Daily Express - 2022-01-14

CAMPAIGNING NEWSPAPER OF THE YEAR express.co.uk Friday, January 14, 2022 ■ duke of york stripped of military roles and can no longer use hrh title ■ He will face sex assault case as ‘private citizen’ 80p queen casts andrew adrift ...for sake of the monarchy By Richard Palmer PRINCE Andrew was dramatically cut adrift from the royal family yesterday as the Queen sought to protect the monarchy. He was stripped of his Turn to page 2

2 Daily Express Friday, January 14, 2022 DX1ST queen moves to Analysis christopher wilson Royal author Without a hint of remorse or shred of humility, he now walks alone into obscurity – facing a battle which will finish his reputation and damage the royal house on which he’s feasted these past six decades. If there were moments of glory in his early career, they’ve long been overshadowed by his arrogance, sense of privilege and bottomless self-belief. The Duke of York’s final day as a public figure covered him in shame twice over. The glitter and the gold were stripped from him as he handed back his grand military titles. The braided uniforms were stuffed into a cupboard, never to be seen again. Public appointments were taken from him. But, it appears, even to the end he was determined to cling on. No bowing out with as much grace as he could muster. No public apology for bringing shame and disgrace to the House of Windsor’s door, no offer to fall on his sword. He couldn’t bring himself to resign; he had to be fired. Imagine what the Queen felt as she confronted her son. She will feel a sense of betrayal this morning as she sees the headlines and hears the news bulletins. Humiliation We live in uncertain times, when people look more than usual to the royals for a lead. Instead they see a noble institution brought to its knees by the arrogant defection of one of its number and the humiliation of another. The Queen remains as upright as ever. But at 95, is it right, is it fair, that her life’s work and dedication should be tarnished by the behaviour of her second son, upon whom she lavished every honour? The royals have for centuries learned to face the accusations of slighted women. Put simply, give them what they want in return for their silence. In these more enlightened times it’s only right that we listen to such complaints and try to work out who’s right and who’s wrong. But in most people’s eyes and based on what we know, there’s little to choose between a girl who chose to work for Jeffrey Epstein and a man, it’s alleged, who took advantage of his sordid hold over young, ambitious, but clearly unworldly girls. The Queen, as always, will rise above this. But why on earth did Andrew think his life and preferences were more important than the sovereign’s precious reputation? Out in the cold, he from PAGE one honorary military roles and remaining royal patronages. He remains the Duke of York but has been told he will no longer be able to use His Royal Highness. It comes as he faces a US civil action over sexual assault allegations – claims that he has consistently denied. He will now face the accusations as a “private citizen”. After crisis meetings with senior members of her family, the Queen summoned her second son to Windsor Castle. She told him face-to-face that his hopes of returning to the official life he stepped away from temporarily in November 2019 are finished. His military affiliations and royal patronages have been returned to the Queen and will be redistributed to other members of the royal family. A royal source said last night: “For clarity, they will not be returned to the Duke of York.” But Andrew Meeting... William retains the rank of Vice Admiral in the Royal Navy under a convention that members of the royal family who served in the forces continue to get promoted as if they had stayed in the military. Andrew, 61, had been a national hero after serving as a Royal Navy helicopter pilot in the Falklands conflict almost 40 years ago. Damage The Queen’s decision to strip the Prince of his remaining military affiliations and royal patronages came amid heightened concern inside the Palace about the need to distance the monarch from the sex scandal engulfing him. Her advisers are worried about the dangers of family members or aides being subpoenaed by lawyers acting for Virginia Giuffre. She is suing the Duke for damages in a New York civil court case. She is claiming she was trafficked around the world by paedophile Jeffrey Epstein and was forced to have sex with Andrew when she was 17 and underage in US law. He denies any wrong-doing and continues to robustly defend himself against the lawsuit. But the decision to remove him as a working royal came after the Queen held crisis meetings with Prince Charles, the Duke of Cambridge and other members of the family. The group was adamant that Andrew can no longer continue to hold official roles because of the mounting reputational damage to the monarchy. In a statement, a Buckingham Palace spokeswoman said: “With the Queen’s approval and agreement, the Duke of York’s military affiliations and royal patronages have been returned to the Queen. The Palace said previously that the duke’s military appointments were in abeyance after he stepped down from public duties in 2019. But, prior to yesterday, he still retained the roles, including the Andrew at the Royal Military Academy. Left, with Queen in 2019. Below, the statement The Duke of York will continue not to undertake any public duties and is defending this case as a private citizen.” A royal source confirmed that Andrew would no longer use the style His Royal Highness. Like Harry and Meghan, he keeps the HRH but is just not allowed to use it publicly. The statement came a day after Judge Lewis A Kaplan dismissed the Duke’s efforts to have Ms Giuffre’s case against him stopped. A source said it had been “widely discussed among the Royal Family”. A trial is due in New York between September and December, casting a huge shadow over the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee celebrations, from which Andrew is sure to be excluded. As part of the LOST TITLES – SEven Military roles position of Colonel of the Grenadier Guards, one of the oldest and most emblematic regiments in the British Army. His other British honorary military titles are: ● Honorary air commodore

protect monarchy DX1ST Daily Express Friday, January 14, 2022 3 Pictures: Getty, Kelvin Bruce Analysis colonel richard kemp Retired Army Officer As allegations against Prince Andrew unfolded, severe disquiet had arisen within his regiments. And – even though he has not been convicted of a crime – the Queen had no choice other than to remove his military titles following the decision by a US judge that he must face civil proceedings. The relationship between the armed forces and the Royal Family is unique and close. Every regiment and corps in the Army and units of the Royal Navy and RAF has a royal colonel-in-chief or equivalent. Many visit regularly, inspect parades, present colours, meet soldiers and sometimes spend time on operations. In some cases they fight, for example when Prince Andrew went to the Falklands and Prince Harry went to Afghanistan. Colonels-in-chief are given immense respect and deference by every member of their regiments and are toasted at formal events whether they are present of not. The other side of the coin is their obligation to the regiment. To be the ceremonial head and wear the uniform of a unit of fighting men and women, who serve their country and, if necessary, give their lives for it, is a tremendous honour and a solemn duty. The ethos of the armed forces and their fighting cohesion depends on honour and integrity, so any breaches – especially among officers – are dealt with severely. Members of the armed forces swear an oath to “honestly and faithfully” defend the Queen. It must be taken for granted that undertaking will be reciprocated. Colonels-in-chief are the Queen’s personal representatives in regiments. So if there is any question about their conduct or character, the position becomes untenable. will fight sex case alone pre-trial process of gathering evidence, he faces the prospect of up to seven hours of questioning under oath and on video camera about intimate aspects of his life from Ms Giuffre’s lawyer in testimony which may then be presented in court. He has vowed to fight on despite the judge rejecting all of his stripped from the duke of york of RAF Lossiemouth ● Colonel-in-chief of the Royal Irish Regiment ● Colonel-in-chief of the Small Arms School Corps ● Commodore-in-Chief of the Fleet Air Arm ● Royal colonel of the Royal Highland Fusiliers ● Deputy colonel-in-chief of The Royal Lancers (Queen Elizabeths’ Own) ● Royal colonel of the Royal Regiment of Scotland Prince Andrew is seen for the first time since the bombshell sex abuse case ruling. A car carrying the Duke of York is driven from his home Royal Lodge, near Windsor Castle, in Berkshire yesterday arguments on why the case against him should be dismissed. The Queen’s decisive action in seeking to draw a line under the Epstein scandal came on the day that more than 150 military veterans joined forces to write to her and demand Andrew was removed from his military positions. Accusing him of bringing the services he is associated with into disrepute, the 152 former members of the Royal Navy, RAF and Army said that “were this any other senior officer it is inconceivable that he would still be in post”. One of the Army veterans who called on the Queen to remove the Duke of York’s honorary roles welcomed the decision to strip him of the posts, saying: “I’m just glad he’s not associated with the military now.” Lieutenant Stuart Hunt, who served in The 1st Royal Tank Regiment, branded the matter an “unsavoury business” and said the Duke had brought the Armed Forces into disrepute. Embarrassing Lt Hunt, who served in Northern Ireland in the early 1990s, said: “I’m pleased, although it should have happened two years ago or in fact longer when he was taking his little trips out to play golf in St Andrews.” He lambasted Andrew as “not fit to serve” in an honorary rank and said he lacked any form of credibility as an effective leader. The 52-year-old said: “Whether he’s guilty or not, he has brought things into disrepute. “A better man would have stood down whether innocent or guilty for the sake of the organisation. It’s repugnant really.” Veteran royal watcher Joe Little, managing editor of Majesty magazine, said Andrew’s royal career had to all intents and purposes been over for more than two years. He said: “Almost 40 years ago the Duke of York was a national hero after the Falklands conflict. But these things have a habit of turning on their head.” The Queen is head of the Armed Forces and honorary military appointments are in her gift. Buckingham Palace still listed more than 100 patronages for Andrew yesterday, although many of the charities he represented have decided to jettison him. Andrew remains in the line of succession to the throne and, as such, is still one of four Counsellors of State ready to step in to sign official papers if the Queen is abroad or too ill to work. The others are Prince Charles, the Duke of Cambridge and the Duke of Sussex, meaning two of the four – Harry and Andrew – are no longer working royals. That could present an embarrassing problem for Buckingham Palace if the Queen is unable to work and either Charles or William are abroad or also ill. OPINION: PAGE 12

4 Daily Express Friday, January 14, 2022 Die was cast after woeful TV interview COMMENT richard Palmer Royal Correspondent DX1ST ROYAL SEX SCANDAL: THE Queen’s decision to strip Prince Andrew of his remaining royal roles frees him to fight his sexual assault civil case or settle out of court as a private citizen. It is mostly about distancing the monarchy from the fallout of this hugely embarrassing damages case brought by Virginia Giuffre. She claims she was forced to have sex with him when she was 17 and working for his friends Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell – claims he strenuously denies. But there has been growing concern inside the Royal Household that other family members and their staff might get dragged into giving evidence in what promises to be a damaging trial. The Queen’s action may not save them completely but it puts the Firm at arm’s length from Andrew, 61, who has been a dead man walking since he gave an interview to BBC Newsnight in 2019 about his friendship with Epstein and Maxwell – both now convicted of procuring or grooming young girls for sex. Andrew’s best option may be to seek an out-of-court settlement, although Ms Giuffre, 38, has made it clear she wants him to admit he did wrong and that she is telling the truth before she countenances agreeing for him to pay her compensation. His lawyers have suggested he is not ready to think about a settlement yet and intends to fight the case. They remain focused on trying to halt it, potentially using the fact that neither Ms Giuffre nor Andrew live in the United States and, therefore, its courts do not have jurisdiction. An appeal of the judge’s decision to press ahead with the trial has been ruled out because it would be heard after the trial. One option would be for Andrew to ignore the case and refuse to pay but his friends say that will not happen. It is also highly unlikely he will go to New York to sit in court after giving evidence on video during the pre-trial, says a source close to him. He faces a rocky road. Prince prepares for ‘marathon’ court fight but is he ready to settle? PRINCE Andrew has vowed to defend himself against a “marathon” civil lawsuit by accuser Virginia Giuffre – as speculation grew that the case would be settled out of court. A source close to the Duke said last night he would “continue to defend himself” against the allegations of sexual assault following the US judge’s decision to dismiss his legal team’s attempt to have the case thrown out. The source said: “Given the robustness with which Judge Kaplan greeted our arguments, we are unsurprised by the ruling. However, it was not a judgment on the merits of Ms Giuffre’s allegations. This is a marathon not a sprint and the Duke will continue to defend himself against these claims.” Andrew’s next attempt at having the allegations dismissed looks set to centre on his legal team’s belief that under US federal law, at least one of the parties has to be a US By Richard Palmer Royal Correspondent resident. His accuser – formerly Virginia Roberts – is an American living in Western Australia. The Royal’s determination to press on came as her lawyer said she wants to be “vindicated” by the legal process and is not motivated by reaching a “purely financial settlement”. One of the few options open to Andrew is to reach an out-of-court settlement with Ms Giuffre. Rumours But the suggestion by her lawyer David Boies that money alone would not satisfy his client might indicate she may want her day in court or some admission from the Duke or acknowledgement of her position. Mr Boies declined to rule out the prospect of his client agreeing a settlement but said there was “no suggestion of discussions at this point”. Legal experts have described Andrew reaching an agreement, likely to be in the millions of pounds, as his best worst-case option – as it avoids him being cross-examined in court. The rumours come as the Prince found a buyer for his beloved ski chalet in a deal worth an estimated £18 million. Sources confirmed the sale of the home in the exclusive Swiss resort 1999 ● Andrew first meets Jeffrey Epstein, reportedly introduced through pal Ghislaine Maxwell. ● Epstein said to have visited Andrew at Balmoral. ● Andrew later says he sees Epstein “infrequently”, adding “no more than only once or twice a year”. 2000 ● Andrew and Maxwell seen on holiday with Epstein at Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Largo Club in Florida. ● Epstein and Maxwell attend a joint royal birthday party at Main man…the late Jeffrey Epstein of Verbier is “proceeding”after a mystery buyer agreed to take it off his hands. He was only able to sell Chalet Helora after settling a £6.6million debt to French socialite Isabelle de Rouvre, 74, who sold it to him and Sarah Ferguson in 2014 for Windsor Castle, including to mark Andrew’s 40th. 2001 ● Virginia Giuffre claims to have had sex with Andrew “three times”, with the first allegedly at Maxwell’s London townhouse. ● Ms Giuffre alleges she had sex with Andrew on two more occasions, at Epstein’s New York home and on his private Caribbean island. 2008 ● Epstein admits prostituting minors and is sentenced to 18 months in prison. 2010 ● Epstein is released.

DUKE BATTLES ON DX1ST Daily Express Friday, January 14, 2022 5 Andrew pictured next to Ms Giuffre, then 17, when she was in London. Left, the Prince’s ski chalet in Verbier which he is selling for £18m £18million. Mr Boies said on BBC Two’s Newsnight: “It is important to Virginia that this matter be resolved in a way that vindicates her and vindicates the other victims. “I don’t think she has a firm view at this point as to exactly what a From parties to lawsuit ● Andrew is snapped with the by-then disgraced Epstein in New York’s Central Park. ● Footage emerges years later, said to be shot on December 6, 2010, showing him in Epstein’s Manhattan mansion, waving to a woman. 2011 ● The Duke quits as UK trade envoy after the fallout from the Central Park images. 2015 ● Buckingham Palace denies Andrew has committed any impropriety after he is named in US court documents related to Epstein. ● A woman, later named as Ms Giuffre, alleges in papers filed in Florida that she was forced to have sex with Andrew when 17, under the age of consent in the state. ● At the World Economic Forum in Davos, Andrew responds saying he “reaffirms” statements from Buckingham Palace. ● In April the claims against Andrew are struck from US civil court records. 2019 ● Newly released legal documents show that Johanna Sjoberg, another alleged Epstein victim, claims Andrew touched her breast at the US billionaire’s Andrew during the BBC interview in 2019 Manhattan apartment in 2001. Buckingham Palace rejects the allegations. ● Epstein is found dead in his jail cell on August 10, having killed himself after being charged with sex trafficking. ● Later that month Epstein’s pilot claims Andrew was on flights with the financier and Ms Giuffre. The Palace says Andrew was on a different continent in some cases. solution should be. But what’s going to be important is that this resolution vindicates her and vindicates the claim she has made.” He added: “A purely financial settlement is not anything that I think she’s interested in.” She is seeking unspecified damages in court but there is speculation it could be in the millions of dollars. Judge Lewis Kaplan dismissed a motion by Andrew’s lawyers to have the case thrown out after they argued Ms Giuffre had waived her right to pursue the Duke by signing a confidential settlement with the paedophile Jeffrey Epstein, now dead. The decision means Andrew is a step closer to appearing – if he chooses to engage with the US legal system – in front of a jury, whether in person or more likely via video link. There is also the prospect his ● Following Epstein’s death, the Palace says Andrew is “appalled” by “Epstein’s alleged crimes”. ● Andrew says on August 24 “At no stage die I see, witness or suspect [Epstein’s crimes]”. ● He steps down from royal duties in November after the BBC Newsnight interview. ● Ms Giuffre asks for public support in her Panorama interview in December. 2021 ● Andrew hires an attorney after Ms Giuffre files sexual assault lawsuit. 2022 ● Ms Guiffre’s settlement with Epstein is unsealed but Andrew does not benefit. daughters Beatrice and Eugenie and ex-wife the Duchess of York may be called to give evidence. Asked by presenter Kirsty Wark if Ms Giuffre was “open to the idea of a settlement”, Mr Boies replied: “I don’t want to prejudge that”. But he said previous attempts he made to resolve the issue with Andrew were rebuffed. He added: “Prior to the time that we brought the case we reached out to Prince Andrew and Prince Andrew’s lawyers and suggested a mediation as a possible way of avoiding litigation. There was no interest in that at that time. Whether that has changed or not, we’ll have to wait and see.” Controlled Ms Giuffre, 38, alleges she was forced to have sex with Andrew when she was 17 – a minor under US law – in London and New York, and when she was 18 on Little St James in the US Virgin Islands. The Duke vehemently denies sleeping with her while she was controlled by his friends Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell, who has been convicted of sex trafficking.

6 Daily Express Friday, January 14, 2022 DX1ST MI5 outs beijing agent Chinese ‘spy’ active in MI6 chief warned of espionage By John Twomey THE Westminster spy scandal erupted just weeks after the head of MI6 called China his agency’s “greatest priority”. Richard Moore had revealed Chinese intelligence units are conducting “largescale espionage operations against the UK and our allies”. Speaking to an audience in London, he said: “We are concerned by the Chinese government’s attempt to distort public discourse and political decision-making across the globe. “Adapting to a world affected by the rise of China is the single greatest priority for MI6. We are deepening our understanding of China across the UK intelligence community.” He warned that an over-confident China could pose a “serious challenge” to global peace if it acted rashly over issues such as the sovereignty of Taiwan. Spies are targeting individuals who work in government, industry or in research which is of interest to Beijing, the MI6 chief said. Chinese agents are also spying on their own people living in Britain. He told how the communist nation is trying to get its “hooks” into leaders by using “debt and data traps”. Debt traps involve countries being given loans they cannot repay, meaning they could be forced to do China’s bidding as a result. And Beijing’s intelligence agencies are also harvesting data from around the world on such a scale that it could threaten the sovereignty of some nations, he claimed. Responding to Mr Moore’s speech, China’s leaders broadcast a childish James Bond spoof on the state news agency, called No Time To Die Laughing. If features a British agent character – titled James Pond – who describes a “fictional Chinese debt trap and data trap” as a pathetic excuse to get more funding for British intelligence. But the spoof backfired as, in a rare public riposte, Mr Moore tweeted: “Thank you for your interest (and the unexpected free publicity!)” By Macer Hall Flights: Mr Dismore HOME Secretary Priti Patel has expressed “deep concern” over revelations a Chinese agent operated at the heart of Westminster. A major security alert erupted yesterday after MI5 issued a warning about the “political interference activities” of Christine Ching Kui Lee, who is closely linked to Beijing’s communist rulers. The high-powered lawyer was revealed to have been funnelling funds to politicians to spread Chinese government influence in the UK establishment. Senior Labour MP Barry Gardiner received more than £500,000 in donations to run his office. The former shadow cabinet member accepted the cash over six years and employed her son Daniel Wilkes as his diary manager. Lee, 58, also managed to gain access to former prime minister David Cameron and was given an award by his Conservative successor Theresa May. Lee also met former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn and deputy leader Tom Watson and made donations to the Liberal Democrats. Ms Patel said: “It will be deeply concerning that an individual who has knowingly engaged in political interference activities on behalf of the Chinese Communist Fears...Iain Duncan Smith Party targeted parliamentarians. “The fact this has become public in the way it has is a very strong illustration of how our intelligence and security agencies have been working together to spot and identify this type of activity – activity that could potentially do harm to our country and harm to our democracy.” Ms Patel said although the notice about Lee, whose central London firm acts as a legal adviser to the Chinese embassy, would put MPs on alert, the activity was “under the criminal threshold” and she has not been arrested. Mr Gardiner said he only found out Lee was a “spy” engaged in “illegal activity” when approached by security officials yesterday. He said: “I had a meeting with the director of parliamentary security and two security service agents. They made me aware they had information which showed Christine Lee had been engaged in illegal activity. “I had been cautious. I knew she acted for a number of a Chinese businesses in the UK and for that reason I had spoken openly and frankly with our security services for a number of years about the engagement I had with her.” Mr Gardiner said he asked Lee’s son to resign, adding: “The security services said they had no information that led them to believe he was aware of his mother’s illegal activity.” Threat Senior Tories said the security alert showed why the Government needed to do more to defend against the threat posed by the Chinese communist regime. Former Cabinet minister Sir Iain Duncan Smith said: “It is very serious. Here is an agent of a foreign power. “This is a power guilty of genocide, of slave labour, of forced sterilisation of women, re-education of children they don’t want to speak their own language, threats to Taiwan, taking over the South China Seas, smashing churches up – all this sort of stuff.” Sir Iain, who raised the issue in a point of order in the Commons yesterday, is concerned the identification of the agent had taken “some considerable time”. He added: “We haven’t been taking the threat from China Parliament has been rightly rocked by a formal notice from MI5 that a Chinese spy has infiltrated its midst. Christine Lee was no occasional visitor. She was able to channel money and support to any Parliamentary supporters of her nefarious aims. In the form of Barry Gardiner MP and the Liberal Democrats, she found targets all too willing to accept her money. She did all of this under the noses of our security services who – according to Mr Gardiner, who seriously enough. You can’t treat them as a normal government and put them on a low risk. “We need to recognise they pose a clear and present danger.” Tory MP Bob Seely, a member of the Commons Foreign Affairs Committee, said: “I fear we have been complacent about the threat posed by the Chinese Communist Analysis Isabel Sawkins The Henry Jackson Society she reportedly gave hundreds of thousands of pounds – had been aware of her activities for years. National newspapers and bestselling books had detailed Lee’s curious generosity and affinity for the Chinese state for years. If Lee’s brazenness was the

in corridors of power DX1ST Daily Express Friday, January 14, 2022 7 heart of Parliament Top lawyer won praise from ex-PM regime in much the same way we were, and in some respects are, complacent about Russian influence peddling.” The Security Service Interference Alert (SSIA) sent to MPs and peers by MI5 said Lee “acted covertly” in co-ordination with the United Front Work Department of the Chinese Communist Party. It most shocking part of the case, how long it took for MI5 to out her was its most surprising. Unfortunately, Lee’s actions did not exist in a vacuum but formed part of a full-frontal assault by China on our democracy. In February 2021, three Chinese spies posing as journalists were expelled from the UK after MI5 discovered that they were in fact intelligence officers for Beijing’s Ministry of State Security. In their book Hidden Hand, Mareike Ohlberg and Clive Hamilton blew the lid last year on just how broad China’s lobbying operation in London is. Yet, even in cases like Lee, where the evidence of both their influence and their puppetmasters is lain out, MI5 seem almost powerless to act. Given we now know that China is spying on our Parliament, we can hardly say we weren’t warned of their intentions. The time has come to change the law so that the likes of Lee cannot operate in London without the fear of prosecution. Well connected...Christine Lee meets former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn. Inset from top, with Barry Gardiner, David Cameron and Tom Watson. Right, as a judge for the GG2 leadership awards added: “Lee has been engaged in the facilitation of financial donations to political parties, parliamentarians, aspiring parliamentarians and individuals seeking political office, including facilitating donations to political entities on behalf of foreign nationals.” Commons Speaker Sir Lindsay Hoyle said in an accompanying letter this included donations from politicians in China and Hong Kong and that among those targeted was the now disbanded Chinese in Britain all party parliamentary group (APPG). Lee donated more than £500,000 to Mr Gardiner between 2015 and 2020, mostly through funding for his staff. She donated £5,000 to Lib Dem leader Sir Ed Davey in 2013 and in 2014 co-sponsored a Chinese Liberal Democrats dinner to support the party’s then candidate for Somerton and Frome, Sarah Yong. A spokesman said Sir Ed was “shocked” by the SSIA. In 2013, Lee funded flights for a trip to Beijing for ex-Labour MP Andrew Dismore, inset left, then chairman of the Chinese in Britain APPG. She made no public comment yesterday. opinion: page 12 Funded Pictures: Nigel Howard By John Twomey CHINESE “agent” Christine Lee is a high-powered lawyer with alleged links to former prime ministers Theresa May and David Cameron. A former chief legal adviser to the Chinese Embassy in London, Lee received an award from Mrs May for fostering good relations between the UK and China. In a letter, Mrs May sent her best wishes to Lee in her work to “further the inclusion and participation of British-Chinese people in the UK political system”. Lee is described by China experts Professor Clive Hamilton and Mareike Ohlberg as a “Tiger woman” of Anglo-Chinese heritage devoted to promoting China’s interests. She married solicitor Martin Wilkes, 70, in Solihull, West Midlands, in 1990 and they have two sons, Michael, 30, also a solicitor, and Daniel, 27. They lived in a fourbedroom mock Tudor home, with indoor swimming pool, in Coleshill, Birmingham. Lee has offices in the UK, China and Hong Kong. She received a Points of Light award from Mrs May in January 2019 after setting up the British Chinese Project. Mrs May told Lee in a letter: “You should feel very proud of the difference the British Chinese Project is making in promoting engagement, understanding and cooperation between the Chinese and British communities in the UK.” The British Chinese Project was founded in 2006. Labour MP Barry Gardiner was chairman in 2007 and Lee’s son Michael vice-ºchairman. MI5 believes Lee was also engaged in covert work for China through the Chinese People’s Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries. Commenting last year, Lee’s company said: “Christine Lee & Co is proud of its record of public service and the support it has provided to the democratic process. We have never sought to influence any politician improperly or to seek favours in return for the support that we have provided.”

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A How To Complain pack is also available by writing to the Legal and Compliance Department, Reach PLC, One Canada Square, London E14 5AP. Hunting Boris Johnson has become Westminster’s favourite blood sport – and the embittered Remainers are leading the charge. Outraged at the result of the 2016 Referendum, they loathe the Prime Minister for his role as the COMMENT LEO Mckinstry Daily Express Columnist event”. This sophistry has been compounded by his cowardice in hiding behind the official investigation into the bulging catalogue of alleged lockdown offences by No 10 revellers. What the public needs is honesty, not more excuse-making and buck-passing. The tragedy is that Johnson, triumphant figurehead of the Temperatures independence campaign. Temperatures in Centigrade in Centigrade In the wake of the furore over the venom directed this week at Downing Today’s Street’s summary: lockdown the Prime Minister. 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High 5C victory (41F). in the former southerly Labour winds. High 10C (50F). has taken SIX-DAY to calling FORECAST Johnson Temperatures “the stretched credulity and patience in Centigrade Wales: Mostly dry with heartland bright spells seat but of Hartlepool. Ireland: Dry with the odd bright spell Brexit charlatan”. with his ridiculous pretence mist will that linger. A risk of Now, showers. with Light Labour but 10 mainly points cloudy. A moderate southe SAT SUN MON TUE WED THU winds. High 5C (41F). wind. High 10C (50F). 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MOVE to quell CRITICISM DX1ST Daily Express Friday, January 14, 2022 9 Pictures: Leon Neal/Getty Flashback... Boris Johnson gives a thumbs up to Brexit back in 2020 Are Remainers trying to wreak revenge on Boris Johnson? Yes: 0901 133 4440 No: 0901 133 4441 q Yes text DXYES to 63333 No text DXNO to 63333 Texts and calls cost 50p plus network access charge. You must have the bill payer’s permission. Vote closes at midnight tonight. The Daily Express 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. SP: Spoke, 0333 202 3390. PM... rules were hard to obey stories without grieving for people who suffered. Decisions were taken at the beginning of the pandemic that affected people up and down the country and they were very hard. “We must consider, as this goes to an inquiry and we look into what happened with Covid, whether all those regulations were proportionate or whether it was too hard on people. “As we hear of these stories, we inevitably grieve for those who suffered, those who could not visit people they loved – their family – and could not attend funerals.” At Prime Minister’s Questions on Wednesday, Mr Johnson apologised for attending a staff gathering in the Downing Street garden. He said he believed the event – to which attendees were invited to “bring your own booze” – was for work and claimed it could “technically” have been within the rules. Cabinet ministers have rallied around him in the face of calls for his resignation from opposition MPs and some senior Tories. Northern Ireland Secretary Brandon Lewis has urged people to wait for the outcome of the Cabinet Office inquiry before making judgments on the PM’s future. He said: “The Prime Minister has outlined he doesn’t believe he has done anything outside the rules.” Speculation about a possible Tory leadership contest intensified at Scottish Tory hits back at ‘lightweight’ leader slur THE leader of the House of Commons was told to “have a long lie down” after he called the Scottish Conservatives’ leader a party “lightweight”. Jacob Rees-Mogg hit out after Douglas Ross called on Boris Johnson to stand down after he admitted attending a drinks party during lockdown. Mr Rees-Mogg said Mr Ross By Tom Eden was “quite a lightweight figure” in the party. In response, Mr Ross said: “Jacob Rees-Mogg, as anyone, is entitled to their opinions. I don’t have to agree with them.” And in a dig at Mr Rees-Mogg, infamously photographed lying on Commons benches, Scottish Tories’ Holyrood justice spokesman Jamie Greene said: “He should go and have a long lie down, maybe Mr Rees-Mogg, left, and Mr Ross not in the House of Commons.” Scotland’s First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said the insults “say something much deeper about the Westminster establishment’s utter contempt for Scotland”. She said: “An added benefit of being independent is that we will no longer have to put up with being treated like something on the sole of Westminster’s shoe.” Westminster after Foreign Secretary Liz Truss and Chancellor Rishi Sunak – both tipped as potential candidates to succeed Mr Johnson – waited hours after his apology on Wednesday before confirming their support for him. Labour’s deputy leader Angela Rayner claimed Ms Gray’s inquiry could leave Mr Johnson ruling over his own conduct. She said any matters relating to ministers uncovered in the probe would be dealt with under the ministerial code – of which the Prime Minister is ultimately in charge. Ms Rayner said: “So is the Prime Minister going to act as the judge and jury even though he’s also the man in the dock? “Or will his Conservative colleagues find their integrity and finally act as executioners to his premiership?” Ms Rayner has written to every Cabinet minister asking them to come clean about any gatherings they attended during lockdown.

Six million in NHS queue pre-Omicron By Hanna Geissler ALMOST six million people were waiting to start NHS treatment in November before the Omicron wave struck. The number waiting more than two years hit a record 18,585. Longest waits were for trauma and orthopaedic treatment, including hip and knee replacements, then general surgery, such as gall bladder removals and hernia ops, said the Royal College of Surgeons. Month on month, there was a slight drop in those waiting over a year at 307,000 in November, down from 312,000 in October. Home care firms reject new clients By Jemma Crew TWO-thirds of home care providers are turning away new clients due to dire staffing shortages, a poll shows. A fifth of firms are also handing back packages that have allowed people to stay in their own properties. And 43 per cent of care homes are shut to new admissions, the National Care Forum found. The umbrella organisation said carers on the front line face “grim, difficult and relentless” work. Members said 14 per cent of staff could not do their job due to Covid from January 5 to 10. Virus risk is higher in late pregnancy By Lucinda Cameron Women who have Covid towards the end of pregnancy are more vulnerable to newborn deaths and birth-related complications. A Scottish study of 87,000 women found all those whose babies died had not been vaccinated at the time of infection. Premature births, still births and newborn deaths were more common if mums had the virus 28 days or less before their due date. Experts, who did not have full medical records, could not say if the Covid link was causal or a correlation. Picture: Stefan Rousseau/PA Man of the match...Sir Jonathan DX1ST coronavirus: HOPE FOR EXIT FROM PANDEMIC and made him a national treasure.” The professor said: “It has been the greatest privilege of my professional career to have served the people of the UK during this time.” He has been on secondment to the Department of Health from the University of Nottingham since 2018 and will now take over as provice chancellor at its faculty of medicine and health sciences. Latest data showed 967,877 people tested positive for Covid in the last seven days – down 24 per cent. Yesterday 109,133 cases were recorded, a daily drop of 16 per cent. Another 335 people had died. NHS England figures showed just under half of all patients with Covid are actually in hospital for other reasons. Of the 15,026 who had the virus on January 11, 6,647 were not being treated principally for it. Mr Javid said there were “encouraging” signs that Covid hospital admissions were starting to ease and infections were falling in London and the East of England. But he urged “caution” as cases are still rising in other parts of the country and the impact of people returning to work and school in the New Year has not yet been felt. He also told MPs the UK was “leading the world in learning to live with Covid” thanks to vaccines, testing and antivirals. Almost eight in 10 adults have had their booster, 400 million lateral flow tests will Daily Express Friday, January 14, 2022 11 We are finally winning the fight against Covid PANDEMIC hero Professor Sir Jonathan Van-Tam revealed he is stepping down from his frontline role yesterday – as hopes grew that Britain is winning its Covid fight. Latest figures showed a dramatic drop in coronavirus cases as well as a dip in the number of people being hospitalised with the disease. And, in another sign the country is through the worst, Health Secretary Sajid Javid announced self isolation for people who test negative will be cut to five days. Prof Van-Tam, known as JVT, will leave his job as England’s deputy chief medical officer in March. Prime Minister Boris Johnson thanked him “for his extraordinary contribution to our country and his invaluable advice”. Mr Javid said: “JVT’s one-of-akind approach to communicating science over the past two years has no doubt played a vital role in protecting and reassuring the nation WHAT was your favourite JVT analogy during the pandemic? Early successful vaccine trials making Covid like a train slowing down as it approaches a station, or comparing Omicron to yellow cards leaving a football team having to fight harder after a player is sent off? His analogies and mixed metaphors, often delivered in the middle of grim Downing Street press conferences, were not just a welcome moment of light relief. They were also examples of By Sam Lister and Hanna Geissler Positive COMMENT FIONA FOX Chief Executive, Science Media Centre great science communication – a leading public health scientist summarising complex data and huge uncertainty in a way the public could grasp. This gift and the eccentricity of A few of Sir Jonathan’s BEST ANALOGIES PROFESSOR Sir Jonathan Van-Tam delivered some colourful analogies at briefings. His finest moments include: ● Football metaphors. Describing the course of the pandemic, the Boston United season ticket holder once said that in the first half the away team “gave us an absolute battering”, but that an equalising goal was clinched in the 70th minute. He added: “OK, we’ve got to hold our nerve now, see if we can get another goal and nick it. But the key thing is not to lose it, not to throw it away at this point because we’ve got a point on the board, and we’ve got the draw.” ● In November he urged people to help avoid a “red card” from Omicron. He said everyone on the pitch needed to “up their game” by getting a booster vaccination. ● JVT also compared the pandemic to the Grand National early in the rollout. He said: his style caught our imagination and warmed us to him. Some criticised JVT, Chris Whitty and Patrick Vallance for not being more outspoken in criticising the Government. But the chief medical officers inside Whitehall must walk a fine line between politics and science. Pop up lambasting the Government at every turn and they would soon be sacked or, at best, ignored. By avoiding political rows and sticking to presenting the science, “We are probably in the last few furlongs of this race – like in the Grand National. We just have a couple more fences, we have just got to stick with it.” ● Turning to transport analogies, Sir Jonathan once described the wait for vaccines as like waiting for a train. He said: “It’s wet, it’s windy, it’s horrible. Two miles down the tracks, two lights appear and it’s the train and it’s a long way off and we’re at that point at the moment. “Then we hope the train slows down safely to get into the station. And when the doors open, I hope there’s not an unholy scramble for the seats. People [who] need the seats most...are the ones who should get on the train first.” ● On another occasion JVT compared vaccine progress to a plane landing. He said: “Do I believe that we are now on the glide path to landing this plane? Yes I do. “Do I accept that sometimes when you are on the glide path, you can have a sidewind and the landing is not totally straightforward, totally textbook? Of course.” ● Last month Sir Jonathan stunned Royal Institution Christmas Lectures viewers by ripping off his shirt and tie to reveal…a slightly more casual blue shirt. He reappeared from a puff smoke and said: “Tonight I’m speaking to you as a scientist and a doctor, not a government adviser.” be available this month and the Government has secured almost five million courses of antivirals. The Health Secretary also announced people will be able to leave isolation early on the sixth day if they test negative on both days five and six from Monday. If the day five test is positive, they must isolate until they test negative on two consecutive days or completed the full 10-day period. Two-thirds of positive Covid cases are not infectious by the end of day five. The Royal College of Nursing said the change could raise the risk of NHS workers spreading it. The NHS Confederation said it was welcome if more The signs are good... Sajid Javid workers “can return to the frontline”. OPINION: PAGE 12 JVT maintained the public’s trust and that of our political leaders. It has also been obvious when the data he presented at Downing Street press briefings painted a bleaker picture than the one acknowledged by Boris Johnson. And we were certainly not left in any doubt about what he thought about Dominic Cummings’ trip to Barnard Castle, when he said: “In my opinion the rules are clear and they have always been clear...In my opinion, they apply to all.”

12 Daily Express Friday, January 14, 2022 DX1ST Rattled Boris needs One Canada Square, London E14 5AP Tel: 020 8612 7000 (outside UK: +44 20 8612 7000) If only Andrew had striven to follow Queen’s example FEW people will feel sorry for Prince Andrew who has lost his royal patronages and military titles as he prepares to defend himself against accusations that he sexually assaulted a 17-year-old girl. But there will be huge sympathy for the Queen as this debacle threatens to cast a shadow over her Platinum Jubilee year. Her Majesty’s reign has been characterised by exemplary public service and a refusal to do anything that could bring shame on the monarchy or country. Prince Andrew denies the allegations but he should never have gone near a loathsome character like sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. It is right that he should defend himself as a private citizen. He would have hoped to play a role in this year’s 40th anniversary of the liberation of the Falklands, having won respect for his service as a helicopter pilot during the war. But more than 150 veterans of the Armed Forces wrote to the Queen asking her to strip him of his military appointments. The protection of the monarchy has been at the heart of the Queen’s life mission. Her 61-year-old son has lost the use of the title His Royal Highness and he will not undertake any public duties. The nation will hope he acts with honour as Virginia Giuffre’s civil case continues through the US legal system. He should look to his parents rather than wealthy rogues for examples of how to live with purpose and dignity in the service of others. UK must be on full alert A warning from MI5 that an alleged Chinese agent infiltrated Parliament and established links for the Communist Party is disturbing but should not come as a surprise. China is an economic and military colossus run by an elite that is intent on strengthening its global influence and has minimal regard for human rights, as demonstrated by its internal persecution of minorities and people who long for liberties we take for granted. We must not be naive about security threats posed to this nation and we should be alert to attempts to subvert our institutions and democracy. Go with our good wishes PROFESSOR Sir Jonathan Van-Tam is stepping down as England’s deputy chief medical officer, but his status as a national treasure is assured. All of us would like a JVT in our lives, someone who can dispense excellent advice with candour, clarity, warmth and unforgettable metaphors. He has done a stupendous job at guiding the nation through the Covid crisis and rarely has an expert forged such strong bonds of trust with the public. When he has his leaving-do, he is fully entitled to “tear the pants out of it”. to get that bounce back... and quick Watching Boris Johnson at Prime Minister’s Questions was like looking at one of those films where a condemned man sits in his cell while we are left wondering whether an official pardon will arrive in time. The Prime Minister is in a deep, deep hole and it is no use pretending otherwise. True, it is possible to argue that the Downing Street drinks only involved people who had been working together all day anyway, and that they were considerably safer outdoors than they had been inside. But it won’t wash. We expect our leaders to play by the rules they impose on others. Johnson’s behaviour contrasts horribly with that of the Queen, who sat alone for her husband’s funeral. Can the Prime Minister recover? Like Bill Clinton, he has often shown the ability to charm his way out of trouble, and survived scandals that would have felled other ambitious MPs. So, yes, none of us should be too surprised if, once again, he pulls off the seemingly impossible. But his survival isn’t just dependent on how well he grovels for forgiveness over the May 20 garden party – and any further events that may come to light as a result of Sue Gray’s investigation. He also faces an uphill struggle to convince those who voted for him in 2019 that he still has something to offer them. Johnson owes his election victory to a very different set of voters compared with previous Conservative prime ministers. Many voters in affluent towns in the South deserted the Tories, offended by Brexit. In their place, however, Johnson managed to attract the votes of a much larger group: working people in the poorer parts of the North who previously voted CRUSHED: Boris being slated in the Commons on Wednesday Ross Clark Political commentator ‘We need reason to believe we will be better off by the next election’ Picture: Jessica Taylor Labour but who felt passed over by Labour’s increasingly dominant metropolitan elite. The problem for the Conservatives now is that their new-found Red Wall voters are especially threatened by the train that is coming down the track at us very fast: the cost-ofliving crisis. We have two and a half months before working people open their pay packets to find an extra 1.25 per cent in National Insurance contributions deducted from their hardwon earnings. In the same week, the cap in energy bills will be raised, with many finding themselves paying an extra 50 per cent or more for gas and electricity. Those two things have the ability to break the budgets of people on modest incomes. Nor does it end there. Inflation is already over five per cent and many expect it to rise to seven per cent. Food, clothing, motoring, public transport fares; all are rising sharply. Paradoxically, signs that the latest Covid wave has peaked is going to make the cost-of-living crisis even more dangerous for the Prime Minister. Now we are no longer in a state of national emergency, minds will be concentrated more on ordinary things like prices in the shops. Johnson needs very quickly to get on top of this. He needs to reverse the National Insurance increase and to remove VAT from fuel bills – just as he promised a UK government would be able to do once out of the EU. At the same time he needs to shift the green levies which, according to Ofgem, form 25 per cent of our electricity bills. It is utterly wrong that ordinary people are being hammered for heating their modest homes – while the Government shells out millions in subsidies for relatively wealthy people to install wood-burning boilers, buy electric cars and rewild their acres. The Prime Minister also needs to set out how he plans to take advantage of Brexit to increase the longterm wealth-creating potential of Britain. There was a lot of talk during the referendum campaign of how we were going to become Singapore-on-Thames, with low taxes, an open economy and less onerous regulation attracting investment. What has happened? We need at least a vision – a reason to believe that Brexit was worth all the trouble and that we will be better off on election day in a couple of years time than we are now. Johnson’s greatest political gift is his optimism. It is his – and Britain’s – misfortune that his premiership has coincided with a pandemic, which has required the exercise of restraint on our day-to-day lives and is alien to his psychological makeup and liberal attitude to life. But with Covid loosening its grip we should soon find it possible to start looking on the bright side again. That should suit Johnson – if only he can survive the garden party scandal and the cost-of-living crisis. The Johnson we saw this week was a miserable, haunted version of his normal self. We need his optimism back – and quick.

