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一项研究发现，走楼梯而不是乘坐电梯可以将早逝风险降低近四分之一。

这与降低心脏病发作或中风等心血管事件的风险有关。

研究中定期爬楼梯的人群，死于心脏问题的概率降低了 39%，死于任何原因的概率降低了 24%。

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新娘在萨默塞特郡的招待会前必须匆忙赶回去给奶牛挤奶。

我移动了！

新娘骑着心爱的奶牛参加婚礼

汤姆·贝万（TOM BEVAN） 撰文

一名农民新娘骑着她最喜欢的奶牛进入教堂，样子显得格外迷人。

维多利亚·李（Victoria Lee）由体壮的奶牛“白巧克力纽扣”（White Chocolate Button）驮着，奶牛戴着花冠，而其主人则在进入时为其挤奶。

这是维多利亚从 10 岁起就一直幻想的场景。

这位 37, 岁的奶牛场农场主表示：“这就是我一直梦想的样子——真的太不可思议了。

“虽然这非常罕见，但人们会骑马，骑牛其实没有区别！‘白巧克力纽扣’非常喜欢这样——它是个乖女孩，表现得非常自然。

“如果没有奶牛在场，那就不是我的婚礼了！我们的奶牛就是我们的家人，我们的生活。”

维多利亚说，骑行时间只有大约 30 秒——但“令人难忘”——随后这位四个孩子的母亲在他们的 10 周年纪念日与 40, 岁的迈克·李（Mike Lee）结婚。

心爱的伙伴

在前往萨默塞特郡马克（Mark）的圣十字教堂参加仪式之前，她先是乘坐拖拉机前往，最后一段路程则是骑着她心爱的奶牛完成的。

维多利亚说：“‘白巧克力纽扣’（White Chocolate Button）什么都愿意做。她会在田野里、院子里跟着你，她还会进屋吃面包。所以在仪式前几周，我跳到她的背上坐下，轻轻地踢她，她就停下来然后行走，一点也不介意。”

“她注定要成为这一天的一部分——无论是担任伴娘还是戒指持有者！我小时候经常骑着我的奶牛‘萨迪’（Sadie）去村里的商店买糖果，帮我爷爷取报纸。”

仪式结束后，宾客们前往招待会现场——但维多利亚和迈克必须匆忙赶回农场给奶牛挤奶，然后才能加入庆祝活动。

维多利亚说：“我们的时间表排得太紧了！我有太多事情要做，以至于在婚礼前只睡了一个小时。”

“在婚礼当天，我甚至凌晨4.30就起床开始挤奶，然后才参加仪式。”

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凯蒂·哈里斯（KATIE HARRIS）报道 高级政治记者

安迪·伯纳姆（ANDY Burnham）已被英国所有警察首长敦促，要求防止警察安德鲁·哈珀（Andrew Harper）的凶手被提前释放。

一封由50名警察领导人签署的信函（包括伦敦警察厅局长马克·罗尔爵士和国家犯罪局局长格雷姆·比格尔），就这一争端向首相施加了更大的压力。

伯纳姆先生已命令司法大臣亚历克斯·诺里斯（Alex Norris）制定计划，为严重罪犯腾出监狱空间，同时他正寻求阻止安德鲁·哈珀警官的两名凶手被释放。

警察领导人们对这一干预表示欢迎，但对政府的计划提出了更广泛的担忧。

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这封由英格兰、苏格兰、威尔士和北爱尔兰警察首长签署的信函中写道：“当国家要求人们代表公众奔向危险时，他们应该能够信任，在最糟糕的情况发生时，司法系统会支持他们。”

“安德鲁·哈珀警官的案件也提出了一个更广泛的问题。当有人因极其严重的罪行被判刑时，如果随后对释放安排的更改导致罪犯被

伦敦警察厅局长马克·罗尔爵士签署了信函

所有警察首长要求阻止两名哈珀凶手提前释放

“司法系统必须支持我们”

比原先预期的要早得多地被释放，那么受害者、 bereaved家庭和公众对该判决能有多少信心？”

他们补充道：“全国各地的家庭现在正面临着巨大的痛苦，因为他们得知罪犯可能会比他们在判决下达时所理解的时间更早被释放。”

“警员和工作人员明白法律必须按现状执行。但当他们为了保护他人而让自己处于危险之中时，他们会质疑这传递了关于其服务和牺牲价值的什么信号。警察和工作人员亲眼目睹了严重犯罪对受害者及其家庭的影响。”

“他们陪伴人们度过人生中最艰难的时刻，并要求他们信任司法系统。这种信任至关重要，不应被削弱。”伯纳姆先生表示，他“越来越有信心”安德鲁·哈珀警官的凶手阿尔伯特·鲍尔斯（Albert Bowers）和杰西·科尔（Jessie Cole）不会被提前释放。这名新婚警官年仅28岁，在脚踝被一辆逃逸车辆后方的牵引绳缠住后死亡。2019年，在伯克郡的萨尔汉姆斯特德（Sulhamstead），三名男子在盗窃一辆四轮摩托车后逃跑，他被拖行在一条乡村公路上。

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心脏支架是如何工作的？

支架是一种插入冠状动脉的短金属网管，用于帮助保持动脉畅通。

它像脚手架一样，旨在恢复供应心脏的血管中的健康血流。进行冠状动脉支架手术最常见的原因是血管壁上积聚斑块，导致动脉狭窄且僵硬。

这会减少血流量，从而可能导致

气球将支架固定在动脉中

胸痛或导致心脏病发作。

冠状动脉支架是在一种称为血管成形术的微创手术过程中植入的。

一根细管通过手腕、手臂或腹股沟的血管引导至心脏。一个小气球在阻塞的动脉内部膨胀以撑开支架。

在气球被移除之前，它将支架锁定在动脉壁上。

心脏手术

罗德结束巡演

作者：马克·杰弗里斯（MARK JEFFERIES）和杰西卡·科茨（JESSICA COATES）

罗德·斯图尔特爵士（SIR Rod Stewart）在接受心脏手术后取消了其美国和墨西哥巡演的剩余行程，但至少他有佩妮·兰开斯特（Penny Lancaster）在身边鼓励他。

这位 81 岁的歌手确认，在植入冠状动脉支架后，他将休息四周以进行康复。

妻子佩妮通过发布一张她亲吻丈夫的照片来表达支持，背景音乐是他 1977 年的热门歌曲《You're in My Heart》。

这位资深摇滚歌手的团队表示：“罗德·斯图尔特爵士已成功完成了常规的冠状动脉支架手术。医生对他康复的情况感到满意，罗德状态非常好，已经恢复了正常的日常活动。”

“根据医生的建议，他将在接下来的四周内休养并恢复完全的体能，然后再回到舞台。遗憾的是，这意味着他将无法继续执行目前的巡演日期。”

罗德补充道：“我已经感觉好多了，正在迅速康复。我要感谢医生、护士以及所有对我如此悉心照顾的人。”

“对于错过这些演出以及让我的粉丝们失望，我深感遗憾，但我期待着早日回到舞台，再次与大家共度美好时光。”

健康问题在今年早些时候也迫使部分演出取消或推迟。而罗德在 6 月份出现在犹他州舞台上时携带氧气瓶，并告诉观众：“我差点他妈的晕过去了”，这引发了人们对其健康的担忧。

增加体力活动的简单步骤

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将身体活动融入日常生活”。虽然推广耗时较长的锻炼方案可能会让人产生抵触心理，但瓦西里奥斯·瓦西里乌教授表示：“全球有超过四分之一的成年人未能达到建议的活动水平，选择走楼梯提供了一种现实且可扩展的干预手段。”

该分析研究了此前五项涉及 450,000 多名 35 至 84 岁人群的数据，其中一些人健康，一些人有心脏病史。

其中一项研究表明，每天爬六层楼梯——相当于 60 级台阶——可能会带来最大的益处。

东英吉利大学的瓦西里奥斯·瓦西里乌教授表示：“如果你目前没有爬楼梯或进行任何身体活动，即使你开始爬一组或两组楼梯，也会比什么都不做要有用得多。”

“看来爬的楼梯越多越好，但即使是极少量的活动也是有益的。”

然而，他表示健康饮食、其他身体活动、维持健康体重和戒烟也同样重要。他补充道：“心血管疾病是全球范围内的首要死因，病例在 1990 和 2019 之间几乎翻了一番。但通过包括定期身体活动在内的健康生活方式，这在很大程度上是可以预防的。”

“我们希望更好地了解这种日常活动如何具有挽救生命的潜力。”

东英吉利大学（UEA）和诺福克及诺里奇大学医院的研究人员在《美国心血管药物杂志》上发表了他们的研究结果，并指出，楼梯可能不适合有行动不便或关节问题的人。

但瓦西里奥斯教授表示，鼓励人们在家里、工作场所和公共场所尽可能走楼梯，“可以成为在人群层面减少心血管疾病的更广泛战略的一部分”。

《每日快报》健康专栏作家、伦敦帝国理工学院初级护理和公共卫生教授阿齐姆·马吉德博士表示，即使是将少量的运动融入

一项研究称，每天爬 60 级台阶益处最大

日常习惯中，也会产生累积效应。他建议道：“身体活动并不总是需要去健身房或拨出大量时间。”

“选择走楼梯而不是乘坐电梯，是将更多身体活动融入日常生活的简单方法之一。同样的原则也适用于其他小习惯，例如短途出行选择步行而不是开车。”

由于这是一项观察性研究，该研究无法证明走楼梯能降低心脏问题的风险，但它显示了两者的关联性。

东英吉利大学诺里奇医学院的索菲·帕多克博士表示：“对于那些没有太多时间或无法方便地进行锻炼的人来说，爬楼梯是一个不错的选择。”

中风协会的朱丽叶·布弗里称这些发现“令人鼓舞”。英国心脏基金会（BHF）的雷吉娜·吉布林表示：“这项大规模研究支持了我们关于定期锻炼在预防心血管疾病方面的重要性所知道的结论。”

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昨晚，随着月球移至太阳之前，数百万人在英国近三十年来的首次最大日食中欣赏了这一壮观景象。

这一现象在欧洲和北美的大部分地区也清晰可见，而在冰岛和西班牙则出现了罕见的全食。在英格兰最西端的康沃尔郡兰兹角，当 98.5% 的太阳被遮挡时，人群陷入了沉默。

数百人兴奋地聚集在俯瞰大西洋的悬崖顶端，观看大约一分钟的黑暗降临。

来自特鲁罗的 31 岁女子 Van Sabellina 与丈夫及他们的婴儿一起观看了日食。

她说：“太神奇了——一生一次的体验。天气对我们非常有利，能在兰兹角见证这一时刻真是太壮观了。”

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“感觉有点诡异。你能感觉到温度从炎热变为清爽和寒冷。我觉得很幸运能看到它。我们不知道下一次是什么时候。”

在兰兹角标志牌旁的一间名为 Judy's Body Art 的小屋在短短两小时内售出了 140 多副日食眼镜。店主 Judith Dyulaine Buskas 表示：“我们今天非常忙碌。”

另一种在不伤害眼睛的情况下观看的方法是使用漏勺将日食点投影到一张纸上。

28 岁的 Abdul Othman 在莱斯特的国家空间中心观看。在从 10 开始倒计时直到日食达到最大遮挡后，400 人的人群发出了欢呼。

Abdul 说：“这是一个一生一次的机会。你一生中总能听到关于它的传闻，而现在用自己的眼睛亲眼看到月球穿过天空，将太阳变成一个小小的月牙，感觉有点超现实。然后当你看到天空变暗时，那也相当令人惊叹。”

该中心的空间专家 Dhara Patel 表示：“在过去两年里，我们经历过日食，遮挡率约为 30%，但这次的规模完全不同。而且真正美好的是，这是一种与自然连接的方式——仰望天空，观察那些我们通常认为理所当然的事物。”

人们还涌向伦敦东南部格林威治公园体验日食。

来自加拿大水的 26 岁女子 Kim Rebecca 说：“你绝对能注意到天色变暗了。”

这位城市资产管理工作人员补充道：“我以前从未见过日食，这是一个神奇的现象。虽然还是很热，但明显比之前凉快了。

“现场有香槟开瓶的声音。这很好，因为这成了一次真正的社区活动，让很多人聚集在一起。”

在卡迪夫大学学习物理的 36 岁男子 Will O'Grady 带着望远镜来到卡迪夫湾，并与路人分享。他说：“很多孩子都很喜欢。对于从其他国家来访的人来说也很不错，虽然他们的英语不太好，但你能明白‘来看看’的意思。”

“在两个小时的时间里，每个人都聚集在一起做同样的事情。无论你是否了解相关知识，或者是否像我一样是个极客，这都无关紧要。这就是我热爱这类活动的原因。”

法国北部的海滩上挤满了人。在索姆湾，数百人坐着享受野餐，等待日食临近。

西班牙北部和冰岛是能够观测到全食的国家之一——这意味着月球覆盖了太阳表面近 100% 的区域。在冰岛首都雷克雅未克，人们发出了欢呼和喝彩；而在西班牙的布尔戈斯，许多人则被震撼得陷入了沉默。

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天气预报

今日概况：初时晴朗，随后转多云

西北部：初时晴朗，随后有云。全天有风，温暖。最高气温 33°C (91°F)。

北爱尔兰：多云伴有阵雨。随后有雷阵雨。微风，随后转暖。最高气温 25°C (77°F)。

威尔士：时有阳光，随后有云。轻风，随后转为强风。全天温暖。最高气温 31°C (88°F)。

中部地区：时有阳光，随后转多云。全天温暖，有轻风。最高气温 35°C (95°F)。

东北部/托莱多：多云伴有阳光。随后有风。全天温度温暖。最高气温 34°C (92°F)。

苏格兰：多云伴有阳光。随后有风，天空晴朗。轻微西南风，温暖。最高气温 25°C (77°F)。

英国明日展望：预计大部分时间晴朗，有温和微风。随后可能会聚集云层，但预计不会有重大天气干扰。

东英吉利：晴朗温暖，随后天空晴朗。全天有轻风，气温较高。最高气温 32°C (90°F)。

伦敦/东南部：全天晴朗。随后天空晴朗。微风。温暖至非常温暖。最高气温 35°C (95°F)。

南部：全天晴朗。随后天空晴朗。轻至中风，保持温暖。最高气温 31°C (88°F)。

西南部：早晨晴朗，随后天空晴朗。风力增强，转为有风。全天温暖。最高气温 33°C (93°F)。

海峡群岛：时有阳光，随后转为晴朗。轻风，起初温暖，夜间转凉。最高气温 25°C (77°F)。

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	周五	周六	周日	周一	周二	周三
伦敦	12 17 32	15 26	15 26	15 23	15 26	14 24
贝尔法斯特	12 23	11 18	13 18	13 18	13 18	11 18
伯明翰	13 28	10 23	12 23	12 21	12 23	11 21
加的夫	14 26	11 25	13 23	13 22	13 23	12 22
格拉斯哥	12 19	12 18	13 18	13 18	13 18	12 17
曼彻斯特	13 24	11 20	12 21	12 19	12 21	11 19
纽卡斯尔	12 24	15 20	12 19	12 18	12 20	11 18
诺里奇	17 30	13 22	14 22	15 22	14 23	12 22
普利茅斯	14 25	12 25	14 23	15 23	15 23	12 22

空气	周日	周一	周二	周五	周六	周日	周一	周二	周三
亚伯丁	8.7	0.00	14.25	格拉斯哥	8.1	0.00	13.24	WCKN: 新月 0.0am, 下山 0.4pm
亚伯波思	12.0	0.00	17.00	赫尔	12.6	0.00	15.00	WCKN: 新月 0.0am, 下山 0.2pm
昂尼克	8.4	0.00	19.25	伊普斯威奇	14.5	0.00	15.26	WCKN: 新月 0.4am, 下山 0.4pm
贝尔法斯特	8.1	0.01	18.00	利兹	12.4	0.00	13.07	上弦月
伯明翰	14.3	0.00	19.30	林肯	13.7	0.00	13.28	WCKN: 0.0am
埃尔茅斯	15.1	0.00	17.00	伦敦	14.7	0.00	15.20	WCKN: 1.0am
布拉迪斯	14.8	0.00	15.20	曼彻斯特	17.7	0.00	15.26	伦敦: 0.0am, 0.0pm
加的夫	14.4	0.00	16.00	牛津	14.6	0.00	14.31	利兹: 0.0am
达勒姆	10.5	0.00	15.00	普林斯顿	15.0	0.00	15.22	利兹: 0.0am, 0.0pm
爱丁堡	8.6	0.00	15.20	圣安德鲁斯	8.3	0.00	13.22	多佛: 0.0am, 0.0pm

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工党正“堆积如山的债务”

警告下一代将继承这一负担

作者：DAVID WILLIAMSON 首席政治评论员

一项重大的新财务分析显示，未来几代英国人的每 5 英镑税款中，就有 1 英镑将被债务利息吞噬。

在最可能的情况下，到 2074-75 年，债务利息可能占政府收入的 21.3% 以上。

在最糟糕的情况下，这一比例可能达到 47%。

这加剧了人们的担忧，即除非采取行动，否则在未来 15 年内出生的人可能会继承沉重的债务负担。

这一警告可能会让安迪·伯纳姆的政府深感不安，因为该报告来自左翼领先的公共政策研究所（Institute for Public Policy Research）。

政府在 2025-26 年在债务利息上花费了约 £1100 亿——占公共支出总额的 8.1%。

过去十年中，用于支付债务利息的金额大幅飙升。

影子财政大臣梅尔·斯特赖德爵士（Sir Mel Stride）承诺削减福利，并表示：“即使是安迪·伯纳姆最喜欢的智库也表示，工党正在堆积如山的债务，准备交给下一代。”

“部长们拒绝控制支出，因为他们缺乏勇气去面对那些只想增加福利支出的左翼后座议员。”

梅尔爵士补充道：“伯纳姆和约翰·希利（John Healey）除了比基尔·斯塔默（Keir Starmer）和瑞秋·里夫斯（Rachel Reeves）借更多的钱之外，根本不知道如何收拾这个烂摊子。”他表示，保守党将“削减赤字”并“削减福利支出”。

与此同时，改革英国党（Reform UK）的罗伯特·詹里克（Robert Jenrick）引用了一项对国际货币基金组织数据的分析。

家庭

他说：“我们的债务增长速度在所有国家中排名第二，仅次于博茨瓦纳。”

“伯纳姆的反应是列出一份昂贵的支出计划清单，却没有任何支付计划。这意味着两种可能之一：进一步借贷——其利息由纳税人支付，或者进一步提高税收。劳动家庭将不得不为这一切买单。”

公共政策研究所（IPPR）认为，渐进式改革可以使债务成本保持在可持续水平。该研究所表示，一个“目标明确的改革和长期投资方案——包括在预防性医疗、气候韧性和生产力方面采取行动——可以显著改善前景”。

财政部表示：“财政纪律是经济稳定和国家安全的基石。财政大臣和首相步调一致，政府将遵守财政规则，并设置应对不确定性的缓冲地带——这包括降低债务。”

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受操纵

它警告称，被操纵而批准卡片支付的人可能会难以追回资金。

这与未经授权的卡片欺诈不同，后者是指在持卡人未授权或不知情的情况下发生的消费，通常可以获得退款；而 APP 欺诈的受害者则拥有偿还计划的保护。

Which? 的消费者法律专家丽莎·韦伯（Lisa Webb）表示：“这是一种极其危险的诈骗，因为卡片支付不属于银行必须为授权推送支付（authorised push payments）提供的自动退款范围。”

英国金融业协会（UK Finance）表示：“绝不要与除您预期会联系您的服务机构以外的任何人分享敏感信息——包括一次性验证码。”

“如果您接到自称是您银行的意外电话，请挂断电话并拨打您卡片背面的号码。”

由环境编辑 STEPH SPYRO 报道

安迪·伯纳姆（ANDY Burnham）表示，由于存在进一步引发山火的风险，他将考虑禁止使用一次性烧烤炉。

这位首相是在昨天主持他首次紧急 Cobra 委员会会议前发表上述评论的，此前今年夏天已经出现了第五次热浪。

在会后讲话中，他敦促所有零售商停止销售一次性烧烤炉，以防止更多夏季火灾。

官员表示，今年英格兰和威尔士共有 1,017 起山火召集了消防员，其中 8 月前 10 天就发生了 185 起。

伯纳姆先生警告称，极端高温天气“可能会持续数周”。

他敦促自愿暂停销售一次性烧烤炉以防止山火，但尚未采取临时禁止这些烤炉的措施。

首相表示：“我们正看到多起严重事件。给公众的建议是不使用一次性烧烤炉。从长远来看，我们将研究在夏季月份实施临时禁令是否合理。”

参加白厅会议的人员包括来自气象局、环境署和英国健康安全局的代表，以及来自环境部、住房部、卫生部和内阁办公室（Cabinet Office）的部长。

预计今天全国部分地区气温将达到 38 摄氏度。伦敦以及东南部、东米德兰兹、英格兰东部、西米德兰兹和南约克郡的部分地区已发布了罕见的琥珀色“极端高温”警告，有效期为今天上午 9 点至午夜。伯纳姆先生

首相 安迪·伯纳姆

一次性烧烤炉

禁售以 降低山火风险

首相警告将出现更极端的高温

Burnham表示，在南部地区山火问题“十分严重”的情况下，人们“此时”不应使用一次性烤炉。在汉普郡的新森林，一场大火袭击了受保护的荒原。

在昨天访问史蒂夫尼奇时，他表示：“许多山火是由一次性烧烤炉引起的。我理解人们为什么想出去这么做。但我们需要 达成一种情况，即我们几乎应对这些物品实施临时禁令。

“人们此刻不应在户外使用这些烧烤炉。”

国家消防局长委员会主席菲尔·加里根支持限制销售一次性烧烤炉的措施，因为“目前山火风险依然异常之高”。

他补充道：“我们都需要尽力降低可预防火灾的风险——在目前的情况下，一个小火星就足以引发一场山火。”

根据国家消防局长委员会（NFCC）的自愿指导，英国大多数主要超市在最近几周暂停了抛弃式烤炉的销售。

今年夏天有望成为英国有记录以来最热的夏天，如果起火，全国大部分地区面临严重山火的“异常”风险。在经历了创纪录的

山火严重风险预警图

干燥七月和非常干燥的八月初之后，英格兰近四分之三的地区和整个威尔士都处于干旱状态。结合高温，这给家庭、农业和环境的用水带来了压力。

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DART

改革英国党（Reform UK）党魁奈杰尔·法拉奇

法拉奇在投票决战中挑战“政治阶层”

作者：凯蒂·哈里斯

克拉克顿的选民今天将参加奈杰尔·法拉奇这场“人民对抗建制”的补选投票。

这位改革英国党（Reform UK）的领导人在其财务问题受到质疑之际，辞去了国会议员职务，以触发这场在埃塞克斯选区的竞选。他坚持认为克拉克顿的人民应该是其行为的评判者，并参加重新选举。

尽管主要政党对这场竞选不屑一顾并将其贴上“噱头”的标签，但法拉奇先生仍是那张3英尺长选票上的 34 名候选人之一。

他的对手包括宾面伯爵（Count Binface）、由电视演员转型的活动人士劳伦斯·福克斯（Laurence Fox），以及三名来自官方怪物咆哮疯子党的候选人。

法拉奇先生正面临一项议会调查，涉及他在成为国会议员之前从加密货币大亨克里斯托弗·哈博恩那里收到的一笔 500 万英镑m 赠款，他坚称这笔钱是用于支付其安保费用。

信息

该调查旨在研究他在成为国会议员时是否应该申报这笔资金，调查在他辞职时暂停，但如果他在补选中获胜，可能会恢复。

法拉奇先生否认有任何不当行为，并表示该调查“正被用作政治工具”。

昨天，他在谈到这次选举时说：“这是关于人民对抗建制，这是我们向政治阶层发出震撼信息的机会。”结果预计将在明天凌晨5点至7点之间出炉。

与此同时，“恢复英国”领导人鲁珀特·洛在关于两党之间潜在协议的争论中，于昨天抨击了改革英国党（Reform UK）。

洛先生排除解雇联合创始人查理·唐斯（被指控为反犹太主义者）以达成协议的可能性。他说：“如果改革党想讨论政策而非个人，那么他们知道在哪里能找到我。”

村民拟就寻求庇护基地投票“脱离”英国

牛津郡一个微小村庄的居民表示，他们担心如果国防部比斯特（MoD Bicester）的一处前军事基地被用于安置多达1,250名寻求庇护者，他们安静的生活方式可能会被改变。

该村人口仅有几百人，居民表示，拟议的安置计划将导致该地区居住人数剧增。

这处前军事基地紧邻一个休闲区、运动场和住宅，部分居民表示其花园直接与该基地接壤。

皮丁顿（Piddington）当地人以压倒性多数投票支持就是否脱离英国举行全民公投，96%的人支持这一举措。投票于7月4日举行，特意选择在与美国独立日同一天进行。这场具有象征意义的公投本身

作者：JENNIFER PINTO

定于9月15日举行——当天也是不列颠空战纪念日以及联合国的国际民主日。

皮丁顿教区委员会主席蒂姆·麦克纳利（Tim McNally）表示：“在那一天，我们将向这个国家传递一个信号。”

他告诉《每日快报》，这并非简单的抗议，而是要“直击政治要害”。

麦克纳利先生表示，对于一个仅有268名成年人和46名儿童的社区来说，该提案的规模令人担忧，村里感到“完全被困在角落里”。他补充道：“我想我该如何接触政府，让他们意识到这一切都是错误的？”《快报》

上周报道了村里的孩子们如何向首相伯纳姆先生发送恳求信和绘画作品。

麦克纳利先生表示，主要担忧之一是居民的安全。村里没有商店也没有酒吧。他说：“资源已经捉襟见肘。”

村民德里克·乔伊（Derek Joy）和凯伦·乔伊（Karen Joy）对影响感到担忧，凯伦表示：“一些花园与基地接壤，所以存在噪音因素，同时也存在安全因素。”

但内政部大臣安娜·特利（Anna Turley）昨天坚称：“他们不会在村子里，他们将被限制在基地内。他们将被允许外出，[但]他们需要的一切都将在该基地内。”而伯纳姆先生在周二表示：“我们理解人们的担忧，我将研究皮丁顿好人们提出的问题。”

首相“扩散移民苦难”计划引发愤怒

批评人士昨晚猛烈抨击安迪·伯纳姆将英吉利海峡移民分散到全国各地的计划，称这表明他与现实脱节。

在声称“全国所有地区都需要发挥作用”并安置更多寻求庇护者后，这位首相引发了愤怒。

一名内政部大臣承认，未能阻止小船跨境导致了在承受危机冲击的较贫困社区中出现“社会动荡”，因为那里的住房更便宜。

但批评者警告称，政府计划将这种“苦难扩散”到更富裕的地区、郊区和郡区，“让每个人都受苦”。他们声称“解决方案是驱逐非法移民”。《每日

作者：MICHAEL KNOWLES 内政编辑

快报》此前披露了内政部计划最终在英格兰南部、东南部、东部、西南部和伦敦安置40,000名寻求庇护者的计划。

影子内政大臣克里斯·菲利普（Chris Philp）表示：“安迪·伯纳姆建议在中产阶级地区或勤奋家庭居住的地区强加非法移民，这表明他与现实多么脱节。”

“他似乎认为解决方案是将非法移民分散到全国，让每个人都忍受这些大多是年轻男性的邻居，这简直令人不齿。解决方案是立即驱逐非法移民。他们不应该被安置。”

内政部大臣安娜·特利表示，那些“住房或许更便宜且更充足的社区不得不承担超过其合理份额的寻求庇护者”。

动荡

她补充道：“这给社区带来了巨大的负担，并引发了真正的社会动荡，因此我们希望确保能以一种更可持续的方式更好地管理该系统，从而减轻影响。”

但菲尔普先生警告称，可能会出现进一步的社会动荡。他表示：“没有任何一个社区应该被迫忍受这种情况。”根据内政部的计划，位于牛津郡比斯特的一个前军事基地将为 1,250 名男性寻求庇护者提供住宿。

但位于拟建地点附近的皮丁顿居民在抗议该计划的行动中，投票支持举行一次象征性的脱离英国全民公投。

移民控制中心研究主任罗伯特·贝茨表示：“伯纳姆显然没有阻止船只的计划，反而公开讨论将这种痛苦进一步扩散到全国各地的计划。”

“不应强迫任何英国社区接受来自文化差异巨大的国家的未经审查的男性。”

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102, 岁男子在酒吧遭“袭击”后情况危殆

作者：埃莉诺·斯托里（ELEANOR STOREY）

一名 102 岁的男子在据称于一家酒吧遭到袭击后，目前处于危殆状态。

8月 1 日晚上 10.25 左右，应急服务部门接到报案前往南威尔士库姆布兰的 Crow's Nest 酒吧，该男子随后被送往医院。

一名来自拉内利的 56 岁男子因涉嫌违反第 20 条款的袭击罪被捕，随后在调查期间被释放。

格温特警方表示，这名 102 岁的男子目前仍处于危殆状态。

警员希望与当晚 10. 点至 11 点之间在酒吧内的人员进行交谈。

任何掌握信息的人员可通过拨打 101 联系警方。

Llanyrafon 社会俱乐部的经理凯西·史密斯表示，这名 102 岁的男子经常光顾该场所。

她补充道：“他在这里成了常客已经很久了，我们还为他举办了 100 岁生日派对。”

“我们希望他能康复——102 岁确实不是[受伤]的最佳年龄。”

遭鲨鱼咬伤男子从船上被空运就医

作者：乔纳森·麦卡姆布赖德（JONATHAN McCAMBRIDE）

一名男子在爱尔兰海岸附近疑似被鲨鱼咬伤，随后被空运至医院。

该事件发生在周二下午的沃特福德郡附近。

该男子从一艘载有五人的游艇上被绞车吊起，送往一架爱尔兰海岸警卫队的直升机。

爱尔兰交通部表示，他的腿部受了伤。

他们补充道：“大约在下午 4.15，海上救援协调中心接到报告，一艘小型渔船上发生了意外。”

“报告称，船上的一名男性腿部被鲨鱼咬伤。”

“海岸警卫队的 Rescue 117, 直升机被派往现场。”

