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%Zone_namE% SE1ST 2 Sunday Express August 15, 2021 THE WEATHER Picture: Ian West/PA THE WEATHER Labour ‘expels THEKen WEATHER Loach’ Temperatures in Centigrade Temperatures in Centigrade Temperatures in Centigrade rade TODAY’S SUMMARY Minister TODAY’S SUMMARY defends TODAY’S SUMMARY t with North West: Dry at first, but cloudy with East Anglia: Dry and fine with sunny North West Coast: A cloudy start with East Coast: Spain, Portugal and the Balearic and Canary Islands It will be a rather cloudy day rate scattered showers later. Freshening northwesterly winds. High 19C (66F). westerly winds. High 23C (73F). afternoon but it will be dry. A light to the afternoon. A gentle northerly breeze. skies for most, although cloud will build cover. A fine evening also. High 41C spells and variable cloud. Moderate south- occasional rain. Staying cloudy the with the occasional rain possible. Showers Today, Spain will be sunny with blue blue skies and very little, if any, cloud e Northern Ireland: Mostly cloudy with the London/South East: Bright and dry with moderate northerly wind. High 17C (63F). High 18C (64F). across Valencia, Murcia, and La (106F). A very warm day in the Canary le risk of an isolated shower later. Moderate patchy cloud and sunny spells. Fresh north-westerly winds. High 18C (64F). westerly winds. High 23C (73F). South West Coast: It is expected to be wet North Central Ireland: After early drizzle, it Mancha. Feeling very hot. High 47C Islands with hazy sunshine and blue with rain easing to drizzle. Brighter later. A will be dry with sunshine, but also a good (117F). Portugal will be sunny with skies. High 32C (90F). ast Wales: A cloudy and wet day with showery South: Sunny spells but cloudier with the brisk north-westerly . outbreaks of rain, mostly light but with chance of a shower later. Brisk southwesterly winds. High 23C (73F). Outlook: Largely sunny and hot 1F). Jewish wind. High 17C (63F). deal of cloud. A light to moderate northerly students wind. High 16C (61F). heavier bursts. High 20C (68F). y with Midlands: Bright, but with the chance of a South West: A cloudy day with plenty of South Central Ireland: It will be overcast Northern Ireland: It going to be a mainly rate few showers. Cloudier later. Moderate showers or outbreaks of rain. Brisk southwesterly winds. High 20C (68F). with light rain, especially in the morning. cloudy day, with the chance of an isolated . westerly winds. High 22C (72F). Drizzle after midday A light to moderate shower later. A moderate north-westerly And back in Britain today northerly wind. High 20C (68F). breeze. High 18C (64F). London/South East: Bright and dry with North: Dry for a time, but mostly cloudy nd: North East/Yorks: Rain at first. It will then Channel Isles: Cloud breaking to give patchy cloud and sunny spells. Fresh with scattered showers later. Gentle d be a dry day with sunny periods later. sunshine and isolated showers. Strengthening Outlook tomorrow: westerly winds. High 23C (73F). westerly winds. High 19C (66F). Gentle westerly winds. High 21C (70F). south-westerly winds. High 18C (64F). It is going to be another cloudy day. Dry in the Republic of Ireland, although there will be a Scotland: A cloudy start, with showers Sea: North Sea: Moderate. Irish Sea: few showers in Northern Ireland. A drier evening with a few clear spells. Midlands: Bright, but with the chance of a Scotland: A cloudy start, with showers spreading into northern and central parts in Moderate. Channel: Moderate. COMMUNITIES Secretary Robert By David Williamson few showers. Cloudier later. censor Moderate one spreading of Britain’s into northernleading and central parts in the afternoon. High 19C (66F). Jenrick has criticised one of Britain’s westerly winds. High 22C (72F). afternoon. High 19C (66F). Lighting-up times Birmingham 8.32pm-5.52am London deputy political 8.22pm-5.47ameditor sociologists at the behest of a foreign lenty of UK OUTLOOK TOMORROW: A mixed day is expected tomorrow as there will be plenty most prestigious universities, Bristol 8.32pm-5.57am saying Manchester 8.37pm-5.50am Wales: A cloudy and wetregime.” day with showery Ireland: A cloudy day with lots of showers of sunny intervals, although there will be showers and outbreaks of rain as well. Belfast 8.55pm-6.01am Glasgow 8.52pm-5.50am Newcastle 8.39pm-5.42am that its Jewish students feel “unsafe “Government considers outbreaks his of rain, [Prof mostly lightLord but with Austin or spells of of rain, Dudley, clearing after who midday. heavier bursts. High 20C (68F). Moderate winds. High 19C (66F). and unwelcome”. 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Jewish students had told her they In an online meeting, Mr Miller’s felt “unsafe”. ate Call our weather line where you can speak live with our experts for up-to-date Call comments our weatherincluded line where you a can call speak to live “end with our experts for up-to-date by Callthe our weather line where A Bristol you can speak University live with our spokeswoman experts for up-to-date ork forecasts. Calls cost £1.50 per minute plus your telephone company's network forecasts. Calls cost £1.50 per minute plus your telephone company's network forecasts. Calls cost £1.50 per minute plus your telephone company's network Zionism as [a] functioning ideology”. Union of said: “We strongly refute allegations access charge. Service open 8am - 6pm daily. SP Spoke: 0333 202 3390 access charge. Service open 8am - 6pm daily. SP Spoke: 0333 202 3390 access charge. Service open 8am - 6pm daily. SP Spoke: 0333 202 3390 He also described Israel as a “settler of inaction and have previously SUPPLIED BY METEOGROUP SUPPLIED BY METEOGROUP SUPPLIED BY METEOGROUP The National Lottery JACKPOT £11.2 million 1 2 15 19 39 43 bonus ball 58 THUNDERBALL 1 4 6 18 32 THUNDERball 9 The Health Lottery DRAW ON SATURDAY august 14, 2021 4 14 15 26 49 bonus ball 10 The society benefiting from all draws in the month ending August 31 is Health Lottery South East DEFIANT: Ken Loach colonial society” and claimed that it is attempting to “impose [its] will all over the world”. The university says an investigation is ongoing. But Mr Jenrick said: “It is increasingly apparent that some young Jewish people feel unsafe and unwelcome at Bristol University, due to their persistent failure to address serious accusations of anti-Semitism. “This shames one of our most prominent universities, where racism and bigotry should have no place.” In his letter, the MP says the By David Williamson VETERAN film-maker Ken Loach has said he has been expelled from the Labour Party after refusing to “disown” leadership critics who had already been removed. In a defiant series of tweets, the lifelong socialist, 85, who directed films including Kes and Cathy Come Home, insisted that the “clique” around party leader Keir Starmer would never prevail. He said: “Labour HQ finally decided I’m not fit to be a member of their party, as I will not disown those already expelled. Well, I am proud to stand with the good friends and comrades victimised by the purge. There is indeed a witch-hunt. Starmer and his clique will never lead a party of the people. We are many, they are few. Solidarity.” A Labour spokesman said: “We are not going to comment on individual cases.” Jewish Students defended his record, saying: “These hysterical claims have been manufactured by Israel lobby groups claiming to speak on behalf of all Jews. “Those fanatical activists may be ‘uncomfortable’ but the cause of their discomfort is Professor Miller’s rigorous academic work exposing the important role played by parts of the Zionist movement in promoting Islamophobia. “These are naked attempts to explained that an investigation into David Miller’s comments is ongoing. “The fact we are seeking to remain compliant with our obligations as a UK employer does not mean that we are not offering our students support. “We have met with the Bristol Jewish Society and Union of Jewish Students on a number of occasions to offer such support and to address their concerns.” A spokeswoman for the Union of Jewish Students said: “We reiterate our call for the university to suspend David Miller pending investigation.” INSIDE: Comment 16 Nick Ferrari 17 Jennifer Selway 33 Review 37-42 Stuart Winter 44 Finance 55-58 Letters 61 Puzzles 62,63 Plus your 12-page Sport pullout Corrections and Complaints: If we’ve published anything factually inaccurate, please contact the readers’ editor by email at expressletters@express.co.uk or you can write to Readers’ Editor, Sunday Express, 10 Lower Thames Street London EC3R 6EN and, once verified, we’ll correct it as soon as possible. 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Picture: Peter Nicholls/PA SE1ST THE PRINCE’S PASSION Sunday Express August 15, 2021 3 Harry’s heading home... and bringing a film crew GAME ON: But Harry and Meghan’s public rating has sunk But not Meghan or children Archie and Lilibet, though he will pop in to see Granny PRINCE HARRY is set to return to the UK... with a film crew in tow. The 36-year-old is due to spend a weekend in Nottinghamshire at the end of the year, to lead planning for next year’s military veterans’ Invictus Games in Holland. He will then pay a visit to his grandmother, the Queen, before flying back to his home in California. It was not known last night whether he will also make time to see his brother Prince William. But while he is likely to leave behind his wife Meghan, 40, and their children Archie, two, and baby Lilibet, in their £11million Montecito mansion, the Duke of Sussex will not be travelling alone. Sources said he will be flanked by a small film crew as he addresses participants at Stanford Hall, the Army’s rehabilitation centre for wounded soldiers. The crew, employed by Archewell Productions, will be filming as part of a £100million deal struck last year between Netflix and the Sussex’s Archewell Foundation, to produce Heart Of Invictus, a documentary on the games. It will be directed by British documentary-maker Orlando von Einsiedel and produced by Joanna Natasegara, a team already credited with an Academy Award for their short film The White Helmets, and a BAFTA for Virunga, set in the Congo’s Virunga national park. Archewell Productions was formed by the couple last year to “utilise the power of storytelling to embrace our shared humanity and duty to truth through a compassionate lens”. Prince Harry has severed all official ties to Britain’s military with his decision to quit royal duties, But the veteran, who served two tours in Afghanistan, remains passionate about the Invictus Games which he established ‘Public will see his hard work’ EXCLUSIVE By Marco Giannangeli in 2013 after witnessing the US’s similar Warrior Games for veterans with physical and mental disabilities. Invictus Foundation chairman Lord Sir Charles Allen has already briefed staff about the weekend event, which will shape plans for April’s games. Last night a source said: “The Duke of Sussex will want to make sure we are ready as the last games were cancelled because of Covid. “We are hoping that the situation in April next year allows the games to go ahead as planned, in Holland. Our understanding is that the Duke of Sussex will be accompanied by a small film crew in order to allow the public to see the hard work involved in planning these games.” In 2019 biographer Angela Levin revealed: “One of the things he said to me though was that he was in a big rush to make changes and to do something that’s really valuable. “Because, he said, ‘All too soon George and Charlotte will be hogging all the films’.” But signs of Sussex fatigue are already emerging. Polling by YouGov has revealed that Prince Harry’s popularity ratings here have plunged 50 points since 2017, when he was Britain’s favourite Royal after the Queen, to second-to-bottom – above controversy-riven Prince Andrew. Separate research into Google Trends online, by Top10Casinos.com, last week revealed “Meghan Markle” has seen an 18.6 per cent decrease in online searches while the “Duchess of Cambridge” has seen a 50 per cent increase. The Sussexes have been approached for comment. LOST HOPE: Harry in 2019 with the UK team for the 2020 Invictus Games, cancelled by Covid

4 Sunday Express August 15, 2021 SE1ST WHAT NOW AFTER FEARs that ARMY OF britons have been FROM FRONT PAGE should have been on a watchlist. Former top prosecutor Nazir Afzal warned that extreme misogyny and the online “incel” community – “involuntary celibate” men who believe women do not find them attractive – have become a genuine threat. He warned that there are 10,000 people with incel views like Davison in the country and more are becoming radicalised online. Other experts agreed that incel is becoming a growing threat. It came as twisted “fans” saluted Davison as a “supreme gentleman”, a “new hero” and urged him to “shoot for the stars” after he murdered five people then shot himself. In the 12-minute rampage in Keyham, the bodybuilder used a pump-action shotgun to kill his mother Maxine, 51, Sophie Martyn, three, and her father Lee, 43, Stephen Washington, 59, and Kate Shepherd, 66. Before the murder spree Davison, 23, had called himself a “fat, ugly virgin” and showed affinity to the incel group. In one YouTube rant, he said: “I used to be OK with being a virgin but when you get older the inferiority complex kicks in and the feeling of despair and missing out occurs. “Try being an unemployed, autistic, poor, sexually frustrated male with tons of health issues, no social circle and being stuck in government housing with my mother for years on end.” A leading expert on online misogyny and ‘I’m worried this attack will not be the last’ DERANGED: Twisted killer Jake Davison, 23, went on a 12-minute rampage last week, killing five people in Keyham, Plymouth, before shooting himself dead KILLED: Davison’s mother Maxine DOg WALKER: Stephen Washington incel fears the Plymouth attack will not be the last and said lockdown had been a perfect breeding ground for the indoctrination of sexually frustrated, isolated men. However, other experts believe Islamic extremists and the far-right pose a far greater threat and are more likely to launch attacks. Incel is an online subculture which, at its extreme, spreads violent misogyny and blames women for depriving men of sex and relationships. It became notorious when Elliot Rodger shot six people dead at the University of California Santa Barbara in May 2014 because he was still a virgin at 22 and blamed women for rejecting him. Since then Rodger has been idolised by the groups and spawned copy-cat killings in the US and Canada. Mr Afzal, the former chief crown prosecutor for the North West, said 10,000 people share incel views similar to Davison’s and “a small minority” of them are threats. “We have to recognise that we have a responsibility to identify them and share that information,” he told BBC Breakfast yesterday. Mr Afzal added social media posts showed that these men view women as “some kind of lesser being” and said: “That kind of extreme misogyny of the type we have seen here and in terms of the incel community is a threat to all women and, ultimately, to all our communities.” He added Davison was “exactly the type of person the authorities should be keeping an eye on” because he had a firearm licence and it was briefly taken off him. He said: “You have got to think about how we deal with these men. What are they saying online? How are they being radicalised? Who is doing the radicalisation? “If you treat it as terrorism then you have other options open to you in terms of intelligence gathering, in terms of being able to prosecute for disseminating materials, in terms of being able to hold them to account if they are conspiring with each other.” Jonathan Hall QC, the independent reviewer of terrorism legislation, told Radio 4’s Today: “If we see more of these sorts of attacks, then I have no doubt that it will be treated more seriously as terrorism. “It fits rather uneasily into the way the authorities understand ideologies. It seems part of right-wing terrorism but it is not really. In fact, it is quite separate from it. It is a different sort of ideology. The question is really one of choice. Do we want to start treating incels as potential terrorists?” And Sam Armstrong, director of communications at the Henry Jackson Society, said: “Incel violence sits right on the cusp between organised extremist terrorism and wanton violence, so little is known about it. “The only thing we do know is that it increasingly poses a grave threat to Britain.” Dr Kaitlyn Regehr, an expert of online misogyny, the alt-right and incel, said she had feared something would happen and that it will be followed by another atrocity. Dr Regehr, from the University of Kent, said: “I have been concerned about what would happen during lockdown, with isolated individuals spending more time in isolation. They are also spending more time SHOT: Kate Shepherd died in hospital online consuming this content, becoming more indoctrinated in the incel ideology. “My fear was that we would see heightened levels of indoctrination happening during lockdown, and when we started to reopen we had vulnerable individuals who had to be reintroduced into society – which would feel scary and overwhelming – and we might see attacks. “And, very sadly, it has happened and I fear it might not be the last one.” She said those attracted to incel “feel like an outsider” but instead of mental health services giving them support “they are finding internet wormholes, essentially where they are going deeper and deeper down, and that is their support and their community. “It will be rare but there will be a few individuals who take that violence off-screen and on to the streets. It is the same pattern

MASS KILLING? SE1ST Sunday Express August 15, 2021 5 10,000 FRUSTRATED radicalized online Picture: UNPIXS ‘Why did shooter get licence back?’ MONSTER: Jake Davison was a body builder VICTIMS: Three-year-old Sophie Martyn and her father Lee were gunned down of indoctrination that we see with other forms of extremist violence.” Dr Regehr said as schools and universities return to normal there needs to be better intervention by mental health services. She added: “It’s being face-to-face with young people and trying to redirect that often laser focus that these individuals have, where they become fixated upon this very firmly held belief. “If we could refocus that it would be better for them and, of course, be much safer for society.” Sir Peter Fahy, former chief constable of Greater Manchester Police, believes there should be a debate on whether misogyny should be a hate crime. He said: “It is about the growing awareness in policing and counter-terrorism of extreme right-wing activity, which some of this falls into, and more and more disturbed people really sharing this sort of extreme material on the internet.” He pointed out partners and ex-partners are more of a risk to women than “incels” and added: “I do think this is a threat but it mustn’t be taken out of context.” Iman Atta, director of Tell MAMA, which supports victims of anti-Muslim hatred, said. “Davison showed signs of a hatred of women based on his own deep insecurities and with that comes the inability to form lasting, loving relationships. “This is similar to what some within Islamist and far-right extremism feel. “However, incel hatred is nothing like the scale of the other two, nor is it organised in the way that the other two are.” OPINION: PAGE 16 ANGRY local residents have demanded to know why sick killer Jake Davison was given his shotgun back. During a visit to the area by Home Secretary Priti Patel, chief constable of Devon and Cornwall Police Shaun Sawyer was confronted by former MoD armed security guard Stewart Parfitt, 78. He demanded: “Why did you give that bloke his gun back when he’s been a bloody lunatic for years?” The Home Secretary declined to answer any questions put to her around gun control but local Labour MP Luke Pollard said the people of Plymouth deserve “clear answers” as to how Davison got a firearms licence. Mr Pollard said: “I want to see answers to two very simple questions – why did this happen, and how did this happen? “But more than that, I don’t want to see any other community, anywhere in Britain, going through what we have over the last couple of days. “We’ve got an entire community grieving here, we’ve got families grieving. We’ve got a three-year-old killed. We need to have proper answers here.” The Independent Office for Police Conduct is investigating the Devon and Cornwall force after a shotgun and firearms licence were handed back to Davison last month. They were taken away in December following an allegation of assault but reportedly returned after Davison attended an anger management course. Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer welcomed the investigation but said: “How on earth did he get a gun licence in the first place? What back-up checks were done? I do think there are wider questions here and that could involve a review of the gun licensing laws because there are other questions here that urgently need to be addressed.” Former By Tony Whitfield ‘What checks were done?’ chief crown prosecutor for the North West Nazir Afzal said Davison’s social media posts appeared to have been missed when restoring his gun licence. He told BBC Breakfast yesterday: “There were all these social media posts talking about the violence he believed in or felt was necessary, how he felt about women. None of that seems to have been taken into account.” He added if police were aware of the posts “they have even more questions to be answered”. However, Mr Afzal said forces do not have the resources to properly investigate firearms licences. He said: “That might mean the due diligence, the level of attention they need to put into this kind of decision, isn’t taken.” Nick Kelly, leader of Plymouth City Council, said the investigation should try to piece together exactly why the licence was suspended, taken away in the first place, and why it was deemed appropriate to give back. He said: “My own view is why do you need a gun in the first place? “If there’s a very legitimate reason, well I would not want to take guns away from everybody. “We just need to review it, look at the facts in this specific case and hopefully if tighter legislation is required that will be forthcoming.” But Sir Peter Fahy, former chief constable of Greater Manchester Police, said while questions need to be answered on why the gun was returned, firearms laws “on the whole” appear to work. He said: “There are only about 30 murders a year which involve firearms, and they are ones which are illegally held largely and you would never get a certificate for.”

SE1ST 6 Sunday Express August 15, 2021 By Tony Whitfield HOME Secretary Priti Patel said the mass shootings in Plymouth in which five people including a little girl were murdered were “tragic beyond words”. Ms Patel added the Devon city was “not alone” as it tried to come to terms with the first mass shooting in the UK for over a decade in which gunman Jake Davison killed his mother and then four strangers and injured two others. She visited North Down Crescent Park yesterday, in the Keyham area of the city, close to the cul-de-sac where Davison first went on a rampage on Thursday evening. He first shot his mother, Maxine Davison, 51, at their home in Biddick Drive before going into the street and targeting Sophie Martyn, three, as she pushed her toy pram with her adoptive dad Lee, 43. In front of horrified witnesses Lee was shot in the back as he tried to protect Sophie. They were shot at least twice more at close range as they lay on the ground. He also wounded Michelle Parsonage, 53, and her son Ben, 33, but both are expected to make a full recovery, relatives said yesterday. As he walked out of the cul-desac, down a path behind houses, Davison told a stunned resident “Nothing to worry about mate,” before shooting Stephen HOMe SECRETARY ‘tragic ‘We are grieving for every single person affected’ Washington, 59, as he walked his two huskies. CCTV footage then captured him casually walking across a street, with his pump action shotgun hanging by his side, towards his final victim, Kate Shepherd, 66, outside a hair salon on Henderson Place. She would later die in hospital. Davison, 22, then turned the weapon on himself. Last night relatives of the gunman apologised for the carnage he caused, saying they “grieved for every single person” he had killed. The Davison family have connections to the Shetlands, where Maxine and fisherman father Mark are understood to have lived in the 1990s. One told the Telegraph: “The family members up here in Shetland are traumatised, we struggle to string a sentence together as we are all devastated not just for our family. “We are grieving for every single person that was affected by this – and we have to live with that for the rest of our days.” Another source close to the family said Davison suffered with mental health problems for many years and recently came to blows with his father. They said: “Apparently he hasn’t been well for quite a bit, mentally, and also beat up his father a couple of months ago.” Back in Plymouth, Ms Patel was joined by chief constable of Devon and Cornwall Police Shaun Sawyer and Labour MP Luke Pollard as she laid a large bouquet of cream flowers, adding to the growing floral tribute to the victims. Residents had held their own candle-lit vigil on Friday night in a local park. Ms Patel said: “It’s tragic beyond Anguish: Priti Patel and Chief Constable Shaun Sawyer join shocked residents in Plymouth and add to the floral tributes words, really, really tragic, for a range of reasons, and obviously for those involved. “I’m sure everyone will have known each other and this really will have touched so many people’s lives. “But quite an important moment as well, where people are coming together from across the community to support one another.” She added: “I can imagine how shattering this was for everybody, seeing the scale of what was going on, and the volume and response of the emergency services. “But it is important to recognise that these things, thankfully, very, very rarely happen. This will not define Keyham.” Kev Sproston, a member of the local neighbourhood watch team told Ms Patel the mass shooting was “our September 11” and said: “Every single person in Keyham knows exactly where they were when this happened. “The hurt is deep, and we need Victims of Plymouth’s GUNNED DOWN: Three-year-old Sophie Martyn and father Lee, some help in order to look after the people in our community.” Ms Patel responded: “People will have seen things that, quite frankly, in all our lifetime we would never, ever want anybody to witness or experience. It’s very

SE1ST LEADS THE TRIBUTES Pictures: Ben Birchall/PA; Erin Black/PlymouthLive beyond words’ Sunday Express August 15, 2021 7 day: “At the moment people are a little bit reluctant to come outside their doors, they are still in a state of shock. “The ones that I did speak to really just want to recount what had happened, get things off their chest, and I guess just want a hug and reassurance things will get better.” Luke Pollard, MP for Plymouth Sutton and Devonport said “four schools opened yesterday and today with support services from bereavement to mental health, police to welfare”. He added: “It’s OK not to be OK and help is available locally. You are not on your own.” Melanie Fletcher, 52, said at first she and her husband thought the shots were a car backfiring but added: “After the third, fourth shot, my husband thought maybe it was fireworks, you know. “But as we were cleaning our car, armed police came by and said go in and shut your door.” Debbie Ackland told she had been in the park on Thursday evening when the shootings happened. She said: “I was just about to put my three grandchildren in the playground when all the helicopters came in. There were police walking around with dogs, it was so surreal. I’ve never seen anything like it in my life.” Speaking about Davison being allowed to own a shotgun, Debbie added: “I deal with people with ‘The hurt here is deep and we need some help’ names of the five victims tied to a nearby railing. Mourners have also left teddy bears and candles among the bouquets, A minute’s silence was held before Plymouth Argyle’s first home match of the new season against Gillingham. Flags at the club’s Home Park ground and across the city were also flown at half mast and books of condolence were made available. A minute’s silence will be held at 11am tomorrow. Nick Kelly, leader of Plymouth City Council, spoke of the shock the mass shooting caused for the area. He told BBC Breakfast yestertwisted killer Jake Davison Maxine Davison, Kate Shepherd and Stephen Washington hard. But you are not on your own, there is a great deal of support.” Sophie and Lee had been taken nearby Derriford hospital, where Lee’s wife, Becky, works, but both died despite the medics’ best efforts. Debbie Ackland, 55, a mental health support worker for the NHS who grew up in Keyham, was among those laying flowers or lighting candles. She said: “I work for NHS social services, and as soon as I heard the names of the little girl and her dad, I knew who the mum was and that she worked for the NHS. “I haven’t had any dealings with the family personally, but it’s just terrible. “It’s devastating.” NHS administrator Hayley Locke, 37, added: “I don’t know any of the victims, but when I heard that the little girl’s mum also worked for the NHS, it really hit me hard. “We’re obviously a massive staff, but we all care for each other, we look after each other in the NHS, and somebody in our Trust is going through hell now. Around 70 floral tributes were left outside a Lidl supermarket close to the shootings with green heart-shaped balloons bearing the mental health problems every day, it’s one of the things we deal with in adult social care. “It’s very sad, they need help. We do what we can, we refer them to the immediate crisis team – it’s pretty much all we can do. “I do know that if people have got a mental health background, they wouldn’t be issued that firearms licence anyway.” She added: “You just don’t know who you’re living next to, what people are thinking, what they’re doing.” Speaking about Davison having a firearms licence Hayley Locke added: “You don’t know the circumstances around it, but they must have thought it was okay to give him his licence back – although whether he convinced them of that, I don’t know. “But it sounds to me like he shouldn’t have had one. Having read about some of his social media posts, it sounds like he had a few problems. “I don’t really want to talk too much about him. It’s the people who have lost their lives, and their families, that I feel most for.”

8 Sunday Express August 15, 2021 First jabs offered to all aged 16 and 17 as new term looms Picture: AAP/PA SE1ST CRACKDOWN: Police patrol Bondi Beach in Sydney CORONAVIRUS: MENTAL EVERY 16 and 17-year-old in England will have been offered their first dose of the Covid-19 vaccine by next week, the Government has pledged. As part of a drive to ramp up protection before schools return, Health Secretary Sajid Javid has set August 23 as the date by which everyone in this age group will have had the chance for a jab. The announcement comes as Carrie Johnson urged pregnant women to get vaccinated. The Prime Minister’s wife posted a selfie on Instagram and said she was “feeling great” after having her jab. Mrs Johnson, who is pregnant with the couple’s second child and also suffered a miscarriage earlier this year, sought to calm anxieties about vaccinations. She said: “I know there are lots of pregnant women who are anxious about getting their Covid vaccine but the evidence is incredibly reassuring. Most importantly, the data shows there is no increased risk of miscarriage, something I was definitely concerned about. “Nearly 200,000 pregnant women across the UK and US have received the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines recommended during pregnancy, without safety concerns. The Royal College of Midwives has said expectant mothers are at greater risk of serious illness if they get Covid so being vaccinated really is the best way to keep you and your baby safe.” Clinically vulnerable children aged 12 to 15, and those who live with adults at increased risk feeling great: Carrie after her Covid jab By David Williamson DEPUTY POLITICAL EDITOR of serious illness from the virus, are also urged to get jabbed. NHS England has launched an online tool so 16 to 17-yearolds can locate their nearest walk-in centre. Mr Javid had a clear message for targeted teenagers: “Please don’t delay – get your jabs as soon as you can so we can continue to safely live with this virus and enjoy our freedoms by giving yourself, your family and community the protection they need.” From tomorrow, people who are double-jabbed or under 18 will no longer have to selfisolate if they have been in close contact with someone who has Covid. Instead, they will be advised to get a free PCR test. Anyone who tests positive following the test will still have to self-isolate. The change follows weeks of concern about the so-called “pingdemic” which was blamed for causing staff shortages. In a further move, the cost of travel tests for people who arrive from abroad is to be cut. It will fall from £88 to £68 for UK travellers who have come from green list countries, or those fully vaccinated coming from amber list nations. This follows criticism from the travel industry and Tory MPs, as reported by the Sunday Express last week, that the cost of tests was adding a heavy financial burden on families. Mr Javid acknowledged the cost can be “a barrier” to people who wanted to go on a summer holiday and said consumers needed to be protected from “exploitative practices”. A 10-day internal review of the pricing and standards of test providers has been announced. He said: “Too many providers are acting like cowboys and that needs to stop. The public should be allowed to enjoy their summer holidays without having to face excessive costs or anxiety.” Yesterday, a further 29,520 Covid cases were reported, and 93 deaths, down from 103 last week. cut test costs: How we reported criticism last weekend expert says has hit the By Tony Whitfield LOCKDOWNS and doom-andgloom statements by experts and Government ministers have created “a pandemic of anxiety”, a leading mind coach has warned. As many as two-fifths of the population, including children, have developed “Covid anxiety” because of a campaign of fear since the pandemic started, claims author Don Macpherson. Many people have been left with a “general feeling of malaise” where they have lost their “enthusiasm, direction and love for life” and seem unable to get it back, he says. He argued that daily death and infection figures, along with messages to isolate or warnings not to “visit Granny because you will kill her”, had triggered mental fatigue and hypnotised people to believe the worst will crusade GENERATION LOCKDOWN Never let them lose out happen. This anxiety has led to a significant increase in depression, phobias and conditions such as OCD or eating disorders, and a loss of confidence, particularly among youngsters. Mr Macpherson has coached sports stars for more than 30 years. They include 1996 Formula One world champion Damon Hill and 1987 Wimbledon champ Pat Cash, England rugby inter ­ nationals Anthony Watson and George Ford, and, more recently, children in sports academies. He pointed out that anxiety has affected people who seemed without worries before Covid. But he said they can learn to retrain their minds to overcome the condition, learn how to be calmer, more relaxed and confident, and reconnect to the person they were before the pandemic. He said there had always been anxiety before Covid-19 but added: “The anxiety, the worry, the fear has now become the real pandemic. “There was a huge increase in anxiety levels right from the very first lockdown. From that moment on, there has been almost a campaign of fear. “I have seen that in people who were the happiest people that I have met – real larger-than-life characters. Somebody said to me

HEALTH CONCERN SE1ST Sunday Express August 15, 2021 9 Mounted police on Oz beaches as cases soar MOUNTED police have taken to the beaches of New South Wales as record infection rates led to further crackdowns on people flouting restrictions. Those breaking Covid rules in Sydney and surrounding areas face fines that have been increased from £530 to as much as £2,650. Australia’s most populous state saw a record spike in daily infections, surging by 466 in 24 hours, eclipsing the previous daily high of 390 set on Friday. The rise has cast doubt on whether Sydney will end its nine-week lockdown on August 28 as planned. NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian described the fight against Covid as a war. She said: “We have to accept that this is the worst situation New South Wales has been in since day one. “And it’s also regrettably, because of that, the worst situation Australia has been in.” She added: “We will get through this but September and October are going to be very difficult. “This is literally a war, and we’ve known we’ve been in a By Benjamin Russell war for some time but never to this extent.” Hundreds more defence personnel will be deployed to Sydney this week, to help enforce the restrictions. The authorities are particularly concerned about the spread to several regional towns, which are to enter a strict seven-day lockdown. Fines will apply to people entering rural areas without a permit, while stay-at-home orders were introduced for seven days in some districts not currently restricted. New South Wales police commissioner Mick Fuller said: “The fines are some of the biggest that I’ve ever seen and we will be issuing them as of today. “Those people that have been getting around the orders, taking family vacations to other premises – that is over.” Russia reported a new record of 819 daily Covid deaths yesterday, bringing the total to 169,683. In Japan, Tokyo’s new cases hit 5,094, a day after its record of 5,773. Soho bars ‘baffled’ by ban on gazebos By Justin Stoneman AL FRESCO dining was tipped to become the norm on high streets as the pandemic forced people to socialise outdoors. But those visiting some of the most popular tourist streets in London will have to brave the elements after “clueless” councillors banned gazebos and heaters. Westminster City Council has told business owners “no gazebos, umbrellas, heaters or other furniture” are allowed at a host of iconic West End hospitality spots. It said the regulation changes are for “public safety reasons”. Tables and chairs are still permitted but the new measures could anxiety pandemic nation’s youth... the other day, ‘For the first time in my life I wake up with this general feeling of being flat, of losing my enthusiasm, direction, my love for life. And I don’t seem to be able to get it back’.” Mr Macpherson went on: “The pandemic and lockdowns have caused our brains to be significantly fatigued. We are low on mental energy as our brains have been beaten up. “When we are fearful, worried, stressed or even just mentally fatigued we are far more prone to believe what we are told. “You could say that we have been brain-washed by being constantly subjected to the various scientists and specialists reminding us to be on guard, vigilant, because the virus is still out there, still a big threat, etc.” He added: “The collateral damage of these lockdowns, especially to our youngsters, has been badly underestimated and it may be some time before we find out.” While Mr Macpherson acknowledged that Covid is a very serious illness, he believes it is now time to “get our heads around it” and learn to live with it. Excessive vigilance – monitoring daily statistics and coverage of the virus – can keep people trapped, he warns. He said: “I see people in their own cars with masks on and think how scared must they be? “It’s their prerogative and choice, of course, but there is still a very high percentage of people who are clearly very scared. “That shows you just what a good job we have done in frightening them.” However, there is some good news. People can beat their Covid anxiety by using 10 simple “brain-tuning tools” outlined in Mr Macpherson’s book, How To Master Your Monkey Mind. He explained how Buddhists refer to their inner chattering voice as the “monkey mind” and so overcoming anxiety “comes down to being able to master your own inner voice”. He said: “It has helped so many people to have a better banter with their own monkey mind and to understand, therefore, not to listen and believe everything your monkey tells you. “People need to accept that if they are going to keep watching the news and taking notice of the latest Covid figures they are potentially, possibly, COACH: Don Macpherson in a trance and may well have been for many months.” He added the brain-tuning tools in his book have been used and road-tested by cardiac and neurosurgeons, sports stars, TV personalities and ordinary people. Tips include advice such as understanding and changing how you breathe in order to help you face down anxiety, and how to use “progressive language” to mind the monkey chatter in your head. He also offers advice on how to take a calmer approach to life, replacing haste and pace with serenity and tranquility, and using the power of your brain to boost your immune system, get well, stay well and improve the quality of your sleep. ● There is a free 20-minute audio message on Mr Macpherson’s website: donmacpherson.co.uk OPINION: PAGE 16 Angry: John James threaten the area’s recovery, say worried business bosses. “This is the most baffling nonsense I’ve ever seen,” said John James, director of the £1billion Soho Estates property empire. “On the busiest streets in London, clueless councillors now expect diners to face the rain for ‘safety’ reasons but for a year this was all deemed safe.” The council said the rules are designed to make locations safe for a “potential evacuation” in areas where there is a “particularly dense concentration of al fresco dining”. It said the measures were put in place after “guidance” from London Fire Brigade. A fire brigade spokesman said it is “working with the local council to ensure al fresco furniture doesn’t impact upon our response”.

10 Sunday Express August 15, 2021 Cop role was ‘an honour’ says Coogan By David Stephenson Steve Coogan says it has been “an honour” to play a detective who helped convict two of Stephen Lawrence’s killers. The Alan Partridge actor added it was “nice to play someone who has integrity and ordinary decency”. In the drama he is DCI Clive Driscoll who in 2006 volunteered to review the case after the Macpherson Report found the Met “institutionally racist” in its original investigation. The teen was murdered in south-east London in 1993. Gary Dobson and David Norris were only convicted in 2012 after a catalogue of failures. The actor chatted for three hours to the ex-DCI, now aged 70. Steve said: “He had a sense of humour and didn’t go around shielding his sword of truth – he just quietly does his job.” ● Stephen is on ITV later this month Held: Gillian Sturgeon Sturgeon’s sister, 46, arrested THE sister of Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has been arrested and charged over an alleged domestic incident. Gillian Sturgeon, 46, was arrested on Wednesday over the incident at a house in Kilwinning, North Ayrshire, on August 7. The mother-of-two has been released on an undertaking to appear at Kilmarnock Sheriff Court on a date to be confirmed. A 50-year-old man has also been arrested and charged over the alleged incident. He was released on an undertaking to appear at the same court. A Police Scotland spokeswoman said: “A full report will be sent to the procurator fiscal.” It comes weeks after Gillian Sturgeon flouted the Scottish government’s Covid rules after sharing a photo of her travelling on a ScotRail train not wearing a face mask. EXCLUSIVE From Mike Parker IN LOS ANGELES PRINCE Andrew must return to the US to face questions over sex claims against him, an exclusive poll in America and Britain reveals. The allegations against the Duke of York have also damaged the image of the Royal Family, according to people on both sides of the Atlantic. The Sunday Express-commissioned survey, conducted in the US and UK, found almost nine out of 10 people in Britain – 88.31 per cent – want him to submit to questioning in America over accusations of rape and sexual assault. The result in the US poll, which asked: “Do you think Prince Andrew should return to the US to answer the sex claims made against him?”, was equally overwhelming, with 79.72 per cent saying he should. The allegations against Andrew have damaged the image of the Royal Family, said 76.92 per cent of Britons, while 68.63 per cent of Americans agreed. The twin polls were run by OnePulse, the real-time opinion platform. Each asked the same set of questions. Quizzed whether they thought “Prince Andrew will ever return to life as a working member of the Royal Family”, 83.22 per cent said that they believed he would not, while 72.13 per cent of Americans said the Prince wouldn’t make a comeback. The results will come as a devastating blow to Andrew. A preliminary court hearing is already scheduled for next month and one prominent attorney has warned that the Prince has “no good option” left. On September 13, Manhattan Federal Court judge Lewis Kaplan will decide whether to serve the Queen’s 61-year-old son with a lawsuit if he or his legal team have not yet responded to the claims. The Duke cannot be compelled to answer the civil case filed last week by Virginia Giuffre, an alleged “sex slave” of Andrew’s friend, the late paedophile financier Jeffrey Epstein. She alleges she was sexually abused by the Prince at least three times when she was aged 17. But if he fails to respond within 21 days, he risks forfeiting the case, with an automatic court finding against him and a claim for damages that some legal experts believe could run into tens of millions of dollars. Our poll today reveals an overwhelming majority of Americans believe, just like people in Britain, that Andrew should answer Ms Giuffre whose lawsuit accuses him of sexual battery, I always liked Prince Andrew. Friendly, approachable, smiling – in marked contrast to the Queen’s other children who were prickly, regarding the media as “the enemy”. He was completely different. They liked skiing and horses – he liked golf and sitting in the sun. He didn’t even look like them, keeping his hair and piling on the pounds, becoming “The Duke of Pork”, while they stayed fairly slim and spare. Prince Andrew served with distinction as a helicopter pilot with the Task Force in the Falkland War 39 years ago. The photo on his return to Portsmouth, a red rose clamped between his ample teeth, captured the joy of youth and sheer delight at pulling off an unlikely victory in the South Atlantic. He was widely admired by men and women alike and was said to be the Queen’s favourite child. On the day of his engagement to Sarah Ferguson in March 1986, SE1ST It’s time for Andrew to clear his name in US, says Britain sexual abuse and “rape in the first degree”. The Prince, who is with the Queen in Balmoral, where he is reportedly having crisis talks with his brother Prince Charles, now faces a double dilemma over the scandal. If he were to swear an affidavit or give testimony in the civil case brought by Ms Giuffre, anything he might say could be used in future criminal cases being built by the FBI, which also wants to question him over his friendship with Epstein. This was confirmed by Melissa Murray, a professor of law at New York University, who said: “Any evidence that emerges in a civil case can be used to inform future criminal charges.” Prof Murray added that the Prince could make an offer to settle the case but there is no guarantee such an offer would be accepted and could also backfire on him. “Settling could Allegations could hardly be Comment By Michael Cole former bbc royal correspondent pictured below, ITN’s Anthony Carthew and I interviewed the couple at Buckingham Palace. For its candour, good humour and telling insights, the interview was judged to be the most revealing royal interview ever. Their kiss on the Buckingham Palace balcony after the wedding at Westminster Abbey was the real thing. I covered their early foreign tours. The Duke and Duchess of York, as they had become, had the world at their feet, popular, glamorous and able to reach out to ordinary people in a way other royals could not or would not. That’s why I was sorry to see them divorce 10 years later and even sadder to see the Prince become entangled in a legal cat’s cradle that will not be easy to escape; certainly not with his reputation or dignity intact. The Duchess of York – always Sarah to her ex-husband and never “Fergie”– was brought down by her close relationships with two sex claim be seen as saying that there was some truth to it.” Her view is supported by prominent New York civil defence attorney Albert D’Aquino, who starkly declared: “There’s no good option. I don’t think he will submit to the court’s authority to order him to give a deposition, or to answer questions on which he wishes to demur. He runs too much risk of self-incrimination, which could then spawn a criminal action against him.” Texas-based women’s rights attorney Michelle Tuegel warned that Andrew could also be hit with a contempt charge by the judge, if he fails to respond to Ms Giuffre’s claims – which he has always strenuously denied. That would not mean the duke could be extradited from Britain “but he could be subject to arrest if a judge charges him and he then tries to travel to the US,” said Ms Tuegel. She added: “I expect he is going to continue to try to do what he has already done, which is to avoid, not respond and not co-operate. But that could come with some very negative consequences for him in the civil system.” The Duke American money men, Johnny Bryan and Steve Wyatt. It took one New York financier, Jeffrey Epstein, to bring down Prince Andrew. His ill-advised friendship with the late paedophile has effectively cancelled his role as a working member of the Royal Family, with the increasing legal fallout now ensuring no way back to the privileged life he once knew. For the Queen’s second son to be unable to travel to America, our most important ally, without the certainty of being served with a subpoena, to appear as a witness in the criminal prosecution of his erstwhile friend Ghislaine Maxwell, or to be slapped with a writ as the respondent in a civil case brought by Virginia Giuffre, is

SE1ST scandal ‘He can ignore Virginia but he can’t ignore the judicial process. This is for the courts to decide’ Picture: REX/Shutterstock CASE: Prince Andrew pictured with Virginia Roberts, now Virginia Giuffre, inset far left, and Ghislaine Maxwell, girlfriend of Jeffrey Epstein Sunday Express August 15, 2021 11 Shark fin imports to be banned By David Williamson TINS of shark fin soup will disappear from the UK’s shelves as Britain aims to lead the world in protecting the creatures. The import and export of detached shark fins will be banned. Out of more than 500 species of shark, 143 are considered “under threat”. It is hoped that banning detached fins from being brought into the UK will protect several species, including the endangered shortfin mako shark and overfished blue shark. Animal Welfare Minister Lord Goldsmith said: “Shark finning is indescribably cruel and causes thousands of shark to die terrible deaths. It is also unforgivably wasteful. “The practice is rightly banned in UK waters, but the trade continues, with serious implications for the future of these magnificent creatures.” has reportedly instructed London criminal defence solicitor Gary Bloxsome to help plot his next move. Mr Bloxsome has defended British troops against war crimes allegations as well as footballers in assault cases. David Boies, the attorney representing Ms Giuffre – known by her maiden name Roberts when the alleged incidents took place – said last week: “He can ignore me and he can ignore Virginia, which is what he’s been doing for the last five years. But he can’t ignore judicial process. This is now a matter for the courts to decide.” worse... it’s a PR nightmare nothing short of disastrous. The allegations levelled by Ms Giuffre, formerly Virginia Roberts, could not be more serious or lurid: that the Prince sexually assaulted her when she was a teenager, when she was trafficked by Epstein to have sex with Andrew when she was 17 and a minor under US law. But that’s the thing – it’s US law. It may be mighty but its writ does not run in the realms of Prince Andrew’s mother, the Queen. In Britain, law is administered and justice delivered in the name of the Queen, in Her Majesty’s courts, by Her Majesty’s judges, most of whom are Queen’s Counsel. The allegations against the Prince could hardly be worse and it is a PR nightmare for Buckingham Palace, threatening to overshadow the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee celebrations next year. It’s hugely damaging to the Prince personally but, it must not be forgotten, he has never been charged with any crime and has always denied any wrongdoing and even meeting the then Miss Roberts. With such a categorical denial by a Prince of the royal blood, his London lawyers have played a dead bat to the allegations coming from across the Atlantic – “stonewalling”, say the lawyers of Ms Giuffre, now a 38-year-old mother-of-three living in Australia. That’s certainly the best legal response, however bad the PR fallout may be. It’s a civil case, not a criminal one. The Prince is not Do you think Prince Andrew should return to the USA and answer claims made against him? UK NO 12% YES 88% NO 20% ‘He has never been charged with a crime’ USA YES 80% the accused and won’t be a legal respondent unless he responds to the writ. If he feels no compunction to do so he cannot be forced. This is about money, not jail time. Ms Giuffre is seeking unspecified damages. But even if the case goes to court in New York, and a jury finds for the plaintiff and awards her many thousands of dollars, it is highly doubtful any such judgment could be enforced in Britain; not if Andrew had taken no part in the trial and not therefore defended himself against the allegations. In short, if Prince Andrew never enters any country where the US has jurisdiction, he is safe. On top Have these allegations against Prince Andrew damaged the image of the Royal Family? UK NO 23% YES 77% NO 31% USA YES 69% of all other considerations, the age of sexual consent in Britain is 16, not 17 as it is in New York, although other US states vary. I am glad to see Andrew has engaged a PR firm to handle the growing media storm. I only hope he heeds good advice. Even more worrying than the Giuffre civil case, the Prince should be concerned about the criminal prosecution of Maxwell, 59, who has been living in harsh conditions in an unpleasant remand prison in Brooklyn for more than a year on charges of procuring teenage girls for Epstein to sexually abuse. She is due to be tried in November. But if she is offered a plea bargain – less jail time in exchange for an admission of guilt and naming prominent men who were friends of Epstein and shared his sexual proclivities and practices – there may be a number of famous men who will find themselves in greater legal peril than even the troubled Prince is right now. Bond: Una and Martin Freeman’s tribute to co-star Una MARTIN Freeman has said working with veteran actress Una Stubbs was “honestly one of the more fun and exciting things to happen in my life”. They worked together on the BBC series Sherlock between 2010 and 2017. Stubbs, best known for roles in the film Summer Holiday, the BBC sitcom Till Death Us Do Part and as Mrs Hudson in Sherlock, died on Thursday in Edinburgh surrounded by her family. She was 84. Freeman, 49, labelled her “brilliant to be around, personally and professionally”. “Also, she was very naughty, which is something she and I bonded over immediately.” Freeman said Stubbs told him she felt “out of her depth” on the set of Till Death Us Do Part. “I think that humility was part of what made her so good – and so loved,” he said.

12 Sunday Express August 15, 2021 War games boost India ties AN Indian naval vessel in Portsmouth for war games reflects “serious strengthening” of military ties, say experts. INS Tabar will engage with fellow frigate HMS Westminster in the exercises. Alessio Patalano, at King’s College London, said: “It takes a certain degree of trust to undertake anti-submarine and air manoeuvres with another country because you reveal much of your hand.” James Rogers, of the Council By Marco Giannangeli on Geostrategy think-tank, added: “China sees India as a strategic threat and it is even more important that we don’t allow India to fall into a Chinese camp in the future. We are giving it full support.” Indian high commissioner Gaitri Issar Kumar said that the visit to the UK will help strengthen “the friendly contacts and co-operation between both navies”. SE1ST ALLY: Tabar at Portsmouth By Marco Giannangeli DEFENCE EDITOR BRITISH paratroopers heading for Kabul to help rescue 4,000 UK nationals and Afghans have been warned they could be drawn into “face-to-face” combat with the Taliban. The move comes amid concerns that insurgents could use captured heavy artillery – originally provided by the US – to bombard the airport. There are also fears they could join Islamic jihadis in using suicide bombers. The evacuation is expected to begin in earnest on Tuesday and will take up to 10 days to complete. It could turn into a race against time as the Taliban closes in on the capital. Their forces were last night fewer than 30 miles from the city, after taking the town of Pul-e- Alam, a key staging post for an assault on Kabul. And they had captured Mazar-i- Sharif, a major city in northern Afghanistan, where President Ashraf Ghani had travelled to two days ago to rally troops. This followed victories in its second and third largest cities – Kandahar and Herat – and means that the militants now control half of Afghanistan’s 34 provincial capitals. The evacuation plan, Operation Pitting, which was worked out a week ago, is split into two elements. Members of the Parachute and Pathfinder Regiments are tasked ‘The situation is very tense’ afghanistan: the with ensuring the airport remains secure and protected from Taliban advances, while Special Forces will provide deep intelligence and safe escort for embassy staff and other UK nationals. Some 650 British troops drawn from 16 Air Assault Brigade, commanded by Brigadier Dan Blanchard, are the UK’s highreadiness response force and have been deployed to Afghanistan. A second tranche of 600 Royal Marines from 45 Commando have been placed on standby. Last night sources confirmed their pre-flight briefings at Merville barracks, Colchester, included a warning about the potential threats they may face, which range from roadside bombs and suicide bombers to bombardment by captured artillery and drones. While commanders want to avoid combat, all Paras are being deployed with grenade launchers and shoulder-fired anti-tank weapons to counter the armoured vehicles used by the Taliban. The first British elements arrived in Kabul early yesterday morning after flying out from RAF Brize Norton as the first of 3,500 US Marines flew in from Kuwait. Included within the UK contingent were two officers carrying diplomatic pouches packed with immigration papers. The main task force was due to arrive in the early hours of this morning. A squadron of 120 SAS soldiers and troops from the Special Forces Support Regiment also landed in Kabul on Friday night. The SAS are linking up with interpreters to secure local intelligence and receive briefings from colleagues and MI6 officers based at the British Embassy. The unit includes a communications team from as well as a bomb disposal team and a small medical team, to be based at the airfield alongside US special operation teams. While the airfield is surrounded by blast walls within its secure “green zone” it is not being patrolled by Afghan forces and it will be up to British forces to help a small force of Turkish soldiers to repel any Taliban offensive. The plan involves establishing a series of protection rings around the airport, with the first buffer zone a kilometre away. Though UK embassy staff and diplomatic personnel who live and work close to the airport will be the first to be evacuated, Afghans seeking to flee under the Afghan Relocation and Assistance Policy will also be asked to gather there. An 80-strong Royal Military Police unit will join six UK Border Force officials to check documents before allowing them to flee the country.

SE1ST great withdrawal Sunday Express August 15, 2021 13 Picture: AFP/Getty Paras at the ready for Kabul rescue mission DESPERATE DAYS: Afghan nationals on the Pakistan border yesterday The second ring, another 1-2 kilometres out, will see members of the Army Pathfinder Regiment provide surveillance for approaching enemy advances. They will be assisted by a small troop of airborne gunners from 7 Regiment Royal Horse Artillery, who will use locating radar to track and trace any in-bound Taliban fire such as mortars, rockets and artillery. The third ring will see members of the SAS offering deep surveillance, some 7 kilometres away. They will travel light with instructions not to engage unless fired upon. British troops will work alongside 3,500 US Marines who are arriving from Kuwait, part of a high-readiness group called Task Force 51, and from the Special Purpose Crisis Force aboard the assault ship USS Iwo Jima. Last night commanders warned that flights must begin on Tuesday at the latest but there were still logistical issues to resolve. A plan REFUGEES PLEA: Gen Lord Dannatt announced by Defence Minister Ben Wallace to use chartered aircraft may fail, sources warned, because the removal of many Covid restrictions means there is a shortage of civilian aircraft and military aircraft may have to be found. To add to the pressure, Afghanistan’s national carrier Ariana, which operates just five aircraft – a Boeing 757, two 737s and two Airbus A300s – is already struggling to meet demand as pilots and aircrew flee the country. There is also the question over where evacuees will go. Last night the Foreign Office was still negotiating with the US authorities to allow the RAF airlift to fly Afghan Entitled Persons to Kuwait, where a reception centre is being built for the 15,000 people they will airlift out of Kabul. A senior military source said: “We are not a huge force but, of course, all troops have been briefed that they may have to fight and that could be face-to-face in the streets of Kabul. “Of course, we are hoping it does not come to this. This is going to be a very complex operation in which we are planning to airlift as many as 6,000 people. “Kabul is currently packed with refugees and the situation is very tense – we could have serious issues if we get masses of people trying to join the exodus who do not qualify. “All this on the background of credible intelligence warnings that the Taliban will use their artillery against the airfield which they captured from the Afghan National Army – this is a real concern. The pressure is on. We must be in a position to begin extractions by Tuesday.” Members of the Cabinet, including PM Boris Johnson, have been increasingly vocal in their criticism of US President Joe Biden’s “heartbreaking betrayal” of Afghanistan, with his decision to bring forward a planned phased withdrawal of US troops to meet a symbolic September 11 anniversary deadline. British generals have already made it clear that, without US military and logistical support, the UK’s meagre 2,500-strong training forces could not have stayed. But last night Gen Lord What do you think – WAS IT A MISTAKE FOR THE WEST TO OCCUPY AFGHANISTAN? YES – 0901 133 4421 ● text SXYES to 63333 NO – 0901 133 4422 ● text SXNO to 63333 Texts and calls cost 50p plus network access charge. You must have the bill payer’s permission. Vote closes at midnight tonight. SP: Spoke, 0333 202 3390. Express Newspapers may contact you by post, SMS and/or email with offers, goods or services that may be of interest to you. To stop receiving SMS messages please text ‘NSNOINFO’ to the originating number. Dannatt, who headed the British Army between 2006-09, urged Mr Johnson to mount an urgent humanitarian aid operation amid a looming refugee crisis. While Lord Dannatt said he shared the anger of many military veterans who served there at the way the country is being left to its fate, he insisted it is still not too late for the Government to act. He said: “It is OK to extract our British citizens. What about mounting a humanitarian operation in Kabul to look after some of the refugees, to build some camps, and bring in some humanitarian supplies? “At least let’s show to the Afghan government we are not completely abandoning them and still stand side-by-side with them. It’s quite possible to do that. “I think our Government should be thinking about that kind of response. There may come a moment when our last troops have got to go but until that point, let us do what we can to help with the humanitarian crisis, even if we have given up helping on the military side.”

SE1ST 14 Sunday Express August 15, 2021 SID OWEN’S RAGS The cast a family TOUGH GUYS: Sid Owen starring in ITV’s Bad Girls in 2006; and with his on-screen father Mike Reid in EastEnders ricky kid>>>> By Garry Bushell SID OWEN is peeved when we speak. A tabloid newspaper has used the publication of his autobiography as an excuse to regurgitate scandals from when the actor was at the peak of his 1990s fame as Ricky in EastEnders. “The premise of the book, the reason for doing it, was to give a bit of hope to people, especially people suffering with their mental health,” Sid tells me, a clear note of frustration in his voice. “It was to show people at the bottom that you can come from nothing and achieve things...not to drag up old news.” The book, From Rags To Ricky, certainly does that. Owen’s extraordinary, Dickensian story takes him from child thief to soap stardom and beyond. Born David Sutton in Islington, North London, Sid was the son of a violent, abusive armed robber dad, and a barmaid mother who died when he was seven-years-old. A chubby child – the “Sid” came from his nickname, Steak and Kidney Sidney” – he was lured into a life of petty crime by his three elder brothers. “It was council estate living then, day by day,” he says. “It was survival. We grew up struggling, trying to live on benefits. “It wasn’t so easy to get handouts, you had to learn to think on your feet. Crime was all around me – crime was all I knew.” Acting was his salvation. Without it, he says, “I might have got a job in a bank, but the likelihood was I’d have been robbing it.” Three giant characters changed his life – the drama coach Anna Scher, the late Cockney comedian Mike Reid, who played his EastEnders screen father Frank Butcher, and movie star Al Pacino. “Mike Reid felt sorry for me, he took me under his wing and that was what I craved,” Sid recalls. “He advised me and looked out for me.” Owen was 16 and living in a squat when he got the part. The BBC One soap became his surrogate family: “It was like a whole family unit. It gave me that structure, that make-believe family to keep me normal. Nick Berry was like my wise older brother. “Mike was special. He was hilarious to work with but on screen he was always frustrated with Ricky or lITTLE STAR: Sid as a schoolboy; and above with Al Pacino angry with him. He used to go red in the face, he was so into it. It looked so real. It was terrifying. “Once he had to slap me, but Mike arched his hand so I wouldn’t get the full impact. Even so, when he arched it over my ear I almost went deaf and was seeing stars...but it looked so good on screen. “Mike left us too soon, he was 67...it was such a shame.” Sid, now 49, misses EastEnders but says: “The schedule was very hard. I was doing it from the age of 16, you feel like you’re missing out on your teens and your 20s. “My mates were travelling, I couldn’t. That’s why I left the first time. I came and went four or five times.” The producers asked him back this year, but the dates clashed with his book. “I would go back, 100 per cent,” he says. “It was a big part of my life;

SE1ST TO RICHES STORY Sunday Express August 15, 2021 15 of EastEnders became ...acting saved my life PROUD: Sid says he has never been happier than he is now; right, getting married to on-screen wife Patsy Palmer, which pulled in 20 million viewers back in 1997 Picture: Humphrey Nemar ‘As you get older you don’t torture yourself’ it was good to me. I’ll never forget it. The 1990s were the glory days. It was the pinnacle for Ricky and Bianca” – played by Patsy Palmer. “Our wedding got 20 million viewers” – 10 times more than the soap has pulled recently. A nna Scher, whose theatre school was near his estate, opened the door for his career. “She was my saviour,” says Sid. “She was affordable, poorer kids could enrol for 25p a week and she had a genuine interest in troubled kids. “Her classes helped me channel my energy and anger into acting and improvising. Anna let us swear which was a huge release. “It takes you away from where you’re at. If I swore at home my aunt would stick soap in my mouth.” Sid lived with his maternal aunt Carol, but clashed with her partner. Consequently he spent a lot of time with his friend’s family, the Wooders. His first major acting high was playing Al Pacino’s screen son in the 1985 Hollywood movie Revolution when he was 13. “In one scene I get captured by the enemy, whipped by Donald Sutherland and tied to a cannon. “It was eight or nine pages of dialogue and we shot it for a week, freestyle and improvising. “I got the part because I could improvise. That’s one of my proudest moments, that and all the memorable scenes with Patsy, the moving storyline about a still-born baby, deep stuff.” New Yorker Pacino, who had drank and smoked from an early age, was another good influence, disciplining Sid for running wild on the film set: “I had ADHD – he’d have a word in my ear to calm me down. He was fond of me.” Owen says he has never been happier than he is now: “As you get older, you don’t torture yourself. I don’t smoke or take drugs any more. I train four or five times a week. I run and I swim, nothing too tricky. An hour’s run or an hour’s swim. I cope better now. I’m a good cook and I’ve got an amazing girlfriend, Victoria. “We’ve been together a year but we dated 23 years ago. She’d say my best attribute was my cooking and my worst is snoring.” In 2012 Sid left EastEnders but LET’S COOK: Sid Owen in Celebrity MasterChef even now the spectre of Ricky hangs over him. “I get recognised every day,” he says. “I still get people shouting ‘Rickkayyyy!’, there’s nothing original. It’s crazy, even abroad. “It can get very touchy feely when people are drunk. It can be a bit intrusive – you learn to stay in control. All the repeats are on now, so it’s come full circle. “It can happen anywhere. I was in panto in Bournemouth 20 years ago, having a pee, and a guy who was stood there, covered in blood with a copper interviewing him, turned to me and said, ‘Mate, can I have an autograph?’” L ittle wonder Sid lived in France for 20 years. “I was a bit of a hermit,” he laughs. “But lockdown was OK for me – as an actor you can sit on your bum for months between jobs. It’s something you get used to.” Sid, who starred in the final series of ITV1 prison drama Bad Girls in 2006, said his ambition is to do “a good gangster movie or a good British crime drama TV series, like an English Sopranos, set in London. He revealed: “I would always take Peaky Blinders over any medical programmes”. Sid has a home in Kent and a rented flat near London’s Tower Hill. A Celebrity MasterChef veteran, he relaxes by watching cooking shows, loves the comedy of Jimmy Carr and Ricky Gervais, and “all sorts of music”. But prod him and he talks about his love of reggae, Madness and 80s stars like Bad Manners, the Style Council and Sham 69. “Nick Berry got me into Sham,” he laughs. “They were heavy.” Sid had a rather heavy start in life himself, starting stealing at the age of four, but he has no regrets and no remorse. “I did nothing that bad,” he says. “Otherwise, you’d know about it. I was never a hardened criminal. “Back then, we were told we were problem children, now we’d get help. I come from a very mixed-up dysfunctional family and just being here today and getting through it and doing the right thing makes me feel proud. “I’ve been lucky.” ● From Rags to Ricky by Sid Owen (Macmillan, £18.99) out now

SE1ST 16 Sunday Express August 15, 2021 Let’s derail HS2 OPINION The deadly end of ‘incel’ terrorism THE brutal killings in Plymouth have focused attention on two dangers that must be addressed. First, unstable individuals can still gain access to firearms. Second, a sordid internet subculture constitutes a clear threat to public safety. Killer Jake Davison made reference to “incels” in online videos. These are men who describe themselves as “involuntary celibate”, blame women for this situation, and who vent their frustration on the internet with vile misogyny – which can degenerate into realworld violence. In 2018, Alek Minassian killed 10 people in Toronto when he drove a van into pedestrians. Before going on his rampage, he posted online that the “incel rebellion” was underway. Minassian praised Elliot Rodger, a student in California who in 2014 murdered six people. Rodger had described in detail his loathing for women and his frustration at his virginity. It is manifestly clear that extremists in this subculture are devoted to an ideology which they are prepared to advance using violence. This constitutes terrorism. People in Plymouth and far beyond will want to know why the police returned Davison’s confiscated gun and permit last month after he took an anger management course. Surely the right to possess a lethal weapon should be revoked on a “one strike and you’re out” basis? We owe it to the families of the victims that we do everything we can to stop men being drawn into this foul movement which has already caused so much pain. Rescuing a generation Anguish and uncertainty in young people who suffer anxiety in the wake of the pandemic are a legacy of the lockdown which demands urgent attention. Millions of adults found the isolation of this period difficult to deal with, but for young people this epic era of fear and loneliness coincided with a formative chapter in their lives. Don Macpherson, who has coached sporting luminaries including Damon Hill and Pat Cash, is alarmed at how so many members of Generation Lockdown have lost their drive, enthusiasm and love for life. Instead, anxiety has fuelled depression, phobias and other disorders. Mr Macpherson believes that such worry and fear have become the “real pandemic”. We can all play a part in encouraging young people by assuring them that they are valued in society and by spurring them on in their passions. As teachers strive to rescue the education of their charges after this chapter of sustained disruption, efforts must also be made to nurture their mental health. Problems ignored in youth can spiral in later life. It is inevitable that the experience of lockdown will shape the lives of this upcoming generation, but with the right support they can go forward confident in the knowledge that we think the world of them. and spend cash on local trains By Andrew Bridgen CONSERVATIVE MP NW LEICESTERSHIRE It’s being strongly rumoured that the Eastern leg of HS2 is hitting the buffers as government departments start to take stock of the catastrophic costs that are being incurred on this project before any track has actually been laid. As one of the more prominent anti-HS2 MPs, I have had a number of media requests for comment on the issue in recent days and appeared on BBC’s Newsnight programme last week. The fact this is happening clearly demonstrates that something is afoot, with reports of the Government’s internal major projects authority stating that the route from Birmingham to Leeds and Crewe to Manchester has been designated “unachievable”, going on to state that a multitude of issues “do not appear to be manageable or resolvable”. The stretch from London to Birmingham is still marked at “amber/red” for “successful delivery in doubt”. In addition to this, the publication of the Government’s eagerly awaited Integrated Rail Strategy has been delayed for months, presumably because difficult decisions need to be made around it. It seems only tunnel-visioned lobbyists and some misguided regional politicians are retaining enthusiasm for this scheme. For city mayors and various council leaders, HS2 is akin to a comedian resorting to a swearword rather than a witty remark when dealing with a heckler. It is an easy project to hitch yourself up to and claim you have big plans to sort out infrastructure. However, if you ask the person in the street or the small business, it is the connections to neighbouring towns and cities that are of primary concern. And while these regional politicians regularly trot out the line that the North or Midlands will never forgive the Government for cancelling the project, they are clearly ignoring polling. The most recent YouGov national poll showed 39 per cent against with 25 per cent in favour. But when looking at the North it was “Only tunnelvisioned lobbyists are still enthused by this scheme 42 per cent against and 41 per cent against in the Midlands. All polls show less than 10 per cent of the population “strongly support” this scheme, presumably made of the small minority who would actually benefit from it. O n Newsnight last week I was up against Henri Murison, director of the Northern Powerhouse Partnership, who, when challenged about whether we should have HS2 or better northern connections, suggested we should have it all. That’s easy to say when you don’t have to concern yourself with budgets, which is all too common among those lobbying in favour of HS2. For in this argument, there seems to be no account taken of costs, value for money, the finite amount of materials and workforce. There also seems to be little account taken of the impact on private sector construction or the fact the percentage inflation rate in the construction sector has been in LINE TO NOWHERE: The rail project is massively over budget with part branded ‘unachievable’ by a government body double figures for many years, something I warned about in Parliament in 2015, which will only lead to a higher final bill and pressure on housebuilders. Mr Murison also cited the issue of the long journey time between Leeds and Nottingham. While that is an issue, I do not detect a clamour of people in Nottingham – or indeed the wider East Midlands – citing a long journey to Leeds as their primary infrastructure need or want. Indeed, if you surveyed the vast majority of the population in the Midlands and North, it is East-West and local connections which are the concern, not how fast they can get to London or Manchester. There are huge calls on the public purse at present, with Covid and social care needing resource. With HS2 having little support out in the country, ballooning costs and looking out of date, with a questionable business case, it’s time to shoot this white elephant and concentrate resources on local connections which are deliverable and benefit the majority, not just the few.

SE1ST Sunday Express August 15, 2021 17 Nick Ferrari Might the Grand Old Duke of York be about to face the grand jury in New York? ■ TWO football stars swapped cheers for tears last week. England star Jack Grealish admitted he “teared up a little” when he bade farewell to his fellow players and staff at Aston Villa – the team he has supported since he was in short trousers – as he made his way to Manchester City. Meanwhile, arguably the world’s greatest footballer, Lionel Messi (inset), cried openly as he left Barcelona, the team he’s been with since a teenager, on his way to Paris Saint- Germain. He said he had no option. In Grealish’s case, the fact he is now Britain’s first £100million footballer with commensurate salary has eased the pain. As for Messi, although strict new wage rules meant Barcelona had to cut his pay, with £291 million in the bank, he surely could have explored a way round this. But perhaps the £48million salary helped stem the tears. Welcome to the true face of football, where loyalty can sometimes be as genuine as a chairman’s vote of confidence in the manager. ■ IF THE Labour MPs, human rights lawyers and other campaigners are so determined to prevent Jamaicanborn criminals from being deported, perhaps we can ensure that those who weren’t shipped out – including two murderers and one child rapist – are moved in next door to them here in the UK. We can’t afford to go green all alone IF IT wasn’t quite Apocalypse Now, it was certainly “Apocalypse Pretty Damned Soon”. The picture painted by the United Nations panel of experts was as gloomy as the fumes being belched out by a Chinese power station – and the response from the UK Government as predictable as a washed out bank holiday weekend. If we are to see an end to fires raging across places such as Turkey and Greece, forests in the US and Australia being turned into tons of charred ash, halt devastating flooding across much of Europe and prevent Venice sinking into the sea, all we have to do is to sign up to the Government’s headline-grabbing, greenembracing agenda. Although when I say “all” in reality it’s the most radical changes imaginable. And they also come at quite a price. The list of rules is all-encompassing. We can’t heat our homes above 19C; we’ve got to get into our lofts and ensure they’re fully insulated; we can only fit LED lightbulbs. We must only use peat-free compost; we must be prepared to leave our gardens, plants and flowers unwatered. We should limit ourselves to as few flights as possible; our next car has to be electric and – probably the most bizarre of the lot – we should “share” power tools. The spectre of feuds between neighbours and friends as to whether the garden strimmer was working perfectly before it was loaned out, or whether the lawnmower has lost power, seems ominous before this doomed practice even begins. But already the (electric) wheels are starting to come off the Government’s absurdly over-the-top response. The lunatic notion that the installation of new gas boilers will be banned from 2035 is already quietly being rolled back, and when you look at the cost it’s hardly surprising. They want to bin gas boilers in favour of either heat pumps or hydrogenpowered boilers. However, while a gas one will set you back around £3,000 to £4,000, a heat pump for a similarly-sized property could be as much as £12,000. Also, anything other than gas or electricity is very difficult to fit to flats and highrise accommodation. Clearly this had not been thought through by these ecoobsessed politicians. The mutter from the gutter in Whitehall is this will now be labelled as “an ambition”. Well, I might have the “ambition” to be a multi-million-selling author living on his own island in the Caribbean, but regrettably we must also allow for reality. Similarly, the drive for electric vehicles is also riddled with ridiculously lofty ambi- ■ AS THIS is being written, a human chain surrounds Geronimo the alpaca, living under a death sentence imposed by Defra, the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs. The row hinges on the validity of TB tests that show the eight-year-old alpaca has bovine tuberculosis. All owner Helen Macdonald, above, and her highly-qualified team are asking is for Geronimo to be allowed one more test that both parties deem acceptable in advance. As Boris Johnson’s own dad, Stanley, is one of the prominent campaigners fighting for this alpaca, if it is culled a lot of votes for the PM from animal lovers will go with it. tions. The cost of electric cars and vans is considerably higher than for petrol or diesel models and for many, electric just won’t hack it. Think of the plumber or builder with all their kit, trying to get up a hill in a van with all the power of a Scalextric car. Or the lift engineer called out in the middle of the night because people are trapped 20 floors up in a tower block, but his or her van is not fully charged. This is all because these politicians and chattering class cli- ■ WITH the weather taking a turn for the better, you may have decided to fire up the barbecue. If so, this belting Australian red would be the perfect choice. Penfolds Koonunga Hill Shiraz Cabinet 2019 is £9 at Tesco. mate campaigners might be green, but their bank balances are never in the red. They have houses, often with driveways. They’re not 17 storeys up in a tower block having to hang a power cable down to charge their treasured Tesla or BMW. Already the blue army of Conservative MPs who captured Labour’s red wall are warning Boris Johnson these policies are about as popular with voters as a front room filled with sewage after a flash flood. Trust the canny folk north of Watford Gap to see this will cost at least £400 a year for the average household. Of course we need to address climate change. But it must be alongside companies and countries – by far the greatest polluters – doing their bit too. Last year China opened three times more coal power stations than were built elsewhere on the planet. When Beijing bites the bullet, we’ll bin our boilers. Tune into Nick Ferrari at breakfast every weekday morning from 7am on LBC 97.3FM ■ Picture: Tom Wren/SWNS PERHAPS the inflation of grades has dented the value of A-level exams. And the system is probably in need of an urgent review, if not drastic reform. The same can probably be said of the GCSE set-up. But, can we PLEASE pause for a second and consider how this looks through the eyes of the young people who have just got their grades. Most have put in years of hard work and effort and this ranks among the biggest days in their lives as they emerge into the real world after years in classrooms. Raining on their cherished parade reflects poorly on everyone.