DX1ST Daily Express Friday, January 14, 2022 13 Frederick Forsyth Some people have all the luck...then there’s Macron If he were not so relentlessly hostile to this country one’s heart might go out to Emmanuel Macron of France. When it comes to arms deals he really does not seem to have much luck. A few months ago he was on the threshold of clinching a multi-billion-euro deal to sell French submarines to Australia. But they were diesel-electric powered vessels, which have to surface every now and again to refuel from a tanker. At the last minute Canberra changed its mind and opted for British nuclear-powered subs that can cruise on and on without coming near the surface. Teeth in the Élysée were well gnashed. Now it seems a huge deal with India is in jeopardy. An Indian arms dealer called Sanjay Bhandari is heading for trial in a British court and there are fears things will emerge that a French defence company used secret and illicit means to pay off middlemen. The British trial has triggered claims in a commercial court near Paris that French company Thales used such means and these could jeopardise the Indian-French arms deal. Murky waters – literally. To complete his misery an MP from the government party has just defected to join his main challenger in the presidential election on April 10. ■It had to happen and now it has. A goldfish has been taught to drive a tank. Fortunately the tank in question is the water vessel in which it lives rather than one with tracks and gun turret, so our First Armoured Division seems safe for the moment. More to the point this fully motorised koi is in Israel. Boffins there have devised a mobile aquarium on wheels, with a power source and steering. Underwater sensors detect the goldfish’s movements and translate them into commands to the tank. So far the fishy Fangio is confined to the laboratory. Next stage, no doubt, it will have to be taught mute communication so it can teach its wife and even further into the future it will be instructed, in the event of a shunt, to put its head above water and shout “Oi vay”. Lord Frost, your country needs you There are three truths about every premiership that are becoming more and more self-evident as the incumbency of Boris Johnson unravels. One is that no Downing Street career can be accurately judged until it is over. Hindsight is vital. Only looking back and analysing on the basis of proven historical facts will enable a true judgment to take place. The second is that no one person can sit alone in isolation in a room in that street and get it all right. Or even a small part of it. Being prime minister is too multifaceted, too complicated. The brain does not exist that can master all the complexities that are required to run the country well. From these two derive the third. Wise, shrewd and experienced advisers are the key between success and failure. The now revered Winston Churchill had some weird ideas and proposals that would have left a trail of disasters had they ever been put into effect. But the astute team around him quietly headed them off and saw them vetoed, sometimes just in time. That is Boris Johnson’s main failing. He has no Alanbrooke, no Brendan Bracken, no Lindemann. He has no Willie Whitelaw, no Keith Joseph. As Johnson embraces one daft and unworkable scheme after another he takes the advice of one mediocrity after another. Predecessors in those rarefied worlds would have scotched HS2, the nation-bankrupting plan to achieve carbon-zero energy balance within a decade and the hideous taxes needed even to attempt it. That is why I look with interest at Lord Frost, inset, our chief and successful negotiator in the minefield of EU departure who has resigned on a matter of principle. For any of cabinet rank, with all those privileges, to abandon the lot proves at least that he has got some principles. So many are just there for the high office. Lord Frost is With all our multi-billion-pound technology there is one aspect that reduces it all to useless. Make a phone call in a society that is now working at half speed or less behind the phoney excuse of Covid and its consequent inundation of calls (a lie, they’re not there Picture: MIKE FREY/AFP/Getty a conservative and proud of it. He is also extremely astute. He has recognised that two voting pillars, different from each other but vital, put Boris Johnson in Downing Street and will bring him back down; not by doing anything but by staying away from the polls next time if they are alienated. Which is exactly what is happening. These are the loyalists who in the two now-lost Tory fortresses stayed away in their thousands, letting Lib- Dems slip in. The Lib-Dem leadership gloats at a comeback – not so, theirs was an apathy vote. The other voting mass are those of the Red Wall of the Midlands and North who switched from Labour, many after a lifetime of Labour voting. They could easily switch back next time. Lord Frost advocates three pillars of policy – lowest possible taxes, smallest possible bureaucracy, and every possible incentive to encourage trade and industry until they boom again. These are the pillars of conservatism, these are what bring the voters to say “Yes” at the polls. Pursuing his “green” and “woke” illusions, Boris Johnson, on advice, because they can’t show up) and it won’t be answered. Wait a seemingly endless 10 minutes and a recorded message will ask you to leave your name and number. This you do, slowly and clearly. Eventually there may be a reply – but you miss it. The PA Judging by Novak’s case M’Lud is a learned friend For years we have been taught that Australia is a more carefree and less rule-restricted society than ours has become. But, as bureaucracy tightens its tyrannical hold over the world, it was Aussie jobsworths that locked up tennis star Novak Djokovic because his entry papers were not in order. It took a judge a few minutes considering his appeal to reverse this ordinance and set him free. We used to think that judges were fuddy-duddy killjoys, sitting up there on the bench depriving us of our freedoms hither and yon. Now it looks as if the reverse is the case. It is the paper shufflers who never cease restricting the liberties while, with the politicians having lost their bottle, the last recourse of the citizen is a judge in chambers. On the subject of judges I am reminded of the tale of His Lordship remarking to his enrober as he was fitted with his wig: “I face a major problem, Murgatroyd. In half an hour I have to deliver a complex judgment in the High Court and I have left it in Hampshire.” “Dear me,” murmured Murgatroyd, then added “Fax it up.” The judge, who was not really au fait with modern technology. agreed: “Yes, it certainly does.” gobbledegook IS ANOTHER SIDE EFFECT OF CURRENT SOCIETY has abandoned them all. But on whose advice? The wallies with whom he has chosen to surround himself and listen to. There is another up there with similar ideas: Liz Truss, the Foreign Secretary. Unlike Lord Frost, she is, what they call, “on manoeuvres” to boost her case as his successor. But she has a major problem. She is surrounded by Foreign Office mandarins – passionately pro-EU and snootily happy to sabotage any Britain-first advocate. I, for one, wish Lord Frost would step back into the fray. We need him and those of the same philosophy. of the Bigwig you want to speak to leaves her call-back number. A different one. And he/she gabbles it at such insane speed that it is quite impossible to decipher. Back to square one. So please, minions – SLOWLY AND CLEARLY. We are not decoding machines.

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Pictures: David Fisher/ITV/REX/Shutterst​ock DX1ST Daily Express Friday, January 14, 2022 15 Is dance queen Win...Rose Ayling-Ellis Tour signs up to back star Rose’s campaign By Hanna Geissler The Strictly live tour shows will feature sign language interpreters after a campaign by champion Rose Ayling-Ellis. Professional dancer Janette Manrara, who hosts the shows, starting in Birmingham next week, said their addition will ensure “everyone feels included” and is able to enjoy the performances. Speaking to BBC’s The One Show, Janette, 38, said the awareness raised by the EastEnders actress, 27, was a “wonderful thing”. She added: “Rose really created such an awareness for the deaf community.” Rose, Strictly’s first deaf star, is campaigning for British Sign Language to attain legal status so the community has the right to an intepreter in daily life. She also inspired pro partner Giovanni Pernice, 31, to hire one for his solo tour. Doubling up... Oti has two ITV shows. Inset below, fellow Strictly pro Brendan Oti Mabuse appears to have confirmed she has tangoed for the last time on Strictly Come Dancing. The two-time Glitterball champ is a fresh judge on Dancing On Ice and will also be fronting a new dating show for ITV called Romeo & Duet. Asked if she was returning to Strictly, Oti, 31, said: “I’m just really excited to be here on Dancing On Ice working and doing what I love. “You know how I am, I work by the rules and there will be an announcement made. I can’t give a tease because I will be in trouble and I don’t like being in trouble, so I will keep quiet.” South Africa-born Oti won hit BBC show Strictly with Emmerdale soap star Kelvin Fletcher in 2019 and comedian Bill Bailey in 2020, to cap a six-year stint. But Oti has hinted over the past year that she is looking for fresh challenges. She said: “As a person in entertainment I really want to Oti waltzing away from Strictly? By Mark Jefferies Glitterball win... with Bill Bailey learn and grow. I want a long career, especially in this country, having moved all the way from Africa. “I have to make something of myself. I am really trying to learn and do as much as I can for as long as I can while I can.” Dancing On Ice, which is back on Sunday, reunites Oti with former Strictly pro dancer Brendan Cole, one of the celebrities out to impress on the rink with his partner Vanessa Bauer. Oti said: “I know he is a risk taker and that is really exciting to have on Dancing On Ice. “I can’t wait to see what he’s going to bring. “Brendan will be different as on Strictly he was very verbal because he was defending his celebrity. This time we are judging him. “He has grown a little bit and I am hoping he is going to take it as an opportunity to show a different side, where Vanessa is taking care of him, not him being the caretaker.” Oti replaces actor and singer John Barrowman on the panel alongside mainstays Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean, the former Olympic ice dance champs, and Ashley Banjo of dance group Diversity. She says her Strictly judge sister Motsi, 40, advised her to just be herself. Oti added: “Motsi said to say what I see and what I feel. I am hoping I can help and give my tips.” ●Dancing On Ice starts on ITV on Sunday at 6.30pm. sAlE lots of little wins £20 £16 fabric ottoman £21 £15 double £10 £7.50 double duvet upto 30 % off selected lines over 400 stores nationwide search for us on www.wilko.com Offer live until 15.02.22 All products subject toavailability. Online delivery charges may apply.

Free in tomorrow’s daily express ‘your cooking for diabetes’ 8-page pullout How to cook the best recipes to help control Type 2 diabetes DX1ST Daily Express Friday, January 14, 2022 17 Delicious recipes for a healthier life For the curious Fiona Hunter & Heather Whinney COOKING FOR DIABETES Medics reach Janicke after herd attack. Below, with dog Goose Army skills saved me in cow stampede horror what to eat & what to cook to treat type 2 diabetes The information in these pages is not a substitute for expert medical advice and must not be relied on as such. Always consult a medical professional for specific information on personal health matters and before changing, stopping or starting any medical treatment. The consultants, contributors, and publishers do not accept any legal responsibility for any personal injury, loss or damage arising directly or indirectly from any use or misuse of the information in this publication. Constructive: Liz Truss Truss: It’s up to EU to resolve NI tensions By Sam Lister FOREIGN Secretary Liz Truss yesterday told Brussels it must find a way to end tensions in Northern Ireland that are fuelled by its tough approach to Brexit rules. She urged the EU to step up to its “clear responsibility” as two days of talks began with Eurocrat Maros Sefcovic. Ms Truss said: “My priority is defending the Union and protecting the peace. I will be putting forward constructive proposals to help communities and businesses in Northern Ireland.” Problems But she added the EU must show a “pragmatic approach” to resolving tensions and insisted Brussels had a “clear responsibility to help fix the myriad problems”. After Brexit, Northern Ireland was allowed to remain in the EU’s single market to keep the Irish border open. But that led to checks on products arriving from the rest of the UK. And some, such as British bangers, could not be freely sold. Medical supplies were also restricted but progress was made on that in December. At the talks at Chevening in Kent, Mr Sefcovic said: “Now we have an opportunity to do so on other issues”. The Government believes conditions for triggering Article 16 – suspending parts of the Brexit treaty – have been reached but said it is still focused on trying to resolve the issues. Mum and son knifed to death by violent ex-lover Killed...Bethany Vincent and her son DJ A SPURNED lover brutally stabbed his former girlfriend and her autistic young son to death in front of a screaming baby, a court heard. Daniel Boulton then led police on a 24-hour manhunt and allegedly knifed an off-duty officer who tried to arrest him in the leg. Boulton, 30, is accused of killing Bethany Vincent, 26, and nine-yearold Darren Henson, known as DJ, while the subject of a restraining order on May 31 last year. Katherine Goddard QC, prosecuting, told Lincoln Crown Court: “Both appeared to have been stabbed numerous times and had marks consistent with blunt force trauma.” She also described how police found an unharmed “but A MOTHER told how she used her Army officer training to survive a horrific attack by a herd of cows. Janicke Tvedt suffered lifechanging injuries after being trampled by the animals, who feared her dog was a threat to their calves. Bosnia veteran Janicke, 55, says she is only alive because of her military “survival instinct”. When the cows briefly left, she somehow managed to climb a tree with partner David Hood. Despite passing out three times, the mum of two told David, 57, to reach a nearby golf club via another field and summon help. Life coach Janicke was airlifted to hospital with seven broken ribs and needed emergency surgery to remove part of her colon. She said: “I was convinced I was going to die. These were massive rearing, snorting cattle with horns. “One of them kept raising itself up on By Paul Jeeves Accused...Boulton Lucky to survive ...in hospital clearly distressed” nine-month-old baby crawling through the carnage at the home in Louth, Lincs. Jurors heard Bethany and her family had been due to move to a new address unknown to Boulton. Ms Goddard says there is “no dispute” he stabbed Bethany and DJ. The court was told he left a note at an empty cottage while on the run, saying: “I, Daniel Boulton, take full responsibility for 182”. His victims lived at number 182. But he By Douglas Whitbread its hind legs and stamping its front legs down on me. Then one fell, landed on my legs and did a complete roll over my body.” The attack happened when Janicke, David and labrador Goose were walking near her home in Masham, North Yorks, last July. Janicke, who had followed a gatepost instruction to keep Goose on a lead, says anyone in a similar situation should let their pet run free. She said: “What you’re supposed to do under attack by cattle is let the dog off the lead and kick the dog away. It’s the dog that’s the issue. They see it as a predator.” Janicke, who used to swim three times a week and walk up to five miles a day, is now beginning to rebuild her strength, but will have limited mobility from now on. She said: “I’ve had to accept what I can and can’t do. That’s been really hard. It’s affected my relationship with my partner as well, but he’s been really supportive.” denies murder claiming his ability to exercise self-control was “impaired”. Jurors heard Boulton, of Skegness, Lincs, began his relationship with Bethany in March 2019 but continued to harass and be violent towards her after they split up nine months later, even after a restraining order was issued. The court heard the day after the killings off-duty officer PC Stephen Dennis was walking his dog when he spotted Boulton talking to an elderly female dog walker. He confronted him and gave chase and, despite being stabbed in the leg, alerted colleagues. The trial continues.

18 Daily Express Friday, January 14, 2022 New test helps spot skin cancer danger A TEST which predicts the spread or return of the deadliest skin cancer has been developed by British scientists. Every year more than 16,000 people in the UK are diagnosed with an early stage melanoma. The test – called AMBLor – identifies more dangerous tumours with secretions which break down two proteins found in the skin over the tumour. Newcastle University Professor Penny Lovat led the project with the University’s By Stephen Beech company AMLo Biosciences. In the research in the British Journal of Dermatology, Prof Lovat said: “When these proteins are lost gaps develop. “This allows the tumour to spread and ultimately ulcerate which is a process associated with higher risk tumours.” She said the test could help the NHS save time and money by reducing appointments for those deemed low-risk patients. DX1ST 25 charities unite in call to end ‘heat or eat’ crisis More bills…it’s a struggle to keep homes warm for thousands of older people Charities have joined forces to demand urgent funding to protect the vulnerable from soaring energy bills. In a letter to the Prime Minister and Chancellor, they ask for more cash for insulation and clean energy to help wean the UK off expensive gas. The 25 charities, including Save the Children, Age UK, End Fuel Poverty Coalition, and Greenpeace, warned that without extra help fuel poverty could increase from four to six million households. Alps murder suspect freed By Peter Allen Transition Many of these families face having to choose between heating and eating. There are also fears the crisis could lead to more deaths in cold homes. The letter said that owing to cutbacks, millions of houses have not been insulated. Emergency support should be funded in part by a windfall tax on the fossil fuel industry. Dan Paskins, of Save the Children, said: “The cost-of-living crisis, fuelled by soaring energy prices, is totally unsustainable and is hitting the lowest-income families the hardest.” He said some parents were “having By Mark Reynolds to make impossible choices between heating their homes and buying clothes for their children”. Dr Doug Parr, at Greenpeace UK, said: “The twin imperatives of a gas price crisis and climate crisis mean we need to get off fossil fuels as fast as we can while protecting those on low pay. “A windfall tax on oil and gas companies would be a fair way to help finance the transition.” Simon Francis, coordinator of the End Fuel Poverty Coalition, said: “Fuel poverty is a public health and poverty crisis but can only be solved by economic measures.” He said ministers “must do everything possible to help people in crisis now while investing in energy efficiency to fix the long-term problem”. The Government said it is looking at how to help the elderly and those on low incomes with fuel bills. A spokesman said pensioners received Winter Fuel Payments of up to £300, plus there were schemes like the energy price cap. He added that gas and electricity are already subject to the low five per cent VAT rate. A BIKER who was re-arrested over the 2012 French Alps massacre has been released without charge, it was revealed last night. Prosecutors confirmed that the 57-year-old married father, who has not been named, had been ruled out from the inquiry. Surrey businessman Saad al-Hilli, 50, his wife Iqbal, 47, and his motherin-law Suhaila al-Allaf, 74, were all gunned down in their car near Lake Annecy on September 5, 2012. French cyclist Sylvain Mollier, 45, also died in the bloodbath after being shot seven times. The Al-Hilli’s daughter Zeena, four, hid in the vehicle and was unharmed, while her sister, Zainab, seven, was shot and pistol-whipped but she later recovered. An e-fit photo of a Horror...police at crime scene in 2012 “prime suspect motorcyclist” was released in November 2013 and showed him in a distinctive black helmet. It led to a first arrest of the biker – a businessman from Lyon – in 2015. On Tuesday the man was rearrested at home. Prosecutors said there were inconsistencies with his alibi but yesterday announced these have been resolved.

M&S axes its midget gem name By Josie Clarke Marks and Spencer has altered the branding of its Midget Gems to avoid offending people with dwarfism. Following a campaign by an academic with achondroplasia – a condition which stunts growth – the retailer retitled the popular sweets as Mini Gems. Dr Erin Pritchard, a disability studies lecturer at Liverpool Hope University, approached supermarkets and confectionery-makers to suggest the word “midget” is derogatory. In her book Disability Hate Speech, she wrote about the word midget and its origins in Victorian freak shows. She told the Big Issue North: “It is a term derived from the word ‘midge’, meaning gnat or sandfly. And its origin automatically dehumanises people like me.” M&S is the first to take action in response, while Tesco is reviewing its own product’s name. DX1ST Daily Express Friday, January 14, 2022 19 Ed stone...Sheeran plans to have garden burial plot Picture: Splash News By Jeremy Armstrong Grave matter... Sheeran is hoping for a thumbs-up for his burial zone plan POP star Ed Sheeran is plotting to build a last resting place in his garden. Plans to add a “burial zone” to a new chapel on his £3.7 million estate have been submitted to the charttopper’s local council. The Castle On The Hill singer’s proposals for the boat-shaped place of worship have already been approved – but he now hopes planners will also let him have a crypt. Latest plans state the 2metre by 1.8metre burial zone will be “beneath penetration through slab” in the Anglo Saxon-style chapel. Original designs for the twostorey building included a 48ft tower, pews and stained glass windows. The burial zone will be in the nave, in front of the pews. The private prayer retreat will be warmed by an eco-friendly air source heat pump and Ed now wants permission to alter the service enclosure that will conceal it. He also wants two more windows in the chapel and a 30cm extension to its stair tower. Ed, 30, who has notched up 13 No1 singles, won permission in 2019 to Resting place...where chapel will lie and, inset, artist’s impression of building build his “private place of retreat” which will be for “contemplation and prayer, for celebration of key life and family milestones, family and social gatherings, marriages, christenings”. The chapel will be built towards the eastern boundary of his 16-acre property, Wynneys Hall, in Dennington, East Suffolk, which he shares with wife Cherry, 29, and their 16-monthold daughter, Lyra. Explaining its position, Ed’s fatherin-law Matthew Seaborn wrote in a planning document: “The rising of the sun is relevant both in the Abrahamic and oriental traditions and in the more environmentally led philosophies of the present day.” It will also mean Ed’s guests can “meet, celebrate and meditate in peace and safety from disturbance”. Getting a thumbs-up for the chapel was a victory for Ed. His plans were nearly thwarted when Dennington Parish Council grumbled about the “unusual” use of the building. Expertly sourced and quality checked Selected ASDA stores. Subject to availability.

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Pictures: SWNS DX1ST Daily Express Friday, January 14, 2022 21 Church’s 500-year-old secret steps to heaven! By Lauren Beavis A SECRET stairway has been uncovered in a church almost 500 years after Queen Elizabeth I ordered it to be sealed up. The steps had been forgotten about until chunks of plaster began falling off the wall. Officials at St Peter’s in Knowstone, Devon investigated and discovered the secret. They found a wooden hatch and carved flight to a gallery – or rood loft – where church leaders would have led services above worshippers. In 1561, Elizabeth I said all rood lofts should be banned because of the connection to Catholicism. It meant officials at the Grade II listed church blocked off the steps – which haven’t been seen since until now. Church warden Reg Howe said officials were worried when plaster tumbled from the wall. He said: “We did not want it to fall on the congregation. The rood loft was very much part of Roman Catholicism. “Elizabeth I did not want that so the big gallery was taken away and the doors were blocked up. It’s quite tight going up but in those days people were much shorter.” Rood awakening... Reg on the secret stairs at St Peter’s, sealed off by order of Elizabeth I, left DNA evidence…Mr King Outsider nephew’s £1.2m will triumph By Richard Gittins The long-lost nephew of a wealthy widow has won a £1.24million inheritance fight after a judge ruled he was not an “imposter” out to get her money. Mrs Lech, who died in 2012, rewrote her will three years earlier. She cut out stepdaughter Anna St Clair and instead gave most of her fortune to nephew Nick King, 63. She also left large sums to her cleaner June Farrell, 61. Mr King told the court his “Auntie Jean” had only recently got in contact but they struck up a “good relationship”. However, Ms St Clair, 72, claimed cleaner Mrs Farrell had found him in the phone book, seeking someone with the same surname as Jean’s brother who could play the long-lost nephew. The stepdaughter, now of Melbourne, Australia, sued in a bid to have the will declared invalid, By Luke O’Reilly An investment banker has been cleared of assaulting five crew members on a transatlantic BA flight after taking alcohol with sleeping pills. William Clegg, 33, was accused of attacking staff on the journey from San Jose in California to Heathrow on August 25, 2019. A court heard he attempted to headbutt a female flight attendant and pulled a male crew member on to the floor. However, he was cleared on all counts after the jury deliberated for just under one hour. He broke down in tears as the not guilty verdicts were returned. Clegg said his conduct on the flight was caused by combining three glasses of wine with two Ambien tablets – the side effects of which he was unaware. He said: “If somebody told me – or had I read the leaflet –- and it said there was a one in a million chance of this happening, I would not have taken the pills.” Banker cleared of five air rage attacks after mixing sleeping pills and alcohol told the jury that at the time Clegg was working as a merchant banker. He would regularly fly to Japan and the suffered a day-time epileptic fit for the first time at a wedding in Majorca. The incident was witnessed Middle East, and had taken by two doctors at the wedding, 90 work-related flights in the year before the incident. his barrister added. Following medical examination The jury at London’s in England, Clegg said Isleworth Crown Court heard Clegg had suffered from nocturnal that doctors told him to avoid driving for six months. epilepsy between the He then travelled to ages of eight and 13. As a result he suffers from insomnia – struggling to get California, where he and his girlfriend rented a villa. Clegg told the jury his girlfriend also suffers insomnia between four to six hours of sleep. A few weeks before the and takes Ambien to deal Lawyer Trevor Burke QC flight, Clegg believed he with it. While in the US, he Tears...William Clegg, 33 accompanied her to a doctor for her prescription before he was due to fly home – and was offered Ambien for his own insomnia. Clegg, of Notting Hill, west London, said his girlfriend often took the drug after drinking alcohol without any negative effects. Mr Burke successfully defended Ryder Cup golfer Thorbjorn Olesen, who was accused of sexually assaulting a woman on a BA flight from Nashville to London after mixing alcohol with Ambien. Beneficiary…Mrs Farrell claiming that Mr King was not a blood relative. After a High Court trial in London, Judge Mark Cawson threw out her case. He pointed to DNA tests, a birth certificate and family evidence. The judge said her phone book “theory” was “pure fantasy”. Earlier the court heard Mrs Lech co-owned her £2million house in Streatham, south London, with husband Zbigniew Lech, Ms St Clair’s natural father, who died at 101 in 2008. He left his half ultimately to Ms St Clair and her daughter, with the stipulation his widow could live there until she herself died.

22 Daily Express Friday, January 14, 2022 DX1ST ronnie spector August By Peter Sheridan in Los Angeles WITH her eyes rimmed in dark mascara, eyelashes like exotic butterflies, hair teased into a mountainous beehive and her curves squeezed into a bodyhugging slit skirt, Ronnie Spector redefined rock ’n’ roll femininity. As the lead singer of Sixties girl group The Ronettes she oozed sensuality and danger, dressing like a street-tough New York broad while singing tenderly of puppy love. Her iconic voice led the trio through a series of classic hits including Be My Baby, Walking In The Rain and Baby I Love You. But Ronnie, who died on Wednesday aged 78, led a turbulent and often tormented life that, like her stage persona, veered precariously between sexuality and peril in her disastrous marriage to psychotic record producing legend Phil Spector: a musical genius, but manically controlling and violently possessive. He was famed for creating the “Wall of Sound” – massed guitars, drums, pianos and horns – but locked his bride within the sound-proofed walls of their 23-room Beverly Hills mansion, behind chain-link security fences and guard dogs. Intercoms throughout the building ensured that he knew her every movement. On their wedding night, a crazed Spector accused Ronnie of only marrying him for his money. Then he prevented her from making any of her own, barring her from performing, and locking her away from the world. “I stayed in that mansion like I was in prison, with gates and barbed wire around me,” she recalled. “I was married for seven years, and I went out maybe five times. “At the beginning it was great,” she conceded. “He was a great producer. We loved each other, but as soon as I got married, I never went on stage again. For about 10 years I wasn’t on any stage.” Ronettes legend with the voice of an angel and the husband from hell As Sixties star Ronnie dies at 78, how she was wooed by Bowie, Lennon and Hendrix... but turned them all down to marry psychotic monster Phil Spector S pector allowed her out to sing in his recording studio, only to have other artists release the singles. “What hurt me is that none of those songs came out,” she said. “I’d hear them on the radio and think: That’s my song.” He often pulled guns on his wife, threatening to kill her if she ever left him. He installed a gold coffin in the basement, promising to bury her in it if she ever tried to leave him. He even confiscated her shoes, to prevent her from running away. “Some people would rather have you dead than you be with anyone else,” she explained. “Over-possessive people can take over your life.” Ronnie turned to booze to numb her pain, hitting the bottle because her crazed husband allowed her out of the house to attend Alcoholics Anonymous meetings. Tormented by their inability to have children, Ronnie and Phil adopted son Donté in 1969. Two years later, without warning, Spector arrived home with two more adopted five-year-old boys, Louis and Gary, for Ronnie to look after. “It was, ‘Here’s some kids, Merry Christmas!’ I got a set of twins for Christmas! I couldn’t handle it. It was way over my head.” Spector hoped to trap Ronnie at home by burying her in child-rearing, she realised. “The more kids I got the further I was in that mansion,” she said. After four tortured years of marriage, Ronnie fled shoeless, escaping with her mother’s help. She walked barefoot straight into a divorce lawyer’s office. “I knew that if I ‘Spector installed a gold coffin in the basement, promising to bury her in it if she tried to leave him’ didn’t leave I was going to die there,” she said in her 1990 memoir Be My Baby. They divorced in 1974, but Spector kept a cruel hold over her, undermining her career and devastating her financially. He hired lawyers to prevent Ronnie from singing her classic MAKING THE SIXTIES SWING: The Ronettes with Phil Spector in the recording studio in 1963 and in LA in 1964 hits, and when she refused to sign over all future royalties from her songs, he threatened: “I’ll have a hit man kill you.” In desperation she relinquished her rights. Ronnie walked away from the marriage and her stellar career with just $25,000, a used car, and $2,500-a-month in alimony. It would be 24 years before the singer and her fellow Ronettes won a lawsuit against her ex-husband for the return of $2million in unpaid royalties. After lawyers’ fees each took home barely $100,000. But while Ronnie slowly pulled her life back together, her ex-husband descended deeper into madness and in 2003 he was convicted of shooting and killing Los Angeles club hostess Lana Clarkson. He died in prison last year. Ronnie was born Veronica Yvette Bennett in Manhattan in 1943 to parents of African-

10, 1943 - january 12, 2022 DX1ST Daily Express Friday, January 14, 2022 23 Pictures: Tom Sheehan/Sony Music Archive BORN TO PERFORM: On stage in 1994. Inset right, her former husband Phil Spector, who was convicted of murder, in a police mugshot dreamed about were finally coming true.” When Ronnie brought her group to Britain in 1964 their supporting act was The Rolling Stones. “They were so gentlemanly and polite,” Ronnie recalled. “They were our opening act and didn’t have a lot of money. They loved us and we loved them.” Among those who vied for her affections were Jimi Hendrix and David Bowie. But John Lennon was also besotted. “They [The Beatles] had seen us on Sunday Night at the London Palladium and they said, ‘We have got to meet these girls with the black long hair and slits up the side’,” Ronnie recalled. Both groups were invited to a party at a London townhouse. Despite the fact Lennon was married and Ronnie was linked to her future husband Phil Spector, she recounted: “John took me into a room to show me the beautiful lights over London. I said, ‘Wow, it’s so beautiful.’ And he said, ‘Yeah, you are’.” Lennon tried to steer her to a nearby bed, but she rejected his advances. “I was young then, and I was seeing Phil. I didn’t want to kiss other guys and stuff. I just dug my feet into the carpet, ‘We gotta go downstairs, John’.” That didn’t stop The Ronettes opening for The Beatles when they toured America in 1966 (the only girl group ever to open for the Fab Four). When The Ronettes broke up in 1967, Spector dedicated himself to making Ronnie a solo star. She fell in love with him, taking Spector’s name in 1968 – the culmination of a dream and the start of a long nightmare. American-Cherokee-Irish heritage, and quickly became besotted with popular music, ignoring her homework to listen to the latest songs. At the age of 11 her parents put her on stage at Harlem’s famed Apollo Theatre’s amateur night, with her cousins singing back-up. They never looked back. Forming the Darling Sisters in 1957 with her older sister Estelle and cousin Nedra Talley, with Ronnie’s powerful vocals they soon became The Ronettes, signed to Colpix Records in 1962. While other girl groups like The Chiffons and The Shirelles wore big, flared skirts, the Ronettes opted for the opposite: “We put on tight dresses, slits up the side, hair in the ozone,” she recalled. It was a look that four decades later would inspire Amy Winehouse. After a string of unsuccessful singles, The LOVED BY ALL: Ronnie Spector photographed in London in 1977 Ronettes auditioned for Phil Spector’s Philles Records. “That’s it!” Spector declared on hearing Ronnie. “That’s the voice I’ve been looking for!” He only wanted to sign Ronnie, but she insisted on keeping the group together, signing with Spector in 1963. They quickly hit the Top 10 with smash hit Be My Baby. “Our lives were turned upside down,” said Ronnie. “All the things I’d ever A fter escaping his clutches in 1972, Ronnie struggled to rebuild her career. She toured and recorded new albums, even duetting with Billy Joel and Bruce Springsteen, but she never repeated her early success. A lifetime of cigarettes took its toll on her voice yet she still enjoyed touring into her sixties, balancing family and career. “I’m a mother and a wife,” she said, having married her manager, Jonathan Greenfield, in 1982. But Ronnie confessed to missing the spotlight whenever she wasn’t performing. “When I finish a show I’m so itchy to get back on stage. That’s the only thing I hate. I’m so passionate about the music. I’m home and shopping and then it’s, ‘Where’s the stage? Where are the lights? Where are the people?’... I can’t wait to get back up there.” Much to her surprise, she and Greenfield had two sons. “I had three adopted sons, so I never thought I could get pregnant,” she admitted. Always exuding selfconfidence on stage, even when times were tough, Ronnie was the ultimate rock ’n’ roll survivor, defiant to the end: “All those years I went through hell only made me stronger.” She died on Wednesday after a brief battle with cancer, unleashing a torrent of tributes from music legends. “So sad,” said Rolling Stone guitarist Keith Richards. “She leaves a huge gap.” Beach Boys star Brian Wilson said: “I loved her voice so much.” Stevie Van Zandt of Springsteen’s E Street Band agreed: “Everybody loves Ronnie. It’s the first by-law of rock ’n’ roll.”

24 Daily Express Friday, January 14, 2022 DX1ST Pictures: ExtraCare / SWNS My wedding belle...the couple tie knot in 1941 Friends claimed it would not last... now we’ve been wed for 81 years Lifetime Bond... Ron, 102, and Joyce, 100 LOVEBIRDS Ron and Joyce Bond have defied predictions they would not stay together – to become Britain’s longest married couple. Great-great-grandparents Ron, 102, and Joyce, 100, celebrated their 81st wedding anniversary with cream teas. They also received an on-air greeting from BBC Radio 2 presenter Ken Bruce, at the request of their son Bill. The pair, who live in a flat at ExtraCare’s Shenley Wood Retirement Village in Milton Keynes, Bucks, married in 1941 when Ron was 21 and Joyce 19, after a “love at first sight” encounter. But daughter Eileen revealed friends initially doubted how long the couple would last. She said: “How wrong did By Ben Turner folks get that? You only have to spend time with them to know they love and care for each other.” Ex-Woolworths worker Joyce said: “We never expected to reach 81 years of marriage. It feels excellent! There is no boss in our relationship, we both give and take.” Ron, who served during the Second World War before working at a garage, said: “Sometimes life is hard but we work through it together. We look after each other too.” Ron and Beryl Golightly of Yorkshire, previously thought to be the nation’s oldest married couple, were wed for 80 years before Ron, 101, died in December. Love at first sight... greatgreat-gran and grandad Joyce and Ron share a tender moment Epic charity couple are one in a million (nearly) PARENTS who began fundraising as a thank you when their daughter was saved from cancer are close to hitting £1million 40 years later. Michael and Bridget Locke’s marathon effort to help find a cure began in 1983, inspired by their youngest girl Sally, 18. He revealed: “On her way back from her last chemo she suggested that she would like to give something back. We’ve raised £956,000, I’ve made it to 90 but we haven’t Bridget and Michael, and daughter Sally By News Reporter hit £1million.” The retired architect and Bridget, 88, of Newport, Gwent, are not stopping now, having turned their hands to most things – including breakfast mornings and golf events. Michael, given an MBE in 2007 for services to Cancer Research, has also sold 2,000 jars of his own marmalade. Proud daughter Sally Kay, now 59, said: “It’s incredible to see. We get lovely messages from strangers.”

DX1ST Daily Express Friday, January 14, 2022 25 HICKEY OUTSPOKEN actress Dame Maureen Lipman, who made headlines criticising non-Jewish star Dame Helen Mirren’s casting as Israeli leader Golda Meir – Maureen insisted the “Jewishness of the character is so integral” – confesses the publicity embarrassed playwright daughter Amy Rosenthal. Explaining a close pal of Amy’s is now a Buddhist monk in Nepal, Lipman, pictured, writes in The Spectator: “Her mother’s ability to make off-the-cuff remarks which generate front page headlines makes her wish she was the one in a Nepalese monastery.” Dame Joanna: Stop blasts killing whales around UK Pictures: Jonathan Buckmaster MEANWHILE, when recalling attending a recent birthday lunch with pals, Dame Maureen reveals: “I was tickled by the guest Hunter Davies, the Beatles’ biographer, recounting in detail to two widowed women of a certain age (one of whom was me) the demise of a recent love affair. Because of the foul weather, I offered him a lift back home to his Beatles collections. Once there, he asked me if I’d like to view his ‘bits and bobs’. ‘I’d love to see your bobs, Hunter,’ I told him, ‘but your bits you can keep to yourself’.” UNDER fire for calling Scottish Tory leader Douglas Ross a “lightweight figure” after the politician demanded Boris’s resignation, Jacob Rees-Mogg made an unlikely attempt to launch his own parliamentary career in Scotland 25 years ago. Eventually coming a distant third in the Central Fife constituency, young Jacob was memorably accompanied on the campaign trail by his childhood nanny, Veronica Crook. AMID the current Downing Street “Partygate” controversy, veteran broadcaster Alastair Stewart fondly recalls of boozy days: “At the ITN of the 1980s, there was no distinction between work meetings and social gatherings.” When once asked about rumours he sank a bottle of whisky a day, ITN’s top presenter at the time Sir Alastair Burnet mischievously replied the story was “rather too flattering”. PLAYING Hollywood icon Ava Gardner at London’s Riverside Studios, Downton Abbey star Elizabeth McGovern, pictured, complains of modern day celebrity life: “We know so damn much about everybody all the time. And there are so many ways that everybody can become famous. It’s lost its mystique. It’s lost its beauty.” By Steph Spyro DAME Joanna Lumley had a real blast yesterday while setting off detonations to demonstrate how to cut marine-life carnage. She visited a quarry in Somerset to reveal a greener way of clearing undetonated explosives left in the sea from the First and Second World Wars. The explosions can confuse whales into lethal strandings by damaging their hearing. First Dame Joanna, 75, and Environment Secretary George Eustice ducked into a metal bunker where they set off a ruinous bang which shot a jet of water up 60ft and shook surrounding rock. Indefensible Then a more eco-friendly blast sprayed water just 10ft high, with a more muted thud. The Stop Sea Blast campaign, which Dame Joanna fronts, is calling for a change in how munitions left in the water from the wars are disposed of when building offshore wind farms. Detonations can cause huge seabed disruption and threaten lives of whales and dolphins. Dame Joanna said it was “indefensible” to use more damaging methods with half a ton of explosives because the less harmful alternative costs the same and is just as easy to use. She said: “They are far less damaging to the seabed, marine life and to the sonar system used by whales and dolphins. It’s been Let us spray...actress Dame Joanna Lumley detonates an explosion with George Eustice in Somerset tested. It’s reliable so I don’t see what the argument is.” The Government last year called for low-noise alternatives to be prioritised over high-order detonations when developing protocols to clear underwater unexploded munitions. In 2011 nearly 40 long-finned pilot whales entered a bay at the Kyle of Durness, Sutherland, at high tide and became stranded, with 19 dying. A report found nearby bomb disposal was the only external event with the potential to cause the whale stranding. Marine mammals need their auditory system for navigation, feeding and communication. Mr Eustice said: “If we’re going to build thousands of new wind farms offshore, we must deploy environmentally friendly ways to deal with unexploded ordnance.” There is about 100,000 tons of explosive material left in the sea surrounding Britain following the world wars. The Stop Sea Blasts campaign is pushing for the Government to mandate the use of quieter deflagration, which involves firing a magnesium cone at the munitions and causing the explosive contents to burn out. HAVING recently admitted to being in talks to portray an unnamed superhero, Northern Irish movie heart-throb Jamie Dornan now jokily suggests his dream role is Catwoman. “I’d just like the challenge of squeezing into that suit,” father-of-three Jamie adds. Might he be taken seriously in this era of “gender-blind” casting? WITH Star Trek’s Mr Spock – played by the late Leonard Nimoy – appearing on billboards to promote vaccination, perky ITV presenter Lorraine Kelly enthuses: “Listen to Spock! He knows.” Happily married Lorraine once surprisingly admitted to having a lifetime crush on Nimoy’s pointy-eared character. YESTERDAY I was lucky enough to spend a thrilling two hours with the Environment Secretary George Eustice at a quarry in Somerset. We watched as the brilliant people at Alford Technologies demonstrated two methods of how explosive ordnance is cleared from the sea floor. First we saw a high-order detonation, which produced an enormous plume of water and a bone-jangling shockwave. Then we saw a low-order deflagration on an identical munition, which was ever so much quieter. The reason this COMMENT Dame Joanna Lumley Actress and activist all matters is there are about 100,000 tons of explosive ordnance in the waters around the UK – and in order to safely build wind farms, these need to be cleared. Unfortunately, the way this country has been disposing of ordnance until very recently is to use highorder detonations, which are incredibly damaging to the marine environment. Whales and dolphins have hearing systems that can be severely affected by the enormous underwater explosions. But things have begun to change, in part due to campaigning by us at Stop Sea Blasts. It led the Government to state two months ago a preference for low-noise alternatives several hundred times quieter. This brings us back to the quarry – where I was so grateful for the minister’s time to see the new approach in action. We are continuing to press for the Government to mandate the use of the low-noise techniques, and after yesterday I feel sure we are heading in the right direction. It would be simply unforgivable to allow clearance companies to continue to use Second World War technology to clear these bombs when there are tested, quieter, safer and environmentally kind techniques available right now.

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Pictures: Rick Dobson / Animal News Agency DX1ST Daily Express Friday, January 14, 2022 27 We have lift off...snowy owl takes to the skies Beak careful...owl is on hunt THIS majestic snowy owl hovers just inches above the ground after spotting a vole – but at that height its prey doesn’t have a prayer. Snapper Rick Dobson, 64, of By Hayley O’Keefe Ottawa, Canada, said: “I had to lie flat and be lucky enough that the owl would fly in my direction.” GARDENING DOUBLE-FLOWERING Freesias Mixed BUY 50 GET 25 FREE BBC journalist ‘already dead when his partner died trying to lift him’ By Chris Riches A BBC journalist is believed to have died before his devoted partner tried to lift his body and fell dead alongside him, an inquest heard. John Stevenson, 68, was found on his living room floor in March 2020. Police also discovered the body of his partner and fulltime carer Mark Turner. An inquest was not held into Mr Turner’s death as that was immediately confirmed to have been from natural causes. Mystery But while a coroner this week ruled Mr Stevenson had also died from natural causes, the exact circumstances will remain a mystery. The former BBC Wales political correspondent was found in a seated position and Mr Turner was discovered lying face down next to him at their home in Aberdare, South Wales. Con- sultant forensic pathologist Dr Stephen Leadbetter told South Wales central coroner’s court that Mr Turner’s arms “appeared to be in a position suggesting an attempt by him to lift the other man”. He added: “I understood crime scene investigators had seen nothing to suggest violence or a struggle.” But after a post-mortem examination and various tests he was unable to establish a News man... John Stevenson was a political reporter for BBC Wales before he retired in 2013 and suffered a second stroke four years later cause of death. Other experts ruled out carbon monoxide poisoning and an “electrical accident”. Dr Leadbeatter told the inquest: “While I am unable to offer a specific anatomical explanation for death, I found no evidence to indicate that trauma played a part.” Mr Stevenson, who retired in 2013, suffered a second stroke in 2017 and his mobility and speech had declined. One of his former BBC colleagues, Bethan Price, had been in regular contact with Mr Turner but said this last happened on February 26, 2020. She said: “I texted again on March 8 and got no reply.” A district nurse went to the couple’s house on March 5 but got no answer. Police were called when there was no response to a follow-up call a week later. Suspicion Detective James Morris said: “Both of the gentlemen were deceased in the lounge. “Mark may have been trying to pull Mr Stevenson up from the floor.” Assistant Coroner David Regan said it was “likely” Mr Stevenson died prior to March 12 but was unable to give an exact date of death. He added: “There was no suspicion of the involvement of any other person.” Verdict: Natural causes. Our mixture of double-flowering Freesia are unrivalled for their wonderful fragrance and beauty. The colourful double flowers will appear in abundance on tall, strong stems throughout the summer from June to August. Height 45cm. • The beautiful frilled flowers make excellent cut flowers for the vase and are a favourite among florists. • Top-quality 7cm+ corms supplied for a spectacular display. Buy 25 Double Freesias Mixed for £5.99, or order 50 for only £11.98 and get 25 FREE Please add £4.99 p&p. TO ORDER CALL 0871 664 1469 QUOTING EX6638 VISIT WWW.EXPRESSGARDENCENTRE.CO.UK Post to: Express Garden, Freesia Mixed Offer (EX6638), 14 Hadfield Street, Old Trafford, Manchester, M16 9FG. If you prefer to receive information and offers from organisations carefully selected by Express Newspapers, please tick here. To see how your data is processed please refer to Express’s Privacy Policy: https://www.shop.express.co.uk/privacy This offer is provided by J Parker Dutch Bulbs Ltd, 14 Hadfield Street, Manchester, M16 9FG. Company is registered in England No. 1467306. Offer subject to availability. For queries on refunds or product information please contact J Parker Dutch Bulbs Ltd. on 0161 848 1101. Calls cost 12p per minute from a BT landline plus network extras. Calls from other networks and mobiles may cost more. Please note delivery to England, Scotland and Wales only. Please allow up to 28 days for delivery. Please add £4.99 p&p per order.

