / ><><>悉尼< / ><>晴朗< / ><>26 79< / >< / ><><>丹吉尔< / ><>晴< / ><>19 66< / >< / ><><>特拉维夫< / ><>晴朗< / ><>20 68< / >< / ><><>特内里费< / ><>晴< / ><>25 77< / >< / ><><>东京< / ><>晴< / ><>16 61< / >< / ><><>多伦多< / ><>雪< / ><>1 30< / >< / ><><>突尼斯< / ><>晴< / ><>20 68< / >< / ><><>温哥华< / ><>阵雨< / ><>10 50< / >< / ><><>威尼斯< / ><>晴< / ><>11 52< / >< / ><><>维也纳< / ><>雨< / ><>7 45< / >< / ><><>华沙< / ><>多云< / ><>8 46< / >< / ><><>惠灵顿< / ><>晴朗< / ><>21 70< / >< / table>

一份令人震惊的报告揭露，在英国最大的警队中，针对抗议活动的“双重标准”执法“不仅是一种感知，而且是现实”。

月相与日出日落

月出：晚上 9:17，月落：上午 11:45 日出（伦敦）：上午 7:54，日落：下午 3:51 日出（曼彻斯特）：上午 8:12，日落：下午 3:49 高潮（伦敦桥）：下午 4:57 （利物浦）：下午 2:06

极端天气（昨日下午 6 点前 24 小时） 最高温：大伦敦希思罗，15℃ (59℉)。最低温：亚伯丁郡菲维城堡，-1℃ (30℉)。最高降水量：罗斯和克罗马蒂的阿克纳加特，0.77 英寸。日照最长：杜伦郡杜伦，4.8 小时。

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抗议活动的“双重标准”执法确实存在

作者：Rebecca Camber 犯罪与安全编辑

报告称，伦敦警察厅将示威者的权利置于普通民众之上，未能及时采取逮捕行动，且对某些抗议团体的处理比其他团体更为宽松。

一家有影响力的智库在评估中认为，这可能会让公众认为“法律与秩序的力量已经失去了对街道的控制，将其交给了暴徒”。

政策交流（Policy Exchange）的这份报告呼吁将伦敦警察厅重新置于“特别监管”之下。

该报告对警察局长马克·罗利爵士（Sir Mark Rowley）在任三年的表现进行了严厉评估，指出由于人们认为“伦敦存在一种对犯罪纵容的文化”，公众对警方的信心已跌至历史最低点。与此同时，警方在抢劫和入室盗窃案中仅能锁定 20 分之一的罪犯，在商店盗窃案中为 13 分之一，而在街头抢劫案中仅为 179 分之一。

现在，政策交流希望

局长：马克·罗利爵士

伦敦市长萨迪克·汗爵士（Sir Sadiq Khan）被剥夺对伦敦警察厅的监督责任，并表示应赋予内政大臣权力，以确保警方的绩效得到改善。

报告题为《漫漫长路》

“损害了其声誉”

报告批评该警队选择“将抗议者的权利置于广大公众的权利之上”，并指责警员在示威活动中保护穆斯林群体的力度超过了对犹太社区的保护。报告称：“由于显然是基于抗议原因或抗议者身份而对不同群体采取差别对待，‘双轨制执法’已日益明显，这不仅是一种感知，而是现实。”

“警察可能会来。你对抢劫犯的政治倾向有什么线索吗？”

“这种对警察权力及法律的不一致应用，或许是现代警务中最令人不安的方面之一——这一因素在许多人眼中严重损害了警务公正的声誉。”

在引用的一项示例中，警队在10月 25 日塔沃汉姆莱茨（Tower Hamlets）的一次英国独立党（Ukip）抗议活动中申请了“极其严格的限制条件”，理由是该地拥有英国最高比例的穆斯林居民，且此次抗议引起了“当地严重的担忧”。

报告称：“在之前的活动中，警队显然不愿为了犹太社区或广大公众采取类似的强硬措施，而现在却愿意为了保护当地穆斯林人口而施加如此严格的限制，这表明高级警官准备对不同群体应用不同的标准。”

与此同时，去年伦敦共有 81,279 部手机被盗，而商店盗窃案在四年内增长了三倍，在 2024 / 25 年度达到 93,705 起。政策交流中心（Policy Exchange）将此归咎于萨迪克爵士减少了拦截搜查，称这“对打击犯罪产生了灾难性的影响”。

大都会警察局指挥官海莉·斯图尔特（Hayley Stewart）表示：“我们的‘新大都会伦敦计划’在社区最关心的议题上取得了显著改善，伦敦全市的犯罪率正在下降。”

萨迪克爵士的一位发言人表示：“对于市长来说，没有什么比保障伦敦安全更重要，他继续通过严厉打击犯罪来发挥领导作用，仅今年就为警方提供了创纪录的 11.6 亿英镑 billion 支持。”马克·罗利爵士警告称，首都中近三分之一应当佩戴电子脚镣的罪犯并未佩戴。

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卡米拉，鲁特郡女王

《对手》粉丝王后访问情色大作拍摄现场，结识以其前夫为原型的情圣！

假厨房，真蛋糕：王后昨日在拍摄现场与饰演莫德·奥哈拉的维多利亚·斯默菲特，以及饰演万人迷鲁珀特·坎贝尔-布莱克的亚历克斯·哈塞尔在一起

缅怀吉莉夫人：卡米拉拿着她的礼品袋，上方照片中她正与大卫·特南特聊天

作者：丽贝卡·英格利希 王室编辑

对于一位在患肺炎期间“刷完”了《对手》（Rivals）的人来说，昨日访问这部大胆的电视剧拍摄现场显然是对王后的一种犒赏。

为了推广英国的电影和电视产业，女王陛下在布里斯托欣赏了该剧的幕后之旅。

她还见到了包括该剧万人迷亚历克斯·哈塞尔在内的明星们，

“我们觉得对方搞笑极了”

45, 以及该剧的反派大卫·特南特, 54, 还有他们的共同主演维多利亚·斯默菲特, 51, 贝拉·麦克林, 28, 以及纳费萨·威廉姆斯, 36。

在访问期间，她向该剧原著作者吉莉·库珀夫人致敬，后者在10月因一次跌倒去世，享年 88 岁。两人曾是数十年的好友——据称，王后的前夫安德鲁·帕克·鲍尔斯正是《对手》中情圣鲁珀特·坎贝尔-布莱克的灵感来源。

《对手》在Disney+上取得了巨大的成功，故事背景设定在虚构的拉特郡以及20世纪80年代痴迷于性的地区电视台世界，这也让作者赢得了“情色大作女王”的声誉。

当女王陛下抵达虚构的奥哈拉家族厨房与演员们共进下午茶和蛋糕时，饰演坎贝尔-布莱克的哈塞尔迎接了她，她告诉他：“我看过你们所有人的表演。看起来真的很有趣。”

哈塞尔表示：“我们相处得非常好，这使得所有那些挑逗的戏份不会太尴尬。”

他承认在镜头前的亲密时刻很难不笑场，并补充道：“我们很挣扎。越是不应该笑的时候，你就越想笑！”

“我们今天就在这么干。当我们必须用渴望的眼神看着对方时，我们觉得对方搞笑极了。”

他冒着产生无意双关语的风险补充道：“我想您一定经常发现自己处于那种境地。”

“噢，是的，”王后轻笑起来，她很愉快地将他的问题理解为在谈论笑场。当 77, 岁的卡米拉与斯默菲特女士谈到吉莉夫人的离世时，这位女演员透露：“她本该今天在这里的。”

“我们觉得她每天都在这里，因为我们说着她的文字，生活在‘库珀宇宙’中。”当被斯默菲特女士问到是否有一本最喜欢的《对手》系列书籍时，卡米拉说：“我全部读过了。我飞快地读完了它们。”

“我记得去年生病的时候看过，我患了肺炎。我一口气刷完了，之后感觉好多了。”

在离开该剧第二季拍摄现场之前，卡米拉收到了一份印有“我爱吉莉·库珀”字样的礼品袋。

太棒了！《魔法坏女巫》辛西娅与《青春期》主演获金球奖提名

哪个女巫会赢？辛西娅与共同主演亚莉安娜·格兰德

《魔法坏女巫》（Wicked）主演辛西娅·埃里沃（Cynthia Erivo）以及《青春期》（Adolescence）的演员阵容领衔，成为昨日获得金球奖提名的英国明星。

出生于伦敦的埃里沃女士（38岁）是入围这一享有盛誉的美国电影和电视奖项的一批英国人之一。

名单于昨日公布，颁奖典礼将于1月11日举行。埃里沃女士凭借在《魔法坏女巫：为了美好》（Wicked: For Good）中饰演的埃尔法巴（Elphaba）一角，获得了音乐喜剧电影类最佳女主角提名。该片自上月上映以来，全球票房已突破4亿英镑。

作者：格兰特·塔克（Grant Tucker） 娱乐编辑

同样来自伦敦的艾米莉·布朗特（Emily Blunt，42岁）也在电影表演类目中为英国赢得了提名。

她凭借在体育传记片《粉碎机》（The Smashing Machine）中的表现获得最佳女配角提名，并将与埃里沃女士的美国共同主演亚莉安娜·格兰德（Ariana Grande）展开竞争，后者因在《魔法坏女巫》中饰演好女巫格琳达（Glinda）而入围。

基于莎士比亚的史诗剧

《哈姆内特》（Hamnet）获得了最佳电影提名，其两名爱尔兰演员保罗·梅斯卡（Paul Mescal）和杰西·巴克利（Jessie Buckley）均入围。

在电视领域，讲述一名女孩被刺事件的英国Netflix剧集《青春期》（Adolescence）的主演斯蒂芬·格雷厄姆（Stephen Graham）、16岁的欧文·库珀（Owen Cooper）、艾希利·沃尔特斯（Ashley Walters）和艾琳·多尔蒂（Erin Doherty）全部获得提名。该剧共获得五项提名，仅次于获得六项提名的HBO剧集《白莲花度假村》（White Lotus）。此外，加里·奥德曼（Gary Oldman）凭借《慢马》（Slow Horses）、海伦·米伦（Helen Mirren）爵士凭借《暴徒之地》（MobLand）以及艾米·卢·伍德（Aimee Lou Wood）凭借《白莲花度假村》也代表英国入围。

《每日邮报》活动：不要让英国失去国防能力

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[俄罗斯] 在过去两年中。我们自第二次世界大战以来在北大西洋享有的优势正面临风险。我们虽然在坚持，但空间已不多。绝不能掉以轻心。

“我们的潜在对手正在投入数十亿资金。我们必须跟进，否则我们将失去这一优势，而我们不能让这种情况发生。另一种后果不堪设想。”

英国在支出上正被敌人和盟友同时超越，今年武装部队的预算出现了数十亿英镑的缺口，迫使指挥官们不得不进行痛苦的削减。财政部一直紧缩钱袋，官员们以 £50 亿加元 Ajax 装甲车等惨剧作为减少投资的理由。

劳工党还将达成北约国防开支占 GDP 2.5 per cent 的基准线的时间推迟到了本十年后期。

与此同时，俄罗斯正渗透进英国海岸线附近的海域，而此前克里姆林宫的潜艇不敢涉足这些区域。

然而，问题并不局限于英国皇家海军。正如《每日邮报》近期披露的，陆军预算在本财年面临 26 亿英镑 billion 的缺口，导致演习被取消。《每日邮报》的“不要让英国失去国防能力”活动已呼吁增加国防开支，并反对劳工党在国家安全上采取“福利高于子弹”的做法。

警告：第一海务大臣圭恩·詹金斯上将

詹金斯爵士是首位领导该高级军种的皇家海军陆战队成员。他昨天在伦敦举行的国际海权会议上表示：“这是一个行动号召。另一种后果不堪设想。我们的职责就是做好准备。”

在分析英国的脆弱性及其在面对俄罗斯从极北方向发起冲击时的暴露程度时，詹金斯爵士表示，这个国家的大部分贸易、数据和能源流要么在海面上，要么在海面上，要么在海底。他将北大西洋描述为“我们作为一个岛国的生命线”。

最近几周，俄罗斯侦察船“琥珀号”（Yantar）似乎一直在追踪英国的海底电缆。

当英国皇家空军（RAF）战机紧急起飞监控其进展时，“琥珀号”上的水手向飞行员的眼睛发射激光。

詹金斯爵士说：“正如国防大臣最近在给普京的直接信息中所说，‘我们看着你，而且我们知道你在做什么’。”

泽连斯基先生在与基尔爵士、法国总统埃马纽埃尔·马克龙和德国总理弗里德里希·梅尔茨进行数小时会谈前表示，盟友们正“共同努力，以一个对乌克兰公正的和平方案来结束这场战争”，并且“必须保证安全”。

他补充道：“没有美国人我们不行，没有欧洲我们也不行。”

此次会议发生在唐纳德·特朗普抨击泽连斯基先生的几小时之后。特朗普在华盛顿的一次正式晚宴上表示，他“有点失望泽连斯基先生还没有阅读（美国的和平）提案”。

特朗普先生暗示莫斯科“对此没有意见”，尽管克里姆林宫表示仍有待解决的问题。昨天，詹金斯爵士宣布，首批用于监控俄罗斯海军活动的潜水传感器将于明年部署。

预计无人皇家海军舰艇将于 2027 年起加入舰队，到 2030 年，詹金斯爵士预计将部署“数百”艘无人舰艇。

他补充道：“各项技术正在结合并加速，速度之快前所未有。技术变革的速度再也不会像今天这么慢了。如果你对过去两年的 AI 进展感到困惑，那么请坐稳扶好。”

但潜艇数量严重短缺的问题无法如此迅速地解决。

2024, 年 9 月，《每日邮报》独家披露了英国的所有攻击潜艇（核动力但非核导弹潜艇）均未在海上的情况。

由可靠的军事观察人士发布的非官方数据显示，本月的形势与当时一样严峻。攻击潜艇旨在猎杀敌方军舰、搜集情报并保护友方舰船。

但截至上周，“伏击号”（HMS Ambush）已停用 1,222 天，“大胆号”（Audacious）停用 979 天，“灵巧号”（Artful）停用 949 天。“敏锐号”（Astute）已进行维护 158 天，而“安森号”（Anson）已在港口停泊 13 天。

昨晚，国防部坚称其对潜艇舰队的承诺“坚定不移”。

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作者：杰森·格罗夫斯（Jason Groves）和马克·尼科尔（Mark Nicol）

英国准备将80亿英镑被冻结的俄罗斯资产移交给乌克兰用于战争

基尔·斯塔默已告知弗拉基米尔·泽连斯基，他准备允许乌克兰使用在英国被冻结的数十亿英镑俄罗斯资产来保卫其国家。

更广泛的支持：德国总理弗里德里希·梅尔茨、首相基尔·斯塔默爵士、乌克兰总统弗拉基米尔·泽连斯基和法国总统埃马纽埃尔·马克龙昨日在唐宁街。

白厅消息人士告诉《每日邮报》，部长们即将达成一项协议，将允许基辅获得在2022年弗拉基米尔·普京入侵乌克兰后被扣押的巨额资金。

其中一名人士表示，预计“在几天内”将做出决定，以解锁克里姆林宫的资产，这些资产估计价值约80亿英镑。

此举是更广泛推动计划的一部分，该计划可能会让基辅获得被锁定在欧盟国家、价值数百亿英镑的资产。

一名英国官员表示，斯塔默爵士已向泽连斯基先生“更新”了关于

“我们希望很快能看到进展”

昨日在伦敦举行的欧洲领导人峰会上的议题。

该消息人士表示：“他正在向泽连斯基通报向乌克兰提供的更广泛支持，包括利用被冻结的俄罗斯资产的价值。我们希望很快能在这个问题上看到进展。”

据估计，存放在欧洲银行和机构中的俄罗斯资产价值达 1800 亿英镑 billion，其产生的利息已被用于帮助基辅对抗普京的侵略。

但永久没收俄罗斯资产的想法引发了人们对其可能开创先例的担忧。大多数资金存放地比利时由于担心遭到报复（包括克里姆林宫可能采取的法律行动），一直抵制这一举措。

预计基尔爵士本周将与比利时同行讨论该问题。一名英国消息人士表示，如果没有更广泛的欧洲行动，英国不会“单枪匹马”地行动，但补充道：“考虑到敏感性，始终存在事情再次陷入停滞的危险，但我们对目前的进展方向感到鼓舞。”

允许乌克兰获取俄罗斯资金的具体机制尚不明确，可能涉及贷款。世界各国领导人仍在讨论应允许基辅如何使用这些资金。

据信，英国属于主张将这些资产直接用于资助乌克兰对抗普京军队的国家群体之一。部长们认为，在战争开始对俄罗斯经济产生实质性影响之际，此举可以让乌克兰坚持更长时间的战斗。

但其他领导人希望将这笔钱预留用于资助乌克兰的重建。有报道称，人们对法国“屏蔽”境内估计 180 亿英镑 billion 的克里姆林宫资产感到不满。《金融时报》报道称，巴黎至今拒绝告知盟友境内究竟有多少俄罗斯现金，以及存放地点。

昨晚，泽连斯基先生表示，乌克兰在购买原计划今年在欧洲盟友帮助下采购的美国武器时，还短缺约 £6 亿。昨日，基尔爵士与泽连斯基先生以及法国的埃马纽埃尔·马克龙和德国的弗里德里希·梅尔茨在 No 10 会面。

虽然盟友们急于感谢唐纳德·特朗普为和平谈判所做的贡献，以免激怒这位美国总统，但梅尔茨先生对美国的和平计划表示不满，该计划要求乌克兰向俄罗斯割让领土。

他说：“我对美国方面提交的文件中的某些细节持怀疑态度，但我们必须讨论这个问题，这就是我们来到这里的原因。这对我们所有人来说可能是一个决定性的时刻，因此我们正努力继续支持乌克兰。任何人都不应怀疑我们对乌克兰的支持。”

基尔爵士表示，乌克兰需要“强有力的安全保障”。在赞扬特朗普先生时，首相表示他推动和平进程达到了“四年来的最高程度”。

但在昨日会议前，基尔爵士表示，和平必须是“持久的”，因为“普京不尊重那些背后没有强有力安全保障的协议”。

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令人震惊：Maltesers巧克力现比牛排还贵

由于可可短缺引发创纪录的价格上涨，Maltesers巧克力的每克单价现在已高于牛排。

根据食品行业贸易期刊《杂货商》（The Grocer）的数据，这种零食的价格在最近几周飙升了16%。

在圣塞本斯超市（Sainsbury's），一袋126克的白色Maltesers现在售价£4，这意味着每公斤的价格为£31.75——高于熟成西冷牛排的£31.33。

作者：弗雷亚·巴恩斯（Freya Barnes）

与此同时，在Asda超市，一包93克的牛奶巧克力Maltesers在10月从£1.61涨至£1.75，仅五天后再次上涨至£1.88。去年，可可的批发成本从通常的2,000 英镑至4,000 英镑每吨，飙升至近1 万英镑。

西非的极端天气以及包括可可肿胀芽病毒在内的疾病导致产量下降，尤其是在全球最大生产国科特迪瓦。全球产量下降了14%。可可脂（从可可豆中提取用于制作白巧克力的脂肪）的价格上涨速度更快，因为可可豆产生的固体比油脂多。

今年的批发价格已下滑至每吨4,500 英镑，但仍高于历史平均水平，其中高端手工企业受创最重，因为它们不愿用其他替代品取代可可。

伯明翰Russell & Atwell公司的联合创始人吉尔斯·阿特韦尔（Giles Atwell）表示，他的公司已经削减了包装，以避免“让自己定价高到消费者无法承受”。

雀巢公司（Nestle）削减了Kit-Kats巧克力棒中的可可含量，而麦维塔（McVitie's）在重新调整配方，增加棕榈油和乳木果油并减少可可后，被迫将Penguin和Club巧克力棒重新分类为“巧克力味饼干”。

“今年我们要往圣诞袜里放真正的硬币了。我们买不起巧克力硬币了。”

Winehouse的室友“以73 万英镑的价格出售其财物”

明星之父声称物品被拍卖用于“私人获利”

闲暇时光：Winehouse女士与卡特里奥娜·古莱（Catriona Gourlay） 好友：已故的艾米·Winehouse与娜奥米·帕里（Naomi Parry）

作者：尼尔·西尔斯（Neil Sears）

艾米·Winehouse的父亲昨日发起了一项金额为73 万英镑的法律诉讼，他指控该歌手的两名室友通过非法拍卖不属于她们的财物从中获利。

Winehouse女士于2011年因酒精中毒去世，年仅27岁。此前，她的职业生涯在海洛因、裂克可卡因和酗酒的影响下陷入混乱。

在她去世后，曾在北伦敦抚养她的前出租车司机父亲米奇（Mitch）与她最亲密的两位朋友娜奥米·帕里和卡特里奥娜·古莱保持联系，两人现年均为41岁，且曾在不同时期与这位明星同住。

但在一次关于Winehouse女士的拍卖会后，他与女儿的老友们发生了争执—。

“我不相信她会给她们150件物品”

house's clothes and other possessions in Los Angeles in 2021, with around 700 items given by her family. 此次拍卖及其收益目前是伦敦高等法院审理的案件标的。

直到拍卖结束之后——其中大部分收益捐给了这位歌手的慈善机构——现年75岁的怀恩豪斯先生才发现，帕里女士和古雷女士打算保留约150件物品（主要是衣物）的拍卖收益，并声称这些物品归她们所有。两年后，古雷女士进一步将一对著名的、沾有怀恩豪斯女士血迹的芭蕾舞鞋以 3,000 英镑 的价格售出。

法庭现场：帕里、艾米的父亲米奇·怀恩豪斯与古雷昨日出席

昨日，在伦敦皇家法院的一场民事审判开始时，在女儿死后因未留遗嘱而继承其数百万英镑遗产的怀恩豪斯先生，对女儿财产被出售表示愤怒。他否认女儿会赠送如此多的物品，并声称这些物品属于其遗产的一部分。

怀恩豪斯先生表示，她的两名朋友应当偿还这笔钱，以便他将其捐给这位歌手的慈善机构，用于在加勒比海的圣卢西亚岛建设一所学校。

他的大律师亨利·莱格（Henry Legge KC）告诉法庭：“直到2021年的拍卖结束，怀恩豪斯先生才发现帕里女士和古雷女士声称两人共同拥有超过150件拍卖品，并打算将销售收益据为己有。她们反复坚称在拍卖准备阶段‘完全透明’。但她们的说法与记录文件完全不符。”

莱格律师引用了洛杉矶拍卖师达伦·朱利安（Darren Julien）与帕里女士之间的一段短信对话，前者在短信中写道：“最后一件礼服以 \$190,000 [14.3 万英镑] 成交。我想米奇认为那件礼服是他的。”

帕里女士回复道：“太棒了！！”——随后又写道：“不确定他意识到那件衣服不是[他的]时会有什么感觉。”朱利安随后写道：“他绝对认为那是他的。”

怀恩豪斯先生并未详细说明他认为这两名女性是如何获得与他女儿相关的物品的。

在昨日的法庭上，他承认女儿可能极其慷慨。但谈到帕里女士和古雷女士所获的馈赠时，他说：“我假设她会给她们一些东西——但我不敢相信会有150件。”

针对她们的诉讼详细描述了她们如何多次前往一个存放着“海量”前财产的封闭式储物单元。

但这两名女性表示，她们曾借给对方许多物品，这些物品最终仍归她们所有；且对方经常赠送衣物给她们，因此她们完全有权将其拍卖。

案件仍在审理中。

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保守党：我们将驱逐持有双重国籍的罪犯

保守党表示，被判定犯有诱导儿童罪的双重国籍人士应被剥夺英国公民身份并被驱逐出境。

保守党希望该规定即使是对在英国出生的人员同样适用，且如果巴基斯坦等国家拒绝接收罪犯，英国必须实施签证限制并

作者：萨姆·梅里曼 (Sam Merriman) 政治记者

拒绝提供援助。

保守党党魁凯米·巴德诺克（Kemi Badenoch）在昨天概述她对劳工党陷入停滞的诱导团伙国家调查的愿景时，还呼吁强制清真寺与官员合作。

巴德诺克女士在与影子内政大臣克里斯·菲利普（Chris Philp）阐明该党对强奸团伙法定调查的条件时提出了这一要求，他们表示此次调查应“不遗余力”。

保守党表示，调查必须遵循事实，“无论是清真寺，还是国家机构”，并且必须审查罪犯的种族和宗教信仰。

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菲利普先生表示：“双重国籍者应被剥夺英国公民身份，并应被驱逐出境，没有任何例外。我们不希望这些人留在我们的国家。”

“如果他们拥有另一个国家的公民身份，那么他们就应该被驱逐，且其英国公民身份应被取消。没有任何如果，没有任何但是。”

他补充道：“作为英国，如果我们的公民在海外被判定犯有刑事罪行，我们会将其接回。要求其他国家采取同样做法是合理的。”据了解，保守党正在考虑更广泛的

“不想让他们留在本国”

关于双重国籍犯罪者的政策将在“适当时候”公布。该政策可能会影响居住在英国的 124 万 人。这将比保守党目前的政策更为激进，后者主张“外国罪犯应被驱逐出境且永不允许返回”。

内政大臣有权在认为这样做“有利于公共利益”的情况下，剥夺双重国籍者的英国公民身份。然而，这一权力很少被使用，且经常被法律挑战所阻碍。

罗奇代尔诱拐团伙的头目阿迪尔·汗（Adil Khan，55, 岁）和卡里·阿卜杜勒·劳夫（Qari Abdul Rauf，56, 岁）于 2012 年因在给 47 名女孩——其中部分女孩年仅 12 岁——提供酒精和药物后对其进行性侵而入狱。

没有如果，没有但是：凯米·巴德诺克（Kemi Badenoch）昨日宣布其计划

汗和劳夫持有英国和巴基斯坦双重国籍，但他们在近十年前就被剥夺了英国公民身份，且法官下令将其驱逐至巴基斯坦。

然而，由于巴基斯坦至今拒绝接收他们，他们得以留在英国。

保守党表示，他们正在制定计划以试图解决诱拐团伙调查问题，因为“工党政府完全未能采取行动”。

自从基尔·斯塔默爵士在 6 月宣布启动调查以来，工党建立国家调查委员会的努力陷入停滞。10 月，最后两名拟任主席的候选人退出，随后一组幸存者也退出了受害者联络小组。

首相发言人表示，政府希望“很快更新”关于该调查的进展。

一名工党发言人补充道：“我们致力于开展一项全面的、法定国家调查。”

市场商贩因对女孩实施“强奸行动”被判入狱

作者：詹姆斯·托泽（James Tozer） 北方特派记者

两名诱拐弱势少女并将其交给其他男性的表亲于昨日被判入狱，一名受害者称他们为“地球上的人渣”。

恋童癖者曼佐尔·侯赛因（Manzorr Hussain，54, 岁）和伊姆蒂亚兹·阿里（Imtiaz Ali，53, 岁）原籍巴基斯坦，曾在曼彻斯特附近的伯里市场经营摊位，并在 20 世纪 90 年代在那里猎捕这些女孩。

他们今年早些时候在曼彻斯特明舒尔街刑事法院被判定对 13 至 16 岁的女孩实施了“强奸行动”。

来自伯里的侯赛因昨日被判处 30 年监禁，他被判定犯有七项强奸罪和七项对五名女孩的猥亵袭击罪。

来自大曼彻斯特地区拉德克利夫的阿里被判处 28 年监禁，他被判定犯有五项强奸罪、五项猥亵袭击罪和一项企图猥亵袭击罪。

法庭获悉，女孩们在遭到袭击前经常被给予药物和酒精。一名受害者在证人席上含泪阅读她的受害者影响陈述书，她被屏风与被告席上的被告隔开，她告诉虐待者：“你们不过是恋童癖、强奸犯和地球上的人渣。”

表亲：曼佐尔·侯赛因和伊姆蒂亚兹·阿里被贴上“人渣”标签

该女性表示，每一个“掩盖事实或视而不见”的机构或个人“全部都是共犯”。

在对两人判刑时，伯纳黛特·巴克斯特（Bernadette Baxter）法官告诉他们：“你们的犯罪行为完全可以被描述为一场强奸行动。”

美国学生用刀刺伤“洁癖”女友面部，随后在女友弥留之际打电话给父亲要求请律师

高端住宅：富有的米查尔斯一家所居住的公寓楼

受害者：31岁的王哲（Zhe Wang）曾是一名“快乐且慷慨”的学生 大头照：带有划痕的约书亚·米查尔斯（Joshua Michals），已圈出

作者：Ryan Hooper 和 Matt Strudwick

一名在英国大学就读的美国学生两次用刀刺向其女友的面部，随后在报警前打电话给其百万富翁父亲寻求帮助。

约书亚·米查尔斯（Joshua Michals）面临终身监禁，他昨日被判定谋杀具有“洁癖”的王哲（Zhe Wang），后者此前怀疑他将性传播感染传染给了她。

这名26岁的男子声称自己是正当防卫，但在经过16个多小时的审议后，陪审团判定他在这起“残暴且野蛮”的袭击中负有罪责。

这两名就读于伦敦东南部纽克罗斯（New Cross）伦敦大学金史密斯学院（Goldsmiths）的学生，在去年3月杀人事件发生的前一天发生了争执，起因是王女士误认为他传染了感染。

“安静且温柔”的王女士（31岁）在性行为后发现皮肤上有一个“红点”，于是质问米查尔斯并要求他接受检测。次日，他前往王女士位于伦敦东南部刘易舍姆（Lewisham）的公寓探访。

“残暴且野蛮的袭击”

他声称自己当时试图通过给她端上一盘熟食拼盘来平息这场“离奇”的局面。

他告诉陪审团，在去完洗手间出来后，他发现王女士手里拿着一把刀，看起来“神志不清”且“像被附身了一样”，随后两人发生了肢体冲突。

他两次刺向她的面部并将其勒死，任由她死在自己的血泊之中。

米考斯没有拨打 999，而是给他的父亲——一家美国公司的高级副总裁——打了电话，并获取了一名律师的联系方式，随后乘坐 Uber 回到他位于附近格林威治高档社区加利福尼亚大厦（California Building）公寓的住处。

三个小时后，他才打电话叫救护车，并告诉警方他“没觉得很急”，且“事情并非表面看起来那样”。米考斯还试图通过删除与王女士的 WhatsApp 对话来掩盖行踪，但警方成功将其恢复。

侦查督察克莱尔·盖弗（Claire Guiver）表示：“米考斯对哲（Zhe）实施了一场残暴且野蛮的袭击。”

“我们很高兴陪审团识破了他的谎言，他此前声称是在王女士试图用刀袭击他时意外将其杀害的。”

“很明显，米考斯是一个危险且暴力的个体，现在他必须为自己的行为承担后果。”

中央刑事法院（Old Bailey）获悉，两人交往仅几个月，且只发生过一次性关系。他并不认为这段关系很严肃，有时连续数周不与她见面。此外，他还与另一个人开始了性关系。

在案发当天，来自芝加哥的米考斯带着食物前往王女士的公寓，称他计划准备一个熟食拼盘以试图“让她冷静下来”。

他声称王女士持刀向他冲来，他在试图保护自己的过程中意外将其杀害。他说随后他压在她的脖子上试图制服她，直到她停止活动。

米考斯将刀、王女士的手机以及他带来的食物装进一个袋子，扔在公寓外的公共垃圾桶里，然后乘坐 Uber 回家。

他的父母从美国飞来参加儿子的审判并私人出资为其辩护，在陪审团团长宣布裁决时，他们坐在法庭的旁听席上。

王女士当时在金史密斯学院（Goldsmiths）攻读创意写作与教育硕士学位，希望成为一名教师；而米考斯则在攻读电影制作硕士学位。

金史密斯学院的高级讲师弗朗西斯·吉尔伯特博士（Dr Francis Gilbert）形容王女士是“一名优秀的学生，一位卓越的作家和思想家，她将深厚的求知欲与创造性的勇气结合在一起”。

他补充道：“她的作品将佛教思想、富有想象力的叙事和反思性的清晰度融合在一起，使她成为一个独特且非凡的声音。”

“哲充满快乐、正念且慷慨。她深受同窗的爱，他们至今仍在谈论她的温柔、幽默和体贴。她让我们的社区变得更加友善和专注。”

理查德·马克斯（Richard Marks）法官表示，他将在一个对王女士家属和米考斯父母都方便的日期宣布判决。

他感谢陪审团的服务，并针对司法大臣大卫·拉米（David Lammy）计划取消部分罪行的陪审团审判表示：“我们对本国的陪审团制度感到非常自豪。愿其长久存在。”

“生命危险”警报已发布，风暴“布拉姆”强势袭来

随着风暴“布拉姆”（Storm Bram）登陆，英国在未来几天预计将遭受猛烈打击，在“生命危险”警告的背景下，将带来4英寸的降雨和时速90英里的强风。

交通网络可能会面临中断，而在危险强风和可能发生的洪涝灾害中，停电也有可能发生。

西南部预计风速最高可达70英里 / 小时，而苏格兰西北部可能会出现高达

作者：马克·杜埃尔（Mark Duell）

90英里 / 小时的阵风。部分地区在短短48小时多一点的时间里，降雨量将超过12月平均降雨量的一半。

英格兰西北部目前生效的降雨警告将持续到今天下午3点。气象局表示：“可能会出现湍急或深层的洪水，从而对生命造成危险。”

“布拉姆”由爱尔兰气象局（Met Eireann）命名，该风暴将在爱尔兰产生最大影响。

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明早9点是圣诞购物的最佳时间

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如果你还没有开始圣诞购物，那么明天早上是最佳时机。

衡量数百万节日购物者体验的数据显示，本周是购买礼物的最佳时机。

信息显示，12月10日（周三）具有特别优势。较低的人流量、人员配置水平以及充足的货架库存共同使其成为购物的好日子。

如果你真的想最大限度地增加获得无压力购物体验的机会，最佳时间是在上午9点到10点之间。

但不要等到周日——由为商店提供“笑脸”反馈终端的HappyOrNot公司汇总的数据将其评为消费最糟糕的一天。该数据还发现，在任何给定的日子里，下午3点是最糟糕的时间。但到了晚上——晚上8点到10点——购物者的心情似乎再次好转。

NHS高层在关于跨性别医生使用女性更衣室的争执后骚扰护士

如释重负：桑迪·佩吉（Sandie Peggie），52

一名反对与一名跨性别医生共用女性更衣室的护士昨天表示，在法官裁定卫生

作者：丹·巴克（Dan Barker）

部门高层骚扰她之后，她感到“无比宽慰”。桑迪·佩吉投诉了贝丝·厄普顿医生（Dr Beth Upton），后者在生物学上为男性，却使用了柯克卡尔迪（Kirkcaldy）维多利亚医院的女性专用更衣室。

在该初级医生开始在急诊单元工作几周内，佩吉女士，52, 向高层提出了异议，但未采取任何行动。

2023年圣诞前夕，她在更衣室中质问了厄普顿医生，随后在内部调查期间被停职，该调查最终认定她没有违规行为。

但昨天，一个就业法庭认定，NHS Fife（法伊夫国民医疗服务体系）骚扰了佩吉女士。

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当地劳工党议员乔安妮·里德（Joani Reid）表示：“在NHS Fife中参与此事的人必须承担责任。我很难理解他们如何能继续留任。他们在跨性别权利的‘十字军东征’上浪费了大量的NHS资金。”佩吉女士指控NHS Fife和厄普顿医生违反了《平等法》，并就歧视、骚扰和报复行为对双方提起诉讼—。

“一个坚韧女性的巨大胜利”

……化。然而，除了针对 NHS Fife 的骚扰指控外，其余指控均被驳回。

昨晚，拥有 30 年无瑕服务记录的佩吉夫人表示：“我很高兴劳动法庭认定我的雇主——法夫健康局（Fife Health Board）对我进行了骚扰。”

“过去的两年对我及我的家人来说一直是非常痛苦的。”

生物学男性：贝丝·厄普顿博士（Dr Beth Upton）

苏格兰保守党平等事务发言人特斯·怀特（Tess White）表示：“NHS Fife 令人羞愧地试图让一名维护女性权利的护士噤声，随后又挥霍巨资……为其骚扰她的行为进行辩护。”

昨日，就业法官桑迪·肯普（Sandy Kemp）表示，NHS Fife 骚扰了佩吉夫人，因为该机构没有撤销厄普顿博士临时使用女性更衣室的许可，直到新的轮班表确保两人不再共同工作。

肯普先生表示，这一失职导致厄普顿博士在 2023 年以及当年的平安夜期间，多次在该设施中与佩吉夫人相遇。他还表示，该机构在调查针对她的指控时花费了“不合理的时间”。

佩吉夫人的律师玛格丽特·格里本（Margaret Gribbon）表示，这是“一个坚韧、勇敢的女性的巨大胜利”。

位于邓迪的法庭考虑了最高法院在 4 月份的裁决，该裁决明确了在法律术语中，性别是指生物学性别。

但法庭表示，允许一名生物学男性跨性别女性在工作场所使用女性更衣室本身并不违法——问题在于该医疗信托机构没有同样尊重佩吉夫人作为女性的权利。

来自基于性别的权利慈善机构 Sex Matters 的玛雅·福斯特特（Maya Forstater）表示：“桑迪的勇气令人鼓舞，但女性在向雇主表示男性同事——换句话说，就是男人——不应该出现在为了女性安全、尊严和隐私而存在的空间时，不应该需要勇气。”

昨晚，NHS Fife 表示：“法庭一致驳回了原告针对厄普顿博士的所有指控，以及针对董事会除骚扰投诉中四个具体方面之外的所有指控。我们现在的重点是确保 NHS Fife 为所有员工和患者提供一个支持性和包容性的环境。”

日本强震后引发海啸

作者：珀金·阿马拉拉杰（Perkin Amalaraj）

昨日，一场 7.6 级强震袭击日本，引发海啸。

地震发生在离岸 50 英里的海域，随后海啸袭击了东北海岸。

视频画面显示，在地震期间，地面剧烈摇晃，建筑物和静止的车辆随之颤抖。据估计，震源深度为 33 英里。超过 20 人受伤，其中一人伤势严重。

在日本 1 到 7 级的地震烈度等级中，青森县八户市的震级记录为“ upper six”（6强）。

北海道、青森和岩手各县发布了海啸预警，多个港口观察到高波。日本气象厅的一位官员表示：“在接下来的几天里，有可能发生进一步的强震或更强烈的地震。”

全球 6.0 级或以上地震中，约有 20% 发生在日本。

2011 年，该国遭遇 9.0 级地震，导致数千人死亡。由此引发的海啸损坏了福岛第一核电站，导致了 25 年来全球最严重的核灾难。此次该地区的核电站未报告出现问题。

激烈的离婚之战：斯宾塞伯爵夫人

历史故居：考古学家贾曼教授曾在厄尔·斯宾塞的阿尔索普庄园参与挖掘工作

斯宾塞伯爵之妻与其女友就隐私纠纷达成和解……且由伯爵支付大部分费用

作者：Inderdeep Bains 副首席记者

斯宾塞伯爵（Earl Spencer）与其分居的妻子已就其与新女友之间激烈的隐私之争达成和解，但伯爵必须承担巨额法律账单的大部分费用。

凯伦·斯宾塞（Karen Spencer）此前一直与丈夫的伴侣——43岁的卡特·贾曼教授（Professor Cat Jarman）陷入长期的高等法院纠纷，后者指控她泄露了自己的私人医疗信息。

这位53岁的伯爵夫人已同意就此案达成和解——且不承认承担责任——前提是伯爵将作为离婚协议的一部分，单独对其进行“补偿”。

据估计，在与61岁的伯爵交往一年多后，贾曼教授于2024年10月向高等法院提起诉讼，导致两名女性之间的这场纠纷累计费用高达£220 万。

这位挪威考古学家指控斯宾塞伯爵夫人未经其同意，向伯爵及他人透露她患有多发性硬化症，认为这属于“滥用私人信息”。

今年7月，法院获悉双方已就未来预计超过£220 万的法律费用达成协议。但这位伯爵夫人在听取了负责监督其离婚事宜（据信已进入最后阶段）的仲裁员建议后，现已同意和解。

根据法院文件，前夫妇双方对斯宾塞伯爵需支付的总金额存在“激烈争议”，目前尚未就最终金额的计算方式达成一致。

斯宾塞伯爵夫人的一位发言人表示，该问题已“在达成的和解协议中得到解决”，并补充道：“斯宾塞伯爵夫人认为自己的立场得到了充分证明。”

“此次和解不包含对责任或过错的承认，且斯宾塞伯爵已被命令支付超过£200 万的法律费用，以及支付给其女友卡特·贾曼的4,500 英镑赔偿金。”

“斯宾塞伯爵夫人衷心希望此事至此告终。”

然而，贾曼教授则声称此举证明了其法律行动的正确性。她

“累计费用达£220 万”

她表示：“作为一名多发性硬化症患者，我拥有无可争议的权利来决定何时以及如何分享此类敏感细节。

‘提起诉讼是保护这一权利，以及我的职业生涯和生计的必要且原则性的步骤。

‘在对方选择达成和解后，此事现已解决，我认为这一结果清楚地证明了我采取行动的决定是正确的。

‘我很高兴能够向前看，也很高兴对方意识到了问题……我的行为是基于原则，并在我的隐私受到严重侵犯之时捍卫我的隐私。’

在法庭文件中，伯爵夫人指控她的丈夫与贾曼教授有染，当时贾曼教授正在他的阿尔索普祖宅挖掘一座罗马别墅。

她表示，考虑到她所遭受的对待，她的披露是‘完全正当且合法的’。

这位出生于加拿大的社会企业家于2011,年成为斯宾塞伯爵的第三任妻子，两人育有一个11岁的女儿。去年3月19日，伯爵告知伯爵夫人‘在结婚近13年后，他们的婚姻结束了’。

她的辩护文件中写道：‘他是通过短信这么做的’，并补充道：‘斯宾塞夫人放弃了在美国的生活，以便住在北安普顿郡的乡村，致力于处理阿尔索普庄园的业务，并且还育有一个孩子，这个消息对她来说是极其可怕的。’

辩方称，当她与贾曼教授的前夫汤姆·贾曼交换信息时，‘她发现他们的私情至少从2022年11月 / 12月就开始了’。

在挖掘期间，这位考古学家住在阿尔索普庄园并在此用餐。她坚称在去年6月伯爵和伯爵夫人宣布分手之前，他们只是朋友。

斯宾塞伯爵在今年10月确认了他与贾曼教授的关系。在她的法律诉讼中，她声称当伯爵夫人向伯爵透露她的私人信息时，她感到非常震惊。

在接受《每日邮报》采访时，贾曼教授说：‘我确实非常努力地隐藏我的多发性硬化症……所以只有少数几个人知道——而（伯爵）不是其中之一。

‘我与他建立浪漫关系仅两三个月，当时还没有告诉他。’她指称斯宾塞伯爵的妻子‘从一个亲近我的人那里得知了此事’并告诉了她的丈夫。

伯爵否认通过短信结束婚姻，并坚称是他的妻子想要离婚。

劳工党成员被问及谁应接替首相，领导权阴谋公开化

基尔爵士注册“被禁”应用 TikTok

关注我：基尔爵士及其妻子斯塔默夫人出现在首相的 TikTok 首秀视频中

作者：詹姆斯·塔普斯菲尔德（James Tapsfield）

昨日，在帮助基尔·斯塔默爵士上台的团体开始征询关于继任者的看法后，关于基尔·斯塔默爵士未来的传闻愈演愈烈。

智库“劳工共进”（Labour Together）在人们怀疑首相能否坚持下去之际，悄悄询问各地方党部谁可以接替首相。

最新的权力博弈发生之时，正值外界对安吉拉·雷纳（Angela Rayner）和韦斯·斯特雷廷（Wes Streeting）的意图进行激烈猜测之际。

然而，尽管人们对预算案感到愤怒，且基尔爵士执政的前 17 个月堪称灾难，但顶尖经济学家警告称，向左翼倾斜可能会使问题更加严重。

凯投宏观（Capital Economics）是建议市场可能会对更偏左翼的继任者产生负面看法的分析机构之一。

技能大臣史密斯男爵夫人昨日表示，她对关于基尔爵士未来的猜测感到“沮丧”。她声称，由基尔爵士的幕僚长摩根·麦克斯威尼（Morgan McSweeney）此前领导的“劳工共进”所进行的调查是“范围非常广泛的”。她补充道：

“基尔·斯塔默在职——他做得很好。”

据《泰晤士报》报道，“劳工共进”的调查询问的是，除了基尔爵士之外，谁最有机会带领该党在“下次大选中获得选举胜利”。调查列出了八个选项，其中包括五位内阁

基尔·斯塔默爵士已经加入了 TikTok——尽管该应用被禁止在政府设备上使用。

为了争取年轻选民，首相在这一社交媒体应用上开设了账号，并发布了一段他与斯塔默夫人在唐宁街的视频，在走出房门开启圣诞灯饰时敦促用户“关注我”。Tik-

部长：斯特雷廷先生、沙巴娜·马哈茂德（Shabana Mahmood）、布里奇特·菲利普森（Bridget Phillipson）、埃德·米利班德（Ed Miliband）和达伦·琼斯（Darren Jones）。

雷纳女士、曼彻斯特市长安迪·伯纳姆（Andy Burnham）以及新任副党魁吕西·鲍威尔（Lucy Powell）也被提及。

受访者被邀请将每位政治人物放置在从“极左翼”到“极右翼”的“左至右量表”上。此外，还有关于成员在面对面竞争中会支持谁的问题。

作者：詹姆斯·塔普斯菲尔德（James Tapsfield）

Tok 由中国公司字节跳动（ByteDance）所有，在英国有 3000 万 用户，但出于安全考虑，自 2023 年起已被禁止在政府设备上使用，不过国会议员可以在自己的手机上安装。

基尔爵士目前正在为下个月一次至关重要的中国贸易之行做准备。

在有传闻称雷纳女士正密谋竞逐唐宁街 10 号后，基尔爵士称赞了“极具才华”的雷纳女士。首相在一次采访中强调，他“当然”想念他的前副首相雷纳女士，并且在她在税务丑闻中被迫辞职后，他“非常难过我们失去了她”。

为了明显地阻止她发动反叛，基尔爵士明确表示希望她回到内阁。据报道，他的助手暗示，在明年的内阁改组中，她可能会被重新任命原职，或者接手菲利普森女士负责的教育事务。有传闻称，盟友

“失去她真的很令人难过”

卫生大臣斯特里廷先生的盟友正敦促雷纳女士签署一份领导权的“联合票”，并承诺如果她支持他，她将能重返副首相之职。然而，据报道雷纳女士对此表示抵制，并正准备在5月的地方选举后竞选唐宁街 10 号。一名盟友告诉《星期日邮报》：“她希望能够自由地制定自己的议程。”

杰森·格罗夫斯 (Jason Groves) 政治编辑

安吉拉·雷纳昨晚警告基尔·斯塔默爵士，不要在她主导的工人权利法案上做出进一步让步。

在一次尖锐的干预中，这位前副首相告诉下议院，现在“不是在增强罢工权利的立法上眨眼或屈服的时候”，而雇主们则警告称，该立法将给经济带来数十亿的损失。

上个月，当首相放弃了一项竞选宣言承诺（即赋予工人从新工作第一天起即可就不公正解雇提出申诉的权利）时，他面临了劳工党内部的强烈抵制。

政府消息人士表示，这次妥协是为了让新法律通过上议院，因为该法案已在上议院陷入僵局数月之久。

雷纳女士昨晚警告上议院的人员，已经“没有更多时间

“我们当选时的竞选宣言”

……浪费”，她指责贵族院议员们站在“既得利益者一边，抵制我们当选时的竞选宣言”。

在关于该法案的辩论中，此时她被传为基尔爵士之后劳工党领袖的潜在继任者，她将撤回“首日权利”的决定描述为一项“艰难的决定”，并敦促部长们不要再做出更多让步。

“现在不是眨眼或屈服的时候，”

猛烈抨击：雷纳昨晚在下议院

她说，现在不是思考的时候。“让我们不要再等待一分钟——现在是交付成果的时候了。”

前劳工党前台成员安迪·麦克唐纳（Andy McDonald）痛斥贵族院阻挠竞选承诺的行为，并认为部长们不应妥协。

他说：“贵族院不应阻挡授权，部长们也不应投降。”

雷纳女士在下议院露面之际，分析表明她的法案可能会给经济带来高达£380 亿加元的成本。智库增长委员会（Growth Commission）的研究发现，取消不公平解雇索赔赔偿上限的计划，可能会使该立法给企业带来的预期成本增加一倍。

尽管该法案威胁到经济，但预计国会议员们昨晚将否决贵族院议员试图削弱《就业权利法案》的一系列尝试。

在上个月的一次出人意料的举动中，部长们同意放弃一项竞选承诺，即赋予工人从新工作第一天起就申请不公平解雇索赔的权利。

作为折中方案，他们将在入职六个月后能够提出索赔——低于目前的两年。但部长们同意取消118,223 英镑上限——这可能会为巨额索赔打开大门。这一举动是在部长们与在政府中支持该法案的雷纳女士讨论之后做出的。

就业法律事务所 Lewis Silkin 警告称，这种“地震级”的变化“听起来不像是一个增长方案”。英国商会（British Chambers of Commerce）表示，该计划将产生“巨大的破坏性”。

即使在政府削弱了首日权利之后，增长委员会预测该法案在五年内将给经济带来£230 亿加元的成本。

昨晚，该智库警告称，取消不公平解雇索赔的上限可能会使成本增加£150 亿加元。

主席尚卡尔·辛格姆（Shanker Singham）表示：“这一单项立法继续严重限制政府的增长雄心。部长们最好记住，在英国劳动力参与率持续下降的情况下，削弱解雇能力同样会削弱招聘能力。”

保守党商业发言人安德鲁·格里菲斯（Andrew Griffith）敦促部长们重新考虑，但警告称他们似乎决心用

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他们的繁文缛节来“扼杀就业并拖慢经济”。他表示，最新的提案将使“小企业承担毁灭性的昂贵成本，而在公共部门，这将使纳税人为失败而支付巨额赔偿，从而损害我们的公共服务”。

与此同时，有消息透露，作为立法最新变更的一部分，雇主将被要求向员工分发格里菲斯先生所谓的“亲工会宣传品”。政府将起草一份核准声明，以防止“敌对”雇主阻碍员工加入工会。

工会希望这一举措以及法案中的其他内容能帮助遏制会员人数的长期下降。

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超跑惨剧：卡车撞入展厅，多辆迈凯伦被毁

残骸：展厅内的皮卡车。插图：从外部看，皮卡车撞上了一辆黑色迈凯伦的尾部。

作者：安迪·多兰 (Andy Dolan)

这是一场昂贵的惨剧现场：一辆皮卡车猛烈撞入一家超跑展厅，击中了两辆迈凯伦。

一辆价值 27 万英镑 的黑色 750S Spider 和一辆价值 10.5 万英镑 的橙色 GT 遭到损坏。这辆五十铃 (Isuzu) 皮卡显然是从对面一家酒吧的停车场横穿主路冲过来的。

它撞碎了一扇窗户，撞落了一根金属梁，随后冲进了位于西米德兰兹郡索利哈尔 (Solihull) 附近霍克利希斯 (Hockley Heath) 的展厅。一名 30 多岁的男子随后被逮捕。

幸运的是，销售迈凯伦、劳斯莱斯和兰博基尼的 Ryland Specialist Cars 经销店在周日下午事发时处于关闭状态。

一名男子因轻伤被送往医院。西米德兰兹郡警方在现场驻守了一夜，同时调用了私人安保人员来保护这些超跑。经销店对面 The Wharf 酒吧的一名员工告诉《每日邮报》，这辆皮卡车在撞入展厅前曾在那里停了“一两个小时”。

但该员工（要求匿名）表示：“我们检查了监控录像，司机在事发前并未进入酒吧。酒吧里的我们都没有见过他。”

该酒吧隶属于拥有 25 家店的 Stout and Stone Inns 集团，在事发后关闭。

一名目击者称，事故发生后，司机试图强行闯入酒吧。

西米德兰兹郡警方发言人表示：“我们在 December 7 下午 3.45pm 左右接到报案，称一辆车辆冲进霍克利希斯的一家汽车展厅。附近一家酒吧的窗户也受损，且有多人报告在附近受到威胁。一名 30 多岁的男子因涉嫌刑事损坏被逮捕。”

警方表示，嫌疑人昨晚仍被拘留。

迈凯伦发言人确认了该事件，但补充道：“由于目前警方正在进行调查，我们无法就此事进一步发表评论。”

流感爆发导致学校关闭，医生被敦促取消罢工

NHS候诊名单仍未下降

作者：Shaun Wooller（健康编辑）、Mark Duell

医疗界领导层昨日呼吁结束医生的薪资罢工，并警告称今年的流感季可能是史上最严重的一次。

他们表示，随着一种强毒株流感席卷全国，住院医生的罢工行动将“造成混乱”。

目前，部分学校已被迫关闭，医院内接纳的流感患者数量激增。

皇家医学学院（Academy of Medical Royal Colleges）警告称，这种“正在蔓延的强毒株流感”病例预计将在医生于12月17日至22日罢工期间达到顶峰。

一份报告显示，尽管生产率有所提高，但NHS医院在缩减候诊名单方面未能取得实质性进展。

代表英国各皇家医学院的该学院已呼吁激进的英国医学会（British Medical Association）告知医院管理层计划缺勤的医生人数，以便他们能够据此进行规划。

2024 / 25年度，门诊预约数量增长了9.4%，但完成治疗的患者人数仅增长了4%。

财政研究所（Institute for Fiscal Studies）的报告指出，这表明每位患者在从候诊名单中移除之前，经历的预约和手术次数有所增加。它还敦促双方“结束这场痛苦的争端”。

该学院在《泰晤士报》看到的一份声明中表示：“虽然在计划采取工业行动时没有法律义务告知雇主，但此次罢工被安排在NHS一年中最繁忙的周之一。”

“首先，在岗员工将努力让患者在圣诞节前回家。其次，而且或许更重要的是，一种正在蔓延的强毒株流感病毒造成了相当大的额外压力。”

9月份的最新数据显示，候诊名单估计为624 万名患者需要739 万次治疗。

“如今，住院治疗流感的患者人数是两年前同一时期的十倍。如果管理层能获知哪些住院医生打算采取行动，至少能让他们为紧急覆盖方案做出安全规划。”

等待开始治疗时间少于18周（政府的目标）的患者百分比从2024年3月的57.2%上升到9月的61.8%。

NHS英格兰首席执行官吉姆·麦基爵士（Sir Jim Mackey）预计，本周末将有5,000至8,000名流感患者住院，并表示在圣诞节前夕举行罢工是“残酷的，且旨在制造混乱”。

吉姆爵士警告称，国家可能面临史上最严重的流感季，并认为NHS面临的压力“在很多方面将类似于新冠时期”。

此次疫情的背后是一种甲型流感（H3N2）病毒的突变株。伦敦的住院人数已经翻了三倍，北米德兰兹大学医院NHS信托（University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust）已宣布进入“紧急状态”，皇家斯托克医院（Royal Stoke Hospital）和斯塔福德郡医院（Stafford County Hospital）表示面临“极高需求”。

官员们认为，流感率的激增主要是由5至14岁儿童中的病例激增驱动的。

许多学校被迫关闭，全英的校长们警告称病假率正在升级，部分学校甚至禁止在集会中唱歌，以试图遏制传播。

南威尔士卡尔菲利（Caerphilly）的圣马丁学校在超过250名学生和教职员工患病后关闭。该中学的校长李·贾维斯（Lee Jarvis）告诉家长和护理人员，学校将进入一个从周五开始的“防火隔离”期，并计划于今日重新开放。

切希尔郡的康格尔顿高中（Congleton High School）也关闭了三天以进行深度清洁。

第二次出击！派拉蒙现强行介入 Netflix 对华纳兄弟的收购战

作者：John-Paul Ford Rojas 副商业编辑

派拉蒙（PARAMOUNT）昨日强行介入 Netflix 对华纳兄弟（Warner Bros）的巨额收购案，提出了一个高出近 £200 亿加元 的竞争性报价。

这意味着这家制作了包括《教父》在内多部电影的好莱坞巨头，正开出一份它希望股东们无法拒绝的报价。

这标志着一场高风险金融惊悚剧开启了最新篇章，其影响范围涵盖了从《白莲花度假村》到白宫的所有领域——而唐纳德·特朗普的女婿可能在其中扮演关键角色。

Netflix 在上周率先出击，同意以 £620 亿加元 收购华纳兄弟探索公司（Warner Bros Discovery）的电影制片厂（《哈利·波特》系列电影的制作方）以及包括《权力的游戏》制作方 HBO 在内的流媒体服务。但该交易很快遭到电影业批评人士以及美国总统的质疑，后者表示，由于合并后的公司将占据主导市场份额，因此“可能会出现问题”。

与此同时，在幕后，由与特朗普先生关系密切的埃利森（Ellison）家族控制的派拉蒙高层们正愤怒不已。在 12 周的时间里，派拉蒙已经对华纳兄弟探索公司提出了六次报价，结果却发现自己被抛弃，对方选择了 Netflix。昨日，派拉蒙将其此前被拒绝的 £810 亿加元 报价公开化——直接面向股东并绕过华纳董事会，这在业内被称为“敌意收购”。

一个世纪以来，华纳兄弟一直是电影业的巨头，拥有从《公民凯恩》和《卡萨布兰卡》到《蝙蝠侠》和《超人》的经典电影。它还拥有 HBO，这里是《黑道家族》和《白莲花度假村》的聚集地。

派拉蒙的历史可追溯至 1912, 年，同样能列出一串全球最著名的电影清单，从《蒂法尼的早餐》到《夺宝奇兵》和《碟中谍》。其电视资产包括 CBS 以及英国的 Channel 5。而且，与 Netflix 不同的是，派拉蒙提出要收购华纳兄弟探索公司的有线电视资产，包括新闻服务 CNN 和探索频道（Discovery Channel）。

可争夺的目标：哈利·波特与赫敏

其报价包括来自 Affinity Partners 的资金，这是一家由特朗普先生的女婿贾里德·库什纳（Jared Kushner）经营的投资公司，此外还包括沙特、卡塔尔和阿布扎比的国家支持基金。该报价还得到了全球第二富豪拉里·埃利森（Larry Ellison）的支持。

埃利森家族与私募股权公司 RedBird Capital 共同拥有派拉蒙。

派拉蒙老板、埃利森先生之子大卫（David）表示：“我们相信我们的报价……符合消费者和电影院行业的最佳利益。”

财富管理公司 Quilter Cheviot 的技术研究主管本·巴林格（Ben Barringer）表示：“派拉蒙比 Netflix 更需要这笔交易，这可能是其对华纳兄弟估值的一个驱动因素。”

“派拉蒙将希望这次报价能将这家流媒体巨头彻底击败，但即便如此，任何审查都可能导致一个漫长的过程。”

吓死人！《圣诞颂歌》中的幽灵竟设有触发警告

作者：Grant Tucker 娱乐编辑

一部删除了幽灵的《圣诞颂歌》剧作，即便对于最像斯克鲁奇（Scrooge）的剧院导演来说，可能也走得太远了。

因此，在谢菲尔德上演的这部查尔斯·狄更斯经典剧作中，观众在收到一个令人冷静的触发警告——告知演出包含“对幽灵的描绘”——时感到困惑，也就不足为奇了。

坩埚剧院（Crucible Theatre）告知持票者，演出中将出现：“围绕幽灵（视觉呈现）出现与消失而产生的轻微惊吓和紧张时刻”以及“死亡（暗示）”。

该剧将一直演出至January 10, 改编自狄更斯 1843 小说。在小说中，年迈的吝啬鬼埃比尼泽·斯克鲁奇（Ebenezer Scrooge）接到了前商业伙伴雅各布·马利（Jacob Marley）以及圣诞过去、现在和未来的幽灵的拜访。

该剧获得了连续的四星好评，由《医生》（Doctors）演员伊恩·米德兰（Ian Midlane）饰演斯克鲁奇，《王冠》（The Crown）演员瑞安·奥唐奈（Ryan O'Donnell）饰演鲍勃·克拉奇特（Bob Cratchit）。

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乔伊·巴顿因针对Vine及评论员发布恶劣帖子免于入狱

作者：Ian Herbert

尽管乔伊·巴顿（Joey Barton）针对三位电视名人发起了恶毒的社交媒体攻击，导致他们担心遭到其追随者的袭击，但他昨日仍免于入狱。

法官表示，这位前足球运动员对时事节目主持人杰里米·Vine（Jeremy Vine）以及足球评论员露西·沃德（Lucy Ward）和埃尼·阿卢科（Eni Aluko）发起的攻击“旨在羞辱”。

利物浦刑事法院的法官补充道，他在社交网站X上拥有 280 万 名追随者，并且“积极鼓励他人参与辱骂”。

利物浦记录官安德鲁·梅纳里（Andrew Menary）KC判处其六个月监禁，缓刑 18 个月。他告诉巴顿 43, 他的攻击对阿卢科女士既具有“种族挑衅性”又是性别歧视的。

法官表示，多次发推特声称Vine先生是恋童癖的行为是“蓄意伤害”，他对沃德女士的攻击亦然。

在 January 2024, 的一场电视转播的足总杯比赛后，巴顿将沃德女士和阿卢科女士比作“足球评论界的弗雷德和罗斯·韦斯特（Fred and Rose West）”，并进一步将她们的面孔合成到那两名连环杀手的照片上。

巴顿上个月被一致判定六项罪名成立，即意图造成痛苦或焦虑而发送极具冒犯性的电子通信。当法官告诉他，他发起了一场“有针对性且极端的持续性网络辱骂活动”时，他在被告席上凝视前方。

除了缓刑，他还被下达了禁制令，禁止他

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左图：被针对的杰里米·维恩和埃尼·阿卢科。右图：昨日在法院外的乔伊·巴顿

在两年内禁止联系或在网上发布任何关于维恩先生、阿卢科女士或沃德女士的内容。他被命令支付23,419 英镑诉讼费用，并承担200小时的无偿社区服务。

这位前纽卡斯尔联球员此前曾宣布他将退出X平台。

法庭还获悉，他在为本案准备量刑报告的专家面前表示，他“长期以来在酒精方面存在困难，这导致了过去的一些问题”。

巴顿此前有六次定罪记录，包括2008年的斗殴和殴打，以及同年的一起导致实际身体伤害的袭击案，但梅纳里法官认为这些记录与本案无关。

法官指出，巴顿已采取措施克制其网络行为，但补充道“只有时间才能证明这种决心是否能持久”。法官补充说，像他那样程度的辱骂推文已经“丧失”了任何关于言论自由的辩护理由。

在受害者影响陈述中，阿卢科女士将巴顿对她的攻击描述为“我经历过的最令人厌恶、最极端且最具冒犯性的批评”。她说她变得害怕出门，并补充道：“我的名字可以通过谷歌搜索并与西部的连环杀手联系在一起，这让我感到恶心透顶。”

沃德女士在陈述中表示：“我永远无法充分解释我所感受到的恐惧、屈辱和痛苦。”她将那篇将她比作罗斯·韦斯特的帖子称为“令人憎恶之物”，并表示该帖子已被浏览350 万次。

她补充说，巴顿“将他的粉丝群体武器化来攻击我”，并“摧毁了我热爱的工作”。

派对气球与癌症相关发出警告

专家警告称，在英国在线销售的气球含有非法水平的致癌化学物质。

消费者权益组织 Which? 的一项调查发现，部分产品含有高浓度的有毒亚硝胺——这是一种在工业制造过程中产生的、存在于烟草中的致癌化合物。

许多气球面向儿童销售，例如印有超级英雄图案，研究人员担心孩子们在吹气球或玩耍时将其放入口中，可能会接触到

作者：乔纳森·查德威克

这些化学物质。

Which? 从七个在线市场购买了21包乳胶气球，分别是 eBay、Amazon、AliExpress、Debenhams、Temu、Shein 和 The Range（后者也在 Wilko 销售）。

结果显示，其中八包气球的亚硝胺浓度超过了英国的法定限值。来自 AliExpress 的一个气球含量超过法定限值的六倍，而 eBay 和 The Range 销售的气球含量则分别超过四倍。

Which? 消费者权益负责人苏·戴维斯表示，让儿童接触高浓度的致癌物是“令人愤慨的”，并补充道：“像派对气球这样看似无辜的物品可能会带来严重的健康后果。”

AliExpress、The Range、Debenhams、Wilko、Shein、eBay 和 Amazon 表示，他们已将 Which? 识别出的气球下架。

哈里在英安保方案被“重新评估”，2 in 5 说应由其自费

作者：丽贝卡·英格利什 (Rebecca English) 皇室编辑

一项民意调查显示，许多英国人认为哈里王子在英国期间应获得警方保护——但前提是他必须自费。

五分之二（39 per cent）的人表示，如果这位前职守王室成员从其加利福尼亚的家中前来访问，他应个人出资聘请警员来保护自己及其家人。

然而，内政部此前曾强烈主张不能允许这种情况发生，因为这将实际上使伦敦警察厅变成“雇佣枪手”。

这些数据出炉之际，有报道称，这位与国王关系疏远的儿子在内政部的一项审查中获胜。此前，在他放弃王室职责并移居

“内政部的重新评估”

美国寻求利润丰厚的商业生涯后，他被剥夺了访问英国期间由纳税人资助的 24 小时武装警卫，而此次审查针对的是该决定。

他在 5 月的一场高等法院上诉中败诉，他曾激烈地批评该举措是“建制派的阴谋”。

一项针对 8,000 多名成年人的 YouGov 民意调查发现，超过四分之一（28 per cent）的人认为哈里王子根本不应享有任何保护。

仅有六分之一（17 per cent）的人表示他应享有完全由国家资助的保护，16 per cent 的人表示不知道。

然而，现在看来，内政部通过其风险管理委员会 Ravec，已要求对其情况进行风险重新评估，这可能为恢复他在英国的安保铺平道路。

决定将于下月公布，王子的支持者暗示，这可能为他带家人回英国访问铺平道路。

国王自 2022 年以来尚未见过他的孙子阿奇和孙女莉莉贝特。

首相现在必须兑现国防承诺

基尔·斯塔默爵士作为首相，最喜欢扮演国际政治家的角色。

每当召集峰会或四处旅行承诺英国将支持解决世界问题时，他最为快意。

昨天就是这样一个场合。他欢迎弗拉基米尔·泽连斯基以及法国和德国的领导人访问唐宁街 10 号，讨论旨在结束俄罗斯与乌克兰战争的和平计划。

基尔爵士重申了他的承诺，即英国在支持基辅对抗弗拉基米尔·普京的暴政方面不会动摇。

他说，任何协议都需要“强有力的安全保证”，以确保克里姆林宫不会重启战争。英国还准备为任何维和努力派遣部队。但他究竟有多认真？

就在基尔爵士会见同行时，英国皇家海军的首领就工党未能增加国防资金发起了猛烈抨击。

圭恩·詹金斯上将警告说，由于我们的对手正在大力投资军事能力，政府迫切需要“加大力度”。

基尔爵士在安全问题上说得很好。他承诺到 2027, 将国防开支提高到 GDP 的 2.5 per cent，然后在十年内达到北约 5 per cent 的目标。

然而令人羞愧的是，工党在预算案中无法为国防多拨出一分钱。相反，它选择在福利上额外挥霍 160 亿英镑 billion，让“福利街”的居民过上更安逸的生活。

那么，谁将为基尔爵士为乌克兰寻求的“安全保证”提供支持？唐纳德·特朗普对欧洲多年来未能分担其在北约的费用感到愤怒，他坚决认为这不会由美国承担。

尽管基尔爵士如此虚张声势，但这也不太可能是英国。我们的武装部队已被危险地削减至极限，根本没有能力承担任何负担。

毫无骨气的斯塔默 1

自从基尔爵士勉强下令对诱导儿童帮（grooming gangs）进行全面调查以来，已经过去了七个月，但调查至今尚未启动。

这是现代英国最黑暗的篇章之一。国家机构——社会工作者、警察、地方政客——为了避免被指责为种族主义者以及破坏社区关系，故意掩盖了由主要由巴基斯坦穆斯林组成的帮派对白人及锡克教女孩实施的大规模强奸和酷刑。

在这些罪恶滋生的许多地方议会中，劳工党曾掌控局面，因此该党对可能被揭露的内容感到恐惧。这就是为什么它想将这起丑闻搁置起来。

但现在，保守党党魁凯米·巴德诺克（Kemi Badenoch）正接手此案。在与幸存者交谈后，她提出了一项替代调查方案。该调查将由法官领导，且至关重要的是，将“不遗余力”地调查，重点关注那些实施这些禽兽般罪行的人的种族和文化背景。这是受害者最起码应得的。

基尔爵士在很大程度上保持沉默。上周，他说消除儿童贫困是他的“道德使命”。但愿他对儿童强奸事件也能表现出同样的关注。

毫无骨气的斯塔默 2

基尔爵士关于领导一个最高标准政府的虔诚承诺也已化为泡影。

安吉拉·雷纳（Angela Rayner）因逃避印花税而丢掉副首相职务、蒙羞辞职仅三个月，我们这位自以为是的领导人已经计划将她重新召回内阁。不过，他几乎没有选择。

由于劳工党议员们正密谋推翻他，基尔爵士必须安抚党内的左翼——而雷纳女士正是他们的事实上的领导人。

所谓的正直不过如此。每当陷入困境，他总是将政治生存置于得体之上。

在我成年后的生活中，真正感到恐惧的时刻并不多。

然而，这正是我上周在威斯敏斯特的一个房间里，听取由卫生大臣韦斯·斯特里廷（Wes Streeting）召集的会议上，一组临床医生发言时的感受。

韦斯·斯特里廷为了讨好劳工党左翼，批准了一项针对儿童使用青春期阻断药物的荒唐实验

我与来自不同政治光谱的议员们一起，就政府启动“路径”（Pathways）计划的决定提出质疑。该计划是上个月宣布的一项耗资 £1070 万 的试验，将让 200 多个脆弱儿童使用青春期阻断剂，旨在收集有关药物副作用和结果的数据。

我使用了“试验”这个词，但坦白说，这是一场实验。这是一次由国家批准的活动，无论它如何粉饰，无论包裹在周围多少层官僚主义的保证，都有造成深远且终身伤害的风险。

在我看来，这极其接近于虐待儿童。

我和我的同行们聚集在一起，抱有一丝微弱的希望，认为这次会议或许能缓解我们最深切的一些担忧。

相反，我们离开时比进去时更加惊恐。而且，我们一致认为，如果允许这项试验继续进行，可能会摧毁那些应当受到保护而非被当作实验对象的儿童的身体、心理、性以及生殖健康。

任何政府怎么能主导这样一个过程？卫生大臣怎么能一本正经地宣称，这项试验的核心是“伦理与安全”？观察得越仔细，这句话就越显得空洞——尤其是当你考虑到仅仅一年前我们的情况时。

On December 11, 2024, 斯特里廷站在派遣箱前，宣布无限期禁止 18 岁以下青少年使用青春期阻断剂。

担忧

他表示，风险过高且不确定性过于广泛——正如去年具有里程碑意义的《卡斯报告》（Cass Report）中所强力阐述的那样，该报告是这个国家迄今为止对儿童性别医学进行的最全面的审查。

由于转诊人数激增以及对护理质量的担忧，特别是针对伦敦性别认同发展服务中心（GIDS，通常被称为塔维斯托克诊所），NHS英格兰于2020年委托希拉里·卡斯博士（Dr Hilary Cass）进行审查，其结论毫不留情。

她认为，青春期阻断剂背后的证据基础“极其薄弱”，并批评了在信誉破产的塔维斯托克诊所根深蒂固的“性别肯定”模式。该模式将处于痛苦中的儿童——其中许多人患有自闭症、遭受过创伤、是同性恋或仅仅是对自己的性取向感到困惑——推向一条潜在危险的“传送带”，而支持这一做法的数据却严重不足。

卡斯博士建议审慎对待，并强调基于证据的方法和保障安全的重要性。

毕竟，匆忙让脆弱的年轻人接受不可逆的医疗治疗，其后果可能是灾难性的。

面对如此无可争辩的调查结果，斯特里廷别无选择，只能宣布实施该无限期禁令。

人们感觉到一些

作者：莎拉·波钦 (Sarah Pochin)

常识已回归这场充满争议的辩论，而今年4月最高法院的裁决进一步增强了这种感觉。法院裁定，“女性”的法律定义基于生物性别而非“性别认同”——这一裁定在诸如跨性别男性进入女性监狱和参加女性运动队等领域产生了深远的社会影响。

那么，从去年12月到今天，究竟发生了什么变化？是否出现了证明青春期阻断剂安全的新证据？绝对没有。相反，发生变化的是政治走向。

风险

跨性别权利游说团体是现代英国政治中最强大的意识形态力量之一——并且已经掌控了议会劳工党及其活动分子的很大一部分。

卫生大臣现在的做法似乎并非为了儿童的最佳利益，而是在进行一场政治上的平衡操纵，以确保该团体的支持。换句话说：政治第一，儿童第二。

在上周三的会议上，所有将监督“路径”（Pathways）临床试验的临床医生似乎要么无法，要么不愿回答关于安全性、风险和资格的最基本问题。

我询问是否会对最年轻的参与者设置年龄上限（到目前为止，我们仅被告知该试验将限于16岁以下人群）。

专家组直接拒绝回答我的问题。令人震惊的是，他们中没有一个人排除七、八岁甚至更年幼的儿童被接纳为参与者的可能性。

这勾勒出了一幅令人无法容忍的景象：那些还相信圣诞老人的孩子，竟然被提供旨在停止基本生物过程的药物。我们真的认为这样的孩子能够给出充分且知情的同意吗？

这并不是唯一让我深感担忧的问题。他们还拒绝排除具有“既有脆弱性”的参与者——例如患有自闭症、处于监护照顾中、挣扎于焦虑、抑郁、多动症（ADHD）或其他心理健康问题的儿童。相反，我们被告知，欢迎他们的参与。

该试验似乎在缺乏最基本谨慎义务的情况下推进。考虑到我们所知的参与儿童可能面临的风险，这确实令人不安。

我们已经知道，青春期阻断剂会损害骨密度，干扰性发育并影响生育能力。此外，有证据表明其会对大脑发育产生影响。而这还没有考虑到心理上的伤害。

事实是，没有人知道风险的全部程度——在如此不确定的情况下，让孩子大量服用青春期阻断剂的想法在道德上是站不住脚的。

父母及其他人的同意问题也至关重要。谁将为受监护儿童提供同意？如果随后出现伤害，谁将承担责任？这些是根本性的伦理问题。

我们必须直言不讳。对于服用青春期阻断剂的孩子来说，没有保证能回头的方法——这类药物在美国、加拿大和一些欧洲国家也被用于对性犯罪者进行化学阉割。

绝大多数服用青春期阻断剂的孩子随后会服用跨性别激素，以帮助其身体发育出异性的身体特征，如面部汗毛或乳房。而其中一些人显然在后来对此感到后悔。

压力

像凯拉·贝尔（Keira Bell）这样勇敢的“去转型者”——他们经历了此类跨性别治疗后感到后悔，并公开揭露其危险——表示他们被匆忙推向了自己并不理解的治疗，他们的心理健康需求被忽视，且在某些情况下，他们留下了永久性的损伤。

这些叙述具体化了任何理性的人都知道的真相：相当一部分经历性别困扰的孩子，在青春期结束时很可能会自然地化解这些感受。

他们需要的不是药物，而是时间、支持、治疗护理——以及一种允许他们在没有意识形态压力的情况下成长的文化。

这就是为什么我们许多来自不同党派的人共同坚定地反对这项试验。这无关左派或右派。这关乎保护儿童——这是我们作为立法者的职责，对我们中的许多人来说，也是作为父母的职责。这件事不能，也不允许发生。

■ 莎拉·波钦（SARAH POCHIN）是改革英国党（Reform UK）代表朗科恩和赫尔斯比（Runcorn and Helsby）的国会议员。

day, December 9, 2025 Littlejohn richard.littlejohn@dailymail.co.uk

安吉拉·雷纳（ANGELA Rayner）还没有回到内阁，但她现在的状态就跟在内阁里没什么两样。

全员撤离！愤怒的“红发”雷纳正计划将我们带回 20 世纪 70 年代的混乱局面

尽管“愤怒的红发”目前可能正处于三场比赛的禁赛期（因为在缴税问题上被出示了红牌），但她旨在增强工会权力的十字军东征正由政府热情地推进。

在扩大“工人权利”的掩护下，雇主将被迫向所有员工分发亲工会的宣传资料。他们将被法律要求分发传单，概述员工加入工会的权利以及可获得的福利，并指引他们寻找工作场所中被认可的任何工会。

部长们表示，此举旨在阻止那些“敌对”雇主阻碍员工加入工会。但这些老板是谁？肯定不是在公共部门，因为在那里，国家就是雇主，并且积极鼓励加入工会。

不，这又是另一项针对经济中高效且创造财富的部门的惩罚性措施，与令人窒息的监管、高昂的税收以及能源

在这个不再感到羞耻的时代，我们不能排除任何可能性

成本。这将使老板们在雇佣新员工时三思，并打击劳工党声称关心的那些“劳动人民”。

由于瑞秋·里夫斯两次灾难性的预算案，就业市场已经崩溃。不过，部长们似乎并不在意失业率的上升。显然，他们宁愿人们在福利救济中苟延残喘，也不愿人们在没有工会会员证的情况下找份工作。

雇员已经拥有加入工会的自由，或者根据情况选择不加入。但这项立法将给激进的工会官员开绿灯，让他们可以进行一些轻微的“强迫”。

在政府认可的背书下，他们会倾向于告诉那些拒绝者：在这里签字，否则后果自负。

然后，一旦安全地进入工会行列，他们就可能被恐吓而参与罢工。一个出走，全部出走，兄弟。

工会已经扼住了公共部门的咽喉——而此举旨在将其扩展到私营部门。如今的工业行动几乎完全局限于公共或准公共部门——初级医生、火车司机、伯明翰的垃圾工。

这其中是有原因的。自从我在 70 年代和 80 年代担任劳工记者以来，英国工会大会（TUC）的成员人数下降了一半，至约 600 万——其中几乎全部由中央或地方政府或其他国家机构雇佣。

私营公司的工会成员人数已经崩溃，很大程度上是因为经济多样化，且小企业的数量比以往任何时候都多。但也因为 20 世纪 80 年代的工会激进主义导致许多私营公司破产，并迫使福特等国际财团迁往海外。

撒切尔政府引入的改革将私营企业从工会的死手中解放出来，引发了经济复苏。管理人员可以自由地进行管理，而无需在工作委员会上寻求那些想成为亚瑟·斯卡吉尔（Arthur Scargill）的人的批准。

如果这项立法被颁布，这将是走向重新引入“封闭式车间”（closed shop）的滑坡起点，而这一制度在 40 多年前被保守党废除。私营公司以及随之而来的为其工作的人们的命运，将再次掌握在蛮横的工会官员手中。

来自博尔廷兄弟（Boulting Brothers）精彩讽刺剧《我没事，杰克》（I'm All Right, Jack）中弗雷德·凯特（Fred Kite）的幽灵，再次在权力走廊中徘徊。

英国战后的衰落可以直接归因于特里-托马斯（Terry-Thomas）式的软弱管理，以及胆小怕事的政治家在啤酒和三明治的陪伴下向夸夸其谈的工会领导人屈服。

然而，劳工党和 TUC 似乎执意要将时钟拨回，像是在 1979 年那样狂欢，直到“不满之冬”迎来了由玛格丽特·撒切尔领导的保守党政府，她决心粉碎将这个国家拖垮的僵化社会主义。

雷纳（Rayner）目前正在议会审议的《就业权利法案》将带我们“回到未来”，使发起罢工变得更容易，并强迫雇主即使在工会成员处于少数地位时也必须接受集体谈判。

值得注意的是，该法案目前在上议院被搁置，上议院中包含许多在 80 年代活跃且较为理智的工会领导人，他们对恢复当年放弃的部分权力所带来的危险保持警觉。

但这并没有阻止目前的一批工会阶级战士使用最荒谬的语言来为其辩护。以雷纳曾所属的工会 Unison（由 NUPE 和 NALGO 合并而成）的领导人克里斯蒂娜·麦克安（Christina McAnea）为例：“男爵、伯爵和子爵永远不用担心被一个令人讨厌的老板解雇。但遗憾的是，许多人确实在担心。”

她接下来可能会声称孩子们被送回烟囱里清扫了。在英国最大的工会 Unite 威胁要撤回捐款（因为，请注意，政府不够左翼）之后，首相的这一最新举措显然是对工会的妥协。

你简直不能，等等。

尽管如此，我们还能期待那个没骨气的“斯塔默（Surkeir）”做出什么？他目前正处于一场为了自身以及他那不幸的财政大臣而展开的生存之战中。他甚至在向雷纳卑躬屈膝，而后者在几个月前因为未能为其位于霍夫（Hove）的豪华海滨公寓缴纳4 万英镑印花税而被强制辞职。事实上，那处房产位于她自己的北部选区南边数百英里之遥。

在周末一次令人尴尬的采访中，首相对他这位名声扫地的前副手大加赞赏，并表示他迫不及待地想让她回到内阁。

甚至有传闻称，英国税务海关总署（HMRC）的调查将认定她犯了“无心之过”，从而免除她缴纳1.2 万英镑罚款甚至补缴欠税的义务。

当然会有这种传闻，就像那个“投诉专家”瑞秋（Rachel From Complaints）完全不知道出租她在南伦敦的房屋需要许可证一样。

根据“斯塔默”的说法，这两位女性都是“厌女症”的受害者。真是让我无语。她们已经成功登上了这个国家最高的两个职位，但一旦她们因为可以避免的个人财务违规而陷入窘境，就全都成了那些可怕、卑劣的男人们的错。

瑞秋之所以还能撑住，是因为她是斯塔默的人肉盾牌。她如果倒下，他也就完了。但“红发女”（Ginge）则是完全另一回事。

正如她的一位支持者所言：“斯塔默怕她怕得要死。”

这是因为她的权力基础在工会领域。她曾是一名工会官员，她的议会席位得益于工会的提携。进入政府后，她决心偿还这份人情，因此出台了《就业权利法案》。

现在我们被告知，“红发女”正在“考虑她的选择”，包括冲击最高职位。如果你曾怀疑我们是否生活在一个没有羞耻心的时代（比如休·爱德华兹？），那么看看雷纳就知道了——一个完全缺乏自我意识，且显然蔑视体面与民主的女人。

每当有保守党人被抓到贪污公款或丑闻缠身时，她总是在那里：像个鱼贩妇一样尖叫，要求血债血偿。

现在轮到她被推上耻辱柱了，而她却期待着短暂地受挫，然后快速返回

你搞不定安吉，她是工会的一员

高层权力中心。她那夸张的特权感令人作呕。在这方面，她确实是其卓越的前辈“两辆捷豹”的女性化身——后者也是一名劳工党政治家，他认定工人阶级可以滚一边去。

如今坐在头把交椅上的不再是那些“男爵、伯爵和子爵”，而是像雷纳这样的人，她们披上貂皮，滥用那些她们假装在捍卫的劳动人民的基本“权利”。

正如我之前写过的，如果她有一丝体面，她应该辞去议席而不仅仅是职务，并重新参加选举。

在她伪装成一个北方工人阶级姑娘的同时，却没交 4 万英镑 印花税，并在南海岸一个时髦的海滨度假胜地购买了一处昂贵的“主要住所”，她的阿什顿-安德-莱恩选区的好人们理应拥有对其进行评判的“权利”。

相反，她正以一种令人厌恶且不体面的匆忙，推进重返前线的计划，而且竟然还可笑地认为自己是一个适合且恰当的下任首相人选。

你知道吗？在这个没有羞耻心的时代，我不排除这种可能性。从政治角度来说，她已经打点好了正确的人，并期待着回报的时刻。

她还没有回到内阁，但早晚会回去的，只要她服完那短暂的“三场禁赛”。那些认为她已经完蛋的人必须重新考虑。

你搞不定安吉，她是工会的一员。

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每当铃声响起，一个天使就获得了翅膀。这就是《生活多美好》。

天使确实存在——就在上周，我面对面地在门前遇到了一位

我的四岁孙女在今天的学校圣诞剧中扮演一名天使。我将和所有其他祖母一起在那里，手里攥着纸巾，一边观看一边因自豪而流下几滴泪水。

周日的时候，我们正在练习她的台词——好吧，其实只有一句台词（她非常像多里斯家的孩子，因为台词不够多而感到相当不悦），这时她问我：“天使是真的吗？”

我告诉她，天使当然是真的，不仅在天堂，在现实生活中也是如此。

我孙女的问题对我来说非常触动且具有深刻的个人意义，因为就在几天前，我相信我遇到了一位化身为人类的天使，正如我接下来要解释的那样。

有些人可能会嘲笑，但从未怀疑过天使的存在是我利物浦 / 爱尔兰背景的一部分。我的父亲每晚都会和我以及我的哥哥约翰一起祈祷，请求站在每个角落的天使“保佑我们躺卧的床铺”。

父亲在 42 岁时去世，我的哥哥在 27. 岁时死于一场意外。每到这一年中的这个时节，我都会觉得与他们以及其他我深爱且失去的人更加亲近。

昨天是我已故丈夫保罗的生日。当我站在他的墓前时，回忆涌上心头，不仅想起了天使多次介入我们的生活给予支持的时刻，还想起了一个我们帮助一名困境青年的圣诞节。我相信他——或者至少是他的灵魂——就是我遇到的那位天使。

那是大约 20 年前 12 月初的一个夜晚，我的一个女儿告诉我关于

大卫的事。他是她学校的一个少年，当时睡在花园的棚屋里。室外温度为 -4℃。我惊呆了。我问她，为什么？

似乎他的母亲离开了家并带走了他的妹妹，而他的父亲不愿开车送他走那 6 英里去上学。他能准时上课的唯一办法就是睡在朋友家的棚屋里。

我让女儿穿好衣服，保罗开车带她去接大卫。当时的大卫瘦得像根耙子，脸色苍白且在发抖。我怀疑他每天吃的东西不超过那一顿免费的学校餐。他身上只穿着现有的衣服，没有外套。后来我才发现他高度近视，但没有眼镜。

大卫在我们家住了六个月，参加了 GCSE 考试，在找到工作后搬走了。那时他体重增加了 1 磅（stone），拥有了一套像样的衣橱——以及那副至关重要的眼镜。

他的父亲从未联系过他，尽管他的母亲

和妹妹在圣诞节前的几天里确实联系过一次。

她们喝了一杯茶，用了洗手间就离开了——顺便拿走了我的化妆包和一枚我留在水槽边的戒指。我从未告诉过大卫。

大卫离开我们后未能保持联系，这让我感到失望。但有一天，在接下来的圣诞节和新年之间，他出现在门口，给我带来了一盒 Milk Tray 巧克力，给保罗带来了一瓶红葡萄酒。

他加入了我们的早餐，兴奋地分享着关于他的工作和新女友的消息。六

纳丁·多里斯 X@NadineDorries

凯特，别告诉我该怎么做

凯特·温斯莱特（KATE WINSLET），50岁，通常在照片中呈现出完整的红毯模式，且毫无疑问有造型师随时待命，现在她又开始发表她的见解了。

她声称年轻女性不知道什么是真正的美，并批评使用美容手术、减肥针和其他治疗手段。听着，我明白她的意思。一些像鳟鱼一样

几个月后，当我们听说他自杀了，保罗和我陷入了极大的悲痛之中。这是一个感情问题，而他没有足够的情绪韧性去应对。

生活给了他太多次拒绝。这一次，没有天使来救他。

快进到上周，在另一个寒冷的十二月之夜，轮胎爆了。第二天早上我得送孙女去学校，所以这成了一场小灾难。

打了一个电话，一位穿着 AA 制服的天使出现在门口。我惊讶得不知所措。他是大卫。

他看起来像大卫：他有大卫的眼睛，声音和笑容也和大卫一模一样。

他为我们付出了极大的努力——这并不是一次简单的换胎——并且

嘟嘴的唇部手术和填充物导致面部变形，在我看来这些是怪诞的，我不明白为什么女性自己看不出来。

但作为一个热爱微整形（tweakment）的68岁的人，我反对天生美丽的温斯莱特告诉我该怎么做。收敛点吧，凯特，我们并不都像你那样幸运。

车在第二天早上修好了。当我关上前门时，我对女儿说：“他让你想起了谁？”她毫不犹豫地回答：“大卫。”

我们谁也没有再说下去，因为这太不寻常了，无法解释。但在我心中，我在想，大卫长出翅膀了！

我不相信这是一个巧合，一个长相和声音都像大卫的人，在极有可能是我们第一次遇见他的那个夜晚的周年纪念日，出现在我的门口，为我们做一件好事。

而且，在这个圣诞时节，当我想到那些我爱过且失去的人时，我会从这样一个事实中获得安慰：我深信天使行走在我们之间。

套用 ABBA 歌曲中的一句词，他们就在这里，在我们所见的一切美好之中。

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对奈杰尔·法拉奇（Nigel Farage）和改革英国党（Reform）每天几乎不停歇的攻击，让我想起了支持鲍里斯·约翰逊的早期日子。

同样，攻击接踵而至，且经不起推敲。但这没关系：正如人们所说，谎言在真相穿上靴子之前，已经传遍了半个世界。

左翼以及绝望的保守党将不择手段——无论真相或伦理如何——来阻止法拉奇成为首相。我的怀疑是，英国公众现在已经能看穿这些攻击的真面目。

新建住宅之祸

得了吧，艾伦·蒂奇马什，我们现在都知道你出售那栋价值£400 万的汉普郡美宅的真正原因了。

这并不是因为你年纪大了，无法打理那些广阔的花园，尽管你一直暗示是这样。在76,岁这个年纪，你的身体依然像屠夫家的狗一样强健。

你的搬迁肯定与附近兴建的160栋新房有关。相信我，我深有同感。

我们在科茨沃尔德也面临同样的问题。村庄和集镇并没有被扩大或提升，而是在被摧毁。以莫顿-因-马什（人口约5,000人）为例，那里将要建造数万套新房。它将变得面目全非。

当地人的情绪如此强烈，他们甚至为这颗科茨沃尔德皇冠上的明珠之死举行了一场模拟葬礼。

而且，让糟糕的情况雪上加霜的是，这里的维多利亚时代下水道已经难以承受。你在乡村小路上行走时，几乎每走一步都会撞见泰晤士水务公司的货车。

对新房的需求是失控移民带来的又一个负面影响——这场危机很可能在不久的将来彻底爆发。

我的预测——说唱歌手 Aitch 会赢得《我是名人》——很快就落空了，最终夺冠的是网红“Angry Ginge”。然而，对我以及许多其他人来说，节目真正的明星是来自《名人约会》的汤姆·里德·威尔逊（如图）。他迷人、聪明、谦逊且幽默，许多人会抢着签下他。脱口秀和主持工作在等着他。但别着急，汤姆——一颗巨星诞生了！

拉米（Lammy）的缺席在障碍赛中被称为“拒绝跳跃”。是时候把他送到胶水工厂（宰杀马场）了吗？

威斯敏斯特速写，作者：昆廷·莱茨 (QUENTIN LETTS)

大卫·拉米 (David Lammy) 又一次缺席了。这位司法大臣再次面临下议院关于陪审团审判以及他希望在许多案件中废除该制度的紧急质询。

为了让自己免于面对这些麻烦，他派出了缺乏经验的副手萨拉·“鲍德里克”·萨克曼 (Sarah 'Baldrick' Sackman)。在障碍赛跳跃中，

人们将这种情况称为“拒绝”。在接近跳跃点时，马突然将前蹄钉在草地上，打滑并停了下来。无论给多少根胡萝卜、多少颗 Polo 薄荷糖，或者在屁股上抽多少次，都无法改变它的主意。这匹劣马在马衔中吐着白沫，撒了一地尿，总而言之就是说“不，夫人”。

这就是目前的拉米先生，我们的副首相。是不是该把他送到胶水工厂去了？

萨克曼 KC 在议事台前经历了她连续第二次的折磨。这一次，当国会议员批评部分废除拥有 800 年历史的陪审团制度时，她的愤怒程度或许稍微减轻了一点。拉米先生希望这些案件由法官来决定。至少这是一种确保那些无礼的报纸专栏作家停止指责我们高级司法成员是“偏见严重的保守派”的方法。让我们对那些醉醺醺的老海象们保持一点尊重吧！

萨克曼女士再次一只手插在口袋里，试图表现出淡定的自信。她再次未能令人信服。

保守党的罗伯特·詹里克 (Robert Jenrick) 减少了近期在下议院中表现出的那种刻薄的活力。这是一个正确的决定。永久性的愤怒会变得令人厌倦。

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詹里克先生将焦点集中在拉米先生利用强奸案统计数据来证明废除陪审团合理性的行为上。拉米先生声称，60% 的所谓强奸受害者因法院延误而退出司法程序。用专业术语来说，这是一个谎言。在提起指控后，这个数字实际上更接近 9%。

萨克曼女士在谈到这些数据时尽可能少说。这一点变得如此明显，以至于朱利安·刘易斯爵士（保守党，新森林东区）表示，这证明了 12 名陪审员比一名法律专业人士更可靠。波莱特·汉密尔顿（劳工党，埃丁顿）认为，“公民参与”意味着陪审团比法官的裁决更不容易受到“个人偏见和外部压力”的影响。

卡尔·特纳（劳工党，赫尔东区）是一名认为拉米先生是个顶级笨蛋的大律师，他迟到了。这可能不完全是他的错，因为议会的日程在当天有所变动，但霍伊尔议长按规矩办事，拒绝让特纳先生提问。

德斯蒙德·斯韦恩爵士（保守党，新森林西区）大声吼道，他以前的数学老师总是告诉他要“展示计算过程”。那么，废除陪审团审判的证据在哪里？

萨克曼女士发现斯韦恩爵士是个无法应对的对手。可能是因为他那沙哑、断续的说话方式，他浆洗得笔挺的衣领，或者仅仅是因为他那像爱德华时代游乐场拳击手一样初现雏形的连鬓胡；无论如何，她无法展示她的“计算过程”。相反，她只能一次又一次地重复说，白厅将在“适当的时机”提供其“风险评估”。这引起了阵阵笑声。

类似的情况也发生在上议院，那位穿着紧身衬衫的赫伯特——财政部大臣利弗莫尔勋爵 (Lord Livermore) 因预算案前的泄密事件而陷入麻烦。利弗莫尔就是那个在戈登·布朗向他扔电话时会哭鼻子的人。现在，他面对的是贵族们带着不信之情的嘲笑。

他一直强调里夫斯的财政部是多么“严肃”地对待预算保密工作。贵族议员们：“哈哈！”就连完全是个法律专家的潘尼克勋爵（跨党派）也加入了嘲讽。利弗莫尔第无数次重复道：“我们极其严肃地对待预算流程。”贵族议员们：“噢，快停下，快停下，否则我们也要泄密了！”

鲍里斯政府花了三年时间才在议会中遭到如此公开的嘲弄。

最新消息：埃德·米利班德出席了环境审计委员会。他修剪了耳毛。准备好拍他的“埃德竞选工党领袖”海报了吗？房间里严重过热。工党的巴里·加德纳脸红得像个小萝卜。拯救地球的一种方法：调节暖气片。

网红的信任度甚至低于政治人物

作者：克里斯蒂娜·韦梅斯 (Kristina Wemyss)

研究发现，网红是全国最不被信任的职业——排名甚至低于政治人物。

仅有 6% 的英国人认为社交媒体上的人物在讲述真相——这是有记录以来任何职业中的最低得分。

然而，这似乎并未阻碍 Z 世代，一项单独的民意调查发现，在 16 至 34 岁的人群中，仍有四分之一的人通过他们获取每日新闻。

今年该职业调查首次加入了网红，他们立即跌至底端，得分低于政治人物 (9%) 和广告主管 (16%)。护士、工程师和医生继续领跑最受信任职业榜单，得分分别为 92、90 和 85。

今年的 Veracity 指数中还增加了另外两个角色：历史学家和艺术家。在 Ipsos 的民意调查中，两者的排名都很高——分别为 79 和 73。记者的得分较低，仅有 26% 的人信任他们讲述真相。电视新闻主播的情况则好一些，得分为 45。