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Fury as XR activists plan new wave of disruption By David Williamson POLICE must take a hard line against Extinction Rebellion if its members attempt to bring London to another standstill, MPs say. Met Commissioner Dame Cressida Dick and Home Secretary Priti Patel were both urged to crack down on any efforts to create gridlock in the UK capital in the coming weeks, especially with businesses attempting to recover from the pandemic. Activists plan to take action this month until their demands to “stop all new fossil fuel investment immediately” are met. Protests starting on August 23 will target the City of London. The group’s website says “disruptive action” and a “digital rebellion” are planned as it targets “the root cause of the crisis, the political economy”. South Thanet Conservative MP Craig Mackinlay is appalled that daily life could be affected at a time when he hopes the economy will be opening up following the lifting of coronavirus restrictions. He said: “This time the Home Secretary and the Met Commissioner need to be very hard on them – because the economy is trying to get back on its feet and we don’t need impediments to people going about their normal business. “I’m very annoyed about Extinction Rebellion because, we all know, you scratch the surface and there’s a socialist organisation screaming to get out.” Extinction Rebellion held a two-week “uprising” in 2019 in London and other cities, and the police were criticised for taking a “hands-off” approach as demonstrators took over main streets. However, they overstepped the mark when they attempted to disrupt the rush-hour transport system. Furious commuters dragged protesters from the roof of a Tube train and attacked them. The group pledged to “take stock” of the event when planning future protests. SE1ST DEMANDS: Extinction Rebellion activists in Leeds in 2019; inset, doomed Tube protest Sunday Express August 15, 2021 19 Picture: Danny Lawson/PA Children, 13, buying drugs from ‘dark web’ By Eugene Henderson CHILDREN as young as 13 are buying drugs online amid an alarming rise in addiction to the “dark web” in the wake of a hit Netflix series. Experts say Britain’s youngsters are becoming “hooked” on hidden platforms that offer easy and anonymous access to illicit narcotics. Addiction charity UKAT says it is now taking more than 100 calls a month from children and young adults desperate for help to beat their dark web dependency. They say the influx of enquiries follows the release of the latest series of US drama StartUp on Netflix in May. The show, which originally ran for three series from 2016 to 2018, has now found a new young audience on the streaming service. Starring Martin Freeman and Otmara Marrero, it Fears Tory eco agenda may lose next election BORIS Johnson has been warned he could lead his party to an election defeat of 1945 proportions if he does not take a different approach to the threat of climate change. The PM was told to remember that the public “did not vote for Greta Thunberg”. Britain will host the international Cop26 climate change conference in Glasgow in November. It is seen as a pivotal event in the ecological programme, with Prince Charles due to speak. Last week, the UN’s IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) predicted the world would reach the 1.5C warming threshold – after which climate change will rapidly accelerate – within two decades. However, it said immediate action could bring it back under control by the latter half of the century. But there is concern in Tory ranks that measures to slash net carbon By David Williamson deputy political editor dioxide emissions to zero could leave the country’s poorest citizens worse off. They also fear that the UK, as hosts of the conference, may feel obliged to make bold and expensive commitments. South Thanet Conservative MP Craig Mackinlay has formed the Net Zero Scrutiny Group. He is concerned about the UK hosting the landmark talks, because “when you’re in the chair you feel you have to go all-in”. His concerns were echoed by Prof Gwythian Prins, of the London School of Economics. He warned that just as Churchill’s Conservatives were swept out of office in 1945, Mr Johnson could see his majority evaporate if he makes unpopular decisions on climate change. He said the Government should WARNING: The ‘gilets jaunes’ riots in Paris started over fuel introduce a tax incentive to encourage people to run cars on liquid petroleum gas which, he argues, will reduce air pollution. Describing much of the response to climate change as following the “economics of the madhouse”, he urged the PM to use COP26 to point the world in a new direction. And he also warned that the French “gilets jaunes” riots of 2018-19 had actually started as fuel tax protests. The Government said: “As the IPCC report made clear, acting now will be cheaper than waiting to deal with the consequences of climate change already evident around the world. At every step of our path to net zero, we will be guided by affordability and fairness.” It said the UK economy had grown 78 per cent while cutting emissions 44 per cent in the past 30 years. Mr Johnson has said the Gov - ernment wants to “keep bills low and make sure we have the technology and that it’s affordable”. Meanwhile, the Prime Minister is planning a £400million boiler scrappage scheme, offering £7,000 grants to those looking to move to lowcarbon options, it was reported. NICK FERRARI: PAGE 17 SHOW STAR: Marrero revolves around the creation of crypto-currency and a hidden internet platform built by a tech geek and used by Haitian gangsters to sell drugs. The dark web is part of the internet that is not visible to search engines. It can be accessed using an “anonymizing browser”. In just a few clicks crack cocaine, heroin, ecstasy or ketamine can be delivered to an address without leaving a digital footprint. Recent figures revealed drug deaths to be at an all time high across the UK. Eytan Alexander, of UKAT, said: “We’re extremely worried about the rise in cries for help with dark web addiction. “To order drugs in the same way you’d order a pizza online is frightening but appealing to a younger generation who want to remain off the radar. “Every time you use a drug you are gambling with your life, but for these youngsters the thrill is clearly worth logging on for.”

20 Sunday Express August 15, 2021 SE1ST FUND THE FIGHT Brave Jo on the cruel disease Actor turned novelist dies from MND, 59 A BEST-SELLING crime writer who originally found fame as an actor has died aged 59, seven months after being diagnosed with motor neurone disease. In the 1980s Clare Dunkel starred in iconic British comedies Are You Being Served?, below, and The Two Ronnies. She then carved out a successful second career writing grisly inventive crime fiction under the pen name Mo Hayder. Born Clare Damaris Bastin in Epping, Essex, in 1962, to a teacher mother and an astronomer father, she dropped out of school, dyed her hair green and ran away to London just before her 16th birthday, to live with her musician boyfriend. Four years later she won the Miss Nude beauty pageant in 1982 and began using the stage name Candy Davis, dying her hair peroxide blonde and posing for Page 3 shots in the tabloids. But it was when she appeared as the blonde bombshell Miss Selfridge in the last two series of the hugely successful BBC sitcom Are You Being Served? that she shot to stardom. She was in 13 episodes of the BBC sitcom from 1983 until 1985 and went on to appear in The Benny Hill Show and The Two Ronnies. Clare married actor Gary Olsen in 1985 but they later divorced. After ditching her Candy Davis persona, she moved to Japan aged 25 and worked as a hostess in a Tokyo nightclub. She said her fascination with crime was sparked during this time by seeing three people die. She returned to Britain, changing her surname by deed poll to Dunkel and in 1995 began writing her first novel, Birdman. Published in 1999 under the pen name Mo Hayder it became an international bestseller. She went on to publish 10 novels, selling more than 6.5 million copies worldwide. Her 10th book Wolf is currently being adapted for the BBC. Clare was diagnosed with MND last December. She is survived by her daughter Lotte and second husband Bob. that robbed her independence By Jon Coates crusade Fund the fight to cure MND ken my friends will grow old without me.” Jo, now 31, is backing a Sunday Express crusade calling for £50million of Government funding for an MND Research Institute to co-ordinate research for effective treatments and hopefully a cure. After growing up in Peebles in the Scottish Borders she moved to Dundee aged 17 to study fine art and then forensic art, before working in a bank and completing an internship with Turkey’s national police in Ankara to land her dream job with Police Scotland. Jo said: “I really enjoyed my job, I never dreaded going in and always looked forward to doing it.” However, after five years she noticed a weakness in her hands when she went to test drive a new car in February 2019. Speaking from a specially-adapted bungalow in Dundee where she now lives with mother Anna, 70, and her pet dog Chino, she said: “It was the first time I had been able to afford a car of my own for a ‘It’s not incurable...it’s underfunded’ When I joined MND Scotland last month I was shocked to find out how little investment is currently given to this debilitating and utterly devastating disease. People like Jo show us this disease could happen to anyone, at any time in their life. MND does not discriminate and it has robbed Jo of the future she saw for herself. This really brings home the cruel impact this illness has on the 5,000 families across the UK currently living with MND and the many more that will be affected in the years to come. Since joining the MND community in my new role, I have been truly touched by the incredible support MND Scotland receives from communities across the country to further this cause. But it shouldn’t just be down to people living with MND, and their friends and families, to raise the funds needed to find a cure. In 2018, MND Scotland funded the first MND clinical drug trial in Scotland in over 20 years. In January 2020, thanks to a £1.5million investment from the charity, the biggest ever MND clinical trial in the UK was launched. This shows the extraordinary progress that can be made within a few years if funds are invested. Just think what £50million over five years could do to accelerate research into AFTER leaving university Jo Knowlton focused on starting a career with the police force, as a “forensic imaging officer”. Instead of spending her salary on luxury holidays she got a mortgage for a flat in Dundee, saved for a car and felt she had plenty of time to meet “Mr Right”, get married, have children, as well as travel. So she was left “heartbroken” when she was diagnosed with motor neurone disease aged just 29, depriving her of the future she had planned. Since her diagnosis on August 12, 2019, Jo has written a blog charting her journey with MND to raise awareness of how it affects people living with the rapidly progressing terminal illness. Three weeks after receiving the crushing news she wrote: “I know I’d make a great wife, a great mother. I’m heartbroken that I don’t get to experience that. I’m heartbrolong time, so I went to test drive it. The salesman was waiting for me to start the engine and I was trying to turn the key – but nothing was happening. “Because I had not driven for a while I thought maybe it was just stiff, or there was another explanation for it, so I tried not to think too much of it. “But then gradually as the months went on I noticed that my fingers weren’t closing together, they wanted to stay separate and I was struggling with buttons and zips, and coins in my purse. “Eventually I went to the doctor. I felt like a bit of hypochondriac saying ‘My fingers don’t close together’. I didn’t think Comment By Rachel Maitland chief executive, mnd scotland MND. That’s why we have joined forces with MND Association, My Name’5 Doddie Foundation, people with MND, clinicians, researchers and industry, to drive our United to End MND campaign forward. Together, we have a real chance to make significant and meaningful progress in research, but we cannot do it alone. It’s fantastic to have the backing of the Sunday Express to make sure we keep this important issue front of mind, and drive home the importance of continuing to invest in targeted MND research. Now we need the UK Government to join us too. With Government support we could establish and support a virtual MND Research Institute to focus on creating a world-leading drug discovery and development programme, developing a sustainable MND trials platform and implementing a rigorous clinical research programme. MND is not incurable, it’s just underfunded and people with MND do not have time to wait. We need the UK Government to unite with us so we can see effective treatments being developed in the next five to 10 years. she would be able to do or say much, but she referred me to a hand specialist at the hospital. She thought there might be a nerve trapped in my arm, so we did a nerve conduction study to find out where the nerve was trapped, and this found my nerves were abnormal at rest. “They took me into hospital for an MRI scan and a lumbar puncture. Everything came back normal and healthy. When that happens all that is left is MND.” Jo continued: “It was a massive shock because I thought MND was something that happened to older people. “I have never been ill, I have always been a very active person and when I was

SE1ST TO CURE MND Sunday Express August 15, 2021 21 FUNDING PLEA: Jo at home with her pet dog Chino; above, as a post-grad working with Turkish police; below, before her diagnosis getting these symptoms I thought there would be a simple explanation that could be easily rectified. I thought maybe worst case scenario multiple sclerosis, I did not think MND was a possibility. But when the neurologist said ‘I am afraid you have got MND’, because I did not know much about it I said, ‘Well, what do we do now?’ “He said, ‘I am afraid we don’t do anything, there is nothing we can do’. “That was really hard to hear and it was tough for my family and friends to accept.” Jo continued doing the job she loved until March last year, when the Covid-19 pandemic forced her to shield. The progression of the disease since then means she now struggles to use a computer unaided. Jo says she started her blog “because I think it is something people don’t know about or hear about”. She explained: “It’s important people know what happens to the body when you have MND, and to try and raise a bit of awareness so that people will fund research and do fundraising events.” She added: “In the two years I have had MND it’s stripped me of every part of my independence. I have gone from working full time and living alone with my dog to living with my mum, needing carers four times a day and not being able to work. “I need help with absolutely everything, from washing and dressing to feeding. I wear a ventilator at night because my breathing isn’t strong enough when I’m flat on my back. It’s so devastating. There needs to be a breakthrough to find some form of treatment and hopefully one day a cure.” This is why she is backing our crusade for Government funding for nationally co-ordinated targeted research into MND. Jo said: “We have progressed so much with so many other illnesses, like cancer and HIV, you can now treat them, there are options. For MND there are not any options and I feel it has been left behind. “It takes such a long time to find something and it has to go through so many stages if it is a new drug, for example. But MND does not wait. If I could send a message to the Government it would be that MND affects one in 300 people. “We desperately need something, even just to slow it down, even if we don’t find a cure, to give people a better quality of life, so it’s not as devastating a terminal illness and something you can live with and have a certain quality of life. “A proper targeted amount of funding could make a real difference in moving research forward more quickly.” • To read Jo’s blog visit josjourneywith mnd.home.blog

SE1ST 22 Sunday Express August 15, 2021 CIA secretly backed UK cartoon message CONTROL: Scene from the ‘tweaked’ 1954 film Animal Farm LANDMARK British animation film Animal Farm was secretly financed by the CIA, which snapped up the rights from George Orwell’s widow by promising to introduce her to her idol Clark Gable. Black-ops mastermind Howard Hunt – the future Watergate burglar and President Nixon henchman – then tinkered with Orwell’s classic fable to send an anti-Soviet message to the world. According to new research by the National Archives, CIA spymaster Allen Dulles was desperate to find stories that could be turned into films to promote American foreign policy. “Part of the reason the CIA were interested in Orwell was the fact his works were internationally famous,” said Cold War movie expert Dr Tony Shaw, of the National Archives. “The other By Mark Branagan reason was that Orwell was dead, and free to be manipulated as far as the intelligence agency was concerned.” Hunt sent two colleagues working undercover in the film industry to secure the rights from Sonia Orwell, George’s widow. To seal the deal, the CIA arranged for her to visit actor Gable in Hollywood. The obvious production vehicle for an animated blockbuster was Disney but agency bosses feared the corporation might contain Left-wing sympathisers. So the CIA chose small British company Halas & Batchelor, run by husband and wife John Halas and Joy Batchelor from a studio in Gloucestershire. “The CIA was lock, stock and barrel behind the making of the film,” Dr Snow added. According to the National Archives research, the couple did not have a clue the CIA was funding the project or of their hidden agenda behind the story tweaks. The first change was to make master pig Napoleon the central villain and make him clearly identifiable as Joseph Stalin. The CIA plotters then persuaded the animators that the tale “needed a happy ending”. In Orwell’s 1945 novel, the pigs get drunk with the humans at the end and announce Animal Farm will revert to its original name of Manor Farm. But in the 1954 cartoon, evil Napoleon is defeated when the animal kingdom rises in revolt against his cruel rule. The National Archives experts say the CIA hoped the film would trigger a similar rebellion when screened in the Eastern Bloc. 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Since 1993 Buckingham Palace has been open to the paying public, with the pandemic forcing it to close last year. The garden has now been added to the areas tourists can explore, with visitors urged to “discover its sights before enjoying a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to picnic on the lawn with views of the By Tony Whitfield Palace”. Visitors are advised to “follow a route around the garden at your own pace and experience the beauty and calm of this walled oasis in central London”. But many were left less than impressed after paying £16.50 for an adult ticket, and vented their disappointment on Tripadvisor. Some complained their visit was over too quickly as there was very little to see. A visitor wrote this month: “Gardens a waste of time and money. Large portions cordoned off. Takes less than one hour to get around. Expensive coffee and cake.” Others said queues for the airport-style security were too long, there was an “army of stewards” keeping visitors “under tight surveillance” and a catering van served expensive refreshments and “awful” tea. One reviewer wrote: “Beware of complete rip-off! I am very disappointed and feel robbed by royals.” Another said: “It could have been magical. Instead it felt like it was just a money-making machine.” One added: “Gardens were dismal but the staff were top notch.” The Royal Collection Trust said it was pleased to receive a good deal of positive feedback from many visitors, while all feedback is important and is considered for future planning. The Trust said: “A ticket allows visitors to take in two-thirds of the garden. This is detailed on the Royal Collection Trust website at the time of booking. “The opportunity to enjoy a picnic on the lawns is also part of the visit for the first time and short talks and QR codes offer visitors more information about the garden and its history.”

SE1ST Thriving: Twins Madelyn and Emelia Jones Sunday Express August 15, 2021 23 Miracle twins who proved they’re a cut above IDENTICAL twins Madelyn and Emelia Jones look like any happy five-year-old girls. But the pair faced more hurdles in their first weeks than most do in their entire lives. They were born at 25 weeks after being diagnosed with a rare condition – twin to twin transfusion syndrome – and the girls’ parents Liz and Craig were braced for the chance their babies might not make it. But five years after undergoing life-saving surgery in the womb, they are thriving. Mum Liz Ledsham-Jones said: “It’s quite rare, the chances of survival were very slim, and we were told that Madelyn would pass away and the surgery we needed to undergo while they were still in the womb would be to save Emelia’s life. “It was a very grim time for us, it was awful. “Their big sister Cari had turned two and was only a baby herself when she had to try to understand her mummy and daddy would need to be away from home for the next few months. “The surgery involved a world-renowned surgeon going into my womb with a laser probe with a camera on the end of it. “He went into the sack where Madelyn was and said, ‘I want you to see her while she’s alive’, and we were able to see this little baby. It was By Kelly Williams incredible and so emotional, she was sticking her tongue out, her eyes were closed but we could see her little eyelashes and nails and she was absolutely perfect.” Despite the prognosis, Liz’s waters broke a few days later, and Madelyn and Emelia were born at Wrexham Maelor Hospital by emergency C-section weighing 1lb 4oz and 1lb 5oz. Doctors feared if they survived, they would never walk, speak or maybe even eat, but Madelyn and Emelia have thrived and have the “biggest smiles, a huge love of life and they have the most amazing mermaid hair”, Liz said. “Even though they still have around eight hospital appointments a month, it’s amazing to see how much they’ve come on. It’s true what they say, from little acorns, mighty oaks grow.” Now the siblings have agreed to raise money for Cherish Wrecsam (Wrexham Special Care Baby Unit’s charity) by donating their locks to the Little Princess Trust, a charity that supplies real hair wigs to children and young adults who have experienced hair loss through treatment. A JustGiving page has been set up with the siblings having raised more than £200. Peril: Madelyn and Emelia were in grave danger after birth ic and awe-inspiring to fit across two pages of a newsp See the world in widescreen. 14 night Spain and Portugal holiday from £849pp † Holidays as varied as you Call for reform over £50,000 student debts THE average undergraduate will leave university with nearly £50,000 in student debt – and the majority of it won’t be repaid, figures show. New Government statistics reveal the gargantuan scale of debts being loaded on to young people under the “deeply flawed” system. It has led to calls for the return of polytechnics and more jobfocused options. An average student starting an undergraduate course this year will leave university with debts to the Student Loans Company of £48,500. Just one in four is expected to pay off their debts before the 30-year cut-off period when all outstanding balances are written off. In 30 years’ time it is calculated the By Matthew Davis balance of all unpaid student loans will be £1.3trillion – 10 times the annual cost of the NHS. But the statistics, revealed in a Freedom of Information Act response from the Department for Education, show the Government is underwriting the figure and the only “winners” are universities, which get to keep the cash. Matt Western MP, Labour’s Shadow Uni ­ versities Minister, said: “The Government’s approach to FlawS: Labour MP and critic Matt Western student finances is deeply flawed, leaving them with mountains of debt which most will never pay off. “Combined with the Con ­ servatives’ abolition of the maintenance grant, it is the poorest students who are often left graduating with most debt. “That deters others from applying to university altogether.” Graduates are only asked to pay back the loan once they start earning more than £27,295. Christopher McGovern, chairman of the Campaign for Real Education, said: “The country is saturated with underemployed or unemployed graduates yet we have a massive skills shortage. “The needs of young people and of the economy should come before self-seeking, money-grabbing, university racketeers. “We need to return half of universities to their former status as joborientated polytechnics.” A DoE spokesman said: “The student loan system is designed to ensure all those with the talent and desire to attend higher education are able to do so, while ensuring that the cost of higher education is fairly distributed between graduates and the taxpayer.” He said recent reforms to the student finance system are at the heart of plans to “build back better”. Poland TV crackdown slammed EFFORTS by Poland’s government to seize control of a US-owned news channel have been criticised, writes Marco Giannangeli. Poland’s parliament passed a motion to ban foreign control of its news channels. The move is thought to have been aimed at TVN25, which is owned by Discovery International and can be critical of President Andrzej Duda. Discovery president Jean-Briac Perrette said: “This is beyond freedom of the press. The history of Europe is one where problems start like this, and no one does anything.”

SE1ST 24 Sunday Express August 15, 2021 Pictures: James Manning/PA BUOYANT: Swimmer James Guy poses for a selfie with fans at I Am Team GB’s Festival of Sport in London Acclaimed: Griffith Country star Nanci dies at 68 GRAMMY winning country folk star Nanci Griffith has died aged 68. Her death was confirmed by her record label on Friday but no cause was given. Nanci, from Texas, began performing folk music while working as a nursery teacher in Austin in the 1970s. In 1985 she signed her first major record deal in Nashville. Her hits include Love At The Five And Dime and Outbound Plane. Nanci fought off two bouts of cancer in the 1990s. Her final album came out in 2012. Country artist Suzy Bogguss shared a photo of her and said her “heart was aching”.

SE1ST Sunday Express August 15, 2021 25 GB heroes back home to help us get moving TEAM GB’s heroes yesterday returned to the scene of the 2012 Olympic triumph to celebrate success in Tokyo and encourage youngsters to get involved in sport. Across the country, athletes took part in the I Am Team GB’s Festival of Sport. Venues included the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, in London, with others in Manchester, Hull and Cardiff. Those attending the free events enjoyed a range of activities including rowing, cycling and skateboarding, as well as judo and weight-lifting demonstrations. Swimmer James Guy, canoeists Liam Heath and Mallory Franklin, and diver Matty Lee were among those at the London event where people could run a “lap of honour” with the stars. Guy, who won two gold medals in By Benjamin Russell Japan, said: “Hopefully the Olympic Games and the performances of Team GB have helped to lift the mood of the nation. “Tokyo was such a wonderful experience for me personally and I hope that the millions of people watching the Olympic Games have a newfound ambition to try sport.” He added: “Being active is so important for people’s mental and physical well-being.” One Twitter user who attended the event said: “Great opportunity to celebrate the Tokyo Olympic Games in London today! Running a lap of honour alongside GB athletes was just fantastic. An amazing experience!” Another event will take place today at the Stadium of Light in Sunderland. STARS: Hurdler Megan Beesley runs a lap of honour at London’s Olympic Park, while cyclist Josie Knight, left, signs a T-shirt DEAL: Star in sequel Emma to return as Cruella EMMA Stone is set to return to star in the Cruella sequel. The Oscar-winning actress, 32, was Cruella de Vil in the first film, which arrived earlier this year in cinemas and on Disney+. It grossed more than £163million at the global box office, though Disney has not revealed how many viewers paid to watch it at home. Agent Patrick Whitesell, of Endeavour, which represents Stone, said her deal shows “there can be an equitable path forward that protects artists and aligns studios’ interests with talent. We are proud to work alongside Emma and Disney”.

SE1ST 26 Sunday Express August 15, 2021 Girls just wanna have fun...and some lunch! By Richard Barber What do you do if you love performing and so many of the country’s theatres have been shut down for months courtesy of the pandemic? If you’re singer, reality judge and international coach Zoe Tyler, you get together with your mates and tour some of Britain’s top hotels. At lunchtime. Zoe’s brainchild – Lunch And Laughs Live! – will be visiting a dozen top hotels every weekend in September with an afternoon of stories, celeb secrets, gossip, music and laughter while diners are entertained by Carol McGiffin, Claire Sweeney, Kate Thornton and Rustie Lee. Lisa Maxwell may join them at some venues. Lunch And Laughs Live! gives people the chance to get out and enjoy a slap-up meal and a few drinks at hotels across the UK – in Aberdeen, Glasgow, Dunblane, Kilmarnock, Edinburgh, Newcastle, Stoke, Lincoln, Birmingham, Belfast, Brighton and Cardiff – from September 3 to 26. Included in the price is a glass of bubbly on arrival and a goody bag when people leave. There will be arts and crafts stalls and the audience will get the chance to put the stars on the spot in a Q&A session. The tour will raise funds for Make 2nds Count, a charity helping people living with secondary breast cancer. Zoe says: “You never stop missing being a performer which is why I came up with ‘An afternoon of songs, chat, laughs’ the idea. There’s been a long tradition of cabaret and a meal in the evening, but what about the middle of the day? “I can think of nothing nicer than meeting up with a group of friends and going for lunch while being entertained by a group of favourite performers. “I’ve made lots of friends in many years in showbusiness. Rustie Lee and I have been mates from my 20s when we toured together in the musical, Smoky Joe’s Café. “Claire Sweeney and I have known each other since we were 17 when we started in cabaret. And I met Kate Thornton and Carol McGiffin when I joined Loose Women. We all go back a long way.” Originally the two-hour show was to tour theatres, but the pandemic put paid to that. And so the idea was born of using large conference areas or ballrooms in smart hotels – all of them with a stage in situ – and entertaining up to 300 people as they ate their lunch. The show is sponsored by online baking business Britain Loves Baking. Zoe will open proceedings with a selection of songs – typically something made famous by Dolly Parton or Aretha Franklin, as well as numbers from famous musicals. Show compere Kate Thornton said: “This opportunity came at a point when we’d all been locked up for so many months. Going out on the road with friends as part of a tour like this was a dream come true. Pure music to my ears.” CABARET: Clockwise from top left, tour organiser Zoe Tyler, Carol McGiffin, Lisa Maxwell, Rustie Lee, Kate Thornton and Claire Sweeney; inset right, Zoe Kate will also be talking about her life in journalism and as one of the Loose Women panellists. “It’s going to be a ton of fun, an afternoon of songs, chat and laughs.” Rustie Lee will be on hand to magic up some Caribbean cocktails. Beginning her career on TV-am in the 80s, she has appeared on stage with roles in musicals including South Pacific and Ain’t Misbehavin’ and 15 pantomimes. She has also published cookery books and children’s titles. Rustie says: “I’m so glad to get out of the house! It’s been terrible for everybody but bring on September and a great time with the girls and our audiences.” The lunch tour could not have come at a better time for singer, presenter and ex-Brookside regular Claire Sweeney. “It was the height of lockdown when Zoe got in touch. The thought of going on tour with your mates and having a good laugh was so appealing. For the audience, it’s going to be like a girls’ afternoon out – and you’ll be back home and in bed by nine o’clock. What’s not to like?” She is still sorting out what songs she’ll be singing but fancies a medley from the musical Chicago – “I played Roxy Hart in one production” – as well as a number with Zoe and Rustie. And then there is Carol McGiffin. What can people expect from her? “Carol will be Carol,” says Zoe. “She’s a one-off but I can make you one promise: she won’t be singing!” Carol says: “I’ve got lots of mates who work in music and I was always rather jealous when they’d tell me they were off on tour. I thought that could never happen for the simple reason I’ve got no talent!” But never one to shy away from saying something provocative, Carol will be an active member of the Q&A session. She says: “I’m really going to encourage audience participation. It’s a lunch – my favourite meal – with bells and whistles, a great escape for people who’ve had some pretty dark times.” ● Tickets £50 (plus booking fee) or £60 for VIP tickets (plus fee) from lunchandlaughslive.com

SE1ST Sunday Express August 15, 2021 27 Picture: David Hartley/Press Photos Ltd happy couple: Beaming Harry and Clodagh at the church Star guests: Laura, Lord Lloyd-Webber and Madeleine. Below, Thea, George and baby Beau Harry’s wedding straight out of Downton Abbey THERE was a real-life Downton Abbey wedding yesterday when the Queen’s godson Harry Herbert married celebrity chef Clodagh McKenna. Harry, 62, is the son of Lord Porchester, whose ancestral home is Highclere Castle, setting for the hit ITV drama series. The couple tied the knot at the St Michael & All Angels Church in Highclere, Hampshire, where their dogs, Nolly and Alfie, made a surprise appearance. Guests included former chancellor George Osborne and his fiancée Thea Rogers – plus baby Beau – Andrew and Madeleine Lloyd Webber and TV’s Laura Whitmore. Clodagh, 46, and Harry met in 2017 at a Fortnum & Mason lunch. Tory MPs demand we ‘take back control’ of our borders By David Williamson DEPUTY POLITICAL EDITOR WARNed: Priti Patel MORE than 30 MPs have written to Boris Johnson demanding an “unflinching plan of action” to stop people illegally entering the UK by crossing the Channel. More than 10,000 people have made the sea journey this year, with nearly 600 on a single day last week, a new daily record. On Thursday, the day an Eritrean man lost his life trying to reach the UK, at least 592 people succeeded in making the crossing. The Prime Minister and Home Secretary Priti Patel are under mounting pressure to stop illegal entry to the UK via the Channel, with 31 Tory MPs writing to Mr Johnson to push him to bring forward a “decisive” plan. Warning of pressure in their constituencies, they say voters are “mystified” about why “more isn’t being done”. The letter, by the Common Sense group of Conservative MPs, states “law-abiding Britons are increasingly frustrated at ever-worsening incidents of Channel crossings and perplexed by the apparent lack of an urgent Government response”. The MPs are concerned that “Britain’s belief in the entire asylum system is waning” and are calling for a new “system of accommodation and deportation” to “deal with the many thousands of foreigners now illegally resident in Migrant boat ‘skipper’ on manslaughter charge The alleged skipper of a migrant boat which capsized killing an Eritrean asylum-seeker has been charged with manslaughter. The unnamed 21-year-old Algerian is accused of having control of the semi-inflatable which sunk on Thursday with 36 people on board. He denies people smuggling and says he just wanted to get to Britain. The 27-year-old man from Eritrea jumped overboard and died after being airlifted to Calais. His 22-year-old girlfriend was our islands, the number of which will inexorably rise without comprehensive action at land and sea”. The MPs welcome tougher measures included in the Government’s Nationality and Borders Bill but call for the acceleration of plans for the “offshore processing of asylum claims and dedicated, purpose-specific reception centres”. As well as a faster deportation By Peter Allen rescued with the Algerian some 13 miles off Dunkirk. The Algerian appeared at the French port’s criminal court yesterday. He faces a 10-year jail term, fines of £140,000 and deportation if found guilty of manslaughter and people smuggling. “Survivors were interviewed and it appears that the 21-year-old was in charge of the boat,” said a prosecuting source in Dunkirk. process, they want the Human Rights Act reformed so it is not used to “game” the asylum system. Reminding the PM that the Gov - ernment was elected to “take back control”, they claim Australia and Greece have demonstrated that “removing the allure of mainland accommodation deters illegal travellers from setting sail”. Signatories include former security minister Sir John Hayes, former Welsh Secretary David Jones, Sir David Amess, Sir Desmond Swayne and Dover MP Natalie Elphicke. Minister for immigration compliance and justice Chris Philp said: “Our new plan is the only long-term solution to fix the broken system, tackle criminal gangs and prevent further loss of life. “We will break the business model of people smugglers and cut down on the potential for abuse of the system, allowing us to remove people with no right to be here quicker.” But Tim Naor Hilton, chief executive of Refugee Action, has called for the Bill to be ditched. He said: “The Bill is pure political theatre built on a deep lack of understanding of the reality of refugee protection. Its measures focus entirely on how to keep people out rather than how to keep them safe. “It will lead to an unworkable, unlawful and expensive disaster that will do nothing to stop refugees risking their lives in the Channel.”

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SE1ST Sunday Express August 15, 2021 29 Picture: @JCOMHaiti/Twitter Devastation: There are fears thousands may have died after the quake; inset, map of area struck ‘Thousands’ feared dead as quake hits Haiti HAITI has been struck by a huge earthquake which scientists say is bigger than the 2010 quake that killed more than 200,000 people. The 7.2 magnitude quake sent shockwaves which were felt across the Caribbean as far as Cuba and Jamaica. It struck five miles from the town of Petit Trou de Nippes, 100 miles west of the capital Port-au-Prince, and a 5.2 magnitude aftershock was recorded 20 minutes later. At least 29 had By Marco Giannangeli been killed in the quake said Civil Protection Director Jerry Chandler. However, the US Geological Survey said deaths could be in the “thousands” with tens of thousands of injuries. Witnesses told of people desperately trying to rescue those trapped under rubble. Sephora Pierre Louis, from Port-au-Prince, said: “I heard people screaming. They were flying outside. At least they know to go outside. In 2010 they didn’t know what to do.” It comes as the poverty-stricken country is still coming to terms with last month’s assassination of President Jovenel Moise, while many areas are facing growing hunger and healthcare services are overwhelmed by Covid. To make matters worse, emergency access to the southern region, where the quake struck, is restricted by gang control of key areas. ROW: Actress Scarlett Hollywood braced for bonus wars A star’s lawsuit over lost revenue when her film was streamed could open the legal floodgates. Scarlett Johansson, 36, is suing Disney+ over her new movie Black Widow. Scarlett says her bonuses were based on box office and she wasn’t told it would be released simultaneously last month for streaming. That move is alleged to have cost her £35million. Studio bosses say she has banked £14.5million and branded her lawsuit “sad” given the pandemic. But Insidious producer Jason Blum insists other stars are waiting to launch legal actions of their own. He fears the studios are trying to squeeze the pay of talent but “hopes there will be [profit] sharing in streaming” like in cinema. Woman adopted as baby ‘at peace’ after reunion By Jon Coates A WOMAN given up for adoption as a baby said she was finally “at peace” after being reunited with her older brother 50 years later. Lisa Irvine had been searching for her birth mother Margaret Pine for the past 36 years, without joy. After a brief spell in foster care Lisa was adopted by a couple who already had a child. Lisa said she always wanted to know why her biological mother had abandoned her. Her search is featured on ITV’s Long Lost Family tomorrow, during which Lisa said: “My whole life I’ve felt like an imposter in another family. “I don’t know where I belong, it is really important for me to find my birth family because I can’t feel like this for the rest of my life.” With the help of the programme, Lisa, a mother-of-two from Somerset PART OF THE FAMILY: Lisa Irvine is reunited with her brother Nick who works as a healthcare assistant at a hospital, returns to the Isle of Wight where she was born and discovers she has a brother, Nick. Lisa, 50, was shocked to learn from her adoption paperwork that her birth father abandoned her biological mother two months before she was born. She said: “He left her destitute. He took everything and she had absolutely nothing. “That must have been awful for my mother. She was abandoned when she was heavily pregnant and with a 19-month-old child [Nick].” Her file showed her birth mother’s only option was to move in with her own mother, who would only take Margaret and Nick, forcing her to give up Lisa for adoption. Lisa said: “So my mother was forced to put me up for adoption by my grandmother.” When show researchers traced Nick to his home in Kent he revealed their mother Margaret died in 2013. Nick, who works as a carer for the elderly and disabled, also reveals that Lisa has a younger brother Andrew, who wanted to meet her but preferred not to do it on camera. During Lisa’s emotional reunion with Nick, she said: “I feel like I am complete, thank you. “Meeting my brother means everything, absolutely everything. He is the last hope of me knowing where I came from and, hopefully, the start of something beautiful.” Nick, who was told by their mother that he had a younger sister given up for adoption, said: “Lisa has always been a part of the family as far as I am concerned. “I know my mother would have wanted to be here for this, so this is as much for her as for me.” Lisa said: “ I have always felt I was not wanted.” Nick responded: “That is not the case, you have always been my sister. My mother did not give you up by choice.” Lisa added: “Knowing I was not abandoned is incredible. I am at peace now.” ● Long Lost Family, tomorrow at 9pm on ITV. Off-key: Dame Helen Has Helen’s career hit a sour note? ACTRESS Helen Mirren has admitted she cannot sing, and it may cost her Hollywood’s greatest prize. She still dreams of becoming only the 17th star to achieve an EGOT – the elusive “grand slam” of an Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony. She has an Oscar for her role in The Queen, a Tony for her part in the 2015 Broadway hit The Audience and four Emmys for outstanding TV work. Dame Helen, 76, said: “I want to win a Grammy. It would be kind of cool. “Unfortunately, I can’t sing at all.” Only four Britons – Andrew Lloyd Webber, Tim Rice, Audrey Hepburn and John Gielgud – have achieved an EGOT.

SE1ST 30 Sunday Express August 15, 2021 Chance spot led to spy probe A CHANCE sighting by a holidaying embassy worker led to the arrest of a British security guard accused of spying for the Russians. David Smith, 57, who worked at the British Embassy in Germany, is said to have used the access his position gave him to pass over sensitive intelligence documents to a Russian agent. He was arrested on Tuesday by German police after concerns he was making plans to flee to Russia. However, it was by chance that suspicions were raised last November. Britain’s embassy is in Berlin, 200 yards from its Russian counterpart, yet Smith was witnessed meeting a known Russian operative more than By Marco Giannangeli diplomatic editor 400 miles away while supposedly on holiday in a small Bavarian town. According to an intelligence source: “Another embassy employee also on holiday in the area was driving through a small town in Bavaria and saw Smith, whom he recognised, on the pavement talking to a man known to be a Russian Intelligence officer. “It’s in the nature of this business that intelligence breaks sometimes happen in the strangest of ways. “He had been watched from that day until his arrest last week, which was actioned due to concerns he may be planning to flee to Russia.” WATCHED: Embassy guard David Smith i’m the Former FBI agent turns his skills to hunting down lost varieties of popular fruit David Benscoter spent a lifetime tracking down criminals who were rotten to the core. As an FBI agent and US Treasury investigator he hunted the bad apples among judges, politicians and businessmen, busting bribery rackets, vice rings and money laundering operations. Yet now the veteran lawman is in pursuit of a more elusive quarry. David, 67, is now known across America as The Apple Detective, on the trail of varieties of the delectable fruit long thought extinct. “It’s a great thrill to find an apple variety that’s been missing and presumed lost for over 100 years,” he says, from his home in rural Washington state where 80 per cent of America’s apples are grown. “Biting into an apple that nobody has tasted in a hundred years is a rare treat. I’ve nailed corrupt politicians and millionaire embezzlers, but nothing compares with the feeling of bringing an extinct apple back from the dead.” David has discovered 29 varieties of the forgotten fruit since launching the Lost Apple Project in 2014. “It often needs all my investigative skills to follow a trail through the decades,” he says. “It’s like a crime scene. I have to establish that the trees existed, and hope that there’s a paper trail to follow that eventually leads me to them.” The varieties revived from the history books include such evocative names as the Almota, Ivanhoe, Eper, Iowa Flat, Steptoe and Kay. His finds include the Sary Sinap, an ancient apple from Turkey, the Streaked Pippin that originated in New York in 1744, and the Butter Sweet of Pennsylvania, first nurtured in an Illinois orchard in 1901. America once boasted more than 17,000 apple varieties, but today From Peter Sheridan in los angeles ‘I’m trying to find them before they disappear’ fewer than 4,500 are known to have survived. Not that you would know it by looking in US supermarkets: just 15 varieties account for 90 per cent of the nation’s $4billion apple market. They are bred for looks, long shelf life and pest resistance, with flavour a secondary consideration. “Many of the ancient varieties look and taste great, but died out because of economic pressures,” explains David. “They didn’t store well, or didn’t produce enough apples per tree.” Most of those orchards were ploughed over or lost to suburban and industrial sprawl. But a few abandoned orchards were absorbed into woods, parks and public lands where ancient apples survive, forgotten to this day. “Apple trees can live more than 100 years, some even to 140 years,” says David. “I’m trying to find them before it’s too late and they disappear for ever.” David became hooked when a neighbour asked him to help pick the fruit in her orchard and he found rare heirloom varieties. On the trail of lost apples today he is like a homicide detective trying to find a missing corpse: he assembles clues, puts in a lot of shoe leather and follows a trail that can take years to lead to that long-forgotten orchard. He scouts vintage seed catalogues, county fair records, library archives, old maps, news cuttings and nursery sale ledgers from the turn of the 20th century, looking for clues to where ancient apples might be found. A 1920s local news story listing the county fair’s Blue Ribbon prize for apple growers helps David trace the winners to homes that once held orchards. He travels across America, yomping through wild back country, off-roading in four-wheel drives and snowmobiles through winter drifts to find remnants of ancient orchards. He traced the tale of farmer Robert Burns in Washington state in 1888, who lost a fortune when floods destroyed his wheat crop and he then went bankrupt growing summer-ripened apples when winter apples dominated the market. 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SE1ST Sunday Express August 15, 2021 31 apple detective... Pictures courtesy of David Benscoter val material. Century-old books described every detail of apples, from their size and flavour to their seed shape and length. Then in 1880 the US government commissioned 3,000 detailed watercolour paintings of apples, many of them among the lost varieties. They all help identify the apples we find. “But identifying a lost apple is only half the battle. The hard part is returning to collect scion wood samples from the tree that we can use to graft on to new trees to reproduce the lost variety. “Apples are similar to humans – they don’t clone themselves. “Every tree produces different offspring. To ensure a lost apple variety is reproduced we have to take a cutting from the original ‘I would like new generations to enjoy the apples’ HUNT: David Benscoter reaches for some fruit; inset, working at home and the Nero – both lost varieties until David discovered them 130 years later, still producing fruit. He found the world’s only Arkansas Beauty apple tree growing deep in a ravine in Washington’s Steptoe Butte State Park, 12ft tall and twisted with age,. “Farmers had planted dozens of trees there in the 19th century and abandoned them,” he explains. “Those were an exciting find.” The lost varieties can be epicurean delights, he says, though he understands why many faded into obscurity: “The Nero is a delicious apple, with a deep dark red skin and a slightly sweet, slightly tart taste, but was too small to be commercially successful. It was the same with the Excelsior. “We rediscovered the Shackleford, a great red apple, which had been squeezed out by the Red Delicious and Rome Beauty. “There just wasn’t room in the market for another red apple and it became lost for a century. “The Kittageskee I found in Boise, Idaho, a wonderful apple with an explosion of sweet flavour, but also too small to succeed commercially. The Goldridge, Arkansas Beauty and Streaked Pippin all taste good. The Jackson Winter Sweet tastes good, but bruises too easily to ever become a popular apple commercially.” The rediscovered varieties offer a window into the past and the way people lived. Mother apples made good desserts. If you wanted less juice you chose a Limber Twig. Some varieties were ideal for storing through the winter; others perfect for making hard cider. “The Surprise is a beautiful yellow apple that has a deep rosecoloured flesh when you bite into it – that’s the surprise. The other surprise: it doesn’t taste too good.” But unlike a homicide detective, David said he cannot rely on DNA analysis to confirm an ancient apple’s true identity: “We don’t have the DNA of lost apples stored anywhere, so it’s a painstaking process to identify them. “It took four years to positively identify the Shackleford. “The experts at the Temperate Orchard Conservancy in Oregon compare our discoveries to archi- tree and graft it on to a new tree. “We take cuttings when the apple trees are dormant, usually in February, when there can be three feet of snow on the ground, which makes collection in the back country really tough.” Farmers are now planting new orchards of once-lost apples and the formerly extinct varieties are slowly making a comeback. Yet David’s Lost Apple Project remains a labour of love. There is no profit in the grafts he sells, only the pleasure of seeing lost apple varieties revived in new trees that could produce fruit into the next century: “There are many other lost varieties of apple out there, waiting to be discovered. “I’d like new generations to enjoy the apples their great-great grandparents once ate.” After several years knee-deep in fruit, David says he still finds a good apple a-peel-ing: “Apple pie, apple crumble, apple cider – you put it in front of me, I’ll eat it. I love a good apple.”

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SE1ST Sunday Express August 15, 2021 33 Jennifer Selway Warm, witty and wise Not winning is my loss There was a raffle at a country fete a few years ago. I bought a ticket and – unbelievably – won a £5 bottle of Beaujolais. All right... maybe £4.99 and the label was frayed at the edges. It must have been sitting in someone’s kitchen for a year or so before it was donated to the raffle prizes. But before or since? Nothing. I’ve won nothing ever. No medals, no awards, no glittering prizes. No lucky breaks. If there were winning streaks I was never on them. If I was ever up for anything I didn’t get it. Someone else did. If I toss a coin and say heads, it’s always tails. I’ve never won a penny from Premium Bonds and I’m still waiting to hear if I won a holiday for two to the Dalmatian Coast or the 300 quid spending money that might come my way if I took part in a customer survey. But why bother? I won’t win. So what must it be like to be, say, Laura and Jason Kenny (soon to be Dame and Sir no doubt) who can’t stop winning? They are so used to winning medals that it must be disappointing if the national anthem doesn’t strike up several times a day as someone directs them towards a podium. They have 12 gold medals and three silvers between them. More than enough to make the clock face they were talking about (which sounds naff). What on earth do you say to a couple like that – and can they even stand up if they drape all that metalwork round their necks? If you popped round for a drink, Laura would probably use the medals as coasters. “Hang on, let me put the one I got for the Madison under your mug.” Or: “Sorry the place is such a mess, let me clear away some of these gold medals.” Or: “I was looking for the TV remote and I found this silver down the back of the sofa.” Maybe they use them to prise open biscuit tins or as frisbees on a summer evening in the back garden. Their home must be like a dragon’s treasure trove. At Christmas their little son Albie won’t dare open his chocolate money in case it turns out to be the gold that dad Jason won for the Keirin. They’re a very attractive pair, the epitome of a golden couple. But I wonder if being so absurdly successful puts people off them? Supposing one of them loses his or her mojo, a metaphorical slow puncture? When you win all the time it must be unsettling when you don’t. But it must be so lovely to win something, lovely to be confident of winning rather than resigned to losing. An Olympic medal is a wonderful thing. I imagine... ALL MEDALLED UP: Jason and Laura ■ You had to laugh at the anti-vax protesters who are so opposed to believing anything they read in the mainstream media that they shouted outside the wrong building in the belief that they were storming the BBC in west London. In fact it was a building that the BBC had vacated some years ago which has now been converted into flats and is used as studios for ITV programmes. Rumours that the mob called for Jack de Manio and Alvar Lidell to come out and explain themselves are of course grossly unfair. ■ Another fiery cultural appropriation row is raging... over curry. The word, says a Californian food blogger called Chaheti Bansal, is an “umbrella term popularised by white people who couldn’t be bothered to learn the actual names of our dishes”. Yes, well some of us just want supper, not a PhD in advanced foodie-ness. The thing is, there’s proper Indian food and then there’s “going for a curry”. Going for a curry and curry houses are as British as fish and chips. It’s a habit dating back to the 1960s when Brits flirted with funny foreign food. Some bought Vesta freeze-dried. Some cooked up mince and threw in a handful of sultanas and curry powder. Some preferred “going for a curry”. And the key question of “Indian or Chinese?” is one that all Brits understand. Just as Indians never make curry, so do Italians never make spag bol or put pineapple on pizzas. We took the food of the world and in our hopeless, clumsy British way, adapted it and enjoyed it. Was this so wrong? ■ It’s very nice that Ant (of Ant and Dec) has found love again and married his former PA Anne-Marie after breaking up with wife Lisa. But did he have to punch the air in quite such a vulgar manner, as if he’d just been released from 20 years of wrongful imprisonment in Belmarsh? Did he have to make a speech and go on and on about how Anne-Marie “put him back together again” after his life fell apart? This may all be true. But don’t good taste and good manners and a passing consideration for others – perhaps even the former wife – suggest that you might rein it in a bit? ■ Gender blind, colour blind and age blind. The new production of Shakespeare’s Hamlet at the Theatre Royal Windsor sounded like the last word in trendiness and I was prepared to be irritated – much as I revere Sir Ian McKellen (inset below), who at the age of 82 is playing that young whipper-snapper the Prince of Denmark. But it was terrific. There are a few theatre performances that you count yourself lucky to have seen. This was one of them. Ian McKellen wasn’t old, wasn’t young. He was Hamlet. The run-up to this production was drawn out (because of Covid) and acrimonious, with Steven Berkoff (who played Polonius) and Emmanuella Cole (playing his son Laertes) quitting the show. Cole said Berkoff left her feeling “belittled and disrespected”. Frances Barber took over the role of Polonius at the eleventh hour (more gender-blind casting) and came up trumps. Normally I’m not bothered when Hamlet stabs Polonius behind the arras as he’s a bit of an old windbag. But when Frances Barber was despatched, I really missed her. And as for sitting in a theatre with a full house. Wonderful. It felt like 2020/21 had never happened. ■ I was in the car listening to the first moments of PM on Radio 4 which began with a recording harking back to 1983 when Sir Anthony Blunt, the Queen’s tame art historian, was revealed as a Soviet spy. What? Had I driven down a cosmic wormhole? It turned out the Blunt recording was by way of an introduction to the top story about David Smith, the man now accused of spying for the Russians from the British embassy in Berlin. And for a few happy hours everyone revelled in stories of the Cold War, of dead-letter boxes and Le Carré-type shenanigans. Espionage experts were rapidly dusted off and set to work. For days the news had been dominated by apocalyptic climate change and exam results. And for years before that it’s been wall-towall Brexit and coronavirus. The return of the Cold War felt like putting on a comfortable (though slightly glamorous) old cardigan.

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Yet what might initially sound like an ’Allo! ’Allo! comedy of errors would ultimately have deadly consequences for Jakobs. For exactly 80 years ago today – on August 15, 1941 – he became last person to be executed in the Tower of London. Though many historical figures were imprisoned there before meeting a similar end, most of them – including Thomas More and Thomas Cromwell – were beheaded on nearby Tower Hill. Only a select few died within the confines of the Tower itself, including Henry VIII’s doomed wives Anne Boleyn and Catherine Howard, and the hapless nine days’ queen Lady Jane Grey. The story of how Jakobs came to face a firing squad, aged 43, in the same surroundings had begun long before that fateful January night in 1941, when he took off from Amsterdam’s Schiphol airport in occupied Europe on his mission for the German army’s intelligence service, the Abwehr. His granddaughter Giselle Jakobs, who wrote about his case in her book The Spy In The Tower, says: “Josef was clearly not ideal spy material. By Fergus Kelly HAPPY: Josef and wife Gretchen He was a not a young ardent Nazi who spoke perfect English, but the Germans were desperate for agents. “They were prepared to recruit any person for a mission that some had already called Himmelfahrt [“journey to heaven”], a euphemism for a suicide mission.” Had it not been for the Great Depression of the 1930s, Jakobs might never have found himself in such circumstances. A First World War veteran, he had trained in dentistry, married a fellow member of the profession called Gretchen and become a father of two boys and a girl. But after the economic downturn wiped out his practice he resorted to desperate measures. After joining a counterfeit goldmaking scheme with a friend in Switzerland he was caught and jailed for three years. He was released in 1937 and began selling books and typewriters. But he then got involved in providing black market passports to Jewish citizens anxious to flee Nazi Germany. Jakobs found himself in trouble with the authorities again, this time in the Sachsenhausen concentration camp, north of Berlin. At some point, almost certainly so as to not undergo further torture, he agreed to work as a spy. The Abwehr sent him to Hamburg for training – where he fell for Clara Bauerle, a singer with a local orchestra. They became lovers and Jakobs tried to pass her off as a colleague to the more than sceptical Gretchen. He was sent to The Hague in Holland for his final training, from where he wrote to both his wife and Clara. The lack of any parachute experience in that training was what cost Jakobs on the night of January 31. After his agonising landing near the market town of Ramsey in a field at Dove House Farm, he spent the night immobilised and smoking his way through his ration of cigarettes, while trying to bury his attaché case before daylight broke. Satisfied he had done all he could, Jakobs fired three shots from his Mauser pistol as distress calls. They alerted the attention of farmhands Charles Baldock and Harry Coulson on their way to work. They found him lying on his back covered largely by his camouflaged parachute, and having surrendered by throwing his pistol into his helmet once they arrived. But the two men spotted a corner of his case poking out of the earth that Jakobs had not entirely concealed. They pointed it out to two

SE1ST man executed at the tower Sunday Express August 15, 2021 35 Pictures: Jakobs family archives LIFE AND DEATH OF A ROGUE: Above, singer Clara Bauerle, who had an affair with Josel Jakobs, pictured right during the First World War; left, the Tower of London where, right, the broken chair in which Jakobs was executed is on display Guards, armed with .303 Lee- Enfields aimed at a matchboxsized cotton target pinned over Jakobs’s heart. His final words for the firing squad were said to be: “Shoot straight Tommies!” They fired at 7.12am and Jakobs was immediately pronounced dead. Today, the plain brown Windsor chair in which Jakobs died remains on display at the Tower of London – the bow of its back and one of its spindles snapped where the bullets hit them after exiting. He is buried in an unmarked grave at a cemetery in London’s Kensal Green. local Home Guard officers who came to take him into custody at the Ramsey police station in the back of a horse-drawn cart. As well as the sausage, the case contained a wireless transmitter, maps, a torch, and £500 in British currency, as well as forged identity papers in the name of a Londoner who had died during the 1940 Blitz. Later, fragments of a torn up cipher disc, carrying the codes for radio transmissions, were found near where Jakobs had lain. He was transferred to London where he was interviewed by MI5, before spending two months in hospital while his ankle healed. The intelligence service is known to have turned other German agents similarly captured here. So why not Jakobs? He had after all been caught by the highly classified operation set up for that task, known as the Double Cross System. MI5 had known in advance that Jakobs was arriving, thanks to information passed by a Welsh nationalist called Arthur Owens, a double agent who the Abwehr had in its pay. But his British spymasters came to the conclusion that Owens was a slippery customer who was playing them and the Germans off, and later interned him for the duration of the war. Hopes which he had confided to a friend before the mission – that he could turn himself in to the British in exchange for safe passage to the US – were dashed. Quizzed about the photograph of Clara Bauerle, Jakobs said she had also been recruited as a spy because she had previously spent years performing in the Midlands, and could speak English with a convincing Brummie accent. He confessed she had been meant to join him had he been able to establish radio contact. Nothing more was heard of her – though later it was speculated that she might have been the victim of a notorious unsolved murder involving a skeleton found by four boys out bird-nesting in a hollow tree trunk in Hagley Wood, Worcestershire, in 1943. A postmortem exam later put the date of death at around October 1941. But Bauerle was nearly 6ft, while the remains found in the case that became known as “Who put Bella in the Wych Elm?” were of a woman no taller than 5ft. Finally, research conducted in 2016 established that Bauerle had died in a Berlin hospital in December 1942. Jakobs was court-martialled by a military tribunal in August 1941. He was convicted of espionage under the recently passed 1940 Treachery Act, and condemned to death by firing squad – rather than hanging – because he was captured as an enemy combatant. Fourteen other German spies, who were civilians, were hanged at London’s Pentonville and Wandsworth prisons. It was from Wandsworth that Jakobs was taken to the Tower on his final day. Its governor would later recall of the prisoner, “his soldierly manner, his courtesy and his quiet courage.” He was executed at the miniature rifle range in the grounds of the Tower, after being blindfolded and bound to a chair. Eight Scots His widow Gretchen died in 1970 never knowing what had happened to him. A letter that Jakobs wrote to his family on the eve of his death was not released from MI5 files until 1993, when it was handed over to his granddaughters. In it he wrote: “Dear, best wife, thousands and thousands of times over, thank you for all the good you have done for me. But even so, I beg you a thousand times for forgiveness for all of the conscious and unconscious hurts I have given you. Endure your loss bravely, don’t dwell on it, but think that you are also in God’s hand, remember above all that you must be prepared for a sudden death. For I hope above all, that we will see each other again in Eternity.” It was signed with the pet name “Jubs” that Gretchen called him. Giselle says of her grandfather: “He was a rogue and a scoundrel – but he was not a Nazi.”

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AS SOON AS Kiell Smith-Bynoe read the script for Ghosts, he knew he wanted to play Mike Cooper more than anything he had auditioned for before. “Immediately I was like, ‘I have to play this part’,” he says. “It was so funny. I was like, ‘This has to be me’.” The actor, who also appears in Bafta- Award-winning comedy Stath Lets Flats, spent a week preparing intensively for the audition in the BBC One situation comedy. But then fate threw him a helping hand. Following an initial audition, Kiell, 32, got a recall for a “chemistry test” alongside four different potential Alisons. And when the brilliant Charlotte Ritchie, star of Call The Midwife and Fresh Meat, walked in, they realised they’d met before, though they couldn’t put their finger on when. “We were both trying to work it out and tell bits of the story [to the casting team] and I think they saw something in that. And that was before we’d even done the scenes.” Ghosts is a game changer. Laurence Rickard once explained how, as children, he and his fellow writers and stars of the hit comedy loved watching series such as Blackadder and Fawlty Towers with their parents. But “sometime in the 90s, comedy became something that adults watched at 10pm and there were children’s shows that children watched. It was a split – and it never really came back together again”. Until now. Ghosts is not only a family-friendly sitcom that delights viewers of all ages but it’s so brilliantly written and performed that it’s a British comedy classic ‘‘ It’s fun... there are a lot of very silly people on set in the making, as unmissable as the shows that inspired its writers. Series two averaged almost four million viewers while iPlayer views have hit 20.5 million since January last year. It has won a South Bank Show Sky Arts Award for comedy and been nominated for three Baftas. The eagerly-awaited third series launched on Monday. Ghosts tells the story of Alison Cooper, a 30-something who unexpectedly inherits crumbling stately home Button House, and moves in with husband Mike only to find it teeming with squabbling ghosts, from a Stone Age caveman to a disgraced Tory MP. Alison can see and speak to the ghosts, having survived a near-death experience, but Mike can’t. The jokes come thick and fast, the acting is superb, the storylines are warm and big-hearted but also, as we learn about the ghosts’ untimely deaths, moving and poignant. Rickard’s fellow writers and co-stars are Mathew Baynton, Simon Farnaby, Martha Howe- Douglas, Jim Howick, and Ben Willbond who met 15 years ago when writing and performing on anarchic CBBC sketch show Horrible Histories. Ghosts also features magnificent comic performances from Lolly Adefope and Katy Wix. But at the heart of the series are Alison and Mike. Kiell, who is chatting to us on a video call from his London flat, explains that he and Charlotte Ritchie have a strong bond, he says. “There are times when Charlotte and I would even see each other on the weekend. We go to a mutual friend’s birthday and we still spend the whole time chatting to each other, it’s great. Charlotte is easily in my

SE1ST Sunday Express August 15, 2021 39 FUNNY BONES Charlotte Ritchie and Kiell in front of portraits of the stars of Ghosts Nativity play set Kiell on path to household fame top three nicest people I’ve ever met. Don’t tell her that. That’s just between you and me. She’s really funny, we had a similar upbringing where our siblings are a lot older than us so we were only children in the sense of being the only child in the household. And we have a lot in common in terms of music taste and sense of humour.” In series three, Alison and Mike are attempting to turn their stately home’s gatehouse into a guest house. “But there’s also an unexpected guest,” says Kiell. “It’s a real journey that Alison goes on and we get to see a more emotional side of her.” At times, life can seem a little lonely for Mike, excluded as he is from the ghosts’ antics. Kiell agrees. “There’s an episode this series where we see the jealousy from Mike who’s like [to Alison], ‘Well, you’ve got all your friends all the time and you’re chatting to them and I don’t know what’s going on’.” It’s not easy playing a character who has to appear oblivious to the mayhem forever unfolding around him but Kiell nails it. “The comedy of Mike’s character is that he’s quite hopeless,” he adds. “He tries hard but he doesn’t get things right, like banging a boiler with a hammer rather than actually trying to figure out how to work it.” (Mike can’t hear the chorus of 14th century plague victim ghosts who live in the cellar and share the highly technical boiler repair advice they’ve picked up over the years). E ast-London-born Kiell has wanted to be a comedy actor since the age of five when he played an innkeeper in the school nativity play. He startled everyone by screaming his line, getting such a big laugh that he decided acting would be even more fun than being “an astronaut or a shark”. He later spent three years training at drama school and, after graduation, his plans to work in theatre were side-lined by unexpected TV roles. Predictably, the filming of series three was disrupted by the pandemic. The cast were divided into three cohorts of three or four actors which were reset week by week “so you could stand next to someone else”. Filming Ghosts looks like the most tremendous fun imaginable (Google the outtakes to see how often the cast struggle to keep a straight face). “It’s so much fun,” agrees Kiell. “The people are so great and it’s rare to work with a group of actors for so long and nobody’s annoying. I’ve got that in both shows that I’m a regular in, Ghosts and Stath, and it’s fortunate to find people you actually want to spend time with outside of your 12-hour shooting day. “When we were allowed [pre-pandemic], we were going to the pub after work and having a meal and chatting and chilling in the hotel bar, hanging out and enjoying each other’s company.” His favourite episode of Ghosts is the burglary episode. Alison has gone out for the evening; two gormless burglars break in and the ghosts are faced with the challenge of alerting clueless Mike... “It’s so good. It was the most fun to film as well. There’s a lot of very silly people on the set and the boys especially, when they’re all together – everyone was just being ridiculous. It felt like when a teacher goes out of the classroom.” Which Ghosts actor is most similar to the character they play? “Ben [Willbond, as a Second World War Army captain] – he’s very well organised and seems like a natural leader.” He laughs and adds, “Imagine if I said Larry [Rickard] is like Robin [the caveman]…” Which actors make him laugh the most? “That’s tough. But in series three, I spent a lot of time with Simon [Farnaby]. I spent his wedding anniversary with him and it was just the two of us that day. ‘Shall we get a bottle?’ He’s worked with some very famous people and he’s got a lot of good stories. “Quite a lot of people in the show have funny bones. But Jim [Howick] is one of those people – and I feel this about [Stath Lets Flats’] Jamie Demetriou as well – who can make anything they do funny. He knows how to do something with a word or a line that nobody else would think of.” Kiell is committed to Ghosts for as long as it runs. “I love the show and I love the character. I’d definitely stick around. It’s so much fun and series three is going to be great.” ● Ghosts is on BBC One on Mondays at 8.30pm and series three is now available on BBC iPlayer

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With echoes of Haim or early Taylor Swift, Jade’s West Coast harmonies are the perfect foil for her snarling attitude, and her talons remain sharp. with STEFAN KYRIAZIs glorious feeling Gooch with Cooper OSCAR LANG Chew The Scenery ★★★ Londoner Oscar has been snapped up by The 1975’s label and might just end up being as successful. His ability to create old-skool indie earworms with a modern twist recalls the smarter and more psychedelic side of 1990s’ Britpop. Ballet superstar Adam Cooper radiates charisma as Hollywood leading man Don Lockwood and shares winning chemistry with the excellent Charlotte Gooch as plucky starlet Kathy Selden. Former Strictly star Kevin Clifton charms as Don’s best friend Cosmo, matching great comic timing with fancy footwork. In a classy cast, the revelation is Steps star Faye Tozer as screeching silent movie harridan Lina Lamont, torturously mangling every vowel. It takes real talent to be that bad. ABUSE Bawden and Bennett colliery brass replacing sumptuous strings. A fine cast in ragged beiges and browns navigate a steep wooden slope with a circular revolving horizontal stage. Declan Bennett’s textured Billy visibly struggles with his worst impulses, while a briefly hopeful Soliloquy and flashes of tenderness almost explain how Carly Bawden’s quietly impressive Julie could love him and excuse his abuse. But the deliberately downbeat production struggles to marry a heavyhanded exploration of female oppression with flawed source material that forgives Billy. So only the women on stage turn to face the audience for You’ll Never Walk Alone. There are elements to admire but not enough to enjoy.

SE1ST Sunday Express August 15, 2021 41 Review: CINEMA with ANDY LEA STAR RATINGS ★★★★★ Excellent ★★★★ Good ★★★ Worth a look ★★ Poor ★ Don’t bother STUCK Ryan Reynolds with Lil Rel Howerey, inset, Jodie Comer SUPER SPY Cumberbatch, Wright and and Brosnahan Game for a laugh FREE GUY Cert 12A ★★★★ In cinemas now Is it finally game on for the video game movie? Like Sonic The Hedgehog, Detective Pikachu and Jumanji, Free Guy is a gaming flick that presses the right buttons. Our hero, Guy (Ryan Reynolds), is a non-player character (or NPC) who is stuck in a loop as a bank cashier in a violent open-world game that plays a lot like Grand Theft Auto. This means, a bit like those poor robots in Sky Atlantic’s Westworld, his daily grind involves getting shot at, battered or run over by human players. Every day, Guy happily pulls on the same WENDY Cert 12A ★★ In cinemas now It’s beautifully shot, wonderfully scored and gloriously cast, but who is it made for? Children will be bored senseless by director Benh Zeitlin’s arty, modern-day take on Peter Pan. And I’m not convinced the story has enough momentum to sell its Disneyfied message to weary parents either. But fans of Beasts Of The Southern Wild, Zeitlin’s Oscarnominated first film, should at least appreciate the stylish way he captures the adult world from a child’s point of view. Here Wendy (played by newcomer Devin France) is a curious nine-year-old girl, shirt, orders the same coffee and walks the same route to work with his best pal Buddy (Lil Rel Howery). But something inside him snaps when he spots a strangely familiar woman (Jodie Comer) who is packing two pistols and wearing the tell-tale sunglasses of a human avatar. The next day, he does something completely unexpected. He fights back. During his daily bank robbery, he turns the gun on his attacker. When he tries on his assailant’s sunglasses, he can see a world festooned with icons representing power-ups, Medikits and missions. You don’t need a pair of magic specs to Neverland is a magical volcanic island and Peter (Yashua Mack) is the mystical boy with dreadlocks. He appears on the locomotive that runs past the greasy diner Wendy lives in with her mother and her unruly older twin brothers (Gage and Gavin Naquin). When she follows Peter to the island, Wendy discovers the secret to staying young lies in honouring a giant sea monster and nurturing a childish imagination. If kids succumb to worries about the future, they age rapidly and end up joining the ranks of wizened old folk who live on the barren side of the volcano. There are some wonderful individual scenes, but the grim story is fatally lacking in drama or suspense. I suspect Zeitlin made this one for himself. MAGICAL Neverland volcanic island ‘‘ Elements of Wreck-It Ralph and The Truman Show are coded into its DNA see what powers Free Guy, which has elements of Wreck-It Ralph, The Lego Movie, The Truman Show and Ready Player One coded into its DNA. It’s a familiar-but-fun family blockbuster that doesn’t take itself remotely seriously. Crucially, director Shawn Levy (Night At The Museum) is making the video game play by movie rules, not the other way round. As Guy teams up with Comer’s game designer to save his virtual world from a megalomaniac developer (Taika Waititi), we get cameos, zinging one-liners, slick action scenes and a very unusual romance. It all moves at such a clip you don’t notice that not a lot of it makes sense. THE COURIER Cert 12A ★★★ In cinemas now Depending on your viewing habits, Benedict Cumberbatch is either TV’s Sherlock Holmes or Marvel’s mystical genius Doctor Strange. Here, the talented British actor comes back to earth in a quietly absorbing true story about a regular guy who was one of the Cold War’s accidental heroes. “If this mission were dangerous, you really are the last person we would send,” says MI6 agent Dickie Franks (Angus Wright) as he hands Cumberbatch’s balding, English salesman Greville Wynne a seemingly straightforward assignment. It’s 1960 and Greville has made his money importing Western goods into communist Europe. Franks wants him to head to Moscow, knock back a few vodkas with the affable Colonel Oleg Penkovsky (Merab Ninidze) and seal a deal for exporting machine parts. If all goes well, Greville is to invite Oleg back to London as part of a trade delegation, get his comrades hammered and then sneak away to a secret rendezvous with ruthless CIA agent Emily Donovan (Rachel Brosnahan). As the Cuban Missile Crisis develops, Greville’s business grows increasingly risky as he becomes a courier tasked with smuggling nuclear secrets out of Moscow. Shot in dull greys and set mostly in dowdy corridors, the film lacks the glamour or intrigue of more high-octane spy thrillers. But Cumberbatch is excellent as a well-meaning everyman who has to dig very deep to find his inner super spy. MINAMATA Cert 15 ★★★ In cinemas and on digital now After losing the Fantastic Beasts gig, Johnny Depp is back on the big screen with a charismatic turn as real-life American photojournalist W Eugene Smith. It’s 1971, Smith’s fame as a war photographer is fading REDEMPTION and the now embittered Depp as famous alcoholic is at loggerheads snapper Smith with Life magazine editor Robert Hayes (Bill Nighy) who he angrily accuses of selling out to the ad men. But they are both given a shot at redemption when Smith answers a call from environmentalist Aileen Mioko (Minami Hinase) to expose a scandal in the coastal town of Minamata in south-western Japan. For decades, the Chisso corporation has been dumping mercury into the water, poisoning the fish and the local people who eat them. A worried Hayes agrees to send the booze-addled Smith to take photographs of the protests and the horribly disfigured victims. Surprises are a little thin on the ground as the self-pitying snapper slowly rediscovers his humanity. Smith is a little thinly sketched, but his beautifully composed pictures have lost none of their power.