DX1ST 28 Daily Express Friday, January 14, 2022 VERY IMPORTANT 1 As Dame Vera Lynn is revealed to have been an accomplished artist, can you guess which celebrities created these stunning works? CANVAS QUEEN: Painting by Vera TWENTY portraits by Dame Vera Lynn have gone on display in an exhibition about the life of the forces’ sweetheart in the East Sussex village where she lived, revealing that the late Second World War legend was not only a talented singer but a dab hand with a paintbrush too. Her daughter Virginia Lewis-Jones says: “I think a lot of artistes are also very good artists as well, it’s another side to their creative field.” And if the works on this page are anything to go by, she’s right, because their creators are far better known for their day jobs. So can you identify the famous names responsible for the paintings? Answers at the bottom. FINE ARTist: Dame Vera 2 1 This singer-songwriter is still punching above his weight after 60 years in the music business no matter how many roads – painting included – he walks down. His powerful oil painting above is titled The Boxing Gym and, undoubtedly, he remains a big hitter. 2 A stunning streetscape in watercolours from an artist with connections at the highest levels, and a down-to-earth interest in town planning. Called Poundbury, are its attractive, but rather humble, houses a cover for a painter who usually puts on heirs and graces? 3 4 5 6 3 The Green Coin is by another rocker who likes to dabble in paints. It’s been a long and winding road for this over-64 star but he doesn’t need any help. 4 Sadly the talent of this celebrity never blossomed as fully as it might due to her early death. This fine flower was a birthday present for a president. 5 She’s rather over-dressed for a Bond girl, let alone a one-time Playboy centrefold, but could this lady in red strolling along a beach be a self-portrait? 6 This pale-skinned, hairless, scary monster looks like a bit of a space oddity, as if he’s landed straight from Mars! Maybe there is life there after all?

DX1ST PAINTERS Daily Express Friday, January 14, 2022 29 8 Pictures: Rex, Getty, PA and Sam Moore 7 8 With the toll taken by six decades as rock’s best-loved hellraiser, there’s no mistaking the gaunt, wasted profile of Keith Richards. This artist is such an admirer, he pirated the guitarist’s look for one of his characters. 9 9 Painted in January 1943 in Marrakech, this might be its artist’s finest hour. Certainly the scene Tower of the Koutoubia Mosque was good enough to be given to a US president who was there at the time. 10 11 7 Stone me, who are those musicians hiding in the background of this vibrant, colourful oil painting that takes its inspiration from Picasso? At least this talented artist didn’t feel obliged to paint the canvas black. 11 This painter’s artistic career got off to a bit of a rocky start, but his pictures pack one hell of a punch, and can now sell for tens of thousands of pounds. This portrait of Michael Jackson, titled Never Ever Land, only has half a frame, a device he uses on many artworks to highlight his resentment about directors cutting frames out of his movies. ANSWERS: 1 Bob Dylan; 2 Prince Charles; 3 Sir Paul McCartney; 4 Marilyn Monroe; 5 Jane Seymour; 6 David Bowie; 7 Ronnie Wood; 8 Johnny Depp; 9 Winston Churchill; 10 Anthony Hopkins; 11 Sylvester Stallone. 1 0 We shouldn’t be surprised this veteran artist feels an affinity with elephants. His best known character shares a name with a famous general who conscripted dozens of them to take on the Roman army.

DX1ST 30 Daily Express Friday, January 14, 2022 shop Take 5 vegan treats 1Magnum Mini vegan classic almond (330ml), £3, ocado.com BEST for afters 2GRO fishless fillet and chips (370g), £3, Co-op BEST for fishless Fridays 3Ginsters vegan creamy garlic mushroom slice (170g), RRP £1.70, Asda BEST for on-the-go 4Philadelphia plant-based (150g), £2.50 or £1.50 with Clubcard, Tesco BEST for spreading 5Higgidy mini no-pork pies (176g), £1.98, Waitrose BEST for snacking 2 4 5 3 1 Aubergine chickpea stew If you’re trying to cut out meat, here’s a yummy recipe from veganuary.com by School Night Vegan that will help you get through. Ingredients 2 tbsp olive oil Large onion, finely sliced 4 cloves of garlic, peeled and crushed Half tsp ground cumin Half tsp ground coriander Quarter tsp ground nutmeg 1 tsp ground cinnamon Half tsp smoked paprika Quarter tsp ground cloves 2 aubergines halved lengthways then sliced into 1cm semicircles 400g tin chickpeas, drained 2 x 400g tins peeled plum tomatoes From the store cupboard 2 tbsp olive oil 1 tbsp light brown sugar 500ml vegetable stock METHOD Preheat the oven to 425F or 1 200C for fan. Place a casserole dish on the 2 hob at a medium to low heat. Add the oil and then the onion and Shopping list from Sainsbury’s Onion, 11p Garlic (4), 79p Natco ground cumin (100g), £1.25 Ground coriander (36g), 85p Ground nutmeg (50g), 85p Ground cinnamon (38g), 85p Smoked paprika (44g), 90p Ground cloves (37g), 85p 2 aubergines (loose), £1.38 KTC chickpeas (400g), 50p Hubbard’s peeled plum tomatoes (400g) x2, 56p Lemon, 32p Plain folded flatbreads (6), £1 TOTAL: £10.21 fry lightly for a minute. Add the garlic and fry for a 3 further 2 minutes then add the spices and stir well to coat the onion. Add the aubergine, chickpeas, 4 tinned tomatoes, brown sugar, and vegetable stock and stir well. Cover the pot with the lid and 5 place in the preheated oven for 90 minutes, removing to stir every half hour. Serve with warmed flatbreads. ■For ■ more recipes visit veganuary. com or schoolnightvegan.com Click & save Come up smelling of bluebells and save a whopping £45 on a bottle of designer Stella McCartney Pop Bluebell Eau de Parfum (50ml). It’s down from £70 to a bargain £25 at tofs.com. Budget or bust... tiger mugs Savvy George tiger mug, £3.50, Asda Spend 3D tiger head mug, £11.99, amazon.com Splurge Tiger shaped mug, £16, etsy.com

DX1ST Daily Express Friday, January 14, 2022 31 smart with RUKI SAYID and TRICIA PHILLIPS Finest Lancashire Hotpot (400g), Tesco, £3.50, or two for £6 with Clubcard SAVE: £1 Beef stew & dumplings (400g), Asda, £2.30, or three for £6 SAVE: 90p winter warmers Chicken casserole and dumplings (450g), Tesco, £2.75, or three for £6.50 with Clubcard SAVE: £1.75 Luxury steak in ale with cheese cobblers (450g), Iceland, £3 or two for £5 SAVE: £1 As the cold snap bites and we shiver across Brr-itain, we all need a bit of comfort to lift the mood. From a quick but hearty meal to a cosy jumper that hugs us, here are deals to warm the cockles of your heart. Whether you’re in need of a pick-me-up hotpot or sumptuous stew, or want to wrap up against the chill, we’ve found a stack of money-saving ideas to keep you snug inside and out. Here are 24 ways to eat and keep in the body heat. * All prices correct at time of going to press Kershaws classic steak pie & chips (400g), Morrisons, £1.75, or four for £6 SAVE: £1 Luxury steak and Chianti casserole with Cheddar mash (450g), Iceland, £3, or two for £5 SAVE: £1 Comfort and joy winter woolies Slow cooked British beef casserole with red wine gravy & mixed vegetables (300g), Sainsbury’s, was £3.25, now £2.75 SAVE: 50p Minced beef hotpot (400g), Asda, £2.30 or three for £6 SAVE: 90p Oggs sticky toffee puddings (2), Sainsbury’s, were £2.75, now £2 SAVE: 75p Grab it For deals on wheels head to Lakeland and save a load of cash on a sleek, three-tier storage trolley which has been knocked down from £59.99 to £39.99. Dumpling topped steak pie (550g), Morrisons, £3.25 or two for £5 SAVE: £1.50 Syrup sponge pudding (110g), Iceland, £1, or four for £3 SAVE: £1 Chocolate sponge puddings (2), Waitrose, £2.25, or two packs for £3.50 SAVE: £1 Guide London cable knit cardigan, TK Maxx, RRP £95, now £34.99 SAVE: £60.01 Ultra Kirkpatrick men’s hooded fleece, Mountain Warehouse, was £119.99, now £49.99 SAVE: £70 Kids’ Under Armour fleece, Sports Direct, RRP £36.99, now £19 SAVE: £17.99 Cashmilon V-neck jumper, Marks & Spencer, £16 or two for £25 SAVE: £7 Bargain basket There are bargains to be had at Iceland where prices can help your budget stretch further with deals on gourmet ready meals like Luxury lamb moussaka (450g), £3.25, and Cathedral City mac ‘n’ cheese (450g), £3, which are part of a two for £5 offer. And save £2.50 on a three-for-£5 deal on frozen pizzas which otherwise cost £2.50 each, such as Dr Oetker Ristorante mozzarella pizza (335g), Goodfella’s stonebaked thin cheese and ham pizza (351g) and Goodfella’s deep pan baked meat feast (415g). And there’s a £1 saving on multibuys with Birds Eye veg like the brand’s Select mixed vegetables (640g), and peas and sweetcorn (640g) which are either £2 each or two for £3. The pizza and frozen veg deals end on Tuesday. Character kids’ Grippi socks, Mountain Warehouse, were £14.99, now £11.99 SAVE: £3 Regatta scarf, debenhams. com, was £35, now £17.50 SAVE: £17.50 Ribbed half-zip sweatshirt, next.co.uk, was £42, now £18 SAVE: £24 Trespass Coaker beanie hat, debenhams.com, was £18.99, now £11.24 SAVE: £7.75 Rainbow cuff leather gloves, Accessorize, were £25, now £12.50 SAVE: £12.50 Nevica Original neckwarmer, Sports Direct, RRP £11.99, now £5.99 SAVE: £6 Borg trapper hat, Oliver Bonas, was £32, now £12 SAVE: £20 Hi-Gear kids hat and glove set, millets. co.uk, was £17, now £5.10 SAVE: £11.90 What’s new? If you’re suffering from the winter blues and yearning for some sunshine, light up your home with a warm glow from a battery powered sun globe. The cheerful looking desk lamp for £21.99 from firebox.com will add a touch of summer indoors and is touch sensitive to change from morning yellow to sunset orange.

33 Daily Express Friday, January 14, 2022 DX1ST Theatre with NEIL NORMAN ENCHANTING Simon Robson with Mariam Haque. Inset, Sasha Frost FOLK ★★★★ Hampstead Theatre until February 5 Tickets: 020 7722 9301 Playwright Nell Leyshon has been consistent in chronicling the lives of social outliers, particularly in rural areas. Without condescension, she animates her characters with authority and authenticity, having herself grown up in West Somerset. Set in the early 1900s, her latest play is the fact-based story of two half-sisters, flirtatious Lucy (Sasha Frost) and unworldly, introverted Louie (Mariam Haque), who have just lost their mother and earn their keep making gloves. They sing as they work at home, making up lyrics inspired by the land, the people and the prevailing conditions of nature. Renowned folk music collector Cecil Sharp (Simon Robson) is travelling around England on a quest to preserve folk songs that have been passed on orally across generations. When he enters the women’s lives, they are forced to reassess their understanding of their own strengths and weaknesses. Roxana Silbert’s direction is lean and economical, allowing the actors to define their relationships with a forensic attention to detail. Sharp persuades the naturally gifted Louie to sing her songs to him and she is astonished that he can turn them into printed notation. As they learn from each other, Louie becomes increasingly uncertain of Sharp’s motives in appropriating her songs for use by others, even to the point of politicising them. Booking now 101 DALMATIANS – THE NEW MUSICAL openairtheatre.com Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre, July 12-August 28 Third time lucky for this brand-new musical version of Dodie Smith’s novel which has been postponed twice since 2020. Cruella de Vil is on her diabolical quest for a new fur coat as puppet maestro Toby Olie’s canine creations attempt to thwart her schemes. Sung unaccompanied by Haque and Frost, the songs are extraordinarily affecting and Leyshon remains even-handed in her depiction. Louie believes the songs are living entities and should die with her while Sharp thinks that recording them for posterity is culturally imperative. “The thing about you, Louie,” he says, “is that you don’t know what you know.” Edgily enchanting and beautifully played by all, this is an exquisite gem. ONLINE HEDDA GABLER ntathome.com Ruth Wilson gives an uninhibited performance as Ibsen’s fatally restless anti-heroine in Ivo Van Hove’s stripped-tokill production. Expect guns, blood, sex and floral abuse. Rent for £7.99 or take a monthly £9.99 subscription for this and other plays. WHILE THE SUN SHINES orangetreetheatre.co.uk Unseen for many decades, Terence Rattigan’s 1943 farce was one of his most commercially successful plays. A mismatched set of Allied servicemen in the Blitz all fall for the aristocratic fiancee, left, of the Earl of Harpenden, causing romantic chaos. Rattigan’s Feydeau-like comedy of mistaken identity and petty jealousies is brought to hilarious life in this superb revival at Richmond’s Orange Tree Theatre. It will be available on demand from January 21-24 once the run has ended. Tickets: £15-£32. DRACULA draculatheplay.com UK tour from February 7 Bad Girls’ Governor James Gaddas, right, sheds new light on the dark corners of Bram Stoker’s immortal vampire in his one-man show in which he plays 15 characters. The supposed discovery of Stoker’s handwritten manuscript containing unpublished pages leads us on a terrifying journey into the Count’s history, revealing hitherto unknown facts that defy belief and threaten our very sanity.

DX1ST Daily Express Friday, January 14, 2022 33 Weekend Films with ANDY LEA STAR RATINGS ★★★★★ Excellent ★★★★ Good ★★★ Worth a look ★★ Poor ★ Don’t bother Won’t you just shut it? HOTEL TRANSYLVANIA: TRANSFORMANIA Cert U ★ On Amazon Prime Video now Adam Sandler decided to sit out the fourth instalment of his monster-based comedy series. And when the star of Grown Ups 2 turns down an easy pay cheque, you really should lower your expectations. Yet Transformania still manages to disappoint. The four credited screenwriters have exorcised the goofy charm of the original and rammed a stake through the zippy comedy. WITLESSAll charm has been exorcised The plot sees undead hotelier Drac (now voiced by Brian Hull) zapped by a “Monstification” ray-gun which turns him into a quivering human and his surfer dude son-in-law (Andy Samberg) into a scary creature. Witless antics ensue as the pair head to South America to find a magical crystal to reverse the spell. HAUNTED Tilda Swinton is hearing things TRAPPED Jenna Ortega and Ghostface SCREAM Cert 18 ★★★ In cinemas now Like 2018’s Halloween and last year’s Candyman, this is a horror sequel without a title number. In a few weeks, this will make searching for what should be called Scream 5 on digital platforms far more difficult than it should be. But at least the screenwriters have made the job of the reviewer a little easier. Thanks to some appropriately arch dialogue, we now have a name for this nonsense. Here, the terrified teens are fully aware that they’re trapped in what they call a “requel”, a reboot/sequel hybrid that retools its SAVE THE CINEMA Cert 12 ★★★ On NOW and Sky Cinema now On July 15, 1993, hairdresser Liz Evans saved Carmarthen’s Lyric Theatre from the wrecking ball with an astonishing PR coup. Revenue was raised and developers shamed when the condemned Art Deco building staged the first British screening of Steven Spielberg’s dino-blockbuster Jurassic Park. This likeable, if at times broad, comedy drama forces the story of her campaign into the template of the feel-good ‘‘ The masked killer is back and he’s desperate to reboot his franchise scares for a new generation while appeasing older fans by bringing back the “legacy characters” from the original. Wes Craven’s 1996 Scream was among the first films to boast one of these fourth wall-shattering speeches. The young folk of Woodsboro realised a masked serial killer called Ghostface was playing by the rules of the scary movie. If you visited a basement or said “I’ll be right back”, you were asking for it. Now the masked killer is back and he’s desperate to reboot his “franchise” with a fresh batch of murders that draw in the survivors from the early films. Jenna Ortega plays high schooler Tara Brit flick. Samantha Morton rocks a wandering Welsh accent and a Gail Tilsley hairdo to play the plucky snipper who runs a youth theatre company from the venerable building. When a corrupt mayor (a hammy Adeel Akhtar) is offered a kickback from a developer pal to overturn the building’s Grade II status, feisty Liz springs into action. This formulaic affair won’t change the course of modern cinema like Jurassic Park but Sam’s Liz makes for an inspirational heroine. The eagle eyed should also watch for a cameo from Liz’s grown-up son Wynne, best known as insurance-flogging opera warbler Gio Compario. who is tormented by a familiar voice on a spookily old-fashioned device called a “landline”. As Tara’s estranged sister (Melissa Barrera) hunts for the killer, suspicion falls on a group of teenage stereotypes, and ageing survivors Sidney (Neve Campbell), Gale (Courteney Cox) and Dewey (David Arquette) are drawn back into the fray. Its best sequences blend laughs with suspense. But by the time we get to the final act (“Welcome to Act Three!” shouts an unmasked murderer), the joke is beginning to feel a little stale. The set up is a scream but this self-aware slasher is beginning to show its age. FEISTYSamantha Morton plays plucky Liz Evans MEMORIA Cert 12A ★★ In cinemas now Remember those “magic eye” pictures? It could have been a defect of my eyes, a lack of imagination or a shortage of patience but I could never see a 3D image in those blurry posters that taunted me in the mid-90s. I thought of those pictures as I pored over the long, static shots that make up Thai film-maker Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s mediative “masterpiece”. To some critics, whose opinions I respect, these seemingly banal scenes reveal deep truths about life, death, time, and the human condition. Sadly, the magic didn’t work on me. While I appreciated the artistry and originality, I spent more time looking at my watch than peering into my soul. Tilda Swinton performs in both Spanish and English to play Colombian-based orchid expert Jessica Holland who travels from Medellin to Bogota to visit her sister. As she shops for a bulb-preserving fridge, she is plagued by a recurring noise – an unearthly thud that no one else can hear. A sound technician called Hernan tries to recreate the noise in his studio, a doctor suggests she’s stressed, and her brother-in-law talks about a local curse. But award-winning Weerasethakul seemingly wants us to look for the source in the landscape and the locals. With a more ruthless editor, this two-and-a-quarter-hour movie could be over in 10 minutes. Instead it’s padded out with long shots of musicians performing, archaeologists digging, trees swaying and Swinton looking haunted. The source of the sound is revealed after a bizarre encounter with a mystic (also called Hernan) who remembers his soul floating around “in space” before he was born. Perhaps, like most critics, you’ll find this a satisfying and deeply spiritual finale to one of the most important films of this century. Or maybe, like me, you’ll just remember feeling mightily frustrated and a little bit inadequate during a short-lived craze from the 90s.

34 Daily Express Friday, January 14, 2022 DX1ST Books Disunited States of America To Paradise Hanya Yanagihara Picador, £20 with Charlotte Heathcote The eagerly anticipated follow-up to her bestselling novel A Little Life, Hanya Yanagihara’s To Paradise takes an ambitious trip through three centuries of a reimagined US history. It’s a hefty 700-page tome essentially consisting of three novels loosely stitched together by some overlapping themes. In this alternative timeline, the American revolution resulted not in the establishment of the United States Of America but three states, including the so-called ‘Free States’, a country founded by utopians and free-thinkers where gay marriage is not only legal but common. Part One is a love story set in 1890s New York. David Bingham is a descendant of a wealthy banking family and his grandfather is orchestrating his arranged marriage to an older man. But David falls in love with a music teacher deemed unsuitable by his family. He must choose between his affluent lifestyle, propped up by an unhappy marriage, or following his dreams to a much more uncertain future. In book two, we fast-forward to the 1980s as a group of gay men gather to host a friend dying of cancer. Another David Bingham, a young paralegal in a relationship with the wealthy lawyer who hosts the party, reflects on his childhood in Hawaii and his place in the world. There follows a dazzling chapter in the voice of his father who is catatonic in a Hawaiian institution. He considers the American cultural vandalism of Hawaii, and recalls how he became estranged from his son. To order any of these books, please visit expressbookshop.com or call 020 3176 3832. Free UK p&p for orders over £20. By far the best section, Part Three, is told through a series of letters sent in the second half of the 21st century, and through the narrative of a female lab technician named Charlie. By now, America is in the grip of a totalitarian dictatorship and climate change has wreaked devastation. Above all, the world has been ravaged by successive pandemics: “Fear of disease, the human instinct to stay healthy, has eclipsed every other desire and value they once treasured, as well as many of the freedoms they had thought inevitable.” There is little overlap between the book’s three sections beyond America’s underdeveloped alternative history, and that makes To Paradise a disjointed read. But, as one of the first major American novels to address the future that endemic diseases may bring to a globalised world, and the dystopian society that could follow in their wake, To Paradise is a memorable work of hyper-pessimism. Let’s hope we get a better run than this. By HUSTON GILMORE Get in touch! www.express.co.uk/books New year, new you in ‘22 The Power Of Fun: Why Fun Is The Key To A Happy and Healthy Life Catherine Price Bantam Press, £14.99 The author of How To Break Up With Your Phone returns with a guide to making fun an essential part of a balanced, purposeful and healthy life. The woman dubbed “the Marie Kondo of brains” has a practical plan to help us find our own personal fun ‘magnets’, whether riding a bike on a sunny day or making your kids laugh. There is science here too, proving that fun helps us flourish. (Published January 20) Energize! Go From Shattered To Smashing It In 30 Days Dr Michael Breus and Stacey Griffith Vermilion, £14.99 Intelligent Fitness: The Smart Way To Reboot Your Body And Get In Shape Sam Waterson Michael O’Mara, £18.99 If you admire Daniel Craig for more than his acting skills then try this fitness and wellbeing manual by the trainer who transformed Craig’s physique for the James Bond films. Waterson provides an intelligent focus on energy, sleep and confidence, encouraging you to focus on training, recovery and nutrition rather than what you see in the mirror. There’s also a foreword from Craig. Tired of being tired? The main reason we’re so often exhausted is that we’re living out of sync with our minds and bodies. So the authors of this 30-day health plan use core principles from chronobiology, the study of how time affects our biology, and their quizzes help you to identify your chronotype (are you an early rising Lion, an in-between Bear, a late-night Wolf or an insomniac Dolphin?) and metabolism. They then suggest advice on the best times to wake, sleep and eat, and suggest exercises to optimise energy levels. by CAROLINE SANDERSON Wahala Nikki May Doubleday, £14.99 Ronke, Simi and Boo have been best friends since their university days. Now in their mid-30s, the career-minded trio are intensely proud of their English and Nigerian heritage and fiercely loyal to each other. They are all at different life stages. Dentist Ronke is keen to settle down with her unreliable boyfriend. Simi has a high-flying job in fashion but her husband is pressurising her to have a baby, and biochemist Boo is frustrated and unfulfilled. But cracks appear in their friendship when Isobel, a rich and glamorous friend from Simi’s childhood in Lagos, arrives in London and worms her way into the women’s lives. Wahala means “trouble” – and that’s exactly what the calculating Isobel is intent on causing, with tragic consequences for them all. Nikki May’s sharp and funny debut novel is a delight on many levels. It also highlights the casual racism endured by the women. One of Ronke’s patients assumes she’s the dental nurse rather than the dentist, a fellow mother at the school gate mistakes Boo for her child’s nanny, and Ronke’s boyfriend almost gets arrested while trying to defend her from a stalker. But, above all, this is a book about female friendship and the best scenes show the women gossiping in their favourite Nigerian restaurant over plates of jollof rice and pounded yam (May even includes a few recipes). Wahala bursts with life from start to finish – it’s no wonder it’s being filmed for a BBC drama series. By Emma Lee-Potter Podcasts with ELIZABETH ARCHER Weird Walk Best known as Kurtan from BBC Three’s This Country, actor Charlie Cooper couldn’t be more different to his on-screen persona, and enjoys nothing more than a ramble in the British countryside at the weekend. Inspired by a fascination with the history of the UK landscape, Charlie goes on walks to discover more about British folklore. In the first episode, he treks along the South Downs Way from Hampshire to Sussex in search of the Green Man – a pagan symbol which appears on medieval churches and is said to represent the cycle of life and death and the beginning of spring. And Then Came Breast Cancer Host Victoria Derbyshire discusses the challenges of living with breast cancer, from how to share the diagnosis with friends and family to overcoming the loneliness of going through treatment alone during the pandemic, and the difficulties finding a bra after a mastectomy. Victoria documented her own treatment for breast cancer on social media in 2015. In the first series, she speaks to survivors, their friends and family. Guests include newsreader Sian Williams, who was diagnosed in 2014 aged 50. Harsh Reality: The Story of Miriam Rivera Exploring the dark side of reality TV at its peak in the early 2000s, this podcast delves into controversial TV show There’s Something About Miriam. The show followed transgender model Miriam Rivera as she lived in a villa in Ibiza with six men and chose one as her romantic partner who would also win a £10,000 prize. The reality programme revealed to the men that Miriam was transgender in a dramatic final episode and the men went on to sue Sky One before the programme aired in 2003. Ry-Union Rylan Clarke reunites celebrities who are old friends or perhaps even enemies who haven’t seen one another for years. Then the celebs either reminisce or hash out their differences. The first series reunites Rochelle Humes with former S Club Juniors bandmate Aaron Renfree, and sees X Factor contestant Cher Lloyd chat to old pal and X Factor choreographer Brian Freeman. Vernon Kay also talks to actress Beverley Callard about their friendship on I’m A Celebrity – and reveals there were rumours the production team had an emergency meeting because the cast got on too well and they needed more drama.

Daily Express Friday, January 14, 2022 35 DX1ST Music Album releases Still cranky after all these years Elvis Costello & The Imposters The Boy Named If He was one of the greatest artists to come out of the late 70s New Wave explosion, churning out gem after caustic gem with Pump It Up, Alison and Oliver’s Army Elvis Costello wrote pop with attitude, wilfully biting the hand that fed him and snarling at radio DJs for “trying to anaesthetise the way that we feel”. He wasn’t playing at rebellion, he meant it. Now 67, our favourite bolshy Londoner has returned to his 70s roots with his punchiest album since 1978’s This Year’s Model. The Boy Named If is an invigorating mix of fierce melodies, sharp lyrics and New The Lumineers Brightside US folk-rock duo Wesley Schultz and Jeremiah Fraites have a real gift for writing songs that touch a nerve. With fatherhood and a car crash among the subjects covered here, stand-outs include Big Shot and Brightside, worthy successors to Ho Hey and Cleopatra, as they reflect real life with tenderness and restraint. Wave energy with its feet in pub rock and feisty 60s pop. You could imagine The Beatles belting out Farewell, OK in their sweat-soaked early days in Hamburg clubs. He’s charting a betrayal – ‘A fumble for heaven in a thimble of draft’ – and it’s glorious. The album’s loose theme is growing up, a much longer process than it used to be. Highlights include Penelope Halfpenny, vintage Dope Lemon Rose Pink Cadillac Is this a new genre – stoner cowboy pop? Angus Stone’s third solo album is more laidback than Willie Nelson’s tour bus. Songs range from trippy Stingray Pete to the relaxed groove of the title track. The overall vibe is hazy soft-pop, with touches of funk and soul. Let’s hope guest Winston Surfshirt is a Toast Of Tinseltown character. with GARRY BUSHeLL Costello pop underpinned by Steve Nieve’s swirling organ. It has a similar drive to Pump It Up but is more whimsical. The edgier title track is about your other self – the part of you that shirks responsibilities and breaks hearts, “even your own”. Elvis’s lyrics still delight, whether he’s “in the parlour, playing cards with Gustav Mahler”, or recalling”a part-time waitress with a dream of greatness” (My Most Beautiful Mistake). The driving Mistook Me For A Friend finds him “working miracles, for petty cash and chemicals”. Costello has done interesting work recently, with 2020’s Hey Clockface, the French EP it inspired, and remaking This Year’s Model as the Latinflavoured Spanish Model. But this, his 32nd album, is top notch. Orlando Weeks Hop Up This second album from the former Maccabees frontman is a thing of joy, overflowing with warmth and positivity. Mellow, uplifting guitar-free numbers including Deep Down Way Out and Look Who’s Talking Now are closer in feel to the classic soft pop of Crosby Stills and Nash than hits such as Love You Better. Charming and irresistible. BOOK OFFERS COSY UP WITH A CLASSIC HISTORICAL CRIME BOOK MURDER AT MADAME TUSSAUDS BY JIM ELDRIDGE PUBLISHED BY ALLISON & BUSBY London, 1896. Madame Tussauds opens to find one of its nightwatchmen decapitated and his colleague nowhere to be found. To the police, the case seems simple: one killed the other and fled, but workers at the museum aren’t convinced and Scotland Yard enlists ‘The Museum Detectives’ Daniel Wilson and Abigail Fenton to aid the investigation. When the body of the missing nightwatchman is discovered encased within a wax figure, the case suddenly becomes more complex. With questions over the dead men’s pasts and a series of bank raids plaguing the city, Wilson and Fenton face their most intricate and dangerous case yet. MURDER AT THE NATIONAL GALLERY BY JIM ELDRIDGE PUBLISHED BY ALLISON & BUSBY 1897, London. The capital is shocked to learn that the body of a woman has been found at the National Gallery, eviscerated in a manner that recalls all too strongly the exploits of the infamous Jack the Ripper. Daniel Wilson and Abigail Fenton are contacted by a curator of the National Gallery for their assistance. The dead woman had links to artist Walter Sickert who was a suspect during the Ripper’s spree of killings. Scotland Yard have arrested Sickert on suspicion of this fresh murder but it is not the last … Copycat murders of the Ripper’s crimes implicate the artist who loves to shock but Sickert insists that he is innocent. Who would want to frame him? Wilson and Fenton have their work cut out catching an elusive and determined killer. 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DX1ST televisionexpress Daily Express Friday, January 14, 2022 37 Killer goes out clubbing THIS week’s DEATH IN PARADISE (BBC1, 9pm) features a guest appearance from Tamzin Outhwaite. There’s her, plus that chap who used to play English teacher Tom Clarkson on Waterloo Road, plus some other actor whose name escapes me but who only lasts a couple of minutes in any case before someone fatally clobbers him with a golf club. Clobbers the character he’s playing, I mean. Since fatally clobbering someone with a golf club is considered a criminal offence in many parts of the world, including the island of Picks of the day Mike Ward previews tonight’s TV Saint Marie, this becomes the latest murder case for Ralf Little’s DI Neville Parker and his team to get their teeth into. Early evidence points so clearly to the chap from Waterloo Road being the culprit that our immediate gut reaction, as experts on this show, is to assume that the chap from Waterloo Road can’t possibly be the culprit. But might that be a red herring, or a double bluff, or something equally fiendish designed to dupe us? After all, the victim is the Waterloo Road chap’s brother – or he was – and shortly beforehand this pair had had an almighty row. Not only that, but an audio recording of the fatal assault appears to have been captured in a voicemail message the victim was leaving his sister-in-law (that’s Tamzin) in what would prove to be his final moments. Damning evidence, surely? Or is it just a tad too convenient..? Also on BBC1 tonight, THE GRAHAM NORTON SHOW Music: Crossfire Hurricane, BBC4, 9pm Documentary that delves into archive material to trace the eventful first 20 years of one of Britain’s most successful rock bands, The Rolling Stones. Featuring never-before-seen interviews, this 2012 film chronicles the group’s early years through to 1981. Mick Jagger (left), Keith Richards, Charlie Watts, Ronnie Wood, Bill Wyman and Mick Taylor recollect key moments, including the infamous Altamont concert and the recording of classic album Exile On Main St. The musicians also reflect on the tragic death of original member Brian Jones, who drowned at his home in East Sussex. Plus, Richards reveals the one track that defines his writing relationship with Jagger. (10.35pm) includes a guest appearance from Ricky Gervais. Ricky will be plugging the third and final series of his excellent black comedy-drama After Life, which arrives today on Netflix and which is reason alone to become a Netflix subscriber if you’re not one of those already (you can always cancel your subscription once you’ve watched Ricky’s show, and spend the money instead on subscribing to BritBox and watching, among other treats, Death In Paradise’s entire 72- episode back catalogue). Also joining Graham tonight will be Ant and Dec, who’ll be talking about their new ITV game show Limitless Win and insisting, I’d imagine, that it’s a lot more enjoyable than that dreadful Red Or Black? thing they presented a few years ago, which indeed it is, although so is being fatally clobbered over the head with a golf club. Elsewhere this evening, the latest episode of RICK STEIN’S CORNWALL, on BBC2 at 6.30pm, is immediately followed – at 7pm on C5 – by a re-run of MY CORNWALL WITH FERN BRITTON. So whose county actually is it? As Rick grew up in Oxfordshire and Fern was born in Ealing, I’ll let you be the judge of that. DID YOU KNOW? Singer Elvis Costello’s real name is Declan Patrick McManus. At the start of his career he used the name D.P. Costello but was advised to call himself Elvis when he signed for Stiff Records in 1976. Film: The Girl In The Spider’s Web, Film4, 9pm Swedish hacker Lisbeth Salander is hired by computer genius Frans Balder to retrieve Firefall, a programme capable of accessing the world’s nuclear codes, which he developed for the National Security Agency. Though Salander manages to find Firefall, problems arise when Russian criminals steal her laptop. It’s not long before Salander is fighting for her life against mercenaries. Thriller, starring Claire Foy (left), Sylvia Hoeks and Stephen Merchant. Travel: Kate Humble’s Coastal Britain, C5, 8pm Kate Humble’s starting point for the latest leg of her journey is the picturesque village of Alnmouth, once a leading grain port in the 18th century. Today, it’s known for its colourful houses and a sweep of sandy beach where Kate (above) meets a former GP, Claire, who uses the sand to create temporary large-scale artworks and portraits, which are visible for only a few hours before the tide sweeps them away. Gardening: Monty Don’s Adriatic Gardens, BBC2, 8pm The presenter (above) begins the latest leg in the city of Trieste, near Italy’s border with Croatia. He visits a public garden created by an obsessive royal plantsman more than 150 years ago, which is now being carefully restored. Monty then heads down the Adriatic coast through Croatia to pick up the trail that the Venetians followed. The green-fingered guru ends his journey on the island of Lopud, near Dubrovnik. Music: The Big Beat: Fats Domino And The Birth Of Rock ’n’ Roll, Sky Arts, 9pm Documentary looking at American pianist and singer-songwriter Fats Domino (right) and how his brand of New Orleans rhythm and blues morphed into rock ’n’ roll, appealing to black and white audiences alike. Domino’s debut single, The Fat Man, is said to be the first ever rock ’n’ roll song and the first to sell more than a million records. He went on to score a number of hits, including Ain’t That A Shame. The Wire star Clarke Peters narrates.

38 Daily Express Friday, January 14, 2022 DX1ST All programmes Today’s are listed in Greenwich TV Mean Time previews (GMT). are Apart on from in the Portugal, previous programmes are one hour page later than listed film ratings ★★★★★ Brilliant ★★★★ Very Good ★★★ Good ★★ Average ★ Bad (R) Repeat BBC One BBC Two ITV Channel 4 Channel 5 6.00am Breakfast News headlines. 9.15 Morning Live Magazine. 10.00 Countryfile Winter Diaries In Llanddwyn. Last in series. (R) 10.45 The Moment of Proof Convicting a violent offender. 11.15 Homes Under the Hammer Property auctions. (R) 12.15pm Bargain Hunt Eric Knowles visits Maidstone Museum. 1.00 BBC News at One; Weather 1.30 Regional News; Weather 1.45 Father Brown A VIP guest is murdered at Lady Felicia’s New Year ball. Last in series. 2.30 The Repair Shop A radio, gaming case and grandfather clock are restored by the team. 3.00 I Escaped to the Country Jonnie Irwin revisits East Anglia. Last in series. 3.45 The Farmers’ Country Showdown Kai and Neil debut their chilli ice-cream. 4.30 Antiques Road Trip With Izzie Balmer and David Harper. 5.15 Pointless Quiz show. 6.00 BBC News at Six; Weather 6.30 Regional News; Weather 6.30am The Farmers’ Country Showdown A visit to the Edenbridge & Oxted Agricultural Show. (R) 7.15 Antiques Road Trip Izzie Balmer and David Harper travel around Fife, Perthshire and Angus. (R) 8.00 Sign Zone: Sort Your Life Out with Stacey Solomon A couple part with clutter. (R) 9.00 BBC News at 9 10.00 BBC News Headlines. 12.15pm Politics UK Updates. 1.00 LIVE Snooker: The Masters Judd Trump v Kyren Wilson. The third quarter-final at Alexandra Palace, played over the best of 11 frames. 5.15 Flog It! At Allerton Castle. (R) 6.00 Richard Osman’s House of Games With Mike Bushell, Aisling Bea, Sunetra Sarker and Dion Dublin. (R) 6.30 Rick Stein’s Cornwall Rick meets a forager who takes him on a tour around the Camel Estuary. Inspired, the chef creates his version of a Greek ‘Horta’ pie with foraged greens. 6.00am Good Morning Britain 9.00 Lorraine Entertainment, current affairs and fashion news, as well as showbiz stories and celebrity gossip. Presented by Lorraine Kelly. 10.00 This Morning Daily magazine, featuring a mix of celebrity chat, showbusiness news, lifestyle features, topical discussion, health and beauty advice and more. Including Local Weather. 12.30pm Loose Women Celebrity interviews and topical debate. 1.30 ITV News; Weather 1.55 Regional News; Weather 2.00 Dickinson’s Real Deal David sets up the dealer’s den in Middlesbrough, where Stewart Hofgartner dips deep into his pocket for an ink stand. 3.00 Lingo Quiz show. 3.59 Regional Weather 4.00 Tipping Point Quiz show, hosted by Ben Shephard. 5.00 The Chase Quiz show, hosted by Bradley Walsh. 6.00 Regional News; Weather 6.30 ITV Evening News; Weather 6.05am Countdown (R) 6.45 Cheers Double bill. (R) 7.35 Everybody Loves Raymond Triple bill of the sitcom. (R) 9.00 Frasier Triple bill. (R) 10.30 Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares USA (R) 11.25 Channel 4 News Summary 11.30 Sun, Sea and Selling Houses A special needs teacher seeks a holiday home in southern Spain. (R) 12.30pm Steph’s Packed Lunch 2.10 Countdown With Prue Leith. 3.00 A Place in the Sun Marian and Donald seek their dream holiday home in Almunecar. 4.00 A New Life in the Sun The season reaches its end for the intrepid expats. 5.00 Junior Bake Off The bakers fashion French patisseries to look like host Harry Hill. 6.00 The Simpsons Moe is heckled for not having any friends. (R) 6.30 Hollyoaks Nancy questions whether Maya was behind the tragedy, and James is out for vengeance and demands answers from DS Cohen. (R) 6.00am Milkshake! Children’s TV. 9.15 Jeremy Vine Discussion. 11.15 Shoplifters & Scammers: At War with the Law 12.15pm 5 News at Lunchtime 12.20 Nightmare Tenants, Slum Landlords A landlady gets a shock when she finally gains access to her property. (R) 1.15 Home and Away Evidence continues to stack up against a mortified Felicity. 1.45 Neighbours See 6.00pm. 2.20 FILM Mystery 101: Words Can Kill (2019, PG) Premiere. When a guest at the college book festival is found dead, Amy and Travis clash after he chooses an unlikely suspect to arrest for murder. Thriller, starring Jill Wagner. ★★ 4.00 Rich Holiday, Poor Holiday Two friends trade vacation with an East Lothian family. (R) 5.00 5 News at 5 Headlines. 6.00 Neighbours Toadie discovers the jelly shot that was given to Nell was full of vodka. (R) 6.30 Winter Road Rescue Following RAC patrol crews. 7 8 9 10 11 12 midnight 10.35pm, The Graham Norton Show: Cate Blanchett 7.00 The One Show Alex Jones and Ronan Keating present. 7.30 Question of Sport With footballer Jill Scott, World Snooker Championship finalist Kyren Wilson, Olympian Kelly Sotherton, and netball champion Eboni Usoro-Brown. 8.00 Would I Lie to You? Guest players Angellica Bell, Bob Mortimer, Suggs and Holly Willoughby join the regulars for the panel show. 8.30 EastEnders Mick gets help from an unlikely source, while Phil lashes out at Isaac. 9.00 Death in Paradise The arrival of a long-lost brother to a family-run golf club culminates in a body being retrieved from the course. A prime suspect with an alibi leaves the team of detectives with an impenetrable conundrum. 10.00 BBC News at Ten 10.25 Regional News; Weather 10.35 The Graham Norton Show Guests include Cate Blanchett, Ant and Dec, and Ricky Gervais. Plus, Elvis Costello & the Imposters perform Paint the Red Rose Blue. 11.25 FILM Mum’s List (2016, 12) Young couple Kate and Singe’s lives are turned upside down when Kate is diagnosed with an incurable breast cancer. Over the course of her final few months, she creates a list – writing her thoughts and memories down to help the man she loved create the best life possible for their two sons. Drama based on the book by St John Greene, starring Rafe Spall and Emilia Fox. ★★★★ 1.00am Weather for the Week Ahead 1.05-6.00am BBC News 9pm, QI XL: Sandi Toksvig 7.00 LIVE Snooker: The Masters Barry Hawkins v Mark Selby. The opening frames of the fourth and concluding quarter-final. With commentary by Steve Davis, Dennis Taylor, Stephen Hendry, John Parrott and John Virgo. 8.00 Monty Don’s Adriatic Gardens The presenter begins the latest leg in the city of Trieste, close to Croatia. He visits a garden first created by an obsessive Royal plantsman more than 150 years ago, and now being carefully restored. 9.00 QI XL Extended version of the quiz in which Sandi Toksvig invites you to enjoy a QI smorgasbord with Jen Brister, Jimmy Carr, Chris McCausland and Alan Davies. 9.45 Live at the Apollo Loyiso Gola introduces fellow comedians Scott Bennett and Helen Bauer to the stage of the legendary Hammersmith venue recorded before a packed house. (R) 10.30 Newsnight Faisal Islam shares the news and current affairs which incorporates interviews from around the globe. 11.05 Snooker: The Masters Barry Hawkins v Mark Selby. The concluding quarter-final. 11.55 Snooker: The Masters – Extra Judd Trump v Kyren Wilson. A chance to see the best bits from the third quarterfinal at Alexandra Palace. 1.55am Sign Zone: The NHS vs Covid: The Fight Goes On – Panorama (R) 2.25 Sign Zone: Inside Dubai: Playground of the Rich. Documentary focusing on aspirational Brits choosing to live and work in Dubai, revealing how they have changed over its 50-year history. (R) 3.25-6.40am This Is BBC Two 5pm, The Chase: Bradley Walsh 7.00 Emmerdale The villagers are left feeling shocked, and some are tortured by recent events. 7.30 Coronation Street While Joseph’s family fears the worst, Hope also goes missing. Summer learns she is the victim of upskirting, and Tim swears Peter to secrecy about his health. 8.30 Midsomer Murders DCI Barnaby and DS Winter discover a body surrounded by rabbits that have escaped from a local pet show, after someone deliberately freed them from their cages. At the crime scene, DCI Barnaby and DS Winter discover that the victim died from a stab wound to the neck, and theorise that the murderer might be a competitor sabotaging the Belville Small Pet Show, and question the Best in Show defending champion Timothy Benson. The pair must work out if this is a sign of rivalry taken too far, or something darker. Drama, starring Neil Dudgeon. (R) 10.20 ITV News; Weather 10.50 Regional News; Weather 11.05 FILM The Bourne Supremacy (2004, 12) The assassin is living in hiding, until his former employers come after him again and murder his girlfriend. A CIA operation has ended in disaster, and those responsible intend to implicate Bourne. As he tries to evade the hitmen, he also struggles to piece together his past. Action thriller sequel, starring Matt Damon. ★★★★ 12.55am Home Shopping 3.00 Moneyball (R) 3.50 Unwind with ITV 5.05-6.00am Lingo. Gameshow. (R) 8pm, Amazing Spaces: George Clarke 7.00 Channel 4 News A round-up of the latest headlines, in-depth interviews and analysis of political developments and current affairs. Plus, the day’s leading sports stories and up-to-theminute weather reports. 8.00 George Clarke’s Amazing Spaces A circus show van is converted into a home, while on the Isle of Wight, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang gets an extension. Plus, George visits a Moroccan oasis in the heart of the Cotswolds. 9.00 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown Jimmy Carr hosts, as Jack Dee and Tom Allen take on Jon Richardson and Judi Love. Dr John Cooper Clarke is in Dictionary Corner. Rachel Riley and Susie Dent are on hand to adjudicate. 10.00 One Night in Legoland Alex Brooker and Josh Widdicombe are joined by Jon Richardson and Lucy Beaumont, as they experience the joy of spending an access-all-areas night in Legoland. Last in series. 11.05 First Dates Fiona finds herself paired with Rakim, ex-soldier Tristan meets beach-loving Ema, Lewis, who suffers from narcolepsy, is partnered with DJ Thom and Jessica is introduced to fellow northerner and pub-lover Ryan. (R) 12.05am FILM Super 8 (2011, 12) A group of children witnesses an alien creature escaping from a train crash. Sci-fi thriller, with Joel Courtney. ★★★★ 2.00 Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares USA (R) 2.45 Come Dine with Me (R) 4.55 Mend It for Money (R) 5.50- 6.00am Kirstie’s House of Craft (R) 8pm, Coastal Britain: Kate Humble 7.00 My Cornwall with Fern Britton Part one of two. The presenter embarks on a personal quest to understand what makes the county she loves so uniquely captivating. Fern Britton’s begins in Looe, her childhood holiday resort. (R) 8.00 Kate Humble’s Coastal Britain Kate’s starting point for the latest leg is the village of Alnmouth, once a leading grain port in the 18th century. Today it’s known for its colourful houses and a gentle sweep of sandy beach. 9.00 New York: World’s Busiest City A look at the vast networks of services that support the city, including food supply, sanitation and transport. Grand Central Station’s head usher Arrian is among the people featured. 10.00 Britain’s Favourite 80s Hits A look at some of the most popular songs of the decade, an era when Wham!, Frankie Goes to Hollywood and Kylie made their debuts. It was also a time when Band Aid attempted to Feed the World with their huge ensemble cast of singers, and Stock Aitken and Waterman-related acts dominated the charts. The Human League, Culture Club, Duran Duran, and Adam and the Ants also enjoyed plenty of Top 40 success. 12.05am 70s Greatest Disco Hits. The most popular disco tracks of the era, beginning in 1977. 1.05 The 21.co.uk Live Casino Show 3.00 Entertainment News on 5 3.05 Nightmare Tenants, Slum Landlords (R) 3.55 Now That’s Funny! (R) 4.45 Wildlife SOS (R) 5.35-6.00am House Doctor (R)