Ipsos 的迈克·克莱门斯 (Mike Clemence) 表示：“社交媒体网红直接跌至受信任职业名单的底端。尽管如此，我们知道网红的作用仍在继续增长。”

揭秘休·爱德华兹神秘的“回归”：其重返公众生活背后秘密支持的惊人名单

作者：亚历克斯·多伊尔 (Alex Doyle) 资深娱乐记者

几十年来，作为英国广播公司（BBC）旗舰节目《十点新闻》的主持人，他的身影出现在数百万个家庭中。

休·爱德华兹 (Huw Edwards) 沉稳且坚定，被视为国家重大场合中冷静的代表人物——他正是向全国宣布已故女王伊丽莎白去世的那个人。

然而，他的职业生涯在去年七月戛然而止，当时他在威斯敏斯特治安法院承认制作儿童淫秽图像的罪名。

回归？休·爱德华兹在网上发布的照片

然而，在一年多之后，这位威尔士新闻播报员兼主持人似乎正在为谨慎地重新进入公众生活铺路。

上个月，爱德华兹发布了一张看似新的专业黑白头像照，照片中他表情忧郁，蓄着花白胡须。

现在，《每日邮报》可以透露，爱德华兹已重新激活其 Instagram 账号。该账号拥有 94,000 名粉丝，曾是他分享日常广播幕后照片的场所，也是他向那些希望在行业内发展职业生涯的年轻及初级男性同事发送消息的渠道。

尽管他自 2023 年 7 月 5 日以来尚未在该平台上发布内容——就在一家小报揭露一名 BBC 主持人为换取自己的私密照片和视频而向一名年轻男性付费的两天前——但爱德华兹还开设了一个新的 Facebook 账号，以便与支持者和朋友保持联系。

而且，这位 64 岁的男子似乎得到了前同事们出人意料的强力支持，这对于陷入困境的 来说，无疑是又一次潜在的尴尬。

一名内部人士告诉《每日邮报》：“高层肯定会感到困惑，并担心这会提醒观众想起那场公关噩梦。”

尽管爱德华兹承认持有的材料性质令人厌恶——在非法图像中，有 7 张被列为最严重的 A 类，其中包括一张年仅 7 岁的儿童照片——但他似乎仍保留着一些忠实支持者的支持。

这些人包括前 工作人员，在他在被判刑 15 个月后，他们似乎对他回归社交媒体感到欣喜。

他在 Facebook 上的在线好友包括迈克·隆利 (Mike Longley)，他曾是 威尔士的主持人及前音乐主管。

隆利明确表示他继续支持爱德华兹，并批评 对这位名声扫地的明星的处理方式。隆利写道：“嗨，休，我们在 兰达夫 (Llandaff) 见过几次面。我只想说，公司对待你的方式过去是、现在依然是耻辱。想念你出色的工作风格。希望你一切都好。”

身为五个孩子父亲的爱德华兹利用 Facebook 的隐私设置隐藏了一些帖子和回复。但大部分内容对公众仍然可见。爱德华兹选择威尔士国旗上的红龙作为头像，并简短地声明自己是一名记者和播报员。

在他新的 Facebook 账号上支持他的朋友还包括本·鲍登 (Ben Bawden)，他曾是 的节目总监，此前参与过儿童节目《新闻轮播》(Newsround) 的制作；以及本·安多 (Ben Ando)，他曾担任 犯罪及综合新闻记者十多年。

前 威尔士电台播报员温·托马斯 (Wyn Thomas) 是另一位 Facebook 好友。他在爱德华兹的个人资料下评论道：“看起来不错，休。”

爱德华兹的粉丝中还包括当地政治人物，代表拉内利 (Llanelli) 泰莎 (Tyisha) 選区的威尔士党 (Plaid Cymru) 议员特里·戴维斯 (Terry Davies) 用威尔士语写道：“休，你价值千金”。代表阿伯巴戈德 (Aberbargoed) 的工党议员克里斯·比塞克斯-福斯特 (Chris Bissex-Foster) 也是表达祝愿的人之一。一位朋友评论道：“看起来不错，休。最美好的回忆 x。” 还有一个人告诉他要“快点回来”，而另一人则表示休在公众生活中的缺席是一个“巨大的损失”。

访问爱德华兹的 Facebook 账号，可以看到一张这位蒙羞的主持人与母亲埃罗娜·普罗瑟罗（Aerona Prothero）的合影，两人共同举着香槟杯，母亲对着镜头微笑。

一位朋友称这张照片“如此珍贵”，而另一位则告诉这位主持人他需要“被照顾”。在爱德华兹那个旧的——且现在已重新激活的——Instagram 账号上，似乎依然有来自 BBC 和名人的关注者。

这可能是因为他们在账号被删除之前就关注了爱德华兹，因此在账号重新激活后，系统自动显示他们重新关注了该账号。

爱德华兹尚未恢复其旧的 X（原 Twitter）账号，该账号曾拥有超过 187,000 名关注者。

当被捕的消息首次传出时，爱德华兹采取了挑衅姿态，给一名粉丝的推文点赞，该推文写道：“《太阳报》对一名 BBC 主持人提出了最严重的指控。现在需要提供证据，否则可能面临史上最严重的诽谤诉讼。”

这位主持人最后一次被拍到是在 8 月，就在他生日前不久，他当时在斯旺西访问一家超市。他手里拿着三瓶迷你普罗塞克起泡酒。

尽管据报道，与其结婚三十年的妻子维基·弗林德（Vicky Flind）已申请离婚，但爱德华兹当时仍戴着结婚戒指。

弗林德是正式承认其丈夫就是最初小报指控中心那位匿名 BBC 明星的人。

当时，她发表声明称，公开他的姓名是为了保护爱德华兹的身心健康以及他们的孩子。

爱德华兹曾是 BBC 收入最高的人物之一，在 2023 / 24 年度（他在该机构的最后一年）的薪资区间在 47.5 万英镑 至 479,999 英镑 之间。

管理层要求他偿还高达 20 万英镑 的款项，这是他在初次被捕到最终被解雇期间收到的由电视执照费资助的工资。迄今为止，他没有偿还一分钱。

埃弗雷姆·哈德卡斯特（Ephraim Hardcastle）

随着莎拉·弗格森被剥夺头衔，现在谁拥有约克钻石冠冕（York Diamond Tiara）？在 1986, 年与安德鲁结婚之前，已故女王并没有让她在皇家珠宝收藏中挑选结婚冠冕，而是专门为她定制了一顶。离婚后，莎拉一直保留着它，并在任何可能的机会下佩戴。它最近一次出现是在 2023. 年，由贝亚特丽斯在约旦王室婚礼上佩戴。但究竟谁拥有它尚不明确。一名内线透露，皇家收藏机构目前正在筛选皇家小屋（Royal Lodge）的宝藏以查看可以回收哪些物品，他们非常希望能够将其收回。当莎拉走在婚礼走道上时，她戴着一顶巨大的花冠，在她说出“我愿意”之后，花冠被取下，露出了冠冕——这象征着她从平民转变为王室成员的戏剧性转变。或许皇家收藏机构可以用一串雏菊花环来交换这顶冠冕，以标志这一过程的逆转。

国王正将其邓弗里斯庄园（Dumfries House）的窗帘改造为慈善圣诞袜，延续了王室节俭的传统。皇家赛马会（Royal Ascot）的绿衣卫（Greencoats），官方名称为约曼刺针卫（Yeoman Prickers），负责维护皇家围栏区域的礼仪。据称，他们最初穿着的独特绿色天鹅绒制服是由安妮女王在18世纪初温莎城堡翻修后捐赠的窗帘制成的。一些刻薄的玩笑话则暗示，安妮公主也将她的旧窗帘重新利用成了新衣服。

如图所示，米沙尔·胡赛因（Mishal Husain）在彭博社的新岗位上就改革英国党（Reform UK）与俄罗斯的关系对他进行严厉质询时，激怒了奈杰尔·法拉奇（Nigel Farage）。“听着，亲爱的，你太努力了，”他没好气地反驳道。米沙尔对此毫无反应，但《广播时报》（Radio Times）询问她是否想动用她在BBC Radio 4的《今日》（Today）节目中工作11年期间磨练出的反击技巧。她表示：“没有，因为那样的话，我们就不会讨论俄罗斯，而会开始讨论我和他，我并不想那样。”我希望《今日》节目的“首席打断者”尼克·罗宾逊（Nick Robinson）正竖起耳朵听着！

在参加了《邻居》（Neighbours）的“大结局”三年后，凯莉·米洛（Kylie Minogue）却对该剧回归的消息感到“困惑”，她直截了当地建议这次的结局应该更加明确。在被告知这部拥有40年历史的肥皂剧著名的拉姆塞街（Ramsay Street）拍摄地可能会在节目于周四结束时被推平后，凯莉在BBC早餐节目中直言不讳地回应道：“好吧，嘿，就一次性彻底解决吧……我们不能有第三次告别。”

威斯敏斯特大主教文森特·尼科尔斯（Vincent Nichols）在威斯敏斯特大教堂的书房里为拉尔夫·费因斯（Ralph Fiennes）提供了三个小时的指导，以帮助他在电影《秘密会议》（Conclave）中饰演一名天主教会的枢机主教。尼科尔斯透露：“我说，‘你想试穿这套装备吗？’我把它拿来，他穿上后照了照镜子，说，‘好了，我现在感觉对了’。”那么，“我穿这个屁股显大吗？”用拉丁语怎么说？

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乔治亚·伊斯特（Georgia East）今年40岁，离异，且生育渴望已久的宝宝的时间不多了，于是她决定寻找一名精子捐赠者来实现她的母亲梦。

由于希望孩子能与生物学父亲有“某种联系”，她避开了生育诊所的匿名方式，转而选择一个可以通过Facebook群组直接联系捐赠者的平台。

在彼得·刘易斯（Peter Lewis）身上，她认为自己找到了完美的人选。刘易斯今年40岁，是一名英俊的科学专业毕业生，作为一名在线捐赠者，他享有一定的名声，此前已成为近50个孩子的父亲。

乔治亚说，他曾在媒体采访中谈到自己内心深处渴望帮助那些渴望怀孕的女性，而他高调且“仁慈”的公众形象也是其吸引力的一部分：“这让他显得合法。”

刘易斯不仅提供人工授精（AI，即用注射器注入精子），还提供自然授精（NI）——换句话说，就是通过性行为，但这一事实并未让她退缩。

她说，在多年的约会后，“能有一个在某种程度上真正想和我一起生孩子的人，感觉很好”。

但现在感觉不再好了。乔治亚现在将刘易斯描述为一名“性掠夺者”，作为其“捐赠”的一部分，他强迫她对他进行口交直到她难以呼吸，并辱骂她是荡妇。

“他极具侮辱性。感觉像是虐待，”她说。

更糟糕的是，在乔治亚于2022年发现自己怀了刘易斯的孩子后，她看到了证据，证明他承认自己是家族性自主神经功能障碍（FD）的携带者，这是一种影响神经系统的罕见遗传病。

只有当父母双方都是携带者时，孩子才会受到影响（幸运的是，乔治亚不是），但这仍是一种严重的疾病，会导致语言和运动问题、吞咽困难以及预期寿命缩短。

作者：安东尼娅·霍伊尔 (Antonia Hoyle)

图片：ALAMY（模特摆拍）

“我感到如此羞愧，如此……”乔治亚说道。“我意识到这对彼得来说是一场权力游戏。”

“他操纵女性将他作为精子捐赠者，以此来建立他的王朝。”

有一天，她必须告诉她两岁的女儿凯蒂——一个热爱舞蹈和迪士尼的活泼小女孩——她“是一个潜在的疾病基因携带者”，并且拥有大约 100 个（且在增加）兄弟姐妹。乔治亚只能猜测这在心理上会产生怎样的影响。

她说，刘易斯利用在线网站“诱导毫无防备的女性使用他的精子捐赠，然后强迫她们提供性服务并贬低她们”。

然而，这与他喜欢塑造的形象相去甚远。事实上，他是主导全球最大 Facebook 群组的一伙惯犯社交媒体捐赠者之一。

从历史上看，这些男人一直被描绘成无害的英雄，在日间电视节目中受到赞誉。但在利他主义的伪装之下，可能隐藏着一种自恋的、病态的繁衍强迫症。

反对生育欺诈的活动人士伊芙·怀利（Eve Wiley）表示，惯犯捐赠者通过强行介入他人生活获得“深层的心理满足感”，而她本人也是捐赠受孕。

“他们收集后代的方式就像其他人收集奖杯一样。孩子们成了他们能力强的证明。”

高产的捐赠者包括乔·多纳（Joe Donor），又名罗伯特·查尔斯·阿尔本（Robert Charles Albon），一名居住在英国的 50 多岁美国人。他吹嘘自己有 180 个孩子，在最近一次尝试获得父母权利后，一名家庭法院法官将其描述为“具有控制欲”。

来自贝德福德郡的西蒙·沃森（Simon Watson），51 岁，他协助阿尔本管理

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这个拥有 9,000 人的 Facebook 群组“英国精子捐赠者”（Sperm Donors UK），他声称用他的“神奇药水”播种了 800 个孩子。

去年，在我为《每日邮报》采访了其中两个孩子的焦虑母亲后，他威胁我，警告说：“我对任何追查我后代的人的恨意将永无止境。”

此外还有荷兰 YouTuber 乔纳森·雅各布·梅耶（Jonathan Jacob Meijer），43 岁，他在荷兰法院承认自己有 550 到 600 个孩子。在当地当局发现他秘密向该国几乎每家生育诊所以及国际运营的丹麦精子库 Cryos 捐赠精子后，他被禁止捐赠精子。

“这些男人疯了，”乔治亚说。自从发现刘易斯的阴暗面以来，她一直尽力揭露许多 Facebook 捐赠者的恶劣行径。

事实上，怀利希望他们的行为被定义为“生殖强迫与虐待”，并表示，在定义明确之前，“我们无法开始保护那些在这些男人的选择中受牵连的家庭和孩子”。

尽管如此，对于渴望怀孕的女性来说，Facebook 捐赠者的吸引力显而易见。近年来，使用捐赠精子的情况激增，但在体外受精（IVF）诊所，每轮治疗的费用可能超过 2,000 英镑。相比之下，社交媒体精子捐赠者省去了中间的诊所，仅收取名义上的费用。

乔治亚是一名活动经理，出于法律原因不能透露姓名。她通过 Zoom 在美国与我交谈，而目前定居英国的刘易斯在 2022 年也住在那里。

在她申请加入一个当地的 Facebook 群组后，刘易斯与她取得了联系。她说，他看起来很有魅力，有着一种讨人喜欢的“书呆子气质”。

她告诉他，她希望与捐赠者建立良好的关系，“而他抓住了这一点，开始[说]‘也许你和我之间能成’”。

她认为，即使最后没有发展成恋爱关系，她仍然能拥有一个孩子，并且能与刘易斯成为朋友。刘易斯承认他的一部分“捐赠”是通过性交完成的，并给了乔治亚选择人工授精或自然授精的选项。

虽然她没有感到压力，但她说刘易斯告诉她，性行为“可能是更好的选择”。

这并没有让她感到惊慌。“我们讨论过去罗马受孕，所以这件事被浪漫化了，”她说。

事后看来，她认为自己是一个显而易见的目标。“我是他寻找的那类女性。一个在感情中失败过，并且可能正在寻找伴侣的人。”

大约一个月后，刘易斯邀请乔治亚去他的公寓，“为了互相了解”。

她承认，作为调情的一部分，她曾提出愿意为他提供口交。她说，她希望这会感觉很特别，“但他有其他计划”。在他关上门的那一刻，“他变得具有攻击性”。

“他说，‘跪下’。我试图挣脱，但他抓住了我的头。感觉就像是被袭击，”她现在回忆道。她当时感到“困惑”且“恐惧”，局势感觉“失去了控制”。

之后，她记得自己说过：“哇，这一切全是为了你。”她说，他笑了。

许多女性在此时就会逃离。但乔治亚虽然感到担忧，却将刘易斯视为一个需要教育如何对待女性的“项目”。她回忆道：“我想，‘他对此一窍不通’。”

她原以为他主要通过人工授精为女同性恋夫妇提供受孕机会。“我不明白他竟然与所有这些女性发生性关系。”

她开始使用排卵试纸追踪自己的排卵期。

“他坚持要求我向他发送排卵截图，因为他想要掌控局面。”

在下一次排卵期的一个下午，他们在他的公寓再次见面。她将那处房产描述为一个“古怪”的乱摊子，里面有“装他精液样本的杯子盒”和一张铺在在地上的床垫。

几乎在立刻，刘易斯就命令她趴在背上并进行一项无法用文字描述的性行为。“我不舒服，但我同意了，”她说——理由是，如果她想要孩子，那么无论采取什么手段让他兴奋都是她的责任。

“我觉得我必须这么做。然后他说，‘你现在是我的荡妇’，诸如此类的话。”

事后他问她：“你以前被强奸过吗？”她的心情理所当然地非常复杂。她终于有了怀孕的机会——但对方是一个称她为“娼妓”的男人。

她告诉自己：“为了受孕，这就是我必须经历的事情。”她说，在他射精后，他让她双腿朝天躺十分钟，以增加受孕机会。“这让他处于掌控之中。这都是为了让他能回到其他精子捐赠者那里，说，‘我又让一个女人怀孕了’。”

第二天早晨以及接下来的那一天，她再次回到他的公寓进行性行为，当时他同样具有攻击性，不过她补充道，“有些事情我拒绝了”。“他想录像。他开始谈论制造胚胎并将其出售。”

虽然她对与刘易斯发展浪漫关系的渴望不出所料地消减了，但她希望维持一种文明的关系。然而，当她“欣喜若狂”地发现自己怀孕时，曾告诉她会出席分娩现场的刘易斯却疏远了她。“他不再需要我提供任何东西了，”她讽刺地说，“我被抛弃了。”

几天后，她看到了一张刘易斯写的一条种族主义信息的截图，该信息发布在一个精子捐赠者的Facebook群组中，并被《每日邮报》看到，内容是关于一名他曾提供捐赠的黑人女性。

乔治亚回忆道：“我生气了。”她终于意识到“他的目标是拥有权力和控制权”。他的动机？“统治世界。自恋。他想出名。”

在怀孕之前，她回忆起刘易斯在“寻找一个

揭秘：在Facebook上让100多个孩子成为父亲的精子捐赠者——其真实动机竟是操纵弱势女性进行暴力性行为

[前文接：寻找一名]“想要整他”的捐赠者。通过在各个精子捐赠Facebook群组中发布的评论，乔治亚追踪到了该女性，“她告诉我他患有一种隐性遗传病”。

该女性收到了一些消息截图（《每日邮报》已查阅），在截图中，刘易斯似乎承认自己是家族性自主神经功能障碍（Familial Dysautonomia）的携带者，这是一种影响自主神经系统的罕见遗传病。

心碎的乔治亚表示：“我质疑自己是否应该继续怀孕。”

一名律师告诉她，刘易斯可能构成了“欺骗性强奸”——这在美国几个州属于犯罪——“这意味着他为了与我发生性关系而欺骗我。他在明知自己是这种遗传病携带者的情况下让我怀孕。”

她向警方举报了刘易斯，但被告知这是一个民事案件。

于是，她尝试在Facebook群组中警告其他女性关于刘易斯的情况，随后她被刘易斯以及管理这些群组的其他捐赠者封锁了。

“我想让人们意识到这一点，”她说。她认为，很多女性愿意对遭受糟糕对待的事保持沉默。

“人们不想重新面对那些事，或者他们仅仅因为有了孩子而感到满足。这就是他逃脱惩罚的方式。”她的女儿出生于2023年，尽管发生了这一切，她依然深爱着孩子。“如果让我重新选择，我还会那样做吗？不会。”

当凯蒂“准备好”的时候，她会诚实地告诉她关于生物学父亲的事，但由于凯蒂至少有100个同父异母的兄弟姐妹，近亲结婚是一个潜在的担忧。

刘易斯表示，他为自己让其怀孕的女性建立了一个私人的Facebook群组，以便她们分享对此的任何顾虑。

然而，31岁的克洛伊·布朗（Chloe Brown）与刘易斯有一个13个月大的儿子本（Ben），当她请求与其他母亲取得联系，以便儿子能见到兄弟姐妹时，她说刘易斯拒绝了。“他说：‘直到他至少一岁为止，因为我之前和一些女性出过问题，所以我不想让你和她们联系。’”

“我想，你凭什么告诉我不能联系？为什么孩子不能与他们的亲属建立联系？”

克洛伊是英国人，在结束一段虐待关系后，她决定去年在Facebook群组中寻找精子捐赠者，因为她认为在经历多年的创伤后，一个孩子能给她带来“一些美好的东西”。她认为，如果没有父亲参与，为人母会更安全、更简单。“我的判断被蒙蔽了，”她现在意识到，“那是一种绝望的表现。”

在加入几个英国的Facebook群组后，她“偶然”发现了刘易斯。克洛伊是一名说话轻柔的成年学生，她说，由于在媒体采访中知道他的名字，这让她产生了“信心”。

“因为这种熟悉感，我更信任他。你会想，‘如果他那么糟糕，媒体为什么会支持他？’”

他们于2023年夏天开始在Facebook上发消息。她说，刘易斯“非常支持”自然授精。“我有点犹豫，但认为他是真诚的。他给人的感觉不像是在追求快感之下的性行为。”

与乔治亚一样，他们也讨论过浪漫的计划。“最初的计划是在希腊见面，”克洛伊说。最终，刘易斯前往一家由他支付费用的酒店，该酒店就在她家附近。

她回忆道，在那里，他翻看手机里捐赠受孕孩子的照片，“谈论其中一个孩子长得多么丑”。震惊的克洛伊说，他还告诉她，他正试图让一名女性怀孕，尽管该女性在服用药物——他没有具体说明是什么药。

“这让我觉得不对劲。”不过，他起初给人的感觉并不是具有威慑力，而更多是古怪。“他缺乏同理心，身上有一种奇怪的感觉，”克洛伊说。

然而很快，“他说脱掉衣服”，她回忆道，并开始“粗暴地掐住我的脖子，确保将我压下去——那是强力的压迫”。

“我没预料到会那样。他并没有征求我的同意。他显然在从中获得快感。”她补充道，并坚定地不想将事情过度戏剧化，“重点不在于是否疼痛，而在于我当时去那里并不是为了寻求浪漫或激烈的性爱。我又不是在约会。”

“即便是在约会，我认为在开始掐对方脖子之前，应该先与对方沟通。我觉得界限被逾越了。”

的确如此。但与乔治亚一样，她同意了，理由是：“我真的很想要这个孩子。我允许他贬低我的价值。现在回想起来，感觉很荒谬。”

克洛伊在发现自己怀孕时感到“矛盾”。她告诉亲友自己经历了一场短暂的艳遇，“对此我没那么感到羞耻”。

她表示，在去年10月本出生后，刘易斯试图说服她在出生证明上写上他的名字，以便他获得在英国合法居留的权利。她拒绝了。当他拒绝让她接触其他被他使其怀孕的女性时，她开始感到“不安”，并在网上将他拉黑。

她同样听说刘易斯患有家族性自主神经功能障碍。她认为自己不是携带者，但表示，“你应该向女性提供这类信息，以便她们做出知情选择”。而且，她也因为公开反对他而被踢出了Facebook的精子捐赠者群组。

她表示自己不会再使用精子捐赠者，即使是在诊所也不行。

“显然，很难说我后悔有了孩子，但我希望他们能有一个父亲，”克洛伊说，“如果现在重新选择，我会采取不同的方式。” ■ 部分姓名和细节已做修改。

经理对明星交易员说“去你的，告我吧”。现在他必须支付 450 万英镑m！

奖金纠纷：交易员罗伯特·加利亚尔迪（Robert Gagliardi）

一名拒绝向其明星交易员支付 £450 万 奖金——并对其说“去你的，告我吧”——的对冲基金老板已被法院命令交付这笔款项。

迈克尔·勒奇（Michael Lerch）“非理性地”

作者：克里斯·波拉德（Chris Pollard）

据称，勒奇扣留罗伯特·加利亚尔迪的奖金，是因为他担心受到华尔街市场滥用调查的影响。

高等法院昨日命令勒奇的公司 Evolution Capital Management（ECM）支付该奖金，外加可能高达 £150 万 的利息。

该公司可能还必须承担加利亚尔迪 £200 万 诉讼费的大部分。法庭获悉，加利亚尔迪是一名从竞争对手公司挖来的顶尖交易员，他在 2022. 创造了 ECM 97 per cent 的利润。他的合同中包含一项 10 to 15 per cent 的“酌情”奖金，具体取决于业绩。勒奇辩称，这给了他完全不支付奖金的酌情决定权，但法院驳回了这一主张。

卡弗法官（Mr Justice Carver）表示，在美国监管机构对大宗交易进行全市场审查期间，ECM 非法采取了“观望”态度。该公司利用此次调查来证明扣留加利亚尔迪奖金的合理性，即便调查结果显示他并未被指控。

法官写道：“ECM 所做的决定是基于无关考量的。”

在 10 月的一次审理中，加利亚尔迪被问及他与勒奇的关系何时开始“崩盘”。

他回答道：“并没有崩盘。我在五个月内为他赚了 6800万美元。”

加利亚尔迪声称，当他向老板要求支付款项时，对方回答道：“我不会给你发奖金，去你的，告我吧。”在加利亚尔迪真的提起诉讼后，勒奇提交了一项反诉，试图追回 £500 万 以上的薪资和之前的奖金。但法官驳回了这项“令人尴尬”的反诉，并称其“极其模糊”。

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December 9, 2025 历史上的今天

来自 DAILY ARCHIVE DECEMBER 9, 2003

美国昨日对俄罗斯议会选举的公正性表示担忧，此次选举可能会使弗拉基米尔·普京向独裁主义倾斜。随着亲克里姆林宫的盟友获得压倒性胜利，温和的亲西方政党在政治版图上被彻底清除。

2005年12月9日

大卫·卡梅伦昨晚将影子内阁中的女性人数增加一倍至四人，这表明他决心提升女性的作用。然而，人们对此感到惊讶的是，他最高层管理团队中名为“大卫”的男性人数竟然比女性人数还要多。

生日快乐 琼·阿玛特雷丁 (JOAN ARMATRADING)，75. 这位伊沃·诺韦洛奖得主在七岁时从加勒比海岛圣基茨搬到伯明翰，在母亲买了一架钢琴将其作为“一件家具”后，她开始创作歌曲。1970年，当她和创作伙伴帕姆·内斯特 (Pam Nestor) 共同巡演音乐剧《Hair》时，两人相识。博·布里吉斯 (BEAU BRIDGES)，84. 这位美国演员曾出演《绝妙烘焙师》和《后裔》。他的原名是劳埃德 (Lloyd)——与他的演员父亲一样——但由于父母当时在阅读小说《飘》，他们根据书中的一个角色给他起绰号叫“博”。他是演员杰夫·布里吉斯 (Jeff Bridges) 的哥哥。

出生于今日 巴克·亨利 (BUCK HENRY) (1930-2020)。作为一名演员，这位美国人出演了电影《第22条军规》（该片亦由他改编），随后他分别以编剧（《毕业生》）和导演（《天堂可以等待》）的身份获得奥斯卡提名。从1976-1980年起，他曾十次主持《周六夜现场》。 伊丽莎白·施瓦茨-科普夫女爵士 (DAME ELISABETH SCHWARZ-KOPF) (1915-2006)。这位德英混血歌手被描述为“可以说是战后年代最伟大的女高音”。她曾申请加入纳粹党——她称是在被迫的情况下——且有传闻称她是汉斯·弗兰克 (Hans Frank) 的情妇，后者后来在纽伦堡审判中被定罪为战争罪犯并被处以绞刑。

12月9...

1905, 世俗主义被确立为法国的国家原则。 1941, 中国向德国、日本和意大利宣战。

词汇魔术 猜测定义

A) 无意义或荒诞的文字。 B) 具有两种不同结局的故事。 C) 未解决的争端。 答案见下方。

短语解析

Money for old rope：意为轻而易举的钱或不费吹灰之力的利润；这是一个航海术语，源于船只在码头停泊时，水手们会拆解旧绳索来制造“橡皮屑”（oakum），这是一种用于填塞木船缝隙的纤维材料。

今日金句

循规蹈矩的女性很少能创造历史。

劳雷尔·撒切尔·乌尔里希 (Laurel Thatcher Ulrich)，美国历史学家

今日笑话

是我时候讲那个关于图书馆书籍的笑话了……它已经严重逾期了。猜测定义答案：A。

由伊坦·斯莫曼 (ETAN SMALLMAN) 和亚当·雅科特·德·博伊诺德 (ADAM JACOT DE BOINOD) 编译

粉红之色：埃尔顿·约翰穿着饰有羽毛的万寿菊色手套

阿富汗人詹·贾汉泽布 (Jan Jahanzeb) 和伊斯拉尔·尼亚扎尔 (Israr Niazal) 均年仅17, 他们在几个月前才乘坐小船抵达，随后于5月10在公园内袭击了一名15岁的少年。

受害者拍摄的手机视频极其令人震惊，以至于该少年的一名辩护律师警告称，如果“公众接触”到该视频，将会导致“动乱”。

青少年寻求庇护者强奸视频若被公众看到“将引发暴动”

在这段令人心碎的三分钟片段中，可以听到女孩在被拖离原处时哭喊着“你要强奸我”，当时她正处于

“不再快乐，不再无忧无虑”

作者：杰克·哈迪 (Jack Hardy)

两名青少年寻求庇护者昨日因强奸一名学龄女生而被判入狱。该女生拍摄了自己被抢走的视频，其画面如此“恐怖”，以至于其中一名律师担心如果该视频公开，将会引发骚乱。

作者：夏洛特·迪恩 (Charlotte Dean)

曾在沃里克郡的莱明顿温泉与朋友喝酒。

昨日在沃里克皇冠法院播放的视频还显示，她正在哭泣，大声呼救，并恳求不要被带到公园里。

她在一个僻静区域被强迫为这两个男孩提供性服务，随后她逃脱并拍摄了更多描述其遭遇的片段。该女孩最终被一名路人发现，路人将其带到附近的警察局，警方在那里获取了至关重要的法医证据。

在影响陈述书中，该女孩表示：“被强奸的那一天改变了我这个人。我不再是一个

在判处贾汉泽布 (Jahanzeb) 十年八个月、尼亚扎尔 (Niazal) 九年十个月监禁的同时，西尔维娅·德·贝尔托达诺 (Sylvia de Bertodano) 法官也接受了《每日邮报》提出的法律挑战，这意味着他们的姓名可以首次公开。她表示，他们“背叛了”真正的难民的利益，并且“应该感到深切且持久的羞耻”。

快乐、无忧无虑的青少年了。这是我的第一次性经历。”

入狱：左侧为伊斯拉尔·尼亚扎尔 (Israr Niazal)，右侧为詹·贾汉泽布 (Jan Jahanzeb)

埃尔顿·约翰 (ELTON John) 证明了自己在处理家务方面绝非懒散，此前一名粉丝告诉他，他的“烤箱在圣诞节前需要清理”。

法官补充道：“任何孩子都不应该遭受[受害者]所遭受的折磨。事实是，你们两个抢走了她的童年。”

甚至尼亚扎尔自己的律师约书亚·拉德克利夫 (Joshua Radcliffe) 也称这段手机视频“真正令人恐惧”，并补充道：“我毫不怀疑，如果公众看到那些内容，我们将面临动乱。”

这些寻求庇护者在袭击发生时住在由纳税人出资的房屋中，他们是通过小船抵达英国的。这两个男孩在10月承认了袭击行为。贾汉泽布面临被驱逐出境，但尼亚扎尔则不会，因为他在年满17岁的前一天就认罪了——年龄太小，不符合驱逐条件。

我还在刷……埃尔顿清理他的烤箱

这个俏皮的嘲讽发生在这位 78, 岁的歌手在网上发布了他的厨房视频之后——而他的回应是穿上一套古驰 (Gucci) 运动服，戴上带羽毛饰边的粉色橡胶手套和配套眼镜……然后开始刷洗。

对我烤箱有多脏持某种负面态度。我可以向你们保证，我这房子里没有任何脏东西。

在面对镜头时，埃尔顿爵士说：“很多回应[如此]。所以为了证明这一点，我要做件事给你们看。”

没有牺牲：埃尔顿忙了起来

他拿着一瓶清洁喷雾，在喷洒烤箱门时说道：“看这个！刷，刷，刷！我有温莎最干净的烤箱窗户。”

作者：格雷厄姆·格兰特 (Graham Grant)

格拉斯哥中央车站外的一条繁忙街道上，正值傍晚，一名乞丐在刺骨的寒风中瑟瑟发抖，而圣诞购物者们正排队经过他身边，走进一家超市。

消瘦的海洛因成瘾者戴夫（Dave）看起来比他实际的 35 岁要老得多，在过去的 12 年里，他一直断断续续地在街头流浪。现在他感到愤怒，因为移民们正在抢走他的“生意”。

“即便在最好的时候日子也很艰难——现在人们甚至会为了地盘（乞讨区域）大打出手——而且可能会演变成暴力冲突，”他说，“我们应该照顾好自己的人。”

在英国的“避难之都”中心，贫困与药物成瘾泛滥，乞丐群体之间的内斗象征着这座曾经被称为大英帝国第二大城市的不可避免的衰落感。

上周公布的令人震惊的官方数据显示，这种迅速且压倒性的变化已然显现：格拉斯哥近三分之一的学生不以英语作为主要语言——这一比例自 2019 年以来增长了近三分之一。

由苏格兰国民党（SNP）领导的市议会正拼命寻找难民家庭的住所，其中许多人住在昂贵的酒店房间里，等待拥有自己的家。惊人的成本已将地方当局推向必须削减超过 £6000 万 预算的边缘。

现在，学校面临的压力日益增加。在 SNP 政府领导下，教师们已经在应对课堂标准大幅下降的问题，而现在他们还必须处理数量迅速增加的无法流利使用英语的学生。格拉斯哥有 2,194 名难民学生，占苏格兰所有难民儿童的三分之一。

改革英国党（Reform UK）领导人奈杰尔·法拉奇（Nigel Farage）声称，无法熟练使用英语的学生人数激增是“格拉斯哥文化被摧毁”的证据，并补充道：“这正使其在各方面都变成一座完全不同的城市。”

街头挣扎：格拉斯哥的全景图以及（插图）与寒冷作斗争的无家可归者

格拉斯哥曾被列为欧洲最富有的城市之一，产出了所有

“这里现在有大量赤贫人口”

船舶以及全球范围内四分之一的在用机车。

然而如今，这座城市中有四分之一的人口处于经济不活跃状态——高于苏格兰（22.5%）和英国（21.3%）的平均水平——而格拉斯哥部分地区的预期寿命为 74.2, 是英国最低的。

该市的部分地区处境最为艰难。在格拉斯哥东北部，近五分之一的成年人（17.5%）生活在仅靠国家福利维持收入的家庭中。格拉斯哥的平均比例为 14.1%。

尽管在许多情况下，移民几乎不会说英语且缺乏就业技能，但他们仍继续涌入这座苏格兰最大的城市（人口约 650,000 人），希望开启新生活。

这意味着一旦他们获得难民身份，就注定要进入失业救济队列，从而增加了英国每年为难民家庭支付的超过 10 亿英镑 billion 的福利账单。

大量寻求庇护者和难民的出现——加剧了贫困与失业的动荡组合——引发了人们对社会动荡的担忧。

格拉斯哥市议会苏格兰民族党（SNP）领导人苏珊·艾特肯（Susan Aitken）正要求威斯敏斯特提供紧急支持，并警告称移民局势已变得“不可持续”，且对“我们社区的秩序和凝聚力构成了真实风险”。

一些移民希望与家人在格拉斯哥定居。来自索马里的 44, 岁男子阿卜迪拉迪夫·迪尼（Abdiladif Dini）在市中心查林十字（Charing Cross）地区的不列颠旅馆（Britannia Inn）外接受了《每日邮报》的采访，该旅馆约 30% 的住客是移民。

他有一个七岁的女儿，希望将她接到苏格兰。他正在就读学院学习英语，但由于健康问题无法工作。

“我在同一个酒店房间里住了一年，这并不好，虽然酒店还可以，”他说。

“现在我被告知将在玛丽希尔（Maryhill，位于城市西北部）分到一套公寓，所以我很高兴，希望我的女儿能尽快与我团聚。”

一名酒店员工表示，现在在不列颠旅馆周围街道上露宿的人群中，出现了移民妇女和儿童。一名居民告诉我们，该酒店向付费客户收取的房费每周超过 £500。

该员工表示：“格拉斯哥正陷入困境，但我们有责任尝试帮助来自任何背景的人。我们与警方和市议会密切合作，努力为大多数客人创造一个尽可能安全的环境。”

“并没有太多麻烦，不过最近有一名客人因为辱骂我的同事而被赶走了。”

酒店俯瞰着 M8 高速公路，对面是气势宏伟的米切尔图书馆（Mitchell Library）——这是该市殖民历史的另一个纽带，该图书馆是由 19 世纪的烟草大亨斯蒂芬·米切尔（Stephen Mitchell）捐赠建立的。

一名难民告诉我们，有孩子的家庭在申请常规住房时具有优先权，这意味着酒店里大多是单身男性。

即便如此，他估计目前不列颠旅馆里仍有半打孩子。

几码之外的一条阴暗小巷里（那是吸毒者的常去之地），我们发现了一名 40 多岁的厄立特里亚人，他自 9 月起就在苏格兰。他正啜饮着纸杯里的茶，展示着一件由当地难民慈善机构捐赠的新 North Face 夹克。

另一名来自苏丹的 19, 岁难民莫斯巴·乌古什（Mosbah Ugoush）此前住在阿伯丁，但因为苏格兰东北部“太冷”而搬到了格拉斯哥。他正在学院学习英语，但表示由于腿部受伤，他无法从事许多工作（如为亚马逊配送），因此找不到工作。

乌古什先生说：“我在苏丹有一个完整的家庭，包括妻子——但我已经十个月没有收到他们的消息了。”

一名 26 岁的苏丹男子告诉我们，他在街头露宿了三周，直到在不列颠旅馆分到一间房。

许多人讲述了乘坐载有多达 60 名其他移民的小船横跨英吉利海峡的经历。

Britannia Inn 酒店靠近历史悠久的国王剧院（King's Theatre），学生们正前往那里观看圣诞前场次的小美人鱼音乐剧。

来自邓巴顿郡克莱德班克的 71 岁居民艾琳·沃森（Irene Watson）和

“这座城市已经改变到认不出来了”

来自伦敦访问的琳达·奥唐奈（Linda O'Donnell）同样 71 岁。沃森女士表示：“我来自格拉斯哥，这些年来这里出现了巨大的衰落——这座城市已经改变到认不出来了。

“这里有这么多移民，而且他们似乎拥有 everything——所有最新的手机和新衣服——而且你经常听到关于犯罪的消息。

‘但我们自己的人民却无法获得住房和工作。我知道很多移民确实想工作，但还有多少人找不到工作，或者不想工作？’

来自拉纳克郡艾德里（Airdrie）的退休公务员彼得·卡西迪（Peter Cassidy），73 岁，距离格拉斯哥约 17 英里，他当时在市区进行一日游，他表示：‘这里有大量的贫困和无家可归者，以及更多的移民。

‘我祝他们好运，但犯罪问题确实存在。即使在艾德里，也有扒手和商店盗窃团伙。’

《每日邮报》采访了格拉斯哥市中心的保加利亚和罗马尼亚乞丐，其中一人说他 22 岁，来到苏格兰是为了给病危的母亲筹钱，他的母亲只剩下六个月的寿命。

多年来，人们一直担心那些属于高度组织化的专业骗子团伙的乞丐，他们主要来自东欧，利用路人的同情心进行诈骗。他们通常由协调该企业的帮派头目监管。

由于苏格兰民族党（SNP）的立法规定地方当局必须为任何声明自己无家可归的人提供住房，无论其来自何处，格拉斯哥已成为顶级的移民目的地。

被授予难民身份的寻求庇护者被安置在格拉斯哥的酒店中，而市议会则尝试为他们寻找永久住所。

他们没有资格获得英国政府资助的住房补贴，因此市议会必须承担

格拉斯哥曾建造过世界上最好的船只和火车。如今，近四分之一的居民没有工作，吸毒者在街头游荡，且每三个学生中就有一个不以英语作为主要语言。 图片：ALAMY

从工业强市到英国的避难之都

买单。由于愿意接收移民，自1999年以来，格拉斯哥在全英范围内的寻求庇护者“分散安置”中发挥了关键作用。

但令人沮丧的是，其他地方当局并未承担其应分担的负担。

苏格兰约有5,000名寻求庇护者，其中4,000多人集中在这座城市，这导致了针对“移民酒店”的抗议活动。

较小规模的移民群体则定居在阿伯丁、因弗克莱德、珀斯和法尔基克。极有可能的情况是，大多数在格拉斯哥申请庇护并获得在英居留权的人将留在该市或周边地区，这意味着官方可能会面临安置空间和资金耗尽的问题。

许多刚抵达的人会前往格拉斯哥城市传道会（Glasgow City Mission），该机构位于一座前教堂原址——从克莱德河步行一小段路即可到达，那里曾是造船业繁荣之地。

它是位于克里米亚街（Crimea Street）的无家可归者服务中心，该街道以19世纪格拉斯哥画家威廉·辛普森（William Simpson）命名，他是世界上第一位专业战争艺术家。他的第一个任务是记录1850年代克里米亚战争的事件，因此得到了“克里米亚·辛普森”的绰号。

城市传道会是一座令人印象深刻的现代建筑，坐落在国防部（MoD）办公大楼对面。

这里现在成了许多移民的聚集点，他们冒着生命危险乘坐小船抵达英国，但现在几乎没有获得有偿就业的前景。这里提供食物和英语课程。附近还有一个无家可归者慈善中心，同样吸引了大量居住在当地酒店或露宿街头的移民。

克莱德河旁的步道，紧邻一条被称为布鲁米劳（Broomielaw）的街道，是移民白天聚集的另一个地点。在贯穿长长路径的草坪区域可以看到帐篷。

两名年龄分别为34岁和22, 岁（22岁）的厄立特里亚男子坐在国防部大楼的围墙上，告诉我们他们是在经历了一次危险的小船航行后抵达这座城市的。其中一人现在拥有由格拉斯哥市议会提供的独立公寓，另一人则住在由议会付费的酒店里。

这名22岁的青年告诉我们，他们是通过WhatsApp群组与同为厄立特里亚人的同胞保持联系后来到格拉斯哥的，对方告诉他们这座城市是多么热情——而他34岁的朋友则说，他之前住在林肯郡波士顿的一家酒店里。

他说：“我在那里没看到其他非洲人，一个都没有，那里没有适合我们的东西，也没有慈善机构。在这里，你可以获得帮助、住房和衣服。”

2023年，格拉斯哥住在酒店或床位加早餐（B&B）住宿中的难民人数为138, 人，而今年8月这一数字上升至1,340人。

来自科威特的19岁少女扎伊娜布·艾沙马里（Zainab Aishamari）与她34岁的丈夫阿里（Ali）住在阿盖尔街（Argyle Street）靠近城市传道会的克莱德酒店，她说：“我在自己的国家被宣布为无国籍人士，所以我们申请了庇护。

‘我的丈夫正试图从难民慈善机构获得一些帮助，我们不知道需要多久才能获得住房。

‘这座城市很漂亮，我们喜欢这里。我们在科威特都没有工作，也没有接受过任何培训，但我希望能从事医疗工作，也许是护理。’

她的梦想并非孤例。但这座城市长期以来，极度的贫困和药物滥用已经取代了其鼎盛时期的雄心和创业精神。

像扎伊娜布这样的移民渴望工作以及让孩子接受良好的教育。但考虑到不堪重负的公立学校面临的激增需求，这可能被证明是不可能的，因为在苏格兰民族党（SNP）的统治下，这些学校已经严重缺乏资金且管理不善。

对于数以千计的移民来说，新生活似乎是一个渺茫的希望，他们用之前的生活（无论多么艰难）交换来到了格拉斯哥——一座如今被成瘾和贫困所掌控的城市。

这座城市现在正面临被涌入的人潮所淹没的真实危险。

图集：比特犬被“枪声惊吓”后一口咬死幼儿

救援犬：这只比特犬当时被锁链拴着

作者：尼克·皮萨（Nick Pisa）

一名英国幼儿在希腊的一个岛上被一只比特犬咬死，据悉该犬在受到猎人枪声惊吓后发起了攻击。

两岁幼儿里昂·杜利亚（Leon Dulia）的母亲表示，在狗突然“产生某种反应”后，孩子仅被咬了一口。

32岁的罗比·迪斯（Robbie Deeth）表示，这场悲剧在几秒钟内就发生在他们位于扎金索斯（Zakynthos）家中的花园里。她与丈夫卢卡斯（Loukas）在从汉普郡安多弗（Andover, Hampshire）搬迁后一直居住在此。

她补充道：“你能听到枪声，那里还有其他狗，猎人们在用哨子，我坚信正是这些因素惊吓到了这只狗，导致它发起攻击。”

迪斯女士的丈夫救助了这只比特犬——当时它“瘦得像具骷髅”——并将其精心照料至康复。她说：“里昂很喜欢我们这里的动物，我们养了很多，有猫、马和狗，而这只比特犬从未出过问题。”这只狗被拴在花园里一条十米长的链子上，花园后方紧邻猎人们所在的森林。

当一家人购物回来时，里昂走过去想抚摸这只动物。迪斯女士说：“它突然产生了某种反应，在我们进屋整理购物物品的30秒内，里昂走开去看它，然后一切就结束了。里昂被抓住了或被摇晃了，看起来他只被咬了一口。”

她补充道：“如果我知道有任何危险，我绝不会让

动物爱好者：里昂几周前刚满两岁

里昂与这只比特犬玩耍，但它以前从未制造过麻烦。它既不暴躁也不具有攻击性。”

迪斯女士否认夫妇二人被指控过过失杀人，并坚称警方尚未提及任何刑事诉讼。该犬已被没收。

尼格拉：你绝对“不会”喜欢的圣诞食谱

作者：奥利维亚·肯普（Olivia Kemp）

许多家庭可能非常享受烘焙她设计的可食用圣诞树装饰品。

但尼格拉·劳森（Nigella Lawson）透露，她以前在家里制作自己的版本时，会“残酷地”在其中加入“大量胡椒”，这样她的孩子们就不会把装饰品从树上扯下来吃掉。

这位65岁的名厨在她2008年的食谱书《尼格拉圣诞》（Nigella Christmas）的原方中，要求加入两茶匙现磨黑胡椒——对于一个旨在成为装饰球的饼干来说，这是一个不寻常的添加物。

她在书中写道：“制作这些带有胡椒味、姜饼味的可食用装饰品，一直是我与孩子们共同标志圣诞节开始的方式。”

但看来她的孩子们可能还接触到了额外的一大勺胡椒。

她的最新爆料只是长长的一串古怪节日告白中的一项。去年，她宣布将用培根片而非装饰球来装饰圣诞树，并分享了一张装饰着粉色培根片的圣诞树照片，此举引起了人们的关注。

与名人邮轮（Celebrity Cruises）一起探索世界

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伊甸园机密 (Eden Confidential)

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谁将为内维尔餐厅的£500k税单买单？

据信，他的财富至少有£7000 万。这要归功于——

这在很大程度上归功于一个房地产帝国，该帝国打造了多栋行政住宅和五星级酒店，目前正在推进他迄今为止最宏大的项目：一项价值£4 亿的开发计划，其中还包括另一家豪华酒店。

但这家酒店将配备一家顶层餐厅，这一事实是否会让劳工党的拉拉队长加里·内维尔（Gary Neville）陷入沉思？

也就是说，这种毫不掩饰的奢华可能会与这位前英格兰后卫“平民”的身份不符——他对自己被描述为“香槟社会主义者”感到心安理得——但让他沉思的，是否是因为他之前餐厅创业的结局？

位于利兹的“幕后之人”（The Man Behind The Curtain）餐厅要求顾客提前支付£135，理由是在其黑色大理石内饰中用餐是“一项活动，就像一场音乐会或剧院体验”，提供诸如搭配浮游植物佛卡夏面包的扇贝和“烤面包酱汁”等佳肴，以及一套每人£165的14道菜品尝菜单——而“配酒”每人还需额外支付£155。

尽管如此，或者可能正因为如此，该餐厅去年破产，债务接近£100 万。经过为期一年的调查，清算人的报告现已公布——其内容令人难以接受，尤其是对于纳税人而言。

公司注册处（Companies House）的文件记录显示，与内维尔公司共同拥有该餐厅的主厨迈克尔·奥黑尔（Michael O'Hare），

支持：斯塔默与加里

以及 Relentless Leisure 公司，“未能对清算人关于偿还一笔£1贷款的任何信函做出回应”。

清算人补充道，债权人们将无法拿回一分钱。对于50,岁的内维尔来说，这是一个糟糕的消息，因为他的公司被欠款£1，而对于公共财政来说，情况则更糟糕，因为欠税务局的钱高达£500。

回到2022,年，内维尔曾发表过令人难忘的声明：“如果你有任何尊严或荣誉感，我认为你应该退出——我知道我会这么做”，并拒绝削减45%的最高税率，以“确保这笔钱能交给那些在这个冬天难以支付能源账单的人”。

但去年曾与基尔·斯塔默爵士共同出演劳工党竞选视频的前曼联球星内维尔，拒绝透露他是否会动用自己的数百万资产来填补这个特定的财政“黑洞”。

英国广播公司（BBC）似乎再次陷入了危机模式。

“对备受争议的BBC王室系列剧进行最后一刻删减”

我听说，由大卫·迪姆比（David Dimbleby）主持的黄金时段纪录片《君主制有何用？》（What's The Monarchy For?）仍在进行修改，尽管该系列剧本应在 iPlayer 服务上完整提供。

一名消息人士告诉我：“编辑工作正在进行中。问题在于，BBC 的一些重要人物不想激怒王室，而另一些人则最喜欢制造麻烦。”

在上周第一集在 One 播出之前，官方宣布：“所有剧集现已在 iPlayer 上线”。

然而，昨天 iPlayer 上仅有三集中的第一集。批评者称迪姆比此举是对英国王室的“猛烈抨击”。

一名 发言人表示：“我们在播出前将发布模式改为每周更新，以满足交付日期。”

为艾美拉尔德的妹妹准备的蓝色婚纱

这款礼服点缀着珍珠，配有异域风情的天鹅羽毛，完全可以出现在艾美拉尔德·芬内尔（Emerald Fennell）那部关于颓废贵族及其狂野派对的著名电影《盐浴》（Saltburn）中。

因此，对于导演艾美拉尔德的妹妹科科（Coco）来说，这是一个恰当的婚纱选择。照片右侧是科科与她姐姐的合影，科科于本周末完婚。

蓝色头发的时尚设计师科科（36岁）身着 Valdrin Sahiti 设计的礼服，与摄影师马克西米利安·韦伯斯特（Maximilian Webster，39岁）交换了誓言。

科科是社交界珠宝商西奥·芬内尔（Theo Fennell）及其妻子、作家露易丝·芬内尔（Louise Fennell）的女儿。

■ ITV 明星斯蒂芬·穆尔赫恩（Stephen Mulhern）近期不会参加带有令人作呕的“丛林挑战”（Bushtucker Trials）的《我是名人》节目。这位 48 岁的主持人是个极其挑食的人，他从未尝试过咖喱，甚至没喝过咖啡。穆尔赫恩本周末将与 Ant 和 Dec 一起出演旅游节目《意外游客》（The Accidental Tourist），他表示：“我从未吃过咖喱。我曾看过一部纪录片——他们用隐藏摄像头拍到服务员从顾客那里收回咖喱，拿到厨房里把酱汁过滤掉后再重新供应。这就是我的问题，你看不出里面有什么。”他补充道：“我从未喝过一杯咖啡，也从未吃过寿司。”

想看 Oasis 乐队？Radio 2 DJ 萨拉·考克斯对此并不狂热

她在 Radio 2 的节目中经常播放 Oasis 的热门歌曲，但萨拉·考克斯（Sara Cox）承认，她没能为该乐队的重聚演唱会争取到任何免费门票。

这位 DJ 表示，她尝试过一次“心不在焉的套路”，但怀疑自己不够重要而未被考虑。“我敢肯定他们的（Oasis）宣传员一定收到了数以万计的请求。”50 岁的考克斯补充说，她懒得加入公众抢购（付费）门票的混战。“我没看到 Oasis 的演出，基本上是因为懒。我没能抽出时间去尝试在网上排队买票。”

年幼的艾迪如何在芭蕾舞课上引起轰动

艾迪·坎贝尔（EDIE CAMPBELL）不仅是一名顶级模特，为包括 Burberry 和 Chanel 在内的品牌拍摄广告大片，而且还是一位才华横溢的骑手。

如今，曾获得古德伍德（Goodwood）木兰杯的 35 岁艾迪表示，她之所以开始骑马，是因为她不够优雅，不适合跳芭蕾。

“我去上芭蕾舞课，和其他小女孩相比，我简直就像头大象……我像个维京人一样在周围横冲直撞，”这位身材纤细的女孩说道，她的父亲是伊顿公学校友罗迪·坎贝尔（Roddy Campbell），母亲是建筑师索菲·希克斯（Sophie Hicks）。

为何徒步者将限制杰里的计划

辣妹组合（SPICE Girls）成员杰里·哈利韦尔（Geri Halliwell）在试图于其乡村庄园建造一个马步走训练圈的斗争中面临另一个障碍，因为该设施阻挡了一条公共人行道。

这位歌手及其丈夫克里斯蒂安·霍纳（Christian Horner）已申请将该路径迁至场地的北侧，尽管当地议会表示该路径应保持开放且“无障碍”。

北安普顿郡徒步者协会（Northamptonshire Ramblers）表示：“我们完全同意议会关于保护和维护穿过申请人土地的公共人行道的评论。”

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需要整个社会的力量来战胜痴呆症

《每日邮报》，2025年12月9日，星期二 健康专栏 劳工党是否因为痴呆症是老年病而取消了诊断目标？

《每日邮报》战胜痴呆症

与阿尔茨海默病协会（Alzheimer's Society）共同发起

这是一个几乎令人窒息的统计数据——如今在英国出生的儿童中，每三人就有一人在一生中注定会患上痴呆症。

这意味着这种每年已导致约 75,000 人死亡的疾病，也在潜伏着等待未来的世代——如果不能尽快找到治疗方法，它将威胁到数百万人的生活。

英国有近一百万人患有痴呆症，其致死人数已经超过了癌症或心脏病——通常死于免疫系统削弱引发的问题，例如肺炎或吞咽困难。

根据慈善机构阿尔茨海默病协会的数据，包括许多患者在痴呆症发作、影响其执行日常活动能力后所需的全天候护理在内，该病给英国经济带来的成本高达每年 420 亿英镑 billion，令人触目惊心。该机构警告称，到 2040, 这一数字将翻倍。

正如《每日邮报》昨日披露的，痴呆症是每三人中就有一人比癌症更害怕患上的疾病。

很少有人会质疑，这种迫在眉睫的健康危机理应成为任何政府的最高优先级，尤其是考虑到痴呆症剥夺人们记忆、人格和尊严的方式是如此残酷。

图片：BRAIN LIGHT / ALAMY

警告：神经内科医生杰里米·艾萨克斯（Dr Jeremy Isaacs）

但令人沮丧且担忧的是，无论是目前的劳工党政府，还是之前的保守党政府，都没有给予痴呆症足够的关注，以阻止其无情的蔓延。

尽管此前有过承诺，但事实依然是，每投入 £3 用于战胜癌症，仅有 £1 用于应对痴呆症。

随着《每日邮报》和阿尔茨海默病协会发起战胜痴呆症的运动，令人担忧的证据还表明，三分之一的痴呆症患者甚至没有得到正式诊断——因为国民医疗服务体系（NHS）缺乏资源（例如足够的记忆诊所和用于检测大脑变化的 PET 扫描仪）来主动筛查并准确诊断他们。

这种未能将痴呆症列为优先事项的情况，现在促使一些专家质疑痴呆症“沙皇”（tsar）的作用——即由部长任命的医疗专家，负责监督研究、药物开发和 NHS 护理的进展。

目前有 40 多个“沙皇”岗位，涵盖从癌症到眼科护理、肥胖症和烟草成瘾的所有领域。“沙皇”通常是执业医生及其领域的专家，他们的知识应当指导政府政策，确保 NHS 患者获得最佳服务。

作者：帕特·哈根 (PAT HAGAN)

每位“沙皇”在英格兰国民医疗服务体系（NHS England）兼职工作——以痴呆症沙皇为例，每周工作12小时。

痴呆症沙皇这一角色——在NHS England被称为国家痴呆症临床主任——是由大卫·卡梅伦政府在2010年设立的。

设定了一个相对缺乏雄心的目标——将通过NHS接受评估和诊断的人数从不足三分之一提高到三分之二——在尝试十年后，这一目标才刚刚实现。

但一些专家现在质疑，为什么在痴呆症“沙皇”任职的15年里，进展如此之慢，远落后于癌症领域，而癌症领域自1999年起就设有沙皇。

例如，在担任癌症沙皇的13年任期内，迈克·理查兹爵士教授（Professor Sir Mike Richards）主导开发了《NHS癌症计划》，这是一个在英格兰全境建立34个癌症网络的雄心计划，旨在提升所有地区的护理质量。

他还深度参与了2011, 年一项新癌症战略的制定，重点关注预防和加速诊断——该战略得到了£7.5 亿的资金支持——旨在每年挽救额外5,000名癌症患者的生命。

结合更好的药物、筛查计划以及人们对生活方式与癌症之间联系的更高认知，这帮助英国显著提高了生存率。

根据8月发表在《柳叶刀-欧洲区域健康》（The Lancet Regional Health Europe）上的一项研究，目前近50%的英国癌症患者在诊断后能生存至少十年——而1970年代这一比例仅为23%，其中乳腺癌、结直肠癌和宫颈癌的表现尤为出色。

相比之下，一些批评者认为，痴呆症服务中唯一显著的发展是

“理查兹教授为癌症护理设定了在当时看来极具挑战性的雄心目标，”一名要求匿名的痴呆症慈善机构内部人士表示。“设定这些雄心目标有助于推动事情向前发展。”

其中一个例子是引入了癌症诊断的最长28天等待期限，即患者在被转诊检查后，获得诊断的等待时间不得超过28天。

这一措施由理查兹教授在担任“沙皇”期间倡导，并于2021年在英格兰引入。该痴呆症慈善机构内部人士表示：“我们在痴呆症领域也需要同样程度的雄心。”

然而，其他专家强调，癌症沙皇与痴呆症沙皇之间成就的明显差异仅仅是大局的一部分，说明了这两种主要限寿疾病在治疗方面存在的整体巨大差距。

过去20年里，癌症药物的临床试验数量是痴呆症的十倍以上，尽管这部分原因是由于相对缺乏

据估计，英国有超过20,000名科学家从事癌症研究——是痴呆症研究人数的三倍。

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利用患者自身细胞制成的单次治疗方案或可击败血液癌症

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作者：WILL STODDART

一种利用人体自身防御机制来对抗疾病的革命性免疫疗法，已经治愈了患有血液癌症——多发性骨髓瘤的患者，这是首个能实现此目标的治疗方案。

在最近一项具有里程碑意义的试验中，97名其他药物治疗无效的患者接受了一次性输注。这些免疫细胞来自患者自身，并在实验室中经过基因重编程，以搜寻并杀死癌细胞。

在试验之前，大多数患者被告知寿命仅剩一两年。但 6 月发表在《临床肿瘤学杂志》（Journal of Clinical Oncology）上的结果显示，在接受这项突破性疗法五年后，82 名患者仍然存活且健康。其中许多人身上没有出现曾威胁其生命的癌症迹象，且无需进一步治疗。

“这些患者符合‘被治愈’的标准，”该试验的主导研究员、纽约西奈山医院多发性骨髓瘤项目主任 Sundar Jagannath 教授表示。

英国专家称赞这种增强免疫力的治疗方法是治疗该疾病有史以来最大的突破之一。在英国，每年有超过 6,000 人患上此病，其中约 3,000 人死亡。

“这是我们在骨髓瘤治疗中见过的最有效的疗法，”纽卡斯尔医院 NHS 信托基金的血液科顾问 Graham Jackson 教授表示，他并未参与此次试验。

他在接受《每日邮报》采访时表示：“这是一个游戏规则的改变者。此前我们从未讨论过这种疾病的‘治愈’，但这些结果是前所未有的。”

多发性骨髓瘤始于骨髓（骨骼内部的海绵状物质）——当浆细胞（通常产生抗体以对抗感染的白细胞）癌变并失控增殖时便会发病。

这些癌细胞倾向于聚集在骨髓的多个部位，因此名称中带有“多发性”一词。

症状可能较为模糊——如疲劳、背痛和反复感染（因为癌症还会抑制免疫系统）——因此诊断往往被延迟。三分之一的患者是在因该病引发骨折或肾衰竭而就诊急诊室（A&E）时才被发现的。

骨髓瘤细胞会释放化学信号，激活破骨细胞（osteoclasts）并关闭成骨细胞（osteoblasts）。骨骼从内部被侵蚀，导致出现孔洞和骨折，钙质可能会渗入血液。

“癌症实际上是从内部‘泄漏’骨质，导致骨架弱化，患者通常会出现脊柱或髋部骨折，”Jackson 教授说。

“它还会抑制免疫系统，导致患者反复感染，并用异常蛋白质堵塞肾脏，导致肾衰竭。”

直到最近，骨髓瘤仍是最难治疗的癌症之一，因为它从未真正消失——潜伏在药物难以触及的骨髓深处。

NHS 的治疗方案涵盖了从化疗、放疗到专门针对骨髓瘤细胞的药物，以及旨在减轻骨骼损伤的双膦酸盐类药物。

每年约有 1,800 名患者接受干细胞移植。医生先从患者血液中提取干细胞，然后给予高剂量化疗以清除骨髓瘤癌细胞。

随后，干细胞被重新输回体内，以产生健康的骨髓。

但一些研究表明，在接受干细胞移植的患者中，高达三分之二的人在三年内癌症复发。

与此同时，其他新方法包括：沙利度胺（一种在 20 世纪 50 和 60 年代因治疗孕吐而臭名昭著的药物，现被改造用于增强免疫系统对抗癌症）；蛋白酶体抑制剂（通过阻止癌细胞清除有毒废物，使其在废物堆积下崩溃死亡）；以及标记骨髓瘤细胞以便免疫系统将其摧毁的抗体。

但这里有一个问题：“这些疗法延长了生命，但不能治愈，”杰克逊教授说。“患者必须接受多年的治疗，通常是终身治疗。”

“而且副作用——疲劳、感染、神经损伤——可能会让人精疲力竭。目前缺失的是让患者能够过上无需治疗的生活的能力。”

而这正是人们希望近期研究结果能够提供帮助的地方。最新的临床试验——名为 CARTITUDE-4 研究——涉及一种被称为 CAR T 细胞疗法的癌症治疗方法。

这意味着提取患者自身的 T 细胞（一种杀死感染的免疫细胞），在实验室中对其进行工程化改造，使其能够识别多发性骨髓瘤细胞上的目标，然后通过单次滴注将其重新注入患者体内，以便它们能够搜寻并杀死癌细胞。

CAR T 细胞疗法已在英国国家医疗服务体系（NHS）中用于治疗某些血液癌症，包括侵袭性 B 细胞淋巴瘤、套细胞淋巴瘤和 B 细胞急性淋巴细胞白血病。

当数千万个 CAR T 细胞被重新注入患者体内后，它们会在血液中巡逻，在癌细胞出现的地方发起攻击。

但这种治疗过程可能非常残酷。患者必须首先接受化疗，以杀死部分现有的免疫细胞，为新细胞腾出空间，这使得他们容易受到感染。

“几乎所有患者都会出现细胞因子释放综合征，这是一种炎症激增，会导致发烧、意识混乱，甚至器官损伤，”贾甘纳特教授说。“大多数病例为轻症，但约 4% 为重症。”

严重的细胞因子释放综合征意味着血压危险地降低、呼吸问题以及需要重症监护的器官压力。

但这很少致命，因为医生会使用托珠单抗（tocilizumab）和类固醇等药物迅速进行处理。

CAR T 细胞疗法也不便宜——单次输注的费用约为 35 万英镑（尽管患者通常只需要一次输注）。

目前 NHS 尚未将其用于治疗多发性骨髓瘤，不过已有几家私立医院在提供该疗法。

英国的几个中心也正在进行临床试验，以观察在患者病情严重恶化之前，更早地使用 CAR T 细胞疗法是否能产生更好的效果。

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由于此前痴呆症药物的研发一直难以取得成功，因此未能引起制药公司的兴趣。

护理英格兰（Care England，护理院供应商的行业团体）首席执行官马丁·格林（Martin Green）教授表示，这并非被任命为痴呆症特使的专家的过错：问题在于他们缺乏政治家的支持，无法真正将工作落实。

（曼彻斯特大学的老年精神病学教授阿里斯泰尔·伯恩斯（Alistair Burns）在最初的14年里担任此职。现任者是杰里米·艾萨克斯（Jeremy Isaacs）博士，他是一位卓越的神经内科顾问，于2024年被任命。）

格林教授提到了2012年的“痴呆症挑战”（Dementia Challenge），这是时任首相大卫·卡梅伦（David Cameron）的构想，他将其描述为一场针对这种可怕疾病的“全面反击”，而他的母亲近期也因该病去世。

在启动这项旨在加强药物研究并使国民医疗服务体系（NHS）具备应对危机能力的计划时，卡梅伦先生表示：“痴呆症简直是一种可怕的疾病

许多人等待诊断长达两年

——我们作为一个国家未能跟上应对它的步伐，这简直是一桩丑闻。”

首相的干预最初带来了变革：“突然之间，卫生与社会护理部以及NHS England内部出现了一种真正的执行决心——唐宁街的人员参加了我们所有的会议，不断推动实现首相目标所需的变革，”格林教授说。

但在卡梅伦先生于2016年卸任后，这种势头消失了。

痴呆症专家现在表示，重新找回这种紧迫感对于取得实质性进展至关重要。

“以前有一个宏伟蓝图——而现在没有了，”格林教授说。“如果我们能让首相说‘这件事必须实现’，那么痴呆症特使在推动工作时将获得真正的助力。”

甚至现任痴呆症特使杰里米·艾萨克斯博士也公开谈到，英格兰针对该病症的护理是不充分的。今年早些时候，他在伦敦的一次会议上表示，大多数患者等待诊断的时间过长，在被认为患有该病的人群中，近一半的人等待检查的时间超过18周。在贫困地区，延迟时间更长。

然而，政府非但没有将痴呆症列为优先事项，一些人担心政府正让它在NHS的待办事项清单中进一步下滑。

今年1月，政府宣布将其未来计划中“英格兰至少三分之二的痴呆症患者获得正式诊断”的目标删除。

诊断率在不同地区之间差异巨大——在英格兰某些地区，诊断率仅为个位数。

诊断至关重要，因为虽然痴呆症无法治愈，但根据患者所患疾病类型的不同，他们所需的护理方式可能截然不同。

痴呆症有100多种不同类型——其中最知名的是阿尔茨海默病（被认为是由大脑中的斑块沉积引起）和血管性痴呆。

在今年早些时候宣布改革时，卫生大臣韦斯·斯特里廷（Wes Streeting）表示，NHS将转而专注于优先实现较少的目标。

放弃痴呆症目标的计划激怒了一些专家。

阿尔茨海默病协会（Alzheimer's Society）表示，这是NHS规划中一个触目惊心的缺失。该慈善机构的首席政策与研究官菲奥娜·卡拉格（Fiona Carragher）表示：“这传递了一个信号，即痴呆症并不

想象一下，如果他们取消所有癌症或儿童疫苗接种的目标——那将会引发巨大的混乱

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重要，且不属于英格兰的医疗优先事项。”

格林教授补充道：“这带有年龄歧视的色彩。想象一下，如果他们说要取消所有癌症或儿童疫苗接种的目标——那将会引发巨大的混乱。但因为是痴呆症，公众几乎没有产生任何抗议。”

“痴呆症特使应该尽其所能恢复诊断目标，并确保痴呆症成为医疗和社会护理的双重高优先级事项。”

根据阿尔茨海默病协会（Alzheimer's Society）的数据，四分之一的痴呆症患者等待诊断的时间在两年或两年以上。

这一过程始于前往全科医生（GP）处就诊，此时患者或其亲人会对可能的症状感到担忧——例如遗忘事情，或在穿衣、烹饪、支付账单等日常任务中感到吃力。

焦虑、抑郁和突然的意识混乱也可能是早期迹象。

在通过测试排除其他原因后，患者需完成一项记忆或认知功能测试，随后被转诊至专家，专家可能会安排核磁共振（MRI）扫描和更详细的记忆测试。

格林教授担心，如果没有明确的诊断目标，一些患有痴呆症的患者可能仅仅被贴上“抑郁”或“年老”的标签——因为医生缺乏动力将他们转诊进行彻底检测。

与此同时，由其他问题引起的类痴呆症状患者可能会被错误地归类为患有该病，从而错失可能对他们有帮助的治疗。

“我最近在与一位刚搬进护理院的老年居民交谈，”格林教授说。

“工作人员说她性格孤僻，并表现出痴呆症的迹象。但通过与她聊天，我发现她在短短八个月内失去了丈夫、宠物狗和自己的家。”

“她几乎肯定患有抑郁症，但还没有任何人对她进行检测，就已经被贴上了痴呆症的标签。”

伦敦大学学院（University College London）的老年精神病学教授罗布·霍华德（Rob Howard）表示，首任痴呆症特使阿里斯泰尔·伯恩斯（Alistair Burns）实际上负责将诊断率提升到了如今的水平。

但他担心，取消诊断目标反映了社会中一个更深层次的问题。

“问题在于痴呆症涉及老年人，而在这个国家，我们似乎并不重视老年人——这太令人遗憾了，”他说。

“（在开发新疗法方面）痴呆症比癌症更难攻克——我认为它永远无法获得与癌症完全相同的关注度。”

伦敦大学学院的老年精神病学教授吉尔·利文斯顿（Gill Livingston）也赞扬了此前痴呆症特使发起的倡议，包括提高国民医疗服务体系（NHS）医院的意识，即对于因紧急治疗而入院的老年患者的任何

传递出的信息是：痴呆症并不重要

可能也患有尚未诊断出的痴呆症症状。

但她补充道：“痴呆症是一个巨大的问题，所以也许我们需要一位每周工作时间超过 12 小时的特使。”

NHS England 表示，尽管痴呆症诊断目标已正式从其计划中删除，但“政府仍然致力于实现 66.7 per cent [患者被诊断] 的国家目标”。

但该机构表示，重点不再是国家目标，而更多地是给予当地 NHS 机构“所需的自由和自主权，以便为包括痴呆症患者在内的当地社区提供最佳服务”。

在给《每日邮报》的一份声明中，痴呆症特使杰里米·艾萨克斯（Jeremy Isaacs）博士表示：“NHS 诊断出的痴呆症患者人数创下纪录，仅在过去一年中就将超过 224,000 名患者转诊至记忆服务部门。”

“它提供了一系列支持以帮助痴呆症患者，包括认知刺激疗法、护理人员教育和药物治疗——我们正致力于改善这些服务的获取途径，并监测在临床试验中显示出早期前景的潜在新疗法。”

当他们怀疑是肿瘤时，我的护理体验截然不同

从蒂姆·利特尔（Tim Little）第一次看全科医生（GP）到最终获得改变他生活的诊断结果——他患有痴呆症且无法治愈——期间经历了近一年半的持续焦虑。

首先，他等待记忆诊所的预约就花了六个月。随后，又花了 12 个月完成各项测试和咨询，才证实了他最深层的恐惧。

但在痴呆症诊断一年后，蒂姆因为一次无关的、久久不愈的轻微咳嗽再次就诊。

“在一周之内，我就接受了胸部 CT 扫描以排除肺部疾病，并进行了血液检查以寻找癌细胞的迹象，”蒂姆，60, 一位前电工说道。

结果显示正常，且通过一疗程抗生素治疗清除了感染。但蒂姆被两种截然不同的对待方式震惊了：医生怀疑他患癌时的态度，与他患上痴呆症时的态度完全不同。

“我们需要像对待癌症那样优先对待痴呆症，”来自埃塞克斯郡威瑟姆（Witham）、已婚且育有三个孩子的蒂姆说，“但它仍然是一个禁忌词。”

蒂姆在 2019 年开始寻求帮助，当时他开始担心自己完成简单任务的能力，例如在工作中进行布线。

由于此前曾患有良性脑肿瘤，他怀疑这是否与之相关。直到 2020 年底，蒂姆才最终被告知他患有路易体痴呆症（Lewy body dementia）——这种类型的病例占痴呆症病例的 10 to 15 per cent，是由一种名为 alpha-synuclein 的蛋白质异常聚集引起，从而干扰正常的脑信号传递。这会导致动作缓慢、震颤、视觉幻觉以及在睡眠中将梦境演变为实际行动。

由于正值封锁期间，蒂姆是在一个周五通过电话收到顾问告知的痴呆症诊断结果。

对方提供的唯一建议是确保他的遗嘱是最新的，并办理授权委托书。在周末被独自留下处理诊断结果期间，蒂姆在网上进行了研究。他说：“根据我的症状，网上说我大约还有五年的寿命。”他陷入了深度抑郁，并经历了阵发性的严重焦虑。一度，他考虑前往国外的辅助死亡诊所。

他尝试过各种药物来对抗症状，但包括震颤、偏执和严重焦虑在内的副作用让他无法忍受。

“我经常不小心忘记关煤气，”蒂姆说，“或者我打扫了半个厨房，却完全漏掉了另一半。”

他现在协助建立了一个针对同病相怜者的当地支持小组，并定期在痴呆症会议和慈善机构发表演讲，分享与这种疾病共处的生活。

他正尽一切努力继续过积极的生活，但他表示：“事实是，我希望自己得的是癌症。至少癌症潜在可治——而痴呆症不行。”

GOOD HEALTH

失去女儿后，我无法原谅那些将危及生命的食物过敏轻描淡写的剧集

图片来源：SEARCHLIGHT PICTURES / AVALON / PA

作者：TANYA EDNAN-LAPEROUSE 纳塔莎过敏研究基金会（The Natasha Allergy Research Foundation）联合创始人

最近上映的一部电影由奥利维亚·科尔曼（Olivia Colman）主演，她饰演一名婚姻破裂的迷人厨师，而她恰好对树莓高度过敏。

这部名为《玫瑰》（The Roses）的电影在最高潮处，由本尼迪克特·康伯巴奇（Benedict Cumberbatch）饰演的丈夫故意在蛋糕中加入树莓，她吃下后引发了严重的过敏反应。

直到她同意签署离婚协议（她确实签署了）为止，他才肯给她使用 EpiPen——一种可以减轻过敏症状的预设剂量肾上腺素注射笔。

这看起来可能像是一部喜剧正剧，但它是某种令人担忧且具有潜在危害的新趋势的一部分。随着食物过敏变得越来越普遍——根据食品标准局（Food Standards Agency）的数据，英国有超过 240 万 成年人患有过敏症——越来越多的编剧试图在电视剧和电影中利用这一点来制造戏剧效果。

然而，作为一名孩子死于严重过敏反应的母亲，我认为《玫瑰》以及其他高知名度电影和节目中对过敏的刻画，往往不仅具有误导性，而且极其危险。

其结果是，一个告知他人自己患有食物过敏的人，更有可能被对待成是在无事生非。

这加深了一种误解，即食物过敏是一种生活方式的选择，而且“一点点”过敏原不会要你的命——但事实上，它确实可以在短短几分钟内致命。

在大银幕上的刻画至关重要——它们会留在我们心中并影响我们的观点。

我仍然会遇到一些人，例如，他们认为使用肾上腺素自动注射器（如 EpiPen，可通过减轻炎症来对抗严重反应的影响）的正确方法是直接注射在胸部。

这就是 1994 年电影《低俗小说》（Pulp Fiction）中的描绘方式。

在《玫瑰》中，注射位置在手臂上，这同样是错误的。

事实上，官方建议——因为这是让肾上腺素快速进入血液最快且最有效的方法——是将其注射在在大腿外侧。

虽然我不想只关注这一部电影，但在《玫瑰》的另一场戏中，奥利维亚·科尔曼饰演的角色为了引起关注而故意吃了一颗树莓，她自信地认为一针自动注射器就能救她。我多么希望事实总是如此。

在我女儿去世的那天，一旦她开始出现过敏反应迹象，我的丈夫就给她注射了不是一支而是两支 EpiPen。但这还不够。她反应的剧烈程度意味着她需要进一步的医院治疗，而我们在飞机上无法获得这种治疗。

我们成立了慈善机构，旨在提高人们对过敏者的真实生活状态的认识——例如，进入学校开展宣传活动。

被批评的作品：由奥利维亚·科尔曼和本尼迪克特·康伯巴奇主演的《玫瑰》，以及《彼得兔》电影。右图：塔尼娅的女儿纳塔莎，2016 年去世，年仅 15 岁。

许多生活受到食物过敏影响的人联系了我与丈夫纳迪姆（Nadim）在 2019 年共同创立的慈善机构——当时我们美丽的女儿纳塔莎年仅 15 岁便不幸去世——他们对这些大银幕上的刻画表达了愤怒。他们将其描述为“糟糕的”、“危险的”且“冒犯性的”。

在观看目前在 Sky Atlantic 频道播出的《全是她的错》（All Her Fault）后，许多人与我们取得了联系。

剧中一个角色（由莎拉·斯努克饰演）在吃了丈夫高度过敏的食物后，故意亲吻丈夫——并看着他开始呼吸困难。一位 12 岁食物过敏儿童的母亲称此举“不负责任且具有潜在危害”。

其他人则对一部名为《Inside No 9: Stage / Fright》的戏剧感到不满。该剧近期在英国巡演，其中一个角色为了制造喜剧效果，在一名他明知对坚果严重过敏的人的座位上撒了坚果。

即使是儿童电影——这些电影会对易受影响的心智产生深远影响——也未能幸免。2018年的电影《彼得兔》中，一群兔子将黑莓扔向愤怒的农民麦格雷戈先生的嘴里，而他对此严重过敏。

这传递了关于食物过敏真实性质的什么样的信息？就像我描述的《The Roses》中的场景一样，它将其轻描淡写了。

食物过敏并不有趣，而是令人恐惧的——最严重的反应被称为过敏性休克，会影响全身；嘴唇可能会肿胀，喉咙可能会开始闭合，导致呼吸极其困难。

我们美丽且才华横溢的娜塔莎在2016年7月飞往尼斯之前，吃了一根她不知道含有芝麻（她的过敏原之一）的法棍面包，随后发生了过敏性休克，并在几小时内被宣布死亡。

她第一次对食物产生严重过敏反应时只有六个月大——仅仅是一口香蕉泥。当她的嘴唇肿胀、小身体变得通红时，她尖叫了起来。

我们匆忙将她送往医院，不知道她能否幸存。不久之后，我们发现她对牛奶也过敏——甚至咖啡馆里奶泡机释放到空气中的微小液滴都会让她喘不过气，口吐白沫。

有一次，在她大约18个月大时，她与一个吃过冰淇淋的幼儿牵了手。

当她随后揉眼睛时，眼睛肿得完全闭上了。

我们生活在一种永久的高度警戒状态中。直到她两岁能够进行测试以确定所有过敏原（牛奶、鸡蛋、芝麻、香蕉）之前，她的早餐、午餐和晚餐都是鸡汤。我太紧张了，不敢给她吃任何其他东西。

无论去哪里，我们都会随身携带抗组胺药、吸入器（因为她还有过敏引起的哮喘）和两支EpiPen自动注射器。我害怕人们亲吻她，担心这可能会传递某些触发反应的物质。这让我身心俱疲。

有一次，娜塔莎大约两岁，我开车带着她，她坐在后面的儿童安全座椅上，我突然被一阵悲伤袭来，这种感觉像身体上的疼痛一样在我内心翻涌。

我有一种可怕的恐惧，担心会失去她。我不得不停下车，任由泪水流下。

我现在意识到，我当时表现出了创伤后应激障碍（PTSD）的症状，因为我看着我的女儿在那么小的年纪就经历了一次又一次危及生命的过敏反应。

这就是患有严重食物过敏的真实生活状态。

我无法观看我提到的任何一部电影，因为那太令人痛苦了。

但如果这些描绘是准确的，那么这将是一个极好的机会，可以增强人们对患有严重过敏是多么可怕的理解。相反，目前的场景起到了反作用。而这些画面

这一点至关重要，因为尽管每间教室大约有两名儿童患有食物过敏（根据我们最近对一个教师工会 NASUWT 做的调查），但67%的员工没有接受过过敏培训或缺乏相关经验。

当电视剧《Waterloo Road》的制作方在9月份加入关于学校食物过敏的剧情线时，他们联系我们寻求指导，渴望确保其描绘准确。我多么希望其他人也能效仿。

我们给《The Roses》的制作方写信，表达了我们对其剧情线的担忧——但他们尚未回复。

我希望今后电影制作人能抓住机会，至少真实地描绘严重食物过敏。

因为如果不这样做，观看这些戏剧化作品的人就越不可能相信食物过敏可能有多严重，越不可能在有人出现严重不适时挺身而出提供帮助——也越不可能知道如何正确使用自动注射器，而这将是真正意义上的悲剧。

采访人：露西·埃尔金斯 (LUCY ELKINS)

作者：卡罗琳·琼斯 (CAROLINE JONES)

0 曾是健美运动员和运动员的专属，肌酸现在已进入主流视野，据称它能对从肌肉力量到大脑健康以及失眠等方方面面提供帮助。

肌酸是一种天然化合物，由肝脏、肾脏和胰腺产生，并储存在肌肉中，在肌肉中充当燃料来源——特别是对于冲刺或举重等高强度活动。

这是因为它可以被快速分解，而糖原（我们的主要燃料来源）则用于耐力运动和较低强度的锻炼。

我们可以通过饮食获取肌酸，红肉、鱼类和乳制品是最佳来源。但这些食物中的含量明显低于补充剂形式。例如，一块中等大小的牛排含有 500mg 肌酸——你需要吃六块牛排才能获得大多数补充剂中所含的 3g 肌酸。

“人们已经公认，每天额外补充约 3-5g 肌酸可以提高运动表现，帮助人们延长锻炼时间并加快恢复速度，”安格利亚鲁斯金大学营养生理学教授贾斯汀·罗伯茨 (Justin Roberts) 解释道，他曾对肌酸进行过研究。“随着时间的推移，这可以使运动表现和肌肉力量增加 10 到 20%。”

研究还表明，它可能对与年龄相关的问题（如肌肉流失）有益。

《骨》(Bone) 杂志 2022 年的一篇综述发现，在运动计划的基础上使用肌酸补充剂可以帮助 50 岁以上的人提高表现，适度减轻体脂并避免受伤。

其理论是，通过让肌肉更努力地工作，身体会变得更精干，从而降低整体体脂。而体能的提升则会导致受伤减少。

有些人认为，补充剂甚至可以帮助抵消与司美格鲁肽 (semaglutide) 等减肥针相关的肌肉流失，但这尚未得到证实——且使用者还需要进行体育锻炼。去年《柳叶刀》(The Lancet) 上的一篇文章强调，预防肌肉流失的能力可能使肌酸在这一领域发挥作用。

健康生活 (GOOD HEALTH)

图片：GETTY IMAGES / ISTOCKPHOTO

据称它能增强大脑功能，改善睡眠，甚至可能抵消减肥针的主要副作用……

那么，服用增肌肌酸的最佳方式是什么？

“目前还出现了一些证据表明，肌酸可以支持大脑功能并减轻精神疲劳，”罗伯茨教授表示，因为它是我们脑细胞的主要燃料来源。

去年发表在《自然》(Nature) 杂志上的一项研究发现，服用肌酸还能帮助睡眠不足的参与者在记忆力测试中表现得更好。

此外，明尼苏达州圣奥拉夫学院 (St Olaf College) 对 15 名女性进行的一项新研究报告称，在服用 5mg 持续 14 周后，她们的睡眠和大脑功能出现了积极变化。

肌酸没有官方推荐剂量，因为它不被视为必需的每日营养素。

但罗伯茨教授表示，每天需要摄入 3-5g 才能使肌肉受益，而早期研究表明，每天摄入 5-10g 可能对认知功能有益，每天摄入 20-30g 则可改善睡眠。

多喝水非常重要，因为肌酸可能导致轻微脱水（它会导致水分被吸引到肌肉中），且部分人在大剂量服用时可能会感到腹胀。

我们邀请罗伯茨教授对市场上最新推出的一些肌酸产品进行评估，随后我们对其进行了评级。

经济型粉末

Optimum Nutrition 水果宾治味肌酸粉，247. £16，optimumnutrition.com 每日成本：29便士

声称：“旨在为高强度运动期间的肌肉提供能量。”

每日将一勺（3克）加入250毫升水中。

专家评定：每份含有3克肌酸，每日仅需29便士，具有成本效益。该产品含有“微粉化”一水肌酸，这仅意味着其物理粉末更细，因此可能比标准肌酸更容易溶解在溶液中。但没有证据表明这能提高人体对它的吸收率。

更细的粉末使其可能更容易与其他产品（如奶昔）结合，而不会像某些粉末那样产生颗粒感。但该产品含有水果香料，味道可能会过于强烈。

此外，这里含有人工甜味剂——三氯蔗糖和安赛蜜——这可能会导致某些人出现肠道不适。8 / 10

皮肤贴片

What's That Patch 肌酸贴片，30片 £19，whatsthatpatch.co

每日成本：63便士

声称：“支持大脑能量、肌肉恢复和细胞修复。” 每日贴一片，每片含有2毫克肌酸乙酯和4毫克胍基乙酸（一种肌酸前体）。

专家评定：肌酸是一种水溶性分子，这意味着它很难通过皮肤吸收。或许最重要的一点是，该产品标明的肌酸含量极低，仅为2毫克——大多数人至少需要3克——尤其是考虑到制造商关于大脑益处的声称。

目前尚不清楚这是否是指烟酸和锌的水平；含有这些成分的产品被允许声称支持大脑功能——但同样，需要更高的剂量。

有一种理论认为，通过避开消化系统（在口服剂量中，高达80%可能会因酸性环境而流失），经皮给药可以使用较小的剂量来达到类似的效果。但这在肌酸的研究中尚未得到证实——我认为它不太可能将肌酸水平提高到足以产生积极效果的程度。

他们还添加了胍基乙酸，人体可以将其转化为肌酸。虽然理论上这可以增加总肌酸量，但剂量非常低。2 / 10

胶囊

满足您在途中的需求。

专家评定：肌酸胶囊的吸收速度不如粉末快，因为它们需要被消化——而且仅在肠道中分解外壳可能就需要30分钟。

但一旦消化，这些胶囊应该能提供相当数量的一水肌酸。

胶囊在途中或旅行时使用更方便，但这种便利是有代价的——它们比大多数粉末更贵。

而且要接近每日3克的推荐剂量，意味着需要服用四个胶囊，如果需要更高剂量则需要更多。它们体积也较大，因此对于觉得吞药困难的人来说并不理想。6 / 10

纯粉末

Elite All Blacks 一水肌酸 Monohydrate, £37.39 for 500g, healthspanelite.co.uk

每日成本：37便士

Creature 微粉化肌酸胶囊，£34.99 for 245 capsules, myvitamins.com 每日成本：57便士 主张：胶囊形式的肌酸，让你能够

主张：“支持老年人的力量”。含有微粉化一水肌酸。每日服用5克，与水或果汁混合。

专家评判：如果你只需要不含任何添加剂的微粉化一水肌酸，那么这款简约的粉末产品可能适合你。

虽然它的营销对象是运动员和进行锻炼的老年人，但每份可提供相当可观的5克一水肌酸——因此对于任何想要使用肌酸的人都可能有所裨益。

它也是这里每日成本最低的产品之一——而且由于没有添加口味，你可以将其加入任何饮料中，使其用途广泛。9 / 10

液体

Applied Nutrition 液体肌酸 CreaFlow 蓝莓树莓味，£15.99 for 500ml, amazon.co.uk

每日成本：£1.60

主张：“每日50毫升剂量可提供3克肌酸。采用尖端技术以增强溶解度和吸收率。”

专家评判：肌酸在液体形式下通常不稳定，这意味着它会随时间降解。这就是为什么与水或果汁混合的粉末形式必须立即饮用。

公司正在寻找一种稳定的形式，以便将其制成具有长保质期的即饮饮料——例如，通过添加酸度调节剂来帮助防止肌酸分解。

但这里关于添加甘油（糖醇）能增强吸收的营销主张似乎不太可能，因为肌酸本身已被身体很好地吸收，且没有证据表明与甘油一起服用效果更好。

它还含有人工香料和防腐剂——并且是这里每剂量最贵的产品。3 / 10

软糖

Keka 天然肌酸 软糖，£13.95 for 60, amazon.co.uk 每日成本：47便士

主张：“一种蓝莓味的肌酸粉便捷替代品。” 2 粒软糖提供4克肌酸。专家评判：提供的肌酸量为4克，水平良好，能满足大多数人的需求。

该产品价格合理，但含有人工甜味剂，可能会刺激肠道。

而且几乎没有证据支持软糖“提供更优吸收”的主张——且制作软糖过程中涉及的热量和水分实际上可能会降低肌酸含量。6 / 10

添加胶原蛋白

Free Soul CreaGlow 胶原蛋白 + 肌酸， £34.99 for 360g, freesoul.com 每日成本：£1.16

主张：每份含3.4克肌酸，外加2,500毫克胶原蛋白和电解质，以“支持力量、恢复和专注力”。

专家评判：每份含3.4克一水肌酸，满足大多数用户的需求——但由于添加了胶原蛋白和电解质（钠、镁、钙和钾等矿物质），其价格较为昂贵。

但同时摄入肌酸和电解质可以通过保持身体水分充足来提高表现。

它还含有2,500毫克来自鱼皮的海洋胶原蛋白——这可能会提高皮肤弹性——而且胶原蛋白可能有助于例如老年女性随着年龄增长维持肌肉力量。

然而，多吃肉类或鱼类可能同样有效。7 / 10

GOOD HEALTH

在我的年龄，什么能帮我勃起？

问：我正与一位非常优秀的 72 岁女士交往，她仍有性生活。然而，我无法勃起。我的全科医生（GP）给我开了 10 毫克的他达拉非（tadalafil），但没有效果。我应该要求增加剂量吗？我今年 82 岁。

——V Fletcher，通过电子邮件发送。

答：很遗憾听到他达拉非（一种改善阴茎血流量的药物）未能奏效。

在您更长的一封信中，您提到您正在服用治疗高血压的药物，这（在某些患者身上）会对勃起产生不利影响，并且十年前您曾接受过针对前列腺癌的大规模放射治疗。

不幸的是，大约 50% 接受标准放射治疗（即向体内发射高能射线以破坏前列腺癌细胞）的男性随后会出现勃起问题。

此外还有年龄因素。一项大规模分析发现，到 80 岁时，几乎十分之八的人会出现某种程度的勃起功能障碍。

我认为，增加他达拉非的剂量

咨询全科医生 马丁·斯库尔医生（DR MARTIN SCURR）

可能不会更有效。您在长信中还提到，您询问过睾酮替代疗法，但医生以这可能会诱发前列腺癌复发而拒绝了该方案。

我也建议不要进行睾酮治疗：风险在于，在放射治疗之前从前列腺逃逸并潜伏在其他地方的任何癌细胞，现在可能会被激活。

您现在的选择要么是使用泵来产生勃起，要么是植入阴茎假体来模拟真实的勃起。

真空泵技术涉及使用一个套在阴茎上的透明塑料圆筒，圆筒的一侧有一个泵用于抽出空气。

由此产生的负压将血液抽入海绵体（阴茎内部柔软的海绵状组织），从而产生足够的硬度。

然后取下圆筒，套上一个收缩环，维持 30 分钟左右——这段时间足以进行亲密活动。

这是一个安全的方案，我建议您考虑。它不依赖于睾酮水平，许多夫妇认为这种方式是可以接受的——尤其是当另一种选择是侵入性的植入刚性假体手术时，虽然后者有效，但会导致永久性勃起状态。这远非理想之选。

问：我患有憩室炎好几年了，期间经常需要住院。后来我的顾问建议我服用益生菌，之后我就再也没有发作过。它们是如何起作用的？

珍妮特·利特利，奇斯尔赫斯特。

答：为了方便其他读者理解，我首先解释一下，憩室炎是指肠道中形成了小囊袋（称为憩室），并且这些囊袋发生了炎症或感染。

憩室炎会导致疼痛，有时还会导致出血。

在严重的情况下，可能会形成脓肿，且囊袋可能会破裂，从而导致腹膜炎（腹部炎症），甚至导致败血症——这是一种免疫系统的过度反应，在某些情况下甚至可能致命。

大多数人发现，通过休息、静脉输液和抗生素（用于杀死导致感染的细菌）相结合，可以缓解憩室炎的发作。

在最严重的情况下，患者需要通过手术切除受影响的结肠部分。

回答您的问题，目前尚不清楚益生菌如何帮助预防憩室感染——而且没有令人信服的证据表明它们确实有效。

然而，我经常建议患者服用益生菌，而且一项试验发现，服用益生菌的急性憩室炎患者在血液检测中的炎症标志物显著降低。

一种解释可能是，益生菌改变了肠道微生物群（对消化和免疫系统至关重要的微生物）的平衡，使得“友好”细菌的数量超过了可能导致感染的有害细菌。

无论如何，如果这对您有效，没有理由停止服用益生菌。

在我看来……关于糖尿病检测错误的真相

几个月前，有消息称，由于英格兰各地医院使用的机器出现故障，数千名 NHS 患者可能被误诊为 2 型糖尿病。

这些设备用于检测糖化血红蛋白 A1℃，即两到三个月内的平均血糖水平。HbA1℃ 检测于 2009 年首次被 NHS 采用，彻底改变了糖尿病的检测和治疗。

患者们对于可能被误诊并被要求服药感到不安，这是可以理解的。

但当医生得到一个出乎意料的读数时，他们通常会重复测试以进行复核。

而且，接受 HbA1℃ 检测的患者可能已经具备某些风险因素，例如体重超标——因此，即使他们目前还没有患 2 型糖尿病，他们也可能正处于患病过程中。

HbA1℃ 仍然是检测高血糖的一种极佳方式——无需恐慌。

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医疗头条背后 —— 罗布·加洛韦教授 (PROFESSOR ROB GALLOWAY)

成为一名患者是有风险的。大多数人从未考虑过这一点，但他们应该意识到。患者可能会被误诊，而且即使诊断正确，治疗方案仍可能出错。

这并非为了吓唬任何人——因为一旦你意识到存在风险，你就可以采取措施。

事实是，医疗人员会犯错，并非因为我们心术不正、缺乏关怀或懒惰，而是因为我们也是人类。

来自史蒂夫尼奇（Stevenage）的天才工程师、27岁的杰西卡·布雷迪（Jessica Brady）的悲剧离世便证明了这一点。

2020年，她在五个月内因腹痛前往全科医生（GP）诊所就诊超过20次。然而，她从未接受过所需的检查。当病因——癌症——最终被发现时，癌细胞已经广泛扩散，无法治疗，她于同年晚些时候去世。

这促使今年9月引入了“杰西规则”（Jess's Rule）：如果你因同一个未解决的问题就诊三次，医生必须停下来重新思考，并在必要时将病例上报至更高一级医疗机构。

这并非为了提高安全性而引入的第一项NHS（英国国家医疗服务体系）规则：“玛莎规则”（Martha's Rule）赋予家属在担心亲人病情恶化时，有权寻求另一组医院医疗团队提供第二诊疗意见的权利。

玛莎·米尔斯（Martha Mills）在2021年去世时年仅13岁，此前医生忽视了她父母的担忧。杰西规则和玛莎规则都告诉我们同一个令人不安的事实：医疗错误过于普遍。

遵循几条规则可以帮助降低这些错误发生在您身上的可能性。

规则 1：详细说明令您担忧的事项

在十分钟的全科医生就诊时段或繁忙的急诊室（A&E）里，很难清晰地表达你的担忧。因此，最好使用 ICE 法：想法（ideas）、担忧（concerns）和期望（expectations）。