SE1ST 42 Sunday Express August 15, 2021 Review: television MY TV LIFE Val McDermid Kirkcaldy-born Val, 66, is a bestselling crime fiction author most famous for a series of novels featuring profiler Tony Hill and detective Carol Jordan What was your first TV memory? A BBC adaptation of David Copperfield when I was five or six. I remember crouching behind my dad’s chair, and peeking around it as David Copperfield was being beaten by his stepfather. I can remember being horrified, I suppose because I had a relatively straightforward childhood and nobody had beaten me. Who was your first TV crush? Probably Servalan in Blake’s 7. There was a lot to love about Servalan, she had that ice cold beauty and power. What was your first TV appearance? When I was 14 I was in my school’s team for the Top Of The Form TV quiz. We won the first match and lost the second one. What is your favourite current show? Probably Call My Agent, I just adore that, and a friend is one of the writers on the British adaptation so I’m really looking forward to seeing that when it arrives on our screens. I love it because it’s clever, witty and funny, and it doesn’t take itself seriously. Which TV show would you take to a desert island? I’d want something with lots of episodes, so it’d probably be The West Wing or Homicide: Life On The Street. Everybody talks about The Wire as writer David Simon’s great show but I love Homicide... which was its precursor. Which TV show would you like to put out of its misery? Where to begin? Pretty much any of Love Island, The Only Way Is Essex, that kind of nonsense celebrating people being famous for nothing but being famous. Guiltiest TV pleasure? The Great British Sewing Bee. I enjoy watching people doing something they love really well – you have to admire that. I just love the presenters. It’s a kind show, it’s nice and it’s funny. What are you up to at the moment? I’m doing a lot of events, podcasts and interviews about my latest book, 1979. And I’m researching the second in the series, which will be 1989. So I am listening to lots of 80s music and reading about the fall of Communism, the wars between Maxwell and Murdoch, and the aftermath of Hillsborough and Lockerbie. • 1979 by Val McDermid (Little Brown, £20) is out on Thursday JON COATES with DAVID STEPHENSON Celebrity Masterless Chef raises a smile WELL DONE Celebrity MasterChef (BBC One, Monday & Tuesday). The cooking was mostly awful but the banter was hilarious. And there was also something reassuringly “old normal” about seeing Gregg Wallace and John Torode grimace as they looked anxiously at a Danish meatball which ends up absolutely raw on the inside... but burnt on the outside! Thank you, actress Rita Simons from EastEnders. Only a “Mitchell” could get away with serving that. Best with the bants was Hi-de-Hi! legend Su Pollard who, if she wasn’t already booked for panto this year, will get a call after a brilliantly funny turn – “I’m representing the culinary-challenged…” It was a Michelin-starred performance. Did the celebrity bookers just realise that bad cooking is actually very funny, because they lucked out with series 16? Even those among the first five fear-struck contestants who made some claims to chop a mean onion or to open an oven door to put in something other than a favourite ready meal, were also a bit rubbish. Most credible was bullet-proof Bez, from Happy Mondays, who had some knowledge of cooking even though every meal he produced looked like a dog’s dinner. But the judges do like a journey. Pollard’s first effort involved doing something ghastly with a poussin. I don’t think this tiny delicate bird deserved any of this treatment, including the disappearance of that onion and lemon... To serve, she then hacked it to pieces like a frenzied serial killer. “It looks like it’s been prepped in a mixer,” said Gregg, politely. Earlier she’d rightly worried: “I’m never going to get married this way.” But something happened in the interval. Perhaps Bez showed her how his famed maracas worked. Pollard triumphed in the final cook-off by wrapping some fish in ham. You would think nothing good can come from that but they loved it, probably sensing that Pollard’s special brand of “camp cookery” would continue to make great television. It will. It might just be the best series yet – if Gregg and John can stomach it! Comedy of a more intentional kind, Ghosts (BBC One, Monday) returned for a third series. It has the makings of another quality run, not least because of the amount of content they cram into a half an hour. Can the Ghosts team please be put into contact with those writing the woeful new comedy I mention above, Buffering to show them how to write gags? One would do – a 100 per cent improvement! There were at least five separate mini-plots in Ghosts’ first episode which was centred around a documentary team visiting Button House, while the headless STEPHENSON’S ROCKET I’ve just caught up with a new “comedy” for young people. They deserve laughs too. And of course it wasn’t funny. Buffering (ITV2, Thursdays) comes from the channel of Love Island but it made the dating show look highbrow. Even young people don’t think young people behave like this. Buffering was created by Love Island “announcer” Iain Stirling who is a funny chap, so something went wrong. Did the dog eat the really hilarious draft? There was promise though. It broke the record for the most times the word “sex” has been used in a half-hour show. Well done! Review: television man, Sir Humphrey Bone, told us how he misplaced the remainder of his body when his French wife messed about with the Catholics. A head-severing worthy of a Horrible Histories “Stupid Death”. There was a wonderful cameo too from one of my favourites, Barclay Beg- Chetwynde (superb Geoffrey McGivern), a brilliant busybody neighbour who can’t really understand why, with such an impressive name, he doesn’t own this marvellous house. None of us can understand why we don’t live in the manor house. But this was an episode laden with irony, with Alison (Charlotte Ritchie) telling us, “I’m not going on the telly!” Even half a joke was funny. Ben Willbond’s Captain was joke-telling with Jim Howick’s Scout BANTERING BUDDIES: John Torode and Gregg Wallace in a great series of Celebrity Masterchef leader when we caught a mere punchline “...but I’m still the pâté-familias.” I don’t know why it’s amusing but a Frenchman will know. Professor T (ITV, Sunday) trundles along with viewers surely wondering why they’re still watching – in much the same way that the Prof cares so little about whether he solves a case. For distraction last week, he channelled Morse – sitting in a car listening to classical music. It will be a pint of best bitter next week, “Your round, Lewis!” We all want Richard E Grant’s job. Not content with reviewing luxurious hotels, he’s now visiting the glamorous locations where famous novels are set, in Write Around The World (BBC Four, Tuesday). Strange how successful authors mostly gravitate to picturesque, sunny climes. Is Grant (below) part of an experiment to see how much good living a TV presenter can endure? Good luck to him. It’s wonderful TV – and Grant is handling the privations well, too! And a final word on the Olympics (BBC One). Congratulations to the previously most-decorated Olympian, Sir Chris Hoy, who appeared to have been held against his will by the BBC in Media Centre, Salford, for at least five days on back-to-back shifts – all the while seeing his record slip by. Why not let the man go home and quietly weep – or was he on the minimum wage? 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[ ] QTY 44 Sunday Express August 15, 2021 winter’s wildlife with stuart winter BLENDING INCurlew Golden days at a sewage farm Realising school summer holidays are coming to an end is one of the gloomiest things about growing up. Most teenagers face being fitted out with uniforms for a new term with hangdog looks and moody insolence. But for me, the seasonal changes as summer turned into autumn were always something to savour – albeit accompanied by a pungent odour. It brings back memories of holiday adventures, sneaking into the local sewage farm to catch sight of migrating sandpipers. High fences and barbed wire were no barrier to my gang of young birders, keen to see species more associated with the coast than the heart of the Home Counties. Old-fashioned waterworks were lifelines for birds migrating from their Arctic nesting grounds to warmer climes. 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(Though you could still grow them in pots in a good loamy soil, and regularly water them. ) On the positive side, there are plenty of plants that relish free-draining soil and will particularly like the lack of wet soil and soggy bottoms in winter. Many Mediterranean plants have Improve soil by adding compost Ornamental Festuca glauca evolved to grow in stony areas with little rainfall. They often have silvery leaves and fine hairs, which trap moisture. Lavender has to be the best-known example, as well as the fluffy lambs’ ears, Stachys byzantina. Silver sun-lovers that cope with drought include wormwood (Artemisia), cotton lavender (Santolina), the curry plant (helichrysum), Russian lavender Catmint can trap moisture lkal fka jsdl kajlk jalk jd (Perovskia), Ballota, Convolvulus and catmint (Nepeta). 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It’s best to plant younger specimens which will adapt more quickly to their tough surroundings than older ones which might have got used to a more comfortable life in a nursery pot. Whichever you choose, water well before planting and while the plant establishes itself. For larger areas, consider irrigation for the first year. It’s best to space plants further apart than usual so they are not all competing with each other for available water and nutrients. If things get really tough in prolonged periods of drought, cut back the affected plants to help them through till autumn. Get sorted and next time there’s a hosepipe ban you can sit back and be reassured that your plants will survive. Jobs for the week ■■You can increase your stock of border carnations by layering – choose a healthy side shoot that isn’t flowering, bend it over without snapping the stem and peg firmly into the ground with some wire. Cover the stem with soil and water in. ■■Divide overcrowded bearded irises to improve vigour for next year. ■■Cyclamen corms that you have been storing can be started into growth in the greenhouse. ■■Having trouble with earwigs on your dahlias? Make traps with pots stuffed with shredded paper, and remove earwigs daily. ■■Prune your climbing and rambling roses if they have finished flowering. ■■Conifer and evergreen hedges can have a final trim to tidy up before autumn slows growth. The man says, “We’ve got work to do, But we’ll come back and deal with you!” Then, leaving Rupert firmly tied, The two men make their way outside. ■■A high-phosphate feed for the lawn will help encourage strong root growth – a good measure to strengthen it for winter. ■■Colchicum, sternbergia and autumn crocus should be planted in the ground as soon as they are available to buy in the garden centre. Rupert Rupert and Billy goat episode 19 Now, things begin to happen quickly. 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There are plenty of simple tricks to help you prepare nutrient-packed ingredients quickly and easily. Slice onions with ease Onions are the flavour foundation for many dishes and good news for health. They’re packed with heart-friendly flavonoids and enable the friendly bacteria in our gut to keep our digestive system healthy. But preparing them can be a chore. Quick trick: For a thinly sliced onion, cut it in half from top to bottom. Next, chop off the root and tip and peel off the skin. Now use a peeler to shave off thin slices. Give garlic a shake Garlic adds flavour to meals, which in turn can help us use less blood pressure-raising salt. Chopping or crushing it forms a natural compound called allicin, which gives garlic its unique smell, taste and health benefits, including lowering cholesterol and blood pressure. But there’s no denying that garlic is fiddly to peel. Quick trick: Chop both ends off the garlic cloves, pop them in a jam jar and shake hard. The skin will separate away leaving behind peeled cloves, ready to chop, slice or crush. Juice it Oranges, lemons and limes are packed with vitamin C, which boosts our immune system, nervous system, bones, teeth and skin. What’s more, adding vitamin C-rich juice to iron-rich foods such as beans, lentils, nuts, seeds and leafy veg also helps our body absorb more iron. But it’s not always easy to maximise the juice. Quick trick: Roll citrus fruits on a hard surface for a few seconds or put the whole fruit into a microwave for 10-20 seconds to make them easier to juice (it also makes oranges easier to peel). Then squeeze over a sieve to catch the pips. Excellent eggs Eggs provide protein, B vitamins that are important for mental wellbeing, and bone-friendly vitamin D. Eating eggs for breakfast also keeps us fuller for longer, making it easier to lose weight. But tiny bits of shell can be a pain to remove. Quick trick: Use the main piece of cracked shell to scoop up any small broken bits, or wet your finger then dip it into the egg white – the shell should stick to your finger. De-seed with speed Butternut squash is packed with carotenoids such as betacarotene, which the body converts into skin and eye-friendly vitamin A. Studies also link carotenoids derived from food with a lower risk of heart disease and better lung function. But removing the seeds from squash is messy work. Quick trick: Use an ice-cream scoop to remove the seeds (also works with pumpkins and melons). Then roast the seeds for an extra nutrient hit – pop them into a sieve, rinse, dry, toss with olive oil and spices, and roast until brown. Skim off the fat Dishes made with meat or meat juices (bolognese, soups, curries) often have an oily layer on their surface during cooking. This oil what can i do about... water retention Swelling of the feet and ankles is called oedema. This occurs because fluid leaks out of blood vessels into the tissues in the feet and ankles. “Generally, the veins in the legs transport tissue fluid back up towards the heart. But anything that interferes with this makes oedema worse,” says Dr Lee. “For Healthy kitchen hacks for meals in minutes example, standing or sitting for long periods, hot weather, or pressure on the veins in the pelvis, and in pregnancy. “If your electrolyte balance is abnormal, possibly from too much salt in your diet, this can cause oedema. “It can also be a feature of blood clots and other more serious in GOOD illnesses.” To reduce oedema, elevate your legs, and avoid sitting and standing for long periods. Try to lose weight, as this reduces pressure on the veins. Exercise regularly and eat a low-salt diet. If your symptoms do not improve, it’s advisable to see your GP.

SE1ST Sunday Express August 15, 2021 47 HEALTH with amy packer retail therapies ■Pets ■ at Home and mental health charity Mind have joined forces for the Free Your Mind campaign, encouraging pet owners to get outdoors with their dogs more this summer to boost physical and mental health. Plus they’re raising £25k for the charity with sales from their 3 Peaks doggy range (from 75p; petsathome.com). ■Once ■ the preserve of the “knit your own yoghurt” types, kefir is going mainstream, with Muller launching a Kefir Smoothie (£1.30; Asda). The low fat, gut-friendly fermented milk drinks contain real fruit and come in two delicious flavour combos – Raspberry & Pomegranate and Mango & Orange. is usually high in cholesterol-raising saturated fat. But using a spoon to scoop it up is time-consuming and messy. Quick trick: Pop a paper plate on the surface of the dish and it will soak up the oil. Alternatively, put an ice cube in kitchen paper and move it over the surface of the dish – the coldness of the ice will harden the fat making it easier to remove. Save your strawberries Strawberries are rich in vitamin C and folate. Both good news A new surgical tool inspired by wasps could transform cancer ops. Currently, the removal of tissue such as tumours is done using suction, but these tools are prone to clogging and there are parts of the body they can’t reach. However, researchers at Delft University have developed an instrument which is inspired by parasite wasps and uses friction these nutrients are important for immunity and psychological wellbeing, and can help reduce fatigue. They also contain flavonoids such as anthocyanins, which may help to slow down memory loss as we get older. Many of us simply slice off the tops of strawberries to remove the stalk, but this means we lose some of the berry too. Quick trick: Push a metal straw through the strawberry from the point to the leaf to hull them and remove the stalk. New tool for cancer ops rather than suction to remove tissue. The tool has six blades which move in turn and can reach small spaces which traditional methods cannot. Scientists have a working prototype and hope the tool will be ready for use by surgeons in a matter of years. ‘‘ Keep your squash seeds, toss with oil and spices, then roast them Give your mushrooms a makeover Studies show replacing meat with mushrooms can help us lose weight by creating a big calorie deficit. Plus, mushrooms contain naturally occurring plant chemicals that act as antioxidants and have been linked to better immunity and less inflammation. Slicing them can be time consuming though. Quick trick: Invest in an egg slicer. Pop each mushroom into the cradle, press down the top and hey presto, you’ve got instant, speedy sliced mushrooms. self help Avo to go Avocados are packed with vitamin E and monounsaturated fat, which lowers cholesterol. They’re also a good source of antioxidants lutein and zeaxanthin, which help protect against age-related macular degeneration. But finding the perfectly ripe avocado and removing the stone isn’t always easy. Quick trick: To remove the stone, cut in half lengthways, twist the two halves in opposite directions, then gently push the skin behind the half containing the stone and it should pop out. For speedy ripening, remove the stone, wrap each half in microwaveable wrap and microwave for two minutes. Place under cold water to stop the cooking process. Staying cool in a heatwave Around 2,000 people in the UK die every year through overheating. “Babies, young children and the elderly are most at risk,” says Dr Deborah Lee (drfox.co.uk). Closing the blinds or curtains during the day can lower indoor air temperatures by up to 20 degrees. “Use plain cotton sheets on your bed. Try a cold gel pillow. Fill a hot water bottle with cold water, or sleep in a damp T-shirt,” adds Dr Lee. Drink plenty of plain water and avoid alcohol in the heat. Consider sleeping downstairs your house if you can. ■Acne ■ affects about 95 per cent of 11-30 year olds to some extent, so finding the right product has become big business. Acnecide 5%w/w Gel (£10.49; Boots) contain benzoyl peroxide, an active ingredient which combats the bacteria that causes acne, while removing old skin cells clogging pores, which can reduce inflammation. ■ ■ Many hair colourants contain PPD, a known allergen that up to 1.5 per cent of us will react to, from mild irritation of the scalp to anaphylactic shock. Colourstart (£15; colourstart. com) is a new MHRA-licensed patch test which can be used at home to screen for a potential allergy.

SE1ST 48 Sunday Express August 15, 2021 Motoring This is the new Renault Arkana. It’s a coupe SUV. Renault says the sloping coupe-style back of the car doesn’t gobble up any luggage space and it might not in terms of litres but it must do when it Arkana believe it comes to loading odd-shaped items. Renault used to make fantastically practical cars like the Espace and Scenic and now we’re down to style-driven motors like the Arkana. Trouble is, it’s easy for car companies to make vehicles like this. Take an existing platform, in this case the same one that’s used for the Clio and Captur crossover, stretch it and then raid the skip for all the hardware like engines, gearboxes and suspension parts. They do this because they’re petrified of not being in the next niche that goes big. BMW kicked the coupe SUV thing off with its monster X6, Merc engine with a six-speed automatic version that’s a simpler mild hybrid the Clio interior with a 9.3in followed with the GLC and GLE SUV gearbox. This E-Tech powertrain is and doesn’t have the li-ion battery touchscreen, smart phone mirroring coupes and Porsche recently followed used in several other Renault models has a bigger 513 litre luggage area. a decent array of switches for altering with the Cayenne coupe. As is usually and combines a 1.2kWh lithium One of the Arkana’s main rivals will temperature and audio volume the case, it then filters down to the battery with two electric motors. be Toyota’s C-HR, a car that is funkier simply. R.S. Line trim brings with it cheaper brands. I’m sure more will Our test car is in R.S.Line trim to look at but also very popular. The leather seats with fake suede, fake follow Renault’s lead. which without options will set you Renault beats the Toyota on boot carbon fibre on the dashboard and The Arkana is apparently a big back £30,900. Renault is already space and the rear feels more airy some red stitching. seller in Russia where, oddly, it is built offering some competitive PCP deals and light which children will like. It’s all quite pleasant and put on a different platform and 95 per on the car. Citroen’s new C4 can be considered together to a decent quality. cent of its components are different, Actually, the Arkana is much more a rival even though Citroen does By now you will have needed to be too. The European Arkana is built in spacious inside than its shape not bill it as a coupe SUV: it’s a already pulled in by the Arkana’s its own factory, as well, one that’s in suggests. Four 6ft adults will be able hatchback with a swoopy roof and styling because to drive this car is South Korea. But to the car itself. to make themselves comfortable. quite a bit of ride height. Same thing very ordinary. We’re driving the E-Tech Hybrid The boot holds 480 litres which is in other words. Our test car was left-hand drive 145 which has a 145PS 1.6-litre petrol actually quite generous (the other Inside you get a bigger version of which means that your bottom is Holidays UK with COLIN GOODWIN email express.motors@reachplc.com twitter @expressmotoring The facts Renault Arkana E-Tech R.S. Line Price: £30,900 Engine: 1,598cc, four-cylinder, petrol Power: 145PS Torque: 250Nm Top speed: 107mph 0-62mph: 10.8secs Economy: 56.5mpg combined CO2: 108g/km For: Vaguely interesting styling. Against: Boring to drive. Sum up: A newcomer with limited appeal. following any bad edges and ruts near the gutter, but even taking this into account the ride is not particularly comfortable. The steering feels rather numb and there is a fair amount of pitch and roll. R.S.Line might sound sporty but the Arkana is a long way off being of interest to someone who enjoys driving. Like we said, if you’re captivated by the Arkana’s style then take one for a spin. This is a car that Renault made because it could. It’s an average car in reasonably attractive clothing. Visit our four fantastic locations today.... Luxury Lodges, great fun and a great return on investment! www.goodlifelodge.com • info@goodlifelodge.com • 0800 564 2266

SE1ST Sunday Express August 15, 2021 49 Travel Edited by NIGEL THOMPSON @TravelEdNigel FOR holidays in the new NORMAL email traveldesk@reachplc.com twitter @TravelEdNigel @marjorieyue @JaneMemmler @LissamanVicky online express.co.uk/travel instagram.com/dailyexpresslifestyle Sunset sip Enjoying a drink at sundown is always a highlight of the long days of summer. So if you’re heading off on a staycation, or just fancy soaking up some holiday vibes, stop by these beautiful UK bars when the sky turns blush. By Vicky Lissaman Cocktails and spires Located on the sixth floor of The Varsity Hotel, the Roof Terrace delivers panoramic views of the classy university city of Cambridge. With sights of St John’s College spires, the green of Midsummer Common and punts gliding down the River Cam, this beautiful open-top space is spectacular as the sun goes down. thevarsityhotel.co.uk TURN TO PAGE 50 An afternoon of putting and prosecco sounds like the ideal summer activity. And at Hever Castle Golf and Wellbeing in Kent you can enjoy an introductory lesson followed by drinks and nibbles. Available on various dates in September for £25. hevercastle.co.uk Cruise news by NIGEL THOMPSON Discover the sights and exotic wildlife of West Africa next year on a new series of winter sun adventure sailings from Hurtigruten. The Norwegian line is homeporting the 335-passenger MS Spitsbergen in Dakar, the capital of Senegal, from November 2022 for a series of 13-day round trip voyages to Cape Verde, The Gambia and the little-visited Bissagos Islands of Guinea-Bissau, which are home to rare manatees, hippos, dolphins, crocodiles, sea turtles and 500 species of birds. Passengers will also explore Dakar’s Gorée island and discover its infamous role in the slave trade. A spokeswoman said the itinerary offered ‘’a truly unique and off-the-beaten-track destination that is perfect for an expedition adventure like no other’’. The boutique ship is equipped with a science centre and observation lounges and prices start at £5,190 per person, including UK flights. hurtigruten.com ■TUI ■ finally launches its pandemicdelayed river cruises in Germany today with Tui Maya debuting on the Main in Frankfurt. However, ongoing uncertainly about travel has forced the firm to reduce capacity and withdraw sister ship TUI Skyla’s summer itineraries. tui.co.uk/river-cruises Virgin Atlantic is launching twice-weekly flights from Edinburgh Airport to the island of Barbados from December 5. It will be Scotland’s only direct route to the Caribbean. Return fares start from £419 and are on sale August 18. Visit virginatlantic.com for details.

SE1ST 50 Sunday Express August 15, 2021 Join Scotland’s knit crowd The Olympics are over and this year we’ve watched all sorts of new events, such as skateboarding and BMX freestyle. One event, though not Olympic, caught the attention of many – Tom Daley knitting poolside. If you fancy giving it a go, Arena Holidays has a six-day break: Spirit of Shetland Knitting Holiday. JUMPERTom Daley knitting You’ll learn the Fair Isle technique from experts and get the chance to meet local and knitting textile designers and hear about the Shetland yarn at a mill. Departs May 4 and June 22, 2022. From £1,675 per person, half-board, with return flights from Edinburgh to Sumburgh and guides. arenatravel.com WE’RE READY WHEN YOU ARE Let’s start travelling again Book early with confidence 6Celebrate Sheffield’s creative talent at Festival On The Square, which starts tomorrow. Art installations, film screenings, live entertainment and workshops will be among the many actvities. Until August 30. facebook. com/festivalonthesquare This month, the incredible slate landscapes in the north west of Wales have become the UK’s 33rd UNESCO world heritage site. Explore this magical area of Snowdonia, in Gwynedd, with a stay at a Sykes Holiday Cottage in the village of Trawsfynydd sykescottages.co.uk Our brochure collection is out now – perfect for getting you travelling again soon. Every holiday includes our Reassurance Promise, giving you… • Included travel insurance with emergency medical cover for coronavirus up to £5 million § • Flexible cancellation cover Plus, our Coronavirus Vaccine travel policy means you can book and travel with complete peace of mind. REQUEST OUR LATEST BROCHURES Call FREE on 0800 056 6095 quoting XPT24 or visit saga.co.uk/saga-sun Saga is for people over 50. §Our overseas holidays include travel insurance underwritten by Great Lakes Insurance SE, UK Branch, or a price reduction if not required. Cover is subject to medical screening. Terms and conditions apply – call for details. For full details of our Coronavirus Vaccination Policy please visit saga.co.uk/booking-conditions. For more information about financial protection and the ATOL Certificate, visit www.atol.org.uk/ATOLCertificate. NHA-GH1587 Travel Deals of the week by NIGEL THOMPSON The Government has expanded the amber and green travel traffic light lists. Here are our value picks… AMBER LIST France from £1,411pp: save £246pp on a week’s all-inclusive at the four-star Club Med Opio Provence resort near Cannes. Includes flights from Luton on October 23 and transfers. clubmed.co.uk Cyprus from £545pp: save up to £306 per couple on a week’s half-board at the five-star Annabelle Hotel in Paphos. Departing Gatwick on December 6, includes private transfers. sovereign. com Greek Islands from £269pp: fly from East Midlands on August 25 for a seven-night selfcatering getaway at the two-star Souda Studios in Alykes, Zante. Includes 22kg baggage and transfers. jet2holidays.com Dubai from £729pp: a week on halfboard at the five-star JA Ocean View Hotel at Jumeirah Beach comes with flights from Manchester on August 22. Price based on a family of four sharing, includes transfers. barrheadtravel.co.uk Mediterranean cruise from £777pp: fly from Gatwick, Birmingham, Glasgow or Manchester on August 28 to join Jewel of the Seas in Limassol, Cyprus, for a seven night round trip to Rhodes, Mykonos, Piraeus (for Athens), Santorini and Chania in Crete. royalcaribbean.com Bahrain from £645pp: fly from Heathrow up to November 19 for a three-night B&B break at the five-star Sofitel Bahrain Zallaq Thalassa Sea & Spa. Book by August 31. southalltravel.co.uk GREEN LIST Barbados from £1,199pp: save 50% on a week’s all-inclusive at the four-star+ The Abidah By Accra hotel in Oistins. Depart from Manchester on selected dates in September and October. bluebaytravel.co.uk Malta from £517pp: fly from Liverpool on September 28 for a seven-night all-inclusive break at the four-star db Seabank Resort + Spa in Mellieha. Saves 16%. teletextholidays.co.uk Germany from £219pp: a three-night room-only stay at the four-star NH Berlin City Ost hotel is for travel from Heathrow on selected dates between September 4-19. Includes 23kg luggage. Book by August 25. ba.com/berlin *Prices correct at time of publication and based on two sharing unless stated otherwise CONTINUED FROM PAGE 49 Sunset in the Smoke Located on Godliman Street, Sabine is London’s newest rooftop bar and offers spectacular views of St Paul’s Cathedral and the city skyline. There are two outside terraces, one with a retractable roof, making it a mustvisit on balmy evenings as well as chillier nights. With botanical decor, superb cocktails, an innovative bar food menu and sharing platters, Sabine is ideal for afterwork drinks, late-night partying and weekend lounging. sabinelondon.co.uk Head for the hills Back by popular demand after its launch last summer, Breaking Bread is a pop-up dining experience on The Downs in Bristol. A collaboration of two of the city’s most popular restaurants, The Pony & Trap and Pasta Loco, passionate chefs serve up colourful dishes in socially distanced tipis. There’s also a vast pub garden space – Pipe and Lovers – where guests can make the most of the summer evenings and sunset views in festival-like surroundings. Book tables in advance. breakingbreadbristol.co.uk Hit the deck Located on the western esplanade of Hove’s seafront on the south coast in Sussex, Rockwater is ideal for all-day lounging, dining, long evenings and those all-important golden sunset hours. Operating on a walk-in basis, guests can enjoy seafood platters, charcuterie boards and plant-based delicacies, along with cocktails, wines and beers. Grab a seat on the beachfront deck with retractable roof to enjoy big skies and sundowners. Or rock up for one of their fitness sessions up on the terrace, front lawns or in the sea – choose from yoga, Pilates, meditation, running clubs and lots more. rockwater.uk

SE1ST FOR holidays in the new NORMAL Sunday Express August 15, 2021 51 email traveldesk@reachplc.com twitter @TravelEdNigel @marjorieyue @JaneMemmler @LissamanVicky online express.co.uk/travel instagram.com/dailyexpresslifestyle Hotel of the week by zosia eyres Queens Hotel Cheltenham Twilight zones Whisky Macs and wistful views The west coast of Scotland’s glorious sunsets don’t get much better than from Airds Hotel near Oban. Overlooking Loch Linnhe in Port Appin, this view from Airds Terrace is best taken with a wee dram or local favourite, whisky Mac (whisky and ginger wine) in hand. Drink in the tranquillity of the sun as it sets reflected in the loch to colourful effect before dropping behind the Morvern mountains. airds-hotel.com Ibiza vibes on the Exe Estuary Overlooking the Exe Estuary and Lyme Bay, Mickeys Beach Bar and Restaurant in Exmouth is a casual maritimeinspired spot for food and drinks. In the style of the beach bars of Ibiza and Greece, its vibe is coastal escapism. Chef Michael Caines (owner of Michelin-starred Lympstone Manor) makes the most of the area’s seafood, with a menu including Devon moules mariniere. Drinks are local too, with Devon beers and ciders. Weekend DJs add a sense of occasion, plus there are family and dog-friendly spaces. mickeysbeach.co.uk Surf, seafood, sundowners Life’s a beach at Lula, a shack overlooking Hayle Estuary on the north Cornwall coast. Perfect for suppers after a day in the surf, Lula‘s cooked-toorder menu is inspired by the American south and Cornish seafood with daily specials of crab and lobster direct from fishing boats. Friday fire pit feasts see dishes cooked over the flames. In summer, DJs play while you sip beachinspired cocktails. It’s first come, first served for the tables, or grab a takeaway and eat it on the beach. lulashack.co.uk Waves and waterfalls in Wales From its elevated position on the hillside, The Ship Inn offers sweeping views of Tresaith Bay, one of the best beaches in Ceredigion. Relax with a drink on the terrace during the day, breathe in the fresh sea breeze and keep your eyes peeled for dolphins leaping from the waters. As the sun goes down, watch the sky turn tangerine and the sea melt into liquid silver. There are four ensuite double rooms to stay in, all with sea views. You’re also right on the Wales coastal path and near to Afon Saith, an ancient waterfall which cascades right down on to Tresaith beach. sabrainpubs.com Balearic nights in Bournemouth Launched in May, there’s a laidback vibe at W Beach Bournemouth, the south coast resort’s only beach club. Enjoy summer nights at the 150-seat capacity venue, with cocktails, draft beers, wine and bubbles served to the sound of chilled out tunes. Savour the tapas menu as you admire the sunset. The soft sand makes this feel almost Mediterranean. Over-21s only. wbeach.co.uk Lush Lakes views Soak up views across Lake Windermere and the Coniston Fells at The Henrock Lounge & Conservatory at Linthwaite House hotel. Simon Rogan and his team have devised seasonal dishes and snacks using ingredients from Our Farm in the Cartmel Valley. Then kick back and take in the colours and silhouettes of those Lake District sunsets. henrock.co.uk Mellow out over the Mersey Set 300ft above sea level on the 34th floor of the West Tower, Panoramic 34 boasts incredible views across Liverpool and the River Mersey. The atmosphere is extra special at sunset as guests watch the city skyline pop against a coral-pink sky and reflections shimmering in the famous river. The award-winning restaurant, featured in this year’s Michelin Guide, serves a variety of mouthwatering menus. In the dedicated bar area enjoy the sunset vistas with a cocktail. Try Berry Cross The Mersey – a moreish mix including gin, elderflower, blackberry and tonic. panoramic34.com Where and Why: In a prime spot on one of Cheltenham’s most beautiful Regency streets, the Queens Hotel is an impressive sight. It overlooks the Imperial Square and Gardens with its magnificent floral displays and statue of local hero, composer Gustav Holst. And it’s also ideal for exploring Montpellier, the Georgian spa town’s most fashionable district. Although the hotel first opened in 1838, it oozes modern luxury, with its signature rose scent inspired by Queen Victoria, drifting through the building. We were most impressed by the atrium, a truly stunning piece of design. The hotel has 84 individually styled rooms, some with statement beds, colour-popping soft furnishings, roll-top baths and walk-in showers. And all come with complimentary White Company bath products. Staff are very helpful and umbrellas are available to borrow if you visit on a rainy day as we did. There is a car park right next door, with an additional charge, and it’s a 22-minute walk from Cheltenham Spa train station. A free postcard – given to guests on arrival, which the hotel will send for free – is a nice touch. Check-in: Covid measures are in place across the hotel, with signature scent hand sanitisers dotted all around. An intensified cleaning regime has been adopted, with buttons on the lift and car park barrier regularly disinfected. On the menu: Victoria’s restaurant is a beautiful setting for dining, with huge windows and aubergine-coloured walls lined with indoor plants. Ingredients are sourced from the best producers in the Cotswolds, and we particularly enjoyed the “not a scotch egg, scotch egg”, made up of smoked mackerel and a quail egg. Vegetarian options are available and the mushroom on toast was elevated from what could have been a simple uninspiring dish, to something truly delicious. Starters from £6, mains from £14, desserts at £7. There is also a fantastic selection of wine. Guests can choose between a continental or hot cooked breakfast. While you’re there: Take a stroll along The Promenade, a famous avenue of elms and horse chestnut trees with a range of upmarket shops and restaurants. Head for a walk in Pittville Park, with its magnificent Pump Room, historic gardens and lakes with rowing boats, or take a refreshing dip in Sandford Parks lido, one of the country’s largest outdoor pools which dates back to the 1930s. Wake-up call: B&B from £112, queenshotelcheltenham.co.uk

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SE1ST Sunday Express August 15, 2021 55 FINANCIAL EDITED BY GEOFF HO Buoyant E-bike provider gears up DASH Rides, the e-bikes provider to employers, wants to take advantage of the relaxation of pandemic restrictions and expand across the country. Founder and chief executive Jamie Milroy said lockdowns left businesses and other organisations shelving moves to offer e-bikes to employees. However, they are now clamouring to offer them in cycle-to-work schemes as office workers return and vaccination rates rise. Dash is working through the backlog of orders that had built up and Milroy said: “We’re looking to spread our wings over the UK and Europe.” Take up of e-bikes has proliferated over the past few years and is forecast to account for half of the bicycle market within three years. However Milory said: “E-bikes are still to have their moment in the sun.” Elsewhere, bike rental service Buzzbike is looking to take advantage of the pandemic boom in cycling to expand. Founder Tom Hares said that demand for bikes has been so strong that it has run out of them and is awaiting delivery of thousands more. Buzz is based in London but wants to expand outside of the capital and already has two cities in mind, he said. For £29.99 a month, its members get a bike, lock, theft protection, smartphone-based maintenance and a repair ordering system. to cut a Dash EASY RIDER: E-bikes are yet to have their day in the sun, says Jamie Milroy Time the big firms paid small ones promptly SMALL businesses would get a £17.7billion boost if larger companies paid them on time, according to the Centre for Economics and Business Research. It said that if larger companies paid their smaller suppliers – with 50 or fewer employees – within eight days, it would boost revenues by more than £83,000 per business. The research, carried out for the Good Business Pays campaign group, revealed 31 per cent of smaller companies are struggling with late payments. GBP chairman Terry Corby said: “It is time that big firms contributed to the economic recovery by supporting small suppliers and paying them faster.” Last week Tesco was criticised for withdrawing from the Prompt Payment Code, just days before its 60-day payment rule was tightened to a new limit of 30 days. SHOP BUY ANY FOUR PAIRS AND £SAVE!! Super-lite Readers 4 Pack Superdeal! Housing stock crisis is driving up prices By Geoff Ho HOUSE prices will continue to rise due to the shortage of available homes on the market, according to Zoopla chief executive Charlie Bryant. He said that the problem for prospective home owners is that there “simply isn’t enough supply out there”, even though completion levels by builders have surpassed pre-pandemic levels. The available housing stock is at 25 per cent below average levels according to Bryant. It is exacerbated by people such as those with fully-grown children who have left home, staying in properties that no longer suit their circumstances. Despite the shortage of stock, the housing market is soaring, driven by people looking to move out of London and other major cities into places with more space. As a result, Zoopla forecasts that more than 1.5 million homes will change hands this year, the highest total since the 2008 global financial crisis. According to the Office for National But the market is soaring despite chronic shortage Statistics, the cost of an average house in the UK has grown from £167,470 to £256,000 over the past decade. Bryant added that in the past 20 years there had been “very little innovation” in the property market – something Zoopla wants to address with its latest venture, My Home. Zoopla says it will differ from other offerings as it will be a one-stop portal that helps people navigate their property needs over a lifetime, from their first home to moving into a second and downsizing. Aside from help when moving, it will also have features to help manage homes. Bryant said: “It’s time for the next revolution in the property market. The first was when people could see data online, the second was when people could transact online. The next generation of home owners are growing up in a different world, they’re used to things on demand.” Although My Home is already live, Zoopla is adding a raft of features and functions to it and Byrant said that he hopes it will be “fully formed” by next summer. To drive up usage, it will start marketing in time for Boxing Day, which is the peak period for people visiting property portals. 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SE1ST 56 Sunday Express August 15, 2021 P UBLIC goodwill takes a lot of effort to build up and just minutes to destroy, which is something both Tesco and Pret A Manger have managed recently. Tesco came under fire after it emerged that it has withdrawn from the Government’s prompt payment code, which aims to ensure small businesses get lifesaving cashflow quickly. The supermarket giant, which won plaudits for the way it has helped feed the nation during the pandemic, withdrew from COMMENT the code after it was changed to say that SME suppliers with fewer than 50 workers should be paid within 30 days, rather than 60. Apparently Tesco walked because it believes the requirements are impractical. This is not good enough, I really doubt it would be hard for an organisation such as Tesco to adapt to the new requirements. As for Pret, it has been blasted for making Covid-19 pay cuts to staff permanent. This is outrageous, especially GEOFF HO as it has benefited from Government job support schemes and has an owner with deep pockets. I urge both to row back on what are short-sighted decisions, which will only damage the standing of their businesses among the public. They would do well to remember bankers still have not been forgiven for their sins, even though the credit crunch and global financial crisis was nearly 15 years ago. ● Geoff.Ho@express.co.uk Workers left confused by office return MORE than half of workers who have been asked to return to offices do not understand the guidance from their employers, according to recruitment giant Michael Page. It said employers are not doing a good enough job of making sure workers have all the information they need to return to the office, after months of working from home due to the pandemic. The recruitment group said that just over half of employees are confused about what their bosses want and do not fully understand the guidance they have been given. It also said that 14 per cent do not feel comfortable enough to ask their bosses questions about office policies on their return. Michael Page UK managing director Nick Kirk said that business leaders need to outline quickly how much, or how little, they expect their By Geoff Ho staff to be in the office as many workers do not know what their hybrid or flexible working rights are. “There is an information vacuum which has led to confusion amongst office workers,” he said. “Maintaining open and constructive dialogue with staff is crucial.” Kirk added that as 20 per cent of workers do not want to work for a company that does not offer flexible working, employers need to settle on and communicate their policies for being in the office as soon as possible. “Employers need to think about how their policies will impact them when it comes to retaining and attracting talent,” he said. “People want to keep hold of the freedom to decide their working arrangements, so bosses need to factor this in.” Discount store drinks in success POUNDLAND is set to add its own-brand range of water filters and jugs to its shelves, teaming up with manufacturer Aquaphor. It is believed the filters will be able to fit into jugs manufactured by competitors, including those of market leader Brita. Aquaphor, which makes the filters that go into the own-brand jugs sold by Tesco and Wilko, claims its products last twice as long as those manufactured by its rivals. Brita is the UK’s largest brand, with 70 per cent of the home water filtration market, which is expected to grow 8.5 per cent over the next five years due to awareness of pollution and the pandemic. Aquaphor sponsors The Great British Water Project, an experiment to study tap water and freshwater habitats. The Don Hanson Charitable Foundation organised the project, which saw 650 primary schools take part. SMEs catch the global growth bug as firms target expansion More small businesses are looking at overseas growth opportunities than there were prior to coronavirus, according to research from lender Hitachi Capital Business Finance. It said that 43 per cent of small to medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are looking to expand internationally, compared to 41 per cent pre-pandemic. Additionally, it said the SMEs are looking to reduce their reliance on the domestic market, with the proportion looking to expand at home dropping four points to 77 per cent. The European Union was the most popular destination for those eyeing international expansion, at 54 per cent, compared to 47 per cent in pre-Covid times. North America was a possible destination for 46 per cent, while Australia was considered by 23 per cent of SMEs. Joanna Morris, head of insight at Hitachi Capital, said the easing of travel restrictions had spurred small businesses to look for growth opportunities. Elsewhere this week, the Office for National Statistics is expected to say that the Government borrowed £11.9billion to fund its operations in July, down 41.9 per cent on the same month last year. 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SE1ST By Harvey Jones MARRIAGE rates have hit a record low as more couples choose to cohabit, but this can end in a splitting headache if your finances become more closely entwined than you do. Things could get very messy when you break up, or if one of you dies, because cohabitees have fewer legal rights than married couples or civil partners. Planning is important as two thirds of couples under 30 move in without getting married, and older people are also following suit. One in five couples in their 40s and one in 10 couples in their 60s now cohabit, official figures show. Social values may be changing but make sure you do not pay the price by assuming you have more rights than you really do. THE splitting headaches Couples who move in together need to understand the additional financial risks, said Sarah Coles, personal finance analyst at Hargreaves Lansdown: “For example, if you split up and the home is in the other person’s name, you may have no right to a share.” This can cut both ways. If you are the property owner, your ex may claim an interest if they paid bills or helped with home improvements. “Couples who move in together may have made a bigger commitment than they appreciate,” she said. Things get even more complicated if cohabitees have children together. If one partner sacrifices their career to raise children they have no right to spousal maintenance following a split. “Similarly, if one has a sizeable pension and the other has nothing, there is no compulsion to share,” Coles said. As women typically raise children and have lower incomes and pensions as a result, they tend to be the losers. However, men can lose out too. If an unmarried couple have children they must make sure the father is on the birth certificate, otherwise he will not have an automatic right to care for them if the mother dies. tax trouble Cohabiting also has tax drawbacks as married couples can share assets to take advantage of their income tax, personal savings, dividends and capital gains tax allowances. If unmarried couples share assets, it could trigger a tax bill. The death of a partner always hurts but if you are unmarried the financial pain could add to the emotional loss. If your partner dies without a will, you could get nothing. Coles said: “If the home is in their name, you could lose that too, because everything passes to your partner’s children. “If they have no children, it goes to their parents.” Some pension schemes do not allow members to leave their pot to an unmarried partner on death. Others will – but only if you complete a “nomination of beneficiaries” form. “Without that, they may get nothing,” Coles said. Married couples can leave their wealth to their spouse free of inheritance tax (IHT). “Unmarried couples who breach the £325,000 ‘If you split up and the home is in the other person’s name, you may have no right to a share’ Breaking up is hard to do, and not just the heartache nil-rate IHT band could face a tax bill. Some could even have to sell their home,” Coles said. Another downside is that you cannot inherit each other’s Isas on death, because a benefit called the additional permitted subscription is available only to married couples and civil partners. The good news is that you do not have to get married to get protection. “It will help if you make a will, consider owning property as ‘tenants in common’, and put both savings and debt in both names,” she advised. A cohabitation agreement setting out what happens if you split up might also offer protection. make allowances The marriage allowance also gives couples a direct incentive to get hitched or become civil partners. Nearly 1.8 million save up to £252 a year in tax by claiming marriage allowance. Couples are eligible if one partner earns less than the personal allowance of £12,570 and their partner is a basic rate taxpayer. Claims can be backdated for up to four previous tax years, up to a maximum £1,220. Julia Rosenbloom, tax partner at Smith & Williamson, said many could now claim for the first time if their income fell during the pandemic: “Look at whether changes in your personal circumstances mean you could now benefit.” Eligibility may also change after one partner retires and sees their income fall. Royal London expert Clare Moffat said: “It is well worth checking if you could be eligible to claim on gov.uk.” talk money together Whatever your marital status, the couples who plan finances together are more likely to stay together, or fare better if they separate. Charles Stanley’s director of financial planning, Alexandra Price, emphasised communication is key, so talk with your partner about money. Consider setting up a joint bank account for bills and spending, each paying a share. “You might want to maintain your financial independence with the rest of your money, to stay in control of finances.” Finally, protect again sickness and ill health with life insurance and critical illness cover, Price said. “That way you can continue to look after each other, even if the worst happens.” Reader Offer money you could on energy bills Sunday Express August 15, 2021 57 SAVE £216 Are you one of the millions of UK households currently overpaying on their energy bills? n behalf of our loyal readers, we’ve partnered with one of the uK’s most trusted energy switching brands to create the switch and save with the ampaign - built with our readers in mind and designed to find you the best new deals, we could save you up to a huge £216* on your We do all the hard work for you... so why not start saving today? witching and saving is easy... visit EXPRESS.CO.UK/ENERGYSWITCH Or call 0800 049 2435 energy campaign *Between 1 July 2020 and 31 December 2020, people who switched energy supplier for both gas & electricity with Uswitch saved an average of £216.

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It does not stop there; food boxes, baking ingredients, beauty products, books, plants, artisan coffee, wine, cocktails, craft beer and gin and even cheese and underwear are just some of the goods and services that are sold by monthly subscription. Businesses encourage this because it brings them steady cash flows. It is also easy and convenient for consumers. But there is a catch. Too many end up throwing money away by continuing to run subscriptions for services they no longer use, month after month, year after year. The more we spend on subscriptions, the more likely we are to be wasting money. So now is the time to check whether you are getting value for money. Britons spend almost £8billion more than we did before the pandemic, according to new research from HANDS UP: Can Gunpowder Milkshake convince you to keep that Netflix sub? TopCashback. That may have kept us entertained during lockdown but also means we waste more than £100 a year on average by paying for something we no longer use. Almost half admit that they have continued to pay for subscriptions or memberships despite not getting value for money, but it typically takes six months to get round to cancelling them. Some of us forget but others are lazy, with one in four saying that cancelling an unused subscription was too much hassle. We are showing our subscription services more loyalty than they show us, as eight in 10 people said their services had not offered to freeze memberships during the pandemic, while more than half hiked prices instead. TopCashback UK director Adam Bullock said that with lockdown now over, it is time to cull unwanted subscriptions and memberships. “If you examine your bank account, you might be surprised to see what you are still paying for,” he said. Once you have done that, make a pledge to ensure you are getting value for money. “Put a diary reminder in, if it helps,” Bullock added. Next, keep a keen eye on when free trials come to an end and cancel unless you genuinely think you need the service. This will remain a constant challenge as yet more products and services are sold by subscription. On average, we now spend £620 a year each on sign-up services and Marc Pettican, president of Barclaycard Payments, said this will continue after lockdown as the range of subscription offers continues to expand. Households should also be checking other regular financial commitments, such as home energy, broadband and mobile phone, to ensure they are delivering value. Getting the best deal on your gas and electricity is particularly important, ahead of the energy cap hike on October 1. More than 11 million households who have sat on their standard variable tariff for years will see bills rise by £153 to £1,309 on average, unless they hunt around for a cheaper supplier. Damien Fahy, founder of personal finance website MoneyToTheMasses.com, urges people to comb through their bank accounts for unwanted or expensive direct debits as outdoor life restarts. “We are all likely to spend a lot more going out in future, so should try spending less on staying in,” he said. 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SE1ST on this day... LETTERS Write Sunday Express August 15, 2021 61 to: The Editor, Sunday Express, One Canada Square, Canary Wharf, London E14 5AP Email: sunday.exletters@express.co.uk Fax: 0871 434 7300 Please include your name, address and daytime telephone number WITH SHAUN WALLACE August 15, 1914 Pioneering US architect Frank Lloyd Wright received a terrifying message. Taliesin, his studio and hillside home, had been destroyed by fire. The true horror, however, was yet to emerge. Wright, a leading figure in world architecture, had built the property in Wisconsin for himself and Martha “Mamah” Borthwick, the woman for whom he had left his wife and six children. The couple ignored the wagging tongues and settled happily in the house. Also among the household was Julian Carlton, a 31-year-old chef and servant from Barbados. Although cheerful to begin with, his mood soured, and by the day of the fire his behaviour had become increasingly paranoid. He would sit up late at night, armed with a butcher’s knife and staring through the window. As a result, he was told that August 15 would be his last day. Carlton plotted his revenge, 1519: Panama City is founded in Panama. 1947: India gains independence. Also on this day 1950: Princess Anne, pictured, is born. 1963: Henry John Burnett is executed, the last man to be hanged in Scotland. choosing to strike when Wright himself would be in Chicago. He bolted the doors, grabbed an axe and attacked Mamah and her children, John, 11, and Martha, nine, killing all three. Carlton poured buckets of petrol under the doors and torched the building. He then used the axe to attack anyone who tried to flee. In all seven people were killed. Carlton hid in the basement and swallowed acid as the building burned, but was discovered by rescuers and nearly lynched. The acid had damaged his throat and he refused to eat, dying in prison of starvation a month and a half later. Wright arrived home to a “devastating scene of horror”. He vowed to rebuild the estate in Mamah’s memory, explaining: “Taliesin should live to show something more for its mortal sacrifice than a charred and terrible ruin on a lonely hillside in the beloved Valley.” He was true to his word. The property, despite its tragic past, is now a visitor attraction and a monument to his life and works. Question: Tivoli Gardens amusement park was founded on this day in 1843 in which European capital? Last week I asked: The first successful ascent of which summit, on August 8, 1786, is seen as marking the start of modern mountaineering? MONT BLANC. Act fast over GP crisis So last month Health Secretary Sajid Javid warned that NHS waiting lists could rocket to 13 million. Now that figure has gone up by a million (“Study: Waiting lists could hit 14 million next year – the NHS must expand quickly to cope”, August 8). Doctors, nurses and hospital staff have been snowed under by patients who could have been treated face-to-face by their own GPs but some GPs still refuse to do so. The hospitals don’t turn anyone away and don’t tell us to use our phone apps or computers instead. How much longer are we expected to tolerate the current situation? Practice nurses are still seeing patients face-to-face, bless them. Are they a worthless commodity? Come on Boris, it’s about time all GPs faced their responsibilities and it’s up to the Government to ensure they do, and soon. I’m not naive enough to think GPs are not busy, but could someone kindly explain with what? Jan Easter, Plymouth The price is not all right Scrap tests altogether for people travelling. That’s the way to stop the gross rip-off pricing we are enduring (“‘Cut cost of tests to save summer’”, August 8). Proof of vaccination should be all we need to travel. No tests, no locator forms and the quicker the Government stops wet-nursing us the better. Unless of course the real agenda is to stop us travelling abroad altogether. Roger Chappell, Coventry Stop toying with Covid I know politicians aren’t the brightest bunch at the best of times, but paying or giving young people stuff just to get them to receive the Covid-19 vaccine is a step too far and is wrong (“Teenagers should get the jab… so we can all get back to normal”, August 8). This is not like taking a child to the dentist and getting them a cheap toy for being good. Covid is a serious matter, not something to be treated lightly. I’d like to suggest that we take away politicians’ pay for coming up with such a stupid and pathetic suggestion. Ged Jarvis, Manchester It’s testing our patience I can go to a walk-in centre and get a Covid-19 test free, yet if I come back from a holiday abroad I have to pay well over the odds for one. Who does these tests? If they aren’t DIRE FORECAST: Sajid Javid’s NHS fear done by NHS staff they are done by private firms. Do these have connections to Government and, like the PPE firms, a licence to print money? Douglas Higgins, Liverpool Beating virus main goal With the new Premier League season now up and running, it is great to see crowds in stadiums again, after so long without being able to attend games. I am sure many supporters will be keen to go back to watching their teams. Hopefully people will remember that the virus is still among us and poses a threat. With clubs putting in place strict protocols and taking other measures to ensure fan safety, let’s hope that everyone can have a safe and enjoyable time. James Whittingham, Felixstowe, Suffolk You’re doing fine, Alex We all have accents and pronunciations we find less favourable than others and Digby Jones chose to highlight Olympic presenter Alex Scott’s Cockney accent which means she often drops her “g’s” (“BBC star defends her working class accent after lord’s criticism”, August 1). Well I’m sure we can all live with that, especially as we often listen to broad accents on TV and footballers with estuary accents commentating on matches. Don’t worry Alex, you’re doing a great job. Diane Silva, Bournemouth Real cases cast adrift While the Government is aiding and abetting migrants to break our immigration laws by allowing RNLI Jacob’s weekly wisdom ‘Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave, whither thou goest.’ Ecclesiastes Chapter 9 Verse 10 (King James version) Jacob Rees-Mogg says: “As people begin to return to work they should do so with enthusiasm. Ecclesiastes, albeit somewhat gloomily, urges us on.” lifeboats to pick them up (“Why pay France to do its job?”, July 25), does this not leave areas of our seas unprotected which could have dire results for genuine people in distress? Roger Hobson, Market Harborough, Leicestershire Sort out UK issues first In response to Ray Leyden (“Values must come first”, Letters, August 8), our political parties must stop trying to save the world. Our economy is in the red and we cannot afford to support every needy person abroad or arriving here. Government must put the interests of the less well-off in this country first. Our housing situation is dire and our NHS is crumbling at the knees. The answer of higher fuel prices, changing to electric cars, expensive boilers, etc is simply not good enough. This country needs change. I will not vote for any party that does not put the interests of our own citizens first. Pauline Pittaway, Coventry We must get smarter Why can’t the general public see the obvious, that our Government is not interested in our well-being any more than our GPs are. They just want your money. If you’re wealthy you’re looked after but other than that your life is written off. We all need to be smarter. We have an advantage over them in numbers. By pooling our knowledge together we can not only make change collectively but remove those that have failed us. Nigel Clemow, Newquay, Cornwall Flag up the right way Now that our brilliant Olympians have returned home with their superb haul of medals, it is worth noting how gratifying it was to see how the Japanese organisers took pains to ensure our national flag was flown correctly at every medal ceremony (“Tom leads our medal heroes as he pays a moving tribute to late father”, August 8). While we can forgive athletes who, in their moment of pride, are just happy to wrap themselves in the flag, surely the manufacturers of the small, hand-waved flags should be taken to task for not bothering to know that there is a right and a wrong way for it to be attached. Melvyn Jones, Plymouth A new chapter in life The theme of the Olympics seemed to be: “If you feel like doing something, go for it, no matter.” So I did just that... and got a romantic novel published (under a pen name) at the age of 84. Joan Hunt, Birmingham Telephone vote results Last week we revealed that PM Boris Johnson had been urged to axe VAT on Covid tests for travel, with a view to saving families hundreds of pounds and we asked: Should VAT be scrapped on Covid tests? YES: 87% NO: 13%

62 Sunday Express August 15, 2021 ALPHAPUZZLE ® Alphapuzzle ® tests your logic and word power. Each grid number represents a letter. Each letter of the alphabet is used. Use the given letter or letters – below the main grid – to start. Can you beat the Target Time? Call for an Extra Letter Clue if you get stuck. Solution next Sunday. DIFFICULTY: 10/10; TARGET TIME: 30 minutes; CLUE: Bar located within Gothenburg perhaps. 4 25 22 5 19 16 2 7 25 23 11 1 For extra letter clues, call: 16 2 16 16 1 5 20 20 6 16 15 24 17 21 19 2 1 21 20 13 11 8 7 9 4 16 22 1 20 8 25 18 16 2 7 21 2 14 21 18 21 10 19 2 5 19 9 1 8 12 21 17 9 25 1 16 20 20 25 26 4 21 2 9 1 24 25 20 5 7 25 19 16 19 19 1 2 5 25 20 1 25 3 21 23 1 25 17 11 5 8 25 21 23 19 17 15 1 17 5 15 16 7 13 16 11 11 16 23 7 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 V C A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z 0907 181 2603 (Deduct two minutes from Target Time for each extra letter used). Alternatively, for six extra letter clues direct to your mobile, text: SXALPHA to 64343. Texts cost £1 plus your normal network operator rate. Full solution: 0907 181 2602 Across only: 0907 181 2600 Down only: 0907 181 2601 *Calls cost 80p a minute plus your telephone company’s network access charge. SP: Spoke, London W1B 2AG. Last Sunday’s solution ACROSS: Held, Farmland, Microbe, Valid, Creep, Avenge, Deluxe, Zeroes, Quince, Leave, Medal, Trinket, Serenade, Pets. DOWN: Homicide, Imps, Lucre (clue), Launder, Cowpox, Nylon, Apeman, Jetted, Movie, Eclair, Allegro, Ankle, Dodo, Asbestos. SE1ST PUZZLES A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z 1 21 3 27 22 35 11 9 10 13 16 24 18 17 30 2 22 31 19 24 22 21 39 26 3 8 21 26 29 37 3 23 37 9 26 4 26 16 26 29 10 26 3 36 4 4 24 B 28 6 21 34 29 31 20 4 16 15 13 39 7 5 25 12 33 14 13 36 3 5 11 22 2 32 31 36 6 26 ULTIMATE ALPHABEATER Can you crack the super-tough Ultimate Alphabeater? Each grid number represents a letter – or black square. As in Alphapuzzle, every letter of the alphabet is used. But you have to complete the grid too! Use the given letters and black squares below the main grid to start. Alphabeater is ‘rotationally symmetrical’ – in other words it looks exactly the same if you turn the page upside down. Solution next Sunday. For up to six extra letters call 0907 181 2599 (Deduct five minutes from Target Time for each extra letter heard). Callers will also hear two black squares clues free of any Target Time penalty. *Calls cost 80p per minute plus your telephone company’s network access charge. SP: Spoke, 0333 202 3390 7 22 23 20 17 16 36 8 22 4 6 27 9 6 27 8 28 2 3 40 26 25 31 29 21 6 5 19 35 5 9 29 39 23 30 25 20 1 7 32 30 12 18 30 39 10 30 31 21 39 26 36 6 28 9 24 4 5 8 29 Z 11 31 30 22 16 29 33 35 18 14 22 32 31 21 5 12 32 8 14 7 5 26 38 22 7 25 33 40 23 14 13 33 12 31 22 1 27 20 38 31 31 1 31 21 5 14 34 35 5 23 25 33 9 14 13 36 20 2 18 27 15 35 Target time: 42 minutes Stuck getting started? Try one of our helplines *Calls cost 80p per minute plus your telephone company’s network access charge. Full solution: 0907 181 2598 Across only: 0907 181 2596 Down only: 0907 181 2597 Last Sunday’s Solution: Black squares: 4, 6, 9, 12, 15, 16, 17, 20, 23, 26, 29, 32, 37, 39. Across: Prime, Minister, Judo, Leaflets, Whack, Suck, Plaques, Yobs, Vying, Fizzling, Spar, Wrongful, Gavel. Down: Waxy, Fowl, Rajah, Mud, Capsizing, Balti, Hide, Noun, About, Uselessly, Pea, Nerve, Orbs, King. 16 36 17 37 Alternatively, for six extra letter clues direct to your mobile, text SXBEAT to 64343 Texts cost £1 plus your usual network operator rate. Reduce Target Time by five minutes for each extra letter 18 38 19 39 20 40 ● Alphapuzzle ® © 2021 Acorn Editorial Ltd. All words appear in Chambers Dictionary Here’s the Ultra Alphapuzzle ® – Sunday’s extra tough version of Britain’s favourite wordpower challenge. Each grid number represents a different letter. All 26 letters are used. Target time: 30 minutes Solution next Sunday. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 P Q A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z thinking space ©2021 Acorn Editorial Ltd THE ULTRA ALPHAPUZZLE ® 8 7 4 20 3 21 12 9 12 19 25 20 15 9 15 12 12 11 11 7 12 10 26 7 15 18 20 9 14 14 11 20 1 12 22 18 20 9 6 12 17 14 15 10 12 7 11 21 14 10 11 15 11 5 24 12 10 3 20 19 22 23 21 20 22 7 15 12 19 8 22 9 16 9 15 13 13 10 20 22 1 20 11 13 10 9 20 18 15 20 23 3 6 9 12 11 16 22 20 11 20 9 2 16 20 10 20 6 20 4 9 15 16 For up to six extra clue letters call: 0907 181 2607 (Deduct three minutes from Target Time for each extra letter heard). Alternatively, for six extra clues direct to your mobile, text SXALPHAU to 64343. Texts cost £1 plus your normal network rate. Full solution: 0907 181 2611 Across only: 0907 181 2609 Down only: 0907 181 2610 *Calls cost 80p per minute plus your telephone company’s network access charge. Last Sunday’s solution ACROSS: Control, Prim, Wave, Wondrous, Clutch, Shoddy, Phonic, Bursar, Japonica, Club, Gull, Product. DOWN: Scrawl, Hiatus, Once, Tinfoil, Growth, Chirpy, Flunks, Blazon, Parlour, Crux, Liquid, Acuity. ● Puzzle phone and text services SP: Spoke, London W1B 2AG *SP: Spoke - Helpline 0333 202 3390 1) At the border crossing, Carl crossed the border sometime before the car, which did not cross last. Val did not cross the border in the van or the car, and she crossed sometime before Burt. The bus crossed sometime after the bike, which crossed sometime after Billy. In which vehicle and when did each person cross the border? 2) Which two words meaning ‘desire’ and ‘solely’ combine into one meaning ‘recklessly’? 3) Find the cartoon villains in these anagrams: a) Alga Germ, b) Knot Plan, c) Elk Store. 1 9 3 7 7 8 6 9 8 3 BRAIN TEASERS SUDOKU 9 5 3 2 3 1 5 6 7 8 3 5 5 4 9 2 1 3 4 9 7 9 4) In a rugby union match, it is only possible to score points in lots of seven, five or three. If the order that the points are scored in is important and both ways of scoring three points are regarded as the same, how many ways are there to get to seventeen points? Answers: 1) Carl van first, Billy car second, Val bike third, Burt bus fourth. 2) Want-only. 3) a) Gargamel, b) Plankton, c) Skeletor. 4) 11 ways Fill the small squares so that every column, every row, and every 3x3 square includes all of the digits from 1 to 9 Level: Gentle Target: 16 minutes For extra clues call 0901 322 5600 (Calls cost 77p per call from a BT landline plus network extras, other networks and mobiles may vary) For today’s full solution call 0907 181 2606 (Calls cost 77p per minute from BT landlines plus network extras, other networks and mobiles may vary). LAST SUNDAY’S SOLUTION 5 6 9 7 1 8 3 2 4 4 1 8 3 5 2 6 7 9 7 3 2 9 4 6 8 5 1 3 2 1 4 9 5 7 8 6 6 5 4 8 7 3 9 1 2 8 9 7 6 2 1 4 3 5 1 4 6 2 3 7 5 9 8 2 8 3 5 6 9 1 4 7 9 7 5 1 8 4 2 6 3

8 C 11 C 18 19 1 H Last week’s solution 2 R Winners: General Knowledge Crossword, August 1: £1,000: B Cassells, Amlwch, Anglesey. £50 Mystery Word Bonus: N Rossiter, Narberth, Pembrokeshire. Skeleton Crossword, August 1: £100: C Jordan, Hessle, E Yorks. £25: G Slicer, East Kilbride, Glasgow; G Harrison, Caterham, Surrey; M O’Mara, Widnes, Cheshire; R Blayney, Stanford-le-Hope, Essex; D Frowde, Penryn, Cornwall; C Poole, Sawston Cambridgeshire; B Ferguson, Livingston; J Evans, Croydon, Surrey; E McGurk, Ferndown, Dorset. £50 Mystery Word Bonus: E Walters, Hayling Island, Hampshire. winners: Please allow 30 days to receive your prize. thinking space O 3 U N 4 D T 5 R I 6 P 7 M 9 O A F E D E P I A L R A 10 O R S O N E L A 12 L L 13 O N T 14 G 15 R A 16 V E 17 L O I N R O I U W I N D S C R E E N W I P E R L G E S A E I 20 S T O 21 A T 22 S S 23 S N 24 A R 25 E D I G 26 A G I L E N A R U E G N N 28 O G R E E 29 D R A G G E D O N N 27 T SE1ST PUZZLES THE SKELETON CROSSWORD – £325 in prizes There is a £100 prize for the first correct solution drawn; nine runners-up receive £25. Send your completed crossword to the address shown in the box below left. In the skeleton crossword, the black squares and clue numbers have to be filled in as well as the words. Four black squares and four clue numbers have been inserted to give you a start. The black squares form a symmetrical pattern; the top half matches the bottom, and the two sides correspond. You can fill in 12 more squares at once to correspond with those given. 24 Send to: Skeleton Crossword, PO Box 12578, Sutton Coldfield B73 9BT. The winners will be the first correct entries drawn after the closing date of noon on Friday. Please allow 30 days for prizes to arrive. 3 Name: Address: Postcode: 19 16 ACROSS 2 Marks produced in glass? 7 Machine passed getting hot 8 Witty remark about hard drink 10 Trail dividing awful settlement 11 Sweetener a follower added to cheese 12 Material not containing a variable line 13 Budding mountaineer’s fourth climb 15 Never-ending days? Madness! 16 Delay travellers face entering state 17 Image quiet boy located in time 21 Something fine agriculturalist drove back 22 Beliefs first codified by Rufus meaning nothing 23 House many detest a little gaudy? 24 Italian lady put on notice angered leaders 25 Very small shirt extremely natty Sunday Express August 15, 2021 63 26 Greeting some venal expert curtailed DOWN 1 Run forward, fool! (2 words) 2 Number noted divided by five 3 Festivities sadly going beyond midnight 4 Silver and lead either side of turquoise gemstone 5 Used records back on top of books 6 Neat kinsman shortened spoke 7 Freethinking lady one told off 9 Dishy swimmer? Fine (Hyphenated) 14 Lettuce price reduced by 25% 17 Nut beginning to pout with no one around 18 Actual centre of famed kingdom 19 Round-faced writers making starts 20 Assegais initially pretty sharp £50 Mystery Word Bonus Ring 0901 322 5301 for a chance to win £50. Give the correct answer to 23 Across leaving your name and address. *Calls cost 75p plus your telephone company’s network access charge. SP: Spoke, 0333 202 3390. The winner will be selected from all correct entries received by noon on Thursday. THE £1,000 GENERAL KNOWLEDGE CROSSWORD can be found inSIDE s magazine A B C D E F G H I J 1 PUB QUIZ 1. Who starred as Jack Twist, opposite Heath Ledger as Ennis Del Mar, in the 2006 film Brokeback Mountain? 2. In 2017, singer Cheryl had a son named Bear with which member of the boy band One Direction? 3. Which actress stars as the telekinetic girl Eleven in the drama series Stranger Things? 4. Lee, Claire, Lisa, H and which other singer make up the pop group Steps? 5. In 2021, which Chinese filmmaker became only the second woman to win the Academy Award for Best Director, for the 2020 film Nomadland? 6. Who starred as Jesse Pinkman, opposite Bryan Cranston, right, as Walter White, in the long-running drama series Breaking Bad? 7. Which statue, made of copper and designed by Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi, was a gift from the people of France to the people of the United States? 8. Also known as a fillpot, what name is given to a pottery jug which typically takes the form of a seated man holding a pipe and wearing a tricorn hat? 9. In 2006, who became the oldest footballer ever to score a goal in the Premier League when he scored for West Ham at the age of 40 years and 268 days? 10. Who played the freedom fighter V, opposite Natalie Portman as Evey, in the 2006 film V For Vendetta? BATTLESHIPS 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 2 3 1 3 0 4 2 1 2 FIND where the fleet of ships shown is hidden in the grid. The numbers to the right of and below the grid indicate how many of the squares in that row are filled in with ships or parts of ships. The ships do not touch each other, even diagonally. Some squares have been filled in to start you off. 2 4 2 1 3 1 2 1 2 3 1 Answers: 1 Jake Gyllenhaal 2 Liam Payne 3 Millie Bobby Brown 4 Faye 5 Chloé Zhao 6 Answer 7 The Statue of Liberty 8 Toby jug 9 Teddy Sheringham 10 Hugo Weaving. THEME: 2021 Love Island contestants 1 x Battleship 2 x Cruiser 3 x Destroyer 4 x Submarine LAST SUNDAY’S SOLUTION THE SUNDAY CRUSADER AND HIS SQUIRE The Crusader’s clues ACROSS 1 Overtime around mid-August, say (5) 4 Fighters postpone melee, having no heart (9) 9 Huge things are in pieces around a madman (5-10) 10 Idiot and lady entering plant together (9) 11 Shared starters a person did well (5) 12 New Orleans is a different city (7) 13 Wine produced - a little shiraz? (7) 15 Theologian eating fruit spotted (7) 18 Sally runs in front after Edward (7) 20 A dish turning berserk covers her back (5) 22 Stuff made with china backed by foreign money (9) 24 Aggressive cheat cut from team primary in public (15) 25 Teacher speaking out against low grade improved upon (9) 26 Stuff coming back covered with blood (5) DOWN 1 Venue closer to men in a field (5) 2 Gem since added to a ring received by a young lady (7) 3 Brief FM broadcast with a following Queen number (9) 4 Welcome following about to play (7) 5 City, close, seen over a barrier (7) 6 Gas grenade stern copper wants (5) 7 A man about to steal from his shelled city (7) 8 Damaged Easter egg set apart (9) 12 Group opposing fun companions (9) 14 People heartlessly turned in running off (9) 16 An associate let up, being level-headed (7) 17 Orders sad extremists called up (7) 18 King leading sly adult around northern county (7) 19 Small slate near a dropped tool (7) 21 Oar fixed with cheers on a vessel (5) 23 One has vases beginning to crack (5) For your chance to WIN £100 read down the letters in the highlighted squares to reveal the mystery word. TO ENTER CALL: 0904 161 1610 and leave your answer and details, or text SXCRUS followed by a space, your answer, name and address details to 88833 or send your grid containing the answer in the shaded squares to: Sunday Express Prize Crossword, August 15, PO Box 12578, Sutton Coldfield B73 9BT. Competition closes August 19 at 23:59pm. An extra day is given for postal entries during bank holidays. Name: Address: Postcode: Winner will be selected at random from all correct entry routes after the closing date. Calls cost £1.50 plus your telephone company’s network access charge. Texts cost £1.50 plus your standard network rate. SP: Spoke, 0333 202 3390. Cryptic clues from our knight, and quick clues from his squire, lead to the same answers in the Crusader’s Sunday joust 1 9 10 12 15 20 24 25 2 16 ACROSS 1 Bicker (5) 4 Antagonists (9) 9 Monumental (5-10) 10 Gathered (9) 11 Excelled (5) 12 Port in SW Italy (7) 13 Portuguese island (7) 15 Mottled (7) 18 Comeback (7) 20 Mild Indian curry (5) 22 Substances (9) 24 Bellicose (15) 25 Exceeded (9) 26 Canyon (5) 3 21 4 17 22 The Squire’s clues DOWN 1 Stadium (5) 2 Fire opal (7) 3 Fleeting (9) 4 Shakespeare tragedy (7) 5 Capital of Brandenburg in E Germany (7) 6 Requires (5) 7 Capital of Kenya (7) 8 Separate, divide (9) 12 Subordinate companions (9) 14 Going away (9) 16 Other half (7) 17 Insists upon (7) 18 Historic English county (7) 19 Tool for turning nuts and bolts (7) 21 Main artery of the body (5) 23 Puzzle out (5) LAST SUNDAY’S SOLUTION: Across: 1 Troop, 4 Minus sign, 9 Photograph album, 10 Dissolute, 11 Table, 12 Summary, 13 So-and-so, 15 Classic, 18 Profane, 20 Argue, 22 Shortfall, 24 Electric heaters, 25 Testament, 26 Egret. Down: 1 Tepid, 2 Opossum, 3 Proposals, 4 Mercury, 5 Nippers, 6 Smart, 7 Imbibed, 8 Number one, 12 Sacrament, 14 About-face, 16 Algiers, 17 Castile, 18 Prophet, 19 Amateur, 21 Extra, 23 Liszt. Prize word: Opuntia *SP: Spoke - Helpline 0333 202 3390 5 13 18 6 11 14 26 7 19 8 23