“该男性伤员被绞车吊起并送往科克大学医院。”

爱尔兰海岸此前也发生过鲨鱼咬人事件。2018, 一名贝尔法斯特渔民在试图将一只蓝鲨拉上船时被咬伤。

利明在抨击怀特后遭到“恶毒辱骂”

前 BBC 播音员简·利明在 X 上批评独立电视网（ITV）新闻的查琳·怀特（插图）后遭到强烈抵制

简·利明（JAN Leeming）表示，在批评独立电视网（ITV）新闻主播查琳·怀特后，她遭到了“恶毒的辱骂”。

这位 84 岁的前 BBC 新闻播音员在 X 上发帖称，怀特在面对观众时有一种“居高临下”的方式，并且她“不适合担任新闻播报员”。

46 岁的怀特在回应利明的言论时表示，她很惊讶看到一个她“小时候崇拜的人决定抨击我”。

利明随后于昨天在 X 上写道：“接下来的几天将不再使用此账号。对风格发表评论是不明智的，但我不认为这会导致恶毒的辱骂。在我鼎盛时期，我收到过来自大多数女性记者的更糟糕的批评和恶意。”

作者：肖恩·奥格雷迪（SEAN O'GRADY）

在最初的帖子中，利明写道：“希望 ITV 的查琳能停止把我们当成孩子一样对待。她的风格太居高临下了。

“我不确定她是否是一名优秀的记者，但我不认为她适合担任新闻播报员。”

怀特回应道：“在一个女性，尤其是黑人女性必须极其努力才能出头的行业中，这种来自同行女性记者的不尊重感觉像是来自一个 bygone era（过去的时代）。”

利明表示，她对怀特的批评与种族无关，并认为现在少数族裔背景的人更容易“出头”，她写道：“我说过我不确定你作为记者的水平如何，但我发现你的表达方式居高临下。这与肤色无关。如今 BAME（黑人、亚裔及少数族裔）人士在各行各业出头要容易得多。这仅仅是一个观点，我向你道歉。”

《舞动奇迹》的新 era...伴随着令人失望的名人

分析

萨莎·莫里斯 (SASHA MORRIS)

演艺圈主管

随着最后一名《舞动严苛》(Strictly) 参赛者的揭晓，我们的驻场专家对今年的阵容给出了她的评价……

《舞动严苛》(Strictly Come Dancing) 2026年的完整阵容令人失望。《加文与斯泰西》(Gavin & Stacey) 的演员梅兰妮·沃尔特斯 (Melanie Walters) 是最后一名被确认的明星，也是今年这一系列相当乏味的公告中的一个亮点。

由于深受观众喜爱的主持人泰丝·戴利 (Tess Daly) 和克劳迪娅·温克尔曼 (Claudia Winkleman) 离职，该节目面临巨大的变革，BBC 的高层们承受着寻找高水准明星名单的压力。

但结果褒贬不一，社交媒体内容创作者和理发师的加入，导致一些人称其为“迄今为止最糟糕的阵容”。

公告的开始势头强劲，《东区东区》(EastEnders) 的传奇人物莱西·特纳 (Lacey Turner) 和回归的丹妮·戴尔 (Dani Dyer，丹尼之女) 被确认成为前两名明星。《邻居》(Neighbours) 的演员兼歌手德尔塔·古德雷姆 (Delta Goodrem) 是第三位，使得前三名全部具有肥皂剧背景。

大家都喜欢肥皂剧明星，但随着来自《艾默代尔》(Emmerdale) 的劳伦斯·罗布 (Lawrence Robb)，以及在《东区东区》衍生剧中饰演年轻佩吉·米切尔 (Peggy Mitchell) 的杰米·温斯顿 (Jaime Winstone) 也加入其中，今年确实已经推到了极限。

当名理发师克里斯·阿普尔顿 (Chris Appleton) 被命名为第五位希望之星时，情况进一步恶化。我不确定给金·卡戴珊 (Kim Kardashian) 吹头发是否足以让你在电视上最大的节目之一中获得一席之地，但他在 Instagram 上的 400 万粉丝很可能帮助促成了这笔交易。加入他的还有卡奇·默瑟 (Cach Mercer)（我也没头绪），他的成名之作是赢得 2025 年的《爱之岛》(Love Island)。

看来高层传闻中“不招收真人秀明星”的规定已经被抛之脑后，只要他们在社交媒体上有足够的粉丝即可。

加入这对组合的是 YouTube 体育创作者约翰·内利斯 (John Nellis)，他的频道拥有高达 1500 万 订阅者。粉丝很重要，但普通的《舞动严苛》粉丝会认识他并在每次投票时选择他吗？我高度怀疑。演员贝瑟尼·安东尼娅 (Bethany Antonia) 也是如此，她无疑非常有才华，但我担心在她被确认时，会有很多粉丝在谷歌上搜索她的名字。

体育趋势在令人印象深刻的莎拉·斯托里 (Sarah Storey) 夫人身上得以延续，她是我们最成功的残奥运动员。很好，但我们一年真的需要两名奥运选手吗？塔比·斯托克 (Tabby Stoecker) 的职业生涯一直令人印象深刻，但观众可能会怀疑她在 2027. 年是否会有更好的表现。遗憾的是，人们在认出她之前会先认出莎拉。

“有内容创作者，甚至还有一名理发师”

今年的参赛者似乎是一个奇怪的混杂体，旨在吸引年轻粉丝和忠实的老观众，但遗憾的是，这两者永远无法融合。

第五频道的《狗狗行为极差》(Dogs Behaving Very Badly) 明星格雷姆·霍尔 (Graeme Hall) 和前足球运动员肖恩·赖特-菲利普斯 (Shaun Wright-Phillips) 会让青少年感到困惑，而《老大哥》(Big Brother) 的威尔·贝斯特 (Will Best) 可能会让年长粉丝问“是谁？”

我认为有过更糟糕的阵容，但随着新主持人考验着观众的忠诚度，BBC 高层在参赛者上的赌注是否能在收视率上获得回报，时间会给出答案。

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少量且频繁的活动是增强健康的最佳方式

这听起来可能显而易见，但有时最好的药物并非以药丸的形式出现，也不是来自瓶装。

对于许多人来说，我们极其繁忙的生活使得完成卫生主管建议的每周 150 分钟锻炼几乎成为不可能。

同样，要达到我们被潜移默化地认为每天必须完成的 10,000 步这一神奇数字，也并非总是可行。

尽管我们都被各种神奇疗法、作弊码和技巧的广告所轰炸，但事实是，健康并没有万能药。

但有一件事始终经得起时间的考验：少量且频繁的活动。

这就是为什么最有效的药物往往在最显而易见的地方被发现。

提前一两站下公交车，爬楼梯而不是乘坐电梯，步行去商店而不是开车，这些听起来可能毫无意义，但积少成多，它们都会产生影响。

我们应该留意的信息是？在一个久坐不动变得前所未有的便捷的时代，诀窍就是保持活动。

我们大多数人在每天结束时都精疲力竭，仅仅是为了勉强维持生计，因此饮食和运动带来的益处往往被忽视。

但我们都应该记住，活动是所有药物中最好的。

伯纳姆必须最终解决债务大山

英国现在需要的是面对现实，而不是承诺释放更多具有破坏性的“税收与支出”式社会主义。

这个国家已陷入困境并深陷债务——其中约有 £3trillion。

随着预算案的临近，许多人担心我们将看到一个真正的左翼政府是什么样子，首相安迪·伯纳姆（Andy Burnham）可能会在基尔·斯塔默（Keir Starmer）和瑞秋·里夫斯（Rachel Reeves）所犯的灾难性错误上变本加厉。

里夫斯女士让家庭和企业额外承担了 £660 亿加元 的税收。他们无法承受另一次冲击。

在所有记忆中的工党政府中，其标志就是增加税收、增加支出以及增加借贷。

这种对公共资金的鲁莽行为不仅是我们需要担忧的，它还将成为我们的孩子、他们的孩子以及之后子孙后代的问题。

公共政策研究所（Institute for Public Policy Research）的一项令人深感沮丧的分析表明，工党正在积累一座债务大山交给下一代，未来一代每 £5 税款中就有 £1 将用于支付利息。这种情况不能继续下去。

无尽的干旱使水资源变得更加至关重要

英国四分之三的地区在干旱条件下萎缩，目前已经连续 860 天没有出现任何有意义的降雨，且数字仍在增加。

这段毁灭性干旱时期的影响在我们周围随处可见。

这就是为什么我们必须加倍努力，负责任地节约用水。

绿色电网关闭，外国势力维持我们的电力供应

很久以前，我参加了第五频道（Channel 5）的《亚历克西斯·康兰秀》（Alexis Conran show），当时的嘉宾是绿党领导人竞选希望之星扎克·波兰斯基（Zack Polanski）。制作人事先没有告诉我将与谁同台，但这以前从未困扰过我。

回想起来，我想我被安排和他一组是因为他正试图在领导人选举中提高知名度，而我一直以来与任何同台嘉宾的关系都相对融洽。他非常有礼貌，很有魅力，而且我必须补充一点，他简直像山洞一样昏暗（愚钝）。

有时，我被他的无知惊得说不出话来。当然，他准备好了那些惯常的陈词滥调。但当我们谈到能源价格时，他透露出其完全的无知，说了类似这样的话：“我不明白为什么我们要让天然气决定这个国家的能源边际价格。当我成为首相时，我会让风能来决定。”就在那一刻，我知道我们完蛋了。

这并不是因为他不承认我的观点。事实上，天然气决定价格是因为在没有阳光或没有风的时候，它是现成且高效的。也不是因为他显然像婴儿摇铃一样没脑子。而是因为他与我们在威斯敏斯特的其他政治家们没什么两样。

他们的奢侈信念是由其他所有人买单的，而这种账单在能源领域最为明显。无论如何强调能源对我们所做的一切有多至关重要都不为过。它驱动工业，为我们的家庭供暖。它让医院灯火通明，运输我们吃的食物和喝的水。

唯一不需要考虑停电会发生什么的人，是那些从未想象过这种情况会发生在自己身上的人。

我们仅在5月份就花费了£4.39 亿进口欧洲电力，这是除乌克兰能源危机外记录到的最高月度账单；而在1月至5月期间，这一数额达到了£17 亿美元。我们有望超过去年的36亿英镑，其中一半支付给了法国国有的法国电力公司（EDF）。

上周的某些日子里，维持伦敦和东南部运行的电力有四分之三是通过来自法国和低地国家的电缆传输的；而在6月，我们自己的电网工程师不得不打电话给巴黎以维持电力供应。

最大的讽刺在于，由于热浪通常与导致低风速的高压区相关联，风电场的输出量会下降。太阳能电池板在高温下的效率也会降低——它们在实验室中是以25℃进行测试的，在真实的夏季阳光下，输出量最高会损失五分之一。

这种事你编都编不出来。没风的时候，风电场毫无用处。而太阳能电场在温暖天气下表现不佳（开除那些设计工程师吧！）。当我们最需要它们的时候，我们投入如此多资金的能源形式竟然根本无法运作。

埃德·米利班德（Ed Miliband）可能不应对英国能源的糟糕现状负全部责任，但他肯定扮演了巨大的角色。

他现在56岁，目前担任他的第四个内阁职务。我无论如何也想不通，这样一个极其平庸的人，凭什么有资格领导这个国家的能源政策。

他从未有过一份真正的工作。他于1992, 离开牛津大学，在第四频道（Channel 4）的一个政治节目中担任了一年研究员，到1993年，他在23岁时为哈丽特·哈曼（Harriet Harman）撰写演讲稿。

次年他加入了戈登·布朗（Gordon Brown）的团队，在27, 岁时成为他的特别顾问，随后被空降到

“我们投入如此多资金的能源形式甚至根本无法运作”

2005年的唐卡斯特北区安全席位。

美国能源部长、前石油工业首席执行官克里斯·赖特（Chris Wright）——他曾表示“不存在气候危机，我们也不处于能源转型的过程中”——据称给当时的同行起了一个绰号叫“毫瓦”（Miliwatt）。对此谁能不同意呢？

截至上个月，该男子已不再担任能源大臣。这份工作传给了另一个你没听说过的爱管闲事的人——马塔·法恩布勒（Matta Fahnbulleh），她比前任更热衷于拒绝发放新的北海许可证，并认为气候危机是一场“资本主义危机”。

那么，令人尴尬的是，正是海峡对岸的资本家们一直在向我们供应能源，并为此收取了高昂的费用，不是吗？

这个国家的能源政策显然是由那些无需担心工作失职后果的人制定的。这是解释我们目前困境的唯一方法。毕竟，米利班德并没有被撤职，而是被提拔到了外交部。

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唐宁街的戴立克人终于让我们清静了

你是否注意到我们周围那种机器人般的语调略有减轻？

我说的不是人工智能，而是我们可怜的已离任首相（愿其安息）和他那可怕的财政大臣（没那么可怜）。基尔·斯塔默（Keir Starmer）和瑞秋·里夫斯（Rachel Reeves）这对令人恐惧的双人组，不仅成功地在全国范围内营造了一种持续的阴郁氛围，而且每次开口说话时都在攻击我们的耳膜。

我完全预料到安迪·伯纳姆在唐宁街10, 号会遭遇彻底的失败，并且可能会让情况比现在更糟。但至少他听起来像个人类，而不是隔壁的戴立克人。

Simon & Schuster 出版社表示，他们将继续出版那个幻想家杰森·阿尔代（Jason Arday）的回忆录。

我敢打赌他们会这么做。且不论根本无法得知其中有多少内容（如果有的话）是准确的，但你能想象有多少人会出于好奇而购买它吗？

也许阿尔代终于有东西可以吹嘘了：一本 No.1 畅销书。

派对窥探者

热浪中不那么讨人喜欢的一面，就是许多人举报邻居使用软管浇水。

是的，我知道他们不该这么做，但没人喜欢告密者。曾经有个住在我们附近的人，在我们石砌露台上使用火坑时拨打了消防队电话：消防员不仅立即认定没有问题，而且通过频繁的电视露面认出了我的丈夫，结果发现他们还是粉丝。如果我知道那个邻居是谁，我一定会让他们难堪。窥探者们，请关好你们的窗帘。

弗吉尼亚·布莱克本（VIRGINIA BLACKBURN）

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首相对商业街的歇斯底里毫无意义

工党在谈论商业街经历数十年的衰落后，市中心正被“掏空”。这难道就是那个提高了商业税、增加了雇佣成本，并且几乎抹杀了曾经极其普遍的“周六兼职”的同一个工党吗？

这个工党给人一种强烈的印象，认为所有雇主都是邪恶的，认为创造财富应该被打击，并且正在实施安吉拉·雷纳（Angela Rayner）那些疯狂的就业限制，这将使情况变得更糟？

这些人的经济无能简直没有底线。我们这位没有获得授权的新首相在谈论取消电子烟店和投注站：太棒了，但他打算用什么来替代它们？更多的慈善商店和房产中介？

我们那些“被掏空”的商业街——疲惫、压抑且毫无吸引力——是整个国家的缩影。而这在很大程度上可以归咎于目前掌权的人。责怪可怜的利兹·特拉斯（Liz Truss）是没有用的。

我和丈夫很幸运：我们住在一条依然拥有鱼贩、肉铺、几家高端熟食店和一些精美服装店的商业街附近。这曾经是常态。但即使是这条街在过去几十年里也发生了变化：商店关闭后就再也没有开业，这在很大程度上是由于残酷的商业税造成的。

工党对待商业街的方式与对待经济其他部分完全一样：只要在运转，就征税。

然后还有那些可疑的理发店和美甲店的问题，由——好吧，我们不太确定是谁在经营——而且极有可能是洗钱场所。是谁让经营这些店的人进来的？

如果安迪·伯纳姆（Andy Burnham）真的想让商业街恢复活力，他应该大幅削减税收和监管，鼓励企业家而不是惩罚他们，并停止让地方市长——直到几周前他还是其中之一——把交通车道搞得如此混乱，以至于没人能到达商店，更不用说买东西了。但我们都知道这不会发生。

伯纳姆是一个社会主义者，与产生苏联的信条相同，在那个地方，人们在商店前排队数小时，结果发现里面空无一物。

英国人民太务实了，不会让类似的事情在这里发生。但高层的变革绝不能来得太晚。

安迪 伯纳姆一直在英国进行所谓的“倾听之旅”：好吧，那么听听这个。削减税收。削减福利，你会在几个月内看到增长开始出现。

很高兴布拉德恢复了巅峰状态

你本不该这么说，但我个人很高兴布拉德·皮特（Brad Pitt）在禁酒七年后，又开始偶尔喝上一杯葡萄酒了。

当然，你不应该像报道中所说的那样，喝得酩酊大醉并在私人飞机上引发争吵，但酒精是润滑社会运转的琼浆。

只要不过量，喝酒没什么不对。而且显而易见，禁酒的国家是地球上最压抑、最乏味的地方。

正如温斯顿·丘吉尔爵士所说：“我从酒精中获得的比酒精从我身上夺走的更多”——而且他活到了 90 岁。干杯，布拉德！

芭比娃娃改变形状了！这款著名娃娃推出了新版本，其比例更接近真实女性。好吧，部分真实女性。

考虑到这个国家的肥胖率，一个更准确的反映可能是把她制造得像个沙滩球。

剑桥市议会对公共便利设施一窍不通

当我第一次在香港看到蹲便器时，我无法面对它。几年后在坦桑尼亚，因为没有选择，我不得不使用。在那之后的岁月里，在遥远的异国他乡，我总是焦虑地四处搜寻公共设施，以确保

有我能使用的东西；回到英国总是令人欣慰，因为这里没有这种担忧。

但如果你在剑桥就不是这样了：（工党）市议会刚刚花费£100 万安装这些东西，是为了迎接“国际访客”。负责这件蠢事的不是大学，而是市议会，而这里正是那个允许一名体育老师冒充资深学者的同一个地方。有趣的时代，不是吗？

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钱经

作者：哈维·琼斯 (Harvey Jones)

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我们英国人在讨价还价方面简直没救了。我们看到价格，就认为那就是我们必须支付的金额。但事实并非总是如此。

只要想到讨价还价，我就起荨麻疹。多年来，我的这种不情愿让我损失了一大笔钱。尤其是在房屋等大宗消费上。在我看来，我们的看法完全错了。诀窍在于不要将其视为对抗，而是一场游戏。保持冷静，保持礼貌，准备好随时离开，你可能会对对方的反应感到惊讶。

消费者权益活动家海伦·杜德尼（Helen Dewdney，更广为人知的称呼是“抱怨牛”）表示，在家庭预算压力巨大的情况下，讨价还价比以往任何时候都更有价值，但太多人仅仅是因为太尴尬而不敢尝试。

她说：“你有什么好损失的？他们顶多就是说不！”

事先做好功课会有所帮助。检查竞争对手的价格，并决定你愿意支付的最高金额。不要只在标价上讨价还价。她说，配送费、安装费、管理费和配件都可以协商。“商家能否赠送一些东西？配送费、安装费和配件都可以协商。”

时机很重要。尝试在商店冷清时访问，而不是在员工忙得不可开交的时候。如果买车，九月份是谈判的好时机，因为经销商急于清理旧款注册车辆。

如果你是现金买家，告诉商家你今天就可以付款，并确保你是在与有权提供折扣的人交谈。

保持冷静、礼貌且坚定。至关重要的是，不要害怕沉默。一旦你要求更好的价格，就停止说话。销售人员可能会对沉默感到不适，从而提供更多优惠，杜德尼

通过讨价还价获得更好的交易

说道。在线购物者也应该讨价还价。你甚至可以保留竞争对手报价的截图并将其带到店内。

保险、宽带和手机合约同样适用。查看新客户获得的优惠，并询问忠实客户是否能获得同样的交易。

黄金法则很简单：准备好随时离开。只有当你真正愿意说“不”时，讨价还价才会奏效。

正如 Dewdney 所言：“讨价还价后的价格是双赢。”企业获得了销售额，而你获得了更好的交易。

少一点英国式的矜持可能会让你过得好得多。有一天，我也许会亲自尝试一下。

本周特惠

冷冻食品连锁店 Iceland 正在提供其“夏季假期必需品套装”，购物者可以从 40 件精选商品中选择 24 件，价格为 £33.50。这最高可节省 £25.30。Iceland 表示，该套装旨在为一系列日常用品提供“卓越的价值”，以帮助英国人应对学校假期期间的开支。该优惠仅在网上提供，有效期至 8 月 31 日。

市长安迪·伯纳姆（Andy Burnham）已承诺打击订阅陷阱，使取消不需要的服务变得更容易，并强制公司在合同以更高价格自动续订前提供更清晰的警告。但他能做到吗？

订阅陷阱是一个真实存在的问题，尤其是对于那些在操作在线服务时感到困难的养老金领取者，他们最终可能会为自己不使用的服务支付费用——持续数月甚至数年。

英国大约有 1.55 亿 个活跃订阅。据估计，消费者每年在不想要的订阅上浪费 £16 亿美元。

Bangø 的订阅专家 Giles Tongue 表示，我们大多数人都曾在网站和应用程序上遇到过订阅陷阱。“它们旨在确保快速注册，并希望你要么忘记自己在付费，要么发现退出太困难。”

这些改革已被讨论多年，且直到至少 2027 年 1 月才会生效。所以不要等待伯纳姆。检查你的银行对账单和网上银行的定期付款。特别仔细地查看流媒体服务、健身房会员、云存储、游戏、软件和配送订阅。免费试用是一个危险项，因为它们可能会悄悄转变为付费订阅。

thimbl.com 的个人财务专家 Joe Lytwyn 表示：“这里的一笔 £4.99 付款，那里的一笔 £9.99 付款，单独看来并不显著，这使得人们很容易忽视自己的总支出。”

HTG Mortgages 的总监 Harry Goodiffe 表示，公司并非唯一的罪魁祸首。政治家们也在玩同样的把戏，特别是通过冻结个人所得税起征点，使我们的更多收入悄悄进入更高的税率档位。“现在我们看着部长们打击健身房和流媒体服务，而他们自己却在玩同样的把戏。”

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安·威德库姆（ANN WIDDECOMBE） 1947 年 10 月 4 日 - 2026 年 7 月 8 日

“我真心希望安关于天堂和来世的观点被证明是真的……”

前政治人物葬礼现场“极其悲伤的一天”

作者：ADAM TOMS，发自巴克斯法斯特修道院（Buckfast Abbey）

昨日，哀悼者聚集在风景如画的巴克斯法斯特修道院内，向于上月在自家中遇害的安·威德科姆（Ann Widdecombe）作最后的告别。

这位前保守党议员兼改革英国党（Reform UK）发言人曾为《每日快报》撰写专栏长达20年。根据天主教传统，在由家人和朋友参加的私人葬礼之前，她的遗体在德文郡的这座修道院内停灵一夜。

下午2点左右，仪式开始，《奇异恩典》（Amazing Grace）的旋律在被烈日灼烤的庭院中缓缓飘荡。

约一个半小时后，大门开启，威德科姆女士的棺材在格列高利圣咏的伴奏中出现，周围环绕着蜡烛，棺盖上覆盖着淡蓝色和紫色的花朵。

昨日上午，警方曾封锁修道院区域，对灌木丛、垃圾桶、花坛和排水沟进行了广泛搜查，并部署了一只搜救犬。

哀悼者包括威德科姆女士的助手哈丽特·巴斯蒂德（Harriet Bastide）、广播员伊恩·戴尔（Iain Dale）以及前保守党大臣康纳·伯恩斯（Conor Burns）。

遭受重创

前保守党议员克里斯平·布朗特（Crispin Blunt）和记者安德鲁·皮尔斯（Andrew Pierce）也在现场。

与安相识30年以上的皮尔斯先生告诉《快报》，这是“极其悲伤的一天”，他的朋友“无论你是否喜欢，从未犹豫过分享她强烈的观点”。

他还形容她非常风趣且是极佳的陪伴者。但皮尔斯先生表示，她生命终结的方式令人震惊。

他补充道：“她经常跟我谈起，希望有一天能在达特穆尔（Dartmoor）找一栋房子，这样她就可以去散步、阅读和放松。”

“她其实从未真正放松过，不是吗？”

皮尔斯先生说，威德科姆女士一直希望她的葬礼能在巴克斯法斯特修道院举行。戴尔先生由其最好的朋友开车从苏格兰将其送至德文郡参加仪式。

他在其Substack上写道：“我通常在葬礼上不会哭，但我完全预料到这次我会泪流满面，盯着那口装着可怜的安那被重创身体的棺材。”

“我想那时我才会真正意识到这一切。我真心希望安关于天堂和来世的观点被证明是真的。我希望有一天能在那里与她相遇。”

巴克斯法斯特修道院院长大卫·查尔斯沃思（David Charlesworth OSB）右主教在仪式上的讲道中表示：“我们的回应是为她的灵魂安息而祈祷。”

28, 岁的约书亚·克里（Joshua Kerry）已被指控谋杀威德科姆女士。据报道，她的头部被锤子击打21次。警方还在调查克里是否与2025年针对改革英国党（Reform UK）领导人奈杰尔·法拉奇（Nigel Farage）住所的一次涉嫌纵火袭击有关。

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杀手加入被判终身监禁囚犯行列

作者：保罗·吉夫斯 (PAUL JEEVES)

西蒙·利维 (SIMON Levy) 因谋杀两名女性并强奸第三名女性而被判处终身监禁（whole-life order），由此加入了该国一些最臭名昭著的罪犯行列。

近年来被判处终身监禁的其他罪犯包括臭名昭著的婴儿杀手露西·莱特比 (Lucy Letby)。

她因谋杀七名婴儿并企图谋杀另外七人，于 2023 年 8 月被判入狱。

韦恩·考森斯 (Wayne Couzens) 在担任伦敦警察厅警员期间绑架、强奸并谋杀了莎拉·埃弗拉德 (Sarah Everard)，他也受到了这一最高刑罚。

今年早些时候，双重杀手大卫·泰勒 (David Taylor) 因在韦克菲尔德监狱 (HMP Wakefield) 期间谋杀儿童杀手凯尔·比文 (Kyle Bevan) 而被判处终身监禁；此前他因杀害 24 岁的艾丽莎·阿波斯托洛夫-贝耶林 (Alisha Apostoloff-Beyerin) 而在押候审，同时他还企图在监狱审讯室中谋杀一名侦探。

露西·莱特比和韦恩·考森斯

马克·费洛斯 (Mark Fellows) 和李·纽尔 (Lee Newell) 也因比文谋杀案在服终身监禁。

今年 6 月，恋童癖杀手杰米·瓦利 (Jamie Varley) 因谋杀并性虐待其 13 个月大的养子普雷斯顿·戴维 (Preston Davey) 而被终身监禁。

沙拉兹·阿里 (Sharaz Ali) 在 3 月被判处终身监禁，他于 2024 年在布拉德福德纵火烧毁前伴侣妹妹及其三个孩子的家，导致其死亡。

双重谋杀犯谢恩·马奇 (Shaine March) 被告知他将在监狱中度过余生，此前上诉法院法官裁定，他在因一次杀人而被终身监禁假释期间谋杀女友而被判的刑期“过于轻微”。

约有 70 名罪犯正在服终身监禁。除非出于极特殊的人道主义理由，否则他们永远不会被考虑释放。

性掠夺者利维将在狱中死去

作者：保罗·吉夫斯 (PAUL JEEVES)，犯罪编辑

一名被允许自由活动从而强奸一名女性并谋杀另外两名女性的惯犯性攻击者，现已被告知他将在狱中死去，因为他被判处了终身监禁。

40 岁的西蒙·利维 (Simon Levy) 在伦敦地铁上袭击女性，但多次被保释，随后在去年 1 月于一个停车场强奸了一名女性。

幸存的受害者告诉了警方他的住址——然而直到利维再次杀人两次之后，她才被正式审问。

首先，他在去年 3 月谋杀了 53 岁的祖母卡门萨·瓦伦西亚-特鲁希略 (Carmenza Valencia-Trujillo)，将其尸体丢弃在伦敦东南部沃尔沃斯 (Walworth) 的废弃公寓附近。

几个月后，在 2025 年 8 月，他杀害了四个孩子的母亲谢丽尔 (Sheryl)

“那天晚上他夺走了我的灵魂和尊严”

威尔金斯（Wilkins），39岁，他将她留在北伦敦托特纳姆（Tottenham）的同一个停车场，他此前曾在那儿实施强奸。他在出于性动机的袭击中，将两名谋杀受害者全部窒息而死。

昨天在中央刑事法院（Old Bailey）对其宣判时，伦敦记录官马克·卢克拉夫特（Mark Lucraft）国王大律师法官告诉这名凶手，他“显然是一个为了个人性满足而残酷剥削他人的人”。

此前，利维（Levy）被裁定两项谋杀罪、两项强奸罪、蓄意造成严重身体伤害罪以及对强奸受害者实施非致命窒息罪成立。

今年早些时候，他在伦敦内城刑事法院还被判定在全市公共交通网络中实施了11起性侵犯罪。

利维在进入被告席接受宣判时戴着太阳镜并咧嘴微笑，在被告知将在狱中终老时没有表现出任何情绪。

他的一名幸存强奸受害者表示：“那天晚上他夺走了我的灵魂，

并且夺走了我的尊严。这个男人是个寄生虫，不值得我再浪费任何言语或时间。”

威尔金斯女士的姐姐林赛·希克斯（Lindsey Hicks）在告诉利维他“摧毁了我们的生活”时泣不成声。

瓦伦西亚-特鲁希略（Valencia-Trujillo）女士的女儿纳兹利（Nazly）告诉法庭：“我们的世界被撕碎了。”