从你的想法开始。告诉医生你认为可能发生了什么。如果你在睾丸上发现了一个新肿块且生长迅速，请直接告知。

然后表达你的担忧——你实际上在担心什么？

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是的，我们医生确实会犯错……但这七条简单的规则将帮助保护您

这意味着，如果你认为那是癌症，请告诉我们。

最后，阐明你的期望；即你希望从这次咨询中获得什么。例如，我们打算如何排除睾丸癌。说出这些有助于我们更快地制定出正确的方案。

几年前，我接诊了一名40多岁的男性，他看起来像是患有极其普通的腹痛。我的初步诊断是吃了不干净的烤肉导致的一点腹泻。

但随后他为前来就诊而道歉，并说他的妻子强迫他来的（这总是让我感到担心）——接着他补充道：“我父亲在48岁时死于结肠癌。我不确定这是否重要。”

这一句话彻底改变了这次咨询。我们进行了检查，他被诊断为早期、可治疗的结肠癌。

我们医生容易产生三种类型的偏见，这可能会导致我们做出错误的决定。

规则 2：询问还可能是什么

可用性偏差（Availability bias）意味着我们仅仅因为某种疾病在新闻中出现或近期很常见，就觉得到处都是这种病。例如，在新冠疫情期间，所有症状看起来都像新冠，导致其他严重的感染被漏诊。

一句简单的话——“我知道新冠 / 流感现在到处都是，但我担心这可能是其他原因，因为……”——就能让我们从这种“自动驾驶”状态中清醒过来。

其次是首位决策者偏差（first decision-maker bias），即我们照搬他人做出的诊断。

例如，急诊室医生很容易继承急救员的诊断。我曾见过中风被误诊为醉酒的情况，就是因为这个原因。

与此同时，确认偏差（Confirmation bias）是指我们只寻找支持自己初步想法的证据。通过提出让我们停下来思考的问题，将我们从这些陷阱中拉出来。

询问我们是否确定，还可能是什么——以及寻求第二诊疗意见是否会有帮助。

规则 3：询问他们会为挚爱之人怎么做

检测带有风险。有些会产生假阳性。有些涉及辐射。另一些则会导致更多从未需要的进一步检测和治疗。因此，请始终询问进行这项检测的原因——以及其弊端是什么。

一个值得询问的好问题是：为了做出诊断，以及为了真正挽救生命或改善症状，有多少人需要进行他们建议你做的这项检测。

关键在于弄清楚，检测结果在何时能真正改变治疗方案，而不仅仅是为了满足好奇心。

破解这一困境的方法是

为什么流感疫苗值得付费接种

上周末我在急诊科值班，那是近期最繁忙的时段之一——因为流感病例数量极其惊人。患者在走廊里排起长队，感觉每两个进门的人中就有一个发烧、剧烈咳嗽或有呼吸问题。

伦敦救护车服务局（London Ambulance Service）刚刚经历了 2025 年最繁忙的三天，接到了大量因流感等呼吸道疾病而呼吸困难者的求助电话。

然而，伦敦符合接种条件的人群中，接种免费流感疫苗的人数不足一半，全国其他地区的情况也类似。

将这两个事实结合起来看，我们似乎正面临十年以来最糟糕的流感年之一。

如果你符合免费接种流感疫苗的条件（标准包括 65 岁以上、怀孕、患有哮喘、糖尿病、心脏病或肺病等长期疾病），请务必接种。

这能保护你，减轻医院的压力，并帮助为最需要的人留出床位。

我也敦促那些不符合免费条件的人通过私人渠道接种疫苗。大多数药店仅收取少量费用即可提供接种，这比因病损失一周时间，或担心将病毒传染给脆弱人群的代价要低得多。

向他们提出这个问题：“如果我是你的伴侣，或者我的孩子是你的孩子，你会怎么做？”

规则 4：不要假设检测结果是准确的

医学领域最大的盲点之一就是我们医生如何解读检测结果。

2021 年发表在《美国医学会杂志·内科学》（JAMA Internal Medicine）上的一项研究要求数百名临床医生在给出诊断检测前后，评估患者患有某些疾病的可能性。

许多人认为，检测呈阳性意味着患病概率远高于实际情况。

如果某种疾病较为罕见且检测手段不完美，就会出现假阳性。大多数检测都是不完美的。然而，许多医生将阳性结果视为患者几乎肯定患病，这导致了过度诊断、不必要的扫描以及从未需要的治疗。

同样的问题也反向出现：如果你的症状强烈暗示某种疾病，但检测手段不完美且结果为阴性，这并不能神奇地排除该疾病。然而，许多临床医生将阴性结果视为绝对的定心丸，从而导致严重诊断被遗漏。

因此，请询问检测的准确率是多少，像你这样的人出现错误结果的可能性有多大，以及是否应该重复检测。

规则 5：仔细核对手术部位——以及药物

如果你要接受手术，请确保是正确的手术：询问手术部位是否标记正确——一个简单的笔迹标记就能防止错误。

当你被给予药物时，询问药物的用途，以及你的过敏史是否影响用药安全。务必提及你正在服用的任何其他药物甚至补剂，因为这些有时会产生负面影响。

如果你在医院里，请复述一遍方案：“所以我想确认一下，这是抗生素，下一剂是在下午 6 点？”

并询问药物可能产生的副作用，以便你能及时发现任何异常情况。

规则 6：询问这个关键数字

对于任何治疗方案，一个有用的问题是：像我这样的患者需要有多少人使用这种治疗方法，才能让其中一个人真正获益？

这被称为“需治疗人数”（number needed to treat）——它会迫使医生思考该治疗方法对于具有您这种风险水平的人来说究竟有多有效。

了解需治疗人数能让您感觉到，对您而言，其益处是否可能超过弊端。

您可能会听说某种药片能将心脏病发作的概率降低 50%。但如果您的风险仅为 1,000 分之一，那么实际获益是非常微小的。您需要给 2,000 人服用该药物才能预防一次心脏病发作。而其他 1,999 人则完全没有获益，且可能仍会遭受副作用。

规则 7：保持礼貌

提出问题能保障您的安全，而粗鲁则不能。研究表明，当临床医生遭遇不文明对待时，其决策的准确性会下降。

在我上一组夜班期间，一名患者在长时间等待后愤怒地就诊——在他开始大喊大叫的那一刻，我能感觉到我的思维变得僵化，而不再是对其他可能性保持开放。

请质疑我们，提出问题，请大胆发声——但请以建设性的方式进行。冷静的协作比对抗能为您带来更好的护理。 @drrobgalloway

作者：露西·埃尔金斯 (LUCY ELKINS)

由于腹部绞痛和严重的胃部不适，有时一次就得在马桶上待上一个小时，艾米莉·里昂 (Emily Lyon) 在今年夏天感到身体极度不适，以至于她担心自己的“生活正在崩溃”。

来自剑桥的 23 岁女孩艾米莉患有严重的腹泻，在两个月内体重减轻了 3 英石（约 19 公斤）。她说：“每次发作后我都会感到精疲力竭，必须卧床休息——这种情况一天可能会发生两次。”

由于虚弱到无法出门，艾米莉在 6 月不得不放弃零售业的工作，并暂停了她的戏剧研究学位。

她后来发现，这一切是由一种肠道疾病——小肠细菌过度生长 (SIBO) 引起的，这极有可能与她服用多年的抗酸反流药有关。

艾米莉在 17 岁时被开具了质子泵抑制剂 (PPIs)，以防止让她生活痛苦不堪的烧心症状。

艾米莉服用的奥美拉唑等 PPI 药物能减少胃酸的分泌——虽然这些药物减轻了反流带来的剧烈刺痛感，但随着她的健康和事业毁于一旦，其代价似乎太高了。

两个月前，艾米莉被诊断出患有 SIBO。当细菌开始在小肠（通常不会出现大量细菌的区域）积聚时，就会发生 SIBO，从而导致腹胀、排气和腹泻。

今年早些时候发表在《临床医学杂志》(Journal of Clinical Medicine) 上的一项对 29 项研究的综述发现，每多服用一个月 PPI，患 SIBO 的风险就会增加 4.2%。该理论认为，通常会被胃酸消灭的细菌，在服用 的人体内可能会存活下来。

作者表示，在服用 超过六个月的人群中，风险最高，因此在“适当的情况下”让患者停止使用这些药物是“至关重要的”。

然而，每当艾米莉尝试停用 时，反流症状就会猛烈地回归，“感觉像胸口被绳索灼伤一样”，她说，“简直无法忍受。”

由于医生仍不愿通过手术来解决导致她反流的根源——一个将部分胃部推入胸腔的疝气——因为他们不确定手术能提供多少缓解，艾米莉感到陷入了困境。“我只想找回我的生活，”她说。

药物——如奥美拉唑、兰索拉唑和埃索美拉唑——是英国最常用的处方药之一，仅在 2022 / 23 年度，英格兰就开出了约 7300 万 份处方。

英国国家医疗服务体系卓越研究所 (NICE) 建议，大多数情况下的治疗应持续数周，并表示长期服用 的患者应接受年度审查。

然而，一项又一项的研究表明，这些药物被开具得过于随意且时间过长。

例如，7 月发表在《BJGP Open》杂志上的一项涉及 77,000 名服用 超过六个月的英格兰患者的研究发现，只有 4% 的人有理由长期服用。

其他近期研究显示，四分之一的 服用者在一年多时间里服用该药而未经过重新评估。

“我们绝对是在过度且过于广泛地使用 ，”彼得·沃威尔 (Peter Whorwell) 教授说道，他是一位担任顾问的胃肠病专家，就职于

健康指南 为什么长期依赖反流药会导致严重的痉挛、胀气和排气

生活停滞：艾米莉·里昂（Emily Lyon）

曼彻斯特大学NHS基金会信托。

伦敦功能性肠道诊所的临床科学家安东尼·霍布森（Anthony Hobson）教授解释说，PPI（质子泵抑制剂）在24小时内可减少约80%的胃酸分泌。这使得它们在短期治疗中具有极高价值，例如用于促进胃溃疡愈合，但在某些情况下也可作为长期方案。

图片：RICHARD CANNON / GETTY

如果胃酸持续反流至食管，可能会导致癌前病变——一种被称为巴雷特食管（Barrett's oesophagus）的病症——在极少数病例中，这可能会导致癌症。

但正如沃霍尔（Whorwell）教授所解释的：“任何有胃部问题的人都会被开PPI。”

他补充道：“你可以理解原因——如果全科医生（GP）接诊一名有模糊胃肠道症状的患者，他们能给的只有解痉药（用于减轻肠道疼痛性痉挛）或抗酸药（如PPI）。”

霍布森教授表示，即使在酸并非病因的情况下，PPI 也会被开出，其中最严重的误用是用于治疗喉咙嘶哑。

问题在于， 并非没有风险。例如，去年发表在《自然·通讯》（Nature Communications）杂志上的一项涉及全球200万名 使用者的研究，将此类药物与15种疾病风险增加联系起来，包括心脏病、糖尿病和呼吸道感染。

研究人员写道，虽然这并不一定意味着 导致了这些问题，但“潜在的安全担忧”意味着该药仅应在获益超过可能风险的患者中使用。越来越多的研究正聚焦于此类药物如何改变肠道微生物群（与健康相关的微生物群落），以及它们是否会加重肠易激综合征（IBS）的症状或导致小肠细菌过度生长（SIBO）。

18个月前，当艾米莉开始出现胀气和痉挛时，她认为这是她最初开始服用 时患有的轻微 IBS 加重了。但到了今年夏天，症状变得如此剧烈，以至于她不得不放弃工作。

“到那个阶段，我的生活已经停滞了，我只能躺在沙发上或床上，”艾米莉说。

她的医生让她进行了结肠镜检查（将带有摄像头的细管插入结肠）——在检查结果正常后，她前往伦敦的私立功能性肠道诊所进行进一步检测，包括一项诊断出她患有 SIBO 的呼气测试（该测试检测肠道细菌产生的气体）。

“我被告知最可能的原因是 ，”艾米莉说。

她刚刚完成了为期两周的利法昔明（rifaximin，一种抗生素）疗程，以清除多余的细菌。但艾米莉害怕停用 。“我想尝试停药，因为我不想一直吃药——但反流情况难以忍受，比之前严重十倍，”她说。

这种反弹效应可能发生在任何停用 超过两个月的人身上——因为胃酸越少，胃中的细胞就越会分泌一种名为胃泌素（gastrin）的激素，而这种激素有助于产生胃酸。

然而，在停止使用 之前，酸的产生是被抑制的。沃霍尔教授说，一旦停药，“胃泌素水平将飙升，酸分泌随之激增”。

结果是可能会出现更剧烈的反流，“患者会认为自己需要 ——于是重新开始服用——而没有意识到这种情况是暂时的，大约持续三周，甚至可能更久”，他补充道。

沃霍尔教授表示，一种潜在的避免方法是逐渐减少 的剂量：例如，将剂量减半持续两周，然后每隔一天服用一颗药。

英国皇家全科医师学会主席维多利亚·措齐乌-布朗（Victoria Tzortziou Brown）教授表示：“患者应按照全科医生的建议服用 PPI 药物，任何考虑调整用药方式的人，都建议与全科医生讨论，以便在安全且适当的情况下进行更改。”

霍布森（Hobson）教授表示，对于大多数人来说，“对饮食和生活方式进行微小调整就足以控制反流”。

他参与了一项针对 60 名反流患者的研究，其中一半人将服用 PPI 药物，另一半人将获得饮食建议和海藻酸盐（一种非处方药，如 Gaviscon，它在胃酸上方形成一层保护膜，而不是减少胃酸的产生量）。结果预计将于明年公布。

霍布森教授表示，其他经过验证的方案包括减轻体重，以减轻对维持胃内容物不外溢的瓣膜的压力，以及“避免食用油腻食物，因为这会减缓胃排空并导致产生更多胃酸”。

减少咖啡因、酒精和巧克力的摄入也有帮助，因为这些物质可能会使关闭胃部的括约肌松弛。垫高床头同样有效，因为这能防止夜间胃酸上涌。沃威尔（Whorwell）教授说：“但你必须倾斜整个床身——如果你只是垫高枕头，会挤压你的中段，反而将胃酸推上去。”

在药物方面，他表示，H2 受体阻断剂（其作用方式与 PPI 类似）能减少胃酸，但药效较弱，因此副作用较少（尽管它们仍不应长期使用）。

“海藻酸盐也能产生良好效果，”沃威尔教授说，“不过某些形式的 Gaviscon 含盐量较高”，因此可能不适合采取低盐饮食的人群。

与此同时，艾米莉（Emily）必须继续服用 PPI 药物。

“我希望很快能为我的疝气进行手术。我不想余生都依赖这些药片，它们已经给我带来了足够多的麻烦。”

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6.00 5 News 《王室宫殿的秘密》(R) 讲述在温莎城堡发生的一些戏剧性事件。 6.55 5 News Update

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8.00 《库珀与弗莱》(Cooper & Fry) 在热门旅游景点“九处处女石”的石头之间发现了一名当地摄影师的尸体，库珀和弗莱被召集来调查。随着侦探们了解到人们认为这些石头代表能够实现愿望的女性，怀疑焦点集中在那些亲近“古老宗教”的人身上。但当一名男子的尸体被发现时，一个真相开始揭晓，给整个团队带来了巨大的冲击。本系列最后一集。

10.00 《急诊室之夜》(A&E After Dark) (AD,R) 一名手指可能被截断的男子在等待就诊时变得具有攻击性，导致紧张局势升级。他冲到室外吸食裂可卡因，安保人员被迫介入。

11.05 《外科医生：生死攸关》(Surgeons: A Matter of Life or Death) (R) 英国伊丽莎白女王医院收到一份紧急转诊，一名护理人员在脑桥与鼻腔之间长了一个肿瘤。

12.05 《急诊 24 / 7：分秒必争》(Casualty 24 / 7: Every Second Counts) (AD,R) 1.00 PlayOJO 真人娱乐场直播秀 3.00 《老友记》(Friends) (R) 3.25 《老友记》(R) 3.45 《老友记》(R) 4.10 《老友记》(R) 4.35 《奇妙巧克力世界》(The Wonderful World of Chocolate) (BSL,R) 5.25 Entertainment News on 5 5.35 《本和霍利的小王国》(Ben and Holly's Little Kingdom) (AD,BSL,R) 5.45 《米洛》(BSL,R)

▲ 特别容易引起反感

轻快、有趣且没有名人……为什么李·麦克的聪明问答节目能胜出

厌倦了名人？在看了三周由安特和德克主持的、没完没了且重复乏味的丛林真人秀之后，谁能不厌倦呢。

每年都一样——十几个你要么没听说过，要么再也不想见到的人，穿着红色的囚服，在一次次受辱的间隙里没完没了地抱怨和争吵。

《我是名人》（I'm A Celebrity）明年肯定还会回来，由同样的主持人主持，将同样令人作呕的折磨环节作为娱乐节目来展示，因为该节目在 16 到 34 岁年龄组中极受欢迎——这是广告商最看重的观众群体，因为他们极少观看地面电视。

想到其中一半的人在 2002 年该节目首播时还没出生，这真是太离奇了。自那时起，节目形式几乎没有改变，而且比去年的巫切蒂幼虫还要陈腐。

但大约 250 万名 35 岁以下的人一直在收看说唱歌手 Aitch 和他的伙伴 Angry-ginge。直到谷歌向我解释 Ginge 先生是一位受欢迎的 Twitch 主播……我依然对此毫无概念。

今晚的复古装饰： BBC2 频道《猛犸象》（Mammoth）中托尼的公寓是 1970 年代庸俗艺术的极致，包括橙色灯罩和墙上特雷奇科夫的《绿衣女人》版画。而且那家鸡尾酒酒吧像戴尔·博伊的一样时髦。唯一缺失的是一个空姐推车。

所以，请庆幸本周在节目单中取代安特和德克位置的游戏节目《1% Club Rollover》不能播出太多名人版本（他们去年 6 月勉强为慈善活动凑了一个）。选角经纪人得花很长时间才能召集齐 100 名过气的肥皂剧明星、昙花一现的歌手、名誉扫地的政客、年迈的运动员和 Instagram 网红。

这种形式的精妙之处之一在于，参赛者同时也是观众。而且，玩一个不依赖于常识、而是测试发散思维和逻辑推理的问答游戏是非常令人愉悦的。

然而，真正让这个节目成功的是它的主持人，喜剧演员李·麦克。在提问时，他穿着光亮的西装，说着提词器上的套话，扮演一个传统的节目主持人。

但在回合之间与参赛者聊天时，他能毫不费力地切换到即兴发挥和自发的俏皮话。这是一种罕见的天赋，除了

威尔士电视节目变动

BBC1：晚上 10:40 《鲁斯与史蒂夫：来自梅瑟尔的爱》，由鲁斯·琼斯和史蒂夫·斯皮尔斯出演。 BBC2：下午 1:45 《首席部长问答》。 2:45 电影：《无忧无虑》（1938）（U级）。4:05 《袋鼠邓迪与其他动物：自然世界》。 4:55 《戈登·布坎南：大象家族与我》。5:55 《奈杰尔·斯莱特的今日佳肴》。 ITV：晚上 10:45 《尖端》。11:45 《华威城堡的圣诞节》。凌晨 12:40 《海岸与乡村》。 S4C：上午 6:00 Cyw。中午 12:00 Newyddion。12:05 Sgwr's Dan y Lloer。12:30 Heno。1:00 Y Deis。1:30 Cefn Gwlad。2:00 Newyddion。2:05 Prynhawn Da。3:00 Newyddion。3:05 Radio Fa'ma。4:00 Awr Fawr: Egin Bach。4:05 Awr Fawr: Annibendod。 4:15 Awr Fawr: Crawc a'i Ffrindiau。4:30 Awr Fawr: Elin Byd Bach。4:40 Awr Fawr: Dal Dy Ddannedd。5:00 Stwnsh。6:00 Tanwen & Ollie。 6:30 Sgorio。6:57 Newyddion。7:00 Heno。7:30 Newyddion。8:00 Pobol y Cwm。8:25 Rownd a Rownd。8:55 Newyddion。9:00 Llond Bol O Japan。 10:00 Clwb Rygbi。10:30 Natur Nadolig Iolo。

克里斯托弗·斯蒂文斯的昨夜电视指南

《1%俱乐部》累积奖金期 (ITV1) ★★★★★

布拉德利·沃尔什，目前电视上没有其他人能像他那样掌控局面。

例如，杰里米·克拉克森在《百万富翁》中对观众表现出几乎毫不掩饰的轻蔑，而李·麦克虽然会开玩笑，但绝不会嘲讽他人。

节目中充满了打趣的机会。一名男子吹嘘说，如果他赢得了最高奖金（本周若无人领取，奖金将每天累积），他会在屁股上纹一个李·麦克的脸。

另一位男士承认自己曾是一名退休的接吻服务员（kissogram），而一位名叫珍妮特的女士透露，她上一次出现在电视上是在30年前，参加一个名为《本周之妻》的 Sky 游戏节目（她赢了一个擀面杖）。

但当参赛者被日益困难的脑筋急转弯淘汰时，李·麦克表现得很体贴。“听着，在压力之下这很难，”他说，“真的非常难。”

这种强调轻松有趣且亲切的态度，与为了看人扭曲而将蟑螂倾倒在人们身上的做法截然不同。

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数字电视与点播精选

《白皇后》，可在 CH4 在线观看

《白皇后》是一部关于都铎王朝早期的狗血时代剧。这部剧非常有趣，且具有极高的血统——它改编自菲莉帕·格里高利的书籍——因此，当 BBC 在 2013. 年未能续订该剧时，人们感到十分惊讶。幸好，美国人出手相救，并继续将格里高利的书改编成另外两部剧集：《白公主》和《西班牙公主》。这三部剧现在都来到了第四频道（Channel 4），虽然故事各异，但它们拥有相同的权谋斗争、华丽的服装和功能失调的皇室家庭。

趣味挑战：罗布与罗梅什挑战宝莱坞，晚上 9 点，Sky Max

罗布·贝克特和罗梅什·兰加纳坦（如图）这对动态组合带着另一组旨在将他们推向极限的挑战回来了。在这一新系列中，这对倒霉的搭档将环游全球，寻找 4 个需要掌握的新技能。在随后的剧集中，他们将访问纽约展示其嘻哈技巧，深入苏门答腊丛林看谁能拍到最值得展出的照片，并在环球剧院登台表演。不过，他们首先将前往孟买，尝试在传奇的宝莱坞电影圈大展身手。

这部剧的所有情节都从女性视角展开，并由出色的女性演员阵容出演。故事背景设定在玫瑰战争期间，《白皇后》由丽贝卡·弗格森饰演伊丽莎白·伍德维尔（如图），她是三位争夺英格兰王权背后势力的女性之一。《白公主》由《杀死伊芙》的乔迪·科默饰演约克市的伊丽莎白，她被迫与家族敌人亨利七世结婚，从而有效地结束了玫瑰战争。《西班牙公主》则聚焦于一个更广为人知的人物，即亨利八世的第一任妻子阿拉贡的凯瑟琳（夏洛特·霍普 饰）。

真实犯罪《爱情骗局：难以置信的欺诈》，晚上 9 点，Sky Documentaries

这是一部典型的“他们怎么可能没意识到”类型的浪漫骗局纪录片。这部节奏明快的德国三集案例讲述了一名假律师的故事。马蒂亚斯是一名有抱负的流行歌手，他爱上了丹尼斯，一名即将前往欧洲法院的富有魅力的律师，但随着马蒂亚斯发现了一个由谎言和操纵交织而成的网络，他们的浪漫关系随之瓦解。而且事实证明，陷入其中的并非只有他一个人。

警匪惊悚剧《法律与秩序：多伦多：刑事意图》，晚上9点，5频道

这部全新的加拿大衍生剧第一季的更多内容。它兼具惊悚剧与警务程序剧的特点，由艾登·杨和凯瑟琳·门罗主演，饰演调查谋杀案的侦探。

时间< / td><>BBC 4< / ><>E4< / >< / tr><><>7.00pm< / ><>9 (苏格兰 24) 冬日漫步 (Winter Walks) 阿拉斯泰尔·坎贝尔徒步穿越里布尔斯代尔的山坡< / ><>13 荷利欧克斯 (Hollyoaks) 达伦向托尼伸出橄榄枝< / >< / ><><>7.30pm< / ><>圣诞大学挑战赛 (Christmas University Challenge) 赫尔大学 vs 西英格兰大学< / ><>辛普森一家 (The Simpsons) 巴特、米尔豪斯、纳尔逊和拉尔夫被招募进一个男团担任歌手< / >< / ><><>8.00pm< / ><>是的，首相 (Yes, Prime Minister) 吉姆与外交部发生冲突< / >< rowspan="2">抗癌单口喜剧名人烘焙大赛 (The Great Celebrity Bake Off for Stand Up to Cancer) 德莫特·奥利里、格雷格·詹姆斯、费恩·布雷迪和梅尔 B 在签名环节挑战冰奶油面包< / >< / ><><>8.30pm< / ><>是的，首相 (Yes, Prime Minister) 吉姆·哈克试图任命一名新主教< / >< / ><><>9.00pm< / >< rowspan="2">致命风暴与残酷寒冬：极端天气史 (Killer Storms and Cruel Winters: The History of Extreme Weather) 探讨英国一些最严重的天气灾难是如何在多年前发生的< / >< rowspan="2">Gogglebox 扶手椅评论员们观看《远大前程》、《兴衰》、《诱惑财富》以及 BBC 关于一颗小行星近距离飞越地球的新闻报道< / >< / ><><>9.30pm< / >< / ><><>10.00pm< / ><>鲁纳沃尔德农场的隐藏之子 (The Hidden Children of Ruinerwold Farm) 审判开始< / >< rowspan="2">英国裸体约会 (Dating Naked UK) 一名裸体新人加入其中，吸引了众人目光并威胁到萌芽中的关系。紧张局势升级，一名约会者被永久踢出< / >< / ><><>10.30pm< / >< rowspan="2">10.45 鲁纳沃尔德农场的隐藏之子 (The Hidden Children of Ruinerwold Farm) 孩子父亲的身心状态导致审判推迟。本系列最后一集< / >< / ><><>11.00pm< / >< rowspan="2">11.05 裸体吸引力 (Naked Attraction) 来自伦敦的佐伊和来自威根的德里分别从六名裸体人士中选择一名约会对象，这些人的身体部分被逐一揭晓 (至 12.05)< / >< / ><><>11.30pm< / ><>11.35 缓慢的奥德赛：猎豹之猎 (A Slow Odyssey: A Cheetah's Hunt) 纳米比亚的三只猎豹兄弟姐妹 (至 12.05)< / >< / table>

交易或不交易 (Deal or No Deal) 圣诞特辑 斯蒂芬·穆尔赫恩主持 这场游戏节目的节日版， 足球评论员 迈克尔·欧文 挑战银行家

安特与德克的无限可能 (Ant & Dec's Limitless)

赢家：好朋友特里和杰斯挑战金钱阶梯，随后轮到保罗和艾莉尝试赢取真正能改变生活的现金大奖

真爱至上 (Love Actually) (2003,15)

几个寻找爱情的人们相互交织的故事。理查德·柯蒂斯的浪漫喜剧，由休·格兰特、马丁·麦卡琴、艾玛·汤普森、柯林·费斯、比尔·奈伊和连姆·尼森主演。包含 FYI 每日资讯

11.50 盖亚一家 (Family Guy) 伙计们自愿担任高中舞会的陪同人员 (至 12.20)

娱乐与纪实

动物星球 (ANIMAL PLANET)

Sky 162 Virgin 178

12noon 动物警察休斯顿 (Animal Cops Houston)。1.00 哎呀！是欧文一家 (Crikey! It's the Irwins)。2.00 斗牛犬与假释者 (Pit Bulls & Parolees)。3.00 阿拉斯加：家园救援 (Alaska: Homestead Rescue)。5.00 孤星法律 (Lone Star Law)。6.00 杰夫医生：落基山兽医 (Dr Jeff: Rocky Mountain Vet)。7.00 树屋大师 (Treehouse Masters)。8.00 沼泽守护者 (Guardians of the Glades)。9.00 阿拉斯加：最后的边疆 (Alaska: The Last Frontier)。10.00 阿拉斯加丛林之人 (Alaskan Bush People)。11.00 斗牛犬与假释者 (Pit Bulls & Parolees)。

BBC THREE

Freeview 23 Sky 115 Virgin 107 7.00pm 可怕的历史 (Horrible Histories)。7.30 陆地与海洋之战 (The War Between the Land and the Sea)。9.00 汤米：好、坏、愤怒 (Tommy: The Good. The Bad. The Fury)。10.00 马修·佩里与氯胺酮女王 (Matthew Perry and the Ketamine Queen)。11.00 约会软件 (Dating Apps)。

喜剧中心 (COMEDY CENTRAL)

Sky 112 Virgin 132

12noon 每个人都爱雷蒙 (Everybody Loves Raymond)。1.00 朋友 (Friends)。9.00 布拉德利与巴尼·沃尔什：搞定老爸 (Bradley & Barney Walsh: Breaking Dad)。10.00 10只猫中的8只：精彩片段 (8 Out of 10 Cats: Best Bits)。10.30 吉米·卡尔的“我是混蛋吗？” (Jimmy Carr's Am I the A**hole?) 11.30 里奇·霍尔 - 3:10 幽默 (Rich Hall - 3:10 to Humour)。

探索频道 (DISCOVERY)

Sky 125 Virgin 177

11.00am 酷车改造 (Bitchin' Rides)。1.00pm 最致命的渔获 (Deadliest Catch)。3.00 抢救犬 (Salvage Dawgs)。4.00 埃德·斯塔福德：首位出击者 (Ed Stafford: First Man Out)。5.00 家园救援 (Homestead Rescue)。7.00 轮转交易 (Wheeler Dealers)。9.00 淘金热 (Gold Rush)。10.00 最后的林业工人 (The Last Woodsmen)。11.00 宇宙如何运作 (How the Universe Works)。

E4 (日间)

Freeview 13 Sky 135 Virgin 106 11.00am 《摩登家庭》 (Modern Family)。12noon 《生活大爆炸》 (The Big Bang Theory)。2.00 《少年谢尔顿》 (Young Sheldon)。3.00 《辛普森一家》 (The Simpsons)。4.00 《生活大爆炸》 (The Big Bang Theory)。6.00 《辛普森一家》 (The Simpsons)。

5STAR (日间)

12noon 《交通警察》 (Traffic Cops)。2.00 《警察拦截》 (Police Interceptors)。5.00 22 《22个孩子及更多》 (22 Kids & Counting)。6.00 《全科医生：闭门之后》 (GPs: Behind Closed Doors)。

5 ACTION

Freeview 33 Sky 150

12noon 《警察拦截》 (Police Interceptors)。1.00 电影：《西部强盗》 (Bandits of the West) (1953) (PG)。2.05 电影：《高地骑行》 (Ride the High Country) (1962) (PG)。4.00 《重型货运》 (Trucking Heavy)。5.00 《交通警察》 (Traffic Cops)。6.00 《警察拦截》 (Police Interceptors)。9.00 《高速公路警察：抓捕英国超速者》 (Motorway Cops: Catching Britain's Speeders)。10.00 999 《999：警察值勤小时》 (999: Police Hour of Duty)。11.00 《警察：夜班 999》 (Police: Night Shift 999)。

5 SELECT

Freeview 46 Sky 153 Virgin 138 12noon 《戴尔生活》 (Life in the Dales)。1.00 《欧洲最伟大的火车之旅》 (Europe's Greatest Train Journeys)。2.00 《谋杀她写》 (Murder, She Wrote)。3.00 《古波》 (Columbo)。5.00 《最伟大的火车之旅》 (Greatest Train Journeys)。6.00 《坟墓猎人》 (Tomb Hunters)。7.00 《第二次世界大战：来自上空的秘密》 (World War II: Secrets from Above)。8.00 《本·福格尔：荒野新生活》 (Ben Fogle: New Lives in the Wild)。9.00 《排干海洋》 (Drain the Oceans)。10.00 《阿尔卡特拉斯：深处隐藏着什么？》 (Alcatraz: What Lies Beneath?)。11.00 《囚犯：H号牢房》 (Prisoner: Cell Block H)。

5 USA (日间)

Freeview 21 Sky 141 Virgin 120 12noon 《血族》 (Blue Bloods)。3.00 《法律与秩序》 (Law & Order)。6.00 《海军罪案调查处》 (NCIS)。

FOOD NETWORK UK

Freeview 43 Sky 140 Virgin 190 11.00am 《先锋女性》 (Pioneer Woman)。12noon 《居家舒适》 (Home Comforts)。1.00 《精彩圣诞》 (Cracking Christmas)。2.00 《高地圣诞》 (Highland Christmas)。3.00 《伟大烘焙大赛》 (Great Bake Off)。4.00 《先锋女性》 (Pioneer Woman)。5.00 《居家舒适》 (Home Comforts)。6.00 《精彩》 (Cracking)。7.00 《高地》 (Highland)。8.00 《伟大烘焙大赛》 (Great Bake Off)。9.00 《一锅》 (One Pan)。10.00 《居家舒适于》 (Home Comforts at)。11.00 《蛋糕老板》 (Cake Boss)。

GREAT! TV

Freeview 34 Sky 157 Virgin 170 12noon 《草原上的小房子》 (Little House on the Prairie)。 1.00 《诊断谋杀》 (Diagnosis Murder)。2.00 《道林神父谜案》 (Father Dowling Mysteries)。3.00 《出生与成长》 (Born and Bred)。4.10 《脚踏实地》 (Down to Earth)。5.20 《哈米什·麦克贝斯》 (Hamish Macbeth)。6.30 《贝利法庭的伦波尔》 (Rumpole of the Bailey)。7.30 《M*A*S*H》。9.00 《画笔触》 (Brush Strokes)。10.20 《只是好朋友》 (Just Good Friends)。11.00 《画笔触》 (Brush Strokes)。11.40 《屋中男人》 (Man About the House)。

ITV2 (日间)

Freeview 6 Sky 118 Virgin 115 12noon 《名人猜词》 (Celebrity Catchphrase)。 1.00 《晚餐约会》 (Dinner Date)。2.00 《埃塞克斯方式 2010 圣诞特辑》 (The Only Way Is Essexmas 2010)。 3.00 《大烘焙：假期》 (The Big Bake: Holiday)。4.00 《亚特兰大真实主妇》 (The Real Housewives of Atlanta)。 6.00 《名人猜词》 (Celebrity Catchphrase)。

ITV3 (日间)

Freeview 10 Sky 119 Virgin 117 9.15am 《米德萨默谋杀案》 (Midsomer Murders)。11.20 《心跳》 (Heartbeat)。1.35pm 经典版《艾默代尔》 (Classic Emmerdale)。2.40 经典版《街道冠冕》 (Classic Coronation Street)。3.50 《米德萨默谋杀案》 (Midsomer Murders)。5.55 《心跳》 (Heartbeat)。

ITV4 (日间)

Freeview 26 Sky 120 Virgin 118 9.20am 《马格努姆，PI》 (Magnum, PI)。11.25am 《战斗机器人》 (BattleBots)。12.30pm 《科杰克》 (Kojak)。2.40 《马格努姆，PI》 (Magnum, PI)。4.55 《专业人士》 (The Professionals)。5.55 《美国拾荒者》 (American Pickers)。

MORE4 (日间)

Freeview 18 Sky 136 Virgin 147 10.00am 《城堡DIY》 (Chateau DIY)。11.00 《大宅赠与》 (The Great House Giveaway)。1.05pm 《阳光之所》 (A Place in the Sun)。2.40 《来我家吃饭》 (Come Dine with Me)。5.15 《四人一床》 (Four in a Bed)。

NAT'L GEOGRAPHIC

Sky 129 Virgin 183

11.00am 《纳粹巨型结构》 (Nazi Megastructures)。12noon 《世界最伟大的火车之旅》 (World's Greatest Train Journeys)。1.00 《空难调查》 (Air Crash Investigation)。3.00 《希特勒的最后抵抗》 (Hitler's Last Stand)。4.00 《排干北海》 (Draining the North Sea)。5.00 《灾难剖析》 (Disaster Autopsy)。6.00 《灾难瞬间》 (Seconds from Disaster)。7.00 《空难调查》 (Air Crash Investigation)。8.00 《纳粹巨型结构》 (Nazi Megastructures)。9.00 《希特勒的最后抵抗》 (Hitler's Last Stand)。10.00 《二战失踪船只》 (Lost Ships of WW2)。11.00 《空难调查》 (Air Crash Investigation)。

PBS AMERICA

Freeview 84 Sky 173 Virgin 187 11.50am 75 《北约 75 年：新挑战与机遇》 (75 Years of Nato: New Challenges and Chances)。1.00pm 《苏格兰群岛大巡游》 (Grand Tours of the Scottish Islands)。 1.40 《大火：》 (The Great Fire:)。2.45 《战争》 (The War)。 3.50 《越南战争》 (The Vietnam War)。5.35 75 《北约 75 年》 (75 Years of Nato)。6.45 《大火：死亡与毁灭》 (The Great Fire: Death and Destruction)。7.50 《战争》 (The War)。8.55 《越南战争》 (The Vietnam War)。10.50 75 《北约 75 年》 (75 Years of Nato)。

REALLY

Freeview 17 Sky 142 Virgin 128 12noon 《古董公路旅行》 (Antiques Road Trip)。1.00 《修复店》 (The Repair Shop)。3.00 《无偿资金》 (Money for Nothing)。4.00 《久别重逢的家人》 (Long Lost Family)。5.00 《约克郡拍卖行》 (The Yorkshire Auction House)。6.00 《古董公路旅行》 (Antiques Road Trip)。8.00 《约克郡拍卖行》 (The Yorkshire Auction House)。9.00 《久别》 (Long Lost)。11.00 《修复店》 (The Repair Shop)。

SKY ARTS

Freeview 36 Sky 124 Virgin 123 12noon 《探索》 (Discovering)。1.00 《出人意料的故事》 (Tales of the Unexpected)。2.00 《绘制鸟类》 (Painting Birds)。3.00 《贝多芬与我》 (Beethoven & Me)。4.00 《导演们》 (The Directors)。5.00 《探索》 (Discovering)。6.00 《出人意料的故事》 (Tales of the Unexpected)。7.00 《希区柯克呈现》 (Alfred Hitchcock Presents)。8.00 《米开朗基罗密码》 (The Michelangelo Code)。10.15 《

RADIO

RADIO 4 FM: 92.4-94.6MHZ; LW: 198KHZ

5.00am 新闻摘要。 5.04 议会昨日回顾。 5.32 天气预报。 5.34 航运预报。 5.43 今日祷告。 5.45 今日农业。 6.00 今日 (Today)。

9.00 赖斯讲座 (The Reith Lectures)。 鲁特格尔·布雷格曼 (Rutger Bregman) 主张建立一种 新的“现实主义乌托邦”。

10.00 女性时间 (Woman's Hour)。 11.00 添加至播放列表 (Add to Playlist)。 11.45 本周之书：《白马之上》(Upon a White Horse)。 彼得·罗斯 (Peter Ross) 加入照顾阿芬顿白马 (Uffington White Horse) 的志愿者行列。

12noon 新闻。 12.04 您与您的呼叫 (Call You and Yours)。 12.57 天气预报。 1.00 一点钟的世界 (The World at One)。 1.45 美丽的奇异 (Beautiful Strangeness)。 作者：丽贝卡·斯托特 (Rebecca Stott)。 2.00 弓箭手 (The Archers)。

绘画中的世界。 11.30 吉尔伯特与乔治的朝圣 (The Pilgrimage of Gilbert & George)。

SKY ATLANTIC

Sky 108

10.10am 黑道家族 (The Sopranos)。 12.15pm 权力的游戏 (Game of Thrones)。 2.25 继承之战 (Succession)。 4.35 黑道家族 (The Sopranos)。 6.40 权力的游戏 (Game of Thrones)。 9.00 戈莫拉 (Gomorrah)。 11.00 它是：欢迎来到德里 (It: Welcome to Derry)。

SKY COMEDY

Sky 114 Virgin 112

12.30pm 威尔与格蕾丝 (Will & Grace)。 1.30 康纳一家 (The Conners)。 2.20 性与城市 (Sex and the City)。 3.30 随从 (Entourage)。 4.45 办公室 (美国版) (The Office (US))。 5.45 威尔与格蕾丝 (Will & Grace)。 6.45 社区 (Community)。 7.45 性与城市 (Sex and the City)。 9.00 电影：《只是朋友》(Just Friends) (2005) (12) 10.45 社区 (Community)。 11.45 随从 (Entourage)。

SKY DOCUMENTARIES

Sky 121 Virgin 188

12noon Be Water。 2.00 电影：《伦诺克斯：未讲述的故事》(Lennox: The Untold Story) (2020)。

今日电台精选

历史上最强硬的英雄 3PM, RADIO 4

威廉·马歇尔爵士 (SIR William Marshal) 是雷·温斯顿 (Ray Winstone) 在本系列中的最后一个硬汉角色。他是一位强壮且英俊的骑士，曾效力于包括亨利二世、理查一世（狮心王）和约翰王在内的五位国王。他还是一个出色的骑手和令人畏惧的比武选手。但他真正的挑战来自于

2.15 戏剧：《伯克利广场50号》(50 Berkeley Square)。萨米·易卜拉欣 (Sami Ibrahim) 创作的鬼故事。 3.00 精选《历史上最强硬的英雄》。 3.30 超越信念 (Beyond Belief)。 4.00 诗歌侦探 (Poetry Detective)。瓦妮莎·基苏勒 (Vanessa Kisuule) 寻找能对“末日刷屏” (doomscrolling) 提供见解的诗歌。 4.30 医生怎么说？ (What's Up Docs?) 5.00 PM；天气预报。

(15) 4.00 探索：克林特·伊斯特伍德 (Clint Eastwood)。 5.00 导演们 (The Directors)。 6.00 梦之王国 (Kingdom of Dreams)。 7.00 埃斯科巴尔讲述埃斯科巴尔 (Escobar by Escobar)。 7.55 酸奶店谋杀案 (The Yogurt Shop Murders)。 9.00 爱情骗局：难以置信的欺诈 (Love Scam: An Unbelievable Fraud)。 10.50 Wirecard：十亿欧元的谎言 (Wirecard: A Billion Euro Lie)。

SKY HISTORY

Sky 123 Virgin 131

10.10am 仓储大战 (Storage Wars)。 12noon 究竟是什么？ (What on Earth?) 1.00 战争见证 (Witness to War)。 2.00 最后的缅甸之星 (The Last Burma Star)。 3.00 二战最大胆的袭击 (WWII's Most Daring Raids)。 6.00 美国捡物人 (American Pickers)。 7.00 锻造之火 (Forged in Fire)。 8.00 第二次世界大战：战争见证 (World War II: Witness to War)。 9.00 最后的缅甸之星 (The Last Burma Star)。 10.00 证据就在那里 (The Proof Is Out There)。 11.00 邪恶遭遇 (Evil Encounters)。

SKY MAX

Sky 113 Virgin 111

12noon 闪电侠 (The Flash)。 1.00 夏威夷五勇士 (Hawaii Five-0)。 3.00 特警 (S.W.A.T.)。 4.00 NCIS：洛杉矶 (NCIS: Los Angeles)。 5.00 海豹突击队 (SEAL Team)。

当他年届 70 岁高龄时，被要求在林肯战役中率领皇家军队对抗法国人。所有之前的剧集——包括拉科塔战士疯狂马 (Crazy Horse) 和女性参政权反叛者康斯坦斯·布尔沃-利顿 (Constance Bulwer-Lytton) 等人——均可在 BBC Sounds 上收听。

6.00 六点新闻。 6.30 某人觉得这很有用 (One Person Found This Helpful)。弗兰克·斯金纳 (Frank Skinner) 与阿希尔·沙阿 (Ahir Shah)、路易丝·杨 (Louise Young)、弗雷亚·帕克 (Freya Parker) 和皮埃尔·诺维利 (Pierre Novellie) 共同主持。 7.00 弓箭手 (The Archers)。埃德 (Ed) 努力尝试做正确的事。 7.15 前排 (Front Row)。特纳奖 (Turner Prize) 获奖者公布。

6.00 星门 SG-1 (Stargate SG-1)。 8.00 圣诞电影倒计时 (The Christmas Movie Countdown)。 9.00 罗布与罗梅什对抗宝莱坞 (Rob & Romesh vs Bollywood)。 10.00 米基·弗拉纳根的圣诞节 (Micky Flanagan's Christmas)。 11.00 行尸走肉：达里尔·迪克森 (The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon)。

SKY SCI-FI

Sky 152 Virgin 122

11.00am 星际迷航：下一代 (Trek: TNG)。 12noon 星际迷航：企业号 (Trek: Enterprise)。 1.00 星际迷航：深空九号 (DS9)。 2.00 幻想岛 (Fantasy Island)。 4.00 星际迷航：企业号 (Enterprise)。 5.00 星门宇宙 (Stargate Universe)。 6.00 星际迷航：下一代 (TNG)。 7.00 星际迷航：深空九号 (DS9)。 8.00 星门宇宙 (Stargate Universe)。 9.00 格林 (Grimm)。 11.00 局外人 (The Outsider)。

SKY WITNESS

Sky 107 Virgin 110

12noon FBI。 1.00 新手警察 (The Rookie)。 2.00 派出警犬 (Send in the Dogs)。 3.00 行车记录仪拍到 (Caught on Dashcam)。 4.00 无物可申报 (Nothing to Declare)。 8.00 法律与秩序：刑事意图 (Law & Order: Criminal Intent)。 9.00 蓝血 (Blue Bloods)。 10.00 FBI：最 wanted (FBI: Most Wanted)。 11.00 新手警察 (The Rookie)。

ITV3

6.55 心跳 (Heartbeat) 一个女孩失踪了

一名女孩失踪，促使警方展开绝望的搜寻——但克雷恩和贝拉米发现自己陷入了危险的境地

薇拉 (Vera) 侦探调查一名受欢迎的社会工作者的谋杀案，而一起涉及一名儿童死亡的臭名昭著的旧案似乎是解开谜团的关键。根据安·克利夫斯 (Ann Cleeves) 原著改编的剧集，由布伦达·布莱辛 (Brenda Blethyn) 和大卫·里昂 (David Leon) 主演

谜案集 (Midsomer Murders)

空心人的死亡：在河中发现一名年长村民的尸体，引导巴纳比进入一个业余戏剧团的阴谋之中，在那里一名演员被诱骗在舞台上自杀（至 12.00）

摩托车展 亨利·科尔加入了 踏板车男孩团，并 揭露了他们与 机车族之间的 关系

大白鲨：复仇 (1987,15)

布罗迪家族的剩余成员在巴哈马被一只嗜血的大白鲨恐吓。惊悚续集，由迈克尔·凯恩 (Michael Caine)、洛林·加里 (Lorraine Gary) 和兰斯·盖斯特 (Lance Guest) 主演。包含 FYI Daily

9.55 洛基2 (1979,12)

费城拳击手洛基·巴尔博亚退出赛场，为了与心爱的女人结婚并成为一名父亲。然而，生活证明很艰难，资金紧张，因此当巴尔博亚再次获得挑战阿波罗·克里德重量级冠军头衔的机会时，这位拳击手被诱导结束退休生活。剧情续集，由西尔维斯特·史泰龙 (Sylvester Stallone) 主演。包含 FYI Daily（至 12.15）

MORE4

7.25 四人同床 (Four in a Bed) 随着结果公布， 旧有的紧张关系 再次浮现

7.55 宏伟设计 (Grand Designs)

103 方案与设计 凯文·麦克劳德会见 汤姆和丹妮尔·拉菲尔德， 他们决定利用 他们在蒸汽弯曲木材 方面的天赋，在 康沃尔南部建造 他们自己的波浪形 木屋

我们的邻居农场：阿曼达、克莱夫和 孩子 建筑师理查德在将橡木天花板梁移至原位时面临挑战

我们的微型岛屿

镜头巡访内赫布里底群岛的伊斯代尔小岛、北爱尔兰最大的有人居住岛屿拉特林岛以及西利群岛

11.05 24 Hours in A&E 镜头记录

镜头记录了 Lawrence, 26, 他在东本恩夜晚外出过马路时被车撞，被紧急送往圣乔治医院（至 12.10）

SKY MIX

星际迷航：下一代 皮卡德试图将一个基因工程社会从灾难中拯救出来

星际迷航：深空九号

受重伤的西斯科发现自己受制于古尔·杜卡特，而后者的行为变得越来越不理智

FBI: Most Wanted

当一名联邦法官被枪杀，且发现与一名死刑犯有关联时，逃犯特遣队展开追捕

FBI: International

在一名美国情报谈判代表失踪后，团队必须在国家的核秘密落入错误之手前将其找回

格林 (Grimm) 汉克和尼克追捕一名杀害 Wesens 的凶手，并发现她也是一名格林。阿德琳在寻找孩子时向门罗寻求帮助（至 12.00）

QUEST

修理铺 (The Repair Shop)

史蒂夫·弗莱彻接手一个华丽但损坏的时钟，而金属专家多米尼克·奇内亚试图修复一个日期可追溯至 1911 年的玩具马车

棚屋与埋藏 一个装满自行车的 埃塞克斯棚屋

棚屋与埋藏

一个位于切普斯托、装满拖拉机的棚屋

詹姆斯·梅的棚屋：创意大集合

詹姆斯、西姆和托尼尝试将牛奶瓶回收制成一款酒吧游戏，并发明了喷雾式薯片调味料

修理铺 (The Repair Shop)

专家们了解一座微型房屋、一台电木收音机、一个游乐场游戏和一幅印度绘画的历史

他们是怎么做到的？ 皮裤是如何 手工制作的

他们是怎么做到的？

捕捉世界上最大的龙虾（至 12.00）

U&DAVE

《你会对我撒谎吗？》(Would I Lie to You?) 来自该喜剧访谈节目的素材

7.40 理查德·奥斯曼的游戏屋 (Richard Osman's House of Games) 嘉宾：珍妮·麦卡尔派恩 (Jennie McAlpine) 和 费利西蒂·沃德 (Felicity Ward)

8.20 理查德·奥斯曼的游戏屋 (Richard Osman's House of Games) 嘉宾：珍·布里斯特 (Jen Brister)、凯尔文·弗莱彻 (Kelvin Fletcher)、伊恩·摩尔 (Ian Moore) 和 佐伊·威廉姆斯 (Zoe Williams)

Have I Got a Bit

《更多新闻给你》(More News for You) 亚历山大·阿姆斯特朗 (Alexander Armstrong) 主持本期延长版问答赛，嘉宾为喜剧演员 乔·布兰德 (Jo Brand) 和 穆尼亚·查瓦瓦 (Munya Chawawa)

《QI XL》桑迪·托克斯维格 (Sandi Toksvig) 与 罗德·吉尔伯特 (Rhod Gilbert)、拉拉·里科特 (Lara Ricote)、阿希尔·沙阿 (Ahir Shah) 以及 艾伦·戴维斯 (Alan Davies) 一起探讨一些以字母 U 开头的动物

Taskmaster Greg

戴维斯 (Davies) 为 罗伊辛·科纳蒂 (Roisin Conaty)、蒂姆·基 (Tim Key)、罗梅什·兰加纳坦 (Romesh Ranganathan)、弗兰克·斯金纳 (Frank Skinner) 和 乔什·威迪科姆 (Josh Widdicombe) 设定了一系列挑战（至 12.00）

U&DRAMA

7.20 《夏日之酒》(Last of the Summer Wine) 康波在运河中发现了一件宝藏

Harry Wild 哈里与

费格斯被一名女性雇佣，其姐妹在一个阴森的乡村村庄失踪，两人很快在森林中发现了一具被遗弃的骸骨

《安妮卡》(Annika) 侦探在团队被飞往赫布里底群岛调查一名被发现冻在冰块中的男子死亡事件时，回想起 1984 年

《新线索》(New Tricks) 一名曾经的爱尔兰异见人士揭露了 1983, 年一名女性被绑架的真相，但他如今作为政治家的身份让团队对他动机产生了怀疑

11.20 Waking the

Dead 第二部分（共两部分）。萨姆·雅各布斯 (Sam Jacobs) 在发现自己才是预定受害者后要求得到答案（至 12.40）

《全科医生：闭门之后》(GPs: Behind Closed Doors) 曼杰·塔瓦纳 (Manj Tawana) 医生治疗一名身体不适的患者，该患者可能患有家族遗传的白血病

Casualty 24 / 7:

Every Second Counts 急救人员送来一名患有 慢性阻塞性肺病 (COPD) 且呼吸困难的女性

999: Critical

Condition 一名男子在遭到砍刀袭击后被紧急送入医院，在医生努力使其情况稳定时，其血压下降

Killer at the Crime

神经科学家 奥特姆·克莱恩 (Autumn Klein) 的谋杀案

《皮肤急诊》(Skin A&E) 观察各种异常肿块，从皮肤科医生治疗过的最大到最小的肿块（至 12.00）

NCIS While

在调查一名海军陆战队成员的谋杀案时，NCIS 团队在弗吉尼亚州一家汽车旅馆的房间里发现了一个由直播间谍摄像头组成的迷宫

NCIS 团队

调查一名音乐家的谋杀案，该音乐家就职于美国海军最顶尖的乐队，该乐队在世界各地的外交活动中演出

Law & Order Toronto: Criminal Intent

公寓楼的一起枪击案引导 格拉夫 (Graff) 和 贝特曼 (Bateman) 接触到一起 20 年前的陈年旧案，他们必须破解此案才能抓获凶手

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit 侦探们

在一名著名的 R'n'B 歌手被其说唱歌手男友残酷殴打后，侦探们响应了一起家庭暴力报警电话

Law & Order: Special

Victims Unit 皮条客 巴特·甘泽尔 (Bart Ganzel) 的审判开始。卡西迪 (Cassidy) 侦探被指控在卧底期间强奸一名女性（至 12.00）

8.00 File on 4 调查报告。 8.40 In Touch。 为

9.00

视障人士提供的新闻。 《跨越大陆》(Crossing Continents)。 艾米莉·威瑟 (Emily Wither) 报道 一个由以色列和巴勒斯坦 活动人士组成的联盟 呼吁停火。

9.30 艺术课 (Art Class)。关于艺术如何被估值的思考。 9.59 天气预报。 10.00 《今夜世界》(The World Tonight)。

U&ALIBI

Sky 109 Virgin 114

12noon 《莎士比亚与哈撒韦》(Shakespeare & Hathaway)。 1.00 《天堂岛谋杀案》(Death in Paradise)。 2.00 《默多克谜案》(Murdoch Mysteries)。 4.00 《心理追凶》(The Mentalist)。 5.00 《哈德逊与雷克斯》(Hudson & Rex)。 6.00 《布朗神父》(Father Brown)。 7.00 《莎士比亚与哈撒韦：私家侦探》(Shakespeare & Hathaway: Private Investigators)。 8.00 《天堂岛谋杀案》(Death in Paradise)。 9.00 《暗风》(Dark Winds)。 10.00 《天堂岛谋杀案》(Death in Paradise)。 11.00 《布朗神父》(Father Brown)。

U&DAVE (DAYTIME)

Freeview 19 Sky 111 Virgin 127

Freeview 19 Sky III Virgin 127 12noon 边境执法队：美国的守门人。2.00 岬角大屠杀：致命渔获。3.00 Top Gear。5.00 Hairy Bikers' Best of British。6.00 Rick Stein's Fresh Food。

U&DRAMA (日间)

Freeview 20 143 Virgin 116 11.55am The Bill。12.55pm 经典版 EastEnders。2.10 Miss Fisher's

■ 今晚 RADIO 3 IN

CONCERT (7.30PM) 在伦敦威格莫尔大厅演出的两位钢琴家合计年龄 169, 但正如他们所证明的，年龄仅仅是一个数字。出生于加利福尼亚的斯特凡·科瓦切维奇（Stephan Kovacevich）在庆祝其 85 岁生日之际领衔演出，演奏勃拉姆斯和贝多芬的音乐。随后，比他小一岁的阿根廷钢琴家玛莎·阿格里奇（Martha Argerich，如图）将加入他的舞台，在第二架钢琴上共同演奏德彪西的音乐。

10.45 小船。作者：文森特·德勒克鲁瓦（Vincent Delecroix）。

11.00 Uncanny。丹尼·罗宾斯（Danny Robins）探索听众们令人毛骨悚然的故事。

12.30 本周之书：《白马之上》。见 11.45am。

12.48 航运预报。 1.00 世界服务。

Murder Mysteries。3.15 Monarch of the Glen。4.20 Bergerac。5.20 One Foot in the Grave。6.00 Terry and June。6.40 Last of the Summer Wine。

U&EDEN

Freeview 57 166 Virgin 176 12noon 被遗弃的工程。 5.00 秘密军队。

U&GOLD

110 Virgin 124

11.50am The Green Green Grass。12.45pm Still Open All Hours。1.25 dinnerladies。2.15 Dad's Army。2.55 Dad's Army: The Animations。3.20 Last of the Summer Wine。4.45 Only Fools and Horses。6.25 The Green Green Grass。7.25 Still Open All Hours。8.00 's 。8.40 's : The Animations。9.10 's 。10.00 Mrs Brown's Boys。10.40 Not Going Out 圣诞特辑。11.40 Bottom。

RADIO 2 FM: 88-90.2MHZ

6.30am Scott Mills 早间节目。9.30 Vernon Kay。12noon Jeremy Vine。2.00pm Trevor Nelson。4.00 Sara Cox。7.00 Jo Whiley's Shiny Happy Playlist。7.30 Jo Whiley。9.00 Jamie Cullum 主持的爵士乐节目。10.00 DJ Spoony 主持的 The Good Groove。12midnight OJ Borg。

RADIO 3 FM: 90.2-92.4MHZ

6.30am 早间节目。9.30 经典精选。1.00pm 现场古典乐。4.00 本周作曲家：中世纪圣诞节。5.00 In Tune。7.00 古典混音带。7.30 PICK Radio 3 in Concert。9.45 论文：歌曲中的苏格兰。诗人肯尼斯·史蒂文（Kenneth Steven）探索托比亚斯·休姆（Tobias Hume）的故事。10.00 夜间曲目。11.30 午夜时分。12.30am 彻夜。

RADIO 5 LIVE MW: 693 / 909KHZ

5.00am 金融早报。6.00 5 Live 早间节目。9.00 Nicky Campbell。11.00 Naga Munchetty。2.00pm Matt Chorley。4.00 5 Live Drive。7.00 5 Live 体育。8.00 欧冠足球赛。国际米兰 对阵 利物浦。10.30 Tony Livesey。1.00am Dotun Adebayo。

U&W

Freeview 25 132 Virgin 125

12noon 房屋兄弟：永久之家。1.00 DIY SOS：大建设。3.00 Tipping Point。4.00 DIY SOS：大建设。7.00 MasterChef Junior USA 特辑 2023. 8.00 Pete Wicks: For Dogs' Sake 圣诞特辑 2025. 9.00 One Born Every Minute。11.00 澳大利亚救护车。

U&YESTERDAY

Freeview 27 155 Virgin 129 11.00am 秘密与间谍。12noon 古董路演。2.00 Bangers & Cash: Restoring Classics。4.00 战争工厂。5.00 秘密与间谍：核博弈。6.00 古董路演。7.00 运河船日记。8.00 Flipping Bangers。9.00 & Cash。10.00 & Cash: Restoring Classics。11.00 & Cash。

体育

MAIN EVENT

401 Virgin 501

8.40am 现场女子大巴什联赛。珀斯破坏者 对阵 墨尔本之星。淘汰赛。12noon 午餐时分现场。2.00 体育台。2.30 现场 ILT20。MI Emirates 对阵 Desert Vipers。5.45 英超节目。7.00 足球特辑。7.30 现场 EFL。女王公园巡游者 对阵 伯明翰城（8pm 开球）。10.30 今晚后页。11.00 体育新闻。

PREMIER LEAGUE

402 Virgin 502

12noon 英超集锦。1.00 PL Years。3.00 PL Retro。5.00 英超节目。7.00 英超回顾。8.00 裁判观察。8.30 重磅访谈。9.00 英超回顾。10.00 裁判观察。10.30 Netbusters。

CRICKET

Sky 405 Virgin 504

8.40am 现场报道：女子大联盟 (Women's Big Bash League)。珀斯火花队 v 墨尔本之星队。12noon 女子

电影

FILM4

Freeview 14 Sky 313 Virgin 428 11.00am 《错盒》(The Wrong Box)。(1966) (U) 1.10pm 《远离喧嚣的城市》(Far from the Madding Crowd)。(1967) (U) 4.30 《所有国王的人》(All the King's Men)。(1949) (U) 6.45 《牛仔与外星人》(Cowboys & Aliens)。(2011) (12) 9.00 《传输计划 3》(Transporter 3)。(2008) (15) 惊悚片，由杰森·斯坦森主演。11.05 《遇见福克一家》(Meet the Fockers)。(2004) (12) 1.20am 《官方竞赛》(Official Competition)。(2021) (15)

GREAT! ACTION

Freeview 42 Sky 323 Virgin 426 12noon 《高查帕拉尔》(The High Chaparral)。1.00 《十个通缉犯》(Ten Wanted Men)。(1955) (U) 2.50 《生死通缉》(Wanted: Dead or Alive)。3.50 GREAT! 频道好消息。4.00 《墓碑领地》(Tombstone Territory)。5.00 《高查帕拉尔》(The High Chaparral)。6.00 《说服者》(The Persuaders!)。7.00 《复仇者》(The Avengers)。8.00 《新复仇者》(The New Avengers)。9.00 《海军陆战队》(The Marine)。(2006) (15) 11.00 《叛逆者》(Renegades)。(2017) (12)

GREAT! CHRISTMAS

Freeview 52 Sky 319 Virgin 424 10.15am 《装饰心灵》(Deck the Heart)。(2023) (PG) 12.20pm 《圣诞假期》(A Christmas Break)。(2020)

2017年世界杯。12.30 《灰烬回忆》(Ashes Memories)。1.00 女子大联盟 (Women's Big Bash League)。2.00 J. Anderson 精选：第 500 个三柱门。2.10 2017年女子世界杯。2.25 现场报道：ILT20。MI 酋长队 v 沙漠蝰蛇队。5.45 2017年女子世界杯。6.00 女子大联盟 (Women's Big Bash League)。

SKY MIX

Sky 416 Virgin 510

1.00pm 终极网球对决。 2.00 英超最伟大比赛。2.30 世界飞镖锦标赛。5.30 英超最伟大比赛。6.00 NBA。 8.30 女子大联盟 (Women's Big Bash League)。

TNT SPORTS 1

Sky 410 Virgin 521

11.15am 一日国际板球赛。1.15pm 现场报道：国际 T20 板球赛。印度 v 南非。5.15 板球回顾。5.30 灰烬杯 (The Ashes)。6.00 Netbusters。6.30 英超故事。7.00 现场报道：欧冠联赛。托特纳姆热刺 v 斯拉维亚布拉格 (开球时间 8pm)。10.30 现场报道：欧冠进球秀 Xtra。11.00 现场报道：测试板球赛。新西兰 v 西

(PG) 2.20 《假期之约》(Holiday Date)。(2019) () 4.15 《星光熠熠的圣诞节》(A Starstruck )。(2021) (U) 6.05 《乡村圣诞节》(A Very Country )。(2017) () 8.00 《格雷斯兰的圣诞节》( at Graceland)。(2018) () 10.00 《格雷斯兰的圣诞节：节日回家》( at Graceland: Home for the Holidays)。(2019) () 11.50 《柯基圣诞节》(A Very Corgi )。(2019) ()

GREAT! MYSTERY

Freeview 50 Sky 321 Virgin 425 11.10am 《城堡》(Castle)。12.10pm 《花店谜案：亲爱的盆栽》(Flower Shop Mystery: Dearly Depotted)。(2016) () 2.05 《圣诞失信谜案》(Lost Letter Mysteries for )。(2014) () 4.00 《诊断谋杀》(Diagnosis Murder)。5.00 《谋杀她写》(Murder, She Wrote)。6.00 《苏·托马斯：联邦调查局之眼》(Sue Thomas: F.B.Eye)。7.00 《城堡》(Castle)。8.00 《难忘》(Unforgettable)。9.00 《完美画面谜案：钻石之死》(Picture Perfect Mysteries: Dead Over Diamonds)。(2020) () 犯罪剧，由 Alexa Pena Vega 主演。10.55 《车库拍卖谜案：谋杀艺术》(Garage Sale Mysteries: The Art of Murder)。(2017) () 推理剧，由 Lori Loughlin 出演。

SKY DRAMA

Sky 310 Virgin 410

10.35am 《东古里桥》(The Bridges at Toko-Ri)。(1954) (U) 12.25pm 《两头骡子》

印度群岛。第二场测试赛的第一天，在惠灵顿的 Basin Reserve 举行。

TNT SPORTS 2

Sky 411 Virgin 522

1.00pm 欧联杯与欧协联杂志。2.00 注册 - 进入足球世界。2.45 欧冠进球回顾。3.00 现场报道：欧青赛。国际米兰 U19 v 利物浦 U19 (开球时间 3pm)。5.00 英超回顾。6.00 Kenny Allstar 的冠军榜。6.15 Ally 的社交俱乐部。7.00 现场报道：欧冠联赛。亚特兰大 v 切尔西 (开球时间 8pm)。10.30 现场报道：欧冠进球秀 Xtra。

TNT SPORTS 3

Sky 413 Virgin 523

12noon 斯诺克英国锦标赛。2.00 英超。3.30 现场报道：欧冠联赛。凯拉特阿拉木图 v 奥林匹亚科斯 (开球时间 3.30pm)。5.30 现场报道：欧冠联赛。拜仁慕尼黑 v 葡萄牙体育 (开球时间 5.45pm)。7.45 现场报道：欧冠进球秀 Xtra。11.00 英超回顾。

《莎拉修女》(Sister Sara)。(1970) (15) 2.20 《肖申克的救赎》(The Shawshank Redemption)。(1994) (15) 4.45 《辛德勒的名单》(Schindler's List)。(1993) (15) 8.00 《小丑：双重妄想》(Joker: Folie a Deux)。(2024) (15) 10.20 《日落大道》(Sunset Boulevard)。(1950) ()

SKY PREMIERE

Sky 301 Virgin 401

11.55am 《闪亮之城》(Tinsel Town)。(2025) () 1.40pm 《朋友》(The Friend)。(2024) (15) 3.50 《阿尔托骑士》(The Alto Knights)。(2025) (15) 6.05 《史上最棒的圣诞剧》(The Best Pageant Ever)。(2024) () 8.00 《闪亮之城》(Tinsel Town)。(2025) () 9.45 《阿尔托骑士》(The Alto Knights)。(2025) (15) 11.50 《坠落》(Drop)。(2025) (15)

TALKING PICTURES TV

Freeview 82 Sky 328 Virgin 445 上午11.00 《贝利法院的朗波尔》(Rumpole of the Bailey)。 下午12.05 《Z警车》(Z Cars)。1.05 《面具之后》(Behind the Mask)。(1958) (U) 3.05 《夏洛克·福尔摩斯：四个签名》(Sherlock Holmes: The Sign of Four)。5.10 《沉默的入侵》(The Silent Invasion)。(1962) (PG) 6.30 《阿斯皮诺尔的动物》(Aspinall's Animals)。7.05 《四星剧场》(Four Star Theatre)。7.35 《回忆时刻》(Time to Remember)。8.05 《J.G. 里德先生的心智》(The Mind of Mr J.G. Reeder)。9.10 《秋叶》(Autumn Leaves)。(1956) (18) 11.20 《凯特街绞刑吏》(The Cater Street Hangman)。(1998) (PG) 由埃温·麦卡锡 (Eoin McCarthy) 主演。

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在一年中的这个时节住在乡村会吸引一些不受欢迎的访客——蜘蛛。呃。我的妻子总是坚持由她自己来清理它们。她声称自己是 RSPCA（皇家防止蛛形纲动物虐待协会）的成员。她用双手将每一只蜘蛛舀起来，轻轻地安置在花园里，对待它们极其虔诚。

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也许全是燕麦粥的作用！这家伙一定很勇敢，竟然试图挑战像我这样的“萨克森入侵者”，而且还有点狡猾，计划在我的睡眠中发动一次深夜入侵——一次空袭。我怀疑麦克蜘蛛先生（Mr McSpider）是一个古老氏族的成员，其祖先正是伟大的罗伯特·布鲁斯（Robert the Bruce）的灵感来源！

今日诗作

大卫·H·考克斯（David H. Cox）， 牛津郡，基德灵顿（Kidlington, Oxon）

摊牌（CARDS ON THE TABLE） 我正在写圣诞卡， 一项我总是恐惧的工作。 这是一项艰巨的任务， 让我的头脑乱成一团…… 我有一堆地址簿， 得依次查阅。 年年都变得更困难， 我何时才能明白？ 得弄清谁还在身边， 且每年都寄一张卡， 而那些失去联系的人， 也许已不在人世？ 地址也是一片雷区， 谁搬了家，谁再婚了。 我需要一个好用的电脑软件， 来代替我理清这一切。 还有那些寄来的群发信， 包含了一整年的新闻， 他们的假期、宠物、孩子， 以及对明年邮轮之旅的吹嘘。 我觉得我必须给予回应， 仅写“最美好的祝愿”是不够的， 于是我写了几行短句 （我们没做什么特别的事……） 为每位收件人 挑选一张完美的卡片， 往轻了说，这很难， 尽管这是真心的。 最好的当然留给家人 和最亲密的朋友， 但所有的卡片都买自慈善机构， 在购买时就捐了款。 我的字迹像蜘蛛爬行， 我的手快麻了。 视线模糊，背快断了， 我的工作终于完成了！ 核对了地址，贴好了邮票， 它们准备好寄出了。 今天一项重大任务告一段落， 我觉得有必要吹嘘一下！ 林赛·哈特格罗夫斯（Lindsay Hartgroves），康沃尔郡，兰斯顿（Launceston, Cornwall）

童言无忌

我的孙女，两岁的乔治亚（Georgia），正在等待晚餐。我的儿媳可靠地告诉我，她很喜欢红莱斯特干酪（Red Leicester cheese）。我为她呈上了一顿我认为堪称盛宴的晚餐，其中包含多种健康选择，包括上述干酪，被切成了小条状。 她看着这盘食物，指着干酪说“胡萝卜”，并露出了不赞同的表情。 除了那些被她称为“胡萝卜”的东西，其他所有东西都没被吃掉，尽管我抗议那实际上是干酪。她甚至连试都不试。

W. J. 尼尔森先生（Mr W. J. Nelson），兰开夏郡，博尔顿（Bolton, Lancs）

手语

数数你的福气：这个警告标志最近出现在拉夫堡（Loughborough）年度街道游乐场的一个项目中。罗杰·陶尔斯（Roger Towers），莱斯特郡，拉夫堡（Loughborough, Leics）

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弗雷迪·克拉克（Freddie Clark）， 埃塞克斯郡，切姆斯福德（Chelmsford, Essex）

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狐尾汤——这不是巴兹尔·布拉什的最爱。 M. 布朗，唐郡，康伯

砰砰枪——汤姆·克鲁斯六岁时首演的电影。 罗素·甘布尔，柴郡，伍德利

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梦境之缘

印度·斯特吉斯（健康版）关于学习控制梦境（因为你意识到自己在做梦，即所谓的“清醒梦”）的文章引起了我的共鸣，因为很多年前我曾陷入一个反复出现的噩梦，每次醒来都感到非常焦虑。

我每晚都会做这个噩梦。我身处市里一支当地球队的足球场，巧合的是，我们学校的运动会就在那里举行。那里没有座位，只有台阶和偶尔可见的可以倚靠的小建筑。

梦境开始于我回头瞥见两个男人在跟踪我，他们拿着一把大刀。

前几次我开始逃跑，但感觉像是跑在棉花团上。我醒来时下巴带着汗水，以为自己的喉咙被割开了。

噩梦持续了数周，每次做梦时，我都知道结果会如何。

然后，有一天晚上，我决定停止逃跑，让那两个男人追上我。从此我再也没有做过那个梦。

埃莉诺·威廉姆斯， 萨里郡，谢珀顿

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这就是风向吗？

理查德·A·布洛克， 西约克郡，霍姆弗斯

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随着警方准备推广面部识别技术，我预测巴拉克拉瓦（头套）制造商的股价将飞涨。我小时候一直想要一个巴拉克拉瓦。

迈克·摩根，曼彻斯特

坚定之选

回顾前两届政府的表现，再加上自民党的领导人，以及绿党那个疯子掌舵，不难看出下次大选时大多数选票将投向何处。

即便有一天发现奈杰尔·法拉奇有私生子家庭，且曾抢劫过慈善机构并谋杀过邻居，我预计他依然能以绝对优势获胜。

J. T. 史密斯，达勒姆郡，哈特尔普尔

共和派的反击

祝贺你们的电视评论员克里斯托弗·斯蒂文斯，他在上周三直到第二段才抛出那套捍卫君主制的“比布莱尔总统更好”的老调。

这个论点只有三个问题。第一，布莱尔赢不了。第二，如果他赢了，那是我们的选择。第三，我们可以在下次大选时把他赶走，这样我们就不用无限期地被长子统治。

克里斯·巴顿教授，斯塔福德郡，斯托克-昂-特伦特

派对之祸

看来如今在圣诞派对上如果没有一些不体面的行为，就没法被解雇。

圣诞派对的意义何在？就是为了寻找乐趣、喝酒、在老板身上呕吐，并见证或参与不体面的行为。

否则，那还叫派对吗？

布莱恩·基廷，东萨塞克斯郡，刘易斯

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沸点

继关于人们不会烹饪的那封信之后，我想分享一件我妻子在六十年代教会我的事：任何在地下生长的蔬菜（如土豆）都应放入冷水中，然后将其

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纪念挚爱之人

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加热至沸腾；而任何在地上生长的蔬菜（如抱子甘蓝）则应放入已经沸腾的水中。

现在人们还遵守这条规则吗？

R. J. 克拉克先生，格洛斯特郡，切尔滕纳姆

此处没什么可看的

在阅读了约翰·奈什关于国民医疗服务体系（NHS）“掩盖文化”的特别报道（见《每日邮报》）后，我非常赞同举报人迈克尔·斯温的观点，即 NHS 的管理人员应当被追究责任。

我在 NHS 的行政部门工作了 47 年，多次目睹管理人员（并非总是高层）在犯错后被调往另一个部门甚至获得晋升。大多数时候，人们对此视而不见。

在我多年的服务生涯中，我只记得有一位高级管理人员因严重的财务事件而被解雇。

姓名与地址已提供

是的，我们知道

关于道恩·斯图格斯的新型神经毒剂（Novichok）调查得出的结论，与我们之中 99% 的人在一天之内得出的结论完全一致。

但为了得出这个结论，竟然花费了 £800 万。杰克·巴特沃斯，兰开夏郡，奥尔德姆

所以普京在道义上应对道恩·斯图格斯的死亡负责。这肯定会让他夜不能寐。

克莱夫·比奇菲尔德， 伯克郡，北伍德利

快如闪电

继安吉拉·汉弗莱的来信之后，我想分享一个故事：我已故的姨妈一次独自坐在伦敦的一个公交车站时，一个不务正业的人（正如她所描述的那样）走过来坐在她身边。

她听到衣服的沙沙声，随后是拉链被拉下的声音。那个人用胳膊肘碰了她一下，头向下点点头说：“你觉得那个怎么样？”

我姨妈回答道：“给我一台显微镜，我就给你一个评价。”

对于一位 80 多岁的老太太来说，这反应还不赖。 邦妮·蒙塔古，白金汉郡，艾尔斯伯里

仅仅是一个数字

你看起来有多大（见读者信件）在很大程度上取决于优秀的基因。

几年前，我和妻子在斯特拉特福的一个酒吧里低调地庆祝我的生日。年轻的服务员向我祝贺，我懊恼地告诉他，下一个生日将是一个大日子。

“那会是多少岁，50 岁吗？”他询问道。“80 岁，”我回答。我给了他一笔非常丰厚的打赏。

科林·德鲁里， 格拉摩根谷，迪纳斯波伊斯

澳洲规则

悉尼花费 26 亿英镑 billion 建成了一座全新的、功能完备的国际机场，且比原计划提前七个月完工。那么，为什么希思罗机场的第三条跑道和扩建计划要花费 490 亿英镑 billion？

我们应该雇佣澳大利亚人。

P. J. 亚特金森，肯特郡，阿什福德

英国境内免费配送与退货 引用代码 DM1225 • 活动截止日期 09 / 01 / 26

办公室真的是个可怕的地方吗？

团队的一员：打趣和闲聊让同事们凝聚在一起

由伦敦三一学院（Trinity College London）委托开展的一项研究（由克里斯蒂娜·韦米斯在上一周四的《每日邮报》中报道）表明，Z世代“非常恐惧”踏入办公室，更倾向于居家办公。据报道，他们的焦虑点包括：与同事进行闲聊以及接听电话。

哎呀。作为一个从16岁起一直工作到退休的办公室职员，我对居家办公（WFH）这件事一直耿耿于怀。

人们难道没有意识到他们错过了多少吗？打趣、办公室八卦以及关于假期的闲聊，这些都是出门工作的乐趣所在。而且，当工作或家庭出现问题时，身边能有一个友好的倾听者也非常重要。我很幸运能与一些相当活跃的同事共事，当我提前退休时，我非常想念那些打趣、日常的规律生活以及身为团队一员的归属感。即便现在十年过去了，我发现自己依然想念职场生活的那个部分，以及每天穿上得体衣服（是的，包括涂口红和戴首饰）的感觉。

有些事情是我不想念的：办公室政治和少数几个难以相处的人。但也许我是在追忆一个美好的时代，那时办公室职员拥有更高的工作保障，达成绩效目标的压力没那么明显，也没有长时间加班或社交媒体轰炸的文化。

但我确实担心今天的年轻一代，他们在这种居家办公文化中，面临着失去太多东西的风险：沟通、团队协作、欢笑，以及学习如何与不同年龄和背景的人相处。

漂浮的读者

我读了很多年的《每日镜报》，最终因为那张报纸声称保守党所做的一切都是错的而感到厌烦，于是我改读《每日邮报》。现在我发现工党所做的一切都是错的。现在该怎么办？

A. BEDDIS先生，格洛斯特郡，皮洛韦尔

宫廷小丑

在苏格兰司法系统中，有三种可能的裁决：有罪、无罪和未证实。未证实基本上意味着没有足够的证据定罪。

一个我认识的60年代的小伙子因收受赃物而被审判。在所有证据出示完毕后，法官告诉他案件未证实，他可以自由离开。

在离开被告席之前，那小伙子说：“这意味着我可以把东西留着吗，先生？”法庭顿时哄堂大笑。约翰·麦克唐纳，赫里福德

本周之信

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节俭的姨妈

我完全理解为什么“我们的BBC”觉得必须通过远程报道大部分世界杯赛事来省钱，而且我相信同样的逻辑也会应用于其对格拉斯顿伯里音乐节的报道。

罗伊·罗素， 沃里克郡，莱明顿温泉

安吉拉·诺里斯， 兰开斯特郡，诺特恩海边

在预算日当天，瑞秋·里夫斯是否意识到上周关于电网投资的公告将提高家庭账单，几乎抵消了她宣布的£150减免？

电费之痛

J. 威廉姆斯，康威，托温

农业投票反叛者

国会议员马库斯·坎贝尔-萨沃斯因遵循选民授权投票反对家庭农场税，被暂停劳工党议会党成员资格。我们生活在一个民主国家吗？

罗伯特·史密斯， 林肯郡，亨伯河畔巴罗

关键连接

亲爱的爸爸，谢谢您将我带到这个世界上。一如既往。爱你的，梅根。

罗斯玛丽·格林， 怀特岛，东考斯

关于人脸识别摄像头的计划

我无法理解为什么人们对公共场所安装人脸识别摄像头有如此大的抵触情绪。警方已经阐明了安装这些设备的价值。如果每个街角都站着一名警察，且配备了嫌疑人的照片，我相信这种做法一定会赢得普遍赞赏。

克里斯·梅伯里（CHRIS MAYBURY），汉普郡，弗利特

我从《每日邮报》得知，政府计划在全国的城市、城镇和村庄大规模部署人脸识别摄像头。在我看来，如果使用得当且不被滥用，这将是一个有用的工具。然而，只有在同时禁止在公共场合遮盖面部的情况下，该计划才能取得成功。毫无疑问，那些抱怨公民自由的人到时候肯定会有话要说。

M. R. 迪伦（M. R. DILLON），萨里郡，切辛顿

太棒了，我们可以识别出更多坏人，但之后会发生什么？公开鞭笞还是简单的社区服务？主要问题不在于抓获歹徒，而在于随后的惩罚。 我还想知道实施该计划所需的数百万英镑将从哪里来，因为目前有几个警局正在关闭分局并冻结招聘。

菲利普·门齐斯（PHILIP MENZIES），埃塞克斯郡，霍恩彻奇

向罪犯公示哪些地方正在使用人脸识别的告示牌有什么意义？

杰克·考伯恩（JACK COWBURN），切斯特

我不反对记录我的面部特征，但考虑到白天有多少罪犯戴着蓝色的 NHS 面罩，我不认为这是解决办法。昨天，一名“好心人”在告诉我 RingGo 无法工作后将我引导至一个停车收费表，随后偷走了我的信用卡信息。他戴着面罩，就像那些经常在当地 Co-op 超市偷东西的扒手一样。

匿名，伦敦 SW10

直击要点

■ 要推翻工党的那个新党应该是“顺从党”（Conform）。但愿保守党能意识到这一点。 艾伦·贝雷斯福德（ALAN BERESFORD），西约克郡，里彭登

■ 市长选举被推迟，是因为执政党认为自己会输。我们生活在什么样的“民主”之中？

C. 麦克唐纳（C. MacDONALD），诺丁汉郡，博特斯福德

■ 如果我们被剥夺了在地方选举中投票的权利，为什么我们还要缴纳市政税？ 彼得·劳里（PETER LAURIE），埃塞克斯郡，科尔切斯特

■ 距离圣诞节仅剩 16 个偷窃日。 拉尔夫·唐卡斯特（RALPH DONCASTER），坎布里亚郡，彭里斯

■ 我有自己的面脸识别系统。如果斯塔默或里夫斯出现，我就换台。 P. 罗（P. ROWE），斯塔福德郡，伯顿-昂-特伦特

■ 我以为大家都知道幽灵火车只在显现（manifestations）时停靠。

罗杰·文斯（ROGER VINCE），卡马森郡，上布里纳曼

■ 也许没牌在手的是特朗普。 巴里·钱德勒（BARRY CHANDLER），德文郡，埃克塞特

■ 即使其他所有国家都抵制欧洲歌唱大赛，英国依然赢不了。

■ 约瑟夫（《盲目约会》节目嘉宾）说“男人不喜欢肌肉过于发达的女性”。我说，孩子，你代表你自己吧。

哈米什·艾伦（HAMISH ALLEN），西米德兰兹郡，索利哈尔

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走红的小骨灰瓮

问题：为什么大都会

读者来信解答

问题：骨灰瓮奖杯（The Ashes trophy）是体育界最小的奖杯吗？

在体育运动中，尺寸并非一切。奖杯的大小从大得离谱到小得荒谬不等。其中最大的包括颁给北美国家冰球联盟冠军的巨型银色斯坦利杯（高 89.5 厘米），以及国际体育赛事中最古老的奖杯——帆船美洲杯（高 1.1 米）。

相比之下，板球的“骨灰瓮”（Ashes）就显得非常迷你，它是英格兰和澳大利亚争夺的一个小瓮，这场争夺战目前正在大洋彼岸进行。这一切始于 1882. 年 8 月，英格兰在本土首次输给澳大利亚。当时《体育时报》（The Sporting Times）为英格兰板球发表了一篇“讣告”，称“遗体将被火化，骨灰将被带往澳大利亚”。不久之后，伊沃·布莱（Ivo Bligh）启程前往澳大利亚巡赛。

在墨尔本板球俱乐部主席庄园举行的一场社交赛获胜后，布莱收到了由主席夫人赠送的一个高 10. 厘米的小陶瓮，作为他及其团队前往澳大利亚旨在夺回之物的象征。据说，比赛中使用的一根三柱门横杆（bail）被烧掉，其骨灰被放入了瓮中。在庄园里，布莱还遇到了该家庭的女家庭教师，两人后来结为夫妻。

这个精致的瓮现在保存在洛兹板球场（Lord's）的 MCC 博物馆中，而获胜队伍则会被授予一个瓮形的沃特福德水晶奖杯；该奖杯首次于 1998-99 年测试赛系列赛中，在马克·泰勒率领的澳大利亚队获胜时颁发。

但严格来说，“骨灰瓮”并不是体育界最小的奖杯。它被一个足球奖杯——莱奥内斯（Lyonesse）

问答环节

问：为什么我们把它们叫作肉馅派（mince pies），但里面却不含任何肉？

艾伦·里普利，萨福克郡波尔斯特德 问：如今的国会议员中有多少人曾在军队服役？ D. 库尔森， 萨里郡法恩科姆

问：关于“疯狂少校”德雷珀曾驾驶飞机飞过塔桥下方，这是否属实？

劳伦斯·科普尔斯通，西萨塞克斯郡沃辛

板球灰烬杯：板球界的小奖杯

杯。一个高度仅 6 毫米的朱尔·里梅奖杯复制品，自 2013 年起，西利群岛十一人队与来自彭赞斯的 Dynamo Choughs 队一直在为此奖杯展开竞争。

彼得·伯顿， 德比郡切斯特菲尔德

问题：空间站如何产生氧气，以确保机组人员能够一次生存数周甚至数月？

像国际空间站这样的空间站需要为宇航员提供持续的氧气供应。采用的主要方法是水的电解，即利用电能将其分解为氢气和氧气。

氧气被释放到舱内，而氢气则被排出或与二氧化碳结合产生水，随后这些水可以重新用于电解。为了维持可呼吸的空气，还需要从大气中去除部分二氧化碳，因为高浓度的二氧化碳会产生毒性。

空间站还携带其他氧气来源作为备份，包括高压氧气瓶和化学氧气发生器，后者在紧急情况下通过受控的化学反应产生氧气。

空间站还会回收尿液、汗液和舱内湿度中的水分，以确保有足够的水用于饮用和产生氧气。

肖恩·戴维森，利物浦

办公室坚持使用不同的季节日期？

我非常有兴趣地阅读了关于一年中季节何时开始和结束的回答。

也许我们还应该考虑“鸟类学年度”。数百年来，鸟类学家一直通过观察鸟类的行为和迁徙来指示自然季节的流动。

春季被认为始于 3 月 1 日，这与早春迁徙鸟类（如石赑、沙燕等）抵达英国的时间一致，并在记录到最后一批抵达者（通常是 5 月下旬的蜂鹰）时结束。

随后夏季于 6 月 1 日开始，并在（这里存在争议）第一批迁徙涉禽开始缓缓向南穿过该国，以及来自高北极的繁殖失败者在偏好的喂食点停留时结束，时间通常在 7 月中旬左右。这也是许多物种的幼鸟从高地地区分散的时间。

这随后预示着为期四个月的漫长秋季迁徙期的开始，通常在 11 月中旬随着最后一批迁徙林鸽穿过该国（是的，有些林鸽确实迁徙，通常是来自欧洲大陆的）以及红喉鸫、田鸫、谁叫天鹅和粉脚雁等冬季访客的涌入完成而结束。

冬季则是 12 月、1 月和 2 月这三个月，此时鸟类的唯一“移动”是由于长期冰冻或强降雪而加剧的避寒移动。很简单。

西德·加顿，

Sya 加顿， 德比郡联合县鸟类记录员及 《德比郡鸟类报告》编辑， 德比郡希奇

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今日食谱：山葵土豆饼配牛油果、腌三文鱼和鸡蛋

早餐美食。2人份 配料

500克土豆，去皮 2汤匙普通面粉 3个大鸡蛋 2茶匙奶油山葵 一小把细香葱，切碎 白胡椒粉 植物油

2汤匙白葡萄酒醋 1个成熟的牛油果 ½个柠檬，取皮屑和汁 150克腌三文鱼 (gravadlax)

做法

1. 将土豆擦成丝放在干净的茶巾上。挤出水分。倒入碗中；加入面粉、1个鸡蛋、山葵和大部分细香葱。用盐和白胡椒粉调味。搅拌均匀。
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梦激林（Magnum）冰淇淋公司昨日在与其“觉醒派”品牌 Ben & Jerry's 的内斗中，完成了期待已久的股市首秀。

该公司由歌手 Rita Ora（如图）代言，旗下拥有 Cornetto 和 Wall's 品牌。在从联合利华（Unilever）分拆后，该公司在阿姆斯特丹的股价微涨 1%，使其估值达到 70亿英镑。

这一结果低于预期，分析师此前认为其估值最高可达 95亿英镑。

该股票在纽约和伦敦设有次级上市。

金融服务公司 Morningstar 的分析师 Diana Radu 指出，梦激林的价值比许多人的预期要“低得多”。她补充道：“尽管如此，我们对长期前景仍保持乐观。”

此次首次公开募股（IPO）面临被掩盖的风险，因为梦激林老板 Peter ter Kulve 与 Ben & Jerry's 联合创始人 Ben Cohen 就该品牌在加沙等议题上的激进主义展开了口水战。

周末，ter Kulve 表示，Cohen 和另一位联合创始人 Jerry Greenfield 现已 70 多岁，应该“交给新一代”。他在接受《金融时报》采访时表示：“我们需要向前看。”

Cohen 反击道：“与梦激林不同，我认为争取社会正义与和平是没有年龄限制的。这是又一次试图压制我们都非常熟悉的社会使命，因为联合利华试图通过这次 IPO 与 Ben & Jerry's 脱离关系。”

梦激林——全球最大的冰淇淋业务——的分拆，正值联合利华精简其投资组合，以专注于 Dove 和 Vaseline 等美容及个人护理品牌之际。

英格兰银行裁员导致数百个工作岗位面临风险

英格兰银行的员工正面临一个充满不确定性的圣诞节，因为一项旨在节省 4500 万英镑m 的计划已开始裁员。

该银行已致信其 5,700 名员工中的大多数，邀请他们申请自愿离职，旨在将其日常预算削减 8%。

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在由前美国联邦储备委员会主席本·伯南克（Ben Bernanke）发起的一项审查引发的改革后，该银行的成本压力剧增。

作者：约翰-保罗·福特·罗哈斯（John-Paul Ford Rojas）

该银行在寻求更新其技术基础设施时也面临着成本压力。

一名发言人表示：“该银行管理其预算，以实现维持货币和金融稳定的法定目标。”

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“我们目前正在对其运营进行一项重大的、跨年度的转型，这将决定我们的决策。”

“因此，我们正在运行一项经双方同意的、有时间限制的计划，供员工选择申请离开该银行。”

“我们致力于确保该银行高效、有韧性且能够适应未来。”

部分员工未被列入裁员目标，包括其利兹办公室的人员，那里有 100 多人工作，且该银行正寻求扩大该办公室规模。同样不受影响的还有行长们——即领导该银行的高层人员，包括年薪 59.8 万英镑 的行长安德鲁·贝利（Andrew Bailey，如图所示）、他的四名副行长以及首席运营官莎拉·约翰（Sarah John）。

今年早些时候，约翰告诉该银行的董事们，为了控制向英国金融服务公司收取的征收金增幅，需要达成一个“雄心勃勃的效率目标”，会议记录显示。

在随后的一次会议上，她表示“预计将达成效率目标，但这涉及艰难的权衡”。

英格兰银行的员工人数近年来激增。在截至 2025, 2 月的最新财政年度，其平均员工人数为 5,731 人——高于十年前的 3,680 人。在 2012, 其雇员人数不足 2,000 人。

代表该银行员工的贸易工会 Unite 表示，它“将始终反对金融服务行业任何形式的强制裁员”，并补充说裁员过程必须透明且公正。

此次人员削减正值就业市场艰难时期，失业率处于 5% —— 为 2021. 以来最高水平。昨日一份由审计机构毕马威（KPMG）和招聘与就业联合会（Recruitment and Employment Confederation）发布的报告显示，由于雇主在预算案出台前持观望态度，上个月的招聘活动依然处于“冰封”状态。

空客与波音达成协议，英国工人保住岗位

一项涉及波音（Boeing）和空客（Airbus）的协议已确保了数千个工程岗位。

精神航空系统公司（Spirit AeroSystems）在北爱尔兰贝尔法斯特拥有原肖特兄弟（Short Brothers）工厂，并在苏格兰普雷斯特威克拥有一家工厂，该公司正被这两家飞机制造巨头瓜分。

空客将接管贝尔法斯特的运营部门，该部门负责为其 A220 客机制造机翼和中段机身，同时接管普雷斯特威克为其 A320 和 A350 飞机生产机翼部件的业务。

空客还将接管位于美国、法国和摩洛哥的站点，而精神航空系统的其余业务将移交给波音。该协议保住了约 5,000 个工作岗位，贝尔法斯特站点将被重新命名为“肖特兄弟，波音公司”（Short Brothers, a Boeing Company）。

工业大臣克里斯·麦克唐纳（Chris McDonald）表示：“对于贝尔法斯特和普雷斯特威克的工人来说，这是一个积极的消息，他们现在为全球最大的飞机制造商工作。”

波音高级副总裁金·史密斯（Kim Smith）也表示：“我们欢迎肖特兄弟家族加入波音，并期待利用该团队卓越的航空航天能力。”

波音英国及爱尔兰区总裁杰里米·昆爵士（Sir Jeremy Quin）补充道：“该站点丰富的历史和传承，加上其高技能的员工队伍，将为我们在北爱尔兰的运营带来强有力的补充。”

派拉蒙带来的剧情反转

派拉蒙-天舞（Paramount Skydance）试图强行介入 Netflix 对华纳兄弟探索（Warner Bros Discovery）的收购，这极大地提高了赌注——并为好莱坞和流媒体行业开启了两种截然不同的未来可能性。

其 810亿英镑 敌意收购可能会引发一场竞拍，并给华纳兄弟董事会提供了一个强有力的借口，要求 Netflix 提供更好的条款。但更重要的是，它具体化了关于全球娱乐版图未来样貌的两种竞争愿景。

派拉蒙与华纳兄弟的合并将使好莱坞两个最显赫的名字结合在一起。后者成立于 1923, 年，而派拉蒙的血统可以追溯到 1912. 年。该公司认为，这种结合将创建一个更强有力的制片厂运营体系，并允许 HBO Max 与 Paramount+ 合并，从而打造一个更强有力的 Netflix 竞争对手。

而由 Netflix——这个由邮寄 DVD 服务起家、在不到 20 年前诞生并被疫情期间的流媒体热潮加速推向巨头地位的新贵——进行收购，则将是颠覆者对旧秩序的胜利。

但这立即引发了关于

露丝·桑德兰（Ruth Sunderland）

过度市场权力的担忧。将华纳兄弟并入 Netflix 帝国将创造一个规模无可匹敌的超级流媒体平台，从而引发人们对电影院发行减少以及传统电视进一步承压的恐惧。

目前悬而未决的是，我们在未来十年将如何消费娱乐内容——是继续去电影院、观看传统电视，还是继续向在沙发上刷剧的模式转变。

监管机构已经开始关注。特朗普总统已暗示对 Netflix 与华纳的结合存在潜在担忧，而派拉蒙将热衷于促使政治家和竞争管理机构介入。

相比之下，在英国，由康卡斯特（Comcast）发起的 Sky 对 ITV 的 16亿英镑 收购方案看起来像是一场侧翼的小戏。然而，在美国巨头交易的阴影下，我们自己的监管机构可能会更倾向于予以批准。

准备好爆米花吧。

奈杰的拥趸

对于奈杰·法拉奇来说，这几天又是典型地波折不断。他刚从加密货币大亨克里斯托弗·哈博恩（Christopher Harborne）那里获得一笔900 万英镑m的捐款，紧接着就发现自己被指控伪造选举开支——对此，改革英国党（Reform UK）予以否认。

尽管局势混乱，但他的政党在商业圈中正受到越来越严肃的对待。正如资深工业家及脱欧批评者约翰·尼尔（John Neill）在《星期日邮报》中所指出的，改革英国党正吸引着金融建制派部分人士的关注。曾任皇家家庭股票经纪商 Cazenove 负责人的前主管告诉彭博社，他那些在伦敦金融城（City）的同行们现在对改革英国党产生了“好奇心”。