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SE1ST Sunday Express August 15, 2021 65 SPORT: PREMIER LEAGUE SHEIKH MANSOUR PEP FURY AT KLOPP FROM BACK PAGE benefits.” The Spaniard insists that while City owner Sheikh Mansour invests in his squad, other owners exploit their clubs. And responding to Klopp’s comments that he can’t understand City’s spending power, Guardiola said: “If they don’t want to spend more, maybe it’s because they believe they don’t need it or because the owners don’t want it. “So they don’t invest in the team, while we invest what we can invest.” PUT MONEY TALK ASIDE: SPORTS PULLOUT P6-7 Ben’s off to blades By David Lynch Liverpool defender Ben Davies is close to finalising a seasonlong loan move to Sheffield United. Davies (below) joined the Reds from Preston in January but has not made a competitive appearance for the club since. Blades boss Slavisa Jokanovic made Davies his top centreback target this summer. By Harry Pratt DAVID MOYES is confident of unleashing a super-charged, super-fit Michail Antonio on the Premier League this season. The Hammers hitman, 31, has produced some prolific statistics during Moyes’ second spell at the London Stadium helm – banging in 20 league goals across two campaigns. However, those numbers could have been so much better had Antonio managed to steer clear of persistent injury setbacks. But, ahead of today’s trip to Newcastle, Moyes revealed he is optimistic those frustrations are in the past, thanks to the striker’s new determination to stay healthy. The Irons boss, yet to bring in any fresh firepower this summer, said: “He has got a few goals and should get more goals. “Mick’s biggest thing is getting his fitness right. He’s had hamstring injuries throughout his career. “But I think there’s NEWCASTLE V WEST HAM TODAY 2PM a new Michail Antonio out there, who is fitter, more professional in his day-to-day work – and how he prepares himself for games and in understanding what he has to do to be in good condition. “Hopefully, we get the benefit of that this season.” Moyes believes competing for the top six again is very much within their remit this season. He said: “Let’s be honest, nobody expected us to be where we are. “We did a great job... but have to be careful that the expectations on us are not so great that they are too difficult to match. “But we’re positive. We fancy our chances at the moment.” NEW MAN: Antonio is determined to stay fit MICK’S TURNED OVER A NEW LEAF Rice key to new Euro push Keep Declan Rice for another year and a Champions League place is within reach. That’s the message from former West Ham legend, Frank McAvennie, on the eve of the new season. David Moyes’ side looked set for a shock top-four place last term before Rice (left) suffered an injury and the Hammers finished sixth. But McAvennie insists there’s plenty more to come. Antonio’s regime joy for Moyes By Richard Edwards He said: “I think Europe should be the minimum target for them. A lot of that is down to Declan and the energy he gives the side. “You saw what he did for England in Euros, he just has so much energy. “If he stays for one more season then there’s no reason why this season can’t be just as successful as last season – maybe even more successful.” Wilson vital to Toon success By Simon Bird STEVE Bruce has pinpointed Newcastle’s key man this season– and it’s not new arrival Joe Willock. The United boss reckons Callum Wilson (below), the new No.9, will be the man to keep fit and get firing if the Toon are to make progress. Bruce insists Willock will add running power, Allan Saint- Maximin is “worth the admission fee alone” but that Wilson is a banker for winning goals. He said: “It is vitally important he stays fit. He has worked tirelessly in the summer to ensure he builds that strength.” Wilson added: “Missing 15 starts last year was a little bit disappointing but we’re working on that to get as many games in as possible.” Bruce needs to get a flyer By Alex Wood Steve Bruce can avoid the chop – but only if Newcastle make a flying start this term. Former Toon forward John Barnes believes that’s vital if the current manager is to avoid an early exit from St James’ Park. Bruce (right), has endured a strained relationship with the fans and the pressure could be on again. Barnes, who played 40 times for Newcastle, said: “His survival depends on how they start. 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66 Sunday Express August 15, 2021 PREMIER LEAGUE Barca make move to ditch flop Phil Philippe Coutinho has been offered on a cut-price deal to three Premier League clubs. Cash-strapped Barcelona are desperate to get the former Liverpool midfielder, 29, off the wage bill. And Barca have asked his agent, Kia Joorabchian, to speak to West Ham, Wolves and Leicester in a bid to offload him. Any deal would involve a loan for one season with an obligation to pay 60 per cent of his £7.7million-a-year wages. The only catch is that Barca, who bought Coutinho (right) for £130m, want an answer by next Friday. It comes after the better than the last one. Every performance I do, I want to do better and better. I’ve started with three goals but there is still a long way to go. “We know the quality of the players who have come in, but the team was already very good. “Our focus has to be game by game. We’ll achieve something with this mentality.” Raphael Varane was introduced to the fans before the game after completing his By Chris Hatherall Catalan giants announced yesterday that they had agreed to slash the wages of Gerard Pique and are re-negotiating the deals of captain Sergio Busquets and Jordi Alba. Agent Joorabchian, who has excellent contacts in the Premier League, is the man tasked with brokering a deal after it became clear that Barca boss Ronald Koeman does not see Coutinho in his future plans. Although the midfielder has been continuously linked with a return to Anfield, Reds manager Jurgen Klopp has never given any indication that he is interested in a deal. Real to snatch Paul FROM BACK PAGE of their major European rivals. And Pogba, who created United’s four goals against Leeds yesterday, is very much in the frame to spearhead that bid to reclaim the summit. Mbappe, 22, could also be snapped up on a free transfer as Historic hat-trick for Special Bru FROM BACK PAGE he stalls over a new contract with Paris Saint-Germain – and that would then allow the SPanish giants to launch a serious move for Haaland, 21. He has a £65million buy-out clause in his Borussia Dortmund contract, which comes into operation in July next year. £41million arrival from Real Madrid. And £81m new-boy Jadon Sancho (below) made his debut after coming on as a substitute for the final 15 minutes. United boss Solskjaer said: “It’s been a perfect day. “Driving in with fans, feeling the energy, was absolutely brilliant. It’s been a very, very good day. “There are eight or nine players who weren’t here today and we’ve got a bench with quality. This is one great start.” LAUGHING BOY: Bruno Fernandes was the United hero with a superb hat-trick INSTANT REPLY: Greenwood struck after Leeds equalised SE1ST manCHESTER united 5 LEEDS UNITED 1 ace bruno a Fernandes leads rout as Ole says ONE of the biggest disappointments of the lockdowns for Manchester United fans was that a packed Old Trafford only got to see Bruno Fernandes play four times. Yesterday was the fifth – and boy did the Portugal star make up for it. Last season’s 28-goal top scorer picked up where he left off as he netted a hat-trick to serve notice that Ole Gunnar Solskjaer’s side mean business this season. Fernandes was unstoppable as the Reds tore Leeds apart at Old Trafford for the second time in eight months after putting six past them in December. As brilliant as Fernandes was, this impressive win was not just about him and Paul Pogba, who was superb and made four assists. Mason Greenwood also shone and his finish for United’s second goal was sublime. Jadon Sancho made his debut off the bench with the game won, while Raphael Varane was paraded before kick-off after finally sealing his move from Real Madrid. Delighted Solskjaer said: “This is the real Man United. I love seeing them all smiling when they play football like that. “Sir Alex Ferguson, the gaffer, always used to say ‘enjoy yourself, express yourself.’ “You have to enjoy the privilege and pressure and responsibility of playing in front of 75,000 fans and millions more fans watching in front of the television.’’ On this form those fans will believe a first title since 2013 is on. Their team look in the mood to restore fortress Old Trafford and this was a high-octane display full of intensity and desire. For Leeds, it was another humbling at the home of their fiercest rivals and Marcelo Bielsa must be concerned by how his side crumbled after Luke Ayling’s sensational equaliser. Junior Firpo endured a baptism of fire on his debut, and too many Leeds players were off key. Energised by the raucous support from their home fans, United exploded from the blocks and Illan Meslier twice denied Greenwood – who then won possession to create a chance which Pogba put wide. Despite having to absorb all this pressure, Leeds were a threat. David De Gea saved a shot from Mateusz Klich, and David ANDERSON reporting FROM OLD TRAFFORD Rodrigo should have done better when he headed wide from Raphinha’s free-kick. Leeds are famous for their high pressing under Bielsa, but United’s opener came from a turnover. They won the ball from Meslier’s goalkick and Pogba played in Fernandes with a superb first-time ball, which he dispatched through the legs of the Leeds goalkeeper. Leeds levelled on 48 minutes with a wonder-strike from Ayling, who hit an angled drive into the top right corner from 30 yards out. The home side’s response was emphatic as they scored three times in eight minutes to win the game. First Pogba played another divine pass out left to Greenwood, who MATCH FACTS Man Utd Leeds Utd 8.................Shots on Target..................3 5................ Shots off Target..................6 5.......................Corners........................4 11.........................Fouls..........................9 49%............... Possession................51% 418................ Total Passes.................426 outpaced Pascal Struijk to lash home left-footed on 52 minutes. Two minutes later Fernandes checked back onto his left foot and hit a shot which crossed the line before Ayling could hoof it away. Leeds were still reeling when, on 60 minutes, Victor Lindelof played a fantastic long ball through to Fernandes – who thumped it home on the half-volley to complete his hat-trick. But United and Pogba were not done, and six minutes later the France star set up Fred to make it 5-1 and compound Leeds’ misery. Pogba was awesome and while this may well be his last season at Old Trafford as he runs down the final year of his contract, it promises to be a memorable one on this evidence. RATINGS MAN UTD: De Gea 7, Wan-Bissaka 6, Lindelof 7, Maguire 7, Shaw 7, Fred 7, McTominay 7, (Matic 69, 6), James 6 (Sancho 75, 6), Fernandes 9, Pogba 9 (Martial 75, 6), Greenwood 8. Team NAME: Meslier 6, Ayling 7, Koch 5, Cooper 6, Dallas 7, Struijk 5, Raphinha 6, Klich 6, Rodrigo 5 (Firpo 46, 5), Harrison 6 (Costa 69, 5), Bamford 5 (Roberts 77, 5). MAN OF THE MATCH: BRUNO FERNANDES – Could have been Pogba, but edged it with his first United hat-trick. REFEREE: P Tierney ATTENDANCE: 72,732

SE1ST FIVE-STAR SHOW FOR FANS BACK AT OLD TRAFFORD three spirit Sunday Express August 15, 2021 67 PREMIER LEAGUE Fergie-style flair back at United 2 TWO GOOD: Greenwood adds the second 4 HAT MAKES IT FOUR: Fernandes grabs his third JUST FOR STARTERS: Fernandes fires home the first goal THREE N’ EASY: Fernandes again FIVE STAR: Fred completes the rout 1 3 5 FRESH FACE: United unveiled Raphael Varane on a four-year deal at Old Trafford yesterday Pogba shows his best position is in shop window IT’S taken five long years, but at least Manchester United now know Paul Pogba’s best position. Unfortunately for them, it’s in the shop window. Despite Ole Gunnar Solskjaer saying all is well with the £89million Frenchman, the bottom line is that Pogba can walk away from Old Trafford for nothing when his contract expires at the end of the season. For a second time. And Pogba (below) will have his pick of clubs from January. On the opening day of the season, the midfielder was pure box office. Bruno Fernandes may have grabbed a hat-trick, and Mason Greenwood scored a goal to show just what a superb natural finisher he is. But it was Pogba’s promptings that drove United to victory. He provided four assists and a brimful of brilliance as Marcelo Bielsa was packed back across the Pennines after an Old Trafford hiding for the for the second successive season. Pogba should have got on the scoresheet himself when the game was goalless but sent the ball wide of Ilian Meslier’s post. Then Pogba’s vision and first-time pass invited Fernandes From Simon Mullock at Old Trafford to put United ahead on the half-hour. United had introduced new £41m signing Raphael Varane to the fans before kick-off. But even the French World Cup winner from Real Madrid would have been powerless to prevent the strike that brought Leeds level from Luke Ayling. But Pogba set up Greenwood for his goal and United were back in front. Solskjaer would have approved – and he would have loved how his team then went for the kill. Two minutes later it was all over. Fernandes scored again, with the help of Pogba’s pass, and got his treble on the hour – with Fred completing the rout. Leeds lost 6-2 at Old Trafford last year – with Bielsa claiming his team had been more than a match for Solskjaer’s side. This time, he reckoned they played even better. But with Kalvin Phillips left on the bench following his Euro exertions, Leeds lacked their guiding hand. When Pogba went off to a standing ovation 15 minutes from time, on came £73m new-boy Jadon Sancho. United fans have every right to be excited.

OFF AND RUNNING: Marcos Alonso celebrates his opening goal with Mason Mount SE1ST 68 Sunday Express August 15, 2021 Express SUNDAY sundayexpress.co.uk/sport SPORTS PULLOUT INSIDE SPORT SE1ST KNOW YOUR FOOTIE? Super Root gives India a roasting REPORT: PULLOUT p8-9 SPECIAL BRU PAUL POGBA is targeting a free-transfer move to Real Madrid next summer. The Manchester United playmaker, 28, will now run down the final 12 months of his current contract at Old Trafford before walking away to the Bernabeu for nothing. And Pogba will be one third of an amazing treble swoop by Real – with fellow French ace Kylian Mbappe and Norwegian striker Erling Haaland set to follow him to Spain. Real have been hamstrung in this summer’s transfer market as the salary cap in operation in La Liga bites hard post-coronavirus. However, the Spanish giants are already planning a Galactico-style revival this time next year as they fight back against the increasing dominance TURN TO PAGE 66 Sunday ExprE S August 15, 2021 1 cHELSEA 3 c PALAcE 0 REPORT: ON THE MARC PAGE 4 Alonso gets Chelsea flying – and gives Vieira first defeat real set to snatch poG – next year EXCLUSIVE by Harry Pratt TOP TEAM: Fernandes was a hat-trick hero and (left) with Pogba Fernandes hat-trick as rampant United run riot MAN UTD 180 NOT OUT 5 1 By Simon Mullock LEEDS UTD BRUNO FERNANDES became the first Manchester United player to score an opening day hat-trick for 44 years – and then promised there’s more to come. The Portuguese star collected the match-ball as Ole Gunnar Solskjaer’s men ran riot and left Marcelo Bielsa feeling the pain at Old Trafford for the second successive season. Paul Pogba set up four of United’s goals with a superb performance, while Mason Greenwood and Fred also got on the scoresheet. Lou Macari was the last United player to hit a treble on the opening day back in 1977. And Fernandes said: “My objective every season is being TURN TO PAGE 66 Pep fury at Klopp cash jibe By Simon Mullock PEP GUARDIOLA has told Jurgen Klopp that Liverpool need better owners. The Manchester City boss is not impressed by Klopp’s claim that the Merseysiders can’t match the big-spending champions in the transfer market. City have broken the British transfer record by splashing £100million on Jack Grealish – and expect to shatter it again by bringing Harry Kane to the Etihad once today’s clash at Tottenham has been negotiated. Guardiola said: “I am not judging what other clubs do. But some owners want to benefit – and our owners don’t want any TURN TO PAGE 65 Austria €4.50, Belgium €3.80, Bulgaria BGN 8.26, Canary Islands €3.20, Cyprus Cyp €3.45, Northern Cyprus YTL 5.15, Denmark 33 DKr, Finland €6.70, France €3.80, Germany €5.10, Gibraltar £1.70, Greece €3, Italy €3.50, Luxembourg €3.40, Malta €3.50, Netherlands €4.10, Norway Nkr 42, Portugal €3.20, Spain €3.20, Switzerland SF 6.50, Turkey TL 11, USA $2.50. Published by Express Newspapers, a subsidiary company of Reach Plc, One Canada Square, London E14 5AP. 0208 612 7000. Outside UK +44(0) 208 612 7000. Printed by West Ferry Printers Ltd, Unit A&B Kimpton Road, Luton, LU2 0TA; JPIMedia Printing Ltd, Outgang Lane, Dinnington, Sheffield, S25 3QE; D C Thomson, 80 Kingsway East, Dundee DD4 8SL; Independent News & Media, 124-144 Royal Avenue, Belfast BT1 1EB. Bermont Impresion S.L Avenida de Alemania 12, 28821 Coslada, Madrid, Spain; Deposito Legal no. TO-394/96; T.F. Print SA, Tenerife; Westferry printers , Unit A & B , Kimpton Road, Luton LU2 OTA; EUROPRINTER SA Zone Aéropole, avenue Jean Mermoz,B 6041 GOSSELIES WIN £5,000 THIS SATURDAY PLAY NOW WHOKNOWSWINS.COM/DAILYEXPRESS 18+ UK only, T&Cs apply. Who Knows Wins is committed to responsible gambling and fairness. Enjoy the game but play responsibly. ABCDEFGHIJKLPQRS*TUW1234WBDS

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SE1ST 2 Sunday Express August 15, 2021 2 PREMIER LEAGUE Hornets outshine Grealish-less Villa On this grim evidence, life after Jack Grealish is going to be tough for Aston Villa. Boss Dean Smith may have brought in a host of replacements with some of the £100million Manchester City paid for the England winger. But that counted for zip at Vicarage Road as the Jackless Midlands outfit were torn to shreds by newly-promoted Watford. For 70 minutes, at least. By then the Hornets were three up through goals by Emmanuel Dennis (above), Ismaila Sarr and Cucho Hernandez. And not even a late Villa fightback through John McGinn and new boy Danny Ings, which gave the scoreline a semblance of respectability, Neal Maupay was finally able to celebrate his birthday as Brighton’s super subs lit up the striker’s candles. It had been a nightmare start for the Frenchman who had been bullied by James Tarkowski as Burnley struck within two minutes. And things appeared to be going from bad to worse for the Seagulls as Sean Dyche’s side, full of aggression and menace, appeared too hot to handle. When Brighton boss Graham Potter sent on substitutes Jakub Moder and Alexis Mac Allister (above) for the final 20 minutes, the landscape changed and it was as if Maupay’s birthdays had all come at once. Maupay equalised in IT’S THREE: Cucho scores Watford 3 Aston Villa 2 by Harry Pratt could wipe the gloss off a magnificent return to the big time for Watford. Unhappy Villa boss Smith said: “We lacked intensity – it was like we were playing a friendly in the first half.” The mood of Hornets boss Xisco Munoz was in stark contrast as he beamed: “Today was amazing.” RATINGS WATFORD: Bachmann 7; Kabasele 7, Troost-Ekong 7, Cathcart 7, Masina 7; Sarr 9, Cleverly 7 (Deeney 78), Etebo 7, Kucka 7 (Gosling 69, 6), Sema 6, Dennis 8 (Hernandez 67, 8). VILLA: Martinez 6; Cash 5, Konsa 5, Mings 6, Targett 4 (Ramsey 45, 7), Nakamba 6, McGinn 6, El Ghazi 6 (Bailey 60, 6), Buendia 5 (Traore 72, 6) Young 5, Ings 6. MAN OF THE MATCH: Ismaila Sarr – Senegal playmaker ran the show In stunning fashion. Pure class REF: M Dean ATT: 20,051 Maupay birthday wish comes true Burnley 1 Brighton 2 by John Richardson the 73rd minute from Moder’s cross before Mac Allister won it five minutes later. Potter said: “It was a nightmare start for us in the first couple of minutes. The substitutes were very important for us.” Dyche said: “It was a strange day. We created enough highquality chances but we couldn’t get the second goal.” RATINGS BURNLEY: Pope 6; Lowton 6, Tarkowski 7, Mee 7, Taylor 7; Gudmundsson 7, Cork 6, Westwood 7, McNeil 6 (Brownhill 78); Rodriguez 6 (Barnes 69, 6), Wood 6 (Cork 85). BRIGHTON: Sanchez 6; Webster 6, Dunk 6, Duffy 6 Gross 7; March 6, Alzate 6 (Moder 71, 7), Mwepu 5 (Lallana 46, 6), Bissouma 6 Trossard 6 (Mac Allister 75, 7); Maupay 7. MAN OF THE MATCH: Neal Maupay – Bounced back from a nightmare start to score on his birthday. REF: D Coote FLYING START Another opening another HEART BEAT: Diogo Jota SKY BET CHAMPIONSHIP Schopp on top of world BARNSLEY boss Markus Schopp admitted he enjoyed every second of the Tykes’ win against Coventry, his first since joining the club as head coach in the summer. Dominik Frieser’s first-half strike proved the difference between the two teams. And Viktor Gyokeres had an injury-time penalty saved by Bradley Collins, after Jamie Allen had been AT THE DOUBLE: Firmino Barnsley 1 Coventry 0 by Aaron Sutcliffe tripped in the box by Jordan Williams. Barnsley welcomed home fans to Oakwell for the first time in 16 months and Schopp was delighted with their passion. He said: “It was great to play in the stadium with supporters. We enjoyed every second, even though it was tough.” MO SALAH began the new season with a bang yet again to bag another record. The Egyptian added to goals from Diogo Jota and sub Roberto Firmino to become the first Premier League marksman to net in five successive opening weekend fixtures. Firmino’s goal was also a milestone as it was Liverpool’s 8,000th in the league. And the 90 minutes all added up to a fairly hefty hint that Jurgen Klopp’s side should be back as title contenders after a well-publicised year off – and that Norwich face another long slog to stay up. Norwich had found themselves 4-0 down at half-time when paired with Liverpool on the opening day two years ago. Then, a porous MATCH FACTS Norwich JOY: Dominic Frieser’s happy Liverpool 3.................Shots on Target..................8 8................ Shots off Target..................7 3.......................Corners........................11 4.........................Fouls.........................14 49.7%............ Possession............50.3% 500............... Total Passes................. 501 defence doomed them to an instant Championship return and for a while it looked like Daniel Farke’s men had solved that problem. But Canaries fans won’t want to watch any replays of the goals they eventually conceded. Norwich had been up against it from the off. Ben Gibson had to slide in ahead of Jota early on when Konstantinos Tsimikas, making a Premier League bow in place of the injured Andrew Robertson, delivered an excellent cross. Ex-Wolves man Jota was back within seconds however and saw his header tipped over by Tim Krul following a half-cleared corner. Salah then fired straight at the Dutchman, with Alex Oxlade- Chamberlain off target with a long ranger soon after. Norwich had created little in reply, save for a couple of bursts down the left from new face Milot Rashica, but could have snatched the lead in the 20th minute. Virgil van Dijk, in his first game since October last year, looked understandably rusty as Todd Cantwell dinked a ball over the top that put Teemu Pukki into a shooting position. The angle was tight, though, and Alisson batted the Finn’s drive away at his near post. The game was 26 minutes old when Liverpool cashed in on some pretty lower-league defending. Trent Alexander-Arnold had been afforded too much space on the right for a while and although Salah was unable to control his pass the touch bamboozled Gibson and allowed Jota a close-range finish. Cantwell was perhaps fortunate his foot-up challenge on Salah in the box did not attract the attention of VAR, and new Canaries signing Pierre Lees-Melou had to be in the right place to stop Joel Matip lashing in a second. Liverpool eased off towards the break but restarted strongly. Again Alexander-Arnold found space on the right and this time it was Max Aarons who had to block from Mane with Krul helpless. Cantwell was booked for cynically halting Jota’s super run but Alexander-Arnold curled the free-kick wide. Lees-Melou scuffed a rare chance at the other end wide as Norwich fans tried to lift their team. Klopp swapped Jota and Oxlade- Chamberlain for Firmino and Fabinho on the hour mark and their Bowyer throw riposte NOT even a Gardner could make this stalemate bloom. Birmingham midfielder Gary Gardner was the standout performer on a day when graft and resilience ruled over imagination and creativity and the only talking point was how long the home side took at long throws. The post-match chat was a grumble from Michael O’Neill and a smiling response from counterpart NORWICH................ 0 LIVERPOOL .............. 3 From Jon West AT CARROW ROAD Birmingham 0 Stoke 0 by Janine Self Lee Bowyer when told the Stoke boss had timed the throw-ins at 30 seconds. O’Neill said “There were lots of long balls and we got dragged into that.” Bowyer replied: “If you’ve got a centre-half who has got to run or walk to take a throw-in, he can’t keep running. He’s got to have a breather.”

SE1ST Sunday Express August 15, 2021 3 PREMIER LEAGUE 3 FOR SALAH show for Liverpool’s legend arrival heralded a swift passing move that ended with Tsimikas foiled low down by Krul. Goal number two was coming, though, and again Norwich were too slow to react. Mane’s shot from outside the box was blocked by Hanley but only as far as Salah, whose pass gave the untracked Firmino a simple finish. Salah made sure of the points in the 74th minute as Norwich paid the price for heading a corner straight to where he was lurking. Salah took a touch to get it on to his left foot and curled a cracker beyond Krul. RATINGS NORWICH: Krul 6; Aarons 7, Hanley 8, Gibson 6, Giannoulis 7; Rupp 6, Gilmour 6, Lees-Melou 6; Rashica 7 (Sargent 77), Pukki 6 (Idah 77), Cantwell 6. LIVERPOOL: Alisson 6; Alexander-Arnold 8, Matip 8, Van Dijk 6, Tsimikas 7; Oxlade-Chamberlain 6 (Fabinho 60, 6), Milner 6, Keita 7 (Elliott 83); Salah 8, Jota 7 (Firmino 60, 6), Mane 8. MAN OF THE MATCH: MO SALAH – A menace and was rewarded with a record-breaking fifth opening-day goal. REFEREE: A Marriner ATTENDANCE: 27,023 SKY BET CHAMPIONSHIP Willocks’ week of joy It has been a week to remember for the Willock boys. Joe completed a £25million move to Newcastle from Arsenal and elder brother Chris (right) chipped in with the goal that sent QPR towards an impressive win at Hull yesterday. Goals after the WE’RE OFF: Salah gets his season’s tally going with Liverpool’s third Hull 0 QPR 3 by John Wardle MO MAGIC: Salah celebrates break from Scotland striker Lyndon Dykes and Rob Dickie secured the three points. Rangers manager Mark Warburton praised Dickie, saying: “Rob is a good young centre-half and will get even better.” Reading’s Swift reply Reading manager Veljko Paunovic hailed John Swift after the midfielder’s brilliant second-half goal handed the club their first win of the new campaign. Paunovic believes that losing Swift to a hamstring injury for much of last season cost Reading a play-off spot. They seemed in danger of letting their dominance slip, as Daniel Johnson’s Super Van Kops a real rough start By Simon Mullock VIRGIL VAN DIJK is facing a gruelling five-week schedule. The Liverpool defender was named in Louis van Gaal’s provisional 25-man Holland squad for three crucial World Cup qualifiers on Friday – despite not playing a competitive game for 10 months due to a knee injury. And that means Van Dijk (right) is faced with the prospect of playing 10 games in just 37 days – including Premier League meetings with Chelsea, Leeds and Manchester City, plus the opening two fixtures of the Reds’ Champions League campaign. Kop boss Jurgen Klopp has spoken glowingly about his £75million man’s determination to be at the heart of Liverpool’s defence this season. And the Dutchman, 30, has been rewarded with a new four-year contract which will keep him at Anfield until 2025. Reading 2 Preston 1 by Ron Lewis penalty cancelled out Femi Azeez’s (left) first-half strike. But Swift settled home nerves in the 69th minute. “Injuries were the main issue why John hasn’t done better,” Paunovic said. “Now he is back it is important to keep him healthy and motivated.” HE’S A JOLLY GOOD BELLOW: Vardy gets vocal after his winning goal VETERAN VARDY STILL rODGERS’ MATCH-WINNER JAMIE VARDY has had plenty of King Power Stadium parties – and on the evidence of this stunning opening-day show there are many more to come. Despite being nearly 35, Vardy was the best player on the pitch and helped Leicester’s fans enjoy their return home with a majestic first-half winner. Vardy, one of the few Foxes players remaining from the 2015-16 title win, sunk to his knees in exhaustion at the finish after his energy ran Wolves’ defence ragged. It was the perfect start for the Community Shield winners’ bid to make the Champions League after two fifth-placed finishes – and the worst for new Wolves boss Bruno Lage. And boss Brendan Rodgers (below) beamed: “Jamie was instrumental – attacking and defending. I thought he was outstanding. “He timed his run superbly for the goal, it was a sublime finish and he was a threat all game. “Jamie is in great condition, he looks after his body, he’s the ultimate professional. “We had a good chat over pre-season. He has two years left on his contract and we will manage him to make him as explosive as he can be. “When he’s in that form, with that level of fitness and hunger, he’s very, very difficult to play against. “There are lots of outstanding strikers in the Premier League but he’s up there with them. “I’m so delighted he’s here, he’s had a really good pre-season and we saw the results of that.” Leicester were without Ryan Bertrand after a positive Covid test, while new signing Jannik Vestergaard came off the bench in the second Leicester......................1 Wolves........................ 0 By Ian Baker half to help the Foxes home. Rodgers also confirmed James Maddison, constantly linked with Arsenal all summer, went off with a back problem and will have treatment this morning. But this was the Vardy show. Long after retiring from the international scene, the striker is showing no signs of ending his club football. He fired straight at Jose Sa early on before being denied by RATINGS LEICESTER: Schmeichel 6; Pereira 7, Amartey 6, Soyuncu 7, Thomas 7; Tielemans 7, Ndidi 7; Perez 6 (Vestergaard 62, 7), Maddison 6 (Soumare 62, 6), Barnes 7 (Iheanacho 72, 6); Vardy 8. WOLVES: Sa 6; Saiss 6, Coady 6, Kilman 7 (Silva 90); Hoever 6, Neves 7, Moutinho 7 (Dendoncker 66, 6), Marcal 6; Trincao 6 (Gibbs-White 86), Jimenez 6, Traore 7. MAN OF THE MATCH: JAMIE VARDY – Constant nightmare for Wolves’ defence. REFEREE: C Pawson ATTENDANCE: 13,983 an offside flag after finding the net. Vardy then saw a deflected shot just miss the target, while Maddison could not get a proper connection on Luke Thomas’ cross. Vardy saw another left-footed effort go straight at Sa, while a cheeky back-heeled attempt did not quite come off. Outplayed at the time, Wolves should have taken the lead as Adama Traore stormed through from Joao Moutinho’s pass. But he painfully missed the target. It was a costly moment as Leicester took the lead four minutes before the break. Ricardo Pereira’s persistence down the right allowed him to cross, Vardy cleverly flicking home on the volley with the outside of his left foot. Lage said: “This team can grow up and our game can improve.”

SE1ST 4 Sunday Express August 15, 2021 4 FOOTBALL SKY BET CHAMPIONSHIP JOY-FUL: Mitrovic celebrates his opening goal Five-star show fills Silva Ful of delight BOSS Marco Silva could not hide his delight after Fulham destroyed Huddersfield to climb to the Championship summit. Aleksandar Mitrovic, Josh Onomah, Fabio Carvalho and two from Ivan Cavaleiro sealed the win, despite a late red card for Harry Wilson. Silva beamed: “We deserved the three points and were the best team on the pitch again. ‘‘This afternoon we Huddersfield 1 Fulham 5 by Ross Heppenstall scored five. We had some luck with the first goal but we had three or four clear chances to score more.” Matty Pearson was Huddersfield’s scorer but Town boss Carlos Corberan was devastated. He admitted: “We need to analyse and be self-critical because I’m focused on finding solutions.” McCarthy hails his Dutch flier FLYING Dutchman Leandro Bacuna gave Cardiff the breakthrough goal that finally broke brave Blackpool’s rearguard action. And sub Kieffer Moore showed he is finally shaking off the effects of Covid when he headed home his first Championship goal of the season. Bluebirds boss Mick McCarthy said of Bacuna (above): “He showed great positioning and it was Uche proves his goal-den worth NOT a bad afternoon’s work for a supposed third-choice striker. At least that’s what Neil Warnock’s role for Uche Ikpeazu was, had his summer plans come to fruition. The Boro boss had hoped to bring in two forwards ahead of the former Wycombe frontman by now. It was just as well he didn’t, with Ikpeazu (above) scoring in the first half before setting up the 70th-minute winner for fellow new boy Matt Crooks. Blackpool 0 Cardiff 2 by Lindsay Sutton a good finish, a great performance. “Kieffer’s goal was clinical. He picked his spot perfectly.” Blackpool boss Neil Critchley admitted: “It was a tough day at the office. Cardiff made us play their game. ‘‘We had a few chances but you have to keep the ball. They are a powerful team full of experience, It was difficult for us.” Middlesbro 2 Bristol C 1 by Ian Murtagh Not that Warnock’s shopping is done. “Crikey, I still want another two forwards,” he said, adding: “It’s fabulous that our two new signings got on the scoresheet.” Andy King struck to give City fleeting hope but boss Nigel Pearson admitted: “We had enough possession to get something out of the game. “But we gave away two sloppy goals.” TREVOH’s cherrY on victory cake IF this is Chelsea undercooked, without their big summer signing and three or four others who would normally be starters, then woe betide those who meet them when they’re firing on all cylinders. The champions of Europe did a proper number on Patrick Vieira’s Crystal Palace following their Super Cup victory on Wednesday, with goals from Marcos Alonso and Christian Pulisic putting them ahead – and the game to bed – before half-time. It was the third, however, that provided the moment of the match with Trevoh Chalobah, 22, drilling home a fine finish on his Premier League debut, 14 years after joining the club. It took a second or MATCH FACTS Chelsea C Palace 6.................Shots on Target...................1 5................ Shots off Target..................2 5.......................Corners........................2 15........................Fouls..........................11 62.5%............ Possession.............37.5% 674................ Total Passes.................408 two for the penny to drop with the defender about what he had done – before being mobbed by each and every one of his team-mates. Chalobah said: “It is a dream for a boy like me being here and to play for my home club is unreal. “As I was getting closer to the goal, I thought I might as well shoot and just went for it. “I didn’t know the ball went in until the crowd cheered. It was a surreal moment. “I was surprised by the Super Cup game, too, and I have taken the opportunity with both hands.” He really has and Chelsea boss Thomas Tuchel said: “The goal was well deserved. “He’s a humble guy, a calm guy. This is not a gift that we let him CHELSEA................. 3 CRYSTAL PALACE....... 0 From Tom Hopkinson AT STAMFORD BRIDGE play, it is well deserved.” Chelsea took the lead after Tyrick Mitchell felled Mason Mount and Alonso fired home the free-kick. Mount was involved in the move again when the home side doubled their advantage before half-time. This time he played a quick give-and-go before whipping in a dangerous cross that Vicente Guaita parried at Timo Werner’s feet, with Pulisic on hand to turn the loose ball home. As for Palace, the only positive they can take is that they let in a goal less than the four they conceded in both games against Chelsea last season. Vieira clearly has much work to do with four Under-23s players on the bench, and he and chairman Steve Parish will need to continue what has already been a busy summer these next couple of weeks. Vieira said: “If you look at the way we defended before the free-kick I was really pleased, we were compact, but the free-kick changed the game.” Chelsea, meanwhile, are set to welcome £97.5million new old-boy Romelu Lukaku to training on Tuesday. It certainly looks like it’s shaping up to be another lively season at Stamford Bridge. CHELSEA: Mendy 7, Chalobah 8, Christensen 7, Rudiger 7, Azilicueta 7 (James 66, 6), Jorginho 8, Kovacic 7, Alonso 8 (Emerson 85, 6), Mount 8, Werner 7, Pulisic 8 (Havertz 81, 6). PALACE: Guaita 4, Ward 5, Kouyate 5, Guehi 5, Mitchell 5, Riedewald 6 (Rak-Sakyi 75, 6), McArthur 5, Ayew 6, Zaha 5, Schlupp 5 (Andersen 56, 5), Mateta 5 (Benteke 56, 5). MAN OF THE MATCH: TREVOH CHALOBAH – Solid at the back and scored – a great Premier League debut REFEREE: J Moss ATTENDANCE: 38,965 By Tom Hopkinson RATINGS Farke wants Cahill to shore up his defence NORWICH are keen on free agent Gary Cahill as boss Daniel Farke continues to shape his squad following their return to the Premier League. The former England defender, 35, is available after rejecting new terms on offer at Crystal Palace. He is still weighing up his options but there is hope at Norwich that he would welcome a move to Carrow Road. Farke is looking for a new centre-half and wanted Kristoffer Ajer, but he lost out on the former Celtic star, who ended up joining Brentford. However the Norwich boss knows that Cahill, a two-time Premier League and one-time Champions League and Europa League winner, would bring invaluable experience to his squad as they look to establish themselves back in the top tier. The Canaries’ need for someone of his experience was emphasised as they were torn apart 3-0 at home by Liverpool last night After winning promotion three seasons ago, Norwich were relegated straight back to the Championship. They sealed an immediate return but last night’s result shows they have it all to do again to stay in the top-flight. Cahill started his career at Aston Villa before joining Bolton and then Chelsea. He left the Blues in 2019, moving to Selhurst Park after falling down the pecking order at Stamford Bridge. EASY DOES IT: Chelsea celebrate Chalobah’s goal but there was little cheer for Vieira (below) TARGET: Gary Cahill

Mebude makes a point Fans finally returned to Plough Lane to witness Dapo Mebude gain a point for AFC WIMBLEDON as BOLTON recorded their second consecutive 3-3 league draw. It was Wimbledon’s first game back at the ground they originally left in 1991. Oliver Pendlebury scored a brace for WYCOMBE to beat CHELTENHAM 3-1 and go top of the table. Troy Parrott’s strike FIRING BACK: Richarlison scores as boss Benitez urges on his side (inset) IT’s battler rafa TOFFEES BOSS A SWEET FIGHTING MAN Rafa BENITEZ vowed that his Everton teams will always show fight after kicking off the season with a comeback win over Southampton. Trailing at half-time through an Adam Armstrong goal, the Toffees roared back to seal victory thanks to strikes from Richarlison, Abdoulaye Doucoure and Dominic Calvert-Lewin. Benitez played down his own role in that success, insisting: “It’s nothing to do with me, it’s more about the players and the fans. “After so many months without fans, I think the players appreciate their support – and the fans appreciate the commitment of the players. “And the manager? The majority of MATCH FACTS Everton So’ton 6.................Shots on Target................... 3 5................ Shots off Target.................... 1 6.......................Corners......................... 8 13........................Fouls.......................... 15 47.6%............ Possession..............52.4% 320............... Total Passes.................. 360 SKY BET LEAGUE ONE could not inspire MK DONS to find an equaliser against SUNDERLAND as they lost 2-1 with goals from Ross Stewart and Eliott Embleton. Late goals in quick order from SHEFFIELD WEDNESDAY captain Barry Bannan and Dennis Adeniran gave them their first win of the season, 2-0 over DONCASTER. EVERTON..................... 3 SOUTHAMPTON..............1 From David Lynch AT GOODISON PARK them know I like to fight, I like to compete. I did it today and I will do it in all my time here.’’ A sweet start for Benitez looked far off when Che Adams, capitalising on hesitancy from Michael Keane to pinch the ball, played in Armstrong for an unerring finish into the top corner. Saints could have added a second before the break but after the restart Everton looked a changed team. The equaliser came after Saints thought they had done enough to clear a corner. Andros Townsend headed the ball back into the danger zone, where Richarlison had a close-range finish. That goal inevitably changed the mood for the better, restoring Goodison Park’s noise levels to the highs of the opening exchanges. It still required the intervention of a substitute to make it pay, though, with Alex Iwobi laying the ball off to Doucoure for a powerful finish into the top corner. Then a reinvigorated JOY: Wednesday scorer Adeniran SE1ST Everton wrapped it up five minutes later, Calvert-Lewin stooping low to head in Richarlison’s low cross despite Alex McCarthy getting a hand to it. Benitez added: “At half-time we changed the position of the centrebacks and the position of Richarlison and Demarai Gray. “These changes plus the support of the fans, pushing the players, gave us the intensity that we were looking for in the first half.” Unsurprisingly, Saints boss Ralph Hasenhuttl was left lamenting his side’s second-half collapse. He said: “It’s very disappointing because we had a really good start to this game. “How we concede the goal is too easy and then everything is lively here in the stadium with a full crowd.” EVERTON: Pickford 7, Coleman 7, Holgate 6, Keane 5, Digne 6, Allan 6, Doucoure 8, Gray 6 (Mina 83), Richarlison 8 (Gordon 89), Townsend 8 (Townsend 70, 7), Calvert-Lewin 7. SOUTHAMPTON: McCarthy 5, Stephens 6, Livramento 7, Salisu 6, Perraud 4 (Redmond 83), Walcott 5 (Tella 80), Romeu 6 (Diallo 80), Ward-Prowse 7, Djenepo 7, Adams 6, Armstrong 7. MAN OF THE MATCH: RICHARLISON – Seemed to be feeling a busy summer in the first half but won the game in the second. REFEREE: A Madley Matt’s at the double Matt Stevens fired Forest Green to the top of the table as he bagged two goals in a 3-1 win against Walsall. Bradford picked up a 2-1 victory over Oldham thanks to a stoppage-time penalty from Lee Angol. Stevenage made it two from two as they beat Bristol Rovers 2-0 at the Memorial Stadium. Omar Beckles scored his second goal this term as RATINGS SKY BET LEAGUE TWO Leyton Orient thrashed Exeter 3-0. Defender Jon Guthrie popped up to make sure Northampton kept their 100 per cent league record intact as he scored the winner against COLCHESTER. Mansfield ran out 2-1 winners at home to Newport, with George Maris on target. Sunday Express August 15, 2021 5 FOOTBALL 5 SKY BET CHAMPIONSHIP Tony is proud of fan-tastic result TONY MOWBRAY was thrilled with the way his players stood up to the fierce atmosphere at the Den to snatch a point. The Blackburn boss likened the intimidation factor created by 12,000 Millwall fans to his playing days at Celtic. He said: “This is an amazing atmosphere that these fans create for this football Millwall 1 Blackburn 1 by Steve Judge team and it’s a huge advantage for them.” Jed Wallace (above) put the hosts ahead with a well worked 64th-minute opener. But Ben Brereton levelled with Rovers’ only goal attempt 12 minutes later. Lions boss Gary Rowett said: “We lost a great opportunity.” Parker blast for his own player BOSS Scott Parker slammed David Brooks after he got himself stupidly sent off and put Bournemouth under big pressure. Brooks, who scored a stunning 28th-minute opening goal for the Cherries, was on a yellow card. Then he grabbed Jordi Oseri-Tutu’s shirt, giving ref Geoff Eltringham no option Nottm For 1 B’mouth 2 by John Wragg but to send him off. Scott McKenna equalised before Philip Billing restored the lead Bournemouth were left to defend for the last half-hour. Parker (above) fumed: “Brooks’ teammates have got him out of a hole. He’s let his team-mates down.” Late collapse a sore one for Roo WAYNE Rooney must be wondering how steep his managerial learning curve is going to be. His side tossed away the chance of victory by shipping two goals after the 11 minutes of added time were signalled. Siriki Dembele struck the last-gasp winner in the 100th minute after Harrison Peterboro 2 Derby 1 by David Keenan Burrows had cancelled out Jack Stretton’s opening goal. Rams boss Rooney (above) said: “I feel frustrated. Lapses in concentration have cost us and it’s results that matter in the end. “But the one thing you can’t question the players’ attitude.” Ismael Baggs a hard-fought win West Brom made hard work of it as they almost squandered a 3-0 lead. The Baggies started brightly and an own goal from Luton skipper Kal Naismith after just five minutes put them in front. Two more strikes from Callum Robinson (above) and Karlan Grant further extended the lead. Boss Val Ismael West Brom 3 Luton 2 by Ian Winrow said: “For an hour, it was simply brilliant.” But t hey crumbled in the latter stages as Luton staged a fightback thanks to goals from Harry Connick and Pelly Mpabzu. Hatters boss Nathan Jones said: “You’ve got to do the basics and we didn’t.”

SE1ST 6 Sunday Express August 15, 2021 6 FOOTBALL PREMIER LEAGUE: Brentford’s super start BEE-LIEVER: Norgaard scores against Arsenal It’s one small step for hero Norgaard BRENTFORD hero Christian Norgaard urged a note of caution amid the wild euphoria that greeted their momentous triumph over Arsenal. While punters and pundits alike hailed the club’s first-ever Premier League win at a rocking Brentford Community Stadium, Norgaard – whose 73rd-minute header sealed the 2-0 victory – insisted Thomas Frank’s men cannot get carried away. Forget the hype that inevitably comes with such a huge result – that was the midfielder’s message to his buzzing Bees teammates. The ex-Brondy and Fiorentina man declared: “It’s about not looking too much into it as players. We just need to keep all the noise outside away from the group. “You can easily get ahead of yourself if you listen too much to all the analysts talking about one game. “We need to be calm and relaxed as that’s what’s got us here in the first place. “We have a lot to be happy about and can have some fun now but tomorrow we must start to think about our next game. “What a start it is but it’s only a small step and achievement in the whole season. We still have another 37 games to go.” White’s big night – nothing went right ARSENAL new boy Ben White summed up the club’s disastrous start to the season at Brentford by admitting they were rubbish at both ends of the park. A goal in each half for the Bees from Sergi Canos and Christian Norgaard ensured it was a miserable Friday the 13th in west London for Mikel Arteta’s men. After the 2-0 defeat, £50million England defender White (right) pulled no punches. “If you don’t score goals and you concede – that’s where By Harry Pratt By Harry Pratt it got away from us. It’s obviously a disappointing start. “I think we created some chances and could have had some goals – but we didn’t and they did.” White, watched by England boss Gareth Southgate, did not cover himself in glory as a dream Arsenal debut turned sour. He was part of a static Gunners’ defence that watched Danish midfielder Norgaard head in the Bees’ killer second after 73 minutes. White groaned: “Obviously it’s an unbelievable feeling that’s been clouded by the result.” TODAY, 4.30PM: HARRY KANE’S battle to quit Tottenham is okay with Hugo Lloris – as long as it does no damage in the dressing room. So far, so good in that respect, according to club captain Lloris, after Kane was welcomed back into the fold on Friday. Sure, the England skipper may be at odds with the Spurs hierarchy amid an increasingly bitter scrap to join Manchester City. And the fact Pep Guardiola’s champions happen to be in N17 today only compounds the saga, with the £150million-rated striker’s participation in the balance. However, Lloris dismissed the idea that Kane’s dispute is upsetting anyone inside Nuno Espirito Santo’s camp. Which is the France keeper’s only concern ahead of this afternoon’s showdown. Lloris declared: “Harry is a professional and he’s here with a smile and here with his teammates. “Obviously there’s a situation in the air, we cannot hide that, but it belongs to him and the club. “I can’t talk about that. I’m just focused on the team today. If the manager needs him, he will be professional. “It can happen at any club. The most important thing is to feel the player is professional and respectful to his teammates. “That is completely the case, there’s no doubt. As long as it does not affect the team it’s not a problem. “The most important thing for me, as captain and player, is to see my teammates going in the same direction together.” Lloris does accept City’s pursuit of Kane is probably far from finished. “We’re in a period when a lot of TOTTENHAM v MAN CITY time to put mo Lloris wants Spurs to forget saga over Kane Harry PRATT reporting things can happen. It’s the same all around the world. That’s also the message from the manager,” said the 2016 World Cup winner. “But, for sure, things will be easier when the transfer market is closed.” If the future of Kane (below) is still to be resolved, the same applies to Lloris – albeit he is not attempting to go anywhere. That said, with only one year left on his contract and no talks held to date, his 10th season at the club could be his last. Lloris, 34, revealed: “I don’t know. There’s nothing from the club, to be honest. “But I don’t have to show my loyalty coming into season No.10. I’m calm and relaxed. I’m not affected by that. I’m just enjoying football.” Indeed, Lloris is positively relishing a new dawn under a new Portuguese coach. He went on: “I remember well when we faced Nuno’s Wolves – it was always a tough game. “I’m sure he’ll bring this discipline and this calmness into Tottenham. “To rediscover the confidence inside the team after a tough season like the last one is important. There are a lot of challenges in front of us. “It’s too early to talk about targets. We need to be competitive and build something strong.” RESPECT: Hugo Lloris knows Kane will remain professional Best test for Nuno excites Mabbutt Gary Mabbutt reckons Tottenham’s clash with Manchester City represents “the best start possible” for his former club. Spurs begin their first Premier League season under new boss Nuno Espirito Santo when they host Pep Guardiola’s champions today. The two sides finished 24 points apart last term By David Lynch but Mabbutt is excited by the prospect of an early test. The former Spurs skipper, 59, said: “It’s the best start possible. To have the champions coming to the new Tottenham Hotspur Stadium on the first day of the season I think is a great draw. “I’m looking forward to it as, I’m sure, is everybody.” Mabbutt is also expecting big things from the club’s new manager. Nuno (left) previously took Wolves to their highest ever Premier League finish of seventh before departing for north London this summer. Mabbutt added: “I was very impressed with Nuno and what he achieved at Wolves. “This group of players he’s got to work with is excellent and I think Spurs fans are looking forward to the season.”

SE1ST TRANSFER ISSUES BRIEFLY SHELVED FOR HUGE OPENER ney talk aside Sunday Express August 15, 2021 7 FOOTBALL 7 Guardiola insists he’s not bought his success PEP GUARDIOLA has Simon come out fighting over suggestions he’s a MULLOCK chequebook boss. reporting The Manchester City manager has been stung own reality. And every owner by Jurgen Klopp’s claim that he has decides how he wants to live. You an unfair advantage in his quest for can win from investment – and a fourth Premier League title in investing a lot has helped us five seasons thanks to Sheikh because we needed players. Mansour’s billions. “But Liverpool were fighting and City have broken the British fighting and were able to spend on transfer record for Jack Grealish two incredible players. They won and expect to shatter it again by the Champions League, won the bringing Harry Kane to The Etihad, Premier League. If they don’t after their explosive season-opener want to spend more now, at Tottenham today. maybe it’s because they believe Guardiola has reminded his they don’t need it or critics how he built his because the owners reputation at Barcelona on don’t want it.” the homegrown talents of City won their Lionel Messi, Xavi and appeal against a Andres Iniesta (right). Champions League And after a frustrated ban but are still Klopp suggested the fighting a perception champions are spending they don’t adhere to beyond their means, the Catalan Financial Fair Play fired back by insisting some owners Regulations. are only motivated by the money Guardiola said: “Every they make. season we have passed the Guardiola said: “We won two control of Financial Fair Play. Champions Leagues at Barcelona “But I say the same, there with seven players who came from are owners who want benefits for the academy. Two finals against themselves. We spend because we (Manchester) United, seven can do it. We don’t spend when we players, zero cost. Each club has its cannot do it.” fernandinho fears relaxing Fernandinho reckons only one team can stop Manchester City retaining the title... themselves. The City captain, 36, has taken up a 12-month contract extension and his hunger for trophies is undiminished. The Brazilian midfielder said: “Obviously we will try to improve on last season. I think the biggest challenge can be us. “If you relax and you think the job is done, this is the biggest mistake. If we keep going, I think we have a great chance of becoming champions again.” ankle injury. Former City star Lescott, when asked if this partnership could work as well as any from his days at the club, said: “Two names you might remember, David Silva and Sergio Aguero – they did all right together. “I know how much Jack admires KDB, so it will just CAPTION: dfjgfj gfkfg dfghgfh fgh fdghfdh dfhgfd fgdhfgdh Jack tipped to form dream duo with De Bruyne JOLEON LESCOTT hopes £100million ace Jack Grealish and Kevin De Bruyne will form as potent a double act at Manchester City as Sergio Aguero and David Silva. New boy Grealish (left) said he can’t wait to play alongside the brilliant Belgian, currently out with an By Tom Hopkinson be good to see someone who is almost like a fan. “It’s like Phil Foden, knowing him and knowing how much it means to represent the club he supports – and now Jack is the same.’’ Lescott spent time at the McDonald’s Grassroots Football Awards ahead of the Community Shield last weekend. He added: DEFIANT: Pep Guardiola stresses he developed academy players at Barcelona “Grassroots football is so important – it’s where you get scouted as a kid. “So it’s hugely important that the FA and McDonald’s continue to support that.’’ ■ Joleon Lescott was attending the FA and McDonald’s Grassroots Football Awards. The awards celebrate the fantastic individuals who go above and beyond for the grassroots game. Find out more at www.mcdonalds.co.uk/football EUROPEAN GLORY: Mancini Mancini exile from Premier puzzles Platt EXCLUSIVE By John Richardson David Platt finds it “incredulous” that Italy’s Euro 2020-winning manager Roberto Mancini hasn’t been linked with a return to the Premier League. Former England star Platt, who won the Premier League and FA Cup Double with Arsenal, was Mancini’s assistant when Manchester City won their first league title of the Sheikh Mansour reign. The pair had forged a close friendship during their time as players in Italy’s Serie A with Sampdoria and Platt knows what makes Mancini, 56, tick. “It never surprised me that Robbie created a winning team with Italy because that’s what he has done all through his career,” said Platt (right). “But I am absolutely amazed that he has not been linked with clubs over the last five or six years in England when you look at his CV and what he has done. “The job at Spurs was going this summer and there was Everton as well, who managed to persuade another Italian, Carlo Ancelotti, to go there. “I find it incredulous that he has not been linked with jobs like these.” Platt, who also played for Bari and Juventus during a successful time in Italy, believes that Mancini will now extend his stay with the European champions to encompass next year’s World Cup finals. He added: “I would be very surprised if he didn’t do the World Cup in Qatar because you would want that on your CV. “It’s only 14 months away, so why not? “After that, if they do well it’s likely he would be looking to get back into club management. “I think he would come back to the Premier League if he thought he had a chance of winning somewhere.”

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It’s a sorry saga winger Johnstone insists has to end, starting against high-flying Warrington. He said: “We all thought RUGBY LEAGUE Wakefield v Warrington TODAY 3pm By Julie Stott Chezzy was going to be here next year so we were shocked when he went. “It is kind of our fault that this has happened and we need to pick it up. “It has been pretty awful this year and we need to try and redeem ourselves Joe ROOT lorded it over India’s bowlers as he rewrote history with another monumental innings. England were eventually bowled out for 391, with Root still standing firm on 180 not out. The captain hit back-to-back hundreds for the second time in 2021 to continue his incredible year. Root had previously been criticised for his inability to turn 50s into three-figure scores. Now he’s doing it with ease – racking up five since January. With six Tests still to come in 2021 – three against India and three in Australia – he could smash the record for runs in a calendar year. That is held by Pakistan’s Mohammad Yousuf, who scored 1,788 runs in 2006. With 1,244 already in the bank, Root could sail past that total. During this perfectly judged innings, he also brought up the milestone of 9,000 Test runs, becoming the second-youngest player to achieve the feat behind Alastair Cook. Having helped earn England a 27-run lead, though, the captain will be more concerned with giving England a chance of winning their first home Test of the summer and ending their dismal recent run. Root’s century partnership with Jonny Bairstow helped turn the game in England’s favour in front of packed Saturday crowd. Bairstow was caught at slip for 57 after gloving a bouncer to Kohli at slip. But given his lack of red-ball cricket in recent years, it’s little wonder he has been happy with his efforts in this series so far. Saturday, though, was all about Root – and when asked what the captain means to this England team, Bairstow didn’t hold back. “A heck of a lot, like he does to English cricket,” said Bairstow. “To go into second place in the history of leading runscorers in the English game is very special. To pass 9,000 for our pride.” Assistant coach Willie Poching has been put in interim charge and Johnstone said: “We had a meeting with Willie and we’ve set our aims on finishing the season well.” Gareth Widdop returns for Warrington today after four weeks out with a knee injury. Matty Ashton is also back for the first time since May, having recovered from an ankle injury. TOM JOHNSTONE

skipper gives side the lead to continue incredible year glorious run march into history books Richard EDWARDS reporting FROM LORD’S runs in this game is extremely special. To score another 180 not out at Lord’s, I run out of superlatives.” Bairstow’s contribution was also vital. He has been in and out of the Test side in recent years but he looks determined to change all that. And after scoring his first halfcentury since August 2019, when he made 52 against the Aussies at Lord’s, Bairstow is well on his way to re-establishing himself in the longest format. The platform laid by the Yorkshire pair enabled England to build the kind of score that has been beyond them for most of the year. In their past seven Tests, England have only twice posted scores of over 300. But with Root in supreme touch, the Indian bowlers didn’t threaten for the first two sessions as England edged towards India’s firstinnings score of 364. Root’s partnership of 44 with Jos Buttler and stand of 58 with Moeen Ali helped to leave the game on a knife-edge. Moeen was out caught at slip by Kohli for 28 when looking well set before Sam Curran became the second England player in the game to fall for a golden duck. Root eventually nudged England in front with a boundary as the crowd belted out his name. The run out of Mark Wood bought Jimmy Anderson to the wicket. England’s bowling hero was peppered with bouncers by Jasprit Bumrah and was smashed on the helmet before being bowled by the final ball of the day. By that time, Root had already delivered the sensational knockout blow. DIVINE DISPLAY: Joe Root looks to the heavens on another day of magnificent batting milestones Get a grip on the gamesmanship now demands ex-Lion Taylor SOUTH Africa’s blatant go-slow spoiling tactics against the British and Irish Lions must force rugby chiefs into taking urgent action to stop the game becoming a boring turn-off. Former Wales and Lions forward John Taylor says he was “appalled” to see the recent series ruined by the Springboks being allowed to get away with blatant gamesmanship. The ex-commentator also claimed there is an increasing scoreboard Second Test Match England v India Lord’s: England have a first innings lead of 27 runs over India INDIA: First Innings 364 (Rahul 129, R G Sharma 83, Anderson 5-62) ENGLAND: First Innings (Overnight 119-3) Mins Balls Runs J Root not out.................................533 321 180 J Bairstow c Kohli b Siraj.................165 107 57 J Buttler b I Sharma..........................62 42 23 M Ali c Kohli b I Sharma....................87 72 27 S Curran c R G Sharma b I Sharma......3 1 0 O Robinson lbw Siraj.........................28 22 6 M Wood run out................................36 23 5 J Anderson b Shami..........................30 16 0 B5 lb6 w5 nb17................................33 Total (128 overs)......................................391 Fall: 23, 23, 108, 229, 283, 341, 341, 357, 371. Bowling: Sharma 24-4-69-3, Bumrah 26-6-79-0, Shami 26-3-95-2, Siraj 30-7-94-4, Jadeja 22-1-43-0. Umpires: M Gough & R Illingworth. RUGBY UNION By Gary Fitzgerald need for squads to be reduced and to cut out tactical replacements. After coach Warren Gatland (right) saw his Lions side lose the series 2-1 in South Africa, Taylor is convinced things cannot carry on the way they are if the game is to flourish. He said: “Gamesmanship SE1ST in this series was taken to another degree and you now have to do something about it. “It all played into South Africa’s hands because they rely heavily on dominating things with their very big forwards. So if you get plenty of breaks and rest, it is a huge benefit. But if you get hightempo, fast games, it would have suited the Lions better. “I was appalled by what I saw. One of the simple things I Worrying invasion at Lord’s A pitch invader has raised question marks over security at Lord’s. The intruder took to the field wearing whites and an Indian Test shirt immediately after the post-lunch session and found his way to the wicket before the stewards were alerted of his presence. He was then escorted from the field. The man – wearing Jarvo 69 on his back – immediately became a social media hit. But it will be hugely concerning that he managed to get so close to India’s players, Joe Root and Jonny Bairstow so easily. He started ordering field changes as India’s baffled players looked on, before attempting to convince security he was a member of the touring side by pointing at the badge on his shirt. RICHARD EDWARDS believe is that by enabling all these replacements at any stage of the game, you have changed the shape of the sport. “I am in favour of going back to the days when replacements were only for injuries. “Now you get these giants on the bench, like the South Africa prop who is 20st 9lb and comes on for half an hour. So just as you think you have won your battle against your opposite number, you have a new monster to face!” Sunday Express August 15, 2021 9 CRICKET 9 SNOOKER Dott’s despair over Open plan By Shane McDermott GRUMPY Graeme Dott slammed the organisers of the British Open, claiming it has been “ruined” by the format. The event returns to the calendar for the first time in 17 years at Leicester’s Morningside Arena tomorrow. But the first round will be played over just five frames. And former world champion Dott (right) fumed: “They’ve ruined an event with prestigious history. It’s not proper snooker, it’s a lottery. The Home Nations events are best of sevens and that’s bad enough. “So why can’t the British Open be at least seven? It should be nine, really.” Six-time world champion Ronnie O’Sullivan withdrew after the frame format was announced. MOTORBIKES Jubilant Jorge is Ring master By Zoe Burn JORGE Martin clocked backto-back poles and smashed the Red Bull Ring lap record ahead of today’s MotoGP of Austria. Just a week after his maiden win, Pramac Ducati rider Martin (below) blasted to top spot with 1min, 22.643secs. Championship leader Fabio Quartararo had earlier set a new lap record but had to settle for second. Jason O’Halloran, meanwhile, stormed to his fourth consecutive Bennetts British Superbike race win at Donington Park. The Australian McAMS Yamaha rider was on pole and won by 1.866secs from Irish Honda rider Glenn Irwin. GOLF: WOMEN’S SCOTTISH OPEN Charley chases high Fife finish England’s Charley Hull goes into the final round as jointleader after a third successive three-under 69 at Dumbarnie Links in Leven, Fife. Hull (right), 25, would have led outright but for the only bogey of her third round on the par-three 16th. She shares the lead on nine-under with American Ryann O’Toole and Thailand’s Ariya Jutanugarn, who was two shots clear with two to play but dropped a shot on both holes.