DX1ST Daily Express Friday, January 14, 2022 39 Freeview 6 Freeview 27 ITV2 ITVBe 6.00am Secret Crush 7.00 The Ellen DeGeneres Show 8.00 You’ve Been Framed! Gold 9.00 The Cabins 10.00 Dress to Impress 11.00 Secret Crush 12.00noon Supermarket Sweep 1.00 Tipping Point: Lucky Stars 2.00 Family Fortunes 3.00 The Ellen DeGeneres Show. With JB Smoove. 4.00 The Cabins 5.00 You’ve Been Framed! 6.00 Celebrity Catchphrase Gameshow. 7.00 Superstore Double bill of comedy. 8.00 Bob’s Burgers Animated double bill. 9.00 The Cabins One dater receives a surprise, while for one couple the intensity of emotions has the potential to boil over. 10.00 Family Guy Triple bill of fun. 11.30 American Dad! Francine finds herself having a sexual dream about Jeff. 12.00m’t American Dad! 12.25 Bob’s Burgers: double bill 1.25 Superstore 2.20 The Emily Atack Show. Comedy. 3.00 Totally Bonkers Guinness World Records 3.30-6.00am Teleshopping Dave E4 Freeview 19 6.00am Teleshopping 7.10 Last Stop Garage 7.35 Eddie Eats America 8.00 Timber Kings 9.00 Storage Hunters UK 10.00 American Pickers 11.00 Secrets of the Supercars 12.00noon Top Gear: Ambitious but Rubbish 1.00 Border Force: America’s Gatekeepers 2.00 World’s Most Dangerous Roads 3.00 Rick Stein’s Road to Mexico 4.00 Top Gear 5.00 Rick Stein’s Road to Mexico 6.00 Taskmaster Comedy gameshow. 7.00 Whose Line Is It Anyway? USA 8.00 Travel Man: 48 Hours in Bergen Richard Ayoade travels with Lou Sanders. 8.30 Travel Man: 48 Hours in Madrid 9.00 Have I Got a Bit More 2019 News for You Extended compilation. 10.00 QI XL Extended edition. 11.00 Taskmaster Comedy gameshow. 12.00m’t Mock the Week 12.40 QI XL 1.40 Live at the Apollo 2.45 Whose Line Is It Anyway? USA 3.35 Eddie Eats America 4.00-6.00am Teleshopping 6.00am Hollyoaks 7.25 Celebrity Coach Trip 8.30 Junior Bake Off 9.30 How I Met Your Mother 10.00 The Big Bang Theory 11.00 The Goldbergs 12.00noon Brooklyn Nine-Nine 1.00 The Big Bang Theory: four episodes 3.00 The Goldbergs 4.00 Brooklyn Nine-Nine 5.00 The Big Bang Theory: double bill 6.00 The Big Bang Theory Double bill. 7.00 Hollyoaks Sienna goes on a mission after receiving some bad news. 7.30 The Big Bang Theory An invitation to a physics conference causes conflict. 8.00 Celebrity Coach Trip Poor timekeeping sets Brendan on the warpath. 9.00 Celebrity Gogglebox 2021 Memorable moments of the year. 10.00 Naked Attraction Double bill. 12.10am First Dates 1.15 Below Deck: Mediterranean 2.10 Celebrity Coach Trip 3.05 Alex Rider. Starring Otto Farrant. 4.00 Don’t Tell the Bride 4.55 How I Met Your Mother 5.20-6.00am Mike & Molly WALES As BBC1 except: 1.30-1.45pm BBC Wales Today 6.30-7.00 BBC Wales Today 7.30-8.00 Kiri’s TV Flashback. Kiri Pritchard- McLean unearths entertaining moments in Welsh TV. 10.25-10.30pm BBC Wales Today MERIDIAN As ITV except: 1.55-2.00pm ITV News Meridian 6.00-6.30 ITV News Meridian 10.50-11.05pm ITV News Meridian CENTRAL As ITV except: 1.55-2.00pm ITV News Central 6.00-6.30 ITV News Central 10.50-11.05pm ITV News Central ITV WALES As ITV except: 1.55-2.00pm ITV News Cymru Wales 6.00-6.30 ITV News Wales at Six 10.50-11.05pm ITV News Cymru Wales WEST As ITV except: 1.55-2.00pm ITV News West Country 6.00-6.30 ITV News West Country 10.50-11.05pm ITV News West Country ANGLIA As ITV except: 1.55-2.00pm ITV News Anglia 6.00-6.30 ITV News Anglia 10.50-11.05pm ITV News Anglia WESTCOUNTRY As ITV except: 1.55-2.00pm ITV News West Country. The latest news reports. 6.00-6.30 ITV News West Country 10.50-11.05pm ITV News West Country Variations & S4C 7.00am The Real Housewives of Cheshire 8.00 Buying and Selling 9.00 LittleBe 12.00noon Unboxed 12.30 The Real Housewives of Atlanta 1.25 The Real Housewives of Cheshire 2.25 The Only Way Is Essex 3.10 Little Women: LA 4.05 The Real Housewives of New York City 5.00 The Real Housewives of New Jersey 6.00 Making It Home with Kortney & Dave 7.00 Buying and Selling A single mum and her family search for a large house. 8.00 Dinner Date Mared from London chooses three blind dates based on menus created by five potential partners. 9.00 Botched Double bill. Dr Nassif attempts to fix a former boxer’s nose; medic Terry Dubrow tries to pump up a body builder. 11.00 Atlanta Plastic Medic Aisha McKnight-Baron undertakes an important surgery for her first transgender patient. 11.55 The Only Way Is Essex Reality. 12.40am Unwind with ITV. Relaxation and reflection. 1.00-7.00am Teleshopping Drama More4 Freeview 20 6.00am Teleshopping 7.35 A Place to Call Home 8.35 The Bill 9.35 Classic Holby City 10.55 Classic Casualty 12.00noon The Bill 1.00 Classic EastEnders 2.20 Tenko 3.20 All Creatures Great and Small 4.20 Peak Practice. Sam tries to reunite a family. 5.20 Keeping Up Appearances 6.00 Are You Being Served? Mr Rumbold installs CCTV to tackle shoplifting. 6.40 Last of the Summer Wine Double bill. 8.00 The Last Detective Obstinate traditionalist Detective ‘Dangerous’ Davies is forced to prove his mettle when a routine inquiry uncovers an unsolved murder case. Peter Davison stars. 10.10 New Tricks The unsolved murder of a pornographer is reopened when his daughter proves he was not her father. 11.20 Judge John Deed A couple believe a mobile phone mast is to blame for their illnesses and try to sue the council. 1.20am Kavanagh QC 2.50 Where the Heart Is 4.00-6.00am Teleshopping Freeview 13 Freeview 18 8.55am Food Unwrapped 9.15 A Place in the Sun 11.05 Find It, Fix It, Flog It 1.05pm Building the Dream 2.10 Four in a Bed 4.55 Find It, Fix It, Flog It 6.40 Escape to the Chateau Dick and Angel transform an old outbuilding into a supersized workshop for bigger jobs. 7.45 The Great Pottery Throw Down The 11 remaining potters hand-build a pendulum wall clock and face a surprise blindfold challenge. Hosted by Ellie Taylor. 9.00 NEW Dark Woods The sister of a top Hamburg police officer disappears from her home, near where gruesome double murders have taken place. Drama, starring Matthias Brandt. In German. 11.00 24 Hours in A&E A carpenter is rushed to St George’s after partially severing his hand with a power saw. 12.00m’t Emergency Helicopter Medics. A teenager falls from a coastal cliff. 1.05 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown 2.05 24 Hours in A&E 3.15-3.40am Father Ted S4C 6.00am Cyw 12.00noon Newyddion S4C a’r Tywydd 12.05pm Adre 12.30 Heno 1.00 Nyrsys 1.30 Sain Ffagan 2.00 Newyddion S4C a’r Tywydd 2.05 Prynhawn Da 3.00 Newyddion S4C a’r Tywydd 3.05 Yn y Ffram 4.00 Awr Fawr 5.00 Stwnsh 6.00 Codi Hwyl. Dilwyn Morgan and John Pierce Jones steer the ship eastwards across Carmarthen Bay, where they are accompanied by some unexpected guests. 6.30 Cwpwrdd Epic Chris. Caernarfon cook Chris Roberts shares some of his all-time favourite recipes, including ham and parsley sauce, spicy beef barbecue wraps, 10-minute chilli and a triple cheeseburger. 7.00 Heno. Magazine programme. 7.30 Newyddion S4C a’r Tywydd 7.55 LIVE Rygbi Ewrop. Cardiff v Harlequins (kick-off 8.00pm). Coverage of the Heineken European Champions Cup match at the Arms Park. 10.00 Siop Siarad Owain. With music by Steffan Rhys Williams, and special guests Gareth Edwards and his wife Maureen. Plus, a chance to celebrate unsung heroes. 10.35-11.40pm Enid a Lucy. Life continues to be challenging for Lucy. The atmosphere at the salon becomes intimidating, and one horrific incident reveals a dark secret. BBC4 ONLY £4.95 WORTH OVER £140! Free P&P 5 FULL-SIZE PRODUCTS! Brought to you by Freeview 9 7.00pm Top of the Pops: 1980 Big Hits Performances from 1980. 7.15 The Shirley Bassey Show With Johnny Nash and Gilbert O’Sullivan. 8.00 TOTP: 1992 Double bill. Featuring The Pasadenas, Kicks Like a Mule, James and Manic Street Preachers; Color Me Badd, Michael Jackson, Ride and Bryan Adams. 9.00 FILM The Rolling Stones: Crossfire Hurricane (2012, 12) The group’s journey from bluesobsessed teenagers in the early 1960s to rock royalty. ★★★★ 10.50 The Rolling Stones: Totally Stripped Documentary about the making of the band’s 1995 album Stripped, featuring rehearsal footage. 12.25am The Rolling Stones at the BBC. From the archives. 1.10 TOTP: 1992 1.40 TOTP: 1992 2.10 The Shirley Bassey Show 2.50-3.05am Top of the Pops: 1980 Big Hits 5 USA 6.00am TJC 9.00 Murder, She Wrote 10.00 NCIS 12.00noon Grey’s Anatomy 3.00 Law & Order 6.00 NCIS Four episodes. An accident at a Navy bombing range brings to light an area used by the Mafia to dump bodies; Gibbs and the team find themselves in deep trouble with the FBI as they try to protect a veteran naval officer who has caught the attention of an al-Qaeda cell; a Marine veteran confesses to murder; an ensign is arrested following the death of a Navy commander. 10.00 Law & Order: Special Victims Unit Triple bill. A six-year-old boy is shot dead; the remains of a missing boy are found; Stabler interrogates a suspected child rapist. 12.55am Law & Order: Special Victims Unit 1.50 Law & Order: Criminal Intent 3.35 Criminals: Caught on Camera 4.00-6.00am Teleshopping A MUST-HAVE MONTHLY SUBSCRIPTION CURATED BY OK! BEAUTY EDITORS. SUBSCRIBE TODAY AND TRY YOUR FIRST BOX FOR JUST £4.95* SUBSCRIBE AND SAVE TODAY AT OKBEAUTYBOX.CO.UK *£4.95 offer is only available to new customers. OK! Beauty Box subscription is £15 per month thereafter. Sky Arts Freeview 21 F’view 11 6.00am Darbar Festival 2017 7.00 La Boheme on Sydney Harbour 9.05 Tales of the Unexpected 10.00 Discovering: Dean Martin 11.00 Landmark 12.00noon Raphael: Revealed 1.00 Tales of the Unexpected 2.00 Discovering: Peter Sellers 3.00 Celebrity Portrait Artist of the Year 4.00 Smokey Robinson: Music Icons. The soul singer’s life. 4.30 Video Killed the Radio Star 5.00 Tales of the Unexpected 6.00 Discovering: Robert Shaw 7.00 The British Invasion 8.00 The Great Songwriters 9.00 The Big Beat: Fats Domino and the Birth of Rock ’n’ Roll The influence of the American pianist. 11.00 The Art of Drumming 12.15am Classic Artists: Jethro Tull 2.40 Discovering: Black Sabbath 3.10 Discovering: Jethro Tull 3.40 Classic Albums 5.00-9.00am Auction

40 Daily Express Friday, January 14, 2022 Sport Sky Sports Main Event 6.00am LIVE Golf The Australian PGA Championship. Action from day two. 6.30 Sky Sports News 7.00 Good Morning Sports Fans. Headlines. 7.30 Early Kick-Off 8.00 LIVE Test Cricket South Africa v India. 4.00pm LIVE AFCON Morocco v Comoros (kick-off 4.00pm). In Yaounde, Cameroon. 6.00 The F1 Show. The latest news. 7.00 LIVE FNF Brighton & Hove Albion v Crystal Palace (kick-off 8.00pm). At AMEX Stadium. 10.30 LIVE PGA Tour Golf The Sony Open in Hawaii. Coverage of the featured groups. 12.00m’t LIVE PGA Tour Golf The Sony Open in Hawaii. Coverage of the second day. 3.30-6.00am LIVE Golf The Australian PGA Championship. Coverage of the third day. Sky Sports Cricket 6.00am Captain’s Log 7.00 Test Cricket 8.00 LIVE Test Cricket South Africa v India. 4.00pm LIVE ICC Under-19s World Cup Cricket West Indies v Australia. A Group D match. 10.00 Test Cricket 11.00 Talking Cricket 11.30 LIVE Big Bash League Adelaide Strikers v Melbourne Stars at Adelaide Oval. 3.00am Test Cricket 4.00 Captain’s Log 5.00-6.00am Best of ICC WT20 Sky Sports Football 6.00am EFL Cup Highlights 6.30 EFL Greatest Games 6.45 SPFL Greatest Games 7.00 Football’s Greatest Players 7.30 Football Countdowns 8.00 Football Years 8.30 EFL Greatest Games 9.00 SPFL Greatest Games 9.30 Football’s Greatest Players 10.00 Football Countdowns 10.30 Football Years 11.00 EFL Play Off Finals C’Ship 13/14 12.00noon EFL Greatest Games 12.45 One2Eleven. Giovanni Van Bronckhorst. 12.55 LIVE AFCON Senegal v Guinea (kick-off 1.00pm). At Kouekong Stadium in Bafoussam. 3.00 Bundesliga Weekly 3.30 EFL Greatest Games 3.45 One2Eleven. Rui Costa. 3.55 LIVE AFCON Morocco v Comoros (kick-off 4.00pm). Coverage of the Group C match. 6.00 EFL Cup Highlights 6.30 EFL Greatest Games 6.45 One2Eleven. Djibril Cisse. 6.55 LIVE AFCON Gabon v Ghana (kick-off 7.00pm). At Stade Ahmadou Ahidjo. 9.00 AFCON 5.00-6.00am EFL Greatest Games BT Sport 1 6.00am LIVE The Ashes Continued coverage of Australia v England on the first day of the Fifth and Final Test, taking place in Hobart. 12.00noon Ashes Daily 12.45 The Ashes 2.15 One Day International Cricket 3.15 The Ashes Reload 3.30 Extreme E – Electric Odyssey 4.00 Spanish Women’s Primera Division 5.00 DIY Pundit 5.30 Premier League Match Pack 6.00 Premier League Preview 6.30 Scottish Football Extra 7.00 BT Sport Reload 7.15 Ligue 1 Show 7.45 LIVE Ligue 1 Nice v Nantes (kick-off 8.00pm). 10.00 WWE NXT UK 11.00 WWE NXT Highlights 12.00m’t WWE SmackDown Highlights 1.00 LIVE WWE Friday Night SmackDown The latest wrestling action from the States. 3.00 Heineken Champions Cup 4.00-6.00am LIVE AFLW Collingwood v St Kilda (bounce-up 4.10am). From Victoria Park. BT Sport 2 9.00am WWE NXT Highlights 10.00 ESPN FC 10.30 Premier League Match Pack 11.00 Ligue 1 Show 11.30 Serie A – Full Impact 12.00noon ESPN FC 12.30 Spanish Super Cup 2.00 DIY Pundit 2.30 Premier League World 3.00 Test Cricket Highlights 5.00 The Ashes 6.30 Ashes Daily. Day one’s best action. 7.15 LIVE Heineken Champions Cup Cardiff v Harlequins (kick-off 8.00pm). 10.15 Rugby Town 10.45 Rugby Town 11.15 Scottish Football Extra 11.45 UFC Connected 12.15am Ligue 1 1.15 The Ashes 2.45 Ashes Daily 3.30-12.00noon LIVE The Ashes Australia v England. Day two of the final Test in Hobart. Eurosport 1 6.00am Alpine Skiing 7.00 Masters Snooker 9.00 Hall of Fame: Pyeongchang 9.30 Freestyle Skiing. The World Cup meeting from Deer Valley. 10.30 LIVE ATP Tennis The Adelaide International. 12.30pm Snooker 147s. The 2019 Welsh Open. 12.45 LIVE Masters Snooker Judd Trump v Kyren Wilson. Coverage of the third quarter-final. 4.30 Snooker 147s. Footage of maximum breaks. 4.55 LIVE Ski Jumping Coverage of the World Cup meeting in Zakopane, Poland. 6.00 Masters Snooker. Action from day six. 6.45 LIVE Masters Snooker Barry Hawkins v Mark Selby. Coverage of the fourth quarter-final. 10.30 Dakar Rally 11.30 Hall of Fame: Pyeongchang 12.05am Tennis: Best of the Australian Open 2021 1.00 Alpine Skiing 2.00 Masters Snooker 4.00 Dakar Rally 5.00-6.05am Alpine Skiing BEST OF THE REST – LIVE SPORT 7.00-9.30pm LIVE British Basketball Plymouth Raiders v Surrey Scorchers. (Sky Sports Arena) 6.00am LIVE Golf The Australian PGA Championship. (Sky Sports Golf) 5.00pm LIVE PGA Tour Golf Action from the Sony Open in Hawaii. (Sky Sports Golf) 3.30-6.00am LIVE Golf The Australian PGA Championship. (Sky Sports Golf) ITV3 Freeview 10 6.00am Classic Coronation Street 7.30 Classic Emmerdale 8.05 On the Buses 9.05 The Royal 11.20 Heartbeat 1.30pm Classic Emmerdale 2.00 Classic Coronation Street 3.35 Maigret 6.00 Heartbeat 8.00 Doc Martin 10.05 Foyle’s War 12.10am The Royal 2.15-2.30am Unwind with ITV ITV4 Freeview 25 6.00am The Best of the 80s 6.10 The Saint 7.00 The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes 8.00 The Avengers 9.10 The Sweeney 10.15 Minder 11.20 The Saint 12.30pm The Big Fish Off 1.30 The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes 2.40 The Avengers 3.45 The Sweeney 4.55 Minder 6.00 The Big Fish Off 7.00 The Celebrity Chase 8.00 FILM GoldenEye (1995/12) Spy adventure, with Pierce Brosnan. ★★★★ 10.40 All Elite Wrestling: Dynamite 12.40am The Sweeney 1.45 Minder 2.35-3.00am Unwind with ITV 5STAR Freeview 31 8.00am Entertainment News on 5 8.10 When Rich Kids Go Skint 9.00 Rich Holiday, Poor Holiday 10.00 Judge Judy 11.55 Traffic Cops 2.00pm Police Interceptors 5.00 Shoplifters & Scammers: At War with the Law 6.00 Home and Away 7.00 Shoplifters & Scammers: At War with the Law 8.00 Britain’s Parking Hell 9.00 FILM The Hunt for Red October (1990/PG) Cold War thriller, starring Sean Connery. ★★★★ 11.50 FILM Inferno (2016/12) ★★★ 2.15 999: Criminals Caught on Camera 3.15-4.00am Judge Judy Really Freeview 17 6.00am Fantasy Homes by the Sea 7.00 Cruise TV with LoveitBookit 8.00 Homes Under the Hammer 10.00 Antiques Road Trip 12.00noon Money for Nothing 1.00 A Place in the Sun 2.00 Animal Cops Houston 4.00 Pit Bulls & Parolees 5.00 Helicopter ER 6.00 Money for Nothing 7.00 Antiques Road Trip 9.00 These Woods Are Haunted 10.00 Destination Fear 11.00 Ghost Adventures 1.00am Ghost Nation 2.00 Teleshopping 4.00-6.00am Animal Cops Houston Paramount Freeview 32 9.00am Traffic Cops 11.00 Trucking Hell 12.00noon FILM Hangman’s Knot (1952/ PG) ★★★ 1.45 FILM Arrowhead (1953/U) Western, starring Charlton Heston. ★★ 4.00 Trucking Hell 5.00 Traffic Cops 7.00 Police Interceptors 8.00 Traffic Cops 9.00 Ultimate Police Interceptors 10.00 Traffic Cops 11.00 Fights, Camera, Action! 12.00m’t Police Raids: Caught by Surprise 1.00 Criminals: Caught on Camera 2.00 Criminals: Caught on Camera 3.00 Airport 24/7: Thailand 3.50 Outrageous Stunts 4.35-5.00am Car Thieves & Thugs: Caught on Camera Pick Freeview 35 7.00am Highway Patrol 8.00 Motorway Patrol 9.00 Police Force: Australia 10.00 Police Ten 7 11.00 Highway Cops 12.00noon Nothing to Declare 1.00 Border Patrol 2.00 Border Security: Australia’s Front Line 3.00 Nothing to Declare 4.00 Road Wars 5.00 Star Trek: The Next Generation 6.00 Quantum Leap 7.00 Star Trek: Deep Space Nine 8.00 NCIS: Los Angeles 9.00 Killer Families 10.00 Fringe 11.00 World’s Most Evil Killers 12.00m’t BBC Radio 1 97.6-99.8MHz 6.33am Best New Pop 7.00 Breakfast with Greg James 10.00 Anthems 10.32 Anthems 11.02 Dean McCullough 12.45pm Newsbeat 1.00 Matt and Mollie 3.00 Party Anthems 4.00 The Official Chart on Radio 1 with Scott Mills 5.45 Newsbeat 6.00 Dance Party with Danny Howard 8.00 Radio 1’s Future Dance with Sarah Story 10.00 Pete Tong 12.00m’t Essential Mix 2.00 Dance Presents 3.00 Danny Howard 4.00 Wind Down Presents 5.00-6.00am Relax BBC Radio 2 88-91MHz 6.30am Zoe Ball 9.30 Ken Bruce 12.00noon Tina Daheley 2.00 Steve Wright 4.15 Steve Wright in the Afternoon 5.00 Sara Cox 7.00 Tony Blackburn’s Golden Hour 8.00 Sounds of the 80s with Gary Davies 10.00 Sounds of the 90s with Fearne Cotton 12.00m’t Romesh Ranganathan 1.00 The Craig Charles House Party 2.30 The Craig Charles House Party Mixtape 3.00 My Life in a Mixtape 4.00 Sophie Ellis-Bextor 5.00-6.00am Radio 2 in Concert BBC Radio 3 90.2-92.4MHz 6.30am Breakfast 9.00 Essential Classics 12.00noon Composer of the Week 1.00 Concert 2.00 Afternoon Concert 4.30 The Listening Service 5.00 In Tune 7.00 In Tune Mixtape 7.30 Radio 3 in Concert 10.00 The Verb 10.45 The Essay 11.00 Late Junction 1.00am Piano Flow with Tokio Myers 2.00 Gameplay with Baby Queen 3.00-7.00am Through the Night DX1ST Entertainment & Factual NCIS: Los Angeles 1.00 Murders That Shocked the Nation 2.00 Nothing to Declare 3.00 Border Patrol 4.00 Motorway Patrol 5.00-6.00am Police Force: Australia GOLD 7.30am Keeping Up Appearances 8.00 Are You Being Served? 8.40 Porridge 9.20 Last of the Summer Wine 10.40 Keeping Up Appearances 11.20 Dad’s Army 12.35pm Are You Being Served? 1.20 Porridge 2.00 Gavin & Stacey 2.40 Miranda 3.20 Keeping Up Appearances 4.00 Last of the Summer Wine 5.20 Porridge 6.00 Are You Being Served? 6.40 Dad’s Army 8.00 Gavin & Stacey 8.40 Miranda 9.20 Mrs Brown’s Boys 10.00 All Round to Mrs Brown’s 11.00 Not Going Out 11.40 Peep Show 12.55am Blackadder 2.55-4.00am Bridget & Eamon Yesterday Freeview 26 6.00am Impossible Engineering 8.00 Forbidden History 9.00 Abandoned Engineering 11.00 Fred Dibnah’s Age of Steam 12.00noon Great British Railway Journeys 2.00 Abandoned Engineering 4.00 WW2 – Frontlines 5.00 The World at War 6.00 Fred Dibnah’s Building of Britain 7.00 The Architecture The Railways Built 8.00 Great British Railway Journeys 9.00 Bangers and Cash 10.00 Open All Hours 12.00m’t Abandoned Engineering 1.00-3.00am Impossible Engineering Alibi 7.10am Murdoch Mysteries 9.00 Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries 10.00 Major Crimes 11.00 Rizzoli & Isles 12.00noon Hudson & Rex 1.00 Murdoch Mysteries 4.00 The Good Wife 5.00 Major Crimes 6.00 Hudson & Rex 7.00 Rizzoli & Isles 8.00 Father Brown. A murder is committed at the local army barracks. 9.00 My Life Is Murder 10.00 Whiskey Cavalier 11.00 The Good Wife 12.00m’t Briarpatch 1.00 Hudson & Rex 2.00-4.00am Harrow Sky Max 6.00am Grimm 8.00 Supergirl 9.00 DC’s Legends of Tomorrow 10.00 The Flash 11.00 NCIS: New Orleans 1.00pm Hawaii Five-0 2.00 MacGyver 3.00 DC’s Legends of Tomorrow 4.00 Supergirl 5.00 The Flash 6.00 Grimm 8.00 Flintoff: Lord of the Fries 9.00 A Discovery of Witches 10.00 Never Mind the Buzzcocks 11.30 Brassic 12.30am Save the Cinema: Behind the Curtain 1.30 Road Wars 2.00 Brit Cops: Frontline Crime UK 3.00 Hawaii Five-0 4.00 MacGyver 5.00-6.00am Send in the Dogs Radio A Discovery of Witches Sky Max, 9pm Diana (Teresa Palmer, left) and Matthew are shocked to see Jack Blackfriars. He was last seen in the 16th century as a human orphan, but is now an adult vampire. CHOICE Screenshot Radio 4, 7.15pm Guillermo del Toro’s follow-up to The Shape of Water, Nightmare Alley, is released next week. It is the director’s take on Edmund Goulding’s 1947 film of carnival hucksters, psychiatrists and betrayal. Ellen E Jones and Mark Kermode explore film noir and the connections sparked by both films. BBC Radio 4 FM 92.4-94.6MHz, LW 198kHz 6.00am (FM) Today 8.31 (LW) Parliament 9.00 (LW) Test Match Special 9.00 (FM) Desert Island Discs 9.45 (LW) Daily Service 9.45 (FM) Book of the Week 10.00 (LW) Test Match Special 10.00 (FM) Woman’s Hour 10.30 (LW) Woman’s Hour 11.00 Fungi 11.30 The Train at Platform 4 12.00noon News 12.01 (LW) Shipping 12.04 Paradise 12.18 You and Yours 1.00 The World at One 1.45 Past Forward 2.00 The Archers 2.15 Drama 2.45 New Year Solutions 3.00 Gardeners’ Question Time 3.45 The Poet and the Echo 4.00 Last Word 4.30 More or Less 5.00 PM 5.54 (LW) Shipping 6.00 News 6.30 The News Quiz 7.00 Past Forward 7.15 Screenshot 8.00 Any Questions? 8.50 A Point of View 9.00 The Northern Bank Job 10.00 The World Tonight 10.45 Book at Bedtime 11.00 Great Lives 11.30 Today in Parliament 12.00m’t News 12.30 Book of Sky Atlantic 6.00am The British 7.00 CSI: Crime Scene Investigation 8.00 Six Feet Under 10.15 The Wire 12.30pm Game of Thrones 1.35 In Treatment 3.30 Six Feet Under 5.45 The Wire 7.55 Game of Thrones 9.00 Succession 11.10 Dexter: New Blood. Dexter and Harrison try to live a normal life. 12.15am Billions 3.30 In Treatment 4.05-6.00am Richard E Grant’s Hotel Secrets Sky Witness 6.00am Nothing to Declare 8.00 Border Patrol 9.00 Send in the Dogs 10.00 Law & Order 11.00 CSI: Crime Scene Investigation 12.00noon Grey’s Anatomy 1.00 Blue Bloods 3.00 Air Ambulance ER 4.00 Stop, Search, Seize 5.00 Nothing to Declare 7.00 Paramedics 8.00 NEW Chicago Med. Will Halstead returns to Med to help Goodwin with a secret investigation. 9.00 NEW Chicago Fire. The firefighters deal with the aftermath of the capsized boat rescue. 10.00 NEW Chicago PD. As Burgess fights for her life, Sam Miller is desperate to find her son’s killer. 11.00 Law & Order: Special Victims Unit 12.00m’t FBI 1.00 Criminal Minds 2.00 The Equalizer 3.00 CSI: Crime Scene Investigation 4.00 Road Wars 5.00-6.00am Brit Cops: Law & Disorder Sky Comedy 8.00am Parks and Recreation 9.00 The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air 10.00 Will & Grace 11.30 The Office (US) 12.30pm Curb Your Enthusiasm 1.45 Entourage 3.00 Modern Family 4.00 The Office (US) 5.00 30 Rock 5.30 The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air 6.30 Will & Grace 8.00 Parks and Recreation 9.00 Trollied 10.00 Will & Grace 11.30 Sex and the City 12.00m’t The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon 1.00 How to Make It in America 2.00 Curb Your Enthusiasm 3.20 Entourage 4.30-5.00am 30 Rock Discovery 6.00am Wheeler Dealers 7.00 Deadliest Catch 8.00 Homestead Rescue: Raney Ranch 9.00 Alaska: The Last Frontier 10.00 Fast N’ Loud Revved Up 11.00 Wheeler Dealers 12.00noon Misfit Garage 1.00 Gold Rush 3.00 Naked and Afraid: Alone 4.00 Building Off the Grid 5.00 Wheeler Dealers 6.00 Fast N’ Loud 7.00 Gold Rush 9.00 The Alaska Triangle 10.00 Legendary Locations 11.00 Combat Dealers 12.00m’t The Alaska Triangle 1.00 Legendary Locations 2.00 Gold Divers 3.00 Gold Rush 4.00 Gold Rush: White Water 4.50 Wheeler Dealers 5.40-6.00am How It’s Made National Geographic 8.00am Food Factory 9.00 Megafactories 10.00 Superstructures: Engineering Marvels 11.00 Supercar Megabuild 12.00noon Ice Road Rescue 1.00 Wicked Tuna: North v South 2.00 Alaska: The Next Generation 3.00 Drain the Oceans 4.00 Air Crash Investigation 6.00 Car S.O.S 8.00 The Raising of the Costa Concordia 9.00 Ghost of the Minerva 10.00 USS Indianapolis: The Final Chapter 11.00 Air Crash Investigation 12.00m’t WW2: Hell Under the Sea 1.00 Nazi Megastructures: Battle Ready 2.00 Doing Hard Time: Vegas 3.00 Car S.O.S 4.00 Car S.O.S 5.00-5.30am Teleshopping the Week 12.48 Shipping 1.00 As BBC World Service 2.15 (LW) Test Match Special 5.20 Shipping 5.30 (LW) Test Match Special 5.30 (FM) News Briefing 5.43 (FM) Prayer 5.45-6.00am (FM) The Death of Nuance BBC Radio 5 Live 693/909kHz 6.00am 5 Live Breakfast 9.00 Nicky Campbell 11.00 Chiles on Friday 1.00pm Elis James and John Robins 3.00 Kermode and Mayo’s Film Review 5.00 5 Live Drive 7.00 5 Live Sport: The Friday Football Social 8.00 5 Live Sport 10.00 Mobeen Azhar 1.00am Jim Davis 5.00-6.00am 5 Live Boxing BBC Radio Wales FM: 94.6MHz 6.00am Breakfast with Oliver Hides 8.30 Dot Davies 11.00 Wynne Evans 2.00pm Eleri Sion 5.00 Wyre Davies 6.30 Radio Wales Arts Show 7.00 Radio Wales Sport 10.30 Friday Night H 12.30am As 5 Live 5.00-7.00am Vicki Blight Classic FM 100-102MHz 6.00am More Music Breakfast 9.00 Alexander Armstrong 12.00noon Anne-Marie Minhall 4.00 John Brunning 7.00 Smooth Classics 8.00 The Classic FM Concert 10.00 Smooth Classics 1.00am Katie Breathwick 4.00-7.00am Sam Pittis Absolute Radio 1215kHz 6.00am Dave Berry 10.00 Leona Graham 1.00pm Ben Burrell 4.00 Bush and Richie 7.00 Absolute 80s Greatest Hits 10.00 Sophie K 4.00-8.00am Ross Buchanan Movies Film4 11.00am Lonely Are the Brave (1962/PG) Western, starring Kirk Douglas. ★★★★ 1.10pm The Gentle Sex (1943/U) Drama, starring Joan Greenwood. ★★★ 3.00 Carry On Spying (1964/U) Comedy, starring Kenneth Williams. ★★★ 4.45 Man of the West (1958/12) Western, starring Gary Cooper. ★★★★ 6.50 Footloose (2011/PG) Drama, starring Kenny Wormald and Julianne Hough. ★★★ 9.00 The Girl in the Spider’s Web (2018/15) Thriller, starring Claire Foy. ★★★★ 11.15 The Last Witch Hunter (2015/12) Fantasy adventure, starring Vin Diesel. ★★ 1.20-3.40am Macbeth (2015/15) Shakespeare’s tragedy, starring Michael Fassbender and Marion Cotillard. ★★★★ Sky Cinema Premiere 7.25am Rock Dog 2: Rock Around The Park (2021/U) See 4.40am for details. ★★★ 9.05 The Croods: A New Age (2020/U) See 6.15pm for details. ★★★★ 10.55 Save the Cinema (2022/12) See 8.00pm for details. ★★★ 12.55pm A Quiet Place Part II (2020/15) See 10.00pm for details. ★★★★ 2.50 Naked Singularity (2021/15) Crime comedy drama, starring John Boyega. ★★★ 4.35 Land (2021/12) Drama, directed by and starring Robin Wright. ★★★★ 6.15 The Croods: A New Age (2020/U) Animated comedy sequel, with the voices of Nicolas Cage and Emma Stone. ★★★★ 8.00 Save the Cinema (2022/12) Drama telling the true story of Liz Evans from Carmarthen, south-west Wales, who started a campaign in the 1990s to save the town’s Lyric Cinema. Starring Samantha Morton. ★★★ 10.00 A Quiet Place Part II (2020/15) Horror sequel, starring John Krasinski. ★★★★ 11.45 Land (2021/12) See 4.35pm for details. ★★★★ 1.20am Naked Singularity (2021/15) See 2.50pm for details. ★★★ 3.00 The Obscure Life of the Grand Duke of Corsica (2021/15) Comedy drama, starring Timothy Spall and Peter Stormare. ★★★ 4.40-6.20am Rock Dog 2: Rock Around The Park (2021/U) Animated adventure. ★★★ Sky Cinema Drama 6.05pm Military Wives (2019/12) Comedy, starring Kristin Scott Thomas. ★★★ 8.00 Eat Pray Love (2010/15) Drama. A divorced woman goes on a journey around the world, hoping to find the inner peace she feels she has always lacked. 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42 Daily Express Friday, January 14, 2022 expressuk property By Deborah Stone The idea of moving to a retirement village appeals to more than half of over-55s in the UK. The trouble is, many are put off moving to one due to the fear of feeling old before their time, and there’s also the worry about service charge costs and isolation from the wider community. It’s a real dilemma and one of the reasons that only about 1 per cent of older Brits live in retirement communities compared to 5 per cent or more in America and Australia. The figures come from a survey by Clarke Willmott LLP, a national law firm that works with later living developers including Retirement Villages, Blue Cedar Homes and LifeStory Group. Clarke Willmott CEO Stephen Rosser argues the new breed of “modern, vibrant and fit-for-purpose” developments work for a range of ages but admits they “need a bit of a rebrand” to change public perception. Similarly Chris Fayers, director of Blue Cedar Homes, acknowledges retirement developments can be perceived as “too institutional or only for the very elderly”. But Blue Cedar Homes is different from average over-55s developers. It specialises in small developments such as The Millpool near Totnes in Devon, where five freehold houses and five apartments in Stoke Gabriel have communal gardens near the village mill pool, as well as private spaces and parking. One four-bedroom semi-detached house remains for sale at £575,000 and one two-bedroom ground-floor flat at £465,000 (01803 847979; marchandpetit.co.uk), with an annual service charge for estate DX1ST To advertise in this section 020 7098 2894 class.property@express.co.uk SITTING PRETTY: Active residents at The Vincent, such as Robin and Kay Crosse, centre and right, enjoy a spa, gym and hydrotherapy pool Not shy about retiring Travel Insurance Compare great value travel insurance! ✔ COVID-19 medical and cancellation cover ✔ Cover for all destinations* ✔ Unlimited emergency medical cover ✔ Zero Excess on selected policies ✔ UK call centre open 7 days a week Rated Excellent management including garden maintenance. This and similar age-restricted developments might suit somebody wanting a quiet life but possibly not those looking for on-site facilities and extra support. A communal lounge and on-site manager is becoming a minimum requirement for modern retirement communities, with the best offering facilities such as wellness centres, restaurants and bars. Kay and Robin Crosse moved to Lifestory Group’s The Vincent, Bristol – a later living development by its Pegasus brand that offers apartments in a restored 1886 mansion as well as contemporary flats in the communal grounds. It’s fair to say the couple, in their 70s, do not feel they live in an institutionalised development for the very elderly. Kay, a Team GB over-70s biathlete, regularly runs the 11 minutes from their home to her daughter’s front door and Robin enjoys cycling when the weather is good. They also have the use of The Vincent’s wellness spa, with its sauna, steam room and hydrotherapy pool. There’s a gym too and a stretch studio for yoga classes, as well as an on-site restaurant plus owners’ lounge. The Vincent is near Clifton Village and Clifton Downs, with prices from £375,000 up to £1,250,000 (0800 975 0170; lifestory. group) and for those who reserve before March 31 there are £12,000 downsizing packages available to help towards the cost of moving. Service charges also apply. If you’re tempted but not convinced by the idea of a retirement village many, including The Vincent, offer try-before-youbuy so you can stay in a guest apartment for one or two nights. These apartments are for families and friends of residents to rent for a few days so they can have visitors to stay. Downsizing is still a minority sport in the UK, even though selling up could free up retirement funds. People don’t want to leave a home full of memories, although the cost of moving is also a disincentive. That’s why downsizing when you’re still fit and active is a good idea for some: there’s still time to make more memories. Call us FREE 0800 033 4977 payingtoomuch.com Policies vary in benefits, cover limits, excess and price depending on provider chosen. *FCDO restrictions may apply. MEAL DEAL: The Vincent has a superb on-site restaurant plus pleasant owners’ lounge

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DX1ST Daily Express Friday, January 14, 2022 47 Letters PM is now in last chance saloon after doing so well I WAS brought up a socialist and always voted Labour until Jeremy Corbyn came along and I switched to the Tories. Boris Johnson has done so well, his high point being Brexit, but I am upset at some of the stupid decisions he makes. How is it that people with heads full of brains have very little common sense? So Boris, please focus on the job in hand and get this country back on its feet again. This is your last chance with me, so get cracking. David Mitchell, Lytchett Matravers, Dorset Please don’t resign, God help us if other lot get in There are many people who had a party in the garden during the wonderful weather in the early summer of 2020 and nobody is going around asking them about it. Boris, you have done a great job. Please don’t resign. God help us if any other party gets in. Jean Gander, Horsham, Sussex Look elsewhere if you are after a proper scandal If four people can be found not guilty of criminal damage to the Colston statue in Bristol when there was overwhelming evidence that they did it, it seems a little harsh on the PM to lambast him for attending a drinks party with his loyal, hard-working staff in his own back garden. Trevor Johnson, York Tale of two leaders makes me wonder about priorities One prime minister is accused of telling lies about a garden party that annoyed some people but caused no harm to anyone, and is pilloried, with calls to resign. A previous prime minister is also accused of telling lies about weapons of mass destruction and causing the deaths of thousands by taking the country into an unjust war but he is given a knighthood. Makes one wonder if people have their priorities right. John Beard, St Helens, Merseyside Baying hounds would be useless in comparison I am an admirer of Boris Johnson, he has done more good than bad. I’m not sure he will save his reputation though. The only thing stopping me from transferring my allegiance to the opposition is the way they look like a pack of baying hounds after a bleeding fox, and that they are useless by comparison. Bill Tait, Leigh, Lancs Johnson deserves a rest after all he’s been through Who could blame Boris Johnson if he decided he’d had enough? In two-and-a-half years he’s got us out of the EU, become a father again in his mid-50s, got married, The Daily Express, One Canada Square, Canary Wharf, London E14 5AP Email: expressletters@express.co.uk (include your full name, address and telephone number) Picture: GETTY Letter of the day APOLOGY: Prime Minister has said sorry so let’s move on battled the pandemic, caught Covid and nearly died from it, lost his mother, had another baby and been hassled about decorating a flat, taking a holiday and having a drink in the garden. After all that, the man deserves a rest and some peace. Mary Wheeler, Wombourne, Staffs If he won’t quit have they got the guts to sack him? Following his apology and admission of being present at the Downing Street party, it is obvious that Boris Johnson is guilty of misjudgment, misconduct, possibly a criminal offence and most certainly misleading the public. I backed this man at the start of his tenure but not any more, he must resign. If not, has the Tory party got the guts to oust him? Keith Woods, Manchester Decision should spell the end of smart motorways How can the arguments surrounding smart motorways still persist (“Families of crash victims back halt to smart M-ways”, January 12)? These notorious motorways are death traps. Please bring back or redesign roads with hard shoulders for the sake of sanity and safety. What is more important than completing your journey alive? Jill Baxter, Tywyn, Gwynedd Scrapping the emergency lane was a deadly idea It’s AS obvious as the nose on your face that a high-speed road with no emergency lane is an accident just waiting to happen. We should scrap the current motorway changes and immediately begin to reinstate dedicated emergency lanes, or at the very least double or triple those emergency laybys already in place. Bob Cross, Eccles, Gtr Manchester Kate was picture perfect without birthday photos Ann Widdecombe is not the only one in the country who doesn’t like the 40th birthday photos of the Duchess of Cambridge (“New look’s not great for Kate”, January 12). I, and many others, agree entirely with her comments. We all prefer earlier photos of her that appeared in the Daily Express. Joan Revill, Melton Mowbray, Leics ● facebook.com /dailyexpress ● twitter: @daily_express End outrage and let Boris finish the job It IS time to put all this fuss about No. 10 Covid parties to bed as it has become far too much of a distraction for the people who are meant to be running our country (“I’m sorry... but now prove you can deliver for Britain”, January 13). The police need to carry out a swift investigation into the allegations and, if they are proven, fine those responsible. Then let Boris Johnson get on with running the country in difficult circumstances. Looking at the opposition benches, I can see no one there capable of doing the job. A coalition would see us back in the EU with a loss of sovereignty, our army run from Brussels and our fishing grounds destroyed. Dick Bedford, Cullompton, Devon Stylists went too far with makeover of the Duchess I agree with Ann Widdecombe about the images of the Duchess of Cambridge. I really believe that the stylists have gone too far. If Kate has obliged willingly in order to look like that then she is making a big mistake. Elizabeth Stone, Bristol You can’t airbrush charm, beauty and friendliness THE pictures issued to celebrate Kate’s birthday do not represent her beauty, friendliness and charm. They appear to be airbrushed and, from a quick glance, do not even look like her. Gill Edwards, Bangor, Gwynedd Can someone address the issue of missing Stones? Good to see the stamps which mark 60 years of The Rolling Stones (Virginia Blackburn, January 13). I was a fan and note that founding member Brian Jones is missing, as is long standing member Bill Wyman. I wonder who had a hand in that? Paul Hale, Chester IS SHOPPING ONLINE MORE STRESSFUL THAN HIGH STREET? Yes No VIRGINIA Blackburn has hit the nail on the head for me (“When Amazon doesn’t deliver”, January 13). A few years ago, when we all thought online shopping was going to change the world, we didn’t realise what a nightmare it could turn out to be. I don’t know if it is just me but since the start of the pandemic I never seem to be able to buy what I want and get it delivered on time, or even to the right address. Don’t get me started on returns. I’ve started going back to real shops. Julie Roberts, Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria PEOPLE like Virginia Blackburn, who complain about shopping online, have short memories. Don’t they remember the nightmare car park queues, shops that didn’t stock their size, fighting to get a refund after battling back into town, and having to write off an entire day just to go and buy some socks or knickers? I’m not saying online deliveries are perfect. But at least if things don’t turn up you can put the kettle on and make a few phones calls while you are still in your pyjamas. Don Freeman, Chesterfield, Derbys TODAY: Friday January 14, 2022 On this day 31 years ago (1991) Prime Minister John Major held crisis talks with the US as it was agreed that a war in the Gulf, aimed at freeing Kuwait from the grip of Iraq dictator Saddam Hussein, would start sooner rather than later. We also reported that Russia’s Red Army used tanks to crush a protest at a TV station amid civil unrest in the Lithuanian capital, Vilnius. The West condemned the military action. 79 years ago (1943) Franklin D Roosevelt became the first US President to travel on official business by air. Roosevelt flew from Miami to Casablanca, in Morocco, to meet Britain’s wartime leader Winston Churchill to discuss Allied strategy for the next phase of the war. 47 years ago (1975) Heiress Lesley Whittle, 17, was snatched from her home in Highley, Shropshire. The kidnapper demanded a £50,000 ransom for the safe return of the girl, whose family ran a private coach firm. Whittle’s body was found on March 7. Donald Neilson, dubbed the Black Panther, was convicted of her murder, and that of three Post Office workers, in 1976. Birthdays Foo Fighters founder Dave Grohl is 53. He played drums in Nirvana. Bonnie And Clyde star Faye Dunaway is 81. She is a selfconfessed loner. Rapper LL Cool J is 54. His real name is James Todd Smith. Horrible Bosses star Jason Bateman is 53. He also works behind the camera. TODAY’S GIGGLE What kind of pictures do hermit crabs take? Shellfies.