法拉奇的副手理查德·泰斯（Richard Tice）一直在开展魅力攻势，承诺将实施撒切尔风格的“大爆炸”计划以振兴金融城。这一主张利用了人们的一种挫败感，即保守党和劳工党所宣扬的改革依然缓慢且渐进。

在助力唐纳德·特朗普在美国政治复兴的加密货币行业，一直在勤勉地培养与改革英国党的联系。其逻辑很简单：一个没有根深蒂固的政策遗产的新兴政党，比两个对加密货币持谨慎态度的主要政党更容易被影响。改革英国党提供了一张白纸，该行业希望在上面写下其监管愿望清单。

加密货币还利用了一种国民幻灭感，而法拉奇正非常成功地挖掘这一情绪。加密货币平台 Coinbase 最近在英国发起的一场广告活动将英国描绘成一个阴雨连绵、老鼠横行的荒原，在那里，遵守规则的人面临着失业和衰落。其暗示是：加密货币是你唯一的希望。

在拉斯维加斯的一次峰会上，法拉奇承诺，如果他成为首相，将削减加密货币的资本利得税，并在英格兰银行建立比特币储备。

然而，金融建制派中的许多人仍持怀疑态度，认为加密货币是投机和丑闻的温床。如果该行业再次遭遇崩盘——许多分析师认为这种情况极有可能发生——那么针对一个被视为其捍卫者的政党的反弹可能会非常严重。

人们只能猜测，如果撒切尔夫人看到改革英国党声称继承她作为金融城解放者的衣钵，会有何感想。对交易员那种冒险精神的诉求显而易见。但与法拉奇套近乎——尤其是还牵扯到加密货币——可能会疏远主流政党，而这些政党的支持对于英国金融监管的公信力依然至关重要。

哈罗德百货商业税率下调

...而里夫斯却以痛苦的税率上涨打击酒吧

票价预警

作者：艾米莉·霍金斯（Emily Hawkins）

瑞秋·里夫斯被指责在当地酒吧遭受税率上涨打击的同时，给予哈罗德百货（Harrods）和塞尔福里奇百货（Selfridges）“令人愤慨”的商业税减免。

预算改革导致企业愤怒不已，小型场所将在未来三年内多支付 3.18 亿英镑m 的房产税——这让财政大臣声称已开启款待业“黄金时代”的说法变成了笑话。

昨天，在得知高端百货公司的账单将下降后，人们更加愤怒——位于伦敦骑士桥的哈罗德百货在未来一年的税单预计将下降 110 万英镑m。

根据税务专家 Ryan 的同一项分析，在牛津街，塞尔福里奇百货的账单将下降 62.2 万英镑。这是因为大型物业将支付较低的“乘数”——这是用于计算

音乐会场馆面临着飙升的房产税，三年内账单可能会翻倍，引发了票价上涨的担忧。

全球税务公司 Ryan 表示，应课税价值已跳升高达 300%，大幅推高了商业税。

伦敦的 02 体育馆将支付

税单——从明年起。英国款待业（UK Hospitality）主席凯特·尼科尔斯（Kate Nicholls）表示：“两家奢侈品零售店获得高达数百万英镑的商业税减免，而压力巨大的当地酒吧、社区餐厅和沿海酒店的账单却显著增加，这简直令人愤慨。”

她警告称，许多企业面临的“令人瞠目”的涨幅“有进一步导致关店和失业的风险，需要紧急

在 2026-27, 年度增加近 200 万英镑m，而曼彻斯特的 Co-op Live、曼彻斯特体育馆（Manchester Arena）和温布利 Ovo 体育馆（Ovo Arena Wembley）也面临大幅上涨。

音乐场馆信托基金（Music Venue Trust）的马克·戴维德（Mark Davyd）警告称，小型场馆可能会关闭，且成本可能会转嫁给粉丝。他敦促政府立即采取行动。

解决”。财政大臣吹嘘她正在为“超过 750,000 个零售、款待和休闲物业引入永久降低的税率”，并赞扬这是“自 1991 年以来最低的税率”。

但酒吧连锁店老板表示，这些变化实际上意味着“失眠之夜、减薪和员工裁员”。在贸易团体英国啤酒和酒吧协会（British Beer and Pub Association）组织的一封信中，酒吧经营者表示，部分场所的账单将上涨高达 16,952 英镑。

尽管唐纳德·特朗普对这个全球最大出口国发起了一连串的税收打击，但中国的贸易盈余首次突破 $1trillion。

官方数据显示，11 月的出口强于预期，而相对较低的进口水平继续令贸易伙伴感到沮丧。

这意味着中国在今年前 11 个月的贸易盈余价值为 $1.076 trillion。

这些数据衡量的是货物而非服务，而 2024 年全年的贸易盈余则略低于 $1trillion。

华盛顿和北京上个月同意作为一项一年期协议的一部分，推迟对稀土和芯片的出口管制。

上个月中国对美国的出货量比去年 11 月低 29%。

但对欧盟的出口增长了 14.8pc 而对澳大利亚的出货量激增 35.8pc。

安格鲁美国公司在遭到抵制后放弃 850 万英镑m 的合并奖金计划

矿业巨头安格鲁美国公司（Anglo American）已放弃一项计划，该计划原定在公司完成一项拟议的 400亿英镑 与加拿大竞争对手合并案后，向其首席执行官发放 850 万英镑m 奖金。

在今日就与 Teck Resources 合并案进行投票之前，该公司在股东压力下妥协，取消了针对邓肯·万布拉德（Duncan Wanblad）的奖金方案。

作者：Hugo Duncan

这家富时 100 指数（FTSE100）公司表示，它与股东进行了“广泛沟通”，股东们对该笔款项“提出了若干担忧”。

安格鲁美国公司解释称，它已“认真考虑了股东的担忧”。投资银行 Peel Hunt 的分析师表示：“随着该项决议的删除，我们推测 Teck 的合并提案将获得安格鲁股东的强力支持。”

两家公司于 9 月宣布计划通过一次“对等合并”强强联手，这将创建全球第五大铜矿商。

作为交易的一部分，安格鲁美国公司希望修改其 2024 年和 2025 年的奖金方案条款，以确保 58, 岁的万布拉德及其他高管能够获得丰厚的股票奖励。但股东表示，他们将在今日的会议上对这些变更投反对票。

在放弃该计划后，安格鲁美国公司表示，将在 2026 年年度股东大会之前，就高管薪酬问题与股东“进一步沟通”。

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<>< colspan="5">食品生产商< / >< / ><><>Assoc Brit Foods< / ><>2124< / ><>-1< / ><>2337< / ><>1841 $\frac{1}{2}$ < / >< / ><><>Bakkavor< / ><>232< / ><>+2< / ><>244 $\frac{1}{2}$ < / ><>130 ${1}{2}$ < / >< / ><><>Cranswick< / ><>5050< / ><>-40< / ><>5490< / ><>4625< / >< / ><><>Greencore< / ><>247 ${1}{2}$ < / ><>-2 ${1}{2}$ < / ><>278 ${1}{2}$ < / ><>169 ${1}{4}$ < / >< / ><><>Hilton Food Gp< / ><>502< / ><>< / ><>924< / ><>477 ${1}{2}$ < / >< / ><><>Premier Foods< / ><>175 ${1}{8}$ < / ><>-1 ${1}{4}$ < / ><>214 ${1}{2}$ < / ><>170 ${1}{4}$ < / >< / ><><>Tate & Lyle< / ><>365xxd< / ><>-8 ${1}{4}$ < / ><>709< / ><>358< / >< / ><><>Unilever< / ><>4160xld< / ><>-296< / ><>4881< / ><>4143 ${1}{2}$ < / >< / table>

<><>XPS Pensions......348< / ><>+4 ${1}{2}$ < / ><>411 ${1}{2}$ < / ><>313< / >< / ><>< colspan="4">医疗设备与服务< / >< / ><><>Convatec......226 ${1}{8}$ < / ><>-2 ${1}{4}$ < / ><>295 ${1}{8}$ < / ><>219 ${1}{4}$ < / >< / ><><>Oxford Biomedica......644< / ><>+25< / ><>682< / ><>232 ${1}{2}$ < / >< / ><><>Smith & Neph......1265< / ><>< / ><>1435< / ><>937 ${1}{4}$ < / >< / ><><>Spire Health......174< / ><>-2 ${1}{4}$ < / ><>249< / ><>171 ${1}{8}$ < / >< / table>

<>< colspan="5">综合金融< / >< / ><><>3i Group< / ><>3194xd< / ><>-37< / ><>4459< / ><>2999< / >< / ><><>Ashmore Gp< / ><>1632xd< / ><>-39< / ><>193< / ><>1258< / >< / ><><>BR Throgmorton< / ><>609< / ><>-5< / ><>621< / ><>469< / >< / ><><>Bridgepoint Group< / ><>2794< / ><>-18< / ><>3959< / ><>2294< / >< / ><><>Capital Gearing< / ><>4945< / ><>< / ><>4980< / ><>4730< / >< / ><><>CMC Markets< / ><>289xd< / ><>+1< / ><>2972< / ><>1974< / >< / ><><>Coats Group< / ><>808< / ><>-114< / ><>96< / ><>684< / >< / ><><>Foresight Group< / ><>4102< / ><>+2< / ><>491< / ><>307< / >< / ><><>ICG< / ><>2072xd< / ><>-12< / ><>2450< / ><>1569< / >< / ><><>IG< / >< / table>

Gp< / td> 1156< / ><>+2< / ><>1163< / ><>913< / >< / tr> <>Integrain< / ><>347< / ><>-1< / ><>3982< / ><>272< / >< / ><><>Intl Public Prtnshps< / ><>1259xd< / ><>-19< / ><>1274< / ><>1074< / >< / ><><>Investec< / ><>529< / ><>+22< / ><>596< / ><>414< / >< / ><><>IP Group< / ><>61< / ><>-19< / ><>649< / ><>344< / >< / ><><>JTC< / ><>1276< / ><>< / ><>1366< / ><>769< / >< / ><><>London Stock Ex< / ><>8500< / ><>-152< / ><>12095< / ><>8138< / >< / ><><>Man Group< / ><>2074< / ><>-24< / ><>2159< / ><>1544< / >< / ><><>Nth Atlantic Smlr< / ><>364< / ><>+1< / ><>402< / ><>318< / >< / ><><>OSB Group< / ><>5702< / ><>+6< / ><>5842< / ><>3634< / >< / ><><>Paragon< / ><>8022< / ><>+14< / ><>970< / ><>6862< / >< / ><><>Plus500< / ><>3412< / ><>-16< / ><>3476< / ><>2560< / >< / ><><>Quilter< / ><>1858< / ><>+14< / ><>191< / ><>1244< / >< / ><><>Rathbone Grp< / ><>1824< / ><>-20< / ><>1930< / ><>1406< / >< / ><><>Ruffer Investment< / ><>294< / ><>-2< / ><>304< / ><>264< / >< / ><><>Schroders< / ><>3904< / ><>+1< / ><>4284< / ><>2894< / >< / ><><>SDCL Efficiency< / ><>524< / ><>-104< / ><>63< / ><>438< / >< / ><><>Temple Bar< / ><>369xd< / ><>-2< / ><>376< / ><>258< / >< / ><><>TP ICAP< / ><>2502< / ><>-1< / ><>3112< / ><>228< / >< / table>

<>< colspan="5">房屋建筑商< / >< / ><><>Barratt Redrow< / ><>363 $\frac{1}{4}$ < / ><>-15< / ><>482 $\frac{1}{4}$ < / ><>350< / >< / ><><>Bellway< / ><>2648xd< / ><>-60< / ><>2982< / ><>2166< / >< / ><><>Berkeley Grp.< / ><>3616< / ><>-98< / ><>4324< / ><>3462< / >< / ><><>Crest Nicholson< / ><>131 ${1}{2}$ < / ><>-4 ${1}{4}$ < / ><>197< / ><>128< / >< / ><><>Persimmon< / ><>1298 ${1}{2}$ < / ><>-46 ${1}{2}$ < / ><>1405< / ><>1037 ${1}{2}$ < / >< / ><><>Taylor Wimpey< / ><>100 ${1}{8}$ < / ><>-2 ${1}{8}$ < / ><>127 ${1}{4}$ < / ><>93< / >< / ><><>Vistry Group< / ><>614< / ><>-26 ${1}{4}$ < / ><>698< / ><>510 ${1}{4}$ < / >< / table>

<>< colspan="5">工业运输< / >< / ><><>Clarkson< / ><>3760< / ><>-10< / ><>4505< / ><>2995< / >< / ><><>Zigup< / ><>394 $^{1 / 2}$ < / ><>< / ><>394 $^{1 / 2}$ < / ><>273 $^{1 / 2}$ < / >< / table>

<>< colspan="5">工业< / >< / ><><>Bodycote< / ><>682 ${1}{2}$ < / ><>+10< / ><>685< / ><>460 ${1}{8}$ < / >< / ><><>Goodwin< / ><>19550< / ><>-100< / ><>23300< / ><>6180< / >< / ><><>Hill & Smith< / ><>2235xd< / ><>-30< / ><>2265< / ><>1530< / >< / ><><>IMI< / ><>2462< / ><>-2< / ><>2524< / ><>1606< / >< / ><><>Melrose Ind< / ><>580 ${1}{8}$ < / ><>-6 ${1}{4}$ < / ><>680< / ><>385 ${1}{8}$ < / >< / ><><>RHI Magnesita< / ><>2530< / ><>-20< / ><>3800< / ><>1980< / >< / ><><>Rotork< / ><>328 ${1}{8}$ < / ><>-12 ${1}{8}$ < / ><>352< / ><>275 ${1}{4}$ < / >< / ><><>Smiths Gp< / ><>2358< / ><>-14< / ><>2550< / ><>1687< / >< / ><><>Spirax Group< / ><>6855< / ><>-40< / ><>8190< / ><>5445< / >< / ><><>Vesuvius< / ><>380 ${1}{8}$ < / ><>-6< / ><>441 ${1}{2}$ < / ><>313 ${1}{4}$ < / >< / ><><>Weir Gp< / ><>2870< / ><>-10< / ><>2990< / ><>1984< / >< / table>

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<><>Games Workshop......19630< / ><>-120< / ><>19840< / ><>12410< / >< / ><><>ME Group......161< / ><>+1 ${1}{8}$ < / ><>230< / ><>150 ${1}{4}$ < / >< / ><><>Watches of Switz......491< / ><>-7 ${1}{8}$ < / ><>592< / ><>318 ${1}{4}$ < / >< / table>

最大跌幅< / td><>收盘价< / ><>当日涨跌< / >< / tr><><>SDCL Efficiency< / ><>52.70< / ><>-16.22%< / >< / ><><>Future< / ><>585.50< / ><>-7.65%< / >< / ><><>Unilever< / ><>4160.00< / ><>-6.64%< / >< / ><><>Vistry Group< / ><>614.00< / ><>-4.18%< / >< / ><><>Barratt Redrow< / ><>363.20< / ><>-3.97%< / >< / table>

<>< colspan="5">人寿保险< / >< / ><><>Aberdeen Group< / ><>196< / ><>-2< / ><>2104< / ><>1234< / >< / ><><>Aviva< / ><>6444< / ><>+4< / ><>6928< / ><>4574< / >< / ><><>Just Group< / ><>2152< / ><>< / ><>2152< / ><>1208< / >< / ><><>Legal & General< / ><>2492< / ><>+8< / ><>263< / ><>2154< / >< / ><><>Phoenix Gp< / ><>687< / ><>-52< / ><>696< / ><>4798< / >< / ><><>Prudential< / ><>10972< / ><>+192< / ><>11002< / ><>5954< / >< / ><><>St James Place< / ><>1379< / ><>+52< / ><>1393< / ><>791< / >< / ><>< colspan="5">媒体< / >< / ><><>4imprint< / ><>3820< / ><>-25< / ><>6030< / ><>3035< / >< / ><><>Auto Trader Gp< / ><>5968< / ><>-118< / ><>9088< / ><>5968< / >< / ><><>Bloomsbury< / ><>475< / ><>-15< / ><>698< / ><>468< / >< / table>

<><>< / >< colspan="2">52周< / ><>最高< / ><>最低< / >< / ><><>Future< / ><>585 $\frac{1}{2}$ < / ><>-48 $\frac{1}{2}$ < / ><>1029< / ><>585 ${1}{2}$ < / >< / ><><>Informa< / ><>941 ${1}{8}$ < / ><>-7 ${1}{4}$ < / ><>993 ${1}{8}$ < / ><>640 ${1}{4}$ < / >< / ><><>ITV< / ><>80 ${1}{2}$ < / ><>-1 ${1}{4}$ < / ><>87 ${1}{4}$ < / ><>66 ${1}{4}$ < / >< / ><><>Mony Group< / ><>182 ${1}{4}$ < / ><>+8< / ><>221 ${1}{8}$ < / ><>181 ${1}{8}$ < / >< / ><><>Pearson< / ><>984 ${1}{8}$ < / ><>-7 ${1}{8}$ < / ><>1379< / ><>984 ${1}{8}$ < / >< / ><><>RELX< / ><>2972< / ><>-63< / ><>4135< / ><>2972< / >< / ><><>Rightmove Group< / ><>531 ${1}{8}$ < / ><>-8 ${1}{8}$ < / ><>823 ${1}{4}$ < / ><>519 ${1}{8}$ < / >< / ><><>WPP< / ><>298 ${1}{2}$ < / ><>+3 ${1}{4}$ < / ><>893 ${1}{8}$ < / ><>268 ${1}{8}$ < / >< / table>

<><>< / >< colspan="2">52周< / ><>最高< / ><>最低< / >< / ><><>Intertek Gp< / ><>4532< / ><>-58< / ><>5385< / ><>4064< / >< / ><><>Intl Workplace Gp< / ><>223 $^{1}$ < / ><>-1 $^{1 / 4}$ < / ><>242 $^{1 / 4}$ < / ><>148 $^{1 / 4}$ < / >< / ><><>Johnson Service Gp< / ><>139 $^{1 / 4}$ < / ><>-1 $^{1 / 4}$ < / ><>159 $^{1 / 4}$ < / ><>122 $^{1 / 4}$ < / >< / ><><>Mitie Group< / ><>161 $^{1 / 4}$ < / ><>+1 $^{1 / 4}$ < / ><>165 $^{1 / 4}$ < / ><>106 $^{1 / 4}$ < / >< / ><><>Pagegroup< / ><>227 $^{1 / 4}$ < / ><>-8 $^{1 / 4}$ < / ><>376 $^{1 / 4}$ < / ><>219 $^{1 / 4}$ < / >< / ><><>Paypoint< / ><>461xd< / ><>+22 $^{1 / 4}$ < / ><>923 $^{1 / 4}$ < / ><>438 $^{1 / 4}$ < / >< / ><><>Rentokil Initial< / ><>425 $^{1 / 4}$ < / ><>+1 $^{1 / 4}$ < / ><>442 $^{1 / 4}$ < / ><>309 $^{1 / 4}$ < / >< / ><><>RS Group< / ><>613xd< / ><>-10< / ><>720 $^{1 / 4}$ < / ><>309 $^{1 / 4}$ < / >< / ><><>Serco< / ><>258 $^{1 / 4}$ < / ><>< / ><>264< / ><>137 $^{1 / 4}$ < / >< / ><><>Sthree< / ><>164xd< / ><>-3 $^{1 / 4}$ < / ><>361< / ><>137 $^{1 / 4}$ < / >< / ><><>Travis Perkins< / ><>606 $^{1 / 4}$ < / ><>-18 $^{1 / 4}$ < / ><>756< / ><>494< / >< / ><><>W.A.G< / ><>100 $^{1 / 4}$ < / ><>< / ><>106< / ><>58 $^{1 / 4}$ < / >< / table>

采矿业< / td>< / tr><><>英美资源 (Anglo American)< / ><>2930< / ><>-50< / ><>2999< / ><>1731 $\frac{1}{8}$ < / >< / ><><>安托法加斯塔 (Antofagasta)< / ><>2958< / ><>-52< / ><>3010< / ><>1383< / >< / ><><>奋进矿业 (Endeavour Mining)< / ><>3412< / ><>-60< / ><>3612< / ><>1392< / >< / ><><>弗雷斯尼略 (Fresnillo)< / ><>2692< / ><>-22< / ><>2820< / ><>616< / >< / ><><>嘉能可 (Glencore)< / ><>378 $\frac{1}{8}$ < / ><>-1< / ><>387 ${1}{4}$ < / ><>230< / >< / ><><>霍希尔德矿业 (Hochschild Mining)< / ><>427 ${1}{4}$ < / ><>+7< / ><>441 ${1}{4}$ < / ><>168< / >< / ><><>力拓 (Rio Tinto)< / ><>5476< / ><>-24< / ><>5546< / ><>4117< / >< / table>

<>< colspan="5">技术硬件与设备< / >< / ><><>discoverIE Gp< / ><>603< / ><>-7< / ><>738< / ><>486< / >< / ><><>树莓派 (Raspberry Pi)< / ><>324 $^{1}$ < / ><>-1 $^{1}$ < / ><>766< / ><>308 $^{4}$ < / >< / ><><>Spirent Comms< / ><>198 $^{4}$ < / ><>< / ><>198 $^{4}$ < / ><>170 $^{8}$ < / >< / table>

<><>< / >< colspan="2">52周< / ><>最高< / ><>最低< / >< / ><><>Hanworth< / ><>162< / ><>-1< / ><> $189{1}{2}$ < / ><> $159{1}{2}$ < / >< / ><><>Land Securities< / ><>604xd< / ><>-14< / ><>650< / ><>499 ${1}{2}$ < / >< / ><><>LondonMetric Prop< / ><> $183{1}{2}$ xd< / ><>-3 ${1}{2}$ < / ><>204 ${1}{2}$ < / ><>170 ${1}{2}$ < / >< / ><><>Primary Hlth Prop< / ><> $95{1}{2}$ < / ><>-1 ${1}{2}$ < / ><>103 ${1}{2}$ < / ><>86 ${1}{2}$ < / >< / ><><>PRS Reit< / ><>113 ${1}{2}$ < / ><>-4< / ><>118 ${1}{2}$ < / ><>98< / >< / ><><>Safestore Hldgs< / ><>694< / ><>-15< / ><>748 ${1}{2}$ < / ><>529< / >< / ><><>Savills< / ><>990< / ><>-20< / ><>1110< / ><>871< / >< / ><><>SEGRO< / ><>695 ${1}{2}$ < / ><>-12< / ><>734 ${1}{2}$ < / ><>599< / >< / ><><>Shaftesbury< / ><>139< / ><>-1 ${1}{2}$ < / ><>161 ${1}{2}$ < / ><>113 ${1}{2}$ < / >< / ><><>Sirius Real Estate< / ><>94 ${1}{2}$ < / ><>-2< / ><>106 ${1}{2}$ < / ><>73 ${1}{2}$ < / >< / ><><>Supermarket Inc< / ><>80< / ><>-1 ${1}{2}$ < / ><>86 ${1}{2}$ < / ><>65 ${1}{2}$ < / >< / ><><>Target Healthcare< / ><>94 ${1}{2}$ < / ><>-2 ${1}{2}$ < / ><>105 ${1}{2}$ < / ><>79 ${1}{2}$ < / >< / ><><> Property IT< / ><>322< / ><>-4 ${1}{2}$ < / ><>338 ${1}{2}$ < / ><>277 ${1}{2}$ < / >< / ><><>Tritax Big Box< / ><>146 ${1}{2}$ < / ><>-2 ${1}{2}$ < / ><>155 ${1}{2}$ < / ><>124 ${1}{2}$ < / >< / ><><>Unite Group< / ><>510< / ><>-20< / ><>879 ${1}{2}$ < / ><>510< / >< / ><><>Workspace Gp< / ><>379< / ><>-2 ${1}{2}$ < / ><>529< / ><>362< / >< / table>

<>< colspan="5">非寿险保险< / >< / ><><>Admiral Gp< / ><>3072< / ><>-44< / ><>3678< / ><>2524< / >< / ><><>Beazley< / ><>779 ${2}$ < / ><>-2 ${2}$ < / ><>973< / ><>769< / >< / ><><>Hiscox< / ><>1312< / ><>-1< / ><>1407< / ><>1035< / >< / ><><>Lancashire Hldgs< / ><>574xd< / ><>< / ><>694< / ><>523< / >< / table>

<>< colspan="5">电信< / >< / ><><>Airtel Africa< / ><>310+xd< / ><>+18< / ><>3188< / ><>1044< / >< / ><><>BT Gp< / ><>177< / ><>-1< / ><>2224< / ><>2< / >< / ><><>Gamma Comms< / ><>917< / ><>-23< / ><>1644< / ><>904< / >< / ><><>Helios Towers< / ><>1584< / ><>-8< / ><>1714< / ><>884< / >< / ><><>Telecom Plus< / ><>1372xd< / ><>-24< / ><>2085< / ><>1372< / >< / ><><>Vodafone Gp< / ><>94+xd< / ><>+4< / ><>968< / ><>638< / >< / table>

英美烟草 (Br Am Tob)< / td><>4317< / ><>+34< / ><>4421< / ><>2875< / >< / tr><><>帝国品牌 (Imperial Brands)< / ><>3262xd< / ><>+12< / ><>3300< / ><>2547< / >< / table>

<>< colspan="5">石油与天然气生产商< / >< / ><><>BP< / ><>450xxd< / ><>-2 $\frac{1}{2}$ < / ><>476 $\frac{1}{8}$ < / ><>331 ${1}{4}$ < / >< / ><><>Energean< / ><>900xxd< / ><>+16< / ><>1076< / ><>734< / >< / ><><>Harbour Energy< / ><>205 ${1}{8}$ < / ><>-3 ${1}{8}$ < / ><>294< / ><>151 ${1}{4}$ < / >< / ><><>Hunting< / ><>393< / ><>+1 ${1}{2}$ < / ><>396< / ><>246 ${1}{2}$ < / >< / ><><>Ithaca Energy< / ><>173xxd< / ><>+1 ${1}{4}$ < / ><>237 ${1}{2}$ < / ><>103< / >< / ><><>壳牌 (Shell)< / ><>2750xld< / ><>-10< / ><>2931 ${1}{2}$ < / ><>2291 ${1}{2}$ < / >< / table>

<>< colspan="5">零售商< / >< / ><><>AO World< / ><>108 ${1}{2}$ < / ><>-4< / ><>110< / ><>83 ${1}{2}$ < / >< / ><><>ASOS< / ><>264< / ><>+6< / ><>445 ${1}{4}$ < / ><>218 ${1}{2}$ < / >< / ><><>B&M< / ><>160 ${1}{2}$ xd< / ><>-6< / ><>370 ${1}{4}$ < / ><>156 ${1}{2}$ < / >< / ><><>博柏利集团 (Burberry Gp)< / ><>1204< / ><>-26 ${1}{2}$ < / ><>1371 ${1}{2}$ < / ><>627 ${1}{4}$ < / >< / ><><>Currys< / ><>130 ${1}{2}$ < / ><>-2< / ><>146< / ><>79< / >< / ><><>马丁博士 (Dr. Martens)< / ><>77 ${1}{4}$ < / ><>-8< / ><>99 ${1}{2}$ < / ><>47 ${1}{2}$ < / >< / ><><>Dunelm Gp< / ><>1109< / ><>-16< / ><>1241< / ><>858 ${1}{2}$ < / >< / ><><>Frasers Group< / ><>655< / ><>-23 ${1}{2}$ < / ><>770< / ><>546< / >< / ><><>Greggs< / ><>1630< / ><>-44< / ><>2834< / ><>1418< / >< / ><><>Howden Joinery< / ><>808 ${1}{2}$ < / ><>-16< / ><>914 ${1}{2}$ < / ><>679 ${1}{2}$ < / >< / ><><>Inchcape< / ><>756 ${1}{2}$ < / ><>-6 ${1}{2}$ < / ><>808< / ><>638< / >< / ><><>JD Sports Fashion< / ><>79 ${1}{2}$ < / ><>-3 ${1}{2}$ < / ><>104 ${1}{2}$ < / ><>63 ${1}{2}$ < / >< / ><><>Kingfisher< / ><>307 ${1}{2}$ < / ><>-4 ${1}{2}$ < / ><>316 ${1}{2}$ < / ><>228 ${1}{4}$ < / >< / ><><>玛莎百货 (Marks & Spencer)< / ><>325 ${1}{2}$ xd< / ><>-8 ${1}{2}$ < / ><>411 ${1}{4}$ < / ><>319 ${1}{4}$ < / >< / ><><>Moonpig< / ><>214< / ><>-3< / ><>259 ${1}{2}$ < / ><>192 ${1}{2}$ < / >< / ><><>Next< / ><>13935xd< / ><>-140< / ><>14580< / ><>9028< / >< / ><><>Ocado Gp< / ><>188 ${1}{2}$ < / ><>+3 ${1}{4}$ < / ><>395 ${1}{2}$ < / ><>172 ${1}{4}$ < / >< / ><><>Pets at Home Gp< / ><>205 ${1}{2}$ xd< / ><>-6 ${1}{4}$ < / ><>273 ${1}{4}$ < / ><>192 ${1}{4}$ < / >< / ><><>Sainsbury(J)< / ><>308 ${1}{2}$ xd< / ><>-3 ${1}{2}$ < / ><>355 ${1}{4}$ < / ><>228 ${1}{4}$ < / >< / ><><>SSP Group< / ><>178 ${1}{2}$ < / ><>+6 ${1}{2}$ < / ><>191 ${1}{2}$ < / ><>135< / >< / ><><>特易购 (Tesco)< / ><>449 ${1}{4}$ < / ><>-3 ${1}{4}$ < / ><>475 ${1}{2}$ < / ><>314 ${1}{2}$ < / >< / ><><>WH Smith< / ><>681 ${1}{2}$ < / ><>-13< / ><>1513 ${1}{2}$ < / ><>613 ${1}{2}$ < / >< / ><><>Wickes Group< / ><>232 ${1}{2}$ < / ><>-5 ${1}{2}$ < / ><>238< / ><>143 ${1}{2}$ < / >< / table>

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石油设备与服务< / td>< / tr><><>Wood Gp(J)< / ><>23 $\frac{1}{2}$ < / ><>-8< / ><>72 $\frac{1}{2}$ < / ><>17 ${1}{4}$ < / >< / ><>< colspan="5">制药与生物技术< / >< / ><><>阿斯利康 (AstraZeneca)< / ><>13578< / ><>-14< / ><>14148< / ><>9667< / >< / ><><>Genus< / ><>2620xd< / ><>+30< / ><>2760< / ><>1424< / >< / ><><>葛兰素史克 (GSK)< / ><>1820xd+15 ${1}{2}$ < / ><>< / ><>1833< / ><>1264< / >< / ><><>Haleon< / ><>3578< / ><>-3< / ><>4154< / ><>3268< / >< / ><><>Hikma Pharma< / ><>1562< / ><>-32< / ><>2340< / ><>1522< / >< / ><><>牛津纳米孔 (Oxford Nanopore)< / ><>130 ${1}{2}$ < / ><>+5 ${1}{4}$ < / ><>219< / ><>91 ${1}{4}$ < / >< / ><><>利洁时 (Reckitt Benckiser)< / ><>5902< / ><>-66< / ><>5994< / ><>4633< / >< / table>

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Stuart blow opens the door for forgotten man Sinckler

By NIK SIMON

橄榄球记者

英格兰队的柱球员储备深度正在稳步提升，但威尔·斯图尔特（Will Stuart）将缺席本赛季剩余比赛的消息让我产生了一个疑问。斯图尔特（右）在上赛季达到了职业生涯的最佳状态，因此入选了夏季的英狮队（Lions）巡赛，并在秋季成为了备受赞誉的“庞姆小队”（Pom Squad）的一员。在英格兰队寻找主导第四节比赛方法期间，他经常与亨利·波洛克（Henry Pollock）和汤姆·卡里（Tom Curry）一起作为替补出场。乔·海耶斯（Joe Heyes）在近期对阵澳大利亚、斐济和新西兰的测试赛中，在阵型对抗（set-piece）中发挥了出色的定海神针作用，毫无疑问他将准备好在六国赛中首发。但不可否认的是，斯图尔特的跟腱受伤是对英格兰队争抢球（scrummaging）资源的沉重打击。这让我不禁思考——凯尔·辛克勒（Kyle Sinckler）的情况如何？

在秋季系列赛开始前，我采访了埃迪·琼斯（Eddie Jones），这位前英格兰队教练在他合作过的球员最终15人名单中将辛克勒排在3号位。对于一个曾是跳羚队（Springbok）教练组成员的人来说，这是一个巨大的赞美。阿舍尔·奥波库-福乔尔（Asher Opoku-Fordjour）也受伤了，但预计能在六国赛战役前恢复健康。特雷弗·戴维森（Trevor Davison）是另一位在北安普顿队表现出色的阵型对抗专家，尽管纽卡斯尔队感兴趣，但他可能会延长在那里的留任时间。比利·塞拉（Billy Sella）和阿福·法索格本（Afo Fasogbon）是其他年轻的竞争者，但他们需要与时间赛跑，以便为 2027 年世界杯的阵型对抗苦战做好准备。

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H Dickin 4-11-0....J Best< / >< / ><><>11< / ><>3L< / ><>SHEEZER DIVA 24 D Skelton 5-11-0....H Skelton< / >< / ><>< colspan="3">预计单价 (SP): 1-2 Baron Noir, 5 Bobby's Nelson, 11-2 Up To Trix, 10 Sheezer Diva, 14 Purple Owl.< / >< / ><>< colspan="3">热门马: - - - - - - - - - - - -< / >< / ><>< colspan="3">2024: Oh My Johnny 4 11 6 (Micheal Nolan) 8-11 Fav P Hobbs & J White 11 匹参赛。< / >< / table>

2.30-AVONSIDE SUPPLIES & ETEX 让磅障碍赛 (3) 11,700 英镑 增加 (£6.179) 3英里 10码 (7)

1 4LL-23L POPOVA 29 M Hawker 8-11-12....J Best 2 11 / 6211- SOLE SOLUTION 311 V Williams 7-11-8....C Deutsch 3 328-618 AUTONOMOUS CLOUD 24 (PT) (C&D2) (S) F O'Brien 9-11-7 Mr H D O'Dwyer (7) 4 3P36-3L MADAKET 16 (P) P Hobbs & J White 7-11-5....C Pritchard (3) 5 36P2L-7 BELLS OF PETERBORO 42 (D) (S) T Vaughan 10-11-4....S Bowen 6 221 / 71-2 SKI LODGE 21 A King 6-11-4....T Bellamy 7 3417 / P6- ITSEEMSLIKEIT 284 D Pipe 6-11-2....J Tudor 预计单价 (SP): 11-8 Sole Solution, 13-8 Ski Lodge, 8 Autonomous Cloud, 10 Madaket, 14 Itseemslikeit, 16 Bells Of Peterboro. 热门马: - - - - - - - - - 2024: Sound And Fury 7 11 1 (Kielan Woods) 11-4 Fav B Pauling 9 匹参赛。

3.00—PEKTRON 障碍赛让磅赛 (4) 7,700 英镑 增加 (4,066 英镑) 1英里7弗隆168码 (9)

1 1- AUTHODIDACTE 369 (D) (S) V Williams 5-12-1....C Deutsch 2 311 / 12-3 HARA KIRI 24 (D2) (S) O Murphy 8-11-13....S Bowen 3 32 / 11- RAILWAY BELL 403 (T) (C&D) F O'Brien 6-11-13....J J Burke 4 1249-L6 NOWMELAD 31 (C&DD) (S) Henry Oliver 6-11-12....Lee Edwards 5 46422-7 ZAMBEZI FIX 41 (D3) (S) B J Llewellyn 10-11-12....E Collier (5) 6 L71656 BELVEDERE BLAST 28 (D) (S) A Keatley 7-11-11....Craig Nichol 7 12342 / JIAIR MADRIK 751 D McCain 6-11-9....T Gillard 8 310P0-4 LOVE ME 22 (D) Miss J Davis 5-11-5....G Sheehan 9 1233 / SWEET HONEY B 714℃ Boultbee-Brooks 7-11-1....R Patrick 预计单场赔率 (SP): 9-4 Hara Kiri, 5-2 Railway Bell, 7-2 Authodidacte, 10 Sweet Henry R. 14 Bohedora Blast, Nauremalad, 16 Louis Madrik, 90 Leun Mo

热门马匹: - - - - - - - 0 (W 11-11). 年龄: - - - - - - - 5 2024: Lightningupourdays 5 11 11 (Jonathan Burke) 13-2 A Ralph 8匹参赛。

3.33-QUINNBET 母马障碍赛让磅赛 (5) 6,150 英镑 增加 (3,248 英镑) 2英里3弗隆207码 (10)

1 4144-P2 ANALIESE 18 (S) Mrs M Rowley 4-12-0....C Deutsch 2 0-667L3 MISS MAXFORT 18 (H) (S) D Donovan 5-11-13....Jonjo O'Neill Jr 3 335-4 VOLAKES 39 S Edmunds 4-11-13....C Hammond 4 1642-16 HARD DEALT 32 (DBF) H Daly 5-11-12....S Twiston-Davies 5 3L25-23 HIGHBURY HILL 34 N Hawke 4-11-10....B Carver 6 97-2 PIPAS LESCRIBAA 20 H Dickin 6-11-9....J Best 7 34P4-45 IT'S MAISY 13 (CD) (S) J Parkinson & S Smith 7-11-7....P J Kavanagh 8 L634L-6 FAY CE QUE VOUDRAS 14 (T) (S) Kerry Lee 9-11-2....C O'Farrell 9 6PL7 HYPERBOLE 19 O Murphy 5-10-13....S Bowen 10 67611-5 QUEEN OF STEEL 26 (P) (D) F O'Brien 5-10-11....J Hogan

预计单场赔率 (SP): 7-2 Hard Dealt, 9-2 Analiese, 6 Pipas Lrescribaa, Highbury Hill, 8 Miss Maxfort, It's Maisy, 10 Queen Of Steel, 12 Volakes, Hyperbole.

2024: Jacksbar 5 10 9 (Harry Skelton) 20-1 D Skelton 11匹参赛。

赛道详情：主要赛事。左手赛道。场地状况：柔软 (Soft)。顶尖骑师：Sean Bowen。顶尖练马师：O Murphy。首次佩戴装备：2.00 Purple Owl。最长路程运输马匹：Phantomofthepoints (1.00), Purple Owl (2.00), Itseemslikeit (2.30), Highbury Hill (3.33) 174英里。级别下降：1.30 Alan Bresil 比上次参赛下降2个级别（2级降至4级）；2.00 Keno Black (2)。风管手术后首次参赛：2.30 Itseemslikeit。

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12.55 — THE BELLHOP (F Mitchell) 11-8(第二热门) 1; Brave Guest 80-1 2; Tenadaay 33-1 3.7 参赛。 (G & J Moore)。 5马身, 5½马身。Tote: 2.38; 1.10, 13.40。Ex: 105.60。Tf: 286.80。CSF: 64.70。

1.25 — ATREIDES (B Harris) 5-4F 1; Le Galli Bier 7-2(第二热门) 2; Koenigsstern 4-1 3. 5 参赛。 (N Mulholland)。 9马身, 6马身。Tote: 2.30; 1.20, 1.70。Ex: 6.50。Tf: 18.60。CSF: 6.30。

1.55 — MASK OF ZORRO (B J Powell) 16-5(第二热门) 1; El Bandido Pancho 9-4F 2; Ferret Jeeter 4-1 3.9 参赛。 (J Tizzard)。 4¼, 5马身。Tote: 4.20; 1.50, 1.30, 1.80。Ex: 11.80。Tc: 29.26。Tf: 35.30。CSF: 11.23。

2.25 — QUEEN'S THEATRE (S Twiston-Davies) 3-1 1; Pollyanna's Dream 4-1 2; Ballynorth 9-4F 3.5 参赛。 (A Honeyball)。 3 $^{3 / 4}$ , 14马身。Tote: 4.00; 2.00, 1.80。Ex: 12.70。Tf: 38.40。CSF: 14.55。NR: Shotgun Shirley。

2.55' — MUTLEY CREW (H Kimber) 8-1 1; Footloose Man 11-2 2; Daring Plan 8-1 3.7 参赛。 (R Walford)。 9马身, 8½马身。Tote: 9.00; 3.50, 1.80。Ex: 33.50。Tf: 266.70。CSF: 50.15。

灵菲尔德 (LINGFIELD)

3.25 — CALSHOT SPIT (M Goldstein) 14-1 1; Bridge 10-1 2; Storming Nelson 4-1(第二热门) 3.7 参赛. (Miss S West). shd, 1l. Tote: 17.10; 4.70, 3.80. Ex: 140.90. Tf: 557.90. CSF: 135.14.

Placepot £383.90. Q'pot £100.50.

11.07 — LORD HARCOURT (K Shoemark) 15-8F 1; Akabusi 15-2 2; Green Dame 9-4(第二热门) 3.7 参赛. (E Walker). hd, 1¼. Tote: 3.80; 2.30, 2.00. Ex: 12.70. Tc: 21.98. Tf: 32.70. CSF: 12.75. NR: Davvy. 11.37 — ORACLE MISSION (P-L Jamin) 4-6F 1; Laughterintherain 10-1 2; All Worthwhile 8-1 3. 12 参赛. (Harry Eustace). 1¼. nk. Tote: 1.67; 1.10, 2.60, 2.50. Ex: 13.70. Tf: 91.90. CSF: 10.52.

12.07 — TOWERLANDS (Rossa Ryan) 5-1(并列第二热门) 1; Sheikh Raj 2-1F 2; Ernie's Valentine 16-1 3. 10 参赛. (A Carroll). hd, 2l. Tote: 6.40; 2.40, 1.50, 3.30. Ex: 19.30. Tc: 156.91. Tf: 139.50. CSF: 15.75.

12.37 — FASCINATING SHADOW (P Bradley) 11-8(第二热门) 1; Young Endless 6-5F 2; Potters Marmite 22-1 3.5 参赛. (James Owen). $\frac{1}{2}$ , $2\frac{3}{4}$ . Tote: 2.38; 1.20, 1.10. Ex: 3.70. Tf: 16.50. CSF: 3.29.

1.07 — COUNSEL (D Keenan) 16-1 1; Sergeant Pep 11-8F 2; Giorgio M 12-1 3. 10 参赛. (M Appleby). 1¼, 1¾. Tote: 24.70; 4.10, 1.20, 2.70. Ex: 51.80. Tc: 228.79. Tf: 686.80. CSF: 33.53. NR: Lightning Bear.

1.37 — TWILIGHT MOON (R Hornby) 14-1 1; Party Island 11-2 2; Meet Me In Meraki 14-1 3. 9 参赛. (M Tregoning). 1¼, ns. Tote: 15.00; 3.40, 1.50, 2.30. Ex: 91.70. Tc: 1109.72. Tf: 475.90. CSF: 88.94.

赛马结果 (RACING RESULTS)

2.37 — POKE THE BEAR (T Heard) 22-1 1; Bear To Dream 7-1 2; Kondratiev Wave 10-3JTFav 3. 11 参赛. (Hayley Burton). $\frac{3}{4}$ , $1\frac{1}{4}$ . Tote: 24.70; 5.70, 2.00, 1.60. Ex: 139.40. Tc: 662.29. Tf: 1499.00. CSF: 174.97. NR: Monks Mead. 3.07 — TORTURED SOUL (Rossa Ryan) 11-4F 1; Ghaiyyath Park 15-2 2; Enough Already 15-2 3. 10 参赛. (A Carroll). hd, 11. Tote: 3.75; 1.60, 2.60, 2.10. Ex: 37.70. Tc: 140.71. Tf: 160.30. CSF: 24.21.

2.07 — DANDY KHAN (B Loughnane) 9-4(第二热门) 1; Villalobos 13-8F 2; Volendam 12-1 3. 10 参赛. (J Boyle). nk, 2½. Tote: 3.25; 1.10, 1.20, 2.90. Ex: 9.40. Tc: 34.48. Tf: 32.90. CSF: 6.29. NRs: Kessaar Power, Pink Socks.

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12.45 — RED OAK (J J Burke) 10-11(第二热门) 1; Timefortom 5-6F 2; Elusive Warrior 80-1 3.4 参赛. (James Owen). 3l, 24l. Tote: 1.91; Ex: 1.80. Tf: 3.00. CSF: 2.11. 1.15 — NEWPORT (D McMenamin) 8-13F 1; Gonnino 17-2(第二热门) 2; Bunker Bay 10-1 3. 10 参赛. (I Jardine). 2¼, ¾. Tote: 1.62; 1.02, 2.70, 3.20. Ex: 7.60. Tc: 34.48. Tf: 50.80. CSF: 7.81. 1.45 — ROSSBRIDGE (T Gillard) 11-4 1; Disguisedlimit 5-2(第二热门) 2; Sleeping Satellite 15-8F 3. 4 参赛. (D McCain). 1¼, 2½. Tote: 3.75; Ex: 9.30. Tf: 15.00. CSF: 9.67.

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2.15 — YOU DID (Craig Nichol) 10-3JtFav 1; Leader Wing 6-1 2; Artic Mann 6-1 3.7 参赛. (B Ellison). shd, 4l. Tote: 4.34; 1.60, 3.60. Ex: 26.50. Tc: 113.82. Tf: 134.10. CSF: 23.15. NR: Slievehill. 2.45 — BENEFIT BEN (D McMenamin) 5-1 1; Uptown Harry 11-1 2; Cowboy Cooper 18-1 3.11 参赛. (A Nicol). $^{1 / 2}$ , $^{61 / 2}$ . Tote: 6.10; 2.40, 2.80, 5.90. Ex: 60.70. Tc: 946.39. Tf: 942.80. CSF: 62.30. NRs: Blazing Court, Dr Shirocco. 3.15 — PASSING PLEASURE (Craig Nichol) 2-1JtFav 1; Lillistar 10-1 2; Snow Dragon 2-1JtFav 3.6 参赛. (O Greenall & J Guerriero). $^{61 / 2}$ , $^{81 / 2}$ . Tote: 3.00; 2.30, 3.10. Ex:

Placepot £677.00. Q'pot £288.90.

伍尔弗汉普顿 (WOLVERHAMPTON)

4.30 — SNAAFY (R Scott) 15-2 1; Emma's Letter 5-2(2ndFav) 2; Zipwire 5-4F 3. 6 ran. (D Loughnane). $\frac{1}{2}$ , 4 $^{3 / 4}$ . Tote: 8.70; 2.60, 1.60. Ex: 30.60. Tf: 75.90. CSF: 26.44.

6.00 — SIDE DEAL (R Scott) 10-11F 1; Autumn Affair 25-1 2; Horace Wallace 4-1 3.8 ran. (K P De Foy). 2I, 2 $^{3 / 4}$ . Tote: 1.91; 1.02, 5.20, 1.50. Ex: 21.50. Tf: 112.80. CSF: 28.63.

5.00 — SASSICAIA (S Osborne) 9-2 1; Tewkesbury 2-1F 2; Double Combo 11-2 3. 12 ran. (Owen Burrows). nk, 1¼. Tote: 5.70; 2.10, 1.40, 2.10. Ex: 19.00. Tf: 68.20. CSF: 13.66.

6.30 — STRATUSNINE (Jason Watson) 18-5F 1; Dubai Bling 6-12; Purest Time 13-2 3. 9 ran. (H Palmer). 2¼, 2¾. Tote: 4.60; 1.90, 2.60, 1.90. Ex: 29.50. Tc: 135.85. Tf: 175.50. CSF: 25.26.

5.30 — MERSEA ISLAND (J Mitchell) 8-13F 1; Cruden 33-1 2; Appier 10-1 3.7 ran. (C Johnston). 4I, 3I. Tote: 1.62; 1.10, 11.20. Ex: 29.10. Tf: 209.70. CSF: 27.77.

7.00 — NO KNEE NEVER (H Davies) 18-1 1; Zoulu Warrior 5-4F 2; Crocodile Power 15-2 3.9 ran. (James Owen). $^{3 / 4}$ , $^{11 / 4}$ . Tote: 19.00; 3.30, 1.10, 2.70. Ex: 48.60. Tc: 199.94. Tf: 317.20. CSF: 41.78. NR: Bluebells Boy.

7.30 — TWILIGHT MADNESS (A Rawlinson) 7-4F 1; Clover Time 7-1 2; Combustion 5-1 3.9 ran. (S Hodgson). ½, hd. Tote: 2.75; 1.90, 1.40, 1.80. Ex: 16.40. Tc: 54.87. Tf: 62.50. CSF: 15.10.

8.00 — BLUE FORCE (C Hardie) 7-2JtFav 1; Candy Warhol 7-2JtFav 2; Sub Thirteen 11-2 3.9 ran. (A Brittain). $\frac{1}{2}$ , 1L. Tote: 5.00; 1.70, 1.80, 2.20. Ex: 25.80. Tc: 65.93. Tf: 149.80. CSF: 15.74. NRs: Banana, Level Up.

8.30 — BELLA BISBEE (K O'Neill) 11-1 1; Pearly Squirrel 7-2 2; Minshaar 11-2 3.8 ran. (S Dixon). 2 $^{1 / 4}$ , 2l. Tote: 12.00; 3.00, 1.80, 1.70. Ex: 79.30. Tc: 243.16. Tf: 784.80. CSF: 50.71.

Placepot £15.70. Q'pot £3.80.

纽卡斯尔 SSR (NEWCASTLE SSR)

3.18-让磅赛 (6) 6,000 英镑 增加 (3,140 英镑) 1英里4弗隆98码 (14)

1 (4) 1LL ROYAL BLAZE 38 (PT) (C) Ewan Whillans 4-9-12...D Nolan 2 (6) 378 RUBELLITE 3 (C&D2D2) R Fahey 5-9-12.....C J Orr (3) 3 (1) 407 SPEECHMAN 21 (P) P Kirby 5-9-11.....A Brookes (3) 4 (11) 272 VAMPIRE SLAYER J26 (P) D Bourke 5-9-10.....R Scott 5 (14) 055 WHATACRACKER 18 (P) M Wallord 5-9-8.....J Garritty 6 (13) 333 HARSWELL DUKE 13 (T) L Bailey 7-9-8. 未参赛 (NON RUNNER) 7 (10) L77 ROCK ARMOUR 13 (P) (C) D Thompson 4-9-7

11 (2) 20L MR ZIPPI 54 Sara Ender 6-9-4....J Peate 12 (5) 152 VIOLETA 15 (C2) B Haslam 5-9-4....A Mullen 13 (3) 054 NOSS MAYO 13 (P) E Bethell 3-9-4....Archie Young (5) 14 (7) 602 TRACKER ISSUE 15 (P) A Nicol 3-9-4....B Robinson 预计单胜赔率 (Probable SP): 7-2 Tracker Issue, 9-2 Ana Emaraaty, 6 Violeta, 7 Noss Mayo, 8 Whatacracker, 10 Vampire Slayer, Rubellite, 14 Speechman, 16 Sisterandbrother.

3.55 - 纯血雌马新手赛 (5) (2-Y-0) 6,300 英镑 增加 (3,402 英镑) 6弗隆 (6)

< / td><>< / ><>P Mulrennan< / >< / tr><><>2< / ><>(4)< / ><>8 FLOWERPOT 15 E Bethell 9-2....R Scott< / >< / ><><>3< / ><>(6)< / ><>GET AN ATTITUDE K R Burke 9-2....S Gray< / >< / ><><>4< / ><>(1)< / ><>0 PRINCESS COCO 35 S Whitaker 9-2....C Hardie< / >< / ><><>5< / ><>(2)< / ><>QUIET SERENADE I Furtado 9-2....T Eaves< / >< / ><><>6< / ><>(3)< / ><>3LL YY SPIRIT 47 E Bethell 9-2....P J McDonald< / >< / ><>< colspan="3">预计单胜赔率 (Probable SP): 4-9 Get An Attitude, 4 Yy Spirit, 10 Caileag Aisling, 12 Quiet Serenade, 14 Flowerpot.< / >< / table>

4.30-新手赛 (4) (2-Y-0) 9,650 英镑 增加 (£5.211) 5弗隆 (8)

1 (7) DANDY BREEZE B Smart 9-7....P Mulrennan 2 (4) 93 HONORABLE MAN 19 N Tinkler 9-7....F McManoman 3 (1) 6 LIQUID COOLED 32 B Haslam 9-7....R Scott 4 (5) 433 SEE THAT SPARK 17 E Bethell 9-7....P J McDonald 5 (6) 97 SPIRIT OF MARA 84 R Fahey 9-7....W Fentiman (5) 6 (2) 45 THANKFULLY SIMMY 17 R Fahey 9-7....H Russell 7 (8) 2 DOLOS DREAM 22 I Furtado 9-2....B McHugh 8 (3) 54 SOUND AND VISION 14 E Walker 9-2....K Shoemark

预计单胜赔率 (Probable SP): 9-4 Dolos Dream, 3 See That Spark, 7-2 Sound And Vision, 6 Honorable Man, 8 Thankfully Simmy, 12 Dandy Breeze, 20 Spirit Of Mara.

5.00-让磅赛 (3) 15,200 英镑 已增加 (7,956 英镑) 5f (9)

2 (9) 622 RHYTHM N HOOVES 18 (P) (C&DD5) R Cowell 5-9-9 T Faves

5 (2) 056 PADDY'S DAY 19 (C&D6D) N Tinkler 5-9-5..... A Jary (3) 6 (5) 213 LETHAL NYMPH 19 (C&DDBF) P Midgley 6-9-2

预计起步赔率 (SP): 4 Rhythm N Hooves, 9-2 Dark Cloud Rising, 5 Lethal Nymph, Monks Dream, 7 Arnhem, 8 Paddy's Day, 10 Badri, 12 The Caltonian, 14 Oriental Prince.

5.30-让磅赛 (5) (3-Y-0) 7,100 英镑 已增加(3,716 英镑) 1英里 5码 (9)< / td>< / tr><><>1< / ><>(6)< / ><>535 EVE'S BOY 18 (P) M Dods 9-9....P Mulrennan< / >< / ><><>2< / ><>(8)< / ><>L25 POLITICAL POWER 35 (T) (DBF) Charlie Clover 9-6D Keenan< / >< / ><><>3< / ><>(3)< / ><>951 PRIAPOS 13 (C&D) Phillip Makin 9-5....R Scott< / >< / ><><>4< / ><>(1)< / ><>063 BOUBYAN 14 (P) (D) M Appleby 9-5....A Rawlinson< / >< / ><><>5< / ><>(9)< / ><>088 AMERICAN STATE 52 (PT) (D) I Furtado 9-3..K Shoemark< / >< / ><><>6< / ><>(5)< / ><>434 COEUR JAUNE 15 (D2) D O'Meara 9-3....M Winn< / >< / ><><>7< / ><>(2)< / ><>33-4 STORM THE DUG 21 L Russell & M Scudamore 9-1....T Eaves< / >< / ><><>8< / ><>(4)< / ><>024 SHERLOCK 13 K Ryan 8-5.....Josephine Gordon< / >< / ><><>9< / ><>(7)< / ><>L48 WAIT FOR IT 21

(HT) L Bailey 8-5....A Mullen预计起步赔率 (SP): 11-4 Priapos, 4 Political Power, 5 Boubyan, 6 Eve's Boy, 8 Storm The Dug, Sherlock, 10 Coeur Jaune, 14 American State.< / >< / table>

队长推荐三选一 KORROOR (首选) (纽卡斯尔, 7.00) LETHAL NYMPH (次选) (纽卡斯尔, 5.00) POLITICAL POWER (, 5.30)

马厩私语 INVINCIBLE ANNICE (, 7.30)

重量博弈 TRAIS FLUORS (, 6.00) 比上次获胜标准减轻 18磅。

惨痛教训 AMERICAN STATE (, 5.30)

<><>ROBIN GOODFELLOW< / ><>GIMCRACK< / >< / ><><>3.18 Rubellite< / ><>3.18 Vampire Slayer< / >< / ><><>3.55 Get An Attitude< / ><>3.55 Get An Attitude< / >< / ><><>4.30 Sound And Vision< / ><>4.30 See That Spark< / >< / ><><>5.00 THE CALTONIAN (首选)< / ><>5.00 Lethal Nymph< / >< / ><><>5.30 Political Power< / ><>5.30 Boubyan< / >< / ><><>6.00 Concert Boy< / ><>6.00 Typeface< / >< / ><><>6.30 Uncle Sam< / ><>6.30 Uncle Sam< / >< / ><><>7.00 Korroor< / ><>7.00 Yorkshire Glory< / >< / ><><>7.30 Pockley< / ><>7.30 Ramon Di Loria< / >< / ><>< colspan="2">纽马基特 – 5.00 RHYTHM N HOOVES (首选)北区 – 3.18 Tracker Issue (次选); 5.30 PRIAPOS (首选)。< / >< / table>

6.00-让磅赛 (6) 6,000 英镑 已增加 (3,140 英镑) 1英里 5码 (14)

1 (1) 720 SMAOINEAMH SILE 32 (P) (D) Conor Maxwell (IRE) 7-9-9 J J Ryan 2 (10) 700 NORTHERN CRACKSMAN 32 (BT) (C&DD) L Mullaney 4-9-8 K Shoemark 3 (11) 122 CONCERT BOY 4 (B) (C&DC3BF) K Scott 5-9-8...D Keenan 4 (6) 272 TYPEFACE 17 (T) (D2) I Williams 3-9-8.....D Costello 5 (3) 002 CUBAN FIESTA 54 (V) (C&D) D P Quinn 4-9-8...W Carson 6 (9) L57 TRAIS FLUORS 105 (C&D3CD4) Miss L Perratt 11-9-8 A Jary (3) 7 (4) 035 LAW DEGREE 21 (P) (D) T Easterby 3-9-7...S B Kirrane 8 (8) 326 IMOLA 19 Joey Ramsden 4-9-6.....A Pinna (7) 9 (14) 834 SPACE RAIDER 17 (B) I Furtado 3-9-5.....T Eaves 10 (13) 363 CROWNTHORPE 35 (B) (C&D2D6) A Brown 10-9-4 W Fentiman (5) 11 (2) 767 TOP GUN TINA 99 (D) D Thompson 5-9-3...A Rawlinson 12 (5) 56L NANYUKI 33 (P) Mrs A Duffield 3-9-3.....Joanna Mason 13 (12) L8L PAVE THE WAY 87 M Rimell 3-9-3.....P Mulrennan 14 (7) 870 GALILEO'S COMPASS 43 (D) S Waugh 5-9-3...C J Orr (3) 预计起步赔率 (SP): 11-4 Concert Boy, 7-2 Typeface, 5 Cuban Fiesta, 7 Crownthorne, 10 Imola, 12 Law Degree

6.30-让磅赛 (第1组) (6) 9,000 英镑 增加 (4,711 英镑) 6f (14)

1 (11) 0L4 WHAT WHAT WHAT 19 (C) M & D Easterby 3-9-9...B Garrity 2 (7) 136 UP THE MONK 12 (P) (D) M Appleby 3-9-9...A Rawlinson 3 (3) 601 GREEN VALENTINE 21 (P) (C&DD) A Brown 4-9-7 B McHugh 4 (4) 682 UNCLE SAM 13 (P) (C&D) D Thompson 3-9-6...Joanna Mason 5 (8) 513 SUPERIOR COUNCIL 4 (BT) (C&DD) I Jardine 6-9-4 Archie Young (5) 6 (13) 284 GARIFULLINA 21 (D2) J J Davies 5-9-4.....S B Kirrane 7 (1) 925 GLENDOWN 21 (PT) (D4) T Easterby 5-9-3...D Fentiman 8 (5) 416 BISHOP'S GLORY 21 (V) (C&D) Joey Ramsden 5-9-2 A Pinna (7) 9 (6) L98 NAZCA 13 (C&D3D3) Miss L Perratt 6-9-1.....A Jary (3) 10 (10) 95L ATHOLLBLAIR BOY 4 (C&D9℃2D) N Tinkler 12-9-1 F McManoman 11 (12) 360 PLATINO BIANCO 39 (T) Conor Maxwell (IRE) 4-9-0 J J Ryan 12 (14) 740 SHE'SASHAMBLES 21 (D) Phillip Makin 4-9-0. A Elliott 13 (2) 447 SADIIKI 56 (H) F Watson 4-9-0.....H Russell 14 (9) 055 CRACKINTHUNDER 13 J Goldie 3-9-0...Rhys Elliott (5) 预计单胜赔率 (SP)：9-2 Superior Council, 5 Green Valentine, 11-2 Uncle Sam, 6 Garifullina, 8 Glendown, Up The Monk.

7.00—让磅赛 (第2组) (6) 9,000 英镑 增加 (4,711 英镑) 6f (14)

1 (11) 85L OPAL STORM 10 (PT) B Rothwell 5-9-9.....P Mulrennan 2 (10) 340 INSTANT BOND 19 M Wigham 4-9-8.....K Shoemark 3 (13) 424 MISTER SKY BLUE 4 (D) G Tutty 3-9-7..W Fentiman (5) 4 (14) 550 RUN THIS WAY 21 (V) (D5) P Midgley 7-9-5.....D Nolan 5 (8) 467 PINPOINT 120 (PT) Ewan Whillans 4-9-4.....G Fairley 6 (2) 010 KORROOR 21 (P) (C&D2CBF) J Camacho 4-9-4 T Kiely-Marshall (5) 7 (7) 440 CALL GLORY 3 (P) I Williams 4-9-3.....R Kavanagh (5) 8 (9) 229 A LADY FOREVER 6 (C&D) Mr W G Harrison 6-9-1..R Scott 9 (1) 322 YORKSHIRE GLORY 19 (BF) B Haslam 4-9-1..A Mullen 10 (5) 799 MADAME PLAINTIFF 21 (P) A Brown 4-9-0..B McHugh 11 (4) 274 YELLOW LEMONS 19 (P) K Scott 4-9-0.....D Keenan 12 (12) L08 LADY SONATA 175 I Furtado 3-9-0.....T Eaves 13 (6) 006 NORTHERNER 13 B Ellison 4-9-0.....B Robinson 14 (3) 487 BERNIE THE BEAR 13 (P) (C&DD) Miss L Perratt 5-9-0 A Jary (3) 预计 SR：& Yorkham Glory, 41.0; Mister Sky Blue

预计单胜赔率 (SP)：3 Yorkshire Glory, 11-2 Mister Sky Blue, 6 Yellow Lemons, Korroor. Call Glory, 14 Instant Bond.

7.30-让磅赛 (6) 6,000 英镑 增加 (3,140 英镑) 5f (12)

1 (1) 167 POCKLEY 12 (B) (C&D6℃4) Miss L Perratt 7-9-9 P Mulrennan 2 (7) 063 THANK THE LORD 10 (V) (D4) Mr W. G. Harrison 6-9-7

2 (7) 063 THANK THE LORD 10 (V) (D4) Mr W G Harrison 6-9-7 A Rawlinson

3 (12) 31L INVINCIBLE ANNICE 13 (P) (C&DD2) T Waggott 3-9-5 Amie Waugh (3)

4 (9) 703 RAMON DI LORIA 21 (P) (C&D2D2) Ewan Whillans 7-9-5

5 (2) 078 DIGITAL 15 (D5) R Carr 7-9-5....JP Sullivan 6 (11) 835 BENEFICIARY 195 (C&D2D2) L Bailey 6-9-5.....B Garrity 7 (10) 013 ARLINGTON 47 (P) (C2D2) B Smart 4-9-4.....C J Orr (3) 8 (3) 7L6 GENIUS MISTAKE 14 M Sowersby 3-9-2..T Kiely-Marshall (5) 9 (5) 446 EAST TYRONE 33 (P) P Kirby 3-9-2.....C Hardie 10 (4) 638 LATIN FIVE 81 (C&D2D4) P Midgley 8-8-13..B McHugh 11 (6) L73 SHATIN VENTURE 49 (C&D) Miss L Perratt 4-8-10

12 (8) L97 BADOSA 19 (C) P Morris 4-8-9.... A Jary (3) 预计单胜赔率 (SP)：4 Thank The Lord, 11-2 Arlington, 6 Ramon Di Loria, 13-2 Shatin Venture, 7 Pockley, 8 Beneficiary, 10 Digital, 12 Invincible Annice, 14 East Tyrone, 16 Latin Five.

赛道详情：L-H Tapeta 赛道。场地状况：标准。起跑闸：内侧直线；外侧 1m4f。抽签优势：高。顶尖骑师：Paul Mulrennan。顶尖练马师：R Fahey。首次佩戴装备：5.30 American State, Eve's Boy, 6.00 Nanyuki, Smaoineamh Sile, Space Raider, 6.30 Uncle Sam, 7.00 Pinpoint。长途跋涉者：Smaoineamh Sile (6.00) 和 Platino Bianco (6.30) 来自爱尔兰；Sound And Vision (4.30) 跋涉 284 英里。级别下调：今日无。风管手术后首次出赛：今日无。

我意识到巴顿脑子有问题，并担心我的安全

杰里米·Vine揭露针对他的社交媒体仇恨运动所带来的毁灭性影响

就在杰里米·Vine（Jeremy Vine）请一名安全专家随行上班，评估这位电视节目主持人可能在哪些环节容易遭受攻击的那一天，他才真正意识到前足球运动员乔伊·巴顿（Joey Barton）对他发起的一场精心策划且系统性的网络仇恨运动规模之大。

去年1月，当Vine在X平台上看到巴顿将埃尼·阿卢科（Eni Aluko）与连环杀手弗雷德·韦斯特（Fred West）和罗斯·韦斯特（Rose West）相类比时，他并未意识到得罪巴顿所带来的危险。

在众人围攻阿卢科之际，Vine决定支持她，并发布推文询问巴顿是否遭受了某种脑损伤。

巴顿在回复中贬低了Vine在Channel 5的电视节目，而这位主持人原以为第二次侮辱——带有恋童癖暗示的“骑车色情狂”（bike nonce）——就此结束了。

然而，随后巴顿地喷涌出潮水般的恶毒辱骂——一条接一条地针对他，其中包含对杰弗里·爱泼斯坦（Jeffrey Epstein）、罗尔夫·哈里斯（Rolf Harris）等人的露骨且令人作呕的提及。这让他陷入了对身体攻击的恐惧之中，并促使英国广播公司（BBC）和独立电视网（ITV）协调评估他在日常行程中可能处于危险的时段。

“我意识到巴顿脑子有问题，因为他根本停不下来，”Vine告诉《每日邮报》体育版，“他必须把对方彻底击垮。他必须‘赢’。”

当发布此类辱骂的人拥有300万社交媒体追随者，且所有人都被要求搜集Vine的黑料时，便产生了乘数效应。“这给我带来了真正的风险，”Vine说道。

“不仅是名誉风险，还有身体风险，因为在那300万人中，总会有某个有空闲时间的人

作者：伊恩·赫伯特 (Ian Herbert)

没在工作。这就是我们现在看到的现象——你不需要对目标构成直接的身体威胁，但你煽动所有追随者如此痛恨那个人，以至于冒着其中一人脱离人群并拿起厨房刀具的风险。

昨天，巴顿被判处六个月监禁，缓刑18个月，并被命令进行200小时的社区服务。他上个月被判定六项罪名成立，即意图造成痛苦或焦虑而发送极具冒犯性的电子通信——对象包括 Vine、阿卢科以及共同评论员露西·沃德。

对于像 Vine 这样在英国广播公司（BBC）工作的播音员来说，那种“恋童癖”的诽谤尤其危险。“因为 BBC 内部发生过休·爱德华兹和（吉米）萨维尔之类的情况，人们很容易说，‘哦，他是 BBC 的，所以……’，”他说。

作为一名时事播音员，他也意识到虚假新闻和阴谋论

是如何将地狱之火倾泻在那些被随意贴上“恋童癖”标签的人身上的。

华盛顿特区的一家披萨店曾遭到枪击，原因就是一个虚假理论称该店是政客经营的儿童性交易环路的前哨。 说：“我记得看到那个故事时在想，‘该死，这些事情是真的会发生的’。”

上个月在利物浦刑事法院作证时， 在描述那场让他担心两个年幼女儿的“污秽之云”时几乎落泪。

随着仇恨活动的升级，他决定别无选择，只能通过诽谤诉讼与巴顿对抗，而不是让他肆无忌惮地欺凌和辱骂。

“我从来没被选进学校球队。我在学校被欺负。但有时我们突然决定不再忍受这一切。我不知道为什么，但我的内心变得坚强了起来。”

个人诽谤： 被巴顿贴上“骑车恋童癖”的标签

聘请了来自 Samuels 律师事务所、总部位于德文郡的诽谤律师朱迪思·汤普森来处理他的案件，尽管这在最初反而升级了局势。

法律程序涉及向巴顿的律师发送文件，其中包含了这位主持人的住址。巴顿将这些文件公布在 X 上，从而使该地址公开，尽管他后来声称这是一个错误。

“我们给了他很多和解的退路，” 说。“他本可以向一家慈善机构支付 1 万英镑 并道歉，删除那些推文，以及各种其他方式。”

“当我们告诉他的律师‘好吧伙计们，我们必须这么做了’的时候，他还在发推特发表傲慢的评论，说：‘我们已准备就绪。我们准备好了。我腰包很深’。”

“与此同时，他还在呼吁他的追随者给他钱。我确实感觉到这是一个非常不安的灵魂。”

出席了高等法院王座分庭关于该诽谤案的初步一日听证会。“我穿上西装去了，”他说。“我想，‘法官需要在法庭上见到我’。”

未出席听证会的巴顿被命令向 支付 7.5 万英镑 加上诉讼费用，并在 X 上道歉。诡异的是，他的回应是发了一段自己打高尔夫球的视频，配文是：“谁才是真正的赢家？”

当他发布强制道歉时，巴顿（左图，上个月抵达法院）在每个单词之间加了双空格。“这意味着道歉内容在推文的阅读线以下，除非打开它，否则是不可见的，” 说。“这简直太可悲了。”

“他还支付了那笔钱，使其在通用选举之夜 9.30pm 进入我的账户，当时我正在工作。他显然希望在我不会查看账户的那一刻付款。太懦弱了。”

巴顿最初表示他不会支付全部法律费用。“所以我想，天呐，又来了，” 说。“我们继续死磕。针对费用启动了另一个法律程序。最终，我的总费用是 19 万英镑。”

就在诽谤案审理期间，警方开始调查巴顿，怀疑其涉嫌违反《恶意通信法》，涉及他对Vine、Aluko以及Ward的在线辱骂。在刑事法院的审判中，巴顿表现得极其自信。尽管法官警告他不要这样做，但他仍在诉讼过程中多次在推特上发布关于此案的内容。他将证人席当作演说台，试图将自己塑造为一个言论自由的斗士。他直接向陪审团陈述，但陪审团看穿了他的虚张声势，并判定他有罪。

Vine回忆起巴顿在2007年因在街头殴打一名男子被判入狱，出狱后却在英国广播公司（BBC）的《新闻之夜》（Newsnight）、《问题时间》（Question Time）和《今日》（Today）节目中获得了发声平台，使他能够将自己塑造为某种足球知识分子。

“这家伙是个暴力罪犯，但当时有人声称他读过陀思妥耶夫斯基，而且大家都信了，”他说，“他当时一定在嘲笑我们。”

虽然今天的判决能给Vine带来某种程度上的正名，但他承认并非每个人都有资源发起诽谤诉讼，且他不认为巴顿案会让X等平台更愿意保护用户。

“前几天有人打电话到我的节目里说，社交媒体就是‘新时代的石棉’，”Vine说。

“他说20年后，人们将把它从天花板和墙壁中撕掉，并询问：‘我们怎么能允许一个拥有300万粉丝的人在没有任何审核的情况下说出那样的话？’这是一个精辟的比喻。”

巴顿因发布恶劣帖子 免于监禁 见第13页

作者：劳伦斯·布斯，发自布里斯班

在仅仅六天的比赛之后，一切几乎已经结束了。在经历了糟糕的前两场灰烬杯测试赛后，英格兰队需要赢得剩下的全部三场比赛才能夺回骨灰瓮。

这是一场错误的交响曲，从粗心的击球和掉球，到乏味的投球，以及本·斯托克斯令人担忧的断言——他认为英格兰队需要清除“弱者”才能获得成功。

但在布里斯班和阿德莱德之间，英格兰队还有时间，至关重要地是他们必须做好准备，以开始一项在测试赛历史上仅有一支球队完成过的挑战——在 2-0 落后的情况下赢得五场比赛的系列赛（1936-37 年由唐·布拉德曼率领的澳大利亚队）。

那么，他们做错了什么，又该如何修正？在此，《每日邮报》体育版板球记者劳伦斯·布斯（LAWRENCE BOOTH）将对目前为止的两场测试赛进行剖析。

1. 危险的击球

当奥利·波普、哈里·布鲁克和乔·鲁特在珀斯第二天午餐后的六个球内相继出局时，就应该意识到问题所在了——那一刻，英格兰队的灰烬杯之旅开始崩溃。三人对本该放弃的球进行了击球，而同样的错误在布里斯班再次出现，波普和扎克·克劳利接连将球击飞，被迈克尔·内瑟接住。

助理教练马库斯·特雷斯科西克在加巴球场第三个夜晚声称，在珀斯的惨败之后，并没有关于修正该击球动作的讨论。如果这是真的，那将令人震惊，并表明存在一种令人担忧的责任感缺失。

2. 粗心的接球

英格兰队在布里斯班错失了五次机会。其中最严重的两个低级错误是：杰米·史密斯未能接住特拉维斯·海德在乔弗拉·阿彻投球时的第三球，以及本·达克特在gully位置掉球，让亚历克斯·凯里在布赖登·卡斯投球时 0 分脱险。海德随后得到了 63, 分，将

糟糕的开局：布鲁克需要尽快找回状态，而达克特是接球失误者之一 PA / EPA

接稳球，放弃危险击球，应对澳大利亚人的挑衅……英格兰如何停止在南半球的颓势

澳大利亚队的领先优势扩大到了足以赢得比赛的程度。

相比之下，澳大利亚人接住了所有常规机会以及几次半机会。凯里冲向边界线接住古斯·阿特金森顶边击球的动作展现了惊人的投入，而史夫·史密斯在第四天下午于slip位置完成了一次精彩的接球，终结了威尔·杰克逊的抵抗。

如果英格兰队在拿下 20 个三出局（wickets）需要至少 25 次机会，那么他们在阿德莱德将毫无希望。

3. 布鲁克的鲁莽

众所周知，在鲁特（Root）之后，英格兰拥有世界排名第一的击球手。但更容易被人们遗忘的是，布鲁克排名 2.。在英格兰历史上，只有五名球员在平均分高于其 55. 分的情况下，测试赛得分超过布鲁克的 2,918 分。他的击球率高达 87 且是 1990, 年以来英格兰唯一的 triple-centurion（三百分击球手），但他的球队需要他能不负众望。

布鲁克在珀斯崩盘中的角色是一回事。但在布里斯班的第一天，将米切尔·斯塔克（Mitchell Starc）诱导至 slip 区域（接球手区）击球，简直像是在发疯。他在本系列赛中的得分分别为 52, 0, 31 和 15, 但如果英格兰想要与澳大利亚抗衡，他需要将平均分提高至少两倍。

必须提醒布鲁克，像表演海豹一样击球并不能为他带来额外的得分，他应该回归到自己最擅长的领域——用精准、经过计算的击球技巧瓦解对手。

4. 短球之愚 英格兰在抵达时对他们的快球投手群充满希望，然而

情况只会 变得更好... 第 1 场测试赛，珀斯 输球（相差 8 个 wicket） 第 2 场测试赛，布里斯班 输球（相差 8 个 wicket） 第 3 场测试赛，阿德莱德 12月 16 日 第 4 场测试赛，墨尔本 12月 25 日 第 5 场测试赛，悉尼 1月 3 日

但在布里斯班决定他们命运的投手是内瑟（Neser），他的球速在 80 英里 / 小时左右，且接球手亚历克斯·凯里（Alex Carey）经常紧贴三柱门站位。这种摒弃自大的板球风格是英格兰被证明无法做到的，至少在斯托克斯（Stokes）和杰克斯（Jacks）在第二局防守了三小时之前是这样。

内瑟与斯科特·博兰德（Scott Boland）一样，将投出高球并制造 bowled（击中三柱门）和 lbw（腿前球）视为自己的职责。

相比之下，英格兰投球太短且太宽，以至于杰克·韦瑟罗尔德（Jake Weatherald）可以将所有球都击向正方形区域后方。在他们投出的前 380 个球中，只有 20 个能击中三柱门。卡斯（Carse）尤其负有责任，但斯托克斯的判断也出了错。

阿德莱德将是本系列赛中最平坦的球场，因此英格兰需要提高状态。

5. 应对挑衅 斯托克斯说，澳大利亚“不是弱者的容身之所”。唯一令人惊讶的是他觉得有必要强调这一点，仿佛他的队友们还没有意识到一样。然而很明显，太多英格兰板球运动员在加巴球场（Gabba）的炼狱中萎缩了，被观众的狂热所震惊。

当事情进展不利时，这里是一个残酷的地方。与普遍的迷思相反，澳大利亚人是体面的输家，但他们也是糟糕的赢家，其幸灾乐祸的程度简直离谱。英格兰必须挺起胸膛承受这一切，并予以反击——而不是像阿彻（Archer）在布里斯班那样，直到比赛结束才开始投出 94 英里 / 小时的快球。

尽管阵容选择有限，但现在选人的首要标准必须是性格，雅各布·贝塞尔（Jacob Bethell）和乔什·汤格（Josh Tongue）正在待命。否则，在新年于悉尼结束此次巡赛之前，情况会变得更加糟糕。

麦卡勒姆：我们不能带着“玻璃下巴”赢球

劳伦斯·布斯（LAWRENCE BOOTH） 发自布里斯班

在下周的第三场测试赛之前，布伦登·麦卡勒姆（BRENDON McCULLUM）和本·斯托克斯（Ben Stokes）将在接下来的几天里确定，英格兰队中哪些受到严重打击的板球运动员准备好迎接战斗。在面对澳大利亚队且在还剩三场比赛的情况下已以 2-0 落后之后，客队原定于今天前往度假胜地努萨（Noosa）。但管理层将利用这四天的休息时间，规划他们未来一个月的前行方向。

“在这项运动中，你没有资格自怜，”麦卡勒姆说道。“我们处于一个非常特权的地位，能够代表所有支持英格兰队的人，在阳光的陪伴下周游世界，并在这项运动最伟大的赛场上竞争。你必须站起来，重新出发。如果你来到这个国家却有着‘玻璃下巴’（指抗击打能力差），你毫无机会。你必须坚强、强韧，并且必须继续前行。”教练和队长将寻求确认的球员中，最重要的是来自萨里队的三人组：奥利·波普（Ollie Pope）、杰米·史密斯（Jamie Smith）和古斯·阿特金森（Gus Atkinson），他们在布里斯班的比赛表现平平，有时看起来被加巴球场（Gabba）的激烈氛围所震慑。

斯托克斯在周日以 8 个三柱门之差败北后尖锐地表示，澳大利亚“不是弱者的容身之所”；而麦卡勒姆在声称英格兰队在赛前“过度训练”时也成为了被攻击的目标——这段话进一步激怒了那些对在珀斯两日投降感到愤怒的球迷。但英格兰队教练坚持认为，他的球员必须在“极强的驱动力、竞争心和对成功的渴望，与自我设限”之间找到一个“微妙的平衡”。他补充道：“我坚信在令人精疲力竭的环境中连续训练五天并不是答案。我们需要在油箱里留一点油。”

英格兰队认为，由于珀斯比赛提前结束引发的骚动，以及随后他们拒绝飞往堪培拉参加一场为期两天的粉色球比赛，导致他们在布里斯班测试赛前被说服进行了五天的训练。他们认为，这次前往努萨的行动时机恰到好处。

与此同时，当被问及是否担心波普在离外侧柱（off stump）区域持续的躁动表现时，麦卡勒姆回答道：“波普表现不错。他的平均得分在 40 分左右。他是我们在这里的 3 号击球手。我强调过，我们拥有目前的阵容。没有理由看向其他地方。我们对现有的球员感到满意。我们只需要找到让自己重新回到这场竞争中的方法。归根结底，当你来到这里时，你不能退缩。这个国家不是一个让你开始怀疑自己，或者逃避挑战的地方。”

赢得F1冠军将改变我的生活，但不会改变我：兰多·诺里斯在实现梦想后保持谦逊

获胜时尽情歌唱：诺里斯与他的团队（左）庆祝，并派对直到凌晨 REUTERS / INSTAGRAM

乔纳森·麦克沃伊 发自阿布扎比

在世界冠军胜利在即、方格旗即将挥舞的时刻，你的脑海中究竟在想什么？

走进阿布扎比希尔顿酒店的5139号房间，这里可以俯瞰亚斯岛水岸的开阔景色，紧邻兰多·诺里斯周日夺冠的赛道，你就能找到答案。

他面前放着一碗坚果和切片水果，他向我描述了那种脱离躯体的体验——他开玩笑说，感觉就像成了“上帝”一样——这让他回到了童年时期，那时他还是个开卡丁车的小孩，甚至还不知道一级方程式赛车（Formula One）意味着什么。

但首先，得聊聊他庆祝胜利之夜的一些细节，当时他唱着《Sweet Caroline》和《We Are The Champions》。他喝了一些伏特加——不过他坚持说，没有用红牛作为调酒。他的父亲亚当跳舞的样子像大卫·布伦特。“太糟糕了，”诺里斯微笑着说。当兰多在凌晨6点结束派对时，他前往麦当劳享用了他自己的“冠军早餐”。

“我想吃麦乐鸡，但因为是早上，他们没有，”他说，“所以就成了香肠、鸡蛋，可能还有某种鸡肉产品。”记忆可能有些模糊。

在他的第一个赛季，每场比赛后他都是个“麦乐鸡迷”。现在不再如此。只有在与他口中生命中最重要的人们派对之后才会这样。

他在进入5139, 号房间时显得精神抖擞，完全看不出大派对后的疲惫。他的神情阳光。这与2007年巴西收官战后的刘易斯·汉密尔顿形成了鲜明对比，当时在另一家希尔顿酒店的套房里，汉密尔顿在冠军失之交臂后，匆忙跑进洗手间呕吐。

但回到诺里斯在最后两圈时的心理状态，当时他需要获得第三名（他确实做到了）才能确保获得他的首个世界冠军。诺里斯感到自己仿佛脱离了躯体，意识到他即将实现那个令他痴迷的梦想。“就像电影结尾那样，会出现一些闪回，看到一个人的最后时刻，”他说。

“虽然这不是我的最后时刻，但感觉很像。尽管我当时正努力避开每一个可能的颠簸，但我记起了所有事情，从最开始，第一次开卡丁车起。甚至在那之前，我骑四轮摩托车、参加越野摩托赛的时候。第一次在真正的赛道上开卡丁车。我参加过的比赛，2014年的世界锦标赛。就像一段蒙太奇。”

“我在上方俯视。就像上帝一样！不，我只是像鸟瞰一样。像直升机的视角。看着我在那里驾驶。因为在那一刻，我还是那么渺小，思想也那么简单。”

“我对一级方程式赛车一无所知。但我仍然看着自己心想：‘总有一天。我要……总有一天，我要实现这个目标’。”

那些事情，那些美好的时光。他是我能来到这里的原因。

谈到他父亲的舞姿，又是对他过去的一次回顾。

谈到他父亲的舞姿，又是对他过去的一次回顾。“我让我父亲做他自己，”诺里斯微笑着说，并补充道：“他和我一样激动，因为他知道我们经历的一切，那些挣扎，以及美好的时光。”

“我在三四岁的时候和他一起在PlayStation上玩《跑车浪漫旅3》（Gran Turismo 3）。所以一切是从PlayStation开始的。我的父母都很激动。”

“最美好的记忆是绕过最后一个弯道。看到所有木瓜色（车队颜色）和方格旗弯道，然后松开油门。”

总之，他实现了自己的梦想。无论人们如何评价他的世界冠军争夺战——尽管过程中有起有伏——但没人能说他在机会来临时搞砸了。他不会成为英国体育史上那些令人惋惜的遗憾故事。

赞誉正理所当然地涌入他的手机。来自诺瓦克·德约科维奇以及由哈里·凯恩领衔的英格兰足球运动员们发来的信息，目前尚未得到回复。

而更广泛的体育界关注则将我们引向了 BBC 年度体育人物奖，他已与罗里·麦克罗伊和克洛伊·凯利一起，成为该奖项的三大热门人选之一。对于应该是他自己赢，还是他如此钦佩的大师赛冠军麦克罗伊赢，他感到很纠结。在犹豫了许久后，他耸了耸肩说：“这得由人们来决定。”

昨天，他去了希尔顿酒店晒太阳，而他的父母则出去吃披萨。在辉煌之夜后的第二天，一切照旧。今天，他将在他夺冠的那条赛道上参加一次轮胎测试。

但从根本上说，难道一切不都改变了吗？

“当然，”他说，“赢得冠军将改变我的生活。在某些方面，我希望它能改变，因为人们说我是世界冠军，而且我的名字能进入一个极其令人惊叹的名单，这很酷。”

“但这不会改变我这个人。”

我如何给英国一级方程式赛车冠军排名

作者：乔纳森·麦克沃伊 (JONATHAN McEVOY)

1) 杰基·斯图尔特爵士 (SIR JACKIE STEWART) 1969, 1971, 1973

一位聪明且善于计算的世界冠军，从不冒险，而是遵循他的格言：要获胜，首先你得完赛。他彻底改变了赛车安全，作为车队老板赢得了冠军，并成为了这项运动的长期大使。

2) 刘易斯·汉密尔顿爵士 (SIR LEWIS HAMILTON) 2008, 2014, 2015, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020 从统计数据来看，他凭借七次冠军和 105 场胜利独占鳌头，但还有另外两个因素对他有利。首先，是他从相对贫困中一路奋斗而上的经历。其次，是他 2007 年的首秀赛季，当时他像一颗璀璨的星辰般出现在迈凯伦车队。

3) 吉姆·克拉克 (JIM CLARK) 1963, 1965 许多人认为他是无出其右的。斯图尔特强调过克拉克的驾驶多么流畅，从不给赛车造成压力且速度极快。如果不是在 1968 年死于霍肯海姆，他还能赢得多少冠军？

4) 格雷厄姆·希尔 (GRAHAM HILL) 1962, 1968 唯一赢得过摩纳哥大奖赛、印第安纳波利斯 500 英里赛和勒芒 24 小时耐力赛的车手。因在摩纳哥五次夺冠而被誉为“摩纳哥先生”，且散发着十足的潇洒气质。

5) 詹姆斯·亨特 (JAMES HUNT) 1976

在他那放纵的生活方式将其拖垮之前的短暂时期，亨特曾是世界最强。他在历史上最危险的比赛之一中勇敢驾驶，在暴雨倾盆的富士赛道夺得了他唯一的冠军。

6) 奈杰尔·曼塞尔 (NIGEL MANSELL) 1992

英国观众的宠儿，勇敢且凶猛。在 39 岁时驾驶威廉姆斯赛车锁定冠军之前，他为之艰苦奋斗。他是唯一一个同时持有世界冠军和印第 500 冠军头衔的人。

7) 约翰·瑟蒂斯 (JOHN SURTEES) 1964

唯一一个在两轮（摩托车）和四轮（赛车）领域都赢得过世界冠军的人。他在法拉利车队夺冠，当时他的队友洛伦佐·班迪尼在墨西哥的一场决定性比赛中撞上了格雷厄姆·希尔。

8) 詹森·巴顿 (JENSON BUTTON) 2009

一位触感细腻的优秀车手。他在 2009 年驾驶布朗车队夺得唯一一次冠军，此前罗斯·布朗以 £1 的价格买下了这家陷入困境的车队。

9) 戴蒙·希尔 (DAMON HILL) 1996

尽管处于父亲格雷厄姆的阴影之下（其父在他幼年时去世），但戴蒙在接替去世的艾尔顿·塞纳执掌威廉姆斯并夺得唯一一次冠军后，在英国人心目中占据了一席之地。

10) 兰多·诺里斯 (LANDO NORRIS) 2025

在如今一个更加全球化且参赛者受到更严苛审视的体育项目中竞争。他挑战并击败了真正的伟大车手马克斯·维斯塔潘。

11) 迈克·霍桑 (MIKE HAWTHORN) 1958

一位多才多艺的赛车手，29 岁死于一场车祸，他是首位英国世界冠军。

萨拉赫被剔除国际米兰之行名单，阿里松力挺斯洛特

来自体育版

19人名单。当被问及是否可以通过采取不同的做法来避免这种情况时，斯洛特补充道：“答案可能是每次都让他上场，但也许这并不是他那样说话的原因。也许还有其他原因。

‘他完全有权表达自己的感受。他有权将其分享给媒体，但接下来的反应则取决于我们。’

萨拉赫的言论让许多人质疑斯洛特是否失去了更衣室的支持，但门将阿里松否认了这一点，并表示：‘我和主教练的关系很好。

‘在阿尔内到来之前，每个人都在谈论接替尤尔根·克洛普是一个巨大的挑战。现在看来，每个人都把我们上赛季取得的成就视为理所当然。这不应该被视为理所当然。

‘那应该足够了，但我们相信（斯洛特的）知识。我们相信他的比赛风格，并且相信他有能力帮助我们扭转这一局面。我认为这不仅关乎我们自己，也是俱乐部的现状。’

斯洛特接受了17分钟的质询，在最初采取保守回答后，这位荷兰人开始敞开心扉，对这一局面给出了坦诚的回应，这也是他在足球生涯中面临的最艰难的时刻。

阿里松暗示更衣室现在可能出现了‘分裂’，在萨拉赫发表煽动性言论后，斯洛特的权威面临着巨大的考验。

他依然拥有利物浦高层的全力支持，高层参与了决定在本场比赛中剔除该前锋的决策过程。

斯洛特补充道：‘我不觉得我的权威受到了削弱，我不是这么认为的。

‘这不是关于我的问题。如果我的生活变得困难，那么球队和俱乐部会更加困难。

‘没有人喜欢处于这种境地，看到如此努力工作的工作人员也受到如此影响，这很难受。’

据了解，斯洛特和萨拉赫昨天在训练基地进行了非常简短的交谈，这位埃及球员对现状依然感到沮丧。利物浦将在周六的英超联赛中对阵布莱顿，但目前尚未决定他是否会上场。

之后，萨拉赫将飞往摩洛哥，代表埃及参加非洲国家杯。

当被问及两人的关系是否完全破裂时，斯洛特说：‘我不是这么认为的。

‘直到周六晚上之前，我完全没有感觉到这一点。当我没有起用某些球员时，通常球员们不会喜欢主教练，但他一直对队友和教练组非常尊重，所以当我听到那些评论时，我感到很惊讶。’

萨拉赫的行为被俱乐部前后卫杰米·卡拉格斥为‘耻辱’。

他在天空体育的《周一足球之夜》节目中表示：‘有些人将其描述为情绪爆发——我不这么认为。

‘这是他与经纪人精心策划的，旨在造成最大破坏并强化他自己的地位。

我想他在等待一个糟糕的结果。他选择在这个时间点攻击主教练，也许是想让他被解雇。’

在前往上赛季欧冠决赛对手的旅程中，缺席的前锋不止萨拉赫一人。科迪·加克波受伤将缺席数周，而费德里科·基耶萨因病未能于昨日登机。

利物浦阵容：阿里松；布拉德利、戈麦斯、范戴克、罗伯逊；麦卡利斯特、格拉文贝赫；索博斯洛伊、维尔茨、埃基蒂克；伊萨克。

加纳乔：离开曼联很容易

基兰·吉尔 发自贝尔加莫

亚历杭德罗·加纳乔表示，对于他离开曼彻斯特联队的混乱局面，他并不后悔。在被主教练鲁本·阿莫林放逐后，加纳乔离开老特拉福德，以 £4000 万 的价格加盟切尔西。拜仁慕尼黑在夏天也对这位阿根廷人表现出兴趣，但他希望留在英超联赛。

在切尔西于贝尔加莫与亚特兰大进行欧冠对决的前夕，加纳乔在加盟斯坦福桥后首次发声，称他需要离开曼联才能更进一步。当被问及是否持有任何遗憾时，加纳乔简单地回答道：“没有。”在随后的追问中，被问及是否对结局感到难过，他回答道：“没有。”关于选择加盟切尔西，他说：“我来到这里是为了踢我的足球，向人们展示我是一个什么样的球员。有时，你必须做出改变才能更进一步。那是正确的时机，也是一个简单的决定。”科尔·帕尔默没有随队出征，因为人们认为他目前还无法承受如此繁忙的一周，而利亚姆·德拉普（肩伤）缺阵。

切尔西：桑切斯；古斯托，查洛巴，巴迪亚希尔，库库雷利亚；凯塞多，费尔南德斯；埃斯特旺·威廉，若昂·佩德罗，吉滕斯；吉乌。

欧冠联赛 赛事简讯...