伦敦警察厅、英国运输警察局和英国皇家检察署（CPS）已承认在处理利维案件方面存在失职。

独立警察行为监察局（IOPC）表示，已向一名伦敦警察厅警员发出严重失职通知，并向一名侦查警长发出失职通知。

利维曾因2018年在伦敦摸胸两名女性而被判入狱，时间为2021年。

随后他在2024年因在地铁（Tube）实施性袭击而被捕，但由于组织辨认程序的延迟，导致他得以在自由状态下升级其袭击行为。

在瓦伦西亚-特鲁希略女士被谋杀后，利维在2025年5月和6月的两次治安法院听证会上被保释释放。

英国皇家检察署（CPS）承认在第一次听证会上没有反对保释，且检察官在第二次听证会上未向法院提供所有相关信息以供考虑。

随后又有三次刑事法院听证会他未能出席，但当时并未申请逮捕令。

作为一名被定罪的性犯罪者，利维一直受到缓刑服务机构和警方的监控，但他向访问他在托特纳姆与母亲同住之家的警员撒谎，称自己没有外出。

伦敦警察厅局长马克·罗尔爵士（Sir Mark Rowley）猛烈抨击了司法系统的失败。

他表示，“一个挣扎中的刑事司法系统将越来越多的风险抛向街头，然后对警察说‘我们要给你一份越来越长的危险人物监控名单’，而如果我们没能做得足够好，就将所有批评集中在我们身上，这是不可接受的”。

马克爵士昨天补充道：“我们将尽一切努力做得更好，但司法系统需要承担比目前更多的责任，而不是将其重新推回街头。”

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激增的酸液袭击使更多女性面临风险

化学袭击者 Abdul Ezedi，2024年

在过去一年中，酸液袭击事件激增了 61%，其中针对女性的暴力袭击数量不断增加。

慈善机构国际酸液幸存者信托基金会（ASTI）开展的一项令人心惊的研究显示，去年记录的涉及腐蚀剂的犯罪案件为 1,690 起，而前一年为 1,050 起。

除了袭击给受害者带来的毁灭性影响外，单次事件在医疗和心理社会支持方面的费用为 6.3 万英镑，加上警察以及司法和惩戒系统的成本，总计达到 £2400 万。

这些令人震惊的数据是由

犯罪编辑 PAUL JEEVES 报道

在向英国所有警队发送信息自由请求后汇总而成的。

令人担忧的是，数据显示女性受害者增加了 39%，从 2024 年的 370 人增加到 2025 年的 514 人。

相比之下，2025, 有 395 名男性受害者，而前一年为 400 人。

化学袭击者 Abdul Ezedi，35, 在 January 31, 2024 于伦敦西南部克拉珀姆（Clapham）袭击一名女性和两名女孩后自杀身亡。

在 1,690 起总犯罪案件中，近四分之一是对个人的暴力犯罪（388 起），而其余 1,302 起为袭击威胁及其他与酸液相关的犯罪，例如持有酸液。

在许多案例中，袭击威胁被用作强迫手段，并与强奸或抢劫等犯罪行为共同出现。

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根据 ASTI 的说法，由于报案不足，以及有五个警队未响应其数据请求，实际数字可能会更高。

从历史上看，英国的酸液袭击一直与男性之间的暴力行为相关，且通常与帮派活动有关。但趋势显示，将酸液作为武器（主要是作为威胁）的使用，正日益与针对妇女和女孩的暴力行为联系在一起。

在嫌疑人方面，218 人为男性，55 人为女性。

ASTI 执行董事 Jal Shah 表示：“用酸液威胁他人是一种恐怖的暴力形式，会留下持久的创伤。”

“随着新政府的就职，必须采取紧急行动来解决根本原因，同时应对日益增加的将腐蚀性物质作为针对妇女和女孩暴力手段的行为。”

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BILL NICHY IS DRYLY

作者：Marc Baker

这位风度翩翩的《真爱至上》明星比尔·奈伊（Bill Nighy）极度抵制任何形式的家居服或平庸的家庭生活，他承认在新作《& Sons》中饰演一个邋遢的角色让他感到惊恐。

这位 76 岁的演员以穿着定制西装的干练精致形象著称，但在新片中饰演邋遢、离群索居的酗酒作家安德鲁·戴尔（Andrew Dyer）这一角色时，他发现自己被迫穿上松松垮垮的运动裤和短裤。

比尔对此感到有些震惊，他说：“我从未想过自己会在一部主流电影里穿短裤。我从未在公开场合穿过短裤。自从我在学校打橄榄球之后就再没穿过。”

这位时尚的都市男士在着装方面有许多严格的规定。

“我像管理法西斯国家一样管理我的衣橱，”他幽默地承认。

这意味着任何形式的休闲装都被完全禁止。

“这个世纪，或者在此之前，我都没有穿过泳装，也没有拥有过泳裤，”他 grimaces（做鬼脸）道，并补充说，“想象我穿 Speedos 泳裤的样子，显然是令人忍俊不禁到无法生存的。”

对于那些根本没打算出汗的人却追随“运动休闲风”（athleisure）的趋势，他觉得很有趣。

“我在电影里穿的那种运动奢华风的绿色运动裤也让我觉得好笑。老年人穿运动装备的想法。大多数穿那些东西的人近期都不会去锻炼。”

他回忆起他出生在苏格兰的母亲凯瑟琳（Catherine）曾经给自己买过一套运动服。“我妈在 79 岁左右的时候买了一套外壳套装（shell suit），然后开始走来走去，好像她马上要去慢跑一样。这简直让我发笑。”

“幸好我从不看自己出演的任何作品，因为我不想看这一部！”

这位演员听起来优雅且自信，他承认自己并非一直如此，但年龄带来了许多好处。他说：“我把年轻时代搞得一团糟。我喜欢现在我的大脑不再是一个战场。现在我脑子里的事情简单多了。”

虽然他发现年轻演员的生活压力很大，并且公开讨论过早年与酒精和药物的斗争，但比尔自 1992 年起就一直保持清醒，并透露他现在从不为角色做准备。

在他最新的电影中（改编自大卫·吉伯特（David Gibert）的小说），他饰演误入歧途的安德鲁·戴尔，试图向前妻伊莎贝尔（Isabel，伊梅尔达·斯汤顿 饰）解释他出轨的经过。

戴尔声称他 17 岁的私生子和

我从未想过我会穿着短裤出演电影。我对衣橱的管理就像一个法西斯国家

这位优雅的偶像将他的定制规则应用于运动休闲装、衰老以及保护头发

第三个儿子（诺亚·朱普 饰）是一个古怪的人类克隆实验的结果，在担心自己即将死去的情况下，他发现自己与两个疏远的儿子（强尼·弗林和乔治·麦凯 饰）重新团聚。

在现实生活中，比尔与演员戴安娜·奎克（Diana Quick）有一位女儿玛丽·奈伊（Mary Nighy），两人维持了26年的关系，直到2008年友好分手。对于比尔来说，衰老的另一个好处是成功意味着永远不必自己洗衣服。“我没有洗衣机。我很颓废。我把衣服送出去洗，”他透露道。

作为一名年轻的职业演员，比尔在租来的房间里度过了很多时间，那里的住户会请人清洗衣服，他认为那是极致的奢华。“我曾在伦敦的一处租房里，其他住户有一套洗衣系统。

他们都拥有这种长方形的盒子，周围系着皮带，盖子上写着他们的名字。我想，‘如果我以后能赚到钱，我也要弄一个。’所以现在我有一个。我的洗涤物被包裹着送回来。对我来说这太迷人了。”

他承认与“洗衣服务和干洗有着深厚的关系”。“如果一件衣服静止六秒钟，我就把它拿去干洗。”一个如此努力让自己看起来光彩照人的人，很可能喜欢出去就餐，这完全合情合理——这就是为什么比尔位于伦敦西南部皮姆利科（Pimlico）公寓的厨房里也没有炉灶的原因。

他说：“我有一个小型烤架 / 烤箱之类的东西，那种你在帐篷里可能会发现的东西。它从未被开启过。在我上一套公寓里，我根本没有烤箱。”他解释说，在搬进新住所后，建筑工人拆除了烤箱。“他们问，‘新的什么时候到？’我在那一刻意识到永远不会有新的，因为谁需要它呢？

“我女儿当时在场，她说，‘爸爸，别这么古怪’。所以为了不显得古怪，我装了一个炉灶，但我从未用过它。”

当人们认为比尔在与……约会时，这似乎好得令人难以置信

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对最新角色感到震惊

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世界上最时尚的女性。当他与 longtime 好友、《Vogue》全球编辑总监安娜·温图尔（Anna Wintour）挽手出席 2023 年 Met Gala 时，传闻四起，所有人都误以为他们在约会。

然而，比尔（Bill）——其作品包括《僵尸肖恩》（Shaun of the Dead）、《加勒比海盗》（Pirates of the Caribbean）、《哈利·波特与死亡圣器》（Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows）、《最强之作》（Their Finest）以及《金盏花酒店》（The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel）——一直与他在《& Sons》中的搭档伊梅尔达（Imelda）处于“结婚”状态。他开玩笑说：“能有伊梅尔达陪在身边真是太好了。我认识她一辈子了。我以前和她结过婚，而且我们肯定睡在一起过。”

但有一个人确实能让比尔心跳加速——那就是他的风格偶像，已故的滚石乐队鼓手查理·瓦茨（Charlie Watts）。

比尔将查理穿着三件套西装打鼓的偏好描述为“激进”，并补充道：“查理拥有无限的格调。”

在描述他们一个冬日走在伦敦邦德街（Bond Street）上的唯一一次会面时，他说：“有人喊了声‘比尔’。我转过身，发现是查理·瓦茨。他知道我叫比尔这件事本身就让人感到很兴奋。”

“他前倾身体，抓住了我的翻领。我当时穿着一套还算体面的西装。而他看起来绝对令人惊艳。”

“他摸了摸我的翻领说：‘你是个演员，你应该穷得叮当响才对。’我回答说：‘嗯，现在情况好转了。’他说：‘很高兴听到这个消息。’然后他上了车开走了。”

尽管在最新的电影中被迫降低了着装标准，但比尔发现自己在面对导演的要求时必须划清界限。他透露：“帕布罗·特拉佩罗（Pablo Trapero）想让我为了角色剃光头，但我告诉我的经纪人我不会那样做。我给了他一个折中方案，留了胡子，结果胡子长得失控了。我们周五晚上 10 点左右结束拍摄，第二天早上我就在 Geo. F. Trumper 理发店（女王御用理发店）门外等着开门。他们给我做了全套剃须，还用了青柠精华爽肤水。感觉太棒了。”

所有这些努力肯定能让比尔有机会角逐奥斯卡奖，尽管他的粉丝们似乎认为他已经得奖了。

他透露：“街上有人走过来问我：‘当他们把奥斯卡奖杯交给你时是什么感觉？’我说：‘我从来没拿过。’我当时应该闭嘴的。”

● 《& Sons》将于 8 月 21 日在电影院上映。

我把年轻时光搞得一团糟。我喜欢我的头部不再像个战场一样。

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担忧欧盟规则可能导致咖啡价格飙升 300%

作者：凯蒂·哈里斯（KATIE HARRIS） 资深政治记者

脱欧派人士表示担忧，欧盟的农药计划可能会推高英国的食品价格。

布鲁塞尔方面正在考虑收紧标准，以防止含有某些农药残留的食品进入该集团。

但根据欧盟委员会的一项新分析，此举将导致进入欧洲的进口量减少，并导致消费者面临价格飞涨。

英国的大部分新鲜农产品、咖啡和水果是从与欧盟相同的全球供应商处进口的。根据联合研究中心（Joint Research Centre）的数据，在最糟糕的情况下，咖啡价格将飙升 332%，柑橘类果汁价格将上涨约 82%。

与此同时，欧盟的农业进口

农药计划将冲击杂货价格

将下降 41%，且畜牧业农民将面临更高的成本。

即使在较为乐观的情景下，消费者价格仍将上涨，进口量将下降，尽管国内产量会增加。

前 Vote Leave 首席执行官、同时也是上议院欧洲事务委员会成员的马修·埃利奥特勋爵（Lord Matthew Elliott）表示：“由于人们在日常生活成本方面如此挣扎，任何推高杂货成本的新规定都需要受到质疑，以确定其是否必要。”

“无论这些规定是通过推高欧盟的食品价格间接影响英国消费者，还是通过政府的欧盟关系重启直接影响我们，消费者的需求都必须被优先考虑。”

“近年来，杂货账单大幅飙升，每个人都感受到了压力。”

欧盟关系重启部长哈米什·法尔科纳（Hamish Falconer）坚称，在安迪·伯纳姆（Andy Burnham）领导下，英国将像在前任基尔·斯塔默爵士（Sir Keir Starmer）时期那样，追求与该集团更紧密的联系。

拟议中禁止含有某些农药残留的食品的禁令受到欧盟农民的欢迎，因为他们希望与外国同行拥有公平的竞争环境。但反对者认为，这违反了全球贸易规则，因为其本质上是将欧盟的法规强加给外国生产商。

与此同时，食品和饮料制造商警告称，到明年将出现短缺和成本上升。食品饮料联合会（Food & Drink Federation）本周表示，酷热天气将影响水果、蔬菜和谷物的供应。

FDF 首席经济学家莉莉安娜·丹尼拉博士（Dr Liliana Danila）补充道：“在欧洲大部分地区，热浪和干旱正在影响 [食品] 供应。额外的压力将体现在价格上。”

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独家报道 作者：保罗·吉夫斯（PAUL JEEVES）

今天， A-level 音乐专业的学生人数创下历史最低记录，该科目的学生人数进一步骤减，使该学科陷入危机模式。

业内人士担心，尽管音乐是英国的一个成功故事，为经济带来了超过 £80 亿美元 的收入，并将软实力传播到全球，但该学科可能会在未来十年内消失。

来自 Ofqal 的统计数据（针对今年夏季的考试报名情况）显示，A-level 音乐报名人数较去年下降 4.9%，为 4,635 名学生。GCSE 音乐报名人数下降 1.3%。

尽管整体考试报名人数随 18 岁人口增长而上升，但该科目人数依然下降。自去年夏天以来，整体 GCSE 报名人数增加了 1.1%，而 A-level 增加了 2.9%。

但艺术运动组织（Campaign for the Arts）在 2025 年的分析显示，A-level 艺术类科目的总报名份额缩减了 0.5%，达到 15 年来的最低水平。

自 2010, 年（时任保守党教育主管迈克尔·戈夫的 EBacc 系统引入之年）以来，A-level 音乐的选课率下降了近 50%。该系统激励学校专注于数学、英语和科学等一组科目，而将音乐和所有艺术科目排除在外。与此同时，文化

考试人数骤减，音乐 A-level 课程“危在旦夕”

学习联盟（Learning Alliance）和皇家莎士比亚公司（Royal Shakespeare Company）显示，自 2010 年以来，公立学校参加艺术类 GCSE 考试的青少年人数下降了 41.7%。

尽管 GCSE 音乐课程在过去几年中显示出小幅回升的迹象，但自 2010, 以来的整体趋势一直是下降，目前英格兰有超过三分之一的学校不再提供 GCSE 音乐课程。独立音乐家协会（Independent Society of Musicians）首席执行官德博拉·安内茨（Deborah Annetts）表示：“在年轻人有望庆祝考试成绩的这一天，英格兰的音乐课程初步报名人数向我们表明，音乐 A-level 的未来危在旦夕。”

“如果不采取紧急行动，A-level 音乐课程在十年内可能会在公立学校中完全消失。”安内茨女士表示，政府必须紧急解决这一衰退问题，因为其影响至关重要。

《每日快报》的“拨动心弦”（Strike A Chord）运动旨在保护并恢复学校的音乐教育。

安内茨女士补充道：“政府声称希望音乐在所有学校中繁荣发展，但并未采取任何必要的行动。”

成年人后悔放弃吉他

令人惊讶的是，有 1900 万 人希望自己在学校及之后能坚持学习音乐。

研究发现，约 34% 的成年人希望自己在年轻时能继续创作或学习音乐，而在 25 至 34 岁的人群中，这一比例上升至 45%。相比之下，只有 3% 的人希望自己能继续学习法律、工程、金融或会计等科目。

这项由伦敦协奏乐团（London Concertante）委托对 2,000 名成年人进行的调查发现，三分之一的人希望自己能坚持至少一种形式的音乐，无论是学习乐器、唱歌、研究音乐、加入合唱团，还是在乐队、管弦乐团或重奏组中演奏。

在所有成年人中，21% 的人希望自己能坚持学习一种乐器，while 9% 的人希望坚持唱歌，7% 希望研究音乐，7% 希望加入合唱团，6% 希望在乐队、管弦乐团或重奏组中演奏。

一杯半的 味道

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“最糟糕的飙车党”录制自己以191英里 / 小时时速驾驶的视频

一名被描述为英国“最糟糕的飙车党”的驾驶员在驾驶其 9 万英镑 BMW X3M Competition 赛车以高达191英里 / 小时的时速超速后被判入狱。

32岁的康纳·查尔顿（Connor Charlton）在12个月的时间里，其车载电脑记录到他至少八次达到极高时速，包括191英里 / 小时、186英里 / 小时和175英里 / 小时。

根据俱乐部网站显示，这名半职业足球运动员在北郡东部足球联赛（Northern Counties East Football League）的诺斯特尔矿工福利足球俱乐部（Nostell Miners Welfare FC）担任前锋，他还录制了自己超速的视频。

警方在2023年注意到社交媒体上的视频，显示他以危险的高速驾驶。

在法庭播放的一段剪辑中，可以看到他在车流中穿梭，随后速度提升至160英里 / 小时，配文为“Wow”，并附带一个自鸣得意和大笑的表情符号。

在另一段视频中，可以听到一个人在说“woah woah woah”，随后在查尔顿突然切到一辆白色货车前方并险些引发车祸时，发出了尖叫的大笑。

另一段配文为“UK No1”的视频显示，他从红灯起步，时速高达157英里 / 小时。调查还发现，他一直在与其他驾驶员聊天

作者：查理·芬顿（CHARLIE FENTON）

商量让其他人代为承担超速扣分。他的手机中还发现了一份笔记，概述了一个关于他参与的一起车祸的虚构故事，声称那是另一名驾驶员的错，且对方已经逃逸。

康纳·查尔顿被判入狱

在2023年于西约克郡利兹发生这起车祸后，警方没收了这辆宝马车，并从其车载电脑中下载了信息，显示该车曾在包括M1、M62和A1(M)高速公路在内的道路上高速行驶。

查尔顿于2023年11月被拘留，并在接受警方询问时拒绝发表评论。

但在利兹刑事法院，来自利兹亨斯莱特（Hunslet）的查尔顿承认了10项危险驾驶罪名和4项妨碍司法公正罪名。凯特·雷菲尔德（Kate Rayfield）法官判处其四年监禁，并禁驾四年零七个月。

高级驾驶员协会（Institute Of Advanced Motorists）的尼古拉斯·莱斯（Nicholas Lyes）表示：“此案是一个严峻的提醒，危险驾驶不仅会对驾驶员，还会对所有道路使用者产生改变生活的后果。”

图片：查尔斯·麦克林托克·威尔逊（CHARLES MCCLINTOCK WILSON） / ZUMA PRESS WIRE / SHUTTERSTOCK

英国人全力冲刺，旨在创下406英里 / 小时氢能速度纪录

一辆英国氢动力JCB赛车创下了406.320英里 / 小时的新世界陆地速度纪录。

JCB Hydromax赛车在本周于犹他州的邦纳维尔盐滩（Bonneville Salt Flats）记录到平均时速406.320英里 / 小时，成为最快的氢动力车辆。

由安迪·格林（Andy Green DBE）联队指挥官驾驶，这位64岁的前皇家空军（RAF）飞行员在第一次运行中达到了400.623英里 / 小时的平均时速，第二次运行达到了412.135英里 / 小时。这辆双发动机、长32英尺的赛车完成了国际汽联（FIA）规则要求的两次运行——一小时内分别向两个方向行驶一次——轻松打破了

作者：迪恩·默里（DEAN MURRAY）

BMW H2R在2004年创下的185.5英里 / 小时的纪录。新纪录使用了两台JCB自有的氢能挖掘机发动机，总功率达1,600马力，这些发动机也为该公司位于德比郡福斯顿（Foston）工厂生产线上的JCB机器提供动力。

格林曾在1997年于内华达州驾驶喷气式赛车ThrustSSC创下763.035英里 / 小时至今未被打破的世界陆地速度纪录，他表示：“邦纳维尔是世界陆地速度纪录的精神家园，而JCB Hydromax刚刚将自己写进了这段历史。这辆车稳定、强劲且快速。”

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超级球迷 Michael Taliaodoros

连续观看2000场比赛后，我成了数据之王

作者：SAM ELLIOTT-GIBBS

一名足球超级迷不仅自1989年以来观看了一支球队的每一场比赛，而且还能记住所有比赛的结果。

Michael Taliaodoros 在周六观看了他的第2000场连续温布尔登比赛，他一直追随该俱乐部，直到其在2004年更名为 MK Dons。

在 MK 体育场被人们称为 MikeyT 的 Michael，现在还担任该英甲球队的比赛日评论员。

他说：“这次连续记录始于1989年5月6日客场对阵查尔顿的比赛，而我错过的一场比赛是在几天前在曼联主场进行的。”

“我当时才刚开始工作，还没拿到第一份工资。”

为了测试他自称的百科全书式知识，55 岁的 Mikey 被要求提供温布尔登 1992-93 赛季揭幕战的细节。

他准确地回答道：“我们在8月15日客场对阵利兹联。我们以 2-1 输掉了比赛。”

由于担任评论员，他在新冠疫情期间也能观看比赛。

他说：“有起有伏。但这是我的俱乐部，我热爱其中的每一秒。”

普鲁女爵士：曾担心中风，结果是严重的偏头痛

普鲁女爵士戴着标志性的眼镜；下方是她与《烘焙大赛》的共同主演们

作者：FRAN WINSTON

《英国烘焙大赛》的标志性人物普鲁·莱斯女爵士 (Dame Prue Leith) 因担心中风而被救护车紧急送往医院。

这位 86 岁的电视明星当时正在约克郡度假，由于她说话时出现“无法理解且不连贯的词语堆砌”，导致她的丈夫约翰·普莱费尔 (John Playfair) 担心她中风了。

她被送往急诊室，并接受了包括脑扫描在内的 10 小时检查。

普鲁女爵士说：“几周前，在约克郡逗留时，我发作了偏头痛。”

“它遵循一个熟悉的路径。首先，我只能看到所看之物的一半。紧接着，视野右上角会出现一个闪烁的彩色光圈。”

三明治

“如果我不迅速吞下一颗偏头痛‘炸弹’（三种药片：扑热息痛、布洛芬和舒马曲坦），随后就会出现剧烈的头痛。”

“由于语言问题是中风的典型症状，而且我这个年纪很容易出现小中风，所以大家都决定谨慎起见，以免出错。”

为了让粉丝放心，她表示自己没事，并说工作人员甚至特意给她准备了一个“白面包夹薄片加工火腿”的三明治。

在即将于明天出版的《The Oldie》杂志 9 月号的“普鲁新闻”专栏中，她写道：“对于值夜班的护士来说，这不算最健康的晚餐，但我和约翰把它狼吞虎咽地吃光了。”

普鲁在今年早些时候宣布退出《烘焙大赛》评委之职。

贾斯珀：我们为女儿感到非常自豪，非常爱她

贾斯珀·卡罗特（Jasper Carrott）与女儿露西·戴维斯（Lucy Davis）

喜剧演员贾斯珀·卡罗特表示，在演员女儿露西·戴维斯透露自己患有无法治愈的乳腺癌后，他感到“非常自豪”。

这位 53 岁的《办公室》（The Office）明星在周二公开了自己的病情，称她“不知道还剩下多少时间”。

81 岁的贾斯珀表示：“这对整个家庭来说是一个非常困难的时期，自她确诊以来，我们一直在尽可能地支持她。我们非常感谢在这段艰难时期所获得的所有支持，并且我们非常希望

作者：弗朗西丝·米勒（FRANCES MILLAR）

她的未来能如她所愿。我们为女儿感到非常自豪，非常爱她。

“她在面对许多创伤性健康问题时所表现出的态度，给我们所有人上了一课。

“我们请求在接下来的几个月里保持私密，但再次感谢这么多人们所表现出的爱与关心。”

露西表示，她在一年半前被诊断出患病，癌症已转移至包括脊柱、右髋关节和肋骨在内的骨骼，导致现在进行化疗已“太晚”。她写道：“目前，我正努力以尽可能有趣的方式度过我生命中可能剩下的任何时光。

“我不害怕接下来的任何事情。我对此感到平静。”

美国版《办公室》明星及乳腺癌幸存者珍娜·费舍尔（Jenna Fischer）表示：“美丽的帖子。非常爱你。是的，带着癌症继续工作！让我们把这个信息广泛传播出去！”

露西在英国原版剧集《办公室》中饰演前台道恩·廷斯利（Dawn Tinsley）。52 岁的珍娜在美国版本中饰演同一角色，更名为帕姆·比斯利（Pam Beesly）。共同创作并主演该剧的瑞奇·热维斯（Ricky Gervais）在 Instagram 上发布了一个心形表情符号。戴维斯回复道：“xxx。”

发送支持信息的明星包括休·博内维尔（Hugh Bonneville）、乌尔里卡·琼森（Ulrika Jonsson）、阿曼达·阿宾顿（Amanda Abbington）、皮尔斯·摩根（Piers Morgan）、莎拉·保尔森（Sarah Paulson）和基尔南·希普卡（Kiernan Shipka）。

被诊断出患有 4 期前列腺癌的奥运自行车冠军克里斯·霍伊爵士（Sir Chris Hoy）写道：“继续加油，露西。”

同样患有 4 期乳腺癌的广播员特里莎·戈达德（Trisha Goddard）发帖称：“从一名 4 期俱乐部成员这里送上巨大的爱。”

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香草味电子烟调味剂“对孕妇构成风险”

女性“应收到警示”

科学家表示，应告知孕妇，电子烟中用于调味的某种化学物质可能带来潜在危害。

研究表明，电子烟中常用的香草味化学物质香兰素可能会“损害人类早期发育的核心过程”。

专家表示，试图怀孕的女性和准妈妈应收到警示，且监管机构应考虑在包装上强制披露成分。科学家在实验室测试中将胚胎干细胞暴露于香兰素中。

加州大学河滨分校的普鲁·塔尔博特（Prue Talbot）教授及其

作者：ELLA PICKOVER

同事将细胞暴露在不同浓度的该化学物质中。

他们发现，即使是被称为纳摩尔浓度的低剂量，也会导致早期细胞失去发育为所有细胞类型的能力，而更高剂量则会导致细胞死亡。她表示：“这些变化潜在地非常严重，可能会阻碍胚胎的正常发育。我们的数据预测，在吸电子烟的孕妇体内，纳摩尔浓度的香兰素可能会到达胚胎。”

我们为《每日快报》的读者提供赢取在朗代尔酒店（Langdale Hotel）入住两晚的机会。

该酒店位于湖区中心，周围环绕着英国一些最壮丽的风景——是徒步、骑行和探索的理想之地。

在入住期间，您可以无限次使用酒店令人印象深刻的休闲和健身设施，还可以进入酒店内的餐厅、酒吧和莱克兰酒吧（Lakeland pub）。您可以在出门前享用一份免费早餐，开启新的一天。

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您将享受一次 75 分钟的非靠岸巡游，船上配有关于英格兰最大湖泊周围当地历史、景点和兴趣点的讲解。

您的随上随下票允许您在安布尔赛德（Ambleside）、温德米尔喷射博物馆（Windermere Jetty Museum）或布罗克霍尔（Brockhole）登船，随后从博内斯（Bowness）返回。

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尽管需求激增，居家护理十年未增

分析显示，尽管在同一时期内转诊量增加了 50%，但英格兰通过社区健康护理服务获得居家护理的患者人数在十年间没有变化。

分析还显示，患者的就诊时间也缩短了。

由于这包括姑息治疗，这项研究背后的医生表示，研究结果支持首相安迪·伯纳姆（Andy Burnham）的立场，即在任何辅助死亡服务成为法律之前，必须改善临终关怀。

作者：AINE FOX

赫尔大学沃尔夫森姑息治疗研究中心主任弗利斯·默塔格（Fliss Murtagh）教授表示：“这项研究增加了一系列不断增长的证据，表明我们提供临终关怀的方式与日益增长的需求越来越脱节。”

这位姑息医学顾问补充道：“许多支持辅助死亡的论点是关于人们在症状失控的情况下死去。”

“然而我们知道，如果护理到位，大多数症状是可以得到控制的。”

默塔格教授

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需求跃升但未增加

默塔格教授及其团队分析了 2013 年至 2024 年英格兰全国范围内的区域和社区护理数据。

他们还利用了从 2023 年至 2025 年汇总的伯明翰三年的本地数据。

低估

他们发表在《临床护理杂志》（Journal of Clinical Nursing）上的论文发现，英格兰社区健康护理服务的转诊量从2013年的每100,000人口约4,000人增加到2024.年的约6,000人。在此期间，接受护理的患者人数稳定在2,600-2,800人之间。

在这十年中，患者接受社区护理的平均时长下降了近三分之二，从每位患者150天以上减少到约50天。

伯明翰的数据显示，姑息治疗和临终关怀占所有区域和社区护理临床时间的9.6%，尽管研究人员表示，他们认为这可能是一个低估值。

重新向议会提交《绝症成年人（临终）法案》的国会议员劳伦·爱德华兹（Lauren Edwards）坚持认为，在法案颁布之前，仍有时间改进临终关怀。

她表示：“改善社会护理和姑息治疗，并在临终者生命的最后几周提供选择，这两者可以且必须同步进行。”

“坑人”行为民调：缩量涨价与固定费用位居前列

现代生活中三大最大的骗局是能源固定费用（standing charges）、缩量涨价（shrinkflation）和机场送机费。

一项针对2,000名心烦意乱的成年人的民调确认了价格过高且价值被高估的产品和服务前10名名单。

总计有39%的人将固定费用列为该国最糟糕的敛财手段，而33%的人谴责缩量涨价——即在保持原零售价不变的同时，偷偷减少产品的尺寸、重量或数量。

作者：JASMINE LENTHALL

与此同时，30%的人对机场送机费感到厌烦，电视执照费（30%）和市政税（29%）紧随其后。火车票、活动预订费以及在航班上为了坐在家人和朋友旁边而付费也榜上有名。

该研究由 iD Mobile 委托开展，作为其“Mugsville”活动的一部分，旨在揭露日常价格上涨、隐形收费和价格过高的合同。研究还发现，隐藏费用、意外收费和附加费估计使平均每位成年人每年损失£126。