48 Daily Express Friday, January 14, 2022 DX1ST + BG + Barclays + BT + Centrica + Dixons Carphone + First Group + HSBC + Kingfisher + Marks & Spencer + Next + Prudential + Rolls-Royce + Sainsburys + Tesco + Unilever + Vodafone + Whitbread + WPP 52 WEEK CoMPANy CLoSE +/- HiGH LoW Aerospace & Defence Avon Rubber ............1160 -4 3582 916 Babcock International. . . . . .339¼ +7½ 380¼ 199 BAE Systems ............578¼ +4½ 599½ 462 Chemring Group ..........282½ -2 338 258 Meggitt ..................742 -2¼ 839¼ 389 QinetiQ Group ..........264¼# +5 356 243 Rolls-Royce Group ........127¾ +¾ 147½ 87 Senior ...................142 +2½ 181 90 Ultra Electronics ..........3176 +30 3370 1856 Alternative Energy Porvair ...................720 -10 772 512 Banks Barclays .................217 +5¼ 217¼ 133½ Bco Santander ...........258¾ +5 300½ 214 Close Brothers ...........1408 +8 1685 1293 CYBG ..................191½ +2¾ 215½ 128½ HSBC Holdings ...........513 +11¾ 514 359¾ Investec ..................428 +2½ 430 186 Lloyds Banking Grp ......... 54 +¾ 54 33 Metro Bank ..............102¾ +1 150 83 NatWest Group ..........248¼ +4½ 248½ 147½ Standard Chartered .......511½ +10¾ 521½ 410 Beverages Barr (AG) ................510 +3 582 466 Britvic. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .934½# +3 1006 745 Coca-Cola HBC ..........2687 +11 2784 2160 Diageo ..................3762 -27½ 4103½ 2812½ Chemicals Carclo ...................35¼ -¾ 68¾ 18¼ Croda International ........8592 -244 10410 6082 Elementis ...............138½ +1¼ 161¾ 108 Johnson Matthey .......1989½# +26 3300 1931 Synthomer ...............391 -4 564 388¼ Treatt ...................1245 +5 1315 750 Victrex ..................2334 -30 2706 2056 Construction & Materials Balfour Beatty ............267¾ +3½ 322¾ 233¾ Clarke T. ................153½ +5½ 183 88½ CRH ...................3952 +25 4002 3022 Dialight ..................326 +½ 380 238 Galliford Try ..............175 206¼ 120½ Gleeson (MJ) .............774 +4 900 714 Keller Group ..............932 -24 1028 747 Kier Group ..............107¼ -¾ 133 68¼ Kingspan Grp ...........8274½ +38½ 8941¼ 4424¾ Marshalls. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .683½ +3 845 628 Morgan Sindall ...........2370 +60 2685 1438 Severfield-Rowen ........... 68 +½ 82½ 65¾ Smart (J) & Co. ..........155# 155 119½ Tyman ..................401½ -2 507 330 Electricity Drax Group ...............589 +6½ 614½ 358½ SSE ..................1588½# -21½ Electronic & Electrical Equipment 1682 1301½ Acal ....................966# +6 1262 610 Halma .................2780# -113 3216 2233 Morgan Crucible ...........347 412½ 283½ Oxford Instruments .......2355# -30 2680 1730 Renishaw ...............4562 +74 6900 4368 Spectris .................3600 -37 4083 2951 TT Electronics ............258½ -1½ 290 199 XP Power ..............5010# -50 5700 4630 Equity investment instruments Aberdeen All Asia ..........705 -10 820 680 Aberdeen Asian Sml .....1475# -20 1515 1175 Aberforth Smll.Co. ........1490 +2 1612 1190 Acorn Income ................ Advance Devlpg Fund ......678 -2 752½ 668 Albion Tech.& Gen. VCT ..... 76 78 64 Albion VCT ...............48# 70 47 Alliance Trust ............1016 1078 868 Artemis Alpha ............429# -1 458 354 Aurora Inv.Tst. ............240 245 199 AVI Global Tst ...........1058 -2 1110 855 Baillie Gifford Japan ........934 -2 1132 924 Baillie Gifford Shin Nip ......196 -4 268 194½ Bankers Inv.Tst ..........119¼ -½ 125 104 Baronsmead VCT.2 ......... 76 81½ 70½ BH Macro GBP. . . . . . . . . . . 3670 3920 3240 Biotech Growth Trust ......1000 -38 1736 993¼ BlackRock Mining ..........634 +14 691 502 Blue Planet Intl Tst .........22½ 30½ 20 BlueCrest AllBlue .........276 280½ 238 Bluehone AiM VCT2 ........ 36 36½ 33 British Assets Tst ........101½# -½ 103½ 92 Brunner Inv.Tst ...........1085 -20 1130 834 Caledonia Inv.. . . . . . . . . . . . 3860 -55 4100 2630 City Natural Res.Yld .......172½ +3¼ 179¾ 119 City Of London ...........406½ +1½ 408 350½ Dunedin Ent.IT. ...........491 -1 499 315 Dunedin Income ...........316 -4½ 334 287 Edin Wwide Inv ..........245½ -7 423 243 Edin.Drgn.Tst. .............506 -4 592 486 Edin.Inv.Tst. ..............647 +2 649 533 Edin.US Tracker ...........287 +1 292½ 232½ Elderstreet VCT ..........58½# 58½ 43½ Electra Private Eq. .........68½ +¼ 670 60½ European Ass Tst. . . . . . . . . 133# -3½ 150½ 116½ F&C Cap&Inc .............338 -2 343½ 277 F&C Inv Tst. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 903# -15 946 750 F&C Smaller Cos ........168½# -½ 175½ 140¾ 52 WEEK CoMPANy CLoSE +/- HiGH LoW F&C US Smaller Companies 1405 1525 1195 Fidelity Asian .............472 -3 506 418 Fidelity European ..........329 -1 345 263½ Fidelity Japanese ..........209 -3 261 203½ Fidelity Special ............311 313½ 236½ Finsbury Gwth&In ..........888 -2 930 837 Foresight Tech.VCT ........76½ 76½ 57½ Gartmore Euro. ..........1590# -5 1682½ 1370 Genesis E.M.F. ............811 -2 948 785 Graphite Ent .............1266 1314 924 Hansa Tst ‘A’ .............216 236 195 Hansa Tst Plc .............215 -1 242 196 Henderson Euro.Tst ........149 156 139½ Henderson Far Est ........298½ +2½ 343 288 Henderson High Inc .......179# -2 183½ 145½ Henderson Opp Tst ......1397½ -2½ 1602½ 1245 Herald Inv.Tst. ...........2305 -70 2630 2045 HGCapital Tst. ...........427½ -2 444 308½ HSBC Infrastructure .......172¾ -1½ 179½ 160 Impax Env.Mkt ...........495# -4½ 583 432 Int.Biotech.Tst ............671# -9 852 671 International Public ........169½ -½ 176¼ 160½ Invesco Asia ..............366 -1 420 328 Invesco Perp UK ..........610 -5 660 477½ JPM American ............749 -1 777 571 JPM Asian .............442½# -10½ 544 406½ JPM Claverhouse ..........772 -4 785 614 JPM Elect Man Gwth ......1090 -5 1110 927½ JPM Emerg Mkt ..........124¾ -½ 151¾ 123½ JPM Euro Sml Co ........524# -5 582 451 JPM Global Emerging .....145# -1½ 158½ 139 JPM Indian ...............836 -8 857 673 JPM Japanese ...........602# -16 733 592 JPM Mid Cap ............1295 -10 1565 1070 JPM Overseas IT ..........457 -3 470 379 JPM Smaller Co ...........386 -5 472½ 321 JPM US Sml Co ...........450 -8 472 393½ Jupiter Euro. ..............787 -4 891 681 JZ Capital Partners .......111½ -1 127½ 70 Keystone Inv.Tst ...........279 -4 363 274½ Law Debenture ...........823# +4 826½ 636 Lowland Invest Co .......1395# +15 1431¼ 1120 Majedie Inv. .............234# -2½ 252½ 217 Manchester&Lon. ..........542 -18 636 532 Martin Currie Prtflo Tst .....393# -5 433 349 Matrix Inc & Gwth 4 ........94¾ 99½ 69 Maven Income And Growth VCT 43½ 43½ 40 Mercantile Inv Tst .........260# -2 291 229 Merchants Tst .............574 -5 581 438¼ Mid Wynd Int. .............816 -8 860 692 Midas Inc&Gwth Tst .......190¼ -½ 195 167¾ Monks Inv.Tst. ...........1270 -10 1484 1252 Montanaro Euro Tst .......195½ -3½ 225½ 157½ Montanaro Uk .............158 -1½ 182½ 133½ Murray Inc.Tst. ............910 -7 952 808 Murray Int.Tst ...........1170# 1230 1076 New India ................630 -8 660 503 New Star Inv.Tst ...........144 146¾ 120 North Atl.Smlr.Tst .........4650 -30 4990 3815 Northern 2 VCT ..........64½# 70½ 58½ Northern Venture .........68¾# 77¾ 64 Oxford Tech 2 VCT ........27½ 27½ 20 Oxford Tech VCT ..........27½ 29 27 Pacific Assets .............361 -5 371½ 313 Pacific Horizon ............812 -8 948 678 Pantheon Int. .............333 +1 351 236 Pershing Square Hold .....2920 +30 3115 2405 Polar Cap.Tech ..........2490 -68 2750 2085 RCM Technology Trust ....310½ -10½ 370 246 RIT Capital Partners. . . . . . . 2630 -35 2765 1992 Ruffer Investment ..........300 -1 306¼ 260½ Schroder Asia ............586# -1 683 564 Schroder Inc. ............305# -3 319½ 268 Schroder Japan ...........215 -1½ 231 196¼ Schroder UK ..............224 -3 255 220 Schroder UK M&S ........686# -15 796 575 Scottish American .........521 -4 543 435 Scottish Inv.Tst ...........869# -1 872 694 Scottish Mortgage .......1180½ -39 1543½ 1017 Shires Inc. ..............272½# -2½ 287½ 232½ Shires Smlr.Co ...........388# 399 306 Small Comp Div.Tst ........207 +7 240 163 SPARK VCT ..............21¼ 23 19 Standard Life Equity .......365# 382 304½ Standard Life UK Sml ......720 -11 784 582 SVM UK Emerging ........110½ +1 115½ 97½ Temple Bar ..............1220 +16 1222 911 Templeton Emrg. .........177¾ -1 214½ 173¼ The European Inv.Tst ....135½# -¾ 169½ 133 Throgmorton Tst ...........910 -6 1042 754 TR Euro.Growth ...........179 192 156¼ TR Prop. IT ..............493# +3 510 364 Troy Inc & Growth Trust ...77½# -1¼ 82½ 68½ Value & Income ..........241# -3½ Witan Inv Trust ...........249½ -1½ 250 190¼ 257 221½ Witan Pacific ..............363 -6 640 349 Wwide Healthcare ........3320 -55 3960 3316 Financial Services 3i Group ...............1407½ -27 1503½ 1107 3i Infrastructure ...........356½ -½ 362½ 286 Ashmore Group ..........294¾ -2½ 479½ 285¾ Brewin Dolphin ..........341½# -2 406 290 Charles Stanley ..........510# -2½ 520 286 City Of London Group ....... 53 -1 79¾ 46½ Guinness Peat Group ......67¼ -½ 79¾ 56 Hargreaves Lansdown ....1363½ +2½ 1788 1304 The service is provided for general information only and is not intended to address individual requirements. Appropriate independent advice should be obtained before making investment decisions. Reasonable care will be taken in ensuring the accuracy of the information provided but it may include errors, omissions or inaccuracies. SHARES AT A GLANCE 52 WEEK CoMPANy CLoSE +/- HiGH LoW IG Group .................811 -6½ 952½ 750 Intermediate Cap.Grp ....1975½ -53½ 2379 1692 International Pers Fin ......137¾ -4½ 155½ IP Group ................113¼ +3½ 155¼ 78½ 93½ Jupiter Fund Man. ........245¾ -2½ 306½ 233¾ Liontrust Asset Man ......1922# -28 2485 1195 London Stock Ex. .........7422 +60 9910 6502 Lonfin ...................37½ 41½ 33 M&G ....................213 +3 248½ 176 Man Group ..............214½ -2¼ 242½ 143½ Paragon Group ............583 +1 586½ 439½ Provident Financial .........366 +14¾ 381½ 184 Rathbone Brothers ........1958 -42 2065 1542 S & U. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2720 +10 2950 2070 Schroders ...............3470 -46 3871 3358 Schroders NV ............2300 -10 2735 2245 St James’s Place ........1653½ -4½ 1731½ 1161 Standard Life ............245¾ +1½ 331 226½ Tullett Prebon ............153¼ +2¾ 262½ 126¾ Walker Crips Group ......... 33 36½ 25½ Fixed Line Telecommunications BT Group ..............178¼# +3½ 205½ 122¼ Telecom Plus ............1534 1612 1010 Food & Drug Retailers Greggs .................2806 -53 3416 1801 Ocado ..................1519 -8 2883 1512 Sainsbury (J) ............291½ +3½ Tesco ..................289¾ -2½ Food Producers 340 221¼ 294 219¼ A.B. Foods .............2110# +18 2494 1727 Anglo-Eastern .............716 -4 772 562 Carr’s Milling ............157½# +1 167½ 124½ Cranswick ..............3806# +20 4148 3348 Devro. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .199¼# +1¼ 227½ 155 Glanbia ................1085½ +16 1274¼ 821¾ Greencore Group .........133¾ +2 170¾ 106 Kerry Grp ‘A’ Shs ........9492¾ +133¾ 10813 8381½ Premier Foods ...........112¾ +¾ 122¼ 88¼ REA Holdings .............148 -3½ 159 50 Tate & Lyle ...............719 +14½ 815¾ 629½ Unilever .................3903 +1 4465 3733 Gas, Water & Multiutilities Centrica ..................73½ +½ 74 45½ National Grid ...........1066½# +12¼ 1090 806½ Pennon Group ...........1117 +2 1718¼ 1103 Severn Trent .............2851 +20 2984 2168 United Utilities ..........1054½# +5½ General industrials 1130 859¼ Bunzl ...................2741 -36 2968 2150 DS Smith. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 396 +2 462¼ 358¼ Goodwin ................3200 -50 3935 2790 Melrose .................170½ +1½ 190¾ 128¾ Mondi .................1908½ +16½ Smiths Group ...........1611½ +5½ 2068 1719½ 1661 1355½ Smurfit Kappa ............4065 -24 4305 3318 General Retailers Auto Trader ..............706# -4½ 741¾ 543½ B&M Europ Value Ret ....596½# -11½ 644 496½ Caffyns ..................550 588 345 Dignity ...................711 -17 940 511 Dixons Carphone ........112½# -3¾ 159¼ 108¼ Dunelm .................1434 +25 1551 1141 Findel ..................168½ +1½ 315 160 Halfords Group ...........364# +2 435 259 Howden Joinery ..........878¼ -21¾ 975½ 662¼ John David Group .........198 -13½ 234 149½ Kingfisher ................341 -3½ 376½ 262½ Lookers ..................74¼ -¼ 75 21 Marks & Spencer ..........233 -20 256½ 129½ Next ...................7672# -330 8426 7262 Pendragon ................ 23 23½ 12¾ Pets At Home ............434½ -10½ 519 372 RM Group ................194 -6 255 185 Sports Direct ..............795 -18½ 818½ 425 Ted Baker ................101 +1½ 212½ 94 Topps Tiles ..............64¼# +½ 75½ 57½ 52 WEEK CoMPANy CLoSE +/- HiGH LoW WH Smith ...............1560 -14½ 2016 1311 Health Care Equipment & Services Flying Brands ..............6½ 10½ 5½ Mediclinic Intnl ...........326½ +3½ 346½ 275¾ Smith & Nephew .........1274 -3½ 1668½ 1202 Household Goods & Home Construction Barratt Development ......684¾ -¼ 794¾ 628¼ Bellway .................3036 +14 3712 2722 Berkeley Grp Hldgs .......4486 -76 5372¾ 4169 Bovis Homes ...........1117½ +1½ 1346½ 842 Colefax Group ............645 675 420 Headlam Group ...........433 +12 536 373 Mcbride ..................55¾ -1 94½ 54¼ Persimmon ..............2608 -13 3238 2514 Reckitt Benckiser .........6234 +9 6801 5391 Redrow .................642¼ -2¼ 718¾ 521 Taylor Wimpey ...........159¼ -2½ 191¾ 146½ industrial Engineering Castings .................367 -5 420 344 Hill & Smith ..............1576 -46 1902 1256 IMI .....................1662 -22 1838 1204 Northgate ..............426½# +1½ 443 245 Rotork ..................347¼ -5¼ 376½ 324 Slingsby H.C ..............230 270 190 Spirax-Sarco ............13900 -595 17135 10710 Vesuvius .................482 +9½ 590 414 Vitec Group ..............1340 -5 1615 956 Weir Group ..............1860 +34 2046 1600½ Xaar .....................190 +11½ 258½ 113 industrial Metals & Mining Bodycote .................860 -1 984½ 687½ Evraz ..................604½# -9¼ 698¼ 491 Ferrexpo ...............310½# -6½ 501 272 industrial Transportation Braemar Shipping Serv .....276 +3½ 310 166½ Clarkson ................3860 +50 4180 2460 Fisher (J) & Sons ..........443 +18½ 1270 289½ John Menzies ............321½ +6 353 200½ Ocean Wilsons ............935 1135 825 Royal Mail ..............526¼ +9½ 606½ 370 Stobart Group .............13½ -¼ 37¾ 12 Wincanton ................362 -5 470 265 Leisure Goods Games Workshop ........8795 -490 12220 8770 Photo-Me Intl. .............. 66 -3¼ 78¾ 43¾ Life insurance Aviva ...................436¼ +1¼ 436¼ 335¼ Chesnara ...............281½ +1½ 314 261 Legal & General ...........299 -¾ 307¾ 244 Phoenix Group ............686 +1 759¾ 623½ Prudential ...............1337 +38 1585½ 1172½ Media 4imprint Group ...........2660 -10 3170 2205 Bloomsbury Publish. .......352 -12 401 260 Future .................3462# -22 3910 1694 Informa .................560¼ +3½ 598½ 464½ ITE Group ...............110½ +3 152 83¼ ITV .....................118¾ -¼ 132½ 99¼ Pearson. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .606½ +3 869½ 571¾ Quarto Group ............126½ 134 60¼ Reach ..................270½ -6½ 420 186¼ RELX ...................2186 -27 2424 1692½ STV Group ...............341 -9 377½ 310 Wilmington Group .........216 -2 240 160 WPP Group ............1187½ +4½ Mining Anglo American ..........3355 -9½ 1193 765¾ 3444 2354½ Anglo Pacific .............144# +4 160 121 Antofagasta. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1435 -7½ 1925 1282 BHP Billiton .............2401½ +26½ 2417 1835¼ Centamin Egypt ...........91¼ 123 80¾ Fresnillo. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .837½ +¾ 1124½ 745¼ Gem Diamonds ...........49½ +1 78½ 41½ 52 WEEK CoMPANy CLoSE +/- HiGH LoW Glencore .................406 +4¾ 408½ 237¾ Hochschild Mining .........122 -¼ 254 114½ Kenmare Res. ............453 -17 480½ 373 London & Ass.Prop ......... 12 18½ 8 Petra Diamonds ............ 76 +2 93½ 60½ Petropavlovsk .............. 18 32½ 17¼ Polymetal Intl. ...........1197½ -13½ Rio Tinto ................5463 +11 Mobile Telecommunications # Ex-dividend * Ex-rights a Ex-All c Ex-capitalisation † Shares suspended 1729 1188½ 6658 4375½ Vodafone Group .........117¾# +¾ 142½ 107 Nonequity investment instruments Oryx Int.Gwth. ............1695 +5 1940 1270 Rights &Iss.Inc ...........2730 -15 2790 2035 Nonlife insurance Admiral Group ...........3113 +12 3688 2850 Beazley Group ............485 +12½ 487¼ 294½ Direct Line Insurance ......305½ +10½ 332½ 264 Hiscox ...................949 +18 1004 770 Homeserve ...............814 -6½ Lancashire ..............526½ +10½ oil & Gas Producers 1212 803½ 745 490¼ BP ......................384 +2½ 384 252 Cairn Energy. . . . . . . . . . . . .195¾ 204½ 125½ Enquest ................... 21 +¼ 27¼ 12¼ Gulf Keystone Pet. .........210 -2 220 133¾ Premier Oil ..............385½ -1½ 647¼ 310 Ryl Dutch Shell ‘A’ .......1806¼ -¼ 1813¼ 1309¼ Ryl Dutch Shell ‘B’ .......1808¾ +1½ 1814½ 1246 Soco International .........26¼ -¼ 27¾ 17½ Tullow Oil ................52¾ -¼ 65 25¾ oil Equipment, Services & Distribution Hunting ..................220 +10½ 289½ 144½ John Wood Group .........240 +40¾ 353¼ 177¾ Lamprell .................. 37 -¼ 82½ 31¼ Petrofac .................141¼ +6½ 175 87¾ Personal Goods Burberry Group .........1751½# +7½ 2264 1687 PZ Cussons ..............201 +1 274½ 192½ Supergroup ..............266½ +4 472 201 Pharmaceuticals & Biotechnology AstraZeneca .............8449 -30 9444 6794 Genus ..................4192 -194 6070 4192 GlaxoSmithKline ........1631¼# -4¾ 1639½ 1190¾ Hikma ..................2061 -19 2690 2052 Oxford Biomedica .........1026 -36 1634 921 Real Estate investment & Services Boot (Henry) ..............285 292 252 Capital & Regional .......... 59 +1½ 91¼ 54 Cardiff Property ..........2100 2100 1720 CLS Holdings ............220½ +2½ 262 203 Foxtons ..................41½ -¼ 74¼ 38¼ Grainger ................303# -½ 335 259½ Harworth Group ...........184 187½ 104½ Helical Bar ...............436 -7 497 356 Mountview Est. ..........14400 -100 14750 10900 Panther Secs. ............255# 315 175 Raven Russia .............31¼ -1 36½ 25¾ Rightmove. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .725½ -21 800½ 555¾ Savills ..................1432 +7 1468 984 UK Commercial Prop .......75¾ +½ 84 65 Wynnstay Props. ..........680 750 565 Real Estate investment Trusts Big Yellow Group .........1573 -30 1709 1053 British Land ..............541½ +¼ 550½ 429¾ Capital & Counties ........172½ +1¾ 186¼ 129½ Derwent London ..........3428 -19 3802 3106 F&C Commercial ........106¾# 107 70 Great Portland Est. ........757½ +9½ 803½ 618¼ Hammerson ..............35¼ +¼ 44¼ 19¼ Highcroft Inv.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 905 905 680 Land Securities ...........777¾ +3¾ 779½ 607 London & Stamford Prop ....267 -1 285¼ 206¼ Mckay Secs. ..............230 -2 239 191 Primary Health ..........146¾# -3¼ 169½ 144 SEGRO ................1314½ Shaftesbury. . . . . . . . . . . . .616½# -1½ -9 1436½ 875¾ 669 511½ Town Centre ............162½# +7½ 162½ 109 Unite Group .............1070 -1 1237 930 Workspace Group .......840½# +12½ 971 700 Software & Computer Services Avast ....................602 -1¾ 616½ 420 Aveva Group ...........2977# -153 4220 2971 Computacenter ...........2712 -28 3030 2086 Gresham Computing .......183 184½ 152 Intec Telecom ............71¾ Just Eat Takeaway .......4067½ +329½ 8676 3530 Micro Focus ..............440 -13 587½ 333 Microgen .................530 -8 725 506 Moneysupermarket .......209¾ -3½ 305½ 197¾ Sage Group ............800¾# -19 853¾ 558½ St.Ives ...................272 -5 348 139 Triad Group ..............135 +13½ 150 65 Support Services Ashtead Group ..........5828# -20 6450 3650 Capita Group .............37½ 52¾ 32¼ Costain Group ............. 53 -½ 69½ 47 DCC ...................6188 -90 6614 5506 De La Rue ..............160¾ +¾ 207 139½ Diploma .................2980 -106 3460 2072 Electrocomponents .......1144 -23 1255 877½ Essentra .................350 -3½ 358 251 52 WEEK CoMPANy CLoSE +/- HiGH LoW Euromoney Inst. ..........890# -10 1108 887 Experian Group .........3153# -78 3667 2273 Ferguson ...............12800 +85 13305 8374 Hays ...................155¼ +3½ 176¾ 137¾ Inchcape .................890 -7½ 933 639 Intertek Group. . . . . . . . . . . . 5416 -42 6198 4775 London Security ..........2750 2750 2220 Macfarlane Group ........131½ -2¼ 145 82½ Mears Group .............200 224 148 Michael Page .............621 -9 680½ 441½ Mitie Group ..............61¼# -½ 77¼ 41¾ Norish .................... 20 177½ 10 Paypoint .................690 741 566 Rentokil Initial .............527 -6½ 636¼ 464½ Ricardo Group ............461 +7 490 348 Robert Walters ............860 +14 892 510 RPS Group ..............122¼ +1¼ 130 72¾ Serco Group .............136¾ +½ 145¾ 117 Shanks Group ............718 +4 840 392 SIG .....................45½ -¼ 63½ 28¾ Smiths News ............38¾# -¼ 45½ 26 Speedy Hire .............60½# -1 81 59 SThree .................432½ -3½ 602 317 Travis Perkins ...........1623½ -11½ 1830 1349½ Trifast ...................160 165½ 124 Technology Hardware & Equipment BATM Advanced ........... 79 -¼ 122½ 74¾ Spirent ..................243½ -4¾ 300¼ 228½ Tobacco British Amer.Tob .........2975# +52 2976½ 2485½ Imperial Brands .........1695½ +34½ 1697½ 1333 Travel & Leisure 888 Holdings. . . . . . . . . . . . .285¼ -1 478 284 Air Partner ................. 88 -¼ 99¼ 64¼ Carnival .................1522 +60½ 1865½ 1165 Celtic ...................102½ 127½ 94½ Compass Group ..........1698 -6½ 1712 1310½ Domino’s Pizza ...........436¾ +11½ 465¼ 301½ EasyJet ..................635 +14 922 486 Entain .................1726½ +1½ FirstGroup ...............103¼ +1¼ 105¾ 2377 1224½ 71½ Flutter Entert. ...........11400 -75 16915 10030 Fuller Smith & Turner .......726 -12 954 620 Go-Ahead Group ..........667 Heavitree. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 290 400 290 InterContinental Htl ........4948 -6 5336 4399 Intl Consolidated Airlines ...165½ +4½ 217¾ 125¾ Irish Continental Uts .......388½ 420¾ 333¾ Marston’s ................82¾ +2¾ 101¼ 65 Mitchells & Butlers .........260 +2½ 337½ 208¼ National Express ..........262 +4½ 328¼ 213½ Rank Group .............155¼ +1¾ 207 123 Restaurant Gp ............101 +1½ 139½ Saga ...................303¾ +13 60¼ 456 239½ Stagecoach Group .........93¾ +3¼ 108 65½ TUI AG .................259¼ +6½ 403 197¾ Wetherspoon (JD) .........927 +9½ 1404 811 Whitbread ...............3140 -2 3595 2713 AiM 600 Group ................13½ 16½ 8½ Alumasc Group ..........222½ -2½ 277½ 111 Arbuthnot Banking ........852½ +5 1175 820 ASOS ..................2514 +255 5918 2110 Boohoo ..................121 +9½ 373¼ 104 Brown (N.) Group ..........40½ -½ 77¾ 36¾ Camellia ................6900 +150 7675 6250 Churchill China ..........1697½ -12½ 2025 1265 CML Microsystems ........420 +10 469 300 CPP Group ...............365 -1 567½ 315 Cropper (James) ........1400# +50 1575 1075 Dewhurst ...............1760 +20 2710 1270 Falkland Islands ..........230# 265 200 Fevertree Drinks ..........2597 -44 2775 2123 Filtronic ..................11½ 12¾ 7¾ Finsbury Food Group ........ 98 -1 102 70¾ Gresham House ...........893 955 790 Hornby ................... 54 -1 68 37½ IEnergizer ................326 +2 400 258 James Halstead ...........578 -2 588 487 Johnson Service ..........144¼ +3¾ 180½ 122½ Majestic Wine .............604 +9 888 565 Mothercare ...............19¼ -¼ 19¾ 11 Mpac Group ..............520 647 450 Nichols .................1455 -57½ 1640 1080 Northamber ..............61½# 77 56½ Numis Corporation ........340# 398 319 Ovoca Gold. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .12½ 15 9½ Portmeirion ...............705 +5 714 500 Regal Petroleum ..........37½ +2¼ 47¾ 18¼ Renold ...................29¾ +¼ 34 13¾ Rockhopper Exploratn ......9¾ +¼ 12 4¾ Sportech .................. 39 -1 40¼ 26 Ten Alps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .82½ +5 82½ 55 Titon Holdings. . . . . . . . . . . .113½ -1½ 140 99½ UBC Media Group ..........+½ 2 +½ Victoria Oil & Gas ...........4½ +¼ 6¼ 2¾ Volex ...................311½ -1½ 493½ 303 Young & Co Brewery A ....1540 -60 1675 1175 This newspaper observes the Editors’ Code of Practice enforced by IPSO, the Independent Press Standards Organisation. 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email: city@express.co.uk Visit City & Business pages online at www.express.co.uk/city Tel: 020 8612 7156 DX1ST Daily Express Friday, January 14, 2022 49 City&Business SToCK MARKET FTSE 100 7563.9 +12.1 FTSE 250 22958.5 -88.7 FTSE All SHARE 4273.2 +2.4 Shares Traded 3989.7 million PoPUlAR SHARES oN THE RISE Abrdn 245¾ +1½ Aviva 436¼ +1¼ BAE Systems 578¼ +4½ Barclays 217 +5¼ BP 384 +2½ BT Group 178¼ +3½ Centrica 73½ +½ HSBC Holdings 513 +11¾ Int Consolidated Airlines 165½ +4½ lloyds Banking Group 54 +¾ National Grid 1066½ +12¼ Natwest Group 248¼ +4½ Rolls-Royce Holdings 127¾ +¾ Royal Dutch Shell 'B' 1808¾ +1½ Royal Mail 526¼ +9½ Saga 303¾ +13 Sainsbury (J) 291½ +3½ Unilever 3903 +1 Vodafone Group 117¾ +¾ PoPUlAR SHARES oN THE SlIDE AstraZeneca 8449 -30 GlaxoSmithKline 1631¼ -4¾ Marks & Spencer Group 233 -20 Tesco 289¾ -2½ whitbread 3140 -2 woRlD MARKETS wAll STREET 36,113.6 ▼ -176.7 ToKYo 28489.1 -276.5 HoNG KoNG 24429.8 +27.6 GERMANY 16031.6 +21.3 FRANCE 7201.1 -36.0 STERlING VAlUE Dollar 1.372 +0.001 Yen 156.373 -0.728 Euro 1.197 -0.001 DollAR VAlUE Dollar/Yen 114.014 -0.6236 Dollar/Euro 0.872 -0.0015 CoMMoDITIES GolD($) 1820.60 KRUGERRAND(£) 1326.99 SIlVER(pence) 1686.82 BRENT CRUDE($) 84.61 ToURIST’S PoUND Australia Canada China Czech Rep. Denmark Eurozone Hong Kong Hungary Israel Japan Mexico New Zealand Norway Poland Russia Saudi Arabia South Africa Sweden Switzerland Thailand Turkey United States AT A GlANCE oTHER INDICAToRS Base rate 0.25% Halifax mortgage rate 3.99% Retail Price Index +7.1% (CPI +5.1%) House price Index +10.2% Unemployment 1,423,000 1.82 dollar 1.66 dollar 8.09 renminbi 27.12 koruna 8.47 krone 1.18 euro 10.05 dollar 394.48 forint 4.00 shekel 149.36 yen 26.28 peso 1.92 dollar 11.38 krone 5.12 zloty 94.76 ruble 4.87 riyal 20.12 rand 11.67 krona 1.21 franc 42.87 baht 16.17 lira 1.35 dollar Stores forecast strong profits after sales soar at Christmas SUPERMARKETS have raised their forecasts for the year after recording healthy profits during some bumper Christmas trading. Tesco and Marks & Spencer are both predicting a strong year ahead after sales soared at the end of 2021. Ken Murphy, chief executive of Tesco, and Steve Rowe, his counterpart at M&S, have both said they are in a strong trading position. Despite M&S facing rising costs and ongoing supply chain disruption and coronavirus issues, Mr Rowe is confident that his turnaround efforts are bearing fruit. He said: “I remain encouraged that our transformation plan is now driving improved performance.” M&S reported strong trading in the third quarter. It said that UK sales for the period were £2.99billion, an 18.6 per cent increase on the previous year and 8.9 per cent above 2019 levels. Clothing and home sales had the biggest performance bounce, up 37.7 per cent on 2020, while food grew at 10 per cent. Tesco said that its December sales By Geoff Ho BOOST: Sales soared at stores were up 3.2 per cent compared with the previous year, when its sales surged as people commiserated at home in lockdown. It said that its third-quarter sales – which cover September to November – were up 2.4 per cent versus 2020 levels and 7.9 per cent on 2019. Mr Murphy attributed its betterthan-expected sales to a combination of price cuts and people treating themselves to upmarket food, drink and clothes over the festive period. He said: “This put us in a strong position to meet customers’ needs as, once again, Covid- 19 led to a greater focus on celebrating at home. As a result, we outperformed the market.” Elsewhere, Poundland owner Pepco said that its first-quarter revenues were up 12 per cent year on year. Poundland’s like-for-like sales grew 1.5 per cent, which it said reflected improved ranges, new pricing and selling chilled and frozen foods in more stores. Beer seller bitter about Covid hit BOOZE purchases soured for Mitchells & Butlers after surging Omicron put off festive drinkers. At the start of its first quarter, the pub giant said revenues were two per cent ahead of pre-pandemic times thanks to strong food sales. However Omicron saw trade 52 Week Company CloSe +/- high loW 3i group .....................................1407½ -27 1503½ 1107 a.B. Foods ..................................2110# +18 2494 1727 admiral group ............................3113 +12 3688 2850 anglo american.........................3355 -9½ 3444 2354½ antofagasta .................................1435 -7½ 1925 1282 ashtead group ........................5828# -20 6450 3650 astraZeneca .................................8449 -30 9444 6794 auto Trader ..................................706# -4½ 741¾ 543½ avast .................................................. 602 -1¾ 616½ 420 aveva group ............................2977# -153 4220 2971 aviva .............................................. 436¼ +1¼ 436¼ 335¼ B&m europ Value Ret ..........596½# -11½ 644 496½ Bae Systems .............................. 578¼ +4½ 599½ 462 Barclays ............................................ 217 +5¼ 217¼ 133½ Barratt Development ............ 684¾ -¼ 794¾ 628¼ Berkeley grp hldgs ..................4486 -76 5372¾ 4169 Bhp Billiton ..............................2401½ +26½ 2417 1835¼ Bp ........................................................ 384 +2½ 384 252 British amer.Tob .....................2975# +52 2976½ 2485½ British land ................................ 541½ +¼ 550½ 429¾ BT group ...................................178¼# +3½ 205½ 122¼ Bunzl................................................2741 -36 2968 2150 Burberry group ...................1751½# +7½ 2264 1687 Coca-Cola hBC ...........................2687 +11 2784 2160 Compass group .........................1698 -6½ 1712 1310½ CRh ..................................................3952 +25 4002 3022 Croda international ..................8592 -244 10410 6082 DCC ..................................................6188 -90 6614 5506 Diageo ............................................3762 -27½ 4103½ 2812½ DS Smith .......................................... 396 +2 462¼ 358¼ electrocomponents .................1144 -23 1255 877½ entain ..........................................1726½ +1½ 2377 1224½ evraz ............................................604½# -9¼ 698¼ 491 experian group .......................3153# -78 3667 2273 Ferguson ....................................12800 +85 13305 8374 Flutter entert. ...........................11400 -75 16915 10030 Fresnillo ........................................ 837½ +¾ 1124½ 745¼ glaxoSmithkline .................1631¼# -4¾ 1639½ 1190¾ glencore .......................................... 406 +4¾ 408½ 237¾ THE chief executive of Countryside Properties has resigned with immediate effect as the house builder’s first-quarter trading results came in below par. Chairman John Martin will lead Countryside as interim chief executive while it searches for a replacedecline six per cent over the seven weeks to January 8 – the key Christmas trading period. Chief executive Phil Urban said: “We are encouraged by the latest data on Omicron which we believe will boost consumers’ confidence to return to pubs and restaurants.” ++ The FTSe 100 The FTSe 100 The FTSe 100 ++ 52 Week Company CloSe +/- high loW halma...........................................2780# -113 3216 2233 hargreaves lansdown ........1363½ +2½ 1788 1304 hikma .............................................2061 -19 2690 2052 hSBC holdings ............................. 513 +11¾ 514 359¾ imperial Brands ......................1695½ +34½ 1697½ 1333 informa......................................... 560¼ +3½ 598½ 464½ interContinental htl .................4948 -6 5336 4399 intermediate Cap.grp .........1975½ -53½ 2379 1692 intertek group ............................5416 -42 6198 4775 intl Consolidated airlines .... 165½ +4½ 217¾ 125¾ iTV ................................................... 118¾ -¼ 132½ 99¼ John David group ...................... 198 -13½ 234 149½ kingfisher ........................................ 341 -3½ 376½ 262½ land Securities ......................... 777¾ +3¾ 779½ 607 legal & general ............................ 299 -¾ 307¾ 244 lloyds Banking grp.......................54 +¾ 54 33 london Stock ex........................7422 +60 9910 6502 m&g ................................................... 213 +3 248½ 176 meggitt ............................................ 742 -2¼ 839¼ 389 melrose ........................................ 170½ +1½ 190¾ 128¾ mondi .........................................1908½ +16½ 2068 1719½ national grid ........................1066½# +12¼ 1090 806½ santa brings little JOY for asos retail of woe: Online clothing and accessories giant took a hit Asos reported its Christmas trading as disappointing due to Omicron spoiling festive party plans, plus ongoing supply chain disruption. The retailer’s revenues for the four months to the end of December were £1.4billion, up just 2 per cent – and below market forecasts. While there was a 13 per cent rise in UK sales and 7 per cent growth in the US, in Europe and the rest of the world revenues tumbled. Higher freight costs and the need to slash prices to shift slow-moving spring and summer stock had an impact. But the online clothing giant had a “robust start” to 2022, chief operator officer Mat Dunn claimed. Elsewhere, its rival Next cut the sick pay of unvaccinated staff who must self-isolate. Double blow for Countryside 52 Week Company CloSe +/- high loW natWest group ........................ 248¼ +4½ 248½ 147½ next ..............................................7672# -330 8426 7262 ocado .............................................1519 -8 2883 1512 pearson ........................................ 606½ +3 869½ 571¾ pershing Square hold .............2920 +30 3115 2405 persimmon ...................................2608 -13 3238 2514 phoenix group ............................. 686 +1 759¾ 623½ polymetal intl. .........................1197½ -13½ 1729 1188½ prudential .....................................1337 +38 1585½ 1172½ Reckitt Benckiser .......................6234 +9 6801 5391 RelX .................................................2186 -27 2424 1692½ Rentokil initial ............................... 527 -6½ 636¼ 464½ Rightmove .................................. 725½ -21 800½ 555¾ Rio Tinto .........................................5463 +11 6658 4375½ Rolls-Royce group .................. 127¾ +¾ 147½ 87 Royal mail .................................. 526¼ +9½ 606½ 370 Ryl Dutch Shell ‘a’ ..................1806¼ -¼ 1813¼ 1309¼ Ryl Dutch Shell ‘B’..................1808¾ +1½ 1814½ 1246 Sage group ..............................800¾# -19 853¾ 558½ Sainsbury (J).............................. 291½ +3½ 340 221¼ Schroders ......................................3470 -46 3871 3358 Scottish mortgage................1180½ -39 1543½ 1017 SegRo.........................................1314½ -9 1436½ 875¾ Severn Trent .................................2851 +20 2984 2168 Smith & nephew .......................1274 -3½ 1668½ 1202 Smiths group ..........................1611½ +5½ 1661 1355½ Smurfit kappa ............................4065 -24 4305 3318 Spirax-Sarco ..............................13900 -595 17135 10710 SSe .............................................1588½# -21½ 1682 1301½ St James’s place ......................1653½ -4½ 1731½ 1161 Standard Chartered ............... 511½ +10¾ 521½ 410 Standard life ............................. 245¾ +1½ 331 226½ Taylor Wimpey .......................... 159¼ -2½ 191¾ 146½ Tesco.............................................. 289¾ -2½ 294 219¼ Unilever ..........................................3903 +1 4465 3733 United Utilities .....................1054½# +5½ 1130 859¼ Vodafone group ....................117¾# +¾ 142½ 107 Whitbread .....................................3140 -2 3595 2713 Wpp group...............................1187½ +4½ 1193 765¾ ment for Iain McPherson. The builder said revenues, profits and completions during the October to December period were all below where they were the prior year. Elsewhere, Aviva’s finance chief, Jason Windsor, has quit to take up the same role at Persimmon. Market report BT was among the biggest gainers in the FTSE 100 on news that it is close to selling its sports channel. On a quiet day, the FTSE advanced just 12.1 points or 0.2 per cent to 7,563.9, while the 250 ended up 0.4 per cent down at 22,958.5. The All Share was essentially flat, up just 2.4 points or 0.1 per cent at 4,273.2. BT gained two per cent to close at 178.2p after it emerged that US sports streaming service Dazn is close to buying BT Sport for £580million. HSBC, NatWest, Standard Chartered and Lloyds Banking Group all made the top 10, but Barclays was the best, up 2.5 per cent to 217.1p. Engineering outfit Wood Group was biggest riser among main market shares, up 20.5 per cent to 240p. Builder Countryside Properties was the biggest loser, down 20.6 per cent at 326.8, following news that it has parted with its chief executive and its first-quarter trading is poor.