亚特兰大 对阵 切尔西 开球时间：晚上 8 点，纽巴兰斯球场。 电视转播：TNT Sports 2 直播。

国际米兰 对阵 利物浦 开球时间：晚上 8 点，圣西罗球场。 电视转播：Amazon Prime Video 直播。

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开球时间：晚上 8 点，托特纳姆球场。 电视转播：TNT Sports 1 直播。

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狼队 ..... (1) 1 曼联 ..... (1) 4 贝尔加德 45+2 费尔南德斯 25, 82 (点球) 姆贝乌莫 51 芒特 62

足总杯第二轮 布拉克利 ..... (1) 1 伯顿阿尔宾 ..... (1) 3 诺丁汉 25 谢德 13, 73, 88 2,978

苏格兰杯 — 第三轮：特兰特 P 因弗内斯 CT P（因恶劣天气条件推迟）。

■ 今日赛事

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库杜斯渴望为热刺赢得奖杯

穆罕默德·库杜斯认为，他必须在托特纳姆热刺赢得一座奖杯，才能证明自己属于顶尖水平。这位边锋是热刺本赛季低迷开局中较为亮眼的球员之一，且对于肩上的期望压力有着清醒的认识。在今晚与斯拉维亚布拉格的欧冠比赛前夕，当被问及自己的雄心时，他回答道：“为俱乐部赢得一座奖杯。”热刺支付了£5500 万从西汉姆联签下他，尽管他在20场出场中仅打入2球，但贡献了5次英超助攻。

“我仍在适应一切，”这位25岁的球员说道，“尽管要求很高，而且显然没有时间缓冲，加入俱乐部后必须立即表现出色，因为这就是这个联赛的特点。到目前为止，我的适应过程很顺利，但仍有许多工作要做，有更多东西需要证明。”在周六2-0战胜布伦特福德的比赛中，库杜斯因在花式过人时丢球，队友克里斯蒂安·罗梅罗和米基·范德文对他表现出的要求显而易见，两名后卫都对他大吼。

“彼此坦诚并要求对方做得更好是非常重要的，”库杜斯说，“在像托特纳姆热刺这样的大俱乐部，每场比赛都面临着必须获胜的压力。周六的胜利是一个很好的激励，我们需要在此基础上继续前进。”在世界杯抽签将加纳与英格兰分在同一组后，库杜斯将目标锁定了英格兰。“小组赛遇到英格兰很好，”他说，“我们清楚面对的是什么样的球队以及他们拥有的质量，但我们绝对会全力以赴并做好准备。”

托特纳姆热刺：维卡里奥；波罗，罗梅罗，范德文，斯彭斯；贝里瓦尔，帕尔希尼亚；库杜斯，西蒙斯，奥多贝尔；科洛·穆阿尼。

马特·巴洛

费尔南德斯为惨淡的狼队雪上加霜

克里斯·惠勒 发自莫利纽球场

狼队 贝尔加德 45+2

曼联 费尔南德斯 25, 82 pen, 姆贝莫 51, 芒特 62

对于一支渴望冲进前四的球队来说，曼联本赛季在面对垫底四支球队时确实显得十分吃力。

在周四于老特拉福德与西汉姆联那场令人沮丧的平局之前，鲁本·阿莫林率领的球队曾被诺丁汉森林逼平，且在击败伯恩利时需要依靠绝杀。

在莫利纽球场弥漫着反抗情绪的夜晚，他们艰难地战胜了一支极有可能接过德比郡接力棒、成为英超历史上最烂球队的队伍。

当让-里克纳·贝尔加德在半场结束前扳平布鲁诺·费尔南德斯那个相当诡异的开场球时，这是狼队540分钟以来在联赛中的首个进球。

有那么一瞬间，甚至那些抗议老板复星和执行主席史杰的主场球迷也停止了喧闹，因为他们以为自己即将见证本赛季的首场联赛胜利，而不是连续第八场败仗。

对阿莫林及其球员来说，幸运的是，布赖恩·姆贝莫、梅森·芒特以及费尔南德斯的另一粒进球让下半场的局面看起来比实际情况要轻松，曼联因此上升六位至第六名。

不过，阿莫林会接受这个结果。在这个夜晚，吉姆·拉特克利夫爵士现身球场，并被看到在半场期间与首席执行官奥马尔·贝拉达以及足球总监杰森·威尔科克斯进行激烈的交谈。如果不能击败一支在积分榜垫底的球队，那将很难解释。

狼队在赛前的记录已经惨到了极点——226天没有联赛胜利，在该赛事中遭遇七连败，本赛季14场比赛仅得2分，且有望追平德比郡11分的历史最低纪录。

“你们是想渐渐消亡，还是想战斗？”主教练罗布·爱德华兹在执掌俱乐部第四场比赛前如此说道。但莫利纽球场外的赛前抗议导致前15分钟两端球门后有大片空座，这表明许多球迷担心的是后者。

不出所料，阿莫林采取了更谨慎的态度，他警告球员，狼队拿到首胜只是时间问题。

“任何事情都可能发生，情况会改变，”阿莫林赛前表示，“英超历史上没有一支球队是一场没赢的。任何一场比赛都可能成为那场胜利。”

阿莫林在西汉姆联之战的基础上做出了一次调整，用芒特替换了约书亚·齐尔克泽，并让马特乌斯·库尼亚在其中路出战——这是他夏天以 £6250 万 转会曼联后首次回到莫利纽球场。

与此同时，爱德华兹在寻求那场难以捉摸的胜利时，用基-贾纳·霍弗和拉迪斯拉夫·克雷齐替换了停赛的若昂·戈麦斯和杰克逊·查丘亚。

在比赛开始不到八分钟时，由于迪奥戈·达洛特的一次机会，主队几乎就落后一球。费尔南德斯的快速任意球让狼队措手不及，并让他的葡萄牙队友在面对门将萨姆·约翰斯通的情况下获得机会，但这位前曼联门将向左侧跃起挡出了达洛特的射门。

曼联很快取得了突破，但进球过程相当滑稽。

安德烈在自家半场中间持球犹豫，被卡塞米罗捅走，球直接传到了库尼亚脚下。这位巴西人绕过了埃马纽埃尔·阿格巴杜，但随后的一记横传力度不足，落在费尔南德斯身后，后者在禁区内滑倒。

曼联队长爬起来顶住了阿格巴杜的压力，随后再次摔倒，同时将球捅向球门。在约翰斯通无力的扑救和耶尔森·莫斯奎拉的阻挡下，球颠簸着越过了门线。

曼联在半场前本可以取得更大领先，但托蒂

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在约翰斯通化解了姆贝乌莫的攻势后，戈麦斯在门线上挡出了库尼亚的射门，随后狼队在半场补时阶段用一粒扳平比分的进球震惊了对手。对于一支上个月颗粒无收的球队来说，这是他们在过去九小时联赛比赛中的首个进球。

球从左侧传向右侧，随后再次传回，大卫·莫勒·沃尔夫的一次触球下沉，球随后弹向禁区内无人看管的贝尔加德。这位海地国际球员第一时间接球，将球送过一簇球员，越过了门将塞内·拉门斯。

然而，曼联在下半场以全新的活力回归，并在12分钟内攻入两球，将比赛彻底掌控。第一粒进球发生在第51分钟，卢克·肖通过一次对贝尔加德的拦截化解了狼队的进攻。库尼亚将球传给达洛特，而约翰斯通冲出禁区，使得达洛特轻松地将球横传给姆贝乌莫，后者将球推入空门。

在60分钟刚过时，费尔南德斯的射门被挡出，他随即通过一次精妙的传中找到了禁区内跑位的芒特，后者用凌空抽射将球送过约翰斯通。这是芒特本赛季的第三个联赛进球，比他在曼联的前两个赛季总和还要多。

这已经足够锁定胜局，但在第82分钟，第四个进球到来了。VAR官员尼克·霍普顿发现莫斯克拉用手臂挡住了迪亚洛的射门，费尔南德斯在点球点命中，打入个人第二球。

狼队 (3-4-2-1)：约翰斯通 4；莫斯克拉 4.5，阿格巴杜 5，托蒂·戈麦斯 6.5（H·布埃诺 70分钟，6）；霍弗 5.5（查查夸 86），安德烈 5，克雷齐 4，莫勒·沃尔夫 6；阿里亚斯 5（马内 70，5.5），贝尔加德 6.5（洛佩兹 54，5）；斯特兰德·拉森 5（阿罗科达雷 69，5）。进球者：贝尔加德 45+2。黄牌：斯特兰德·拉森，克雷齐，莫斯克拉。教练：罗布·爱德华兹 4。

曼彻斯特联 (3-4-2-1)：拉门斯 6；马兹拉维 6.5（马丁内斯 69，6），海文 6（约罗 69，6.5），肖 6；迪亚洛 7，卡塞米罗 8（马伊努 78），费尔南德斯 8.5，达洛特 7（多尔古 85）；姆贝乌莫 7，芒特 7.5（齐尔克泽 85）；库尼亚 6.5。进球者：费尔南德斯 25, 82 (点球)；姆贝乌莫 51；芒特 62。

黄牌：姆贝乌莫，齐尔克泽。 教练：鲁本·阿莫林 8。 裁判：迈克尔·索尔兹伯里 7。观众人数：30,338。

水晶宫将客场挑战麦克尔斯菲尔德开启杯赛卫冕之旅

作者：TARA ANSON-WALSH

足总杯冠军水晶宫将在足总杯第三轮客场挑战第六级别联赛的麦克尔斯菲尔德。

在去年的温布利决赛中，凭借埃伯雷基·埃泽在上半场的进球，水晶宫以 1-0 击败曼彻斯特城，赢得了队史首座重大奖杯。

奥利弗·格拉斯纳的球队将庆幸地避开了四场英超球队之间的对决，这四场对决分别是：托特纳姆热刺主场迎战阿斯顿维拉；埃弗顿在希尔·迪金森体育场与桑德兰进行首场足总杯对决；埃迪·豪率领的纽卡斯尔联对阵其前东家伯恩茅斯；以及曼彻斯特联在老特拉福德主场对阵布莱顿。对于鲁本·阿莫林率领的球队而言，鉴于他们没有参加欧洲赛事，且在 8 月的联赛杯第二轮被格里姆斯比淘汰，足总杯成了他们本赛季唯一现实的夺冠机会。在其他对阵中，埃泽的新东家阿森纳将客场挑战英冠俱乐部朴茨茅斯，英超冠军利物浦主场迎战英甲巴恩斯利，切尔西访问英冠球队查尔顿，而佩普·瓜迪奥拉的曼彻斯特城则迎接埃克塞特城的挑战。第六级别联赛的韦斯顿-超级马雷将客场挑战格里姆斯比。

与往年不同，如果比赛在 90 分钟后战平，将不再进行重赛。所有对决将直接进入加时赛，并在必要时进行激烈的点球大战。

足总杯 第三轮 抽签结果

伍尔弗汉普顿 对 什鲁斯伯里 唐卡斯特 对 南安普顿 托特纳姆热刺 对 阿斯顿维拉 波特韦尔 对 弗利特伍德 普雷斯顿 对 维冈 伊普斯维奇 对 布莱克浦 雷克瑟姆 对 诺丁汉森林 查尔顿 对 切尔西 曼彻斯特城 对 埃克塞特 西汉姆联 对 女王公园巡游者 谢菲尔德星期三 对 布伦特福德 富勒姆 对 米德尔斯堡 埃弗顿 对 桑德兰 利物浦 对 巴恩斯利 伯恩利 对 米尔沃尔 诺维奇 对 沃尔索尔 朴茨茅斯 对 阿森纳 德比郡 对 利兹 斯旺西 对 西布罗姆维奇 索尔福德 对 斯温顿 博勒姆伍德 对 伯顿 格里姆斯比 对 韦斯顿-超级马雷 赫尔城 对 布莱克本 纽卡斯尔联 对 伯恩茅斯 米尔顿凯恩斯 Dons 对 牛津联 切尔滕纳姆 对 莱斯特城 剑桥联 对 伯明翰 布里斯托尔城 对 沃特福德 斯托克城 对 考文垂 麦克尔斯菲尔德 对 水晶宫

麦克尔斯菲尔德 对 水晶宫 曼彻斯特联 对 布莱顿 谢菲尔德联 对 曼斯菲尔德

对决将于 1 月 10-11 日周末前后进行

世界杯所有比赛将设置饮水时间

摘自体育版

每个人都属于这里——无论是球员、球迷，还是当地居民和游客。足球拥有独特的跨越国界、文化和信仰来团结人们的力量。“我们很荣幸能举办一场骄傲赛，并在全球足球社区的一员身份下庆祝骄傲月。这场比赛反映了我们对所有人的尊重、尊严和统一的持续承诺。”

委员会成员包括埃里克·瓦尔，他是已故记者格兰特的弟弟，格兰特在报道上届卡塔尔世界杯期间不幸去世。

在社交媒体上，瓦尔指出，埃及和伊朗的加入可能是一件“好事”。

“到处都有 LGBTQIA+ 人群，”他补充道，“西雅图欢迎所有人做真实的自己。”

国际足联（FIFA）还宣布，明年夏天的赛事将引入每场比赛两次补水休息时间，在每半场的中间点各持续 3 分钟。

“不会设定具体的天气或温度条件，休息时间将由裁判在所有比赛中宣布，以确保所有球队在所有比赛中处于平等条件，”国际足联表示。

这一决定是在今年夏天的世俱杯之后做出的，当时由于比赛在正午开始，球员和教练在面对美国飙升的高温时倍感吃力，从而引发了批评。将代表阿根廷参加世界杯的切尔西队长恩佐·费尔南德斯表示：“热得令人难以置信。我不得不躺下来，因为我真的感到很晕。”

“在这种温度下比赛非常危险，对于来到体育馆的人来说也是如此。比赛速度不再一样，一切都变得非常缓慢。”

杰里米·Vine 独家报道 - 第 58 页

我并不软弱

态度强硬的斯洛特表示“不清楚”萨拉赫是否还能为红军出战

刘易斯·斯蒂尔 发自米兰

面对重重压力，主教练阿尔内·斯洛特昨晚坚称：“我并不软弱”，且无法保证穆罕默德·萨拉赫未来是否还会为利物浦效力。

在一次极具冲击力的采访中，这位埃及球员指责俱乐部将其当作替罪羊，随后他被剔除出今晚在圣西罗球场对阵国际米兰的欧冠比赛大名单。

在昨天的赛前新闻发布会上，斯洛特看起来像是在被告席上接受质询的人。当被问及萨拉赫是否还会为俱乐部出战时，他表示：“我完全不清楚。目前我无法回答这个问题。”不过，在此之前，

赢得F1冠军不会改变我 兰多·诺里斯采访 — 第60页

他曾表示：“我坚信球员总是有回归的可能性。

‘通常情况下我很冷静且有礼貌，但这并不意味着我软弱。当一名球员发表此类言论时，我们必须作为一家俱乐部做出反应。你可以看到他现在不在队中。’

在主教练的执教下，球队在15场比赛中仅取得4场胜利，这导致许多球迷对他产生不满，而已经连续三场未在首发名单中的萨拉赫也借此宣泄了他的挫败感。

据了解，萨拉赫被排除在名单之外并非正式处罚，而是由俱乐部高层做出的决定。这位33岁的球员昨天上午在AXA训练中心参加了训练，但随后被告知他将不会随队飞往意大利。

请参阅第61页，第1栏

利物浦在 轻取狼队后 进入前六

反同的伊朗与埃及将迎来世界杯“骄傲之战”

迈克·基根 报道

世界杯的一场专项“骄傲之战”（Pride Match）将由两个将同性恋定为非法行为的国家对阵。随着周五的抽签和周六的赛程分配，定于6月26日在西雅图举行的比赛已获得确认——届时埃及将对阵伊朗，这两个国家都有严厉的反LGBTQ法律。这场G组比赛将在西雅图骄傲周末期间于卢门球场举行。一些人认为，这种配对实际上可能带来好处，因为来自这两个国家的同性恋球迷将能够到场，庆祝自己的性取向而无需担心被起诉。然而，这可能给国际足联（FIFA）官员带来棘手的外交局面。

在这两个国家，同性关系都被定为犯罪。根据各个人权组织的说法，伊朗的处罚措施包括死刑，而埃及的LGBTQ+群体则面临反复的打击和逮捕。

尽管情况可能尴尬，但旨在协助此次活动的西雅图骄傲之战咨询委员会（PMAC）表示，他们将继续执行比赛计划。在给Outsports的一份声明中，他们表示：“这是由主办城市主导的，旨在表达西雅图和华盛顿州致力于创造一个友好且包容的环境，在这里

请参阅第63页，第4栏

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你有十分钟时间，利用轮盘中的字母尽可能多地寻找单词。每个单词必须包含中心字母且至少包含其他三个字母，且字母

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数独 X

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在每行、每列、对角线（以 X 形高亮显示）以及 3x2 的水平方格（有线框）中，将 1-6 各填入一次。答案明日公布。

姓名游戏：隐藏在网格中的是一个电视节目主持人的名字。请回答问题，然后将对应答案的字母重新排列以拼出该姓名。答案明日公布。

BOX 1：主持人罗布·布赖登（Rob Brydon，如图所示）在 2018 年的喜剧电影《福尔摩斯与华生》中饰演哪个角色？ 雷斯垂德 (A) 莫里亚蒂 (D) 迈克罗夫特·福尔摩斯 (C)

BOX 2：每年，意大利英吉诺山（Mount Ingino）的山坡上都会安装一个巨大的灯光装置，其形状是以下哪一种？一颗星 (I) 一棵圣诞树 (D) 一辆雪橇 (F)

3：具有“verisimilitude”（逼真度）的事物看起来像什么？ 虚假的 (C) 被照亮的 (Y) 真实的 (O)

4：“Yabby”是澳大利亚给某种动物的许多物种起的名称，这种动物是什么？ 甲壳类动物 (N) 鳄鱼 (P) 蜘蛛 (U)

5：谁写了 2025 年的小说《Great Big Beautiful Life》？ 苏珊·柯林斯 (T) 塞西莉亚·艾赫恩 (B) 艾米莉·亨利 (J)

6：在《Victoria Wood: As Seen On TV》中，帕特里夏·劳特利奇（Patricia Routledge）饰演哪个角色？金妮 (W) 佩妮 (H) 凯蒂 (E)

7：以下哪项被认为是与死者沟通的实践？ 圆圈占卜 (F) 通灵术 (S) 算盘占卜 (A)

8：布奇·卡西迪（Butch Cassidy）的法外之徒帮派叫什么名字？狂野帮 (L) 桑丹小队 (S) 西部暴徒 (O)

9：摩亨佐-达罗（Mohenjo-daro）是世界上最早的什么之一？艺术形式 (L) 棋盘游戏 (V) 主要城市 (E)

昨天的答案：MIKE MYERS (1M, 2R, 3Y, 4S, 5M, 6I, 7E, 8K, 9E)

图片：PA

铁轨

铺设轨道，使火车能从 A 村旅行到 B 村。数字表示每行和每列中有多少段轨道。只有直线轨道和曲线轨道。轨道不能自我交叉。

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答案明日公布。

蜂巢

所有答案均沿其数字顺时针读取。第 1 个线索的答案从给定的字母开始。

1. Put
2. Nearly
3. Channel
4. Protection
5. Chafed
6. Suited
7. Spoiled
8. Task
9. Required
10. Deception
11. Kindling
12. Really

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大师问答

1. 括号中的词组“To Say Nothing Of The Dog”补全了哪部幽默小说的标题？该书于 1889 年首次出版。

2. 哪座建筑是坎特伯雷大主教在伦敦的官方住所？

3. 萨赫蛋糕（Sachertorte）是在哪个欧洲首都创造的？

脑筋急转弯

1. 在一场赛马比赛中，“贪婪之骑”（Moocher's Mount）的跑速是“大瘙痒”（The Big Itch）的三倍，“大瘙痒”的跑速是“胡须奇迹”（Moustached Wonder）的三倍，“胡须奇迹”的跑速是“地狱厨房”（Hell's Kitchen）的四倍，“地狱厨房”的跑速是“皱纹扳手”（Wrinkled Wrench）的两倍。当“贪婪之骑”跑完 1.8km 时，“皱纹扳手”跑了多少距离？

2. 维尔·康沃尔·伯德（Vere Cornwall Bird）是哪个加勒比国家的首任总理？

3. 哪位罗马作家被广泛认为提出了“光阴似箭”（tempus fugit）这句名言，尽管他原话写的是“fugit irreparabile tempus”？

4. 哪支英国车队赢得了首届一级方程式世界车队冠军赛？

答案：见封底插页

2. 锤子（hammer）、石头（stone）和房子（house）之间有什么共同点？

3. 哪种蔬菜“穿着香水”（WORE SCENT）？

4. 哪个是异类：卡鲁（Karoo）、卡拉哈里（Kalahari）、阿塔卡马（Atacama）、纳米比（Namib）？

5. 使用化学符号，什么样的赛马比赛可能会结合氯（chlorine）、砷（arsenic）、硅（silicon）和碳（carbon）？

答案：见封底插页

杀手数独

在网格的方格中填入数字，使每行、每列以及每个 3x3 方格都包含 1 到 9 的所有数字。由虚线连接的每组单元格之和必须等于左上角的数字。每组单元格内数字不能重复。

数和（KAKURO）

使用 1 到 9 的数字填充网格中的空白方格，且在任何空白方格行中不得重复任何数字。填入的数字之和必须等于每行顶部或起始处阴影框中的总数。阴影框下半部分的数字表示纵向总和；上半部分的数字表示横向总和。

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PITCHERWITS™（图谜挑战）

1a. 嬉皮士的目标被“满天星”搞混了 (10)

15a. 仙人掌以一种狂喜的方式排列 (8) 1d. Heyer 在蛋之后被安置在树中 (9)

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8d. 关于杂草的谎言是一朵高山花 (9)

横向 1 图片线索 5 图片线索 9 粗糙的锉刀，带有浆果的果味？ (4) 10 北方山坡的一种裸露类型 (4) 11 印度现金的泥状菜肴 (5)

5a. 当作为组曲表演时，它很便宜 (8)

18a. 在破烂之物中减轻汽车的负担？ (10)

2d. 战时矿工在毫无技巧地使用备件 (7)

纵向 1 鼓掌 2 放置 3 陷入疯狂 4 拖曳 5 旋转部件 6 颜色 7 张口 8 法令 9 幼鲑鱼 10 小孔 16 感觉 19 代替者 20 皮肤

10d. 用第二个级别装饰海上的事物，例如？ (7)

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12 带有热能等级的“衣服”？ (4) 14 用一点防油纸来缓解 (4) 15 图片线索 18 图片线索

在 Pitcherwits 中挑战你的智慧——这是一个令人兴奋的谜题，部分答案以图片形式呈现！视觉线索的答案填入网格中的阴影区域。

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纵向 1 图片线索 2 图片线索 3 位于小后街的头饰 (3) 4 完全烧焦的树？ (3) 6 陷入重重麻烦的酒吧，在主线故事之外 (3-4)

纵向

7 构建一只后退的狗 (3) 8 图片线索 10 图片线索 13 来自颤抖白杨的燃料 (3) 16 一个颓废的坏蛋 (3) 17 实际上是拳击手 (3)

昨日答案 — 横向：1 Hand-picking. 5 Washers. 7 Owlet. 8 Pants. 9 Realm. 11 Flies. 12 Eel-like. 13 Cover charge. 纵向：1 Hippocratic. 2 Posit. 3 Creep. 4 Glasses case. 5 Welfare. 6 Sunrise. 10 Molar. 11 Faith.

HIDATO（数字连线）

完成网格，使所有数字 1 到 44 连续连接——水平、垂直或对角线。提示：你不必从 1 或 44 开始。从中间数字入手可能会让你更容易开始。

KENKEN（数独变体）

世界上最小、最难的十字谜题

每行和每列应包含 1 到 6，且不重复。笼子中的数字必须使用给定的数学符号（顺序不限）组合，以得出笼子开头所示的目标数字。单格笼子直接填入给定数字。

HOMELIEST NINE TO FIVE

将给定单词的乱序字母填入网格，以形成六个五个字母的横向和纵向单词。

横向

1. 穿着的 (4)
2. 漫步 (4)
3. 爱尔兰针织衫 (4)
4. 鞭痕 (4)

纵向

1. 动物胃 (4)

2. 民间传说 (4)

3. 与祖父母相关的 (4)

4. 中空的 (4) 明日公布答案

数字交叉谜题

可能存在多个解法

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今日挑战时间：3 分 19 秒

您的用时：□ 分 □ 秒

在每个方格中填入数字 1 到 9. 水平方格之和等于右侧的总数。垂直方格之和等于底部的总数。经过中心的对角线方格之和等于右上角和右下角的总数。

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密码谜题

密码网格中的每个数字代表字母表中的一个不同字母。今天 13 代表 D，因此每当出现数字 13 时，请填入 D。控制网格中已为您提供一个起始字母。将其填入主网格中的相应方格，然后利用您的词汇知识推断缺失方格中应填入的字母。明日公布答案

完成密码谜题以揭晓阴影方格中的单词。

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拼字游戏 (SCRABBLE $^{®}$) G ${2}$ R ${1}$ A ${1}$ M ${3}$ S $_{1}$

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标准分 140-150，由 JUDD 出题

四个字架 总时间 限制：20 分钟

昨日答案：SKELLY 23 BICEPS 36 BITTEN 16 MISTING 60 JUDD 总分：135

C< / td><>R< / ><>K< / ><>B< / ><>T< / ><>E< / ><>T< / ><>K< / ><>H< / >< / tr><><>K< / ><>O< / ><>I< / ><>G< / ><>V< / ><>T< / ><>Q< / ><>M< / ><>I< / >< / ><><>C< / ><>M< / ><>L< / ><>R< / ><>J< / ><>X< / ><>H< / ><>A< / ><>L< / >< / ><><>V< / ><>A< / ><>T< / ><>U< / ><>I< / ><>S< / ><>I< / ><>Z< / ><>D< / >< / ><><>E< / ><>N< / ><>T< / ><>J< / ><>M< / ><>L< / ><>Z< / ><>O< / ><>E< / >< / ><><>R< / ><>O< / ><>E< / ><>H< / ><>I< / ><>B< / ><>V< / ><>C< / ><>G< / >< / ><><>O< / ><>S< / ><>X< / ><>C< / ><>E< / ><>L< / ><>A< / ><>I< / ><>A< / >< / ><><>N< / ><>T< / ><>E< / ><>M< / ><>A< / ><>R< / ><>U< / ><>O< / ><>R< / >< / ><><>I< / ><>C< / ><>L< / ><>A< / ><>R< / ><>E< / ><>I< / ><>K< / ><>D< / >< / ><><>C< / ><>U< / ><>A< / ><>R< / ><>Z< / ><>W< / ><>D< / ><>N< / ><>E< / >< / ><><>A< / ><>H< / ><>V< / ><>J< / ><>O< / ><>H< / ><>N< / ><>W< / ><>E< / >< / table>

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单词搜索

列表中的单词都可以在网格中找到——包括正向、反向、向上、向下和对角线方向——但除了一个。为了获得获胜机会，请找出列表中哪个单词在单词搜索中找不到。

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GOGEN

BARGED BLARE COUGAR FERAL GRANT JOKING JURY MEGALITH PINGED QUERY SCOT VAGUE WAGE WAX

ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ

在单元格中插入字母以组成列出的单词，可在水平、垂直或对角线方向向相邻单元格移动。将字母表中的所有剩余字母（Z除外）填入网格，使所有列出的单词都被拼出。

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桥牌大师课 / 隐喻填字游戏

在继续阅读前，请遮住下方牌局中的西家和南家手牌。

KENKEN

你是东家，在南家开叫 1♦ 并在北家叫 1♥ 后重新叫 1♠ 之后，你负责防御 4♠。现在南家在北家叫 2♣ 后叫 2♥，并将 2♠ 提升至 4♠。你的搭档领出 ♣Q，明手出小牌。你该如何防御？

击败该合约的机会很少，但搭档持有 ♥A 的空间刚好足够，你应该以此为目标进行打法。你还需要判断可能的分布。如果庄家持有两张梅花，你需要先弃掉这张牌并在第二轮赢回，但如果庄家只有单张梅花，你必须在搭档的 ♣Q 之后立即赢回并切换到 ♥Q。

叫牌是你的线索。庄家显示有五张方块、四张黑桃，且延迟支持红心。这更有可能是三张红心而非两张，从而给梅花留出仅一张的空间。

HEATHER DHONDY

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横向

6 第一名在后面加上房间，以获得更多电缆长度 (9,5) 9 来自北爱尔兰政党的女性笑话 (4-2) 10 迅捷的，也许是，不安地飘动，靠近巢穴 (8) 11 在高层出借？ (8) 13 丈夫在伦敦自治市获得指针 (6) 15 退休的一对留在塞浦路斯，缺乏清晰度 (6) 17 聪明的医生在申诉前参与一轮 (6) 19 男人在中东语言中获得饮料 (6) 20 那些精于工艺的人异常地训练，作为雕塑家之首 (8) 22 大戟，而非月桂，产生欢欣 (8) 24 移民扰乱政府 (6) 26 关于居住在意大利的司法系统的目标 (14)

纵向

1 懒散的一群人比计划晚地关注革命 (6,8) 2 老板定期设定资金 (4) 3 运动员最终带着肌肉在希望成功中表演？ (2,4) 4 医生失去了气味？ (8) 5 低坝大部分很奇怪 (4) 7 像一个在细胞中被团队青睐的人 (6) 8 蒂姆不幸地关于新不幸的源头 (14) 12 葬礼上的一群人，在事件中被遗忘了一半 (5) 14 名厨 Levi 的起源 (5) 16 在上升前的意外访问？ (4,4) 18 简短的冷盘，带有主肉的奇数部分 (6) 21 保守党在德文郡沿海地区接纳毕业生 (6) 23 在剧院中举行的消除比赛 (4) 25 离开区域后再次获利 (4)

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数独

4< / td><>9< / ><>8< / ><>1< / ><>3< / ><>6< / ><>5< / ><>2< / ><>7< / >< / tr><><>5< / ><>2< / ><>3< / ><>9< / ><>4< / ><>7< / ><>8< / ><>6< / ><>1< / >< / ><><>1< / ><>7< / ><>6< / ><>5< / ><>2< / ><>8< / ><>9< / ><>4< / ><>3< / >< / ><><>3< / ><>5< / ><>7< / ><>6< / ><>1< / ><>4< / ><>2< / ><>8< / ><>9< / >< / ><><>2< / ><>8< / ><>4< / ><>3< / ><>7< / ><>9< / ><>1< / ><>5< / ><>6< / >< / ><><>6< / ><>1< / ><>9< / ><>8< / ><>5< / ><>2< / ><>3< / ><>7< / ><>4< / >< / ><><>8< / ><>6< / ><>2< / ><>7< / ><>9< / ><>1< / ><>4< / ><>3< / ><>5< / >< / ><><>9< / ><>4< / ><>5< / ><>2< / ><>6< / ><>3< / ><>7< / ><>1< / ><>8< / >< / ><><>7< / ><>3< / ><>1< / ><>4< / ><>8< / ><>5< / ><>6< / ><>9< / ><>2< / >< / table>

<><>9< / ><>6< / ><>3< / ><>8< / ><>2< / ><>7< / ><>5< / ><>1< / ><>4< / >< / ><><>7< / ><>5< / ><>4< / ><>1< / ><>6< / ><>3< / ><>9< / ><>2< / ><>8< / >< / ><><>2< / ><>8< / ><>1< / ><>4< / ><>5< / ><>9< / ><>3< / ><>7< / ><>6< / >< / ><><>4< / ><>7< / ><>9< / ><>5< / ><>8< / ><>6< / ><>1< / ><>3< / ><>2< / >< / ><><>3< / ><>2< / ><>8< / ><>9< / ><>4< / ><>1< / ><>7< / ><>6< / ><>5< / >< / ><><>6< / ><>1< / ><>5< / ><>3< / ><>7< / ><>2< / ><>4< / ><>8< / ><>9< / >< / ><><>5< / ><>4< / ><>7< / ><>2< / ><>1< / ><>8< / ><>6< / ><>9< / ><>3< / >< / ><><>8< / ><>3< / ><>6< / ><>7< / ><>9< / ><>5< / ><>2< / ><>4< / ><>1< / >< / ><><>1< / ><>9< / ><>2< / ><>6< / ><>3< / ><>4< / ><>8< / ><>5< / ><>7< / >< / table>

奖金数独

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HIDATO

H I M I D H Y I T Q Y O I M T R V M Q Y Z E S I Y H N K E F R Z E Z A R P A J M L Y Y I Z R H P M A R K P R O F R O V R Q A X D O L T O R T K N G C J M O R L E Y E D A R L I N G N R Z M G A I G E M

NINE TO FIVE CROSS NUMBER

1< / td><>3< / ><>5< / ><>8< / ><>9< / ><>2< / ><>4< / ><>7< / ><>6< / >< / tr><><>4< / ><>7< / ><>6< / ><>5< / ><>1< / ><>3< / ><>9< / ><>2< / ><>8< / >< / ><><>9< / ><>2< / ><>8< / ><>6< / ><>7< / ><>4< / ><>1< / ><>3< / ><>5< / >< / ><><>7< / ><>4< / ><>3< / ><>9< / ><>6< / ><>8< / ><>2< / ><>5< / ><>1< / >< / ><><>8< / ><>5< / ><>9< / ><>2< / ><>3< / ><>1< / ><>7< / ><>6< / ><>4< / >< / ><><>6< / ><>1< / ><>2< / ><>4< / ><>5< / ><>7< / ><>8< / ><>9< / ><>3< / >< / ><><>2< / ><>9< / ><>4< / ><>3< / ><>8< / ><>5< / ><>6< / ><>1< / ><>7< / >< / ><><>3< / ><>6< / ><>7< / ><>1< / ><>4< / ><>9< / ><>5< / ><>8< / ><>2< / >< / ><><>5< / ><>8< / ><>1< / ><>7< / ><>2< / ><>6< / ><>3< / ><>4< / ><>9< / >< / table>

KAKURO

<><>< / ><>F< / ><>H< / ><>< / ><>28< / >< / ><><>< / ><>F< / ><>R< / ><>E< / ><>D< / ><>< / >< / ><><>< / ><>H< / ><>A< / ><>N< / ><>D< / ><>Y< / ><>< / >< / ><><>< / ><>H< / ><>I< / ><>N< / ><>G< / ><>E< / ><>< / >< / ><><>< / ><>< / ><>L< / ><>A< / ><>E< / ><>< / >< / table>

WORD WHEEL: amount, amour, antrum, aroma, arum, atman, atom, mana, manor, manta, mantra, mantrap, mantua, mart, matron, moan, moat, morn, mount, mourn, muon, norm, paramount, potman, pram, prom, puma, ramp, rampant, roam, roman, romp, rump, tamp, tampon, tram, tramp, trauma, trump.

TRAIN TRACKS

30-SECOND CHALLENGE

从左侧给出的数字开始，并按照指令向右进行。在30秒内，初级玩家必须完成自己的挑战；中级玩家必须完成自己的挑战以及初级挑战；高级玩家必须完成自己的挑战以及中级挑战。

答案在下方

<><>初级< / ><>17< / ><>×10< / ><> $\frac{1}{2}$ OF IT< / ><>-8< / ><>÷11< / ><>×9< / ><>+17< / ><>÷5< / ><>DOUBLE IT< / ><>÷4< / ><>< / >< / ><><>中级< / ><>50< / ><>×75< / ><> $\frac{1}{15}$ OF IT< / ><> $\frac{8}{100}$ OF IT< / ><>-12< / ><>TIMES ITSELF< / ><>×125< / ><>5% OF IT< / ><>-8< / ><> $\frac{5}{14}$ OF IT< / ><>< / >< / ><><>高级< / ><>51< / ><>-38< / ><>TIMES ITSELF< / ><>-70< / ><>×6< / ><>50% OF IT< / ><>+28< / ><>20% OF IT< / ><>× $2^{2} / _{5}$ < / ><>75% OF IT< / ><>< / >< / table>

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It came as Ukraine's president Volodymyr Zelensky visited Downing

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The First Sea Lord warned that Britain was on the brink of losing the North Atlantic to Russia, potentially allowing Vladimir Putin to sever the UK from its allies and destroy its undersea infrastructure of energy and communication links.

Sir Gwyn said: 'Russia continues to invest billions in its Northern Fleet. There has been a 30 per cent increase in incursions into our waters [by

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TWO-TIER policing of protests is 'not merely a perception but a reality' in Britain's biggest force, a damning report has revealed.

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Two-tier policing of protests is REAL

By Rebecca Camber Crime and Security Editor

The Metropolitan Police is prioritising the rights of demonstrators over ordinary people, failing to make arrests and treating some protest groups more leniently than others, it says.

This may lead the public to believe ‘the forces of law and order have lost control of the streets and yielded control to a mob,’ according to the assessment from an influential think-tank.

The report by Policy Exchange has called for the Met to be put back into 'special measures'.

In a stark assessment of Commissioner Sir Mark Rowley's three years in office, the report points to public confidence in the force falling to an all-time low amid a belief 'there is a culture of impunity to crime in London'. It comes as the force is identifying the culprit in just one in 20 robberies and burglaries, one in 13 shoplifting offences and one in 179 street muggings.

Now Policy Exchange wants

Chief: Sir Mark Rowley

London mayor Sir Sadiq Khan to be stripped of responsibility for the Met's oversight, saying the Home Secretary should be given the power to ensure the force's performance improves.

Entitled A Long, Long Way

'Damaged its reputation'

To Go, the report criticises the force for choosing ‘to prioritise the rights of protesters over the rights of the wider public’ and accuses officers of doing more to protect Muslims than the Jewish community in demonstrations. It says: 'With the apparently differential treatment of different groups based on either the cause of the protest or the identity of those protesting, it has become increasingly clear that "two-tier policing" is not merely a perception but a reality.

'The police might come. Did you get any idea of the robber's political leanings?'

'This inconsistent application of police powers and the law is perhaps one of the most troubling aspects of modern policing – a factor which has seriously damaged policing's reputation for fairness in the eyes of many.'

In one example cited, the force applied for 'very stringent conditions' in a Ukip protest in Tower Hamlets on October 25, on the grounds it had the largest percentage of Muslim residents in the UK and the protest caused 'significant concern locally'.

The report said: 'The willingness to impose such stringent restrictions to safeguard the local Muslim population, while apparently being unwilling to go similarly far on behalf of the Jewish community or the broader public at previous events, indicates a readiness among senior officers to apply different standards to different groups.'

Meanwhile, 81,279 mobile phones were stolen in London last year and shoplifting has risen three-fold in four years to 93,705 offences in 2024/25. Policy Exchange blamed Sir Sadiq for reducing stop and search, saying it 'has had a catastrophic impact on the fight against crime'.

Met Commander Hayley Stewart said: 'Our New Met for London plan is delivering significant improvements on the issues that matter most to our communities and crime is falling across London.'

A spokesman for Sir Sadiq said: 'Nothing is more important to the mayor than keeping London safe and he continues to lead the way by being tough on crime with a record £1.16billion support for the police this year alone.' Almost a third of criminals in the capital who should be electronically tagged are not, Sir Mark Rowley has warned.

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Royal Rivals fan visits set of bonkbuster and meets the lothario based on her ex!

Fake kitchen, real cake: The Queen on set yesterday with Victoria Smurfit, who plays Maud O'Hara, and Alex Hassell, as heartthrob Rupert Campbell-Black

Remembering Dame Jilly: Camilla with her goodie bag, and, above, chatting to David Tennant

By Rebecca English Royal Editor

AS someone who 'binge-watched' Rivals while ill with pneumonia, visiting the set of the raunchy TV series yesterday was clearly a treat for the Queen.

To promote the UK's film and TV industry, Her Majesty enjoyed a behind-the-scenes tour of the show in Bristol.

She also met stars including the show's heartthrob, Alex Hassell,

'We find each other hilarious'

45, and its villain, David Tennant, 54, as well as their co-stars Victoria Smurfit, 51, Bella Maclean, 28, and Nafessa Williams, 36.

During the visit, she paid tribute to Dame Jilly Cooper, author of the books on which the series is based, who died in October at 88 following a fall. The pair had been friends for decades – and the Queen's ex-husband, Andrew

Parker Bowles, is said to have been the inspiration for Rivals lothario Rupert Campbell-Black.

Rivals, which has proved to be a huge success on Disney+, is set in the fictional county of Rutshire and the sex-obsessed world of

1980s regional TV, and gave rise to the writer's reputation as the 'Queen of the bonkbusters'.

Arriving at the kitchen of the fictional O'Hara family for tea and cake with cast members, Her Majesty was greeted by Hassell, who plays Campbell-Black, and told him: 'I've watched you all. It looks really fun.'

Hassell said: 'We all get on very well, which makes all the saucy stuff not too awkward.'

He admitted it could be difficult not to laugh during intimate moments on camera, adding: 'We struggle. The more you are not supposed to do it, you do!

‘We were doing it today. When we have to look at each other in a yearning fashion, we find each other hilarious.’

Risking an unintended double-entendre, he added: 'I suppose you must have found yourself in those positions quite a lot.'

'Oh yes,' chuckled the Queen, who happily took his question as a reference to laughter. When Camilla, 77, spoke to Ms Smurfit about the loss of Dame Jilly, the actress revealed: 'She was supposed to be here today.

‘We feel like she is here every day because we are saying her words, living in the Cooper-verse.’ Asked by Ms Smurfit whether she had a favourite Rivals book, Camilla said: ‘I’ve read them all. I galloped through them.

'I remember watching it last year when I was ill, I had pneumonia. I binge-watched it and felt much better afterwards.'

Before leaving the set, where the show's second series is being filmed, Camilla was given a goodie bag with 'I Love Jilly Cooper' emblazoned on it.

Wicked! Globe nods for Cynthia and Adolescence stars

Witch one will win? Cynthia with co-star Ariana Grande

WICKED star Cynthia Erivo and the cast of Adolescence led the British stars who got Golden Globe nominations yesterday.

London-born Ms Erivo, 38, was among a clutch of Britons shortlisted for the prestigious American film and television awards.

The names were revealed yesterday, ahead of the January 11 ceremony. Ms Erivo picked up a nomination in the best female actor in a motion picture musical comedy category for her role as Elphaba in Wicked: For Good, which has made more than £400million glob-

By Grant Tucker Entertainment Editor

ally since its release last month. Fellow Londoner Emily Blunt, 42, also got a nod for the UK in the film-acting categories.

She was nominated for best supporting actress for her role in the sports biopic The Smashing Machine, and will face off against Ms Erivo's US co-star Ariana Grande, in the running for playing good witch Glinda in Wicked.

Historical Shakespeare-based drama

Hamnet secured a nomination for best motion picture, with its two Irish stars, Paul Mescal and Jessie Buckley, both shortlisted.

In television, British Netflix drama Adolescence – about a girl's stabbing – has seen its lead stars Stephen Graham, 16-year-old Owen Cooper, Ashley Walters and Erin Doherty all nominated. It received five nominations and was beaten only by HBO's White Lotus, which got six. Also flying the flag is Gary Oldman for Slow Horses, Dame Helen Mirren for MobLand and Aimee Lou Wood for White Lotus.

Daily Mail CAMPAIGN DON'T LEAVE BRITAIN DEFENCELESS

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Russia] in the last two years. The advantage we have enjoyed in the North Atlantic since the Second World War is at risk. We are holding on, but not by much. There is no room for complacency.

‘Our would-be opponents are investing billions. We have to step up or we will lose that advantage and we cannot let that happen. The alternative is not worth thinking about.’

Britain is being outspent by enemies and allies alike and budgets for the Armed Forces this year have seen shortfalls of billions of pounds, forcing commanders to make painful cuts. The Treasury has kept the purse strings tight with officials citing debacles such as the £5billion Ajax armoured vehicle as a reason for investing less.

Labour has also put off meeting the Nato baseline of 2.5 per cent of GDP on defence until later in the decade.

Russia meanwhile is penetrating waters off the UK coastline where previously the Kremlin's submarines dared not venture.

Issues, however, are not restricted to the Royal Navy. As the Daily Mail recently revealed, the Army's budget is facing a £2.6 billion shortfall this financial year causing exercises to be cancelled. The Daily Mail's 'Don't Leave Britain Defenceless' campaign has called for increases in defence spending and against Labour's 'benefits over bullets' approach to national security.

Warning: First Sea Lord General Sir Gwyn Jenkins

Sir Gwyn is the first Royal Marine to lead the senior service. He told the International Sea Power conference in London yesterday: 'This is a call for action. The alternative is not worth thinking about. Our job is to be ready.'

Mapping out Britain's vulnerabilities and its exposure to a Russian thrust from the far north, Sir

Gwyn said most of this country's trade, data and energy flows either above, on or under the sea. He described the North Atlantic as 'our lifeline as an island nation'.

In recent weeks, the Russian surveillance ship the Yantar has appeared to be tracking the UK's undersea cables.

When RAF jets were scrambled to monitor its progress, sailors aboard the Yantar pointed lasers into the eyes of pilots.

'As the Secretary of State for

'Do we buy a bunker now or wait for the Boxing Day sales?'

Defence said recently in his direct message to Putin, we see you and we know what you are doing,' Sir Gwyn said.

Mr Zelensky, speaking before several hours of talks with Sir Keir, French president Emmanuel Macron and German chancellor Friedrich Merz, said the allies were 'joining our efforts to end this war with a decent peace for Ukraine' and that 'security must be guaranteed'.

‘We can’t manage without Americans, we can’t manage without Europe,’ he added.

The meeting came hours after Donald Trump took a swipe at Mr Zelensky, telling a black tie dinner in Washington he was ‘a little bit disappointed that Mr Zelensky hasn’t yet read the [US peace] proposal’.

Mr Trump suggested Moscow 'is fine with it', despite the Kremlin saying there were issues to be worked out. Yesterday Sir Gwyn announced the first underwater sensors to monitor Russian naval movements will be launched next year.

Crewless Royal Navy vessels are also expected to join the fleet from 2027 and by 2030 Sir Gwyn expects 'hundreds' of drone vessels to be deployed.

He added: 'Technologies are combining, accelerating, at a pace we have never seen before. The pace of technological change will never be as slow again as it is today. If you have been baffled by the advances in AI in the last couple of years, well buckle up.'

But the shocking shortage of submarines cannot be solved anything like as quickly.

In September 2024, the Daily Mail exclusively revealed how none of Britain's attack submarines – which are nuclear powered but do not fire nuclear missiles – was at sea.

Unofficial figures, published by reliable military watchers, indicate the situation is as dire this month as it was then. The attack submarines are meant to hunt enemy warships, gather intelligence and protect friendly ships.

But as of last week, HMS Ambush had been inactive for 1,222 days, Audacious for 979 days and Artful for 949 days. Astute had been undergoing maintenance for 158 days and Anson had been in port for 13 days.

Last night the Ministry of Defence insisted it was ‘unwavering in our commitment’ to the submarine fleet.

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By Jason Groves and Mark Nicol

UK ready to hand £8bn in frozen Russian assets to Ukraine's war effort

KEIR Starmer has told Volodymyr Zelensky he is ready to allow Ukraine to use billions of pounds of Russian assets frozen in the UK to defend his country.

Wider support: German chancellor Friedrich Merz, PM Sir Keir Starmer, Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky and French president Emmanuel Macron in Downing Street yesterday

Whitehall sources told the Daily Mail that ministers are close to agreeing a deal that would give Kyiv access to huge sums held in the wake of Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine in 2022.

One said a decision is expected 'within days' to unlock the Kremlin assets, which are estimated to be worth around £8billion.

The move is part of a wider push that could give Kyiv access to holdings worth tens of billions of pounds locked in EU countries.

A British official said Sir Keir had 'updated' Mr Zelensky on the

'We hope to see movement soon'

issue at yesterday's summit of European leaders in London.

'He is updating Zelensky on the wider support on offer to Ukraine, including using the value of immobilised Russian assets,' the source said. 'We hope to see movement on that issue soon.'

The interest generated from an estimated £180 billion of Russian assets held in European banks and institutions has already been used to help Kyiv's fight against Putin's aggression.

But the idea of permanently confiscating Russian assets has raised concerns about the precedent it could set. Belgium, where most of the money is held, has resisted the move amid fears of reprisals, including potential legal action by the Kremlin.

Sir Keir is expected to discuss the issue with his Belgian counterpart this week. A British source said the UK would not 'go it alone' without wider European action, but added: 'Given the sensitivities there is always the danger that things will slip again, but we are encouraged by the direction of travel.'

The exact mechanism for allowing Ukraine access to Russian funds is unclear and could involve loans. World leaders are also still debating what Kyiv should be allowed to do with the funds.

Britain is thought to be among a group of countries arguing for the use of the assets to fund Ukraine's fight against Putin's forces directly. Ministers believe the move could allow Ukraine to keep fighting for longer at a time when the war is starting to take a real toll on the Russian economy.

But other leaders want the money to be reserved for funding the reconstruction of Ukraine. Reports have claimed there is frustration with France over the 'shielding' of an estimated £18 billion of Kremlin assets held in the country. The Financial Times reported that Paris has so far refused to tell allies exactly how much Russian cash is in the country, or where it is held.

Last night Mr Zelensky said Ukraine is short of about £600 million to buy the US weapons it had planned to purchase this year with help from its European allies. Sir Keir and Mr Zelensky gathered in No 10 yesterday with France's Emmanuel Macron and Germany's Friedrich Merz.

While the allies were eager to thank Donald Trump for his contribution to peace talks so as not to antagonise the US President, Mr Merz expressed frustration over the US's peace plan, which requires Ukraine to sacrifice territory to Russia.

'I'm sceptical about some of the details which we are seeing in the documents coming from the US side, but we have to talk about that, that is why we are here,' he said. 'This could be a decisive time for all of us, so we are trying to continue our support for Ukraine. Nobody should doubt our support for Ukraine.'

Sir Keir said Ukraine needed 'hard-edged security guarantees'. Praising Mr Trump, the Prime Minister said he had progressed the peace process 'the furthest it has been in four years'.

But speaking before yesterday's meeting, Sir Keir said peace had to be 'lasting,' because 'Putin does not respect agreements that don't have hard-edged security guarantees behind them'.

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Choc horror, Maltesers now dearer than steak

MALTESERS are now more expensive per gram than steak due to a cocoa shortage that has sparked record price rises.

The cost of the treat has soared by 16 per cent in recent weeks, according to food industry trade journal The Grocer.

In Sainsbury's a 126g bag of white Maltesers now costs £4, making the price-per-kilo £31.75 – higher than the £31.33 of

matured sirloin steak.

By Freya Barnes

Meanwhile, a 93g pack of milk chocolate Maltesers in Asda rose from £1.61 to £1.75 in October, then went up again to £1.88 just five days later, as the wholesale cost of cocoa, typically £2,000 to £4,000 a ton, soared to nearly £10,000 last year.

Extreme weather in West Africa and diseases, including cacao swollen shoot virus,

have led to smaller yields, especially in

countries such as the Ivory Coast - the world's biggest producer. Global output is down 14 per cent. The price of cocoa butter - the fat extracted from cocoa beans used to make white chocolate - rose even faster because cocoa beans produce more solids than oils.

Wholesale prices have slid down to £4,500 a ton this year, but are still above the historical average, with high-end artisanal firms hit hardest, being unwilling to substitute cocoa.

Giles Atwell, co-founder of Russell & Atwell in Birmingham, said his firm had cut packaging to avoid ‘pricing ourselves out of reach’.

Nestle has cut the amount of cocoa in Kit-Kats, and McVitie's was forced to recategorise Penguin and Club bars as 'chocolate flavour biscuits' after reformulating them with more palm and shea oil and less cocoa.

‘We’re putting real coins in the stockings this year. We can’t afford chocolate ones’

Winehouse's flatmates 'sold her possessions for £730,000'

Star's father claims items auctioned for 'private gain'

Hanging out: Ms Winehouse and Catriona Gourlay
Friends: The late Amy Winehouse with Naomi Parry

By Neil Sears

THE father of Amy Winehouse yesterday launched a legal claim for £730,000 which he alleges two of the singer's flatmates made from wrongfully auctioning possessions of hers they did not own.

Ms Winehouse died of alcohol poisoning in 2011 aged just 27, after a whirlwind career derailed by heroin, crack cocaine and heavy drinking.

After her death her former taxi-driver father Mitch, who had raised her in north London, remained in touch with two of her closest friends, Naomi Parry and Catriona Gourlay, both now 41, who had lived with the star at various times.

But he and his daughter's old friends fell out after an auction of Ms Wine-

'I don't believe she'd give them 150 items'

house's clothes and other possessions in Los Angeles in 2021, with around 700 items given by her family. The auction and its proceeds are now the subject of the case in London's High Court.

Only after the auction – of which much of the proceeds went to the singer's charity – did Mr Winehouse, 75, discover Ms Parry and Ms Gourlay intended to keep the proceeds from around 150 items, mostly clothes, claiming they owned them. And two years later, Ms Gourlay went on to sell an infamous pair of Ms Winehouse's blood-stained ballet slippers for £3,000.

At court: Parry, Amy's father Mitch Winehouse and Gourlay yesterday

Yesterday Mr Winehouse, who inherited his daughter's multi-million-pound fortune after she died intestate, expressed his anger at the sale of her possessions at the start of a civil trial at London's Royal Courts of Justice. He denies his daughter would have given away so many items, claiming they formed part of her estate.

Mr Winehouse said her two friends should pay back the money so he can give it to the singer's charity to build a school in St Lucia in the Caribbean.

His barrister Henry Legge KC told the court: 'It was only after the 2021 auction ended that Mr Winehouse discovered Ms Parry and Ms Gourlay were claiming they owned more than 150 auction lots between them and intended to keep the sale proceeds for themselves. They have repeatedly insisted they were “entirely transparent” in the lead-up to the auction. Their claims are wholly inconsistent with the documentation.’

Mr Legge referred to a text exchange between Los Angeles auctioneer Darren Julien and Ms Parry in which the former said: 'Last dress sold for \$190,000 [£143,000]. I think Mitch thinks he owns that dress.'

Ms Parry replied: 'Amazing!!' - then, later: 'Unsure how he'll feel when he realises it's not [his].' Mr Julien then wrote: 'He definitely thinks he owns it.'

Mr Winehouse gave no detail on how he believes the women obtained items connected with his daughter.

In court yesterday, he admitted his daughter could be extremely generous. But he said of Ms Parry and Ms Gourlay's bounty: 'I assume she would have given them some things – but I don't believe it's 150 items.'

The case against them details how they repeatedly visited a lock-up storage unit stuffed with an 'overwhelming' volume of her former possessions.

But the two women say they lent her many items, which ultimately remained theirs, and that she often gave clothes to them, which they had every right to auction.

The case continues.

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withhold aid if countries such as Pakistan refuse to take back offenders.

Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch also called for mosques to be compelled to cooperate with officials as she outlined her vision for Labour's stalled national inquiry into grooming gangs yesterday.

Mrs Badenoch made the demand as she and Shadow Home Secretary Chris Philp set out the party's terms for a statutory inquiry into rape gangs, which they said should 'leave no stone unturned'.

The Conservatives said the probe must follow the facts 'whether it's mosques, whether it's state bodies' and has to examine the ethnicity and religion of offenders.

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Mr Philp said: 'Dual nationals should be stripped of their British citizenship and they should be deported with no exceptions. We don't want these people in our country.

'If they have citizenship from another country, then they should be deported and their British citizenship should be removed. No ifs, no buts.'

He added: 'We, as the United Kingdom, take back our citizens if they're convicted of a criminal offence overseas. It is only reasonable to expect other countries to do the same thing.' It is understood the Tories are looking at a wider

'Don't want them in this country'

policy on dual national offenders that is set to be announced in 'due course'. Such a policy could affect to 1.24 million people living in the UK. This would go further than the Conservatives' current policy, which says that 'foreign criminals should be deported and never allowed to return'.

The Home Secretary has the power to strip dual nationals of their British citizenship if doing so is 'conducive to the public good'. However it is used rarely and has often been blocked by legal challenges.

Rochdale grooming gang leaders Adil Khan, 55, and Qari Abdul Rauf, 56, were jailed in 2012 for sexually assaulting 47 girls – some as young as 12 – after plying them with drink

No ifs, no buts: Kemi Badenoch announces her plans yesterday

and drugs. Khan and Rauf held dual British-Pakistani nationality but they were stripped of their British citizenship and a judge ordered they be deported to Pakistan almost a decade ago.

However they have been able to remain in the UK because Pakistan has so far refused to take them back.

The Tories said they were setting out their plans in a bid to fix the grooming gangs inquiry because 'the Labour Government has completely failed to take action'.

Labour's efforts to establish a national inquiry have stalled since Sir Keir Starmer announced the probe in June. In October, the final two candidates to chair it dropped out and a group of survivors later quit the victim liaison panel.

The Prime Minister's spokesman said the Government hopes to 'update shortly' on the inquiry.

A Labour spokesman added: 'We are committed to a full, statutory, national inquiry.'

Market traders are jailed for ‘campaign of rape’ against girls

By James Tozer

Northern Correspondent

TWO cousins who groomed vulnerable teenage girls and passed them to other men were jailed yesterday and branded 'scum of the earth' by a victim.

Paedophiles Manzorr Hussain, 54, and Imtiaz Ali, 53, originally from Pakistan, ran stalls at Bury market near Manchester, where they preyed on the girls in the 1990s.

They were convicted earlier this year at Minshull Street Crown Court in Manchester for a 'campaign of rape' against girls, aged between 13 and 16.

Hussain, from Bury, was jailed yesterday for 30 years after being convicted of seven counts of rape and seven counts of indecent assault against five girls.

Ali, from Radcliffe, Greater Manchester, was jailed for 28 years after being convicted of five counts of rape, five counts of indecent assault and one count of attempted indecent assault.

The court heard the girls were often given drugs and alcohol before being attacked. Tearfully reading her victim impact statement from the witness box, shielded by screens from the defendants in the dock, one victim told her abusers: 'You are nothing better than paedophiles, rapists and scum of the earth.'

Cousins: Manzorr Hussain and Imtiaz Ali were labelled 'scum'

The woman said every agency or individual who had 'covered up or turned a blind eye are all complicit'.

Jailing both men, Judge Bernadette Baxter told them: 'Your offending can properly be described as a campaign of rape.'

U.S. student knifed 'germophobe' girlfriend in the face then rang his father for a lawyer as she lay dying

Upmarket: The block of flats where wealthy Michals lived

Victim: Zhe Wang, 31, was a 'joyful and generous' student
Mugshot: Joshua Michals with scratches, circled

By Ryan Hooper and Matt Strudwick

AN AMERICAN student at a UK university stabbed his girlfriend twice in the face and then called his millionaire father for help before raising the alarm.

Joshua Michals is facing life in prison after he was yesterday convicted of murdering 'germophobe' Zhe Wang, who had suspected him of giving her a sexually transmitted infection.

The 26-year-old claimed he was acting in self-defence, but a jury found him guilty of the 'brutal and savage' attack after more than 16 hours of deliberation.

The students at the University of London's Goldsmiths site in New Cross, south-east London, had fallen out the day before the killing in March last year over Ms Wang's mistaken belief that he had passed on the infection.

'Quiet and gentle' Ms Wang, 31, confronted Michals after finding a 'red dot' on her skin following sexual intercourse and demanded he take a test. The following day, he visited Ms Wang at her flat in Lewisham, south-east London,

‘Brutal and savage attack’

claiming he was trying to calm the 'bizarre' situation by bringing her a charcuterie food board.

He told the jury that after going to the toilet, he came out to find Ms Wang looking 'demented' and 'possessed' with a knife in her hand, before a struggle ensued.

He stabbed her twice in the face and strangled her, leaving her to die in a pool of her own blood.

Instead of calling 999, Michals rang his father – a high-flying vice-president at a US firm – and obtained the details for a solicitor before taking an Uber to his flat in the upmarket California Building complex in nearby Greenwich.

He phoned for an ambulance three hours later, telling police he 'did not see the rush' and that 'it's not what it seems'. Michals also tried to cover his tracks by deleting his WhatsApp conversations with Ms Wang, but police were able to recover them.

Detective Inspector Claire Guiver said: 'Michals carried out a brutal and savage attack on Zhe.

‘We are pleased the jury has seen through his claims that he killed Zhe by accident when she tried to attack him with a knife.

‘It is clear that Michals is a dangerous, violent individual and he will now have to live with the consequences of his actions.'

The pair had been seeing each other for only a few months and had slept together once, the Old Bailey heard. He did not see the relationship as serious, and had gone weeks at a time without seeing her. He also started a sexual relationship with someone else.

On the day of the killing, Michals, from Chicago, took food round to Ms Wang's flat, saying he planned to make a charcuterie board in a bid to 'calm her down'.

He claimed Ms Wang came at him with a knife and he killed her accidentally while trying to protect himself. He said he then leant on her neck trying to restrain her until she stopped moving.

Michals put the knife, Ms Wang's phone and the food he had brought in a bag and dumped it in the communal bins outside the flat before taking an Uber home.

His parents, who had flown from the US to attend their son's trial and privately funded his defence, were in the public gallery in court as the jury foreman delivered the verdict.

Ms Wang was studying an MA in creative writing and education at Goldsmiths and hoped to become a teacher, while Michals was doing an MA in filmmaking.

Dr Francis Gilbert, senior lecturer at Goldsmiths, described Ms Wang as 'a wonderful student, a remarkable writer and a thinker who combined deep intellectual curiosity with creative courage'.

He added: 'Her work blended Buddhist thought, imaginative storytelling and reflective clarity in a way that marked her out as a unique and singular voice.

‘Zhe was joyful, mindful and generous. She was deeply loved by her peers, who continue to speak of her gentleness, her humour and her thoughtful presence. She made our community kinder and more attentive.’

Judge Richard Marks said he will pass sentence on a date which is convenient for Ms Wang's family and Michals' parents.

He thanked the jury for their service, and in a nod to Justice Secretary David Lammy's plans to get rid of jury trials for some offences, added: 'We are very proud of the jury system in his country. Long may it remain.'

'Danger to life' alert issued as Storm Bram comes roaring in

BRITAIN can expect a battering over the next few days as Storm Bram lands, bringing with it 4in of rain and 90mph winds amid a 'danger to life' warning.

Transport networks could face disruption, while power cuts are also possible amid dangerous winds and likely flooding.

Winds of up to 70mph are expected in the South West, while the north-west of Scotland could experience gusts of up to

By Mark Duell

90mph. Some areas will get over half the average December rainfall in little over 48 hours.

A rain warning is in place for north-west England until 3pm today. The Met Office said: 'Fast flowing or deep floodwater is possible, causing a danger to life.'

Bram was named by Irish forecasters Met Eireann, where it will have the most impact.

'Did you remember to moor the car?'

9am tomorrow is the best Christmas shopping time

Daily Mail Reporter

IF you haven't been Christmas shopping yet, the best time is tomorrow morning.

Data measuring the experiences of millions of festive shoppers shows that this is the week to buy your presents.

The information revealed that Wednesday, December 10 offers particular benefits. Lower footfall, staffing levels and well-stocked shelves combine to make it a good day to shop.

And if you really want to maximise your chances of a stress-free experience, the best time is between 9am and 10am.

But don't wait until Sunday – data compiled by HappyOrNot, which supplies 'smiley face' feedback terminals in shops, rated it the worst day to be spending. It also found that on any given day 3pm is the worst time. But by the evening – 8pm to 10pm – shoppers seem in a better mood again.

NHS bosses harassed nurse after row about trans doctor using female changing room

Relieved: Sandie Peggie, 52

A NURSE who objected to sharing a female changing room with a transgender doctor said yesterday she was 'beyond relieved' after a judge ruled health

By Dan Barker

bosses had harassed her. Sandie Peggie complained about Dr Beth Upton, who is biologically male, using the women-only changing room at Victoria Hospital in Kirkcaldy.

Within weeks of the junior doctor starting work in the A&E unit, Mrs Peggie, 52, raised objections with bosses, but no action was taken.

On Christmas Eve 2023, she challenged Dr Upton in the changing room, and was then suspended during an internal investigation that cleared her of misconduct.

But yesterday, an employment tribunal found that NHS Fife had harassed Mrs Peggie.

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Local Labour MP Joani Reid said: 'Those in NHS Fife who played any part in this must be accountable. I struggle to see how they stay in post. They wasted masses of NHS money on their trans-rights crusade.' Mrs Peggie had accused NHS Fife and Dr Upton of breaching the Equality Act, and filed claims against both for discrimination, harassment and victi-

'A huge win for a tenacious woman'

misation. However, all but the harassment claim against NHS Fife were dismissed.

Last night, Mrs Peggie, who has 30 years of unblemished service, said: 'I am delighted that the tribunal has found that my employer, Fife Health Board, harassed me.

'The last two years have been ago-nising for me and my family.'

Biologically male: Dr Beth Upton

Scottish Tory equalities spokesman Tess White said: 'NHS Fife shamefully tried to silence a nurse who stood up for women's rights, then squandered a fortune... defending their harassment of her.'

Yesterday, employment judge Sandy Kemp said NHS Fife had harassed Mrs Peggie because it did not revoke Dr Upton's permission to use the female changing room temporarily until a new rota meant they would not work together.

Mr Kemp said this failure meant Dr Upton encountered Mrs Peggie in the facility several times in 2023 and on Christmas Eve that year. He also said they took an 'unreasonable length of time' to investigate allegations against her.

Margaret Gribbon, Mrs Peggie's solicitor, said it was a 'huge win for a tenacious, courageous woman'.

The tribunal in Dundee had considered the Supreme Court's ruling in April which clarified that, in legal terms, sex is biological.

But it said it was not inherently unlawful for a biologically male trans female to be given permission to use a female changing room at work – the problem was that the health trust did not also respect Mrs Peggie's rights as a woman.

Maya Forstater, of the sex-based rights charity Sex Matters, said: 'Sandie's bravery is an inspiration, but it shouldn't require bravery for women to be able to say to their employers that male colleagues – men, in other words – have no place in spaces that exist for the safety, dignity and privacy of women.'

Last night, NHS Fife said: 'The tribunal unanimously dismissed all of the claimant's allegations against Dr Upton and all of the allegations against the board apart from four specific aspects of the harassment complaint. Our focus now is to ensure NHS Fife remains a supportive and inclusive environment for all employees and our patients.'

Tsunami hits Japan after massive quake

By Perkin Amalaraj

A POWERFUL 7.6 magnitude earthquake struck Japan yesterday, triggering a tsunami.

The tidal wave hit the north-eastern coast following the earthquake 50 miles out to sea.

Video footage showed buildings and stationary vehicles trembling as the ground shook violently during the quake, which was estimated to have happened 33 miles below the earth's surface. More than 20 people were injured, including one seriously.

On Japan's one to seven scale of seismic intensity, the tremor registered as an ‘upper six’ in Hachinohe city, Aomori prefecture.

Tsunami warnings were issued for the prefectures of Hokkaido, Aomori and Iwate, and high waves were observed at several ports. 'There is a possibility that further powerful and stronger earthquakes could occur over the next several days,' an official at the Japan Meteorological Agency said.

Japan accounts for about 20 per cent of the world's earthquakes of magnitude 6.0 or greater.

In 2011 the country was struck by a 9.0 magnitude quake that killed thousands. The resulting tsunami damaged the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, leading to the world's worst nuclear disaster for 25 years. This time no issues were reported at nuclear power plants in the region.

Bitter divorce battle: Countess Spencer

Historic home: Archaeologist Professor Jarman had worked on a dig at Earl Spencer's Althorp estate

Spencer's wife and his girlfriend settle privacy row... and he'll pay most of bill

By Inderdeep Bains

Deputy Chief Reporter

EARL Spencer's estranged wife has settled her bitter privacy battle with his new girlfriend – but he must foot a big part of the hefty legal bill.

Karen Spencer has been embroiled in a lengthy High Court row with her husband's partner Professor Cat Jarman, 43, who accused her of disclosing her private medical information.

The countess, 53, has agreed to settle the case – without accepting liability – on the proviso the earl will ‘indemnify’ her separately as part of their divorce settlement.

The row between the women is estimated to have racked up costs of £2.2 million after Professor Jarman, who has been dating the earl, 61, for more than a year, issued the claim in the High Court in October 2024.

The Norwegian archaeologist accused Countess Spencer of disclosing to the earl and others without her consent that she had multiple sclerosis, which was a ‘misuse of private information’.

In July, a court heard that both parties had reached an agreement on future esti-

New love: Earl Spencer and Cat Jarman

mated legal costs amounting to more than £2.2million. But the countess has now agreed to settle after following the advice of an arbitrator overseeing her divorce, thought to be in its final stages.

The total cost to be paid by Earl Spencer is said to be 'hotly disputed' between the former couple, who are yet to agree on how the final sum should be calculated, according to court documents.

A spokesman for Countess Spencer said the issue has 'been resolved in an agreed settlement', adding: 'Countess Spencer considers her position fully vindicated.

"There was no admission of liability or wrongdoing and Earl Spencer has been ordered to pay the legal costs, which are in excess of £2million, together with £4,500 in damages to be paid to his girlfriend Cat Jarman.

'Countess Spencer sincerely hopes this will mark the end of the matter.'

However, Professor Jarman claimed the move as vindication of her legal action. She

'Racked up costs of £2.2million'

said: 'As someone living with multiple sclerosis, I have the unquestionable right to decide when and how to share such sensitive details.

‘Pursuing the claim was a necessary and principled step to protect that right, as well as my career and livelihood.

'The matter has now been resolved after the other party chose to settle the claim, and I regard that outcome as a clear vindication of my decision to take action.

'I am relieved to be able to move forward and glad the other side saw sense... I acted on principle and to defend my privacy at a time when it had been seriously violated.'

In court documents, the countess accused her husband of having an affair with Professor Jarman, who was digging for a Roman villa at his Althorp ancestral home.

She said her disclosures were ‘entirely justified and legitimate’ given the way she was treated.

The Canadian-born social entrepreneur became Earl Spencer's third wife in 2011, and they have an 11-year-old daughter. The countess was informed by the earl on March 19 last year that 'their marriage was over after almost 13 years'.

'He did this by text message,' said her defence papers, adding: 'Having given up her life in the US, in order to live in rural Northamptonshire and dedicate herself to sorting out the Althorp Estate business, as well having a child, the news was hideous for Lady Spencer.'

When she compared notes with Professor Jarman's ex-husband, Tom Jarman, 'she discovered their affair had been going on since at least November/December 2022', the defence stated.

During the dig, the archaeologist stayed on the Althorp estate and dined at the house. She insisted they were just friends until after the earl and countess announced their split in June last year.

Earl Spencer confirmed his relationship with Professor Jarman that October. In her legal claim, she alleges she was shocked when the countess revealed her private information to the earl.

In a interview with the Daily Mail, Professor Jarman said: 'I have worked very hard indeed to keep my MS hidden... So only a handful of people have known - and [the earl] wasn't one of them.

'I'd been seeing him, romantically, for only two or three months, and still hadn't told him.' She alleges Earl Spencer's wife 'found out from someone close to me' and told her husband.

The earl has denied ending his marriage by text and insisted it was his wife who wanted a divorce.

Leadership plotting in the open as Labour members asked who should replace PM

Sir Keir signs up to 'banned' app TikTok

Follow me: Sir Keir and his wife Lady Starmer in the PM's debut TikTok video

By James Tapsfield

RUMOURS over Sir Keir Starmer's future grew yesterday after the group that helped put him in power began sounding out views on a successor.

Think-tank Labour Together has quietly asked local parties who could replace the Prime Minister amid doubts he can hang on.

The latest manoeuvring comes at a time of intense speculation about the intentions of Angela Rayner and Wes Streeting.

However, despite fury over the Budget and a disastrous first 17 months in power for Sir Keir, top economists have warned that a lurch to the Left could make the problems even worse.

Capital Economics is among the analysts to have suggested that a more Left-wing successor could be seen negatively by markets.

Skills minister Baroness Smith yesterday said she was 'frustrated' by the speculation about Sir Keir's future. She claimed the survey by Labour Together – formerly headed by Sir Keir's chief of staff Morgan McSweeney – was 'very wide ranging'. She added:

'Keir Starmer's in the job – he's doing a good job.'

The Labour Together survey asked who has 'the best chance' of leading the party to 'electoral victory at the next general election' instead of Sir Keir, according to The Times. It listed eight options, including five Cabinet

SIR Keir Starmer has joined TikTok – even though the app is barred from Government devices.

In a bid to woo young voters, the Prime Minister opened an account on the social media app, and kicked off with a video of himself and Lady Starmer in Downing Street, urging users to 'follow me' as he went outside to turn on the Christmas lights. Tik-

ministers: Mr Streeting, Shabana Mahmood, Bridget Phillipson, Ed Miliband and Darren Jones.

Ms Rayner, Manchester Mayor Andy Burnham and newly-installed deputy leader Lucy Powell were also named.

Respondents were invited to place each politician on a 'Left to

By James Tapsfield

Tok, which is owned by the Chinese firm ByteDance and is used by 30million people in the UK, but has been barred from Government devices since 2023 over security concerns, although MPs can have it on their own phones.

Sir Keir is currently preparing for a crucial trade trip to China next month.

Right scale' of 'very Left-wing' to 'very Right-wing'. There were also questions about who the members would support in a head-to-head.

Sir Keir has praised the 'hugely talented' Ms Rayner following claims she is plotting a bid for No 10. The PM has used an interview to stress that 'of course' he misses Ms Rayner, his former deputy prime minister, and that he was 'really sad that we lost her' after she was forced to quit over a tax scandal.

In an apparent bid to discourage her from a revolt, Sir Keir explicitly said he wants her back in his Cabinet. His aides are reported to have hinted she could be given her old job or handed Ms Phillipson's education brief in a reshuffle next year. Claims have emerged that allies

'Really sad that we lost her'

of Health Secretary Mr Streeting are pressing Ms Rayner to sign up to a 'joint ticket' for the leadership, with the promise of a return to the deputy prime minister role if she throws her support behind him. However, Ms Rayner has reportedly resisted and is instead preparing her own bid for No 10 after the local elections in May, with an ally telling The Mail on Sunday: 'She wants to be free to develop her own agenda.'

By Jason Groves Political Editor

ANGELA Rayner last night warned Sir Keir Starmer against making further concessions on her flagship workers' rights bill.

In a pointed intervention, the former deputy prime minister told the Commons it was 'not the time to blink or buckle' on legislation boosting the right to strike, which employers warn will cost the economy billions.

The Prime Minister faced a Labour backlash last month when he ditched a manifesto commitment to give workers the right to claim unfair dismissal from their first day in a new job.

Government sources said the climb-down was needed to get the new law through the House of Lords, where it has been bogged down for months.

Ms Rayner last night warned those in the Lords that there was 'no more time

'Manifesto on which we were elected'

to waste' as she accused peers of siding with 'vested interests to resist the manifesto on which we were elected'.

During a debate on the Bill, at a time when she is being touted as a potential successor to Sir Keir as Labour leader, she described the reversal on day one rights as a ‘tough decision’ and urged ministers to make no more concessions.

'Now is not the time to blink or buckle,'

Broadside: Rayner in the Commons last night

Now is not the time to think of she said. 'Let's not wait a minute more – it's time to deliver.'

Former Labour frontbencher Andy McDonald savaged the Lords for frustrating a manifesto commitment – and that ministers should not have given way.

'The Lords should not block mandates and ministers should not capitulate,' he said.

Ms Rayner's appearance in the Commons came as analysis suggested that her Bill could cost the economy as much as £38billion. Research by the Growth Commission think-tank found that plans to remove the cap on payouts for unfair dismissal claims could double the expected cost of the legislation to businesses.

MPs were last night expected to throw out a string of attempts by peers to water down the Employment Rights Bill, despite its threats to the economy.

In a surprise move last month, ministers agreed to drop a manifesto pledge to give workers the right to claim unfair dismissal from their first day in a new job.

In a compromise they will be able to lodge a claim after six months in post – down from the current two years. But ministers agreed to scrap the £118,223 cap – potentially opening the door to huge claims. The move came following discussions between ministers and Ms Rayner, who championed the Bill in Government.

Employment law firm Lewis

Silkin warned the 'seismic' change 'does not sound like a recipe for growth'. The British Chambers of Commerce said the plan would be 'hugely damaging'.

Even after the Government watered down the day one rights, the Growth Commission forecast the Bill would cost the economy £23billion over five years.

Last night the think-tank warned that removing the cap on unfair dismissal claims could add another £15billion to the cost.

Chairman Shanker Singham said: 'This single piece of legislation continues to severely curtail the Government's growth ambitions. Ministers would do well to remember that what chills the ability to fire, chills the ability to hire as the UK labour force participation rate continues to drop.'

Tory business spokesman Andrew Griffith urged ministers to think again but warned they seemed determined to 'snuff out jobs and slow the economy with

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their red tape'. He said the latest proposals would be 'ruinously expensive for small businesses, and in the public sector it will leave the taxpayer on the hook for huge payouts for failure at the expense of our public services'.

Meanwhile, it emerged that employers will be required to hand out what Mr Griffith called 'pro-union propaganda' to staff as part of the latest changes to the legislation. The Government will draw up an approved statement to prevent 'hostile' employers discouraging membership.

Unions hope the move – and others in the Bill – will help halt a long decline in membership.

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Supercar carnage McLarens smashed as truck hits showroom

Wrecked: The pickup inside the showroom. Inset: View from outside shows the pickup has hit the rear of a black McLaren

By Andy Dolan

THIS was the expensive scene of carnage after a pickup truck slammed into a supercar showroom and struck two McLaren.

A black 750S Spider worth £270,000 and an orange GT worth £105,000 were damaged after the Isuzu pickup apparently careered across a main road from a pub car park opposite.

It smashed through a window, dislodged a metal beam and ploughed into the showroom at Hockley Heath, near Solihull, in the West Midlands. A man in his 30s was later arrested.

Luckily, the Ryland Specialist Cars dealership, which sells McLarens, Rolls-Royces and Lamborghiniis, was closed at the time of the incident on Sunday afternoon.

One man was taken to hospital with minor injuries. West Midlands Police stayed at the scene overnight while private security were called to protect the supercars. A worker at The Wharf pub opposite the dealership told the Daily Mail that the pickup truck had been parked there for 'an hour or two' before smashing into the showroom.

But the worker, who asked not to be named, said: 'We checked the CCTV and the driver had not been in the pub prior to this incident. None of us in the pub had seen him before.'

The pub, part of the 25-strong Stout and Stone Inns group, closed following the incident.

A witness said following the accident the driver attempted to force his way in to the pub. A

West Midlands Police spokesman said: 'We were called around 3.45pm on December 7 after the vehicle was driven into a car showroom in Hockley Heath. A nearby pub's window was also damaged, and a number of people reported being threatened nearby. A man in his

30s was arrested on suspicion of criminal damage.'

The force said the suspect remained in custody last night.

A McLaren spokesman confirmed the incident but added: 'As this is an active police investigation, we are unable to comment on the matter further.'

Doctors urged to call off strike as flu outbreak closes schools

NHS waiting lists are STILL not falling

By Shaun Wooller, Health Editor

By Mark Duell

MEDICAL leaders yesterday called for an end to the doctors' pay strikes as they warned that this year's flu season could be the worst on record.

They said the action by resident doctors will 'cause mayhem' as a virulent strain of flu sweeps across the country.

Schools have already been forced to shut and hospitals are filling up with huge numbers of flu patients.

The Academy of Medical Royal Colleges warned that cases of the ‘particularly virulent flu taking hold’ are expected to peak just as the doctors walk out from December 17 to 22.

NHS hospitals are failing to make meaningful progress on cutting waiting lists despite becoming more productive, a report reveals.

The academy, which represents the UK's royal colleges, has called on the militant British Medical Association to tell hospital bosses how many doctors plan to be off so they can plan accord-

The number of outpatient appointments grew by 9.4 per cent in 2024/25, but patients completing their treatment rose by just 4 per cent.

The Institute for Fiscal Studies' report said it suggests each patient is having more appointments and operations before being removed

ingly. It also urged both parties to 'end the painful dispute'.

'Although there is no legal obligation to tell employers if they are planning on taking industrial action, this strike is being organised for what is typically one of the busiest weeks of the year in the NHS,' the academy said in a statement seen by The Times.

'First, the staff who are working will be trying to get patients home for Christmas. Second, and from the waiting list. Latest figures in September showed the waiting list was an estimated 7.39 million treatments for 6.24 million patients.

perhaps more significantly, there is considerable additional pressure being caused by a particularly virulent flu virus taking hold.

'Today there are ten times more patients in hospital beds with flu than there were at the same time two years ago. If managers were told which resident doctors are intending to take action, it would at least allow them to plan safely for emergency cover.'

Sir Jim Mackey, NHS England

The percentage of patients waiting less than 18 weeks to start treatment – the Government's target – rose from 57.2 per cent in March 2024 to 61.8 per cent in September.

chief executive, expects between 5,000 and 8,000 patients to be in hospital with flu at the end of this week, and said the strikes were 'cruel and calculated to cause mayhem' in the run up to Christmas.

Sir Jim warned the country could face its worst flu season on record – and believes the NHS faces pressures that ‘in a lot of ways will be like the Covid period’.

Behind the outbreak is a mutant strain of the influenza A (H3N2) virus. London hospitalisations have already tripled, University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS 'Trust has declared a 'critical incident' and Royal Stoke Hospital and Stafford County Hospital says it faces 'extremely high demand'.

Officials believe the surging flu rates are largely driven by a spike among children aged five to 14.

A number of schools have been forced to close, and headteachers across the UK have warned of escalating sickness rates while some schools have banned singing in assemblies in a bid to stem the spread.

St Martin's in Caerphilly, South Wales, was closed after more than 250 pupils and staff fell ill. The secondary school's headteacher, Lee Jarvis, told parents and carers there would be a 'firebreak' period, which started on Friday, with plans to reopen today.

Congleton High School in Cheshire also shut for three days to carry out a deep clean.

Take 2! Now Paramount gatecrashes Netflix bid for Warner Bros

By John-Paul Ford Rojas Deputy Business Editor

PARAMOUNT yesterday gatecrashed Netflix's blockbuster takeover of Warner Bros with a rival bid of nearly £20billion more.

It means the Hollywood giant behind films including The Godfather is making an offer that it hopes shareholders cannot refuse.

And it marks the latest chapter in a high-stakes financial thriller taking in everything from The White Lotus to the White House – and in which Donald Trump's son-in-law could play a key role.

Netflix struck the first blow last week when it agreed a £62billion takeover of Warner Bros Discovery's film studios, behind the

'It needs this deal more'

Harry Potter movies, and streaming services, including HBO, maker of Game Of Thrones. But the deal was soon picked apart by critics in the film industry – and by the US President, who said there 'could be a problem' because of the dominant market share the combined company would hold.

Meanwhile behind the scenes, bosses at Paramount – controlled by the Ellisons, a family with close ties to Mr Trump – were fuming. It had already made six offers over a 12-week period for Warner Bros Discovery, only to find itself cast aside in favour of

Netflix. Yesterday it went public with its rejected offer of £81billion – going directly to shareholders and over the head of Warner's board in what is known as a hostile bid.

Warner Bros has been a giant of the cinema industry for a century, with classic films from Citizen Kane and Casablanca

to Batman and Superman. It also owns HBO, home of The Sopranos and The White Lotus.

Paramount, which dates back to 1912, can also reel off a list of some of the world's best known films, from Breakfast At Tiffany's to Raiders Of The Lost Ark and Mission: Impossible. And its TV assets include CBS as well as Britain's Channel 5. It is also - unlike Netflix - offering to buy Warner Bros Discovery's cable assets, including news service CNN and the Discovery Channel.

Up for grabs: Harry Potter and Hermione

Its offer includes financing from Affinity Partners, an investment firm run by Mr Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner, as well as state-backed Saudi, Qatari and Abu Dhabi funds. And it is backed by Larry Ellison, the world's second-richest man.

The Ellison family, together with private equity firm RedBird Capital, owns Paramount.

Mr Ellison's son David, the boss of Paramount, said: 'We believe our offer... is in the best interests of consumers and the movie theatre industry.'

Ben Barringer, head of technology research at wealth manager Quilter Cheviot, said: 'Paramount needs this deal more than Netflix, and that may be a driving factor in the valuation it is putting on Warner Bros.

‘Paramount will hope that it has blown the streaming giant out of the water with this bid, but even if it has, any review is likely to result in a long process.’

Boo! Trigger warning for A Christmas Carol's ghosts

By Grant Tucker Entertainment Editor

A PRODUCTION of A Christmas Carol which cuts out the ghosts might be a step too far even for the most Scrooge-like theatre director.

So it is little wonder that audience members at a staging of the Charles Dickens classic in Sheffield are being left bemused when given the sobering trigger warning that the show contains a 'portrayal of ghosts'.

The Crucible Theatre is telling ticket-holders that there will be: 'Moments of mild shock and tension surrounding the appearance and disappearance of the Ghosts (visually represented)' and 'Death (implied)'.

The show, which is playing until January 10, is based on Dickens' 1843 novel in which the elderly miser Ebenezer Scrooge is visited by the ghost of his former business partner Jacob Marley and the ghosts of Christmas Past, Present and Yet to Come.

The production, which has had a string of four-star reviews, stars Doctors actor Ian Midlane as Scrooge and The Crown star Ryan O'Donnell as Bob Cratchit.

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Joey Barton is spared jail over vile posts aimed at Vine and pundits

By Ian Herbert

JOEY Barton was spared jail yesterday despite his vicious social media campaign against three TV personalities that left them in fear of being attacked by his followers.

The former footballer subjected current affairs presenter Jeremy Vine and football pundits Lucy Ward and Eni Aluko to attacks that were 'designed to humiliate', said a judge.

With 2.8million followers on social media site X, he had 'actively encouraged others to join in the abuse,' the judge at Liverpool Crown Court added.

Sentencing him to six months in jail, suspended for 18 months, Andrew Menary KC, Recorder of Liverpool, told Barton, 43, that his attack on Ms Aluko was both 'racially aggravated' and sexist.

Repeated tweets claiming that Mr Vine was a paedophile were 'deliberately harmful,' as was his attack on Ms Ward, the judge said.

Following a televised FA Cup tie in January 2024, Barton likened Ms Ward and Ms Aluko to the 'Fred and Rose West of football commentary' and went on to superimpose their faces on to a photograph of the serial killers.

Barton, who was unanimously convicted last month on six counts of sending grossly offensive electronic communications with intent to cause distress or anxiety, stared ahead in the dock as the judge told him that had undertaken 'a sustained campaign of online abuse that was targeted and extreme'.

As well as the suspended prison sentence, he was issued with restraining orders forbidding him

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Targeted: Jeremy Vine and Eni Aluko. Right: Joey Barton outside the court yesterday

to contact or post anything online about Mr Vine, Ms Aluko or Ms Ward for two years. He was ordered to pay £23,419 costs and undertake 200 hours of unpaid community service.

The former Newcastle United player had announced that he was stepping away from X.

The court also heard he had told experts preparing a sentencing report for the case that he has 'long-standing difficulties with alcohol which has contributed to difficulties in the past'.

Barton has six previous convictions, including affray and battery in 2008 and assault occasioning actual bodily harm in the same year, but Judge Menary did not view them as relevant.

He noted Barton had taken steps to moderate his online behaviour but added 'only time will tell whether this resolve endures'. Tweets with such levels of abuse as his had 'forfeited' any argument about freedom of speech, the judge added.

In a victim impact statement, Ms Aluko described Barton's attack on her as 'the most abhorrent, extreme and offensive criticism I've ever experienced'. She said she had become frightened to leave her home, adding: 'The fact my name can be Googled and attached to the West serial killers makes me sick to the core.'

In her statement, Ms Ward said: 'I will never be able to adequately explain the fear, humiliation and pain I have felt.' She called the post comparing her to Rose West an 'abomination' and said it had been viewed 3.5 million times.

She added that Barton had 'weaponised his fanbase against me' and 'destroyed the job I love'.

Warning over party balloons linked to cancer

BALLOONS being sold online in the UK contain illegal levels of cancer-causing chemicals, experts have warned.

An investigation by consumer champion Which? discovered products with high concentrations of toxic nitrosamines – carcinogenic compounds found in tobacco that are produced during industrial manufacturing.

Many of the balloons were marketed to children, featuring superheroes, for example, with researchers worried they could be exposed to

By Jonathan Chadwick

the chemicals by putting them in their mouth – either when blowing them up or during play.

Which? purchased 21 packs of latex balloons from seven online marketplaces – eBay, Amazon, AliExpress, Debenhams, Temu, Shein and The Range, which is also sold at Wilko.

Results showed eight contained concentrations of nitrosamines above the UK's permitted limit. One balloon from AliExpress contained more than six times the legally permitted level, while eBay and The Range both sold balloons that registered more than four times higher.

Sue Davies, head of consumer rights at Which?, said exposing children to high concentrations of carcinogens was ‘outrageous’, adding: ‘Seemingly innocent items like party balloons can have serious health consequences.’

AliExpress, The Range, Debenhams, Wilko, Shein, eBay and Amazon said they have removed from sale the balloons identified by Which? .

As Harry's UK security is 'reviewed' 2 in 5 say HE should pay

By Rebecca English Royal Editor

MANY Britons believe that Prince Harry should be given police protection when he is in the UK – but only if he pays for it himself, according to a poll.

Two in five (39 per cent) say that the former working royal should personally fund officers to guard himself and his family if they were to visit from their home in California.

However, this is something that the Home Office has previously strongly argued cannot be allowed to happen, because it would effectively make the Metropolitan Police ‘guns for hire’.

The figures come amid reports that the King's estranged son has won a Home Office review of the decision to strip him of his 24-hour, taxpayer-funded armed guard on visits to the UK, after he quit royal duties and moved to the

'A Home Office reassessment'

US in search of a lucrative commercial career.

He lost a High Court appeal in May over the move, which he vehemently criticised as an ‘establishment stitch-up’.

The YouGov poll of more than 8,000 adults poll found that more than a quarter (28 per cent) say that Prince Harry should not be entitled to any protection at all.

Just one in six (17 per cent) said that he should be entitled to protection funded entirely by the state, with 16 per cent saying they did not know.

It now appears, however, that the Home Office, via its risk management board Ravec, has ordered a risk reassessment of his situation that could pave the way for his security in the UK to be reinstated.

A decision is due next month, with supporters of the prince suggesting that it could pave the way for him to bring his family back to Britain to visit.

The King has not seen his grandchildren Archie and Lilibet since 2022.

Now PM must keep promises on defence

SIR Keir Starmer loves nothing more as Prime Minister than taking on the role of international statesman.

He's never happier than when convening summits or travelling around pledging the UK's support to solve the world's problems.

Yesterday was one such occasion. He welcomed Volodymyr Zelensky and the leaders of France and Germany to No10 to discuss a peace plan aimed at ending Russia's war with Ukraine.

Sir Keir reaffirmed his promise that Britain would not falter in its backing of Kyiv against Vladimir Putin's tyranny.

Any deal, he said, would require 'hard-edged security guarantees' to ensure the Kremlin didn't restart the war. Britain also stood ready to commit troops to any peace-keeping effort. But how serious is he?

As Sir Keir met his counterparts, the head of the Royal Navy launched a broadside over Labour's failure to boost defence funding.

General Sir Gwyn Jenkins warned that because our adversaries are investing heavily in military capabilities, the Government urgently needed to 'step up'.

Sir Keir talks a decent game on security. He has promised to boost defence spending to 2.5 per cent of GDP by 2027, then hit Nato's 5 per cent target within a decade.

Yet shamefully, Labour couldn't find a penny more for defence in the Budget. Instead, it chose to splurge an extra £16billion on welfare to give the occupants of Benefits Street a cushier life.

Who, then, will provide the ‘security guarantees’ Sir Keir is seeking for Ukraine? Angry that Europe has failed to pay its share of Nato costs over many years, Donald Trump is adamant it will not be the US.

For all Sir Keir's bravado, nor is it likely to be Britain. Dangerously cut to the bone, our depleted Armed Forces are in no position to shoulder any burden.

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SEVEN months have elapsed since Sir Keir reluctantly ordered a full inquiry into the grooming gangs but it has still not started.

This was one of the darkest episodes in modern Britain. The state – social workers, the police, local politicians – deliberately covered up the mass rape and torture of white and Sikh girls by gangs of mostly Pakistani Muslims for fear of being called racist and damaging community relations.

Labour ran many of the councils where this evil flourished, so the party is petrified of what might come out. That's why it wants to kick this scandal into the long grass.

But now Tory leader Kemi Badenoch is taking up the case. Having spoken to survivors, she has proposed an alternative inquiry. It would be judge-led and, crucially, leave 'no stone unturned', with a focus on the ethnicity and cultural backgrounds of those who committed these bestial crimes. This is the least the victims deserve.

Sir Keir has remained largely silent. Last week, he said ending child poverty was his 'moral mission'. If only he seemed to care as much about child rape.

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SIR Keir's pious promise to lead a Government of the highest standards has also gone out of the window.

Barely three months after Angela Rayner resigned in disgrace as deputy PM for dodging stamp duty, our self-righteous leader already plans to bring her back into his Cabinet. He has little choice, though.

With Labour MPs plotting to topple him, Sir Keir has to appease the Left of his party – and Ms Rayner is their de facto leader.

So much for integrity. When in a jam, he puts political survival before propriety.

THERE are not many moments in my adult life when I have felt genuinely afraid.

Yet that is precisely what I felt last week in a room in Westminster as I listened to a panel of clinicians speaking at a meeting convened by Health Secretary Wes Streeting.

Wes Streeting has sanctioned a grotesque experiment in puberty blocking drugs on children – to suck up to the Labour Left

I had joined MPs from across the political spectrum to question the Government's decision to launch Pathways, the £10.7million trial announced last month that will put more than 200 vulnerable children on puberty blockers in a bid to collect data on the drugs' side-effects and outcomes.

I use the word 'trial' but, let's be honest, this is an experiment. A state-sanctioned exercise which, no matter how it is dressed up, and no matter how many layers of bureaucratic reassurances are wrapped around it, risks causing profound and lifelong harm.

It is, in my view, perilously close to child abuse.

My peers and I had gathered in the faint hope that this meeting might help allay some of our most profound concerns.

Instead, we emerged more alarmed than when we went in. And, united in the belief that this trial, if allowed to proceed, could devastate the physical, psychological, sexual and reproductive health of children who deserve protection, not experimentation.

How can any government preside over such a process? How, indeed, can the Health Secretary proclaim, with a straight face, that this trial has ‘ethics and safety’ at its heart? The more closely one looks, the more that phrase rings hollow – especially when you consider where we were just a year ago.

On December 11, 2024, Streeting stood at the despatch box and announced an indefinite ban on puberty blockers for under-18s.

Concerns

He said that the risks were too great and the uncertainties too extensive – as forcefully spelled out in the landmark Cass Report last year, the most comprehensive examination of gender medicine for children this country has undertaken.

Commissioned by NHS England in 2020 because of a surge in referrals and concerns about care quality, particularly at London's Gender Identity Development Service (GIDS), commonly known as the Tavistock Clinic, Dr Hilary Cass's review was unsparing in its conclusions.

She argued that the evidence base behind puberty blockers was 'remarkably weak' and criticised the 'gender-affirming' model that had taken root at the discredited Tavistock, a model that funnelled distressed children – many of them autistic, traumatised, gay or simply confused about their sexuality – on to a potentially dangerous conveyor belt with insufficient data to justify it.

Dr Cass advised caution and stressed the importance of both an evidence-based approach and safeguarding.

After all, the consequences of rushing vulnerable young people into irreversible medical treatments could be catastrophic.

Confronted by such inarguable findings, Streeting had little choice but to announce that indefinite ban.

The feeling that some

by Sarah Pochin

common sense had been restored to this fractious debate was further enhanced in April this year when the Supreme Court ruled that the legal definition of a 'woman' is based on biological sex and not 'gender identity' – a finding that has had profound social implications in areas such as the presence of trans-identified males in women's prisons and on sports teams.

So what precisely has changed between December last year and today? Has new evidence emerged showing that puberty blockers are safe? Absolutely not. What has changed instead is the political direction of travel.

Risk

The trans-rights lobby is one of the most powerful ideological forces in modern British politics – and has captured a large proportion of the Parliamentary Labour Party and its activists.

Far from acting in the best interests of children, the Health Secretary now appears instead to be performing a political juggling act to keep that group onside. In other words: Politics first, children second.

At last Wednesday's meeting all of the clinicians who would be overseeing the Pathways trial appeared either unable or unwilling to answer the most basic questions about safety, risk and eligibility.

I asked whether there would be a cut-off age for the youngest participants (thus far, we have only been told that the trial will be limited to under-16s.

The panel simply refused to answer my question. Shockingly, not one of them would rule out children as young as seven or eight – or perhaps even younger – being accepted as participants.

This conjured up the unconscionable spectacle of children who still believe in Father Christmas being offered drugs that halt fundamental biological processes. Do we really believe that such children are capable of giving full and informed consent?

And this was not the only issue that concerned me deeply. They also refused to exclude participants with 'pre-existing vulnerabilities' – such as children who are autistic, in care, struggling with anxiety, depression, ADHD or other mental health problems. On the contrary, we were told that their participation would be welcomed.

The trial appears to going ahead without the most basic duty of care. And, given what we know about the potential risks to the children taking part, this is truly disturbing.

We already know that puberty blockers can damage bone density, disrupt sexual development and affect fertility. There is evidence, too, of an effect on brain development. And that is before we even consider the psychological harm.

The truth is that no one knows the full extent of the risks – and the idea of children being pumped with puberty blockers amid such uncertainty is morally indefensible.

The issue of parental and other consent is also crucial. Who will give consent for children in care, and who will be accountable if harm follows? These are fundamental ethical questions.

We must speak plainly. There is no guaranteed way back for children given puberty blockers – the kind of drugs that have also been used to chemically castrate sex offenders in America, Canada and some European countries.

The vast majority of children on puberty blockers go on to take cross-sex hormones, which help their bodies develop the physical characteristics of the opposite sex, such as facial hair or breasts. And some clearly later regret it.

Pressure

Brave detransitioners such as Keira Bell – who have undergone such cross-sex treatment only to regret it, and who have spoken out about its dangers – have said they were rushed into treatments they did not understand, that their mental-health needs were ignored, and that, in some cases, they were left with permanent damage.

These accounts crystallise what any rational being knows to be true: that a significant number of children experiencing gender distress are likely to resolve these feelings naturally by the end of puberty.

They do not need drugs but time, support, therapeutic care – and a culture that allows them to grow without ideological pressure.

That is why a number of us, from all parties, are standing together to oppose this trial vehemently. It is not about Left or Right. It is about protecting children – which is our duty as legislators and, for many of us, as parents. It cannot, must not, be allowed to happen.

■ SARAH POCHIN is the Reform UK MP for Runcorn and Helsby.

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ANGELA Rayner isn't back in the Cabinet yet, but she might just as well be.

Everybody out! Angry Ginge Rayner is planning to take us back to the mayhem of the 1970s

Angry Ginge may currently be serving a three-match ban, after getting a red card for not paying tax, but her crusade to increase the power of the trades unions is being enthusiastically pursued by the Government.

Under the guise of extending ‘workers’ rights’, employers will be compelled to distribute pro-union propaganda to all staff. They will be legally required to hand out leaflets outlining the right of employees to join a union, along with the benefits on offer, and pointing them in the direction of any unions recognised in their workplace.

Ministers say the move is aimed at stopping 'hostile' employers discouraging union membership. But who are these bosses? Certainly not in the public sector, where the State is the employer and positively encourages union membership.

No, it's yet another punitive measure aimed at the productive, wealth-creating arm of the economy, along with suffocating regulation and sky-high taxes and energy

In this post-shame age, we can't rule anything out

costs. It will make bosses think twice about hiring new staff and hit the very ‘working people’ Labour claims to care about.