受访者中有一半认为，英国正变成一个隐藏费用和过度收费被视为生活常态的地方。

来自 iD Mobile 的刘易斯·亨利（Lewis Henry）补充道：“隐藏费用和意外收费已成为我们许多人简单预期会遇到的事情，大多数人已经停止对此提出质疑。”

“我们认为英国理应拥有更好的环境。”

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由 Brian Izzard 撰写

大海正处于其最残酷的状态。查尔斯·莱托勒（Charles Lightoller）正被吸向一个深达100英尺的通风竖井。只有一层轻薄的金属丝格栅覆盖着竖井的开口，而这个开口足以吞没一个人。然后，突然间，一股剧烈的热气将他吹回了水面。

海水冰冷得“就像一千把刀在刺入身体”。但就在触手可及的地方，有一艘泰坦尼克号的救生艇。

这艘白星航运公司的邮轮船头已经消失，船尾正向夜空升起，数百名惊恐万分的人正拼命向上爬，试图抓住一线安全幻象。这场灾难导致约1,500名乘客和船员丧生。莱托勒将成为幸存的最高级别军官。

1912年4月10日，这艘重46,328吨的“不沉之船”在处女航中离开南安普顿前往纽约。预兆并不好。泰坦尼克号在离开后不久险些与一艘美国邮轮相撞。在停靠瑟堡（Cherbourg）和皇后镇（Queenstown）之后，它驶向大西洋——并增加了速度。

4月14日午夜前约20分钟，瞭望员敲了三次桅顶钟并向驾驶台打电话：“正前方有冰山！”一次绝望的转向尝试使其遭受了致命伤。

莱托勒知道救生艇数量不足。他是负责左舷救生艇的军官之一。由于认为自己是在执行船长爱德华·史密斯（Edward Smith）的命令，他仅允许妇女和幼童登船。许多男性乘客被拒之门外。而且救生艇在放下时仍有空位。

黎明时分，只有一艘船——库纳德航运公司的加帕西亚号（Carpathia）在现场接走幸存者。莱托勒是最后一个登上该船的人。

这并不是他第一次遭遇海难——也不会是最后一次。

莱托勒来自兰开夏郡的乔利（Chorley），他的家族有经营棉纺厂的传统。少年时代他想逃离工厂，并将大海视为答案。无论如何，他在乔利没有紧密的家庭纽带——他的母亲和继母已经去世，而他破产的父亲则随一名女仆失踪在纽西兰。

于是，在1888年2月的一天，13岁的莱托勒在利物浦登上了名为“Primrose Hill”的帆船担任学徒。这艘船载着货物，开始了经由险峻的合恩角（Cape Horn）前往旧金山的漫长航程

查尔斯·莱托勒被人们最深地记得为泰坦尼克号幸存的高级船员，但正如一本精彩的新书所揭示的，他也是敦刻尔克的英雄，曾在海洋中多次死里逃生。

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他幸免于诸多险境，在回到利物浦后不久，他便启程前往加尔各答，这次乘坐的是姐妹舰“霍尔特山号”（Holt Hill）。一艘船竟然会在广袤的印度洋中一个微小的岛屿上撞击岩石而毁，这似乎令人难以置信，但这正是那艘四桅帆船“霍尔特山号”的遭遇。莱托勒从残骸中跳出，艰难地爬上圣保罗岛的一处悬崖，在那里，他和其他船员在极少遮蔽的情况下，忍受着饥渴度过了一个多星期，直到最后被救起，而且那纯属偶然。

在另一次航行中，在非洲西海岸附近，他乘坐的一艘小艇在波涛汹涌的海面上翻了。他游到岸边后昏倒。他的四名同伴丧生。在返回英国的途中，他患上了几乎致命的疟疾。

决定是时候离开大海休息一下，并被发财的想法所吸引，莱托勒于1897年前往加拿大参加淘金热，即克朗代克淘金热。在参与其中的大约100,000人中，只有几百人找到了足够的黄金来让自己称得上富有。那里的条件极其恶劣，坏血病、冻伤和坏疽十分普遍。

在几周之后，莱托勒被迫放弃了他的追求。尽管身无分文，但他的健康状况尚可。据认为，这次淘金热导致了超过10,000人丧生。

在1914年第一次世界大战爆发前，莱托勒在白星航运公司的“大洋号”（Oceanic）——这艘“海洋女王”上担任大副。在一次大西洋航行后，这艘邮轮被改装成武装商船巡洋舰，他以皇家海军预备役中尉的身份继续留在船上。

九月份，这艘船（总吨位17,272吨）被派往设得兰群岛周围艰险的水域巡逻，这项任务对于这种规模的船只来说并不合适。在富拉岛附近，它最终搁浅在了一处礁石上。

“大洋号”是莱托勒最喜欢的船，他回忆道：“船身侧向横在礁石上，潮水猛烈地拍打着，它被固定在那里，每次起伏都伴随着恐怖的研磨撞击声。我知道，在经历了这么多年之后，感觉到它就在我的脚下碎裂，简直让我心碎。当那些像刀刃一样的岩石研磨并挤碎她的底舱板时，那种感觉在生理上令人作呕。她能撑到足够长的时间让我们把所有人撤离，简直是一个奇迹。”

在安全抵达陆地后，“大洋号”的船长望着两英里外搁浅的船只，观察到它将作为一座纪念碑留在礁石上。一名当地人冷冷地评论道：“我打赌它撑不过两周。”这个人的预言并没有差太远。这艘船在设得兰群岛的一场无情的暴风雨中消失了。

随着战争的推进，莱托勒被赋予了自己的指挥权，一艘鱼雷艇。一天晚上，在泰晤士河口附近，他交战了一艘

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莱托勒参加了1940年的敦刻尔克大撤退，用他的动力游艇“日落号”（Sundowner，左图）救起了130人，而该艇的容量仅为21人；上方为从法国海滩救出的部队。

正前往轰炸伦敦的齐柏林飞艇。该飞艇随后逃回了基地。

他的下一个指挥岗位是一艘驱逐舰，“猎鹰号”（HMS Falcon）。在北海执行护航任务时，“猎鹰号”几乎被另一艘护航舰——一艘武装拖网渔船——切成两半。在其余船员被撤离后，莱托勒与两名军官留在船上。

随后船头部分断裂并沉没，但莱托勒决心挽救船上剩余的部分。

三名军官回到他的船舱，在等待救援抵达期间，他们沏了茶并听留声机唱片。在凌晨时分，“猎鹰号”沉没，将人们抛入水中。在被救起之前，他们差点被另一艘拖网渔船撞到。

与许多英国水手一样，莱托勒对U艇船员产生了强烈的厌恶，因为他们袭击商船，尤其是击沉了卢西塔尼亚号客轮，导致许多妇女和儿童丧生。

当他的驱逐舰“加里号”（HMS Garry）在北海海面上发现UB-110时，他下令撞击该潜艇。加里号并不满足于一次攻击，它在周围打转并再次撞击，击沉了UB-110.。但驱逐舰也受到了严重损坏，船首被撞碎。

在随时可能沉没的危险中，莱托勒开始了返回约100英里外基地的史诗般航程——而且是船尾先行。U艇船长后来指控他犯有战争罪，声称他的部下在海水中挣扎时被谋杀。

即便在66岁时，莱托勒在面对生命危险时也毫不犹豫。

1940年，当号召私人船只参与从敦刻尔克撤离英国军队时，他驾驶着他的摩托游艇“日落号”（Sundowner）——最大载客量21人——横跨英吉利海峡，在顶住德国空军攻击的情况下，共带回了130人。

但在进入兰姆盖特港时，日落号几乎倾覆。甲板上的士兵们因回到英国而感到宽慰，他们纷纷移向一侧以获得更好的视野，而下面的士兵则试图爬上来。莱托勒大声呼吁保持冷静，日落号最终安全靠岸。

码头上的人们被下船的人数惊呆了。“老兄，说实话，你把他们都塞哪儿了？”一名水手说道。

查尔斯·莱托勒从小就表现出非凡的韧性。经历了如此多次死里逃生，他过着极其幸运的生活。

一个奇怪的巧合是，他出生在埃里克·魏兹（Erik Weisz）之后仅六天，而后者就是著名的脱逃艺术家哈里·胡迪尼。

毫无疑问，莱托勒就是“海洋中的胡迪尼”。

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这项高科技试点计划将成为大幅削减零售犯罪、提高居民、工作人员和访客安全的一项重大行动的一部分。

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克罗伊登的官员们已经与萨塞克斯警方（Sussex Police）会面，后者是英国第一个成功试点GPS技术的地区，目前正倡导在全国范围内推广。

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在过去的 12 个月中，该城镇中心报告的商店盗窃案为 4,796 起，而前一年为 5,043 起——减少了 4.9%。

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“商店窃贼”活动显示，全国前 10% 的罪犯造成了英国商店总损失和损害的约四分之三。每 7 起事件中就有 1 起涉及威胁、攻击、言语辱骂或其他严重行为。每 10 起中就有 1 起具有暴力倾向或涉及武器。

然而，大都会警察局增加的行动（包括使用实时面部识别摄像头）已帮助伦敦实现了好转。而克罗伊登（Croydon）则希望更进一步。

与萨塞克斯郡一样，惯犯将被要求佩戴由法院强制执行的《刑事行为令》电子标签。Freshfields Market 总经理兼克罗伊登商业协会联合创始人本尼迪克特·塞尔瓦拉特南（Benedict Selvaratnam）表示：“商店盗窃对企业，尤其是零售商产生了重大影响。这不仅仅是被盗商品的经济价值问题，还包括增加安保的成本，以及给员工带来的压力和对士气的影响。”

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更智能的健康追踪器加入竞争

Garmin 以制造全球最顶尖的跑步智能手表而闻名，但现在它正推出一款略有不同的产品。

这家健身公司正追随谷歌 Fitbit 等竞争对手的脚步，推出一款无屏幕追踪器，它比绑在手腕上的巨大数字手表要低调得多。

CIRQA 智能手环将追踪每日运动量、心率以及你的睡眠情况。

随后，这些数据将被整合以提供一个综合健康评分和精确的身体电量（Body Battery）水平，以实时显示你的能量状态。它甚至可以检测压力以及体温是否异常。详细分析将直接发送到 Garmin 智能手机的 Connect 应用程序中，你可以在方便时查看，而无需在屏幕上接收不断的提醒。

Garmin 的最大卖点之一是没有月费订阅。虽然 Fitbit 的高级服务每月收取 £7.99 以解锁高级健康洞察和指导，但 Garmin 将所有关键功能全部免费提供。

电池寿命是另一个主要优势。CIRQA 单次充电可续航长达 10 天——远长于许多智能手表提供的两天寿命。

它还配备了丰富的智能健康功能，包括时差建议（Jet Lag Adviser）、能在睡眠周期的理想时间点轻轻唤醒你的智能唤醒闹钟（Smart Wake Alarm），以及追踪白天小睡并显示其如何影响恢复的午睡检测（Nap Detection）。

根据你的活动或睡眠偏好，该手环可以佩戴在手腕或上臂，共有五种颜色可选：柠檬灰、淡紫色、法兰西灰、深橄榄色和船长蓝。

它的售价为 £179.99，比谷歌售价 £84.99 的 Fitbit Air 贵了近 £100。

但凭借无需订阅费、出色的电池寿命以及对 Android 和 iPhone 的兼容性，对于任何想要全面健康追踪但不需要传统智能手表的人来说，它可能是一个极具吸引力的替代方案。

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婴儿床全能装备

梦幻羊 Ewan

如果你不想让童谣和白噪音播放列表毁了你的 Spotify 年度总结，这款可爱的梦幻羊 Ewan 豪华版（Ewan the Dream Sheep Deluxe）是一个绝佳的伪装婴儿安抚器。

这款可机洗的豪华版 Ewan 内部有一个充电单元，可以播放 10 种舒缓的声音，包括雨声、海浪声和子宫环境音，帮助你的孩子在夜晚入睡。它可以由尾巴绑在婴儿床上，内部带有发光夜灯，甚至配备了哭声传感器，以便在需要时立即发挥作用。

它在 sweetdreamers.co.uk 的售价为 £44.99。

为顶级装备呐喊

刚刚迎来家庭新成员？新晋父亲 Henry Burrell 一直在测试新生儿市场上的最佳科技产品，看看哪些真正物有所值……

密切关注

EUFY E21 婴儿监视器

市面上虽然有更便宜的婴儿监视器，但 Eufy E21 拥有一套出色的功能，让照看宝宝变得轻而易举。它配备了一个可充电摄像头和一个独立的 5 英寸屏幕，因此不需要应用程序或 wifi 连接。

你可以获得 4K UHD 分辨率、夜视功能以及完整的全方位平移和倾斜控制，无论摄像头放在哪里都能放大观察宝宝。包装盒内还包含双向音频、温度监测仪以及婴儿床和墙壁安装支架。

Eufy E21 智能视频婴儿监视器可在 eufy.com 购买，价格为 £249。

保持安全

冷水消毒器

Milton冷水消毒器可以通过在冷水中对奶瓶、吸奶器、安抚奶嘴和玩具进行消毒，为您节省资金，而无需花费高昂的费用购买蒸汽消毒机。

这款冷水消毒器放置在厨房台面上，只需每24小时更换一次水，并加入一片药片（Boots药店售卖的40片装价格为£3.60）。物品在15分钟后即可达到无菌状态，无需沸水或任何电器设备。它非常简单，

并且您可以随身携带药片，以便在旅行时轻松进行消毒。

Milton消毒单元在boots.com的售价为£21.99。

轻松出行

DOONA 安全座椅 / 婴儿车

Doona X安全座椅兼婴儿车简直是救星。与其在费力将宝宝放入安全座椅的同时，还得在汽车后备箱里折腾婴儿车，为什么不选择一款能变成婴儿车的安全座椅呢？

X仅重 8. kg，适用于身高40-85 cm、体重最高13kg的婴儿。座椅有三个倾斜档位，可以通过安全带或可选的£159 ISOFIX底座固定在车内。外观时尚且节省空间。

X安全座椅 / 婴儿车，£499, .shop。

表达自我

MEDELA MOTION 吸奶器

在£200, 的价格下，Medela Motion InBra双电穿戴式吸奶器虽然不便宜，但其成功率远高于廉价版本。

两个单元可以放置在内衣内，易于拆卸清洗，并配有不同尺寸的乳头衬垫以确保更好的贴合度。

设备可通过USB-C充电，您可以轻松吸奶并直接倒入奶瓶喂养，因此也非常适合旅行。在shop.medela.co.uk的预计售价为£199.99。

绝佳背带

FLYBABY 婴儿背带

带着新生儿出行有时很困难，但Flybaby婴儿背带现在让携带新生儿变得稍微容易一些。

针织设计提供了紧凑的贴合感，面料的孔洞使其具有良好的透气性。

它还采用了巧妙的柔性3D材料，这意味着这款全可调节的高端婴儿背带在一天结束时可以整齐地收纳。

它适用于3.2-15kg的婴儿，且材质意味着它能随宝宝的成长而调整 —— £279, uk.flybaby. berlin。

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跟上 F1 的步伐

不仅是一级方程式（Formula 1）的赛车手们在享受应得的暑假。负责将每场比赛带给全球数十亿粉丝的团队，在进入 2026 赛季末的繁忙冲刺前，也在稍作休息。最后的 12 场比赛将决定今年的冠军归属，每一次超越、每一次进站和每一次戏剧性的碰撞，都将通过英国的一个旧皇家空军（RAF）基地，广播给 70 多个国家的观众。

比金山（Biggin Hill）看起来可能不像 F1 通常那种光鲜亮丽的地点，但走进媒体与技术中心（Media and Technology Centre）的幕后，就像是进行了一次前往美国国家航空航天局（Nasa）的旅行。

一排排巨型屏幕监控着赛道的每一个角落，而 150 多名专家则负责监督车队无线电、编辑即时回放、创建屏幕图形，并验证维持这项运动运行的计时数据。

当起跑灯熄灭时，这里便变成了一场军事化行动。大约 100 名飞往各赛道的工作人员将超过 500 terabytes 的数据传回位于肯特郡的基地，在那里，数据在短短几秒钟内被处理、编辑并分发给天空（Sky）等广播公司。

随着数百台摄像机、遍布五大洲的广阔赛道，以及全球观众对更多角度、更多数据和更深洞察的需求达到前所未有的程度，一级方程式已成为地球上技术要求最高的一类现场直播。

为了保持一切全速运行，一级方程式与联想（Lenovo）建立了合作伙伴关系，后者的技术支撑了大部分运营工作。

联想最新的基础设施驱动着约 270 台虚拟机，处理海量数据，以确保每场现场直播在不遗漏任何细节的情况下触达观众。

该公司还部署了其 Neptune 液冷技术，该技术使用温水而非空气直接从服务器中散热。

该系统具有更高的能源效率，使一级方程式能够在不大幅增加功耗的情况下，处理日益繁重的工作负载和实时数据处理。创新也没有放慢脚步。人工智能（AI）已经在帮助制作人员快速识别最引人注目的车队无线电时刻，赛道上正在增加额外的摄像机角度，远程无人机则从赛道上方捕捉壮观的新视角，让粉丝们离比赛行动更近。

因此，当本月晚些时候荷兰大奖赛的起跑灯再次熄灭时，请记住，除了赛车在争夺位置之外，还有更多事情在发生。

在每一秒的现场报道背后，都是数日的准备、尖端技术以及 200 多人的协作，以确保粉丝们不会错过任何一个瞬间。

游戏新闻

作者：汤姆·哈奇森（TOM HUTCHISON）

斯普拉遁突袭者 (SPLATOON RAIDERS)

《斯普拉遁》的粉丝们现在有一款有趣的单人油墨枪游戏可以享受了。虽然它不会让玩家感到极其震撼，但在呈现第三人称射击游戏的古灵精怪风格方面做得很好。《斯普拉遁突袭者》实际上是一款大型寻宝游戏。

它将多人模式的混乱局面重新改造为单人战役游戏。其结果是将射击的混乱与探索相结合，在色彩斑斓的卡通风格中，玩家需要搜寻宝藏并对抗一波又一波的鲑鱼怪敌人。

你将扮演一名与大胆的音乐三人组 Deep Cut 成员一起工作的机械师。

你们将共同突袭 Spirhalite 群岛以寻找未被发现的战利品，并击退挡在你们与宝藏之间的恶意鲑鱼怪大军。

与之前的《斯普拉遁》游戏一样，这里没有子弹。

相反，任天堂采用了更可爱的设计，为我们的机械师英雄配备了一把喷墨枪，可以将颜色溅满整个地面，并通过削减敌人的生命值来慢慢地将他们消磨掉。

当你的油漆罐空了时，你必须迅速切换到鱿鱼形态，在地面上溅满的彩色墨迹中穿行，以有效地为油漆罐重新装填。

你收集的几乎所有东西都能让你变得更强，你可以利用在岛屿远征期间发现的饰品和宝藏来提升角色等级并增强武器威力。

总体而言，这是《斯普拉遁》宇宙中一次有趣的尝试，视觉色彩丰富，游戏体验愉快。

速度需求

EE 宽带

一项旨在解决下载速度低迷和流媒体卡顿问题的英国大规模宽带升级计划已经公布。

EE 刚刚确认启动其最新服务——高级全光纤 (Advanced Full Fibre) 宽带，该服务提供高达每秒 8Gbps 的速度，约为标准速度的 80 倍。

安装该系统后，下载一部全高清电影仅需四秒，安装一款 70GB 的 PlayStation 游戏仅需一分钟多一点。

这次提升得益于下一代 XGS-PON 升级。这是一种通过全光纤网络提供更快互联网访问速度的光纤宽带技术。

目前，EE 的高级全光纤服务在吉尔福德 (Guildford)、沃金 (Woking) 及周边地区可用。EE 的 Advanced Full Fibre 2.3Gbps 套餐起价为每月 £54.99，8Gbps 套餐起价为每月 £74.99。

TARANTULA PC 控制器惊艳亮相

PC 玩家现在可以用更高的精度和速度与主机对手展开较量。

Game5ir 刚刚宣布推出最新的 Tarantula 8K PC 有线电竞控制器，该控制器提供低延迟、快速反应和更高的精准度，售价为 £79.99。

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Miura 在 60 岁时依然如此迷人

兰博基尼正通过一款 Revuelto 超跑的特别版本来庆祝其 Miura 的 60 周年诞辰。

于 1966 年亮相，凭借其高性能和时尚的外观迅速走红。它也是当时最强大的车型之一，最高时速可达 181 英里。

Revuelto 60 Homage 仅将生产 99 辆，且全部通过兰博基尼的 Ad Personam 项目打造，该项目致力于为车辆制作定制且前卫的版本。

其设计灵感来自 ，拥有两种源自经典款的独特涂装以及内饰皮革细节。所有车辆在后轮拱附近都使用了专属的 60 标志。

与标准版 Revuelto 一样， 60 采用自然吸气 V12 发动机并连接混合动力系统，总输出功率为 1,000bhp，0-60mph 加速时间为 2.5 秒。价格尚未公布。

奥迪全新的第三代 Q7 7 座车型已上市，所有版本均配备 3.0 升涡轮增压 V6 柴油发动机及轻混技术。

在英国，该车提供三种规格——S Line、Edition 1 和 Vorsprung。S Line 作为入门款，配备 20 英寸合金轮毂、隐私玻璃和电动尾门。内饰方面，配备 14.5 英寸信息娱乐系统，以及 11.9 英寸虚拟座舱和 12.3 英寸乘客显示屏。

比亚迪推出了全新的插电式混合动力 TI 7，旨在挑战路虎卫士。

这款新 SUV 定价 47,995 英镑，将 1.5 升涡轮增压汽油发动机与电动机及电池相结合，总输出功率为 402bhp，0-60mph 加速时间为 4.5 秒。

Ti 7 的纯电续航里程据称最高可达 74 英里。与比亚迪其他车型一样，Ti 7 配备

汽车

测试 信任 驾驶

Edition 1 配备更大的 22 英寸运动轮毂和黑色外观套件。

您还将获得红色制动卡钳和可自定义的大灯签名。内饰采用全 Nappa 真皮包裹，前排座椅具备通风和按摩功能。

顶配车型为 Vorsprung，配备 23 英寸合金轮毂和升级后的数字矩阵 LED 大灯。格栅带有照明设计，并配备 22 扬声器的 Bang & Olufsen 音响系统。价格 81,665 英镑 起。

奥迪 Q7 的三管齐下

比亚迪凭借 SUV 处于极乐状态

高水平的标准配置，包括一个包含所有关键媒体和导航功能的 15.6 英寸信息娱乐系统、双快速无线智能手机充电板，甚至还有一个车载冰箱。

在实用性方面，Ti 7 最多可提供 7 个座位。

该车可支付 £500 进行预订，比亚迪将提供 £500 的配套补贴。预计首批交付将于 2027 年 1 月开始。

Corsa GSE 钢炮强势登场

欧宝已确认其新款 Corsa GSE 在下月上市时的价格将从 32,995 英镑 起。 是对欧宝一些经典钢炮（包括 VXR 和 Nova GTE）的现代诠释。

采用单电动机，可产生 277bhp 的功率和 345Nm 的扭矩，使其 0-60mph 加速时间为 5.2 秒。其最高时速可达 112 英里。

该配置连接一个 54kWh 的电池，据称续航里程最高可达 232 英里，得益于 100kW 的快速充电速度，0-80% 的充电时间仅需 30 分钟。功能包括无线智能手机充电和六扬声器音响系统。新款 将于 9 月上市，首批交付将在冬季进行。

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Buzz故事中的“刺”

大众汽车的 ID.Buzz 实际上已经陪伴我们一段时间了。它于 2022, 年推出，作为该德国品牌标志性“巴士”的现代诠释，带来了注重风格的外观，而内部则搭载了电力驱动系统。

这款车型——GTX——是其中动力最强的一款，配备双电动机。但既然这款面包车是以实用性为基础的，GTX 套件是否改变了它经典的吸引力？

有什么新变化？

GTX 在标准版 ID.Buzz 的基础上增加了额外的性能。我们测试的是长轴距版本，为这款本就宽敞的车型增加了更多空间。此外，还提供五座、六座和七座配置选项。

目前仅有乘用版 ID. 可选 GTX 版本，而更偏向商业用途的 Cargo 版本暂时无法获得这种双电机配置。

引擎盖下有什么？

它采用双电机配置，每个车轴各有一个电机，通过大众汽车的 4Motion 系统实现四轮驱动。驱动这些电机的是一块 86kWh 的电池，据称续航里程可达 282 英里。大众汽车表示，如果您将其连接到能够达到该车型 200kW 最大充电速度的快速充电桩，从 5% 充电至 80% 仅需 30 分钟。

它拥有 335bhp 的马力和 560Nm 的扭矩，对于这种尺寸的车型来说，加速性能相当不错。0 到 60mph 加速时间为 6.1 秒，最高时速可达 99mph。

驾驶感受如何？

在长轴距规格下，ID. GTX 是一辆体型巨大的车。但除了

大众汽车的 ID. GTX 是一款真正的吸睛之作，兼具风格、空间和双电机电力。但这种性能伴随着更高的价格...

停车和定位之外，得益于相对轻盈的转向和方正的比例，它是一辆非常容易操控的车辆。与所有 ID. 车型一样，它拥有巨大的仪表盘区域，这意味着判断车头位置可能会更困难。

双电机设计也让 在起步时非常有冲劲，虽然我们会认为这类车辆并非为极致性能而设计，但如果在需要时能拥有这种底层的加速能力，感觉会很不错。

相比其他 车型，额外的动力让您在满载乘客或行李驾驶时更有信心。唯一的问题是续航和效率——

很难维持其续航里程，而且当您在高速公路上行驶时，电量下降得非常快。

外观如何？

GTX 规格在外观上进行了一系列更改，使 ID. 看起来更加出众。重新设计的前保险杠以及大量采用高光黑饰条的部件，使其外观更具运动感。樱桃红（Cherry Red）颜色是 GTX 专属的，实车看起来更加鲜艳。

巨大的 20 英寸轮毂同样被涂成高光黑。它可能没有其他 车型那种复古感，但依然是一款真正的吸睛之作。

内部空间如何？

长轴距版本提供了绰绰有余的内部空间。我们的测试车采用六座配置，这让车内每位乘客都拥有极大的空间和充足的伸展余地。在GTX车型中，你还能获得黑色顶棚，这让内部氛围更加内敛，具有一种被包裹的舒适感。

很难找到拥有如此大后备箱空间的车型。即使在三排座椅全部就位的情况下，你仍有 306 升的空间可用；而将第二排和第三排座椅折叠后，则可获得 2,469 升的巨大空间。

配置如何？

GTX车型是 ID.Buzz 系列中配置最高的一款，因此对于想要所有顶配功能的驾驶者来说，这是一个绝佳选择。亮点包括 12. 英寸触摸屏、升级后的 Harman Kardon 音响系统，以及一系列 GTX 专属的细节处理，例如绣有性能品牌标识的座椅。

唯一的缺点是价格。GTX 车型起售价为 68,891 英镑，而我们这辆配备了少量选装件的测试车价格为 73,051 英镑。如果你选择一款同为六座、入门级 Life 配置且搭载更大电池的 ID.Buzz，价格将降至 59,777 英镑，而且续航里程将比 略高，达到 300 英里。

结论

拥有高水准的标准配置，性能有所提升，且外观出众，所有额外的 造型细节都为其增添了独特的个性。

但其价格对大多数驾驶者来说可能过高。虽然双电机设置是一个实用的功能，但我们认为，标准版（且已经非常实用）的 ID.Buzz 才是最佳选择。

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为小型花园打造的大容量储物空间

寻找实用的储物方案并不意味着必须牺牲宝贵的户外空间。这款耐用的塑料储物棚采用 5x4 英尺的紧凑占地面积设计，在提供充足储物空间的同时，能整齐地放置在小型花园、露台，或沿围栏和墙壁摆放。它是整理工具、浇水壶、花园配件和季节性必需品的理想解决方案，且不会占用过多的户外区域。

旨在让空间发挥更大效用

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占地面积紧凑，但高挑的内部空间为长柄工具、花园设备和日常户外必需品提供了充足的存放空间。向外开启的门让装卸变得简单，而可锁设计（不含挂锁）有助于确保内部物品安全。

适应每个季节

由耐用的耐候 PP 塑料制成，

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这款棚屋将空间的巧妙利用与耐用材料及简洁的现代饰面相结合，在不占用过多花园空间的情况下，提供可靠的存储功能。无论您是整理工具、清理露台杂物，还是存放季节性设备，它都是一个实用且节省空间的解决方案，有助于让较小的户外空间在全年保持整洁、实用且随时可用。

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TOM KERRIDGE COOKS ITALY, ITVI, 7. 30PM

我意识到最近我对汤姆的节目有点不尊重，嘲笑他显然是从家里把 M&S 的食材带到意大利，仅仅是为了在食谱环节展示标签以进行产品植入。

所以今晚，让我转而强调他所赞美的意大利地区性食材之美，这些食材来自与 M&S 等商店合作的当地生产商。

他这次的食谱包括一道美味的猪肉料理，使用了汤姆亲自参与采摘的当地栗子。很精彩，不是吗？不过，他本可以省去这些麻烦，在 Asda 买一些真空包装的栗子，只要 £2.48。

RENOVATION RESCUE, CA, 0PM

本周我最喜欢的部分是他们为主人可爱的狗 Alfie 建造定制住所的时候。由于装修工程迫使它不得不离开平时待的地方，它将获得由共同主持人 Vogue Williams 所称的“狗狗酒店”。

为此，她重新利用了一个旧厨房橱柜，拆掉门，并用 MDF 板制作了一个像狗窝一样的正面。在里面，她放了一个舒适的垫子让 Alfie 睡觉。“我太喜欢它了，”Vogue 惊叹道，为自己的手艺感到自豪。“希望 Alfie 也会喜欢。”