SE1ST 10 Sunday Express August 15, 2021 P W D L F A GD Pts Man Utd 1 1 0 0 5 1 4 3 Chelsea 1 1 0 0 3 0 3 3 Liverpool 1 1 0 0 3 0 3 3 Everton 1 1 0 0 3 1 2 3 Brentford 1 1 0 0 2 0 2 3 Watford 1 1 0 0 3 2 1 3 Brighton 1 1 0 0 2 1 1 3 Leicester 1 1 0 0 1 0 1 3 Man City 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Newcastle 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Tottenham 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 West Ham 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Aston Villa 1 0 0 1 2 3 -1 0 Burnley 1 0 0 1 1 2 -1 0 Wolves 1 0 0 1 0 1 -1 0 Southamptn 1 0 0 1 1 3 -2 0 Arsenal 1 0 0 1 0 2 -2 0 Crystal Pal 1 0 0 1 0 3 -3 0 Norwich 1 0 0 1 0 3 -3 0 Leeds 1 0 0 1 1 5 -4 0 Burnley 1 Brighton 2 Tarkowski 2 Maupay 73 Mac Allister 78 HT: 1-0 Chelsea 3 Crystal Pal 0 Alonso 27, Pulisic 40 Chalobah 58 HT: 2-0 Att: 38,965 Everton 3 Southamptn 1 Richarlison 47 A Armstrong 22 Doucoure 76 Calvert-Lewin 81 ht: 0-1 Leicester 1 Wolves 0 Vardy 41 HT: 1-0 Att: 13,983 Man Utd 5 Leeds 1 Bruno Fernandes 30, 54, 60 Ayling 49 Greenwood 52 Fred 68 ht: 1-0 Att: 72,732 Norwich 0 Liverpool 3 Jota 26, Firmino 65 salah 74 HT: 0-1 Watford 3 Aston Villa 2 Bonaventure 10 McGinn 70 Sarr 42 ings 90 (pen) Hernandez 67 ht: 2-0 Att: 20,051 THIS WEEk’S FIXTURES TODAY 3pm unless stated Premier League Newcastle v West Ham (2pm); Tottenham Hotspur v Man City (4.30pm). Premier Sports CUP - Second round Arbroath v St Johnstone (2pm); Celtic v Hearts; Hibernian v Kilmarnock (2pm); Raith v Aberdeen (12pm). Tuesday 7.45pm unless stated UEFA Champions League Play Off Round 1st Leg Red Bull Salzburg v Brondby (8pm); Sheriff v Dinamo Zagreb (8pm); Monaco v Shakhtar Donetsk (8pm). UEFA EUROPA League - Play Off Round 1st Leg Red Star Belgrade vs CFR Cluj (8.00). Sky Bet Championship Barnsley v Luton; Blackpool v Coventry; Huddersfield v Preston North End; Millwall v Fulham; Peterborough v Cardiff; Reading v Bristol City (8pm); Swansea v Stoke. Sky Bet League One AFC Wimbledon v Gillingham; Accrington Stanley v Doncaster; Burton Albion v Sunderland; Cheltenham v Ipswich; Lincoln City v Bolton; Milton Keynes Dons v Charlton; Morecambe v Rotherham; Oxford Utd v Crewe; Plymouth v Cambridge Utd; Portsmouth v Shrewsbury; Sheff Wed v Fleetwood Town; Wigan v Wycombe. Sky Bet League Two Barrow v Exeter; Bradford v Stevenage; Bristol Rovers v Oldham; Colchester v Mansfield; Crawley Town v Salford City; Port Vale v Carlisle; Rochdale v Forest Green; Sutton Utd v Hartlepool; Swindon v Tranmere; Walsall v Scunthorpe. Wednesday 7.45pm unless stated UEFA Champions League Play Off Round 1st Leg Young Boys v Ferencvaros (8pm); Malmo FF v Ludogorets (8pm); Benfica v PSV (8pm). UEFA EUROPA League - Play Off Round 1st Leg Celtic v AZ Alkmaar. Sky Bet Championship Birmingham v AFC Bournemouth; Hull v Derby; Middlesbrough v QPR; Nott’m Forest v Blackburn; West Brom v Sheff Utd (8pm). Thursday 7.45pm unless stated UEFA EUROPA League - Play Off Round 1st Leg Fenerbahçe v HJK Helsinki, NS Mura v Sturm Graz, Olympiacos v Slovan Bratislava (8.00), Omonoia v Royal Antwerp (5.00), Randers v Galatasaray (6.00), Rangers v Alashkert (8.00), Rapid Vienna v Zorya Luhansk, Slavia Praha v Legia Warszawa (6.00). UEFA EUROPA conference League - Play Off Round 1st Leg KuPS Kuopiov FC Union Berlin, Rakow Czestochowa v KAA Gent, Hapoel Be’er Sheva v Anorthosis Famagusta, Neftchi Baku v Maccabi Haifa, Riga FC v Lincoln Red Imps, Zalgaris v Bodo/Glimt, FC Basel v Hammarby IF, Trabzonspor v Roma, Feyenoord v IF Elfsborg, Rennes v Rosenborg, Shakhter Karagand v Maccabi Tel-Aviv, Flora Tallinn v Shamrock Rovers, Fola Esch v Kairat, Qarabag v Aberdeen, Viktoria Plzen v CSKA Sofia, Paços de Ferreira v Tottenham, Anderlecht v Vitesse, Sivasspor v FC Copenhagen, LASK v St Johnstone, PAOK v HNK Rijeka, Jablonec v MŠK Zilina, Santa Clara v Partisan Belgrade. P W D L F A GD Pts Fulham 2 1 1 0 6 2 4 4 QPR 2 1 1 0 4 1 3 4 Cardiff 2 1 1 0 3 1 2 4 West Brom 2 1 1 0 5 4 1 4 AFC Bournemouth 2 1 1 0 4 3 1 4 Blackburn 2 1 1 0 3 2 1 4 Middlesbro 2 1 1 0 3 2 1 4 Stoke 2 1 1 0 3 2 1 4 Barnsley 2 1 1 0 2 1 1 4 Birmingham 2 1 1 0 1 0 1 4 Luton 2 1 0 1 5 3 2 3 Hull 2 1 0 1 4 4 0 3 Reading 2 1 0 1 4 4 0 3 Coventry 2 1 0 1 2 2 0 3 Peterboro 2 1 0 1 2 4 -2 3 Millwall 2 0 2 0 2 2 0 2 Bristol City 2 0 1 1 2 3 -1 1 Derby 2 0 1 1 2 3 -1 1 Blackpool 2 0 1 1 1 3 -2 1 Huddersfield 2 0 1 1 2 6 -4 1 Swansea 1 0 0 1 1 2 -1 0 Sheff Utd 1 0 0 1 0 1 -1 0 Nottm F 2 0 0 2 2 4 -2 0 Preston 2 0 0 2 2 6 -4 0 Barnsley 1 Coventry 0 Frieser 39 HT: 1-0 Att: 16,961 Birmingham 0 Stoke 0 HT: 0-0 Att: 10,189 Blackpool 0 Cardiff 2 bacuna 52 Moore 86 HT: 0-0 Att: 11,393 Huddersfid 1 Fulham 5 Pearson 41 Mitrovic 9, Onomah 37 Carvalho 43 HT: 1-3 Att: 15,126 ivan Cavaleiro 78, 90 Hull 0 QPR 3 willock 16 dykes 68 HT: 0-1 dickie 74 Middlesbro 2 Bristol City 1 Ikpeazu 38 king 60 Crooks 70 HT: 1-0 Att: 22,004 Millwall 1 Blackburn 1 J Wallace 64 brereton 76 HT: 0-0 Att: 12,490 Nottm F 1 Bournemth 2 McKenna 48 brooks 28 billing 58 HT: 0-1 Att: 25,045 Peterboro 2 Derby 1 Burrows 90 stretton 77 Dembele 90 HT: 0-0 Att: 10,477 Reading 2 Preston 1 Azeez 28 Swift 69 HT: 1-0 1-2-X CHECK FULL TIME pools number Johnson 61 (pen) Swansea L Sheff Utd L HT: L-L West Brom 3 Luton 2 Naismith 5 (og) Cornick 70 Robinson 36 Mpanzu 90 Ahearne-Grant 66 ht: 2-0 P W D L F A GD Pts Wycombe 2 2 0 0 5 2 3 6 Portsmouth 2 2 0 0 3 0 3 6 Sunderland 2 2 0 0 4 2 2 6 Burton A 2 2 0 0 3 1 2 6 Morecambe 2 1 1 0 4 2 2 4 Sheff Wed 2 1 1 0 2 0 2 4 AFC W’don 2 1 1 0 5 4 1 4 Lincoln City 2 1 1 0 3 2 1 4 Oxford Utd 2 1 1 0 3 2 1 4 Rotherham 2 1 0 1 2 1 1 3 Accrington 2 1 0 1 3 3 0 3 Wigan 2 1 0 1 2 2 0 3 Plymouth 2 1 0 1 1 2 -1 3 Bolton 2 0 2 0 6 6 0 2 MK Dons 2 0 1 1 4 5 -1 1 Ipswich 2 0 1 1 3 4 -1 1 Cambridge U 2 0 1 1 2 3 -1 1 Charlton 2 0 1 1 1 2 -1 1 Gillingham 2 0 1 1 1 2 -1 1 Cheltenham 2 0 1 1 2 4 -2 1 Crewe 2 0 1 1 1 3 -2 1 Fleetwood 2 0 0 2 1 3 -2 0 Doncaster 2 0 0 2 1 4 -3 0 Shrewsbury 2 0 0 2 0 3 -3 0 AFC W’don 3 Bolton 3 Nightingale 20 doyle 23 (pen) Pressley 74 (pen) Sheehan 27, Afolayan 48 Mebude 75 ht: 1-2 Accrington 2 Cambridge 1 Butcher 14 ironside 79 Pell 30 HT: 2-0 Att: 2,077 Burton A 2 Ipswich 1 Powell 19 Akins 86 (pen) HT: 1-1 1 1A 2 1 3 1 4 1 5 SUN 6 L 7 SUN 8 1 9 1 10 2 11 1A 12 1A 13 1A 14 1 15 3 16 1A 17 1 18 L 19 1 20 1 21 3 22 1 23 1A 24 1 25 1A 26 1 27 1 28 1 29 1 30 1 31 1 32 1 33 1 34 1A 35 1A 36 1 37 1 38 1 39 2 40 2 41 2 42 1A 43 1A 44 2 45 SUN 46 1 47 SUN 48 2 49 SUN Cricket First Test Match, Pakistan v West Indies, Kingston: Pakistan 217 (70.3 overs; Fawad Alam 56) & 56-2 (21.2 overs). West Indies 253 (89.4 overs; K C Brathwaite 97, J O Holder 58). Royal London One-Day Cup - Play-off, Essex v Yorkshire, Chelmsford: Essex 317-7 (50.0 overs; J S Rymell 121). Yorkshire 188 (38.4 overs). Essex (8pts) beat Yorkshire (2pts) by 129 runs. The Hundred — Oval Invincibles v London Spirit, Kia Oval, Women: London Spirit 103-9 (100 balls, Beaumont 42, Knight 34); Oval Invincibles 107-2 (87 balls, Adams 37no, Kapp 23no, Wilson 22). Oval Invincibles (2pts) win by 8 wickets. Golf Cazoo Classic, Ash, Kent, 3rd rnd (GB & Irl unless stated): 202 R Hoejgaard (Den) 71 69 62, 205 J Smith 66 69 70, C Hill 68 67 70, SPORT IN BRIEF o’Connor 23 (og) Cheltenham 1 Wycombe 3 Williams 45 vokes 14 Pendlebury 74, 79 HT: 1-1 Att: 3,860 Lincoln City 2 Fleetwood 1 Scully 69, 87 (pen) Andrew 32 HT: 0-1 Att: 8,241 MK Dons 1 Sunderland 2 Parrott 56 stewart 42 embleton 52 HT: 0-1 Att: 9,830 Morecambe 2 Shrewsbury 0 Phillips 34 (pen) Stockton 44 HT: 2-0 Att: 3,772 Oxford Utd 2 Charlton 1 Williams 23 Brannagan 31 HT: 2-1 Att: 8,440 washington 36 (pen) Plymouth 1 Gillingham 0 Jephcott 88 HT: 0-0 Att: 10,854 Portsmouth 2 Crewe 0 Marquis 48 Harness 64 HT: 0-0 Att: 11,470 Sheff Wed 2 Doncaster 0 Bannan 72 Adeniran 75 HT: 0-0 Att: 24,738 Wigan 1 Rotherham 0 Keane 90 HT: 0-0 Att: 10,217 206 R Bland 65 71 70, D Whitnell 66 68 72, 207 V Perez (Fra) 70 69 68, R Ramsay 70 70 67, D Drysdale 68 72 67, J Donaldson 72 69 66, L van Meijel (Ned) 73 68 66, 208 B Wiesberger (Aut) 68 71 69, C Shinkwin 70 70 68, A Sullivan 74 67 67, R Fox (Nzl) 71 67 70, A Chesters 70 68 70, J Morrison 70 71 67, M Siem (Ger) 70 69 69, D Young 68 71 69, 209 J Campillo (Spa) 71 71 67, A Levy (Fra) 70 73 66, S Sharma (Ind) 70 71 68, D van Tonder (Rsa) 69 69 71, D Horsey 73 69 67, N Kearney 68 70 71, 210 L Bjerregaard (Den) 67 71 72, J B. Hansen (Den) 69 70 71, K Samooja (Fin) 71 69 70, M Kieffer (Ger) 68 71 71, M Antcliff (Aus) 68 68 74, Yi-Keun Chang (Kor) 72 69 69, B Evans 70 67 73, B MacPherson (Aus) 74 67 69. Wyndham Championship, Greensboro, North Carolina, 2nd rnd (US unless stated): 126 R Henley (USA) 62 64, 130 S Piercy P W D L F A GD Pts Forest Green 2 2 0 0 5 2 3 6 Stevenage 2 2 0 0 3 0 3 6 Mansfield 2 2 0 0 4 2 2 6 Northamptn 2 2 0 0 2 0 2 6 L Orient 2 1 1 0 4 1 3 4 Bradford 2 1 1 0 2 1 1 4 Carlisle 2 1 1 0 2 1 1 4 Tranmere 2 1 1 0 1 0 1 4 Swindon 2 1 0 1 4 3 1 3 Harrogate T 1 1 0 0 3 2 1 3 Barrow 2 1 0 1 3 3 0 3 Hartlepool 2 1 0 1 3 3 0 3 Newport 2 1 0 1 2 2 0 3 Salford City 2 0 2 0 1 1 0 2 Rochdale 2 0 1 1 2 3 -1 1 Sutton Utd 2 0 1 1 1 2 -1 1 Colchester 2 0 1 1 0 1 -1 1 Port Vale 2 0 1 1 0 1 -1 1 Scunthorpe 2 0 1 1 1 3 -2 1 Exeter 2 0 1 1 0 3 -3 1 Crawley Tn 1 0 0 1 0 1 -1 0 Oldham 2 0 0 2 1 3 -2 0 Bristol Rvrs 2 0 0 2 1 4 -3 0 Walsall 2 0 0 2 1 4 -3 0 Barrow 3 Hartlepool 2 Zanzala 3 burey 17 Gordon 48 goodwin 61 D Sea 72 ht: 1-1 Att: 2,846 Bradford 2 Oldham 1 Angol 32, 90 (pen) bahamboula 90 HT: 1-0 Att: 17,624 Bristol R 0 Stevenage 2 lines 88 norris 90 HT: 0-0 Colchester 0 Northamptn 1 guthrie 22 HT: 0-1 Att: 2,772 Crawley Tn P Harrogate P (Postponed - new date to be confirmed) L Orient 3 Exeter 0 Drinan 7 Beckles 25 Archibald 77 ht: 2-0 Att: 4,860 Mansfield 2 Newport Co 1 Maris 7 willmott 9 Clarke 43 HT: 2-1 Att: 3,793 Port Vale 0 Tranmere 0 HT: 0-0 Att: 6,986 Rochdale 0 Scunthorpe 0 HT: 0-0 Att: 2,679 Salford C 0 Sutton Utd 0 HT: 0-0 Swindon 1 Carlisle 2 Crichlow-Noble 30 riley 13 Abrahams 43 HT: 1-2 Att: 9,450 Walsall 1 Forest Gn 3 Kiernan 90 HT: 0-3 Att: 4,310 (USA) 64 66, R Sabbatini (Svk) 66 64, W Simpson (USA) 65 65, 131 T Duncan (USA) 69 62, J Rose (Eng) 66 65, B Stuard (USA) 65 66, 132 T McCumber (USA) 65 67, K Na (USA) 68 64, A Smalley (USA) 68 64, K Streelman (USA) 66 66, 133 J Augenstein (USA) 68 65, B Burgoon (USA) 65 68, M Hughes (Can) 70 63, Sung-Hoon Kang (Kor) 64 69, C Kirk (USA) 64 69, K Kisner (USA) 65 68, M Kuchar (USA) 66 67, S Munoz (Col) 66 67, S Ryder (USA) 68 65, H Swafford (USA) 64 69, J Vegas (Ven) 65 68, 134 K Aphibarnrat (Tha) 66 68, T Fleetwood (Eng) 66 68, S Jae Im (Kor) 66 68. Rugby League Betfred League 1: West Wales 22, Workington 34. Rugby Union The Rugby Championship: New Zealand 57, Australia 22; South Africa 32, Argentina 12. stevens 20, 45 (pen) Matt 43 vanarama NorTH P W D L F A Pts AFC Fylde 1 1 0 0 4 2 3 Blyth Sp 1 1 0 0 2 0 3 Kidderminstr 1 1 0 0 2 1 3 Spennymoor Tn 1 1 0 0 2 1 3 Brackley 1 1 0 0 1 0 3 Farsley Celtic 1 1 0 0 1 0 3 Kettering 1 1 0 0 1 0 3 Gloucester 1 0 1 0 2 2 1 Southport 1 0 1 0 2 2 1 AFC Telford 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Chester FC 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Curzon Ashton 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Darlington 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Gateshead 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Leamington 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Boston Utd 1 0 0 1 1 2 0 York 1 0 0 1 1 2 0 Bradford P A 1 0 0 1 0 1 0 Chorley 1 0 0 1 0 1 0 Hereford FC 1 0 0 1 0 1 0 Guiseley 1 0 0 1 2 4 0 Alfreton Tn 1 0 0 1 0 2 0 SCOTTISH LEAGUE CUP Ayr......................... 1 Dundee Utd............. 1 (aet: Score after 90 mins 1-1. Dundee Utd win 4-3 on penalties) Dundee................... 1 Motherwell.............0 Livingston.............. 1 St Mirren................ 1 (aet: Score after 90 mins 1-1. Livingston win 4-3 on penalties) SCOTTISH PREMIERSHIP P W D L F A Pts Hibernian 2 2 0 0 6 2 6 Aberdeen 2 2 0 0 4 1 6 Hearts 2 2 0 0 4 2 6 Celtic 2 1 0 1 7 2 3 Rangers 2 1 0 1 3 1 3 Dundee Utd 2 1 0 1 1 2 3 St Johnstone 2 0 2 0 1 1 2 Motherwell 2 0 1 1 3 4 1 St Mirren 2 0 1 1 3 4 1 Ross County 2 0 1 1 0 3 1 Dundee 2 0 1 1 2 8 1 Livingston 2 0 0 2 1 5 0 CHAMPIONSHIP P W D L F A Pts Partick 2 2 0 0 6 2 6 Kilmarnock 2 2 0 0 3 0 6 Inverness 2 2 0 0 2 0 6 Morton 2 1 1 0 3 2 4 Hamilton 2 0 1 1 4 5 1 Raith 2 0 1 1 4 5 1 Arbroath 2 0 1 1 2 3 1 Ayr 2 0 1 1 2 4 1 Dunfermline 2 0 1 1 2 5 1 Queen of Sth 2 0 0 2 2 4 0 LEAGUE 1 Airdrieonians......... 1 Falkirk....................2 Clyde..................... 2 Alloa...................... 1 Cove Rangers......... 5 East Fife.................2 Montrose................ 1 Peterhead...............0 Queen’s Park.......... 3 Dumbarton..............0 P W D L F A Pts Queen’s Park 3 2 1 0 6 1 7 Montrose 3 2 1 0 6 2 7 Falkirk 3 2 1 0 5 3 7 Cove Rangers 3 1 1 1 6 5 4 Dumbarton 3 1 1 1 5 5 4 Clyde 3 1 1 1 4 6 4 Peterhead 3 1 0 2 3 3 3 Alloa 3 1 0 2 4 5 3 Airdrieonians 3 0 1 2 3 7 1 East Fife 3 0 1 2 4 9 1 LEAGUE 2 Annan Athletic...... 3 Stirling.................. 1 Cowdenbeath......... P Stranraer...............P Elgin...................... 3 Albion.....................0 Forfar................... 2 Kelty Hearts...........2 P W D L F A Pts Kelty Hearts 3 2 1 0 7 3 7 Forfar 3 2 1 0 6 2 7 Annan Ath 3 2 0 1 6 3 6 Elgin 3 1 1 1 5 4 4 Albion 3 1 1 1 4 5 4 Cowdenbth 2 1 0 1 3 3 3 Stirling 3 1 0 2 3 6 3 Edinburgh City 3 1 0 2 1 4 3 Stenhousemr 3 0 1 2 2 4 1 Stranraer 2 0 1 1 1 4 1 WELSH PREM P W D L F A Pts Flint Town Utd 1 1 0 0 5 1 3 Connah’s QN 1 1 0 0 2 0 3 Aberystwyth Tn 1 1 0 0 2 1 3 Bala Town 1 0 1 0 2 2 1 Penybont 1 0 1 0 2 2 1 Caernarfon Tn 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Haverfordwest C 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Newtown 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 The New Saints 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Barry Town Utd 1 0 0 1 1 2 0 Cefn Druids 1 0 0 1 0 2 0 Cardiff Met Uni 1 0 0 1 1 5 0 vanarama south P W D L F A Pts Hamp & Rich 1 1 0 0 5 0 3 Ebbsfleet 1 1 0 0 5 1 3 Bath City 1 1 0 0 3 0 3 Havant & W 1 1 0 0 3 0 3 Maidstone Utd 1 1 0 0 4 2 3 Dartford 1 1 0 0 3 1 3 Concord Rgs 1 1 0 0 1 0 3 Slough 1 1 0 0 1 0 3 Braintree Tn 1 0 1 0 1 1 1 Chippenham 1 0 1 0 1 1 1 Dulwich 1 0 1 0 1 1 1 Oxford City 1 0 1 0 1 1 1 Hungerford Tn 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Chelmsford 1 0 0 1 0 1 0 Dorking W 1 0 0 1 0 1 0 Hemel H 1 0 0 1 2 4 0 St Albans 1 0 0 1 1 3 0 Billericay 1 0 0 1 0 3 0 Welling 1 0 0 1 0 3 0 Tonbridge A 1 0 0 1 1 5 0 Eastbrne B 1 0 0 1 0 5 0 OTHER RESULTS Vanarama National League North: Blyth Spartans 2, Alfreton Tn 0; Boston Utd 1, Spennymoor Town 2; Chorley 0, Brackley 1; Guiseley 2, AFC Fylde 4; Hereford FC 0, Farsley Celtic 1; Kettering 1, Bradford P A 0; Southport 2, Gloucester 2; York 1, K’minster 2. Vanarama National League South: Bath City 3, Billericay 0; Braintree Tn 1, Oxford City 1; Concord Rangers 1, Dorking Wanderers 0; Dulwich 1, Chippenham 1; Eastbourne Borough 0, Hampton & Richmond 5; Ebbsfleet 5, Tonbridge Angels 1; Havant and W 3, Welling 0; Maidstone Utd 4, Hemel Hempstead 2; Slough 1, Chelmsford 0; St Albans 1, Dartford 3. The Isthmian Premier Division: Bognor Regis Town 0, Bishop’s Stortford 0; Bowers & Pitsea 2, Leatherhead 3; Brightlingsea Regent 2, Merstham 0; Carshalton Ath 2, Enfield Town 4; Cheshunt 3, East Thurrock Utd 0; Cray Wanderers 3, Lewes 1; Folkestone Invicta 3, Worthing 1; Horsham 0, Hornchurch 2; Kingstonian 1, Haringey Borough 0; Potters Bar Town 3, Corinthian Casuals 1; Wingate & Finchley 0, Margate 1. The Northern Premier Division: Ashton Utd 2, Matlock Town 0; Basford Utd 0, Scarborough Athletic 0; Buxton 3, Bamber Bridge 0; Gainsborough Trinity 1, Witton Albion 1; Hyde Utd 0, Atherton Collieries 1; Lancaster City 0, Whitby Town 1; Nantwich Town 3, Stalybridge Celtic 2; Radcliffe 1, Grantham Town 2; South Shields 3, Mickleover 0; Stafford Rangers 3, Morpeth Town 1; Warrington Town 2, FC United of Manchester 0. The Southern Premier Central: Banbury Utd 1, Stourbridge 1; Bromsgrove Sporting 0, Leiston 4; Coalville Town 3, Stratford Town 1; Hednesford Town 2, Needham Market 1; Lowestoft Town 0, Barwell 3; Nuneaton Borough 3, Biggleswade Town 3; Peterborough Sports 2, Rushall Olympic 0; Redditch Utd 2, Hitchin Town 1; Royston Town 3, Tamworth 0; St Ives Town 1, Alvechurch 0. The Southern Premier South: Dorchester Town 1, Beaconsfield Town 2; Farnborough 0, Walton Casuals 0; Gosport Borough 4, Poole Town 3; Harrow Borough 1, Yate Town 2; Hayes & Yeading Utd 3, Swindon Supermarine 0; Kings Langley 0, Weston-S-Mare 1; Merthyr Town 2, Hartley Wintney 2; Met Police 0, Salisbury FC 0; Tiverton Town 0, Chesham Utd 0; Truro City 0, Hendon 4; Wimborne Town 1, Taunton Town 4. Northern Ireland Championship 1: Annagh Utd 5, Ballyclare 1; Ards 1, H & W Welders 0; Dundela 3, Knockbreda 4; Loughgall 2, Dergview 1; Newry 5, Institute 1; Queen’s University 0, Ballinamallard Utd 2. Welsh Premier League: Aberystwyth Town 2, Barry Town United 1; Bala Town 2, Penybont 2; Cardiff Met Uni 1, Flint Town United 5. Huws Gray Alliance: Guilsfield 4, Bangor City 2; Conwy Borough 3, Llanrhaeadr YM 2. Breedon Highland League: Brechin 2, Rothes 2; Brora 0, Formartine United 3; Buckie Thistle 5, Deveronvale 0; Fort William 2, Forres Mechanics 3; Keith 0, Inverurie Loco Works 0; Lossiemouth 2, Wick Academy 1; Nairn County 2, Fraserburgh 3; Turriff United 0, Huntly 4. Geosonic Lowland League: Bonnyrigg Rose 7, Edinburgh Univ 0; Dalbeattie Star 1, Spartans 3; East Kilbride 1, Bo’ness Utd 0; East Stirling 1, Civil Service Strollers 0; Gala Fairydean 5, Caledonian Braves 1; Rangers B 9, Gretna 2008 1; Stirling University 1, Berwick 3; Vale Of Leithen 0, Celtic B 10. Isthmian Division One North: AFC Sudbury 1, Aveley 1; Dereham Town 3, Heybridge 1; Felixstowe & Walton Utd 1, Basildon Utd 1; Grays Athletic 2, Bury Town 1; Great Wakering Rovers 2, Witham Town 3; Hullbridge Sports 0, Barking 4; Romford 0, Maldon & Tiptree 7; Stowmarket Town 2, Canvey Island 2; Tilbury 0, Brentwood Town 1. Isthmian Division One South East: Ashford Utd 3, Burgess Hill Town 1; Chichester City 0, VCD Athletic 3; Cray Valley (PM) 1, Whitehawk 1; Hastings Utd 1, Herne Bay 1; Haywards Heath Town 3, East Grinstead Town 0; Hythe Town 1, Corinthian 2; Phoenix Sports 0, Faversham Town 1; Sittingbourne 4, Lancing 0; Three Bridges 2, Ramsgate 2; Whitstable Town 1, Sevenoaks Town 2. The Northern First Division West: City of Liverpool 0, Ramsbottom Utd 0; Clitheroe 2, 1874 Northwich 2; Kendal Town 0, Glossop North End 0; Kidsgrove Ath 0, Workington 1; Market Drayton Town 1, Prescot Cables 0; Mossley 2, Bootle 1; Newcastle Town 1, Marine 3; Runcorn Linnets 2, Widnes 0; Trafford 1, Colne 1; Warrington Rylands 2, Leek Town 0. The Northern First Division East: Brighouse Town 0, Dunston UTS 0; Hebburn Town 0, Frickley Athletic 1; Lincoln Utd 0, Liversedge 2; Marske Utd 2, Cleethorpes Town 0; Pontefract Collieries 0, Ossett United 2; Shildon 4, Pickering Town 0; Stocksbridge P S 0, Stockton Town 0; Tadcaster Albion 2, Sheffield FC 2; Worksop Town 0, Yorkshire Amateur 3. Southern Div One East: AFC Dunstable 2, Colney Heath 0; Aylesbury Utd 0, Didcot Town 2; Biggleswade FC 0, Berkhamsted 3; Harlow Town 2, Hertford Town 1; North Leigh 1, Kempston Rovers 0; St Neots Town 1, FC Romania 2; Waltham Abbey 2, Bedford Town 5; Wantage Town 2, Barton Rovers 5; Ware 5, Kidlington 1; Welwyn Garden City 1, Thame Utd 1. Southern League Southern Div One West: AFC Totton 1, Plymouth Parkway 0; Barnstaple Town 1, Lymington Town 3; Cinderford 2, Paulton 4; Cirencester 3, Bristol Manor Farm 2; Frome Town 1, Highworth Town 0; Larkhall Athletic 3, Slimbridge 1; Mangotsfield Utd 0, Sholing 2; Willand Rovers 3, Melksham Town 1; Winchester City 2, Bideford 2. Ebac Northern League Division One: Ashington 2, Sunderland RCA 3; Consett 2, Newton Aycliffe 3; Guisborough Town 2, Seaham Red Star 0; North Shields 4, Bishop Auckland 1; Penrith 3, West Allotment Celtic 1; Redcar Athletic 0, Whickham 2; Thornaby 5, Billingham Town 0; Whitley Bay 2, Newcastle Benfield 1.

SE1ST CHELMSFORD (RTV) pontefract (RTV) Southwell (Jackpot) (SSR) The scout: 1.50 Taylored 2.25 Captain Ryan 3.00 Brazen Bolt 3.35 STAR SEEKING (nb) The scout: 2.00 Bloomington Bride 2.35 POSSIBLE MAN (nap) 3.10 HAPPY ROMANCE 4.10 Disarming 4.45 Dynali 5.20 Fury 3.45 Duty Of Care 4.20 Stonific 4.55 Alpha Cru 5.25 Mutanaaseq 1.50 MEDIAN AUCTION MAIDEN STAKES £3,510 (Class 5) 5f (4 declared) 1 (4) 4-L6 MICK’S SPIRIT (12) (F) C Allen 3 9-5.....Grace McEntee(5) 54 2 (2) 404977 SAATTY (63) M Appleby 3 9-5..............................O Murphy 83 3 (3) 222445 ● TAYLORED (4) (F) (T) D O’Meara 3 9-5.. K Shoemark ★86 4 (1) 73 INDEPENDENT BEAUTY (4) (T) L Williamson 3 9-0....A Beech(5) 73 Forecast: 5-4 Saatty, 13-8 Taylored, 9-2 Mick’s Spirit, 12 Independent Beauty. 2020: No corresponding meeting. 2.25 CLASSIFIED STAKES £2,322 (6) 5f (6) 1 (5) 8-43983 AMMAYYA (10) (F) H Spiller 4 9-3........................ H Turner 60 2 (3) 623108 ● CAPTAIN RYAN (26) (D) G Deacon 10 9-3......T Heard(5) ★67 3 (6) 8608LL HURRICANE ALERT (26) (C&D) Frank Bishop 9 9-3........C Shepherd 48 4 (4) 015537 KYLLUKEY (26) (C&D) C Wallis 8 9-3...................L Morris 59 5 (1) 87L-640 PRECIOUS PLUM (26) (C&D) C Wallis 7 9-3.......R Kingscote 65 6 (2) 8-5L8L5 TILSWORTH ROSE (12) (D) J R Jenkins 7 9-3..R Dawson(3) 56 BLINKERS: Nos. 4, 6 TONGUE STRAP: No. 5 CHEEK PIECES: Nos. 3, 5. SOFT/HEAVY WINNERS: Nos. 6. Forecast: 2 Captain Ryan, 11-4 Precious Plum, 7-2 Kyllukey, 6 Tilsworth Rose, 7 Ammayya, 25 Hurricane Alert. 3.00 TOTE.CO.UK LIVE STREAMING EVERY UK RACE H’CAP £2,322 (6) 7f (14) 1 (6) 346056 SALAM YA FAISAL (12) (C&D) S L Keightley 4 9-10....... R Dawson(3) 64 2 (1) 521435 CMON CMON (30) (D) (T) N Tinkler 4 9-10...... F McManoman(3) 66 3 (9) 44-4897 GOLDEN AGE (32) R Cowell 4 9-10...... R Clutterbuck(5) 65 4 (13) 0423-L3 ● BRAZEN BOLT (25) (F) (T) J J Quinn 4 9-9.......O Murphy 68 5 (10) 043514 HUNTERS STEP (19) (C,D) H Spiller 5 9-9......... H Turner 68 6 (4) 140200 AXEL JACKLIN (59) (D) C Banham 5 9-8......... J Haynes 69 7 (14) 724885 RIVER SONG (74) M Appleby 4 9-6..Erika Parkinson(7) 70 8 (2) 6L7413 DUKE OF PRUSSIA (26) (D,F) Sir M Prescott 3 9-5.........L Morris 62 9 (11) 877694 POWER ON (26) J Butler 3 9-5....................... K Shoemark 63 10 (7) 9066 SIGNORINADORO (26) P McBride 5 9-5........C Shepherd 63 11 (12) 451886 ELUSIF (16) (C&D) C Allen 6 9-4........Grace McEntee(5) 68 12 (8) 547-35 MAAHI VE (17) M Attwater 3 9-4............................ R Havlin 64 13 (5) 88-4751 SKY BLUE THINKING (6) (D) A West 3 8-11.......Georgia Dobie(5) ★71 14 (3) 838974 MRS DIBBLE (53) I Williams 3 8-7..........................C Fallon 63 BLINKERS: Nos. 6, 10 VISOR: No. 11 TONGUE STRAP: Nos. 1, 5, 10, 14 CHEEK PIECES: Nos. 2, 8. Forecast: 4 Duke Of Prussia, 11-2 Sky Blue Thinking, 7 Brazen Bolt, Cmon Cmon, 10 Hunters Step, River Song, Mrs Dibble, 12 Salam Ya Faisal, 14 Others. 3.35 FAIRWOOD FILLIES’ HANDICAP £6,210 (3) 7f (6) 1 (3) 713915 LETHAL TALENT (17) (C&D) J Chapple-Hyam 4 9-12...........R Tart 91 2 (1) 4/1-271 TOMOUH (62) (D) S bin Suroor 4 9-10...............O Murphy 91 3 (5) 1-1 STAR JEWEL (18) (D,F) S & E Crisford 3 9-7...... R Havlin 83 4 (6) 1-2 ● STAR SEEKING (30) (D) Sir M Stoute 3 9-4..R Kingscote 89 5 (2) 91-21LL MUTAHAMISA (25) (D) R Varian 3 8-13..........C Noble(3) 92 6 (4) 350213 HALA JOUD (26) (D) J Chapple-Hyam 3 8-9......C Fallon ★93 TONGUE STRAP: No. 2 CHEEK PIECES: Nos. 1, 2, 6. Forecast: 15-8 Tomouh, 5-2 Star Jewel, 3 Star Seeking, 10 Lethal Talent, 12 Mutahamisa, Hala Joud. 4.10 HANDICAP £2,322 (6) 1m (12) 1 (1) 8/122-70 CARIBBEAN SPRING (76) (C&D) G Margarson 8 9-8..........Georgia Dobie(5) 61 2 (9) 42633L ROCA MAGICA (19) (C&D,F) E Dunlop 5 9-7........... C Shepherd ★68 3 (5) 513045 TREPIDATION (19) (D) B Johnson 4 9-7.......R Clutterbuck(5) 67 4 (12) L72485 BORN TO SIRE (20) C Wallis 4 9-6.............................L Morris 66 5 (2) L15459 ● DISARMING (39) (C&D) Dr J Scargill 4 9-5........R Kingscote 66 6 (11) 11L-L80 MY LADY CLAIRE (32) (D) P Chamings 5 9-3..........K Shoemark 61 7 (6) 75-LL66 SAM BELLAMY (20) (T) M Johnston 3 9-1.......Jane Elliott 59 8 (4) 790L8 BROUGHTONS CHIEF (16) P McBride 3 9-0............T P Queally 58 9 (8) 449093 POP FAVORITE (8) D Brown 3 9-0...................... A Villiers(5) 64 10 (3) 905066 NEW LOOK (9) (D,F) (T) L Williamson 6 8-12..............A Beech(5) 63 11 (10) 068724 KERRERA (3) (C&D) D Ivory 8 8-12........ Sophie Ralston(5) 64 12 (7) LLL560 FAVOURED DESTINY (10) A West 4 8-12................C Bennett 59 BLINKERS: No. 12 VISOR: Nos. 3, 10 CHEEK PIECES: Nos. 4, 6. Forecast: 7-2 Pop Favorite, 4 Kerrera, 5 Trepidation, 8 Born To Sire, Roca Magica, Sam Bellamy, 12 Caribbean Spring, 16 My Lady Claire, Disarming, 20 Others. 4.45 LOUEY PARKHURST MEMORIAL HANDICAP £2,862 (5) 2m (9) 1 (2) 3-26024 GAUNTLET (39) W Knight 4 10-4......................C Shepherd 74 2 (8) 46-L433 ARABIAN KING (34) (F) J Ferguson 5 10-0.......L Morris 76 3 (5) 259164 SOROS (46) (D) C Fellowes 4 10-0........................ H Turner ★77 4 (7) 491323- SOPHAR SOGOOD (250) J Butler 4 9-12..... K Shoemark 74 5 (6) 46/545 TOO BIG TO FAIL (30) (T) M Johnston 4 9-7........ Jane Elliott 70 6 (3) 431263 ● DYNALI (17) (C&D) I Williams 5 9-6..........R Kingscote 75 7 (4) 65L044 FINANCIAL CONDUCT (12) M Appleby 7 9-4.......Josephine Gordon 75 8 (9) 2452L3 DOUBLETHETROUBLE (19) L Wadham 3 9-3....O Murphy 73 9 (1) 06L ADRASTUS (23) H Palmer 3 8-8.................... R Dawson(3) 70 VISOR: No. 6 TONGUE STRAP: Nos. 2, 7 CHEEK PIECES: Nos. 1, 7, 8. Forecast: 4 Gauntlet, 11-2 Sophar Sogood, 6 Arabian King, Doublethetrouble, 7 Soros, 8 Financial Conduct, Dynali, Too Big To Fail, 10 Adrastus. 5.20 TOTE.CO.UK CLASSIFIED STAKES £2,322 (6) 1m 2f (8) 1 (4) 655261 MISS SLIGO (12) (D,F) J Osborne 4 9-8....S Osborne(5) 61 2 (7) L8-L9L8 IT’S A SIN (10) D Shaw 4 9-7............................. A Beech(5) 33 3 (2) 89-03U9 MILLDEAN FELIX (47) R Woodman 5 9-7....R Clutterbuck(5) 55 4 (8) 45/689-5 PERFECT OUTING (192) P Chamings 4 9-7.......... R Kingscote 50 5 (3) 532-534 THUNDER FLASH (33) (D) I Williams 4 9-7.........C Fallon 60 6 (6) 531532 VIOLETTE SZABO (19) (T) N Tinkler 4 9-7.....F McManoman(3) ★63 7 (1) 008643 ● FURY (12) S C Williams 3 8-13..........................O Murphy 53 8 (5) 555356 TWILLEY (12) M Appleby 3 8-13..............................L Morris 58 BLINKERS: No. 1 VISOR: No. 4 TONGUE STRAP: No. 7 CHEEK PIECES: Nos. 6, 7, 8. Forecast: 11-4 Miss Sligo, 3 Violette Szabo, 7-2 Thunder Flash, 5 Fury, 7 Twilley, 14 Perfect Outing, 25 Milldean Felix, 33 It’s A Sin. DONCASTER: Good to firm 1.22—TAMASKA (A Atzeni, 6‐1 jt 2nd fav) 1; Hajjam (14‐1) 2; Oso Rapido (28‐1) 3. 12 ran. (D O’Meara; 2-1 fav Daniel Deronda). 1.52—SUSPICIOUS (C Fallon, 10‐3 jt fav) 1; Beautiful Secret (10‐3 jt fav) 2; Kick On Girl (16‐1) 3. 9 ran. (R Beckett). Non-runner: Lady Honore. 2.25—BLUE DE VEGA (A Farragher, 13‐2) 1; Nomadic Empire (9‐2) 2; Get It (7‐2 fav) 3. 7 ran. (R Cowell). Non-runner: First Edition. 3.00—MOTAWAAJED (C Fallon, 10‐3 2nd fav) 1; Dance Fever (6‐4 fav) 2; Documenting (16‐1) 3. 8 ran. (W Haggas). Non-runner: Via Serendipity. 3.35—PAPACITO (A Atzeni, 8‐11 fav) 1; Rabat (6‐1 co 2nd fav) 2; Gustav Graves (16‐1) 3. 9 ran. (R Varian). Non-runner: Napoleon Warrior. 4.05—BUFORD (P-L Jamin, 7‐1) 1; Star Shakeera (9‐1) 2; Kentucky Kitten (16‐5 2nd fav) 3. 6 ran. (G Tuer; 5-2 fav Into The Fire). Placepot: £209.30 (Race 1) 10, 5, 6; (2) 9, 2, 6; (3) 3, 2; (4) 5, 2, 1; (5) 1, 10, 3; (6) 5, 6. Quadpot: £26.10 NEWBURY: Good-good to firm in places 1.15—MOJO STAR (David Egan, 1‐6 fav) 1; Auriferous (9‐2 2nd fav) 2; Girandole (150‐1) 3. 4 ran. (R Hannon). 1.45—MASEKELA (W Buick, 6‐4 jt fav) 1; Bayside Boy (6‐4 jt fav) 2; Robjon (28‐1) 3. 6 ran. (A Balding). 2.20—HUKUM (J Crowley, 8‐11 fav) 1; Rodrigo Diaz (14‐1) 2; Pablo Escobarr (12‐1) 3. 8 ran. (Owen Burrows). 2.55—ARATUS (A Kirby, 9‐4 fav) 1; Sunset Bay (7‐2) 2; Silver Samurai (10‐1) 3. 7 ran. (C Cox). Non-runner: Jack’s Point. 3.30—SACRED (T Marquand, 6‐1) 1; Laneqash (22‐1) 2; Njord (11‐1) 3. 10 ran. (W Haggas; 11-4 fav Al Suhail). Non-runner: Danyah. 4.00—TAWAAREQ (J Crowley, 13‐8 fav) 1; Gold Arch (20‐1) 2; War Leader (10‐1) 3. 6 ran. (Sir 2.00 RACING RESULTS +++ RACING RESULTS +++ RACING RESULTS M Stoute). 4.35—VALENTINO DANCER (Miss Fern O’Brien, 7‐2) 1; Estrela Star (10‐3 2nd fav) 2; Tralee Hills (7‐4 fav) 3. 6 ran. (F O’Brien). Nonrunner: Nabhan. Placepot: £32.90 (Race 1) 3; (2) 4, 2; (3) 1, 4, 2; (4) 5, 8; (5) 11, 7, 5; (6) 5, 4; Quadpot: £29.40 NEWMARKET: Good to firm 1.00—ADNAAN (B Curtis, 6‐4 fav) 1; Laheg (4‐1 2nd fav) 2; Captain’s Bar (9‐1) 3. 9 ran. (Patrick Owens). 1.30—MAYFAIR STROLL (K Shoemark, 11‐2) 1; Annie’s Song (5‐1) 2; Bonita B (22‐1) 3. 9 ran. (C Hills; 11-4 fav Before Dawn). 2.00—EILEENDOVER (S W Kelly, 4‐1) 1; Single (9‐1) 2; Quenelle D’or (7‐2 jt 2nd fav) 3. 6 ran. (Mrs P Sly; 3-1 fav Goolwa). Non-runner: Makawee. 2.35—MITROSONFIRE (S Cherchi, 5‐2 fav) 1; Wentworth Falls (15‐2) 2; Grey Galleon (10‐1) 3. 10 ran. (Muir & Grassick). 3.05—GREAT AMBASSADOR (R Kingscote, 5‐2 fav) 1; Rathbone (18‐1) 2; Jumby (7‐1) 3. 10 ran. (E Walker). Non-runner: Aplomb. 3.40—BANDINELLI (J Mitchell, 3‐1 2nd fav) 1; Dontaskmeagain (6‐1) 2; Frontispiece (9‐1) 3. 6 ran. (C Appleby; 9-4 fav Top Brass). Non-runner: Saligo Bay. 4.15—FIRST DANCE (B Curtis, 11‐1) 1; Don’t Tell Claire (7‐2 2nd fav) 2; Shouldering (7‐1) 3. 7 ran. (T Tate; 3-1 fav Degree). Non-runners: Bellazada, Hala Joud. Placepot: £80.80 (Race 1) 1, 4, 2; (2) 8, 3, 9; (3) 2, 7; (4) 2, 3, 10; (5) 3, 5, 2; (6) 4, 1; Quadpot: £36.80 PERTH: Good 2.10—GRIPPER (D R Fox, 33‐1) 1; Cirque EBF NOVICE STAKES (GBB RACE) 2YO £5,454 (Class 4) 5f 3yds (4 declared) 1 (1) 13L4 WHERE’S DIANA (72) (C&D) R Fell 9-5...................J Hart 80 2 (3) 47 FORCED ENTRY (34) D O’Meara 9-4................... J Watson 61 3 (4) 533 ● BLOOMINGTON BRIDE (14) (F) K Ryan 8-13.....T Eaves ★88 4 (2) LADY ARDAD J L Eyre 8-13................................. JP Sullivan — Forecast: 4-5 Bloomington Bride, 15-8 Where’s Diana, 8 Forced Entry, 14 Lady Ardad. 2020: Ballintoy Harbour 8-11, Graham Lee 7-2 (P Midgley), drawn (3), 8 ran. 2.35 MARY CLARK ‘FAVOURITE DAY OF THE YEAR’ H’CAP £6,185 (3) 1m 4f 5yds (5) 1 (1) 29-L26L DASH OF SPICE (29) (D) A Keatley 7 9-12.............T Marquand 93 2 (3) 1-140 KINGS PRINCE (18) (C&D) M Johnston 3 9-7...P J McDonald 87 3 (2) 91-2L1 ● POSSIBLE MAN (30) (F) Sir M Stoute 3 9-4....S De Sousa 89 4 (5) 57-4111 BOLTAWAY (39) R Charlton 3 9-3...................P Mulrennan 88 5 (4) 1L-2 ARROW OF GOLD (61) (D) K Ryan 4 9-2..............A Atzeni ★94 BLINKERS: No. 2 TONGUE STRAP: No. 1. Forecast: 6-4 Boltaway, 9-4 Possible Man, 4 Arrow Of Gold, 8 Kings Prince, 10 Dash Of Spice. 2020: Frankel’s Storm 3-9-7, Ben Curtis 12-1 (M Johnston), drawn (7), 5 ran. 3.10 FILLIES’ STAKES (LISTED) £32,212 (1) 6f (15) 1 (13) 5-55175 KEEP BUSY (16) (D) J J Quinn 4 9-5........................J Hart 114 2 (11) 015031 ● HAPPY ROMANCE (29) (D) (T) R Hannon 3 9-3........ D O’Neill 113 3 (4) 4L-5233 BIMBLE (51) (D,F) H Candy 4 9-2......................... R Hornby 99 4 (2) 2/11-192 DOUBLE OR BUBBLE (42) C Wall 4 9-2............J Mitchell ★115 5 (8) 50/L96-1 FINAL OPTION (148) (D) Muir & Grassick 4 9-2.. P J McDonald 104 6 (3) 9-53145 SHEPHERDS WAY (19) (D) J Camacho 4 9-2............C Lee 95 7 (1) 3241 SHUTHOOR (4) (D) K P De Foy 4 9-2............... S De Sousa 85 8 (5) 126-L72 VALERIA MESSALINA (35) J Harrington (IRE) 4 9-2...........A Atzeni 113 9 (15) 24254L CHOCOYA (63) (D) H Palmer 3 8-12........................ K Stott 107 10 (10) 5-7L460 DANDALLA (18) (D) K Burke 3 8-12............... J P Spencer 108 11 (6) 268185 FRIENDLY (19) A P O’Brien (IRE) 3 8-12.................T Eaves 100 12 (14) 291-103 GLESGA GAL (43) H Palmer 3 8-12................P Mulrennan 102 13 (9) 422121 LOVELY BREEZE (19) (D,F) H Palmer 3 8-12...L Steward 101 14 (7) 14-4464 MISHAL STAR (25) (D) T Ward 3 8-12............T Marquand 102 15 (12) 945802 MORE BEAUTIFUL (25) A P O’Brien (IRE) 3 8-12.J Watson 109 BLINKERS: Nos. 12, 13, 15 TONGUE STRAP: Nos. 8, 9. Forecast: 4 Valeria Messalina, 5 Happy Romance, 11-2 Keep Busy, 6 Double Or Bubble, 7 More Beautiful, 8 Friendly, 10 Dandalla, 16 Mishal Star, Lovely Breeze, Glesga Gal, 25 Others. 2020: Stormy Girl 3-8-12, Cam Hardie 22-1 (R Menzies), drawn (7), 11 ran. 3.45 WILLIAM HILL PICK YOUR PLACES HANDICAP 3YO £6,185 (3) 1m 6yds (4) 1 (4) 21-368 READY TO VENTURE (29) W Haggas 9-7.....T Marquand 95 2 (1) 31-6 ● DUTY OF CARE (136) Sir M Stoute 9-2............. K Stott 96 3 (2) 5-32123 TADREEB (29) M Johnston 9-2.............................. D O’Neill 98 4 (3) 1-3412 BABY ALYA (29) (D,F) K Ryan 8-8..........................T Eaves ★99 CHEEK PIECES: No. 1. Forecast: 9-4 Tadreeb, 5-2 Duty Of Care, 3 Ready To Venture, Baby Alya. 2020: No corresponding race. 4.20 MOOR TOP FARM SHOP HEMSWORTH HANDICAP £3,240 (5) 2m 1f 27yds (7) 1 (1) 5-615L8 ● STONIFIC (13) D O’Meara 8 10-3............S B Kirrane(5) 76 2 (5) 161326 ARABESCATO (23) (C) J Butler 4 10-1............ S De Sousa 77 3 (4) 23L573 CHOCOLATE BOX (13) M Loughnane 7 9-13.T Marquand 76 4 (3) 55/6-313 FLINT HILL (36) (C&D) Ruth Jefferson 5 9-11.........G Lee ★78 5 (7) 594/241 TEQANY (23) F O’Brien 7 9-10.............................D Costello 74 6 (6) 911111 OUT OF BREATH (16) (F) G Tuer 4 9-9................S James 76 7 (2) 477772 RETROSPECT (23) Muir & Grassick 4 8-11.P J McDonald 76 TONGUE STRAP: No. 5 CHEEK PIECES: No. 3. Forecast: 11-4 Teqany, 4 Out Of Breath, 5 Retrospect, Flint Hill, 7 Chocolate Box, Arabescato, 10 Stonific. 2020: No corresponding race. 4.55 HAPPY RETIREMENT MICK HENSHAW NOVICE STKS £5,913 (4) 1m 6yds (8) 1 (3) L GOLD RING (28) T Waggott 4 9-8............................T Eaves — 2 (5) 4-1 ● ALPHA CRU (21) (C&D,F) D O’Meara 3 9-2..... D Nolan ★78 3 (1) L-3 BROUGHTONS MISSION (20) J Berry 3 9-1.......T Whelan 57 4 (4) GAERWEN E Bethell 3 9-1............................... P J McDonald — 5 (2) 5 MAXIOS SHOW (120) K Ryan 3 9-1........................... K Stott 64 6 (7) L9- WILLIEWINAMILLION (250) M & D Easterby 3 9-1.P Mulrennan 58 7 (6) MADAME GLITTERS D O’Meara 3 8-10................ J Watson — 8 (8) 0 REGINA GEORGE (46) R Fell 3 8-10...........................J Hart 39 Forecast: 4-5 Alpha Cru, 4 Madame Glitters, 6 Gaerwen, 7 Maxios Show, 12 Broughtons Mission, 33 Williewinamillion, 50 Regina George, Gold Ring. 2020: No corresponding race. 5.25 SUNPAK POTATOES HANDICAP £3,240 (5) 6f (10) 1 (8) 305347 TRUE MASON (36) (D) Phillip Makin 5 9-12...P J McDonald 80 2 (5) 322-0L2 WETHER FELL (43) J Camacho 4 9-12.........P Mulrennan 80 3 (4) L-93460 LEZARDRIEUX (23) (C&D) G Tuer 4 9-11..............S James 82 4 (9) 4L-1303 LADY NECTAR (28) (D) Mrs A Duffield 4 9-11.........S Gray 81 5 (7) 123362 ● MUTANAASEQ (15) (D) R Carr 6 9-10........ JP Sullivan ★84 6 (3) 16-5544 COTTAM LANE (32) K Ryan 3 9-10........ O McSweeney(7) 80 7 (2) 222033 GENERAL SAGO (17) D O’Meara 3 9-7................. J Watson 83 8 (6) 415-955 TWIST OF HAY (30) (D) M Dods 4 9-6.......................C Lee 75 9 (1) 957L8-L VARDON FLYER (9) S England 4 8-13.............C Rodriguez 60 10 (10) LL85L5 MR ORANGE (11) (C&D0) P Midgley 8 8-10...............G Lee 74 TONGUE STRAP: No. 9 CHEEK PIECES: Nos. 1, 4, 8, 10. Forecast: 5 Lady Nectar, 11-2 Cottam Lane, 6 General Sago, Wether Fell, Mutanaaseq, 7 Mr Orange, 8 True Mason, 10 Lezardrieux, 12 Others. 2020: Dream Together 3-9-8, Jack Garritty 15-2 (J O’Keeffe), drawn (3), 11 ran. Royal (11‐1) 2; Kavanaghs Cross (5‐2 2nd fav) 3. 13 ran. (W Young Jnr; 11-8 fav Tiger Orchid). 2.45—LORD CONDI (P J Kavanagh, 11‐2) 1; Late Date (25‐1) 2; Doldrum Bay (11‐1) 3. 12 ran. (I Jardine; 16-5 fav Printing Dollars). Non-runner: Celtic Tara. 3.20—MINELLA TRUMP (B Hughes, 0‐0 fav) 1; Eskendash (5‐2 2nd fav) 2; 2 ran. (D McCain). Non-runners: Juge Et Parti, Presentandcounting. 3.50—BLAKENEY POINT (B Hughes, 16‐1) 1; Ingleby Hollow (6‐1) 2; Island Nation (9‐4 fav) 3. 8 ran. (D McCain). 4.25—SHETLAND BUS (Sean Quinlan, 5‐1) 1; Bellaney Gem (17‐2) 2; Dakota Beat (11‐4 fav) 3. 8 ran. (Justin Landy). 4.55—SHANROE AL C (Sean Quinlan, 9‐2) 1; Spider’s Bite (14‐1) 2; Brotherly Company (11‐4 fav) 3. 7 ran. (K Thornton (IRE) ). 5.30—ENKI FLACKE (Mr N McParlan, 9‐4 2nd fav) 1; Lou Marvelous (9‐2) 2; Masrur (6‐4 fav) 3. 6 ran. (Gerald Quinn). Non-runner: Solway Molly. Placepot: £164.60 (Race 1) 6, 2, 7; (2) 1, 9, 10; (3) 2; (4) 3, 4, 8; (5) 3, 6, 5; (6) 6, 5; Quadpot: £7.30 RIPON: Good-good to firm in places 2.05—KNIGHT RIDER (P Mulrennan, 7‐2) 1; Alpine Lady (9‐1) 2; Exminster (2‐1 fav) 3. 6 ran. (K P De Foy). 2.40—TAJ ALRIYADH (C Lee, 11‐10 fav) 1; Dynamic Force (11‐8 2nd fav) 2; To Everest (7‐1) 3. 4 ran. (K Burke). 3.10—MARK’S CHOICE (C Hardie, 20‐1) 1; Ventura Express (10‐1) 2; Danzan (15‐2 2nd fav) 3; I Am A Dreamer (8‐1) 4. 16 ran. (S England; 11-2 fav Ghathanfar). Non-runners: Ehrmann, Fortamour, Giorgio Vasari, John Kirkup. 3.45—JUSTANOTHERBOTTLE (K Stott, 18‐1) 1; Golden Apollo (12‐1) 2; Gale Force Maya (12‐1) 1.35 Babe Alicious 2.10 Safra 2.45 Praxeology 3.20 Better By Far 3.55 Shaykhoon 4.30 Beggarman COOPERS MARQUEES CLASSIFIED STAKES 1.35 £2,700 (Class 6) 4f 214yds (10 declared) 101 (6) 735126 BLUELLA (82) (C&D) Jessica Macey 6 9-7..B Sanderson(3) 59 102 (5) 7-68L4L DAVID’S BEAUTY (13) (D,F) M Mullineaux 8 9-7....... B Curtis 53 103 (8) 7255-57 FOAD (78) M Walford 4 9-7........................................... J Garritty 55 104 (2) 3933L0 NAVAJO DAWN (25) (C&D) R Brisland 4 9-7.........H Burns(5) 56 105 (7) 66657L RED STRIPES (5) (C&D2) L Williamson 9 9-7.............. H Shaw 46 106 (9) 7653-92 ● BABE ALICIOUS (31) R Fahey 3 9-4...............C Murtagh(3) ★62 107 (10) 294723 ELZAAL (13) P Midgley 3 9-4............................. B Robinson 61 108 (4) 56L ROADRUNNER (17) D Brown 3 9-4.........................C Hardie 52 109 (3) 4L-4LL4 SHEILA’S LEGACY (13) A Brown 3 9-4............T Hamilton 54 110 (1) 527052 TRIPLE JAYE (13) T Easterby 3 9-4..........................D Allan 58 BLINKERS: Nos. 2, 3, 5 CHEEK PIECES: Nos. 9, 10. SOFT/HEAVY WINNERS: Nos. 2. Forecast: 3 Babe Alicious, 7-2 Elzaal, 6 Triple Jaye, 7 Bluella, 8 Foad, 10 Roadrunner, 12 Sheila’s Legacy, 14 David’s Beauty, 16 Others. 2020: No corresponding meeting. FILLIES’ NOVICE STAKES (GBB RACE) 2YO 2.10 £3,672 (5) 7f 14yds (9) 201 (1) 51L ● SAFRA (24) (D,F) S & E Crisford 9-7......... P Cosgrave 83 202 (7) 6 BLEUET (13) J Tuite 9-0............................................C Hardie 72 203 (3) L4 ELSAAB (24) S P C Woods 9-0..............................D Keenan 77 204 (8) 2 GREY BELLE (29) I Furtado 9-0........................T Hamilton ★84 205 (9) L76 LADYMAC (45) M Appleby 9-0........................G Buckell(3) 45 206 (6) MILLY MOLLY MANDY W G M Turner 9-0...........W Carson — 207 (4) 7 MYSTIC WELLS (38) G Boughey 9-0..................... B Curtis 74 208 (5) L12L STRIPZEE (16) (D) T Easterby 9-0............................D Allan 77 209 (2) 85 THE GREY LASS (48) M & D Easterby 9-0 Joanna Mason(3) 67 BLINKERS: No. 8 VISOR: No. 1. Forecast: 2 Safra, 11-4 Grey Belle, 5 Elsaab, 7 Stripzee, 8 Mystic Wells, 12 Bleuet, 16 The Grey Lass, 25 Milly Molly Mandy, 100 Ladymac. FIREWALL LTD HANDICAP 2.45 £4,590 (4) 6f 16yds (11) 301 (5) 0L5434 MARLY (16) (D,F) J Ryan 4 10-0................................D Allan 84 302 (9) 239156 ● PRAXEOLOGY (21) (C,D) D Loughnane 4 9-12 P Cosgrave 85 303 (6) 81114L GIOGIOBBO (10) (D2) S Dixon 8 9-10.......K Schofield(5) 84 304 (2) 0121-6L QUEEN OF KALAHARI (14) (C&D) J L Eyre 6 9-6 L Edmunds 87 305 (8) 7211-5L FINE WINE (117) S Dixon 4 9-4............................... K O’Neill 75 306 (10) 436255 CAPLA SPIRIT (110) (C) G Kelleway 4 9-2.........W Carson 84 307 (4) 522206 DARK SHOT (3) (C) S Dixon 8 9-2....................J Fisher(5) 86 308 (11) 447952 EXCESSABLE (23) (C&D) T Easterby 8 9-0..D Fentiman 78 309 (3) 843L74 THRAVE (18) (C&D) M Appleby 6 9-0.................... B Curtis ★89 310 (7) 130256 USTATH (43) (C&D) R Fell 5 8-11...............................R Scott 88 311 (1) 2D5212 VELOCISTAR (3) (C&D) Steph Hollinshead 3 8-8 Megan Nicholls 85 BLINKERS: Nos. 5, 7 VISOR: Nos. 6, 9 TONGUE STRAP: No. 8 CHEEK PIECES: Nos. 1, 3, 4, 8. SOFT/HEAVY WINNERS: Nos. 7, 5, 1, 2, 4, 11. Forecast: 7-2 Excessable, 5 Marly, 6 Velocistar, 7 Dark Shot, 8 Queen Of Kalahari, Praxeology, 10 Ustath, 12 Giogiobbo, Thrave, 14 Others. STUART LEES MEMORIAL HANDICAP 3YO 3.20 £2,700 (6) 6f 16yds (10) 401 (1) 622264 COMETH THE MAN (19) D O’Meara 9-10..............C Hardie 69 402 (4) 2187L5 PROFESSOR GALANT (11) (C&D) G Kelleway 9-10 C Hutchinson(7) 66 403 (8) 743685 MARVE (9) (C&D) L Mullaney 9-9....... Laura Pearson(3) 71 404 (6) 08-3060 SO GRATEFUL (48) M & D Easterby 9-7 Joanna Mason(3) ★73 405 (2) 6-6640 PLASTIC PADDY (46) M Appleby 9-6...........G Buckell(3) 66 406 (9) L45L40 GALEOPHOBIA (13) R Fahey 9-2........................T Hamilton 70 407 (3) 7-30235 ONE FOR THE LADIES (6) M & D Easterby 9-1... B Curtis 69 408 (10) 199709 ● BETTER BY FAR (9) (C&D) S Bowring 9-1.L Edmunds 49 409 (7) 327714 FOSSOS (12) (F) T Easterby 9-1.................................D Allan 70 410 (5) 8L0-0LL ARFINN ROSE (4) S Dixon 8-8....................K Schofield(5) 48 BLINKERS: Nos. 1, 10 VISOR: Nos. 2, 7 TONGUE STRAP: Nos. 8, 9 CHEEK PIECES: No. 9 EYE COVERS: Nos. 1, 10. Forecast: 3 Fossos, 7-2 Cometh The Man, 5 One For The Ladies, 7 Marve, 8 Galeophobia, 10 Plastic Paddy, Professor Galant, 12 Better By Far, 16 Others. N&L FRANKLIN DEVELOPMENTS LTD H’CAP 3YO 3.55 £3,240 (5) 7f 14yds (6) 501 (3) 6572L5 MACMERRY JIM (25) (C&D) (T) I Jardine 9-7..A Mullen 75 502 (4) 546454 ELAKAZAAM (8) (D) K Burke 9-7.................P-L Jamin(5) 80 503 (2) 334-320 DARK ZEAS (37) P Kirby 9-5.........................B Garritty(3) 78 504 (5) 413633 VENTURA VISION (8) (D) M Johnston 9-3......... B Curtis 78 505 (6) 03-5140 ● SHAYKHOON (20) (D) R Fahey 9-3........C Murtagh(3) ★81 506 (1) 8-L0LL8 ILLIES MEMORIES (39) C Hills 8-2....................... K O’Neill 79 CHEEK PIECES: Nos. 1, 2, 6. Forecast: 2 Ventura Vision, 3 Macmerry Jim, 7-2 Elakazaam, 7 Dark Zeas, Shaykhoon, 14 Illies Memories. SIGNSOLUTIONS.ORG HANDICAP 4.30 £3,240 (5) 1m 4f 14yds (9) 601 (6) L264L4 VIADUCT (29) S Dixon 4 10-0............................J Fisher(5) 77 602 (4) 0-13130 SCUDAMORE (39) (C&D) I Furtado 4 9-10.....T Hamilton 74 603 (7) 7/352-65 ● BEGGARMAN (38) H Morrison 4 9-9...............N Currie 60 604 (2) 524626 LORD TORRANAGA (16) (D) P Kirby 6 9-8......B Garritty(3) 76 605 (1) 008176/ NEAR KETTERING (J56) (D) S England 7 9-6...C Hardie — 606 (8) 527L5L TIGRAY (26) (C&D) M Appleby 5 9-6....................A Mullen 71 607 (3) 842504 SOCIOLOGIST (9) (C,D) S Dixon 6 9-5................. K O’Neill ★78 608 (9) 7-10427 ZOOKEEPER (19) M Johnston 3 9-4...................... B Curtis 70 609 (5) 93-1112 KING VIKTOR (79) (C&D) B Ellison 3 9-0...... B Robinson 69 VISOR: No. 6 TONGUE STRAP: Nos. 1, 5, 6 CHEEK PIECES: Nos. 3, 7. SOFT/HEAVY WINNERS: Nos. 5, 7. Forecast: 15-8 King Viktor, 4 Lord Torranaga, 11-2 Sociologist, 8 Scudamore, 10 Zookeeper, 12 Viaduct, Beggarman, 14 Near Kettering, 16 Tigray. 3; Intrinsic Bond (7‐1 ) 4. 20 ran. (K Ryan; 6-1 fav Lampang). 4.20—GARDEN OASIS (D Allan, 9‐2) 1; Copper And Five (9‐4 fav) 2; Safran (8‐1) 3. 6 ran. (T Easterby). Non-runner: Kettle Hill. 4.50—MS GANDHI (E J Walsh, 10‐3 2nd fav) 1; Myristica (evens fav) 2; Life On The Rocks (12‐1) 3. 6 ran. (R Varian). 5.25—GEORGE BANCROFT (K Stott, 5‐1) 1; This Ones For Fred (7‐1) 2; Two Brothers (13‐8 fav) 3. 8 ran. (C Longsdon). Jackpot: £50,445.80, with £35,525.25 carried over Placepot: £398.90 (Race 1) 2, 5; (2) 2; (3) 18, 12, 4, 13; (4) 10, 17, 9, 5; (5) 6, 7; (6) 4, 3; Not won (rollover £132,746.00). @results pot:Scoop Six: Place £681.80. Bonus Not won (£43,298.00 rollover). Quadpot: £19.00\ BATH: Good 5.10—CHIPSTEAD (T Whelan, 11‐4 jt 2nd fav) 1; Glamorous Breeze (5‐2 fav) 2; Enduring (11‐4 jt 2nd fav) 3. 6 ran. (R Teal). Non-runner: Ooh Is It. 5.45—MINNAMOOLKA (T Hammer Hansen, 9‐2) 1; Macon Belle (3‐1 2nd fav) 2; Lil Guff (11‐10 fav) 3. 10 ran. (M Channon). 6.15—PASTFACT (Gina Mangan, 4‐1 fav) 1; Andre Amar (11‐1) 2; Wiff Waff (5‐1 co 2nd fav) 3. 9 ran. (M Saunders). 6.45—STEEL AN ICON (G Bass, 11‐2) 1; Super Superjack (2‐1 fav) 2; Flying Dragon (14‐1) 3. 10 ran. (M Channon). Non-runners: Be Easy, Givepeaceachance, Novis Adventus. 7.15—OVERWRITE (N Currie, 5‐1) 1; Commonsensical (7‐2 2nd fav) 2; Mykonos St John (10‐3 fav) 3. 7 ran. (M Johnston). Nonrunner: Subtle Beauty. 7.45—MY BOY CHARLES (T Heard, 7‐4 fav) 1; Point Louise (7‐2 2nd fav) 2; Way Of Life (14‐1) 3. 8 ran. (A Wintle). Non-runner: Amal. 8.15—AIRSHOW (R Coakley, 7‐2) 1; Sarah’s Verse (3‐1 2nd fav) 2; Doc Sportello (11‐1) 3. 8 ran. (B Millman; 11-4 fav Gilt Edge). Placepot: £20.30 (Race 1) 2, 5; (2) 9, 8, 7; (3) 8, 4, 7; (4) 1, 12, 5; (5) 1, 5; (6) 4, 1, 6; Quadpot: £11.90 MARKET RASEN: Good 5.00—COOLE WELL (L Harrison, 8‐15 fav) 1; Larch Hill (11‐2) 2; Clearance (10‐3 2nd fav) 3. 5 ran. (F O’Brien). Non-runners: Falberto, Jack Lamb. 5.35—FONTANA ELLISSI (J Nailor, 1‐2 fav) 1; Keeper Chris (8‐1) 2; Fitzroy (11‐4 2nd fav) 3. 4 ran. (N Twiston-Davies). Non-runner: Tuff Mccool. 6.05—CAPTAIN COBAJAY (J Hamilton, 9‐4 fav) 1; Fort De L’Ocean (10‐3 2nd fav) 2; Costly Diamond (13‐2) 3. 7 ran. (Justin Landy). 6.35—WRITTENINTHESAND (J J Burke, 5‐1 2nd fav) 1; More Buck’s (17‐2) 2; Trumps Benefit (13‐2) 3. 15 ran. (T R George; 9-2 fav No Cruise Yet). Non-runner: Miami Present. 7.05—BROTHER PAT (T Gillard, 16‐1) 1; Train Hill (10‐3 fav) 2; Rebel Leader (4‐1 2nd fav) 3. 13 ran. (D McCain). 7.35—WHITE WALKER (C Hammond, 16‐5 2nd fav) 1; Your Band (11‐2) 2; One Handsome Dude (40‐1) 3. 7 ran. (G Hanmer; 5-2 fav Hunting Percival). Non-runner: Wynford. 8.05—NEAR KETTERING (J England, 4‐1 fav) 1; Grand Enterprise (11‐2) 2; Phoenix Dawn (15‐2) 3. The Raven’s Return (9‐1) 3. 11 ran. , (S England). Non-runners: Diamond Joel, White Turf. Placepot: £54.40 (Race 1) 3, 7; (2) 2; (3) 6, 2; (4) 8, 4, 3; (5) 6, 9, 8; (6) 8, 3; Quadpot: £16.90 Sunday Express August 15, 2021 11 RACING 11 harry’s hoping to shakem up FOOTBALL legend Harry Redknapp was on the winners’ podium at Newbury yesterday presenting the trophy for the Hungerford Stakes, but hopes it will be him receiving the prize when Shakem Up ’Arry carries his colours. “I absolutely hope I will be in the winners’ enclosure with Shakem Up ’Arry,” said Redknapp (right). “He’s with Ben Pauling and goes chasing this season. “His form over hurdles was very good. He kept running against stars like Shishkin (winner of his last eight races) and coming second. I’m pinning my hopes on him as he’s always looked like a chaser. EXCLUSIVE by Chris Goulding I’ve also got a nice horse with Simon Dow, Wake Up Harry. He’ll be running soon, hopefully winning in a couple of weeks.” Redknapp, a self-confessed racing enthusiast, has 14 horses in training. “Far too many,” he added. “I really love coming to Newbury. “The last time I was here was as an owner with my wife Sandra, masked up and no crowds. It’s nice to have the crowds back.” Sacred, the winner of the BetVictor Hungerford Stakes in the hands of Tom Marquand, was part of a Group-race treble for trainer William Haggas. REDHOTBOOKIEBASHER SUPERBWINNERSMONTHAFTERMONTH FROMMYWELCONECTEDCONTACTS BIGWINNINGDAY>LINEDUPTODAY Cal09061749389 Lineupdatesat 10amand4pmdaily Linesupdatedat10am&4pmdaily.Calswilcost£1.50perminuteplusyourtelephonecompany’snetworkaccess charge.SP:Spoke.Helpdesk03332023390.BookieBashermaycontactyoubySMSwithofers-Tooptinto receivingadviceandinformationtextBBYESsendto84902(networkchargeonlyapplies)

SE1ST 12 Sunday Express August 15, 2021 COMMENT 12 Neil Squires Email Neil at neil.squires@reachplc.com Kane drama simply highlights madness of transfer deadline A system GOOD WEEK that allows for Harry Kane to play against the English champions on week one of the Premier League season yet line up for them the following weekend is odd when you think about it. Should the most-touted ‘will he, won’t he’ transfer saga of the summer finally reach a conclusion after Tottenham take on Manchester City today, that anomaly could well become a reality. The off-season is when deals should be done and squads assembled and finalised. A transfer window that remains open after the gun goes for the title race to start – or in Spurs’ case the scrap for fifth – is too draughty to be desirable. A Grandmaster would not start a chess match with a bishop missing and an extra couple of pawns still on the board. He would have his pieces in place and his strategy clear. In the same way a club’s playing resources should be set at the start of the season. There is always the winter window to re-evaluate and restock once the picture of the season becomes sharper. It is increasingly rare for recruitment to be left solely in the hands of managers at Premier League clubs but that does not shield them from the impact the uncertainty around it brings. For that to drag on once the actual football has started is a waste of energy and mental bandwidth. Both Pep Guardiola and Nuno Espirito Santo have enough ongoing uncertainties on their plates without the outcome of the Kane-athon going into extra-time, yet that is what the current transfer window encourages. Running down the clock in the hope of extracting the best price from a potential suitor is an AGREEMENT: Daniel Levy WAIT: Nuno Espirito Santo obvious negotiating tactic. If the clock is set to run beyond the start of the season, then the temptation is for that time to be used. No one wants English clubs to be placed at a disadvantage to European counterparts in the marketplace by moving the current window unilaterally and allowing their rivals a free space to buy later. But if it is possible to put in place a pan-European closure date of August 31 across the big five leagues now, then it cannot be beyond the wit of man to come up with a mutually acceptable date that falls before a ball is kicked. France’s Ligue 1 was the first of the leagues to begin last weekend. If August 6 had been deadline day, that would still have given English clubs a full eight weeks to do their wheeler-dealing. Enough time, surely? As it is, the situation could grind on for another fortnight. That does Kane, Tottenham and Manchester City no favours. The England captain told Spurs he wanted to leave three months ago. This should have been all done and dusted one way or another by now. For what it is worth, this observer’s view is that it is time for Spurs to let Kane follow his ambition after all his wonderful service. That is not an easy sentence to write. The emotional pull of the one-club career footballer – give or take a loan or two – is strong. Football is a game of powerful loyalties after all. The stacking up of talent – too much of it unused – at a tiny number of pandemicproof clubs is depressing in CAREER GOAL: Spurs should not stand in Kane’s way if his heart is set on a move its way, too. But a fair-minded employer should not be forcing an employee to stay against his will and if Kane’s mind is made up he should be allowed to depart, particularly if it will net Spurs an eight-figure sum. Better for chairman Daniel Levy to honour the gentleman’s agreement he struck with Kane, allow him to leave now and take the money. For a club which lost £63.9million in 2019-20 and which carries the largest debt of any side in Europe – mainly as a result of the new stadium – it will be useful. In the real world, if someone wanted to leave their job and pursue an opportunity with a different firm, they would serve whatever notice period was written into their contract and move on. Football dances to a different tune but the same basics of human behaviour apply. If he stays, Spurs may find they do not have quite the same Kane as before. If individuals are totally invested in their work and inspired by their workplace, they will operate at their optimum. If they are not, they won’t. That is not to say Kane will down tools at Spurs – he is too honourable a person and too professional a player to indulge in those sort of games. But if he is still at Spurs in four months’ time, when the winter transfer window opens once more, then all this will resurface again. JOHN SIMPSON The Lancastrian left-hander flayed the Manchester Originals attack to set up The Hundred’s first 200 total at Headingley. Simpson’s 71 off 28 balls set the Northern Superchargers up for a crushing 69-run win in what was the latest enactment of cricket’s Roses rivalry. An electrified Headingley, not quite on message with the tournament’s franchise system, responded with chants of: “Yorkshire, Yorkshire.” Simpson (below), who made his England ODI debut against Pakistan last month, took a particular liking to Steven Finn with his final five-ball set going for 29 runs. The Hundred is not a bowlers’ game. CJ UJAH BAD WEEK A doping offence at an Olympic Games is shameful enough but one that threatens to strip three teammates of a medal as well as yourself is even worse. The ripple effect from CJ Ujah’s positive test puts his British 4x100m relay teammates in danger of losing their silver from Tokyo. If the B sample matches up and Ujah (below) is suspended, he will never be able to look Zharnel Hughes, Richard Kilty and Nethaneel Mitchell- Blake in the eye again. And to think Mitchell-Blake felt he let his teammates down in losing out to the Italians by 0.01secs on the last leg.