The jobs market has already collapsed as a result of Rachel Reeves' two disastrous Budgets. Not that ministers appear to care about rising unemployment. They'd apparently rather people languished on benefits than took a job without a union card.

Employees already have the freedom to join a union. Or not, as the case may be. But this legislation will give militant union officials the go-ahead to indulge in a little light arm-twisting.

Backed by the Government's seal of approval they will be inclined to tell refuseniks: Sign here, or else.

Then, once safely within the union ranks, they can be intimidated into taking part in strikes. One out, all out, bruvver.

The unions have already got a stranglehold on the public sector – this is aimed at extending it into the private sector, too. Industrial action these days is almost exclusively confined to the public, or quasi-public, sector – junior doctors, train drivers, Birmingham binmen.

There's a reason for that. Since I was a labour correspondent in the Seventies and Eighties, TUC membership has fallen by half to around six million – virtually all of them employed by central or local government or some other State organisation.

Union membership in private companies has collapsed, largely because the economy has diversified and there are more small businesses than ever before. But also because union militancy in the 1980s bankrupted many private companies and drove international conglomerates such as Ford abroad.

Reforms brought in by the Thatcher governments freed private enterprise from the dead hand of the trades unions, sparking an economic revival. Managers were free to manage, without having to seek the approval of Arthur Scargill wannabes on the works committee.

If this legislation is enacted, it will be the start of a slippery slope towards the reintroduction of the closed shop, abolished by the Tories 40-odd years ago. The destiny of private companies, and by extension those who work for them, will once again be in the hands of truculent union officials.

The ghost of Fred Kite, from the brilliant Boulting Brothers' satire I'm All Right, Jack, is once again haunting the corridors of power.

Britain's post-war decline can be directly attributed to weak Terry-Thomas style management and craven politicians caving into bombastic union leaders over beer and sandwiches.

Yet Labour and the TUC appear intent on turning the clock back and partying like it's 1979, until the Winter of Discontent ushered in a Conservative government under Margaret Thatcher hell-bent on smashing the sclerotic socialism which had brought this country to its knees.

Rayner's Employment Rights Bill now going through Parliament will take us back to the future, making it easier to call strikes and forcing employers to accept collective bargaining even when union members are in a minority.

Significantly, it's being held up in the Lords, which contains many of the more sensible union leaders who were around in the Eighties, and are alert to the dangers of restoring some of the powers ceded back then.

Yet that hasn't stopped some of the current crop of union class warriors resorting to the most ludicrous language to justify it. Take Christina McAnea, leader of Rayner's old union Unison – an amalgamation of NUPE and NALGO (Where the music takes me): 'Barons, earls and viscounts never worry about being sacked by an unpleasant boss. But sadly many people do.'

She'll be claiming next that children are being sent back up chimneys. This latest move is a blatant sop to the unions by the Prime Minister, after Britain's biggest union Unite threatened to pull donations because, wait for it, the Government isn't Left-wing enough.

You couldn't, etc.

Still, what else should we expect from spineless Surkeir? He's currently in a battle for his own survival and that of his hapless Chancellor. He's even grovelling to Rayner, who was forced to resign a few short months ago after failing to pay £40,000 stamp duty on her luxury seaside apartment in Hove. Actually, hundreds of miles south of her own northern constituency.

In a toe-curling interview at the weekend, the PM ladled praise on his disgraced former deputy and said he couldn't wait to have her back in the Cabinet.

There's even talk that an HMRC inquiry will find that she made an 'inadvertent error', thus relieving her of the obligation to pay a £12,000 fine and even the outstanding amount of tax.

Of course there is, just as Rachel From Complaints had no idea she needed a licence to let her South London home.

According to Surkeir, both women are victims of 'misogyny'. Give me strength. They have managed to rise to two of the highest offices in the land, but the moment they are caught with their knickers in a twist because of avoidable personal financial irregularities, it's all the fault of those horrid, beastly men.

Rachel's hanging in there because she's a human shield for Starmer. If she goes, he goes. But Ginge is another kettle of seafood altogether.

As one of her supporters put it: 'Starmer's terrified of her.'

That's because her powerbase is in the realm of the unions. She's a former official and owes her seat in Parliament to union patronage. Once in Government she was determined to repay that debt, hence the Employment Rights Bill.

We are now told that Ginge is 'considering her options', including a tilt at the top job. If you ever doubted that we live in a post-shame age (Huw Edwards, anyone?) look no further than Rayner, a woman utterly lacking in self-awareness and with an obvious contempt for decency and democracy.

Whenever a Tory was caught with his hand in the till or his trousers round his ankles, there she was: screeching like a fishwife, demanding blood.

Now it's her turn on the ducking stool she expects a quick dip and then a fast-track back to

You won't get Ange, she's part of the union

the top table. Her exaggerated sense of entitlement is nauseating. In that respect, she really is the female embodiment of her distinguished predecessor Two Jags, another Labour politician who decided the working class could kiss his wossname.

It's not the 'barons, earls and viscounts' in the box seat these days, it's the Rayners of this world wrapping themselves in ermine and abusing the fundamental 'rights' of the working people she pretends to champion.

As I've written before, if she had a shred of decency she would have resigned her seat, not just her office, and offered herself for re-election.

Surely the good people of her Ashton-under-Lyne constituency should have the 'right' to pass judgment on her failing to pay £40,000 stamp duty and buying an expensive 'principal residence' in a swanky South Coast seaside resort, while posing as a working-class northern lass.

Instead, she's ploughing ahead with her plans to make a return to the front line with obscene, indecent haste and still, risibly, thinks she's a fit and proper person to be our next Prime Minister.

And you know what? In this post-shame age, I wouldn't rule it out. She's greased the right palms, politically speaking, and is looking forward to payback time.

She's not back in the Cabinet yet, but she will be, sooner rather later after serving her brief three-match ban. Those who thought she was finished must think again.

You won't get Ange, she's part of the union.

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Every time a bell rings, an angel gets his wings. It's A Wonderful Life

Angels ARE real — and I came face to face with one at my door just last week

M Y four-year-old granddaughter is an angel in her school nativity play today and I will be there, with all the other grandmas, clutching my tissues as I watch and weep a little with pride.

We were rehearsing her lines – well, one line – on Sunday (she's very much a Dorries girl and quite put out she didn't have more) when she asked me: 'Are angels real?'

I told her that of course they were real, and not only in heaven but in real life, too.

My granddaughter's question was a poignant and deeply personal one for me because, just days earlier, I believe I met an angel in human form, as I shall explain.

Some may mock, but it's part of my Liverpool/Irish background to have never doubted the existence of angels. My father would say prayers with me and my brother John every night, asking the angels who stood at each corner to 'bless the beds that we lay on'.

Dad died at 42 and I lost my brother in an accident when he was just 27. This is the time of year when I feel closer to them and others I have loved and lost.

Yesterday was the birthday of my late husband, Paul, and as I stood at his graveside I was swamped by memories, not only of the many times that angels had stepped into our lives to support us, but of one Christmas when we helped a young man in need. I believe he – or at least his spirit – was the angel I met.

It was an early December night some 20 years ago when one of my daughters told me about

David, a teenage boy at her school, who was sleeping in a garden shed. The temperature outside was -4C. I was horrified. Why? I asked her.

It seemed his mother had left the family home and taken his sister with her, and that his father wouldn't run him the six miles to school. The only way he could get to lessons in time was to sleep in the shed at a friend's house.

I told my daughter to get dressed, and Paul drove her to retrieve David who was as thin as a rake, white and shivering. I doubt he'd been eating more than the one free school meal he got each day. He had only the clothes he stood up in and no coat. I would later discover he was very short-sighted but had no glasses.

David stayed with us for six months, sat his GCSEs, and moved out when he got a job. By then he was a stone heavier, with a decent wardrobe of clothes – and that vital pair of spectacles.

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IS father had never made contact, although his mother

and sister did, just once, in the days leading up to Christmas.

They had a cup of tea, used the bathroom and left - taking with them my make-up bag and a ring I had left by the sink. I never told David.

I was disappointed that David failed to stay in contact after he left us, but then one day, between the following Christmas and New Year, he appeared at the door with a box of Milk Tray for me, and a bottle of red wine for Paul.

He joined us for breakfast and was full of exciting news about his job and a new girlfriend. Six

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Don't tell me what to do, Kate

KATE WINSLET, 50, usually photographed in full red carpet mode and no doubt with a stylist on speed dial, is back on her soap box.

She claims young women don't know what true beauty is and criticises the use of cosmetic surgery, fat jabs and other treatments. Look, I get what she means. Some of the trout

months later, when we heard that he had taken his own life, Paul and I were broken with sadness. It had been a relationship issue, and he hadn't had the emotional resilience to cope.

Life had dealt him one too many rejections. This time there were no angels to rescue him.

Fast forward to last week and a burst tyre late on another cold December night. I had to take my granddaughter to school the following morning, so it was a minor catastrophe.

One phone call, and an angel appeared at the door wearing an AA uniform. I found myself reeling in shock. He was David.

He looked like David: he had his eyes, and he sounded and smiled just like David.

He went the extra million miles for us - it wasn't a straightforward tyre change - and had the pout lip jobs and filler-distorted faces I see are grotesque and I don't understand why the women themselves can't see it.

But as a 68-year-old who loves a tweakment, I object to the naturally beautiful Winslet telling me what to do. Rein it in, Kate, we're not all as blessed as you are.

car sorted for the following morning. As I closed the front door, I said to my daughter: 'Who did he remind you of?'. Without hesitation she replied: 'David.'

Neither of us said any more because it was just too out of the ordinary to explain. But in my heart, I was thinking, David has his wings!

I don't believe it was a coincidence that someone looking and sounding like David had appeared at my door on what was very possibly the anniversary of the night we had first met him, to do something good for us.

And, as I think about those I've loved and lost this Christmas time, I will take comfort from the fact that I truly believe angels walk among us.

To paraphrase a line from the Abba song, they are here, in the good of everything we see.

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THE daily and almost incessant attacks on Nigel Farage and Reform take me back to the early days of supporting Boris Johnson.

Similarly, the attacks came thick and fast and failed to stand up to scrutiny. No matter: the lie, as they say, was halfway around the world before the truth had got its boots on.

The Left, along with a desperate Tory party, will do anything - regardless of truth or ethics - to stop Farage becoming PM. My suspicion is that the British public can now see such attacks for what they truly are.

Scourge of new-builds

OH, COME on, Alan Titchmarsh, we all now know the real reason you're selling your beautiful £4 million Hampshire home.

And it's not because you're knocking on a bit and can't look after its sprawling gardens, as you've been hinting. At 76, you're as fit as a butcher's dog.

Your move surely has everything to do with the 160 new-builds being thrown up nearby. And, believe me, I feel your pain.

We have the same problem in the Cotswolds. Villages and market towns aren't being enlarged or enhanced but destroyed. Take Moreton-in-Marsh (population around 5,000) where tens of thousands of new homes are to be built. It will be unrecognisable.

Locals feel so strongly that they have even held a mock funeral for the death of this jewel in the Cotswolds' crown.

And, making a bad situation worse, the Victorian sewers here are already struggling to cope. You can barely move along the rural lanes without bumping into Thames Water vans.

The demand for new homes is yet another downside to uncontrolled immigration – and it's a crisis that could very well end up hitting the fan someday soon.

MY prediction that the rapper Aitch would win I'm a Celebrity was short-lived, and instead influencer 'Angry Ginge' was crowned. However, for me - and so many others - the real

star of the show was Tom Read Wilson (pictured), from Celebs Go Dating. Charming, intelligent, humble and funny, there will be many rushing to sign him up. Chat shows and presenting roles await. But take your time, Tom – a star has been born!

Lammy's no-shows are called a refusal in show jumping. Time to send him to the glue factory?

WESTMINSTER SKETCH by QUENTIN LETTS

A NOTHER no-show from David Lammy. The Justice Secretary again faced a Commons urgent question about jury trials and his desire to scrap them in many cases.

Rather than face the aggro' himself he sent his under-experienced deputy, Sarah 'Baldrick' Sackman. In show jumping they

call this sort of thing a refusal. Approaching a jump, the horse suddenly sticks its front hooves in the turf and comes to a skidding halt. No number of carrots, Polo mints or whacks on the rump will change its mind. The nag froths at the bit, unleashes a torrent of urine and in general says 'neigh, missus'.

Such, at present, is Mr Lammy, our deputy PM. Time to send him to the glue factory?

Sackman KC had her second consecutive torment at the despatch box. She was this time perhaps marginally less indignant when MPs criticised the part-abolition of a jury system that is 800 years old. Mr Lammy wants those cases to be decided instead by judges. It's one way, at least, of ensuring that impertinent newspaper columnists stop accusing members of our senior judiciary of being biased blue-noses. Let's have some respect for the sozzled old walruses!

Again Ms Sackman stood with a hand in her pocket, essaying blasé confidence. Again she failed to convince.

Robert Jenrick, for the Tories, employed less of the vituperative zip he has recently brought to the Commons. Good decision. Perma-outrage can become tiresome.

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Unconvincing: Lammy's No2 Sarah Sackman yesterday

Mr Jenrick zeroed in on Mr Lammy's use of rape-case statistics to justify scrapping juries. Mr Lammy has claimed that 60 per cent of alleged rape victims withdraw from the justice system owing to court delays. This is, technical term, a porkie. After charges, the figure is more like 9 per cent.

Ms Sackman spoke as little as she could about the data. So obvious did this become that Sir Julian Lewis (Con, New Forest E) said it showed why 12 jury members were more reliable than one legal professional. Paulette Hamilton (Lab, Erdington) felt that ‘citizen involvement’ meant juries were less prey to ‘personal bias and external pressure’ than judges’ verdicts.

Karl Turner (Lab, Hull E), a barrister who thinks Mr Lammy is a Grade A plonker, arrived late. This may not have been entirely his fault, for parliamentary timings had shifted somewhat during the day, but Speaker Hoyle played by the rules and declined to let Mr Turner ask a question.

Sir Desmond Swayne (Con, New Forest W) bellowed that his old maths master always used to tell him to 'show your workings'. Where was the evidence for dismantling jury trials?

Ms Sackman finds Sir Desmond unplayable. It may be his rasping, staccato manner, his starched collars or simply those nascent muttonchops, worthy of an Edwardian fairground boxer; whatever, she was unable to produce her workings. Instead she was reduced to saying, time and again, that Whitehall would produce its 'risk assessment at the appropriate moment'. This was met with rising laughter.

Much the same happened over in the House of Lords where that tight-shirted Herbert, Treasury minister Lord Livermore, was in trouble over pre-Budget leaks. Livermore's the one who used to blub when Gordon Brown threw phones at him. Now he just has peers teasing him with disbelieving laughter.

He kept saying how 'seriously' the Reeves Treasury took Budget secrecy. Noble Lords: 'Ha ha!' Even Lord Pannick (Crossbench), complete and utter jurist, joined the baiting. Livermore, for the umpteenth time: 'We take the Budget process extremely seriously.' Noble Lords: 'Oh stop it, stop it, or we too will spring a leak!'

It took Boris's government three years to be treated with such open derision in parliament.

Late news: Ed Miliband appeared at the environmental audit committee. He has been trimming his ear hairs. Ready for his 'Ed for Labour leader' posters? The room was badly over-heated. Labour's Barry Gardiner went pink as a radish. One way to help save the planet: Adjust the radiators.

Influencers are trusted even less than politicians

By Kristina Wemyss

INFLUENCERS are the least trusted occupation in the country - ranking even lower than politicians, research has found.

Only 6 per cent of Britons believe figures on social media tell the truth - the worst score for any job since records began.

Yet it does not seem to have deterred Gen Z, with a separate poll finding a quarter of those aged between 16 and 34 still get their daily news from them.

Added to the job survey for the first time this year, influencers immediately hit the bottom, scoring below politicians (9 per cent) and advertising executives (16 per cent). Nurses, engineers and doctors continued to lead the pack as the most trusted occupations, scoring 92 per cent, 90 per cent and 85 per cent.

Two other roles were added to this year's Veracity index, historians and artists. Both ranked highly – at 79 per cent and 73 per cent – in the Ipsos poll. Journalists scored badly, with only 26 per cent trusting them to tell the truth. TV newsreaders fared better, at 45 per cent.

Mike Clemence, of Ipsos, said: 'Social media influencers have sunk directly to the bottom of the list of trusted professions. Despite this, we know that the role of influencers continues to grow.'

Inside Huw Edwards' mysterious 'comeback' and the surprising names secretly backing him on his return to public life

By Alex Doyle

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FOR decades, he was beamed into millions of households as present-er of the BBC's flagship News At Ten.

Calm and unwavering, Huw Edwards was trusted as the sober face of state occasions – the man who told the nation the late Queen Elizabeth had passed away.

And then of course his career imploded when, last July, he pleaded guilty at Westminster Magistrates Court to making indecent images of children.

Return? The picture Huw Edwards posted online

Yet little more than one year on, the Welsh newsreader and presenter appears to be paving the way for a tentative re-emergence into public life.

Last month, Edwards posted what appears to be a new professional headshot in black and white, posing with a moody expression and a salt and pepper beard.

Now, the Daily Mail can reveal Edwards has re-activated his Instagram account, which boasts 94,000 followers and was once the place where he shared behind-the-scenes pictures of his day-to-day broadcasting – and through which he messaged younger and junior male colleagues who were hoping to build careers in the industry.

HILE he has not posted on the platform since July 5,

2023 – just two days before a tabloid newspaper exposed how a BBC presenter was paying a young male in exchange for intimate pictures and videos of himself – Edwards has also opened a new Facebook account to keep in touch with his supporters and friends.

And it seems the 64-year-old has been rewarded with a surprising surge of support from former colleagues, which is yet another potential embarrassment for the beleaguered BBC.

'Bosses will surely be bewil- dered and fear that this will remind viewers of the PR nightmare,' one insider told the Daily Mail.

Despite the abhorrent nature of the material Edwards admitted he'd possessed – seven of the illegal images were in category A, the most serious, including one of a child as young as seven – it seems he retains the backing of some loyal supporters.

They include former BBC staffers who, 15 months on from his sentencing, seem delighted at his return to social media.

His online pals on Facebook include Mike Longley, former presenter and ex-head of music for BBC Wales.

Longley made it clear he continues to back Edwards and criticised the BBC for how they treated the disgraced star. 'Hi Huw, we've met several times at BBC Llandaff,' said Longley. 'Just wanted to say the way the corporation treated you was and still is a disgrace. Miss your awesome style of work. Hope you are OK.'

Edwards, a father of five, has taken advantage of Facebook's privacy settings to hide some posts and replies from view. But much remains visible to the public. Choosing a red dragon from the flag of Wales as his profile picture, Edwards states, briefly, that he is a journalist and broadcaster.

Friends standing by Edwards on his new Facebook account include Ben Bawden, a former programme director with the BBC, who previously worked on children's programme Newsround, and Ben Ando, who spent more than a decade as a BBC crime and general news correspondent.

Former BBC Radio Wales broadcaster Wyn Thomas is another Facebook friend. Commenting on Edwards's profile, he remarked: 'Looking good Huw.'

Edwards's fans include local politicians, with councillor Terry Davies of Plaid Cymru, who represents the Tyisha ward in Llanelli, writing in Welsh: 'You're worth the world Huw'. Councillor Chris Bissex-Foster of Labour for Aberbargoed was another to share her good wishes. One friend remarked: 'Looking good Huw. Best memories x.' Yet another told him to 'hurry back', while one said how Huw's absence from public life was a 'huge loss'.

Visitors to Edwards' Facebook account can find a photograph of the shamed presenter with his mother, Aerona Prothero, holding champagne flutes together as she smiles for the camera.

One friend branded the snap 'so precious', while another told the presenter he needed 'to be looked after'. Edwards still appears to have BBC and celebrity followers on his old – and now re-activated – Instagram account too.

It could be that they'd been following Edwards before the account was deleted and were automatically shown to be re-following once the handle was re-activated.

Edwards has not reinstated his old X (formerly Twitter) account, which once boasted more than 187,000 followers.

When news first broke of his arrest, Edwards took a defiant stance ‘liking’ a tweet from a fan that read: ‘The Sun has made the most serious allegations about a BBC presenter. Now needs to provide evidence or potentially face the mother of all libel actions.’

HE presenter was last pictured back in August on a visit to a

supermarket in Swansea shortly before his birthday. He was carrying three mini bottles of prosecco.

Although his wife of three decades, Vicky Flind, is reported to have filed for divorce, Edwards was still wearing a wedding ring.

Flind was the one who formally acknowledged that her husband was the anonymous BBC star at the centre of the initial tabloid allegations.

At the time, she issued a statement saying she was naming him in order to protect both Edwards' wellbeing and their children.

Edwards was among the BBC's best-paid figures, in a pay bracket of between £475,000 and £479,999 for 2023/24 – his last year with the corporation.

Bosses have demanded he pay back a staggering £200,000, the licence-fee-funded wages he had received between his initial arrest and eventual dismissal. To date, he has not repaid a penny.

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WITH Sarah Ferguson stripped of her title, who now owns the York

Diamond Tiara? Before her wedding to Andrew in 1986, instead of allowing her to rummage through the royal jewellery collection for a wedding tiara, the late Queen had one made just for her. Sarah held on to it post-divorce, wearing it wherever she could. It made its most recent appearance when Beatrice wore it at the Jordanian royal wedding in 2023. But precisely who owns it isn't clear. A mole whispers that the Royal Collection, which is sifting through the treasures of Royal Lodge to see what it can reclaim, would quite like to get its hands on it. When Sarah walked down the aisle, she wore an enormous crown of flowers that was removed after she said 'I do' to reveal the tiara – a dramatic symbol of her transition from commoner to royal. Perhaps the Royal Collection could exchange the tiara for a daisy chain to signal the reverse.

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THE King, who is having his Dumfries House curtains transformed into charity Christmas stockings, maintains a royal tradition for thrift. Royal Ascot's Greencoats, officially the Yeoman Prickers, who maintain decorum in the royal enclosure, originally wore distinctive green velvet uniforms said to have been made from curtains donated by Queen Anne in the early 18th century following a refurbishment at Windsor Castle. Unkind wags have suggested that Princess Anne has her old curtains repurposed into new clothes.

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MISHAL Husain, pictured, antagonised Nigel Farage when she grilled him about Reform's relationship with Russia in her new role at Bloomberg. 'Listen love, you're trying so hard,' he snapped. Mishal let it

pass without a flicker, but is asked by Radio Times whether she was tempted to invoke the retaliatory skills she honed during 11 years on BBC Radio 4's Today. She said: 'No, because we would have stopped talking about Russia and we would have started talking about me and him, and I didn't want that.' I hope Today's Major Interrupter Nick Robinson has his ear trumpet tuned in!

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THREE years after turning up for the Neighbours 'finale', only to be 'baffled' to learn that the show was returning, Kylie Minogue bluntly suggests the ending should be more definite this time around. Informed that the 40-year-old soap's famous Ramsay Street location could be bulldozed when the programme ends on Thursday, Kylie bluntly responds on BBC Breakfast: 'Well, hey, just do it once and for all... we can't have a third farewell.'

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CARDINAL Vincent Nichols, the Archbishop of Westminster, briefed Ralph Fiennes for three hours in his study at Westminster Cathedral to help him portray a prince of the Catholic Church in the film Conclave. Nichols reveals: 'I said, "Do you want to try on the kit?" I went to get it and he dressed, looked in the mirror and said, "OK, I feel all right now".' What's the Latin for, 'Does my bum look big in this?'

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AGED 40, divorced, and running out of time to have a much longed-for baby, Georgia East decided to find a sperm donor to fulfil her dream of motherhood.

Keen for her child to share ‘some sort of connection’ with their biological father, she eschewed the anonymity of a fertility clinic in favour of a Facebook group where she could contact donors direct.

In Peter Lewis, she thought she had found the perfect man. A handsome science graduate, Lewis, 40, had an established reputation as an online donor, having already fathered almost 50 children.

He had given media interviews talking of his heartfelt desire to help women desperate to conceive, and his high profile, ‘benign’ public image was part of his appeal, says Georgia: ‘It legitimised him.’

She wasn't deterred by the fact that Lewis offered natural insemination (NI) - in other words, sex - as well as artificial insemination (AI), where sperm is inserted with a syringe.

After years of dating, she says, it 'felt good to have someone who actually wanted to have a baby with me in some way'.

But it doesn't feel good any more. Georgia now describes Lewis as a 'sexual predator' who, as part of his 'donation', forced her to give him oral sex until she struggled to breathe, and called her a slut.

'He was degrading. It felt abusive,' she says.

What's more, after Georgia discovered she was pregnant with Lewis's baby in 2022, she was shown evidence of him admitting to being a carrier of Familial Dysautonomia (FD), a rare genetic disorder that affects the nervous system.

Children are only affected if both parents are carriers (Georgia, fortunately, is not), yet it's a serious condition, causing problems with speech and movement, difficulty with swallowing, and reduced life expectancy.

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'I felt so much shame, so much Georgia. 'I realised it was a power game for Peter.

'He manipulates women into using him as a sperm donor to build his dynasty.'

One day she'll have to tell her daughter, Katie, two, a lively little girl who loves dancing and Disney, that she 'is a potential genetic carrier of a disease' and has around 100 siblings (and counting), the psychological ramifications of which Georgia can only guess at.

Lewis, she says, uses online sites 'to lull unsuspecting women into using him for sperm donation, then will coerce them into providing sexual favours for him and degrade them'.

This is very far from the image he likes to portray, however. In fact he is one of a cabal of serial social media donors dominating the world's biggest Facebook groups.

Historically, these men have been portrayed as harmless heroes, feted on daytime television. But below the altruistic facade can lie a narcissistic, pathological compulsion to procreate.

SERIAL donors get a 'deep psychological gratification' from forcing themselves into people's lives, says Eve Wiley, an activist against fertility fraud, who was donor conceived herself.

'They collect offspring in the way someone else might collect trophies. The children become proof of their potency.'

Prolific donors include Joe Donor, aka Robert Charles Albon, an American in his 50s living in England, who boasts of having 180 children and whom a family court judge recently described as 'controlling' after his attempt to acquire parental rights.

Simon Watson, 51, from Bedfordshire, who helps Albon run

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the 9,000-strong Facebook group Sperm Donors UK, claims to have sired 800 children with his 'magic potion'.

After I interviewed the worried mother of two of these children for the Daily Mail last year, he threatened me, warning: 'My hatred for anyone that goes after my descendants will never end.'

Then there is Dutch YouTuber Jonathan Jacob Meijer, 43, who admitted in a Dutch court to having between 550 and 600 children, and was banned from donating sperm after authorities there discovered he was secretly donating sperm to almost every fertility clinic in the country, as well as to the Danish sperm bank Cryos, which operates internationally.

‘These men are crazy,’ says Georgia who, since discovering Lewis’s darker side, has done her best to expose many Facebook donors’ nefarious practices.

Indeed, Wiley wants their behaviour to be named 'as reproduction coercion and abuse', and says that, until it is, 'we cannot begin to protect the families and children caught in the wake of the men's choices'.

Nonetheless, it's easy to see the appeal of Facebook donors to women desperate to conceive. The use of donated sperm has soared in recent years, but at IVF clinics, it can cost more than £2,000 per cycle of treatment. Social media sperm donors, by contrast, cut out the clinic in the middle and charge only nominal expenses.

Georgia, an events manager who cannot be named for legal reasons, speaks to me over Zoom from America, where Lewis, now based in the UK, was also living in 2022.

After she requested to join a local Facebook group, Lewis got in touch. He seemed charming, with an endearing 'nerdy side', she says.

She told him she was looking for a good relationship with a donor, 'and he latched on to that and started [saying] "maybe this could work out between you and me".

If they didn't end up in a relationship, she reasoned, she'd still have a child, and a friend in Lewis, who admits a proportion of his 'donations' are via intercourse, and gave Georgia the option of using artificial insemination or natural insemination.

Although she felt no pressure, she says Lewis told her sex was 'probably the better option'.

This didn't alarm her. 'We talked about going to Rome to conceive, so there was this romanticising of it,' she says.

With hindsight, she believes she was an obvious target. 'I'm the type of woman he looks for. Somebody who's failed at relationships, and somebody who might be looking for one.'

Around a month later, Lewis invited Georgia to his flat, 'to get to know each other'.

She admits she had offered to give him oral sex as part of their flirtation. She hoped it would feel special, she says 'but he had other plans'. The moment his door was closed 'he got aggressive'.

'He said, "Get on your knees". I tried to pull away, but he held my head. It felt like assault,' she says now. She was 'confused' and 'scared' and the situation felt 'out of control'.

Afterwards, she remembers saying: 'Wow, that was all about you.' He laughed, she says.

MANY women would have fled at this point. But Georgia, although

concerned, saw Lewis as a 'project' who needed educating in how to treat women. 'I thought, "He's clueless," she recalls.

She assumed he mainly offered Artificial Insemination to impregnate lesbian couples. 'I didn't understand that he has sex with all these women.'

She started tracking her ovulation with ovulation strips.

'He was adamant about me sending him screenshots of my ovulation, because he wanted to be in control.'

They met back at his apartment in the afternoon when she was next ovulating. She describes the property as a 'weird' mess, with 'boxes of specimen cups for his sperm' and a mattress on the floor.

Almost immediately, Lewis ordered her to get on her back and perform an unprintable sex act. 'I wasn't comfortable, but I consented to it', she says – reasoning it was her responsibility to do whatever it took to arouse him if she wanted her baby.

'I felt I had to. And then he was saying, "You're my slut now", things like that.'

Afterwards he asked her, 'Have you been raped before?' Her feelings were understandably complex. She finally had her chance to get pregnant – but with a man calling her a 'whore'.

She told herself: 'This is what I have to go through in order to conceive.' After he ejaculated, she says he made her lie with her legs in the air for ten minutes to increase the chances of conception. 'It makes him in control. It's all part of going back to his other sperm donors, saying, "I got another woman pregnant."

She returned to his apartment the following morning, and the day after that, to have sex, when he was similarly aggressive, although 'there were things I said no to', she adds. 'He wanted to record it. He started talking about making embryos and selling them.'

Although her desire for romance with Lewis had unsurprisingly waned, she wanted a civil relationship. But when, 'ecstatic', she discovered she was pregnant, Lewis, who had told her he would be at the birth, distanced himself. 'He didn't need anything else from me,' she says wryly. 'I was done with.'

Days later she saw a screenshot of a racist message Lewis had written, posted in a sperm donor Facebook group and seen by the Daily Mail, about a black woman he had donated to.

Georgia recalls: 'I got angry.' She finally realised 'his goal was to have power and control'. His motivation? 'World domination. Narcissism. He wants to be famous.'

Before she got pregnant, she recalled Lewis 'looking for a

EXPOSED: The Facebook sperm donor who's fathered over 100 children – but whose REAL motivation is to manipulate vulnerable women into violent sex

donor' who was 'out to get him'. Through comments posted in various sperm donor Facebook groups, Georgia tracked her down, 'and she told me he has a recessive genetic disorder'.

The woman had been sent screenshots of messages, seen by the Daily Mail, in which Lewis appears to admit being a carrier of Familial Dysautonomia, a rare genetic disorder that affects the autonomic nervous system.

Distraught, Georgia says: 'I questioned whether I should continue my pregnancy.'

A lawyer told her Lewis had potentially 'raped by deception' – a crime in several US states – 'which means he deceived me in order to have sex with me. He impregnated me, knowing he is a carrier of this genetic disorder.'

She reported Lewis to the police but was told it was a civil case.

Instead, she tried to warn women in Facebook groups about Lewis, before he and other donors running the groups blocked her.

'I want to make people aware,' she says. Plenty of women are happy to keep quiet about being treated badly, she believes.

'People don't want to revisit it, or they are just happy they have their child. That's how he gets away with it.' Her daughter was born in 2023, and, despite everything, she is besotted. 'Would I do it again that way? No.'

When Katie is 'ready', she'll be honest with her about her biological father, but since she has at least 100 half-siblings, incest is a potential worry.

Lewis says he has set up a private Facebook group for women he impregnated, so they could share any concerns about this.

Yet when Chloe Brown, 31, who has a 13-month-old son, Ben, with Lewis, requested to be put in touch with other mothers so he could meet his siblings, she says he refused. 'He said: "Not until he's at least a year old, because I've had issues with women before, so I don't want you connecting with them."

'I thought, who are you to tell me I can't get in touch? Why shouldn't a child be connected to people they're related to?'

Chloe, who is British, decided to look for a sperm donor on a Facebook group last year after coming out of an abusive relationship, believing a baby would offer her ‘something good’ after years of trauma. With no father figure involved, she reasoned, motherhood would be safer and simpler. 'My judgment was clouded,' she now realises. 'It was a form of desperation.'

After joining several UK Facebook groups, she 'stumbled' across Lewis. The fact she knew his name from media interviews inspired 'confidence', says Chloe, a softly spoken mature student.

"I trusted him more because of the familiarity. You think, 'Why would we support him in the media if he was so bad?"

They started messaging on Facebook in summer 2023. Lewis was 'all for' Natural Insemination, she says. 'I was a bit hesitant but thought he was genuine. It didn't come across as if he wanted sex for pleasure.'

As with Georgia, romantic plans were floated. 'The original plan was meeting in Greece,' says Chloe. In the event, Lewis travelled to a hotel he paid for, near her home.

I HERE, she recalls, he scrolled through pictures of his donor conceived children on his phone 'talking about how ugly one of the children looked'. Chloe, shocked, says he also told her about a woman he was trying to impregnate, regardless of the fact she was on drugs – he didn't specify which kind.

'That didn't sit right with me.' He didn't initially come across as intimidating, however, so much as awkward. 'He's got a lack of empathy, an odd kind of way about him,' Chloe says.

Soon, however, 'he said take off your clothes', she recalls, and began 'holding my neck aggressively, making sure he pushed me down – it was forceful pressure'.

'I wasn't expecting that. It's not like he asked for my permission. He was really getting off on it. The point,' she adds, determined not to over-sensationalise, 'was not that it hurt but that I didn't go there for romantic or aggressive sex. It's not like I was on a date.

'Even if I was, I believe you should communicate with people before you start putting your hands on their neck. I felt boundaries were being crossed.'

Indeed. But, like Georgia, she consented, reasoning: 'I really want this child. I allowed him to devalue me. It feels delusional, looking back.'

Chloe felt ‘conflicted’ to discover she was pregnant. She told her friends and family she’d had a fling, ‘which I have less shame about’.

After Ben was born last October, she says Lewis tried to persuade her to put his name on the birth certificate, so he could get legal rights to stay in the UK. She refused. When he wouldn't introduce her to other women he'd impregnated, she began to feel 'uneasy' and blocked him online.

She, too, has heard Lewis has Familial Dysautonomia. She doesn't think she is a carrier but says, 'you should give that information to women to make an informed choice'. And she, too, has been thrown out of Facebook sperm donor groups for speaking out against him.

She wouldn't use a sperm donor again, even at a clinic.

'Obviously it's hard to say I regret having my child, but I wish they had a father,' says Chloe. 'I would do it differently now.'
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Manager told star trader 'f*** you, sue me'. Now he must pay him £4.5m!

Bonus row: Trader Robert Gagliardi

A HEDGE fund boss who refused to pay his star trader a £4.5million bonus – telling him ‘f*** you, sue me’ – has been ordered to hand over the cash.

Michael Lerch 'irrationally'

By Chris Pollard

withheld the bonus from Robert Gagliardi because he was worried about being hit by a Wall Street market-abuse probe, it was said.

The High Court yesterday ordered Mr Lerch's firm, Evolution Capital Management, to pay the perk plus interest of a possible extra £1.5million.

It is likely the firm will also have to cover most of Mr Gagliardi's £2million court costs. The court heard Mr Gagliardi, a high-flying trader poached from a rival firm, generated 97 per cent of ECM's profits in 2022. His contract included a 'discretionary' bonus of 10 to 15 per cent, depending on performance. Mr Lerch argued this gave him the discretion to pay nothing at all, but the court rejected this.

Mr Justice Carver said ECM had unlawfully adopted a 'wait and see' approach while US regulators carried out a market-wide review into block trading. It used the investigation to justify withholding Mr Gagliardi's bonus, even after it resulted in no charges against him.

The judge wrote: 'The decision taken by ECM was based on irrelevant considerations.'

During a trial in October, Mr Gagliardi was asked when 'the wheels started to come off' in his relationship with Mr Lerch.

He replied: 'The wheels didn't come off. I made \$68million for him in five months.'

Mr Gagliardi claimed when he asked his boss for the payout, he responded: 'I'm not going to pay you the bonus, f*** you, sue me.' After Mr Gagliardi did just that, Mr Lerch filed an counterclaim to claw back more than £5million in salary and earlier bonuses. But the judge dismissed the 'embarrassing' counterclaim, also calling it 'hopelessly vague'.

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December 9, 2025 ON THIS DAY

FROM THE DAILY MAIL ARCHIVE DECEMBER 9, 2003

THE US raised concerns yesterday about the fairness of Russia's parliamentary election, which could see Vladimir Putin lurch towards dictatorship. Moderate, pro-Western parties were wiped off the political landscape as pro-Kremlin allies won an overwhelming victory.

DECEMBER 9, 2005

DAVID CAMERON doubled the number of women in the Shadow Cabinet to four last night in a sign of his determination to boost their role. Eyebrows were raised by the fact that his top table contains more men named David than it does women.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY JOAN ARMATRADING, 75. The Ivor Novello winner moved to Birmingham from the Caribbean island St Kitts aged seven and started writing songs when her mother bought a piano 'as a piece of the furniture'. She met her writing partner Pam Nestor in 1970 when they were both touring with the musical Hair. BEAU BRIDGES, 84. The US actor starred in The Fabulous Baker Boys and The Descendants. His real name is Lloyd – like his actor father – but he was nicknamed Beau by his parents after a character in Gone With The Wind, the novel they were reading at the time. He is the elder brother of fellow actor Jeff Bridges.

BORN ON THIS DAY BUCK HENRY (1930-2020). As an actor, the American starred in the film Catch-22 (which he also adapted), before being Oscar-nominated both as a screenwriter (The

Graduate) and a director (Heaven Can Wait). He hosted Saturday Night Live ten times, from 1976-1980.
DAME ELISABETH SCHWARZ-KOPF (1915-2006). The German-British singer was described as 'arguably the greatest soprano of the post-war years'. She applied for Nazi Party membership – she said under duress – and was rumoured to have been the mistress of Hans Frank, later convicted as a war criminal at the Nuremberg Trials and hanged.

ON DECEMBER 9...

IN 1905, secularism was enshrined as a national principle in France. IN 1941, China declared war on Germany, Japan and Italy.

WORD WIZARDRY GUESS THE DEFINITION

A) Meaningless or nonsensical piece of writing. B) A tale with two different endings. C) Unresolved dispute. Answer below

PHRASE EXPLAINED

Money for old rope: meaning easy money or effortless profit; a nautical term from when ships were in dock, sailors would pick apart old ropes to create 'oakum', a fibrous material used to caulk wooden vessels.

QUOTE FOR TODAY

Well-behaved women seldom make history.

Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, US historian

JOKE OF THE DAY

IT'S time I tell my library book joke... It's long overdue. Guess The Definition answer: A.

Compiled by ETAN SMALLMAN and ADAM JACOT DE BOINOD

In the pink: Elton John dons feather-trimmed marigolds

Afghans Jan Jahanzeb and Israr Niazal, both 17, had arrived only months earlier in small boats before assaulting the 15-year-old in a park on May 10.

Phone footage captured by the victim was so appalling that even one of the boy's own barristers warned it would lead to 'disorder' if 'the general public were exposed' to it.

Footage of rape by teen asylum seekers ‘would start a riot’ if the public saw it

In the distressing three-minute clip, the girl could be heard crying 'you're going to rape me' as she was dragged away from where she had

'No longer happy and carefree'

By Jack Hardy

TWO teenage asylum seekers were jailed yesterday for raping a schoolgirl who filmed herself being snatched in footage so 'horrific', one of their lawyers feared it would cause riots if it went public.

By Charlotte Dean

been drinking with friends in Leam- ington Spa, Warwickshire.

The footage, played at Warwick Crown Court yesterday, also showed her weeping, screaming 'help' and begging not to be taken to the park.

She was forced to perform a sex act on the boys in a secluded area, before she escaped and filmed more clips describing her ordeal. The girl was eventually found by a passer-by who took her to a nearby police station, where officers were able to obtain vital forensic evidence.

In an impact statement, the girl said: "The day I was raped changed me as a person. I'm no longer a

Jailing Jahanzeb for ten years and eight months, and Niazal for nine years and ten months, Judge Sylvia de Bertodano also accepted a legal challenge mounted by the Daily Mail which means they can be named for the first time. She said they had 'betrayed the interests' of genuine refugees and 'should feel a deep and lasting sense of shame'.

happy, carefree teenager. This was my first sexual experience.'

Locked up: Israr Niazal, left, and Jan Jahanzeb

ELTON John has proved he is no slouch when it comes to domestic chores after a fan told him his ‘oven needs cleaning before Christmas’.

The judge added: 'No child should have to suffer the ordeal [the victim] has suffered. The fact is, you two have robbed her of her childhood.'

Even Niazal's own lawyer Joshua Radcliffe called the phone footage 'genuinely horrific,' adding: 'I have no doubt that if the general public were exposed to that, we would have disorder on our hands.'

The asylum seekers were living in taxpayer-funded houses at the time of the attack, having arrived in the UK by small boats. The boys admitted the attack in October. Jahanze faces deportation, but Niazal does not, as he pleaded guilty a day before turning 17 – too young to qualify.

I'm still scrubbing... Elton cleans his oven

The cheeky jibe came after the singer, 78, posted a video of his kitchen online – and he responded by donning a Gucci tracksuit, pink marigolds with feather trim and matching glasses ... and got scrubbing.

was kind of negative about how dirty my oven was. I can assure you I don't have anything dirty in this house.

Speaking to the camera, Sir Elton said: 'A lot of response 'So to prove it, I'm going to do something to show you.'

No sacrifice: Sir Elton gets busy

Wielding a bottle of cleaning spray, he spritzed the oven door as he said: 'Look at this! Scrub, scrub, scrub! I've got the cleanest oven window in Windsor.'

by Graham Grant

T IS late afternoon in a busy street outside Glasgow Central Station and a beggar is shivering in the bitter cold as Christmas shoppers file past him into a supermarket.

Emaciated heroin addict Dave, who looks considerably older than his 35 years, has lived rough on and off for the past 12 years. Now he is angry because migrants are stealing his 'business'.

'It's tough at the best of times – you've now got fights breaking out over pitches [begging areas] – and it can get violent,' he says. 'We should be looking after our own.'

In the heart of the UK's asylum capital, where destitution and drug addiction are rife, the internecine conflict between groups of beggars symbolises the sense of inexorable decline in what was once known as the second city of the British Empire.

That sense of rapid and overwhelming change was captured by shocking official figures last week which showed that almost one in three pupils in Glasgow do not speak English as their main language – a proportion which has grown by nearly a third since 2019.

The city council, run by the Scottish National Party (SNP), is desperately scrambling to find accommodation for refugee families, many of whom are in expensive hotel rooms awaiting a home of their own. The staggering cost has driven the local authority to the brink of making major cuts of more than £60 million.

Now comes growing strain on schools as teachers already contending with a steep fall in classroom standards under the SNP government attempt to deal with a rapidly increasing number of pupils unable to speak fluent English. There are 2,194 refugee pupils in Glasgow – a third of all the refugee children in Scotland.

Reform UK leader Nigel Farage has claimed the swelling numbers of pupils unable to speak good English are evidence of the ‘cultural smashing of Glasgow’, adding: ‘It’s turning it into a completely different city in every way.’ bill of more

Struggling on the streets: A panoramic view of Glasgow and (inset) homeless people battling the cold

Glasgow was once ranked among the richest cities in Europe, producing a fifth of all the

'There is a lot of destitution here now'

ships and a quarter of all the locomotives in use anywhere in the world.

Yet today, a quarter of those in the city are economically inactive – higher than the averages for Scotland (22.5 per cent) and Britain (21.3 per cent) – while life expectancy in some areas of Glasgow is 74.2, the lowest in the UK.

Some parts of the city are in the direst straits. Nearly one in five adults (17.5 per cent) in the north-east of Glasgow lives in a household where the only income comes from state benefits. The average for Glasgow is 14.1 per cent.

Yet migrants continue to pour into Scotland's largest city (with a population of around 650,000) hoping for a new life, despite, in many cases, having almost no English and few employment skills.

This means that once they are granted refugee status, they are destined for the dole queue, adding to an annual UK benefits bill of more than £1 billion for refugee households.

The presence of large numbers of asylum seekers and refugees – adding to a volatile mix of poverty and worklessness – has raised fears of civil disorder.

Susan Aitken, the SNP leader of Glasgow City Council, is demanding urgent support from Westminster, warning the migrant situation has become 'unsustainable' and presents a 'real risk to the order and cohesion of our communities'.

Some migrants hope to settle down with their families in Glasgow. Abdiladif Dini, 44, from Somalia, spoke to the Daily Mail outside the Britannia Inn in the Charing Cross area of the city, where around 30 per cent of the occupants are migrants.

He has a seven-year-old daughter whom he hopes to bring to Scotland. He is attending college to learn English but is unable to work because of his health problems.

'I've been in the same hotel room for a year, which is not good, though the hotel is OK,' he said.

'Now I have been told I am getting a flat in Maryhill [in the north-west of the city] so I am very happy and I hope my daughter can join me soon.'

One hotel worker said migrant women and children were now among those sleeping rough in the streets surrounding the Britannia, where a resident told us rooms cost paying customers more than £500 a week.

The staff member said: 'Glasgow is struggling but we have a duty to try to help everyone from whatever background. We work closely with the police and council to try to make it as safe a place as possible for the majority of guests.

'There's not much trouble, though recently one guest was thrown out for verbally abusing one of my colleagues.'

The hotel towers over the M8 motorway, opposite the imposing Mitchell Library – another link to the city's colonial past as it was founded with a bequest from Stephen Mitchell, a 19th-century tobacco baron.

One refugee told us that families with children are prioritised for conventional housing, which means that the hotels are dominated by single men.

Even so, he estimates that there are half a dozen children in the Britannia at present.

Yards away, in a dark alley, a regular haunt for drug addicts, we find an Eritrean in his 40s who has been in Scotland since September. He is sipping from a paper cup of tea and showing off his new North Face jacket donated by a local refugee charity.

Another refugee, Mosbah Ugoush, 19, from Sudan, previously lived in Aberdeen but came to Glasgow because it was 'too cold' in the north-east of Scotland. He is learning English at college but said he cannot find work because of a leg injury that rules him out of many jobs, such as delivering for Amazon.

Mr Ugoush said: 'I have a whole family including a wife in Sudan – but haven't had contact from them for ten months.'

A 26-year-old Sudanese man told us he had been sleeping on the streets for three weeks until he was given a room at the Britannia.

Many told stories of cross-Channel trips on small boats with up to 60 other migrants.

The Britannia Inn is close to the historic King's Theatre, where school pupils are attending pre-Christmas matinee performances of The Little Mermaid musical.

Making their way to the theatre were Irene Watson, 71, of Clydebank, Dunbartonshire, and

'The city has changed beyond recognition'

Linda O'Donnell, also 71, visiting from London. Ms Watson said: 'I'm from Glasgow and there has been a huge decline over the years – the city has changed beyond recognition.

"There are so many migrants and they seem to have everything – all the latest mobile phones and new clothes – and you hear about so much crime.

‘But our own people can’t get housing and jobs. I know a lot of the migrants do want to work, but how many more won't find jobs, or don't want to?'

Retired civil servant Peter Cassidy, 73, from Airdrie, Lanarkshire, about 17 miles from Glasgow, who was on a day trip into the city, said: 'There is a lot of destitution and homelessness and more migrants.

'I wish them luck but there are problems with crime. Even in Airdrie there are pickpockets and shoplifting gangs.'

The Daily Mail spoke to Bulgarian and Romanian beggars in Glasgow city centre, one of whom said he was 22 and had come to Scotland to raise cash for his dying mother, who had just six months to live.

There have been concerns for several years about beggars who are members of highly organised groups of professional swindlers, mainly from Eastern Europe, preying on the compassion of passers-by. They are often overseen by gangmasters who co-ordinate the enterprise.

Glasgow has become a top migrant destination thanks to SNP legislation which obliges local authorities to provide housing for anyone who declares themselves homeless, regardless of where they've come from.

Asylum seekers who are granted refugee status are put up in hotels in Glasgow while the council tries to find permanent accommodation for them.

They are not eligible for UK government-funded housing benefits, so the council must pick

Glasgow once built the world's ships and trains. Today nearly a quarter of residents don't work, drug addicts roam the streets and one in three pupils don't speak English as their main language
Picture: ALAMY

From industrial powerhouse to Britain's asylum capital

up the tab. Its willingness to accept migrants means Glasgow has played a key part in the 'dispersal' of asylum seekers around the UK since 1999.

But there is frustration that other local authorities haven't shouldered their share of the burden.

There are around 5,000 asylum seekers in Scotland and more than 4,000 of them are in this one city, leading to protests against 'migrant hotels'.

Smaller groups of migrants have settled in Aberdeen, Inverclyde,

Perth and Falkirk. The likelihood is that most of those who have claimed asylum in Glasgow, and who win the right to stay in the UK, will remain in the city or in the surrounding area, meaning officials will probably run out of space and cash to house them.

Many of those who have just arrived go to the Glasgow City Mission, on the site of a former chapel – a short stroll from the River Clyde, where shipyards once flourished.

It is a hub for homelessness services in Crimea Street, named after 19th-century Glaswegian painter called William Simpson, the world's first professional war artist. His first assignment was to record the events of the Crimean War in the 1850s, leading to his nickname 'Crimean Simpson'.

The City Mission is an impressive modern building which sits opposite a Ministry of Defence (MoD) office block.

It is now a gathering point for many of the migrants who risked their lives getting to the UK in small boats but now have little or no prospect of getting paid employment. Food and English lessons are on offer. Nearby, there's a homeless charity hub which also attracts large numbers of migrants who are residents of local hotels or who sleep rough.

The walkway next to the Clyde, bordering a street known as the Broomielaw, is another spot where migrants congregate during the day. Tents can be seen in the grassy areas punctuating the long pathway.

Two Eritrean men, aged 34 and

22, sit on the perimeter wall of the MoD building and tell us that they arrived in the city after a hazardous small-boat crossing. One now has a flat of their own provided by Glasgow City Council and the other is in a hotel paid for by the council.

The 22-year-old told us that the pair had come to Glasgow after keeping in touch with fellow Eritreans on WhatsApp groups, who told them of how welcoming the city had been – while his 34-year-old friend said he had stayed previously in a hotel in Boston, Lincolnshire.

He said: 'I saw no other Africans there, not a single one, and there was nothing for us there, no charity. Here, you can get help, housing and clothing.'

The number of refugees in hotels or B&B accommodation in Glasgow in 2023 was 138, rising to 1,340 in August this year.

Nineteen-year-old Zainab Aishamari from Kuwait, who is staying at the Clyde Hotel on Argyle Street, near the City

'We don't have any training but we like it here'

Mission, with her 34-year-old husband Ali, said: 'I was declared stateless in my own country, so we claimed asylum.

'My husband is trying to get some help from the refugee charity and we don't know how long it will take to get housing.

'The city is nice and we like it here. Neither of us had jobs in Kuwait and we don't have any training but I would like to work in medicine, perhaps nursing.'

She's not alone in her dreams. But this is a city where grinding deprivation and drug misuse has long-replaced the ambition and entrepreneurialism of its heyday.

Migrants such as Zainab want jobs and a decent education for their children. But that might prove impossible given the soaring demand on creaking state schools, which are already badly under-funded and mismanaged under SNP rule.

A new life seems to be a forlorn hope for thousands of migrants who have exchanged a former life, however difficult, for Glasgow, a city now in the grip of addiction and poverty.

A city which is now in real danger of being overwhelmed by the influx.

Pictured, toddler killed in one bite after pitbull was 'spooked by guns'

Rescue dog: The pitbull was chained up

By Nick Pisa

A BRITISH toddler killed by a pitbull on a Greek island was attacked after the dog was apparently spooked by hunters' guns.

Two-year-old Leon Dulia's mother said he was bitten only once after 'something just flicked' in the dog.

Robbie Deeth, 32 said the tragedy happened in seconds in the garden of their Zakynthos home, where she has lived with husband Loukas after moving from Andover, Hampshire.

'You could hear gun noises and there were other dogs and the hunters were using whistles, I really do believe that's what spooked the dog into attacking,' she added. prob

Ms Deeth's husband had rescued the pitbull – then 'a skeleton of a dog' – and nursed it back to health. She said: 'Leon loved the animals we have here and we have a lot, cats, horses and dogs and the pitbull had never been a problem.' The dog had been tethered to a ten-metre chain in the garden which backs on to woods where the hunters were.

As the family returned from a shopping trip, Leon went to stroke the animal. Ms Deeth said: 'Something just flicked in him and in the 30 seconds we went inside to sort out the shopping Leon wandered off to see him and then it was all over. Leon was grabbed or shaken, it looked like he was bitten just the once.'

She added: 'If I knew there was any danger I would never have let

Animal lover: Leon turned two a few weeks ago

Leon play with the pitbull but he had never been any trouble. He wasn't snappy or aggressive.'

Ms Deeth denied the couple had been charged with manslaughter, insisting police had said nothing about criminal proceedings. The dog has been impounded.

Nigella: My Xmas recipe you really WON'T enjoy

By Olivia Kemp

MANY households will have delighted in baking her edible Christmas tree decorations.

But Nigella Lawson has revealed that she used to 'cruelly' spike her own versions at home with 'a load of pepper' so her children wouldn't pull them off the tree and eat them.

The celebrity chef, 65, calls for two teaspoons of freshly ground black pepper – an unusual addition to a biscuit destined to be a bauble – in the original recipe from her 2008 cookbook Nigella Christmas.

In it she wrote: 'Making these peppery, gingerbready edible decorations is how I have always marked with my children that Christmas has begun.'

But it seems her children may have been exposed to an extra dollop of pepper as well.

Her latest revelation is just one of a long list of eccentric festive confessions. Last year, she raised eyebrows announcing she would decorate her Christmas tree with bacon rashers rather than baubles, sharing an image of her tree decorated with pink rashers.

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Who will pay £500k tax tab on Neville's restaurant?

H IS fortune is thought to be at least £70million. That's thanks.

That's thanks, in large part, to a property empire which has created executive homes and five-star hotels and is now tackling his most ambitious project so far, a £400million development which includes yet another luxury hotel.

But will the fact that it will be garlanded with a rooftop restaurant give Labour Party cheerleader Gary Neville pause for thought?

Not, that is, because such unabashed opulence might seem at odds with the former England defender's man-of-the-people credentials – he's perfectly at ease with being described as a champagne socialist – but because of the fate of his previous restaurant venture?

The Man Behind The Curtain in Leeds asked patrons to stump up £135 in advance, arguing that dinner within its black marbled interior was 'an event, like a concert or theatre experience', offering such delicacies as scallop with plankton focaccia and 'toast gravy', and a 14-course, £165-a-head tasting menu – with another £155 a head for the 'wine pairings'.

Despite or, possibly, because of this, it went belly up last year with debts of just under £1million. After a year-long investigation, the liquidator's report has been published – and makes unpalatable reading, especially for the taxpayer.

Documents at Companies House record that chef Michael O'Hare, who co-owned the restaurant with Neville's company,

Support: Starmer and Gary

Relentless Leisure, 'failed to respond to any of the liquidator's correspondence' about repaying a £609,000 loan.

Creditors, added the liquidator, won't see a penny of their money. That's grim news for Neville, 50, whose firm was owed £366,000, and grimmer still for the public finances, with £519,000 owed to the taxman.

BACK in 2022, Neville memorably declared, 'If you've got any dignity or honour about you, I think you'd stand aside – I know I would' and reject a cut to the highest 45 per cent tax rate, to 'make sure that money goes to people who are struggling to pay their energy bills this winter'.

But former Manchester United star Neville, who last year fronted a Labour election video with Sir Keir Starmer, declines to say if he'll fill this particular fiscal 'black hole' by dipping into his own millions.

THE BBC appears to be in crisis mode – again.

'Last-minute cuts to controversial BBC royal series'

I hear changes are still being made to its prime-time documentary presented by David Dimbleby, What's The Monarchy For?, even though the series is meant to be available in its entirety on its iPlayer service.

'Edits are being made,' a source tells me. 'The problem is some important figures at the BBC don't want to upset the Royal Family while others like nothing more than causing trouble.'

Before the first programme was broadcast on BBC One last week, it was announced: 'All episodes now on BBC iPlayer'.

However, only the first episode of three was on the iPlayer yesterday. Critics described it as a 'savaging of the British Royal Family' by Dimbleby.

A BBC spokesman says: 'We changed the release pattern pre-transmission to weekly episodes in order to meet delivery dates.'

Something blue for Emerald's bride sister

WITH its exotic, swan-like feathers embellished in pearls, it's a dress that could have featured in Saltburn, Emerald Fennell's celebrated film about decadent aristocrats and their wild parties.

So it was an appropriate choice of bridal gown for director Emerald's sister Coco, pictured right with her sibling, who got married at the weekend.

Blue-haired fashion designer Coco, 36, exchanged vows with pho-

■ ITV star Stephen Mulhern won't be competing on I'm A Celebrity, with its revolting Bushtucker Trials, any time soon. The presenter, 48, is such a fussy eater that he hasn't tried curry or even had a coffee. Mulhern, who appears with Ant and Dec in travel show The Accidental Tourist this weekend, says: 'I've tographer Maximilian Webster, 39, in her dress by Valdrin Sahiti.

Coco is the daughter of society jeweller Theo Fennell and his wife, the author Louise Fennell.

never had a curry. I once saw a documentary – they had hidden cameras and they saw waiters taking curry from the customers, going into the kitchen, and sieving the sauce off in the kitchen to re-serve. That's my problem, you can't see what's in it.' He adds: 'I have never had a cup of coffee, I've never had sushi.'

See Oasis? Radio 2 DJ Sara Cox isn't mad for it

SHE regularly plays Oasis hits on her Radio 2 show, but Sara Cox admits she was unable to obtain any free tickets for the band's reunion concerts.

The DJ says she 'tried a half-hearted blag' but suspects she wasn't considered important enough. 'I'm sure their [Oasis'] plugger must have had tens of thousands of requests.' Cox, 50, adds that she couldn't be bothered to join the public scramble for (paid-for) tickets. 'I did not see Oasis, through laziness basically. I didn't get around to trying to queue online for tickets.'

How young Edie created a ballyhoo at ballet class

EDIE CAMPBELL is not only a top model, starring in advertising campaigns for brands including Burberry and Chanel, but she's also a talented horsewoman.

Now, Edie, 35, who once won the Magnolia Cup at Goodwood, says she came to horse riding only because she wasn't elegant enough for ballet.

'I went to ballet class, and I was kind of like the sort of elephant in comparison to the other little girls ... I was thundering around like a viking,' claims the willowy daughter of Old Etonian Roddy Campbell and architect Sophie Hicks.

Why ramblers are set to rein in Geri's plans

SPICE Girls star Geri Halliwell is facing another hurdle in her battle to build a £30,000 horse walker exercise pen at her country estate after blocking a public footpath.

The singer and her husband, Christian Horner, have applied to divert the path to the north of the site despite the local council saying it should remain open and ‘unobstructed’.

Northamptonshire Ramblers said: 'We fully agree with the council's comments concerning the protection and preservation of the public footpath that crosses the applicant's land.'

Things that will be forgotten this Christmas:

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Postage stamps.

Christmas crackers.

Custard.

Stuffing.

What year it is.

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T'S a statistic that almost takes your breath away – one in three children born in the UK today are set to develop dementia in their lifetime.

It means the disease that already kills around 75,000 a year is also lying in wait for future generations – threatening to destroy the lives of millions if a cure isn't found soon.

Nearly one million people in the UK have dementia and it already kills more people than cancer or heart disease – usually from problems arising from a weakened immune system, such as pneumonia or difficulty swallowing.

Costs to the UK economy, including that of the round-the-clock care many need as dementia takes hold, affecting their ability to perform everyday activities, is an eye-watering £42 billion a year, according to the charity Alzheimer's Society. That figure will double by 2040, it warns.

And dementia is the disease that one in three people fear getting more than cancer, as the Daily Mail revealed yesterday.

Few would dispute that this kind of looming health crisis deserves the highest possible priority from any government, particularly given the brutal way that dementia robs people of their memory, personality and dignity.

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But there is frustration and concern that neither the Labour Government, nor its Conservative predecessors, have given dementia the attention needed to halt its relentless march.

Despite previous commitments, it's still the case that for every £3 invested in beating cancer, only £1 goes towards dementia.

A S THE Daily Mail and Alzheimer's Society launch a drive to defeat dementia, worrying evidence also suggests that one in three people with the disease have not even had a proper diagnosis – because the NHS lacks the resources (such as enough memory clinics and PET scanners to detect brain changes) to seek them out proactively and accurately diagnose them.

This failure to prioritise dementia has now prompted some experts to question the role of the dementia 'tsar' – the medical expert appointed by ministers to oversee progress in research, drug development and NHS care.

There are more than 40 'tsar' posts, covering everything from cancer to eye care, obesity and tobacco addiction. Tsars are usually practising medics and experts in their field, whose knowledge should guide government policy, ensuring NHS patients get the best service.

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Each tsar works part-time for NHS England – in the case of dementia for 12 hours a week.

The role of the dementia tsar – known as the national clinical director for dementia at NHS England – was established in 2010 by David Cameron's government.

setting of a relatively unambitious target – to increase the number who are assessed and diagnosed on the NHS from less than a third to two-thirds – which has only just been achieved after ten years of trying.

But some experts are now questioning why progress during the 15 years of a dementia 'tsar' has lagged so far behind that seen in cancer, where there has been a tsar since 1999.

For example, during his 13-year tenure as cancer tsar, Professor Sir Mike Richards spearheaded the development of the NHS Cancer Plan, an ambitious scheme to set up 34 cancer networks across England, boosting the quality of care in all regions.

He was also heavily involved in devising a new cancer strategy in 2011, focusing on prevention and speeding up diagnosis - backed by £750 million of funding – to save an additional 5,000 lives annually from cancer.

Combined with better drugs, screening programmes and greater awareness of the links between lifestyle and cancer, this helped to improve survival rates significantly in the UK.

Almost 50 per cent of UK cancer patients now survive for at least ten years after their diagnosis – compared with just 23 per cent in the 1970s, with breast, bowel and cervical cancers doing particularly well, according to a study in The Lancet Regional Health Europe published in August.

By contrast, some critics say the only significant development in dementia services has been the

'Professor Richards set ambitious targets for cancer care that seemed challenging at the time,' says one dementia charity insider, who asked not to be named. 'Setting those ambitious targets helped to drive things forward.'

One example was the introduction of a maximum 28-day limit on the time a patient should wait before cancer diagnosis, after being referred for checks.

Advocated by Professor Richards when he was 'tsar', it was introduced in England in 2021. 'We need that same level of ambition in dementia,' the dementia charity insider said.

Yet other experts emphasise that the apparent difference between the achievements of the cancer and dementia tsars is merely part of a bigger picture, illustrative of the overall huge gap between the treatment of two major life-limiting illnesses.

The number of clinical trials for cancer drugs over the past 20 years is more than ten times that in dementia, although this is partly because of a relative lack

It's estimated that more than 20,000 scientists work in cancer research in the UK – triple that seen in dementia.

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How one dose of treatment made of patient's cells may beat blood cancer

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By WILL STODDART

A REVOLUTIONARY immune therapy that uses the body's own defences to fight illness has cured patients with the blood cancer multiple myeloma – the first treatment to do so.

In a recent landmark trial, 97 patients who had failed to get better on other drugs were given the one-off infusion of their own immune cells, genetically reprogrammed in the lab to hunt and kill the cancer cells.

Before the trial, most had been told they had only a year or two to live. But results published in June in the Journal of Clinical Oncology showed 82 of the patients were still alive and healthy five years after receiving the breakthrough therapy. Many had no sign of the cancer which had threatened to kill them, and needed no further treatment.

‘These patients meet the criteria of being cured,’ says Professor Sundar Jagannath, lead investigator of the trial and director of the Multiple Myeloma Program at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York.

UK experts have hailed the immune-boosting treatment as one of the biggest ever breakthroughs in treatment of a disease which strikes more than 6,000 people a year in the UK – and kills around 3,000.

'This is the most effective treatment we've ever seen in myeloma,' says Professor Graham Jackson, a consultant haematologist at Newcastle Hospitals NHS Trust, who was not involved in the trial.

E told the Daily Mail: 'It's a game-changer. We have never talked about cures in this disease before, but these results are unprecedented.'

Multiple myeloma starts in the bone marrow – the spongy material inside bones – when plasma cells (white blood cells that normally make antibodies to fight infection) turn cancerous and multiply out of control.

These cancerous cells tend to congregate at several sites in the bone marrow - hence the 'multiple' in the name.

Symptoms can be vague - fatigue, backache and repeated infections (because the cancer also suppresses the immune system) - so diagnosis is often delayed. A third of patients are only picked up when they visit A&E with broken bones or kidney failure triggered by the disease.

Myeloma cells release chemical messages that switch on bone-eating cells (osteoclasts) and switch off bone-building cells (osteoblasts). Bone is chewed away from the inside, causing holes and fractures, and calcium can spill into the blood.

'The cancer effectively leaks bone from the inside, so the skeleton weakens and patients often present with fractures in the spine or hips,' says Professor Jackson.

'It also suppresses the immune system, so patients suffer repeated infections, and it clogs the kidneys with abnormal proteins, leading to kidney failure.'

Until recently, myeloma was one of the hardest cancers to treat because it never truly went away – lurking deep in the bone marrow where drugs struggle to reach it.

NHS treatments range from chemotherapy and radiotherapy to drugs targeted specifically at myeloma cells and medicines called bisphosphonates which are designed to reduce the damage to bones.

Some 1,800 patients a year also undergo a stem cell transplant, where doctors remove stem cells from a patient's blood before giving them high-dose chemotherapy to wipe out myeloma cancer cells.

The stem cells are then infused back into the body to make healthy new bone marrow.

But some studies show the cancer returns within three years in up to two thirds of stem cell transplant patients.

Meanwhile, other new approaches include: thalidomide (a drug notoriously used in the 1950s and 1960s to treat morning sickness in pregnancy, now adapted to boost the immune system against cancer); proteasome inhibitors that stop cancer cells clearing out toxic waste so they collapse and die under the build-up; and antibodies that flag myeloma cells so the immune system can destroy them.

But there is a catch: 'These treatments extend life, but they don't cure,' says Professor Jackson. 'Patients must stay on therapy for years, often for life.

'And the side-effects – exhaustion, infections, nerve damage – can be draining. What is missing is the ability to give patients a treatment-free life.'

And this is where it is hoped the recent findings will help. The latest trial - called the CARTITUDE-4 study - involves a type of cancer treatment called CAR T-cell therapy.

It means taking a patient's own T-cells, immune cells that kill infection, engineering them in a lab so they recognise a target on myeloma cells, then putting them back into the patient in a single drip so they can hunt down and kill the cancer.

CAR T-cell therapy is already used on the NHS to treat some blood cancers, including aggressive B-cell lymphomas, mantle cell lymphoma and B-cell acute lymphoblastic leukaemia.

HEN infused back into the patient in their tens of millions, these CAR

T-cells patrol the bloodstream, attacking the cancer wherever it appears.

But the treatment can be brutal. Patients must first undergo chemotherapy to kill some of their existing immune cells to make room for the new ones, leaving them vulnerable to infections.

'Almost all patients develop cytokine release syndrome, a surge of inflammation that can cause fever, confusion, even organ damage,' says Professor Jagannath. 'Most cases are mild, but around 4 per cent are severe.'

Severe cytokine release syndrome means dangerously low blood pressure, breathing problems and organ stress needing intensive care.

But it's rarely fatal as doctors manage it quickly with drugs such as tocilizumab and steroids.

Nor is CAR T-cell therapy cheap – a single infusion costs around £350,000 (though patients should only need one infusion).

It's not currently available on the NHS for multiple myeloma, although several private hospitals are now offering it.

Trials are also under way at several centres in the UK to see if using CAR T-cell therapy earlier on patients – before they get seriously ill – might yield even better results.

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of interest from drug companies, as success with dementia drugs has hitherto proved elusive.

Professor Martin Green, chief executive of Care England – the trade body for care home providers – says it's not the fault of the experts appointed to be dementia tsar: the problem is they lack the support of politicians to really get things done.

(Alistair Burns, a professor of old-age psychiatry at Manchester University, held the post for the first 14 years. The current incumbent is Dr Jeremy Isaacs, a distinguished consultant neurologist who was appointed in 2024.)

Professor Green points to the 2012 Dementia Challenge, the brainchild of then prime minister David Cameron, who described it as 'an all-out fightback' against the horrors of the disease, which has recently claimed his mother.

Launching the scheme to bolster drug research and equip the NHS to deal with the crisis, Mr Cameron said: 'Dementia is simply a horrible disease

Many wait up to two years for a diagnosis

- it's a scandal that we as a country haven't kept pace with it.'

Prime ministerial intervention was initially transformative: 'Suddenly, there was a real determination within the Department of Health and Social Care and NHS England to deliver – there were people from Downing Street sitting in on all the meetings we had, constantly pushing for the changes needed to achieve what the PM wanted,' says Professor Green.

But the momentum was lost after Mr Cameron stepped down in 2016.

Dementia experts now say it's vital to recapture this sense of urgency to make real progress.

'There was a big picture before – and there isn't one now,' says Professor Green. 'If we had the Prime Minister saying this must happen, it would give the dementia tsar real traction to get things moving.'

Even the current dementia tsar, Dr Jeremy Isaacs, has spoken publicly about how care for the condition in England is inadequate. Earlier this year, he told a conference in London that most patients wait too long for a diagnosis, with nearly half of those thought to have the condition waiting more than 18 weeks for checks. In deprived areas, delays are even longer.

But, far from prioritising dementia, some fear the Government is letting it slip further down the NHS to-do list.

In January, it announced it was removing the target for at least two-thirds of dementia patients across England to get an official diagnosis from its future plans.

Diagnosis rates vary widely from region to region – but are only in single figures in some parts of England.

Diagnosis matters enormously because, while dementia is not curable, the type of care patients need can differ significantly depending on the variation of the disease they have.

And there are more than 100 different types of dementia – Alzheimer's disease (thought to be caused by plaque deposits in the brain) and vascular dementia are the best known.

Announcing the revamp earlier this year, Health Secretary Wes Streeting said the NHS would instead focus on prioritising fewer goals.

The plan to drop dementia targets has angered some experts.

Alzheimer's Society said it was a glaring omission from NHS planning. Fiona Carragher, chief policy and research officer at the charity, said: 'It sends the message that dementia doesn't

picture: DAMIEN McFADDEN
Life-changing illness: Tim Little

Imagine if they scrapped all targets for cancer or childhood vaccinations - all hell would break loose

Picture: SHUTTERSTOCK

matter and is not one of England's health priorities.'

Professor Green adds: 'It smacks of ageism. Imagine if they said they were going to scrap all targets for cancer or childhood vaccinations – all hell would break loose. But because it's dementia, there was little or no public outcry about it.

'The tsar should do all he can to reinstate the diagnostic targets and ensure dementia is a high priority for both health and social care.'

According to Alzheimer's

Society, one in four dementia patients waits two years or more for a diagnosis.

The process begins with a trip to the GP when a patient, or a loved one, is worried about possible symptoms – such as forgetting things or struggling with everyday tasks, such as dressing, cooking or paying bills.

Anxiety, depression and sudden confusion can also be early signs.

After tests to rule out other causes, patients complete a memory or cognitive function test, before being referred to a specialist, who may arrange for an MRI scan and more detailed memory tests.

Professor Green fears that, without clear targets for diagnosis, some patients who have dementia may just be labelled as depressed or old – because there is less incentive for medics to refer them for thorough testing.

Meanwhile, patients with dementia-like symptoms caused by other problems may be wrongly classed as having the condition - missing out on treatments that could help them.

'I was recently talking to an elderly resident who had just moved into a care home,' says Professor Green.

'Staff said she was withdrawn and showing signs of dementia. But, chatting to her, I discovered that she had lost her husband, her pet dog and her home all in the space of eight months.

'She almost certainly had depression, yet had already been labelled as having dementia without anyone testing her for it.'

Rob Howard, a professor of old-age psychiatry at University

College London, says the first dementia tsar, Alistair Burns, was in fact responsible for driving up diagnosis rates to where they are today.

But he fears that the scrapping of diagnosis targets reflects a deeper issue in society.

'The problem is dementia involves older people and we don't seem to value older people in this country – it's a terrible shame,' he says.

‘Dementia is a harder nut to crack than cancer [in terms of developing new treatments] – and I don't think it's ever going to have quite the same profile.’

Gill Livingston, a professor of psychiatry in older people at University College London, also praises previous dementia tsar initiatives, including better awareness in NHS hospitals that older patients admitted for emergency treatments of any

The message is: dementia does not matter

kind may also have symptoms of undiagnosed dementia.

But she adds: 'Dementia is a big problem, so perhaps we need a tsar that works more than 12 hours a week.'

NHS England said that, although dementia diagnosis targets have officially been dropped from its plans, 'the Government remains committed to the national ambition of 66.7 per cent [of patients being diagnosed]'.

But it said the emphasis is less on national targets and more on giving local NHS bodies ‘the freedom and autonomy they need to provide the best services to their local community, including those with dementia’.

In a statement to the Daily Mail, dementia tsar Dr Jeremy Isaacs, said: 'The NHS is diagnosing record numbers of people with dementia and referred more than 224,000 patients to memory services in the past year alone.

'It provides a range of support to help people living with dementia, including cognitive stimulation therapy, education for carers and medication – and we are working to improve access to these, as well as monitoring potential new treatments showing early promise in clinical trials.'

When they suspected a tumour, my care couldn't have been more different

IT TOOK almost a year and a half of constant anxiety from the time Tim Little first saw his GP until he finally got the diagnosis that changed his life – he had dementia and it was incurable.

First, he waited six months for a memory clinic appointment. Then it took 12 months to complete tests and consultations that confirmed his worst fears.

But a year after his dementia diagnosis, Tim again saw his GP with an unrelated mild cough that wouldn't go away.

'Within a week I'd had a CT scan on my chest to rule out lung disease and blood tests to look for signs of cancer cells,' says Tim, 60, a former electrician.

These came back clear and a course of antibiotics cleared an infection. But Tim was struck by the huge difference in how he was treated when doctors suspected cancer, compared with when he developed dementia.

‘We need dementia to be prioritised in the way that cancer has been,' says Tim, a married father-of-three from Witham in Essex. 'But it's still a dirty word.'

Tim sought help in 2019 when he started worrying about his ability to complete simple tasks, such as wiring at work.

Having previously suffered a benign brain tumour, he wondered if this might be related. It would be late 2020 before Tim was finally told he had Lewy body dementia - a form that accounts for 10 to 15 per cent of dementia cases, caused by the build-up of abnormal clumps of a protein, alpha-synuclein, which disrupts normal brain signalling. This can cause slow movement and tremors, visual hallucinations and acting out dreams.

As it was during lockdown, Tim received his dementia diagnosis from his consultant over the phone on a Friday.

The only advice offered was to make sure his will was up to date and arrange a power of attorney. Left alone over the weekend to deal with his diagnosis, Tim researched online. He says: 'Based on my symptoms, it said I had about five years to live.' He fell into deep depression and experienced bouts of crippling anxiety. At one point, he considered travelling to an assisted dying clinic abroad.

He has tried various medicines to combat his symptoms, but the side-effects, including tremors, paranoia and severe anxiety, have been too much to tolerate.

'I tend to leave the gas on by mistake,' says Tim. 'Or I'll clean half the kitchen and completely miss the other half.'

He has now helped to establish a local support group for fellow sufferers and regularly gives talks to dementia conferences and charities on living with his form of the disease.

He's doing all he can to continue to lead an active life, but he says: 'The truth is, I wish I'd got cancer instead. At least it is potentially treatable - dementia isn't.'

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Having lost my daughter, I can't forgive dramas that make light of life-threatening food allergies

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By TANYA EDNAN-LAPEROUSE Co-founder of The Natasha Allergy Research Foundation

A RECENTLY released film stars Olivia Colman as a glamorous chef whose marriage is falling apart, and who happens to be highly allergic to raspberries.

The film, called The Roses, culminates with her husband, played by Benedict Cumberbatch, deliberately lacing a cake with raspberries, which she eats, triggering a severe allergic reaction.

He refuses to give her an EpiPen, a premeasured shot of adrenaline which can reduce allergic symptoms, until she agrees to sign divorce papers (which she does).

This might seem like comic drama, but it is part of a worrying and potentially harmful new trend. As food allergies become increasingly common – more than 2.4 million adults in the UK have one, according to the Food Standards Agency – the more scriptwriters have sought to exploit them for dramatic effect within TV dramas and films.

Yet, as the mother of a child who died from a severe allergic reaction, I believe the way allergies are being portrayed in The Roses and other high-profile films and programmes is often not only misleading, but highly dangerous.

The result is that a person with a food allergy who informs someone about their condition is even more likely to be treated as if they are making an unnecessary fuss.

It adds to the misconception that food allergies are a lifestyle choice and that a 'little bit' of an allergen won't kill you – but it can, and it does, in just minutes.

portrayed on the big screen matter – they stay with us and inform our opinions.

I still meet people who, for example, believe the correct way to give an auto-injector – of adrenaline – such as an EpiPen, which can counter the effects of a serious reaction by reducing inflammation, is straight into the chest.

That's how it was depicted in the 1994 movie Pulp Fiction.

In The Roses, it is given into the arm, which is just as wrong.

In fact, the official recommendation – as it's the fastest and most effective way to get adrenaline into the bloodstream quickly – is to administer it to the outer thigh.

And while I don't want to focus on this one film, in another scene in The Roses, Olivia Colman's character deliberately eats a raspberry to gain attention, confident that one shot of the auto-injector will save her. How I wish that was always true.

My husband administered not one but two EpiPens into Natasha as soon as she started to show signs of an allergic reaction on the day she died. But it wasn't enough. The strength of her reaction meant she required further hospital treatment which wasn't available to us on the flight.

E set up our charity to raise awareness of what life is really like

with an allergy - going into schools, for example, to run awareness campaigns.

Criticised: The Roses, starring Olivia Colman and Benedict Cumberbatch, and the Peter Rabbit movie. Right: Tanya's daughter Natasha who died aged 15 in 2016

Many people whose lives are touched by food allergies have contacted the charity I co-founded with my husband Nadim in 2019 – after our beautiful daughter Natasha died aged just 15 – to express their anger at these big screen portrayals. They describe them as ‘dire’, ‘dangerous’ and ‘offensive’.

LENTY got in touch after watching All Her Fault, currently on Sky Atlantic.

which features a character (played by Sarah Snook), who deliberately kisses her husband after eating something he's highly allergic to – and watches as he starts to gasp for breath. One mother of a 12-year-old with food allergies called it 'irresponsible and potentially harmful'.

Others were upset by a play, Inside No 9: Stage/Fright, which has recently toured around the UK, during which a character sprinkles nuts on the seat of someone he knows is highly allergic to them - for comic effect.

Even children's films – which can have such an impact on impressionable minds – are not immune. The 2018 Peter Rabbit film portrays a gang of bunnies aiming blackberries at the mouth of the angry farmer Mr McGregor, who is highly allergic to them.

What kind of message does this give about the real nature of a food allergy? Like the scene I described from The Roses, it belittles it.

Food allergies are not entertaining, they're terrifying – the most serious reaction, known as anaphylaxis, affects the whole body; the lips may swell and the throat may start to close, making breathing very difficult.

Our beautiful and talented Natasha had an anaphylactic reaction after eating a baguette she was unaware contained sesame – one of her allergens – before a flight to Nice in July 2016, and within hours was declared dead.

She was six months old when she first had a serious allergic reaction to a food - a single mouthful of mashed banana. She screamed as her lips swelled and her little body turned bright red.

We rushed her to hospital, not knowing if she would survive. Soon after we discovered she was also allergic to milk – even the droplets released into the air by a milk frother in a cafe left her wheezing and foaming at the mouth.

On one occasion, when she was around 18 months old, she held hands with a toddler who had eaten an ice cream.

When she then rubbed her eyes, they became so swollen they completely shut.

We lived in a state of permanent high alert. Until she was two and could have tests to determine all her allergies (milk, eggs, sesame, banana) she had chicken soup for breakfast, lunch and dinner. I was too nervous to give her anything else.

We took antihistamines, an inhaler (as she also had allergy-induced asthma) and two EpiPens with us wherever we went. I was scared of people kissing her, in case it might pass on something that would trigger a reaction. And it took its toll on me.

Once, when Natasha was about two and I was driving with her in her car seat in the back, I was suddenly hit by a wave of grief that welled up inside me like a physical pain.

I had this awful fear that I would lose her. I had to stop the car and let the tears flow.

I realise now I was showing symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) from watching my daughter who, even at that young age, had experienced one life-threatening reaction after another.

This is what life with a severe food allergy is really like.

I could not watch any of the films I have mentioned, as it would be just too distressing.

But if the portrayals were accurate, then this would be a fantastic opportunity to enhance understanding of how frightening it is to have a severe allergy. Instead, the current scenes do the opposite. And the images

This is important as, even though around two children in every classroom have a food allergy, (according to a recent survey we did of one teaching union, the NASUWT), 67 per cent of staff have no allergy training or experience.

When the makers of TV drama Waterloo Road included a storyline on food allergies in schools in September, they contacted us to ask for guidance, keen to ensure their depiction was accurate. How I wish others would follow their lead.

We wrote to the makers of The Roses to voice our concerns about their storylines – but they have yet to reply.

I hope that, going forward, filmmakers take the opportunity at least to portray severe food allergies realistically.

Because if not, people watching these dramatisations become less likely to believe how serious a food allergy can be, less likely to step in and help out when someone becomes seriously unwell – and less likely to know how to correctly administer an auto-injector, which would be a tragedy in the true sense of the word.

Interview by LUCY ELKINS

By CAROLINE JONES

0 NCE the preserve of body-builders and athletes, creatine has broken into the mainstream with

claims that it can help with everything from muscle strength to brain health and insomnia.

A naturally occurring compound, creatine is made in the liver, kidney and pancreas and stored in the muscles, where it acts as a fuel source – particularly for high-intensity activity such as sprinting or lifting weights.

This is because it can be broken down quickly, whereas glycogen – our main source of fuel – is used for endurance and slower forms of exercise.

We can get creatine from our diet, with red meat, fish and dairy the best sources. But the amount in these is significantly lower than in supplement form. For example, a medium steak contains 500mg of creatine – you'd need six steaks to get the 3g in most supplements.

'It's well-established that taking extra creatine – around 3-5g per day – boosts exercise performance, helping people workout for longer and recover faster,' explains Justin Roberts, a professor of nutritional physiology at Anglia Ruskin University, who has conducted studies on creatine. 'Over time it can lead to a 10 to 20 per cent increase in both performance and muscle strength.'

And research suggests it might be beneficial for age-related problems, such as muscle loss.

A 2022 review in the journal Bone found creatine supplements on top of an exercise programme can help over-50s improve performance, lose moderate amounts of body fat and avoid injury.

The theory is that by allowing the muscles to work harder, the body becomes leaner, reducing overall body fat. And being fitter leads to fewer injuries.

Some believe the supplements could even help counter the muscle loss linked to weight-loss jabs such as semaglutide, but this has not been proven – and users would need to be taking exercise, too. An article in The Lancet last year highlighted that the ability to prevent muscle loss could make creatine useful in this area.

GOOD HEALTH

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It's said to boost your brain, help sleep and may even counteract the main side-effect of fat jabs...

So what's the best way to take muscle-building CREATINE?

"There's also emerging evidence creatine could support brain function and reduce mental fatigue," says Professor Roberts, as it is a main source of fuel for our brain cells.

A study in Nature last year found taking creatine helped sleep-deprived participants do better in memory quizzes, too.

Plus, a new study on 15 women by St Olaf College in Minnesota reported positive changes in sleep and brain function after they took 5mg for 14 weeks.

There's no official recommended dosage for creatine, as it's not considered an essential daily nutrient.

But Professor Roberts says an intake of 3-5g per day is needed to benefit muscles, while early studies suggest 5-10g daily for the potential benefits to cognitive function, and as much as 20-30g per day for sleep improvements.

Drinking plenty of water is important as creatine can lead to mild dehydration (it causes water to be drawn to the muscles), and some people can experience bloating with high doses.

We asked Professor Roberts to assess some of the latest creatine products to hit the market, which we then rated.

BUDGET POWDER

Optimum Nutrition Flavoured Creatine Powder Fruit Punch, £16 for 247.5g, optimumnutrition.com COST PER DAY: 29p

CLAIM: 'Designed to fuel muscles during high-intensity exercise.'

Add one 3g scoop daily to 250ml of water.

EXPERT VERDICT: Each serving contains 3g of creatine, and it's cost-effective at just 29p per day. This contains 'micronised' creatine monohydrate, which just means it's physically finer powder and therefore likely to dissolve better in solution than standard creatine. But there's no evidence this makes it more absorbable in the body.

The finer powder makes this potentially easier to combine with other prod-

ucts, such as smoothies, without the gritty texture you get with some powders. But this does contain fruit flavouring, which could be overpowering.

Plus, there's artificial sweeteners here - sucralose and acesulfame K - which can cause gut discomfort in some people. 8/10

SKIN PATCH

What's That Patch Creatine Patches, £19 for 30 patches, whatsthatpatch.co

COST PER DAY: 63p

CLAIM: 'Supports brain energy, muscle recovery, and cellular repair.' Apply one patch daily, which contains 2mg of creatine ethyl ester and 4mg of guanidino-acetic acid (a creatine precursor).

EXPERT VERDICT: Creatine is a water-soluble molecule, which means it's poorly absorbed through the skin. Perhaps most importantly the amount of creatine stated in this product is incredibly low at just 2mg – most people need at least 3g – particularly given the maker's claims

about brain benefits. It's not

clear if this refers instead to levels of niacin and zinc; products containing these are allowed to say they support brain function – but again, higher doses would be needed.

There is a theory that by avoiding the digestive system - where up to 80 per cent of an oral dose can be lost due to the acidic environment - transdermal delivery could use smaller doses to get a similar effect. But this hasn't been proven in studies for creatine - I think it's unlikely to increase creatine levels enough to have a positive effect.

They've also added guanidino-acetic acid, which the body can convert to creatine. Whilst in theory this could increase total creatine, the doses are very low. 2/10

CAPSULES

fulfil your needs on the go.

EXPERT VERDICT: Creatine capsules are not absorbed as quickly as powder, as they need to be digested – and it probably takes 30 minutes just to break down the outer shell in the gut.

But once digested, these should deliver a significant amount of creatine monohydrate.

Capsules can be easier to use on-the-go or when travelling, but their convenience comes at a price – they're more expensive than most powders.

And to get near the recommended 3g a day dose means taking four capsules, more if you want a higher dose. They're also quite big so not ideal for people who find swallowing pills difficult. 6/10

PURE POWDER

Elite All Blacks Creatine Monohydrate, £37.39 for 500g, healthspanelite.co.uk

COST PER DAY: 37p

Creature Micronized Creatine Capsules, £34.99 for 245 capsules, myvitamins.com COST PER DAY: 57p CLAIM: Creatine in capsules that allows you to

CLAIM: 'Supports strength in older adults'. Contains micronised creatine monohydrate. Take 5g daily, mixed with water or juice.

EXPERT VERDICT: If you're looking for just micronised creatine monohydrate with nothing added, then this no-frills powder could be the product for you.

While it's marketed at sport-speople and older adults who exercise, it delivers a decent 5g creatine monohydrate per serving - so could be beneficial for anyone wanting to use creatine.

It's also one of the cheapest products here per day – and being unflavoured means you can add it to any drink, making it versatile, too. 9/10

LIQUID

Applied Nutrition Creatine Liquid CreaFlow Blue Raspberry, £15.99 for 500ml, amazon.co.uk

COST PER DAY: £1.60

CLAIM: 'Delivers 3g of creatine per 50ml daily shot. Cutting-edge technology to enhance solubility and absorption.'

EXPERT VERDICT: Creatine is normally unstable in liquid form, which means it will degrade over time. This is why powdered forms mixed with water or juice must be consumed immediately.

Companies are searching for a stable form that can be consumed in a ready-to-go drink with a long shelf-life – for example, by adding acid regulators that could help stop the creatine breaking down.

But the marketing claim here that adding glycerol (sugar alcohol) boosts absorption seems unlikely, as creatine alone is already very well absorbed by the body and there's no evidence that having it with glycerol is superior.

It also contains artificial flavouring and preservatives – and is the most expensive product here per dose. 3/10

GUMMIES

Keka Natural Creatine Gummies, £13.95 for 60, amazon.co.uk COST PER DAY: 47p

CLAIM: 'A blueberry-flavoured convenient alternative to creatine powder.' Two gummies provide 4g of creatine. EXPERT VERDICT: The amount of creatine supplied is good at 4g and will cover most people's needs.

This product is reasonably priced but does contain artificial sweeteners, which can irritate the gut.

And there's little evidence to support claims that gummies 'offer superior absorption' – and the heat and moisture involved in making gummies may actually reduce creatine content. 6/10

WITH ADDED COLLAGEN

Free Soul CreaGlow Collagen + Creatine, £34.99 for 360g, freesoul.com COST PER DAY: £1.16

CLAIM: With 3.4g creatine per serving, plus 2,500mg collagen and electrolytes to 'support strength, recovery and focus'.

EXPERT VERDICT: With 3.4g creatine monohydrate per serving, this meets most users' needs – though it's expensive because of the collagen and electrolytes (the minerals sodium, magnesium, calcium and potassium).

But consuming creatine and electrolytes together may improve performance, by keeping the body well hydrated.

It also contains 2,500mg of marine collagen, from fish skin – which might improve skin elasticity – and collagen may help older women, for example, maintain muscle strength with age.

However, eating more meat or fish might be just as effective. 7/10

GOOD HEALTH

What will help me get an erection at my age?

Q I AM in a relationship with a wonderful 72-year-old lady who is sexually active. However, I cannot get an erection. My GP prescribed 10mg tadalafil but it hasn't worked. Should I ask for a stronger dose? I'm 82.

V Fletcher, via email.

A I'M sorry to hear that tadalafil – a drug which improves blood flow to the penis – has proved unsuccessful.

In your longer letter, you mention that you are on tablets for high blood pressure, which can (in some patients) have an adverse effect on erections, and that ten years ago you underwent extensive radiotherapy treatment for prostate cancer.

Unfortunately, around 50 per cent of men having standard radiotherapy – where high-energy rays are fired into the body to destroy the prostate cancer cells – subsequently suffer with erectile problems.

Then there is your age. One large analysis found that almost eight out of ten have some degree of erectile dysfunction by the time they reach 80.

My view is that it's unlikely that a higher dose of tadalafil

ASK THE GP DR MARTIN SCURR

will be any more effective. You also say in your longer letter that you have asked about testosterone replacement therapy, but that this was rejected by doctors on the grounds that it might trigger the return of your prostate cancer.

I'd also counsel against testosterone therapy: the risk is that any cancer cells that escaped from the prostate before the radiotherapy treatment – and are lingering silently elsewhere – could now be activated.

Your options now are either a pump to produce an erection or a penile implant that simulates an actual erection.

The vacuum pump technique involves using a clear plastic cylinder that fits over the penis, which has a pump on one side to withdraw air from the cylinder.

The negative pressure this creates draws blood into the corpora cavernosa – the soft, spongy tissue inside the penis – to allow adequate rigidity.

The cylinder is then removed and a constriction ring applied for 30 minutes or so - enough time for intimacy.

This is a safe option I recommend you consider. It does not depend on testosterone levels and many couples find it acceptable – especially when the other alternative is an invasive procedure to insert a rigid implant which, whilst effective, does result in a state of permanent erection. Far from ideal.

Q I SUFFERED from diverticulitis for some years, which involved frequent hospital stays. Then my consultant suggested taking probiotics and I've not had any flare-ups since. How do they work?

Jeanette Littley, Chislehurst.

A FOR the benefit of other readers, let me first explain that diverticulitis is when small pouches (called diverticulae) form in the intestine and become inflamed or infected.

Diverticulitis can lead to pain and sometimes bleeding.

In severe cases, an abscess may form and the pouch may burst, which can lead to peritonitis, inflammation of the abdomen, or even sepsis, an overreaction of the immune system which can even prove fatal in some cases.

Most people find that episodes of diverticulitis are helped by a combination of rest, intravenous fluids and antibiotics (to kill the bacteria responsible for causing the infection).

In the most severe cases, patients need surgery to remove the affected section of colon.

To answer your question, it is not clear how probiotics might help prevent infection of the diverticulae – and there is no convincing evidence to show that they actually do.

However, I often advise patients to take them and one trial found that patients with acute diverticulitis who took probiotics showed a significant reduction in inflammatory markers in blood tests.

One explanation may be that probiotics alter the balance of the gut microbiome, the microbes that are key to digestion and the immune system – so that ‘friendly’ bacteria outnumber harmful ones that may cause an infection.

Whatever the case, if this has worked for you there's no reason to cease taking the probiotics.

IN MY VIEW... Truth about faulty diabetes tests

A FEW months ago, news broke that thousands of NHS patients may have been wrongly diagnosed with type 2 diabetes because of faulty machines used by hospitals across England.

These devices are used to check haemoglobin A1C, the average blood sugar level over two to three months. First adopted by the NHS in 2009, HbA1C testing has revolutionised diabetes testing and treatment.

Patients have been understandably upset that they might have been wrongly diagnosed and put on medication.

But when doctors get an unexpected reading they usually repeat the test to double-check.

And there's a chance patients undergoing HbA1c tests already have risk factors, such as being overweight – so even if they don't already have type 2 diabetes, they may be on course for it.

HbA1c is still an excellent way of testing for high blood sugar – there's no need to panic.

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EING a patient is risky. Most people never think about that, but they should. Patients can get

misdiagnosed and even when the diagnosis is right, the treatment can still be wrong.

That's not intended to frighten anyone – because once you recognise there is risk, you can do something about it.

The fact is, healthcare staff make mistakes not because we are bad, uncaring or lazy, but because we are human.

The tragic death of 27-year-old Jessica Brady, a talented engineer from Stevenage, exemplifies this.

In 2020 she went to her GP surgery more than 20 times in five months with abdominal pain. Yet she never received the tests she needed. When the cause – cancer – was eventually found, it was widespread and beyond treatment, and she died later that year.

This led to the introduction this September of Jess's Rule, where if you go to your GP three times with the same unresolved problem, the doctor must pause, rethink and, if needed, escalate.

It's not the first NHS rule brought in to improve safety: Martha's Rule gives families the right to a second opinion from another hospital team if they fear their loved one is deteriorating.

Martha Mills was 13 when she died in 2021 after doctors dismissed her parents' concerns. Both Jess's and Martha's rules tell us the same uncomfortable truth: medical mistakes are too common.

Following a few rules can help make them less likely to happen to you.

RULE 1: Spell out what's worrying you

IN A ten-minute GP slot or a busy A&E, it is hard to make your concerns clear. So it's best to use ICE: ideas, concerns and expectations.

Start with your ideas. Tell the doctor what you think might be going on. If you've found a new lump in your testicle and it's growing quickly, say so.

Then give your concerns – what are you actually worried about?

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Yes, we doctors DO make mistakes ...but these seven simple rules will help protect you

That means, if you think it's cancer, tell us.

Finally, set out your expectations; i.e. what you want from the consultation. For example, how we are going to rule out testicular cancer. Saying it helps us reach the right plan faster.

A few years ago, I saw a man in his 40s with what looked like bog-standard tummy pain. A bit of diarrhoea from a dodgy kebab was my initial diagnosis.

But then he apologised for coming and said his wife made him (which always makes me worried) – and added: 'My dad died of bowel cancer at 48. Not sure if that matters.'

That one line flipped the consultation. We investigated and he was diagnosed with an early-stage, treatable bowel cancer.

THERE are three types of biases we doctors are prone to, that might cause us to make the wrong decision.