我猜测 Alfie 会非常喜欢，至少在它发现自己的酒店房间没有裤装压烫机之前。

最佳真人秀

THE YORKSHIRE YET SPECIAL: PETER'S DREAM 5, 0PM

宠物是我们家庭中深受喜爱的成员，但与失去亲人不同，目前还没有官方的方式来纪念它们的一生。兽医 Peter Wright 想要改变这一切。 5, 5

他们的艺术品放对了地方

如果你曾申请参加这类电视挑战赛，你的主要动力会是什么？仅仅是为了找点乐子？还是想让自己上电视，而且谁知道呢，也许还能让自己成为一个“有个性的人”，从而被邀请参加许多其他电视节目——在那些节目中，如果一个人“有个性”，这在某种程度上会被认为是具有娱乐性的，而不是让人觉得讨厌。

或者，你的首要动力会是奖金？

我们就假设是后者吧，好吗？在这种情况下，“价值5 万英镑的卓越英国艺术品”能否吸引你？诱人吗？还是有点奇怪？

我之所以这么问，是因为这就是这项新商业挑战赛的获胜者将获得的奖励。这七对组合——最好的朋友、一对兄妹 / 姐弟、一对父女、一对母女等等——来到这里是为了证明他们具备成为艺术品交易商的素质（尽管其中一些人显然并不具备）。

这场比赛的运作方式是，每支队伍每周将与一位不同的艺术家对接，今晚将从艺术学院的毕业生开始，并将他们的一些作品送去拍卖。无论卖出什么，他们将赚取 30% 的佣金，并由他们保留。在每集赚钱最少的队伍中，其中一支将被告知：“你被解雇了。”

好吧，没关系，他们不会真的用这些原话，但如果他们就这样被解雇，听起来也不会完全不合适，因为这种形式感觉非常像勋爵舒格（Lord Sugar）的《学徒》（Apprentice）挑战赛。再加上一点《砍价猎人》（Bargain Hunt）的味道。

不过我挺喜欢的，真的。

参赛者们并不太讨人厌，这在类节目中总是一个加分项，而且欣赏这些艺术品并形成我们自己的看法实际上很有趣。

必须得说，这里没有梵高的作品，但有一扇面包车门。

其中一位艺术家买了一扇门，并在上面画了两个裸体，这种风格在艺术界被认为被称为“绝对丑陋”。

那件作品的底价是1,200 英镑。所以，在系列节目结束时颁发的价值5 万英镑的“卓越英国艺术品”，可能刚好就是 42 扇这样的门。

最佳历史

在公园里泥泞前行，0PM

大卫·奥卢索加（David Olusoga）回归他那极具吸引力的节目的第六季。这一次他来到爱丁堡，深入探讨一座建于 1785 年的位于卡尔顿山（Calton Hill）的建筑。

最佳惊悚片

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在她的单身派对上，首席伴娘梅根（Megan）在揭晓别墅之前羞辱了新娘莱奥娜（Leona）和朋友们。但她们拒绝了她的计划。到了早晨，一起谋杀案震惊了度假村。

最佳纪录片

学校护理，恐怖分子？ £4, 30PM

2021 年 4 月，来自德比郡的 15, 岁女孩里安南·巴德（Rhianan Budd）成为被指控恐怖主义罪行的最年轻女孩。一年后，她在一家儿童之家被发现死亡。

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所有节目 均按 中等绘制 时间（预计）列出。

BBC One

• 6.00am 早餐新闻头条。
• 9.30 动物公园 饲养员人工抚养田纳西狐狸幼崽。(R)
• 10.00 追踪、寻找，拿回我的车 杰森（Jason）和艾伦（Alan）在梅登黑德（Maidenhead）锁定了一辆车。(R)
• 10.30 FACE 欧洲田径锦标赛：伯明翰 2026 珍妮特·夸坎（Jeanette Kwakan）在亚历山大体育场主持第四天开幕赛的报道，包括女子 800 米和 400 米半决赛。
• 1. 15pm BBC 新闻；天气
• 2.00 Money for Nothing 莎拉·摩尔（Sarah Moore）在萨里郡的怀蒂（Whitey）回收中心进行搜寻。
• 2.45 逃往乡村 一对夫妇在伍斯特郡或华威克郡寻找新家。(R)
• 3.30 修理铺 专家修复一件复古橄榄球衫、一个盛盘和一张地图。(R)
• 4.30 答案奔跑 问答赛，由杰森·曼福德（Jason Manford）主持。
• 5.15 Pointless 问答节目。(R)
• 6.00 BBC 六点新闻；天气
• 6.30 地区新闻；天气

BBC Two

• 6.30am The Bidding Room (重播)
• 7.15 Money for Nothing (重播)
• 8.00 Sign Zone: Gardeners' World Damson Farm. (重播)
• 9.00 BBC News Headlines.
• 10.30 Antiques Road Trip (重播)
• 11.15 Homes Under the Hammer 格拉斯哥、东伦敦和德比的房产。(重播)
• 12.15pm Bargain Hunt (重播)
• 1.00 Richard Osman's House of Games 问答节目。(重播)
• 1.30 The Finish Line 问答节目。(重播)
• 2.15 Do You Know Your Place? 名人阅读：布里斯托。(重播)
• 2.45 The Great Rift: Africa's Wild Heart 纪录片。(重播)
• 3.35 Spy in the Ocean (重播)
• 4.35 Vintage Antiques Roadshow 2002年节目。(重播)
• 5.15 Flog It! 来自郡达勒姆。(重播)
• 6.00 Richard Osman's House of Games Chris Bisson, Danielle Harold, Katharine Merry 和 Robert Webb 参加。(重播)
• 6.30 Bear Grylls: Wild Reckoning 一位想要修复与女儿破裂关系的女性。(重播)

ITV1

• 6.00am Good Morning Britain 新闻、时事和生活方式专题的活泼组合。
• 10.00 This Morning 每日热门杂志节目，包含名人访谈、娱乐圈新闻、建议和讨论，包括当地天气。
• 1.30pm ITV News; Weather
• 1.55 Regional News; Weather
• 2.00 Dickinson's Real Deal 纽卡斯尔赛马场担任东道主，其中几把手枪引起了 Helen Gardiner 的注意。(重播)
• 3.00 Deal or No Deal Stephen Mulhern 主持，Zee 尝试按正确顺序打开 22 个红盒子。(重播)
• 3.59 Regional Weather
• 4.00 Tipping Point 问答节目，由 Ben Shephard 主持。(重播)
• 5.00 The Chase Bradley Walsh 主持，来自北安普顿的 Alex、来自唐卡斯特的 Karen、来自曼彻斯特的 Judy 和来自卢顿的 Ziridon 与一名冷酷的专家展开智力较量。(重播)
• 6.00 Regional News; Weather
• 6.30 ITV Evening News; Weather

Channel 4

• 6.30am The King of Queens (重播)
• 7.45 Everybody Loves Raymond 情景喜剧三集连播。(重播)
• 9.10 Frasier 四集。(重播)
• 11.10 Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares USA (重播)
• 12.05pm Channel 4 News Summary Headlines.
• 12.10 Find It, Fix It, Flog It Henry 和 Simon 前往布赖顿会见回收商 Cat。(重播)
• 1.10 The Great House Giveaway 一名房产估价师和一名教学助理在默西赛德郡买了一套房子。(重播)
• 2.10 Countdown Pauline McLynn 在词典角。
• 3.00 A Place in the Sun Jasmine Harman 帮助 Debra 和 Greg 在穆尔西亚寻找住所。(重播)
• 4.00 Saving Country Houses with Penelope Keith 改造 Ashby Manor 的外籍人士公园绿地。(重播)
• 5.00 Chateau DIY Chris 和 Jolyon 打造他们的豪华酒店式卧室。(重播)
• 6.00 American Pickers Mike 和 Frank 遇到了一辆从未见过的农民自行车。(重播)

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• 6.00am Milkshake! 儿童电视节目。
• 9.15 Jeremy Vine 讨论节目。
• 11.30 Storm & Alexis 辩论。
• 12.45pm 5 午间新闻
• 12.50 Matt Allwright 辩论。
• 2.20 FACE 《替代女儿》(2024, FB) 悬疑惊悚片，由 Stacy Haduk 和 Emily Miceli 主演。★★
• 4.00 Castle Beckett 和 Castle 在一名律师被谋杀后，面临着一份长长的潜在嫌疑人名单。(R)
• 4.55 Love Nature 威尔士的一处红鸢喂食中心。(R)
• 5.00 5 新闻，由 Dan Walker 主播
• 6.00 克里特：地中海之珠 作为希腊最大的岛屿，克里特岛拥有约 670,000 人口。它由东向西延伸 160 英里，是寻求阳光者的天堂。Joanna Lumley 为这次区域探索进行解说，涵盖了海龟筑巢地、克罗诺西奥斯宫殿、文化、风车以及克里特里拉琴等音乐传统。(R)；5 新闻快讯

8pm, 欧洲田径锦标赛：Amy Hunt

6pm, 理查德·奥斯曼的游戏屋：Richard

7.30pm, 汤姆·克里奇烹饪意大利：Tom

8pm, 翻新救援：Luke Mabbott

8pm, 约克郡兽医特辑...：Peter Wright

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• 7.00 The One Show Alex Jones 和 Roman Kenny 主持这场现场综合节目。
• 7.30 东区东区 (EastEnders) Amy 向一个出人意料的来源倾诉，Nicola 和 Eve 因共同经历而建立联系，而 Ian 发现自己陷入了令人担忧的境地。

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• 8.00 FACE 欧洲田径锦标赛：伯明翰 2026 Gabby Logan 在亚历山大体育场主持第四天晚间赛事的进一步报道。两年前，英国的 Daryl Neita 在 200 米决赛中屈居瑞士的 Mujinga Kambundi 之后获得亚军，虽然 Neita 此次缺席，但 Dina Asher-Smith 和 Amy Hunt 在本次锦标赛中被视为该距离的奖牌希望。

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• 10.00 BBC 十点新闻
• 10.30 地区新闻；天气预报
• 10.40 FACE 《昨日》(2019, 12) Jack 是一名挣扎中的音乐家，在一次神秘事件中被巴士撞到。当他恢复意识时，发现自己是唯一记得披头士乐队的人，于是决定利用这个机会将他们的热门歌曲冒充为自己的作品。喜剧片，由 Himesh Patel, Lily James 和 Sophia Di Martino 出演。由 Danny Boyle 执导。★★★

12 午夜

• 12.30am Alan Carr's Picture Slam。游戏节目，来自考文垂、伦敦和格拉斯哥的参赛者必须识别满板的图像，如果全部认出，有机会赢得高达 1 万英镑 的奖金。(R) 1.15 每周天气预报：追踪最新预报。 1.20-6.00am BBC 新闻

• 7.00 FACE 欧洲田径锦标赛：伯明翰 2026 亚历山大体育场第四天晚间赛事的报道，包括女子三级跳远和撑竿跳高决赛。在 BBC One 频道继续播出。

• 8.00 新节目 The Big Deal with Steph McGovern 七对有抱负的艺术交易商面临挑战，测试其创造力、商业技能和市场直觉，以获得赢得价值 5 万英镑 英国艺术品的最终机会。

• 9.00 新节目 A House Through Time 纪录片系列，历史学家 David Clousga 通过一座房子的历任居民记录更多英国历史，这一次是一处位于爱丁堡的房产。

• 10.00 《红矮星》(Red Dwarf) Filmmor 试图获得委任，并获得从红矮星号转职到一艘先进全息飞船的资格，该飞船聚集了太空军的精英，以及一名他心仪的女性。(R)

• 10.30 Newsnight；天气预报

• 11.05 谋杀审判：遛狗者的死亡 两部分的第一部分。前猎场看守 David Campbell 被指控蓄意谋杀 Brian Low，后者是同一庄园内一名 65 岁的 groundsman。(R)

• 12.05am 《家庭中的恶魔：露比·弗兰克之陨》(The Devil in the Family: The Fall of Ruby Franke)。在弗兰克一家被隔离的情况下，外界试图查明发生了什么。本系列最后一集。(R)

• 12.55 《标志区域：救护车》(Sign Zone: Ambulance)。一名男子从梯子上坠落20英尺掉在混凝土上。(R) 1.55 《标志区域：进化》(Sign Zone: Evolution) (R)

• 2.55-6.30am 这是 BBC Two 频道

• 7.30 《汤姆·克里奇烹饪意大利》(Tom Kerridge Cooks Italy)。汤姆向观众介绍意大利的山区，揭秘栗子和意面的烹饪秘密。在艾米利亚-罗马涅大区的亚平宁山脉，他与制作人亚德里安一起参与栗子采收。

• 8.00 《艾默代尔》(Emmerdale)。凯夫欣喜若狂，而比利情绪坚定，迪伦向艾普里尔承认自己一直陷入困境。

• 8.30 《加冕街》(Coronation Street)。蒂姆在没告诉萨莉的情况下接纳了里奇的女儿，哈里反对基特的育儿方案。

• 9.00 《环球追击》(The Chase Around the World)。各队伍抵达苏黎世，挑战“女管家”和“黑暗毁灭者”。参赛者必须通过解答问题在城市中穿行，并在终点线找到布拉德利·沃尔什。

• 10.00 ITV 十点新闻；天气预报

• 10.30 地区新闻；天气预报

• 10.45 FACE 《量子之刃》(Quantum of Solace) (2008, 12)。詹姆斯·邦德在追捕秘密犯罪组织“量子”时，展开了一场个人的复仇任务。他的搜寻将他引向一家生态公司的负责人，对方正策划在某个拉丁美洲国家发动政变，以夺取一种珍贵的自然资源。间谍惊悚续作，由丹尼尔·克雷格和奥尔加·库里莲科主演。★★★

• 12.35am 电视购物 3.00 《巅峰》(The Summit)。“山之守护者”让小组中的一人做出艰难决定，选择一个人离开大山，而当他们被迫野营时，紧张局势升级。(R) 3.50 《与ITV共度闲暇》(Unwind with ITV) 5.05-6.00am 《交易或不交易：名人特辑》(Deal or No Deal: Celebrity Special) (R)

• 7.00 第 4 频道新闻。汇总所有最新头条，对政治发展和时事进行深入采访与分析。此外还包括当日领先的体育新闻和最新的天气报告。

• 8.00 《翻新救援》(Renovation Rescue)。沃格·威廉姆斯和卢克·马博特前来援助母亲和儿子菲奥娜与乔什，终于为她位于伍斯特郡、承载着诸多珍贵回忆的心爱家园注入新生命。

• 9.00 《隔壁的间谍：安娜·查普曼的故事》(Spy Next Door: The Anna Chapman Story)。当奥巴马总统结束与普京的一轮外交活动时，联邦调查局（FBI）官员迅速出击，端掉了一个俄罗斯间谍网络，导致了历史上规模最大的间谍交换事件之一。

• 10.00 《女学生恐怖分子？》(The Schoolgirl Terrorist?)。本纪录片通过证词、家庭档案和未公开资料，重新审视了导致里哈南在2020年成为英国最年轻的一名被指控恐怖主义罪行的女孩的相关事件。

• 11.05 《社交媒体怪物》(Social Media Monsters)。讲述一名跟踪者如何利用 LinkedIn、Instagram 和 X 在网上毁掉前老板的名声以寻求报复，随后将目标转向包括一名励志演说家在内的其他人。(R)

• 12.10am 《犯罪现场清理员》(Crime Scene Cleaners)。发现了骸骨。(R) 1.05 《吉普赛妻子的秘密生活》(Secret Lives of Gypsy Wives) (R) 1.55 《拉姆齐的酒店地狱》(Ramsay's Hotel Hell) (R) 2.45 《独裁者：希勒访谈录》(Dictator: The Hiller Interviews) (R) 3.40 《毛孩子》(Fur Babies) (R) 4.35 《克斯蒂的手工艺之家》(Kirstie's House of Craft) (R) 4.55 《过山车，跟我一起死》(Coaster, Come Dire with Me) (R) 5.50-6.30am 《倒计时》(Countdown) (R)

• 7.00 《头等舱环游世界》(Around the World in First Class)。朱恩·吉布森前往芬兰和瑞典的旅游胜地。她抵达赫尔辛基，在圣乔治酒店入住一晚并在萨伏伊餐厅用餐。随后是 5 News 更新。

• 8.00 新节目 《约克郡兽医特辑：彼特的梦想》(The Yorkshire Vet Special: Peter's Dream)。镜头跟随彼得·赖特，他启动了一个热情项目，旨在创建一座约克郡宠物纪念花园，其灵感来自萨塞克斯郡的宠物牧师和教堂。

• 9.00 《贝尼多姆是谋杀案》(Benidorm Is Murder)。在她的双胞胎派对上，伴娘梅根在揭晓一栋豪华别墅之前，羞辱了害羞的新娘伦娜及其朋友。当她们拒绝她的计划时，她愤怒地独自离去。到了早晨，一起谋杀案震惊了度假胜地。

• 10.00 《犯罪现场的杀手》(Killer at the Crime Scene)。调查伊尔迪科·克拉伊尼亚克的死亡，她死于加利福尼亚州她经营的水疗中心的一场爆炸。法医专家仔细搜查了残骸，发现了包裹炸弹的碎片。(R)

• 11.05 泰晤士河中的尸体 讲述亚当的故事——一名无名男孩，其肢解后的尸体于 2001 年在泰晤士河被发现，由此引发的一场调查让警员们奔波于世界各地。(R)

• 12.05am 街头警察：抓捕混混 (R) 1.00 邮轮电视 (R) 2.00 娱乐新闻 2.10 官员：闭门之后 (R) 3.05 城堡 (R) 3.50 朋友 (R) 4.35 与苏珊·卡尔曼一起巡航 (R) 5.25 娱乐新闻 5.35 火焰 (R) 5.45-6.00am 帕丁顿的冒险 (R)

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第57天

2026年8月13日，星期四

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U&Dave

上午 6.00 电视购物 7.25 《Top Gear》 8.20 《边境执法：美国守门人》 10.30 《里克·斯坦的康沃尔》 11.20 《育空黄金》 下午 12.15 《Top Gear》 2.20 《莫蒂默与怀特豪斯：垂钓之旅》 3.00 《盖·马丁：正经活计》 4.00 《毛发骑士：英国之最》 5.00 《里克·斯坦的康沃尔》
6.00 《里克·斯坦的康沃尔》双集。 7.00 《莫蒂默与怀特豪斯：垂钓之旅》保罗·怀特豪斯和鲍勃·莫蒂默前往诺福克。 7.40 《你会对我撒谎吗？》双集。 9.00 2.00 《命中点》浪漫惊悚片，由尼克·布鲁德和萨弗伦·霍金主演。 10.00 《我有更多新闻要告诉你吗》凯瑟琳·帕金森主持这一集讽刺问答节目的加长版，嘉宾包括朱利安·克拉里和杰米玛·凯利。 11.00 《任务大师》游戏节目。 午夜 12.00 《嘲讽一周》 12.40 《你会对我撒谎吗？》 2.00 《命中点》 2.50 《理查德·奥斯曼的游戏屋》 3.35 《公园与娱乐》 上午 4.00-6.00 电视购物

E4

上午 6.00 《摩登家庭》 6.55 《Rudefish!》短片 7.00 《情侣来我家吃饭》 8.00 《拉姆齐的厨房噩梦：美国版》 10.00 《美国最搞笑家庭录像》 11.00 《甲板之下：地中海》 中午 12.00 《辛普森一家》四集 2.00 《布鲁克林九九》 3.00 《摩登家庭》四集 5.00 《辛普森一家》双集
6.00 《辛普森一家》四集 8.00 《范德庞普法则》真人秀系列。 9.00 《巡航天堂：甲板之上与之下》恶劣的天气意味着船员们必须即兴应对。 10.00 《Gogglebox》对近期电视节目的评论。 11.05 《裸体吸引力》一名学生希望找到他理想的共犯伴侣。 午夜 12.10 《初次约会》 1.15 《巡航天堂：甲板之上与之下》 2.15 《范德庞普法则》 3.05 《拉姆齐的厨房噩梦：美国版》 3.55 《辛普森一家》 4.20 《戈德堡一家》 上午 5.10-6.00 《布鲁克林九九》

地区差异与 S4C

威尔士地区：同 BBC1，但以下时段除外：下午 1.40-1.50 《BBC 威尔士今日》最新头条报道汇总及天气。 6.30-7.00 《BBC 威尔士今日》 晚上 10.30-10.40 《BBC 威尔士今日》头条。
威尔士地区：同 BBC2，但以下时段除外：晚上 11.05-午夜 12.05 由 How Stephens 主持的 2026 年国家吟诵节 (Eisteddfod)。
梅里迪安地区：同 ITV1，但以下时段除外：下午 1.55-2.00 《ITV 梅里迪安新闻》 6.00-6.30 《ITV 梅里迪安新闻》及天气；晚上 10.30-10.45 《ITV 梅里迪安新闻》
中部地区：同 ITV1，但以下时段除外：下午 1.55-2.00 《ITV 中部新闻》及天气； 6.00-6.30 《ITV 中部新闻》 晚上 10.30-10.45 《ITV 中部新闻》
ITV 威尔士：同 ITV1，但以下时段除外：下午 1.55-2.00 《ITV 威尔士新闻》及天气； 6.00-6.30 《六点威尔士新闻》及天气； 晚上 10.30-10.45 《ITV 威尔士新闻》及天气
西部地区：同 ITV1，但以下时段除外：下午 1.55-2.00 《ITV 西部乡村新闻》及天气； 6.00-6.30 《ITV 西部乡村新闻》及天气； 晚上 10.30-10.45 《ITV 西部乡村新闻》头条及天气
安格利亚地区：同 ITV1，但以下时段除外：下午 1.55-2.00 《ITV 安格利亚新闻》及天气； 6.00-6.30 《ITV 安格利亚新闻》最新头条及天气； 晚上 10.30-10.45 《ITV 安格利亚新闻》及天气

ITVQuiz

上午 9.00 《交易或不交易》 10.00 《倾斜点》 下午 1.00 《Liege》 2.00 《Terrible》 3.00 《超市大扫除》 4.00 《Riddiculous》 5.00 《交易或不交易》游戏节目。
6.00 《Liege》三集连播。来自西萨塞克斯的母子组合戴安娜和奈杰，朋友简和苏，以及来自诺丁汉的好友艾莉和谢丽尔参加了问答赛；来自伯明翰的双胞胎安和阿尔，来自萨里郡的朋友詹姆斯和霍莉，以及来自曼彻斯特的婆媳特蕾西和乔治娜完成了比赛；此外还有来自伦敦、曼彻斯特和桑德巴奇的参赛者。
9.00 《超市大扫除》由赖兰·克拉克主持的超市主题游戏节目重启版，购物搭档在货架间疯狂抢购以赢取 3,000 美元的奖金。
10.00 《倾斜点》双集。由本·谢泼德主持的问答节目。
午夜 12.00 《倾斜点》 12.55 《Terrible》 1.50 《Riddiculous》 2.40 《在 ITV 放松》 上午 3.00-9.00 电视购物

U&Drama

上午 6.00 电视购物；7.15 《警局》(The Bill)；8.05 《医生》(Doctors)；9.20 经典爱好之城 (Classic Hobby City)；10.40 《急诊》(Casualty)；11.40 《警局》(The Bill)；下午 12.40 经典《东区》(EastEnders)；2.00 经典《邻居》(Neighbours)；3.00 惠斯塔代尔之珠 (Whistadale Pearl)；4.10 《洛夫乔伊》(Lovejoy)；5.20 《时光流逝》(As Time Goes By)。经典喜剧。
下午 6.00 《夏日之酒》(Last of the Summer Wine) 三集连播。8.00 《马洛谋杀俱乐部》(The Marlow Murder Club) 当市长在会议中途去世时，朱迪斯、贝克斯和苏齐揭开了谎言、丑闻和敲诈。彼得·戴维森主演。
9.00 2.00 《命中注定》(Hit Point) 浪漫惊悚片，讲述两名侦探在处理一起案件时被卷入危险的地下世界。里奥和贝拉调查一起扑朔迷离的转折。
10.00 《新线索》(New Tricks) 团队重新调查一起近期强奸案，该案与 10 年前一家工厂发生的两次未破袭击案有关。
11.20 《路德》(Luther) 侦探的假期被一起暴力袭击的消息打断。
凌晨 12.35 《洛夫乔伊》(Lovejoy)。伊恩·麦克谢恩主演。1.45 《波尼法斯修女谜案》(Sister Boniface Mysteries)；2.45 《波托菲诺酒店》(Hotel Portofino)；4.00-6.00am 电视购物

More4

上午 8.55 寻找、修复、出售 (Find It, Fix It, Flog it)；10.00 《四人同床》(Four in a Bed)：五集；下午 12.40 《跟我来晚餐》(Come Dine with Me)：五集；3.20 《四人同床》(Four in a Bed)：五集；5.50 汽车 S.O.S (Car S.O.S)
6.50 汽车 S.O.S (Car S.O.S) 蒂姆·肖和法兹·汤森前往南约克郡接手第一辆汽车 S.O.S 车辆——一台 Ferguson TE20 拖拉机。但要从原主人手中将其争取过来并非易事。
7.55 《宏伟设计》(Grand Designs) 设计工程师乔·斯图尔特和服务设计师莉娜·尼尔森挑战伦敦房产市场，他们在一个仅 38 平方米的小地块上建造自己的家。
9.00 《回收者：萨福克制造》(The Reclaimers: Made in Suffolk) 海莉投身于野生动物项目，并为当地农民赫斯蒂制作了一个明信片留言板，而安迪则在赶时间为酒吧和活动空间供货。本系列最后一集。
10.00 《急诊 24 小时》(24 Hours in A&E) 两集连播。凌晨 12.10 《999：前线》(999: On the Front Line)。纪录片系列。1.15 《急诊 24 小时》(24 Hours in A&E)；3.25-3.55am 《阳光之所》(A Place in the Sun)

西南部地区 (WESTCOUNTRY) 节目单同 ITV1，但以下时段除外：下午 1.55-2.00 ITV 西南部新闻及天气；6.00-6.30 ITV 西南部新闻及天气；晚上 10.30-10.45 ITV 西南部新闻

S4C 频道 上午 6.00 Cyw；中午 12.00 S4C 新闻与天气；下午 12.05 Cass Quinnell；12.30 Hano；1.00 Cold Hwyl；1.30 Sgwrn Dan y Llor；2.00 S4C 新闻与天气；2.05 Pryrhawn Da；3.00 S4C 新闻与天气；3.05 Soe Mon 2026；4.00 Avr Fawr；5.00 Shergirl；6.00 Cyrefin。赫莱德·库尼尔、莱斯林·琼斯和西恩·托莫斯·欧文探索内芬。6.59 S4C 新闻；7.00 Hano，Nighty 杂志。7.30 S4C 新闻与天气；8.00 《波波尔-伊-库姆》(Pobol y Cwm)。休伊尔在揭露珍妮特的身份时对格里菲斯感到担忧。西恩决心阻止达里夺取贝塔尼亚。8.25 《玻璃之国》(Gwlad y flasig)：Gwtym Bowen Rhys。探讨各种海外目的地的历史、语言、音乐和文化。8.55 S4C 新闻与天气；9.00 《费尔本：汹涌之海》(Fairbourne: Y Mor Wirth y Dress)。关注一个面临气候变化灾难性后果的村庄，以及当地居民如何应对。10.00 Tecton Ty。萨拉·埃尔根主持。晚上 10.30-11.35 《河流》(Yr Afon)。凯里斯·马修斯沿密西西比河旅行。

BBC3

晚上 7.00 综合新闻 (The Catch Up Headlines)。7.05 《致命 60》(Deadly 60) 两集连播。8.00 《与斯泰西·索罗门一起整理生活》(Sort Your Life Out with Stacey Solomon) 来自东萨塞克斯的詹姆森一家寻求斯泰西和团队的帮助，试图理顺他们家族传承 40 年的家宅。9.00 2.00 《迟到好过不到》(Better Date than Never) 三集连播。人们尝试初次进入约会市场；杰克希望遇到一个能让他展现真实自我的人；查尔斯回来继续寻找浪漫。10.30 《鲁保罗变装皇后秀英国区》(RuPaul's Drag Race UK)：认识皇后们。鲁保罗介绍了 12 位竞争冠军头衔的皇后。10.55 2.00 《布里奇特·琼斯的宝贝》(Bridget Jones's Baby, 2015, 15级) 喜剧续集，内南·泽莱西格主演。 ★★★★ 凌晨 12.50 金·卡戴珊钻石抢劫案 (The Kim Kardashian Diamond Heist)；1.35 坎耶的麻烦 (The Trouble with Kanye)；2.50-3.50am 《迟到好过不到》(Better Date than Never)

SKY SPORTS MAIN EVENT（天空体育主频道）

6.00am Sky Sports News 7.00 Sky Breakfast 9.00 Good Morning Transfers 10.00 Sky UTC 主要足球头条。 12.00noon LGE Off World Tour Golf 丹麦高尔夫锦标赛。Kertanmide Great Northern 赛事首日报道。 5.00 LGE PGA Tour 联邦快递圣犹达锦标赛。在孟菲斯 TFC Southwark 举行的联邦快递杯季后赛首场赛事首日重点组报道。 7.00 The Transite Show 最新转会新闻。 7.30 Betfred Super League 利兹 Phinics 对阵 ABC Leopards，开球时间 8.32pm。AMT Headings 体育场比赛的所有精彩瞬间。 7.30 Phinics 到目前为止赛季表现出色，力求自 2015, 以来首次赢得联赛领先者奖杯，而 Leopards 本赛季同样令人印象深刻，并希望获得季后赛资格。 10.15 PGA 联邦快递圣犹达锦标赛。在田纳西州举行的联邦快递杯季后赛首场赛事首日报道。 11.00 Tennis 加拿大公开赛女子决赛。多伦多 WTA 1500 赛事第 12 天的焦点比赛报道。 1.00am Tennis 加拿大公开赛男子决赛。蒙特利尔 ATP 1500 赛事第 12 天的焦点比赛报道。 3.00 Tennis 蒙特利尔公开赛。 4.00-6.00am Sky News

SKY BUDGET（天空体育预算频道）

6.00am The Hundred 8.15 The Hundred Blessize 8.45 The Blessize 10.00 The 1.30pm The 2.00 The 6.15 The 7.00 The 10.30 The 10.45 The 11.00 The 2.15am The 4.00 Women's ICC World T20 Cricket 4.30 The 5.00 The 5.15 Best of ICC WT20 5.45-6.00am The