DX1ST 50 Daily Express Friday, January 14, 2022 Racing Thomas ace can be a Power of good OUR POWER (2.00, nap) has the form in the book to make amends for his first fence fall three days ago by scoring at Huntingdon. Before tipping up at Doncaster on Tuesday, the seven-year-old, trained by Sam Thomas, right, beat subsequent winner Jacamar by a head at Wincanton last month. That was the gelding’s only second outing over fences and improvement can be expected from this smart former hurdler. FRERE D’ARMES (1.30, nb) could now be ready to open his account over By The Scout hurdles for trainer Dan Skelton after his excellent second behind Balco Coastal at Ludlow last month. Shropshire trainer Alastair Ralph can celebrate more success with HOLLY HARTINGO (3.00, treble). The mare sprang a 20-1 surprise on her first outing for Ralph when winning at Ludlow last month. That was also her first run over hurdles and there could be plenty more to come from her. SOCCERBETTINGHOTLINE We’vebeenfindingwinnersfor30years WinnersintheUK,EuropeandAustralia Atleastthreebankersandnapseveryweek Cal09057570144 Calswilcost£1perminuteplusyourtelephonecompany’snetworkaccesscharge.LinesupdatedTuesday, Wednesday,FridayandSaturdayfrom1pm.ServiceProvider:Spoke.Helpdesk03332023390. 1.00 CONDITIONAL JOCKEYS’ HCAP HURDLE £4,030 (Class 5) 2m 3f 137yds (15 Dec) 1 30-343P ABOVE SUSPICION (33) T R George 7 11-13..... T Doggrell(8) 110 2 329434 BEGIN THE LUCK (16) Mrs C Bailey 6 11-12............ J Andrews 106 3 42-4632 ENLIGHTEN (25) M & D Easterby 8 11-10......................T Gillard 111 4 U1/4-5L3 SMOKING PIGEON (67) F O’Brien 8 11-10.......... L Harrison(3) 105 5 484P78 KOTKI (113) D Pipe 5 11-9........................................... F Gillard(3) — 6 40652-5 HIT THE ROCKS (241) G L Moore 7 11-7........N F Houlihan(3) 108 7 27P354 METHAG (24) (C) A Hales 9 11-6.......................Katie O’Farrell 109 8 P65-284 BALLYCORR (24) Henry Oliver 7 11-4......................... K Brogan 104 9 344640 SHANROE TIC TEC (28) (C) G Harris 10 11-0..................C Ring 116 10 9P8311 ACE TIME (28) J R Jenkins 8 10-10............................B Godfrey 106 11 55U/7PL- ADHERENCE (280) D Burchell 9 10-9..............Mr E Collier(5) 78 12 334272 ALBERIC (10) (T) P Hobbs 5 10-7................Mr J Martin(10) ★118 13 424261 ● KARAKORAM (15) G Harris 7 10-6...........J A Anderson(5) 108 14 654P VON MELAS (35) S Allwood 4 10-1...............................H Nugent 110 15 6LPP7P- RATOUTE YUTTY (297) C Fryer 9 10-0.......Tabitha Worsley 67 BLINKERS: No. 12 TONGUE STRAP: Nos. 4, 5, 12, 13, 15 CHEEK PIECES: Nos. 9, 13 HOOD: No. 1. SOFT/HEAVY WINNERS: Nos. 11, 9. SP FORECAST: 4 Ace Time, 5 Alberic, 6 Smoking Pigeon, 8 Ballycorr, Karakoram, 10 Enlighten, Kotki, 12 Begin The Luck, Above Suspicion, 14 Others. 1.30 EBF ‘NATIONAL HUNT’ NOVICES’ HURDLE £4,629 (4) 1m 7f 171yds (10) 1 222 DREAM IN THE PARK (55) E Lavelle 5 11-0............... T Bellamy — 2 6-P9 EZ TIGER (19) A Hales 5 11-0........................................C Gethings — 3 4-722 ● FRERE D’ARMES (23) D Skelton 5 11-0............ H Skelton ★130 4 6L93-P JOEY’S GIFT (16) M Attwater 5 11-0................N F Houlihan(3) — 5 6 OLD DUKE (180) T R George 5 11-0................................J J Burke — 6 L5-2 PEACE RIVER (55) A King 6 11-0..................................G Sheehan 125 7 23-755 PRESENTING PETE (58) A King 5 11-0..........................T Cannon 118 8 43 THANKSFORTHEHELP (18) D Pipe 5 11-0..............T Scudamore 122 9 4-745 WALKONTHEWILDSIDE (34) O Murphy 6 11-0.........A Coleman 126 10 1L-22 LADY JANE P (40) F O’Brien 6 10-7............................ P Brennan — SP FORECAST: 9-4 Frere D’armes, 3 Lady Jane P, Dream In The Park, 8 Thanksforthehelp, 10 Peace River, 14 Presenting Pete, 16 Others. 2.00 NOVICES’ LIMITED HANDICAP CHASE £8,169 (3) 2m 3f 189yds (4) 1 4PP-51F ● OUR POWER (3) (D) S Thomas 7 11-8.......S Twiston-Davies ★145 2 2L-3122 BARBADOS BLUE (36) (F) N Henderson 8 11-3..... N De Boinville 141 3 0-52122 MAHLER’S PROMISE (42) Seamus Mullins 7 11-1...........M G Nolan 144 4 291-L27 DORKING LAD (50) G L Moore 7 10-3....................Jamie Moore 143 CHEEK PIECES: Nos. 1, 4. SOFT/HEAVY WINNERS: Nos. 3, 1. SP FORECAST: 13-8 Barbados Blue, 5-2 Mahler’s Promise, Our Power, 13-2 Dorking Lad. 2.30 JUVENILE HURDLE (GBB RACE) 4YO £13,008 (2) 1m 7f 171yds (6) 1 123 COLLINGHAM (13) (D) D McCain 10-12................... J J Burke ★136 2 212L GENUFLEX (18) M Harris 10-12.............................................H Reed 126 3 51 KOTMASK (38) G L Moore 10-12..............................Jamie Moore 129 4 2 LIFETIME LEGEND (18) N King 10-12.............................J Quinlan 120 5 1 PARLIAMENT HILL (47) (D) O Murphy 10-12............A Coleman 126 6 2 ● REWIRED (18) Dr R Newland 10-12.......... S Twiston-Davies 126 TONGUE STRAP: No. 2 CHEEK PIECES: No. 2. SP FORECAST: 9-4 Kotmask, 3 Parliament Hill, 7-2 Rewired, 6 Collingham, 8 Genuflex, 10 Lifetime Legend. 3.00 MARES’ NOVICES’ HURDLE (GBB RACE) £6,535 (3) 2m 4f 145yds (8) 1 6-21 ● HOLLY HARTINGO (23) (D) A Ralph 6 11-7.............J J Burke ★118 2 15 RUSSIAN RUMOUR (27) (F) J Portman 5 11-7........S Twiston-Davies 116 3 5 GALANTE DE ROMAY (23) K Bailey 6 11-1.........................D Bass — 4 143 HILLFINCH (40) S Edmunds 5 11-1...............................C Gethings — 5 00 IVETWIGGEDIT (38) B Pauling 5 11-1............................ T Bellamy 24 6 3-6P PARISIAN BLUE (43) N Henderson 6 11-1...........N De Boinville — 7 F/4-L STOPPERS SISTA (40) L Morgan 7 11-1..........................A Wedge — 8 540 THE SUMBA ISLAND (30) L Morgan 5 11-1..................D Noonan 115 TONGUE STRAP: No. 7 HOOD: No. 7. SP FORECAST: 6-4 Hillfinch, 2 Russian Rumour, 4 Holly Hartingo, 10 Parisian Blue, 16 Galante De Romay, 20 Stoppers Sista, 33 The Sumba Island, 100 Ivetwiggedit. GET ALL THE BREAKING SPORTS NEWS ONLINE express.co.uk/sport gary’s irish editeur By David Yates ED MASTER: Editeur Du Gite may run at Leopardstown TRACK FACTS: GOING: Soft. Right Handed. TOP TRACK JOCKEY (2017-22): Harry Skelton 18% Strike rate. TOP TRACK TRAINER (2017-22): D Skelton 18% Strike rate. FIRST TIME: 1.00 Smoking Pigeon (tongue strap, wind surgery), Kotki (tongue strap, wind surgery), 2.00 Dorking Lad (cheek pieces), 2.30 Genuflex (cheek pieces, tongue strap), 3.00 Stoppers Sista (hood, tongue strap), 3.30 Freddy Fanatapan (cheek pieces), Loud As Lions (wind surgery), 4.00 Unstoppable (hood). BEATEN FAVOURITES: 2.00 Dorking Lad(hcp ch). 3.30 Lord Sparky(hcp ch). LONGEST TRAVELLER: Alberic (1.00) 209 miles. STABLE SWITCH: 1.00 Adherence from T Vaughan to D Burchell, Kotki from Y Fouin in France to D Pipe. GARY MOORE hopes to test Editeur Du Gite at the top level at Leopardstown’s Dublin Racing Festival next month. Moore has given his goingplaces eight-year-old, an allthe-way winner over two miles at Cheltenham in November and December, an entry in the Grade 1 Ladbrokes Dublin Chase on February 6. Both Willie Mullins, trainer of two-mile star Energumene, and Gordon Elliott have expressed misgivings over the likelihood of unsuitably fast ground at the Foxrock venue – and Moore, right. has spied an opportunity. “I wouldn’t go there to take on Energumene of Willie’s – THE SCOUT 1.00 Karakoram 1.30 FRERE D’ARMES (nb) 2.00 OUR POWER (nap) 2.30 Rewired Moore plans Dublin raid with rising star Chaser but they say they might not run there because the ground will be too quick,” said the West Sussex trainer, for whom Editeur Du Gite would be a first runner at the bigmoney fixture. “We’ll have to see what’s going to run but it’s a ridiculous amount of money and it was worth an entry in case it cuts up.” Moore feels Leopardstown’s left-handed layout would be ideal for Editeur Du Gite, who know has a British Horseracing 3.00 HOLLY HARTINGO 3.30 Lord Sparky 4.00 Propelled Huntingdon RACINGTV 3.30 RACING TV HANDICAP CHASE £3,812 (5) 2m 7f 129yds (10) 1 331PP1/ LOUD AS LIONS (708) (C&D) T Symonds 9 12-2...J Nailor(3) — 2 43223P ZUCKERBERG (35) J Candlish 6 11-12.......................Page Fuller 110 3 1-4L21P ● LORD SPARKY (11) (C&D) Mrs C Bailey 8 11-12...................... ........................................................................................J Andrews(5) 109 4 52P/713- PETER’S PORTRAIT (417) (D) C Longsdon 9 11-8....W T Kennedy — 5 732552 ALLARDYCE (14) P Henderson 10 11-3.................N Scholfield ★114 6 P44-554 FREDDY FANATAPAN (36) W Kittow 7 11-0...............D Noonan — 7 P-L66P2 INVINCIBLE CAVE (25) Cynthia Woods 9 10-7...........T Cannon 108 8 LPPP/PP- CAP’N (269) A West 11 10-3...........................................J M Davies — 9 LL-L6UP MISTERTOMMYSHELBY (14) R Potter 6 10-0.................B Poste — 10 PP5LL-L OVERTOUGEORGE (17) C & A Pogson 8 10-0........P Armson(7) — BLINKERS: No. 3 TONGUE STRAP: Nos. 1, 3, 8 CHEEK PIECES: Nos. 4, 6, 7. SOFT/HEAVY WINNERS: Nos. 5, 6, 7, 3, 1, 2. SP FORECAST: 3 Invincible Cave, 9-2 Lord Sparky, 5 Peter’s Portrait, Allardyce, 6 Zuckerberg, 13-2 Freddy Fanatapan, 10 Loud As Lions, 33 Others. 4.00 Authority rating of 153. “He’s a horse that would travel – he’s got a great mindset, so that isn’t an issue, either – and it’s the right way round,” he added. “That’s the plan. Handicaps are out, anyway, so that’s what we’ve got to do.” ❒ Jeremy Scott will aim mud-loving stable star Dashel Drasher at Lingfield Park’s £150,000 Winter Million Chase on Sunday week after opting to bypass tomorrow’s Grade Two Silviniaco Conti Chase at Kempton Park. JACKPOT: www.totepoolliveinfo.com ‘NEWCOMERS’ NH FLAT RACE (GBB RACE) £2,178 (5) 1m 7f 171yds (7) 1 BUTCH O Murphy 5 11-6................................................... A P Heskin — 2 HUNKY Mrs C Bailey 5 11-6........................................J Andrews(5) — 3 MR GOLD D McCain 5 11-6..............................................T Gillard(5) — 4 ● PROPELLED N Henderson 5 11-6......................N De Boinville — 5 ANITA’S SPIRIT D Shaw 5 10-13............................................J Best — 6 ODIN’S QUEST G L Moore 4 10-7..............................Jamie Moore — 7 UNSTOPPABLE Miss J Davis 4 10-7............................J M Davies — HOOD: No. 7. SP FORECAST: 13-8 Propelled, 5-2 Butch, 5 Mr Gold, Odin’s Quest, 16 Unstoppable, Anita’s Spirit, 25 Hunky. HOOF PRINT Promising novice chaser Ahoy Senor will head to Wetherby for his Cheltenham Festival warm-up run, connections have confirmed. Lucinda Russell’s young star won a Grade Two race at Newbury by 31 lengths before chasing home Bravemansgame at Kempton Park over Christmas. Although connections were eyeing the Winter Million meeting at Lingfield, they will instead target the three-mile Towton Chase at Wetherby on February 5. He is as short as 6-1 for the Festival Novices’ Chase at Cheltenham on March 16. BANGOR-ON-DEE: Chase: heavy; hurdle: soft-heavy in places 1.30—ROYAL ACT (W T Kennedy, 20‐1) 1; Yourholidayisover (25‐1) 2; Kingston King (5‐2 fav) 3. H’cap 7 ran. 1 1 /2l, 3 1 /4l. (S-J Davies). Tote: £21.00; pl £5.80, £8.60. exacta: £135.10. trifecta: £1539.50. CSF: £293.76. 2.00—SNUFF BOX (C Deutsch, 8‐1) 1; One Fer Mamma (15‐8 fav) 2; Good And Hardy (10‐1) 3. H’cap 10 ran. 20l, 9 1 /2l. (V Williams). Tote: £9.00; pl £2.30, £1.30, £2.90. exacta: £26.70. tricast: £155.77. trifecta: £173.90. CSF: £24.38. 2.30—CONTEMPLATEMYFAITH (A Coleman, 13‐8 2nd fav) 1; Barrowdale (7‐2) 2; Rachel Louise (28‐1) 3. 5 ran. 4 3 /4l, 20l. (O Murphy; 6-5 fav Reilly). Tote: £2.63; pl £1.20, £1.70. exacta: £7.00. trifecta: £33.20. CSF: £7.91. 3.00—GREEN VAULT (A Doyle, 1‐2 fav) 1; Sutton Manor (14‐1) 2; Diakosaint (4‐1 2nd fav) 3. H’cap 8 ran. 6 1 /2l, 7l. (L Russell). Tote: £1.50; pl £1.10, £2.70, £1.70. exacta: £8.40. tricast: £19.31. trifecta: £31.70. CSF: £9.39. 3.30—HART OF STEEL (T Gillard, 9‐4 fav) 1; Eaton Collina (5‐2 2nd fav) 2; Gerolamo Cardano (3‐1) 3. H’cap 5 ran. 1l, 5 1 /2l. (D McCain). Tote: £3.25; pl £1.50, £1.50. exacta: £7.80. trifecta: £19.20. CSF: £8.50. 4.00—COREY’S COURAGE (A Coleman, 9‐4 fav) 1; Prime Time Lady (13‐2) 2; Billams Legacy (10‐3 jt 2nd fav) 3. 10 ran. 8l, 4 3 /4l. (O Murphy). Tote: £3.25; pl £1.40, £2.10, £1.20. exacta: £20.10. trifecta: £96.90. CSF: £18.57. Placepot: £614.70 (Race 1) 6, 7; (2) 2, 8, 6; (3) 2, 1; (4) 1, 2, 5; (5) 1, 2; (6) 4, 7, 1. Quadpot: £4.30 CATTERICK: Good to soft-soft in places 12.40—GUERLAIN DE VAUX (J J Burke, 15‐8 2nd fav) 1; Gredin (5‐1) 2; Best Trition (6‐4 fav) 3. 6 ran. hd, 9 1 /2l. (O Sherwood). Tote: £2.88; pl £1.40, £2.40. exacta: £11.10. trifecta: £20.80. CSF: £11.54. 1.10—JESSIEMAC (T Willmott, 7‐2 2nd fav) 1; Baby Jane (4‐1) 2; Winter Holiday (13‐2) 3. H’cap 10 ran. ns, 3 /4l. (I Duncan; 3-1 fav Tanora). Tote: £4.50; pl £1.90, £2.30, £1.60. exacta: £21.60. tricast: £87.67. trifecta: £116.80. CSF: £18.54. Non-runner: Aazza. 1.40—THE VERY THING (Miss Becky Smith, 66‐1) 1; No Cruise Yet (7‐2) 2; Hidden Cargo (9‐1) 3. H’cap 9 ran. 3l, 10l. (M Hammond; 9-4 jtfav Melanamix, 9-4 jtfav Tumbling Dice). Tote: £67.00; pl £7.60, £1.50, £2.60. exacta: £294.30. tricast: £2352.92. trifecta: £2985.90. CSF: £297.34. 2.10—A DIFFERENT KIND (B Hughes, 1‐5 fav) 1; Lalochezia (12‐1) 2; Any Givin Sunday (15‐2 2nd fav) 3. 4 ran. 11l, 1 1 /2l. (D McCain). Tote: £1.20; exacta: £3.50. trifecta: £5.90. CSF: £3.43. 2.40—SUPREME ESCAPE (J Bowen, 5‐1) 1; Almazhar Garde (10‐3 2nd fav) 2; Who’s In The Box (16‐5 fav) 3. H’cap 8 ran. 3 /4l, 4l. (E Williams). Tote: £6.00; pl £2.20, £1.90, £1.40. exacta: £31.20. tricast: £60.72. trifecta: £134.90. CSF: £22.58. 3.10—ART OF DIPLOMACY (S Twiston- Davies, 10‐11 fav) 1; Bill Baxter (3‐1 2nd fav) 2; Be The Difference (9‐2) 3. H’cap 6 ran. 7 1 /2l, nk. (Dr R Newland). Tote: £1.91; pl £1.10, £1.70. exacta: £4.70. trifecta: £11.50. CSF: £4.25. 3.40—ANYHARMINASKING (Jonjo O’Neill Jr, 11‐8 fav) 1; Sayar (9‐1) 2; Kensington Art (6‐1) 3. H’cap 7 ran. 6 1 /2l, 4 1 /2l. (Jonjo O’Neill). Tote: £2.38; pl £1.40, £4.10. exacta: £16.30. tricast: £57.48. trifecta: £56.70. CSF: £14.35. Nonrunners: Curious Times, Khanmurjan. Placepot: £38.30 (Race 1) 3, 2; (2) 2, 8, 4; (3) 9, 3, 8; (4) 1; (5) 4, 1, 8; (6) 5, 2; Quadpot: £8.60 RESULTS NEWCASTLE: Standard to slow 1.50—PERCY WILLIS (P J McDonald, 11‐4 2nd fav) 1; Collaborating (25‐1) 2; Mr Shady (10‐3) 3. H’cap 9 ran. hd, 5 1 /2l. (J O’Keeffe; 2-1 fav Wadacre Gogo). Tote: £3.75; pl £1.40, £5.80, £1.40. exacta: £66.50. tricast: £240.32. trifecta: £321.70. CSF: £69.38. 2.20—BLAZING HOT (O Stammers, 10‐3 2nd fav) 1; Swiss Connection (11‐4 fav) 2; Ubahha (11‐1) 3. H’cap 9 ran. 1 /2l, 1 1 /2l. (G Tuer). Tote: £4.34; pl £1.60, £1.40, £3.40. exacta: £14.50. tricast: £89.66. trifecta: £111.60. CSF: £12.98. 2.50—DRAGONS WILL RISE (R Havlin, 16‐5) 1; Jomont (15‐8 fav) 2; The New Marwan (28‐1) 3. H’cap 7 ran. 2 3 /4l, 1 1 /2l. (M Hammond). Tote: £4.20; pl £1.80, £1.50. exacta: £10.60. trifecta: £94.40. CSF: £9.85. 3.20—AL ZARAQAAN (D Tudhope, 4‐6 fav) 1; Halimi (9‐4 2nd fav) 2; Sir Chauvelin (11‐2) 3. 3 ran. 3 3 /4l, 6 1 /2l. (A Watson). Tote: £1.67; exacta: £2.20. trifecta: £3.00. CSF: £2.37. 3.50—DEVASBOY (J Fanning, 16‐5) 1; Straits Of Moyle (5‐2 2nd fav) 2; Dairerin (3‐1) 3. H’cap 4 ran. 3 1 /4l, hd. (C & M Johnston; 2-1 fav Neptune Legend). Tote: £4.20; exacta: £10.20. trifecta: £23.50. CSF: £11.37. 4.20—STORMY OCEAN (R Winston, evens fav) 1; Blue Trail (10‐3 jt 2nd fav) 2; Illuminated (25‐1) 3. 10 ran. 3 3 /4l, 3l. (C Appleby). Tote: £2.00; pl £1.10, £1.70, £4.80. exacta: £6.40. trifecta: £60.10. CSF: £4.64. Non-runner: Grand Alliance. 4.50—ENGLES ROCK (P Mulrennan, 10‐1) 1; Dreamseller (8‐1) 2; Mawkeb (13‐8 fav) 3. H’cap 8 ran. 3 /4l, nk. (L Russell). Tote: £11.00; pl £2.80, £2.40, £1.20. exacta: £83.00. tricast: £199.65. trifecta: £455.60. CSF: £88.51. Jackpot: £846.70 Placepot: £21.50 (Race 1) 3, 2, 5; (2) 6, 4, 5; (3) 1, 3; (4) 1; (5) 4; (6) 8, 2, 5; Quadpot: £9.00 CHELMSFORD CITY: Standard 4.30—CINZENTO (G Rooke, 11‐4 fav) 1; Hannalite (3‐1 2nd fav) 2; Miss Pollyanna (9‐2) 3. 7 ran. 3 /4l, 1 3 /4l. (R Teal). Tote: £3.40; pl £2.00, £1.60. exacta: £11.20. trifecta: £27.40. CSF: £10.76. 5.00—OASIS IRLANDES (D Probert, 5‐4 fav) 1; Shin Saw Gyi (4‐1 2nd fav) 2; Debit Card (9‐1) 3. 10 ran. 3 /4l, 3 /4l. (A Murphy). Tote: £2.25; pl £1.10, £1.40, £2.00. exacta: £6.80. trifecta: £42.80. CSF: £6.10. Non-runners: Alice Tinker, Hemsby Pine. 5.30—CERULEAN (K O’Neill, 5‐2 2nd fav) 1; Eltham Palace (4‐1) 2; Typewritten (13‐2) 3. 6 ran. 1 3 /4l, 5l. (I Furtado; 2-1 fav Kaahira). Tote: £3.50; pl £1.60, £2.40. exacta: £13.40. trifecta: £48.40. CSF: £12.74. Non-runner: She Got The Look. 6.00—MORLAIX (H Turner, 9‐2) 1; Alhammaam (3‐1 2nd fav) 2; Athmad (10‐1) 3. H’cap 5 ran. 1 1 /4l, 1l. (D M Simcock; 7-4 fav Hathlool). Tote: £5.50; pl £2.20, £1.80. exacta: £14.70. trifecta: £62.00. CSF: £17.50. 6.30—DUBAI EMPEROR (S Donohoe, 11‐4 fav) 1; Diamonds At Dusk (11‐1) 2; Copake (7‐1) 3. H’cap 6 ran. 3 3 /4l, 1 /2l. (D M Simcock). Tote: £3.90; pl £1.80, £4.00. exacta: £32.70. trifecta: £140.10. CSF: £30.61. Non-runner: Bella Colorossa. 7.00—WHITTLE LE WOODS (J Watson, evens fav) 1; Legende D’art (7‐2 2nd fav) 2; Full Intention (12‐1) 3. H’cap 7 ran. 1l, 1 1 /4l. (M Appleby). Tote: £2.00; pl £1.20, £1.90. exacta: £5.00. trifecta: £24.40. CSF: £4.24. 7.30—TREVIE FOUNTAIN (H Doyle, 10‐3 fav) 1; The Game Of Life (9‐2) 2; Million Reasons (7‐2 2nd fav) 3. 11 ran. 3l, 1 /2l. (R Carr). Tote: £4.34; pl £1.50, £1.80, £1.90. exacta: £20.40. trifecta: £90.40. CSF: £18.72. Non-runner: Kraka. Placepot: £55.70 (Race 1) 1, 2; (2) 3, 12, 6; (3) 2, 3; (4) 3, 4; (5) 5, 3; (6) 2, 7; Quadpot: £31.10 VITAL STATISTICS IN-FORM TRAINERS (last 10 days) Dr R Newland 70% (3 wins and 4 places from 10 runners), D Shaw 58% (2/5/12), J Best & K Jewell 57% (2/2/7), W Haggas 57% (1/3/7), G L Moore 55% (7/4/20), A Balding 50% (5/3/16), W Coltherd 50% (1/2/6). IN-FORM JOCKEYS Clifford Lee 67% (3 wins and 1 places from 6 runners), Morgan Cole 67% (1/3/6), Robert Havlin 67% (1/3/6), Aidan Coleman 62% (7/1/13), Alan Doyle 60% (3/0/5), Gavin Sheehan 60% (2/7/15), Sam Coltherd 57% (2/2/7), Brian Hughes 54% (7/6/24), Miss Becky Smith 50% (1/1/4), Sean Levey 50% (2/5/14), Theo Gillard 50% (2/2/8). GOSSIP FROM THE GALLOPS Newmarket: ACROSS THE NILE (5.00 Wolverhampton) North: SON OF THE SOMME (1.20 Sedgefield) Lambourn: ACRION (3.40 Lingfield) Midlands: FRERE D’ARMES (1.30 Huntingdon)