RULE 2: Ask what else it could be

Availability bias means we see a condition everywhere just because it is in the news or has been common recently. For example, during Covid everything looked like Covid so other serious infections were missed.

A straightforward, 'I know

Covid/the flu is everywhere, but I'm worried this might be something else because...' snaps us out of this autopilot.

Then there is first decision-maker bias, when we copy the diagnosis someone else made.

For example, an A&E doctor can easily inherit a diagnosis from a paramedic. I've seen strokes misdiagnosed as drunkenness because of this.

Confirmation bias, meanwhile, is when we look only for evidence that supports our first idea. Pull us out of these traps by asking questions that make us pause and think.

Ask if we are sure, what else it could be – and if a second opinion would be helpful.

RULE 3: Ask what they'd do for their loved one

TESTS carry risks. Some give false positives. Some involve radiation. Others lead to more tests and treatments that were never needed. So always ask why the test is being done – and what the downsides are.

A good question to ask is how many people would need to do the test they are proposing you do, not just to make a diagnosis but to actually save a life or improve symptoms.

The key is figuring out when a test result could genuinely change the treatment plan rather than simply satisfying curiosity.

The way to cut through this is

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LAST weekend I was on duty in A&E and it was one of the busiest for ages - because of the sheer number of flu cases. Patients were stacking up in the corridors and it felt as if every other person coming through the door had a fever, a hacking cough or breathing problems.

London Ambulance Service has just had the three busiest days of 2025, with calls from people struggling to breathe because of respiratory illnesses, such as flu.

Yet fewer than half of eligible people in London have taken up the free flu vaccine and it's a similar story around the rest of the country.

Put those two facts together and it looks like we are heading for one of the worst flu years in a decade.

If you're eligible for a free flu jab (the criteria include being over 65, being pregnant, having long-term conditions such as asthma, diabetes, heart or lung disease), please get it.

It protects you, reduces the pressure on hospitals and helps keep beds free for the people who need them most.

And I'd urge those not eligible to get the vaccine privately. Most pharmacies offer it for a small fee and it is far cheaper than losing a week to illness or worrying that you might have transmitted the virus to a vulnerable person.

to pose this to them: 'What would you do if I were your partner, or my child was your child?'

RULE 4: Don't assume test result is accurate

ONE of the biggest blind spots in medicine is how we doctors interpret test results.

A 2021 study in JAMA Internal Medicine asked hundreds of clinicians to estimate how likely patients were to have certain conditions before and after they were given a test to diagnose it.

Many assumed a positive test meant a far higher chance of disease than it really does.

If a condition is rare and a test imperfect, you will get false positives. Most tests are imperfect. Yet many doctors treat a positive result as if the patient almost certainly has the condition, which leads to overdiagnosis, unnecessary scans and treatments that were never needed.

The same problem happens in reverse: if your symptoms strongly suggest a condition but the test is imperfect and comes back negative, that does not magically rule the condition out. Yet many clinicians treat a negative as absolute reassurance, and serious diagnoses get missed.

So ask how accurate the test is, how likely it is to give a wrong result in someone like you, and whether it should be repeated.

RULE 5: Double check your op site - and pills

IF YOU'RE having surgery, make sure it's the right one: ask if the site is marked correctly – a simple pen mark can stop mistakes.

When you're given medication, ask what it's for and whether your allergies affect if it's safe to take it. Always mention any other medication or even supplements you may be taking as these can sometimes have a negative effect.

If you're in hospital, repeat the plan back: 'So just to check, this is the antibiotic and the next dose is at 6pm?'

And ask what side-effects you might get from medication so you can spot anything unexpected.

RULE 6: Ask for this crucial number

A USEFUL question for any treatment is: how many patients like me would need to use this treatment for one of us to actually benefit?

This is known as the 'number needed to treat' – and it forces the doctor to think about how effective the treatment is for someone with your level of risk.

Knowing the number needed to treat gives you a sense of whether the benefits are likely to outweigh the downsides for you.

You may hear that a tablet reduces the chance of a heart attack by 50 per cent. But if your risk was only one in 1,000, the real benefit is tiny. You would need to give 2,000 people the drug to prevent one heart attack. The other 1,999 get no benefit at all and may still suffer side-effects.

RULE 7: Remain polite

ASKING questions keeps you safe. Rudeness does not. Studies show when clinicians experience incivility, the accuracy of their decision-making drops.

On my last set of night shifts a patient came in furious after a long wait – and the moment he started shouting, I could feel my thinking tighten, instead of staying open to other possibilities.

Challenge us, ask questions, please speak up – but do it constructively. Calm collaboration will get you better care than confrontation would. @drrobgalloway

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HIT by abdominal cramps and an upset stomach so severe she would be pinned to the loo for an hour at a time, Emily Lyon felt so unwell this summer she feared her 'life was shutting down'.

Emily, 23, from Cambridge, had such extreme diarrhoea that she lost 3st in two months. 'I would feel washed out after each bout and have to go to bed – and this could happen twice a day,' she says.

Too weak to leave the house, in June Emily had to abandon her job in retail and put her degree in theatre studies on hold.

All this, she has since discovered, is caused by a gut complaint – small-intestinal bacterial overgrowth (SIBO) – most likely linked to the acid-reflux pills she has been on for years.

Emily was just 17 when she was prescribed proton pump inhibitors (PPIs) to prevent the heartburn that was making her life a misery.

PPIs such as omeprazole, which Emily is taking, cut the amount of acid produced in the stomach – and while they have reduced the sharp stinging pain of reflux, with her health and career in tatters their cost appears high.

Two months ago, Emily was diagnosed with SIBO, which occurs when bacteria start to accumulate in the small intestine – an area they aren't normally found in high numbers – leading to bloating, flatulence and diarrhoea.

A review of 29 studies published in the Journal of Clinical Medicine earlier this year found that each extra month on a PPI increased the risk of SIBO by 4.2 per cent. The theory is that bacteria that would normally be wiped out by stomach acid may survive in people taking PPIs.

The authors said the risk was highest among those on PPIs for longer than six months and so 'it is imperative' to get people off these drugs 'where appropriate'.

Yet whenever Emily tries to come off PPIs, the reflux returns with a vengeance 'and feels like a rope burn in my chest', she says. 'It's unbearable.'

ITH doctors still unwilling to operate to tackle the cause of her reflux

- a hernia pushing part of her stomach into her chest - because they are not sure how much relief it would provide, Emily feels stuck. 'I just want my life back,' she says.

PPIs - such as omeprazole, lansoprazole and esomeprazole - are among the most commonly prescribed pills in the UK, with around 73 million prescriptions written in England alone in 2022/23.

The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence recommends treatment should in most cases last weeks and says those on longer-term PPIs should be offered an annual review.

Yet study after study suggests the drugs are prescribed too readily and for too long.

For example, research published in July in the journal BJGP Open, involving 77,000 patients in England who had been on PPIs for over six months, found only 4 per cent had a reason to be on them long term.

Other recent studies have shown that a quarter of those on PPIs take the pills for more than a year without a reassessment.

‘We are definitely using PPIs for too long and too broadly,’ says Professor Peter Whorwell, a consultant gastroenterologist at

GOOD HEALTH Why getting stuck on acid reflux pills can cause nasty cramps, bloating and wind

Life put on hold: Emily Lyon

Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust.

PPIs cut stomach acid production by around 80 per cent over 24 hours, explains Professor Anthony Hobson, a clinical scientist at the Functional Gut Clinic in London. This makes them invaluable as a short-term fix to allow gastric ulcers to heal, for example, but also as a longer-term option in some cases.

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If stomach acid persistently splashes up the oesophagus it can lead to pre-cancerous changes – a condition known as Barrett's oesophagus – and in a small proportion of cases this can lead to cancer.

But as Professor Whorwell explains: 'PPIs get given to anyone with tummy problems.'

He adds: 'You can see why – if a GP sees someone with a vague gastrointestinal symptom, all they can give them is either an anti-spasmodic [which reduces painful spasms in the gut] or an anti-acid [such as PPIs].'

Professor Hobson says PPIs are even given where acid isn't the culprit, with the biggest misuse being for hoarse throats.

The problem is PPIs are not without risks. For example, a study in the journal Nature Communications last year – involving two million PPI users worldwide – linked the drugs with an increased risk of 15 diseases, including heart disease, diabetes and respiratory infections.

While this doesn't necessarily mean PPIs cause these problems, the 'potential safety concerns' mean they should only be used for those for whom the benefits outweigh possible risks, the researchers wrote. Increasingly studies are focusing on how the drugs may alter the gut microbiome (the community of microbes linked to health), and whether they exacerbate the symptoms of irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) or lead to SIBO.

When 18 months ago, Emily began to experience bloating and cramping, she thought it was an exacerbation of the mild IBS she had when she first started taking PPIs. But by this summer the symptoms were so extreme she had to give up work.

‘By that stage I had no life and I was only able to lie on the sofa or in bed,’ says Emily.

Her doctor sent her for a colonoscopy (where a narrow tube with a camera attached is inserted into the colon) – and when that was clear, she went to the private Functional Gut Clinic in London for further testing, including a breath test that diagnosed her with SIBO (the test looks for gases that are produced by bacteria in the gut).

'I was told the most likely cause was the PPIs,' says Emily.

She has just completed a two-week course of rifaximin, an antibiotic, to clear the excess bacteria. But Emily is scared to come off PPIs. 'I would try to come off them, as I didn't want to be taking pills all the time – but the reflux was unbearable, ten times worse than before,' she says.

This rebound effect can hit anyone who quits PPIs after more than two months – as the less stomach acid there is, the more cells in the stomach pump out a hormone called gastrin which helps produce stomach acid.

The production of acid is suppressed though, until the PPI is stopped. Then, 'the gastrin levels will be sky-high and the acid production surges', says Professor Whorwell.

The result is potentially even more intense reflux ‘and the patient thinks they need the PPI – and goes back on them – not realising this will be temporary, lasting around three weeks, possibly more’, he adds.

A way to potentially avoid this, says Professor Whorwell, is to taper off PPIs: for example, halving the dose for two weeks and then taking a pill every other day.

Professor Victoria Tzortziou Brown, chair of the Royal College of GPs, says: 'Patients should take PPIs as advised by their GP, and anyone thinking about adjusting how they use them is encouraged to discuss this with their GP so any changes can be made safely and appropriately.'

For the majority of people, 'making small alterations to diet and lifestyle is enough to control their reflux', says Professor Hobson.

He is involved in the study of 60 people with reflux, half of whom will be given PPIs and the other half diet advice and alginates (over-the-counter remedies such as Gaviscon, which forms a layer on top of the stomach acid rather than reducing the amount produced). The results are expected next year.

Other tried-and-tested options include losing weight to take pressure off the valve that holds the stomach contents in place, and 'avoiding fatty foods as this slows down stomach-emptying and makes you produce more acid', says Professor Hobson.

UTTING back on caffeine, alcohol and chocolate helps, as these may loosen the sphincter closing the stomach. Propping up the head of the bed can also help, as it stops acid coming up at night. 'But you must tilt the whole bed – if you just tilt the pillows you squeeze your middle and push acid back up,' says Professor Whorwell.

When it comes to medication, he says, H2 blockers – which work in a similar way to PPIs – reduce stomach acid but are less strong, so have fewer side-effects (although they should still not be used long term).

'And alginates can work well,' says Professor Whorwell, 'although some forms of Gaviscon can be high in salt' and so may not be suitable for those on a low-salt diet.

Emily, meanwhile, must continue with the PPIs.

'I hope that soon I will get surgery for my hernia. I don't want to be on these pills for the rest of my life, they have caused enough problems as it is.'

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6.00 5 News Secrets of the Royal Palaces (R) Some of the dramatic events to have taken place at Windsor Castle. 6.55 5 News Update

7.00 At Home with the Greens at Christmas (R) Steve celebrates his 80th Christmas on the farm, and Peter wants to make sure it's their best one ever.
7.55 5 News Update

8.00 Cooper & Fry After the body of a local photographer is found dead lying among the stones at popular tourist spot The Nine Virgins, Cooper and Fry are called in to investigate. As the detectives learn about the belief that the stones represent women with the ability to grant wishes, suspicion focuses on those close to the 'old religion'. But when the body of a man is found, a truth begins to unravel that sends shockwaves through the team. Last in series.

10.00 A&E After Dark (AD,R) Tensions run high as a man with potentially severed fingers becomes abusive while waiting his turn. He storms outside to smoke crack, and security are forced to intervene.

11.05 Surgeons: A Matter of Life or Death (R) There's an urgent referral to Queen Elizabeth Hospital for a care worker who has a tumour growing at the bridge between her brain and her nose.

12.05 Casualty 24/7: Every Second Counts (AD,R) 1.00 PlayOJO Live Casino Show 3.00 Friends (R) 3.25 Friends (R) 3.45 Friends (R) 4.10 Friends (R) 4.35 The Wonderful World of Chocolate (BSL,R) 5.25 Entertainment News on 5 5.35 Ben and Holly's Little Kingdom (AD,BSL,R) 5.45 Milo (BSL,R)

▲ Particularly liable to offend

Light, fun, and no celebrities... why Lee Mack's clever quiz is a winner

S ICK of celebs? Who wouldn't be, after three weeks of Ant and Dec's end-

lessly repetitive jungle reality show.

It's the same every year — a dozen people you either haven't heard of or never want to see again, wearing red prison uniforms, whingeing and bickering for hours on end between bouts of humiliation.

I'm A Celebrity will certainly be back next year, with the same presenters and the same stomach-churning torture sequences paraded as entertainment, because the show has proved hugely popular with the 16-to-34 age group — the viewers advertisers prize most, since they so rarely watch terrestrial TV.

It's bizarre to think that half of them weren't born when the show debuted in 2002. The format has barely changed since and it's staler than last year's witchetty grubs.

But about 2.5 million under-35s have been tuning in to watch rapper Aitch and his mate Angry-ginge. Mr Ginge meant nothing to me, until Google explained

VINTAGE DECOR OF THE NIGHT: Tony's flat in Mammoth (BBC2) is the ultimate in 1970s kitsch, including orange lampshades and a print of Tretchikoff's Green Woman on the wall. And the cocktail bar is as snazzy as Del Boy's. All that's missing is a Hostess trolley.

he's a popular Twitch streamer... so I'm still none the wiser.

Be thankful that the game show taking Ant and Dec's place in the schedules this week, The 1% Club Rollover, can't air many celebrity versions (they did scrape one together for charity last June). It must take ages for casting agents to round up 100 former soap stars, one-hit wonders, disgraced politicians, ageing athletes and Instagram influencers.

Part of the genius of this format is that the players are also the audience. It's also hugely enjoyable to play a quiz that doesn't rely on general knowledge — with questions testing lateral thinking and logical reasoning instead.

What really makes this show work, though, is its presenter, comedian Lee Mack. When he's asking the questions, he plays the part of a conventional host with his shiny suit and autocue patter.

But he switches effortlessly to ad libs and spontaneous banter between rounds as he chats to the players. That's a rare talent, and with the exception of

WELSH TV VARIATIONS

BBC1: 10.40pm Ruth and Steve: From Merthyr with Love. With Ruth Jones and Steve Speirs. BBC2: 1.45pm First Minister's Questions. 2.45 FILM: Carefree (1938) (U). 4.05 Kangaroo Dundee & Other Animals: Natural World. 4.55 Gordon Buchanan: Elephant Family & Me. 5.55 Nigel Slater's Dish of the Day. ITV: 10.45pm Sharp End. 11.45 A Warwick Castle Christmas. 12.40am Coast & Country. S4C: 6.00am Cyw. 12noon Newyddion. 12.05 Sgwr's Dan y Lloer. 12.30 Heno. 1.00 Y Deis. 1.30 Cefn Gwlad. 2.00 Newyddion. 2.05 Prynhawn Da. 3.00 Newyddion. 3.05 Radio Fa'ma. 4.00 Awr Fawr: Egin Bach. 4.05 Awr Fawr: Annibendod. 4.15 Awr Fawr: Crawc a'i Ffrindiau. 4.30 Awr Fawr: Elin Byd Bach. 4.40 Awr Fawr: Dal Dy Ddannedd. 5.00 Stwnsh. 6.00 Tanwen & Ollie. 6.30 Sgorio. 6.57 Newyddion. 7.00 Heno. 7.30 Newyddion. 8.00 Pobol y Cwm. 8.25 Rownd a Rownd. 8.55 Newyddion. 9.00 Llond Bol O Japan. 10.00 Clwb Rygbi. 10.30 Natur Nadolig Iolo.

CHRISTOPHER STEVENS LAST NIGHT'S TV

The 1% Club Rollover (ITV1) ★★★★★

Bradley Walsh, there's no one else currently on TV who can do it.

Unlike, for example, Jeremy Clarkson's barely concealed contempt for the audience on Millionaire, Mack teases people but never mocks them.

There's plenty of opportunity for leg-pulling. One man bragged he would get a tattoo of Mack's face on his behind if he won the top prize, which will roll over each day this week if it isn't claimed.

Another chap admitted to being a retired kissogram, and a woman called Janet revealed her last appearance on television was 30 years ago, in a Sky game show called Wife Of The Week (she won a rolling pin).

But as they were knocked out by the increasingly difficult brain-twisters, Mack was sympathetic. 'Listen, it's difficult under the pressure,' he said. 'It's very hard.'

That amiable emphasis on keeping it light and fun is a world away from deluging people in cockroaches to see them squirm.

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PICK OF DIGITAL & ON DEMAND TV

THE WHITE QUEEN, STREAM ON CH4

THE White Queen is a soapy period drama about the early days of the Tudor dynasty. It's a lot of fun, and had a great pedigree — it was based on Philippa Gregory's books — so it was a surprise when the BBC failed to renew it in 2013. Thankfully, the Americans came to the rescue and continued to adapt Gregory's books for two further series, The White Princess and The Spanish Princess. All three have come to Channel 4 and, while distinct stories, they share the same intrigue, fabulous costumes and dysfunctional royal family

FUN CHALLENGES Rob & Romesh vs Bollywood, 9pm, Sky Max

THE dynamic duo of Rob Beckett and Romesh Ranganathan (pictured) are back with another set of challenges designed to test them to the limit. For this new series, the hapless pair are traversing the globe to find four new feats to master. In later episodes they will visit New York to showcase their Hip Hop skills, venture into the Sumatran jungle to see who can snap the most exhibition-worthy photograph, and tread the boards at The Globe. First though they head to Mumbai to try their hand in the legendary Bollywood film scene.

drama, all told from women's points of view with a distinguished female cast. Set during the War of The Roses, The White Queen stars Rebecca Ferguson as Elizabeth Woodville (pictured), one of three women vying for the power behind the English throne. The White Princess stars Killing Eve's Jodie Comer as Elizabeth of York, forced into marriage with her family's enemy Henry VII, effectively ending the War of the Roses. The Spanish Princess focuses on a more familiar figure, Henry VIII's first wife, Catherine of Aragon (Charlotte Hope).

TRUE CRIME Love Scam: An Unbelievable Fraud, 9pm, Sky Documentaries

ONE of those 'how did they not realise' romance scammer documentaries, this briskly told, three-part case from Germany concerns a fake lawyer. Matthias, an aspiring pop singer, fell for Dennis, a charismatic attorney bound for the European Court of Justice, but their romance unravelled as Matthias discovered a web of lies and manipulation. And it turned out he wasn't the only one caught in it, either.

POLICE THRILLER Law & Order Toronto: Criminal Intent, 9pm, Ch5

MORE from series one of this new Canadian spin-off. It's half thriller, half police procedural, and stars Aden Young and Kathleen Munroe as detectives investigating murders.

TIME	BBC 4	E4
7.00pm	9 (Scot 24)Winter WalksAlastair Campbell treks across the hillsides of Ribblesdale	13Hollyoaks Darren extends an olive branch to Tony
7.30pm	Christmas University Challenge University of Hull vs the University of the West of England	The Simpsons Bart, Milhouse, Nelson and Ralph are recruited as singers in a boy band
8.00pm	Yes, Prime MinisterJim clashes with the Foreign Office	The Great Celebrity Bake Off for Stand Up to Cancer Dermot O'Leary, Greg James, Fern Brady and Mel B take on iced buns in the Signature
8.30pm	Yes, Prime MinisterJim Hacker tries to appoint a new bishop
9.00pm	Killer Storms and Cruel Winters: The History of Extreme Weather How some of the UK's worst weather disasters occurred many years ago	Gogglebox The armchair critics watch Great Expectations, Rise and Fall, Tempting Fortune and the BBC news coverage of an asteroid passing close by the Earth
9.30pm
10.00pm	The Hidden Children of Ruinerwold FarmThe trial begins	Dating Naked UKA naked newbie is thrown into the mix, turning heads and threatening budding relationships. Tensions boil and one dater is dumped for good
10.30pm	10.45 The Hidden Children of Ruinerwold FarmThe children's father's physical and mental state delays the trial. Last in series
11.00pm		11.05 Naked Attraction Zoe from London and Derry from Wigan each choose a date from six naked people, whose bodies are revealed one section at a time (To 12.05)
11.30pm	11.35 A Slow Odyssey:A Cheetah's HuntThree cheetah siblings in Namibia (To 12.05)

Deal or No Deal Christmas Special Stephen Mulhern hosts a festive edition of the game show as football pundit Michael Owen takes on the banker

Ant & Dec's Limitless

Win Best friends Terri and Jess take on the money ladder, then it's Paul and Ellie's turn to try for a truly life-changing cash prize

Love Actually (2003,15)

Interlinked tales of several people in search of love. Richard Curtis's romantic comedy, starring Hugh Grant, Martine McCutcheon, Emma Thompson, Colin Firth, Bill Nighy and Liam Neeson. Includes FYI Daily

11.50 Family Guy The guys volunteer to chaperone the high school prom (To 12.20)

ENTERTAINMENT & FACTUAL

ANIMAL PLANET

Sky 162 Virgin 178

12noon Animal Cops Houston. 1.00 Crikey! It's the Irwins. 2.00 Pit Bulls & Parolees. 3.00 Alaska: Homestead Rescue. 5.00 Lone Star Law. 6.00 Dr Jeff: Rocky Mountain Vet. 7.00 Treehouse Masters. 8.00 Guardians of the Glades. 9.00 Alaska: The Last Frontier. 10.00 Alaskan Bush People. 11.00 Pit Bulls & Parolees.

BBC THREE

Freeview 23 Sky 115 Virgin 107 7.00pm Horrible Histories. 7.30 The War Between the Land and the Sea. 9.00 Tommy: The Good. The Bad. The Fury. 10.00 Matthew Perry and the Ketamine Queen. 11.00 Dating Apps.

COMEDY CENTRAL

Sky 112 Virgin 132

12noon Everybody Loves Raymond. 1.00 Friends. 9.00 Bradley & Barney Walsh: Breaking Dad. 10.00 8 Out of 10 Cats: Best Bits. 10.30 Jimmy Carr's Am I the A**hole? 11.30 Rich Hall - 3:10 to Humour.

DISCOVERY

Sky 125 Virgin 177

11.00am Bitchin' Rides. 1.00pm Deadliest Catch. 3.00 Salvage Dawgs. 4.00 Ed Stafford: First Man Out. 5.00 Homestead Rescue. 7.00 Wheeler Dealers. 9.00 Gold Rush. 10.00 The Last Woodsmen. 11.00 How the Universe Works.

E4 (DAYTIME)

Freeview 13 Sky 135 Virgin 106 11.00am Modern Family. 12noon The Big Bang Theory. 2.00 Young Sheldon. 3.00 The Simpsons. 4.00 The Big Bang Theory. 6.00 The Simpsons.

5STAR (DAYTIME)

12noon Traffic Cops. 2.00 Police Interceptors. 5.00 22 Kids & Counting. 6.00 GPs: Behind Closed Doors.

5 ACTION

Freeview 33 Sky 150

12noon Police Interceptors. 1.00 FILM: Bandits of the West. (1953) (PG) 2.05 FILM: Ride the High Country. (1962) (PG) 4.00 Trucking

Heavy. 5.00 Traffic Cops. 6.00 Police Interceptors. 9.00 Motorway Cops: Catching Britain's Speeders. 10.00 999: Police Hour of Duty. 11.00 Police: Night Shift 999.

5 SELECT

Freeview 46 Sky 153 Virgin 138
12noon Life in the Dales. 1.00 Europe's Greatest Train Journeys. 2.00 Murder, She Wrote. 3.00 Columbo. 5.00 Greatest Train Journeys. 6.00 Tomb Hunters. 7.00 World War II: Secrets from Above. 8.00 Ben Fogle: New Lives in the Wild. 9.00 Drain the Oceans. 10.00 Alcatraz: What Lies Beneath? 11.00 Prisoner: Cell Block H.

5 USA (DAYTIME)

Freeview 21 Sky 141 Virgin 120 12noon Blue Bloods. 3.00 Law & Order. 6.00 NCIS.

FOOD NETWORK UK

Freeview 43 Sky 140 Virgin 190 11.00am Pioneer Woman. 12noon Home Comforts. 1.00 Cracking Christmas. 2.00 Highland Christmas. 3.00 Great Christmas Bake Off. 4.00 Pioneer Woman. 5.00 Home Comforts. 6.00 Cracking Christmas. 7.00 Highland Christmas. 8.00 Great Christmas Bake Off. 9.00 One Pan Christmas. 10.00 Home Comforts at Christmas. 11.00 Cake Boss.

GREAT! TV

Freeview 34 Sky 157 Virgin 170 12noon Little House on the Prairie. 1.00 Diagnosis Murder. 2.00 Father Dowling Mysteries. 3.00 Born and Bred. 4.10 Down to Earth. 5.20 Hamish Macbeth. 6.30 Rumpole of the Bailey. 7.30 M*A*S*H. 9.00 Brush Strokes. 10.20 Just Good Friends. 11.00 Brush Strokes. 11.40 Man About the House.

ITV2 (DAYTIME)

Freeview 6 Sky 118 Virgin 115 12noon Celebrity Catchphrase. 1.00 Christmas Dinner Date. 2.00 The Only Way Is Essexmas 2010. 3.00 The Big Bake: Holiday. 4.00 The Real Housewives of Atlanta. 6.00 Celebrity Catchphrase.

ITV3 (DAYTIME)

Freeview 10 Sky 119 Virgin 117 9.15am Midsomer Murders. 11.20 Heartbeat. 1.35pm Classic

Emmerdale. 2.40 Classic Coronation Street. 3.50 Midsomer Murders. 5.55 Heartbeat.

ITV4 (DAYTIME)

Freeview 26 Sky 120 Virgin 118 9.20am Magnum, PI. 11.25am BattleBots. 12.30pm Kojak. 2.40 Magnum, PI. 4.55 The Professionals. 5.55 American Pickers.

MORE4 (DAYTIME)

Freeview 18 Sky 136 Virgin 147 10.00am Chateau DIY. 11.00 The Great House Giveaway. 1.05pm A Place in the Sun. 2.40 Come Dine with Me. 5.15 Four in a Bed.

NAT'L GEOGRAPHIC

Sky 129 Virgin 183

11.00am Nazi Megastructures. 12noon World's Greatest Train Journeys. 1.00 Air Crash Investigation. 3.00 Hitler's Last Stand. 4.00 Draining the North Sea. 5.00 Disaster Autopsy. 6.00 Seconds from Disaster. 7.00 Air Crash Investigation. 8.00 Nazi Megastructures. 9.00 Hitler's Last Stand. 10.00 Lost Ships of WW2. 11.00 Air Crash Investigation.

PBS AMERICA

Freeview 84 Sky 173 Virgin 187 11.50am 75 Years of Nato: New Challenges and Chances. 1.00pm Grand Tours of the Scottish Islands. 1.40 The Great Fire:. 2.45 The War. 3.50 The Vietnam War. 5.35 75 Years of Nato. 6.45 The Great Fire: Death and Destruction. 7.50 The War. 8.55 The Vietnam War. 10.50 75 Years of Nato.

REALLY

Freeview 17 Sky 142 Virgin 128 12noon Antiques Road Trip. 1.00 The Repair Shop. 3.00 Money for Nothing. 4.00 Long Lost Family. 5.00 The Yorkshire Auction House. 6.00 Antiques Road Trip. 8.00 The Yorkshire Auction House. 9.00 Long Lost. 11.00 The Repair Shop.

SKY ARTS

Freeview 36 Sky 124 Virgin 123 12noon Discovering. 1.00 Tales of the Unexpected. 2.00 Painting Birds. 3.00 Beethoven & Me. 4.00 The Directors. 5.00 Discovering. 6.00 Tales of the Unexpected. 7.00 Alfred Hitchcock Presents. 8.00 The Michelangelo Code. 10.15 The

RADIO

RADIO 4 FM: 92.4-94.6MHZ; LW: 198KHZ

5.00am News Summary.
5.04 Yesterday in Parliament.
5.32 Weather.
5.34 Shipping Forecast.
5.43 Prayer for the Day.
5.45 Farming Today.
6.00 Today.

9.00 The Reith Lectures. Rutger Bregman argues for a new 'realist utopia'.

10.00 Woman's Hour. 11.00 Add to Playlist. 11.45 Book of the Week: Upon a White Horse. Peter Ross joins the volunteers who look after the Uffington White Horse.

12noon News.
12.04 Call You and Yours.
12.57 Weather.
1.00 The World at One.
1.45 Beautiful Strangeness.
By Rebecca Stott.
2.00 The Archers.

World in a Painting. 11.30 The Pilgrimage of Gilbert & George.

SKY ATLANTIC

Sky 108

10.10am The Sopranos. 12.15pm Game of Thrones. 2.25 Succession. 4.35 The Sopranos. 6.40 Game of Thrones. 9.00 Gomorrah. 11.00 It: Welcome to Derry.

SKY COMEDY

Sky 114 Virgin 112

12.30pm Will & Grace. 1.30 The Conners. 2.20 Sex and the City. 3.30 Entourage. 4.45 The Office (US). 5.45 Will & Grace. 6.45 Community. 7.45 Sex and the City. 9.00 FILM: Just Friends. (2005) (12) 10.45 Community. 11.45 Entourage.

SKY DOCUMENTARIES

Sky 121 Virgin 188

12noon Be Water. 2.00 FILM: Lennox: The Untold Story. (2020)

PICK OF TODAY'S RADIO

HISTORY'S TOUGHEST HEROES 3PM, RADIO 4

SIR William Marshal is Ray Winstone's final toughie in this series. He was a strong, good-looking knight who served five kings including Henry II, Richard the Lionheart and King John. He was also an expert rider and a formidable jouster. But his real challenge came

2.15 Drama: 50 Berkeley Square. Ghost story by Sami Ibrahim.
3.00 PICK History's Toughest Heroes.
3.30 Beyond Belief.
4.00 Poetry Detective. Vanessa Kisuule seeks out poems that offer insight into doomscrolling
4.30 What's Up Docs?
5.00 PM; Weather.

(15) 4.00 Discovering: Clint Eastwood. 5.00 The Directors. 6.00 Kingdom of Dreams. 7.00 Escobar by Escobar. 7.55 The Yogurt Shop Murders. 9.00 Love Scam: An Unbelievable Fraud. 10.50 Wirecard: A Billion Euro Lie.

SKY HISTORY

Sky 123 Virgin 131

10.10am Storage Wars. 12noon What on Earth? 1.00 Witness to War. 2.00 The Last Burma Star. 3.00 WWII's Most Daring Raids. 6.00 American Pickers. 7.00 Forged in Fire. 8.00 World War II: Witness to War. 9.00 The Last Burma Star. 10.00 The Proof Is Out There. 11.00 Evil Encounters.

SKY MAX

Sky 113 Virgin 111

12noon The Flash. 1.00 Hawaii Five-0. 3.00 S.W.A.T.. 4.00 NCIS: Los Angeles. 5.00 SEAL Team.

when, at the grand old age of 70, he was called upon to lead the royal forces against the French at the Battle of Lincoln. All previous episodes — featuring Lakota warrior Crazy Horse and suffragette rebel Constance Bulwer-Lytton among others — are available on BBC Sounds.

6.00 Six O'Clock News. 6.30 One Person Found This Helpful. Frank Skinner is joined by Ahir Shah, Louise Young, Freya Parker and Pierre Novellie. 7.00 The Archers. Ed struggles to do the right thing. 7.15 Front Row. The winner of the Turner Prize is announced.

6.00 Stargate SG-1. 8.00 The Christmas Movie Countdown. 9.00 Rob & Romesh vs Bollywood. 10.00 Micky Flanagan's Christmas. 11.00 The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon.

SKY SCI-FI

Sky 152 Virgin 122

11.00am Star Trek: TNG. 12noon Star Trek: Enterprise. 1.00 Star Trek: DS9. 2.00 Fantasy Island. 4.00 Star Trek: Enterprise. 5.00 Stargate Universe. 6.00 Star Trek: TNG. 7.00 Star Trek: DS9. 8.00 Stargate Universe. 9.00 Grimm. 11.00 The Outsider.

SKY WITNESS

Sky 107 Virgin 110

12noon FBI. 1.00 The Rookie. 2.00 Send in the Dogs. 3.00 Caught on Dashcam. 4.00 Nothing to Declare. 8.00 Law & Order: Criminal Intent. 9.00 Blue Bloods. 10.00 FBI: Most Wanted. 11.00 The Rookie.

ITV3

6.55 Heartbeat A girl disappears

A girl disappears, prompting the police to begin a desperate search — but Crane and Bellamy find themselves in a perilous situation

Vera The detective investigates the murder of a popular social worker and an infamous past case involving the death of a child appears to hold the key to solving the mystery. Drama based on the book by Ann Cleeves, starring Brenda Blethyn and David Leon

Midsomer Murders

Death of a Hollow Man: The discovery of an elderly villager's body in the river leads Barnaby to intrigue at an amateur dramatics group, where one of the actors is tricked into killing himself on stage (To 12.00)

The Motorbike Show Henry Cole joins the Scooter Boys and uncovers the relationship they have with bikers

Jaws: The Revenge (1987,15) The

remaining members of the Brody family are terrorised by a bloodthirsty great white shark in the Bahamas. Thriller sequel, starring Michael Caine, Lorraine Gary and Lance Guest. Includes FYI Daily

9.55 Rocky II (1979,12)

Philadelphia boxer Rocky Balboa quits the ring to marry his sweetheart and become a father. However, times prove hard and money is tight, so when Balboa is offered another shot at Apollo Creed's heavyweight title, the fighter is lured out of retirement. Drama sequel, starring Sylvester Stallone. Includes FYI Daily (To 12.15)

MORE4

7.25 Four in a Bed Old tensions resurface as the results are announced

7.55 Grand Designs

103 of and designs Kevin McCloud meets Tom and Danielle Raffield, who have decided to put their talent for steam- bending wood to use in building their own wavy wooden home in south Cornwall

Our Farm Next Door: Amanda, Clive and

Kids Builder Richard grapples with the challenge of moving oak ceiling beams into position

Our Tiny Islands

Cameras tour the tiny island of Easdale in the Inner Hebrides, Northern Ireland's largest inhabited island, Rathlin, and the Isles of Scilly

11.05 24 Hours in A&E Cameras follow

Cameras follow Lawrence, 26, who is rushed to St George's after being hit by a car while crossing the road on a night out in Eastbourne (To 12.10)

SKY MIX

Star Trek: The Next Generation Picard tries to save a genetically engineered society from disaster

Star Trek: Deep

Space Nine A seriously injured Sisko finds himself at the mercy of Gul Dukat, whose behaviour has become increasingly irrational

FBI: Most Wanted

The Fugitive Task Force go on the hunt when a federal judge is shot dead and a connection to a man on death row is discovered

FBI: International

After a U.S. intelligence negotiator goes missing, the team is on the clock to find her before the country's nuclear secrets fall into the wrong hands

Grimm Hank and Nick hunt for a murderer who kills Wesens and discover she is another Grimm. Adalind turns to Monroe for help as she searches for her baby (To 12.00)

QUEST

The Repair Shop

Steve Fletcher takes on an ornate but broken clock, while metal expert Dominic Chinea tries to rejuvenate a toy carriage dating from 1911

Shed and Buried An Essex shed packed with bikes

Shed and Buried

A tractor-packed shed in Chepstow

James May's Shed

Load of Ideas James, Sim and Tony attempt to recycle milk bottles into a game for the pub and invent spray-on crisp flavouring

The Repair Shop

The experts learn about the history of a miniature house, a Bakelite radio, a fairground game and an Indian painting

How Do They Do It? How lederhosen are hand-made

How Do They Do It?

Catching the world's largest lobsters (To 12.00)

U&DAVE

Would I Lie to You? Material from the comedy panel show

7.40 Richard Osman's House of Games With Jennie McAlpine and Felicity Ward

8.20 Richard Osman's House of Games With Jen Brister, Kelvin Fletcher, Ian Moore and Zoe Williams

Have I Got a Bit

More News for You Alexander Armstrong hosts an extended edition of the quiz, with comedians Jo Brand and Munya Chawawa

QI XL Sandi Toksvig is joined by Rhod Gilbert, Lara Ricote, Ahir Shah, and Alan Davies to look at some animals beginning with the letter U

Taskmaster Greg

Davies sets Roisin Conaty, Tim Key, Romesh Ranganathan, Frank Skinner and Josh Widdicombe a series of challenges (To 12.00)

U&DRAMA

7.20 Last of the Summer Wine Compo discovers a treasure in the canal

Harry Wild Harry and

Fergus are hired by a woman whose sister has gone missing in a sinister village in the countryside, and soon find a skeleton dumped in the woods

Annika The detective reflects on 1984 when the team are flown to the Hebridean islands to investigate the death of a man found in a block of ice

New Tricks A former Irish dissident sheds light on the abduction of a woman in 1983, but his reinvention as a politician leaves the team suspicious of his motives

11.20 Waking the

Dead Part two of two. Sam Jacobs demands answers when he discovers he was the intended victim (To 12.40)

GPs: Behind Closed Doors Dr Manj Tawana treats an unwell patient who may have leukaemia, which runs in his family

Casualty 24/7:

Every Second Counts Paramedics bring in a woman who has COPD and is struggling to breathe

999: Critical

Condition A man is rushed in after being attacked with a machete, and as the medics fight to stabilise him, his blood pressure drops

Killer at the Crime

the murder of neuroscientist Autumn Klein

Skin A&E A look at misbehaving lumps, from the biggest to the smallest that the dermatologists have ever treated (To 12.00)

NCIS While

NCIS While investigating a marine's murder, the NCIS team uncovers a labyrinth of live-streaming spy cameras hidden in the rooms of a Virginia motel

NCIS The team

investigates the murder of a musician in the U.S. Navy's most elite band, which performs at diplomatic events around the world

Law & Order Toronto: Criminal Intent

A shooting at a condo building leads Graff and Bateman to a 20-year-old cold case that they must solve in order to catch the killer

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit The

detectives respond to a domestic abuse call after a prominent R'n'B singer is brutally beaten by her rapper boyfriend

Law & Order: Special

Victims Unit The trial of pimp Bart Ganzel begins. Detective Cassidy is accused of raping a woman while undercover (To 12.00)

8.00 File on 4 Investigates. 8.40 In Touch. News for

9.00

people who are blind. Crossing Continents. Emily Wither reports on an alliance of Israeli and Palestinian activists calling for a ceasefire.

9.30 Art Class. Reflections on how art is valued.
9.59 Weather.
10.00 The World Tonight.

U&ALIBI

Sky 109 Virgin 114

12noon Shakespeare & Hathaway. 1.00 Death in Paradise. 2.00 Murdoch Mysteries. 4.00 The Mentalist. 5.00 Hudson & Rex. 6.00 Father Brown. 7.00 Shakespeare & Hathaway: Private Investigators. 8.00 Death in Paradise. 9.00 Dark Winds. 10.00 Death in Paradise. 11.00 Father Brown.

U&DAVE (DAYTIME)

Freeview 19 Sky 111 Virgin 127

Freeview 19 Sky III Virgin 127 12noon Border Force: America's Gatekeepers. 2.00 Cape Carnage: Killer Catch. 3.00 Top Gear. 5.00 Hairy Bikers' Best of British. 6.00 Rick Stein's Fresh Food.

U&DRAMA (DAYTIME)

Freeview 20 Sky 143 Virgin 116 11.55am The Bill. 12.55pm Classic EastEnders. 2.10 Miss Fisher's

■ THE two pianists in tonight's RADIO 3 IN

CONCERT (7.30PM) from London's Wigmore Hall have a combined age of 169, but as they prove, age is just a number. Celebrating his 85th birthday, the California-born Stephan Kovacevich leads the way, playing music by Brahms and Beethoven. The Argentine pianist Martha Argerich (pictured), one year his junior, then joins him on stage on a second piano as they play music by Debussy together.

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Attacked in the night by a big wee beastie

LIVING in the countryside at this time of the year attracts unwelcome visitors – spiders. Ugh. My wife always insists on removing them herself. She claims to be a member of the RSPCA (Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Arachnids). Each one is treated with great reverence as she scoops them up in her hands and gently places them out into the garden.

Now, if it were me, all I could offer would be my size 9½s; probably a much less dignified way of removal, too. I was reminded of a few years back, when staying in a B&B in Edinburgh. I was awoken one night by something on my face. Still half asleep, I forcefully brushed it off, only to discover the next morning this huge spider next to the bed. They certainly breed

them big in Scotland, don't they? Maybe it's all the porridge! He must have been a brave fellow, attempting to take on a Sassenach invader like that, and a bit sneaky too, planning a night-time incursion – an airborne assault – as I slept. I suspect Mr McSpider was a member of an old clan whose ancestors were the inspiration for the great Robert the Bruce!

Today's poem

David H. Cox, Kidlington, Oxon

CARDS ON THE TABLE I'm writing out my Christmas cards, A job I always dread. It's such a Herculean task And muddles up my head... I've got a pile of address books To consult each in turn. It gets much harder every year, When will I ever learn? It's working out who's still around And sends a card each year, From those that haven't been in touch Maybe no longer here? Addresses too are a minefield, Who's moved, and who's re-wed. I need a good computer app To sort it out instead. And those round-robins that arrive, A year's worth of their news, Their holidays, their pets, their kids, And boasting of next year's cruise. I feel I must reciprocate, 'Best wishes' aren't enough, So I write just a few short lines (We don't do lots of stuff...) And picking out the perfect card For each recipient Is difficult, to say the least, Though it's sincerely meant. The best are saved for family And closest friends of course, But all are bought from charities, Donations made at source. My writing looks like spider trails, My hand is going numb. Eyesight's blurry, back might break, My work here is now done! I've checked addresses, stuck on stamps, They're ready for the post. A major task complete today, I feel the need to boast! Lindsay Hartgroves, Launceston, Cornwall

Out Of The Mouths Of Babes

MY GRANDDAUGHTER, two-year-old Georgia, was waiting for her dinner and I was reliably informed by my daughter-in-law that she loved Red Leicester cheese. I presented her with what I thought was a veritable banquet, with a choice of healthy options including the aforementioned cheese,

sliced into small batons.
She looked at the mixture, pointed at the cheese and said 'carrots', pulling a disapproving face.
Everything else went apart from the 'carrots', despite my protestations that it was actually cheese. She wouldn't even try them.

Mr W. J. Nelson, Bolton, Lancs

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■ LIFE has many different chapters; one bad chapter doesn't mean it's the end of the book.

Freddie Clark, Chelmsford, Essex ■ NOSTALGIA is so last year. Tony Sandy, Alness, Ross-shire

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PLIERS MORGAN – broadcaster with a firm grip.

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NUCLEAR RECTOR — cleric seething with anger.

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LETTERS

Perchance to dream

THE article by India Sturgis (Good Health) about learning to control dreams because you're aware that you're having them, otherwise known as 'lucid dreaming', struck a chord with me, as many years ago I had a recurring nightmare from which I would wake up feeling very anxious.

I had this nightmare every night. I was in the football ground of a local team in my city, where coincidentally we went for school sports days. It didn't have seats, only steps and the occasional small structure that you could lean on.

It started off with me glancing behind to see two men following me, carrying a large knife.

The first few times I started running away but felt as if I was running on cotton wool. I would wake up with sweat under my chin, thinking my throat had been cut.

The nightmares continued for weeks and every time I had one, I knew what the outcome would be.

Then, one night, I decided to stop running and let the men catch up with me. I never had the dream again.

ELEANOR WILLIAMS,

Shepperton, Surrey

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Is this the way the wind blows?

RICHARD A. BULLOCH, Holmfirth, W. Yorks

Masked man

AS THE police are ready to roll out facial recognition, I predict the share price of balaclava makers will rocket. I always wanted a balaclava when I was a kid.

MIKE MORGAN, Manchester

Firm favourite

FOLLOWING the performance of the two previous governments and given who leads the Lib Dems, plus the madman in charge of the Greens, it's not hard to see where most votes will go at the next election.

Should it happen to emerge that Nigel Farage has an illegitimate secret family, once robbed a charity and murdered a neighbour, I would still expect him to win by a mile.

J. T. SMITH, Hartlepool, Co Durham

Republican riposte

CONGRATULATIONS to your TV critic Christopher Stevens for waiting until the second paragraph last Wednesday before giving us the old 'better than President Blair' stuff in defence of the monarchy.

There are only three things wrong with that argument. One, Blair wouldn't win. Two, if he did, it would be our choice. And three, we could get rid of him at the next election, so we wouldn't be stuck with the eldest child ad infinitum.

Professor CHRIS BARTON, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffs

Party down

IT SEEMS that nowadays you can't have unseemly behaviour at a Christmas party without being sacked.

What is the point of a Christmas party? To have fun, drink, be sick over the boss and witness or take part in unseemly behaviour.

Otherwise it's not a party, is it?

BRIAN KEATING, Lewes, E. Sussex

Boiling point

FURTHER to the letter on people unable to cook, one thing my wife taught me back in the Sixties was that any vegetable grown underground, such as potatoes, should be put in cold water that you bring to

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the boil, whereas anything grown above ground, such as sprouts, should be added to water that is already boiling.

Do people still follow this rule?

Mr R. J. CLARK, Cheltenham, Gloucs

Nothing to see here

HAVING read John Naish's special report on the NHS's 'culture of cover-up' (Daily Mail), I agree emphatically with whistleblower Michael Swinn that NHS managers should be held accountable.

I have worked in the NHS for 47 years on the admin side and on many occasions witnessed managers (not always senior) being moved to another discipline or even promoted after a wrongdoing. Most of the time, a blind eye is turned.

I remember only one senior manager being sacked for a serious financial incident in all my years' service.

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Yes, we know

THE Dawn Sturgess Novichok inquiry reached exactly the same conclusions that 99 per cent of us reached within a day.

But it cost £8 million to get there. JACK BUTTERWORTH, Oldham, Lancs SO PUTIN was morally responsible for the death of Dawn Sturgess. That'll stop him sleeping.

CLIVE BIRCHFIELD, North Woodley, Berks

Quick as a flash

FURTHER to the letter from Angela Humphery, when my late aunt was sitting alone at a bus stop in London, a ne'er-do-well (as she described him) came and sat next to her.

She heard a rustle of clothing, followed by the sound of a zipper being pulled down. The man nudged her, nodded his head downward and said: 'What do you think of that?'

My aunt replied: 'Give me a microscope and I'll give you an opinion.'

Not bad for a lady in her 80s. BONNI MONTAGUE, Aylesbury, Bucks

Just a number

HOW old you look (Letters) depends on good genes as much as anything.

Some years ago, my wife and I were modestly celebrating my birthday in a Stratford-on-Avon pub. The young waiter congratulated me and I ruefully told him the next one would be the big one.

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Is the office really a terrifying place?

One of the team: Banter and small talk bring work colleagues together

RESEARCH commissioned by Trinity College London, reported by Kristina Wemyss in Last Thursday's Daily Mail, suggests that Gen Z are 'terrified' of setting foot in an office and would prefer to work from home. Among their reported anxieties are; making small talk with colleagues and picking up the phone.

Oh dear. As someone who worked in offices from the age of 16 until retirement, I have a real bee in my bonnet about WFH.

Don't people realise how much they are missing out on? The banter, office gossip and chit-chat about holidays are all part of the joy of going out to work. It is also important to have a friendly ear close by when things are going wrong at work or at home. I was lucky to work with some pretty lively sets of colleagues and when I took early retirement, I missed the banter, the daily routine and the sense of belonging to a team. Even now, ten years later, I still find I miss that element of working life and getting dressed up in smart clothes every day (yes, including lipstick and jewellery).

with difficult personalities. But perhaps I am harking back to a halcyon era when there was greater job security for office staff, less overt pressure to hit performance targets, and no culture of long hours or social media bombardment.

There are some things I don't miss: the office politics and a few people

But I genuinely worry for today's younger generation, who with their WFH culture risk missing out on so much: communication, teamwork, having a laugh and learning to get along with people of different ages and backgrounds.

Floating reader

I READ the Daily Mirror for many years and eventually got so fed up with that paper claiming everything the Tories did was wrong, I changed to the Daily Mail. Now I find everything Labour does is wrong. What now?

Mr A. BEDDIS, Pillowell, Gloucs

Court jester

IN THE Scottish justice system there are three possible verdicts: guilty, not guilty, and not proven. Not proven basically means there is not enough evidence to convict.

can keep the stuff, sir?' The court erupted in laughter. JOHN MACDONALD, Hereford

Frugal Auntie

I FULLY understand why 'Our BBC' feels compelled to save money by covering much of the World Cup remotely, and I'm sure the same logic will be applied to its Glastonbury coverage.

ROY RUSSELL, Leamington Spa, Warks

ANGELA NORRIS, Knott End-on-Sea, Lancs

ON BUDGET day, was Rachel Reeves aware of the energy grid investment announcement last week that will raise household bills, almost negating the £150 reduction she announced?

Energy bills pain

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Farm vote rebel

MP Markus Campbell-Savours is suspended from the

Parliamentary Labour Party for following his constituents' mandate by voting against the family farm tax. Do we live in a democratic country?

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DEAR Dad, thank you for bringing me into the world. As Ever. With Love, Meghan.

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A young lad I knew in the 1960s was on trial for receiving stolen goods. At the end of all the evidence, the judge told him the case was not proven and he was free to go.

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The facial recognition cameras plan

I CAN'T understand why there is so much resentment about facial recognition cameras in public places. The police have declared the value of installing them. If we had an officer standing on every street corner, equipped with their own photographs of suspects, I'm sure such action would be universally applauded.

CHRIS MAYBURY, Fleet, Hants

I GATHER from my Daily Mail that the Government plans a mass rollout of facial recognition cameras in cities, towns and villages across the country. In my opinion, that would be a useful tool if used in the right way and not abused. However, it would succeed only if accompanied by a ban on the wearing of facial coverings in public. No doubt the civil liberties complainers will have something to say in due course.

M. R. DILLON, Chessington, Surrey GREAT, we can identify more bad people but what happens afterwards? A public flogging or a bit of community payback? It's not catching miscreants that is the chief problem but the punishment that follows. I also wonder where the millions to implement this scheme will come from, given that several forces are shutting police stations and freezing recruitment. PHILIP MENZIES, Hornchurch, Essex

WHAT'S the point of signs publicising to criminals the places where facial recognition is in use? JACK COWBURN, Chester

I HAVE no objection to my facial details being recorded but, given how many crooks wear a blue NHS mask during the day, I am not convinced this is the answer. Yesterday I had my credit card details stolen by a 'Good Samaritan' who led me to a parking meter after telling me RingGo wasn't working. He was wearing a mask, just like the shoplifters who regularly steal from our local Co-op.

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■ THE new party to topple Labour has to be 'Conform'. If only the Tories could see it. ALAN BERESFORD, Ripponden, W. Yorks

■ MAYORAL elections postponed because the governing party thinks it will lose them. What sort of ‘democracy’ are we living in?

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■ IF WE are denied the right to vote in local elections, why should we pay council tax? PETER LAURIE, Colchester, Essex ■ ONLY 16 shoplifting days till Christmas. RALPH DONCASTER, Penrith, Cumbria

■ I HAVE my own facial recognition system. If Starmer or Reeves appears, I change channel. P. ROWE, Burton-on-Trent, Staffs

■ I THOUGHT everyone knew ghost trains only stop at manifestations.

ROGER VINCE, Upper Brynamman, Carms ■ MAYBE it's Trump who doesn't have the cards. BARRY CHANDLER, Exeter, Devon

■ EVERY other country could boycott Eurovision and the UK still wouldn't win.

■ JOSEPH (Blind Date) says 'men don't go for overly muscular women'. I say, speak for yourself, laddie.

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The little urn that hit it big

QUESTION Why does the Met

ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS

QUESTION Is the Ashes trophy the

smallest in sport?

SIZE isn't everything in sport. Trophies go from ridiculously large to absurdly small. Among the biggest is the giant, silver Stanley Cup presented to the winner of the North American National Hockey League (89.5 cms tall) and sailing's America's Cup, the oldest trophy in international sport (1.1 m tall).

Miniature by comparison is cricket's Ashes, a tiny urn fought for by England and Australia, a battle that is currently going on Down Under. It all began after England lost to Australia for the first time on home soil in August 1882. The Sporting Times ran an obituary for English cricket saying that 'The body will be cremated and the ashes taken to Australia.' Shortly afterwards Ivo Bligh set off on a tour of Australia.

After winning a social match played on the estate of the President of the Melbourne Cricket Club, Bligh was presented with a small, 10.5cm tall terracotta urn by the President's wife as a symbol of what he and his team had travelled to Australia to regain. It is said that a bail used in the match was burned, and its ashes put inside the urn. At the estate Bligh also met the family's governess whom he would later marry.

The delicate urn now lives in the MCC Museum at Lord's, while the victorious team is presented with an urn-shaped Waterford Crystal trophy, which was first handed over to Mark Taylor when his Australian side won the 1998-99 Test series.

But the Ashes is strictly not the smallest trophy in sport. It's beaten by a football trophy, the Lyonesse

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Alan Ripley, Polstead, Suffolk Q: How many of today's MPs have served in the forces? D. Coulson, Farncombe, Surrey

Q: Is it true that 'Mad Major' Draper flew an aircraft under Tower Bridge?

Laurence Copplestone, Worthing, West Sussex

The Ashes: Cricket's tiny trophy

Cup. A 6 mm high replica of the Jules Rimet Trophy, it's been competed for since 2013, between an Isles of Scilly XI and a team from Penzance, the Dynamo Choughs.

Peter Burton, Chesterfield, Derbyshire

QUESTION How do space stations generate oxygen for the crew to survive for weeks and months at a time?

SPACE stations like the International Space Station need a continuous supply of oxygen for astronauts. The major method employed is electrolysis of water, which uses electricity to split it into hydrogen and oxygen.

The oxygen is released into the cabin, while the hydrogen is either ejected or combined with carbon dioxide to produce water, which can then be fed back for further electrolysis. Maintaining breathable air also requires the removal of some carbon dioxide from the atmosphere as it can become toxic at high levels.

Space stations also carry other sources of oxygen as a back up, including high-pressure oxygen tanks and chemical oxygen generators which use controlled chemical reactions to produce oxygen in case of emergencies.

Space stations also recycle water from urine, sweat and humidity inside the cabin to make sure there is enough water for drinking and the production of oxygen.

Sean Davidson, Liverpool

Office insist on having different seasonal dates?

I READ with great interest the answer to the question of when the seasons of the year begin and end.

Perhaps we should also consider the ‘Ornithological Year’. The ornithologist has, for hundreds of years, been observing the behaviour and movements of birds to indicate the flow of the natural seasons.

Spring is taken as beginning on March 1, coinciding with the arrival in the UK of early spring migrants (wheatear and sand martins etc), and ending when the last arrivals have been recorded (typically in late May with honey buzzards).

Summer then begins on June 1 and ends (and this is where it gets controversial) when the first migrant waders begin to trickle southwards through the country and when failed breeders from the high-Arctic stop off at favoured feeding sites, typically around mid-July. This is also the timing of the dispersal of juveniles of a number of species from upland areas.

This then heralds the start of the protracted four-month autumn migration period which typically ends in mid-November with the last trickle of migrant woodpigeons through the country (yes, some do migrate, usually those of continental origin) along with the completion of the influxes of winter visitors such as redwings and fieldfare, whooper swans and pink-footed geese.

Winter is then a matter of the three months of December, January and February when the only ‘movement’ of birds is a cold-weather movement exacerbated by prolonged icy spells or heavy snowfall. Simple.

Syd Garton,

Sya Garton, Derbyshire Joint County Bird Recorder and Derbyshire Bird Report Editor, Heage, Derbyshire

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THE Magnum Ice Cream Company made its long-awaited stock market debut yesterday amid a civil war with its 'woke' Ben & Jerry's brand.

Shares in the company, which has been promoted by singer Rita Ora (pictured) and owns Cornetto and Wall's, edged up 1pc in Amsterdam to give it a value of £7bn following its spin-off from Unilever.

That was below expectations, with analysts suggesting it could be valued at as much as £9.5bn.

The stock has secondary listings in New York and London.

Diana Radu, an analyst at financial services firm Morningstar, noted that Magnum's value is 'starkly lower' than many expected. She added: 'Still, we remain optimistic on the long-term outlook.'

The initial public offering (IPO) threatened to be overshadowed by a war of words between Magnum boss Peter ter Kulve and Ben & Jerry's co-founder Ben Cohen over the brand's activism on subjects such as Gaza.

At the weekend, ter Kulve said Cohen and fellow co-founder Jerry Greenfield should 'hand over to a new generation' now they are in their 70s. 'We need to move on,' he told the Financial Times.

Cohen hit back, saying: 'Unlike Magnum, I don't think there is an age limit on campaigning for social justice and peace. This is another attempt to silence the social mission that we are all too familiar with, as Unilever attempts to wash their hands of Ben & Jerry's through this IPO.'

The spin-off of Magnum – the world's largest ice cream business – comes as Unilever slims down its portfolio to focus on beauty and personal care brands such as Dove and Vaseline.

Bank of England puts hundreds of jobs at risk in cull

BANK of England staff are facing an uncertain Christmas as job cuts begin under a £45m savings drive.

The Bank has written to the majority of its 5,700 employees inviting them to apply for voluntary layoffs as it looks to achieve 8pc savings in its day-to-day budget.

That could imply hundreds are to go - though the Mail understands that a specific number is not being targeted.

Compulsory job cuts are not being ruled out should the voluntary programme fall short.

The Bank wrote to staff last week and is accepting resignations until January, with workers expected to depart come March.

Those who choose to leave are being offered a payout of 10pc of salary multiplied by their number of years' service, capped at a maximum of two years' salary or £150,000 – whichever is lower.

Costs at the Bank have come under strain after an overhaul which was sparked by a review

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by Ben Bernanke, former head of the US Federal Reserve.

The Bank is also facing cost pressures as it seeks to update its tech infrastructure.

A spokesman said: 'The Bank manages its budget in order to deliver on its statutory objec-

'Committed to being fit for the future'

tives to maintain monetary and financial stability.

‘We are now implementing a significant, multi-year transformation of our operations and this will condition our decisions.

‘We are therefore running a mutually agreed, time-limited scheme for staff to choose to apply to leave the Bank.

‘We are committed to ensuring the Bank is efficient, resilient and fit for the future.’

Some employees have not been targeted for the job cuts, including those at its Leeds office, where more than 100 work and which the Bank is looking to expand. Also not affected will be the governors – the top tier of staff who lead the Bank and include £598,000-a-year-governor Andrew Bailey (pictured), his four deputies and chief operating officer Sarah John.

Earlier this year, John told the Bank's directors that an 'ambitious efficiency target' would need to be met in order to keep a lid on the increase in the levy it charges to Britain's finan-

2025, its average number of employees was 5,731 - up from 3,680 a decade earlier. In 2012, it employed fewer than 2,000.

Trade union Unite, which represents employees at the bank, said it 'will always oppose any compulsory job losses across the financial services sector', adding that the job-cutting process must be transparent and fair.

The staff cuts come at a tough

cial services firms, according to minutes of the meeting.

At a subsequent gathering she said that 'efficiency targets were expected to be met but involved difficult trade-offs'.

Staff numbers at the Bank have surged in recent years. In the latest financial year to February time for the jobs market

with unemployment at 5pc - the highest since 2021. A report yesterday for auditors KPMG and the Recruitment and Employment

Confederation showed hiring remained 'on ice' last month as employers were held back by uncertainty ahead of the Budget.

UK workers saved in Airbus and Boeing deal

THOUSANDS of engineering jobs have been secured in a deal involving Boeing and Airbus.

Spirit AeroSystems, which owns the former Short Brothers factory in Belfast, Northern Ireland, and a plant in Prestwick, Scotland, is being carved up by the two plane-making giants.

Airbus will take control of the operations in Belfast that make the wings and mid-fuselage for its A220 jet, as well as the production of wing components for its A320 and A350 planes in Prestwick.

It will also take ownership of sites in the US, France and Morocco, with the rest of Spirit's operations transferring to Boeing. The deal saves around 5,000 jobs and will see the Belfast site renamed Short Brothers, a Boeing Company.

Industry minister Chris McDonald said: 'This is positive news for workers in Belfast and Prestwick who now work for the largest manufacturers of aircraft in the world.'

Kim Smith, a senior vice president at Boeing, also said: 'We welcome the Short Brothers family to Boeing and look forward to leveraging the team's outstanding aerospace capabilities.'

Sir Jeremy Quin, president of Boeing's operations in the UK and Ireland, added: 'The site's rich history and legacy, in addition to its highly skilled workforce, is a strong addition to our operations in Northern Ireland.'

Plot twist from Paramount

PARAMOUNT Skydance's move to gatecrash Netflix's takeover of Warner Bros Discovery has dramatically

raised the stakes – and opened up the possibility of two starkly different futures for Hollywood and the streaming industry.

Its £81bn hostile bid may trigger an auction, and hands Warner Bros' board a strong pretext to demand better terms from Netflix. But, more importantly, it crystallises two competing visions for what the global entertainment landscape will look like.

A merger of Paramount and Warner Bros would unite two of Hollywood's grandest names. The latter was founded in 1923, and Paramount can trace its lineage back to 1912. It argues the combination would create a more muscular studio operation and allow the merger of HBO Max with Paramount+, producing a beefier challenger to Netflix.

A takeover by Netflix – the upstart-turned-behemoth, born less than 20 years ago as a DVD-by-post service and turbo-charged by the pandemic streaming boom – would be a triumph of the disruptor over the old order.

But it immediately raised concerns about

Ruth Sunderland

excessive market power. Folding Warner Bros into the Netflix empire would create a super-streamer with unrivalled scale, prompting fears of reduced cinema releases and further pressure on traditional TV.

What hangs in the balance is how we will consume entertainment in the coming decade – whether we still go to the pictures, watch conventional television or continue the shift towards binge-watching from our sofas.

Regulators are already circling. President Trump has flagged potential concerns about a Netflix-Warner tie-up, and Paramount will be keen to prod politicians and competition authorities to intervene.

In the UK, Sky's £1.6bn bid for ITV, launched by Comcast, looks like a sideshow by comparison. Yet in the shadow of a US mega-deal, our own regulators may feel more inclined to wave it through. Pass the popcorn.

Fans of Nigel

IT HAS been a characteristically eventful few days for Nigel Farage. No sooner had he banked a £9m donation from crypto-tycoon Christopher Harborne than he found himself accused of falsifying election expenses – which Reform UK denies.

Despite the hurly-burly, his party is being taken ever more seriously in business circles. As veteran industrialist and Brexit critic John Neill noted in The Mail on Sunday, Reform is attracting interest from parts of the financial establishment. A former boss of Cazenove – once stockbroker to the Royal Family – told Bloomberg his City peers are now ‘Reform curious’.

Richard Tice, Farage's deputy, has been on a charm offensive, promising a Thatcher-style Big Bang to revitalise the Square Mile. The pitch taps into frustration that the reforms touted by the Conservatives and Labour remain slow and incremental.

The crypto industry, which helped bank-roll Donald Trump's political resurgence in the US, has been assiduous in cultivating ties with Reform. The logic is simple: a fledgling party with no entrenched policy legacy is far easier to influence than the two main parties, both of which treat crypto with caution. Reform offers a blank page on which the industry hopes to inscribe its regulatory wish-list.

Crypto also draws on a vein of national disillusionment being mined very successfully by Farage. A recent UK advertising campaign by crypto platform Coinbase depicted Britain as a rain-soaked, rat-ridden wasteland where those who play by the rules face redundancy and decline. The implication: crypto is your only hope.

At a Las Vegas summit, Farage pledged to cut capital gains tax on crypto and create a bitcoin reserve at the Bank of England if he were to become Prime Minister.

Yet many in the financial establishment remain sceptical, viewing crypto as a breeding ground for speculation and scandal. And if the sector suffers another crash – a scenario many analysts regard as highly plausible – the backlash against a party seen as its champion could be severe.

One can only guess what Mrs Thatcher might have made of Reform claiming to inherit her mantle as liberator of the City. The appeal to the buccaneering spirit of traders is plain enough. But cosying up to Farage – particularly with crypto in the mix – risks alienating the mainstream parties whose support remains essential for the credibility of UK financial regulation.

Business rates cut at Harrods

...as Reeves hammers pubs with painful rise

TICKET PRICE WARNING

By Emily Hawkins

RACHEL Reeves has been accused of handing Harrods and Selfridges ‘outrageous’ business rates tax cuts while local pubs are hammered by increases.

Businesses were left seething by Budget reforms that will see small venues pay an extra £318m in the property tax over the next three years – making a mockery of the Chancellor's claim to have ushered in a 'golden era' for hospitality.

They were further incensed yesterday after it emerged upmarket department stores would see bills go down – with Harrods in London's Knightsbridge set for a £1.1m drop over the next year.

And on Oxford Street, Selfridges' bill will fall £622,000, according to the same analysis by tax experts Ryan. This is because large properties will pay a lower 'multiplier' – part of the equation used to calculate

CONCERT venues face soaring property levies that could more than double bills within three years, sparking fears of higher ticket prices.

Global tax firm Ryan said rateable values have jumped by up to 300pc, sharply driving business rates upwards.

London's 02 arena will pay

rates bills – from next year. UK Hospitality chairman Kate Nicholls said: 'It's outrageous that two luxury retail stores are receiving cuts to their business rates running into the millions of pounds, while hard-pressed local pubs, neighbourhood restaurants and coastal hotels are seeing their bills significantly increase.'

She warned that 'eye-watering' hikes for many businesses 'risk further closures and job losses and need to be urgently nearly £2m more in 2026-27, while Manchester's Co-op Live, Manchester Arena and Ovo Arena Wembley also face big hikes.

Mark Davyd, of the Music Venue Trust, warned small sites may shut and costs could be lumped on fans. He urged the Government to act now.

addressed'. The Chancellor boasted she was introducing 'permanently lower tax rates for more than 750,000 retail, hospitality and leisure properties' and hailed 'the lowest tax rates since 1991'.

But pub chain bosses said the changes actually spell ‘sleepless nights, pay cuts and staff layoffs’. In a letter organised by trade group the British Beer and Pub Association, publicans said some venues will see their bills raised by up to £16,952.

CHINA'S trade surplus has topped \$1trillion for the first time despite Donald Trump's barrage of taxes on the world's greatest exporter.

Official figures show exports were stronger than expected in November, while relatively weak import levels continued to frustrate trade partners.

It means China's trade surplus was worth \$1.076 trillion over the first 11 months of the year.

The figures, which measure goods but not services, compare to a trade surplus of just below \$1trillion for the whole of 2024.

Washington and Beijing agreed last month to postpone export controls on rare earths and chips as part of a one-year deal.

Chinese shipments to the US last month were 29pc lower than in November last year.

But exports to the European Union are up 14.8pc while shipments to Australia surged 35.8pc.

Anglo abandons £8.5m merger bonus plan after backlash

MINER Anglo American has abandoned plans to hand its boss £8.5m if he completes a proposed £40bn merger with a Canadian rival.

It bowed to shareholder pressure and ditched the bonus scheme for Duncan Wanblad ahead of today's vote on the

By Hugo Duncan

tie-up with Teck Resources. The FTSE100 firm said it ‘engaged extensively with shareholders’ who ‘raised a number of concerns’ regarding the payout.

Anglo explained it had 'reflected carefully on shareholders' concerns'. Analysts at investment bank Peel Hunt said: 'With the removal of this resolution, we suspect the Teck combination proposal will be strongly backed by Anglo shareholders.'

The two companies announced plans to join forces in September in a ‘merger of equals’ that will create the fifth-largest copper miner in the world.

As part of the deal, Anglo wanted to amend the terms of its 2024 and 2025 bonus schemes to ensure that Wanblad, 58, and other executives would be guaranteed handsome share awards. But shareholders said they would vote against the changes at today's meeting.

Having ditched the plans, Anglo said it would ‘engage further with shareholders’ regarding executive pay ahead of the 2026 annual general meeting.

Tobacco

Aerospace & Defence
Aston Martin	644	-18	119	588
BAE Systems	1691	+18	2060	1145
Chemring Gp	4802	+3	599	2972
QinetiQ	4219	+39	572	361
Rolls-Royce	1107	+222	1190	5638
Senior	191	+24	202	1154

Banks
Banco Santander	820	+7	837	351
Barclays	437	+2 $\frac{1}{2}$	439 $\frac{1}{4}$	241 $\frac{1}{2}$
HSBC Hldgs	1064	+2 $\frac{1}{2}$	1120	713 $\frac{1}{4}$
Lion Finance	9400	+230	9400	94
Lloyds Banking	95 $\frac{1}{4}$	-	97 $\frac{1}{2}$	52 $\frac{1}{2}$
Metro Bank	114	+ $\frac{1}{4}$	133 $\frac{1}{2}$	81 $\frac{1}{2}$
NatWest Group	621	+3 $\frac{1}{2}$	640 $\frac{1}{4}$	374 $\frac{1}{2}$
Stan Chartered	1656	+21 $\frac{1}{2}$	1700 $\frac{1}{2}$	878 $\frac{1}{4}$
TBC Bank	4060	+25	5070	2975

Beverages
Barr (AG)	626	-8	711	558
C&C Group	125xd	-14	1824	1168
Coca-Cola HBC	3654	-32	4034	2692
Diageo	1644xd	-26	26182	16362

Chemicals
Croda Intnal	2732	+21	3505	2439
Elementis	165s	-1s	176s	115
Johnson Matt	2004xd	+4	2180	1156
Victrex	661	-9	1148	589

	52-week		High	Low
BlackRock Smir.	1298xd	-14	1382	1096
BlkRckWldMining	750xd	+15	750	4062
Bluefield Solar	71	-1%	101	68%
BR Greater Eur	573xd		617	4882
Brunner	1410xd	-2	1500	1140
Caledonia Inv	381xd		3912	3342
Chrysalis	1124	-1	130%	84
City of London IT	520	-2	525	4112
Edin Inv Trust	799	-8	839	680
Edin Wwide	2072	+4	210	143
Euro Sml Co.	2112	+2	221	163
European Opp	885		959	757
F&C Inv Trust	1243	+8	1245	962
Fidelity China	311	+2	3322	211
Fidelity Emg	999xd	-5	1004	632
Fidelity Eur	418	-3	431	3382
Fidelity Spec Val	406xd	+12	410	2952
Finsbury G&I Tst	805	-11	962	795
Foresight Env	67xd	-12	85%	61%
Foresight Solar	65	-18	924	644
GCP Infra Inv	71xd	-14	80%	68
Global Smaller	173	+34	173	136%
Greencoat UK	97%	-8	131%	96%
Harbourvest	3095	-30	3125	2270
Henderson Sml Co	839	-9	889	674
Herald Inv Trust	2430	+15	2560	1738
HG Capital Trust	4852	+12	539	448
HICL Infr	118xd	-1%	1254	106
ICG Enterprise	1540	-2	1600	1070
Impax Enviro Mkts	401	-4	4162	3102
Invesco Asia	433	+1	436	300
JPM American	1134xd	-2	1186	869
JPM Euro Disc	578		594	440
JPM Japan IT	723	-3	747	493
JPMorgan Emerging Markets Growth & Inc, 1344				-8
139	95%
JPMorgan India Growth	1036	-8	1106	904
Jupiter Fund	148%	-1%	1544	67%
Law Debenture	1032	-4	1070	788
M&G	272%	-24	277%	172%
Mercantile IT	251	-3	258	202%
Merchants Trust	579	-9	588	474
Molten Ventures	475%	-94	495%	227%
Monks Inv Tst	1454	+2	1548	1036
Morgan Sindall	4825	+45	4975	2945
Murray Inc Tst	891xd	-10	938	754
Murray Intl Tst	3282		3282	239
NB Private Equity	1560	+16	1636	1286
Next Energy Solar	51xd	-3%	77%	49%
Ninety One	208xd	-2	236%	120%
Oakley Capital Inv	564	+14	586	169
Pacific Horizon	764	+5	792	507
Pantheon Infra	108	-2	113	86%
Pantheon Intl	3752	+12	3782	266
Partners Group	905xd	+2	942	865
Patria Private	622	+8	625	501
Pershing Square	5090xd	+80	5090	3244
Personal Assets Tr	540	-5	546	494
Polar Cap Gl	2192	-2	222	150%
Polar Cap Tech	475	+102	481	2552
Pollen Street	950		964	660
Renewables Infra	71xd	-14	89%	70%
RIT Cap Partners	2210	-25	2235	1722
Schroder Asia	664		678	4612

Construction & Materials
Balfour Beatty	7162xd	+9 $\frac{1}{2}$	723	3908
Breedon	321 $\frac{1}{4}$	-4 $\frac{1}{8}$	487	310
Genuit Group	323	-4 $\frac{1}{2}$	415 $\frac{1}{2}$	298 $\frac{1}{2}$
Grafton Gp	915 $\frac{1}{8}$	-13 $\frac{1}{8}$	1034 $\frac{1}{4}$	795 $\frac{1}{2}$
Ibstock	130 $\frac{1}{4}$	-3	196 $\frac{1}{4}$	123 $\frac{1}{8}$
Keller Group	1638	+6	1638	1240
Kier Group	217 $\frac{1}{2}$	-1	231 $\frac{1}{2}$	115 $\frac{1}{4}$
Marshalls	172 $\frac{1}{4}$	-2 $\frac{1}{8}$	315	162
Volution	612xd		687	474 $\frac{1}{2}$

Electricity
Drax Gp	777	+6	778 $\frac{1}{2}$	536 $\frac{1}{2}$
SSE	2147xd	-16	2307	1463 $\frac{1}{2}$

TOP RISERS	CLOSING PRICE	DAILY CHANGE
Kainos Gp	1155.00	+6.65%
Paypoint	461.00	+5.13%
Oxford Nanopore	130.50	+4.65%
Baltic Classifieds	183.40	+4.56%
Trustpilot	152.40	+4.10%

Electronic & Electrical Equipment
Halma	3652	-6	3680	2360
Morgan Advanced	207	$-3\frac{1}{2}$	274	177 $^{\text{th}}$
Oxford Instruments	2075xd	-75	2165	1500
Renishaw	3570xd	-70	3725	2145

	52-week		High	Low
Schroder Oriental....333xd			340 $\frac{1}{2}$	239
Scot American Inv....506xd	-4		525	454 $\frac{1}{2}$
Scottish Mortgage....10942xd+25			1174	815 $\frac{1}{4}$
Sequoia Econ Infra....77 $\frac{1}{3}$	-4		82 $\frac{1}{3}$	72 $\frac{1}{4}$
Smithson Inv....1586	-10		1636	1290
Syncona....96	-4		105 $\frac{1}{3}$	79 $\frac{1}{4}$
Templeton Em....234	-1		240 $\frac{1}{2}$	151 $\frac{1}{4}$
Twentyfour....113	-4		114 $\frac{1}{4}$	106
Vietnam Enter....769	-1		800	460
VinaCapital Vietna....467			499	359 $\frac{1}{2}$
Wwide Healthcare....3802xd	-2 $\frac{1}{2}$		397	265 $\frac{1}{2}$

Equity Investment Instruments
3i Infrastructure	376	-2	377	301
Aberforth Smir Cos	1546	-16	1588	1212
AJ Bell	490	-2%	555%	363
Alliance Witan	1276xd	-2	1324	1050
Allianz Tech	534	+10	548	307
Ashoka India	263	-4%	309	238
AVI Global Trust	2522xd	-2	266%	202
Baillie Giff Japan	888xd	-5	951	657
Baillie Giff US	281%	+3%	292%	196
Bankers InvTst	133%		135	101
BH Macro	401%	+2	414	371%
Biopharma Credit	68%	-1	70%	66%

Food Producers
Assoc Brit Foods	2124	-1	2337	1841 $\frac{1}{2}$
Bakkavor	232	+2	244 $\frac{1}{2}$	130 $\frac{1}{2}$
Cranswick	5050	-40	5490	4625
Greencore	247 $\frac{1}{2}$	-2 $\frac{1}{2}$	278 $\frac{1}{2}$	169 $\frac{1}{4}$
Hilton Food Gp	502		924	477 $\frac{1}{2}$
Premier Foods	175 $\frac{1}{8}$	-1 $\frac{1}{4}$	214 $\frac{1}{2}$	170 $\frac{1}{4}$
Tate & Lyle	365xxd	-8 $\frac{1}{4}$	709	358
Unilever	4160xld	-296	4881	4143 $\frac{1}{2}$

XPS Pensions......348	+4 $\frac{1}{2}$	411 $\frac{1}{2}$	313
Health Care Equipment & Services
Convatec......226 $\frac{1}{8}$	-2 $\frac{1}{4}$	295 $\frac{1}{8}$	219 $\frac{1}{4}$
Oxford Biomedica......644	+25	682	232 $\frac{1}{2}$
Smith & Neph......1265		1435	937 $\frac{1}{4}$
Spire Health......174	-2 $\frac{1}{4}$	249	171 $\frac{1}{8}$

General Financial
3i Group	3194xd	-37	4459	2999
Ashmore Gp	1632xd	-39	193	1258
BR Throgmorton	609	-5	621	469
Bridgepoint Group	2794	-18	3959	2294
Capital Gearing	4945		4980	4730
CMC Markets	289xd	+1	2972	1974
Coats Group	808	-114	96	684
Foresight Group	4102	+2	491	307
ICG	2072xd	-12	2450	1569
IG Gp	1156	+2	1163	913
Integrain	347	-1	3982	272
Intl Public Prtnshps	1259xd	-19	1274	1074
Investec	529	+22	596	414
IP Group	61	-19	649	344
JTC	1276		1366	769
London Stock Ex	8500	-152	12095	8138
Man Group	2074	-24	2159	1544
Nth Atlantic Smlr	364	+1	402	318
OSB Group	5702	+6	5842	3634
Paragon	8022	+14	970	6862
Plus500	3412	-16	3476	2560
Quilter	1858	+14	191	1244
Rathbone Grp	1824	-20	1930	1406
Ruffer Investment	294	-2	304	264
Schroders	3904	+1	4284	2894
SDCL Efficiency	524	-104	63	438
Temple Bar	369xd	-2	376	258
TP ICAP	2502	-1	3112	228

Housebuilders
Barratt Redrow	363 $\frac{1}{4}$	-15	482 $\frac{1}{4}$	350
Bellway	2648xd	-60	2982	2166
Berkeley Grp.	3616	-98	4324	3462
Crest Nicholson	131 $\frac{1}{2}$	-4 $\frac{1}{4}$	197	128
Persimmon	1298 $\frac{1}{2}$	-46 $\frac{1}{2}$	1405	1037 $\frac{1}{2}$
Taylor Wimpey	100 $\frac{1}{8}$	-2 $\frac{1}{8}$	127 $\frac{1}{4}$	93
Vistry Group	614	-26 $\frac{1}{4}$	698	510 $\frac{1}{4}$

Industrial Transportation
Clarkson	3760	-10	4505	2995
Zigup	394 $^{1/2}$		394 $^{1/2}$	273 $^{1/2}$

Industrials
Bodycote	682 $\frac{1}{2}$	+10	685	460 $\frac{1}{8}$
Goodwin	19550	-100	23300	6180
Hill & Smith	2235xd	-30	2265	1530
IMI	2462	-2	2524	1606
Melrose Ind	580 $\frac{1}{8}$	-6 $\frac{1}{4}$	680	385 $\frac{1}{8}$
RHI Magnesita	2530	-20	3800	1980
Rotork	328 $\frac{1}{8}$	-12 $\frac{1}{8}$	352	275 $\frac{1}{4}$
Smiths Gp	2358	-14	2550	1687
Spirax Group	6855	-40	8190	5445
Vesuvius	380 $\frac{1}{8}$	-6	441 $\frac{1}{2}$	313 $\frac{1}{4}$
Weir Gp	2870	-10	2990	1984

Leisure Goods

Games Workshop......19630	-120	19840	12410
ME Group......161	+1 $\frac{1}{8}$	230	150 $\frac{1}{4}$
Watches of Switz......491	-7 $\frac{1}{8}$	592	318 $\frac{1}{4}$

TOP FALLERS	CLOSING PRICE	DAILY CHANGE
SDCL Efficiency	52.70	-16.22%
Future	585.50	-7.65%
Unilever	4160.00	-6.64%
Vistry Group	614.00	-4.18%
Barratt Redrow	363.20	-3.97%

Life Insurance
Aberdeen Group	196	-2	2104	1234
Aviva	6444	+4	6928	4574
Just Group	2152		2152	1208
Legal & General	2492	+8	263	2154
Phoenix Gp	687	-52	696	4798
Prudential	10972	+192	11002	5954
St James Place	1379	+52	1393	791
Media
4imprint	3820	-25	6030	3035
Auto Trader Gp	5968	-118	9088	5968
Bloomsbury	475	-15	698	468

	52-week		High	Low
Future	585 $\frac{1}{2}$	-48 $\frac{1}{2}$	1029	585 $\frac{1}{2}$
Informa	941 $\frac{1}{8}$	-7 $\frac{1}{4}$	993 $\frac{1}{8}$	640 $\frac{1}{4}$
ITV	80 $\frac{1}{2}$	-1 $\frac{1}{4}$	87 $\frac{1}{4}$	66 $\frac{1}{4}$
Mony Group	182 $\frac{1}{4}$	+8	221 $\frac{1}{8}$	181 $\frac{1}{8}$
Pearson	984 $\frac{1}{8}$	-7 $\frac{1}{8}$	1379	984 $\frac{1}{8}$
RELX	2972	-63	4135	2972
Rightmove Group	531 $\frac{1}{8}$	-8 $\frac{1}{8}$	823 $\frac{1}{4}$	519 $\frac{1}{8}$
WPP	298 $\frac{1}{2}$	+3 $\frac{1}{4}$	893 $\frac{1}{8}$	268 $\frac{1}{8}$

	52-week		High	Low
Intertek Gp	4532	-58	5385	4064
Intl Workplace Gp	223 $^{1}$	-1 $^{1/4}$	242 $^{1/4}$	148 $^{1/4}$
Johnson Service Gp	139 $^{1/4}$	-1 $^{1/4}$	159 $^{1/4}$	122 $^{1/4}$
Mitie Group	161 $^{1/4}$	+1 $^{1/4}$	165 $^{1/4}$	106 $^{1/4}$
Pagegroup	227 $^{1/4}$	-8 $^{1/4}$	376 $^{1/4}$	219 $^{1/4}$
Paypoint	461xd	+22 $^{1/4}$	923 $^{1/4}$	438 $^{1/4}$
Rentokil Initial	425 $^{1/4}$	+1 $^{1/4}$	442 $^{1/4}$	309 $^{1/4}$
RS Group	613xd	-10	720 $^{1/4}$	309 $^{1/4}$
Serco	258 $^{1/4}$		264	137 $^{1/4}$
Sthree	164xd	-3 $^{1/4}$	361	137 $^{1/4}$
Travis Perkins	606 $^{1/4}$	-18 $^{1/4}$	756	494
W.A.G	100 $^{1/4}$		106	58 $^{1/4}$

Mining
Anglo American	2930	-50	2999	1731 $\frac{1}{8}$
Antofagasta	2958	-52	3010	1383
Endeavour Mining	3412	-60	3612	1392
Fresnillo	2692	-22	2820	616
Glencore	378 $\frac{1}{8}$	-1	387 $\frac{1}{4}$	230
Hochschild Mining	427 $\frac{1}{4}$	+7	441 $\frac{1}{4}$	168
Rio Tinto	5476	-24	5546	4117

Technology Hardware & Equipment
discoverIE Gp	603	-7	738	486
Raspberry Pi	324 $^{1}$	-1 $^{1}$	766	308 $^{4}$
Spirent Comms	198 $^{4}$		198 $^{4}$	170 $^{8}$

	52-week		High	Low
Hanworth	162	-1	$189\frac{1}{2}$	$159\frac{1}{2}$
Land Securities	604xd	-14	650	499 $\frac{1}{2}$
LondonMetric Prop	$183\frac{1}{2}$ xd	-3 $\frac{1}{2}$	204 $\frac{1}{2}$	170 $\frac{1}{2}$
Primary Hlth Prop	$95\frac{1}{2}$	-1 $\frac{1}{2}$	103 $\frac{1}{2}$	86 $\frac{1}{2}$
PRS Reit	113 $\frac{1}{2}$	-4	118 $\frac{1}{2}$	98
Safestore Hldgs	694	-15	748 $\frac{1}{2}$	529
Savills	990	-20	1110	871
SEGRO	695 $\frac{1}{2}$	-12	734 $\frac{1}{2}$	599
Shaftesbury	139	-1 $\frac{1}{2}$	161 $\frac{1}{2}$	113 $\frac{1}{2}$
Sirius Real Estate	94 $\frac{1}{2}$	-2	106 $\frac{1}{2}$	73 $\frac{1}{2}$
Supermarket Inc	80	-1 $\frac{1}{2}$	86 $\frac{1}{2}$	65 $\frac{1}{2}$
Target Healthcare	94 $\frac{1}{2}$	-2 $\frac{1}{2}$	105 $\frac{1}{2}$	79 $\frac{1}{2}$
TR Property IT	322	-4 $\frac{1}{2}$	338 $\frac{1}{2}$	277 $\frac{1}{2}$
Tritax Big Box	146 $\frac{1}{2}$	-2 $\frac{1}{2}$	155 $\frac{1}{2}$	124 $\frac{1}{2}$
Unite Group	510	-20	879 $\frac{1}{2}$	510
Workspace Gp	379	-2 $\frac{1}{2}$	529	362

Nonlife Insurance
Admiral Gp	3072	-44	3678	2524
Beazley	779 $_{2}$	-2 $_{2}$	973	769
Hiscox	1312	-1	1407	1035
Lancashire Hldgs	574xd		694	523

Telecoms
Airtel Africa	310+xd	+18	3188	1044
BT Gp	177	-1	2224	2
Gamma Comms	917	-23	1644	904
Helios Towers	1584	-8	1714	884
Telecom Plus	1372xd	-24	2085	1372
Vodafone Gp	94+xd	+4	968	638

Br Am Tob	4317	+34	4421	2875
Imperial Brands	3262xd	+12	3300	2547

Oil & Gas Producers
BP	450xxd	-2 $\frac{1}{2}$	476 $\frac{1}{8}$	331 $\frac{1}{4}$
Energean	900xxd	+16	1076	734
Harbour Energy	205 $\frac{1}{8}$	-3 $\frac{1}{8}$	294	151 $\frac{1}{4}$
Hunting	393	+1 $\frac{1}{2}$	396	246 $\frac{1}{2}$
Ithaca Energy	173xxd	+1 $\frac{1}{4}$	237 $\frac{1}{2}$	103
Shell	2750xld	-10	2931 $\frac{1}{2}$	2291 $\frac{1}{2}$

Retailers
AO World	108 $\frac{1}{2}$	-4	110	83 $\frac{1}{2}$
ASOS	264	+6	445 $\frac{1}{4}$	218 $\frac{1}{2}$
B&M	160 $\frac{1}{2}$ xd	-6	370 $\frac{1}{4}$	156 $\frac{1}{2}$
Burberry Gp	1204	-26 $\frac{1}{2}$	1371 $\frac{1}{2}$	627 $\frac{1}{4}$
Currys	130 $\frac{1}{2}$	-2	146	79
Dr. Martens	77 $\frac{1}{4}$	-8	99 $\frac{1}{2}$	47 $\frac{1}{2}$
Dunelm Gp	1109	-16	1241	858 $\frac{1}{2}$
Frasers Group	655	-23 $\frac{1}{2}$	770	546
Greggs	1630	-44	2834	1418
Howden Joinery	808 $\frac{1}{2}$	-16	914 $\frac{1}{2}$	679 $\frac{1}{2}$
Inchcape	756 $\frac{1}{2}$	-6 $\frac{1}{2}$	808	638
JD Sports Fashion	79 $\frac{1}{2}$	-3 $\frac{1}{2}$	104 $\frac{1}{2}$	63 $\frac{1}{2}$
Kingfisher	307 $\frac{1}{2}$	-4 $\frac{1}{2}$	316 $\frac{1}{2}$	228 $\frac{1}{4}$
Marks & Spencer	325 $\frac{1}{2}$ xd	-8 $\frac{1}{2}$	411 $\frac{1}{4}$	319 $\frac{1}{4}$
Moonpig	214	-3	259 $\frac{1}{2}$	192 $\frac{1}{2}$
Next	13935xd	-140	14580	9028
Ocado Gp	188 $\frac{1}{2}$	+3 $\frac{1}{4}$	395 $\frac{1}{2}$	172 $\frac{1}{4}$
Pets at Home Gp	205 $\frac{1}{2}$ xd	-6 $\frac{1}{4}$	273 $\frac{1}{4}$	192 $\frac{1}{4}$
Sainsbury(J)	308 $\frac{1}{2}$ xd	-3 $\frac{1}{2}$	355 $\frac{1}{4}$	228 $\frac{1}{4}$
SSP Group	178 $\frac{1}{2}$	+6 $\frac{1}{2}$	191 $\frac{1}{2}$	135
Tesco	449 $\frac{1}{4}$	-3 $\frac{1}{4}$	475 $\frac{1}{2}$	314 $\frac{1}{2}$
WH Smith	681 $\frac{1}{2}$	-13	1513 $\frac{1}{2}$	613 $\frac{1}{2}$
Wickes Group	232 $\frac{1}{2}$	-5 $\frac{1}{2}$	238	143 $\frac{1}{2}$

Travel & Leisure

Oil Equipment & Services
Wood Gp(J)	23 $\frac{1}{2}$	-8	72 $\frac{1}{2}$	17 $\frac{1}{4}$
Pharmaceuticals & Biotechnology
AstraZeneca	13578	-14	14148	9667
Genus	2620xd	+30	2760	1424
GSK	1820xd+15 $\frac{1}{2}$		1833	1264
Haleon	3578	-3	4154	3268
Hikma Pharma	1562	-32	2340	1522
Oxford Nanopore	130 $\frac{1}{2}$	+5 $\frac{1}{4}$	219	91 $\frac{1}{4}$
Reckitt Benckiser	5902	-66	5994	4633

Real Estate
Big Yellow Gp.	1012	-12	1180	848
British Land	387 $\frac{1}{2}$ xd	-13 $\frac{1}{4}$	420 $\frac{1}{8}$	321 $\frac{1}{4}$
Derwent London	1616	-46	2096	1616
Empiric Student	73 $\frac{1}{2}$ xd	-1	104 $\frac{1}{4}$	73 $\frac{1}{2}$
Grainger	180 $\frac{1}{4}$	-5	232 $\frac{1}{2}$	179 $\frac{1}{4}$
Grt Portland Est	311 $\frac{1}{2}$	-7 $\frac{1}{2}$	363	262
Hammerson	311 $\frac{1}{4}$	-6 $\frac{1}{8}$	325 $\frac{1}{4}$	220 $\frac{1}{8}$

Software & Computer Services
Alta Financial	219 $^{2}$	-2 $^{2}$	248 $^{2}$	195
Auction Tech	292 $^{2}$	-2	637	263
Baltic Classifieds	183 $^{8}$	+8	377 $^{2}$	175 $^{8}$
Bytes Technology	344 $^{4}$	-4	551	320 $^{4}$
Computacenter	3064	+30	3108	2024
Deliveroo	179 $^{4}$		179 $^{4}$	113 $^{8}$
Kainos Gp	1155xd	+72	1161 $^{2}$	592 $^{2}$
NCC Grp	144	-8	167 $^{4}$	127 $^{8}$
Playtech	286		806	232
Softcat	1448xd	-22	1888	1402
The Sage Group	1067 $^{2}$	-2 $^{2}$	1348	1063
Trustpilot	152 $^{8}$	+6	355 $^{2}$	129 $^{4}$

Carnival	1788 $^{2}$	-8	2185	1134
Compass Gp	2355	-15	2843	2327
Dominos Pizza	168 $^{4}$	-5 $^{2}$	334 $^{8}$	168
easyJet	484 $^{8}$	-5 $^{8}$	587 $^{4}$	427 $^{8}$
Entain	735 $^{4}$	-24	1022	501 $^{4}$
FirstGroup	175 $^{2}$ xd	-1 $^{8}$	233	146 $^{2}$
Hollywood Bowl	276 $^{2}$	-9	340	208
Intercont Hfls	9900	-52	10880	7424
Intl Cons Airl	391	+5 $^{4}$	427 $^{8}$	224 $^{8}$
Mitchells & Butlers	259	-5	291 $^{2}$	208 $^{2}$
PPHE Hotel Gp	1812		1950	1190
Trainline	215 $^{8}$	+6 $^{8}$	434 $^{4}$	209
Wetherspoon (JD)	700		804	541
Whitbread	2363xd	-38	3274	2325 $^{2}$
Wizz Air Hldgs	1100	-13	1776	980

Support Services
Ashtead Gp	4809	+14	5592	3659
Babcock Intl	1176xd	+30	1330	4854
Bunzl	2132xd	-20	3588	2090
DCC	5000xd	-25	5600	4528
Diploma	5445	-40	5650	3624
Essentra	964	-44	147	894
Experian	3275	-49	4088	3091
Hays	538	-1	888	524

Utilities

Centrica	168 $\frac{1}{2}$	$-\frac{1}{4}$	180	125
Metlen	40 $\frac{1}{4}$	$-\frac{1}{4}$	56 $\frac{1}{4}$	40 $\frac{1}{8}$
National Grid	11352xd	+1	1182	910 $\frac{1}{4}$
Pennon	534 $\frac{1}{2}$	-5 $\frac{1}{2}$	624	387 $\frac{1}{8}$
Severn Trent	2752xd	-17	2852	2338
United Utilities	1199	-9	1237	937 $\frac{1}{8}$

*Ex-Dividend Source: The Press Association

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Stuart blow opens the door for forgotten man Sinckler

By NIK SIMON

Rugby Correspondent

DEPTH is building nicely in England's prop stocks, but the news that Will Stuart will miss the remainder of the season left me with one question. Stuart (right) hit the best form of his career last season, earning selection for the summer Lions tour and becoming a part of the much-celebrated Pom Squad during the autumn. He was regularly deployed from the bench alongside the likes of Henry Pollock and Tom Curry as England found a way of dominating the fourth quarter. Joe Heyes did a fine job anchoring the set-piece during recent Tests against Australia, Fiji and New Zealand and there is no doubt he will be ready to start in the Six Nations. But there is no hiding from the fact Stuart's Achilles injury is a hammer blow to England's scrummaging resources. It left me wondering — what about Kyle Sinckler?

When I interviewed Eddie Jones at the beginning of the autumn series, the former England coach named Sinckler at No 3 in an ultimate XV of the players with whom he has worked. That was a huge compliment from a man who was part of a Springbok coaching team. Asher

Opoku-Fordjour is also injured but expected to be fit for the Six Nations campaign. Trevor Davison is another set-piece specialist doing well with Northampton and likely to extend his stay there, despite interest from Newcastle. Billy Sella and Afo Fasogbon are other young contenders but face a battle with time to be ready for the set-piece grind of a World Cup in 2027.

Which brings us back to Sinckler. The 32-year-old has become a forgotten man in English rugby. He has settled into life in France with Toulon, who he joined from Bristol in 2023. Sources close to him say he would love to represent England again but his deal in the Top 14 runs until 2027. Contracts are loaded with clauses, so it is worth seeing if there is a way of bringing him back. Bath are actively seeking a

replacement for South Africa-bound Thomas du Toit, so that could be a good place to start. Sinckler is a veteran of two World Cups and two Lions tours and has no doubt added to his craft in the Top 14, where trait in the Top 14, where the fans relish a long scrummaging battle that takes the front-row forwards into dark places. Stade Francais centre Joe Marchant has agreed a move back to Sale to give himself a chance of making the World Cup and someone at the RFU should contact Sinckler to see if he feels the same way.