SKY FOOTBALL（天空体育足球频道）

6.00am UTC Cup Reject 8.45 UTC Greatest Games 9.00 SPFL Greatest Games 9.30 EFL 10.00 Championship Season Review 11.00 SPFL 11.30 EFL 12.00room Championship Season Review 2.00 Preview Show 3.00 Highlights 8.00 9.00 Highlights 9.30 10.00 Preview Show 11.00 12.00mFL Retro League One. 2.00 冠军联赛季后赛决赛最佳时刻 (1993-2019) 2.30 第一及第二级别联赛季后赛决赛最佳时刻 (1993-2019) 3.00 SPFL 3.30 4.00 UTC Cup Retro 4.30 5.00-6.00am

SKY （天空体育）

6.00am The & 30 7.30 Legends 8.30 9.30 . The Club 10.00 Hotel Partner 10.30 Ladies European 11.30 OP World 12.00noon Off World 丹麦锦标赛。首日报道。 5.00 联邦快递圣犹达锦标赛。首日重点组。 7.00 联邦快递圣犹达锦标赛。6x6x6 杯季后赛。 11.00 标准职业经典赛。赛事首日。 2.00am 贾斯汀·罗斯：追逐永恒。这位英国高尔夫球手的个人简介。 3.00 4.00 School of 5.00-6.00am Academy

SKY 1（天空体育 1）

6.00am LV . 第 11 轮的回顾。 7.00 斯诺克中国公开赛 太原滨河体育中心第二轮报道。 10.30 The Guay466 10.45 MotorDP Rewind 11.00 Discovery 11.30 Golden Trail World Series 12.00noon TNT Reised 12.30 斯诺克中国公开赛 太原滨河体育中心第二轮报道。 4.00 TNT Reised 4.30 Discovery 5.00 UTC 5.30 V6.5 6.30 MLB 纽约洋基队 对阵 西雅图 Manners 开始时间 6.30pm。在洋基体育场。 9.30 Hard Knocks：与西雅图海鹰队的训练营 10.30 11.00 UMF1 HUD 世界锦标赛 11.30 Cricket 12.00mFL CPL 12.30 CPL 牙买加 Krigsmen 对阵 圭亚那 Amazon Markets。第 120 场比赛报道。 4.45 Cricket 。最佳投球 5.00-6.00am Formula E：车手

TNT SPORTS 2

6.00am 欧足联金球杯 7.30 男子公路自行车职业系列赛 8.30 FL Legends 10.30 Ultimate Pool 8.00am 欧超杯 8.30 CPL 2.00 LGE 男子公路自行车职业系列赛 报道 来自环汕头赛的第一赛段 3.30 MotoGP 精选 4.30 Ultimate Pool 6.00 UMF1 HUD 世界锦标赛 6.30 FIM 速度赛大奖赛 7.30 欧超杯 9.00 UFC 早餐 9.30 The Verdict 10.15 UFC 倒计时 11.15 Reiseded 1.45am 终极格斗手 2.45 倒计时 3.45 TNT Sports Reised. 4.00-6.00am 斯诺克中国公开赛

Entertainment & Festival

ITVJ

6.00am George and Michael 7.05 Classic Entrenesses 8.10 Classic Coronado Street 8.10 Agatha Christie's Picnic 11.30 Heartbeat 1.30pm Midcomer Murders 3.30 Classic Entrenesses 4.40 Classic Coronator Street 5.00 Heartbeat 8.00 Vero 10.00 Grandmaster 11.30 Trial & Retribution 1.25am Agatha Christie's Picnic 2.20-2.30am Unwind with ITV

ITVX

6.00am The Darts Through the Years 8.20 River Monsters 8.00 Magnum, Pi 7.50 Robin of Sherwood 9.00 Boom 10.10 The Professionals 11.15 Robin of Sherwood 12.20pm Magnum, Pi 2.25 The Casebook of Sherlock Holmes 3.30 Boom 4.25 The Professionals 5.45 Winter 6.00 Sharpe 9.00 Spenders 11.00 Black Stars 12.15am Hatt's Kitchen 1.10 The Professionals 2.15 Auto Munster 2.45-3.00am Unwind with ITV

iSITA1

6.00am Bargam Comedy Room in the Sun 10.00 Nightmare The Hanks, Slum Landlords 11.00 Tenth, Copia 2.00pm Police Interception 5.00 Shoplifters: Caught Red Infected 6.00 Home and Aimea 7.00 UFA: Behind Closed Doors 8.00 Casualty 3.47: Every Second Counts 9.00 H&E After Care 10.00 Heliotance Code Reel 11.00 Skin Add: 12.00mH Killer of the Crime Scene 1.00 Cold Case Killers 2.00 Casualty 3.47: Every Second Counts 3.45 Skin Add: 3.35-4.00am Friends

iREALLY

6.00am Celebrity Fantasy Homes 7.00 Cruse TV with Lowellhood 8.00 Escape to the Country 9.00 Salvage Hunters 12.00noon 约克郡拍卖行 2.00 The Repair Shop 3.00 Salvage Hunters 8.00 Who Do You Think You Are? Damn Lash Dendle 6.00 The Repair Shop 7.00 约克郡拍卖行 8.00 Antiques Road Trip 9.00 The Bad Skin Clinic 11.00 Heist My House In Haunted 2.00am Telephoning 4.00-6.00am Salvage Hunters

SKY TOU

9.00am Entertainment News on 5.9.15 Teaching Hall 10.15 Police Interception 11.15 Guizomoke 12.20pm D&H Lawman (1971-1975) Winners, starring Kurt Lancaster. ★★★★★ 2.25 F&B The T&T (1957-1976) ★★★★★ 4.00 Highway: Thru Hall 5.00 Motorway: Copic: Catching Britain's Speeders 6.00 Police Interception 8.00 Motorway: Copic: Catching Britain's Speeders 9.00 Police Interception 10.30 Timber Titans 11.00 The X-Files 12.00mT Walker 1.00 Outback: Truckers 2.00 Tricking Heavy 3.50-4.00am Entertainment News on 5

SKY ARTS

6.00am The Wolfson 6.00 Artist of the Year Masterclass 9.00 Tales of the Unexpected 10.00 Alfred Hitchcock Presents 11.00 Discovering: Yul Brynner 12.00noon The Art of Film with Ian Nathan 1.00 Tales of the Unexpected 2.00 The Alfred Hitchcock Hour 3.00 The Eighteen 4.00 Discovering: Classic Rams 5.00 Portrait Artist of the Year 2022 6.00 Tales of the Unexpected 7.00 Unwind of the Valley 8.00 Discovering: Michelle Pfeffer 9.00 Dirt Easewood: A. Ike in Film

PGA巡回赛高尔夫直播 天空体育主频道，下午5pm 联邦快递杯季后赛三场赛事中的首场，圣犹达锦标赛，在孟菲斯的TFC Southwark开球。贾斯汀·罗斯（左）去年在此获胜。

10.50 D&H Am Alfred Hitchcock (2021 / 15) ★★★ 12.30am Dragón: The Birth of the Tramp 1.45 Laurel and Hardy: Their Lives and Magic 3.30 Inside Art: Lubaine Pered at Title Modern 4.00 Skinner & Minta Literary Road Trip: Hope & Duel 5.00- 6.00am The Art of Film with Ian Nathan

LAGOLD

7.10am Don't Wait Up 1.00 Good 6.30 Dirty Fools and Horses 9.10 The Green Green Grace 8.00 Are You Being Swined? 10.30 Last of the Summer Wine 11.30 Duel 12.20pm Only Fools and Horses 1.00 Keeping Up Appearances 1.45 Dad's Army 2.25 The Green Green Grace 3.00 Are You Being Served? 3.00 Duel 4.25 Dad's Army & 5.00 Last of the Summer Wine 6.20 Keeping Up Appearances 7.00 Prondge 7.30 Dad's Army 8.00 Are You Being Served? 9.00 Fawlty Towers 9.40 Joe & David's Magical Broom Tour 10.00 Fawlty Towers 11.25 Mrs Brown's Boys 12.05am Fawlty Towers 1.25 Mrs Brown's Boys 2.00 Don't Wait Up 2.45-4.00am The Outlaws

7.15 EYEFLOU

6.10am Abandoned Engineering 8.00 Bangers & Cash: Restoring Classics 10.00 Bverb Wall: The Night the Iron Curtain Closed 11.00 The World at War 12.00noon Antiques Roadshow 2.00 Bangers & Cash 4.00 Bverb Wall: The Night the Iron Curtain Closed 5.00 The World at War 6.00 Antiques Roadshow 7.00 A Perfect Planet 8.00 & 9.00 & : Restoring Classics 10.00 & 12.00mT & : Restoring Classics 1.00 Find It, Fix It, Frog It 2.00-3.00am Abandoned Engineering

LAALIBI

7.10am Murdoch Mysteries 9.00 Shakespeare & Hathaway: Private Investigators 10.00 The Mermaid 11.00 Hudson & Rex 12.00noon Body of Proof 1.00 Death in Paradise 2.00 Murdoch Mysteries 4.00 The Mermaid 5.00 Hudson & Rex 6.00 Body of Proof 6.20 Private Eyes 7.50 Bookish 9.00 The Hunting Party 10.00 Death in Paradise 11.00 Human Eyes 12.00mT Shakespeare & Hathaway: Private Investigators 1.00 Death in Paradise 2.00-4.00am Murdoch Mysteries

YAYAG

6.00am Mornings & 30 Mornings 7.00 Mornings with Ridge and Frost 8.00 Stargate SG-1 10.00 Will & Grace

11.00 The Simpsons 12.00noon Sky Cats Small World 1.00 Hawaii Free-& 3.00 S.W.A.T 5.00 The Simpsons 6.00 Animal Control 6.30 The Simpsons 8.00 Rob & Romesh vs Magic in Vegas 9.00 The Dyers' Caravan Pack 10.00 The Player 11.00 Animal Control 11.30 Grimm 12.30am The Force: Manchester 1.30 Road Wars 2.00 Frank Skinner: 30 Years of Dirt 3.30 Hawaii Free-& 4.00-6.00am S.W.A.T

SKY ATLANTIC

6.00am Fish Town 8.00 Billions 10.15 House of the Dragon 12.20pm Homecam: Life on the Street 2.30 Billions 4.40 The Last of Us & 40 House of the Dragon 9.00 Possession: Double bill. Silver becomes unexpectedly violent at Hope Hill. Double seems out her Aunt Mercy to help her defeat Charlotte. 11.00 All Her Fault 12.05am House of the Dragon 2.45 Billions 5.00-6.00am The Guest Wing

LAGOLD

6.00am Bond Rescue 7.00 Border Patrol 8.00 Send in the Dogs 9.00 Get Great Law & Disorder 10.00 Stop. Search. Seize 11.00 Police 24 / 7 12.00noon FB 2.00 The Rookie 3.00 Law & Order: Criminal Intent 4.00 Nothing to Decline 5.00 Caught on Dashcam 9.00 CIA 10.00 Law & Order: Special Victims Unit 11.00 The Rookie 12.00mT FB 1.00 Chicago Med 2.00 Chicago Fire 3.00 Chicago PD 4.00 Motorway Patrol 5.00-6.00am Border Security: Cannabis Front Line

SKY COMEDY

6.00am Will & Grace 9.00 Sort Of 10.00 Lipight 11.15 Will & Grace 12.15pm The Rehearsel 1.45 Lipight 3.00 Will & Grace 4.00 The Office Movers 5.00 Community 6.00 Will & Grace 7.00 The Office 2.15 8.00 The Office Movers 9.00 Motor Passages: If Ever We Needed 1.10.15 Last Week: Tonight with John Olver 11.00 The Rehearsel 12.15am The Office Movers 1.30 The Comeback 3.00 Community 3.30-5.00am Sort Of

DISCOVERY

6.00am How It Is Made 7.30 The Pool Master 9.00 Gold Rush 11.00 Building Off the Grid 1.00pm Dr Jeff: Ricky's Mountain 1in 3.00 How It's Made 5.00 Aisleus: Homestead: Rescue 7.00 Superior Showroom 8.00 Wheeler Dealers 9.00 Naked and Afraid: Global Showdown 11.00 Expedition X 12.00mT Deadliest Catch 1.00 Naked and Afraid: Global Showdown 3.00 Gold Divers 4.00-5.00am Moonshiners: Master Distiller

国家地理频道 (NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC)

6.00am 灾难分析 9.00 联合调查 10.00 来自Alpsne的世界最伟大火车之旅 11.00 Car S.G.S. 12.00noon 终极机场：迪拜 1.00 空难调查员 2.00 第二次世界大战：来自Alpsne的秘密 4.00 埃及失落的宝藏 5.00 绘制芝加哥：潜藏之物 6.00 改变历史的小偷 7.00 空难调查 8.00 启示录：希特勒进军东方 10.00 世界失踪之船 11.00 空难调查 12.00mT 阿姆斯特丹中央车站 LV 7.1.00 北林生存 2.00 战争之王 2.30 被遗弃 3.20 食品工厂 4.10-5.00am 野生火车

广播

BBC RADIO 1

97.6-99.8MHz 6.5am Newsbeat 7.00 1 Breakfast 11.00 Richie, Maure and Charlie 12.45pm Newsbeat 1.00 Matt and Molin 2.00 1 Play: Anthems 3.30 Newsbeat 3.33 与Vick Aride和Jamie在1 5.45 Newsbeat 6.00 1's New Music Show with Jack Saunders 8.00 1's Piano Up with Ankle Free 10.00 BBC Introducing Dance 11.00 The Residents on 1 Dance 1.00am Danny Howard's Club Mix 2.00 1 Anthems 4.00 1's Workout Anthems 5.00-6.55am 早点

BBC 2

88-91MHz 6.30am Save Cox 9.30 Vernon Kay 11.25 Place Room 12.00noon Jeremy Vine 2.00 Class Arms 4.00 Just Dormit 7.00 6:00 Bowman & 48 Hacks 2's Place Room 9.00 Darius Hucker主持的乡村节目 10.00 Melvin Osborn主持的Good Groove 12.00mT U2 Borg 3.00 Vernon Kay主持的90年代舞曲 4.00-6.30am Owain Wyn Evans

TV 3

90.2-92.4MHz 6.30am 早餐 9.30 经典精选 1.00pm 古典现场 4.00 本周作曲家：Montgomery 5.00 In Town 7.00 OBC / Prams 2.00 10.00 夜间轨道 11.30 TRound Midnight 12.30-6.30am 彻夜

BBC 4

FM 92.4-94.6MHz 6.00am Today 9.00 Natalie Haynes: Broom Up for the Classics

CHOICE

剧集：Security

4, 2.15pm Kelly Jones创作的关于被推向极限的黑色幽默剧。Controls的成年女儿Sara已经失踪数月，为了帮助她，她在一间超市担任保安。但当她发现第一个店贼——单身母亲Marie时，她会如何反应？

9.30 吉他故事 10.00 女性时间 11.00 儿童三个阶段 11.45 本周之书：《广岛，8.15：失落的回忆》 12.00noon 新闻 12.04 骗局秘密 12.32 街道面包 13.57 天气 1.00 一点钟的世界 1.45 人类智能 2.00 弓箭手 2.15 日记：Security 3.00 自然生活 3.27 4. Kapsal 3.30 Headland 4.00 简报室 4.30 ISIC 内部科学 5.00 FM 5.57 天气 6.00 新闻 & 8.00 Ushana's FM 7.00 弓箭手 7.15 Front Flow 8.00 At Your Own Five 8.15 媒体节目 9.00 Loose Souls 9.45 The Cows Are Add 10.00 今夜世界 10.45 北方之书《威克菲尔德的牧师》 11.00 Radical 11.30 佳读 12.00mT 新闻 12.30 本周之书：《广岛，8.15：失落的回忆》 12.40 航运预报 1.00 BBC世界服务 5.00 新闻摘要 5.04 简报室 5.32 天气 5.34 航运预报 5.43 今日祷告 5.45-6.00am 今日农业

BBC 5 LIVE

693 / 909kHz 6.00am 5 Live Breakfast 789 / 909kHz 7.00am 11.00 Gordon Smart，代班Action Chiles。 2.00pm Matt Chorey 4.00 5 Live Drive 7.00 5 Live Sport 7.30 田径。Eleanor Oldroyd报道在伯明翰举行的欧洲田径锦标赛。 10.00 Johnny TAnson 1.00am Charlie Taylor 5.00-6.00am 金融唤醒

BINGERON 3 CH 15

FM: 94.6MHz 6.00am 新闻 & 65 与Wines共醒 8.31 乡村警察 7.00 威尔士早餐 9.00 Bronwen Lewis 12.00noon 电话访谈 2.00 Batrina Akingar 5.00 威尔士驱动 6.30 Ke's Comedy Club 7.00 Alegrana Scott 10.00 Elon Sion 12.00mT 与威尔士共放松 1.00-6.00am Air 5 Live

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CLASSIC FM

100-102MHz 6.30am Classic FM Breakfast with Tim Lhonesa 9.00 The Classic FM Hail of Fame Hour with Tim Lhonesa 10.00 Aled Jones 1.00pm Arson Makei Minnal 4.00 Margherita Sport 7.00 Relaxing Framings John Bruning 9.00 Classic FM's Composer: Canucal John Bruning 10.00 Cain Classics 1.00am Bill Overton 4.00-6.30am Early Breakfast

ASSOCIATED

DAB 6.00am Dave Berry 10.00 Leona Girdam 1.00pm Dan Burnet 4.00 Hometime Bush & Richie 7.00 Danielle Perry 10.00 Jay Lawrence 1.00-6.00am Dan Noble

Movies

FILM

11.00am 地心之旅 (1959 / U) SG-1 冒险片，由 the Boone 和 James Mason 主演。 ★★★ 1.40pm 夏洛克·福尔摩斯与秘密瓦格纳 (1962 / 63) 谋杀惊悚片，由 Saal Rathbone 和 Nigel Bruce 主演。 ★★★ 3.15 杰西·詹姆斯的白日故事 (1957) PGI 传记片，由 Robert Wagner 主演。 ★ 5.00 BIRCH (2019 / 12) JRR 塔利班目标， 由 Nicholas Hurd 和 Lily Collins 主演。 ★★★ 7.10 Mean (2009 / 15) So-4 剧情片，由 Sam Rockwell 和 Kevin Spacey 主演。 ★★★ 9.00 The Woman Wing (2022 / 13) 历史 剧情片，由 Vick Davis 主演。 ★★★ 11.40 Area (2019 / 15) 动作惊悚片，由 Sasha Luss 和 Helen Miner 主演。 ★★★ 10-3:30am Berberian Sexed Studio (2012 / 13) 惊悚片，由 Toby Jones 出演。 ★★★

SKY CINEMA PREMIERE

1.20am Journey Tunes: The Dog the Earth Blew Up (2024 / 16) 动画冒险片， 由 Eric Dauda 配音。 ★★★ 9.00 Eleanor the Great (2025 / 12) Joe 4 Stars. ★★★ 10.40 Anaconda (2025 / 13) 喜剧冒险片， 由 Jack Black 和 Paul Rudd 主演。 ★★★ 12.20pm Normal (2026 / 15) Sue 6:33pm. ★★★ 2.00 Seven Snipe (2026 / 15) Sue 3:43pm. ★★★ 3.40 Song Song Blue (2025 / 13) 剧情片，由 Hugh Jazmin 和 Dean Hudson 出演。 ★★★ 6.00 Heretic (2024 / 15) 恐怖片，由 Hugh Grant 和 Sophie Thurton 主演。 ★★★ 8.00 Normal (2026 / 15) 来自亚马逊的导演 动作喜剧片，由 Bob Oakeson 出演。 ★★★ 9.40 Seven Snipe (2026 / 15) 惊悚片，由 Rachel Mitchell 和 Charles Cotter 主演。 ★★★ 11.20 Private (2025 / 15) 恐怖片，由 Johnny Muguyah 和 Jessica Alexander 出演。 ★★★ 12.00am Salem (2025 / 15) 犯罪剧情片， 由 Theodore Pellerin 主演。 ★★★ 2.40 In Gold Light (2025 / 15) 犯罪惊悚片， 由 Makki Mennon 和 Alan Hawco 出演。 ★★★ -30-6:30am Eleanor the Great (2025 / 12) 剧情片，由 June Squibb 主演。 ★★★★

SKY CINEMA CRAMA

4.00pm Stream (1978 / 79) 音乐剧，由 John Travolta 和 Olivia Newton-John 出演。 ★★★★ 6.00 Greses 2 (1982 / 80) 音乐剧，由 Michelle Pfeifer 和 Maxwell Caulfield 主演。 ★ 8.00 一个星光诞生 (2018 / 19) 剧情片，由 Lady Gaga 和 Bradley Cooper 主演。 ★★★★ 10.20 她们自己的联盟 (1992 / 90) 剧情片， 由 Geena Davis 和 Tom Harris 出演。 ★★★ 12.45am The Brutalist (2020 / 19) 剧情片，由 Adrien Brody 和 Felicity Jones 出演。 ★★★★ 4.10-6:00am Cicada (2020 / 19) 剧情片，由 Matthew Filer 和 Sheldon D Brown 出演。 ★★★

TAKING THE EARTH

4.20pm Fantastic Mr Fox (2009 / 90) Toby Hurd 的动画冒险片。 ★★★★ 6.00 成龙的特工队 (2002 / 12) 喜剧冒险片，由成龙出演。 ★★★ 7.40 the Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002 / 12) 奇幻冒险续集，由 Elijah Wood 和 Virgin Mortensen 主演。 ★★★★ 10.40 Lamony Brackett's Series of Unfortunate Events (2004 / 95) 喜剧 冒险片，由 Jim Camp 主演。 ★★★★ 12.30am 忍者神龟 (2014 / 13) 奇幻冒险片，由 Megan Fox 和 William Fichtner 主演。 ★ 2.15 忍者神龟：走出阴影 (2016 / 12) 动作冒险续集， 由 Megan Fox 和 Will Arndt 主演。 ★★★ 4.10-6:00am Chantelle's Web (2006 / 11) 家庭 剧情片，由 Claudia Farrang 主演。 ★★★

TALKING PICTURES TV

4.05pm 《拼图》(Jigsaw) (1982 / 93) 谋杀谜案，由 Jack Warner 和 Ronald Lewis 主演。★★★ 6.20 《离奇但真实》(Strange But True) 未解之谜。 6.30 《兄弟》(The Brothers) Richard Easton 主演。 8.00 《马克·索尔特》(Mark Salter) Donald Gray 主演。 6.30 《摔跤手与数字社交俱乐部》(The Wrestleggers and Numbers Social Club) The Crickets 乐队表演其热门歌曲《Everyday》。 9.00 《大海不会带走他们》(The Sea Shall Not Have Them) (1995 / 12) 剧情片，由 Dan Bogarde 主演。★★★ 11.10 《喜剧演员》(The Comic) (1969 / 90) 喜剧剧情片，由 Dick Van Dale 和 Michele Lee 主演。★★★ 1.00am 《未知之X》(X the Unknown) (1956 / 90) Hammer 恐怖片，由 Dean Jaggar 主演。★★★ 2.40 《马奇上校调查》(Colonel March Investigates) - 4.00 《伯克法》(Burke's Law) 指令系列。 5.00-6:00am 电影现播 (Film Now)

GREAT MYSTERY

4.00pm 《诊断谋杀》(Diagnosis Murder) (2009) 剧情片。 5.00 《谋杀她写》(Murder, She Wrote) 两集。 7.00 《顶级罪案》(Cattle in Premier) 犯罪剧。 8.00 《难以忘怀》(Unforgettable) Poppy Montgomery 主演。 9.00 《显而易见》(In Plain Sight) Men McConnove 主演。 10.00 《早间节目之谜：米德谋杀案》(Morning Show Mysteries: A Murder in Mead) (2019 / 90) 谜案，由 Hella Robinson Peete 和 Rick Fox 主演。★ 11.00pm 《哈蒂·欧文之谜》(Hatty Owen Mysteries) 1.45am 《丑闻：我女儿的秘密》(Scandal: My Daughter's Secret) (2021 / 95) 惊悚片，由 Kevin Carmony 主演。★★★ 3.30-6:00am 《隔壁的威胁》(The Threat Next Door) (2023 / 90) 悬疑惊悚片，由 Shiva Negar 主演。★

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根据《2008年规划法》及《2017年基础设施规划（环境影响评估）条例》，现就一项授予环境影响评估（EIA）开发项目开发许可令的申请决定发出通知。

能源安全与净零排放部国务大臣（以下简称“国务大臣”）根据《2017年基础设施规划（环境影响评估）条例》第 31(2) 条通知，已就国家电网电力传输股份有限公司（National Grid Electricity Transmission plc，以下简称“申请人”）根据《2008年规划法》（以下简称“2008年法”）提交的开发许可申请做出裁定，该开发项目构成了 2017 年条例中所定义的“环境影响评估开发项目”。

该申请旨在建设、运行、维护及拆除一座太阳能光伏（PV）阵列发电设施。该项目包括太阳能光伏面板、电池储能系统（BES）、现场变电站及相关的电网连接基础设施，将实现 740 兆瓦（MW）电力的发电并将其输送至拟建的国家电网 High Manihum 变电站。拟建开发项目位于诺丁汉郡议会（NCC）、林肯郡议会（LCC）、Basertree 区议会（BDC）、纽马克和舍伍德区议会（NSDC）以及西林赛区议会（WLDC）的行政区域内。

国务大臣在审阅了对该申请进行审查的审查机构报告后，决定授予拟建开发项目的开发许可。

国务大臣根据 2008 年法第 116 条及《2017年基础设施规划（环境影响评估）条例》第 31(2) 条准备的关于决定签署授予开发许可令的理由陈述书，现已在规划督察局（Planning Inspectorate）网站上公布：

https: / national-infrastructure-consenting.planninginspectorate.gov.uk / projects / EN010159

该理由陈述书包含决定内容、与开发相关的要求、决定所依据的主要理由和考量（包括有关公众参与的相关信息），以及旨在避免、减少和抵消开发项目任何重大不利影响的主要特征描述。

理由陈述书包含第 30(2) 条要求的信息，包括关于挑战该决定的权利及相关程序的资料。

决定的纸质文档也可在规划督察局办公室查阅（请使用以下联系方式预约）：The Planning Inspectorate, National Infrastructure Directorate, c / o QANDERT, 69 Buckingham Avenue, Slough SL1 4PN

如需预约查阅文件，请致电规划督察局 0303 444 5000 或发送电子邮件至 MErequiredtplanninginspectorate.gov.uk。

可通过写信或发送电子邮件至规划督察局获取国务大臣决定信的副本及命令文本。此项服务免费。

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迪恩穆尔太阳能电站项目（DEAN MOOR SOLAR FARM PROJECT）

能源安全与净零排放大臣（“大臣”）根据《2017年基础设施规划（环境影响评估）条例》（“2017年条例”）第31(2)条通知，已就 PIS Dean Moor Limited（“申请人”）根据《2008年规划法》（“2008年法”）提交的开发许可申请做出决定。该开发项目构成了2017年条例中所定义的“环境影响评估开发”。

该申请旨在建设、运营、维护及拆除一座总电输出容量超过50MW的地面安装太阳能光伏发电站，以及相关的配套开发，包括：变电站、控制建筑、与当地配电网络基础设施的连接点及电气设备、通信桅杆、电气电缆及连接基础设施、内部通道和公路接入工程、临时施工场地、安全与监控基础设施、运营与维护设施、排水与灌溉工程、景观美化、绿色基础设施、生物多样性缓解与增强措施、许可路径、噪声衰减工程以及所有附属工程和基础设施（“拟议开发项目”）。

决定授予开发许可的理由陈述书由大臣根据2008年法第116条和2017年条例第31(2)条准备，其中包含决定内容、与开发相关的要求、做出决定的主要理由和考量（包括有关公众参与的相关信息），以及为避免、减少和抵消开发项目任何重大不利影响而采取的主要特征描述，该陈述书已发布在规划督察局（Planning Inspectorate）的网站上：

https: / national-infrastructure-consenting.planninginspectorate.gov.uk / projects / EN010155

该理由陈述书包含2017年条例第30(2)条要求的信息，包括关于质疑该决定及其程序的权利信息。

决定文件的纸质副本也可在规划督察局办公室查阅（请使用以下联系方式预约）：The Planning Inspectorate, National Infrastructure Directorate, Temple Quay House, Bristol BS1 6PN。如需预约查阅文件，请致电规划督察局 0303 444 5000 或发送电子邮件至 MErequiredtplanninginspectorate.gov.uk。

佩尔特里山太阳能电站项目（PEARTREE HILL SOLAR FARM PROJECT）

能源安全与净零排放大臣（“大臣”）根据《2017年基础设施规划（环境影响评估）条例》（“2017年条例”）第31(2)条通知，已就 RWE Renewables UK Solar and Storage Limited（“申请人”）根据《2008年规划法》（“2008年法”）提交的开发许可申请做出决定。该开发项目构成了2017年条例中所定义的“环境影响评估开发”。

该申请旨在建设、运营、维护及拆除一座由光伏面板组成的太阳能电站，总电输出最高可达320兆瓦，包括用于国家电网连接的电缆、电池储能系统及其他相关开发（“拟议开发项目”）。

此外，该命令将包含针对开发目的所需的土地和权利的强制收购权。

关于决定授予开发许可的理由陈述，由国务大臣根据 2008 年法案第 116 条和 2017 年条例第 31(2) 条拟定，其中包含决定内容、与开发相关的强制要求、决定所依据的主要理由和考量（包括有关公众参与的相关信息），以及旨在避免、减轻和抵消开发活动任何重大不利影响的主要特征描述，该陈述已发布在规划督察局（Planning Inspectorate）的网站上：https: / national-infrastructure-consenting.planninginspectorate.gov.uk / projects / EN010157

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停止船只，英国的非法移民问题就将结束

首相坚持认为，绿树成荫的村庄必须接收更多寻求庇护者。

伯纳姆先生，这样如何：你首先停止船只抵达，那么就没人会被强迫接收他们。

在我看来这是一个计划，而且我相信这也是英国大多数人的想法。

薇薇·伯利（Viv Birley）， 剑桥郡，惠特尔西（Whittlesey, Cambs）

让塔利班对阿富汗强奸犯采取最严厉手段

阿卜杜勒·纳比扎达（ABDUL Nabizada）是一名曾为英军担任翻译并被英国授予庇护权的阿富汗人，他却通过强奸一名少女来报答我们（见 8 月 12 日《阿富汗出租车强奸犯因袭击青少年被监禁》）。