BETWAY APPRENTICE HANDICAP 12.40 £2,970 (Class 6) 6f 1yds (10 Dec) 1 (4) 153- COOLAGH MAGIC (28) (C,D) R Brisland 6 9 9 Harry Davies(7) 2 (2) 9L-7 SHANGHAI ROCK (11) (D) R Cowell 4 9 9.....L Williams 3 (9) 748- WON LOVE (46) J Tuite 4 9 7..................... A Brookes 4 (6) 64-3 ● BIG TIME MAYBE (10) (C) M Attwater 7 9 6 C Howarth 5 (3) 297- JULIE JOHNSTON (14) (D) J Bridger 4 9 6 L Kent(5) 6 (5) 8/7-L SEPRANI (9) (C&D) P Phelan 8 9 2........... A Keeley 7 (1) 0L-0 IMPRESSIONS DREAM (4) C Cox 4 9 2..........D Le Roux(7) 8 (7) 364- BUNGLEDUPINBLUE (16) (C&D) J R Jenkins 4 9 2 L Browne 9 (8) 6L-8 ONE DAY (10) Mrs L Mongan 4 9 1.... M Presland(3) 10 (10) 54-L VINCENZO COCCOTTI (8) (D) P Chamings 10 9 1 Georgina King(5) BLINKERS: No. 9 TONGUE STRAP: Nos. 3, 4 CHEEK PIECES: Nos. 2, 4, 10 HOOD: No. 3. W-Factor: Bungledupinblue (68); Julie Johnston (67); Coolagh Magic (66). SP FORECAST: 9-4 Coolagh Magic, 7-2 Big Time Maybe, 4 Bungledupinblue, 8 Shanghai Rock, 10 Others. BETWAY INSIDER HANDICAP 1.10 £3,510 (5) 1m 4f (5) 1 (2) 052- LADY PENDRAGON (30) (C) M Smith 5 9 10 Jacob Clark(7) 2 (3) 93-1 ● RACE CARD (9) (D,F) D M Simcock 4 9 9(5ex) H Turner 3 (5) 128- SOURIRE SECRET (19) R Brisland 4 9 6.......D E Hogan 4 (4) 160- REECELTIC (197) (C&D) P Phelan 7 9 4 R Clutterbuck(3) 5 (1) 96-2 CAFE SYDNEY (7) (C&D) A Carroll 6 8 10.......L Morris BLINKERS: No. 1 VISOR: No. 4 TONGUE STRAP: No. 1 HOOD: No. 2. W-Factor: Lady Pendragon (75); Cafe Sydney (74); Race Card (73). SP FORECAST: 11-10 Race Card, 9-4 Lady Pendragon, 9-2 Cafe Sydney, 12 Sourire Secret, 16 Reeceltic. 12.20 MAIDEN HURDLE £5,651 (Class 4) 2m 3f 188yds (8 declared) 1 410 IMPERIAL LORD (36) J Coulson 6 11 8..........F Gregory 2 3LP- LYNDALE (294) C Grant 7 11 8...................Sean Quinlan 3 2/32 MAHLER MISSION (16) J McConnell (IRE) 6 11 8 J Bowen 4 3-67 NORTHERN FALCON (216) Miss P Robson 7 11 8....H Brooke 5 153 SPIKE JONES (29)(T) S Drinkwater 5 11 8.......... D Burton(5) 6 316 ● SULLIVAN’S BROW (18) D McCain 7 11 8........B Hughes 7 65P THE DEISE MAN (33) S Doyle (IRE) 6 11 8.......A Doyle(7) 8 242 BETTY BALOO (57) T Easterby 6 11 1...........J Hamilton TONGUE STRAP: No. 7 HOOD: Nos. 4, 5. SOFT/HEAVY WINNERS: Nos. 5, 6, 8. W-Factor: Mahler Mission (115); Betty Baloo (111); Spike Jones (107). SP FORECAST: 11-8 Mahler Mission, 2 Betty Baloo, 8 Spike Jones, Sullivan’s Brow, 12 Imperial Lord, 14 Others. NOVICES’ HANDICAP CHASE 12.50 £7,515 (4) 2m 5f 28yds (7) 1 431 DUBAI DAYS (24) (D) N Alexander 8 11 12.......C O’Farrell 2 2-13 THE MIGHTY ARC (35)(T) C Longsdon 7 11 10.........B Hughes 3 L12 COOPER’S CROSS (48) (C) W Coltherd 7 11 9.......S Coltherd 4 4-62 ● EN MEME TEMPS (59) (F) P Kirby 8 11 7 J Williamson(5) 5 3L7 STOP TALKING (80) J Candlish 10 11 7...Sean Quinlan 6 P4P BULLDOZE (180) M Hammond 7 11 2................A Cawley 7 3-PP COOL COUNTRY (201) M Todhunter 7 10 5...C Bewley TONGUE: Nos. 2, 6 CHEEK PIECES: Nos. 4, 5 HOOD: No. 1. SOFT/HEAVY WINNERS: Nos. 1, 5. W-Factor: En Meme Temps (127); Dubai Days (126); Cooper’s Cross (125). SP FORECAST: 5-2 Dubai Days, 10-3 Cooper’s Cross, 4 The Mighty Arc, En Meme Temps, 10 Bulldoze, 12 Others. CAZOO HANDICAP HURDLE (DIV 1) 1.20 £4,466 (5) 2m 3f 188yds (11) 1 511 CAILIN DEARG (19) (C&D) R Dobbin 7 12 1 .....C Nichol 2 159 JOIE DE VIVRE (59) (C&D) M Todhunter 7 11 12 A Doyle(7) 3 L83 CASH AGAIN (19) (C&D) B Haslam 10 11 10 R McLernon 4 623 RUBYTWO (27) (D) N Richards 10 11 10...... D McMenamin 5 66-2 ● SON OF THE SOMME (49) B Ellison 7 11 8...........H Brooke 6 6-L5 HIDDEN COMMANDER (53) P Kirby 7 11 6........S Coltherd 7 L04 LOSTNFOUND (19) (C) D Thompson 9 11 2..........B Hughes 8 597 HAJEY (27) T Waggott 5 11 1.............................T Midgley(7) 9 L75 BOLLIN PHOENIX (19) T Easterby 5 10 8......... J Hamilton 10 637 AMMA LORD (25) R Menzies 6 10 4.............N Moscrop(3) 11 P87 BURDIGALA (19) M Hammond 9 10 0.............A Cawley BLINKERS: Nos. 4, 9 VISOR: No. 10 TONGUE STRAP: Nos. 1, 10 CHEEK PIECES: No. 3. SOFT/HEAVY WINNERS: Nos. 1, 2, 3, 7. W-Factor: Burdigala (105); Rubytwo (104); Joie De Vivre (103). SP FORECAST: 5-2 Cailin Dearg, 4 Son Of The Somme, Rubytwo, 8 Cash Again, 10 Joie De Vivre, 12 Others. 4.30 APPRENTICE HANDICAP £4,995 (Class 4) 1m 4f 51yds (4 Dec) 1 (4) 33-1 ● CHIPIRON (7) (C,D) I Furtado 6 9 10(5ex) Elle-May Croot(7) 2 (2) 2L3- ANGEL ON HIGH (15) (F) H Dunlop 5 9 5 T Hammer Hansen 3 (1) 458- KOEMAN (15) (C&D) M Channon 8 9 4 Rose Dawes(7) 4 (3) 5/6-3 PROGRESSIVE (2) N Henderson 5 9 2 O Stammers(3) W-Factor: Koeman (93); Angel On High (91); Chipiron (87). SP FORECAST: 13-8 Chipiron, 7-4 Angel On High, 4 Progressive, 6 Koeman. 5.00 CLASSIFIED SELLING STAKES £2,970 (6) 1m 142yds (7) 1 (3) 65-1 NEVER SAID NOTHING (11) (C&D) M Loughnane 5 9 3 P Prince 2 (1) 486- ELIXSOFT (28) (C&D) K Tutty 7 8 12.......G Tutty(3) 3 (4) 55-4 MYTHICAL MADNESS (6) (C&D) D O’Meara 11 8 12 Mark Winn(7) 4 (5) 67-4 RIGHT ACTION (11) (C) P Evans 8 8 12.....G Mangan(5) 5 (2) 167- ● VOCATUS (42) M Appleby 6 8 12............T Marquand 6 (7) 3L-2 ACROSS THE NILE (11) (F) J Ferguson 4 8 11 ...... H Doyle 7 (6) 5-63 DISTINCTION (11) (F) K Burke 4 8 11.....S Feilden(7) BLINKERS: No. 5 VISOR: Nos. 4, 7 TONGUE STRAP: Nos. 4, 5 CHEEK PIECES: Nos. 3, 6 HOOD: No. 1. W-Factor: Across The Nile (85); Vocatus (84); Mythical Madness (83). SP FORECAST: 11-4 Across The Nile, 7-2 Never Said Nothing, 5 Distinction, 6 Right Action, 7 Others. 5.30 Lingfield SSR Wolverhampton SSR HANDICAP 3YO £3,510 (5) 1m 142yds (6) 1 (6) L33- ● ATTENTIVE (28) W Haggas 9 7......... T Marquand 2 (3) 5LD- SAN FRANCISCO BAY (154) (F) C Fellowes 9 6........J P Spencer 3 (1) 03L- LIGHTENING GESTURE (19) K Burke 9 6..........C Lee 4 (4) 8L3- SUBJECTIVE VALUE (122) C & M Johnston 9 5 J Fanning 5 (2) L45- LA DUCHESSE (123) M Botti 9 5.....................H Doyle 6 (5) 67-2 BEARING BOB (11) M Loughnane 9 1.........D Probert W-Factor: Subjective Value (78); Bearing Bob (77); San Francisco Bay (76). SP FORECAST: 5-2 Attentive, 3 San Francisco Bay, 7-2 Bearing Bob, 6 La Duchesse, 7 Subjective Value, 8 Lightening Gesture. TRACK FACTS: GOING: Standard. Left Handed. TOP TRACK JOCKEY (2017-22): David Probert 11% Strike rate. TOP TRACK TRAINER (2017-22): P Evans 11% Strike rate 1.40 1.50 6.00 MEDIAN AUCTION MAIDEN STAKES 3YO £3,942 (5) 1m 4f 51yds (6) 1 (2) 2 CHARLES ST (6) (F) G Boughey 9 5..............H Doyle 2 (3) ● HIGHLAND MONARCH A Balding 9 5...D Probert 3 (5) SATANIC MOON C & M Johnston 9 5................ J Hart 4 (6) 8- BOUDICA WARRIOR (29) A Haynes 9 0 T Hammer Hansen 5 (4) 9- CLAREMONT AVENUE (65) C & M Johnston 9 0 J Fanning 6 (1) L- CONVINCE (29) C Fellowes 9 0..............J P Spencer W-Factor: Charles St (77); Claremont Avenue (63); Boudica Warrior (62). SP FORECAST: 8-11 Charles St, 4 Highland Monarch, 5 Satanic Moon, 12 Convince, 14 Claremont Avenue, 20 Boudica Warrior. 6.30 BETWAY HANDICAP £6,920 (3) 2m 120yds (4) 1 (2) 5/78- KING’S ADVICE (105) (C) C & M Johnston 8 9 12 J Fanning 2 (4) 042- NATE THE GREAT (44) (C&D,F) A Balding 6 9 11 W Carver(3) 3 (1) 151- AUTHOR’S DREAM (28) (C&D,F) W Knight 9 9 7 T Marquand 4 (3) 13-1 ● FAMOUS STAR (11) (C&D) S & E Crisford 4 8 6.....H Burns(5) VISOR: No. 3 TONGUE STRAP: No. 4. W-Factor: Famous Star (97); Author’s Dream (96); Nate The Great (95). SP FORECAST: 13-8 Famous Star, 2 Author’s Dream, 5-2 Nate The Great, 10 King’s Advice. 7.00 CAZOO HANDICAP HURDLE (DIV 2) £4,466 (5) 2m 3f 188yds (11) 1 5L7 CAPTAIN MOIRETTE (13) J Moffatt 10 11 12 Charlotte Jones(5) 2 528 PRESENTEDWITHWINGS (28) (D) D Bourke 8 11 9 A Cawley 3 L91 THREE CASTLES (25) (D,F) K Dalgleish 6 11 9 D McMenamin 4 224 COUP DE GOLD (17) D Thompson 6 11 8........B Hughes 5 324 ● ANNIES PRAYER (36) J Candlish 5 11 6 ........S Quinlan 6 353 FIGHTFORTHEROSES (19) B Haslam 7 11 3 R McLernon 7 900 GET PHAR (13) D Brooke 6 11 1.......................... H Brooke 8 45-6 BRAVANTINA (19) R Menzies 7 10 9.......N Moscrop(3) 9 263 BRICKADANK (27) M Hammond 6 10 4 .......Miss B Smith(3) 10 52-P ARCANJA (77) R Menzies 8 10 3.......................C Bewley 11 34L BULLION (74) E Williams 9 10 0.... Isabel Williams(5) VISOR: No. 10 TONGUE: Nos. 7, 8, 10, 11 CHEEK: Nos. 1, 3. SOFT/HEAVY WINNERS: Nos. 1, 4. W-Factor: Coup De Gold (107); Brickadank (106); Bravantina (105). SP FORECAST: 11-4 Three Castles, 5 Annies Prayer, 6 Coup De Gold, Brickadank, Fightfortheroses, 12 Others. 2.20 FILLIES’ HANDICAP £3,510 (5) 1m 2f (5) 1 (1) 61-1 NUBLE (6) (C&D,F) M Botti 6 9 10(5ex).......C Howarth(7) 2 (4) 420- GLENEAGLET (38) C Fellowes 4 9 7........... H Turner 3 (2) 44-2 CLASSY DAME (11) (C&D) R Eddery 4 9 5....... C Fallon 4 (5) 326- ● WHO CARES WINS (15) A King 4 9 4......... R Kingscote 5 (3) 724- SANTA FLORENTINA (26) P McEntee 4 9 2 Grace McEntee(3) TONGUE STRAP: No. 1 HOOD: Nos. 1, 2. W-Factor: Classy Dame (77); Who Cares Wins (76); Santa Florentina (74). SP FORECAST: 13-8 Nuble, 2 Classy Dame, 5 Who Cares Wins, 11-2 Gleneaglet, 14 Santa Florentina. 2.10 CORAL HANDICAP 3YO £4,995 (4) 1m 2f (5) 1 (1) 15- SILVERSCAPE (37) R Teal 9 7..............C Howarth(7) 2 (2) 23-2 ACHNAMARA (11)(T) C & M Johnston 9 6...... A Breslin(5) 3 (4) 432- MASHKUUR (14) (F) S C Williams 9 3........R Kingscote 4 (5) 431- ● ALREADY GONE (14) (C&D) J S Moore 9 1.....L Keniry 5 (3) 7-74 U A E FIFTY (6) Alice Haynes 8 2................K O’Neill VISOR: No. 3 CHEEK PIECES: Nos. 4, 5. W-F: Achnamara (82); Silverscape (81); Mashkuur (80). SP FORECAST: 9-4 Already Gone, 5-2 Achnamara, 3 Mashkuur, 9-2 Silverscape, 12 U A E Fifty. 2.40 HANDICAP £3,510 (5) 7f 1yds (8) 1 (2) 3L7- RUN FORREST RUN (65) (D) G Baker 4 9 9........T Whelan 2 (3) L54- NEFARIOUS (26) (D) S Dow 6 9 7.............J Mitchell 3 (7) 621- BLUE FLAME (17) (D) E Dunlop 5 9 5........R Kingscote 4 (4) 6LL- GARTH ROCKETT (23) (C&D) M Murphy 8 9 4 C Fallon 5 (8) 23-2 CAPLA SPIRIT (10) (C) G Kelleway 5 9 3....R Havlin 6 (5) 642- ALWAYS DREAMING (25) M Loughnane 4 9 2....L Morris 7 (6) 231- ● KEEP RIGHT ON (44) (C&D) R Hannon 4 9 1 S M Levey 8 (1) 537- CAPE GRECO (294) (C&D) J Long 7 9 0.........G Rooke(3) BLINKERS: Nos. 5, 7 VISOR: No. 8 TONGUE STRAP: No. 4 CHEEK PIECES: Nos. 4, 6. W-Factor: Blue Flame (82); Keep Right On (81); Capla Spirit (80). SP FORECAST: 5-2 Blue Flame, 4 Keep Right On, Capla Spirit, 5 Always Dreaming, 6 Nefarious, 12 Others. Sedgefield SSR THE SCOUT 12.20 Sullivan’s Brow 2.20 Commis D’Office 12.50 En Meme Temps 2.50 Don Herbager 1.20 Son Of The Somme 3.20 Lime Drop 1.50 Annies Prayer 3.50 Iceman Dennis HANDICAP CHASE £9,803 (3) 2m 3f 65yds (7) 1 L11 GALILEO SILVER (19)(T) S Thomas 7 11 12.......J Tudor(3) 2 4L4 THE KING OF MAY (16) (C) B Ellison 8 11 11.......B Hughes 3 811 DR SANDERSON (35) (D) B Haslam 8 11 10 R McLernon 4 5-PL ASHUTOR (23)(T) Mrs S Leech 8 11 10..........L Williams 5 L31 ROAD WARRIOR (19) (C&D,F) R Menzies 8 11 9......H Brooke 6 41-L ● COMMIS D’OFFICE (34)(T) V Williams 10 11 5.........C Deutsch 7 38L HIDEO (18) M Hammond 5 10 10........E Smith-Chaston(7) BLINKERS: No. 1 TONGUE: Nos. 4, 5 CHEEK: Nos. 2, 4, 5. SOFT/HEAVY WINNERS: Nos. 1, 2, 4, 5. W-F: Ashutor (134); Commis D’Office (132); The King Of May (131). SP FORECAST: 7-4 Galileo Silver, 3 Road Warrior, 9-2 Dr Sanderson, 6 Commis D’Office, 8 Others. BETWAY CLASSIFIED STAKES £2,970 (6) 5f 21yds (11) 1 (2) 676- ASCOT JUNGLE (27) C Hobson 5 9 2.....C Hutchinson(5) 2 (7) 20-L CAPTAIN RYAN (7) (C&D) G Deacon 11 9 2 T Heard(5) 3 (11) 807- DODGY BOB (116) M Mullineaux 9 9 2 F McManoman(3) 4 (9) 60-5 ISABELLA RUBY (9) (C) L Williamson 7 9 2...J Mason(3) 5 (3) 8L7- LA CHICA LOBO (16) L Williamson 5 9 2......... C Hardie 6 (5) 767- ● LORNA COLE (23) (C&D) C Wallis 6 9 2......H Doyle 7 (8) 96L- LUCKYANGEL (52) M Mullineaux 5 9 2..........D Probert 8 (4) 0LL- MR PC (18) A Carroll 4 9 2............................. J Watson 9 (1) 55-7 SUREWECAN (7) S Hollinshead 10 9 2........W Cox(3) 10 (6) L4-2 THEGREYVTRAIN (10) (C&D) R Harris 6 9 2...... R Hornby 11 (10) 42-1 THE TRON (3) (D) D Shaw 4 9 2......Morgan Cole(7) BLINKERS: Nos. 3, 8 VISOR: No. 11 TONGUE STRAP: Nos. 1, 8 CHEEK PIECES: Nos. 6, 9 HOOD: Nos. 1, 5, 7. W-Factor: Ascot Jungle (65); The Tron (64); Thegreyvtrain (63). SP FORECAST: 11-4 The Tron, 7-2 Thegreyvtrain, 6 Ascot Jungle, 7 Isabella Ruby, 8 Lorna Cole, 10 Mr Pc, 12 Others. DX1ST golf: BIG-HITTER’S Lofty ambition 3.10 2.50 7.30 HANDICAP (DIV 1) 3YO £2,970 (6) 5f 21yds (9) 1 (8) 000- COOLMEEN VEGA (92) D O’Meara 9 9...... J Watson 2 (2) 946- TAAQAT (27) J Tate 9 8............................ T Marquand 3 (5) 2L0- PEARL OF KUWAIT (32) M Usher 9 7...... E Mackenzie(5) 4 (9) 456- MY JOKER (18) M Attwater 9 7.....................W Cox(3) 5 (7) 048- BONITA B (32) M Channon 9 6....... T Hammer Hansen 6 (6) 465- ● EMERALD LADY (34) (F) K Burke 9 5.........C Lee 7 (4) 337- FAIR AND SQUARE (29) R Harris 9 3.........R Hornby 8 (1) 296- TINKERSTAR (16) Phillip Makin 9 0.........T Hamilton 9 (3) 685- AL TILAL (16) S Dixon 8 4..........................J Duern(3) BLINKERS: No. 7 CHEEK PIECES: Nos. 5, 8. W-Factor: Pearl Of Kuwait (74); Bonita B (73); Coolmeen Vega (72). SP FORECAST: 3 Emerald Lady, 4 Taaqat, 5 Coolmeen Vega, 6 Tinkerstar, 8 Al Tilal, Fair And Square, 12 Others. 8.00 HANDICAP CHASE £7,515 (4) 3m 2f 59yds (9) 1 L8P ZOLFO (16) J Candlish 10 11 12....................Sean Quinlan 2 1-L6 CHANTING HILL (36) N Alexander 8 11 11...... H Brooke 3 L-51 ● DON HERBAGER (37)(T) V Williams 8 11 10 C Deutsch 4 2L-P OFF THE BEAT (39) A M Thomson 8 11 9......... R Mania 5 5L5 ARD CHROS (12) W Coltherd 10 11 6..............S Coltherd 6 64F DALKINGSTOWN (29)(T) P Bowen 8 11 2........J Bowen 7 225 GREY ATLANTIC WAY (19) (C) D Brooke 9 10 8 Craig Nichol 8 3-23 CUDGEL (16) J Walton 9 10 6..........................C O’Farrell 9 PL4 BALLINTOGHER BOY (42) C Grant 8 10 0.A Doyle(7) BLINKERS: No. 7 TONGUE STRAP: Nos. 5, 7, 8 CHEEK PIECES: Nos. 1, 3, 4, 5. SOFT/HEAVY WINNERS: Nos. 1, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8. W-Factor: Zolfo (123); Cudgel (120); Ard Chros (115). SP FORECAST: 7-4 Don Herbager, 4 Dalkingstown, 8 Cudgel, Chanting Hill, 10 Grey Atlantic Way, Zolfo, Off The Beat, 14 Others. 3.20 MARES’ HANDICAP HURDLE £4,466 (5) 2m 178yds (8) 1 111 ● LIME DROP (36) H Daly 6 11 12................T J O’Brien 2 461 ALRIGHT MARLENE (13) J Coward 9 11 12........A Edwards(3) 3 339 GINE SACRE (67) Miss P Robson 6 11 8.......... H Brooke 4 67L RAVENSCAR (19) P Kirby 6 11 5................ J Williamson(5) 5 456 DURRAGH (25) D McCain 5 10 6.............................B Hughes 6 UPL KITTY HALL (42) B Butterworth 8 10 2.......Sean Quinlan 7 44 FLEETING BLUE (16)(T) T Coyle 4 10 0...........C O’Farrell 8 L6L MISS WEST (54) E Williams 5 10 0.......... I Williams(5) TONGUE STRAP: No. 2 CHEEK PIECES: No. 6 HOOD: No. 7. SOFT/HEAVY WINNERS: Nos. 2, 6. W-Factor: Durragh (112); Kitty Hall (106); Lime Drop (105). SP FORECAST: 6-4 Lime Drop, 5-2 Alright Marlene, 11-2 Gine Sacre, 10 Durragh, Fleeting Blue, 12 Others. 3.50 HANDICAP 3YO £3,510 (5) 7f 1yds (7) 1 (7) 37-2 ● JASTAR (11) (F) G Boughey 9 9.............. H Turner 2 (5) 625- IRISH MILLIONS (62) W Haggas 9 7.............C Fallon 3 (1) 735- MORE DIAMONDS (30) R Hughes 9 7.... G Rooke(3) 4 (2) 538- PROVINCE (232) D Loughnane 9 4.......R Kingscote 5 (4) 655- ESSENCIAL (17) M Botti 9 4........................ D E Hogan 6 (6) 613- BURABACK (28) (C&D) J Best & K Jewell 9 3..... R Havlin 7 (3) 84-2 HOMEMADE ANDREA (10) (D) R Eddery 8 4........L Morris BLINKERS: No. 2 TONGUE: Nos. 2, 5 CHEEK: No. 7 HOOD: No. 6. W-F: Homemade Andrea (77); Irish Millions (76); Jastar (74). SP FORECAST: 7-2 Irish Millions, 9-2 Jastar, 5 More Diamonds, Buraback, 11-2 Homemade Andrea, 6 Essencial, 8 Province. 3.40 THE SCOUT 12.40 Big Time Maybe 1.10 Race Card 1.40 Who Cares Wins 2.10 Already Gone BETWAY NOVICE STAKES £3,942 (5) 6f 1yds (6) 1 (1) 5- ● ACRION (16) B Meehan 4 9 5.................... L Morris 2 (5) 25-4 CANZONE (3) (F) D C Griffiths 5 9 5............P Dennis 3 (6) FOOTSTEPSINTHERYE M Harris 4 9 5.........K O’Neill 4 (4) 64-8 PERFECT FOCUS (6) L Carter 5 9 5........ C Murtagh(3) 5 (3) L/86- BUTCHEROFSTOCKHOLM (306) R Brisland 5 9 0 C Howarth(7) 6 (2) 348- MAHALE (142) M Channon 4 9 0................ G Bass(5) TONGUE STRAP: Nos. 1, 3 CHEEK: No. 2 HOOD: No. 3. W-Factor: Perfect Focus (83); Mahale (78); Canzone (70). SP FORECAST: 9-4 Perfect Focus, 5-2 Acrion, 7-2 Canzone, 6 Mahale, 8 Footstepsintherye, 16 Butcherofstockholm. OPEN NH FLAT RACE £2,614 (5) 2m 178yds (7) 1 622 GLENGEEVER (69)(T) B Lund 6 11 6.................Doubtful 2 L HUSSARD BRUN (201)(T) R Hobson 5 11 6.........L Pinchin(5) 3 WESTERN WOLF Miss T Jackson 6 11 6.......S Mulqueen 4 9 ZWICKY (43) P Kirby 5 11 6...................J Williamson(5) 5 CHASE A FORTUNE C Grant 4 10 7...........Sean Quinlan 6 2 ● ICEMAN DENNIS (27) (F) D McCain 4 10 7..........B Hughes 7 ONTHEROUGE P Niven 4 10 7..............................C Bewley TONGUE STRAP: No. 2. W-Factor: Iceman Dennis (106); Glengeever (77); Zwicky (71). SP FORECAST: 1-3 Iceman Dennis, 4 Ontherouge, 14 Hussard Brun, Chase A Fortune, 33 Zwicky, 50 Western Wolf. THE SCOUT 2.40 Keep Right On 3.10 Jastar 3.40 Acrion TRACK FACTS: GOING: Standard. Left Handed. TOP TRACK JOCKEY (2017-22): Luke Morris 11% Strike rate. TOP TRACK TRAINER (2017-22): R Hannon 16% Strike rate. FIRST TIME: 2.10 Mashkuur (visor), 3.10 Buraback (hood), 3.40 Acrion (tongue strap), Footstepsintherye (hood, tongue strap). BEATEN FAVOURITES: 1.40 Who Cares Wins(hcp). 3.10 Buraback. DRAW: Little effect. LONGEST TRAVELLER: Achnamara (2.10) 270 miles. STABLE SWITCH: No Qualifiers. TRACK FACTS: GOING: Soft. Left Handed. TOP TRACK JOCKEY (2017-22): Brian Hughes 23% Strike rate. TOP TRACK TRAINER (2017-22): D McCain 19% Strike rate. FIRST TIME: 1.50 Get Phar (tongue strap), Arcanja (wind surgery), 2.50 Cudgel (tongue strap), Don Herbager (cheek pieces), 3.20 Fleeting Blue (hood), 3.50 Hussard Brun (tongue strap), 12.20 Spike Jones (hood), The Deise Man (tongue strap), Northern Falcon (hood). BEATEN FAVOURITES: 12.20 Betty Baloo. 12.50 Cooper’s Cross(hcp ch). 2.50 Cudgel(hcp ch). LONGEST TRAVELLER: The Deise Man (12.20) & Mahler Mission (12.20) Ireland; Dalkingstown (2.50) 408 miles. STABLE SWITCH: 12.50 Bulldoze from H De Bromhead in Ireland to M Hammond. 3.50 Glengeever from Gerald Quinn to B Lund, Hussard Brun from A Couetil in France to R Hobson. 4.30 Chipiron 6.30 Famous Star 5.00 Vocatus 7.00 Lorna Cole 5.30 Attentive 7.30 Emerald Lady 6.00 Highland Monarch 8.00 Battle Point HANDICAP (DIV 2) 3YO £2,970 (6) 5f 21yds (9) 1 (9) 651- SHARE THE PROFITS (16) (D) W Knight 9 8 T Marquand 2 (4) 353- ALASKAN JEWEL (132) A Keatley 9 7.........L Edmunds 3 (7) 784- ● BATTLE POINT (32) (F) R Hannon 9 7 D Tudhope 4 (8) 523- ACCELERANDO (50) (F) S C Williams 9 7...... J Hart 5 (2) 2L4- BENZEMA (50) D O’Meara 9 6...................... J Watson 6 (1) 459- THEREHEGOES (15) (D) R Brisland 9 4..........D Probert 7 (6) 94-L PURE CHARMER (13) A Watson 9 2................H Doyle 8 (3) L7L- TOTES EMOSH (16) N Tinkler 8 9.... F McManoman(3) 9 (5) 649- MR GINJA NINJA (16) D Shaw 8 2...............C Hardie BLINKERS: Nos. 7, 8 HOOD: No. 5. W-Factor: Alaskan Jewel (74); Accelerando (73); Benzema (72). SP FORECAST: 3 Accelerando, 7-2 Share The Profits, 4 Battle Point, 7 Benzema, 8 Alaskan Jewel, 10 Therehegoes, 12 Pure Charmer, 14 Mr Ginja Ninja, 25 Totes Emosh. FIRST TIME: 7.00 Luckyangel (hood). BEATEN FAVOURITES: 6.30 Nate The Great(hcp). 8.00 Mr Ginja Ninja. DRAW: Little effect. LONGEST TRAVELLER: Lorna Cole (7.00) 177 miles. STABLE SWITCH: 7.30 Coolmeen Vega from Miss Ellmarie Holden in Ireland to D O’Meara. 8.00 Accelerando from S & E Crisford to S C Williams. Daily Express Friday, January 14, 2022 51 I’ll continue Tiger legacy bryson planning new era BRYSON DeChambeau says he wants to have as big an influence on golf as Tiger Woods and is about to unveil the weapon that can help him. The big-talking, big-hitting Californian believes he has found a driver that will allow him to swing accurately at 200mph and reduce the world’s best courses to rubble. The only issues holding him up are the minor wrist injury that has kept him out of this week’s Sony Open in Hawaii and a supply hold-up. DeChambeau said: “I have been working on equipment for a long time now. We are getting very close to having something that works at 200mph ball speed. “It’s awesome. I’m super happy with [manufacturer] Cobra. “We came to a sticking point last year and burst through the wall. “I’ve a driver I’m able to go 220mph [with in practice]. They just don’t have enough of them yet. We’re working on it. It’s a supply issue from China.” The club may come out at next month’s Saudi International now that DeChambeau has secured a release from the PGA Tour to play in the lucrative Asian Tour event. It is part of the 2020 US Open champion’s grand strategy to take golf to the world. He said: “My passion is to play the best I can, No.1. No.2, I want THOSE WERE THE DAYS ON THIS DATE IN SPORTING HISTORY 1928: Jimmy McGrory, below, scored a Scottish top-flight record of eight goals in one game for Celtic against Dunfermline. 1958: A crowd of 60,000 watched Manchester United beat Red Star Belgrade 2-1 in a European Cup at Old Trafford. The second leg of the quarter-final, three weeks later, was the last appearance of the Busby Babes before the Munich air disaster. 1972: Bernice Gera won an anti-discrimination case against the National Baseball Congress and became the first woman to umpire a professional baseball game in the United States. 2013: Nicole Cooke, the 2008 Olympic road race champion, retired from cycling at the age of 29. 2015: Manchester City completed the transfer of Ivory Coast striker Wilfried Bony for a £25million fee from Swansea. 2018: Jason Roy hit an England one-day international record score of 180 as the tourists opened the series against Australia with a five-wicket win at the MCG. By Neil Squires to grow the game to a level that’s never been seen before. I want to continue to grow it like Tiger did. “I probably won’t have anywhere near the same influence but I want to keep providing us entertainers with a better stage to allow everyone in the world to see this great game.” DeChambeau is back in love with a sport he almost walked away from ahead of last year’s Ryder Cup after being picked on by US crowds and missing the Olympics with Covid. He fought the darkness by pretending to be someone else, on the advice of Guardians of the Galaxy star Chris Pratt. “People could say I brought it on myself. But there was a point when it wouldn’t have been fun being around me,” he said. “Chris helped me out. He said, ‘Play this fictional character for a while, just act dechambeau: ‘Let’s grow game to a new level’ like you’re acting for a bit’. “I don’t want to be a supercontroversial figure. “I just want to be someone that people can look up to and aspire to be.” 1. Which club beat Leicester City 3-2 in their last game of Europa League Group C to overtake the Foxes, sending them to the Europa Conference League? 2. With which Super League club did centre Harry Newman recently agree a new three-year contract? 3. Which former Barcelona and Liverpool player is the new Argentina Under-20 manager? 4. Which Finnish driver was world F1 drivers’ champion in 1982? 5. Which American tennis player won her only Wimbledon singles title in 1999? 6. Which English team beat AZ Alkmaar in the 1981 UEFA Cup final? 7. Which sport’s world trophy is known as the Webb Ellis Cup? 8. Which Welsh rugby league player was Man of Steel in 1994? 9. Which country’s athletes won the 1500m, 5000m, 10000m, 3000m steeplechase, the marathon and the javelin at the 1924 Olympics? 10. Which Chelsea player was top scorer in the Premier League in the 2008-9 season? ANSWERS: 1 Napoli. 2 Leeds Rhinos. 3 Javier Mascherano. 4 Keke Rosberg. 5 Lindsay Davenport. 6 Ipswich Town. 7 Rugby union. 8 Jonathan Davies. 9 Finland. 10 Nicolas Anelka.

52 Daily Express Friday, January 14, 2022 SNOOKER Australia’s Neil Robertson rose to the occasion to down Ronnie O’Sullivan at the Masters. The world No.4 beat home hope O’Sullivan 6-4 in front of a sell-out London crowd to reach the semis, and said: “To play Ronnie here with 2,000 fans roaring him on is a big challenge. But I always relish that.” OLYMPICS TEAM GB is targeting a record Winter Olympics next month – and backed athletes’ right to protest. Their best haul is five medals, but the aim is for seven in Beijing, where Britain will have a diplomatic boycott over human rights. But BOA chief Andy Anson said: “We are not going to stifle freedom of expression.” SHOP world of sport ALL fired up: Celebrations in the Big Bash CYCLING CHRIS Froome has returned from a knee injury in time to join his Israel-Premier Tech’s team’s training camp. The four-time Tour de France winner was forced off the bike after tearing a tendon, and will make a froome DX1ST rugby union: HEINEKEN Champions cup CARDIFF V HARLEQUINS 8pm By Alex Spink the big picture delayed start to racing this season after the stint in Spain. He said: “It’s a camp I didn’t make it to last year so I’m really happy to be training with the guys, but my preparation has definitely been delayed. I’m not feeling any pain but have to take it steady.” Binoculars MICRO ZOOM ENGLAND fly-half Marcus Smith heads into tonight’s ‘Clash of the Capitals’ acclaimed as rugby’s “new rock star”. Smith leads Harlequins’ attack at Cardiff, where victory would book the unbeaten Londoners a Champions Cup quarter-final spot. Welsh legend Adam Jones coaches Quins and says he is blown away by how Smith has handled the fame game off the field and attention on it more usually associated with Lionel Messi. Jones said: “The big issue with Marcus is it is almost like Messi in football, the man-marking element. “Being the new rock star on the scene, the attention he is going to have is magnified. For me, he is handling it exceptionally well. “His game management is top drawer and the rest of his game is world class. “He is getting a lot of pressure from everywhere and he is handling it incredibly well.” Quins He’s going to get better and better Quins ace Smith hailed as ‘almost like Messi’ top Pool B having won their first two games, including last month’s 43-17 victory over a depleted Cardiff side. On Tuesday, Smith will be named in England’s squad ahead of his first Six Nations, which kicks off in Scotland on February 5. So impressive was he for club and country in 2021 that it is easy to forget he is only 22. “He is incredibly professional, one of the most level-headed kids I have met,” Jones said. “He has a great family and the boys around him are a good group of mates who keep him grounded. “On the field he has the swagger and arrogance of a of the nicest people you could meet. “He has matured a lot over the last 18 months. He is playing for England now and is in that environment, so he has that understanding of the game. 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A boycott by English Premiership clubs was averted after a requirement to quarantine for 48 hours and undertake a PCR test on arrival was ditched. From this By Alex Spink morning, vaccinated travellers will gain entry with only proof of a negative test taken 24 hours before departure. But there could yet be problems in the Champions and Challenge Cup competitions and the Six Nations, as unvaccinated players must serve a 10-day quarantine. England hooker Jamie Blamire returns for Newcastle in tonight’s Challenge Cup clash at Biarritz. Mike Brown, left, captains a side with 11 changes. The Falcons are unbeaten in the tournament, having won their only game so far against Worcester. Bath are at La Rochelle tomorrow, with Sale and Scarlets at Clermont and Bordeaux respectively on Sunday.

tough poser Mark Wood is asking himself questions over his availability for the IPL CRICKET: ENGLAND STAR’S dilemma Weary Wood’s on the bubble DX1ST he might yet quit the ipl MARK Wood is facing a dilemma over whether or not to play in the IPL this year despite having put his name into the mega-auction. The deadline for getting the paperwork in has been extended by a week, with several England and Australia players musing if they should put their names forward. But Wood may yet be a late withdrawal, along with other multi-format players. More bubble life and time away from the family are the big issues for Wood and Chris Woakes, which is why neither player may head to the tournament after all. Wood said: “I am in the auction at the minute, but it’s important to have that time at home and reflect. “If I look ahead to the World Cup and I can learn something in the IPL, put myself in pressure situations and try and get better for the end of the year, that’ll be good. “It’s just whether the time away from home, the bubbles… I’ve done Australia without my son, which has been quite hard, especially around Christmas. From Dean Wilson in Hobart So I’ll have to see how the family situation is. “It’s felt like a long time. Me and Woakesy have had plenty of cuddles with masks on so we look after each other that way.” Wood knows there is huge demand for genuine fast bowlers at the IPL, with Anrich Nortje and Kagiso Rabada capturing the imagination last year. But even if the money was great, the North-east flyer is adamant his country is his priority. He said: “I’m well looked after with England. The more I play, the better it’s going to be anyway, and I want to play as many times as I can for England. “England is always going to be my No.1. I want to play across all three formats.” The T20 semi-final defeat by New Zealand in the UAE stung Eoin Morgan’s side, and Wood said: “It hurt a lot this winter. It feels as a one-day group it’s time to push hard to leave a legacy behind.” ECB bosses have been put on warning they must continue efforts to eradicate racism in cricket or face further Government scrutiny. The Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport inquiry was prompted by Azeem Rafiq’s successful employment tribunal claim against Yorkshire County Cricket Club. MPs concluded not only that there was racism in the game, but that Yorkshire CCC and the ECB would have been aware of it. Interim ECB chair Barry O’Brien, above, said: “We are determined to root out Daily Express Friday, January 14, 2022 53 ECB racism warning By Gideon Brooks racism – and other forms of discrimination.” The inquiry urged the Government to limit public funding unless the ECB could show clear progress, with a request to report back every quarter. Central funding amounts to about £2million per year in Sport England grants against the ECB’s annual spend of £300m. The ECB insisted they have taken important steps to make cricket more inclusive in recent years, but acknowledged more needs to be done. damning indictment FOR a sport to be told that racism is “endemic” within it is a damning indictment. For its guardians to be notified that they should have been aware of it all along is doubly chastening. The ECB has been put on notice by the Government that it cannot simply slide back into its old ways. It is fair to ask how a sport can be expected to rid itself totally of a cancer present in wider society, but cultures can be altered with the right emphasis and COMMENT By Neil Squires education. At Yorkshire, the epicentre of the problem is now the driving force towards the solution. The ECB having to report every three months on the success of its measures is a vote of little confidence in CEO Tom Harrison. But the threat of withheld funds will concentrate minds in a way cricket powerbrokers will understand. £5 FREE BET WHEN YOU PLACE A BET ON MNC V CHE MAN CITY V CHELSEA 12.30 OPT IN REQUIRED DOWNLOAD THE APP Single Pre match & In-Play Bets Only. 5p minimum stake. Free bet stakes not returned. No free bet expiry. Limited availability. Eligibility restrictions & T&Cs apply. 18+ begambleaware.org

TENNIS: AUSTRALIAN OPEN CRISIS Practice not so perfect as novak 54 Daily Express Friday, January 14, 2022 Picture: MIKE FREY feels the heat Djokovic fights for focus amid circus DX1ST centre stage Djokovic was all smiles during practice as he awaits decision GIFT EXPERIENCES TO BLOW THEM AWAY THIS NEW YEAR! Blow them away this New Year with a Buyagift Experience. From adrenaline-filled activities and charming overnight hotel breaks, to delectable afternoon teas, where will your experience take you? VALID FOR UP TO 24 MONTHS FULLY FLEXIBLE Readers get an EXTRA 20% OFF online at buyagift.co.uk/dailyexpress Proud to be a carbon neutral company. Visit www.buyagift.com/ carbonneutral for details. T&C’s apply. This exclusive discount is valid until 17 January, 2022. Some experiences are not included in the offer. ON ANOTHER day of drama Down Under, Novak Djokovic practised on his favourite court with the silence broken by the whir of an overhead news helicopter and the clicks of dozens of cameras. The unvaccinated Serb was not on the run from the authorities during his hit with Argentinian Federico Coria. But few sports stars have attracted this much attention or notoriety since OJ Simpson was chased down a California freeway by the LAPD – and a fleet of media helicopters – in his white Bronco. Djokovic is certainly public enemy No.1 in the Australian media. Two Channel Seven TV presenters were captured calling the Serb a “lying a***hole” in leaked footage of a hilarious offair chat. Immigration minister Alex Hawke was last night still to make a decision over deporting the world No.1 for a second time. After losing a first court battle, the Australian Government is looking for a more solid legal case than just finding the Serb morally objectionable. But the first Grand Slam of the season has already descended into a farce with the delayed draw made yesterday despite no confirmation that Djokovic will be allowed to defend his title. The champion is scheduled to play fellow Serbian and world No.78 Miomir Kecmanovic in his opening match, unless he is on a plane home or back in his detention hotel next week. And yesterday’s training session could yet be his final appearance at the Australian Open. Media were escorted into the Rod Laver Arena for 15 By Neil McLeman Raducanu’s Sloane danger EMMA RADUCANU will face fellow US Open champion Sloane Stephens in her opening match at the Australian Open. The British No.1, right, has struggled for form since her shock Flushing Meadows triumph and returns to Grand Slam action against the 2017 New York winner. But Stephens, 28, has won only one WTA match since the US Open in September as her world ranking has slid to 68th. The former world No.3 arrived Down Under after her New Year’s Aussies are looking for more solid legal case minutes to watch Djokovic, in a green Lacoste shirt and white baseball cap, hitting with the world No.64 in the heat of the lunchtime sun. He joked with his team – coach Goran Ivanisevic, physio Ulises Badio and fitness trainer Marco Panichi – as he sought to find the rhythm lost during five days locked up last week. It all had a surreal atmosphere after so many rowdy nights with the Serbian and his fans in Melbourne Park. The 20-time Grand Slam champion has been crowned the king of the Australian Open nine times on the same Rod Laver Arena. But this gentle training session seemed more like the last wish of a condemned man as he waited to learn his fate. Yet yesterday he received another stay of execution. The draw ceremony was delayed by 75 minutes for a press conference by Prime Minister Scott Morrison, who shed no update on the Serb’s visa limbo. “To enter quarantine-free, the individual has to show they are double vaccinated or must provide acceptable proof that they can’t be vaccinated for medical reasons,” Morrison said. If Djokovic is banned from playing before the first order of play is announced, he will be replaced at the top of the draw by No.5 seed Andrey Rublev and the seeds will be reshuffled. Any later, he will be substituted by a lucky loser. Capacity at the Australian Open will be capped at 50 percent on show courts because of a spike in Covid cases. By Neil McLeman Day wedding to former Sunderland and Hull striker Jozy Altidore. Andy Murray will face a familiar foe in Nikoloz Basilashvili in his first Australian Open for three years after beating the world No.23 on Wednesday in the Sydney Tennis Classic. Both Murray and Dan Evans, who has drawn David Goffin in Melbourne, have reached the semis in Sydney, facing Reilly Opelka and Aslan Karatsev respectively.

Neil Squires Our Chief Sports Reporter tackles the big issues head on DX1ST Daily Express Friday, January 14, 2022 55 ● Any Geordie who dreamed of Kylian Mbappe in a Newcastle United shirt after the Saudi buyout need not feel shortchanged. Chris Wood has scored more goals for New Zealand than Mbappe has for France. Imagine the furore if Chelsea had refused to allow Mason Mount to play in the Euros last summer on the grounds that the FA had been tardy with the release paperwork. While stopping a player representing his country in a huge tournament on a technicality might have been sanctioned by the small print, morally it would have been indefensible. There would, quite rightly, have been hell to pay. Tomorrow, Emmanuel Dennis is set to play for Watford at Newcastle. That is excellent news for the Hornets, who are on a run of seven successive defeats, but Dennis should be turning out for Nigeria against Sudan in the Africa Cup of Nations. By rule X, sub-section Y, paragraph Z of the FIFA lawbook, Watford were within their rights to hold onto their top scorer after Nigeria missed a deadline to inform them of his impending selection in the squad. However, they were still wrong to do so. International tournament football is the pinnacle of a player’s career. Despite its eccentricities, like the early full-time whistle in Mali’s win over Tunisia, the AFCON is no tinpot kick-about – it is as important to a Nigerian as the Euros are to an Englishman. The timing is a pain in the proverbial for Premier League clubs, 16 of whom have lost players to it. On top of injuries and Omicron, more absentees are the last thing they need. But clubs sign top African players with eyes wide open, knowing they may lose them for a month mid-season. It would be preferable, from a European point of view, if the event was staged in the northern hemisphere summer, like the Copa America. The next scheduled AFCON in the Ivory Coast is slated for June 2023. But that is Africa’s call, not Europe’s. The money in club football may be much bigger here but there is no global hierarchy in terms of the pride a player feels in pulling on his country’s jersey. The AFCON and its teams should be treated with respect. The Nigerians accused Watford of “baring fangs” to keep hold of Dennis after their administrative slip. The player has kept his counsel but it would not be hard to imagine his thoughts as Leicester’s Kelechi Iheanacho fired Nigeria to victory over Mo Salah’s Egypt in their first game. It was a win met with glee in a nation of 200 million and the wider Nigerian diaspora, one which promises much for the Super Eagles in the AFCON. But Dennis will not be involved – a situation he is unlikely to forget when it comes to signing his next contract. Maybe Watford thought they had done enough for the tournament. They have lost four players to it – only Arsenal, with five, have supplied more in the Premier League – with Nigeria captain William Troost-Ekong, Senegal’s Ismaila Sarr and Morocco pair Imran Louza and Adam Masina all away. Watford have a crucial week ahead with Burnley and Norwich to follow Newcastle. They have not been in the drop zone yet this season but, if results Stevie builds luxury Villa Steven Gerrard reaches double figures as Aston Villa manager in tomorrow’s rematch against Manchester United in negative equity. A record of won four, lost five is nothing to write home about and Villa’s last hope of a trophy went with Monday’s FA Cup defeat at Old Trafford. But under Gerrard, with the arrivals of Philippe Coutinho and Lucas Digne, it feels like Villa are a club that is going places. Three of the defeats have come Nigeria’s players, left, and it means fans celebrate after their so much AFCON victory over Egypt Exploiting small print to crush Dennis’ dream is unforgivable against the top three and Villa were the more cohesive team against United on Monday. Not least the most impressive aspect was Gerrard’s refusal to blame a VAR decision for the defeat, even though he clearly had a decent case to do so. The cold-eyed Gerrard was much more interested in ruthless self-appraisal. That is the route to improvement and it is the road Villa are on. continue to go against them, they will be by tomorrow. With the stakes so high, the ends justify the means for Watford. However, in handcuffing Dennis the bigger picture has been vandalised. The money involved in staying in the top flight is eyewatering and can cloud judgment. In this case it undoubtedly has. focused: Gerrard has impressed champions cup miss trick There was some much overdue good news for European rugby’s put-upon Champions Cup with the lifting of travel restrictions by France. It means this weekend’s round of games can go ahead in full. But this season’s competition will still be distorted by the decision not to replay the five postponed round two matches and instead record them as 0-0 draws. grounded: Nigeria missed a deadline to inform Watford of Dennis’s selection Bath director of rugby Stuart Hooper, left, might be chuffed for his side to avoid another defeat but a straightforward way to maintain the integrity of the group stages has been missed. The round of 16 is, unlike any of the other rounds, a two-legged affair for some reason this season. All the organisers had to do was scrap one of the legs and a window would have opened up.

56 Daily Express Friday, January 14, 2022 Potter: Neal now the daddy GRAHAM Potter says spiky Brighton striker Neal Maupay has grown up this season – after becoming a dad. But the Seagulls boss does not want him to lose his mean streak. Brighton face Crystal Palace tonight for the first time since an added-time Maupay equaliser sparked mayhem at Selhurst Park in September. He had a heated confrontation with Wilfried Zaha after that strike. Potter said: “He UPTO 80% OFF FASHION BRIGHTON V C PALACE 8pm has experienced life in the Premier League and grown up as a man who is able to deal with it. “Last year wasn’t easy. The narrative was we were missing chances and it’s all Neal’s fault. “He went home to France, had his baby, was able to zoom out and put things in perspective. “He’s come back with a good mentality and developed as a person and player.” Maupay has already equalled his goal UPTO 70% OFF total for last season with eight this term. And Potter said: “Football is an emotional game, but it’s about using that to make you better.” Brighton lost Ben White to Arsenal last summer and have Aston Villa sniffing around Yves Bissouma while Arsenal and Manchester United are interested in Tariq Lamptey. But Potter said: “We’ve got cover in a lot of positions.” PAUL BROWN JANUARYSALE 31 ST DECEMBER-30 TH JANUARY TOYS& GAMING GetanEXTRA10% OFFsaleitems! Usecode:EXPRESS10 DX1ST football: premier league MATURED: Striker Maupay UPTO 60% OFF HOMEWARE Shopthehighstreetonlineat: downyourhighstreet.co.uk/express Life begins at 30 for Toon’s new boy Wood he’s most expensive oldie EVEN Chris Wood did not think any club would match his £25million buyout clause after his shock switch from one relegation-threatened club to another. The New Zealand striker became the most expensive player aged over 30 in Premier League history when he quit Burnley for Newcastle. Eddie Howe pushed to land Wood, who wanted to get out of his “comfort zone” after four-and-a-half years at Turf Moor. The deal has caused bad blood, with Wood’s former club and fans furious he has ditched them to head to Tyneside. Wood says the clause which activated the deal was drawn up more than two years ago, and added: “I don’t think anyone thought it would be triggered. “I knew it had been sitting there since we agreed a new deal. I don’t know the wording of it. Some people have them, some don’t. “You are only as good as what a club can pay for you. In six months you could look back and say it was a great deal. “The price tag doesn’t bother me. I have the same challenge. I am confident we will stay up. “I was comfortable and settled at Burnley. You don’t achieve anything great being like that. To be extraordinary and take my game to the next level, challenging myself at a massive club like Newcastle was the right option. “It was a no-brainer with everything around it. “I wanted to challenge myself. The manager pushed to get me and wanted me. I felt my presence here was wanted and, as a striker, you want to be loved.” Asked about being the most expensive player aged 30 and ● TOTTENHAM are ready to offload £55million record signing Tanguy Ndombele to Italy. The midfielder was axed from Spurs’ squad for their Carabao Cup semi-final second leg defeat by Chelsea after being substituted against Morecambe on Sunday. ● Wolves will play hardball with Tottenham in their bid to land winger Adama Traore. Spurs are thought to favour a short-term deal until the By Simon Bird above, Wood said: “I was not aware of that. I have only just reached 30. I don’t feel too old. I’m in the prime years of my life.” He has scored in double figures in the past three Premier League seasons and will go straight into the line-up to face fellow strugglers Watford on Saturday. Wood, who could be joined at St James’ Park by Sevilla defender Diego Carlos, 28, and Reims striker Hugo Ekitike, 19, said: “For me, there is no bad blood. I wish I’d left with Burnley further up the league. You don’t plan these things, you just look at what is in front of you at the time. “I have nothing but great memories at Burnley, but I simply couldn’t turn this down.” speak no evil: Wood wanted new challenge football latest end of the season but that will get short shrift. ● ARSENAL hope to seal a loan move for Juventus misfit Arthur Melo. Although the midfielder has agreed to the switch, his club will not release him until they sign a replacement. ● Daniel Farke is the new manager of Russian side Krasnodar. ● CHELSEA will make a new offer to Antonio Rudiger to persuade the German to stay at Stamford Bridge. His contract runs out at the end of this season and he has already rejected a new £140,000-a-week deal. ● Barnsley’s Championship clash with Blackpool tomorrow is off due to injuries and Covid.