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Contents 15 August 2021 8 Fashion 4 Get this! Don’t miss this week’s must-haves 8 Make a splash Chic and sporty swimwear to help you keep your cool Lifestyle 30 Food Of all the gin joints… create decadent desserts at home with your top tipple 35 Wine Jamie Goode toasts the finest Greek wines 36 Interiors Into the blue with Santorini-style decor 38 Victoria’s best Victoria Gray gets a buzz out of bee-inspired homeware 40 Gardens Choose plants that stimulate all the senses People 14 Katie Derham On presenting the Proms and how music has helped her through challenging times Regulars 7 First look Get the hottest tickets in town 18-23 Beauty How to get strong hair, plus the latest beauty essentials 24 Health Get fit with these calorie-zapping Olympic sports 29 Agony aunt By Jane O’Gorman and Dr Rosemary Leonard 42 Books Charlotte Heathcote selects two funny novels plus the latest murder mysteries The things they say... “Well done is better than well said” Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) 45 Travel Enjoy beautiful Lake Como in Italy 46 Fiction Short story by Eimear Ryan 50-65 Switch on Your guide to this week’s TV and radio 67 Mindy Hammond On why we all need a room of our own sometimes 69 Stars Astrologer Russell Grant predicts your week 70 The £1,000 crossword Pit your wits against our prize puzzle PHOTO: getty 45 26 Dame Katherine Grainger On Team GB’s Olympics success and the organisation that made it possible 48 My favourite photo Comedy actress and writer Helen Lederer shares a precious snap Editor-in-chief Caroline Waterston (maternity) Acting editor-in-chief Karen Cross Acting deputy editors-in-chief Rowan Erlam, Lizzie Smith Acting celebrity & entertainment director Lisa Jarvis Acting deputy celebrity & entertainment director Jenny Kyte Celebrity editor Sarah Morton TV editor Jenny Rodger Entertainment editor Clare Fisher Features & lifestyle director Emma Jones Deputy features & lifestyle director Michelle Garnett Lifestyle editor Victoria Gray Health & real life editor Susanna Galton Fashion & beauty director Michelle Darlow Fashion editors Lauren Goodwin-Grafton, Harriet Wheeler Beauty director Lynne Hyland Beauty editor Laura Mulley Creative director Polly Brown Art editor Lauren Richards-Ozzati Deputy art editors Chloe Reeves, Louise Robinson Acting deputy art editor Alexandra Hurst Picture editors Sal Jackson, Abby Wells, Sarah White Senior picture researchers Jeanne Terblanche, Lina Darton Production director Jennie Wignall Chief sub editor Becky Ward Deputy chief sub editors Melanie Hancill, Sam Kistamah Group image quality manager Simon Spann Senior studio manager Lee Edwards S Magazine, One Canada Square, Canary Wharf, London E14 5AP Follow us on Twitter @DailyExpress and on facebook.com/DailyExpress/ or email smagazine@reachplc.com 30 To see more photos from the archives for your area, visit Memory Lane memorylane.co.uk

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Honeytrap The Beejou Botanical gift set Hayford & Rhodes £65 Wild West The Cowboy cactus Bloom & Wild £50 Best of three Scarf bag Kind Bag £39 This bag can be turned into a neck scarf or silky top Stripes star Swimsuit Pistol Panties £58 Bloom & Wild is now selling house plants first base Probiotic Foundation Esse £57 sticking point Vinofresh Natural Stick Deodorant Caudalie £13 bag of tricks Amalfi tote Stone & Mason £342 Every Amalfi contains a Beach Bum Kit as well as an Amalfi clutch good taste Peanut D&Ds Doisy & Dam £2 hippy days Dress Zimmermann £725 good spirits FreeGlider alcohol-free spirit Sipsmith £22.50 bright eyes Lash Paradise Moonlight Mascara in brown L’Oréal Paris £11.99 in the pink Australian Pink Clay Deep Pore Cleanser Sand & Sky £27.50 S MAGAZINE ★ 15 AUGUST 2021 5 Compiled by: lauren goodwin-grafton Contributor: Laura Mulley

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Reviews BOOK For Your Own Good Samantha Downing Fans of Gone Girl and Big Little Lies will love this new fast-paced thriller from the author of My Lovely Wife. Teddy Crutcher has just won the Teacher Of The Year award at the prestigious school where he works. He says his wife couldn’t be more proud of him, but no one has actually seen her for a while. With meddling parents and interfering colleagues, Teddy finds himself in the midst of a storm – with not everyone agreeing he has his students’ best interests at heart. Out on 19 August (Penguin Michael Joseph, £12.99) FILM MINAMATA (cert 15) Johnny Depp, Bill Nighy and Katherine Jenkins star in this poignant movie that follows war photographer W Eugene Smith (Depp) as he travels to STREAM Phil Wang: Philly Philly Wang Wang The panel show regular explores race, politics and his British-Malaysian heritage in this stand-up special filmed live at the London Palladium. What better way to get a taste of the West End from the comfort of your own home? Out now on netflix Japan to document the devastating effect of mercury poisoning on coastal communities. A moving look at a true story, this is a must-watch. Out now EVENT Disney On Ice Presents: Find Your Hero The magic of Disney is skating back to the UK from October with a tour stopping off at Birmingham, Newcastle, Nottingham, Sheffield, Manchester and London. Featuring a medley of classic Disney tales including Moana, Tangled and Frozen, and with a cast of more than 50 characters, it promises to be a spectacular family show. From 28 October. book tickets at disneyonice.co.uk COMEDY Suzi Ruffell: Dance Like Everyone’s Watching From 7 September After rescheduling due to Covid, comedian Suzi is finally heading out on her much-anticipated UK tour and there’s still a chance to grab tickets. With dates at locations including Colchester, Lyme Regis and Brighton, there are plenty of opportunities to see the Edinburgh Fringe Festival favourite live as she observes the weirdness of modern life. Go to suziruffell.com for tour details reviews: Anna Matheson photos: matt frost S MAGAZINE ★ 15 AUGUST 2021 7

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FASHION Bikini top £15 Bottoms £10 both Marks & Spencer Sunglasses Pretty Little Thing £8 Styling: Megan Rees PhotoS: Euan Danks hair and make-up: Katrin Rees using Bumble & Bumble and Hourglass Model: Tinna Bergsdóttir at Profile Photographed at Charlton Lido and Lifestyle Club, London (better.org. uk/charltonlido). This refurbished art deco gem boasts a year-round heated 50m pool and is one of the country’s best loved lidos. Rescued and treasured by the local community, it is home to a state-ofthe-art gym, indoor and outdoor fitness classes, an outdoor spin studio, expansive sun terraces and a café. Sessions are prebookable on the Better UK app. S MAGAZINE ★ 15 AUGUST 2021 13

‘My husband proposed the night we met’ Katie Derham on romance, the joy of presenting the Proms and how music has helped her through the challenges of the pandemic Katie Derham always looks forward to presenting the Proms, but this year she’s embracing the experience like never before. The lifting of lockdown restrictions means there is a living, breathing audience in London’s Royal Albert Hall – the perfect excuse to dress up after so long in lockdown leisurewear. Here Katie, 51, who lives in Sussex with husband John Vincent (co-founder of the Leon restaurant chain) and their 16-year-old daughter Eleanor, tells us about this year’s musical programme and how it feels to be back in heels. How good is it to be back at the Proms? I always enjoy it, but this year is special because we didn’t have an audience last year. What we managed was amazing under the circumstances, but it is really lovely to get back and hear the sound of the orchestra warming up, applause in the hall and the hubbub of people as they file in from the bar. It is actually a real treat to have to pitch my voice above people cheering. You can tell the musicians are loving it too as they absolutely feed off the atmosphere that a live audience creates in The Royal Albert Hall. On the first night there was a Sibelius big moving epic symphony and everybody had goosebumps when it finished. The conductor Dalia Stasevksa looked as if she’d just had a baby or run a marathon as she was so overcome by it all. It was fabulous. Were you nervous about being around so many people again? No, not at all, because the safety protocols there are extremely stringent. There is still social distancing behind the scenes and the wearing of masks is encouraged in the hall. Everybody in the team is thrilled to be back. What are the highlights of this year’s proms? Some have been and gone, but they are available on iPlayer – I loved The Golden Age Of Broadway. I was up there with Bonnie Langford in the gallery singing along to There’s No Business Like Showbusiness and South Pacific songs. I think what ‘I sang along to There’s No Business Like Showbusiness with Bonnie Langford’ will be striking for people will be to see big orchestras together. We’ve got Sir Simon Rattle and the London Symphony Orchestra on 22 August, there’s also a big Mozart Requiem with the Youth Chamber Choir and a great jazz saxophonist called Nubya Garcia on 20 August. It’s a wonderful variety of great names and high-quality performances. How did it feel to be getting glammed up for the occasion? I have to say, walking in heels for the first time in ages was a bit of a challenge. I felt as if I was on stilts and needed to be wheeled into position. For the last 18 months, like everyone else, I have been in jeans and trackies and on a rota of three tops. It’s so nice to get back into work mode and dress up a bit, even though my natural habitat is not to be wearing full make-up and heels. I spent my late 20s and early 30s having to be smart all the time and now I spend a lot of time being grateful for the fact that I don’t have to be. 14 S MAGAZINE ★ 15 AUGUST 2021

INTERVIEW How was your hair during lockdown? It got very long and was tended to with packets of dye. I learned the art of colouring my own hair and thought it was the way forward until I went back to the hairdresser I’ve used for many years and had it done properly. It made me realise that hairdressers really do know what they are doing. How was lockdown for you in general? My husband runs the restaurant chain Leon and I do a lot of live presenting, so at the start of it all, we looked at one another and realised that we didn’t exactly have pandemic-proof careers. Leon had to pivot, as people weren’t going to restaurants any more, so John was really busy. He also launched the charity Feed NHS and was working alongside celebrity and restaurant colleagues to get hot meals to frontline NHS workers who didn’t have the time to find food or get out of their PPE. I was very proud of what we all did with that. I carried on with my radio work, although I don’t have good broadband at home, so I ended up doing it from a friend’s garden shed. Katie with her husband John Vincent What did you do to relax? I got massively into my garden. It has never looked so well tended – I had immaculate rows of carrots. My eldest 15

Words: Sally Brockway Photos: Getty, Jude Edginton/BBC, PA Photos daughter Natasha was in New York studying drama and she couldn’t come back. I missed her a lot, but I made a point of doing things with my youngest – I tinkled on the piano while she learned to play the guitar and we did some music theory together. We also started Grey’s Anatomy at the start of lockdown and worked our way through it. In the first lockdown, when the weather was lovely, I was in the garden a lot and going out for runs, but during the winter months, I started baking a lot, which wasn’t so good for my figure. What music did you listen to? John and I dug out our old vinyls from the loft. My youngest is now a New Order convert and likes a bit of early Madonna. Is it true that John proposed to you on the night you met? Yes, but I didn’t take it seriously for a minute and we didn’t get engaged for another four years. We’ve known each other for ages. I met him just after I’d left university. I went back to Cambridge and tried to gatecrash a party that John had organised. He worked out that I had crashed it and was going to throw me out, but we got chatting and it was fine, he let me stay. How does it feel to be commuting again? My journey into London is not a bad commute and I do love going back into town for work. I love BBC Broadcasting House and I do like my colleagues a lot. I missed doing face-to-face interviews. Do you have any ambitions? No, I am a believer in taking opportunities when they present themselves. The most fun things I have done in life, were the scary things like learning how to dance ‘The most fun things I’ve done in life were also the scariest’ and conduct. I never planned to be a newsreader or to present the Proms, these things just came along and I grabbed them. I have no desire to change direction, so you won’t find me suddenly learning to rock climb or becoming a vicar or anything. Do you still dance after taking part in Strictly in 2015? Yes, like an angel in my kitchen! I haven’t had much opportunity to do any real dancing or take lessons. When I see Anton Du Beke, we do relive our glory moments. We’ve been in touch ever since I took part in Strictly and I was so pleased to hear that he’s going to be one of the judges this year. Katie Derham is one of the TV presenters for the BBC Proms 2021, which run at London’s Royal Albert Hall and Cadogan Hall until 11 September, and are broadcast on BBC TV, BBC Radio 3, BBC iPlayer and BBC Sounds Dancing with Anton Du Beke on Strictly in 2015 Sir Simon Rattle will conduct the London Symphony Orchestra next Sunday 16 S MAGAZINE ★ 15 AUGUST 2021

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Lynne Hyland Head strong Weak, damaged hair? Beauty director Lynne Hyland reveals how to make your tresses healthier and fuller Your hair might be long, short, curly or straight but there’s one thing that’s on every type’s wish list – strength. When your hair is snapping off at the mid lengths, frayed on the ends, frizzed from overprocessing and dull from the roots down, it becomes an uphill battle to get it looking good. Soon, you’re in the trap of needing more heat, which leaves your hair weaker. So what can you do to get your locks back on track? Here’s what the experts say… Find your happy length Assess your hair health and whether your current length is doing much for you, advises celebrity hairstylist Syd Hayes, ambassador for BaByliss. “If your hair is damaged and you struggle to shape it, it could be time for a cut, whether that’s a dramatic chop or adding layers that work better with heat-styling tools.” A common mistake is to cling to length for the sake of it, particularly if your hair is fine and you feel you need those extra inches in lieu of volume. “By taking off the dead ends, fine hair tends to look thicker and healthier,” says trichologist Mark Blake (markblake.co.uk). Condition from the inside Once you’ve ditched the dead wood, it’s time to feed healthy new growth from within. “It takes a lot of energy to grow hair, and the quality all comes down to your diet,” says Mark. “You need to eat protein to make protein. Also have plenty of green leafy vegetables and get enough vitamin C for good iron absorption.” 18 S MAGAZINE ★ 15 AUGUST 2021

Advertisement feAture A place where everyone feels welcome Full OF BeAnS Staff and volunteers at Route 23 Funds raised through The Health Lottery are helping to connect local people – with coffee, cake and chatter... A pop-up café that is a lifeline to local people in Canterbury has had a boost after being awarded funds raised through the Health Lottery. route 23, based in spring Lane neighbourhood Centre, is run by the charity time Out, and it’s become a place where people can drop in for coffee and cake or bring their children and grandchildren to a Park and Play session. everyone gets a warm welcome from the friendly staff and volunteers – and while the chocolate brownies are the best in town, the chat is even better. “time Out creates places where people can meet and form communities – especially on estates, where people could feel quite isolated,” says project manager ellie Overton. “the idea for a café started six years ago – because the local group was thriving and we thought: ‘Wouldn’t it be amazing if this wasn’t just for an hour, and we could pay local people to run it?’ People’s Health trust supported us right from the beginning with a grant, using money raised through the Health Lottery.” money raised through the Health Lottery supports 3,200 projects throughout Britain, and each time you buy a ticket you’re helping to raise funds for good causes just like route 23. A whopping £120million has been raised so far – and £157million won by ticketholders. route 23 offers company for anyone feeling isolated, from young mums to pensioners. in lockdown, volunteers put on Zoom-based events such as an online Christmas party. now they’re back in business and launching new initiatives such as a baby group. “it’s been lovely to be back together,” says ellie. “some of the volunteers and staff walked in and said: ‘i feel like i’m back at home.’ We wouldn’t exist without this funding. All the staff salaries are funded by this and it means a lot.” she adds: “it’s so nice we can be a place where everyone comes and feels welcome.” Caring for our Communities Included: lyn feels part of the Route 23 ‘family’ HeAltH lOtteRy ticketS Only cOSt £1, And yOu cAn plAy Online, in-StORe OR On yOuR mOBile For many, the café feels like home ‘A lovely atmosphere’ “Route 23 is a lovely place to go for a coffee and a piece of cake,” says customer Lyn Littlefield. “When I was looking after my little grandsons, I used to take them along on a Tuesday morning. My husband’s a big fan of their fry-up! While we had a nice breakfast, the boys could play and it was an altogether enjoyable way of spending a couple of hours. “As a grandma, I felt other groups in the area were for young mums, quite rightly, but I fitted in at Route 23. It’s a mixture of generations and backgrounds: you have your mums with babies, and retired people like me. “They see you as part of the family and it’s a really lovely atmosphere.” How you could win big – and help others! Want to raise money to help your local community and be in with a chance to win a big jackpot? Why not play The Health Lottery? There are five chances to win £25,000 in the Tuesday to Saturday draws, with an additional free £100,000 jackpot every Wednesday and Saturday. Every week there are 30,000 winners with over £1.3million in jackpots to be won each month. Plus, each time you play you’re helping to raise money to support projects at the heart of communities. Caring for our Communities T&Cs apply. 18+. BeGambleAware. Excludes NI. THL manages 12 regional lotteries in rotation across GB.

BEAUTY Supplements can be helpful, he says, but ignore anything claiming quick “miraculous” growth – any change from diet takes time. “It takes a month to make hair, a month for it to travel towards the surface, and then a month to actually begin poking out,” he says. Get a washday workout Your scalp needs a firm hand to encourage stronger hair. “Lots of people wash their hair too gently, and when I look under a microscope, the follicles are crusted over with dead skin,” says Mark. “If the ‘soil’ is clogged up like this, you can’t expect hair to grow well. Don’t be afraid to really get in there with your fingertips to help invigorate growth.” There’s no need to fork out for pricey sulphate-free shampoos either. “Sulphates have a bad reputation, but good high-street shampoos don’t have them at a level where they are going to impact on hair health,” he adds. “Also look out for shampoos with humectants, as these pull moisture from the air into your hair, so it’s less likely to break.” Prepare to mask up Hair might be dead but that doesn’t mean you can’t make a physical difference to it. “Think of it as fabric – how you wash and condition it is key,” Mark says. “The inner structure of hair has lots of gaps, like a sponge, which conditioners can fill to leave it stronger and “What people really need is a better application technique” more nourished. It’s vital to towel dry your hair first so those gaps get filled with product, rather than water. “People think they need a better conditioner because they don’t see results, but what they actually need is a different application technique.” He also recommends applying oil to freshly washed hair to add a snap-resistant suppleness. Build your bonds One of the most exciting innovations is technology that physically repairs or replaces the cross-linked bonds within hair. “We all want to build up inner strength in our hair,” says celebrity hair stylist Mark Hill, whose brand has just launched a bonding range. “What I love about this technology is the way it penetrates deeply and repairs bonds – like reforming a broken ladder. The effect on how hair feels afterwards is extraordinary.” While bond repair treatments are already a popular salon service, the 2021 updates promise to combine internal bolstering with effects you can see on the outside. Sebastian Professional has just launched a backwash treatment that combines its new No.Breaker bond repair spray with a mask to leave hair more manageable for up to a month. “It means you can get your hair looking in great condition with much less heat,” says Sebastian Professional’s creative director Angelo Vallillo. STRONG CONTENDERS Lynne shares her pick of the latest hair-bolstering tech. The Hair Lab by Mark Hill Bond Repair Bond Building Treatment, £19 My hair looked really glossy and felt stronger after this protein-packed strengthener, which I used after the matching shampoo and conditioner. Sebastian Professional No.Breaker Bond Repair, £32.60 This leave-in spray generates new bonds within hair fibres to reduce breakage by up to 99%. My hair definitely played nice after using it, looking both healthier and fuller. It’s A 10 Miracle Leave-In Plus Keratin, £18 Already a bestseller in the US, this hero from the just-launched Plus Keratin range left my hair shiny with an impressively thicker, weightier swish. John Frieda Frizz Ease Miraculous Recovery Tropical Oil, £8.99 I like to apply this damage-defying oil from mid lengths down before blow-drying to leave my hair shinier and smoother. Percy & Reed Give Me Strength Scalp Concentrate, £25 I pair this healthy growth stimulator with its matching fortifying shampoo and conditioner to reduce snapping. photos: getty S MAGAZINE ★ 15 AUGUST 2021 21

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Beauty counter Edited by Lynne Hyland Ringing the changes The impact of hormones on skin is well known, but they can also make hair harder to handle, particularly in the run-up to the menopause and beyond. Having listened to hundreds of women’s grumbles on the matter, Pantene has created Hair Biology Menopause Revitalise & Soothe, a range especially for hair that’s looking dry or thin during the change. Alongside the shampoo and conditioner, £5.99 each, there’s a Revitalise & Strengthen Mask, £6.99, to protect against styling damage, plus a Hair Thickening & Scalp Soothing Treatment, £19.99, which plumps hair while calming an irritated scalp. Nature’s finest Chloé is going back to basics with its new Eau De Parfum Naturelle, £85, a 100% natural origin fragrance with no gilding of the lily. Or rather, the rose. Chloé’s signature bloom comes from organically farmed roses, blended with notes of neroli, citron and blackcurrant buds. The result is effortlessly pure and pretty. Saving face I’m a huge fan of Skin+Me, a “dermatology to your doorstep” service that offers bespoke, prescription-strength treatments for £19.99 a month. It’s just added rosacea to the long list of skin concerns its experts can tackle via a cream that’s personalised for you, right down to your name on the micro-dosing dispenser. You start off with an online consultation and also upload three make-up-free photos to help pinpoint the best ingredients for your skin. All you have to pay for your first month’s blend is a £3.50 pharmacy fee. S MAGAZINE ★ 15 AUGUST 2021 23

In for the win Be inspired to get fit by our Olympic heroes Watching Team GB compete in Japan was the boost we all needed this summer. But don’t let the closing ceremony be the end of it. Use the Tokyo tournament’s sports to inspire your own fitness at any age. Here’s our top 10 to try… Taekwondo Calories burned: 800 an hour = a fried breakfast Body benefits: Not only does it make you look fierce, you’ll feel more confident on the streets at night knowing you can handle yourself better. Follow in the footsteps of medal-winning Brits to increase your flexibility and strength along with improved mental wellbeing. A US study found that martial arts boost brain function too. Get involved: Go for a taster session at a local club, see britishtaekwondo. org.uk. Beach volleyball Calories burned: 600 an hour = two slices of pizza Body benefits: Ideal for building your upper body strength and core, it’s also brilliant for toning legs with all that resistance from the sand. This means it burns more calories than indoor volleyball. Get involved: It’s the perfect holiday workout – as long as the weather is on your side. Simply grab a net, ball and some pals then head to your local beach. Grass will do if you’re staying inland. Surfing Calories burned: 500 an hour = a burger Body benefits: Channel your inner Keanu Reeves in Point Break. All the buffeting and balancing on the waves makes surfing a brilliant cardio and muscle-boosting workout, and surfers typically swim two miles a session. A US Navy study also found surfing can ease symptoms of depression. Get involved: Head to a surf school for tuition at one of the UK’s top locations, like Fistral Beach in Newquay, Cornwall. For lessons with accredited providers visit surfingengland.org. 24 S MAGAZINE ★ 15 AUGUST 2021

health Gymnastics Calories burned: 350 an hour = two packets of sweets Body benefits: You don’t need to be super bendy – or even own a leotard – to try gymnastics and get a full body workout that’s great for flexibility, core strength and balance. A University of Athens study found that because it’s a weight-bearing activity, gymnastics can help strengthen bones and joints, helping ward off conditions like osteoporosis. Get involved: There are more than 1,600 clubs across the UK. Use the club finder and find advice on which form is for you at british-gymnastics.org. Table Tennis Calories burned: 300 an hour = A bacon roll Body benefits: You may not build up much of a sweat playing ping-pong, but it’s brilliant for hand-eye co-ordination and alertness, and it’s easy on your joints. Table tennis also works your arms, core and shoulders, building upper body strength. A Japanese study has linked it to reducing cognitive decline. Get involved: For more information visit tabletennisengland.co.uk. Climbing Calories burned: 650 an hour = a large portion of chips Body benefits: New to the Olympics, climbing is great for upper body strength and improving stamina and concentration. University of Florida researchers say it can boost memory skills, too. Get involved: Find your nearest climbing wall at thebmc.co.uk. Track cycling Calories burned: 750 an hour = two sausage rolls Body benefits: Take your pedalling to another level by trying it out at a velodrome to increase endurance and give your heart a boost while lowering blood pressure. It’s brilliant for building lower body strength too. Get involved: There are six indoor velodromes across the UK offering taster sessions, including the National Cycling Centre in Manchester. See nationalcycling centre.com and britishcycling.org.uk. Canoeing & kayaking Calories burned: 400 an hour = one croissant Body benefits: A low-impact sport good for working the core and arms. Manchester Metropolitan University research proved it can boost heart health, while other research has linked the activity to increasing confidence and reducing body fat. Sold! Get involved: Get advice at gopaddling.info or head to a venue like The National Water Sports Centre for a taster session. See nwscnotts.com. Badminton Calories burned: 450 an hour = five chocolate biscuits Body benefits: Swedish researchers found that the movement involved is great for strengthening bones. And a Japanese study showed that the quick decision-making required is better for your brain than using a treadmill. Get involved: See badmintonengland.co.uk. Triathlon Calories burned: 600 an hour = three chocolate bars Body benefits: Athletes can burn a huge 2,500 calories competing in the Olympic triathlon, which combines running, swimming and cycling. We’d suggest starting small at one of the many mini versions nationwide. These brilliant cardio events work muscles across your whole body. A study by Tel Aviv University in Israel found that triathlon lovers suffer less pain than casual exercisers. Get involved: Check out the Go Tri beginner events at gotri.org or see britishtriathlon.org. WORDS: JAMES MOORE PHOTOS: GETTY S MAGAZINE ★ 15 AUGUST 2021 25

‘Athletes survived on bank overdrafts’ Former Olympic rower Dame Katherine Grainger on life before British sport received funding, and taking her hat off to the members of Team GB and ParalympicsGB Words: clare fisher PHOTOs: Getty While the recent Tokyo Olympics may have been different from any other modern Games, Dame Katherine Grainger believes they were a beacon of hope and an international sporting triumph. The Olympic gold-winning rower and chair of UK Sport, says, “These Games were extraordinary, a celebration of sport and a gathering of the best Olympic and Paralympic athletes in the world. “We know the shadow of the virus hangs over us still, and our primary focus was to ensure that every athlete got safely to their start line with the opportunity to compete for their country. And when they did, they were a beacon of hope to lift and reconnect us all after a difficult year.” Dame Katherine’s period of representing her country – during which she won five Olympic medals including gold in the women’s double sculls at the 2012 London Games – neatly overlaps with the transformation of British sport by funding from The National Lottery. In 1997, when she was part of the pair that won the World Under 23 Championships, the day elite sportsmen and women might be given the financial freedom to focus exclusively on their discipline seemed remote. At the time, most British athletes survived by “working, taking out bank loans, running up overdrafts or a combination of all three”, explains Katherine. “Athletes were genuinely talking about how to find petrol money. They’d be rowing first thing in the morning then eating breakfast while driving to work.” At the 1996 Atlanta Games, when the British team was placed 36th in the medals table and won a single gold, the nation was spending about £5 million a year on Olympic sport. Four years later, thanks largely to donations from The National Lottery, that sum had rocketed to £69 million. “I came into sport during an incredible period,” says Katherine, 45. “It’s easy to feel National Lottery funding has always been there, but I was aware of what life was like before it.” Olympic and Paralympic winners gathered to celebrate The National Lottery’s 25th birthday in 2019 Previously, the only true sports professionals were footballers and boxers, with strong commercial backing. She explains, “No one could leave university and plan to be an athlete. That just wasn’t done. It was never heard of. Now I go to schools to speak to the students and they tell me they want to be Olympians or Paralympians and that’s an amazing change. Thanks to The National Lottery, that’s a transformation that has occurred.” Dame Katherine herself was also fortunate. As the only sport in which GB had won a gold in every Olympics since 1984, rowing was pretty much funded from the start. She says, “All of a sudden there was an opportunity for coaches to be employed, and there was less reliance on holding down a job while you competed. The level of training Becoming a Dame in 2017 grew and became more professional and the ambition [of the athletes] grew with it.” Funding also led to better scientific and medical support, including for mental health and wellbeing, issues probably more important in Tokyo than during any other Olympics. The question at the time was whether the funding from The National Lottery (which started in 1997) could change British sport in time for the Sydney Games of 2000. The answer was an emphatic yes as the squad, known as Team GB since 1999, went from 36th to 10th in the medal table. And that was only the start. At the London Olympic Games in 2012, a team of 541 athletes won 65 medals, 29 of them gold. Four years later, in Rio de Janeiro, the medal haul rose to 67, of which 27 were gold – second only to the US. Success had become the new normal. Dame Katherine says, “It can be easy to feel we’ve had it [success] for a long time and that National Lottery funding has always been there. There are athletes coming in who feel – in a great way – it’s all they’ve known and as a result their expectations can be huge. In the past we had athletes who didn’t have those opportunities. Now we have everything combined and you can see the success that flows from that.” 26 S MAGAZINE ★ 15 AUGUST 2021

INTERVIEW With Victoria Thornley at the Rio Olympics ‘We saw stunning skill, bravery and history being made’ Dame Katherine, who has often expressed her gratitude to The National Lottery from the podium, says British athletes are well aware of the link between this funding and success. She adds, “I’ve never been asked to say thank you [to The National Lottery] without wanting to do it already.” And as for the Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics, she says, “Every one of the 600 men and women who wore the colours of Team GB and ParalympicsGB in Japan had to display incredible levels of dedication to maintain their dreams of representing their country on the world stage. Despite all the disruption and anxiety, we had a team showing – and realising – extraordinary potential. I am always incredibly proud of the athletes who represent the UK at the Olympics and the Paralympics. “Tokyo was an extraordinary Games where our athletes touched the hearts of our nation with their courage and endeavour and made themselves, their families, their communities and the public proud. Every day in Tokyo we witnessed moments of stunning skill, heartwarming bravery, inspiring entertainment and saw sporting history being made.” To discover how you, National Lottery players, support our Olympic and Paralympic athletes, see national-lottery.co.uk/tokyo2020. When you play a little, you help our athletes a lot S MAGAZINE ★ 15 AUGUST 2021 27

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Jane O’Gorman Our agony aunt gets to the heart of your relationship problems He refuses to give up his past girlfriend My boyfriend won’t cut ties with an old lover, who he dated in 2011. He claims to love me but she’s still in his life. More than once he’s put her first. One time we were due to go out for dinner with my parents and he bailed because she had a crisis at work. Later, I heard that she was upset simply because a colleague had attempted to exclude her from She says I’m selfish for refusing her cash I recently ran into an old school friend. I’d just come out of my favourite boutique and was carrying a couple of carrier bags. Now she keeps asking to borrow cash. Apparently she and her partner have debts and she hopes I can help them. I’ve tried to put her off but, during her last call, she accused me of being selfish and spoilt. What did I do to deserve this? You cannot allow someone to harass you. If you don’t have money to lend or give, or simply Sex matters An ex-colleague has accused me of sexual impropriety. Three years ago I got very drunk at a staff party, staggered over and kissed him. I admit that I had a huge crush on him and was hoping he’d ask me out. He didn’t and I went home in tears. He still works at my old firm and is telling friends that he’s considering lodging a complaint. I’m ashamed and very scared. How do I keep this from my new partner? a meeting. I’ve met her a couple of times and found her quiet and boring. She certainly isn’t interested in me but they share a strong bond. I suspect he gives her money and helps her with paperwork. How do I stop myself from being resentful? Plenty of people have friends of the opposite sex – there’s nothing unusual about that. Could it be that your boyfriend and his ex don’t wish to do so, then firmly tell her that you’re not the answer to her prayers. Don’t allow yourself to be bullied. Suggest she checks out the debt charity Step Change (stepchange.org) where experts will be able to help her. She may resent your good fortune but nothing gives her the right to insult you. My mother-in-law won’t forgive me I got angry with my mother-inlaw when she contradicted me in front of my children as it Don’t be tempted to hide this from your partner. Speak up so he can support you. You crossed a line by kissing a man without his consent. If he now feels inclined to pursue a claim of assault, then that’s something that will have to be dealt with through the appropriate channels. No one would blame you for feeling guilty and scared, but he’s entitled to speak up. Co-operate fully and learn from this. Being drunk is never an excuse. are especially close because they shared a certain experience – perhaps a bereavement or crisis – when they were together? Is there anything that your boyfriend is willing to talk about, which would explain their close bond? 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This is when the lining of the small intestine becomes inflamed on contact with but compromise has to be found. He needs to discuss courtesies and boundaries if you’re all to get along in future. gluten. It can be diagnosed via a blood test arranged by your GP. Other types of wheat intolerance are quite rare, though some people feel bloated if they eat a lot of it. Try reducing the quantity. Contact Dr Leonard at S Magazine, One Canada Square, Canary Wharf, London E14 5AP, or email dr.leonard@ express.co.uk. Dr Leonard regrets that she cannot reply personally to letters. Read her column every Tuesday in the Daily Express PHOTO: RCD S MAGAZINE ★ 15 AUGUST 2021 29

Creative spiritDelight in gin-inspired desserts and cocktails 30 S MAGAZINE ★ 15 AUGUST 2021

FOOD Summer fruit pudding Serves 6 300g golden caster sugar 2 star anise 1 cinnamon stick 2 tbsp cassis Zest and juice of 1 mandarin 1kg frozen summer berries, defrosted 1 tsp vanilla-bean paste 2 tbsp gin Oil, for greasing 8-10 slices of white bread, a couple of days old 150g clotted cream, plus some extra to serve 1. Place the sugar, star anise, cinnamon stick, cassis, mandarin zest and juice into a pan. Simmer gently until the sugars have dissolved. 2. Add the defrosted berries, bring to the boil, and simmer for 3 minutes until the colour has bled from the berries. 3. Stir in the vanilla-bean paste and gin. 4. Pour through a sieve into a bowl, separating the berries from the juice. Allow to cool. 5. Grease a 1-litre pudding bowl with a little oil. Line with 2 sheets of clingfilm, leaving some overlapping the edge. 6. Remove the crusts from the bread. Cut a slice of bread into a large circle and dip one side into the berry juice. Place, dipped side down, in the bottom of the lined bowl. 7. Dip slices of bread in the berry juice and use them to line the bowl, slightly overlapping each slice. Press the edges to make sure they’re sealed. 8. Spoon one third of the berries into the bowl and lightly press down. 9. Place the clotted cream in the centre of the bowl, ensuring it doesn’t touch the bread. Spoon the remaining berries around and over the cream, stopping just below the rim. 10. Drizzle over half the remaining juices, then place another slice of bread on top. Gently press in any overhanging slices from the sides, then fold over the clingfilm. 11. Place the pudding bowl on a tray to collect any overspill. Put a small plate that sits just inside the rim of the bowl on top and weigh it down. Put the bowl in the fridge and leave overnight to absorb all the flavours. 12. To serve, carefully fold back the clingfilm and turn the pudding out on to a plate. Drizzle with the remaining berry juice and extra clotted cream if desired. Raspberry gin summer cocktail serves 1 1 bar spoon (or 1 tsp) caster sugar 5 fresh raspberries 25ml freshly squeezed lemon juice 15ml almond syrup 20ml chickpea water (from a can of chickpeas) 50ml gin For the garnish Lemon peel twist Edible flower (optional) 1. Put the caster sugar and raspberries in a cocktail shaker, then squash with the end of a bar spoon until they are well mixed. 2. Add the lemon juice and stir until the sugar has dissolved. 3. Add the almond syrup, chickpea water, gin, and plenty of ice cubes. 4. Shake well for about 15-20 seconds to mix. Strain the mixture into the empty part of the shaker. 5. Throw away the shaken ice, then shake the cocktail again for about 5 seconds, before straining into a chilled coupette glass. 6. Place the lemon peel twist on the rim of the glass and garnish with edible flowers (optional). S MAGAZINE ★ 15 AUGUST 2021 31

FOOD Blackberry sorbet and honeycomb Reader offer Chop till you drop This countertop-friendly 2-in-1 blender and food processor combo does it all. With two attachments to blend, chop, mix, slice and shred, the Magic Bullet Kitchen Express reduces preparation time and lets you tackle pretty much any recipe with confidence. To order for £59.99, plus £3.99 UK mainland p&p, call 0871 664 3474 and quote SM123. Calls cost 12p a minute plus your network access charge. 1. To make the sorbet, put the lemon and lime juice in a bowl. Blend the blackberries, then push through a sieve into the bowl of juice. Discard the seeds. 2. Put the sugar, glucose syrup and 500ml water in a saucepan. Bring to a boil, then simmer for 10 minutes. Cool for 10 minutes then mix into the blackberries. 3. Place the bowl in the freezer. Stir every 2 hours for 6-8 hours, or until the mixture is fully frozen. 4. For the gin jelly, soak the gelatine sheets in cold water for 5 minutes. Bring 100ml of the tonic water to a simmer with the caster sugar. Remove the gelatine from the water and squeeze off any excess water. Whisk the sheets into the hot tonic water to dissolve. 5. Remove from the heat. Add the remaining tonic water, elderflower pressé, gin and lime juice. Line a 10 x 20cm baking dish with clingfilm. Ensure it overlaps the sides. Pour in the jelly then leave to set in the fridge for 6 hours. 6. For the broth, place 300g strawberries in a pan with the sugar and red-wine vinegar. Soak for 30 minutes, or until juices are running from the strawberries. 7. Bring to the boil, simmer for 30 minutes, then pass through a sieve lined with a muslin cloth, into a bowl. Discard the strawberries. When cooled, add the broth to the gin. 8. Halve the blackberries and the remaining strawberries. Share between two zip-lock Serves 6 For the sorbet Juice of 1 lemon Juice of 1 lime 300g blackberries 250g golden caster sugar 40g glucose syrup 500ml water For the gin jelly 10 gelatine sheets 200ml tonic water 120g caster sugar 500ml elderflower pressé 100ml gin Juice of 2 limes For the compressed berries in strawberry broth 600g strawberries 75g sugar 1 tbsp red-wine vinegar 1 tbsp gin 200g blackberries For the honeycomb 100g caster sugar 2 tbsp maple syrup 1 tsp bicarbonate of soda For the garnish Edible flowers (optional) bags, squeezing out the air before sealing. Chill for 2 hours. 9. For the honeycomb, line an oven tray with baking paper. Place the caster sugar and maple syrup in a saucepan over a low heat. When the sugar dissolves, turn the heat to high. Cook until the sugars have caramelised and are a light amber in colour. 10. Remove from the heat and carefully stir in the bicarbonate of soda. Immediately spoon into the tin and leave the honeycomb to cool fully. 11. To serve, cut the jelly into cubes and place on a large platter. Add the berries and a little broth, plus scoops of sorbet. Crumble over chunks of honeycomb and garnish with edible flowers (optional). dessert recipes: Dominic Hoile Cocktail recipes: Sam Carter Photos: Clive Shalice Styling: Victoria Gray 32 S MAGAZINE ★ 15 AUGUST 2021

Culinary delights Edited by Victoria Gray Freee and easy Freee has launched a new cereal, Fruit & Fibre Flakes, £3.99. Full of flavour and crunch, it’s a blend of high-fibre flakes, banana, coconut, apple and sultanas. It’s also vegan, organic, gluten-free and without any of the top 14 allergens. Available from Ocado. Mix it up Whip up delicious fresh smoothies wherever you are with a Cuisinart On The Go Blender, £100. This compact, lightweight and – most importantly – cordless tool is ideal for use outdoors, whether you’re having a barbie in the garden or heading off to picnic in the wild. Pop culture Even if the weather isn’t up to much, you can still make the most of the outdoor season with Barbeque Popchips. All the flavour but without the effort – and low calorie, too. An 85g sharing bag costs £1.99 from major supermarkets. Ice cool This American-style Haier French Door 70 Fridge not only looks good, it also features amazing technology. You can set the temperature using the hOn app on your smartphone, while the humidity zone helps preserve food, and the fridge never needs to be manually defrosted. It’s available from Currys for £1,199. Hole in one Krispy Kreme has added yummy ice-cream flavours mint choc chip and raspberry ripple to its doughnut and milkshake ranges – for a limited period only. The Summer Love Dozen mixture of new doughnuts and old favourites costs £19.95, plus delivery, and is available exclusively through Just Eat. Drink smart A new range of plantbased alternative milk drinks from a vegetarian pioneer has hit the market. Linda McCartney’s Barista Style Organic Oat, Coconut, Soya and Rice drinks make perfect foam for a latte or you can add them to your breakfast for a healthy kick. Buy them from Tesco for £1.99. S MAGAZINE ★ 15 AUGUST 2021 33

WINE Jamie Goode Our expert says it may be time to raise a glass in recognition of Greek winemaking Greek wine could finally be about to have its moment in the spotlight. It’s not that Greece only just started making good wine. Rather, a lot of things have come together, such as a better quality of more affordable wines and interest from supermarket wine buyers. These are all worth a try. Found Moschofilero Roditis 2020 Peloponnese, Greece £8.50, Marks & Spencer, 12% alcohol Moschofilero is a pink-skinned grape native to the south Peloponnese and here it is blended with Roditis. The result is a very appealing white wine with lychee and rose petal notes, plus a spicy note on the finish. Lovely fruit and a soft texture. Markovitis Xinomavro 2015 Naoussa, Greece £20, The Wine Society, 12.5% alcohol An elegant and expressive wine that is young-tasting despite its age. It’s intensely savoury but with fresh strawberry and raspberry notes, as well as grippy tannins, earthy hints and a touch of spice. Domaine Lyrarakis Plakoura Mandilari 2017 Crete, Greece £12.95, The Wine Society, 13% alcohol This is dense and quite savoury. There’s sweet blackberry fruit with a touch of black cherry, and then a wall of tannic structure. Firm, unyielding and with hints of earthiness and mint – it’s a wine that get better with age and goes well with food. Ktima Foundi Xinomavro 2016 Naoussa, Greece £14.95, The Wine Society, 13% alcohol This has some red fruits, with a bit of silkiness and sweetness, but also some grippy tannins. There’s a hint of mint too and lemony acidity. Quite a challenging red – but also quite delicious and food-friendly. Filos Estate Assyrtiko Single Vineyard Aspri Petra 2020 PGI Florina, Greece £6.99, Aldi, 13% alcohol This is a bargain, showing rich, spicy, grapey pear fruit with lovely texture, finishing with a citrus flourish. Combines richer notes with some freshness. Samos Vin Doux 2019 Samos, Greece £8.99, Waitrose, 15% alcohol This sweet wine from the island of Samos is great value. It’s grapey and rich with some raisin and marmalade notes, plus a bit of peachy richness. Very sweet but balanced. Gerovassiliou Malagousia Single Vineyard 2020 Epanomi, Greece £17, Hic Wine Merchants, 13.5% alcohol Fresh and quite structured, with some pear, grape and citrus peel notes and a touch of nice bitterness on the finish. Lovely pure fruit here. SAVE 50% ON 12 STUNNING WINES WHEN YOU JOIN WINEBANK Normally worth £131.88, these 12 hand-made wines from around the world are yours for just £65.88, complete with free express delivery direct to your door! This offer acts as the ideal introduction to our WineBank service. Only £5.49 a bottle! Luxury Reader Selection | NOW £65.88 (was £131.88) Call 0343 224 1001 quoting VE2037 or visit virginwines.co.uk/express T&C's apply: New customers only. UK Delivery only. You must be 18 years of age or over. One case per customer. Not to be combined with any other promotion. By redeeming this offer you agree to try the Virgin Wines WineBank. WineBank uses monthly top-ups to save for your wine and rewards you with £1 for every £5 you deposit, plus free delivery on all wine purchases. Your default monthly payment is £25. There’s no obligation to buy any more wine. You can cancel your membership at any time and withdraw any funds you’ve added. Images for illustration purposes only. For full T&C's, visit www.virginwines.co.uk/terms S MAGAZINE ★ 15 AUGUST 2021 35

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INTERIORS LEFT: Go Modern’s Mood garden armchairs have an airy design and a gentle, rounded shape that makes them extremely comfortable. Priced at £799 each, they are crafted from teak and have UV and weatherresistant woven backs. Right: Tile Mountain’s Hanoi Star geometric tiles are made from porcelain so they’re suitable for use inside and out. They have a gorgeous matte finish and cost £19.99 per m². BELOW: These stylish blue shutters are the epitome of Greek chic. Choose half-height, café-style shutters for privacy with wide slats for a Mediterranean look. They’re £299 per m² from Shutterly Fabulous. GET THE LOOK Apollo mug Mint & May £16 Decorative Azul salad bowl Rose & Grey £60 Santorini print Wayfair £61.99 Dip-dye throw French Connection £65 Place mat Nisi Living £25 for two Outdoor cushion Freemans £21 WORDS: VICTORIA GRAY S MAGAZINE ★ 15 AUGUST 2021 37

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PHOTO: getty Alan Titchmarsh Every garden should please the eye, but one of the best ways to make the most of a small plot is to grow plants that appeal to all the senses. What’s more, “multi-talented” sensory species are especially valuable if a member of your family is partially sighted or has limited mobility. What you’re looking for are species that don’t just look good – they also have fragrance, create sounds or feel pleasant to the touch. They can even taste nice – they’re not necessarily mainstream salads, fruit or veg, but they’re plants you can nibble on while you’re out in the garden. Plants to touch Choose plants that have touchy-feely, textured foliage. If it’s soft, silky, felty, furry or hairy leaves you’re after, then try Stachys byzantina, Salvia argentea and Artemisia arborescens. For tough, leathery leaves, try growing Viburnum rhytidophyllum. Aucuba will provide smooth, glossy leaves, while decorative sages have matte, suedetextured leaves. Plants with smooth stems, such as bamboos and dogwoods, are also very tactile. Stachys byzantina has tactile, velvety leaves Pelargoniums are a fragrant treat Plants for scent Many plants have a perfume, of course – but for something special, go for scented-leaved pelargoniums, which only release their smell when the leaves are lightly bruised. They come in a huge range of fragrances, from citrus and rose to spices and peppermint, and are good for patio containers. Aromatic herbs such as thymes, lemon verbena and marjorams can be used in the same way, but be aware of bees in the flowers if visual impairment is an issue. Plants for sound Grasses and bamboo stems are great for rippling in the breeze. Fine-leaved varieties rustle gently, while those with larger, coarser Each variety of peony has its own perfume In every sense Plants that feel, taste, sound and smell as good as they look bring joy to less able-bodied garden lovers, says Alan leaves, such as miscanthus, or bare stems, like bamboos, may even give off a faint rattle. Bee and butterfly plants attract insects, which create evocative buzzing sounds and also splashes of colour and movement. Sedum spectabile, buddleia, lavenders and marjorams are also good, as are old-fashioned hardy annuals and flowering herbs. Plants for taste Choose plants that can be eaten raw and won’t mind having a few bits removed regularly. Try edible flowers such as heartsease, or cut-and-come-again lettuce, such as salad bowl lettuce, rocket, purslane, chives and garlic chives, buckler-leaf sorrel, mangetouts and podding peas. Baby cucumbers and cherry tomatoes are also good. Planting for visual impairment Bold shapes and strong, bright colours set against contrasting backgrounds work best. Choose potted topiary shapes, architectural trees, shrubs and large perennials such as delphiniums, oriental poppy, peony, lupins and Crambe cordifolia. Mix with low ground 40 S MAGAZINE ★ 15 AUGUST 2021

GARDENING Tasty tomatoes, straight from the garden What to do in the garden this week Protect any ripening grapes from birds. Pick ripe peaches, nectarines and apricots – don’t leave bird-pecked fruit on the trees as the “open wounds” will attract wasps. If your container displays are looking tatty, replace them with pelargoniums and fuchsias for instant displays that will last into autumn. This is a good time of year to find bargains in garden centres, from outdoor furniture to barbecues. Also look for cut-price shrubs and perennials – they often just need cutting back, watering and feeding to bring them back into good condition. neighbours who may enjoy peace and quiet – only hang out your chimes while you’re outdoors yourself. surfaces underfoot are best Garden lighting may be avoided – if there’s a risk of Reader offer it’s a great way to extend the Ponds can be a problem, too, Fritillaria enjoyment of the outdoors unless they are well away from Meleagris after dark or to help someone any paths or protected by a Mixed something of a luxury, but falling, use rubber play surfaces. who doesn’t see too well. Use strong metal grid just under the This delightful path markers to outline where it’s surface, allowing plants to grow mixture is safe to walk, and uplighters and through but preventing anyone made up spotlights to pick out architectural from falling in. from a mix plants or features, as well as to Poisonous plants must be of white throw silhouettes of your trees avoided, so check the labels and purple or sculptures on a wall. carefully before you buy. bell-shaped Solar-powered lights are Common offenders include flowers. Fritillaria cover plants like the hardy portable, too, so they can be laburnum, euphorbia and meleagris is also cranesbills. Put a plain bark or moved to alter your night-time Aconitum napellus, but even known as snake’s head due gravel mulch underneath your look, giving you several different spring bulbs, such as daffodils, to its unusual markings. plants, and consider having a gardens for the price of one can cause sickness if eaten. These hardy plants are easy fence, wall or maybe a hedge as the seasons progress. Prickly or sharp plants may be to grow, producing dainty behind them. best avoided, too – some grasses nodding flowers, and are a Things to avoid can cut if you pull your hand fantastic naturaliser that Sensory garden Use gentle slopes instead of steps, through a clump, so if you are will multiply. Height 30cm. accessories and steer clear of loose paving using something like miscanthus 5/6cm bulbs supplied. Fountains are brilliant for creating slabs or the sort that become because of its shape, make sure Buy 25 Fritillaria Meleagris shapes, soothing sounds and slippery when wet. Uneven you place it towards the back of Mixed for £8.49, or order sparkling light. You’ll find that a border where it is out of reach. 100 for £16.98 (half price). using solar-powered pumps Similarly, it’s a bad idea to use Order online at will keep the costs down and canes and sticks to support shop.express.co.uk/EXP681, will solve a problem if your plants, unless the tips are call 0871 664 1469, or send fountain is not in easy protected by a wide-domed a cheque made payable to reach of a power point. cane topper. This will avoid eye ‘Express Newspapers’ to If you’d like to create damage when bending over Express Offer EXP681, your own wind chimes, plants to weed or just to 14 Hadfield Street, Old try bamboos to make enjoy the scent. Alternatively, Trafford, Manchester M16 a clacking sound, or use cage-style herbaceous 9FG. Pre-order for delivery tubular metal to produce plant supports or bundles from mid-September. All a series of musical notes. of pea sticks bent over at prices include P&P. Don’t forget to consider A water feature and the top and tied in place. strategic lighting will S MAGAZINE ★ 15 AUGUST 2021 increase the sensory 41 experience Plant of the week

Top fives Fiction 1. One August Night by Victoria Hislop (Headline, £8.99) 2. The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman (Penguin, £8.99) 3. Daylight by David Baldacci (Pan, £8.99) 4. The Midnight Library by Matt Haig (Canongate, £8.99) 5. Judas Horse by Lynda La Plante (Zaffre, £8.99) Charlotte Heathcote Non-fiction WORDS: TYTYTY PHOTO: Tytytytyt 1. The Appeal by Janice Hallett (Viper, £8.99) 2. The Comfort Book by Matt Haig (Canongate, £16.99) 3. More Than A Woman by Caitlin Moran (Ebury, £8.99) 4. Vaxxers by Sarah Gilbert & Catherine Green (Hodder & Stoughton, £20) 5. The Official Highway Code (TSO, £2.50) Children’s 1. Megamonster by David Walliams & Tony Ross (HarperCollins, £14.99) 2. You Are A Champion by Marcus Rashford & Carl Anka (Macmillan Children’s, £9.99) 3. They Both Die At The End by Adam Silvera (S&S Children’s, £7.99) 4. There’s A Unicorn In Your Book by Tom Fletcher & Greg Abbott (Puffin, £6.99) 5. The Danger Gang by Tom Fletcher & Shane Devries (Puffin, £7.99) Laughing matter These two funny novels make light of life’s dark side History **** by Miles Jupp (Headline, £16.99) In this debut novel from comedian Miles Jupp, the main character – you could hardly call him the hero – is Clive Hapgood, a history teacher at Frampton, a minor public school in Wiltshire. Clive loathes his pompous headmaster and back-biting colleagues but not as much as he loathes himself for having left his job at a comprehensive to teach the children of the rich. Feeling undervalued and guilty, he starts to go a bit bonkers. Like David Nobbs in The Fall And Rise Of Reginald Perrin, Jupp offers a sensitive and insightful depiction of a midlife crisis, while simultaneously extracting every last ounce of comedy and farce from Clive’s situation. He writes extremely well about how Clive’s self-pity is souring his marriage to his nice wife Helen and is particularly strong on marital rows (“Helen said nothing in a manner that was almost deafening”). The middle section of the book, an account of a disastrous family holiday in France, goes on too long, ending up as a repetitive sequence of petty humiliations for Clive. But otherwise, the novel is hard to fault. Jupp writes in the wonderfully wry, deadpan comic style that fans will recognise from his TV and radio appearances: the jokes are sometimes so subtle that you can already be halfway down the next page before you burst out laughing. And the novel is touching in the same understated way – you’ll be surprised by how moved you are. Jake Kerridge 42 S MAGAZINE ★ 15 AUGUST 2021

BOOKS The Echo Chamber **** by John Boyne (Doubleday, £16.99) Will social media be the end of us? It certainly seems that way in The Echo Chamber, John Boyne’s new novel about the poisonous world of clicks, likes and retweets. The privileged Cleverley family live together in a large house in west London. Patriarch George is a BBC TV interviewer – and self-appointed national treasure – whose affair threatens to derail his marriage and his career. His wife Beverley is an undercelebrated (in her opinion) author who secretly employs a ghost writer to turn her clichéd ideas into romantic bestsellers. Then there are their three children – toxic Twitter warrior Elizabeth, budding blackmailer Achilles and serial liar Nelson. Add a devilishly handsome dancer, a pregnant therapist and an After Eight-addicted tortoise, and the stage is set for this laugh-out-loud skewering of modern life. The Cleverleys all use social media with varying degrees of success but they don’t understand how quickly one ill-considered post can destroy a reputation that’s been years in the making. So when George posts a Twitter comment that he considers supportive of the transgender community, he is full of selfrighteous outrage when it blows up in his face. The Cleverleys are a truly insufferable bunch, as smug and self-satisfied as they come, so it’s impossible to feel sorry as they get their comeuppance. To be honest, their endless awfulness becomes a bit wearing as the novel goes on. But it’s a minor quibble. Fun, fierce and furious, The Echo Chamber is a riotous read that is not to be missed. Mernie Gilmore The whole sleuth… Jon Coates and Jake Kerridge are hot on the trail of the latest gripping murder mysteries Exit by Belinda Bauer (Black Swan, £8.99) Pensioner Felix Pink is an Exiteer, a network of people who keep the terminally ill company in their last moments. When he lets himself into No3 Black Lane, he’s there as a companion to a dying man who has chosen euthanasia. But, afterwards, Felix realises the wrong man has died. On the run from police, he must establish whether he witnessed the wrong suicide or whether there are darker forces at play. This ingenious and darkly comic mystery is an absolute delight and Felix is one of the most loveable fugitives ever created. JC Win by Harlan Coben (Arrow, £8.99) Eccentric billionaire Win Lockwood, sidekick of amateur sleuth Myron Bolitar, takes centre stage as a murder victim is linked to the long-ago kidnapping of Win’s cousin Patricia. Smug, misanthropic Win investigates with his customary disregard for the law. It’s the usual Coben formula of the cold case that becomes red hot, deployed as grippingly as ever. JK The Long, Long Afternoon by Inga Vesper (Manilla Press, £8.99) One hot afternoon in 1959, wife and mother Joyce Haney vanishes from her luxury home in Sunnylakes, California. She leaves behind two terrified children and a bloodstain on the kitchen floor. Detective Mick Blanke realises the family’s ‘help’ Ruby knows more than anyone about Sunnylakes’ suburban secrets. Ruby risks losing her job if her other employers discover she’s revealing their secrets to the police. But she won’t rest until she finds out what happened to Joyce. This beguiling, evocative and powerful debut exposes the sexism and racism lurking beneath the American Dream in the 1950s. JC The Burning Girls by CJ Tudor (Penguin, £8.99) Reverend Jack Brooks and her teenage daughter move to Sussex to make a fresh start. In Chapel Croft 500 years ago, eight martyrs were burnt at the stake; 30 years ago, two teenagers vanished without a trace; and, two months ago, Jack’s predecessor took their own life. Jack decides to uncover Chapel Croft’s secrets, whatever the cost, in this mesmerising and atmospheric page-turner. JC The Silver Collar by Antonia Hodgson (Hodder & Stoughton, £8.99) There’s an attempt on the life of lovable rogue Thomas Hawkins, then his beloved Kitty – proprietress of the capital’s finest mucky book shop – disappears, which sets him off sleuthing. With its bawdy humour and breakneck pace, set against a brilliantly evoked 18th-century backdrop, you’ll feel like you’re travelling back in time. JK S MAGAZINE ★ 15 AUGUST 2021 43

TRAVEL WORDS: Mel Brodie photos: getty Edited by Emma Jones Immerse yourself in the luxury and romance of Lake Como in Italy, says Mel Brodie In 1968, on her honeymoon, my mother dived into Lake Como off the pontoon at the Grand Hotel Tremezzo and a fish got caught in the cross-back of her swimsuit. This vivid image, and stories of how my father had whisked his new wife away in an open-top Triumph Spitfire to the Northern Italian lakes, has meant I’ve always wanted to retrace their steps. The impressive facade of the hotel has changed little since the newlyweds drew up in their nippy red sports car. However, these days swimming in the lake (and entangling with the fish) is not necessary, as there are now three pools, one floating on the lake itself. As views from a shallow end go, it must compete with the best that the world has to offer. The dramatic, forested mountains surrounding Lake Como plunge down to the water, while the sun catches the ochre shades of the medieval villages along the hillsides. Greta Garbo said the Tremezzo was her favourite hotel in the world, George Clooney is a frequent guest for dinner (his villa is just down the road), Carrie Johnson (née Symonds) escaped here for a girls’ weekend with baby Wilfred last autumn, and we breakfasted next to fashion designer Melissa Odabash. While this glamorous hotel may be “grand”, the atmosphere is relaxed and welcoming. You’ll find its distinctive orange and white livery on the breakfast coffee cups, the sun umbrellas, Splash out pool-side towels… and each tiny detail is meticulously considered and radiates style. Real sand will get between your toes as you sip an Aperol Spritz on the sundeck and fresh flowers fill the The opulent facade of the Tremezzo lobby and the corridors to your bedroom. Breakfast was one of my favourite times of day. Good, strong Italian espresso and towering tiers of delicacies at a beautiful buffet served from crystal dishes in a golden, high-ceilinged, parquet-floored ballroom. For a more romantic, sunset-take on the same vista with lights twinkling along the opposite A dramatic view of Lake Como and (above) the village of Bellagio How to book Rooms available from about £600 per night plus VAT; free cancellation up to eight days prior to arrival. For further details and booking, visit grandhoteltremezzo.com. shoreline, try the fine-dining tasting menu with matching wines. At 160 euros, it is definitely a treat, and includes the restaurant’s signature dish – saffron risotto with an edible sheet of real gold leaf. Each course is a work of art. Even the amuse-bouche was sublime, with whipped egg, cheese and truffle in a pure white eggshell sliced with precision by a laser to ensure removing the top off the egg was perfect. Don’t miss the chance to snoop around the kitchen – something that’s positively encouraged with glass walls allowing you to admire the culinary creativity within. As you might expect, the hotel spa is also heavenly. Modern treatment rooms nestle within the walls of an ancient palazzo building, blending the best of both worlds. Create an olfactory memory here with the gorgeous Santa Maria Novella fragrances that also perfume the bathroom toiletries. A soak in the distinctive bath salts I brought home will always transport me back. This is a special place to stay, whether for a honeymoon, or simply spoiling yourself with a holiday abroad. There’s plenty to explore and admire around Lake Como, such as the pretty village of Bellagio. Just make sure any fish caught is on your plate, not down the back of your swimming costume. S MAGAZINE ★ 15 AUGUST 2021 45

The Plant Sitter Behind the image of a perfect life, something else may be lurking. Short story By Eimear Ryan illustration: Getty Images The missing or murdered people in the podcasts are always women. Sometimes femme blonde women, sometimes edgy tattooed women, sometimes mums, sometimes ingénues. Emily pictures their faces as she wanders around the cavernous house, listening to the stories of their untimely deaths. Her friend Lynn, who owns the house, teases her about her obsession. They met when Emily was interviewing Lynn, a successful influencer, for a travel magazine. When Emily tried to switch on the recorder on her phone, she’d accidentally resumed playing the latest episode of her favourite murder podcast. Her parents bravely faced the media just three days after their daughter’s brutal murder… Thankfully, Lynn had laughed. “Ah, so you’re one of those true crime junkies. Don’t see the appeal myself. Hearing all about the worst things that can happen to a person? Not for me.” And Emily can’t really put her finger on why she loves them so much. She could say something clever about wanting to be prepared, or delving into the dark side of human psychology, but that’s not quite it. If she’s honest, there’s something in the formulaic nature of the podcasts that she finds comforting. The host is most often a man with an empathetic voice who travels to a small town. He records the crunch of his footsteps on gravel. He interviews the dead woman’s family and friends and says kind things about their resilience, their homes and pets. He wants justice, he tells them. Justice for Sarah, or Joyce, or Kristen. After a while, he’ll follow the local gossip to the dodgy on-off boyfriend with the substance abuse problem, or discover threatening Facebook messages from an ex. It seems to Emily that it’s always incredibly obvious who did it, but equally difficult to prove. Sometimes, Emily wonders if she could ever be an intrepid podcast host, but when she really thinks about it, it’s much more likely that she’d be the victim, the ghostly star of the show. Emily does not feel that she deserves to be living in this luxurious house, and of course she doesn’t, not really. She is a guest here, a plant sitter, while Lynn travels the world with her fiancé, Chris. Lynn’s followers are in the hundreds of thousands rather than the millions, but still – she does well enough to have bought this house that she can never stay in for long, because there are always new places to be visited, new content to be created. Emily has always known Lynn and Chris to be a discreet, laid-back couple, but when they’re travelling, they post kissing selfies and long, devoted captions about each other. “It helps us to get more likes,” Lynn explained once. “It’s all for show, really,” Chris added, earning him a thump from Lynn. Emily laughed. It felt good to be included in their circle of trust, their conspiracy of clicks. She liked, too, how Chris’s eyes crinkled when he laughed, and then wondered if it was okay to notice things about your friend’s fiancé in such granular detail. It’s an easy enough job, tending to the plants. Lynn has left her clear instructions in the form of bright Post-it notes stuck to the plant pots. “Fabio, Boston fern: frequent spritzings!” reads one, with “frequent” underlined. “Lavinia, succulent: an ice cube every second weekend!” reads another. It’s hard to go wrong. Every morning, Emily brings her coffee into the back yard, as if to take the measure of the house from outside. In the place she rented before she moved here, the dogs next door never stopped barking. Here, birds chirp optimistically. Somewhere, she can hear the beeping of a lorry backing up, which is a hopeful sound, too. She puts on her first podcast of the day as she showers in Lynn’s wet room, feeling vaguely anxious about steam getting into her phone. After dressing, she climbs the stairs to the attic, a room – an entire floor – given over to a workspace. It’s flooded with light from the Velux windows and looks ready to be photographed for a girl-boss feature in 46 S MAGAZINE ★ 15 AUGUST 2021

fiction a magazine. Lynn encouraged her to use it before she left. “Maybe you’ll finish your book!” And so every day, Emily sits in front of the laptop and dutifully pecks out a few hundred words. After lunch, she walks to the vegan bakeshop nearby for coffee and a treat, a podcast humming in her ears. The supply never runs dry – there are always more murders, more missing women. She listens, too, as she chops vegetables for dinner in Lynn’s sleekly ergonomic kitchen. On the countertop, a bouquet of high-end cooking implements pokes out of a ceramic jar. Emily thinks about the plastic utensils and burnt, battered cookware in her previous rental, how she has never actually owned a knife block of her own. After Lynn first left, she and Emily sent each other long, newsy emails. Emily was prolific when writing to Lynn; she could write thousands of words in an email, compared to the paltry few paragraphs that she would add to her book project each day. But after a few months, Lynn’s emails began to taper off. She was apologetic at first, blaming the demands of running a popular platform. Eventually, she wrote a short, stilted message to the effect that Emily could stay updated on Lynn’s adventures via her Instagram account. It’s just easier to communicate what’s happening over there, rather than trying to write emails to everyone. So now, Emily’s only contact with her friends is through the grid. Here they are, sipping cocktails poolside in Bali. There they are, screaming on a roller-coaster in Tokyo. Lynn has the kind of beauty that remains even when making a face. It’s as if ugliness is not attainable for her features. For her own part, Emily dutifully uploads stories of Fabio, Lavinia and the other plants to her own account, both because they are pretty, and to prove the fact that they continue to thrive. Lynn responds with heart-eyes emojis. One Sunday, on her third murder podcast of the day, Emily realises that it’s been a while since Lynn updated her account. She has been averaging a couple of posts a week, with a flurry of stories in between. But there has been nothing at all for the last five days. Concerned, Emily visits Chris’s Instagram, which has always felt like a lesser, satellite account to Lynn’s. He appears to still be active, posting ruminative selfies with ambiguous captions like, “Everything in life happens for a reason.” There is no sign of Lynn in his latest posts. ‘There are always more murders, more missing women’ Emily sends Lynn an email – a two-liner, calm, breezy: “Just checking in! x”. When, after a week, there is no response, Emily tries the number she has for her friend. A sing-song string of tones, and then an automated voice: “The number you have dialled is not recognised.” A month after Lynn disappears, Chris posts a picture with a new girlfriend. “I feel so lucky to have love in my life again,” reads the caption. “I know a month might seem like very soon to move on from a long-term relationship, but I believe that time is a construct and that everyone comes into our lives when they’re supposed to.” Emily is aghast. She backtracks through his feed, finds his most recent picture with Lynn. The caption is as effusive as ever. “I can’t believe how blessed I am to share this life with you.” If he meant that, how could he have moved on so soon? How could he have replaced Lynn already, and so seamlessly? Perhaps, Emily thinks, he’d been trying to convince himself that he still loved her when he wrote that caption. Or maybe he was trying to lay some track, in case anyone blamed him for her disappearance. They seemed like the perfect couple… Emily can hear the narration in her mind already. The writing is starting to get easier. For once, Emily feels inspired by the office space instead of daunted. She pauses the book she’s been struggling to write and starts a new document. The story flows. It’s about a wealthy influencer in a supposedly perfect relationship, who disappears at the height of her popularity. It’s narrated in a fluent first-person voice, by somebody close to the situation but at enough of a remove to be objective. Emily already knows who the killer will be. © Eimear Ryan 2021 Eimear Ryan’s debut novel Holding Her Breath (Penguin/ Sandycove, £12.99) is out now. Available from Amazon and all good bookshops. S MAGAZINE ★ 15 AUGUST 2021 47