恐怕我根本不在乎塔利班或任何其他人会对他做什么。直接把他送回阿富汗吧。

约翰·肯尼迪（John Kennedy）， 埃塞克斯郡，霍恩彻奇（Hornchurch, Essex）

定位巨型充气艇并在发射前将其刺破

英吉利海峡的充气艇局面简直是一场闹剧（见 8 月 12 日《首相：我们必须改变应对巨型充气艇的策略》）。法国当地人、警用无人机和海岸巡逻队一定能看到这些庞大船只的交付和组装过程。由于需要大功率空气压缩机来给它们充气，可以通过声音轻松定位。它们在靠近水域之前就应该被刺破。如果法国人拒绝这样做，也许我们的特种部队可以？

菲利普·福勒（Philip Fowler）， 德文郡，莫顿汉普斯特德（Moretonhampstead, Devon）

我们要求法国就我们的慷慨提供收据

显而易见，法国人没有采取任何措施来阻止非法移民。我们的政府应该坚持要求一份每月详细记录，准确列出法国将我们的资金花在了哪里，并且这些数据必须公开。

安吉拉·布里斯科（Angela Briscoe）， 西约克郡，希普利（Shipley, WYork）

高卢表亲两头通吃，实现双赢

我最近读到，法国北部的企业通过向走私团伙提供救生衣和设备而大发横财。

如果属实，法国人拒绝拦截船只也就不足为奇了；他们两头获利。英国支付给他们巨额资金来监管海滩，而他们的当地经济却从走私者那里获利。

这件事需要引起极大关注。这些巨大的充气设备是在哪里制造的？

安德鲁·蒂芬（Andrew Tiffin）， 埃塞克斯郡，蒂普特里（Tiptree, Essex）

雇佣健康与安全方面的死板官僚来结束入侵

没有必要让皇家海军介入英吉利海峡。只需派遣健康与安全狂热分子前往海峡中部，以严重超载为由将充气艇遣返即可。

威廉·罗宾逊（William Robinson）， 利兹（Leeds）

今日读者来信

安迪·伯纳姆必须将非法移民遣返回海峡对面

伯纳姆在移民问题上是个村级白痴

我对安迪·伯纳姆（Andy Burnham）最近的言论感到愤怒（见 8 月 12 日《伯纳姆坚持认为“绿树成荫的村庄”必须接收更多寻求庇护者》）。

为什么这个政府执意要毁掉我们的生活方式？非法寻求庇护者不应比这个国家的原住民受到更好的对待，而目前在许多情况下，他们确实如此。

韦瑟斯菲尔德（Wethersfield）就是这个混乱局面的一个典型例子，那里年轻男性寻求庇护者的人数现在比村庄本身的人口还要多。

你可以肯定，这些抵达者不会被安置在政治家们自己的家乡城镇。我们需要停止将非法移民视为客人，并将他们遣返回原籍地。

苏·希尔斯（Sue Hills）， 萨里郡，桑德斯特德（Sanderstead, Surrey）

团结右翼，停止这场闹剧

我想我说代表了大多数人，英国公众已被洗脑，放弃了其核心原则。26 年来，历届政府、不受监督的公务员系统以及左翼边缘团体在带有偏见的 BBC 的协助下，摧毁了我们的生活方式。我的解决方案很简单：政治右翼必须团结起来。我恳请奈杰尔·法拉奇（Nigel Farage）和理查德·泰斯（Richard Tice）抓住这个机会。将 230 名非法移民塞进一艘充气艇是不可接受的。

迈克·凯恩（Mike Kane）， 北安普顿郡，科比（Corby, Northants）

震耳欲聋的公众愤怒迫使政府急转弯

关于提前释放杀害警察安德鲁·哈珀（Andrew Harper）的凶手的计划，现在看来又要进行一次“急转弯”，这让我深信我们现任的这批国会议员缺乏勇气和道德操守（见 August 12 《安迪在提前释放计划上急转弯》）。

如果不是因为公众的强烈抵制，这些凶手——以及许多其他人——将会自由地游荡并继续犯罪。

尽管在反对党位置上待了 14 年，工党似乎仍然不知道如何治理国家。一个明显的模式已经形成：这个政府先宣布一些考虑不周、半成品般的想法，以试探公众、工会和后座议员的反应，然后才进行大幅修改或彻底转向。

这是表演性的测试，而不是领导力。

理查德·伯里奇（Richard Burridge）， 牛津郡，惠特利（Wheatley, Oxon）

做我所说，而非我所为——香槟社会主义者如是说

埃丝特·麦克维（Esther McVey）报道称，我们现任的净零秘书、接受私立教育的米亚塔·法恩布勒（Miatta Fahnbulleh）将她的三个孩子送往私立学校（见 August 11 《工党试图隐藏他们的私立部分》）。这有什么好奇怪的？她是个社会主义者。

克里斯托弗·汉弗莱斯（Christopher Humphreys）， 弗林特郡，尤克洛斯（Euclos, Flint）

安迪首相的犹豫不决是最终决定，还是并非如此，谁知道呢？

安迪·伯纳姆（Andy Burnham）口中说出的话让我感到绝望；这是一种圆滑、毫无领导力的政治表现，政策一天一个样。

有一天他声明不想看到任何一名囚犯被提前释放，然而在 24 小时内，官僚机构就推翻了他的决定。

究竟是谁在管理这个政府？他越是出尔反尔——尤其是在未能阻止非法越境的情况下——这种局面就越糟糕。

彼得·鲁什顿（Peter Rushton）， 兰开夏郡，乔利（Chorley, Lancs）

所有凶手必须服满刑期，不得假释

政府声称无法将其提前释放囚犯计划豁免给特定个人，但解决方案很简单：只需将过失杀人罪添加到排除罪名列表中，就像强奸罪那样。

任何夺走他人生命的人都应该服满刑期，没有假释或提前释放的机会。现在是首相展现骨气的时候了。

罗纳德·布朗（Ronald Brown）， 东萨塞克斯郡，厄克菲尔德（Uckfield, E Sussex）

先解决你自己后院的问题

有人能告诉安迪·伯纳姆，他被选为的是英国首相，而不是世界首相吗？他的核心职责是支持这个国家的劳动人民，而不是用不断提高的税收让他们破产，并让他们背负无尽的财务负担（见 August 12 《成本危机方案很简单，安迪。停止你的税收痴迷！》）。

迪克·贝德福德（Dick Bedford）， 德文郡，卡洛姆普顿（Cullompton, Devon）

队长麦金和他的小伙子们依然拥有维拉的火花

英超联赛的大规模开赛再次临近，阿斯顿维拉队长约翰·麦金（John McGinn）对取得好成绩充满乐观（见 August 12 《麦金准备迎接另一场维拉惊险战》）。

在这个夏天，我们的一些顶尖球员已经离开了维拉公园球场，但我真心希望维拉队能延续上赛季的成功，成为一支伟大的中西部球队。

我对一些新球员的加入感到非常兴奋并充满期待。

我一如既往地支持我的伟大球队，祝他们一切顺利。

安妮特·黑尔（Annette Hale）， 西米德兰兹郡，奥尔德里奇（Aldridge, W Mids）

今天：星期四 August 13, 2026

历史上的今天

86 年前 (1940)

我们的头版宣布“不列颠之战已经打响”，并描述了勇敢的喷火式和飓风式战斗机飞行员如何击退战争中规模最大的轰炸袭击，当时超过 500 架德国空军飞机袭击了朴次茅斯以及英格兰南海岸的机场。

这标志着战斗进入了一个新的“强化”阶段，因为德国人将目标从英吉利海峡的航运转向了机场和工业遗址。

49 年前 (1977)

在所谓的“刘易舍姆之战”中，有 100 多人受伤，当时国民阵线成员与反法西斯示威者发生了激烈冲突。

在英国失业率上升的 1970 年代后期，这个极右翼团体获得了追随者。

60年前 (1966)

中华人民共和国领导人毛泽东——毛主席——开始对其政治对手进行清洗，这场运动后来被称为文化大革命。

知识分子和受教育的中产阶级受到红卫兵的恐吓，孩子们被强迫举报自己的父母和老师，因为毛泽东试图铲除资本主义影响。

生日

模特 Marie Halvin 74岁。她在夏威夷长大。前飞镖世界冠军 Phil Taylor 66岁。他的绰号是“The Power”。朋克偶像 Feargal Sharkey 68岁。他是一位著名的环保活动人士。美食作家 Madhur Jaffrey 93岁。她最初是一名演员。

今日笑话

牙医怎么称呼 X 光片？

牙齿照片（Tooth pics，谐音“偷拍”）。

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你的思维活跃，言语得体——充分利用这一点。无论是轻松的还是深刻的对话都能带来快乐。你尤其擅长将幽默与坦诚结合在一起。在家里或与亲密朋友在一起时，某些话语可能会加强彼此的纽带。协作的情况正引导你走向一些有价值的事物。

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狮子座 7月24日-8月23日

你正闪闪发光，人们对此给予了回应。创造力、魅力和自信都对你有利。对话流畅，尤其是在浪漫关系或友谊中。分享你的想法让你与他人更加亲近。一点点自我反思也能帮助你保持脚踏实地。将你的大胆与觉察相结合，你将能充分利用一切。

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射手座 11月23日-12月21日

你感到自信，并对新的可能性持开放态度。对话，尤其是与朋友或同事的对话，可能会带来令人兴奋的机会。协作适合你——不要单打独斗。在家里，简单的快乐能带来意外的洞察力。你正被引导去经历那些能扩展你的思维和人脉的体验。

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金牛座 4月21日-5月21日

有一种简单的快乐不应被忽视。无论是与家人共度时光，还是完成一项令人满足的家务，这些都能让你感到踏实。对话感觉更加轻松、真诚。如果有话尚未说出口，现在是冷静处理的好时机。将实用主义与温暖相结合，你会发现事情会自然而然地水到渠成。

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巨蟹座 6月22日-7月23日

今天有一种稳定且高效的感觉，尤其是当你将创造力与实用性相结合时。对话可能会带来有用的想法，无论是针对工作还是家庭生活。在情感上，你处于一个温暖且慷慨的状态，这让你更容易与他人建立联系。表达你的感受——这会受到良好的回应。在做决定时，这些决定是可靠的。

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处女座 8月24日-9月23日

深思熟虑的心境适合你。花时间反思有助于你理解一直以来积累的情况。与此同时，与朋友的联系可能会带来出人意料的振奋感。不要完全孤立自己——分享你的想法可能会带来有意义的结果。相信你的直觉——它们正帮助你理清真正重要的事情。

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摩羯座 12月22日-1月20日

清晰感随之而来，尤其是在你的抱负和情感优先级方面。你能够更好地表达自己的需求，这使得对话更具成效。在关系中，诚实能深化信任。在工作中，你的想法很受欢迎。不要保留。相信你的直觉——它们正帮助你将目标与真正重要的事情相对齐。

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天秤座 9月24日-10月23日

你被正能量包围，尤其是在你的社交圈中。当你与合适的人在一起时，对话感觉充满启发，灵感不断涌现。现在是与志同道合的人重新建立联系的好时机。如果一段关系需要关注，请以诚实的方式去处理。你的直觉正引导你走向真诚的联系。

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水瓶座 1月21日-2月19日

人际联系呈现出更深层的基调。超越表面的对话能带来满足感和洞察力。无论是友谊还是更浪漫的关系，坦诚都能增强纽带。你的创造力也在流动。分享你的想法，即使它们感觉有些与众不同。你的直觉很强，正引导你走向有意义的体验。

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天蝎座 10月24日-11月22日

工作和抱负成为重点，你处于一个能够取得进展的强势位置。大胆发言——你的想法具有分量。与此同时，你的情感意识正在深化，尤其是在友谊方面。一次有意义的对话可能会改变你的看法。在行动的同时，也花点时间反思。两者之间的平衡会带来成长。

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大多数购物者认为商店在利用价格上涨牟利

一项民意调查显示，大多数英国人认为，由于伊朗战争导致食品价格上涨，超市正在趁机牟利。

尽管财政大臣约翰·希利（John Healey）最近承认几乎没有证据表明存在这种行为，但情况依然如此。

City AMI Freshwater Strategy 的民意调查发现，约 70% 的英国选民认为商店从食品通胀中获得了“过高”的利润。

总计 43% 的人“稍微同意”超市在不公平地利用价格上涨牟利的说法，而 27% 的人表示他们坚信杂货商在哄抬价格。

当被要求估计每消费 1 英镑中杂货商的利润时，选民选择了 32 便士——这超过了实际水平的 10 倍。

在被告知超市每 1 英镑销售额仅获得 3p 利润后，英国人认为它们在哄抬价格的信念。

财政大臣警告零售商不要不必要地提高价格，随后他承认自己尚未看到任何这种情况发生的迹象。

在给《星期日电报》的来信中，希利先生表示，他准备打击那些利用因霍尔木兹海峡关闭而导致的能源和供应成本飙升作为涨价借口，从而“欺骗”购物者的零售商。他补充道：“公司在整个危机期间与政府合作的意愿是积极的，目前还没有所谓的

超市称其利润率低

哄抬价格的显著证据，但我希望坦率地向公众保证，如果这种情况发生，我们的监管机构有权予以打击。”

商店对这一说法予以反击。代表包括圣塞伯里（Sainsbury's）、特易购（Tesco）和 Asda 在内的英国最大零售商的英国零售联合会（BRC）表示，它准备证明自己一直在压低价格。

BRC 企业事务总监吉姆·布莱（Jim Bligh）表示：“在零售业是英国利润率最低的行业之一时，财政大臣将零售商贴上潜在牟利者的标签是没有帮助的。”

尽管近几个月食品通胀有所放缓，6 月份低至 1.7%，但英国人对超市哄抬价格的认知依然存在。

食品行业人士曾警告称，今年晚些时候通胀率可能高达 10%，但 BRC 表示，零售商之间的激烈竞争抑制了价格上涨。

由于飞行人数停滞，TUI 利润骤降

度假者现在预订行程的时间更晚了

由于伊朗战争，消费者继续将预订推迟到最后一刻，导致度假公司 Tui 的季度收益骤降。

这家欧洲最大旅游运营商在截至 6 月底的第三季度税前利润暴跌 43% 至 1300 万英镑m，该集团受到了燃料成本上涨以及由于需求疲软和竞争加剧而被迫降低价格的影响。

由于客户数量下降 3% 至 990 万，基础收益下降 27% 至 1.99 亿英镑m。

首席执行官塞巴斯蒂安·埃贝尔（Sebastian Ebel）表示：“这不是一个平凡的年份，[但] Tui 顶住了压力。”

“旅行在人们的生活中依然高度相关，但做出旅行决定的时间发生了转移。”

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宙斯接棒

作者：乔恩·利斯 (Jon Lees)

宙斯·奥林匹斯 (ZEUS OLYMPIOS) 将在周日的雅克·勒·马鲁瓦奖赛 (Prix Jacques Le Marois) 中代表已退役的 Bow Echo 的关联方出战。

周二的公告称，已故的谢赫·穆罕默德·奥拜德·阿尔马克图姆 (Sheikh Mohammed Obaid Al Maktoum) 旗下那匹从未输过的 2,000 几尼赛冠军将不会参加多维尔的这场焦点赛事，这让比赛失去了一位明星选手。

但马主们准备好了替代者——由卡尔·伯克 (Karl Burke) 训练的宙斯·奥林匹斯，这是一匹赢得过二级赛的英里赛马，将再次有机会争取首次顶级赛事胜利。

昨天，Boughes 解释说，决定让本月萨塞克斯锦标赛 (Sussex Stakes) 的冠军退役是因为轻微的跛行，如果这种情况发生在今年早些时候，他本可以有时间恢复。

宙斯·奥林匹斯在洛金格锦标赛 (Lockinge Stakes) 中获得第三名，在 Raven Anne 锦标赛中获得第四名，随后在上次的二级赛夏季英里赛 (Summer Mile) 中击败了竞争对手 Holloway Boy。

右侧的伯克表示：“如果 Bow Echo 出赛，如果必须面对，我们会期待与他竞争。我认为宙斯·奥林匹斯本身就是一匹非常优秀的马，而且我们认为他仍在成长。”

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“他在一级赛中已经接近成功。我认为在阿斯科特的夏季英里赛中，我们没有看到他最好的状态，因为那场比赛节奏相当平稳。”

真正的竞速比赛更适合他，而且他在英里赛中耐力良好。

“他在身体发育上属于晚熟型，而且每个月都在进步。”

在 Ladbrokes 的首波赔率中，宙斯·奥林匹斯以 5-1 的赔率位列第三热门，排在 5-2 的热门选手——艾丹·奥布莱恩 (Aidan O'Brien) 旗下爱尔兰 1,000 几尼赛和加冕锦标赛 (Coronation Stakes) 冠军 Precise，以及由威廉·哈加斯 (William Haggas) 训练、赔率为 3-1 的 More Thunder 之后。

法国挑战：宙斯·奥林匹斯周日参加雅克·勒·马鲁瓦奖赛

詹姆斯的年轻马前景广阔

作者：球探

以及犹太

ABILENE SKY (3.15, rop) 被认为将在 Neunory 的 Marines Letter 13. Naces Nursery Interplay 中寻求连胜。

这匹 Space Transfer 之女在 16 天前的 First Las 比赛中获胜。

该农场在获胜后已做好准备，凭借极佳的起跑位置，Jollies Owens's（见上图）。（以 30 的赔率赢 200 镑）在这次延伸至 furlongs 的比赛中骑行。FLOODING

(6.04, rib) 可能能够克服挑战，在 Janesbury 的 71 赛段赢得 Fाकर Destricted House Stakes。

这匹 Graveyath 之女在上个月纽马基特 (Newmarket) 的首秀中获得第二名，在 Chris Murphy 的骑乘下，看起来肯定会比那次表现有所提升。

赛道和距离获胜者 MYTHOLOGICAL TRIM (4.11, rib) 也在温莎 (Windsor) 寻求三连胜，由 90's 的强悍选手骑乘。

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麦克罗伊状态原始

孟菲斯赛事提供调整机会

作者：JIM VAN WLJK

罗里·麦克罗伊（RORY McILROY）希望在回归联邦快递圣犹达锦标赛（FedEx St Jude Championship）时能够看清“我的竞技状态如何”，旨在为本赛季画上一个强有力的句号。

在4月份成功卫冕大师赛冠军后，他经历了一段时间令人失望的成绩：在美巡赛PGA锦标赛中并列第七，随后在美国公开赛中并列第32位，之后在皇家比克代尔举行的英国公开赛中并列第40位。

这位北爱尔兰人目前在联邦快递杯排名第12位。去年他缺席了圣犹达锦标赛，但考虑到目前的情况，他认为这次孟菲斯之行——他将在那里与斯科蒂·舍夫勒（Scottie Scheffler）组成焦点组合——将是值得的。

“在进入年度最后两场赛事前休息四周，对于想要保持竞争力的我来说，可能有点太久了，”麦克罗伊（右）说道。

“所以这周很好——显然我想打好，但这也是一个观察我竞技状态、进行大量练习，或者在高温环境下尽可能多练习的好机会。”

“这是PGA巡回赛的季后赛，我认为所有球员来到这里都很重要。”

麦克罗伊还计划参加下个月的爱尔兰公开赛，以及在温特沃斯举行的宝马锦标赛（BMW Championship）和DP世界印度锦标赛，随后参加阿布扎比汇丰锦标赛和在迪拜举行的DP世界巡回赛冠军赛。不过在此之前，这位世界排名2的选手仍将全力专注于在美国面临的挑战。

“你必须控制好节奏。这是连续三周的长赛，”他说。

“我们将从这里前往圣路易斯 [宝马锦标赛]，然后前往亚特兰大 [巡回赛冠军赛]。”

“我一直尝试将其视为一场大型的长途高尔夫锦标赛，让自己进入节奏，然后顺势而为。”

“这些年来，我很幸运地在这些赛事中表现相当不错，所以我会尝试在名单上再增加一项。”

贾斯汀·罗斯（Justin Rose）是TPC南风球场的卫冕冠军，他将在前两轮与迈克尔·布伦南（Michael Brennan）共同参赛。

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板球：英格兰对阵巴基斯坦系列赛

DIE'S GREAT ROOF

乔准备以新方式执掌测试赛队长之职

作者：JOSHUA PECK

乔·鲁特（JOE ROOT）决心纠正他此前担任英格兰队队长期间的错误。

下周，随着英格兰队迎来巴基斯坦队，鲁特将在卸任队长四年半后重新担任测试赛队长。

那段任期以17场比赛仅获一场胜利的低迷收场，这位35岁的球员承认自己当时处理得不对。

“对我来说，最困难的将是人们对我四年前执教方式的看法，”鲁特说道。“非常重要的一点是——对我而言比任何事情都重要——我要记住，我与四年前已经完全成为了不同的球员。”

“作为一名球员，我一直寻求进化并推动自己的比赛向前发展，我认为这次也不例外。你必须学习。”

“当你犯错或处理不当时，你会审视自己，并且知道自己不想再次犯同样的错误。你从中学习，并在下次面对时妥善处理。”

“这不应该成为阻碍。我希望人们不要那样看待。我希望他们将其视为能够再次获得机会的巨大优势。”

在本·斯托克斯（Ben Stokes）退役后，鲁特接任队长，而斯蒂芬·弗莱明（Stephen Fleming）接替布伦登·麦卡勒姆（Brendon McCullum）担任主教练。

弗莱明将不会在巴基斯坦系列赛期间到岗，但鲁特迫不及待地想在这位新西兰人的带领下开始工作。

“当我得知布伦登不再担任测试赛教练时，我感到非常难过，”鲁特补充道。“我觉得他个人真的挖掘出了我最好的状态。”

“在过去几年里，当弗莱明在世界各地执教不同球队时，我们多次交集。他是我一直钦佩的人，也是我在球员时代就非常钦佩的人。”

“首先，是他作为队长一直以来的自我要求。他在教练方面的记录非常出色，尽管是在T20板球领域。”

“在这方面，我有太多期待的事情。”

如果英格兰队想在距离主场灰烬杯（Ashes）系列赛不足一年的时候扭转局面，乔弗拉·阿彻（Jofra Archer）将成为关键。

在第一次担任队长期间，鲁特被指责过度使用这位快球投手，导致阿彻在2021年至2025年之间有四年多时间没有参加过测试赛。

他决心不再犯同样的错误。

“有时我可能确实让他投球过多，过度使用了他，”鲁特在天空体育板球（Sky Sports Cricket）播客中表示。“现在与他合作的进攻线与他互补得非常好。”

“我相信他是具有时代意义的天才，将在各种赛制中为英格兰队创造辉煌。”

“在测试赛中，他能够做出一些了不起的事情。显然，正如我所说，我第一次并没有处理好所有事情。”

“我犯了错，但他将成为我们未来行动中一个非常重要的因素。我非常兴奋能再次与他合作。”

与此同时，英格兰开局球员埃米利奥·盖伊（Emilio Gay）将在本周对阵巴基斯坦队的热身赛中获得证明其身体状况的机会。

盖伊上周在为达勒姆队效力时肩部受伤，但他被列入了参加职业郡俱乐部精选32（Professional County Club Select 32）对阵巴基斯坦队的14人名单，这是一场在贝肯汉姆举行的为期三天的比赛。

我希望人们能够看到再次获得机会的优势

金色奇迹：马修向历史纪录发起冲击

保罗·马丁发自伯明翰。家乡英雄马修·哈德森-史密斯（Matthew Hudson-Smith）在成就他的那条跑道上被加冕为欧洲400米冠军，实现了儿时的梦想。

这位31岁的运动员在第九道上迅速超越对手，并在主直道上稳住阵脚，夺得他的第五枚洲际金牌，成为该项赛事历史上获得奖牌最多的英国男性。

他庆祝的方式是直接冲向亚历山大体育场的看台，在第二城市（Second City）观众的热烈欢呼中，指向那个刻有他名字的看台。

“语言无法描述这对我意味着多少，”哈德森-史密斯说道。

“我的教练对我说：‘这是你的主场，守护它’。我知道，想要有人超过我，需要付出极大的努力。”

“在这条跑道上没有人能打败我，这是我的主场。”

“我从九岁起就在这里，我对这条跑道了如指掌。”

“我知道我是世界上最强的，我知道我比在座的每一个人都快。这仅仅是我与时间的较量。”

艾米·亨特（Amy Hunt）在伯明翰今晚的200米决赛中轻松晋级，继续冲击惊人的欧洲四冠壮举。这位新晋的欧洲100米最快女性在起跑飞快后，在主直道上有所收力，并以22.37秒赢得了半决赛。

“我知道我需要跑出一个非常强有力的弯道，在150米处击溃对手，这样就没人能跟上我，”她说。

迪娜·阿舍-史密斯（Dina Asher-Smith）在同样轻松的半决赛后，与亨特一同进入决赛。

阿舍-史密斯此前曾获得该距离的世界冠军和欧洲冠军，她在第一场半决赛中以22.49秒轻松获胜。

“我并不太考虑过去发生了什么或未来会怎样，我只是试图专注于当下并执行，”她说。

英国冠军萨克塞斯·埃杜安（Success Eduan）以22.56秒作为两名最快落败者之一晋级，确保了三位本土希望之星都将出现在起跑线上。

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英格兰男子队总经理鲍勃·西加（Bob Siga）在哈里·布鲁克（Harry Brook）因去年11月在新西兰与一名球场安保人员发生不敬行为而被罚款后（最新消息）。

鲁特（Root）补充道：“这是我们作为一支球队需要良好管理和自我约束的，对我而言，以及对他（新教练斯蒂芬·弗莱明 Stephen Fleming）而言，管理方式有很多种，但归根结底你们是成年人，你们知道代表英格兰队需要付出什么，你们知道自己的

场外行为，我们需要确保我们不会在场外陷入精英阶层的困境。”

“我们应该以打球的方式以及在场上的表现而闻名，我们应该出现在新闻室的后页。”

“像成年人一样，照顾好自己，照顾好彼此，创造一种良好且强大的文化，知道什么时候是庆祝和享受胜利的正确时机，或者适当地喝杯啤酒什么的，但请记住，你是在为英格兰队效力。”

英格兰及威尔士板球委员会（ECB）确认：“我们拥有一名测试赛队长和一名教练，他们正在研究如何设定球队标准和文化。作为其中一部分，宵禁将不再执行。”

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虽然蒂莱曼斯可以自豪地回顾过去，

但对于这位中场球员来说，最终加盟曼联是一件大事。

作者：泰隆·马歇尔（TYRONE MARSHALL）

这个夏天对尤里·蒂莱曼斯（Youri Tielemans）来说是“第三次好运”。

此前他曾两次与曼联就转会至老特拉福德进行过洽谈，但两次都未能成行。

四年前，他本可以在卡塞米罗加盟的同时签约，而现在他成为了取代这位巴西中场的计划的一部分。

蒂莱曼斯在 16 岁时就是安德莱赫特的常规首发，在青少年时期便担任俱乐部队长，他似乎注定早晚会进入欧洲的超级强队之一。

但通过在摩纳哥、莱斯特城和阿斯顿维拉的效力，他通往顶峰的道路比预期要缓慢。

在谈到转会至老特拉福德时，他表示：“对于任何球员来说，能来到这里都是一项伟大的成就。”

“我曾两次与俱乐部洽谈，但都没有[产生]结果。”

“当转会机会出现时，如果注定要发生，它就会发生。在我之前与俱乐部传出联系的那些时刻，它没有发生，但事实就是如此。”

“我非常感谢阿斯顿维拉。我欠他们一切。这是一家伟大的俱乐部，我们共同成就了惊人的事情，他们让我回到了最佳状态。但有些俱乐部在维拉之上，曼联就是其中之一。”

曼联在他 2019 年离开摩纳哥时表现出了兴趣，随后在他 2022 年于莱斯特城度过第三个赛季后再次表现出兴趣，直到今年夏天，曼联迅速激活了他在维拉公园的 £3500 万 解约金条款，主教练迈克尔·卡里克（Michael Carrick）的重建计划中为他预留了关键角色。

问题在于，这次转会究竟是“迟到好过永远”，还是曼联在引进一名由于“行驶里程”过多而导致巅峰期可能已经过去的球员。

蒂莱曼斯在俱乐部和国家队已累计出场 669 场正式比赛，且直到明年 5 月才满 30 岁。他有望在 30 岁之前出场次数超过利昂内尔·梅西的 701 场。在对阵西班牙的世界杯四分之一决赛中，他在热身阶段受伤，导致比利时队失利；在过去的三个赛季中，他也因小腿和腹股沟问题缺席了比赛。

但昨晚在 1-1 平局对阵利兹联的比赛中替补出场的蒂莱曼斯坚持认为，他了解自己的身体，不需要休息。

“在世界杯上，我想我们对阵塞内加尔时踢了 120 分钟，之后比赛之间的间隔时间变短了，”他说。“在（对阵西班牙的）热身赛中，我的身体出于某种原因突然‘断电’了。”

“我不认为我是一个绝对需要休息的球员。显然，比赛很多，教练需要管理球队，但

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当我状态良好时，我就能发挥出色。不幸的是，当我的身体状态不佳时，我会立刻意识到并提醒教练，但这并不经常发生。”

曼联今年夏天签下蒂莱曼斯令人感到意外，而且尽管有解约金条款的存在，他们是唯一一家采取行动的俱乐部。

他将被要求在更注重控球和球权推进的中场线中发挥作用。

一旦曼联的意向变得明确，他就与卡里克讨论了他的计划。

“他希望我在球场上能够自由，尽可能地组织球队，”蒂莱曼斯说。“显然，他有自己的原则，我只是尝试完成他的要求，并在此基础上加入我的特质。”

“这就是对足球的嗅觉，这也是我从小在安德莱赫特时就在做的事情。”