DX1ST football: premier league CRISTIANO RONALDO has told his Manchester United team-mates to start By Gideon Brooks in Manchester because I love this club. It’s not just because of money or whatever. I giving 100 percent to avoid sleepwalking up. The only guys that give up are those believe we have huge potential to win into a new-year “nightmare”. who are mentally weak.” important things,” he said. The Portugal superstar launched a Ronaldo’s warning comes less than five “But we have to find the best way to passionate rallying call to players battling months after a sensational £12.9million achieve that result. We have a few things in a divided dressing room and against swoop returned him to United from that we have to change and we have to nose-diving fortunes on the pitch. And he warned that unless the squad start to show more commitment, the season is in danger of becoming a calamity. Juventus as the league’s highest earner. But since then the club have burned another manager in Ole Gunnar Solskjaer and seen the dressing room fracture after a accept that we are not in our best shape. “But I believe, new year, we have to think things are going to change, to be in a better place. I don’t want to be here to fight Ronaldo said: “You should be proud of faltering start from Ralf Rangnick. for sixth or seventh place, or fifth. I’m here yourself and look in the mirror and say, Going into tomorrow’s league clash at to try to win, to compete. ‘Listen, I give everything’. I think all of us should do that. Aston Villa, United are seventh, 22 points behind leaders Manchester City. “Manchester United should win the league or be in second or third. In my “It’s a new year, we [can] change the Ronaldo is understood to have mulled heart, I don’t accept our mentality can be page, we’ve many things to win and we over his future depending on who United less than to be in the top three. have to believe. If not it will be a nightmare. name as their new manager in the summer. “We have a squad with potential, a new “To win the league, it’s a marathon, not a But he insists he and his family are manager, why don’t we believe we can do 100 metres sprint. You have to be “happy and settled” at the club where he better? You have to be positive to try to consistent, this is why the best teams are made his name and trusts interim boss change things and to play how Manchester Manchester City, Liverpool and Chelsea. Rangnick to salvage the season. “I’m back United fans want.” “We have to look at that and believe we’re capable of doing that. We know it’s tough, we have to improve, some things RONALDO: WE MUST TURN OUR have to change. But I believe we have the potential here so we have to do the right things. This is why we’re not going to give SEASON AROUND OR FACE A.... NIGHTMARE tough times Ronaldo says United are a club that have to be fighting at the top of the table ‘Don’t ignore my advice’ from back page speak all day with that person but if it’s not coming from inside of you, it’s impossible. “The mature players, the older players, can always help the young players.” Several United youngsters have toiled this season including Marcus Rashford, Mason Greenwood and Jadon Sancho. Reports last month hinted at tension between Ronaldo and Greenwood, below, over the latter’s lack of playing time. And in October, Ronaldo criticised a generation of players “born since 1995” for struggling to deal with difficult moments during their football careers. He said: “When I was 18, 19, 20, some older players spoke with me. “I put that as, ‘Cristiano, you have to improve – they know more than you’. “Other people, they don’t accept that, if you criticise them.” Daily Express Friday, January 14, 2022 57 Villa will be magic for me says Digne ASTON VILLA new boy Lucas Digne cannot wait to get stuck into Manchester United tomorrow. France left-back Digne, right, completed his £25million move from Everton to Villa yesterday, following Philippe Coutinho, who joined the club from Barcelona. Digne, who left Goodison Park after falling out with Rafa Benitez, said: “It is Africa Cup Of Nations Group A Cameroon (1)....... 4 Ethiopia (1)......... 1 Toko Ekambi 8, 67 Hotessa 4 Aboubakar 53, 55 Cape Verde (0)..... 0 Burkina Faso (1).1 Bande 39 p W D L F A Pts Cameroon.................. 2 2 0 0 6 2 6 Burkina Faso.............. 2 1 0 1 2 2 3 Cape Verde................. 2 1 0 1 1 1 3 Ethiopia..................... 2 0 0 2 1 5 0 Carabao Cup Semi-final First Leg Liverpool (0)........ 0 Arsenal (0)......... 0 Badminton YONEX-SUNRISE India Open (New Delhi)—2nd rd: Men’s: N Nguyen (Irl) bt R Chittaboina (Ind) 21-17 21-13. Doubles: J Magee (Irl) & P Reynolds (Irl) bt Vaibhaav (Ind) & Nithin H.V. (Ind) 21-14 21-13. Basketball NBA: Indiana Pacers 100 Boston Celtics 119, Philadelphia 76ers 98 Charlotte Hornets 109, Washington Wizards 112 Orlando Magic 106, Atlanta Hawks 91 Miami Heat 115, New York Knicks 108 Dallas Mavericks 85, San Antonio Spurs 124 Houston Rockets 128, Utah Jazz 91 Cleveland Cavaliers 111, Chicago Bulls 112 Brooklyn Nets 138, Sacramento Kings 125 LA Lakers 116. Cricket Third Test—India v South Africa (Cape Town): India 223 (77.3 overs; V Kohli 79; K Rabada 4-73) and 198 (67.3 overs; R R Pant 100no; M Jansen 4-36). South Africa 210 (76.3 overs; K D Petersen 72; J J Bumrah 5-42) and 41-1 (12.0 overs). Second One Day International—West Indies v Ireland (Kingston): West Indies 229 (48.0 overs; R Shepherd 50; A R McBrine 4-36). Ireland. Ice hockey NHL: Boston Bruins 5 Montreal Canadiens 1, Dallas Stars 5 Seattle Kraken 2, Arizona Coyotes 2 Toronto Maple Leafs 1. sport in brief magic to be here. It will be a big first game if I have the chance to play – and I can’t wait. “I’m a winner and I want to win every time.” Digne is relishing the opportunity to play under Steven Gerrard and said: “I came here for the manager.” Everton yesterday completed a loan deal for Villa winger Anwar El Ghazi, their third signing of the window. James Nursey Snooker The Masters (Alexandra Palace London)—Quarter-Finals: N Robertson (Aus) bt R O’Sullivan (Eng) 6-4. Tennis ATP & WTA Sydney Classic (Australia)—Men’s Qtr-finals: (3) D Evans (Gbr) bt M Cressy (USA) 6-4 7-6 (7-5), A Murray (Gbr) bt (8) D Goffin (Bel) 6-2 ret. Today’s diary (7.45pm unless stated) Premier League Brighton v Crystal Palace (8pm)............... (Live on Sky Sports Main Event) Africa Cup Of Nations Group B Malawi v Zimbabwe (4pm)........................ (Live on Sky Sports Premier League) Senegal v Guinea (1pm)........................... (Live on Sky Sports Football) Group C Gabon v Ghana (7pm).............................. 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58 Daily Express Friday, January 14, 2022 blue chip: Chelsea chasing five trophies Sarr says Tuchel is forever demanding THOMAS TUCHEL has turned his Chelsea team into a generation of winners who are always hungry for more silverware. Tuchel has reached a third final in his 12-month reign and the team are still in the hunt for trophies on five fronts this season. Chelsea are in next month’s Carabao Cup final, they are in the FA Cup, the title race and Champions League and they also have the Club World Cup in three weeks’ time. Tuchel has already lifted the Champions League and the Super Cup, with an FA Cup final defeat the only blot on his copybook. Defender Malang Sarr has revealed the mindset that Tuchel instils, demanding more from every match and training session. Sarr, above, said: “That is proof of the amazing job the club is doing, the staff and the players. “It shows how hard we train, how hard we work. That’s the reward from the hard work we put in and all the stuff we do on the training ground, the pitch and in the meeting room. ANDRE MARRINER has been told he is not fit to referee. Former top official Keith Hackett believes Marriner is not quick enough to keep up with the pace of Premier League stars. Marriner was bailed out by VAR for three big calls during Chelsea’s win at Tottenham in the Carabao Cup, including two penalty decisions that he gave in error before they were overturned. Antonio Rudiger’s challenge on Pierre-Emile Hojbjerg was outside the box, while replays showed Chelsea’s Kepa Arrizabalaga got the ball in a challenge on Lucas Moura. Hackett says Marriner got them wrong because the By John Cross We want to compete for every competition. We’re on a good way, trying to stay on a good path, working hard and doing the same basic things every day.” France Under-21 star Sarr said that, despite winning both legs of the Carabao Cup semi-final against Tottenham, there was a sense of disappointment that the second match was not more comfortable. “We always want more,” said Sarr. “Winning the second game 1-0 wasn’t enough. “As soon as we finished, we felt we could have done more. “Score more goals, finish the game earlier, that is the mentality of this group.” Sarr, a regular in the Carabao Cup this season, admits his dream is to play in the final at Wembley. He added: “That would be awesome. “I hope I will play but I’m pretty sure that any of my team-mates will be hoping to be on the pitch, ready to do their jobs. I’m just going to be ready if the manager needs me.” Marriner ‘too slow’ By John Cross 51-year-old could not keep up with play and was left “guessing”. Hackett said: “The sad truth is that age has caught up with a number of Premier League refs. Marriner does not have an explosive sprint. He was guessing the two big decisions.” Hackett says veteran referees Martin Atkinson, Marriner and Mike Dean should be put on VAR duty – but still need to prove themselves even to get that role. He tweeted: “The time is right to put Atkinson, Marriner and Dean on permanent VAR duty. However, I want to see a measurement of VAR performances.” DX1ST FOOTBALL: CARABAO CUP SEMI-FINALs there’s an art playing with 10 men LIVERPOOL 0 ARSENAL 0 By Gideon Brooks LIVERPOOL will have had few better chances to place one big red foot in a domestic final than they did at Anfield last night. But against an Arsenal side reduced to 10 men for over an hour, they failed to find the net to establish a lead to take to the Emirates for the second leg of this Carabao Cup semi-final next Thursday. Having failed to put out a side for what should have been the first leg last week after a series of positive Covid tests that turned out to be mostly false, now came the negative. And it was quite a big one, with Jurgen Klopp’s men failing to register a single shot on target until the 92nd minute – despite Granit Xhaka giving them every chance with a red card on 24 minutes. Liverpool have tended to toss away their chances in domestic cups in pursuit of more lucrative titles and European glory. In Klopp’s first season as manager, they reached the 2016 final of this competition, losing to Manchester City, but that turned out to be a high-water mark as they have failed to make a final since in either domestic cup competition. Klopp was hampered by the absence of Mo Salah, Sadio Mane and Naby Mikel’s men shrug off red card for Xhaka to frustrate the Kop ram rod: A flying save from Ramsdale Keita on Africa Cup of Nations duty and also his usual supersub Divock Origi, who was injured. But it was nothing compared to what Arsenal had to deal with last night. Andy Robertson had got immediate joy down the left, nearly teeing up Roberto Firmino after just seven minutes, but the Brazilian just failed to get a touch. And problems down that side were compounded for Arsenal boss Mikel Arteta when right-back Cedric Soares limped off four minutes later. It seemed to unsettle Arsenal, who had until that point started reasonably well. Gunners goalkeeper Aaron Ramsdale had a nervy moment shortly after, almost gifting Diogo Jota a tap-in when miscontrolling a backpass from Gabriel. But he recovered to shuffle the ball off for a corner. And Robertson continued to cause problems, twice going close with a cross that Firmino failed to turn in, then with a shot which was deflected wide. It was Robertson who brought about the dismissal of Xhaka. The left-back’s raking crossfield pass to Jota on the

DX1ST FOOTBALL: CARABAO CUP SEMI-FINALs OFF TARGET: Minamino blasts his late chance over the bar Daily Express Friday, January 14, 2022 59 Ratings By GIDEON BROOKS express.co.uk/sport LIVERPOOL (4-3-3) Alisson 5 Alexander-Arnold 6 Matip 6 Van Dijk 6 Robertson ■ 7 Henderson 7 Fabinho 6 Milner 6 Minamino 7 Firmino 6 Jota 6 SUBS Jones (Milner 61) 6 Ox-Chamberlain (Fabinho 75) Gomez (Matip 76) N Williams (Alex-Arnold 76) ARSENAL (4-2-3-1) Ramsdale 5 Soares 4 White 6 Gabriel ■ 7 Tierney 7 Lokonga 7 Xhaka ■ 3 Saka 8 Lacazette 6 Martinelli 6 Nketiah 6 SUBS Chambers (Soares 11) 6 Holding (Nketiah 28) 6 Tavares (Saka 80) right induced the rash challenge that resulted in his marching orders. The Arsenal midfielder was trying to hook the ball away in mid-air before Jota brought it down to race through on goal, but instead of connecting with the ball he hooked his foot into the striker’s breadbasket. He was the last man and had no defence when referee Michael Oliver produced a red card The dismissal forced Arteta into an immediate shift from trying to win the game to rescuing something to take to the Emirates for the second leg. Eddie Nketiah was sacrificed as Arsenal sent my boy: Arteta and his rising star Saka on Rob Holding and retreated into a 5-3-1 formation. Keeping a lid on Liverpool one body down for well over an hour looked a huge ask but the rejigged Arsenal side reached the break with the score goalless. The Gunners ticked off another 10 minutes in a decent start to the second period and even threatened on a couple of occasions, with Bukayo Saka looking their most likely saviour. The arrival of Curtis Jones added some urgency to the Liverpool midfield, and a lovely piece of skill from the substitute gave Takumi Minamino a chance on the angle, which he pulled across the goal. It was hard to see where Liverpool had the extra man and in the 72nd minute Arsenal went close. Kieran Tierney crossed and swung a ball into the middle but, after not putting a foot wrong all night, Saka could not quite find the connection to get it past Alisson from eight yards out. Liverpool pressured late and Minamino had a golden chance after the ball ricocheted in from the right side of the area, only to pull his shot over. Jones finally had a shot on target after 92 minutes but could not break the deadlock. Saka is robbed of chance to shine IF BUKAYO Saka was in the shop window last night then he must have felt like a tailor’s dummy for most it. That is because his evening was ruined inside 25 minutes by a real dummy in team-mate Granit Xhaka, who got himself sent off for the fifth time in his Arsenal career. From that moment, Saka knew his role would be to defend instead of attack and his chance to show Liverpool there could be life after Mo Salah was gone. But even in the brief time it took for Xhaka to indulge in more madness, Saka, 20, still managed to prove what a huge star he will go on to become. He created his side’s two best chances of the first half and By Jeremy Cross klopp: Stalemate left little to smile about was Mikel Arteta’s only spark in a game that had most of the life sucked out of it by Xhaka seeing red. He burst clear of the Liverpool defence with a clever run before picking out Eddie Nketiah, only to see him make a complete hash of it. Then before half-time, Saka’s free-kick could have resulted in a precious lead for the visitors, but Alexandre Lacazette dangled his foot at it with all the enthusiasm of a kid testing the temperature of a cold swimming pool. Supporters in these parts appreciate a cultured left foot and currently worship the oliver twist Jota is left in a heap by Xhaka as the Arsenal man earns yet another red card one belonging to Salah, who is still waiting to be offered a new £400,000-a-week deal at Anfield. But what we do know is that Saka’s future is guaranteed to be long and successful, provided he finds himself at the right club moving forward – one which will challenge for the biggest trophies on a regular basis. Saka was vilified for missing a penalty in England’s Euro 2020 final defeat by Italy, along with Jadon Sancho and Marcus Rashford. But, unlike his two team-mates, he has used the experience to come back stronger. It is the sort or character needed to succeed at Liverpool, which will not have gone unnoticed by Jurgen Klopp. LIVERPOOL v ARSENAL 77 Possession % 23 1 Shots on Target 1 10 Shots off Target 1 6 blocked Shots 1 8 Corners 1 4 Fouls 7 1 Yellow Cards 1 0 Red Cards 1 Source: Opta MAN OF THE MATCH BUKAYO SAKA – Brilliant and tireless performance. FORM GUIDE... Liverpool Arsenal D W D L W D L L W W Next 5 matches Liverpool SUNDAY Brentford (h) PL JAN 20 Arsenal (a) LC JAN 23 C Palace (a) PL FEB 6 Cardiff (h) FAC FEB 10 Leicester (h) PL Arsenal SUNDAY Tottenham (a) PL JAN 20 Liverpool (h) LC JAN 23 Burnley (h) PL FEB 10 Wolves (a) PL FEB 19 Brentford (h) PL express.co.uk/sport

60 Daily Express Friday, January 14, 2022 DX1ST express.co.uk/sport point man: United youth must listen and learn says Ronaldo liverpool gun 0 0 fight Arsenal battle for draw after Xhaka’s red By Andy Dunn GUTSY Arsenal kept their Carabao Cup hopes alive after Granit Xhaka was sent off for the fifth time in his Gunners career. Xhaka was dismissed for a challenge on Diogo Jota, but Mikel Arteta’s side kept Liverpool at bay to give themselves a fighting chance in the second leg of the semi-final at the Emirates. Arteta is now without five midfielders for Sunday’s derby clash with Tottenham. Match report: Pages 58-9 ronaldo warns kids By Gideon Brooks Don’t ignore my advice says star arsenal CRISTIANO RONALDO fears that Manchester United’s misfiring young guns are ignoring the advice of the experienced voices in their squad. The Portugal superstar, 36, has a wealth of knowledge to share, having scaled the pinnacle of the sport during his amazing career. But he suggested the younger players have rough and tumble: Xhaka was sent off for his challenge on Jota not always been receptive to guidance when it has been offered. “If I give you advice, even if you are younger than me, if you don’t implant that in your daily life, it will be difficult,” said Ronaldo. “I can turn to page 57, column 3 probe delay is new blow for lewis By Simon Cass Lewis Hamilton’s Formula One future has been thrown into further doubt after the FIA announced they will not reveal the final details of their Abu Dhabi investigation until March. Hamilton wants to see the outcome of the inquiry before deciding on whether to continue with Mercedes next season. But with the result not set to be made public until March 18 – the weekend of the season opener in Bahrain – that may come too late for the seven-time world champion, who remains “disillusioned” with the chaotic way Max Verstappen pinched the world title from under his nose. Hamilton, 37, went into the race at Yas Marina level on points with his Red Bull rival, and seemed destined to win a record-breaking eighth world crown before the now infamous safety-car procedure that ultimately scuppered his chances on the last lap. The investigation started yesterday but will stretch Hamilton’s patience, even though new FIA president Mohammed Ben Sulayem will meet with Mercedes team principal Toto Wolff today in a bid to smooth things over. The future of Michael Masi will figure prominently in those talks after the F1 race director made a crucial call that led to Verstappen denying Hamilton, right, the crown with a dramatic last-lap overtake. Get £75 worth of beer for only £34.99 Includes: 30 Craft Beers • Magazine A monthly subscription of unique hand picked craft beers and lagers from exceptional small and independent breweries SUBSCRIBE & SAVE TODAY AT HOPSMORE.CO.UK *£34.99 offer is only available to new customers. Hopsmore Beer Club Subscription is £44.99 per month thereafter. Please drink responsibly Only £1.16 per can! Save £10 RRP £44.99 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 Reach Printing Services, St Albans Rd, Watford WD24 7RG; Reach Printing Services, Hollinwood Ave, Chadderton, Oldham OL9 8EP; 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; EURO- PRINTER SA Zone Aéropole, avenue Jean Mermoz,B 6041 GOSSELIES Tel. 0208 612 7000. Outside UK +44(0) 208 612 7000 ABCDEFGHIJKLPQRS *TUW1234WBDS Austria €3.50, Belgium €3, Bulgaria BGN 4.60, Canary Islands €2.40, Cyprus €2.50, Denmark 24DKr, Finland €5.80, France €2.70, Germany €2.50, Gibraltar Gib £1, Greece €2.50, Italy €2.50, Luxembourg €3.50, Malta €2.65, Netherlands €3, Norway 32 Nkr, Portugal (Cont) €2.40, Spain €2.40, Switzerland SF 4.50, Turkey TL 7.50, USA $2.00

DX1ST Daily Express Friday, January 14, 2022 1 Puzzles Sudoku 11 1 4 5 2 easy Fill the grid so that every column, row, and 3x3 square includes all of the digits from one to nine. Solutions on Monday 4 6 3 7 5 8 4 6 7 3 3 5 8 6 9 3 9 7 9 8 3 4 7 2 3 6 1 4 4 3 1 5 9 7 5 4 8 Medium 5 4 2 9 6 1 9 5 2 9 2 3 7 8 9 7 6 4 8 6 3 9 5 4 7 7 1 2 4 7 8 2 Difficult 6 8 1 6 7 1 8 Extra clues: 0901 322 5609 *Calls cost 75p plus your telephone company’s network access charge. 6 3 5 2 8 9 7 7 4 2 1 3 7 1 7 3 6 3 Today’s solution: 0907 181 2573 *Calls cost 80p per minute plus your telephone company’s network access charge. Quick Crossword Stuck on the puzzle? Call 0905 789 4188 to hear individual clues or the full solution CROSS DOUBT Stuck? Call for a clue 0901 322 5601 Halve your Target Time! Today’s solution 0901 322 5607 Both today’s words in a moment! *Calls cost 75p plus your telephone company’s network access charge. Can you make two common five-letter words from the nine letters given, using each letter only once? You can – but only if one letter features in both words in the squares on the right. There’s at least one way to do it, and you have to have the right letter at the crossover – but which one is it? See if you can find the answer within our target time. If you need help, ring our clue-line below to find out the crossover letter. Solution on Monday B I C U S Across 1. Tiny (9) 8. Increase (3) 9. Gloomy (11) 11. Be enough (7) 12. Cancel (5) 13. Function (6) 15. Extreme (6) 17. Resonant sound (5) 18. Agitated (7) 20. See-through (11) 22. Insect (3) 23. Thrice (9) Down 2. Freeze (3) 3. Defence plea (5) 4. Together (6) 5. Passage (7) 6. Scout (11) 7. Moderated (9) 10. Compassionate (4-7) 11. Sign (9) 14. Tramp (7) 16. Hot spring (6) 19. Pursue (5) 21. Nothing (3) Solution on Monday *Calls cost 80p per minute plus your telephone company’s network access charge. Service provider Spoke Ltd – Helpline 0333 202 3390 Target times: Average: 16 mins Good: 12 mins Excellent: 8 mins P I D S Small Crossword 1 7 11 13 16 18 20 2 9 3 14 17 Kakuro 13 27 21 6 10 15 22 9 24 12 8 20 17 11 32 8 14 6 6 13 17 13 9 4 30 14 11 9 10 19 20 6 8 4 15 19 DOWN 1 Slaughtered (9) 2 Consent to receive (6) 3 Small island (4) 4 Public house (3) 5 Great pain (7) 6 Tiny cries (anag.) (9) 5 10 12 6ACROSS 1 Sorcerors (9) 7 Parts of a play (4) 8 Listlessness (5) 10 Drink mixed with tonic (3) 11 Choose (6) 13 Say sorry (9) 14 Pencil rubber (6) 16 Regret (3) 18 Makes money (5) 19 Adjoin (4) 20 Mean and cowardly (9) 8 Accompanies (7) 9 Stares angrily (7) 12 Handy (6) 15 Not quite shut (4) 17 Dec’s TV partner (3) Solution on Monday For today’s solution call: 0907 181 2582 *Calls cost 80p per minute plus your telephone company’s network access charge. Fill each sequence of blank squares using the numbers 1-9. Each sequence – across and down – must total the number in the shaded box at the beginning or top of each line. A number may be repeated in each line but NOT in a sequence. Solution on Monday

2 Daily Express Friday, January 14, 2022 Puzzles Arrow-word Enter your answers as indicated by the arrows, including items connected with our TV star, then read the letters in the shaded squares to spell the singer she performed as on Celebrity Stars In Their Eyes (4,6). Solution in Monday’s puzzle pull-out As well Our star’s first name Pointless presenter, Richard _ US fantasy drama, _ Upon A Time DX1ST TV Crossword Solve our crossword, then rearrange the letters in the shaded squares to reveal the name of a TV show (7,2,3). 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 11 12 13 14 10 Find, pinpoint Scottish mountain Sports biopic starring Will Smith Our star’s surname Employ College pupils Frighten Cereal grass Downton Abbey actress, Phyllis _ Comedian Tim _ Japanese artist, Yoko _ One from Helsinki Female relative Gangsta’s Paradise rapper Verifies Actress, _ Thurman Actress, _ Dowd Harry Potter’s pal Beam of light Ditloids If we asked you what “7 D of the W” stood for, you would soon guess we meant 7 Days of the Week, but what are the rather more tricky ones below? Today’s theme is TV medical dramas. Solution in Monday’s puzzle pull-out 1 E of D with E R 2 E of D M with S W 2 G G for H L as H 4 S of B s J R 23 S of H C Civil uprising TV presenter, _ Peters Fermented honey drink Park keeper Whirlwind Sprinter, _ Bolt Spanish model, _ Rivas Guns N’ Roses singer, _ Rose Hearten Tavern Italian wine Director, Trevor _ Damp Comedian _ Djalili French city Jump Classic sitcom, _ Army Secret agent Couple, pair Busy insect Lyricist, _ Gershwin Posed for artist Meetings TV show with our star, _ Morning TV show with our star, Celebrity Coach _ Neckwear item The Crying Game star, Stephen _ MUddlesome We’ve scrambled up the names of US pop singers. Can you work out what they are? Solution in Monday’s puzzle pull-out VET SKINS ICE WHY SHOUT IN TONE HAIRY CAMERA Pounds per square inch (abbr) The Durrells writer, Simon _ Leave ACROSS 1 1980s comedy-drama series that starred Timothy West (5) 6 Roseanne and The Big Bang Theory actress, _ Gilbert (4) 8 Long Lost Family copresenter, Nicky _ (8) 10 Piano-playing dog in The Muppet Show (5) 11 Downton Abbey cook, _ Patmore (5) 12 DJ and TV presenter, _ Nelson (6) 15 Agent of U.N.C.L.E. played by Robert Vaughn, Napoleon _ (4) 16 US reality series, The Real Housewives Of _ County (6) 17 Good Girls and La Brea actress, Ione _ (4) 19 Good Morning With Anne And Nick host, Anne _ (7) 21 _ Wix, actress who plays Sarah Ferguson in The Windsors (4) Quiz of the week 22 Reality series, Don’t Tell The _ (5) DOWN 2 Billie Piper’s Doctor Who role, _ Tyler (4) 3 Prunella _, Sybil in Fawlty Towers (6) 4 _ Of Fry & Laurie, comedy sketch show (1,3) 5 Family Guy spin-off, The _ Show (9) 6 US reality series, _ Wars (7) 1 In English football, what does the Q in QPR stand for? 2 Which sitcom starred Danny DeVito as Louie De Palma, the dispatcher for the fictional Sunshine Cab Company? 3 What is the first name of the eldest son of David and Victoria Beckham? 4 Which sitcom featuring Ross, Phoebe, and Rachel did Liverpool’s Jürgen Klopp watch to improve his English? 5 In which 2013 black comedy crime film does Leonardo DiCaprio play the role of Jordan Belfort? 6 What is the surname of Jules, the presenter of TV’s Escape To The Country? Trivia wordsearch 1 Which band released the album Atom Heart Mother in 1970? (4,5) 2 Which chemical element has an atomic number of 1? (8) 3 What codename was given to the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima during the Second World War? (5,3) 4 The proton pack was designed by which member of the Ghostbusters team? (8) 5 What name is given to an atom or molecule in which the total number of electrons and protons is unequal? (3) 6 The atomic clock was first developed by which English physicist in 1955? (5,5) 7 What name is given to the theoretical elementary particle predicted by physicists, which they hope the Large Hadron Collider may help them to prove? (5,5) 8 Atomic Kitten had their first UK No. 1 hit with which song in 2001? (5,5) 9 Which English scientist is known for his pioneering work in atomic theory as well as his research into colour blindness? (6) 10 In nuclear physics, what name is given to the splitting of an atom into smaller parts, accompanied by the release of large amounts of energy? (7) 15 16 17 18 19 21 22 20 7 American 1980s sitcom about an Alien Life Form (3) 9 TV presenter who is married to Judy Finnigan, Richard _ (7) 13 Game show with Nigel Havers, The Bidding _ (4) 14 Western series with Timothy Olyphant, Ian McShane and Molly Parker (8) 17 Series in which Maxine Peake played a barrister (4) 18 Actress who starred in the US reboot of Shameless, _ Rossum (4) 20 Actress and TV presenter, Donna _ (3) Solution in Monday’s puzzle pull-out 7 Which US multi-national fast food restaurant franchise was co-founded by 17-year-old Fred DeLuca in 1965? 8 Starring Natalie Wood, which 1961 musical drama romantic film features the Jets and the Sharks? 9 Which group had a UK Number One single in 1977 with the song Chanson D’Amour? 10 Which 1991 US epic thriller film stars Kevin Costner, left, as Jim Garrison and Gary Oldman as Lee Harvey Oswald? Solution in Monday’s puzzle pull-out Splitting the atom. Solve the clues and find the answers in the grid. Solution in Monday’s puzzle pull-out L W G N E U T R O A W D L R I D Y O L F K N I P N A E P T Q E Z B U E D N E G L R M T A I U M O I H G N G W H O L E A G A I N O I N S A U E E W C G Y T R A E V B E L T B G T L H D P P I I N E N S O A L E Y C S Q O J C B Z D Y R E H U A I Y L O U I S E S S E N J C B S O K A T O C P A L S W O W N F I S S I O N B I N F U S E U T C A N H V

DX1ST Daily Express Friday, January 14, 2022 3 1 4 5 2 11 Words The ultra Alphapuzzle ® In the following passage, the numbers 12345 represent different letters: Beer and 325 could only comfort them so much; whenever the 12345 went up, 134 out across the 253, the 431 men knew 4532 1534. How would they 322 1345 on tonight’s raid, they wondered? Solution in Monday’s puzzle pull-out sumthing ➔ 5 6 ➔ ➔ 4 1 ➔ There are six answers to be entered clockwise on the clock face. Each has four letters and each begins with the last two letters of the previous one, until we come full circle with answer six ending with the first two letters of answer one. Here are the clues: 1 Guy 2 Top 3 Exhibition 4 Ballgame 5 Groin 6 Measurement Clock-wise Fit the missing numbers into the grid so that all the sums are correct – reading left to right or on single lines top to bottom. There are 11 squares to fill, with one digit in each, and the 11 digits you must use are listed below. But where do they all go? Solution in Monday’s puzzle pull-out We’ve given you one digit to get you started. Here are the missing digits to fit in: 0, 1, 2, 2, 3, 3, 3, 4, 6, 7, 9 5 × = ➔ + − − × = = = = × = 3 2 ➔ 1 21 16 23 4 12 25 3 23 2 3 25 14 1 2 25 14 14 6 6 14 15 16 2 12 23 23 4 8 8 17 14 16 16 25 4 18 23 20 9 18 13 8 25 12 19 23 14 12 22 6 18 14 23 4 12 26 14 2 9 18 10 25 18 25 21 12 8 3 5 14 4 18 14 1 23 25 24 26 3 23 6 16 19 14 15 4 22 2 11 23 7 7 9 14 14 14 14 5 14 8 23 1 2 9 9 1 25 14 3 15 3 16 4 17 5 18 6 19 7 20 ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ For up to six Extra Clue Letters, call: 0907 181 2578 (Deduct three minutes from Target Time for each extra letter heard) 11 3 25 9 17 1 25 1 18 8 21 9 22 C Alternatively, for 6 extra clues to your mobile, text: DXALPHAX to 64343 Texts cost £1 plus your usual network rate. Full solution: 0907 181 2579 Across only: 0907 181 2576 Down only: 0907 181 2577 *Calls cost 80p per minute plus your phone company’s network access charge. *SP: Spoke. Helpline 0333 202 3390 10 23 11 24 12 25 13 26 WELCOME to the ULTRA Alphapuzzle – the ‘extratough’ 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 Friday Last Friday’s solution Across: Swift, Scope, Moribund, Sort, Relies, Opaque, Narrate, Elixir, Either, Brio, Solemnly, Messy, Plaza. Down: Smirk, Splurge, Warble, Noxious, Fibre, Surprise, Advocate, Ideal, Cascade, Chintz, Perjury, Prays. Alphapuzzle® © 2019 Acorn Editorial Ltd Samurai Sudoku 9 8 1 2 6 4 5 7 3 4 5 7 3 8 1 9 2 6 2 6 3 5 9 7 4 8 1 3 4 5 6 1 8 7 9 2 7 2 8 9 5 3 6 1 4 6 1 9 4 7 2 3 5 8 8 3 4 7 2 9 1 6 5 5 9 2 1 3 6 8 4 7 1 7 6 8 4 5 2 3 9 1 6 5 4 2 8 9 3 7 8 4 7 9 5 3 1 2 6 2 3 9 6 1 7 4 5 8 7 9 2 1 3 5 6 8 4 5 1 4 8 7 6 3 9 2 3 8 6 2 9 4 5 7 1 5 6 4 9 2 3 8 1 7 8 1 3 7 6 5 9 4 2 7 9 2 1 8 4 5 3 6 6 8 1 4 5 2 7 9 3 2 7 5 6 3 9 1 8 4 3 4 9 8 7 1 2 6 5 9 3 7 2 1 6 4 5 8 1 2 6 5 4 8 3 7 9 4 5 8 3 9 7 6 2 1 2 4 3 8 7 9 6 5 1 3 8 2 7 4 9 8 6 3 5 1 2 7 9 8 1 5 6 4 2 3 7 6 9 8 1 5 4 7 2 9 3 6 6 1 5 2 3 4 9 7 8 5 4 1 2 6 3 5 1 9 4 7 8 4 7 1 6 8 2 5 3 9 3 8 4 7 9 6 2 5 1 8 3 6 7 9 5 1 4 2 5 7 6 1 2 8 3 9 4 5 2 9 3 4 1 7 8 6 9 2 1 3 5 4 8 6 7 3 6 7 5 1 8 2 9 4 6 5 8 9 4 7 1 2 3 1 5 4 9 2 3 8 6 7 4 9 7 2 3 1 6 8 5 9 8 2 4 6 7 3 1 5 1 3 2 6 8 5 7 4 9 Small crossword Across: 1 Ornaments, 7 Wagers, 9 Larders, 10 Arab, 12 Tea, 13 Amassed, 14 Old, 15 Soap, 17 Abridge, 19 Abloom, 20 Kilometre. Down: 1 Oklahoma, 2 Rear, 3 Nor, 4 Maelstrom, 5 Egress, 6 Tried, 8 Stampede, 11 Bamboo, 13 Alibi, 16 Agar, 18 Dot. Target ENDOWMENT deem demo demon demote denote dent dome done dote down emend emoted endow ENDOWMENT mend meowed meted mewed mode mowed need node noted omened owed owned teed tend tendon tenoned toed toned towed tweed weed wend wonted Wordsearch Q K K B J U B Y W M T X Q T P D F E X R N K C N K T O Y A E U A H P M A L H L H U M R R R G E K S E C U R I T Y S O C A A S J I N E H I S T S L P O H W B X F O B L S D W I M M D N T U S R E A E T C M T O P S F N T H A N Q W M E S A A M D A S R T T J P T A E W F V V E I R P E S O R E S A L M L L X R T R F H O U J F T O K D O H Y N Z O L T S G A B R N S A O X A Q Z N A R U I J A E C Z D D K N U T S R O Z C M R E T F J F S L M F A E N T V S G T X P The AlphAbeater Black squares: 4, 7, 10, 14, 16, 17, 19, 20, 25, 26, 28, 30, 35, 39. Across: Vanity, Mirror, Jumpy, Arc, Hydrocarbon, Quake, Gawky, Workmanlike, Par, Waltz, Foster, Enzyme. Down: Vicar, Wharf, Notch, Airless, Judge, Woe, Importantly, Ivy, Glitz, Rainbow, Epoxy, Robin, Froze. Cross doubt Across: CROWN Down: SUGAR Summit up 79 and 98 Yesterday’s solutions Arrow-word S P U A S I S T R A W S C R E W S E I E Y E V O S P I R A L S H E L L C D E N A R E A S T E A M S T R E A T A D I S A R M V E T B F L E E T W A S H E D C A T E Q W E D O D A T A E N D U R E E S S A Y N R T E A B A R K E D F O O T T E N T H G U A L I E N S D Y E P O O L P I N C E F L A T T E N E D H A L F E R A E S I N N E R T O P P A S C O E A L I V E N E N T E R V A N S T O R E S Y I E L D The Alphapuzzle Across: Artful, Plural, Quickie, Melee, Elan, Stage, Worry, Late, Elite (clue), Thunder, Malign, Overly. Down: Banquet, Jemmy, Stoical, Sidle, Funky, Lozenge, Dexterity, Plumage, Guava, Droll, Yardarm, Alley, Betrays. Word builder Ode, Dome, Model, Seldom, Demos, Dose, Sod Sudoku Easy 8 5 2 6 3 9 4 1 7 3 2 4 9 7 6 1 8 5 2 4 8 7 9 3 5 6 1 3 7 1 5 2 4 8 6 9 9 5 8 1 3 2 6 4 7 Battleships 4 9 6 7 8 1 3 5 2 1 6 7 5 4 8 2 3 9 7 9 5 6 1 3 4 1 6 8 2 5 2 8 3 9 7 4 Sudoku Medium 5 9 2 6 4 1 3 8 7 1 3 6 7 5 4 9 2 8 8 1 5 4 7 3 2 6 9 Kakuro 3 1 6 3 1 Quick Crossword Across: 7 Rumour; 8 Breeze; 10 Grapple; 11 Divot; 12 Lose; 13 Strap; 17 Fault; 18 View; 22 Remit; 23 Typical; 24 Clause; 25 Figure. Down: 1 Wriggle; 2 Impasse; 3 Jumpy; 4 Gradual; 5 Heavy; 6 Heath; 9 Mentality; 14 Fantasy; 15 Viscous; 16 Swollen; 19 Brace; 20 Smear; 21 Spoil. 2 3 8 1 4 8 7 4 1 8 7 3 5 2 6 9 8 7 4 9 2 3 1 5 6 6 3 7 8 9 2 5 1 4 9 2 5 1 6 8 7 4 3 6 4 2 3 7 9 5 9 1 2 8 6 3 8 7 4 5 1 6 9 2 9 7 2 4 6 1 3 8 8 9 1 3 7 2 4 2 1 5 3 1 4 5 4 9 8 8 2 6 1 3 5 Sudoku difficult 2 5 9 6 4 1 7 3 8 8 6 5 4 2 7 1 9 3 5 8 2 9 7 6 3 1 4 keijo 2 1 4 3 1 8 4 3 7 2 6 9 5 9 2 1 8 3 6 4 5 7 3 7 6 8 5 9 2 1 4 4 3 7 1 9 5 6 8 2 7 4 3 9 6 1 2 1 8 5 4 3 5 6 9 7 2 8 Quizword Across: 3 Good Thief; 8 Azov; 9 Minnesota; 10 Ennius; 11 Styne; 14 Blair; 15 G-Man; 16 Op Art; 18 Crow; 20 Igloo; 21 Rains; 24 Sacchi; 25 Nicholson; 26 Iron; 27 Hollander. Down: 1 Waterbuck; 2 John Major; 4 Otis; 5 Dunst; 6 Hysong; 7 Etty; 9 Munro; 11 Sears; 12 Emily Carr; 13 Antonioni; 17 Titan; 19 Warhol; 22 Nylon; 23 Biro; 24 Sole. 3 2 1 4 4 3 2 1 1 4 3 2

4 Daily Express Friday, January 14, 2022 Puzzles crusader prize crossword Across 1 Hitches company to something torturous (10) 6 Wind indicator is useless, we hear (4) 10 Devout, taking hollow article to be pathetic (7) 11 Baffled, not even breaking even (2,1,4) 12 Hide space used for coats (9) 13 Still including a singular poet (5) 14 Artist and professor gas (5) 15 Loud one does get improved, having the top decorated (9) 17 Idler observing husband coming in after party (2-7) 20 Keen to agree to change (5) 21 Engineers left one cold souvenir (5) 23 Drama – unfortunately, cadet pretended (9) 25 Record store acquires new character (7) 26 Light supervision? (3,4) 27 Painful and spotted, say (4) 28 Bishop even running round – fast kind (10) Down 1 Subject putting head in charge (5) 2 Turn mad too much, study not visited (9) 3 Obstruct, then deal with, lifting mechanism (5,3,6) 4 Actors leaving abandoned article (4-3) 5 Ages working out sum for philosopher (7) 7 Wearing halo, getting a greeting (5) 8 New Yorker, getting direction, dries out (4,5) 9 Simple to arrive at, and leave, a nonchalant attitude (4,4,4,2) 14 Having no jockey lacking a clause (9) 16 Work out, fixing tie on gate (9) 18 Affect rascal – depend on missing leader (7) 19 Important person – gosh – having money (7) 22 No-hoper playing roles (5) 24 Lived to wed new lieutenant (5) DX1ST 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 9 11 1 4 5 FOR YOUR CHANCE TO WIN Read down the letters in the highlighted squares to reveal the mystery word. Name Address Postcode 2 WIN £100 CASH TO ENTER: Call 0904 161 3700 and leave your answer and details, or text DXCRUS followed by a space, your answer, name and address details to 88833. Calls cost £1.50 plus your telephone company’s network access charge. Texts cost £1.50 plus your standard network rate. Lines close at midnight tonight. Or send your grid containing the answer in the shaded squares by posting it to: Crusader Crossword, January 14, PO Box 12578, Sutton Coldfield B73 9BT. Entries must be postmarked by January 15 at the latest. SP: Spoke – 0333 202 3390. For any postal enquiries, call helpline number. An extra day is given for postal entries during bank holidays. ● The winner will be the first random correct entry drawn from all entry routes after the closing date of January 21. The Editor’s decision is final. WEDNESDAY’S SOLUTION ACROSS: 1 Hipster, 5 Scholar, 9 Runners-up, 10 Dated, 11 Catcher, 12 Deadeye, 13 Light-fingered, 18 Change of heart, 20 Regards, 23 Burglar, 25 Draft, 26 Attendant, 27 Tutored, 28 Discern. DOWN: 1 Horace, 2 Panatella, 3 Teeth, 4 Ristretto, 5 Sapid, 6 Hydrangea, 7 Lathe, 8 Redheads, 14 Gag-writer, 15 Inhabited, 16 Retaliate, 17 Accredit, 19 Proton, 21 Giant, 22 Stand, 24 Ranks. Prizeword: Serenade Target T I L A C O T A N HOW many words of four letters or more can you make from the letters shown here? In making a word, each letter may be used once only. Each must contain the centre letter and there must be at least one nine-letter word. No plurals. Verb forms ending in S permitted. TODAY’S TARGET Good 16; very good 24; excellent 31 (or more). Solution on Monday 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. Solution on Monday 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 A B C D E F G H I J 2 0 5 1 3 2 1 4 1 1 2 1 1 2 4 2 1 2 1 4 1 x Battleship 2 x Cruiser 3 x Destroyer 4 x Submarine ● The Target uses words in the main body of Chambers 21st Century Dictionary (1999 edition) Call 0907 181 2585 for today’s Target solution *Calls cost 80p per minute plus your telephone company’s network access charge. Battleships The Alphabeater The Alphapuzzle ® CAN you crack the 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 grid to start. The grid is ‘rotationally symmetrical’ – in other words, it looks the same if you turn the page upside down. Solution on Monday 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 17 37 13 38 33 30 29 34 26 8 37 13 17 Target Time: 34 minutes Extra letter clues 0907 181 2560 (Deduct three minutes for each extra clue letter heard) Full solution 0907 181 2558 *Calls cost 80p per minute plus your telephone company’s network access charge. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 ■ Y 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 C ■ 31 ■ 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 D ● Alternatively, for six Extra Letter clues to your mobile, text DXBEAT to 64343. Texts cost £1 plus your usual operator rate Keijo 1 2 3 28 17 12 21 32 18 17 35 17 12 7 11 15 30 6 15 36 22 17 27 4 29 11 23 22 15 23 38 4 7 17 28 17 25 17 9 33 3 1 2 39 31 16 23 32 2 40 7 26 18 40 39 1 37 32 23 33 3 33 40 16 15 9 13 38 33 13 28 7 35 8 21 17 39 36 30 32 25 31 23 34 26 5 14 2 26 17 22 17 23 12 38 24 21 23 30 37 32 34 18 16 36 35 37 11 1 2 2 3 4 4 1 3 4 2 3 4 33 1 15 2 13 39 38 25 32 17 19 17 40 40 16 34 28 20 34 17 40 27 10 2 23 16 4 18 38 25 34 12 35 11 4 15 7 24 21 3 17 14 36 33 31 27 16 33 31 19 15 14 Place the tiles into the grid so that four different numbers and four different shapes appear in each row and column. Solution on Monday Alphapuzzle ® tests logic and word power. Each grid number stands for a letter. Every letter of the alphabet is used. Use the given letter or letters — below the main grid — to start. Solution on Monday Difficulty: 6/10; Target: 21 mins; Clue: Place where he protects queen. 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 5 20 17 6 5 18 5 21 22 26 18 8 23 2 6 12 9 11 23 3 16 12 2 3 23 12 2 4 24 21 3 20 20 12 2 24 10 3 2 12 3 20 5 23 2 12 6 7 26 24 2 25 26 15 5 16 12 19 5 2 3 8 12 2 12 16 26 18 10 24 17 26 13 12 23 10 13 12 20 17 21 21 10 10 3 23 14 5 24 9 26 20 9 23 24 21 12 2 15 6 24 12 20 4 12 1 1 6 12 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16V 17 18 19 20 M THE DAILY EXPRESS 30-SECOND challenge Today’s answers: Beginner = 13; Intermediate = 323; Advanced = 240. PLAY MORE CROSSWORDS AND GAMES AT EXPRESS.CO.UK/PUZZLES *SP: Spoke – Helpline 0333 202 3390 21 22 23 24 25 26 extra letter clues: 0907 181 2568 (Hear up to six Extra Letters, deduct two minutes for each clue letter heard) Alternatively, for six extra letter clues direct to your mobile, text DXALPHA to 64343. Texts cost £1 plus normal network operator rate. full solution: 0907 181 2565; Across ONLY: 0907 181 2561; Down ONLY: 0907 181 2562. *Calls cost 80p per minute plus your telephone company’s network access charge. Alphapuzzle® ©2019 Acorn Editorial Ltd. All words appear in Chambers Dictionary.