INTERview My favourite photograph by Helen Lederer TV comedian and writer Helen, 66, on missing her daughter Hannah – who lives in Ibiza – and the joy of family weddings Words by Angela Hagan photo: getty This photograph of my daughter Hannah and me was taken just over 10 years ago and it brings back such happy memories for me. Hannah is my daughter from my first husband [Roger Alton]. I miss her so much as she currently lives in Ibiza and, due to the pandemic, it’s been very hard. Those long stretches of knowing I can’t just jump on a plane to go and visit her have been very difficult. This picture was taken by my husband [GP Chris Browne], while we were at my nephew’s wedding and we were all staying in a country hotel. I don’t remember exactly where it was now, but I do recall it was a special occasion. At the time Hannah was in her first year at university in Bristol. I suppose there had been an element of empty-nest syndrome. She’s my only child and I was getting used to her no longer living at home with Chris and I in London. But she was having a great time at uni doing what she loved – studying English and drama – and we had such a lovely time catching up. I think it was one of the first times since she’d moved away that we’d properly seen each other – apart from the one time we met in her Student Union, which I enjoyed a bit too much! At the wedding we were all in our best frocks and on our best behaviour! I hardly go to weddings nowadays and this was lovely as my late cousin, Caroline, was also there who I was very close to. We had such a great laugh. I remember it was a multi-generational affair with relatives of all ages having a great time. There was a ceilidh in the evening and we had fun dancing to that and trying to keep up with the steps. There’s something wonderful about being part of someone’s special day. I enjoyed it even more as it was nothing to do with work, just two people sharing their love and celebrating their optimism. I’m so proud of Hannah. She joined the National Youth Theatre and, at 17, landed a part in ITV’s teen soap Echo Beach – it was nothing to do with me. All I ever wanted for her was to be happy and now she is – she’s created a wonderful life for herself in Ibiza where she runs her own successful catering business, working as a chef. She’s fallen in love with beautiful food and cooking and has found her passion in life. But I do miss her very much. It’s hard not having her living in the UK. This pandemic has been tough on so many who can’t get to easily see their loved ones. Looking at this photo makes me feel happy. People say she’s so like me but she isn’t because she’s tall and slim. We’ve both got lots of hair though! Helen is the founder of The Comedy Women In Print (CWIP) Prize. The shortlist will be announced on 22 September. For more information, visit comedywomeninprint.co.uk 48 S MAGAZINE ★ 15 AUGUST 2021

What to watch Don’t miss the best Nicola Kidman drama, crime and stars in this new hit US drama entertainment shows Annika Tuesday, 9pm, Alibi Nicola Walker is no stranger to playing a detective with roles like Unforgotten’s DCI Cassie Stuart under her belt. But now she’s stepping into the shoes of another compelling police officer – DI Annika Strandhed in UKTV’s new six-part series, Annika. Working mum Annika has returned to Glasgow to head up the Marine Homicide Unit – a department tasked with getting to the bottom of murders that wash up in Scotland’s waters. And she has some pretty strange ways of cracking a case… Crime ENTERTAINMENT Jay’s Yorkshire Workshop Wednesday, 9pm, BBC Two Heroes don’t always have super powers. The very human qualities of compassion, courage and care are just as potent – and that’s exactly what Jay Blades is looking to celebrate in his new show. In each episode of Jay’s Yorkshire Workshop, members of the public nominate a local person to receive a surprise bespoke piece of furniture in recognition of the work they’ve done in their community. Heart-warming stuff. Looks just as good as he did in the 90s! HOMES Changing Rooms Wednesday, 8pm, Channel 4 It was the smash-hit makeover show that taught us how to do-it-ourselves and introduced us to the flamboyant designer Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen and his leather trousers. Now the show is back, once more asking the designers to create a room on a budget, then tasking two neighbours to work against the clock to transform a space in each other’s houses in 48 hours. streaming Nine Perfect Strangers Amazon Prime, from Friday If you loved Big Little Lies, get ready for your next drama fix. Author Liane Moriarty’s latest screen adaptation, Nine Perfect Strangers, sees a mega-star cast, including Nicole Kidman and Melissa McCarthy, bringing to life the story set in a boutique health and wellness resort. But it’s far from a relaxing time for the nine strangers who have signed up to the 10-day retreat. As resort director Masha (Kidman) starts to guide them through the programme, things take a sinister turn – and you’ll be glued to your screen! S MAGAZINE ★ 15 AUGUST 2021 49

BBC One BBC Two ITV Channel 4 F’VIEW 1 • SKY 101 • virgin 101 • F’SAT 101 F’VIEW 2 • SKY 102 • virgin 102 • F’SAT 102 F’VIEW 3 • SKY 103 • virgin 103 • F’SAT 103 F’VIEW 4 • SKY 104 • virgin 104 • F’SAT 104 6.00am Breakfast 8.45 Match of the Day (R) 10.15 Fern Britton Meets Nigel Benn (R) 11.15 Homes Under the Hammer (R) 12.15pm Bargain Hunt (R) 1.00 BBC News; Weather 1.15 Songs of Praise 1.50 Escape to the Country A property in northwest Wales. (R) 2.50 Money for Nothing (R) 3.50 Planes: Fire & Rescue (2014/U) Animated adventure, with the voice of Dane Cook. ★★★ 5.05 Spy in the Wild The spy cameras travel to the Arctic and Antarctic circles. (R) 6.05 BBC News; Regional News 6.30 Countryfile Charlotte Smith and Steve Brown present the show from Yew Tree Farm in Coniston. 6.35am Britain in Bloom (R) 7.05 Gardeners’ World (R) 8.05 Countryfile (R) 9.00 Weatherman Walking: The Welsh Coast (R) 9.30 Beechgrove 10.00 Saturday Kitchen Best Bites 11.30 Hairy Bikers’ Best of British. The duo make bagels. (R) 12.15pm Le Mans (1971/PG) Racetrack drama, starring Steve McQueen. ★★★ 2.00 Formula E Coverage of race two of the seasonconcluding Berlin ePrix. 4.00 Flog It! From Worcestershire. (R) 5.00 The Boleyns: A Scandalous Family Docudrama charting the rise and fall of the Boleyns. (R) 6.00 Tropic of Cancer with Simon Reeve The extreme poverty of Bangladesh. (R) 6.00am CITV 8.25 ITV News 8.30 Martin & Roman’s Weekend Best! 9.25 Love Your Garden (R) 10.20 The Masked Singer US (R) 11.20 Rolling in It (R) 12.20pm The Void An aerialist, a grandma and a divemaster take part in the gameshow. (R) 1.25 ITV News; Weather 1.35 From Russia with Love (1963/PG) James Bond thriller, starring Sean Connery. ★★★★ 3.50 Tipping Point: Lucky Stars Coin-drop quiz show. (R) 4.50 The Chase Celebrity Special Su Pollard, Jordan Banjo, AJ Odudu and Jonathan Ross take on one of the Chasers. (R) 5.45 ITV News; Weather 6.00 Regional News; Weather 6.00am Everybody Loves Raymond (R) 8.35 The Simpsons (R) 9.30 Sunday Brunch. With Celia Imrie, Joe Lycett and Isy Suttie. 12.30pm The Simpsons (R) 1.55 The Book of Life (2014/U) A musician’s attempt to woo the woman he loves leads him on a journey through the land of the dead. Animated adventure, with the voice of Diego Luna. ★★★ 3.45 Dora and the Lost City of Gold (2019/PG) Premiere. Live-action family adventure, starring Isabela Moner. ★★★ 5.50 The Secret Life of the Zoo Golden poison frog Pablo has lost interest in his partner Maria, so ‘bad boy’ El Loco is brought in to shake things up. (R) 6.30 Channel 4 News Headlines. 7.30 Team GB Homecoming Concert by The National Lottery Greg James and Clara Amfo host a special celebration concert welcoming the British Olympic team home, performed in front of a live audience at the SSE Arena, Wembley. Featuring performances from Rag’n’Bone Man, Anne-Marie, Yungblud, Laura Mvula, and Griff. 9.00 Baptiste (5/6) After the shocking events so far, Emma and Julien are determined to finally get to the bottom of the mystery, and hope the key lies in uncovering the identity of Gomorrah. But instead they make another terrifying discovery, more dangerous than they could ever have imagined. Now, the pair must race against the clock. Drama, starring Tcheky Karyo. 7.00 Cricket: Today at the Test England v India. Action from the fourth day of the Second Test in the five-match series, taking place at Lord’s, London. 8.00 Hippos: Africa’s River Giants David Attenborough reveals the life of the hippopotamus as never seen before. The programme gets closer than ever to the sensitive and highly intelligent animal that cannot swim yet is utterly dependent on water. (R) 9.00 The Misadventures of Romesh Ranganathan The comedian visits Ethiopia, where anthropologist Mike Tamerat shows him a side of the country in stark contrast to the common public image of a nation devastated by famine. Romesh also experiences local traditional medicine and jazz music. (R) 6.10 Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (2009/12) The young wizard is given the task of uncovering the secrets of Lord Voldemort’s past as the evil sorcerer’s henchmen cause havoc in both the magical and Muggle worlds. With the help of headmaster Dumbledore, Harry tries to end the evil sorcerer’s reign of terror. Fantasy adventure sequel, starring Daniel Radcliffe, Michael Gambon, Emma Watson, Rupert Grint, Tom Felton and Alan Rickman. ★★★★ 9.00 Professor T (5/6) Jasper befriends a vulnerable girl and is convinced she is the key witness to a murder, while Lisa agrees to go on a date with Dan, but when her boss confronts her about their inappropriate relationship, she makes a bold decision. Crime drama, starring Ben Miller. 7.00 Escape to the Chateau Dick and Angel Strawbridge turn their attentions to the wash house - a shell of an old stone building on the far side of the moat. They have visions of turning it into a bathroom for their 40-foot boat on the moat, complete with all mod cons. (R) 8.00 The Secret World of Crisps Documentary about the biggest players in Britain’s crisp industry, Smiths, Golden Wonder and Walkers, and how their rivalry has played out over the course of decades. 9.00 The Handmaid’s Tale (9/10) June and Luke work together to save Hannah, and Serena and Fred greet unexpected visitors from Gilead. Meanwhile, Janine tries to assist Aunt Lydia when a Handmaid-intraining goes on hunger strike. 10.00 BBC News; Regional News 10.30 Match of the Day 2 Mark Chapman presents today’s Premier League fixtures – Tottenham Hotspur v Manchester City at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium and Newcastle United v West Ham United at St James’ Park. 11.30pm FILM Eaten by Lions (2018/12) Premiere. When Pete and Omar lose their beloved grandmother, they go in search of Omar’s estranged dad, confronting him on the day of his daughter’s engagement party. Comedy, starring Antonio Aakeel, Jack Carroll and Asim Chaudhry. ★★★★ 1.00am Weather for the Week Ahead 1.05-6.00am BBC News 10.00 Live at the Apollo Ellie Taylor from BBC Two’s The Mash Report presents stand-up comedy from London’s Hammersmith Apollo, inviting rising star Fin Taylor and Tez Ilyas to the stage. (R) 10.30 Pose (3&4/8) Double bill. Elektra is arrested; Pray Tell pays a visit to his home town. 12.05am FILM The Other Side of Hope (2017/12) A Syrian refugee searching for his lost sister in Helsinki forms an unlikely partnership with a novice restaurateur. Finnish comedy drama, starring Sakari Kuosmanen. ★★★★ 1.40 Chris Packham: The Walk That Made Me (R) 2.40 Holby City (R) 3.20-6.00am This Is BBC Two 10.00 ITV News; Weather 10.20 Undercover Big Boss This week, it’s the turn of Robert Forrester, chief executive of Bristol Street Motors, one of the largest car dealership groups in the UK, to go undercover. (R) 11.15pm Long Lost Family A woman searches for her only child who she has not seen since he was 10 days old. (R) 12.10am Craig and Bruno’s Great British Road Trips. The duo embark on a scenic westward circuit from Kendal to Keswick. (R) 12.35 Joanna Lumley’s Postcards. China and Mongolia. (R) 1.00 A Year in the Beacons (R) 1.25 Home Shopping 3.00 FYI Extra 3.15 Motorsport UK (R) 4.05 Nightscreen 5.05-6.00am Tipping Point. Quiz. (R) 10.10 Hunter Killer (2018/15) Unconventional submarine skipper Joe Glass is sent to investigate the torpedoing of US and Russian vessels. He winds up trying to rescue the Russian president, who has been kidnapped by a rogue general. Action thriller, starring Gerard Butler, Gary Oldman and Common. ★★★★ 12.30am FILM Tully (2018/15) Premiere. Comedy drama, starring Charlize Theron. ★★★★ 2.05 Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares USA (R) 2.55 Undercover Boss USA (R) 3.45 Battle of Britain: Model Squadron (R) 4.40 Location, Location, Location (R) 5.35-6.00am Beat the Chef (R) ★★★★★ brilliant ★★★★ very good ★★★ good ★★ average ★ bad

Channel 5 F’VIEW 5 • SKY 105 • virgin 105 • F’SAT 105 6.00am Milkshake! Children’s shows. 9.55 SpongeBob SquarePants (R) 10.25 Entertainment News on 5 10.35 Friends Seven episodes. (R) 2.10pm The Wedding Singer (1998/12) Romantic comedy, starring Adam Sandler and Drew Barrymore. ★★★★ 4.05 50 First Dates (2004/12) A vet falls in love with a woman who suffers from short-term memory-loss and forgets him after each of their encounters. Comedy, with Drew Barrymore and Adam Sandler. ★★★ 6.00 5 News Weekend Headlines. 6.05 Sally Lindsay’s Posh Sleepover The actress visits upmarket homes around the UK, beginning in Mayfair. (R) 7.00 Upgrade Me! Secrets of First Class (1/2) Behind the scenes on the world’s most exclusive first-class flights, revealing the levels of luxury and service that can be enjoyed when money is no object. 8.00 All Creatures Great and Small James discovers that Mrs Pumphrey has not been keeping her Pekingese on the diet he prescribed, and has to take the spoiled dog in while it recovers from an illness. (R) 9.00 Rich House, Poor House (1/7) Two more families from opposite ends of the wealth divide swap homes. Digital marketing company CEO Kelly Filistad, her husband Rob and their two daughters trade places with Natalie and Nikki Ryan and their three children, who live on around £99 a week. 10.00 Me & My 10 Kids: Mega Families The Sullivans have a busy day as their children go back to school, while the Gales prove popular in their street when they decide to put up their very own inflatable castle. (R) 10.55 Funniest Ever TV Cock- Ups 2 A compilation of classic television mistakes. (R) 12.55am Entertainment News on 5 1.00 The 21.co.uk Live Casino Show 3.00 Entertainment News on 5 3.10 Room to Improve (R) 4.00 Get Your Tatts Out: Kavos Ink (R) 4.50 Wildlife SOS (R) 5.15 House Doctor (R) 5.40 Milkshake! Monkey’s Amazing Adventures (R) 5.45 Peppa Pig: double bill 5.55-6.00am Peppa Pig (R) ITV2 F’VIEW 6 • SKY 118 • virgin 115 • F’SAT 113 6.00am You’ve Been Framed! Gold 6.30 Secret Crush 8.25 Dress to Impress 11.25 Take Me Out 12.30pm Catchphrase Celebrity Special 1.30 You’ve Been Framed! 3.00 FILM The House with a Clock in Its Walls (2018/12) Fantasy comedy. ★★★ 5.10 FILM Nanny McPhee (2005/U) Period fantasy with Colin Firth. ★★★ 7.05 FILM Legally Blonde 2: Red, White and Blonde (2003/PG) Comedy, with Reese Witherspoon. ★★ 9.00 Love Island Reality series. 10.00 Love Island: Aftersun With Ella Henderson and Arielle Free. 11.05 Family Guy. Animated comedy. 12.00m’t American Dad! 1.00 Crossing Swords 2.00 Shopping with Keith Lemon 2.30 The Emily Atack Show 3.10 FYI Extra 3.25 Nightscreen 3.30-6.00am Teleshopping BBC Four F’VIEW 9 • SKY 116 • virgin 107 • F’SAT 107 7.00pm BBC Proms 2021 Icelandic pianist Vikingur Olafsson joins the Philharmonia for his Proms debut, performing JS Bach’s Keyboard Concerto in F minor and Mozart’s Piano Concerto in C Minor. 9.05 A Change of Sex Double bill. It’s 1979 and Julia’s first year living as a woman, before the NHS psychiatrist in charge of her case makes a decision on whether to allow gender reassignment surgery; after breast implants, Julia becomes desperate to complete her transformation and begins looking for a private surgeon to perform the final operation. 11.00 Nature’s Turtle Nursery: Inside the Nest 12.30am A Turtle’s Guide to the Pacific. Documentary. 1.20 Perfect Pianists at the BBC 2.20-3.20am A Change of Sex. Documentary. ITV3 6.00am Bless This House 6.55 Emmerdale Omnibus 9.50 FILM Carry On Again Doctor (1969/PG) Comedy, starring Sid James. ★★★ 11.35 Inspector Morse 3.55pm Midsomer Murders. Detective drama. 8.00 Midsomer Murders The discovery of a priceless music score leads to startling revelations about its composer, and may provide clues to the case of a man found battered to death. Guest starring June Whitfield. 10.00 Lewis A religious fanatic is found dead in his bath. When it turns out the victim had been jailed for attempted murder, suspicion falls on the man he tried to kill. Kevin Whately and Laurence Fox star. 12.05am Coronation Street Omnibus 2.50 Emmerdale Omnibus 5.15 Bless This House 5.40-6.00am Nightscreen Drama Team GB Homecoming Concert By The National Lottery 7.30pm, BBC One Talk about a hero’s welcome! This grand do – hosted by Greg James and Clara Amfo at whatever Wembley Arena is called this week – is fit for our Olympic legends, with winning performances from the likes of Nile Rodgers, Rag’n’Bone Man and Laura Mvula. Get set for gold standard partying. F’VIEW 10 • SKY 119 • virgin 117 • F’SAT 115 F’VIEW 20 • SKY 143 • virgin 130 • F’SAT 158 6.00am Teleshopping 7.10 The Bill 11.00 The Paradise 1.50pm A Place to Call Home 3.50 Catherine Cookson’s A Dinner of Herbs. Drama. 6.50 Bleak House Lady Dedlock warns Tulkinghorn against his prying. 8.00 Call the Midwife Lucille treats a hoarder suffering from a leg ulcer, and fears that her living conditions will have a serious effect on her recovery. 9.20 Shirley Biopic of Shirley Bassey, charting the singer’s early career, from her roots in 1930s Cardiff to the start of her rise to stardom in the 1960s. 10.55 Rebus World-weary detective inspector John Rebus goes on the trail of a copycat serial killer, only to be taken off the case pending an inquiry. 1.05am The Lady Vanishes. Mystery. 2.50 Birds of a Feather. Comedy series. 4.00-6.00am Teleshopping SUNDAY August 15 Scotland & Wales BBC Scotland 12.00noon This Is BBC Scotland 7.00pm The Seven 7.15 Rewind 1980s. The music, news and TV of the decade. 7.30 Wild Shetland – Scotland’s Viking Frontier. A portrait of wildlife on the Shetland Islands, narrated by Ewan McGregor. 8.30 Grand Tours of Scotland’s Lochs. Paul Murton travels into the secret heart of the Rough Bounds of Knoydart. 9.00 The Years That Changed Modern Scotland. Kirsty Wark explores the 1980s and early ’90s. 10.00 Still Game. Jack and Victor try to emulate Old Tam’s competitionwinning success. Sitcom, starring Ford Kiernan and Greg Hemphill. 10.30 NEW David Wilson’s Crime Files. The criminologist examines spree and mass killings. 11.00pm-12.00m’t Seven Days BBC One Scotland As BBC One except: 6.20-6.30pm Reporting Scotland. The day’s headlines. BBC One Wales As BBC One except: 1.50pm Escape to the Country 2.20 Money for Nothing 3.20 FILM Planes: Fire & Rescue (2014/U) Animated adventure sequel, with the voice of Dane Cook. ★★★ 4.35 Tudur’s TV Flashback. Archive clips. 5.05-6.05 Hidden Wales with Will Millard 6.20-6.30 BBC Wales Today 11.30 Hayley Goes 12.05am FILM Eaten by Lions (2018/12) Premiere. Comedy, starring Antonio Aakeel. ★★★★ 1.35-6.00am BBC News BBC Two Wales As BBC Two except: 6.00pm Iolo’s Street Life. Iolo Williams finds badgers, foxes, hedgehogs, birds and bees active in town. 6.30-7.00pm Sam and Shauna’s Big Cook Out. Samantha Evans and Shauna Guinn meet a group of surf teachers. STV As ITV except: 6.00-6.10pm STV News 1.25-3.00am ITV Nightscreen ITV Wales As ITV except: 6.00-6.10pm ITV News Cymru Wales. The day’s headlines. S4C 6.00am Cyw 8.50 Penblwyddi Cyw 9.00 Y Fets 10.00 Eisteddfod AmGen 2021 11.00 Heno Aur 11.30 Duwiau Coll 12.00noon Codi Pac 12.30 ’Sgota gyda Julian Lewis Jones 1.00 Her yr Hinsawdd 1.30 Cymru Wyllt 2.30 Straeon Tafarn 3.00 Am Dro 3.55 Gerddi Cymru 4.20 Corau Rhys Meirion 5.15 Bois y Pizza 5.45 Triathlon Cymru: Triathlon Porthcawl 6.15 Pobol y Cwm Omnibws 7.45 Newyddion a Chwaraeon 8.00 Cofio Ceredig. Documentary celebrating the life of Huw Ceredig. 9.00 Porthpenwaig. Casi’s return causes friction. 10.00 Waliau’n Siarad. Aled Hughes and Sara Huws hear the stories of people who lived and worked within the walls of the old Llanfyllin workhouse. 11.00-11.35pm Dan Do. Visiting a modern house in Bangor.

BBC One BBC Two ITV Channel 4 F’VIEW 1 • SKY 101 • virgin 101 • F’SAT 101 F’VIEW 2 • SKY 102 • virgin 102 • F’SAT 102 F’VIEW 3 • SKY 103 • virgin 103 • F’SAT 103 F’VIEW 4 • SKY 104 • virgin 104 • F’SAT 104 6.00am Breakfast 9.15 Animal Park 10.00 Homes Under the Hammer (R) 11.00 Wanted Down Under Revisited (R) 11.45 Caught Red Handed 12.15pm Bargain Hunt. From Wrexham. 1.00 BBC News; Regional News 1.45 The Coroner Crime drama. (R) 2.30 WPC 56 The team must decide where their loyalties lie. (R) 3.15 Greatest Escapes to the Country Some of the finest country homes. (R) 3.45 Saved and Remade (3/20) Items to be upgraded include a musician’s first ever trombone. 4.30 The Bidding Room Five dealers bid on a wind-up toy monkey. 5.15 Pointless Low-scoring quiz. (R) 6.00 BBC News; Regional News 6.00am A Matter of Life and Debt (R) 6.30 Animal Park (R) 7.15 Bargain Hunt: Ceramics Special (R) 8.00 Fake or Fortune? An oil painting’s history. (R) 9.00 BBC News at 9 10.00 BBC News 1.00pm Letterbox Gameshow. (R) 1.30 Eggheads Quiz show. (R) 2.00 The House That £100K Built (R) 3.00 Make Me a Dealer (R) 3.45 Rick Stein’s Seafood Odyssey A spicy squid salad. (R) 4.15 Animals with Cameras (R) 5.15 Flog It! From Norfolk. (R) 6.00 Richard Osman’s House of Games Reeta Chakrabarti, Olga Koch, Andrew Maxwell and Gareth Thomas compete. 6.30 The Farmers’ Country Showdown Documentary. (R) 6.00am Good Morning Britain 9.00 Lorraine Entertainment news. 10.00 This Morning Celebrity chat and lifestyle features. 12.30pm Loose Women Celebrity interviews and topical debate. 1.30 ITV Lunchtime News; Weather 1.55 Regional News; Weather 2.00 Dickinson’s Real Deal In Warwick, Henry Nicholls is baffled by modern art. (R) 3.00 Tenable Five university friends answer questions about top 10 lists, then try to score a perfect 10 in the final round. (R) 4.00 Tipping Point Quiz show. (R) 5.00 The Chase Quiz show, hosted by Bradley Walsh. (R) 6.00 Regional News; Weather 6.30 ITV Evening News; Weather 6.00am Countdown (R) 6.40 Mike & Molly (R) 7.25 Everybody Loves Raymond (R) 8.40 Frasier (R) 9.40 The Big Bang Theory (R) 11.05 The Simpsons (R) 12.10pm Junior Bake Off (R) 1.10 A New Life in the Sun: Road Trip Brits living abroad. (R) 2.10 Countdown Word game. 3.00 Find It, Fix It, Flog It (R) 4.00 A Place in the Sun Finding a holiday home in Brittany. (R) 5.00 Come Dine with Me Paralympics Special Dressage champion Natasha Baker hosts. 5.30 The Simpsons Double bill. Lisa cheats in an exam; Norwegian immigrants look for work. (R) 6.30 Hollyoaks Misbah is on a mission to hide the truth. (R) 7.00 Rip Off Britain Motorhome owners caught in a tug of war after the company they bought them from went bust. (R) 7.35 Hunting the Social Media Fraudsters – Panorama Kafui Okpattah reports on cyber scammers using social media to promote fraud. 8.05 EastEnders Isaac becomes the target of online trolls, Kheerat makes plans for the Arches, and Billy’s jealousy puts him into competition with Jay. 8.30 Ghosts (2/6) A visitor has a revelation that leaves Alison reeling and Thomas wrestling with unexpected feelings. 9.00 Celebrity MasterChef Penny Lancaster, Megan McKenna, Melanie Sykes, Patrick Grant and Nabil Abdulrashid prepare a dish using mystery ingredients. 7.00 Cricket: Today at the Test England v India. Action from day five of the Second Test in the five-match series, taking place at Lord’s, London. 8.00 Only Connect Victoria Coren Mitchell ask the questions as the first round continues, with the Debuggers taking on the Steelersin the quiz based on patience and lateral thinking. 8.30 University Challenge The first-round continues with the University of Strathclyde going up against the University of Reading. Jeremy Paxman hosts. 9.00 8 Days: To the Moon and Back Dramatised documentary about the Apollo 11 mission to the Moon, featuring declassified cockpit audio, cutting-edge digital effects and performances to tell the story of Apollo 11. (R) 7.00 Emmerdale Bob is uneasy about why Wendy lied to him. 7.30 Coronation Street Fiz spends the night in a police cell, sticking to her story that she started the fire, and Debbie sets up a conversation with Ronnie. 8.00 James Martin’s Islands to Highlands The chef explores his native Yorkshire with Brian Turner, with the pair also try out clay-pigeon shooting and go off-road driving. (R) 8.30 Coronation Street The police inform Fiz they know who started the fire, and Ronnie is amused by Jenny’s jealousy. 9.00 Long Lost Family (7/10) Davina McCall and Nicky Campbell present the stories of more people searching for siblings, including a reunited pair who then found out they had an older sister. 7.00 Channel 4 News Headlines. 8.00 Food Unwrapped’s Healthy Hacks Jimmy Doherty is in India exploring the health claims behind pomegranates, including claims that the fruit can be useful in helping Alzheimer’s sufferers and Amanda Byram examines reports that rosemary can help improve exam performance. 9.00 Children of 9/11: Our Story The stories of six young people whose fathers were killed in the 9/11 attacks, either before they were born, or before they had a chance to meet, and whose lives have been shaped by an event they didn’t witness. The programme features home movie footage shot over the course of their lives and candid accounts of their mothers of the attacks. 10.00 BBC News; Regional News 10.35 Ladhood (1/6) The return of the comedy. Liam goes on a date for the first time since his break-up with Jess, only for a question to remind him of his younger days. Written by and starring Liam Williams. 11.00pm Have I Got a Bit More News for You Alexander Armstrong hosts an extended edition of the satirical quiz, with guests Hannah Fry and Phil Wang. (R) 11.45 Shop Well for Less? Melanie Sykes and Joanna Page travel to Gillingham, Kent, to help a family kick-start their savings pot so they can finish their hall refurbishment. (R) 12.45am Weather for the Week Ahead 12.50-6.00am BBC News. Headlines. 10.30 Newsnight With Faisal Islam. 11.15pm Secrets of the Museum A major refit provides an opportunity for a flamboyant Victorian majolica vase to shine, and staff work on a project conserving a unique set of Chinese paintings. (R) 12.15am Countryfile. Joe Crowley and Charlotte Smith visit a 100-acre rewilding site near Loch Ness, where scientists are mapping, tracking and quantifying changes to the landscape and the life in it. (R) 1.10 Murder, Mystery and My Family: Case Closed? A 1889 murder case, where a young American woman was charged with poisoning her husband in Liverpool. (R) 1.55 Wanted: A Simple Life. Hannah Lemon from London considers making a move to the Isle of Skye. (R) 2.40-6.00am This Is BBC Two 10.00 ITV News at Ten; Weather 10.30 Regional News; Weather 10.45 Heathrow: Britain’s Busiest Airport Border force dog Jessie sniffs out thousands of pounds. Meanwhile, passenger experience manager Demi prevents a cardiologist from having a heart attack. (R) 11.10pm Junk and Disorderly Transforming a BSA Bantam from a roadster into a trial bike. (R) 12.05am All Elite Wrestling: Dynamite. Hardhitting action from the world of All Elite Wrestling. 12.55 Home Shopping 3.00 FYI Extra 3.15 Lingo. Three more pairs compete. Adil Ray hosts. (R) 4.05 ITV Nightscreen 5.05-6.00am Tipping Point. Coin-drop quiz. (R) 11.00pm 999: On the Front Line Paramedic Rob Moore and technician Chloe Walker rush to a GP surgery, where a 19-year-old woman has suspected meningitis and sepsis. (R) 12.00m’t 24 Hours in A&E. A compilation of memorable stories. Doctors examine a toddler who has not urinated for two days, a man who crashed his car on the motorway and a woman who collapsed in the garden. (R) 1.00 Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares USA. Gordon Ramsay visits one of the filthiest restaurants he has ever seen. (R) 1.50 Couples Come Dine with Me (R) 2.40 The Handmaid’s Tale (R) 3.40 Snackmasters: Wagon Wheel (R) 4.35 Location, Location, Location (R) 5.25 Beat the Chef (R) 5.50-6.00am Kirstie’s Handmade Treasures (R) ★★★★★ brilliant ★★★★ very good ★★★ good ★★ average ★ bad

Channel 5 F’VIEW 5 • SKY 105 • virgin 105 • F’SAT 105 6.00am Milkshake! 9.15 Jeremy Vine 11.15 Room to Improve (R) 12.15pm 5 News at Lunchtime 12.20 Ben Fogle: New Lives in the Wild. From Wales. (R) 1.15 Home and Away See 6.00pm. 1.45 Neighbours See 5.30pm. 2.15 Aurora Teagarden Mysteries: Heist and Seek (2020/PG) Premiere. Mystery, starring Candace Cameron Bure. ★★★ 4.00 Bargain-Loving Brits in the Sun Vikki arranges a ‘Spanish Day’ for her clients. (R) 5.00 5 News at 5 Headlines. 5.30 Neighbours Chloe decides she needs space to think. (R) 6.00 Home and Away Roo ponders approaching her parents. (R) 6.30 5 News Tonight Headlines. 7.00 Traffic Cops After a spate of alleged violent robberies in south Derbyshire, Alex and Jason support a team of local officers as they chase down a gang of teenage suspects. (R) Followed by 5 News Update 8.00 Police Interceptors (11/15) Officers give chase when a handcuffed suspect makes a break for it, while police comb the streets for a man who has threatened to stab his former partner and harm her horse. Followed by 5 News Update 9.00 The Railway Killers (1/3) Documentary about a series of murders of women at railway stations in London in the early 1980s. The first edition reflects on a city plagued by muggings and sexual assaults, where an under-resourced police force struggled to keep control. 10.00 Casualty 24/7: Every Second Counts A critically ill patient is brought into the emergency department after suffering a sudden cardiac arrest, and another patient is treated for a broken wrist. (R) 11.05pm Ambulance: Code Red Paramedic Jack attends the scene of a double stabbing in Birmingham. (R) 12.05am Extraordinary People: Coma Boys. Young brothers who suffer a nocturnal state of paralysis. (R) 1.00 The 21.co.uk Live Casino Show 3.00 Entertainment News on 5 3.10 Room to Improve (R) 4.00 Get Your Tatts Out: Kavos Ink (R) 4.45 Wildlife SOS (R) 5.10 House Doctor (R) 5.35 Thomas & Friends: Big World! Big Adventures! (R) 5.50-6.00am Fireman Sam (R) ITV2 F’VIEW 6 • SKY 118 • virgin 115 • F’SAT 113 6.00am Ellen’s Game of Games 6.55 Totally Bonkers Guinness World Records 7.25 You’ve Been Framed! Gold 8.00 Emmerdale 8.30 Coronation Street 9.30 Ellen’s Game of Games 10.30 The Masked Singer US 12.30pm Emmerdale 1.00 Coronation Street 2.00 Supermarket Sweep 3.00 Dress to Impress 4.00 Secret Crush 5.00 You’ve Been Framed! Gold 5.30 You’ve Been Framed! Gold: Unleashed 6.00 Catchphrase Celebrity Special 7.00 Superstore Double bill. 8.00 Bob’s Burgers Double bill. 9.00 Love Island Reality show. 10.05 The Emily Atack Show 10.50 Family Guy Double bill. 11.45 American Dad! 12.40am Crossing Swords 1.35 Bob’s Burgers 2.25 Superstore 3.15 Nightscreen 3.30-6.00am Teleshopping BBC Four F’VIEW 9 • SKY 116 • virgin 107 • F’SAT 107 7.00pm The Joy of Painting Bob Ross paints a scene featuring a creek. 7.30 Pubs, Ponds and Power: The Story of the Village Ben Robinson explores the history of Port Isaac. 8.00 Painting the Holy Land Exploring the role of Mary in the Bible. 9.00 FILM Time and Again (2019) Short romantic drama, starring Sian Phillips and Brigit Forsyth. ★★★ 9.30 Against the Law Drama about a 1954 trial in which Peter Wildeblood, Lord Montagu and Michael Pitt- Rivers were tried for homosexual offences. Daniel Mays heads the cast. 10.55 Queers Starring Ben Whishaw. 11.15 Queers 12.15am Handmade in Mexico 12.45 Fabric of Britain: The Story of Embroidery 1.45 Pubs, Ponds and Power: The Story of the Village 2.15-3.15am Painting the Holy Land ITV3 6.00am Classic Coronation Street 7.00 Classic Emmerdale 8.05 Heartbeat 9.10 Bless This House 9.45 On the Buses 10.20 A Touch of Frost 12.40pm Heartbeat 1.45 Classic Emmerdale 2.50 Classic Coronation Street 3.55 Wycliffe 4.55 Midsomer Murders 6.55 Downton Abbey Mr Carson and Mrs Hughes’ wedding arrives. 8.00 Lewis The detective suspects rock band veterans are mixed up in murder. Simon Callow guests. 10.00 Ladies of Letters Double bill. Comedy based on the books and radio series by Carole Hayman and Lou Wakefield, about two widows swapping recipes and sarcasm by post; the friends fall out over a widower giving them both attention. 11.00 The Bay 12.05am A Touch of Frost 2.25-2.30am Nightscreen Drama Long Lost Family 9pm, ITV This is Mavis Eglington, the late mother of two of this week’s searchers, Steve and Maria. Since finding one another in adulthood (Steve having been adopted as a baby), these siblings have been wonderfully close. But at Mavis’s funeral they learnt they had a big sister. Can they track her down? F’VIEW 10 • SKY 119 • virgin 117 • F’SAT 115 F’VIEW 20 • SKY 143 • virgin 130 • F’SAT 158 6.00am Teleshopping 7.20 Doctor Finlay 8.25 The Bill 9.30 Classic Holby City 10.55 Classic Casualty 12.00noon The Bill 1.00 Classic EastEnders 2.20 Peak Practice 3.20 Bergerac 4.20 Dangerfield 5.20 Birds of a Feather 6.00 Hi-de-Hi! Clive and Gladys cancel their wedding. Ruth Madoc stars. 6.40 As Time Goes By A bathroom blunder becomes a major issue. 7.20 Last of the Summer Wine Auntie Wainwright is puzzled. 8.00 The Coroner Jane tries to solve the disappearance of a playboy. 9.00 Luther The detective is forced to confront a demon from his past. 10.20 New Tricks The team reopens the case of a political aide’s murder. 11.30 Bad Girls. Drama. 12.45am Dalziel & Pascoe 2.45 Kavanagh QC. Drama. 4.00-6.00am Teleshopping MONDAY August 16 Scotland & Wales BBC Scotland 12.00noon This Is BBC Scotland 1.00pm Sign Zone: Inside the Zoo 2.00 Sign Zone: Beechgrove 2.30 Sign Zone: Fish Town 3.00 This Is BBC Scotland 7.00 Beechgrove. Carole and Mairi attempt to tame a large clump of exuberant bamboo. 7.30 The Great Food Guys. With guest Jackie Kay. 8.00 Born to Be Wild. The head of birds works from home during the pandemic. 9.00 The Nine 10.00 The Karen Dunbar Show. Pensioner Maisie drives motorists round the bend. 10.25 Not Your Average Influencers. The lives of Charlie Allan and Lauren Faulkner, who have amassed more than 300,000 followers across their digital platforms, making social media their full-time jobs. 10.55 Bash the Entertainer: Behind the Smile. The social media star opens up about using comedy to fight racism, and also discusses his battles with mentalhealth problems. 11.25 Rewind 1990s. News, events and music from 1990. 11.55pm-12.00m’t Loop. Artist Li Huang reveals why his father inspired him to paint. BBC One Scotland As BBC One except: 6.30-7.00pm Reporting Scotland. The day’s headlines. BBC One Wales As BBC One except: 6.30-7.00pm BBC Wales Today. The day’s headlines. STV As ITV except: 1.55-2.00pm STV News; Weather 6.00-6.30 STV News at Six; Weather 10.30-10.45 STV News 12.55-3.00am ITV Nightscreen ITV Wales As ITV except: 1.55-2.00pm ITV News Cymru Wales 6.00-6.30 ITV News Wales at Six 8.00-8.30 Beyond the Line: North Wales’s Traffic Cops. Behind the scenes with the North Wales Roads Policing Unit. 10.30-10.45pm ITV News Cymru Wales S4C 6.00am Cyw 12.00noon Newyddion S4C a’r Tywydd 12.05 Pobl a’u Gerddi 12.30 Heno 1.00 Darn Bach o Hanes 1.30 Heno Aur 2.00 Newyddion S4C a’r Tywydd 2.05 Prynhawn Da 3.00 Newyddion S4C a’r Tywydd 3.05 Hen Dy Newydd 4.00 Awr Fawr: Sali Mali 4.05 Halibalw 4.15 Pablo 4.25 Guto Gwningen 4.40 Amser Maith Maith yn Ol 5.00 Stwnsh: Dreigiau – Marchogion Berc 5.25 Y Brodyr Adrenalini 5.30 Sgorio 5.55 Larfa 6.00 Arfordir Cymru Llyn 6.30 Helo Syrjeri 6.57 Newyddion S4C 7.00 Heno 7.30 Newyddion S4C a’r Tywydd 8.00 Pobol y Cwm. Garry finally finds Dani. 8.25 Garddio a Mwy. Iwan Edwards learns more about the permaculture method of gardening. 8.55 Newyddion S4C a’r Tywydd 9.00 Cefn Gwlad. A visit to central France. 10.00 Y Fets. Phil and Iwan visit two farms that belong to two brothers to test the herd for TB. 11.00-11.35pm Traed Lan. Cerdin Price witnesses a digital post-mortem.

BBC One BBC Two ITV Channel 4 F’VIEW 1 • SKY 101 • virgin 101 • F’SAT 101 F’VIEW 2 • SKY 102 • virgin 102 • F’SAT 102 F’VIEW 3 • SKY 103 • virgin 103 • F’SAT 103 F’VIEW 4 • SKY 104 • virgin 104 • F’SAT 104 6.00am Breakfast 9.15 Animal Park 10.00 Homes Under the Hammer (R) 11.00 Wanted Down Under Revisited (R) 11.45 Caught Red Handed 12.15pm Bargain Hunt (R) 1.00 BBC News; Regional News 1.45 The Coroner Crime drama. (R) 2.30 Impossible Quiz show. (R) 3.15 Greatest Escapes to the Country Looking back at memorable homes. (R) 3.45 Saved and Remade (2/15) Items include a replica postbox and a battered armchair. 4.30 The Bidding Room Items include a 1970s film poster and some filigree miniatures. 5.15 Pointless Low-scoring quiz. (R) 6.00 BBC News; Regional News 6.00am A Matter of Life and Debt (R) 6.30 Animal Park (R) 7.15 The Bidding Room (R) 8.00 Our Wild Adventures (R) 9.00 BBC News at 9 10.00 BBC News 1.00pm The Super League Show Action from the latest fixtures. (R) 1.45 Eggheads Quiz show. (R) 2.15 Nigel Slater’s Dish of the Day Turning staple recipes into sensational dishes. (R) 2.45 The Hundred Northern Superchargers v Birmingham Phoenix (start-time 3.00pm). Isa Guha presents coverage of the latest women’s match. 5.30 Flog It! Thomas Plant and Catherine Southon value items at London Zoo in Regent’s Park, while Paul Martin tours some of the site’s listed buildings. (R) 6.00am Good Morning Britain 9.00 Lorraine Entertainment news. 10.00 This Morning Celebrity chat and lifestyle features. 12.30pm Loose Women Celebrity interviews and topical debate. 1.30 ITV Lunchtime News; Weather 1.55 Regional News; Weather 2.00 Dickinson’s Real Deal David Dickinson and the team are in Scarborough. (R) 3.00 Tenable Subjects include rugby union, Grease and boys’ names beginning with J. (R) 4.00 Tipping Point Ben Shephard hosts the quiz show. (R) 5.00 The Chase Quiz show, hosted by Bradley Walsh. (R) 6.00 Regional News; Weather 6.30 ITV Evening News; Weather 6.00am Countdown (R) 6.40 Mike & Molly (R) 7.25 Everybody Loves Raymond (R) 8.40 Frasier (R) 9.40 The Big Bang Theory (R) 11.05 The Simpsons (R) 12.10pm Junior Bake Off (R) 1.10 A New Life in the Sun: Road Trip France’s Bordeaux and Bergerac wine regions. (R) 2.10 Countdown Word game. 3.00 Find It, Fix It, Flog It (R) 4.00 A Place in the Sun A home on the French island of Oleron. (R) 5.00 Come Dine with Me Paralympics Special Judoka Chris Skelley hosts the second dinner party of the week. 5.30 The Simpsons Double bill. (R) 6.30 Hollyoaks James decides to confront John Paul. (R) 7.00 Keeping Up with the Maileys – Our Lives An insight into living with dwarfism through the experiences of one family, three of whom were born with achondroplasia. 7.30 EastEnders Ben and Kheerat clash over the Arches, and Jay and Billy sort out their rivalry with a penalty shootout. 7.50 Holby City Evie’s guilt intensifies after tricking Mia into attending Rich’s party. Dom gets on board with Darwin’s stent trial in the hope of slowing down his mother’s dementia. 8.30 Not Going Out Lee joins Facebook for the first time and makes contact with an exgirlfriend from 20 years ago. (R) 9.00 Celebrity MasterChef Chef Mitch Tonks challenges each of the contenders to cook one of his favourite seafood recipes. 6.00 The Hundred Northern Superchargers v Birmingham Phoenix (Start-time 6.30pm). Isa Guha presents all the action from the latest men’s match in the inaugural 100-ball competition, held at Emerald Headingley. Both teams won two and lost two of their first four completed matches so a closely fought encounter is anticipated this evening. 9.30 Secrets of the Museum (5/6) Documentary going behind closed doors at the world-famous Victoria and Albert Museum in London, getting a glimpse at some of the two million items not on public display. This week, Winston Churchill’s despatch box needs attention, it’s removal day for a 350-year-old doll’s house, and a painting by Constable is on the move. 7.00 Emmerdale Leyla has some news, April is terrified and Wendy makes an admission. 7.30 Wild China with Ray Mears (6/7) Making his way through the world’s highest and largest grassland in China’s Qinghai Province, Ray comes face to face with a brown bear. 8.00 Love Your Garden Alan Titchmarsh surprises senior citizens in Thornton Heath, turning an urban wasteland into a welcoming oasis of swaying grasses and pretty daisy flowers. Last in series. (R) 9.00 Cooking with the Stars The three remaining contestants showcase all of the skills they have learnt as they compete against each other in a bid to be crowned this year’s winner. Hosted by Emma Willis and Tom Allen. Last in series. 7.00 Channel 4 News Including sport and weather reports. 8.00 The Secret Life of the Zoo Giant otter Tarubu needs to be a better dad to his newborn pups, red river hog Kya is being bullied by her sisters and keepers worry when turtle Donatello goes off his food. 9.00 24 Hours in A&E A compilation of memorable stories filmed at King’s College Hospital in South London. Dave, who’s 56, has been rushed to A&E after falling 15 feet onto concrete while working on a building site. Fourteen-year-old Josh has come in after tumbling off the handlebars of his BMX – while his dad Simon was pedalling. Samuel, 78, explains his fear of ageing after tripping up while out shopping. 10.00 BBC News; Regional News 10.35 Models: Street to Catwalk Double bill. Jordaine visits Nemesis Models for an audition that could change her life. Hal wants to swap street fighting for modelling; young model Juan fears his career is over after being attacked in the street. 11.45pm Bates Motel Double bill. Dylan returns home and Romero convalesces with the help of an old friend; Norman’s murderous alter ego gets tough with him to ensure their survival. Sheriff Greene begins a murder investigation, while Dylan tries to get his brother the help he needs. 1.10 Weather for the Week Ahead 1.15-6.00am BBC News. Headlines. 10.30 Newsnight The day’s events, presented by Kirsty Wark. 11.15pm Yorkshire Firefighters Crews from Dewsbury are called to help David who is in his 80s. He needs urgent medical treatment, but paramedics can’t get into his house. Meanwhile, crew commander Asif heads out to check up on Christine, an elderly lady who lives alone and has been kept up all night by beeping smoke alarms. Over in Bradford, the team are called to reports of smoke in the basement of a block in the city centre. (R) 12.15am Victoria Wood: The Secret List: double bill (R) 2.15 Murder, Mystery and My Family: Case Closed? The poisoning of a care home resident by her nurse in the 1930s. (R) 3.00-6.00am This Is BBC Two 10.00 ITV News at Ten; Weather 10.30 Regional News; Weather 10.45 The Chasers Road Trip: Trains, Brains and Automobiles Anne Hegerty, Mark Labbett and Shaun Wallace uncover the cognitive abilities of animals. (R) 11.45pm The Motorbike Show Henry Cole rides through Snowdonia to meet round-the-world biker Steph Jeavons. Henry’s restoration of the Moto Martin continues with a visit to the hard chromers, he reviews a brand new Royal Enfield Meteor and finishes by testing a radically customised Enfield Bullet. (R) 12.35am Home Shopping 3.00 FYI Extra 3.15 ITV Nightscreen 5.05-6.00am Tipping Point. Quiz. (R) 10.00 Jonnie’s Blade Camp Jonnie Peacock continues his training course for young amputees, with help from a world-class sprinter and the world’s only tetraplegic female racing driver. 11.05pm Cruises from Hell: Caught on Camera Real-life footage of nautical nightmares. (R) 12.05am Naked Attraction. Carer Kelly from Brighton hopes to find someone, male or female, to give her a little TLC. (R) 1.05 The Simpsons (R) 1.30 This Way Up (R) 2.00 Undercover Boss USA (R) 2.50 FILM Entertainment (2015/15) Drama, starring Gregg Turkington. ★★★ 4.30 Location, Location, Location (R) 5.25 Beat the Chef (R) 5.55-6.00am Kirstie’s Vintage Gems (R) ★★★★★ brilliant ★★★★ very good ★★★ good ★★ average ★ bad

Channel 5 F’VIEW 5 • SKY 105 • virgin 105 • F’SAT 105 6.00am Milkshake! 9.15 Jeremy Vine 11.15 Room to Improve (R) 12.15pm 5 News 12.20 Ben Fogle: New Lives in the Wild (R) 1.15 Home and Away See 6.00pm. (R) 1.45 Neighbours See 5.30pm. 2.15 Aurora Teagarden Mysteries – Reunited and It Feels So Deadly (2020/PG) Thriller, with Candace Cameron Bure. ★★ 4.00 Bargain-Loving Brits in the Sun Two landladies who moved from Wigan to Benidorm. (R) 5.00 5 News at 5 Headlines. 5.30 Neighbours Chloe wakes up alone in the vineyard. (R) 6.00 Home and Away Nikau has had enough of Sienna. (R) 6.30 5 News Tonight Headlines. 7.00 GPs: Behind Closed Doors Dr Razak’s first patient Michael has a nasty bruise on his arm after a fall, and Sarah comes in after experiencing extreme gynaecological pain. Followed by 5 News Update 8.00 A Country Life for Half the Price with Kate Humble (4/12) This time, Kate is in Norfolk to meet Kat and Louis who have decided it is time for a fresh start in the country. Followed by 5 News 9.00 The Railway Killers (2/3) A woman goes missing while on a train home from work, stoking fears that the killers have struck again – fears that prove accurate when her body is found. The police work through a list of over 3000 suspects with blood that matches the earlier crime scenes. 10.00 Stalked: Murder in Slow Motion Friends and family of women killed by their expartners tell the stories of how romance turned to obsession, jealousy and harassment that ended in murder. (R) 11.05pm Suffolk Strangler: 30 Days of Terror The crimes of Steve Wright, also known as the Ipswich Ripper. (R) 12.05am Shops & Robbers: Caught on Camera. Nick Wallis looks at the use of CCTV. (R) 1.00 The 21.co.uk Live Casino Show 3.00 Entertainment News on 5 3.10 Room to Improve. A farmhouse design with an urban style. (R) 4.00 Get Your Tatts Out: Kavos Ink (R) 4.45 Wildlife SOS (R) 5.10 House Doctor (R) 5.35 Thomas & Friends (R) 5.50-6.00am Fireman Sam (R) ITV2 F’VIEW 6 • SKY 118 • virgin 115 • F’SAT 113 6.55am Totally Bonkers Guinness World Records 7.25 You’ve Been Framed! 8.00 Emmerdale 8.30 Coronation Street 9.30 Ellen’s Game of Games 10.30 The Masked Singer US 11.30 Secret Crush 12.30pm Emmerdale 1.00 Coronation Street 2.00 Supermarket Sweep. Gameshow. 3.00 Dress to Impress 4.00 Secret Crush 5.00 You’ve Been Framed! Gold 6.00 Celebrity Catchphrase 7.00 Superstore Double bill. 8.00 Bob’s Burgers Double bill. 9.00 Love Island The latest events. 10.05 Shopping with Keith Lemon 10.35 Family Guy Animated antics. 11.00 Family Guy 11.30 American Dad! 12.30am Bob’s Burgers 1.25 Superstore 2.20 Totally Bonkers Guinness World Records 3.10 FYI Extra 3.25-3.30am Nightscreen BBC Four F’VIEW 9 • SKY 116 • virgin 107 • F’SAT 107 7.00pm The Joy of Painting An unusual blend of late-afternoon tones. 7.30 Pubs, Ponds and Power: The Story of the Village Ben Robinson explores the history of Lavenham. 8.00 The Good Life Double bill. Tom tries to market his garden produce; Tom gains two disciples. 9.00 Write Around the World with Richard E Grant The actor visits Andalucia in southern Spain. 10.00 JG Ballard: Face to Face Jeremy Isaacs talks to JG Ballard. 10.30 FILM Steve McQueen: Le Mans and The Man (2015/15) Feature-length documentary. ★★★★ 12.05am Handmade in Mexico. Documentary. 12.35 Opera Italia 1.35 Pubs, Ponds and Power: The Story of the Village 2.05-3.05am Write Around the World with Richard E Grant ITV3 6.00am Classic Coronation Street 7.00 Classic Emmerdale 8.05 Heartbeat 9.10 Bless This House 9.45 On the Buses 10.20 A Touch of Frost 12.40pm Heartbeat 1.45 Classic Emmerdale 2.50 Classic Coronation Street 3.55 Wycliffe 5.00 Midsomer Murders. Detective drama. 7.00 Downton Abbey An old friend returns in unexpected circumstances. 8.00 Midsomer Murders A socialite is found dead in Midsomer Malham. 10.00 Ladies of Letters Double bill. Vera accepts an invitation to stay with Irene, but blots her copybook by upstaging her at the cricket club dance. With Maureen Lipman; Vera discovers her daughter is pregnant. 11.00 The Bay. Crime drama. 12.00m’t A Touch of Frost 2.15 Nightscreen 2.30-6.00am Teleshopping Drama Keeping Up With The Maileys – Our Lives 7pm, BBC One Tricia Mailey and husband Sean have three kids – Cara, Noah and Bethany. Like their mum, Cara and Noah have the heightrestricting condition achondroplasia. Like their dad, Bethany is of average height. This is a heartwarming profile of a family refusing to be judged as different from any other. F’VIEW 10 • SKY 119 • virgin 117 • F’SAT 115 F’VIEW 20 • SKY 143 • virgin 130 • F’SAT 158 6.00am Teleshopping 7.20 Doctor Finlay 8.25 The Bill 9.30 Classic Holby City 10.55 Classic Casualty 12.00noon The Bill 1.00 Classic EastEnders 2.20 Peak Practice 3.20 Bergerac 4.20 Dangerfield 5.20 Birds of a Feather 6.00 Hi-de-Hi! Classic comedy. 6.40 As Time Goes By Comedy. 7.20 Last of the Summer Wine Alvin is upset that his kite will not fly. 8.00 The Last Detective Mod stands for the local council in opposition to the formidable Marjorie Balsam. 9.30 New Tricks The hunt for a killer forces Sandra to rethink her career. 10.40 Bad Girls Zandra collapses and has a fit, prompting speculation that her condition is drugs-related. 11.50 Dalziel & Pascoe. Detective drama. 1.55am Kavanagh QC. Drama. 4.00-6.00am Teleshopping TUEsDAY August 17 Scotland & Wales BBC Scotland 12.00noon This Is BBC Scotland 7.00pm Paramedics on Scene. A bus crash in Glasgow leaves several passengers injured, while in Edinburgh, Moira and Blair are called to a lady who has collapsed on Princes Street and needs to go to hospital. 7.30 Island Medics. A 95-year-old navy veteran is winched from the deck of a cruise ship. 8.00 Making Scotland’s Landscape. Iain Stewart explores the effect mankind has had on the landscape of the Highlands, and recalls how an eminent ecologist described the region as a ‘wet desert’ in 1950. 9.00 The Nine 10.00 Rigs of Nigg. The story of how more than 5,000 men came together to create oil platforms in the North Sea – structures previously thought to be unbuildable. 11.00 Crime Scenes Scotland: Forensics Squad 11.50pm-12.00m’t Loop BBC One Scotland As BBC One except: 6.30-7.00pm Reporting Scotland. The day’s headlines. BBC One Wales As BBC One except: 6.30-7.00pm BBC Wales Today 8.30-9.00pm Tudur’s TV Flashback. Clips of child stars, Bollywood shows and lottery jackpots. STV As ITV except: 1.55-2.00pm STV News; Weather 6.00-6.30 STV News at Six; Weather 10.30-10.45 STV News 12.35-3.00am ITV Nightscreen ITV Wales As ITV except: 1.55-2.00pm ITV News Cymru Wales 6.00-6.30 ITV News Wales at Six. The day’s headlines. 10.30-10.45pm ITV News Cymru Wales. Regional reports. S4C 6.00am Cyw 12.00noon Newyddion S4C a’r Tywydd 12.05 Cegin Bryn: Tir a Mor 12.30 Heno 1.00 Codi Pac 1.30 Ar y Lein 2.00 Newyddion S4C a’r Tywydd 2.05 Prynhawn Da 3.00 Newyddion S4C a’r Tywydd 3.05 Y Fets 4.00 Awr Fawr: Crads Bach y Traeth 4.05 Bach a Mawr 4.15 Cei Bach 4.30 Sion y Chef 4.45 Patrol Pawennau 5.00 Stwnsh: Gwboi a Twm Twm 5.15 Cer I Greu 5.35 Y Dyfnfor 5.55 Larfa 6.00 Codi Hwyl 6.30 Rownd a Rownd 6.57 Newyddion S4C 7.00 Heno 7.30 Newyddion S4C a’r Tywydd 8.00 Pobol y Cwm. Hywel discovers that Gaynor has tried to spoil Mathew and Izzy’s plans. 8.25 Rownd a Rownd. Mathew wakes up in hospital. 8.55 Newyddion S4C a’r Tywydd 9.00 Bwrdd i Dri. With Connagh Howard, Mali Ann Rees and Mei Gwynedd. 9.30 Dim Byd Fel Hogia’r Wyddfa. Satirical current affairs programme. 10.00 Arswyd Ger y Llyn. Annecy is a ghost town where soldiers in gas masks roam freely. Darius Milanian is arrested but it is clear he is a pawn. In French. With on-screen English subtitles. 11.00-11.35pm Arfordir Cymru: Llyn

BBC One BBC Two ITV Channel 4 F’VIEW 1 • SKY 101 • virgin 101 • F’SAT 101 F’VIEW 2 • SKY 102 • virgin 102 • F’SAT 102 F’VIEW 3 • SKY 103 • virgin 103 • F’SAT 103 F’VIEW 4 • SKY 104 • virgin 104 • F’SAT 104 6.00am Breakfast 9.15 Animal Park 10.00 Homes Under the Hammer (R) 11.00 Wanted Down Under Revisited (R) 11.45 Caught Red Handed 12.15pm Bargain Hunt (R) 1.00 BBC News; Regional News 1.45 The Coroner The new mayor is found dead. (R) 2.30 Impossible Quiz show. (R) 3.15 Greatest Escapes to the Country Memorable properties from Shropshire. (R) 3.45 Saved and Remade (3/15) Items include a Swiss clock and a collection of skateboards. 4.30 The Bidding Room Items include a coin-operated giraffe. 5.15 Pointless Low-scoring quiz. (R) 6.00 BBC News; Regional News 6.00am A Matter of Life and Debt (R) 6.30 Animal Park (R) 7.15 The Bidding Room (R) 8.00 Land of the Tiger: Our Wild Adventures. Memorable visits. (R) 9.00 BBC News at 9 10.00 BBC News 1.00pm Letterbox Gameshow. (R) 1.30 Eggheads Quiz show. (R) 2.00 The House That £100K Built A retired couple attempt to build a house from scratch. (R) 3.00 Make Me a Dealer (R) 3.45 Rick Stein’s Seafood Odyssey Rick goes bass fishing. (R) 4.15 Ultimate Swarms (R) 5.15 Flog It! Valuing more items. (R) 6.00 Richard Osman’s House of Games Light-hearted quiz. 6.30 The Farmers’ Country Showdown Documentary. (R) 6.00am Good Morning Britain 9.00 Lorraine Entertainment news. 10.00 This Morning Celebrity chat and lifestyle features. 12.30pm Loose Women Celebrity interviews and topical debate. 1.00 ITV Lunchtime News; Weather 1.20 Regional News; Weather 1.30 ITV Racing: From York Ed Chamberlin and Francesca Cumani present live coverage of the opening day of the Ebor Festival, including the 3.35 Juddmonte International and races at 1.50, 2.25 and 3.35. 4.00 Tipping Point Quiz show. (R) 5.00 The Chase Bradley Walsh presents the gameshow. (R) 6.00 Regional News; Weather 6.30 ITV Evening News; Weather 6.00am Countdown (R) 6.40 Mike & Molly (R) 7.25 Everybody Loves Raymond (R) 8.40 Frasier (R) 9.40 The Big Bang Theory (R) 11.05 The Simpsons (R) 12.10pm Junior Bake Off (R) 1.10 A New Life in the Sun: Road Trip A trip around Majorca’s coast in a sailing boat. (R) 2.10 Countdown Word game. 3.00 Find It, Fix It, Flog It (R) 4.00 A Place in the Sun Looking for a home in Limoges. (R) 5.00 Come Dine with Me Paralympics Special Arthur Williams serves up an international menu. 5.30 The Simpsons Double bill. (R) 6.30 Hollyoaks Sienna tries to trick Summer into confessing. (R) 7.00 Aberdeen Harbour – Our Lives An insight into the dayto-day running of one of Britain’s oldest and busiest ports. 7.30 The Bidding Room Nigel Havers hosts as five dealers battle each other to buy items brought in by the public, including some architectural salvage, a painting and a dice machine. (R) 8.00 The Repair Shop The team takes on a tarnished rugby trophy, a Victorian sewing machine, an accordion that has lost its voice, and a 100-year-old surveying tool. 9.00 Fake or Fortune? (4/4) Fiona Bruce and Philip Mould investigate a small painting of the Last Supper bought by farmer Huw Lewis, which may be by 18th-century artist Benjamin West. 7.00 Celebrity Antiques Road Trip Emeli Sande and Naughty Boy seek out antiques with the help of auctioneers Catherine Southon and Charlie Ross. (R) 8.00 Inside the Factory Gregg Wallace visits a mattress factory in Leeds, while Cherry Healey talks to a scientist about the benefits to reaction time from taking an afternoon nap. (R) 9.00 Jay’s Yorkshire Workshop Local heroes from across Yorkshire are nominated to receive a bespoke piece of wooden furniture to recognise the work they do for their communities, and Jay Blades gives the task of making the items to one of his three experts in his Bradford workshop. In the first edition, pieces are made for a man who donated half his liver to a stranger. 7.00 Emmerdale Leyla guards a secret, and Bernice has a plan. 7.30 Coronation Street Fiz and Tyrone deliver Hope to the police station, and Daniel rushes Bertie to hospital after fearing he has swallowed a battery. 8.00 Craig and Bruno’s Great British Road Trips (6/6) Craig and Bruno take on a spectacular scenic Scottish road trip from the Lowlands, through the rugged Highlands to Ben Nevis. 8.30 Coronation Street Tyrone is stunned to realise he has accidentally proposed to Alina. 9.00 Undeniable Part one of two. Twenty-three years after witnessing her mother’s murder, a woman encounters the man she believes is the killer. Drama, starring Claire Goose and Peter Firth. (R) 7.00 Channel 4 News Headlines. 8.00 Changing Rooms Anna Richardson hosts the interior design challenge, which sees Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen, Jordan Cluroe and Russell Whitehead transform rooms in neighbouring houses. In Swansea, florist Claire wants to do away with her beige living room and postal worker Lisa dreams of having a contemporary bedroom. 9.00 George Clarke’s Remarkable Renovations George Clarke visits Three Ways Farm near Stockport, which has been in Gordon’s family since the 1950s. His late mother’s dream was for Gordon to turn the cattle shed into a home for himself, so he and partner Lisa have set out to create their first home together. 10.00 BBC News; Regional News 10.35 Britain’s Puppy Boom: Counting the Cost Vet Fabian Rivers reveals how the pandemic has triggered a boom in demand for puppies, something he has witnessed first-hand through his work at a small veterinary practice in Birmingham. Fabian explores the huge price tags for some puppies and what draws people to popular breeds. 11.35pm Ambulance Cameras follow the North West Ambulance Service as Storm Christoph and the pandemic batters an already over-stretched service. (R) 12.35am Weather for the Week Ahead 12.40-6.00am BBC News 10.00 Mortimer & Whitehouse: Gone Fishing Paul and Bob fish for brown trout on the river Test in Hampshire, using a Victorian fly-casting technique pioneered in the area. (R) 10.30 Newsnight With Kirsty Wark. 11.15pm FILM Midnight Special (2016/12) A boy with strange powers is protected by his father from religious extremists and government agents. Sci-fi adventure, starring Michael Shannon and Jaeden Lieberher. ★★★★ 1.00am Beechgrove. Kirsty Wilson visits the Scottish lavender growers on the banks of Loch Leven. (R) 1.30 Secrets of the Museum (R) 2.30 Wanted: A Simple Life (R) 3.15-6.00am This Is BBC Two 10.00 ITV News at Ten; Weather 10.30 Regional News; Weather 10.45 Harry’s Heroes: Euro Having a Laugh Again! Harry Redknapp takes his team of England legends across Europe to tackle the continent’s soccer superpower Germany on their home soil. Joining Harry as assistant manager is John Barnes, with the team including David Seaman, Paul Merson, Matt Le Tissier, Rob Lee, Ray Parlour, Lee Sharpe, Mark Chamberlain, Razor Ruddock and Lee Hendrie. (R) 12.00m’t Home Shopping 3.00 FYI Extra 3.15 ITV Nightscreen 5.05-6.00am Tipping Point. Quiz. (R) 10.00 This Way Up (6/6) A tragic loss has lasting repercussions for Aine, while Shona deals with the knock-on effect of the interview and prepares for Vish to come home. 10.35 Flights from Hell: Caught on Camera Dramatic moments captured on film at airports and on planes. (R) 11.35pm Ramsay’s 24 Hours to Hell and Back (R) 12.25am Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares USA (R) 1.15 Couples Come Dine with Me (R) 2.10 Undercover Boss USA (R) 3.00 The Handmaid’s Tale (R) 4.05 George Clarke’s Amazing Spaces (R) 4.55 Location, Location, Location (R) 5.50-6.00am Kirstie’s House of Craft (R) ★★★★★ brilliant ★★★★ very good ★★★ good ★★ average ★ bad

Channel 5 F’VIEW 5 • SKY 105 • virgin 105 • F’SAT 105 6.00am Milkshake! 9.15 Jeremy Vine 11.15 Room to Improve (R) 12.15pm 5 News at Lunchtime 12.20 Ben Fogle: New Lives in the Wild (R) 1.15 Home and Away See 6.00pm. 1.45 Neighbours See 5.30pm. 2.15 Aurora Teagarden Mysteries: How to Con a Con (2020/PG) Premiere. Thriller, starring Candace Cameron Bure. ★★ 4.00 Bargain-Loving Brits in the Sun Bingo and quiz nights. (R) 5.00 5 News at 5 Headlines. 5.30 Neighbours Nicolette learns about Chloe’s drunken night. (R) 6.00 Home and Away Nikau begins to suffer through the consequences of his actions. (R) 6.30 5 News Tonight Headlines. 7.00 Shoplifters: At War with the Law Security guards in West Orchards shopping centre in Coventry try to tackle the issue of serial shoplifters, who are behind around 70 per cent of all the thefts in the centre. (R) Followed by 5 News Update 8.00 Car Pound Cops: Give Me My Car Back! (2/8) Following the dramatic work of recovery crews as they trace, track and tow vehicles driven illegally on Britain’s roads. Followed by 5 News Update 9.00 The Railway Killers (3/3) The third and final edition of the documentary looks back to 1997 when John Duffy, nine years after he had been sentenced to life for murder and rape, finally confesses to police that he had an accomplice, David Mulcahy. 10.00 A&E After Dark A 41-yearold patient is escorted off the premises after verbally abusing a receptionist, while Dr Jeremy Osman and a full trauma team attempt to save the life of an 18-year-old. (R) 11.05pm 101 Body Shockers Counting down some of the most bizarre aspects of the human body. (R) 12.05am Hoarders: Junk Apocalypse. Cleaners Caz and Tee help a Great Yarmouth woman who is under threat of eviction. (R) 1.00 The 21.co.uk Live Casino Show 3.00 Entertainment News on 5 (R) 3.10 Room to Improve (R) 4.00 Get Your Tatts Out: Kavos Ink (R) 4.45 Wildlife SOS (R) 5.10 House Doctor (R) 5.35 Thomas & Friends (R) 5.50-6.00am Fireman Sam (R) ITV2 F’VIEW 6 • SKY 118 • virgin 115 • F’SAT 113 6.00am Ellen’s Game of Games 6.55 Totally Bonkers Guinness World Records 8.00 Emmerdale 8.30 You’ve Been Framed! Gold 9.30 Ellen’s Game of Games 10.30 The Masked Singer US 11.30 Secret Crush 12.30pm Emmerdale 1.00 You’ve Been Framed! Gold 2.00 Supermarket Sweep 3.00 Dress to Impress 4.00 Secret Crush 5.00 You’ve Been Framed! Gold 6.00 Celebrity Catchphrase 7.00 Superstore Double bill. 8.00 Bob’s Burgers Double bill. 9.00 Love Island Reality show. 10.05 Don’t Hate the Playaz 10.50 Family Guy Double bill. 11.45 American Dad! 12.40am Buffering 1.10 Bob’s Burgers 2.05 Superstore 3.00 Totally Bonkers Guinness World Records 3.25 Nightscreen 3.30-6.00am Teleshopping BBC Four F’VIEW 9 • SKY 116 • virgin 107 • F’SAT 107 7.00pm The Joy of Painting A rugged group of mountains. 7.30 Pubs, Ponds and Power: The Story of the Village Ben Robinson explores the hidden villages of London. 8.00 Earth from Space How the surface of the Earth is rapidly changing. 9.00 The Planets Documentary examining the remotest part of the solar system, a place that Uranus, Neptune and dwarf planet Pluto call home. 10.00 Missions Double bill. A deadly discovery is made under the Martian dust; Violent encounters limit the crew’s options. In French. Last in series. 10.50 Space Dive Felix Baumgartner’s record-breaking parachute jump. 12.20am Opera Italia 1.20 Pubs, Ponds and Power: The Story of the Village 1.50 Earth from Space 2.45-3.45am The Planets ITV3 Britain’s Puppy Boom: Counting The Cost 10.35pm, BBC One “OK, little one, now look me in the eye and promise me you have no idea what’s happened to those sausages I bought for my dinner…” Yes, it’s impossible not to be seduced by a cute puppy. But vet Fabian Rivers also wants to highlight some dodgy breeding practices that the recent boom in demand has brought about. F’VIEW 10 • SKY 119 • virgin 117 • F’SAT 115 6.00am Classic Coronation Street 7.00 Classic Emmerdale 8.05 Heartbeat 9.10 Bless This House 9.45 On the Buses 10.20 A Touch of Frost 12.40pm Heartbeat 1.45 Classic Emmerdale 2.50 Classic Coronation Street 3.50 Wycliffe 4.55 Midsomer Murders 6.55 Downton Abbey Neville Chamberlain pays a visit to Downton. 8.00 Agatha Christie’s Poirot The sleuth returns to his native Belgium. 9.00 Long Lost Family Helping more people reunite with long-lost relatives. 10.05 Ladies of Letters Double bill. Irene finds herself in hospital with amnesia and a compulsion to use foul language after an incident involving a bulldozer; Vera joins Irene in prison. 11.05 The Bay. Crime drama. 12.05am A Touch of Frost 2.25 Nightscreen 2.30-6.00am Teleshopping Drama F’VIEW 20 • SKY 143 • virgin 130 • F’SAT 158 6.00am Teleshopping 7.25 Doctor Finlay 8.25 The Bill 9.30 Classic Holby City 10.55 Classic Casualty 12.00noon The Bill 1.00 Classic EastEnders 2.20 Peak Practice 3.20 Bergerac 4.20 Dangerfield 5.20 Birds of a Feather 6.00 Hi-de-Hi! Ted acts out the French Revolution. Paul Shane stars. 6.40 As Time Goes By Lionel decides to sell the country house. 7.20 Last of the Summer Wine A message in a bottle intrigues Truly. 8.00 The Inspector Lynley Mysteries A farmer is found decapitated. 9.40 New Tricks The detectives and their new boss investigate an immigrant’s ritualistic murder. 10.50 Bad Girls Dominic is shaken by Zandra’s test results. Joe Shaw stars. 12.05am Dalziel & Pascoe. Drama. 2.00-4.00am Kavanagh QC. Drama. WEdnesDAY August 18 Scotland & Wales BBC Scotland 12.00noon This Is BBC Scotland 7.00pm Getting Hitched Asian Style 8.00 Right Here. Following a 58-year-old Spanish woman who started a new life Edinburgh. 8.30 Rewind 1980s. The music, news and TV of 1988. 9.00 The Nine 10.00 FILM Not Another Happy Ending (2013/12) Romantic comedy, starring Karen Gillan and Stanley Weber. ★★ 11.40 Scotland Made Me 11.55pm-12.00m’t Tune BBC One Scotland As BBC One except: 6.30-7.00pm Reporting Scotland 12.35am The Edit 12.50 Weather for the Week Ahead 12.55-6.00am BBC News BBC One Wales As BBC One except: 6.30-7.00pm BBC Wales Today 7.30-8.00pm Gareth Edwards’ Great Welsh Adventure BBC Two Wales As BBC Two except: 7.00pm The Wedding Dress Shop 7.30 The Bidding Room 8.00-9.00pm Land of the Wild: After Dark. Cutting-edge technology reveals the secrets of Wales’s nocturnal wildlife. STV As ITV except: 1.20pm STV News; Weather 1.30-4.00 LIVE STV Racing: Live from York. Coverage of the opening day of the Ebor Festival. 6.00-6.30 STV News at Six; Weather 10.30-10.45 STV News 12.00m’t-3.00am ITV Nightscreen ITV Wales As ITV except: 1.20-1.30pm ITV News Cymru Wales 6.00-6.30 ITV News Wales at Six. The day’s main stories. 10.30- 10.45pm ITV News Cymru Wales S4C 6.00am Cyw 11.00 Dysgu Gyda Cyw: Meripwsan 11.05 Loti Borloti 11.20 Wibli Sochyn y Mochyn 11.30 Digbi Draig 11.45 Gwdihw 12.00noon Newyddion S4C a’r Tywydd 12.05 Natur a Ni 12.30 Heno 1.00 Ar Werth 1.30 Garddio a Mwy 2.00 Newyddion S4C a’r Tywydd 2.05 Prynhawn Da 3.00 Newyddion S4C a’r Tywydd 3.05 Cefn Gwlad 4.00 Awr Fawr: Bing 4.10 Caru Canu a Stori 4.20 Oli Wyn 4.30 Blero yn Mynd i Ocido 4.45 Sigldigwt 5.00 Stwnsh: Rhyfeddodau Chwilengoch a Cath Ddu 5.25 Bwystfil 5.35 Hendre Hurt 5.45 Dewi a’r Ditectifs Gwyllt 5.55 Larfa 6.00 Straeon Tafarn 6.30 Bwrdd i Dri 6.57 Newyddion S4C 7.00 Heno 7.30 Newyddion S4C a’r Tywydd 8.00 Pobol y Cwm 8.25 Heno Aur. Including an archive chat with naturalist Iolo Williams. 8.55 Newyddion S4C a’r Tywydd 9.00 Priodas Pum Mil o’r Traeth. Part one of two. Stuart and Sian from Gwynedd prepare to tie the knot. 10.00 Trysorau’r Teulu. 11.00-11.35pm Anrhegion Melys Richard Holt. The patisserie chef prepares a wild feast for the local nature group in honour. of Anglesey’s iconic red squirrel.