UTTOXETER SSR

ROBIN GOODFELLOW

1.00	Fingle Bridge (nb)	1.00	FINGLE BRIDGE (nap)
1.30	Alan Bresil	1.30	Carismatic Soldier
2.00	Baron Noir	2.00	Baron Noir (nb)
2.30	Ski Lodge	2.30	Ski Lodge
3.00	Railway Bell	3.00	Hara Kiri
3.33	Hard Dealt	3.33	Volakes

1.00-SUPPORT THE INJURED JOCKEYS FUND 'CHASING EXCELLENCE' BEGINNERS' CHASE (3) £12,000 added (£6,337) 2m 4f (3)

1 21/111-2 FINGLE BRIDGE 22 O Murphy 7-11-5....S Bowen 2 4/2-LL LARGY BELTER 22 (HT) D Skelton 5-11-5....H Skelton 3 41874-3 PHANTOMOFTHEPOINTS 17 (PT) D Pipe 7-11-5....J Tudor Probable SP: 4-9 Fingle Bridge, 5-2 Phantomofthepoints, 10 Largy Belter.

1.30-TGF CONSTRUCTION CHRISTMAS BONANZA CONDITIONAL JOCKEYS' HANDICAP HURDLE (4) £7,700 added (£4,066) 2m 7f 70vds (6)

1 F1717-5 OH MY JOHNNY 20 (CBF) (S) P Hobbs & J White 5-12-0...C Pritchard 2 2/213-3 CARISMATIC SOLDIER 24 (BF) (S) O Murphy 6-11-9 ...L Saunders (3) 3 3-L ALAN BRESIL 17 Nick Scholfield 5-11-6....R Corcoran (7) 4 52847-8 NORTH PARADE 25 (S) J Parkinson & S Smith 10-11-4....W Maggs 5 1252-6P JALISCO STAR 13 (T) (D) (S) L Horstall 7-11-2....B Macey (3) 6 9P213-6 JOLIE BAIE 28 (T) (D) (S) Miss J Davis 6-10-11....F Lambert Probable SP: 11-8 Carismatic Soldier, 4 Jalisco Star, 9-2 Oh My Johnny, 6

FAVOURITES: - - - - - - - 0 (W 11-7). AGES: - - - - - - - 6 2024: Kilbarry Hill 6 11 7 (Lewis Stones) 7-1 O Murphy 8 ran.

2.00-CAMBURG MAIDEN HURDLE (4) £7,700 added (£4,193) 1m 7f 168yds (11)

1	38/13-12	BARON NOIR 19 (BF) A King 5-11-7....T Bellamy
2		BLAZING GADEN D J Jeffreys 4-11-7....C Quinn
3	22/2	BOBBY'S NELSON 30 P Hobbs & J White 6-11-7....Sean Houlihan
4	6F3-L0	KENO BLACK 23 N Mulholland 5-11-7....R McLemon
5	4/P15-25	PURPLE OWL 28 (T) D Pipe 5-11-7....J Tudor
6	4-2	UP TO TRIX 226 O Murphy 5-11-7....S Bowen
7	73-06	WALKINTHEPRESENT 23 N Mulholland 5-11-7....C O'Farrell
8	2-6	BEEP BEEP BECKY 26 O Greenall & J Guerriero 4-11-0....Craig Nichol
9	4	HALF PINT DAISY 179 C Boultbee-Brooks 6-11-0....R Patrick
10	0	REST IS THE BEST 18 H Dickin 4-11-0....J Best
11	3L	SHEEZER DIVA 24 D Skelton 5-11-0....H Skelton
Probable SP: 1-2 Baron Noir, 5 Bobby's Nelson, 11-2 Up To Trix, 10 Sheezer Diva, 14 Purple Owl.
FAVOURITES: - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
2024: Oh My Johnny 4 11 6 (Micheal Nolan) 8-11 Fav P Hobbs & J White 11 ran.

2.30-AVONSIDE SUPPLIES & ETEX HANDICAP CHASE (3) £11,700 added (£6.179) 3m 10vds (7)

1 4LL-23L POPOVA 29 M Hawker 8-11-12....J Best 2 11/6211- SOLE SOLUTION 311 V Williams 7-11-8....C Deutsch 3 328-618 AUTONOMOUS CLOUD 24 (PT) (C&D2) (S) F O'Brien 9-11-7 Mr H D O'Dwyer (7) 4 3P36-3L MADAKET 16 (P) P Hobbs & J White 7-11-5....C Pritchard (3) 5 36P2L-7 BELLS OF PETERBORO 42 (D) (S) T Vaughan 10-11-4....S Bowen 6 221/71-2 SKI LODGE 21 A King 6-11-4....T Bellamy 7 3417/P6- ITSEEMSLIKEIT 284 D Pipe 6-11-2....J Tudor Probable SP: 11-8 Sole Solution, 13-8 Ski Lodge, 8 Autonomous Cloud, 10 Madaket, 14 Itseemslikeit, 16 Bells Of Peterboro. FAVOURITES: - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 2024: Sound And Fury 7 11 1 (Kielan Woods) 11-4 Fav B Pauling 9 ran.

3.00—PEKTRON HANDICAP HURDLE (4) £7,700 added (£4,066) 1m 7f 168yds (9)

1 1- AUTHODIDACTE 369 (D) (S) V Williams 5-12-1....C Deutsch 2 311/12-3 HARA KIRI 24 (D2) (S) O Murphy 8-11-13....S Bowen 3 32/11- RAILWAY BELL 403 (T) (C&D) F O'Brien 6-11-13....J J Burke 4 1249-L6 NOWMELAD 31 (C&DD) (S) Henry Oliver 6-11-12....Lee Edwards 5 46422-7 ZAMBEZI FIX 41 (D3) (S) B J Llewellyn 10-11-12....E Collier (5) 6 L71656 BELVEDERE BLAST 28 (D) (S) A Keatley 7-11-11....Craig Nichol 7 12342/ JIAIR MADRIK 751 D McCain 6-11-9....T Gillard 8 310P0-4 LOVE ME 22 (D) Miss J Davis 5-11-5....G Sheehan 9 1233/ SWEET HONEY B 714 C Boultbee-Brooks 7-11-1....R Patrick Probable SP: 9-4 Hara Kiri, 5-2 Railway Bell, 7-2 Authodidacte, 10 Sweet Henry R. 14 Bohedora Blast, Nauremalad, 16 Louis Madrik, 90 Leun Mo

FAVOURITES: - - - - - - - 0 (W 11-11). AGES: - - - - - - - 5 2024: Lightningupourdays 5 11 11 (Jonathan Burke) 13-2 A Ralph 8 ran.

3.33-QUINNBET MARES' HANDICAP HURDLE (5) £6,150 added (£3,248) 2m 3f 207yds (10)

1 4144-P2 ANALIESE 18 (S) Mrs M Rowley 4-12-0....C Deutsch 2 0-667L3 MISS MAXFORT 18 (H) (S) D Donovan 5-11-13....Jonjo O'Neill Jr 3 335-4 VOLAKES 39 S Edmunds 4-11-13....C Hammond 4 1642-16 HARD DEALT 32 (DBF) H Daly 5-11-12....S Twiston-Davies 5 3L25-23 HIGHBURY HILL 34 N Hawke 4-11-10....B Carver 6 97-2 PIPAS LESCRIBAA 20 H Dickin 6-11-9....J Best 7 34P4-45 IT'S MAISY 13 (CD) (S) J Parkinson & S Smith 7-11-7....P J Kavanagh 8 L634L-6 FAY CE QUE VOUDRAS 14 (T) (S) Kerry Lee 9-11-2....C O'Farrell 9 6PL7 HYPERBOLE 19 O Murphy 5-10-13....S Bowen 10 67611-5 QUEEN OF STEEL 26 (P) (D) F O'Brien 5-10-11....J Hogan

Probable SP: 7-2 Hard Dealt, 9-2 Analiese, 6 Pipas Lrescribaa, Highbury Hill, 8 Miss Maxfort, It's Maisy, 10 Queen Of Steel, 12 Volakes, Hyperbole.

2024: Jacksbar 5 10 9 (Harry Skelton) 20-1 D Skelton 11 ran.

TRACK FACTS: PRINCIPAL MEETING. L-H course. GOING: Soft. Top jockey: Sean Bowen. Top trainer: O Murphy. Headgear first time: 2.00 Purple Owl. Longest travellers: Phantomofthepoints (1.00), Purple Owl (2.00), Itseemslikeit (2.30), Highbury Hill (3.33) 174 miles. Drop in Class: 1.30 Alan Bresil is down 2 grades on last run (Class 2 to Class 4); 2.00 Keno Black (2). First run since wind surgery: 2.30 Itseemslikeit.

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12.55 — THE BELLHOP (F Mitchell) 11-8(2ndFav) 1; Brave Guest 80-1 2; Tenadaay 33-1 3.7 ran. (G & J Moore). 5l, 5½. Tote: 2.38; 1.10, 13.40. Ex: 105.60. Tf: 286.80. CSF: 64.70.

1.25 — ATREIDES (B Harris) 5-4F 1; Le Galli Bier 7-2(2ndFav) 2; Koenigsstern 4-1 3. 5 ran. (N Mulholland). 9l, 6l. Tote: 2.30; 1.20, 1.70. Ex: 6.50. Tf: 18.60. CSF: 6.30.

1.55 — MASK OF ZORRO (B J Powell) 16-5(2ndFav) 1; El Bandido Pancho 9-4F 2; Ferret Jeeter 4-1 3.9 ran. (J Tizzard). 4¼, 5l. Tote: 4.20; 1.50, 1.30, 1.80. Ex: 11.80. Tc: 29.26. Tf: 35.30. CSF: 11.23.

2.25 — QUEEN'S THEATRE (S Twiston-Davies) 3-1 1; Pollyanna's Dream 4-1 2; Ballynorth 9-4F 3.5 ran. (A Honeyball). 3 $^{3/4}$ , 14l. Tote: 4.00; 2.00, 1.80. Ex: 12.70. Tf: 38.40. CSF: 14.55. NR: Shotgun Shirley.

2.55' — MUTLEY CREW (H Kimber) 8-1 1; Footloose Man 11-2 2; Daring Plan 8-1 3.7 ran. (R Walford). 9l, 8½. Tote: 9.00; 3.50, 1.80. Ex: 33.50. Tf: 266.70. CSF: 50.15.

LINGFIELD

3.25 — CALSHOT SPIT (M Goldstein) 14-1 1; Bridge 10-1 2; Storming Nelson 4-1(2ndFav) 3.7 ran. (Miss S West). shd, 1l. Tote: 17.10; 4.70, 3.80. Ex: 140.90. Tf: 557.90. CSF: 135.14.

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11.07 — LORD HARCOURT (K Shoemark) 15-8F 1; Akabusi 15-2 2; Green Dame 9-4(2ndFav) 3.7 ran. (E Walker). hd, 1¼. Tote: 3.80; 2.30, 2.00. Ex: 12.70. Tc: 21.98. Tf: 32.70. CSF: 12.75. NR: Davvy. 11.37 — ORACLE MISSION (P-L Jamin) 4-6F 1; Laughterintherain 10-1 2; All Worthwhile 8-1 3. 12 ran. (Harry Eustace). 1¼. nk. Tote: 1.67; 1.10, 2.60, 2.50. Ex: 13.70. Tf: 91.90. CSF: 10.52.

12.07 — TOWERLANDS (Rossa Ryan) 5-1(Jt2ndFav) 1; Sheikh Raj 2-1F 2; Ernie's Valentine 16-1 3. 10 ran. (A Carroll). hd, 2l. Tote: 6.40; 2.40, 1.50, 3.30. Ex: 19.30. Tc: 156.91. Tf: 139.50. CSF: 15.75.

12.37 — FASCINATING SHADOW (P Bradley) 11-8(2ndFav) 1; Young Endless 6-5F 2; Potters Marmite 22-1 3.5 ran. (James Owen). $\frac{1}{2}$ , $2\frac{3}{4}$ . Tote: 2.38; 1.20, 1.10. Ex: 3.70. Tf: 16.50. CSF: 3.29.

1.07 — COUNSEL (D Keenan) 16-1 1; Sergeant Pep 11-8F 2; Giorgio M 12-1 3. 10 ran. (M Appleby). 1¼, 1¾. Tote: 24.70; 4.10, 1.20, 2.70. Ex: 51.80. Tc: 228.79. Tf: 686.80. CSF: 33.53. NR: Lightning Bear.

1.37 — TWILIGHT MOON (R Hornby) 14-1 1; Party Island 11-2 2; Meet Me In Meraki 14-1 3. 9 ran. (M Tregoning). 1¼, ns. Tote: 15.00; 3.40, 1.50, 2.30. Ex: 91.70. Tc: 1109.72. Tf: 475.90. CSF: 88.94.

RACING RESULTS

2.37 — POKE THE BEAR (T Heard) 22-1 1; Bear To Dream 7-1 2; Kondratiev Wave 10-3JTFav 3. 11 ran. (Hayley Burton). $\frac{3}{4}$ , $1\frac{1}{4}$ . Tote: 24.70; 5.70, 2.00, 1.60. Ex: 139.40. Tc: 662.29. Tf: 1499.00. CSF: 174.97. NR: Monks Mead. 3.07 — TORTURED SOUL (Rossa Ryan) 11-4F 1; Ghaiyyath Park 15-2 2; Enough Already 15-2 3. 10 ran. (A Carroll). hd, 11. Tote: 3.75; 1.60, 2.60, 2.10. Ex: 37.70. Tc: 140.71. Tf: 160.30. CSF: 24.21.

2.07 — DANDY KHAN (B Loughnane) 9-4(2ndFav) 1; Villalobos 13-8F 2; Volendam 12-1 3. 10 ran. (J Boyle). nk, 2½. Tote: 3.25; 1.10, 1.20, 2.90. Ex: 9.40. Tc: 34.48. Tf: 32.90. CSF: 6.29. NRs: Kessaar Power, Pink Socks.

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12.45 — RED OAK (J J Burke) 10-11(2ndFav) 1; Timefortom 5-6F 2; Elusive Warrior 80-1 3.4 ran. (James Owen). 3l, 24l. Tote: 1.91; Ex: 1.80. Tf: 3.00. CSF: 2.11. 1.15 — NEWPORT (D McMenamin) 8-13F 1; Gonnino 17-2(2ndFav) 2; Bunker Bay 10-1 3. 10 ran. (I Jardine). 2¼, ¾. Tote: 1.62; 1.02, 2.70, 3.20. Ex: 7.60. Tc: 34.48. Tf: 50.80. CSF: 7.81. 1.45 — ROSSBRIDGE (T Gillard) 11-4 1; Disguisedlimit 5-2(2ndFav) 2; Sleeping Satellite 15-8F 3. 4 ran. (D McCain). 1¼, 2½. Tote: 3.75; Ex: 9.30. Tf: 15.00. CSF: 9.67.

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2.15 — YOU DID (Craig Nichol) 10-3JtFav 1; Leader Wing 6-1 2; Artic Mann 6-1 3.7 ran. (B Ellison). shd, 4l. Tote: 4.34; 1.60, 3.60. Ex: 26.50. Tc: 113.82. Tf: 134.10. CSF: 23.15. NR: Slievehill. 2.45 — BENEFIT BEN (D McMenamin) 5-1 1; Uptown Harry 11-1 2; Cowboy Cooper 18-1 3.11 ran. (A Nicol). $^{1/2}$ , $^{61/2}$ . Tote: 6.10; 2.40, 2.80, 5.90. Ex: 60.70. Tc: 946.39. Tf: 942.80. CSF: 62.30. NRs: Blazing Court, Dr Shirocco. 3.15 — PASSING PLEASURE (Craig Nichol) 2-1JtFav 1; Lillistar 10-1 2; Snow Dragon 2-1JtFav 3.6 ran. (O Greenall & J Guerriero). $^{61/2}$ , $^{81/2}$ . Tote: 3.00; 2.30, 3.10. Ex:

Placepot £677.00. Q'pot £288.90.

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4.30 — SNAAFY (R Scott) 15-2 1; Emma's Letter 5-2(2ndFav) 2; Zipwire 5-4F 3. 6 ran. (D Loughnane). $\frac{1}{2}$ , 4 $^{3/4}$ . Tote: 8.70; 2.60, 1.60. Ex: 30.60. Tf: 75.90. CSF: 26.44.

6.00 — SIDE DEAL (R Scott) 10-11F 1; Autumn Affair 25-1 2; Horace Wallace 4-1 3.8 ran. (K P De Foy). 2I, 2 $^{3/4}$ . Tote: 1.91; 1.02, 5.20, 1.50. Ex: 21.50. Tf: 112.80. CSF: 28.63.

5.00 — SASSICAIA (S Osborne) 9-2 1; Tewkesbury 2-1F 2; Double Combo 11-2 3. 12 ran. (Owen Burrows). nk, 1¼. Tote: 5.70; 2.10, 1.40, 2.10. Ex: 19.00. Tf: 68.20. CSF: 13.66.

6.30 — STRATUSNINE (Jason Watson) 18-5F 1; Dubai Bling 6-12; Purest Time 13-2 3. 9 ran. (H Palmer). 2¼, 2¾. Tote: 4.60; 1.90, 2.60, 1.90. Ex: 29.50. Tc: 135.85. Tf: 175.50. CSF: 25.26.

5.30 — MERSEA ISLAND (J Mitchell) 8-13F 1; Cruden 33-1 2; Appier 10-1 3.7 ran. (C Johnston). 4I, 3I. Tote: 1.62; 1.10, 11.20. Ex: 29.10. Tf: 209.70. CSF: 27.77.

7.00 — NO KNEE NEVER (H Davies) 18-1 1; Zoulu Warrior 5-4F 2; Crocodile Power 15-2 3.9 ran. (James Owen). $^{3/4}$ , $^{11/4}$ . Tote: 19.00; 3.30, 1.10, 2.70. Ex: 48.60. Tc: 199.94. Tf: 317.20. CSF: 41.78. NR: Bluebells Boy.

7.30 — TWILIGHT MADNESS (A Rawlinson) 7-4F 1; Clover Time 7-1 2; Combustion 5-1 3.9 ran. (S Hodgson). ½, hd. Tote: 2.75; 1.90, 1.40, 1.80. Ex: 16.40. Tc: 54.87. Tf: 62.50. CSF: 15.10.

8.00 — BLUE FORCE (C Hardie) 7-2JtFav 1; Candy Warhol 7-2JtFav 2; Sub Thirteen 11-2 3.9 ran. (A Brittain). $\frac{1}{2}$ , 1L. Tote: 5.00; 1.70, 1.80, 2.20. Ex: 25.80. Tc: 65.93. Tf: 149.80. CSF: 15.74. NRs: Banana, Level Up.

8.30 — BELLA BISBEE (K O'Neill) 11-1 1; Pearly Squirrel 7-2 2; Minshaar 11-2 3.8 ran. (S Dixon). 2 $^{1/4}$ , 2l. Tote: 12.00; 3.00, 1.80, 1.70. Ex: 79.30. Tc: 243.16. Tf: 784.80. CSF: 50.71.

Placepot £15.70. Q'pot £3.80.

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3.18-HANDICAP (6) £6,000 added (£3,140) 1m 4f 98yds (14)

1 (4) 1LL ROYAL BLAZE 38 (PT) (C) Ewan Whillans 4-9-12...D Nolan 2 (6) 378 RUBELLITE 3 (C&D2D2) R Fahey 5-9-12.....C J Orr (3) 3 (1) 407 SPEECHMAN 21 (P) P Kirby 5-9-11.....A Brookes (3) 4 (11) 272 VAMPIRE SLAYER J26 (P) D Bourke 5-9-10.....R Scott 5 (14) 055 WHATACRACKER 18 (P) M Wallord 5-9-8.....J Garritty 6 (13) 333 HARSWELL DUKE 13 (T) L Bailey 7-9-8. NON RUNNER 7 (10) L77 ROCK ARMOUR 13 (P) (C) D Thompson 4-9-7

11 (2) 20L MR ZIPPI 54 Sara Ender 6-9-4....J Peate 12 (5) 152 VIOLETA 15 (C2) B Haslam 5-9-4....A Mullen 13 (3) 054 NOSS MAYO 13 (P) E Bethell 3-9-4....Archie Young (5) 14 (7) 602 TRACKER ISSUE 15 (P) A Nicol 3-9-4....B Robinson Probable SP: 7-2 Tracker Issue, 9-2 Ana Emaraaty, 6 Violeta, 7 Noss Mayo, 8 Whatacracker, 10 Vampire Slayer, Rubellite, 14 Speechman, 16 Sisterandbrother.

3.55 -FILLIES' NOVICE STAKES (5) (2-Y-0) £6,300 added (£3,402) 6f (6)

		P Mulrennan
2	(4)	8 FLOWERPOT 15 E Bethell 9-2....R Scott
3	(6)	GET AN ATTITUDE K R Burke 9-2....S Gray
4	(1)	0 PRINCESS COCO 35 S Whitaker 9-2....C Hardie
5	(2)	QUIET SERENADE I Furtado 9-2....T Eaves
6	(3)	3LL YY SPIRIT 47 E Bethell 9-2....P J McDonald
Probable SP: 4-9 Get An Attitude, 4 Yy Spirit, 10 Caileag Aisling, 12 Quiet Serenade, 14 Flowerpot.

4.30-NOVICE STAKES (4) (2-Y-0) £9,650 added (£5.211) 5f (8)

1 (7) DANDY BREEZE B Smart 9-7....P Mulrennan 2 (4) 93 HONORABLE MAN 19 N Tinkler 9-7....F McManoman 3 (1) 6 LIQUID COOLED 32 B Haslam 9-7....R Scott 4 (5) 433 SEE THAT SPARK 17 E Bethell 9-7....P J McDonald 5 (6) 97 SPIRIT OF MARA 84 R Fahey 9-7....W Fentiman (5) 6 (2) 45 THANKFULLY SIMMY 17 R Fahey 9-7....H Russell 7 (8) 2 DOLOS DREAM 22 I Furtado 9-2....B McHugh 8 (3) 54 SOUND AND VISION 14 E Walker 9-2....K Shoemark

Probable SP: 9-4 Dolos Dream, 3 See That Spark, 7-2 Sound And Vision, 6 Honorable Man, 8 Thankfully Simmy, 12 Dandy Breeze, 20 Spirit Of Mara.

5.00-HANDICAP (3) £15,200 added (£7,956) 5f (9)

2 (9) 622 RHYTHM N HOOVES 18 (P) (C&DD5) R Cowell 5-9-9 T Faves

5 (2) 056 PADDY'S DAY 19 (C&D6D) N Tinkler 5-9-5..... A Jary (3) 6 (5) 213 LETHAL NYMPH 19 (C&DDBF) P Midgley 6-9-2

Probable SP: 4 Rhythm N Hooves, 9-2 Dark Cloud Rising, 5 Lethal Nymph, Monks Dream, 7 Arnhem, 8 Paddy's Day, 10 Badri, 12 The Caltonian, 14 Oriental Prince.

5.30-HANDICAP (5) (3-Y-0) £7,100 added(£3,716) 1m 5yds (9)
1	(6)	535 EVE'S BOY 18 (P) M Dods 9-9....P Mulrennan
2	(8)	L25 POLITICAL POWER 35 (T) (DBF) Charlie Clover 9-6D Keenan
3	(3)	951 PRIAPOS 13 (C&D) Phillip Makin 9-5....R Scott
4	(1)	063 BOUBYAN 14 (P) (D) M Appleby 9-5....A Rawlinson
5	(9)	088 AMERICAN STATE 52 (PT) (D) I Furtado 9-3..K Shoemark
6	(5)	434 COEUR JAUNE 15 (D2) D O'Meara 9-3....M Winn
7	(2)	33-4 STORM THE DUG 21 L Russell & M Scudamore 9-1....T Eaves
8	(4)	024 SHERLOCK 13 K Ryan 8-5.....Josephine Gordon
9	(7)	L48 WAIT FOR IT 21 (HT) L Bailey 8-5....A MullenProbable SP: 11-4 Priapos, 4 Political Power, 5 Boubyan,6 Eve's Boy, 8 Storm The Dug, Sherlock, 10 Coeur Jaune,14 American State.

CAPTAIN HEATH TRIO KORROOR (nap) (Newcastle, 7.00) LETHAL NYMPH (nb) (Newcastle, 5.00) POLITICAL POWER (Newcastle, 5.30)

WORK WHISPER INVINCIBLE ANNICE (Newcastle, 7.30)

WEIGHTING GAME TRAIS FLUORS (Newcastle, 6.00) Down 18lb from last winning mark.

BURNT FINGERS AMERICAN STATE (Newcastle, 5.30)

ROBIN GOODFELLOW	GIMCRACK
3.18 Rubellite	3.18 Vampire Slayer
3.55 Get An Attitude	3.55 Get An Attitude
4.30 Sound And Vision	4.30 See That Spark
5.00 THE CALTONIAN (nap)	5.00 Lethal Nymph
5.30 Political Power	5.30 Boubyan
6.00 Concert Boy	6.00 Typeface
6.30 Uncle Sam	6.30 Uncle Sam
7.00 Korroor	7.00 Yorkshire Glory
7.30 Pockley	7.30 Ramon Di Loria
NEWMARKET – 5.00 RHYTHM N HOOVES (nap)NORTHERNER – 3.18 Tracker Issue (nb);5.30 PRIAPOS (nap).

6.00-HANDICAP (6) £6,000 added (£3,140) 1m 5yds (14)

1 (1) 720 SMAOINEAMH SILE 32 (P) (D) Conor Maxwell (IRE) 7-9-9 J J Ryan 2 (10) 700 NORTHERN CRACKSMAN 32 (BT) (C&DD) L Mullaney 4-9-8 K Shoemark 3 (11) 122 CONCERT BOY 4 (B) (C&DC3BF) K Scott 5-9-8...D Keenan 4 (6) 272 TYPEFACE 17 (T) (D2) I Williams 3-9-8.....D Costello 5 (3) 002 CUBAN FIESTA 54 (V) (C&D) D P Quinn 4-9-8...W Carson 6 (9) L57 TRAIS FLUORS 105 (C&D3CD4) Miss L Perratt 11-9-8 A Jary (3) 7 (4) 035 LAW DEGREE 21 (P) (D) T Easterby 3-9-7...S B Kirrane 8 (8) 326 IMOLA 19 Joey Ramsden 4-9-6.....A Pinna (7) 9 (14) 834 SPACE RAIDER 17 (B) I Furtado 3-9-5.....T Eaves 10 (13) 363 CROWNTHORPE 35 (B) (C&D2D6) A Brown 10-9-4 W Fentiman (5) 11 (2) 767 TOP GUN TINA 99 (D) D Thompson 5-9-3...A Rawlinson 12 (5) 56L NANYUKI 33 (P) Mrs A Duffield 3-9-3.....Joanna Mason 13 (12) L8L PAVE THE WAY 87 M Rimell 3-9-3.....P Mulrennan 14 (7) 870 GALILEO'S COMPASS 43 (D) S Waugh 5-9-3...C J Orr (3) Probable SP: 11-4 Concert Boy, 7-2 Typeface, 5 Cuban Fiesta, 7 Crownthorne, 10 Imola, 12 Law Degree

6.30-HANDICAP (DIV 1) (6) £9,000 added (£4,711) 6f (14)

1 (11) 0L4 WHAT WHAT WHAT 19 (C) M & D Easterby 3-9-9...B Garrity 2 (7) 136 UP THE MONK 12 (P) (D) M Appleby 3-9-9...A Rawlinson 3 (3) 601 GREEN VALENTINE 21 (P) (C&DD) A Brown 4-9-7 B McHugh 4 (4) 682 UNCLE SAM 13 (P) (C&D) D Thompson 3-9-6...Joanna Mason 5 (8) 513 SUPERIOR COUNCIL 4 (BT) (C&DD) I Jardine 6-9-4 Archie Young (5) 6 (13) 284 GARIFULLINA 21 (D2) J J Davies 5-9-4.....S B Kirrane 7 (1) 925 GLENDOWN 21 (PT) (D4) T Easterby 5-9-3...D Fentiman 8 (5) 416 BISHOP'S GLORY 21 (V) (C&D) Joey Ramsden 5-9-2 A Pinna (7) 9 (6) L98 NAZCA 13 (C&D3D3) Miss L Perratt 6-9-1.....A Jary (3) 10 (10) 95L ATHOLLBLAIR BOY 4 (C&D9C2D) N Tinkler 12-9-1 F McManoman 11 (12) 360 PLATINO BIANCO 39 (T) Conor Maxwell (IRE) 4-9-0 J J Ryan 12 (14) 740 SHE'SASHAMBLES 21 (D) Phillip Makin 4-9-0. A Elliott 13 (2) 447 SADIIKI 56 (H) F Watson 4-9-0.....H Russell 14 (9) 055 CRACKINTHUNDER 13 J Goldie 3-9-0...Rhys Elliott (5) Probable SP: 9-2 Superior Council, 5 Green Valentine, 11-2 Uncle Sam, 6 Garifullina, 8 Glendown, Up The Monk.

7.00—HANDICAP (DIV 2) (6) £9,000 added (£4,711) 6f (14)

1 (11) 85L OPAL STORM 10 (PT) B Rothwell 5-9-9.....P Mulrennan 2 (10) 340 INSTANT BOND 19 M Wigham 4-9-8.....K Shoemark 3 (13) 424 MISTER SKY BLUE 4 (D) G Tutty 3-9-7..W Fentiman (5) 4 (14) 550 RUN THIS WAY 21 (V) (D5) P Midgley 7-9-5.....D Nolan 5 (8) 467 PINPOINT 120 (PT) Ewan Whillans 4-9-4.....G Fairley 6 (2) 010 KORROOR 21 (P) (C&D2CBF) J Camacho 4-9-4 T Kiely-Marshall (5) 7 (7) 440 CALL GLORY 3 (P) I Williams 4-9-3.....R Kavanagh (5) 8 (9) 229 A LADY FOREVER 6 (C&D) Mr W G Harrison 6-9-1..R Scott 9 (1) 322 YORKSHIRE GLORY 19 (BF) B Haslam 4-9-1..A Mullen 10 (5) 799 MADAME PLAINTIFF 21 (P) A Brown 4-9-0..B McHugh 11 (4) 274 YELLOW LEMONS 19 (P) K Scott 4-9-0.....D Keenan 12 (12) L08 LADY SONATA 175 I Furtado 3-9-0.....T Eaves 13 (6) 006 NORTHERNER 13 B Ellison 4-9-0.....B Robinson 14 (3) 487 BERNIE THE BEAR 13 (P) (C&DD) Miss L Perratt 5-9-0 A Jary (3) Probable SR: & Yorkham Glory, 41.0; Mister Sky Blue

Probable SP: 3 Yorkshire Glory, 11-2 Mister Sky Blue, 6 Yellow Lemons, Korroor. Call Glory, 14 Instant Bond.

7.30-HANDICAP (6) £6,000 added (£3,140) 5f (12)

1 (1) 167 POCKLEY 12 (B) (C&D6C4) Miss L Perratt 7-9-9 P Mulrennan 2 (7) 063 THANK THE LORD 10 (V) (D4) Mr W. G. Harrison 6-9-7

2 (7) 063 THANK THE LORD 10 (V) (D4) Mr W G Harrison 6-9-7 A Rawlinson

3 (12) 31L INVINCIBLE ANNICE 13 (P) (C&DD2) T Waggott 3-9-5 Amie Waugh (3)

4 (9) 703 RAMON DI LORIA 21 (P) (C&D2D2) Ewan Whillans 7-9-5

5 (2) 078 DIGITAL 15 (D5) R Carr 7-9-5....JP Sullivan 6 (11) 835 BENEFICIARY 195 (C&D2D2) L Bailey 6-9-5.....B Garrity 7 (10) 013 ARLINGTON 47 (P) (C2D2) B Smart 4-9-4.....C J Orr (3) 8 (3) 7L6 GENIUS MISTAKE 14 M Sowersby 3-9-2..T Kiely-Marshall (5) 9 (5) 446 EAST TYRONE 33 (P) P Kirby 3-9-2.....C Hardie 10 (4) 638 LATIN FIVE 81 (C&D2D4) P Midgley 8-8-13..B McHugh 11 (6) L73 SHATIN VENTURE 49 (C&D) Miss L Perratt 4-8-10

12 (8) L97 BADOSA 19 (C) P Morris 4-8-9.... A Jary (3) Probable SP: 4 Thank The Lord, 11-2 Arlington, 6 Ramon Di Loria, 13-2 Shatin Venture, 7 Pockley, 8 Beneficiary, 10 Digital, 12 Invincible Annice, 14 East Tyrone, 16 Latin Five.

TRACK FACTS: L-H Tapeta course. GOING: Standard. STALLS: Straight inside; 1m4f outside. DRAW ADVANTAGE: High. Top jockey: Paul Mulrennan. Top trainer: R Fahey. Headgear first time: 5.30 American State, Eve's Boy, 6.00 Nanyuki, Smaoineamh Sile, Space Raider, 6.30 Uncle Sam, 7.00 Pinpoint. Longest travellers: Smaoineamh Sile (6.00) & Platino Bianco (6.30) Ireland; Sound And Vision (4.30) 284 miles. Drop in Class: None today. First run since wind surgery: None today.

I realised Barton has a screw loose and feared for my safety

JEREMY VINE reveals the devastating impact of social media hate campaign against him

I T was on the day that Jeremy Vine had a safety expert follow him to work, assessing where the TV presenter might be vulnerable to attack, that the enormity of a calculated and systematic online hate campaign against him by former footballer Joey Barton struck home.

Vine had not appreciated the dangers attached to offending Barton when, in January last year, he saw him comparing Eni Aluko to serial killers Fred and Rose West on X.

Amid the pile-on against Aluko, Vine fatefully decided to stand her corner, tweeting to ask if Barton was suffering from some kind of brain injury.

Barton's reply denigrated Vine's Channel 5 TV show and the presenter imagined that a second insult — 'bike nonce', with its paedophile inference — would be the end of it.

But then the tide of vicious abuse came spewing out of Barton — message after message directed at him, with explicit, disgusting references to Jeffrey Epstein, Rolf Harris and others, which left him in fear of physical attack and led the BBC and ITV to coordinate an assessment of when he might be vulnerable during his daily routine.

'I realised Barton has a screw loose because he won't just stop,' Vine told Daily Mail Sport. 'He has to batter the person to the ground. He's got to "win".'

When the individual putting out such abuse has three million social media followers, all being asked for dirt on Vine, there is a multiplier effect. 'It presented me with a real risk,' Vine says.

'A reputational risk, but also physical risk because somewhere in that three million there's somebody who's got a spare day

by Ian Herbert

off work. This is what we see now — where you don't pose a direct physical threat to your target, but you inflame all your followers to hate the person so much, risking that one person breaks out of the crowd and takes their kitchen knife.'

Yesterday, Barton was sentenced to six months in custody, suspended for 18 months, and ordered to carry out 200 hours of community work, having been convicted last month on six counts of sending a grossly offensive electronic communication with intent to cause distress or anxiety — to Vine, Aluko and co-commentator Lucy Ward.

For a BBC broadcaster such as Vine, the dangers of that paedophile slur are particularly dangerous. 'Because we've had these situations in the BBC with Huw Edwards and (Jimmy) Savile and all that, it's very easy for people to say, "Oh, he's BBC, therefore...", he says.

As a current affairs broadcaster he is also aware of how fake news and conspiracy theories.

can bring the forces of hell down on those who are casually branded a 'paedophile'.

A Washington DC pizza restaurant was fired on by a gunman because of

the fake theory it was a front for a child sex ring run by politicians. 'I remember seeing that story and thinking, "sh*t, these things can be real",' Vine says.

When he testified at Liverpool Crown Court last month, Vine was close to tears as he described the 'cloud of filth' which had left him fearing for his two young daughters.

As the hate campaign escalated, he decided he had no choice but to take Barton on with a libel suit, rather than let him bully and abuse with impunity.

'I was never picked for the school team. I got bullied at school. But sometimes we are the ones who suddenly decide we're not going to take this any more. I don't know why, but the iron entered my soul.'

Personal slur: Vine was labelled a 'bike nonce' by Barton

INE engaged Devon-based defamation lawyer Judith Thompson.

from Samuels Solicitors, to take up his case, though that initially escalated the situation.

The legal process entailed sending Barton's lawyers documents which included the presenter's address. Barton held these up on X, thus making the

address public, though he later claimed this was an error.

‘We gave him so many off-ramps to settle it,’ Vine says. ‘He was able to pay

£10,000 to a charity and apologise, take the tweets out, all kinds of things.

'By the time we told his lawyers. "All

right guys, we're going to have to do this", he was tweeting brash comments saying, "We're locked and loaded. We're ready to go. I've got deep pockets".

'At the same time, he was appealing to his followers to give him money. I did have a sense of a very disturbed soul.'

Vine attended the preliminary one-day hearing in the libel case at the High Court King's Bench Division. 'I put on a suit and went,' he says. 'I thought, "The judge needs to see me in court".

Barton, who was not at the hearing, was ordered to pay Vine £75,000 plus costs and make an apology on X. Bizarrely, he responded by tweeting a clip of himself playing golf, captioned: 'Who's really winning?'

When he issued the enforced apology, Barton (left, arriving at court last month) included a double space between each word. 'That meant the apology was below the line where you read the tweet, invisible unless you open it,' Vine says. 'It was just pathetic.

'He also paid out the money so it dropped into my account at 9.30pm on General Election night, when I was working. He was obviously hoping to pay at the very moment I'm not going to be looking. It's so cowardly.'

Barton initially said he would not pay full legal costs. 'So I think, oh my God, here we go,' says Vine. 'We grind on. A separate legal case for costs. In the end, my total costs were £190,000.'

It was when the libel case was ongoing that police began investigating Barton on suspicion of offences under the Malicious Communications Act, with his online abuse of Vine, Aluko and

Ward. At his Crown Court trial, Barton exuded self-confidence. He repeatedly tweeted about the case during proceedings, despite being warned by the judge not to. He used the witness box as a soap box, attempting to present himself as a free speech crusader. He addressed the jury directly, but they saw through his bluster and convicted him.

Vine recalls when Barton, having been released from prison for beating a man up in the street in 2007, was given a stage by the BBC on Newsnight, Question Time and the Today programme, allowing him to project himself as some kind of football intellectual.

'This guy was a violent offender, yet there were claims he read Dostoevsky and everyone fell for it,' he says. 'He must have just been laughing at us.'

Though today's sentencing can give Vine some kind of vindication, he acknowledges not everyone has the resources to mount a libel action and he does not believe the Barton case makes platforms such as X more willing to protect users.

'Someone rang my show the other day and said social media was the new asbestos,' Vine says.

'He said in 20 years, they're going to be ripping it out of ceilings and walls, asking: "How did we ever allow a guy with three million followers to say something like that, unmoderated?" It was a shrewd analogy.'

BARTON SPARED JAIL OVER VILE POSTS SEE PAGE 13

by Lawrence Booth in Brisbane

AFTER just six days of action, it is almost all over already. After a dreadful first two Ashes Tests, England need to win all three remaining matches to win back the urn.

It has been a cacophony of errors, from sloppy batting and dropped catches to insipid bowling and Ben Stokes' worrying assertion that England need to get rid of the 'weak men' to succeed.

But England have time between Brisbane and Adelaide and it is crucial they get their preparation right to begin a challenge that has only been completed by one team in Test history — win a five-match series from 2-0 down (Don Bradman's Australia in 1936-37).

So what are they doing wrong and how can they fix it? Here, Daily Mail Sport's cricket correspondent LAWRENCE BOOTH picks over the bones of the two Tests so far.

1. DANGEROUS DRIVING

THE penny should have dropped when Ollie Pope, Harry Brook and Joe Root fell within six balls after lunch on the second day in Perth — the moment at which England's Ashes tour began to unravel. All three drove at balls they should have left, yet the same mistakes were made in Brisbane, where in quick succession Pope and Zak Crawley chipped return catches back to Michael Neser.

Assistant coach Marcus Trescothick claimed on the third evening at the Gabba that there had been no discussion about ironing out the stroke after the Perth debacle. If this was true, it was alarming and suggested a worrying lack of accountability.

2. SLOPPY FIELDING

ENGLAND put down five chances in Brisbane. The two biggest howlers were Jamie Smith's failure to catch Travis Head on three off Jofra Archer, and Ben Duckett's drop in the gully to reprieve Alex Carey on nought off Brydon Carse. Head went on to make 63, stretching

Poor start: Brook needs to regain form fast and Duckett is among those guilty of poor fielding PA/EPA

Hold their catches, ditch the dangerous shots and deal with Aussie aggro ... How England can stop the rot Down Under

Australia's lead to match-winning proportions.

The Australians, by contrast, caught all the regulation chances that came their way and several half-chances. Carey's sprint towards the boundary to hold Gus Atkinson's top-edged heave was an astonishing piece of commitment, while Steve Smith pulled off a blinder at slip on the fourth afternoon to end Will Jacks's resistance.

England will have no hope at Adelaide if they need at least 25 opportunities for 20 wickets.

3. BROOK'S BRASHNESS

IT IS well known that, in Root, England possess the world's top-ranked batsman. More easily forgotten is that Brook is No 2. Only five players in English history have scored more Test runs than Brook's 2,918 at a higher average than his 55. He has a strike-rate of 87 and is England's only triple-centurion since 1990, but his team need him to live up to his billing.

Brook's role in the Perth collapse was one thing. But to drive Mitchell Starc into the slips on the first day at Brisbane felt like madness. His scores in this series have been 52, 0, 31 and 15, but he needs to average at least twice as many for England to live with Australia.

Brook has to be reminded he scores no extra runs for batting like a performing seal and return to what he does best — taking apart opponents with clinical, calculated strokeplay.

4. SHORT-BALL FOLLY ENGLAND arrived full of hope for their battery of quicks, yet

THINGS CAN ONLY GET BETTER... 1ST TEST, PERTH LOST by 8 wickets 2ND TEST, BRISBANE LOST by 8 wickets 3RD TEST, ADELAIDE December 16 4TH TEST, MELBOURNE December 25 5TH TEST, SYDNEY January 3

the bowler who sealed their fate in Brisbane was Neser, who operated in the low 80mphs, often with wicketkeeper Alex Carey standing up

to stumps. It was the kind of ego-free cricket of which England proved incapable, at least until Stokes and Jacks defended for three hours in the second innings.

Neser, along with Scott Boland, made it their duty to pitch the ball up and bring bowled and lbw into play.

England, by contrast, dropped so short and wide that Jake Weatherald could deflect everything behind square. Of their first 380 balls, only 20 would have hit the stumps. Carse was especially culpable, but Stokes got his radar wrong, too.

Adelaide will be the flattest pitch of the series, so England need to sharpen up.

5. DEAL WITH THE AGGRO AUSTRALIA is 'no place for weak men', said Stokes. The only surprise was he felt moved to make the point, as if his teammates had not clocked. Yet it was clear too many of England's cricketers wilted in the Gabba's furnace, shocked by the ferocity of the crowd.

This is a merciless place when things go wrong. Contrary to popular myth, the Australians are good losers, but they are also terrible winners and the gloating is off the charts. It is up to England to take it on the chin and throw a few punches in return — not start bowling at 94mph only when the game is done, as Archer did in Brisbane.

Though squad options are limited, their chief criterion for selection must now be character, with Jacob Bethell and Josh Tongue waiting in the wings. Otherwise this is going to get even messier before the tour ends at Sydney in the new year.

McCullum: We can't win with a glass jaw

LAWRENCE BOOTH

in Brisbane

BRENDON McCULLUM and Ben Stokes will spend the next few days determining which of England's shellshocked cricketers are up for the fight before next week's third Test. The tourists were today due to travel to the holiday resort of Noosa after going 2-0 down with three to play against Australia. But the management will use the four-day break to plot their course for the next month.

'You don't get to feel sorry for yourself in this game,' said McCullum. 'We're in a very privileged position, to be representing all the people who support the England team, to travel the world with sun on your back and compete in the greatest arenas the game has to offer. You have to get up

and go again. If you come to this country and have a glass jaw, you have no chance. You have to be strong, tough, and you have to get on with it.' Chief among the players from whom the coach and captain will seek reassurance are the Surrey trio of Ollie Pope, Jamie Smith and Gus Atkinson, who all had quiet games in Brisbane and at times looked overawed by the Gabba's intensity.

Stokes pointedly said after Sunday's eight-wicket defeat that Australia was 'no place for weak men', while McCullum joined the firing line when he claimed England had ‘over-trained’ before the game — a soundbite that further enraged fans already furious over the two-day surrender in Perth. But the England coach insisted his players had to find a ‘fine balance between being fiercely driven, competitive and desperate to succeed, and that getting in the way of yourself’. He added: ‘I firmly believe training five days straight in sapping conditions is not the answer. We need to keep a little bit in the tank.’

England feel they allowed themselves to be talked into five days of training before the Brisbane Test because of the uproar surrounding the early finish in Perth and their subsequent refusal to fly to Canberra to take part in a two-day pink-ball game. The Noosa sortie, they believe, has come at the right time.

Asked whether he was concerned, meanwhile, about Pope's continued freneticism outside off stump, McCullum replied: 'Popey has done well. He's averaged 40-odd for us. He's our No 3 here. I've stressed that we have the squad we've got. There's no sense looking elsewhere. We're comfortable with what we've got. 'We've just got to find ways to get ourselves back into this contest. Ultimately, you can't afford to flinch when you come down here. This is not a country to start doubting yourself in, or to walk away from the challenge.'

Winning the F1 title is going to change my life, but it won't change me Lando Norris staying grounded after fulfilling dream

Sing when you're winning: Norris celebrates with his team (left) and parties until the early hours REUTERS/INSTAGRAM

Jonathan McEvoy in Abu Dhabi

WHAT precisely goes through your mind on the cusp of a world champion-

ship victory, the chequered flag being unfurled?

Step into Room 5139 of the Hilton hotel in Abu Dhabi with its expansive views of Yas Island Waterfront, right by the track where Lando Norris triumphed on Sunday, and find out.

A bowl of nuts and slices of fruit sit in front of him as he explains the out-of-body experience he felt — one of being like 'God', he jokes — that took him back to his boyhood, as a tiny go-karter, to a time before he even knew what Formula One was about.

But, first, some of the details of his night out celebrating his victory, singing Sweet Caroline and We Are The Champions. Some vodka went down his neck — though no Red Bull mixer, he insisted. His father, Adam, danced like David Brent. 'Horrific scenes,' said Norris with a

smile. And when Lando retired at 6am, it was off to McDonald's for his own breakfast of champions.

'I wanted McNuggets, but they didn't have any because it was morning,' he said. 'So it was sausage, egg and maybe chicken something.' Recollections may be hazy.

In his first season, he was a McNuggets man after every race. Not now. Only after a party with what he called the most important people in his life.

Well, he was spry as he entered room 5139, betraying no fatigue from his big bash. His demeanour was sunny. This was in contrast to Lewis Hamilton after the concluding race in Brazil in 2007, when in a suite of another Hilton hotel he excused himself as he rushed to his bathroom to throw up after the title had slipped through his fingers.

But back to what went through Norris' mind on those final two laps when he needed to finish third, as he did, to be assured of his maiden world title. Norris was transported out of himself, knowing he was going to achieve his all-consuming dream. 'It was like a movie when you get those flashbacks at the end and see the last moments of someone,' he said.

‘It’s not the last moments of me but it was like that. As much as I was just trying to avoid every bump possible, I was remembering all of it, from the beginning, the first time I was driving the go-kart. Even before that when I was doing quad bikes, motocross. My first time on the actual racetrack in the go-kart. The races I had, the world championship in 2014. It was like a montage.

'I'm watching from above. Like

God! No, I'm just watching from like a bird's eye. A helicopter view. Watching me drive around. Because at that point it was such a small me, but also such a small mind.

'I had no idea about Formula One. But I was still watching me going, "One day. I'm going to "One day, I'm going to achieve this".

things, the great times. He's the reason I am here.

Turning to his father's dancing is another excursion into his past.

Turing to his father's dancing is another excursion into his past. 'I let my dad be my dad,' said Norris with a smile, adding: 'He was as emotional as I was because he knows everything we've gone through, the struggles, the good

'I played Gran Turismo 3 on the PlayStation with him when I was three or four. So that's where it started, on PlayStation. Both my parents are emotional.

'The best memory was coming around the final corner. Seeing all the papaya and the chequered flag corner, lifting off.'

Well, he has fulfilled his dream and whatever may be said about his world championship campaign, which had its ups and downs, nobody can say he flunked his chance when it came. He will not be a British hard-luck story.

Acclaim has justly been flooding into his phone. Messages from Novak Djokovic and English footballers, led by Harry Kane, remain unanswered for now.

Which wider sporting characters bring us to BBC Sports Personality of the Year, for which he has been installed as one of the three favourites, with Rory McIlroy and Chloe Kelly. He is torn on whether McIlroy, the Masters champion he so admires, or he should win it. 'It's up to people to decide,' he said with a shrug after a lot of umming and ahning.

Yesterday he went down to the sunbeds at the Hilton and his parents headed out for a pizza. It is business as usual the day after the night before. Today, he takes part in a tyre test on the track where he prevailed.

But, fundamentally, has not everything altered?

'Of course,' he said. 'Winning the title is going to change my life. And in some ways I hope it does because it's cool people say I'm a world champion and I get my name on a pretty incredible list.

'But it isn't going to change me as a person.'

How I rank the British Formula One champs

By JONATHAN McEVOY

1) SIR JACKIE STEWART 1969, 1971, 1973

A CLEVER, calculating world champion, never on the edge but conforming to his maxim that to win, first you have to finish. He revolutionised safety, won as a team owner and acted as an enduring ambassador for the sport.

2) SIR LEWIS HAMILTON 2008, 2014, 2015, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020 STATISTICALLY he stands alone with seven titles and 105 wins, but two other factors count in his favour. First, his fight up the ranks from relative poverty. Secondly, his debut season in 2007, when he arrived like a starburst at McLaren.

3) JIM CLARK 1963, 1965
MANY rate him as unsurpassed. Stewart emphasised how smoothly Clark drove, never stressing his car and very quick. What more might he have won but for being killed at Hockenheim in 1968?

4) GRAHAM HILL 1962, 1968 ONLY driver to win the Monaco Grand Prix, Indianapolis 500 and 24 Hours of Le Mans. Known as 'Mr Monaco' for his five wins there and exuded panache.

5) JAMES HUNT 1976

FOR a brief period before his exuberant lifestyle caught up with him, Hunt was the best in the world. Drove bravely in one of the most dangerous races ever to claim his only title in rain-lashed Fuji.

6) NIGEL MANSELL 1992

A DARLING of the British crowd, brave and fierce. Toiled hard for the title before securing it in a Williams, aged 39. The only man to hold the world championship and Indy 500 titles together.

7) JOHN SURTEES 1964

THE only man to win world titles on two and four wheels. Won his title at Ferrari when team-mate Lorenzo Bandini drove into Graham Hill in a decider in Mexico.

8) JENSON BUTTON 2009

A FINE driver with a silky touch. His one title came in a Brawn in 2009 after Ross Brawn bought the struggling team for £1.

9) DAMON HILL 1996

ALTHOUGH in the shadow of his father Graham, who died when he was a boy, Damon carved a place in British hearts as he claimed his one title, having taken over at Williams when Ayrton Senna died.

10) LANDO NORRIS 2025

COMPETING in a sport that is more global now and where the participants are scrutinised more intensely. Took on and beat Max Verstappen, a true great.

11) MIKE HAWTHORN 1958

A VERSATILE racer, who died in a road accident aged 29, he was the first British world champion.

Alisson's backing for Slot as Salah is axed for Inter trip

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of the 19-man squad. Asked if he could have done anything differently to avoid the situation, Slot added: 'The answer could be to just play him every single time but maybe that's not why he said what he said. Maybe there's something else.

'He has every right to feel what he feels. He has the right to share it with the media, but it's then up to us to react.'

Salah's comments have made many question whether Slot has lost the dressing room, but goalkeeper Alisson denied this and said: 'My relationship with the manager is fine.

‘Before Arne came in everyone talked about the huge challenge of being a substitute for Jurgen Klopp. Now it looks like everyone takes for granted what we achieved last season. It should not be taken for granted.

‘That should be enough but we believe in (Slot’s) knowledge. We believe in his style of play and that he is capable of helping us to turn around this situation. I believe this is not only about ourselves but that is the situation with the club as well.’

Slot was grilled for 17 minutes and, after originally straight-batting questions, the Dutchman started to open up and gave an honest response to the situation, which is the toughest he has faced in his footballing life.

Alisson hinted that there could now be a 'split' in the dressing room and Slot faces a huge test of his authority after Salah's incendiary remarks.

He retains the full backing of the Liverpool hierarchy, who were part of the decision-making process to omit the striker for this game.

Slot added: 'I don't feel my authority is undermined, it is not the way I feel it.

‘It is not about me. If my life is difficult, it is more difficult for the team, the club.

'No-one likes to be in this situation, it is hard to see staff members who work so hard be so affected as well.'

It is understood Slot and Salah spoke very briefly at the training ground yesterday, with the Egyptian still frustrated at the situation. Liverpool play Brighton in the Premier League on Saturday, but it has not been decided yet if he will play.

After that, Salah will jet off to Morocco for the Africa Cup of Nations with Egypt.

Asked if their relationship is completely broken, Slot said: 'That is not how I feel.

'I haven't felt that at all until Saturday evening. When I don't play players, usually the players don't like the manager but he was really respectful to the teammates and staff managers, so it was a surprise to me when I heard the comments.'

Salah's behaviour was slammed as a 'disgrace' by the club's former defender Jamie Carragher.

He told Sky Sports' Monday Night Football: 'Some people have painted it as an emotional outburst — I don't think it was.

‘It’s choreographed with his agent to cause maximum damage and strengthen his own position.

He's waited I think for a bad result. He's chosen that time to go for the manager and maybe try to get him sacked.'

Salah is not the only forward missing for the trip to last season's Champions League finalists. Cody Gakpo is injured and will miss several weeks, while Federico Chiesa did not fly yesterday due to illness.

LIVERPOOL: Alisson; Bradley, Gomez, Van Dijk, Robertson; Mac Allister, Gravenberch; Szoboszlai, Wirtz, Ekitike; Isak.

Garnacho: It was easy to quit United

KIERAN GILL in Bergamo

ALEJANDRO GARNACHO says he has no regrets over his messy exit from Manchester United. Garnacho left Old Trafford to join Chelsea for £40million after being exiled by boss Ruben Amorim. Bayern Munich also showed interest in the Argentinian in the summer, but he wanted to remain in the Premier League.

On the eve of Chelsea's Champions League clash against Atalanta here in Bergamo, Garnacho — speaking for the first time since moving to Stamford Bridge — said he needed to leave United to take a step forward. When asked if he held any regrets, Garnacho simply said: 'No.' Asked as a follow-up whether he was sad how it ended, he replied: 'No.' On choosing to join Chelsea, he said: 'I came here to play my football, to show people the player I am. Sometimes, you have to change things to take a step forward. It was the right moment and an easy decision.' Cole Palmer has not travelled as it is felt he cannot yet handle such a hectic week, while Liam Delap (shoulder) is out.

CHELSEA: Sanchez; Gusto, Chalobah, Badiashile, Cucurella; Caicedo, Fernandez; Estevao Willian, Joao Pedro, Gittens; Guiu.

CHAMPIONS LEAGUE WATCHING BRIEFS...

ATALANTA V CHELSEA Kick-off: 8pm, New Balance Arena. TV: LIVE TNT Sports 2.

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TOTTENHAM V S PRAGUE

Kick-off: 8pm, Tottenham Stadium. TV: LIVE TNT Sports 1.

SPORT IN BRIEF

PREMIER LEAGUE

WOLVES ..... (1) 1 MAN UTD ..... (1) 4 Bellegarde 45+2 Fernandes 25, 82 (pen) Mbeumo 51 Mount 62

FA CUP SECOND ROUND BRACKLEY ..... (1) 1 BURTON ALB ... (1) 3 Nottingham 25 Shade 13, 73, 88 2,978 SCOTTISH CUP — 3rd rd: Tranent P Inverness CT P (Postponed due to adverse weather conditions).

■TODAY'S ACTION

(7.45 unless stated) CHAMPIONS LEAGUE Atalanta v Chelsea ..... (8.0) Live on TNT Sports 2 Barcelona v Eintracht Frankfurt. (8.0) Live on TNT Sports 4 Bayern Munich v Sporting ..... (5.45) FC Kairat v Olympiacos..... (3.30) Inter Milan v Liverpool ..... (8.0) Live on Amazon Prime Monaco v Galatasaray ..... (8.0) PSV v Atletico Madrid ..... (8.0)

Tottenham v Slavia Prague...... (8.0) Live on TNT Sports 1 Union Saint Gilloise v Marseille... (8.0)

SKY BET CHAMPIONSHIP Blackburn v Oxford Utd ...... Charlton v Middlesbrough...... Preston North End v Coventry...... QPR v Birmingham.... (8.0) Live on Sky Sports Football Sheff Utd v Norwich ...... Southampton v West Brom ...... Swansea v Portsmouth ...... Watford v Sheff Wed ....

SKY BET LEAGUE ONE Doncaster v Stockport County ...... Exeter v AFC Wimbledon...... Leyton Orient v Luton ...... Lincoln City v Barnsley ...... Mansfield v Bolton ...... Northampton v Huddersfield ...... Port Vale v Bradford ...... Reading v Peterborough.....(8.0) Stevenage v Cardiff...... Wycombe v Plymouth....

SKY BET LEAGUE TWO Barnet v Bristol Rovers ...... Barrow v Tranmere ...... Bromley v Crawley Tn ...... Cambridge Utd v Chesterfield ...... Fleetwood Tn v Salford City ...... Harrogate Tn v Accrington Stanley ....

Notts County v Milton Keynes Dons.... Shrewsbury v Grimsby .... VERTU TROPHY SOUTHERN SECTION - Second Round Colchester v West Ham.... SCOTTISH TROPHY - Third Round North Alloa v Airdrieonians.... Arbroath v Kelty Hearts.... Ayr v Peterhead ... Cove Rangers v Partick... East Kilbride v Stranraer ... Elgin v East Fife... Forfar v Edinburgh City ... Hearts v St Johnstone ... Montrose v Spartans... Queen of South v Dunfermline... Queen's Park v Clyde ... Raith v Hamilton... Ross County v Celtic B... Stenhousemuir v Annan Athletic... Stirling v Morton...

WOMEN'S CHAMPIONS LEAGUE Arsenal v Twente....(8.0) PSG v Leuven....(8.0) Real Madrid v Wolfsburg....(8.0) St Polten v Juventus....(5.45). CRICKET — 1st T20I: India v South Africa (Cuttack, 1.30pm). 2nd Test (day 1 of 5): New Zealand v West Indies (Wellington, 10.0pm).

Kudus eyes Spurs trophies

MOHAMMED KUDUS believes he must win a trophy at Tottenham to prove he belongs at elite level. The winger has been one of the brighter aspects of Spurs' underwhelming start to the season and is under no illusions about the weight of expectation on his shoulders. 'Win a trophy with the club,' he replied when asked about his ambitions on the eve of tonight's Champions League tie with Slavia Prague. Spurs paid £55million to sign him from West Ham and although he has scored only twice in 20 appearances, he has contributed five Premier

League assists. 'I'm still getting used to everything, said the 25-year-old. 'Even though the demands are high, and obviously there's no time, you've got to perform immediately joining a club because that's what the league is about. 'I've been settling smoothly so far, but there's still a lot more to do and to show.' The demands from teammates Cristian Romero and Micky van de Ven were clear to see when Kudus lost the ball showboating in Saturday's 2-0 win against Brentford. Both defenders yelled at him. 'It's very important to be

honest with each other and demand more,' said Kudus. 'There's pressure to win every game at a big club like Tottenham. It was a good boost to win on Saturday. We need to build on that.' Kudus has England in his sights after the World Cup draw grouped them with Ghana. 'It's good to have England in the group,' he said. 'We are aware of the side we are facing and the quality they have, but we will definitely be up for it and ready.' TOTTENHAM: Vicario; Porro, Romero, Van de Ven, Spence; Bergvall, Palhinha; Kudus, Simons, Odobert; Kolo Muani.

MATT BARLOW

Fernandes piles more misery on woeful Wolves

CHRIS WHEELER at Molineux

WOLVES Bellegarde 45+2

MAN UTD Fernandes 25, 82 pen, Mbeumo 51, Mount 62

FOR a team who have aspirations of breaking into the top four, Manchester United

have certainly struggled to put away teams from the bottom four this season.

Before Thursday's deflating draw with West Ham at Old Trafford, Ruben Amorim's side had been held by Nottingham Forest and needed a late winner to beat Burnley.

Against Wolves, on a night when mutiny was in the air at Molineux, they laboured to victory over a team who could feasibly take Derby's mantle as the worst in Premier League history.

When Jean-Ricner Bellegarde cancelled out Bruno Fernandes' rather bizarre opener at the end of the of the first half, it was Wolves' first league goal in 540 minutes.

For a moment, even the home fans protesting against owners Fosun and executive chairman Jeff Shi stopped in the belief that they might be about to witness a first league win of the season, rather than an eighth straight defeat.

Fortunately for Amorim and his players, second-half goals from Bryan Mbeumo, Mason Mount and another from Fernandes made it look easier than it actually was as United moved up six places to sixth.

Amorim will take this, though, on a night when Sir Jim Ratcliffe made an appearance and was seen in animated conversation with chief executive Omar Berrada and director football Jason Wilcox in the first half. Failure to beat a team adrift at the foot of the table would have taken some explaining.

Wolves' record coming into the game was about as grim as it gets — 226 days without a league win, seven defeats in a row in the competition, two points from 14 games this season and on course to equal Derby's record low of 11 points.

'Do you want to fade away, or do you want to fight?' said manager Rob Edwards as he approached his fourth game in charge of the club, but the pre-match protests outside Molineux that left swathes of empty seats behind both goals for the first quarter of an hour suggested that many fans are fearing the latter.

Amorim, not surprisingly, took a more cautious approach by warning his players it was only a matter of time before Wolves got their first win.

'Everything can happen and that will change,' said Amorim beforehand. 'There is no team in the history of the Premier League that didn't win one game. It can be any game.'

Amorim made one change from the West Ham match, bringing back Mount in place of Joshua Zirkzee and playing Matheus Cunha through the middle on his first return to Molineux since a £62.5 million move to United in the summer.

Edwards, meanwhile, brought in Ki-Jana Hoever and Ladislav Krejci to replace the suspended Joao Gomes and Jackson Tchatchoua as he went in search of that elusive win.

The hosts were almost a goal behind inside eight minutes as Diogo Dalot went close. Fernandes' quick free-kick caught Wolves napping and released his Portugal team-mate with only Sam Johnstone to beat, but the former United keeper sprang to his left to keep out Dalot's shot.

It did not take United long to make the breakthrough, but it was a comical goal when it arrived.

Andre dithered on the ball midway inside his own half and was caught out when Casemiro poked it away from him straight to Cunha. The Brazilian skipped inside Emmanuel Agbadou but then under-hit a square pass behind Fernandes, who slipped in the box.

The United captain picked himself up and held off Agbadou before falling again as he stabbed the ball goalwards through Johnstone's weak attempt to keep it out and past Yerson Mosquera as it bobbled over the line.

United could have been further ahead before half-time but Toti

HOW THEY STAND

	P	W	D	L	F	A	GD	Pts
Arsenal......15	10	3	2	28	9	19	33
Man City......15	10	1	4	35	16	19	31
Aston Villa......15	9	3	3	22	15	7	30
Crystal Palace..15	7	5	3	20	12	8	26
Chelsea......15	7	4	4	25	15	10	25
Man United......15	7	4	4	26	22	4	25
Everton......15	7	3	5	18	17	1	24
Brighton......15	6	5	4	25	21	4	23
Sunderland......15	6	5	4	18	17	1	23
Liverpool......15	7	2	6	24	24	0	23
Tottenham......15	6	4	5	25	18	7	22
Newcastle......15	6	4	5	21	19	2	22
Bournemouth..15	5	5	5	21	24	-3	20
Brentford......15	6	1	8	21	24	-3	19
Fulham......15	5	2	8	20	24	-4	17
Leeds......15	4	3	8	19	29	-10	15
Nottm Forest....15	4	3	8	14	25	-11	15
West Ham......15	3	4	8	17	29	-12	13
Burnley......15	3	1	11	16	30	-14	10
Wolves......15	0	2	13	8	33	-25	2

Gomes blocked Cunha's effort on the line after Johnstone had denied Mbeumo and Wolves then stunned them with an equaliser in first-half injury time. It was a first goal in nine hours of league football for a team that did not score at all last month.

The ball was crossed from left to right and then back again before David Moller Wolfe scuffed it into the ground and it reared up towards Bellegarde unmarked in the box. The Haiti international met it first time, guiding the ball through a ruck of players and beyond keeper Senne Lammens.

However, United emerged for the second period with renewed energy and put the game beyond Wolves' reach with two goals in the space of 12 minutes. The first, in the 51st minute, came after Luke Shaw broke up a Wolves attack with a tackle on Bellegarde. Cunha slid the ball through for Dalot and Johnstone's dash out of his goal made it an easy decision to square for Mbeumo to roll into an unguarded net.

When Fernandes' shot was blocked just after the hour mark, he picked out Mount's run into the box with an excellent cross and his team-mate swept the ball past Johnstone on the volley. It was Mount's third league goal of the season, more than his first two seasons at United combined.

That was enough, but a fourth goal arrived in the 82nd minute when VAR official Nick Hopton spotted Mosquera blocking Diallo's shot with his arm and Fernandes scored his second from the penalty spot.

WOLVES (3-4-2-1): Johnstone 4; Mosquera 4.5, Agbadou 5, Toti Gomes 6.5 (H Bueno 70min, 6); Hoever 5.5 (Tchatchoua 86), Andre 5, Krejci 4, Moller Wolfe 6; Arias 5 (Mane 70, 5.5), Bellegarde 6.5 (Lopez 54, 5); Strand Larsen 5 (Arokodare 69, 5). Scorer: Bellegarde 45+2. Booked: Strand Larsen, Krejci, Mosquera. Manager: Rob Edwards 4.

MANCHESTER UNITED (3-4-2-1): Lammens 6; Mazraoui 6.5 (Martinez 69, 6), Heaven 6 (Yoro 69, 6.5), Shaw 6; Diallo 7, Casemiro 8 (Mainoo 78), FERNANDES 8.5, Dalot 7 (Dorgu 85); Mbeumo 7, Mount 7.5 (Zirkzee 85); Cunha 6.5. Scorers: Fernandes 25, 82 (pen); Mbeumo 51; Mount 62.

Booked: Mbeumo, Zirkzee. Manager: Ruben Amorim 8. Referee: Michael Salisbury 7. Att: 30,338.

Palace begin their Cup defence with Macclesfield trip

By TARA ANSON-WALSH

FA CUP holders Crystal Palace will travel to sixth-tier Macclesfield in the third round of the FA Cup.

Palace won their first-ever major trophy by defeating Manchester City 1-0 in last season's final at Wembley, courtesy of a first-half goal from Eberechi Eze.

Oliver Glasner's side will be relieved to have avoided one of four all-Premier League ties, with Tottenham hosting Aston Villa, Everton facing Sunderland in the first ever FA Cup tie at Hill Dickinson Stadium, Eddie Howe's Newcastle taking on his former club Bournemouth and Manchester United playing Brighton at Old Trafford. For Ruben Amorim's side, the FA Cup represents their only realistic chance of silverware this season, given they are not in European competition and were eliminated from the Carabao Cup in the second round by Grimsby in August. Elsewhere, Eze's new side Arsenal travel to Championship club Portsmouth, Premier League champions Liverpool host League One Barnsley, Chelsea visit Championship side Charlton and Pep Guardiola's Manchester City welcome Exeter City. Sixth-tier Weston-super-Mare visit Grimsby.

Unlike in previous years, there will be no replays if matches end as a draw after 90 minutes. All ties will go to extra-time and, if necessary, a dramatic penalty shootout.

FA CUP 3RD ROUND DRAW

Wolves v Shrewsbury Doncaster v Southampton Tottenham v Aston Villa Port Vale v Fleetwood Preston v Wigan Ipswich v Blackpool Wrexham v Nottm Forest Charlton v Chelsea Manchester City v Exeter West Ham v QPR Sheff Wed v Brentford Fulham v Middlesbrough Everton v Sunderland Liverpool v Barnsley Burnley v Millwall Norwich v Walsall Portsmouth v Arsenal Derby v Leeds Swansea v West Brom Salford v Swindon Boreham Wood v Burton Grimsby v Weston-super-Mare Hull v Blackburn Newcastle v Bournemouth MK Dons v Oxford Cheltenham v Leicester Cambridge v Birmingham Bristol City v Watford Stoke v Coventry Macclesfield v Crystal Palace

Macclesheld v Crystal Palace Man United v Brighton Sheffield United v Mansfield

Ties to be played around weekend of January 10-11

Water breaks at all World Cup games

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everyone belongs – players, fans, residents and visitors alike. Soccer has a unique power to unite people across borders, cultures and beliefs. 'We are honoured to host a Pride Match and to celebrate Pride as part of a global football community. 'This match reflects our ongoing commitment to respect, dignity and unity for all.'

The committee includes Eric Wahl, the brother of late journalist Grant, who tragically passed away while covering the last World Cup in Qatar.

On social media, Wahl made the point that the inclusion of Egypt and Iran could be ‘a good thing’.

'There are LGBTQIA+ people everywhere,' he added. 'All are welcome to be themselves in Seattle.'

FIFA have also announced that next summer's tournament will feature the introduction

of two hydration breaks per match, lasting for three-minutes at the midway point in each half.

'There will be no weather or temperature conditions in place, with the breaks being called by the referee in all games, to ensure equal conditions for all teams, in all matches,' FIFA said.

The decision comes off the back of the Club World Cup this summer, which drew criticism from managers and players who struggled with the soaring temperatures in the United States when they kicked off at midday. Chelsea captain Enzo Fernandez, who will be at the World Cup with Argentina, said: 'The heat is incredible. I had to lie down because I was really dizzy.

'Playing in this temperature is very dangerous, and for the people who come to the stadium. The speed of the game is not the same, everything becomes very slow.'

JEREMY VINE EXCLUSIVE - PAGE 58

I'M NOT WEAK

Defiant Slot has 'no clue' if Salah has played last Reds game

LEWIS STEELE in Milan

ARNE SLOT cannot guarantee that Mohamed Salah will play for Liverpool again, the under-fire head coach insisting last night: 'I am not weak.'

Salah has been dropped from the squad for tonight's Champions League clash with Inter Milan at the San Siro after the Egyptian accused the club of throwing him under the bus in a bombshell interview.

Slot looked like a man being cross-examined in the dock at his pre-match press conference yesterday and, when asked whether Salah would play for the club again or not, he said: 'I have no clue. I cannot answer that question at this point in time.' Earlier, though,

WINNING F1 TITLE WON'T CHANGE ME Lando Norris interview — Page 60

he said: 'I am a firm believer that there is always a possibility to return for a player.

'Usually I am calm and polite, but it does not mean I'm weak. When a player says things like that, we have to react as a club. You can see he is not here.'

The head coach has overseen a run of four wins in 15 games which has led many fans to turn on him and Salah, who has not started in three matches, to vent his frustration.

It is understood Salah's omission is not a formal punishment but a decision made by the club's hierarchy. The 33-year-old took part in training at the AXA Training Centre yesterday morning, but was then informed he would not be flying to Italy with the rest

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United into top six after Wolves stroll

Anti-gay Iran and Egypt set for World Cup 'Pride Match'

By MIKE KEEGAN

A DEDICATED 'Pride Match' at the World Cup will feature two countries in which homosexuality is illegal. Following Friday's draw and Saturday's fixture allocation, the game in Seattle on June 26 has been confirmed — and it will see Egypt face Iran, nations which have strong anti-LGBTQ laws. The Group G match will take place at Lumen Field during Seattle's Pride weekend. Some believe the pairing may actually prove beneficial, given that gay fans from each country will be able to attend, celebrate their sexuality and not be prosecuted for doing so. However, it may have presented a tricky diplomatic situation for FIFA officials.

In both countries, same-sex relationships are criminalised. The death penalty is among punishments in Iran, while in Egypt the LGBTQ+ community have faced repeated crackdowns and arrest, according to various human rights groups.

Despite a potentially awkward situation, Seattle's Pride Match Advisory Committee (PMAC) — set up to help with the event — indicated they would proceed with their plans for the game. In a statement to Outsports, they said: 'It is a host city-led expression of Seattle and Washington State's commitment to creating a welcoming and inclusive environment where

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19 Vote in (5)
21 Praise highly (8)
22 Tall deciduous tree (3)
23 Roman emperor (4)
24 Sideboard (7)

DOWN 1 Brazilian city (3,5) 2 Personification of good fortune (4,4) 3 Nakedness (6)

MONDAY'S SOLUTION (NO 10,279) - ACROSS: 1 Fire alarm. 6 Arc. 8 Edible. 9 Elver. 10 Ignite. 11 Stapler. 13 Unleash. 16 Exceed. 18 Tests. 19 Twinge. 21 Ego. 22 Nonverbal. DOWN: 1 Fad. 2 Rabbi. 3 Ageless. 4 Anneka. 5 Marvel. 7 Cartridge. 8 Etiquette. 12 Theatre. 14 Lisbon. 15 Assign. 17 Climb. 20 Gel. SOLUTION TOMORROW

4 Uncover (6)
5 Displace (6)
6 Welsh national emblem (4)
11 Anonymous (8)
12 Kitchen item (3,5)
15 Japanese garment (6)
16 Cold-hearted (6)
17 Go back on a promise (6)
20 Beast of burden (4)

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SUDOKU FILL in all the squares in the grid so that each row, column and each of the 3x3 squares contains all the digits from 1 to 9. SOLUTIONS TOMORROW

				3		9	8
4		5	9
			5	8		6
		4		1	7		5
5		2					6
	6		8
		6	1	4				2
	9
2		1		5	8

PRIZE SUDOKU

5				8	1
4			2
		6					8	7
			7		5	8	3
	1			3		5
		4			6
9		8	3				1
			9			3
				4		2	5

4	5		6			2
6					8
			3		2		9
1					7	6
		7		2		3
	9	8				5		4
			2	4		1	5
7	1	5		6
		4	7	1			6

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ACROSS 7 For the __, expression meaning 'about to be severely reprimanded' (4,4) 9 __ Walters, actor and rapper who was in So Solid Crew (6) 10 __ Johnson, England international right back born in 1984 whose clubs included Portsmouth and Liverpool (4) 11 Tony __, character in Hollyoaks played by Nick Pickard (10) 12 Describing a medical condition that is not deteriorating (6) 14 A vehicle or trailer used for transporting equine animals (8) 15 Butterflies with mostly orange-brown wings and darker markings (7,6) 17 European country whose president is Rumen Radev (8) 19 __ signalling, conduct aimed at showing one's own enlightened attitudes (6) 21 Adhering excessively to laws or set formulas (10) 22 Anthony __, novelist and playwright who wrote The Prisoner Of Zenda (4) 23 The woolly covering of a sheep or goat (6) 24 To remove from a place of danger to a safer one (8)

DOWN

1 Cereal with small seeds used to make flour (6)
2 Part of the body whose main component is the tibia (4)
3 The patron saint of Northumbria (8)
4 Dreams From My __, the first autobiography of Barack Obama (6)
5 A large decorative hanging light with branches for bulbs or candles (10)
6 Containers releasing spray with a propellant (8)
8 Historically, a conflict in which the time and place was predetermined (7,6)
13 Town in Somerset noted for its annual Guy Fawkes Carnival (10)
15 Bird genus that includes the common dunnock, or hedge sparrow (8)
16 A liqueur made with eggs, sugar and brandy (8)
18 Robert __, philanthropist born in 1735 who was a pioneer of the Sunday school movement (6)
20 Self-important or assertive in an inappropriate way (6)
22 On The __, radio programme in which Alan Partridge made his first appearance (4)

WRITE YOUR LETTERS IN THESE SQUARES

WORD WHEEL

YOU have ten minutes to find as many words as possible using the letters in the wheel. Each word must use the hub letter and at least three others, and letters

SOLUTION TOMORROW may be used only once. You can't use plurals, foreign words or proper nouns. Verbs ending in 's' permitted. Clue for today's nine-letter word: Business customer such as Macpherson, by the sound of it. RATING: 8 words, average; 12, good; 16, very good; 18 or more, excellent. SOLUTION TOMORROW

SUDOKU X

2		6
	4			3
				6
			1

PUT 1-6 once in each row, column, diagonal (highlighted to form an X) and horizontal 3x2 box (ruled). SOLUTION TOMORROW

NAME GAME HIDDEN in the grid is the name of a TV presenter. Answer the questions, then rearrange the letters corresponding to your answers to fill in the name. SOLUTION TOMORROW

BOX 1: Presenter Rob Brydon (pictured) played which part in 2018 comedy film Holmes & Watson? Lestrade (A) Moriarty (D) Mycroft Holmes (C)

BOX 2: Every year, a giant lighting illumination is installed on the slopes of Mount Ingino in Italy in which of these shapes? A star (I) A Christmas tree (D) A sleigh (F)

BOX 3: Something that has verisimilitude appears to be what? False (C) Illuminated (Y) Real (O)

BOX 4: 'Yabby' is a name given in Australia to a number of species of which kind of animal?
Crustacean (N)
Crocodile (P)
Spider (U)

BOX 5: Who wrote the 2025 novel Great Big Beautiful Life? Suzanne Collins (T) Cecelia Ahern (B) Emily Henry (J)

BOX 6: Which character was played by Patricia Routledge on Victoria Wood: As Seen On TV? Ginny (W) Penny (H) Kitty (E)

BOX 7: Which of the following is the supposed practice of communicating with the dead? Cyclomancy (F) Necromancy (S) Abacomancy (A)

BOX 8: What was the name of Butch Cassidy's outlaw gang? The Wild Bunch (L) The Sundance Crew (S) The West Mob (O)

BOX 9: Mohenjo-daro was one of the world's earliest what? Art forms (L) Board games (V) Major cities (E)

Yesterday's solution: MIKE MYERS (1M, 2R, 3Y, 4S, 5M, 6I, 7E, 8K, 9E)

Picture: PA

TRAIN TRACKS

LAY tracks to enable the train to travel from village A to village B. The numbers indicate how many sections of rail go in each row and column. There are only straight rails and curved rails. The track cannot cross itself.

1	4	1	2	4	7	5	6

SOLUTION TOMORROW

HONEYCOMB

ALL the solutions read clockwise around their numbers. The solution to clue number 1 starts from the given letter.

1. Put
2. Nearly
3. Channel
4. Protection
5. Chafed
6. Suited
7. Spoiled
8. Task
9. Required
10. Deception
11. Kindling
12. Really

SOLUTION: PULLOUT BACK PAGE

MASTERQUIZ

1. The bracketed words 'To Say Nothing Of The Dog' complete the title of which humorous novel, first published in 1889?

2. Which building is the official London residence of the Archbishop of Canterbury?

3. The dessert Sachertorte was created in which European capital?

MINDBENDER

1. In a horse race, Moocher's Mount ran three times as fast as The Big Itch, who ran three times as fast as Moustached Wonder, who ran four times as fast as Hell's Kitchen, who ran twice as fast as Wrinkled Wrench. How far did Wrinkled Wrench run in the time Moocher's Mount covered 1.8km?

2. Vere Cornwall Bird was the first prime minister of which Caribbean country?

3. Which Roman writer is widely credited with the saying 'tempus fugit', although he wrote it as 'fugit irreparabile tempus'?

4. Which British team won the first Formula 1 World Constructors' Championship?

SOLUTION: PULLOUT BACK PAGE

2. What connects hammer, stone and house?

3. Which vegetable WORE SCENT?

4. Which is the odd one out: Karoo, Kalahari, Atacama, Namib?

5. Using the chemical symbols, what type of horse race may combine chlorine, arsenic, silicon and carbon?

SOLUTION: PULLOUT BACK PAGE

KILLER SUDOKU

FILL in squares in the grid so each row, column and each 3x3 square contains all digits from 1 to 9. Each set of cells joined by dotted lines must add up to the number in the top-left corner. Numbers can't be repeated within each set of cells.

KAKURO

FILL in the blank squares of the grid using only the numbers 1 to 9, without repeating any number in any line of blank squares. The lines must be filled in with numbers which add up to the total in the shaded box at the top or beginning of each line. A number in the bottom half of a shaded box gives a downwards total; in the top half, it's a horizontal total.

SOLUTION TOMORROW

ACROSS

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MAILWORD

1 Tennis court surface 5 Load 11 Capital of Peru 12 Omen 13 Long period 14 Maize ear 15 Genuine 17 Tablet 18 Anxious uncertainty 21 Illuminated 24 French street 25 Procure 26 Friendly 29 Box 30 Torso 34 Tooth decay 37 Asian country

38 Baked ____, dessert 39 Grotto 40 Scraped 41 Sheltered

SOLUTION TOMORROW

21 East Indian sailor
22 Antelope
23 Bejewelled crowns
27 Firm and dry
28 Heather
31 Russian region
32 Church area
33 Leg joint
35 Stretch
36 Gloomy

PITCHERWITS™

1a. Hippy goals confounded by 'Baby's Breath' (10)

15a. Cacti set in a way that's wildly happy (8)
1d. Heyer, after egg to be laid in tree (9)

SOLUTION TOMORROW

8d. Lies about weeds being an Alpine flower (9)

ACROSS 1 Picture Clue 5 Picture Clue 9 Coarse file, fruity with berry? (4) 10 Bare kind of hillside up North (4) 11 Puree dish for Indian cash (5)

5a. It's cheap when performed as a medley (8)

18a. Lessens the car amongst the crocks? (10)

2d. Wartime mine workers using spare parts artlessly (7)

DOWN 1 Applaud 2 Place 3 In a frenzy 4 Tugs 5 Rotating part 6 Colour 7 Open-mouthed 8 Decree 9 Young salmon 10 Small hole 16 Feeling 19 Stand-in 20 Skin

10d. Decorates with the second levels at sea, say? (7)

SOLUTION TOMORROW

12 'Clothes' with thermal ratings? (4) 14 Alleviate with a bit of greaseproof (4) 15 Picture Clue 18 Picture Clue

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DOWN 1 Picture Clue 2 Picture Clue 3 Headwear that's in little backstreet (3) 4 Totally burnt tree? (3) 6 Pub in lots of trouble, aside of the main story (3-4)

DOWN

7 Constructs a bit of a backward dog (3)
8 Picture Clue
10 Picture Clue
13 Fuel from the quaking aspen (3)
16 Rotter, who's a bit decadent (3)
17 Boxer, in actuality (3)

YESTERDAY'S SOLUTION — ACROSS: 1 Hand-picking. 5 Washers. 7 Owlet. 8 Pants. 9 Realm. 11 Flies. 12 Eel-like. 13 Cover charge. DOWN: 1 Hippocratic. 2 Posit. 3 Creep. 4 Glasses case. 5 Welfare. 6 Sunrise. 10 Molar. 11 Faith.

HIDATO

COMPLETE the grid so that all the numbers, 1 to 44, connect consecutively — horizontally, vertically or diagonally. Hint: you don't have to begin with 1 or 44. Working on the mid-numbers might give you a better start.

SOLUTION TOMORROW

KENKEN

WORLD'S SMALLEST, HARDEST CROSSWORD

EACH row and column should contain 1 to 6 without repeats. Numbers in cages must combine to produce the target number shown at start of that cage using, in any order, the mathematical sign given. Single-box cages can be filled with the number given.

SOLUTION TOMORROW

HOMELIEST NINE TO FIVE

FIT the scrambled letters of the given word into the grid to form six five-letter words across and down.

SOLUTION TOMORROW

ACROSS

1. Clothed (4)
2. To ramble (4)
3. Irish knitwear (4)
4. Lash mark (4)

DOWN

1. Animal stomach (4)

2. Folk tales (4)

3. Relating to a grandparent (4)

4. Hollow (4) SOLUTION TOMORROW

CROSS NUMBER

THERE MAY BE MORE THAN ONE SOLUTION

4				17
		7		27
			9	20
	6			14
24	12	18	24	12

Today's challenge time: 3 mins 19 secs

Your working time: □ mins □ secs

FILL each square with a number, 1 to 9. Horizontal squares add up to totals on right. Vertical squares add up to totals on bottom. Diagonal squares through centre add up to totals in top and bottom right.

SOLUTION TOMORROW

CODEWORD

EACH number in our Codeword grid represents a different letter of the alphabet. Today 13 represents D, so fill in D every time the figure 13 appears. You have one letter in the control grid to start you off. Enter it in the appropriate squares in the main grid, then use your knowledge of words to work out which letters should go in the missing squares. SOLUTION TOMORROW

COMPLETE Codeword to reveal the word in the shaded boxes.

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SCRABBLE $^{®}$ G ${2}$ R ${1}$ A ${1}$ M ${3}$ S $_{1}$

■The board on the right shows four rows of letters from a typical Scrabble game. Use each row to form a word of 2-7 letters and write it in the blank squares provided. Then add up the score for each row. Don't forget to use the double and triple word and letter scores — and add a 50-point bonus for every 7-letter word. Blank tiles can be used for any letter but have no score. See tomorrow's paper for the solution. SCRABBLE® and SCRABBLE® Tiles are registered trademarks. All rights in the game are owned in the USA by Hasbro Inc, in Canada by Hasbro Canada Inc, and elsewhere by J.W. Spear & Sons Ltd, a subsidiary of Mattel, Inc.

PAR SCORE 140-150 by JUDD

FOUR RACK TOTAL TIME LIMIT: 20 MIN

Yesterday's solution: SKELLY 23 BICEPS 36 BITTEN 16 MISTING 60 JUDD'S TOTAL: 135

C	R	K	B	T	E	T	K	H
K	O	I	G	V	T	Q	M	I
C	M	L	R	J	X	H	A	L
V	A	T	U	I	S	I	Z	D
E	N	T	J	M	L	Z	O	E
R	O	E	H	I	B	V	C	G
O	S	X	C	E	L	A	I	A
N	T	E	M	A	R	U	O	R
I	C	L	A	R	E	I	K	D
C	U	A	R	Z	W	D	N	E
A	H	V	J	O	H	N	W	E

©1997, United Feature Syndicate, Inc.

WORD SEARCH

THE listed words can all be found in the grid — running forwards, backwards, up, down and diagonally — EXCEPT ONE. For a chance to win, discover which word from the list can't be found in the Word Search.

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3. Prentis Hancock played Paul Morrow in which 1970s sci-fi TV series?
4. A doubling cube, used to denote the current stake, is a feature of which classic board game?
5. Which sea nymphs of Greek mythology lured sailors on to rocks with their enchanting singing?

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GOGEN

BARGED BLARE COUGAR FERAL GRANT JOKING JURY MEGALITH PINGED QUERY SCOT VAGUE WAGE WAX

ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ

INSERT letters to form listed words, moving between adjacent cells horizontally, vertically or diagonally in any direction. Insert all remaining letters of the alphabet (except Z) in the grid so all listed words are spelt out.

SOLUTION TOMORROW

BRIDGE MASTERCLASS | CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

Before reading on, cover the West and South hands on the deal below.

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KENKEN

YOU are East, defending 4♠ after South has opened 1♦ and rebid 1♠ over North's 1♥. Now South bids 2♥ over North's 2♣ and raises 2♠ to 4♠. Your partner leads the ♣Q and dummy follows low. How do you defend?

THERE are few chances to defeat the contract, but there is just room for partner to hold the ♥A and you should play for it. You will also need to decide the likely distribution. If declarer holds a doubleton club, you need to duck this and win the second round, but if declarer has a singleton club, you must overtake partner's ♣Q and switch to the ♥Q.

The bidding is your clue. Declarer showed five diamonds, four spades and delayed support for hearts. This is more likely to be a three-card suit than a doubleton, leaving room for just one club.

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ACROSS

DOWN

6 Is first behind added room to get more lengths of cable (9,5) 9 Joke from women in Northern Irish party (4-2) 10 Swift, perhaps, astir fluttering is close to nest (8) 11 Lent at a high level? (8) 13 Husband given pointer in London borough (6) 15 Retired pair left in Cyprus lacking in clarity (6) 17 Clever medic engaged in a round before appeal (6) 19 Man given drink in Middle Eastern language (6) 20 Those skilled in craft unusually train as sculptors principally (8) 22 Spurge, not bay, produces jubilation (8) 24 Emigre upset government (6) 26 Aim of a justice system concerning the Italian in residence (14)

1 Idle bunch heeds revolutionary later than planned (6,8)
2 Boss has set funds on a regular basis (4)
3 Performing athletes ultimately with muscle in hope of success? (2,4)
4 Doctor had scent taken away? (8)
5 Low dam is peculiar for the most part (4)
7 Like one in a cell favoured by team (6)
8 Tim's not decent sadly about source of new unhappiness (14)
12 A group of people at a funeral half forgotten in affair (5)
14 Celebrity chef Levi's origins (5)
16 Unexpected visit before rising? (4,4)
18 Cold dish in short with odd parts of main meat (6)
21 Conservative hosting graduate in coastal area in Devon (6)
23 Eliminating contest held in theatre (4)
25 Profit once more after leaving area (4)

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SOLUTIONS TO YESTERDAY'S PUZZLES

SUDOKU

4	9	8	1	3	6	5	2	7
5	2	3	9	4	7	8	6	1
1	7	6	5	2	8	9	4	3
3	5	7	6	1	4	2	8	9
2	8	4	3	7	9	1	5	6
6	1	9	8	5	2	3	7	4
8	6	2	7	9	1	4	3	5
9	4	5	2	6	3	7	1	8
7	3	1	4	8	5	6	9	2

9	6	3	8	2	7	5	1	4
7	5	4	1	6	3	9	2	8
2	8	1	4	5	9	3	7	6
4	7	9	5	8	6	1	3	2
3	2	8	9	4	1	7	6	5
6	1	5	3	7	2	4	8	9
5	4	7	2	1	8	6	9	3
8	3	6	7	9	5	2	4	1
1	9	2	6	3	4	8	5	7

PRIZE SUDOKU

WORD SEARCH Missing: KAUR

HIDATO

H I M I D H Y I T Q Y O I M T R V M Q Y Z E S I Y H N K E F R Z E Z A R P A J M L Y Y I Z R H P M A R K P R O F R O V R Q A X D O L T O R T K N G C J M O R L E Y E D A R L I N G N R Z M G A I G E M

NINE TO FIVE
CROSS NUMBER

1	3	5	8	9	2	4	7	6
4	7	6	5	1	3	9	2	8
9	2	8	6	7	4	1	3	5
7	4	3	9	6	8	2	5	1
8	5	9	2	3	1	7	6	4
6	1	2	4	5	7	8	9	3
2	9	4	3	8	5	6	1	7
3	6	7	1	4	9	5	8	2
5	8	1	7	2	6	3	4	9

KAKURO

	F	H	H							28
	F	R	E	E	D
	H	A	N	D	Y
	H	I	N	G	E
		L	A	E

WORD WHEEL: amount, amour, antrum, aroma, arum, atman, atom, mana, manor, manta, mantra, mantrap, mantua, mart, matron, moan, moat, morn, mount, mourn, muon, norm, paramount, potman, pram, prom, puma, ramp, rampant, roam, roman, romp, rump, tamp, tampon, tram, tramp, trauma, trump.

TRAIN TRACKS

30-SECOND CHALLENGE

START on left with number given and follow instructions as you go across. In 30 seconds, beginners have to complete their own challenge; intermediates have to complete their own challenge and the beginner's; advanced players have to complete their own challenge and the intermediate's.

SOLUTION BELOW

Beginner	17	×10	$\frac{1}{2}$ OF IT	-8	÷11	×9	+17	÷5	DOUBLE IT	÷4
Intermediate	50	×75	$\frac{1}{15}$ OF IT	$\frac{8}{100}$ OF IT	-12	TIMES ITSELF	×125	5% OF IT	-8	$\frac{5}{14}$ OF IT
Advanced	51	-38	TIMES ITSELF	-70	×6	50% OF IT	+28	20% OF IT	× $2^{2}/_{5}$	75% OF IT

SUDOKU X

KILLER SUDOKU

5 9 3 6 1 8 4 2 7 8 2 1 4 7 9 3 6 5 7 6 4 3 5 2 8 9 1 9 3 2 5 4 1 7 8 6 1 4 8 7 9 6 5 3 2 6 7 5 8 2 3 1 4 9 2 5 6 1 8 4 9 7 3 3 8 7 9 6 5 2 1 4 4 1 9 2 3 7 6 5 8

GENERAL KNOWLEDGE CROSSWORD ACROSS: 7 Kibosh. 8 Inimical. 9 Bel canto. 10 Stress. 11 Parrying. 12 Reside. 13 Conditioner. 18 Thames. 20 Highness. 22 Manual. 23 Lengthen. 24 Freeview. 25 Elijah.

5	1	2	6	4	3
6	3	4	1	5	2
2	5	1	4	3	6
3	4	6	2	1	5
4	2	3	5	6	1
1	6	5	3	2	4

GOGEN

J B L Y P W A K R N V C I G H F E M U T D S O X Q

DOWN: 1 Mineral. 2 Concerto. 3 Changi. 4 Pissarro. 5 Tigris. 6 Wayside. 8 I Fought The Law. 14 Disclaim. 15 Einstein. 16 Theatre. 17 Estevao. 19 Mouser. 21 Gander.

CRYPTIC CROSSWORD No. 17,764

ACROSS: 1 Sweet potato. 9 Trade in. 10 Flatten. 11 Gus. 12 Mediate. 13 Easeful. 14 Sun. 15 Tours. 17 Dross. 18 Recur. 20 Inner. 22 Mud. 24 Snaffle. 25 Locusts. 26 Roy. 27 Regards. 28 Inuring. 29 Shed light on. DOWN: 1 Standing charges. 2 Elegant. 3 Tinge. 4 Off season. 5 Amassed. 6 Out of commission. 7 Stumps. 8 Uncles. 16 Universal. 18 Resort. 19 Referee. 21 Recount. 23 Design. 25 Lying.

MAILWORD

ACROSS: 1 Also. 5 Gap. 8 Roan. 9 Trawl. 11 Argue. 12 Wally. 13 Raindrop. 15 Encage. 16 Tare. 20 Aga. 21 Eat. 23 Gel. 24 Self. 26 Resale. 28 Romanian. 30 Hotel. 33 Santa. 34 Aired. 35 Erse. 36 Sky. 37 Lets. DOWN: 1 Arrange. 2 Logical. 3 Sauna. 4 On edge. 5 Gal. 6 Awl. 7 Ply. 9 Two. 10 Rapt. 11 Areas. 14 Rearm. 17 Against. 18 Relates. 19 Elena. 22 Teasel. 25 Free. 27 Snare. 29 Old. 30 Has. 31 Oik. 32 Try.*

WORLD'S SMALLEST, HARDEST CROSSWORD — ACROSS: 1 Bell. 4 AR. 5 OD. 6 Size. DOWN: 1 Bass. 2 ER. 3 Lode. 5 Oz.

SOLUTIONS TO TODAY'S PUZZLES

QUICK QUIZ: 1 Aardvark. 2 Cherries. 3 Space: 1999. 4 Backgammon. 5 Sirens. MINDBENDER: 1 25 metres. 2 They are all terms used in curling. 3 Sweetcorn. 4 Atacama, in South America; the other deserts are in Africa. 5 Classic (CI-As-Si-C).

MASTERQUIZ:

1 Three Men In A Boat.
2 Lambeth Palace. 3 Vienna.
4 Antigua and Barbuda.
5 Virgil. 6 Vanwall.

HONEYCOMB:

1 Placed. 2 Almost. 3 Strait. 4 Armour. 5 Rubbed. 6 Became. 7 Marred. 8 Errand. 9 Needed. 10 Deceit. 11 Tinder. 12 Indeed.

KUROSU

00X0XX XXOOXXO OXOXOX 00X0XX XXOXOO X0XXOO

30-SECOND CHALLENGE: Beginner: 8. Intermediate: 140. Advanced: 117.

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