BBC One BBC Two ITV Channel 4 F’VIEW 1 • SKY 101 • virgin 101 • F’SAT 101 F’VIEW 2 • SKY 102 • virgin 102 • F’SAT 102 F’VIEW 3 • SKY 103 • virgin 103 • F’SAT 103 F’VIEW 4 • SKY 104 • virgin 104 • F’SAT 104 6.00am Breakfast 9.15 Animal Park 10.00 Homes Under the Hammer (R) 11.00 Wanted Down Under Revisited (R) 11.45 Caught Red Handed 12.15pm Bargain Hunt. In Harrogate (R) 1.00 BBC News; Regional News 1.45 The Coroner A businessman is shot dead by a sniper. (R) 2.30 Impossible Quiz show. (R) 3.15 Greatest Escapes to the Country Jules Hudson focuses on the county of Yorkshire. (R) 3.45 Saved and Remade A bike and an old Royal Navy kit bag. (R) 4.30 The Bidding Room Items include an antique cherub and an Alice in Wonderland tin. 5.15 Pointless Low-scoring quiz. (R) 6.00 BBC News; Regional News 6.00am A Matter of Life and Debt (R) 6.30 Animal Park (R) 7.15 The Bidding Room (R) 8.00 Gardeners’ World (R) 9.00 BBC News at 9 10.00 BBC News 1.00pm Letterbox Gameshow. (R) 1.30 Eggheads Quiz show. (R) 2.00 The House That £100K Built 3.00 Make Me a Dealer (R) 3.45 Rick Stein’s Seafood Odyssey The chef visits Thailand. (R) 4.15 Natural World: Ghost Bear Family Documentary. (R) 5.15 Flog It! Highlights. (R) 6.00 Richard Osman’s House of Games With Reeta Chakrabarti, and Andrew Maxwell. (R) 6.30 The Farmers’ Country Showdown Farming families showcase their hard work. (R) 6.00am Good Morning Britain 9.00 Lorraine Entertainment news. 10.00 This Morning Celebrity chat and lifestyle features. 12.30pm Loose Women Celebrity interviews and topical debate. 1.00 ITV Lunchtime News; Weather 1.20 Regional News; Weather 1.30 ITV Racing: From York Ed Chamberlin and Francesca Cumani present live coverage of the second day of the Ebor Festival, including the 3.35 Yorkshire Oaks and races at 1.50, 2.25 and 3.00. 4.00 Tipping Point Quiz show. (R) 5.00 The Chase Quiz show, hosted by Bradley Walsh. (R) 6.00 Regional News; Weather 6.30 ITV Evening News; Weather 6.00am Countdown (R) 6.40 Mike & Molly (R) 7.25 Everybody Loves Raymond (R) 8.40 Frasier (R) 9.40 The Big Bang Theory (R) 11.05 The Simpsons (R) 12.10pm Junior Bake Off (R) 1.10 A New Life in the Sun: Road Trip Narrated by Fred Sirieix. (R) 2.10 Countdown Word game. 3.00 Find It, Fix It, Flog It Henry Cole finds an unusual motorbike on the Isle of Wight. (R) 4.00 A Place in the Sun A holiday home in Normandy, France. (R) 5.00 Come Dine with Me Paralympics Special A night fit for historical heroes. 5.30 The Simpsons Double bill. (R) 6.30 Hollyoaks Summer goes head to head with Sienna. (R) 7.00 Rip Off Britain Gloria Hunniford, Angela Rippon and Julia Somerville report on homes that have been branded dangerous after a landslide. (R) 7.35 EastEnders Ash and Vinny receive an unexpected call, while Honey offers to take Suki out for the evening. Kat frets over putting too much pressure on Tommy to do well. 8.00 Shop Well for Less? (2/6) Melanie Sykes and Joanna Page travel to North Yorkshire to meet a couple whose spending has got out of hand, preventing them getting onto the property ladder. 9.00 Ambulance (2/6) The unit struggles to cope, with 20 per cent of staff off due to Covid-19 as advanced paramedic Joe races to a category one call for a patient in cardiac arrest. 7.00 Celebrity Antiques Road Trip Former Love Island stars Wes Nelson and Georgia Steel join experts Izzie Balmer and Philip Serrell in North Yorkshire on a quest for items to sell at an auction in North Shields. (R) 8.00 Yorkshire Firefighters (4/4) Rookie Lauren finishes her tough training, while the Leeds firefighters tackle a huge factory blaze and hunt for a man feared trapped in his burning home. 9.00 The Watch (3&4/8) Double bill. As fear of the dragon keeps people off the streets, the team must attempt to find the precious magical artefact known as Gawain before Carcer; Carcer is willing to do anything to find the sword for Gawain, and the team are close on his tail, following him to Twilight Canyons. 7.00 Emmerdale Bernice persuades Laurel to help her, and Leyla feels trapped. 7.30 Air Pollution: What You Need to Know – Tonight Since 2010 we have failed to meet national legal limits of air pollution in the UK. Joe Crowley investigates what is being done to tackle the problem. 8.00 Emmerdale The search ensues, Noah makes an admission, and Leyla is worried. 8.30 A Year in the Beacons (4/4) Summer arrives and the mountain rescue team are busy with call-outs, while Lord of the Manor Harry tries to bring business back to the estate. 9.00 Undercover Big Boss Mark Taylor Managing Director of Pickfords, goes undercover to find out why it is proving hard to recruit staff for his company. 7.00 Channel 4 News Including sport and weather reports. 8.00 Joe Lycett’s Got Your Back The comedian returns to investigate consumer rights and fight for justice. In this first edition of a new run, guest AJ Odudu shares her tips for how to be a good complainer and helps Joe as he takes on the massive issue of plastic waste. 9.00 I Am Maria Writer-director Dominic Savage’s drama about a woman at a crossroads in life. Feigning happiness in her marriage has become suffocating, and Maria’s 60th birthday sparks clarity about her suppressed feelings of discontent. She longs for another journey to find liberation and happiness again. Lesley Manville and Michael Gould star. Last in series. 10.00 BBC News; Regional News 10.35 The Rap Game UK (5/6) Krept, Konan and DJ Target challenge the five remaining artists to each write a track about determination and winning, with the best being chosen by a sportsperson to inspire their team. 11.35pm Take Off with Bradley & Holly Bradley Walsh and Holly Willoughby host the gameshow which offers members of the audience the chance to win seats on a plane jetting off on the holiday of a lifetime. This week. the glamorous prize destination is a safari trip to South Africa. Last in series. (R) 12.30am Weather for the Week Ahead 12.35-6.00am BBC News 10.30 Newsnight Analysis of the day’s events, with Kirsty Wark. 11.15pm Golf: Women’s Open Highlights Eilidh Barbour presents highlights from the opening day of the fifth Major of the year, held at Carnoustie Golf Links. 12.15am Murder, Mystery and My Family: Case Closed? Sasha Wass and Jeremy Dein revisit their investigation into the historic case, conviction and execution of Alfred Moore, who murdered two policemen. (R) 1.00 Wanted: A Simple Life. Fabio and Isobel Avemaria think living by the sea is just what their family needs after health scares and redundancy. They consider whether now is the right time to make a move to Norfolk. Presented by Chris Bavin. (R) 1.45-6.00am This Is BBC Two 10.00 ITV News at Ten; Weather 10.30 Regional News; Weather 10.45 Long Lost Family Davina McCall and Nicky Campbell present the stories of people searching for siblings, including a reunited pair who then found out they had an older sister. (R) 11.45pm Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? Jeremy Clarkson is joined by six new contestants, all wanting the chance to become millionaires. With the help of 50/50, phone a friend and ask the host, can they answer 15 questions correctly to win the top prize? (R) 12.40am Home Shopping 3.00 FYI Extra 3.15 Martin & Roman’s Weekend Best! (R) 4.05 Nightscreen 5.05-6.00am Tipping Point. Quiz. (R) 10.00 Gogglebox: Celebrity Special for SU2C The Stand Up to Cancer edition from October 2018, with Louis Tomlinson and Liam Payne, Danny and Dani Dyer, Dele Alli and Eric Dier, and Peter Crouch and Abbey Clancy. (R) 11.05pm Sarah Millican: Control Enthusiast A stand-up performance by the comedian. (R) 12.10am Holidays from Hell: Caught on Camera. Cameras reveal what can go wrong when a dream holiday turns into a nightmare. (R) 1.05 Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares USA (R) 1.55 Deceit (R) 2.50 Undercover Boss USA (R) 3.40 Battle of Britain: Model Squadron (R) 4.35 Location, Location, Location (R) 5.30-6.00am Beat the Chef (R) ★★★★★ brilliant ★★★★ very good ★★★ good ★★ average ★ bad

Channel 5 F’VIEW 5 • SKY 105 • virgin 105 • F’SAT 105 6.00am Milkshake! 9.15 Jeremy Vine 11.15 Room to Improve (R) 12.15pm 5 News 12.20 Ben Fogle: New Lives in the Wild (R) 1.15 Home and Away See 6.00pm. 1.45 Neighbours See 5.30pm. 2.15 Deadly Daughter (2020/PG) Premiere. Thriller, starring Sarah Butler and Duane Anthony. ★★ 4.00 Bargain-Loving Brits in the Sun Featuring a catch up with some of the big characters from the season. (R) 5.00 5 News at 5 Headlines. 5.30 Neighbours Tensions run high between David and Chloe. (R) 6.00 Home and Away Bella struggles after the break-up. Ryder and Chloe argue about Nikau. (R) 6.30 5 News Tonight Headlines. 7.00 Secrets of Your Supermarket Food Sian Williams, Stefan Gates and Nisha Katona reveal the truth about the fruit and vegetables bought in British supermarkets. (R) Followed by 5 News Update 8.00 Nick Knowles’ Big House Clearout The presenter helps folks across Britain who are being crushed by their clutter, beginning with a family of four in Marlow, Buckinghamshire. The house is stripped bare, and Nick’s design team creates a total transformation. Followed by 5 News Update 9.00 Alex Polizzi: My Hotel Nightmare (2/3) When Alex travels to Sussex to see The Star’s renovations, it becomes clear how far behind they are, so she and Olga move the opening to Easter 2021. 10.00 Police Code Zero: Officer Under Attack Officers in North Yorkshire responding to a report of anti-social behaviour have to deal with a violent bystander as well, who breaks the leg of an officer while resisting arrest. (R) 11.05pm Manhunt: Catching Britain’s Most Wanted Documentary following a 10-strong tactical unit from Kent Police dedicated to hunting suspects on the run. (R) 1.00am The 21.co.uk Live Casino Show 3.00 Entertainment News on 5 3.05 Room to Improve (R) 4.00 Get Your Tatts Out: Kavos Ink (R) 4.45 Wildlife SOS (R) 5.10 House Doctor (R) 5.35 Thomas & Friends: Big World! Big Adventures! (R) 5.50-6.00am Fireman Sam (R) ITV2 F’VIEW 6 • SKY 118 • virgin 115 • F’SAT 113 6.00am Ellen’s Game of Games 6.55 Totally Bonkers Guinness World Records 7.25 You’ve Been Framed! 8.00 Emmerdale 8.30 Coronation Street 9.30 Ellen’s Game of Games 10.30 The Masked Singer US 11.30 Secret Crush 12.30pm Emmerdale 1.00 Coronation Street 2.00 Supermarket Sweep 3.00 Dress to Impress 4.00 Secret Crush 5.00 You’ve Been Framed! Unlimited 6.00 Catchphrase Celebrity Special 7.00 Superstore Double bill. 8.00 Bob’s Burgers Double bill. 9.00 Love Island The latest events. 10.05 Buffering Comedy series. 10.35 Family Guy Animated antics. 11.00 Family Guy 11.30 American Dad! 12.25am Apocalypse Wow 1.25 Bob’s Burgers 2.20 Superstore 3.10 FYI Extra 3.25-3.30am Nightscreen BBC Four F’VIEW 9 • SKY 116 • virgin 107 • F’SAT 107 7.00pm BBC Proms 2021 Six of the UK’s finest opera singers take to the Royal Albert Hall stage, with Ben Glassberg and the BBC Philharmonic, to star in a classical gala concert packed with operatic favourites. 9.00 An Inspector Calls A detective interrupts a family’s dinner party to tell them a young woman has committed suicide. Adaptation of JB Priestley’s stage play, starring David Thewlis. 10.30 FILM Viva Las Vegas (1964/U) A racing driver arrives in the gambling capital for a grand prix – but loses focus when he falls in love while working at a casino. Musical, starring Elvis Presley and Ann-Margret. ★★★★ 11.50 Write Around the World with Richard E Grant 12.50am Opera Italia 1.50 Motherland 2.20-3.50am Nature’s Turtle Nursery: Inside the Nest ITV3 F’VIEW 10 • SKY 119 • virgin 117 • F’SAT 115 6.00am Classic Coronation Street 7.00 Classic Emmerdale 8.05 Heartbeat 9.10 Bless This House 9.45 On the Buses 10.20 Inspector Morse 12.40pm Heartbeat 1.45 Classic Emmerdale 2.50 Classic Coronation Street 3.55 Wycliffe 5.00 Midsomer Murders. Detective drama. 7.00 Downton Abbey The house is made open to the public. 8.00 Vera DCI Stanhope investigates the case of a wealthy betting shop tycoon who was murdered during a home invasion in front of his family. 10.00 Ladies of Letters Double bill. Vera and Irene make themselves at home on the prison ship; Vera starts a campaign to get Irene freed. 11.00 The Bay. Crime drama. 12.00m’t A Touch of Frost 2.20 Nightscreen 2.30-6.00am Teleshopping Drama I Am Maria 9pm, Channel 4 The ever-brilliant Lesley Manville stars in the final story of this female-led drama anthology. Her character Maria has spent years making out she and husband John (Michael Gould) are happily married. But the truth is she’s felt suffocated. And her 60th birthday will prove something of a watershed moment. F’VIEW 20 • SKY 143 • virgin 130 • F’SAT 158 6.00am Teleshopping 7.30 Doctor Finlay 8.25 The Bill 9.30 Classic Holby City 10.55 Classic Casualty 12.00noon The Bill 1.00 Classic EastEnders 2.20 Peak Practice 3.20 Bergerac 4.20 Dangerfield 5.20 Birds of a Feather 6.00 Hi-de-Hi! Classic comedy. 6.40 As Time Goes By Comedy. 7.20 Last of the Summer Wine Clegg’s cousin comes to stay. 8.00 Dalziel & Pascoe The duo are called to a hospital where body parts have been found in a nearby lake. 10.00 New Tricks Sasha is asked to prove a crime boss was convicted on false evidence, even though she is certain the same man killed her CID partner eight years before. 11.10 Bad Girls. Drama. 12.20am Dalziel & Pascoe 2.20 Kavanagh QC 4.00-6.00am Teleshopping thursDAY August 19 Scotland & Wales BBC Scotland 12.00noon This Is BBC Scotland 7.00pm My Kind of Town. Ian Hamilton and his guide dog Major explore Ardrossan. 7.30 The Scandals That Shocked Scotland 8.00 Beechgrove. Dina Watt cooks some of Beechgrove’s own produce, but with a special Indonesian twist. 8.30 The Great Food Guys. With guest Eilidh Barbour. 9.00 The Nine 10.00 Best of Chewin’ the Fat 10.30 Edinburgh Unlocked 11.00pm- 12.00m’t Rigs of Nigg BBC One Scotland As BBC One except: 6.30-7.00pm Reporting Scotland. The day’s headlines. BBC One Wales As BBC One except: 6.30-7.00pm BBC Wales Today. Headlines and reports. BBC Two Wales As BBC Two except: 6.30pm Celebrity Antiques Road Trip. With former Love Island stars Wes Nelson and Georgia Steel. 7.30-8.00pm Children’s Ward STV As ITV except: 1.20pm STV News; Weather 1.30-4.00 LIVE STV Racing: Live from York. Day two of the Ebor Festival. 6.00-6.30 STV News at Six; Weather 7.30-8.00 Scotland Tonight at the Festival 10.30 STV News 10.45 Air Pollution: What You Need to Know – Tonight 11.10 Long Lost Family 12.15am Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? 1.05-3.00am ITV Nightscreen ITV Wales As ITV except: 1.20-1.30pm ITV News Cymru Wales 6.00-6.30 ITV News Wales at Six 8.30-9.00 Coast & Country. Ruth Dodsworth explores a gloriously sunny Skomer Island. 10.30 ITV News Cymru Wales 10.45 A Year in the Beacons. It’s Summer and the mountain rescue team are inundated with call-outs. 11.15-11.45pm James Martin’s Islands to Highlands S4C 6.00am Cyw 12.00noon Newyddion S4C a’r Tywydd 12.05 Perthyn 12.30 Heno 1.00 Triathlon Cymru: Triathlon Porthcawl 1.30 Bethesda: Pobol y Chwarel 2.00 Newyddion S4C a’r Tywydd 2.05 Prynhawn Da 3.00 Newyddion S4C a’r Tywydd 3.05 Trysorau’r Teulu 4.00 Awr Fawr: Caru Canu 4.05 Jen a Jim a’r Cywiadur 4.20 Y Brodyr Coala 4.30 Twt 4.45 Cacamwnci 5.00 Stwnsh: Pat a Stan 5.10 Kung Fu Panda 5.30 Lolipop 5.55 Larfa 6.00 Bad Achub Porthdinllaen 6.30 Rownd a Rownd 6.57 Newyddion S4C 7.00 Heno 7.30 Newyddion S4C a’r Tywydd 8.00 Pobol y Cwm. Garry is questioned again by DI Wilkinson. 8.25 Rownd a Rownd. Philip is confident that Mathew has taken the first step towards recovery. 8.55 Newyddion S4C a’r Tywydd 9.00 Canu gyda Fy Arwr. Three admirers perform with their idol, Shan Cothi. Last in series. 10.00 Yn y Gwaed 11.00-11.35pm Codi Pac

BBC One BBC Two ITV Channel 4 F’VIEW 1 • SKY 101 • virgin 101 • F’SAT 101 F’VIEW 2 • SKY 102 • virgin 102 • F’SAT 102 F’VIEW 3 • SKY 103 • virgin 103 • F’SAT 103 F’VIEW 4 • SKY 104 • virgin 104 • F’SAT 104 6.00am Breakfast 9.15 Animal Park 10.00 Homes Under the Hammer (R) 11.00 Wanted Down Under Revisited (R) 11.45 Caught Red Handed 12.15pm Bargain Hunt: 999 Emergency Special. 999-themed items. 1.00 BBC News; Regional News 1.45 The Coroner A man dies shortly after finding some coins. (R) 2.30 Impossible Quiz show. (R) 3.15 Greatest Escapes to the Country Highlights show. (R) 3.45 Saved and Remade A stunning Polish cloak that once belonged to a musician is transformed. 4.30 The Bidding Room Items include some Star Wars figures. 5.15 Pointless Low-scoring quiz. (R) 6.00 BBC News; Regional News 6.00am A Matter of Life and Debt (R) 6.30 Animal Park (R) 7.15 The Bidding Room (R) 8.00 Yorkshire Firefighters (R) 9.00 BBC News at 9 10.00 BBC News 1.00pm Letterbox Gameshow. (R) 1.30 Eggheads Quiz show. (R) 2.00 Best Bakes Ever (R) 2.30 The Hundred Isa Guha presents live coverage as the cricket competition continues (start time 3.00pm), with two sides battling it out to reach Saturday’s final. Today’s eliminator features the two sides to finish second and third in the standings, with the winner advancing to play the team that topped the table. 5.30 Flog It! From Derbyshire. (R) 6.00 Richard Osman’s House of Games Double bill. 6.00am Good Morning Britain 9.00 Lorraine Entertainment news. 10.00 This Morning Celebrity chat and lifestyle features. 12.30pm Loose Women Celebrity interviews and topical debate. 1.00 ITV Lunchtime News; Weather 1.20 Regional News; Weather 1.30 ITV Racing: From York Ed Chamberlin and Francesca Cumani present live coverage of the third day of the Ebor Festival, including the 3.35 Nunthorpe Stakes and races at 1.50, 2.25 and 3.00. 4.00 Tipping Point Quiz show. (R) 5.00 The Chase Quiz show, hosted by Bradley Walsh. (R) 6.00 Regional News; Weather 6.30 ITV Evening News; Weather 6.00am Countdown (R) 6.40 Mike & Molly (R) 7.50 Everybody Loves Raymond (R) 8.40 Frasier (R) 9.40 The Big Bang Theory (R) 11.05 The Simpsons (R) 12.10pm Junior Bake Off (R) 1.10 A New Life in the Sun: Road Trip Narrated by Fred Sirieix. (R) 2.10 Countdown Word game. 3.00 Find It, Fix It, Flog It (R) 4.00 A Place in the Sun A couple from Liverpool search for a new home in Alicante. (R) 5.00 Come Dine with Me Paralympics Special Retired swimmer Liz Johnson presents a menu of personal favourites. 5.30 The Simpsons Double bill. (R) 6.30 Hollyoaks An intervention is held for one of the residents. (R) 7.00 Who Do You Think You Are? Shirley Ballas investigates a family story about her maternal great-grandmother. (R) 8.05 EastEnders Honey stands by Suki, and Kat anxiously awaits news of Tommy’s football trial. 8.25 Would I Lie to You? Claudia Winkleman, the Rev Kate Bottley, Sara Barron and Ed Gamble bolster the deceitful talents of team captains Lee Mack and David Mitchell. (R) 9.00 Celebrity MasterChef The quarter-final sees the remaining celebrities tasked to prepare a two-course meal judged by Phil Vickery, Andi Peters and Craig Revel Horwood. 9.30 King Gary (4/6) Butterchurn Crescent residents pressure Gary to deal with growing unrest about Aaron and his disruptive, noisy, partying ways. 7.00 Celebrity Antiques Road Trip Loose Women panellists Andrea McLean and Penny Lancaster search the antiques shops of Essex in the hope of finding the items that will make the biggest profit at auction. (R) 8.00 Gardeners’ World Monty Don welcomes the Duchess of Cornwall to Longmeadow, where she shares her love of gardening. He also carries out some seasonal maintenance on the mound, and demonstrates how to plant a lavender hedge. 9.00 The Boleyns: A Scandalous Family (2/3) Continuing the docu-drama series which shines a new light on the iconic Boleyn family. Anne has grown into a real beauty, and the king is caught in the glare. Her family play the long game to catch a king. 7.00 Emmerdale Sarah realises she is in too deep, Charity makes an earnest plea, and Russ is intrigued that Wendy will return tomorrow. 7.30 Coronation Street As they prepare to leave for Hope’s sentencing, Tyrone drops the bombshell on Fiz and Evelyn that he’s engaged to Alina. Steve and Tracy point out to Tim that Sally’s plan would be disastrous for Street Cars. 8.30 Endeavour Shaun Evans directs this episode, set against the backdrop of the first moon landings in 1969. The detective investigates the deaths of an astrophysicist and his girlfriend in a tragic car accident as the rest of the world eagerly awaits news from Apollo 11. Inspector Morse prequel, starring Shaun Evans. (R) 7.00 Channel 4 News Including sport and weather reports. 8.00 Epic Wales: Valleys, Mountains & Coasts A freediver and wildlife photographer studies puffins on the Pembrokeshire coast, using specially designed headgear to get as close as possible to the birds, as well as exploring the kelp forests that lie beneath the surface in St Brides bay. 9.00 Deceit (2/4) Drama revisiting the events of July 1992, when 23-year-old Rachel Nickell was stabbed 49 times on Wimbledon Common. This episode enters the world of Colin Stagg, the Met Police’s prime suspect. In officers’ minds, Stagg perfectly fitted the criminal profile of the killer, and yet there was no hard evidence linking him to the murder. 10.00 BBC News; Regional News 10.35 Destroyer (2018/15) Premiere. A former LAPD officer attempts to reconnect with people in her past involved in an undercover assignment targeting a vicious gang of bank robbers. Her efforts to infiltrate the gang as a young, rookie cop imploded with tragic results, so when its leader suddenly re-emerges, she embarks on an obsessive quest to find his former associates, and bring him to justice. Drama, starring Nicole Kidman and Toby Kebbell. ★★★★ 12.30am Weather for the Week Ahead 12.35-6.00am BBC News 10.00 I’ll Get This Adrian Chiles, Josh Widdicombe, Gemma Collins, Melvin Odoom and Holly Walsh take part. (R) 10.30 Newsnight The day’s important national and international news stories. 11.05pm Golf: Women’s Open Highlights Day two from Carnoustie Golf Links. 12.05am Tigers: Hunting the Traffickers. Aldo Kane reports on the illegal tiger trade in South East Asia, with the endangered big cats trafficked for products including wine and glue made from their bones. (R) 1.05 Hunting the Social Media Fraudsters – Panorama. Current affairs. (R) 1.35 Wanted: A Simple Life (R) 2.20-6.45am This Is BBC Two 10.20 ITV News; Weather A fresh perspective on the major stories of the day, featuring national and international news, with reports and analysis from ITV’s correspondents. 10.50 Regional News; Weather 11.05pm FILM The Bourne Supremacy (2004/12) The amnesiac assassin is framed for a botched CIA operation and faces a fight for survival as he tries to uncover his past. Action thriller sequel, starring Matt Damon and Brian Cox. ★★★★ 1.00am Home Shopping 3.00 FYI Extra 3.15 Martin & Roman’s Weekend Best! Entertainment show, hosted by father-son duo Martin and Roman Kemp. (R) 4.05-6.00am Nightscreen 10.00 The Lateish Show with Mo Gilligan The Baftanominated comedian and actor chews the fat with big-name guests. Plus, exciting games, hilarious sketches and superstar performances. 11.05pm FILM The Festival (2018/15) A graduate gets dumped by his girlfriend and goes to a music festival to get over it. Comedy, starring Joe Thomas and Hannah Tointon. ★★★ 1.00am Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares USA. Gordon Ramsay tries to save Mangia Mangia from disaster. (R) 1.50 Come Dine with Me 4.10 Location, Location, Location (R) 5.05 Michael Johnson Meets Ellie Simmonds (R) 5.30-6.00am Michael Johnson Meets Kadeena Cox (R) ★★★★★ brilliant ★★★★ very good ★★★ good ★★ average ★ bad

Channel 5 F’VIEW 5 • SKY 105 • virgin 105 • F’SAT 105 6.00am Milkshake! 9.15 Jeremy Vine 11.15 Room to Improve (R) 12.15pm 5 News 12.20 Ben Fogle: New Lives in the Wild (R) 1.15 Home and Away See 6.00pm. (R) 1.45 Neighbours See 5.30pm. 2.15 The Radio Talk Show Killer (2019/PG) Thriller, starring Georgina Haig. ★★★ 4.00 Bargain-Loving Brits in the Sun A fitness instructor organises a street party. (R) 5.00 5 News at 5 Headlines. 5.30 Neighbours Leo moves into the Willis house. (R) 6.00 Home and Away Mac and Chloe begin to patch things up and Kieran is nervous. (R) 6.30 5 News Tonight Headlines. 7.00 Fishing Scotland’s Lochs and Rivers (5/5) After two weeks fishing their way across the lochs and rivers of Scotland, the five anglers arrive at Oban on the west coast of Scotland. Followed by 5 News 8.00 Motorhoming with Merton & Webster (3/6) Paul Merton and wife Suki Webster head for Somerset, where they charter a fishing boat in Minehead, and land a small haul of fish for their supper. Followed by 5 News 9.00 Ian Hislop’s Trains That Changed The World (2/4) The London Underground – first operating in 1863 – changed the way people get around cities forever. This edition reveals how the filthy and crowded streets of London were transformed by the rapid expansion of the Underground. 10.00 1999: The 30 Greatest Hits Vernon Kay counts down the 30 biggest tracks of 1999, from Westlife to Britney Spears and Ricky Martin to Eminem. It was the year Will Smith’s movie Wild Wild West flopped, but the song was a chart smash. 1.00am The 21.co.uk Live Casino Show 3.00 Entertainment News on 5 3.10 Upgrade Me! Secrets of First Class. Part one of two. Behind the scenes on the world’s most luxurious flights. (R) 4.00 Get Your Tatts Out: Kavos Ink. A holidaymaker gets a pair of lips as his first tattoo. (R) 4.45 Wildlife SOS. The work of an animal sanctuary. (R) 5.10 House Doctor (R) 5.35 Thomas & Friends (R) 5.50-6.00am Fireman Sam (R) ITV2 F’VIEW 6 • SKY 118 • virgin 115 • F’SAT 113 6.00am Ellen’s Game of Games 6.55 Totally Bonkers Guinness World Records 7.25 You’ve Been Framed! Gold 8.00 Emmerdale 9.00 You’ve Been Framed! Gold 9.30 Ellen’s Game of Games 10.30 The Masked Singer US 11.30 Secret Crush 12.30pm Emmerdale 1.30 You’ve Been Framed! Gold 2.00 Supermarket Sweep 3.00 Dress to Impress 4.00 Secret Crush 5.00 You’ve Been Framed! Unchained! 6.00 Celebrity Catchphrase 7.00 Superstore Double bill. 8.00 Bob’s Burgers Double bill. 9.00 Love Island Reality show. 10.05 Apocalypse Wow Gameshow. 11.05 Family Guy 12.05am American Dad! 1.00 Bob’s Burgers 1.50 Superstore 2.40 Totally Bonkers Guinness World Records 3.10 FYI Extra 3.25-3.30am Nightscreen BBC Four F’VIEW 9 • SKY 116 • virgin 107 • F’SAT 107 7.00pm BBC Proms 2021 British saxophonist and composer Nubya Garcia makes her Proms debut. 8.45 Top of the Pops: Big Hits 1989 A musical compilation from the year. 9.00 TOTP: 1991 Performances by DJH featuring Stefy, Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark and Bros. 9.30 Pride Hits at the BBC A musical celebration for International Pride Month, with a collection of the BBC’s archives’ biggest stars, including Kylie. 10.30 Radio 2 Live: Hyde Park Headliners, Kylie Minogue The singer performs at the 2018 Festival, featuring a selection of classic hits. 11.30 BBC One Sessions: Elton John 12.25am Singer-Songwriters at the BBC 1.25 TOTP: 1991 1.55 Pride Hits at the BBC 2.55-3.10am Top of the Pops: Big Hits 1989 ITV3 6.00am Classic Coronation Street 7.00 Classic Emmerdale 8.05 Heartbeat 9.10 Bless This House 9.45 On the Buses 10.20 A Touch of Frost 12.40pm Heartbeat 1.45 Classic Emmerdale 2.50 Classic Coronation Street 3.55 Agatha Christie’s Poirot 5.00 Midsomer Murders. Drama. 7.00 Downton Abbey The Crawleys attend a motor racing event. 8.00 Doc Martin Double bill. Sigourney Weaver guest stars; Martin’s medical career remains under scrutiny while Louisa pursues a new vocation. 10.05 Ladies of Letters Double bill. On her release from prison, Vera adapts to life at Sheepdippers; the pen pals plan a world tour. Last in series. 11.05 The Bay. Crime drama. 1.10am On the Buses 2.20 Nightscreen 2.30-2.30am Teleshopping Drama King Gary 9.30pm, BBC One There’s more than one way to burn calories at the gym. What Gary’s doing here is a “sit-up”, which focuses on the abs. But it’s soon abandoned in favour of a “bust-up”, which focuses on the vocal cords. Put another way, he and Terri have a huge row, as Terri reveals she’s asked Kay to step in as wedding planner. F’VIEW 10 • SKY 119 • virgin 117 • F’SAT 115 F’VIEW 20 • SKY 143 • virgin 130 • F’SAT 158 6.00am Teleshopping 7.30 Doctor Finlay 8.25 The Bill 9.30 Classic Holby City 10.55 Classic Casualty 12.00noon The Bill 1.00 Classic EastEnders 2.20 Peak Practice 3.20 Bergerac 4.20 Auf Wiedersehen, Pet 5.20 Birds of a Feather. Tracey gets a new pet. 6.00 Hi-de-Hi! Classic comedy. 6.40 As Time Goes By Jean looks forward to becoming a grandmother. 7.20 Last of the Summer Wine 8.00 Father Brown A former music hall comedian swears revenge. 9.00 The Doctor Blake Mysteries A lottery winner is kidnapped. 10.00 New Tricks An old friend asks Gerry to investigate the murder of his grandson. Dennis Waterman stars. 11.25 Bad Girls. Drama. 12.35am Dalziel & Pascoe 2.35 Kavanagh QC. Drama. 4.00-6.00am Teleshopping friDAY August 20 Scotland & Wales BBC Scotland 12.00noon This Is BBC Scotland 7.00pm The Seven 7.30 LIVE Sportscene: Friday Night Football. Raith Rovers v Dunfermline Athletic (kick-off 7.45pm). All the action from the Championship encounter between the Fife rivals at Stark’s Park. 10.00 Still Game. Jack and Victor are shocked by a visitor from beyond the grave as they vie to get hold of an invitation to a wedding. 10.30 The Karen Dunbar Show. The comedian deals with a pointy present and demonstrates the fine art of fertilising the grass in a public park, before indulging in vegetable painting. 11.00 The Moments That Made Richard Wilson 11.30pm-12.00m’t Bad Influencer BBC One Scotland As BBC One except: 6.30-7.00pm Reporting Scotland. The day’s headlines. BBC One Wales As BBC One except: 6.30-7.00pm BBC Wales Today. The day’s headlines. STV As ITV except: 1.20pm STV News; Weather 1.30-4.00 LIVE STV Racing: Live from York. The third day of the Ebor Festival. 6.00-6.30 STV News at Six; Weather 10.50-11.05 STV News 1.00-3.00am ITV Nightscreen ITV Wales As ITV except: 1.20-1.30pm ITV News Cymru Wales 6.00-6.30 ITV News Wales at Six 10.50-11.05pm ITV News Cymru Wales S4C 6.00am Cyw 12.00noon Newyddion S4C a’r Tywydd 12.05 Arfordir Cymru 12.30 Heno 1.00 Codi Hwyl 1.30 Bad Achub Porthdinllaen 2.00 Newyddion S4C a’r Tywydd 2.05 Prynhawn Da 3.00 Newyddion S4C a’r Tywydd 3.05 Priodas Pum Mil o’r Traeth 4.00 Awr Fawr: Cyw a’i Ffrindiau 4.05 Tomos a’i Ffrindiau 4.15 Sbarc 4.30 Octonots 4.45 Gwdihw 5.00 Stwnsh: SpynjBob Pantsgwar 5.15 Sinema’r Byd 5.30 Y Barf 5.55 Larfa 6.00 ’Sgota gyda Julian Lewis Jones 6.30 Garddio a Mwy 6.57 Newyddion S4C 7.00 Heno. Stories from all over Wales. 7.30 Newyddion S4C a’r Tywydd 8.00 Bwyd Epic Chris. Chris Roberts forages for the best local ingredients and creates innovative dishes, beginning with a seafood supper at a secret dining spot in sandy Dinas Dinlle. 8.25 Codi Pac. Geraint Hardy enjouys the sights and sounds of different places around Wales. This week he discovers what Bala has to offer. 8.55 Newyddion S4C a’r Tywydd 9.00 Eisteddfod AmGen 2021. A chance to see some of the highlights from the Eisteddfod AmGen and a chance to meet the judges and guests appearing at the event. 10.30-11.35pm Hen Dy Newydd. Gwyn Eiddior, Mandy Watkins and Carwyn Lloyd Jones transform three rooms or space in a home near Brecon for a mother with a young son.

BBC One BBC Two ITV Channel 4 F’VIEW 1 • SKY 101 • virgin 101 • F’SAT 101 F’VIEW 2 • SKY 102 • virgin 102 • F’SAT 102 F’VIEW 3 • SKY 103 • virgin 103 • F’SAT 103 F’VIEW 4 • SKY 104 • virgin 104 • F’SAT 104 6.00am Breakfast 10.00 Saturday Kitchen Live. Cookery show featuring guest chefs and celebrities as well as highlights from the BBC Archives and wine choices for the dishes prepared in the studio. 11.30 Pizza Boys (R) 12.00noon Football Focus 1.00 BBC News; Weather 1.15 Bargain Hunt Two teams buy items to sell for profit. (R) 2.00 Escape to the Country People search for their ideal retreats. (R) 3.00 Money for Nothing Items reclaimed from a tip. (R) 3.45 The Bidding Room People try to sell items to five dealers. (R) 4.30 Final Score A round-up of this afternoon’s football results. 5.30 BBC News; Regional News 6.45am The Dengineers (R) 7.15 Marrying Mum and Dad (R) 7.40 Blue Peter (R) 8.10 What’s Cooking Omari? (R) 8.20 Planet Defenders (R) 8.45 Monkey Planet (R) 9.45 Born in China (2016/PG) Wildlife documentary, narrated by John Krasinski. ★★★★ 11.00 Expedition Volcano (R) 12.00noon Nigel Slater’s Dish of the Day (R) 12.20 The Wooden Horse (1950/U) Fact-based Second World War drama, with Leo Genn. ★★★ 2.00 To Be Announced 2.30 The Hundred The women’s final (start time 3.00pm). Coverage of the showpiece match from Lord’s, as the inaugural champions are crowned. 6.00am CITV 8.25 ITV News 8.30 Martin & Roman’s Weekend Best! 9.25 James Martin’s Saturday Morning. The TV chef hosts a weekend chat show. (R) 11.35 Cooking with the Stars. Cookery series. (R) 12.35pm James Martin’s Islands to Highlands The chef explores his native Yorkshire. (R) 1.10 ITV News; Weather 1.25 LIVE ITV Racing: From York Today’s race meetings. 4.00 Tipping Point: Lucky Stars Coin-drop quiz. (R) 5.00 The Chase Celebrity Special Hosted by Bradley Walsh. (R) 6.00 ITV News; Weather 6.15 Regional News; Weather 6.30 Rolling in It Gameshow. 6.00am Everybody Loves Raymond (R) 7.45 Superhero Tri: At Home Superheroes 8.45 The Simpsons (R) 9.45 Monster Trucks (2016/PG) Fantasy adventure, starring Lucas Till and Jane Levy. ★★ 11.50 Four in a Bed (R) 2.25pm Couples Come Dine with Me Three couples from east London compete to win £1,000. (R) 3.20 Jonnie’s Blade Camp (R) 4.30 Michael Johnson Meets Will Bayley (3/4) The sprinter chats to the table tennis champion. 5.00 Michael Johnson Meets Hannah Cockroft (4/4) 5.30 Location, Location, Location: 20 Years and Counting (R) 6.30 Channel 4 News 5.50 The Hit List Marvin and Rochelle Humes present a music-based quiz show in which contestants must name as many hit songs and artists as possible under intense pressure, with a £10,000 jackpot up for grabs. Across three rounds, their knowledge is put to the test, as they attempt to identify huge hits from across the years. (R) 6.35 Pointless Celebrities Alexander Armstrong and Richard Osman present as famous faces take part in the general knowledge quiz in which they try to come up with the least likely correct answers to a series of questions posed to members of the public. (R) 9.25 Casualty Hospital drama with the staff of Holby’s accident and emergency department. 6.00 The Hundred The men’s final (start time 6.30pm). Coverage of the showpiece contest from Lord’s, as the two remaining teams battle it out for the inaugural title. The early stages of the round-robin phase proved to be highly competitive with no one team running away with a lead in the standings, leaving it all to play for as the sides looked to reach this match. 7.30 The Void Gameshow hosted by Ashley Banjo and Fleur East in which contestants take on a wide range of demanding mental and physical challenges. 8.30 Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? Big-prize quiz in which another line-up of contestants answer questions that could change their lives. 9.35 ITV News; Weather 9.55 Fast Five (2011/12) Criminal Dominic Toretto is broken out of prison by his partners in crime and together they flee to South America. They begin assembling a gang of crooks to carry out a heist in Rio, but the FBI’s top manhunter is in the country and hot on their trail. Action adventure sequel, starring Vin Diesel, Dwayne Johnson, Paul Walker and Jordana Brewster. ★★★★ 7.00 Matt Baker: Our Farm in the Dales (4/4) The family take delivery of some beehives, while Matt prepares for lambing season and selects a ram with help from Janice. (R) 8.00 Billy Monger: Changing Gear The racing driver trains alongside Paralympic athletes Alice Tai, Charlotte Henshaw and Jonnie Peacock, and revisits the site of the accident where he lost his legs. 9.00 Fighting with My Family (2019/12) Premiere. The daughter of a family of British wrestlers gets the chance to fulfil her dreams by training with the WWE. As she battles her way through wrestling boot camp to high-profile success, her brother is consumed with jealousy. Fact-based drama, starring Florence Pugh. ★★★★ 10.10 BBC News; Weather 10.30 Match of the Day Gary Lineker presents highlights of the latest Premier League fixtures, including Liverpool v Burnley and Manchester City v Norwich City. 11.50pm FILM 99 Homes (2014/15) A single father desperately trying to support his son and his mother goes to work for the ruthless businessman who evicted them from their home. He is seduced by the glamorous world of high finance and seeks the chance to provide for his family’s security – but to get it, he will have to deprive other families of their homes. Drama, starring Andrew Garfield and Laura Dern. ★★★★ 1.40am Weather for the Week Ahead 1.45-6.00am BBC News 10.00 To Be Announced 1.05am To Be Announced 3.05-6.35am This Is BBC Two 12.15am Home Shopping 3.00 FYI Extra. Short bulletin rounding up the day’s showbusiness stories. 3.15 Britain’s Brightest Celebrity Family. Eight celebrity families take part in the knockout tournament, hoping to win £25,000 for their chosen charity and the coveted title of Britain’s Brightest Celebrity Family. (R) 3.40-6.00am ITV Nightscreen. Text-based service. 11.05pm FILM What Men Want (2019/15) Premiere. Ali Davis is a successful sports agent who is constantly overlooked by her male colleagues. After her boss tells her that a key reason she didn’t get promoted was because she doesn’t connect well with men, Ali begins to question what she needs to do to succeed in a man’s world. Then everything changes when she gains the ability to hear men’s thoughts. Director Adam Shankman’s revamp of Mel Gibson’s romantic comedy What Women Want, starring Taraji P Henson and Aldis Hodge. ★★★ 1.10am The Lateish Show with Mo Gilligan. Chat show. (R) 2.05 Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares USA (R) 2.55 Undercover Boss USA (R) 3.45-6.00am Hollyoaks Omnibus (R) ★★★★★ brilliant ★★★★ very good ★★★ good ★★ average ★ bad

Channel 5 F’VIEW 5 • SKY 105 • virgin 105 • F’SAT 105 6.05am Milkshake! 9.50 SpongeBob SquarePants Double bill. (R) 10.20 Entertainment News on 5 Showbiz news and gossip. 10.30 Friends Six episodes. Comedy about the lives and loves of six New Yorkers, starring Jennifer Aniston, Courteney Cox, Lisa Kudrow, David Schwimmer, Matt LeBlanc and Matthew Perry. (R) 2.30pm Entertainment News on 5 Showbiz news and gossip. 4.45 Entertainment News on 5 Showbiz news and gossip. 5.55 5 News Weekend Headlines. 6.00 Cruising with Jane McDonald The singer goes on a series of voyages around the world. (R) 12.55am Entertainment News on 5 1.00 The 21.co.uk Live Casino Show 3.00 Entertainment News on 5 3.10 Casualty 24/7: Every Second Counts. Documentary following the work of medical emergency teams in the A&E department of Barnsley Hospital. (R) 4.00 Traffic Cops. An insight into the working life of officers patrolling Britain’s roads. (R) 4.50 Wildlife SOS. The work of volunteers at an animal sanctuary. (R) 5.10 House Doctor. Interior designer Ann Maurice visits a house on the market, and offers advice on making it attractive to would-be buyers. (R) 5.35 Milkshake! Monkey’s Amazing Adventures. The inquisitive puppet explores the natural world around the UK. (R) 5.50 Peppa Pig 5.55-6.00am Peppa Pig (R) ITV2 F’VIEW 6 • SKY 118 • virgin 115 • F’SAT 113 6.00am Totally Bonkers Guinness World Records 6.30 You’ve Been Framed! Gold 6.55 Secret Crush 7.55 Love Bites 9.50 Dress to Impress 11.50 Australian Ninja Warrior 1.30pm Catchphrase Celebrity Special 2.30 You’ve Been Framed! Gold 3.00 FILM The House with a Clock in Its Walls (2018/12) Fantasy comedy. ★★★ 5.10 FILM Nanny McPhee (2005/U) Period fantasy. ★★★ 7.05 FILM Legally Blonde 2: Red, White and Blonde (2003/PG) Comedy, with Reese Witherspoon. ★★ 9.00 Love Island: Unseen Bits 10.05 Buffering Comedy. 10.35 Family Guy Double bill. 11.30 American Dad! 12.30am Apocalypse Wow 1.30 Don’t Hate the Playaz 2.15 Totally Bonkers Guinness World Records 3.15-3.30am FYI Extra BBC Four F’VIEW 9 • SKY 116 • virgin 107 • F’SAT 107 7.00pm Archaeology: A Secret History Richard Miles concludes his series charting the history of archaeological breakthroughs. 8.00 Our Coast Four spectacular coastlines linked by the Irish Sea. 9.00 FILM A White, White Day (2019/15) Premiere. An off duty police chief becomes obsessed with proving that a neighbour had an affair with his dead wife. Thriller, starring Ingvar Sigurdsson. In Icelandic. ★★★★ 10.45 Under the Wire – Storyville Documentary about the final joint assignment of war correspondent Marie Colvin and photographer Paul Conroy to cover the siege of Homs in Syria in 2012. 12.20am Peter Green: Man of the World 1.50 Our Coast 2.50-3.45am Archaeology: A Secret History ITV3 6.00am Bless This House 7.00 Coronation Street Omnibus 9.50 Agatha Christie’s Poirot 10.55 A Touch of Frost 3.05pm Midsomer Murders 7.00 Midsomer Murders Double bill. The detectives investigate the death of a local aristocrat who seemingly died of a heart attack – but after his will disappears, it is clear sinister forces are at work; The killing of a postman rocks the town of Goodman’s Land and sends Barnaby on the trail of a vengeful murderer – but Sgt Troy is distracted by the attentions of local PC Jay Nash. John Nettles stars. 11.00 Midsomer Murders. A socialite is found dead, and police investigations uncover a dark world of adultery and deceit in affluent Midsomer Malham. 1.05am The Durrells 2.10 Nightscreen 2.30-6.00am Teleshopping Drama The Void 7.30pm, ITV Ashley Banjo and Fleur East welcome another line of contestants who are brave enough and willing take on a wide range of demanding mental and physical challenges to win a jackpot worth £25,000. However, one false move and it could be game over as a huge tank holding 520,000 litres of water awaits if they go wrong. F’VIEW 10 • SKY 119 • virgin 117 • F’SAT 115 F’VIEW 20 • SKY 143 • virgin 130 • F’SAT 158 6.00am Teleshopping 7.20 Lovejoy 11.15 Last of the Summer Wine 12.00noon The Brokenwood Mysteries 6.00 The Brokenwood Mysteries An ex-finance boss responsible for the loss of many elderly people’s life savings is found floating in a swimming pool with a samurai sword in his back. 8.00 Hetty Wainthropp Investigates The detectives are swamped with work after their recent success. Hetty turns her attention to a troubled village, while Robert and Geoffrey embark on a case of their own. 9.00 Silent Witness The team is called in when body parts covered in intricate tattoos are found on a Brighton waste dump. Nikki has news she wants to share with Matt. 11.15 Ashes to Ashes 1.55am The Heart Guy 4.00-6.00am Teleshopping saturDAY August 21 Scotland & Wales BBC Scotland 12.00noon To Be Announced 7.00pm The Seven 7.15 The Edit. The best of the week’s entertainment news. 8.30 Born to Be Wild. Documentary following life for staff and the animals they care for at the SSPCA’s wildlife rescue centre. 10.00pm-12.00m’t Best of Chewin’ the Fat. Highlights of the comedy series, starring Ford Kiernan, Greg Hemphill, Karen Dunbar, Mark Cox and Paul Riley. BBC One Scotland As BBC One except: 5.40-5.50pm Reporting Scotland. The day’s headlines. BBC One Wales As BBC One except: 5.40-5.50pm BBC Wales Today. The day’s headlines. STV As ITV except: 1.25-4.00pm LIVE STV Racing: Live from York. Coverage of today’s race meetings. 6.15-6.30 STV News 9.55 Rake. American comedydrama, starring Greg Kinnear as Keegan Deane, a criminal defence lawyer whose personal problems have led him to self-destructive behaviour. 10.50 FILM Fast Five (2011/12) Action adventure, starring Vin Diesel and Dwayne Johnson. ★★★★ 1.05-3.00am ITV Nightscreen ITV Wales As ITV except: 6.15-6.30pm ITV News Cymru Wales. The day’s headlines. S4C 6.00am Cyw 8.00 Bernard 8.05 Y Doniolis 8.15 Rhyfeddodau Chwilengoch a Cath Ddu 8.35 Hendre Hurt 8.45 Byd Rwtsh Dai Potsh 8.55 Chwarter Call 9.10 Pat a Stan 9.15 Cic 9.35 Dreigiau: Gwarchodwyr Berc 10.00 Trysorau’r Teulu 11.00 Natur a Ni 11.30 Dim Byd i’w Wisgo 12.00noon Bwrdd i Dri 12.30 Nyrsys 1.30 Cefn Gwlad 2.30 Hen Dy Newydd. Three interior designers transform a house in Llandegfan, Anglesey. 3.30 Y Fets. Saruman the gerbil needs dental treatment, Rosemary the ferret causes a stir, and Kate the vet is determined to help Tico the two year old Rhodesian Ridgeback. 4.30 Codi Pac. Geraint Hardy enjoys the sights and sounds of different places around Wales. This week he discovers what Bala has to offer. 5.00 Sgorio. Highlights. 7.15 Newyddion a Chwaraeon 7.30 Bwrdd i Dri. Connagh Howard, Mali Ann Rees and Mei Gwynedd take part in the culinary challenge, preparing and cooking a three-course meal. 8.00 Noson Lawen. All-singing, all-dancing entertainment show filmed on location and guided by a guest presenter. 9.00 To Be Announced 10.00 Sgwrs Dan y Lloer. Elin Fflur chats to author, chaired bard and publisher Myrddin ap Dafydd. 10.30-11.35pm Fferm Ffactor: Selebs. Teams of celebrities compete in farming-based challenges, beginning with Ioan Doyle, Cefin Roberts and Linda Brown against Elen Pencwm, Alun Williams and Nathan Brew.

radiofor the week 15 - 21 August SUNDAY Radio 1 5.00am Radio 1 Relax. 6.00 Radio 1’s Chillout Anthems. 7.00 Adele Roberts. 10.00 Radio 1 Anthems. 11.02 Katie Thistleton. 1.00pm Matt And Mollie. 4.00 Radio 1’s Life Hacks. 6.00 The Official Chart. 7.00 Radio 1’s Chillest Show With Sian Eleri. 9.00 Rock Show With Daniel P Carter. 11.00 BBC Introducing On Radio 1. 12.30am BBC Introducing Dance. 1.00 Radio 1’s Residency. 3.00 Radio 1’s Chill Mix. 4.00-5.00am Radio 1 Dance. Radio 2 5.00am Tracks Of My Years. 6.00 Good Morning Sunday. 9.00 Steve Wright’s Sunday Love Songs. 11.00 The Michael Ball Show. 1.00pm Elaine Paige On Sunday. 3.00 Sounds Of The 70s With Johnnie Walker. 5.00 Patrick Kielty. 7.00 Sunday Night Is Music Night. 9.00 Radio 2 Unwinds. A musical journey across genres and decades. 10.00 Katie Piper. Katie sits in for Dr Rangan Chatterjee. 12.00m’t OJ Borg. 2.30 One Hit Wonders With OJ Borg. 3.00 Pick Of The Pops. 4.00-6.30am Nicki Chapman. Radio 3 7.00am Breakfast. 9.00 Sunday Morning. 12.00noon My Problem With Mahler. 1.00 Proms Chamber Music 2021. 2.00 The Early Music Show. 3.00 Choral Evensong. 4.00 Jazz Record Requests. 5.00 The Listening Service. 5.30 Words And Music. 6.45 Sunday Feature: The Art Of Rowing With Mary Wollstonecraft. 7.00 BBC Proms 2021. 10.00 Record Review Extra. 11.00 Organ Road Trip. 12.00m’t Classical Fix. 12.30-6.30am Through The Night. Radio 4 5.30am News Briefing. 5.43 Bells On Sunday. 5.45 Profile. 6.00 News Headlines. 6.05 Something Understood. 6.35 On Your Farm. 6.57 Weather. 7.00 News. 7.10 Sunday. 7.54 Radio 4 Appeal. 7.57 Weather. 8.00 News. 8.10 Sunday Worship. 8.48 A Point Of View. 8.58 Tweet Of The Day. 9.00 Broadcasting House. 10.00 The Archers. 10.45 (LW) Test Match Special. England v India. 10.54 (FM) Tweet Take 5: Macaws. 11.00 (FM) The Reunion. 11.45 (FM) Questions Answered. 12.00noon (FM) News. 12.01 (LW) Shipping Forecast. 12.04 (LW) Test Match Special. England v India. 12.04 (FM) The Unbelievable Truth. 12.32 (FM) The Food Programme. 12.57 (FM) Weather. 1.00 (FM) The World This Weekend. 1.30 (FM) The Listening Project. 2.00 (FM) Gardeners’ Question Time. 2.45 (FM) Green Originals. 3.00 (FM) Drama: The Master Builder. 4.00 (FM) Open Book. 4.30 (FM) Power Lines: Body. 5.00 (FM) Trading Blows? 5.40 (FM) Profile. 5.54 (LW) Shipping Forecast. 5.54 (FM) Shipping Forecast. 5.57 (LW) Test Match Special. England v India. 5.57 (FM) Weather. 6.00 (FM) Six O’Clock News. 6.15 (FM) Pick Of The Week. 7.00 The Archers. The Ambridge summer fete descends into chaos. 7.15 Michael Frayn’s Magic Mobile. Comedic monologues and dialogues from the mind of Michael Frayn. 7.45 Wolverine Blues. By Last in series. 8.00 Feedback. Listeners’ views. 8.30 Last Word. 9.00 The Hangover. 9.25 Radio 4 Appeal. On behalf of St Giles Trust. 9.30 The Kitchen Cabinet. 9.59 Weather. 10.00 The Westminster Hour. 11.00 The Film Programme. 11.30 Something Understood. 12.00m’t News And Weather. 12.15 Sideways. 12.45 Bells On Sunday. 12.48 Shipping Forecast. 1.00 As BBC World Service. 5.20-5.30am Shipping Forecast. Radio 5 Live 5.30am 5 Live Sport. 6.00 5 Live Science. 7.00 Sunday Breakfast. 10.00 Rick Edwards. 12.00noon 5 Live Sport. 2.00 5 Live Sport. 4.00 5 Live Sport. 6.30 6-0-6. 8.00 I’m Not A Monster. 9.00 Mobeen Azhar. 12.00m’t On the Ground. 1.00-5.00am Dotun Adebayo. Classic FM 7.00am Aled Jones. 10.00 Bill Turnbull. 1.00pm Catherine Bott. 4.00 John Humphrys. 7.00 Classics At Seven. 10.00 Classics. 1.00-6.00am Bill Overton. Radio Scotland 6.00am Out Of Doors. 6.30 Clever About Cash. 7.00 Our Lives. 7.30 New Every Sunday. 8.00 Sunday Morning. 10.00 The Sunday Show. 12.00noon Off The Ball. 1.55 Sportsound. 5.00 Gary Innes. 7.00 Classics Unwrapped. 9.00 Jazz Nights. 11.00 Iain Anderson. 1.00-6.00am As BBC Radio 5 Live. MONday Radio 1 5.00am Radio 1 Early Breakfast With Arielle Free. 7.00 The Radio 1 Breakfast Show With Greg James. 10.00 Radio 1 Anthems. 11.02 Adele Roberts. 12.45pm Newsbeat. 1.00 Adele Roberts. 2.00 Scott Mills. 5.45 Newsbeat. 6.00 Radio 1’s Future Sounds With YUNGBLUD. 8.00 Radio 1’s Power Down Playlist With YUNGBLUD. 9.00 Radio 1’s Future Artists With Jack Saunders. 12.00m’t Radio 1’s Drum & Bass Show. 2.00 Radio 1’s Decompression Session. 3.00 Radio 1’s Workout Anthems. 4.00-5.00am Radio 1 Dance. Radio 2 6.30am The Zoe Ball Breakfast Show. 9.30 Ken Bruce. 12.00noon Vanessa Feltz. 2.00 Steve Wright In The Afternoon. 5.00 Sara Cox. 6.30 Sara Cox’s Half Wower. 7.00 Will Young’s Shiny Happy Playlist. 7.30 Will Young. 9.00 The Blues Show With Cerys Matthews. 10.00 Trevor Nelson’s Rhythm Nation. 12.00m’t OJ Borg. 3.00 Pick Of The Pops. 4.00-6.30am Nicki Chapman. Radio 3 6.30am Breakfast. 9.00 Essential Classics. 12.00noon Composer Of The Week: Arcangelo Corelli. 1.00 Proms Chamber Music 2021. 2.00 Afternoon Concert. 4.30 Early Music Now. 5.00 In Tune. 7.00 In Tune Mixtape. 7.30 BBC Proms 2021. 10.00 Cristiani And Her Cello. 10.45 The Essay: Dawnwalks. 11.00 Night Tracks. 12.30-6.30am Through The Night. Radio 4 5.30am News Briefing. 5.43 Prayer For The Day. 5.45 Farming Today. 5.58 Tweet Of The Day. 6.00 Today. 9.00 How To Play. 9.30 The Age Of Denial. 9.45 (LW) Daily Service. 9.45 (FM) Book Of The Week: Hello, Stranger. 10.00 Woman’s Hour. 10.45 (LW) Test Match Special. England v India. Commentary on the fifth day of the Second Test from Lord’s, with Jonathan Agnew, Isa Guha, Simon Mann and Alison Mitchell. 11.00 (FM) My Name Is Anna. 11.30 (FM) Loose Ends. 12.00noon (FM) News. 12.01 (LW) Shipping Forecast. 12.04 (LW) Test Match Special. England v India. 12.04 (FM) The Mermaid Of Black Conch. 12.18 (FM) You And Yours. 12.57 (FM) Weather. 1.00 (FM) The World At One. 1.45 (FM) A History Of The World In 100 Objects. 2.00 (FM) The Archers. 2.15 (FM) Drama: Angst! 2.45 (FM) Woof: Honest Mistakes At Home And Abroad. 3.00 (FM) Brain Of Britain. 3.30 (FM) The Food Programme. 4.00 (FM) Sketches: Stories Of Art And People. 4.30 (FM) Beyond Belief. 5.00 (FM) PM. 5.54 (LW) Shipping Forecast. 5.57 (LW) Test Match Special. England v India. 5.57 (FM) Weather. 6.00 (FM) Six O’Clock News. 6.30 (FM) The Unbelievable Truth. 7.00 The Archers. 7.15 Front Row. Arts programme. 7.45 Incarnations: India In 50 Lives. The life and legacy of Bhimrao Ambedkar. 8.00 This Union: The Ghost Kingdoms Of England. Ian Hislop explores the story of the great Mercian Kings. 8.30 Crossing Continents. The deadly crime wave afflicting Israel’s Arab citizens. 9.00 The DNA Of History. Jerry Brotton asks how far the science of genetics is changing the study of history. 9.30 How To Play. 9.59 Weather. 10.00 The World Tonight. 10.45 Book At Bedtime: The Mermaid Of Black Conch. 11.00 Word Of Mouth. 11.30 Daliso Chaponda: Citizen Of Nowhere. 12.00m’t News And Weather. 12.30 Book Of The Week: Hello, Stranger. 12.48 Shipping Forecast. 1.00 As BBC World Service. 5.20-5.30am Shipping Forecast. Radio 5 Live 5.00am Wake Up To Money. 6.00 5 Live Breakfast. 9.00 Your Call. 10.00 Naga Munchetty. 1.00pm Nihal Arthanayake. 4.00 5 Live Drive. 7.00 5 Live Sport: The Monday Night Club. 9.00 5 Live Sport: The Tuffers And Vaughan Cricket Show. 10.00 5 Live Boxing. 10.30 Colin Murray. 1.00-5.00am Dotun Adebayo. 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Susan Hellard c/o ARENA Mindy Hammond Every week in S Magazine Whether it’s decking by a dingle, a hammock on a sandy beach or a converted hay store, everyone deserves a place of their own to chill out in Illustration by Susan Hellard You might recall the great upheaval in the hay store some months ago, when Mrs Mallard made the curious decision to build a nest and set up her nursery in there. She successfully hatched 10 ducklings and immediately marched them off to the big pond where they flourished… for a while. But sadly, she was a little overconfident and, while she abandoned her children at the pond to visit the stables and enjoy a leisurely breakfast with Dudey the cockerel, I suspect they were being picked off by every predator in the area. I truly believe ducks were designed without the ability to count just to avoid heartbreak, as no Mummy Duck is ever going to keep all of her family alive when the odds of survival are so heavily stacked against them. But I imagine once Mummy Duck realises she no longer has a small crowd around her, there is a lightbulb moment and the few remaining ducklings are treated with far greater care. Mrs M’s headcount (if only she could count) dropped like a stone over the course of a week to a rather depressing three. Then we didn’t see her or her remaining ducklings for such a long time, we feared they had fallen prey to a fox. But last weekend, as I walked the dogs along the bank of the bottom pond, there was a rustle in the weeds and what appeared to be three fully-grown mallards skimmed across the water to the safety of the island. Within moments I recognised Mrs Mallard and what had to be her last two ducklings, now fully fledged, with survival instincts to match their mother’s. Their home is under the decking that reaches out over the dingle pond – they are surrounded by water, so they’re safe from predators, but the decking provides great protection from the elements too. They have found the duck equivalent of my dream – a swaying hammock on a sandy beach – except theirs is a pile of twigs on a muddy patch. There were clearly no plans to return to the nursery, which was just as well. The hay was ready to harvest and if Mrs M was done with her nest, we could sweep the hay barn clean and store some of this year’s crop there. For the first time in many years, everyone growing hay has been smiling this summer. We weren’t cursing that the heatwave came too soon, before the grass was long enough to cut, or holding our breath, waiting for a run of warm, rain-free days once the timing was right and biting our nails as the hay was on the ground, convinced the sun wouldn’t be hot enough to dry it. We had blazing sunshine at just the right time and just long enough to cut it, turn it and bale it. But then it had to be stored. Martin, our friendly farmer, carted off most of our harvest to store in his big barn, but the remainder was stacked in the hay store, where it would remain for a few months before we began feeding it to the ponies – and it smelt fabulous. Meanwhile, we were still using up last year’s hay, which had been housed in the spare stable since Mrs Mallard’s invasion. At least 20 bales remained and that was a problem. Our new horse Spirit would be making the journey from North Wales in a few days and no way could he move into a room full of hay. Willow had already done a marvellous job on his field shelter, but she hadn’t thought about the stable. So, on the way back from our local feed store, where the poor horse had been bought pink buckets, a rug covered in Thelwell ponies and a fly sheet covered in cartoon bees, I explained she needed to help me with some heavy lifting and for the next couple of hours we carried bales, swept floors and I was nominated chief cobweb cleaner and spider wrangler. Mrs Speckledy, the insect-catching hen assisted in spider removal, which made Willow shriek and Dudey had to be retrieved from the back of the muck truck, when he tried to make a comfy bed in the pile of old hay. Despite all our work, the ex hay store isn’t for Spirit. In the age old tradition of pony shuffling, Willow has decided her boys should be next to each other and so Musca is to be moved to the newly swept premises so that Spirit can have his ‘room’, sandwiched between Max and Romeo. His new name plate is on order, ready to be fixed to the door, and I’m wondering whether I should order a second to go on the dingle decking for Mrs Mallard. She may not be able to count, but perhaps she can read? S MAGAZINE ★ 15 AUGUST 2021 67

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