曼联的冠军荒现在已进入第 14 个赛季，但蒂莱曼斯还记得他们经常统治英格兰的时代，他决心在恢复俱乐部成功中发挥自己的作用。

他说：“俱乐部内部的要求很高。显然，这是一个巨大的机构，但最核心的一点是，尤其是当我年轻时，当我习惯观看英超联赛的比赛时，曼联总是处于顶端。

“那里一直存在着一种赢球的心态，而这正是我们试图找回的。”

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纽卡斯尔（TOON）

埃弗顿 3 纽卡斯尔 1 季前友谊赛

作者：LEE RYDER

马蒂亚斯·贾斯莱（MATTHIAS JAISSLE）在目睹其新球队被埃弗顿击败后，再次将目光转向纽卡斯尔的“决策者”。

这位新任德国主帅在纽卡斯尔执教期间遭遇了首次失利，喜鹊军团在默里菲尔德球场经历了一次现实的打击。

贾斯莱在半场被迫进行了 10 处调整，随后承认在转会窗关闭前需要签下一名新右后卫和一名中前卫。

这位前阿尔阿赫利（Al-Ahli）教练在接受纽卡斯尔这份工作挑战时便知道，安东尼·戈登（Anthony Gordon）、桑德罗·托纳利（Sandro Tonali）和布鲁诺·吉马良斯（Bruno Guimarães）已经离队，更不用说基兰·特里皮尔（Kieran Trippier）是以自由身转会离开。

在 24 小时内第二次，贾斯莱提到圣詹姆斯公园球场在更衣室经验方面存在权力“真空”。

当被问及是否需要一名右后卫和一名中前卫时，

贾斯莱（右）表示：“没错。但你很聪明。

“我永远不会公开告诉你们。就像我已经说过的那样，我们内部处理这些事情，并对所有决策者保持尊重。我们将始终如此。”

在回应关于其愿望清单是否能实现的提问时，贾斯莱使用了一个德语习语“Wunschkonzert”（愿望音乐会）。

这位新主帅暗示他的董事会不需要被提醒还需要什么，并补充道：“不幸的是，生活并不是一场愿望音乐会 [就实现愿望而言]。在足球中不是，在生活中也不是。

“但再次强调，我们在内部是非常明确的。”

在丢掉由蒂尔诺·巴里（Thierno Barry）和泰里克·乔治（Tyrique George）打入的进球（夹在伊利曼·恩迪亚耶（Iliman Ndiaye）的点球之间）后，哈维·巴恩斯（Harvey Barnes）在比赛末段打入的一粒安慰球仅让比分显得稍微体面了一点。

而乔治（上图）坚称太妃糖（埃弗顿）可以继续进步。

“我绝对看到了积极的一面，”他说。“显然，我们希望获得欧洲[赛事资格]——这就是目标。

“那是上赛季的目标，希望我们本赛季能够实现。

“这是一个伟大的阵容，一群很棒的小伙子。我们相处得非常好，并希望将这种状态延续到赛季中。”

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足球：欧超杯

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冠军联赛

EFL

狼队誓言重拾胜绩

作者：基思·韦伯斯特（KEITH WEBSTER）

在经历了一年前英超联赛的噩梦之后，“老金”（Old Gold）的忠实拥趸们将寄希望于本赛季上半场能出现截然不同的局面。

在12月30日赛季中期时，狼队在曼联主场拿到了一分。而这在当时仅是他们该阶段拿到的第三分。

他们当时糟糕的记录——出战19场，0胜3平16负——让德比郡的球迷们开始幻想，是否有人将经历一个比他们2007-08赛季11分的历史最低纪录更糟糕的英超赛季。

事实证明，狼队在最后的19场比赛中有所反弹，取得了3胜8平。虽然他们最终排名垫底，但拿到了20分，这比圣诞节时预期的结果要好得多。

现在回到英冠联赛，他们将在明天主场迎战布莱克本，比其他球队提前24小时开启新赛季。

对于门将丹·本特利（Dan Bentley）来说，如果狼队想要在联赛中确立权威并考虑尽快重返顶级联赛，那么从一开始就奠定正确的基调至关重要。

“这是我们需要养成的一种习惯，”这位来自巴西尔登（Basildon）的33岁球员说道。在三年前加盟莫利纽球场之前，他曾分别在绍森德、布伦特福德和布里斯托尔城出战超过100场比赛。

“我在赛前以及整个周期间一直提到，获胜是一种习惯，零封是一种习惯，出色的表现也是一种习惯。我们越能养成这些习惯，就越能在比赛之间延续势头，这在英冠联赛中至关重要。”

“我在英冠联赛待了很长时间，这真的非常重要，因为比赛接踵而至，所以我们每周都必须保持良好状态。每次踏上球场，人们对我们都有期待。”

“如果我们能保持零封，我们在球场的另一端拥有能够制造麻烦的质量。习惯至关重要，势头至关重要，我们越能建立起这些，就越好。”

狼队在上周五通过在联赛杯中3-0击败波特韦尔开启了赛季，期间本特利扑出了一次点球并实现了零封。

现在，注意力转向了为期46场联赛的正式任务，这是他们自2018年以来首次参加英冠联赛。

本特利确信，在经历了上赛季的失望之后，他们已经准备好重新开始。

他表示：“我们捕捉到了这种感觉，即在季前赛两场获胜的良好表现基础上，赢下了赛季的第一场正式比赛。”

“我们整个周都在努力工作，并将这种势头带入比赛。”

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足球：欧超杯

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VILLA KAVAT

MADJONICITY

青少年球员建功，阵容调整后的维拉将超级巨星们逼至极限

巴黎圣日耳曼 2 巴黎圣日耳曼 1 阿斯顿维拉 1

约翰·汤利（JOHN TOWNLEY）发自萨尔茨堡

乌奈·埃梅里（UNAI EMERY）未能终结他的欧超杯魔咒——但这位阿斯顿维拉的主帅在迎接新赛季前不会感到担忧。

在巴黎圣日耳曼于萨尔茨堡获胜后，埃梅里在 4 次欧超杯中遭遇了 4 次失败。

但即便在缺少奥利·沃特金斯（Ollie Watkins）、埃米·马丁内斯（Emi Martinez）和埃兹里·孔萨（Ezri Konsa）的情况下，维拉依然将这支连续两届欧冠冠军球队逼到了极限。

巴黎圣日耳曼的阵容中充满了他们的世界杯球星，而赫维查·克瓦拉茨赫利亚（Khvicha Kvaratskhelia）甚至从未前往北美。

正是格鲁吉亚人克瓦拉茨赫利亚在禁区内射门得分，让巴黎圣日耳曼取得了领先。在沃特金斯缺阵的情况下，布赖恩·马乔（Brian Madjo）在塔米·亚伯拉罕（Tammy Abraham）之前获得了首发机会，这位 17 岁的小将证明了他的等待是值得的。

马乔于 1 月从梅斯加盟维拉，但此前因国际足联关于未成年人国际转会的规定而无法出场。

在本月早些时候获得出赛许可后，他在后点射门得分，打入了为维拉效力生涯的首球。但巴黎圣日耳曼在下半场锁定胜局，德西雷·杜埃（Desire Doue）突破越位陷阱后滑门得分。

虽然维拉缺少多名肯定会在下周末英超联赛中登场的球员，但巴黎圣日耳曼主帅路易斯·恩里克（Luis Enrique）在 5 月底捧起欧冠奖杯的 11 名首发球员中，派出了 9 人出战。

新援马格内斯·阿克柳什（Maghnes Akliouche）在右路出击。

尽管许多人认为双方在质量上存在不平衡，但维拉在整场比赛中表现稳健，并得到了 7,000 名支持者的支持，他们为每一次赢得的对抗和每一次前插而欢呼。

巴黎圣日耳曼被维拉亮眼的开局搞得有些慌乱，维蒂尼亚（Vitinha）在 40 码外射门偏出，随后布巴卡尔·卡马拉（Boubacar Kamara）为维拉创造的首次进攻机会也险些出界。

然而，克瓦拉茨赫利亚并没有被限制太久，就在马尔科·比佐特（Marco Bizot）强力扑救化解杜埃的进攻后不久，他就打开了局面。

维拉的临时门将由于克瓦拉茨赫利亚射门力量之强，在近角被破门。

巴黎圣日耳曼随即嗅到了血腥味，努诺·门德斯（Nuno Mendes）在左路发起冲击。尽管禁区内有 3 名队友在等待，但他的传中竟然避开了所有人。

在另一端，马乔错失了 3 次机会中的第一次，他将约翰·麦金（John McGinn）的传中顶出远门柱，随后在禁区内被乔治·海明斯（George Hemmings）找到后，一次弧线射门偏出。在再次被麦金找到但头球处理失误后，他可能会感到懊恼，但他不会错过队长的第三次传球。

马乔在后点顶住门德斯的干扰，将球强力射过马特维·萨福诺夫（Matvey Safonov）。

恩里克在休息时间换上了金球奖得主奥斯曼·登贝莱（Ousmane Dembélé），这位法国边锋在下半场开始时替换了阿克柳什，但率先创造机会的是维拉。马乔成为了巴黎圣日耳曼防线的眼中钉，他突破到空档后将球传给右路的麦金。

但门将萨福诺夫对情况判断准确，将这位维拉队长的射门拨出。当杜埃单刀突破并将球射过比佐特，且 VAR 检查确认进球有效时，维拉在比赛中第二次失分。

埃梅里换上了亚伯拉罕、拉马雷·博加德（Lamare Bogarde）和阿里森（Alysson），后者帮助创造了另一个绝佳机会。

萨福诺夫将传中球拨给戈麦斯（Gomes），但后者只能再次将球射向巴黎圣日耳曼的门将。

这是埃梅里参加的第四次欧超杯，此前在 2014, 2015 和 2021 年均遭遇失败，也是他第二次在该赛事中面对恩里克。

然而，尽管五次赢得欧联杯，但在他辉煌的职业生涯中，这座特定的奖杯（左图）依然令埃梅里难以触及。

巴黎圣日耳曼 (4-3-3)：萨福诺夫；哈基米（Hakimi）、马尔基尼奥斯（Marquinhos）；帕乔（Pacho）；N·门德斯（N Mendes）（埃尔南德斯 Hernandez 75）；扎伊尔-埃梅里（Zaire-Emery）；维蒂尼亚（Vitinha）、J·内维斯（J Neves）（鲁伊斯 Ruiz 75）；阿克柳什（Akliouche）（登贝莱 Dembélé 46）；杜埃（Doue）、克瓦拉茨赫利亚（Kvaratskhelia）（本德洛 Bendelo 88）。

阿斯顿维拉 (4-2-3-1)：比佐特；卡什（Cash）、林菲尔德（Lindfeld）；托雷斯（Torres）、迈登（Maidzen）；卡马拉（Kamara）

(博加德 72), 若昂·戈麦斯; 麦金

(阿里森 72), 赫明斯, 布恩德尔; 马乔

(亚伯拉罕 72).

裁判：奥马尔·阿尔坦 (GDM).

旧友盖桑上赛季租借效力于老鹰队

二次猜测

水晶宫已重新签下来自阿斯顿维拉的埃文斯·盖桑（Evans Guessand），本赛季租借加盟并附带买断选项。

这位来自hory Coast的前锋在1月份搬到塞尔赫斯特公园球场后，在14场出场中打入两球，直到上赛季结束，但上个月水晶宫决定不对该交易进行永久化处理。

这位25岁的球员去年夏天以£3000 万的价格从法甲球队尼斯加盟维拉，但未能成为乌奈·埃梅里球队中的常规成员。

在世界杯上，他为国家队出场两次，球队进入了32强。

盖桑表示：“我很高兴能来到这里。”

“我在这里已经有了美好的回忆，但我认为这仅仅是个开始。我希望未来能有更多美好的回忆。”

赛果与赛程

欧超杯

巴黎圣日耳曼 (1) 2 阿斯顿维拉 (1) 1

克瓦拉茨赫利亚 25 马乔 45

多埃 62

季前友谊赛

德斯顿 (3) 3 纽卡斯尔 (0) 1

巴里 27 巴恩斯 85

尼尔森 36 (点球)

戈尼加 73

曼联 (1) 1 利兹 (1) 1

奇科雷 50 巴尔的摩 29

阿森纳 (3) 1 科尼奥 (1) 1

刘易斯-史密斯 33 巴莱斯特拉 43

霍特里福 (1) 2 布里德利德 (1) 1

尼尔森 4 索尔蒂什 39

库尔莫夫斯卡 90

马拉加 (1) 2 富尔曼 (1) 2

丘塞塔 26 马纳侬 24

伊夫德 57

板球

百球赛（男子）

（卡迪夫索菲亚花园球场）伦敦精神队 131 / 4 (100球)；威尔士之火队 129-7 (100球；D J 怀蒂 3-25)。伦敦精神队以6分获胜。

（埃奇巴斯顿球场）；MI伦敦队 157-6 (100球)；凤凰队 129-7 (100球)；MI伦敦队以2分获胜。

；MI伦敦队以2分获胜。

百球赛（女子）

（卡迪夫索菲亚花园球场）威尔士之火队 138-7 (100球；G M 哈里斯 3-15)。伦敦精神队 123-10 (99球；G E A 波茨 3-23)。威尔士之火队以15分获胜。

（埃奇巴斯顿球场）；MI伦敦队 120-6 (100球)；伯明翰凤凰队 131 / 4 (100球；D J 佩蒂 82nd)；凤凰队以8个三柱门获胜。

今日日程

欧联杯第三轮资格赛次回合

威尔士 (1) 马里卡 (0)

KF 埃及队 (0) 对阵 舍姆罗克 R (0) (bpm)。

游骑兵 (1) 对阵 布兰多克 (2) (7.30)。

欧协联第三轮资格赛次回合

马瑟德 (1) 对阵 HJK (1) (7.30)。

舍米达 (1) 对阵 马纳塞 (2) (1pm)。

中球 (1) 对阵 比克米德 (0) (bpm)。

谢丰 (1) 对阵 基奥 (3) (7.45)。

联盟式橄榄球

Betfred超级联赛 (Bpm)：赫尔 K R 对阵 卡塔拉诺·格雷戈里亚，利兹 对阵 莱利，沃灵顿 对阵 约克。

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足球：社区盾杯

巴萨坚称戈登的期限尚未到来

安东尼·戈登的代表已获得巴塞罗那的保证，在新赛季为这位边锋办理注册将不会出现问题。

戈登的转会已在5月确认，但距离西甲赛季开赛仅剩一周多时间，他仍未获得球队号码。

这位英格兰球星（右）以6930 万英镑m的价格从纽卡斯尔加盟，签下了一份为期五年的合同。

但这家加泰罗尼亚俱乐部此前在注册球员方面遇到过问题，因为他们难以遵守西甲的财务规则。

据了解，巴塞罗那正在逐一注册球员，即将到来的离队人员将留出足够的薪资空间，以便将戈登纳入本赛季的计划中。

罗姆转会

比利时前锋罗梅卢·卢卡库已从那不勒斯加盟土超联赛球队费内巴切。

这位33岁的球员此前曾效力于埃弗顿、曼联和切尔西，并在加盟那不勒斯之前在国际米兰和罗马有过租借经历。在效力于这家意大利球队的两个赛季中，他出场45次，并赢得了一座意甲冠军和一座意大利超级杯。

卢卡库表示：“能加入贵俱乐部并成为这样一个拥有辉煌历史的伟大俱乐部的一员，对我来说是巨大的荣誉和特权。”

“坦白说，我们拥有一支伟大的球队，我很高兴能成为这样一支强队的一部分。”

“我每天在训练中和球场上都会努力工作，以最好的方式帮助球队。我想充分利用在球场上的每一刻。”

蓝军签下查瓦里亚以增强后防线

切尔西已完成从巴列卡诺射线队签下后卫佩普·查瓦里亚（Pep Chavarria）的交易，转会费为1630 万英镑m，另有1700 万英镑m的附加条款。

上周双方达成协议，这位28岁的球员将以一份为期五年的合同加盟斯坦福桥，切尔西俱乐部在主教练哈维·阿隆索的带领下继续对其阵容进行调整。

查瓦里亚（右）曾是上赛季进入欧协联决赛的球队成员，他是一名左路后卫，将与约雷尔·哈托（Jorrel Hato）展开竞争。

“我非常兴奋能开始新生活。对我来说这是一个梦想，因为切尔西是世界上最伟大的俱乐部之一，”这位西班牙人说道。

“这是一个巨大的机会，但我将努力工作，帮助球队取得成功。”

作者：达伦·威尔斯（DARREN WELLS）

哀悼梅西

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需要出现在每一个时刻，而且你从未在任何事情上出错。除了某些责备或争论，你总是正确的。最终，事情总是按照你所说的方式发展。”

梅西现在39, 岁，在经历了近1,200场一线队比赛并打入近1,000个进球后，人们开始质疑他在赛场上的未来。他曾在2022年率领阿根廷队夺得世界杯冠军，并带领球队进入今年的决赛，但在决赛中以1-0负于西班牙队。

梅西补充道：“我告诉你我们会进入决赛，这样你就可以去了。我们进入了决赛，但你没能在那儿。我想赢下它，这样我就能把它带给你，给你看一个新的。但我没能做到。我的腿实在撑不住了。”

MLS顶级王牌发表看法

作者：欧文·泰勒（IRVAN TAYLOR）

迈尔斯-查尔德-巴克-普（MYLES & CHILD-BACK-UP）在昨晚阿森纳与科莫在酋球场的友谊赛中打入首球后拍击队徽——这似乎表明他不会离开。

在过去的36小时里，关于这位英格兰国脚未来的猜测甚嚣尘上，但这位19岁的球员在第33分钟面对这支意大利球队打破僵局，用足球证明了自己。

利用门将让·巴菲（Jean Baffey）的一次精准传球，刘易斯-斯凯利（Lewis-Skelly）（见下图）抬头观察，寻找位置并冷静地将球射入网底。

在一次颇具深意的庆祝动作中，他向支持者做出了祈祷手势，随后拍击队徽。

显而易见，为什么他会引起切尔西和曼联的兴趣，但阿森纳手中拥有一颗真正的瑰宝，这位青少年奇才不应被用作P2R2收益。

米克尔·阿尔特塔在周日3-2负于多特蒙德（Barcosia Dortmund）的比赛基础上进行了七处调整，他对几名球员（尤其是刘易斯-斯凯利）的处理表明了谁更受青睐。

加布里埃尔·热苏斯首发，但在仅出场20分钟后就被换下，由纳森（Nason）顶替这位巴西前锋。

加布里埃尔·马丁内斯在加拉塔萨雷强烈的兴趣中首发，但表现挣扎，而赖斯·尼尔森则完全被排除在阵容之外，作为西棕榈力量（West Palm force）。

阿森纳的所有世界杯之星现已全部回归，但德克兰·赖斯、迪亚卡约·萨卡（Diakayo Saka）和马丁·祖比门迪（Martin Zubimendi）由于正在恢复体能而未参与比赛。

曼城可以期待在周日于卡迪夫面对一支截然不同的枪手阵容。

布鲁斯·冈纳森（Bruce Gunnarsson）替补登场完成首秀，而16岁的中后卫马克·萨蒙（Mark Salmon）则通过表现争取在球队一线队中获得常规位置。

科莫在半场结束前由马丁·巴图里内（Martin Baturine）的一记惊人远射扳平比分。

阿森纳随后在点球大战中以4-3获胜，克里斯托斯·佐利斯（Christos Tzolis）的稳定发挥锁定了胜利。诺埃尔·梅多维尼（Noel Medovini）命中点球，但大卫·帕埃斯（David Paez）在点球大战中通过2次精彩扑救挡住了赫尔瓦亚（Hrvaja）、阿波尔西亚（Apolcia）和阿尔瓦罗·莫拉塔（Alvaro Morata）的射门。

曼城就罗德里转会费达成一致

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发生。罗德里，30，已进入他在伊蒂哈德球场合同的最后12个月。虽然他可能在明年夏天免费离开曼城，但俱乐部高层认为7000 万英镑m是一个公平的估值。

罗德里目前已赢得世界杯、欧洲杯、金球奖以及在曼城赢得的13座奖杯（包括三冠王），成为地球上荣誉最多的球员之一。

据称曼城对目前的情况感到满意，并且非常愿意让罗德里在伊蒂哈德球场至少再多留一个赛季。

与此同时，罗德里预计将于明天返回季前训练。他一直在从世界杯后接受的背部手术中恢复，且不确定能否参加周日与阿森纳的社区盾杯比赛。

如果曼城与巴萨就出售罗德里达成协议，他们仍然渴望引进切尔西的恩佐·费尔南德斯作为替代者。

但曼城不准备满足切尔西1.2 亿英镑m的估值——他们认为这名中场球员的价值更接近1 亿英镑m。

与此同时，曼城以170 万英镑m从马赛重新签回了阿根廷球员赫罗尼莫·鲁伊利。这名门将，34，已同意一份为期两年的合同，成为吉安路易吉·多纳鲁马的替补。

鲁伊利在2017年离开前未曾为曼城出场，他填补了上周加盟利兹联的詹姆斯·特拉福德留下的空缺。

“我想让自己被这类球员包围，每天证明自己”

难以企及的标杆

这全部受限于金额，因为他们的森林场地安德森在观察上赛季

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足球：社区盾杯

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接替我

新援安德森坚信自己有能力接替全能的罗德里

由 JEREMY CROSS 报道

接替罗德里的位置会让大多数足球运动员感到极度恐惧。

因为坦白说，这位新的“西班牙之王”目前统治比赛的方式在地球上没有任何一名中场球员能与之比拟。

罗德里在今年夏天赢得世界杯，让足坛再次意识到他依然是一位多么特殊的天才。

如果曼城和巴塞罗那在转会窗关闭前就这名30岁球员达成协议，他将在曼彻斯特的蓝色半边留下巨大的空缺。

但新签球员埃利奥特·安德森并没有以巨大的忧虑来预见未来的挑战，他认为自己可以完成这项不可能的任务，并确保人们不会想念罗德里。

再加上安德森以£1 16m的价格加盟伊蒂哈德球场，成为俱乐部的纪录签约球员，这使得他面临的成功压力巨大。

然而，这位英格兰国脚坚称他完全不在意自己的身价，并且可以同样出色地像罗德里那样表现。

安德森表示：“这将

阿森纳 v 曼彻斯特城

社区盾杯 周日，1967年9月

总是（与我（转会费））联系在一起。只要我专注于自己和我的表现，那就是我能做的一切。这就是足球，不是吗？”

他可能会在周日的社区盾杯中，为城队主帅恩佐·马雷斯卡（Enzo Maresca，见下方插图）迎来第1次出场机会。当被问及是否能扮演与罗德里（Rodri）类似的角色时，安德森补充道：“是的，

我想可以。我在中场可以胜任多种职责，我会看看被安排在什么位置。

“坦白说，只要他们要求，我可以踢任何位置。无论是创造机会、向前推进，还是另一种（防守）角色。

“我和教练谈过几次。他向我解释了我需要做的事情。

“需要大量的奔跑，大量的能量。尝试掌控比赛。这就是我能做到的。”安德森的代表在几个月前就开始与城队接触，当时还没有宣布佩普·瓜迪奥拉（Pep Guardiola，见上方插图）将离职。

这位前纽卡斯尔和诺丁汉森林球星坚称，他是与所有人同时得知瓜迪奥拉离职的消息的——而且这并没有影响他的决定。

当被问及这位西班牙教练的离去是否产生了影响时，他表示：“完全没有。这是一个如此巨大的俱乐部，他们拥有的球员也是最顶尖的。

“我在世界杯前不久就知道了他们对我的兴趣。我想让自己被这类球员包围，每天证明自己。”

安德森不仅拒绝了加盟曼联，还坚称这座城市依然是蓝色的，这让他瞬间成为了球迷心中的英雄。

现在他再次向死对头兼邻居开火，坚称加盟老特拉福德从未是一个选项。尤其是在他对他现在的新俱乐部有着长达十年的痴迷之时。

他补充道：“I've seen a few things (about what I said). It was blown out of proportion. I was probably eight or nine when (Sergio) Aguero scored that goal. 在过去的10年里，我一直在关注城队。

“你得做一个重大决定——而我有信心我做出了正确的选择。”

安德森认为，帮助英格兰队进入世界杯半决赛证明了他属于最高舞台。

但这也是一个让他心碎的舞台，因为三狮军团在亚特兰大最后时刻输给了阿根廷。他说：“知道自己能在世界杯舞台上表现，我获得了巨大的信心。显然我之前没有参加过这么大的比赛。那对我来说是一次非常好的考验。

“这真的很艰难。我现在仍然在努力克服。足球有起有伏。关键在于你如何反弹。”

纪录签约球员 门迪（Mendy）

虎队签下一名“诺贝尔”奖得主

作者：巴里·库珀（BARRY COOPER）

赫尔城（HULL）以一项超过2000 万英镑m的俱乐部纪录交易，从巴列卡诺光芒队签下了强力中后卫诺贝尔·门迪（Nobel Mendy）。

这次转会使得“虎队”在今年夏天第二次打破其最高转会费纪录，本月早些时候他们曾以2000 万英镑m从奥林匹亚科斯签下了康斯坦丁诺斯·佐拉基斯（Konstantinos Tzolakis）。

门迪在MKM体育场签署了一份为期五年的合同，并及时加入俱乐部，参加周六对阵法甲尼斯队的季前赛收官战。

这位塞内加尔球星在上赛季表现出色，出场24次，最后一场比赛是在欧协联决赛输给水晶宫的比赛中。

“I am very happy to be here and very proud to be here as well,” 门迪说道。

“我是一名非常有运动能力的球员，骨子里是一名后卫。我也非常享受在需要时干净利落地从后场出球，并采取进攻性。”

“从小我就想在英超联赛中踢球。”

虎队还以一份五年合同，从美职联科罗拉多急流队签下了18岁的澳大利亚后卫卢卡斯·赫林顿（Lucas Herrington）。

杰德加盟意甲球队

作者：马蒂·休伊特（MATTY HEWITT）

托特纳姆热刺已与国际米兰就英格兰国脚杰德·斯彭斯（Djed Spence）达成一项 2700 万英镑m 的交易。

这名后卫已经与这家意甲球队就个人条款达成一致，即将转会至意甲联赛。

在圣西罗球场完成体检后，斯彭斯将在下赛季随国际米兰参加欧冠联赛。

这位 26 岁的球员在世界杯期间为三狮军团出战了 6 场比赛，但在右后卫位置上，他的前面还有锦标赛冠军佩德罗·波罗（Pedro Porro）；同时，热刺通过自由转会从利物浦签下安迪·罗伯逊（Andy Robertson），增强了另一侧边路的选择。

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悲痛的梅西接近退役

作者：马蒂·休伊特（MATTY HEWITT）

利昂内尔·梅西（LIONEL MESSI）暗示他即将结束其辉煌的球员生涯。

梅西的父亲豪尔赫（Jorge）上周在阿根廷城市罗萨里奥因长期患病去世，享年 68 岁。在社交媒体上发布的一篇感人致敬文章中，梅西承认父亲的去世让他考虑退役。

这位阿根廷及迈阿密国际球星（左）在 Instagram 上写道：“我不知道没有你我该怎么办。我不知道该如何继续。”

“我之前只是在踢球，而现在我严重怀疑自己是否还能坚持这么久。你从一开始就陪伴在我身边；结局如此之近。为什么你不能再坚持那么一小会儿，这样我们就能一起走到最后？”

“你既是父亲，也是朋友，还是经纪人。你一直是你——”

请参阅第 58, 第 1 栏

鲁特在担任队长后对英格兰文化采取成年人方式，透露宵禁已被取消

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作者：乔治·塞申斯（GEORGE SESSIONS）

乔·鲁特（JOE ROOT）在决定其队长任期内不设宵禁后，敦促他的英格兰球员要像成年人一样行事。

在本·斯托克斯（Ben Stokes，左）退役以及主教练布伦登·麦卡勒姆（Brendon McCullum）被解雇后，鲁特第二次接掌权力。

伯博尔（Burball）时代的结束是因为斯托克斯和古斯·阿特金森（Gus Atkinson）违反了午夜宵禁，两人于 6 月在伦敦 Rex Rooms 夜总会卷入一起事件。

鲁特表示：“不会有宵禁。坦白说，我认为这不需要被大肆讨论。”

“我对宵禁的看法是，我认为它们没有效果。如果你希望球员在场上承担责任，那么在场下他们必须感觉到自己是成熟的成年人，并能做出正确且坚定的决定。”宵禁是由——

请参阅第 54, 第 5 栏

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曼城对罗德里 7000 万英镑M 以上的转会费立场坚定

作者：杰里米·克罗斯（JEREMY CROSS）

巴塞罗那被告知，如果他们想签下曼城超级巨星罗德里（Rodri），至少需要支付 7000 万英镑00 万。

在最初 3900 万英镑m 的报价被曼城断然拒绝后，据称巴萨正计划提高报价至 5500 万英镑m 外加附加条款，这将使总报价达到 6000 万英镑m。

但这仍比伊蒂哈德球场高层对这位世界杯冠军球员要求的价格低 1000 万英镑m。

曼城知道，现在压力在巴萨这边，他们必须满足这家西班牙巨头承诺签下的球员的要价。

罗德里（上图）拒绝了加盟死敌皇家马德里的机会，因为他相信自己会加入这家西甲冠军球队。

但除非巴萨主席胡安·拉波尔塔（Joan Laporta）愿意支付曼城要求的价格，否则这次转会将不会——

请参阅第 58, 第 2 栏

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分裂之日... August 13 1961年以及 冷战的 诞生

在柏林墙 建成 65 周年之际， 回顾阴影下的生活， 那些从寒冷中归来的间谍， 以及鲍伊的《Heroes》

西柏林人

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跨越柏林墙

在 1961 年的 Bernauer Strasse

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1961 年与冷战的诞生

那一夜

作者：菲尔·克雷格 (Phil Craig)

就像许多可耻的行为一样，这件事发生在夜色的掩护之下。在整个中欧，1961年8月12日的夜晚闷热潮湿。在柏林，数百万人开着窗户，在不安中沉睡。凌晨1点，空旷街道上行驶的军车噪音以及突然传来的施工嘈杂声进一步干扰了他们的休息——数百根沉重的木桩被卸下并钉入地面，准备铺设铁丝网。“玫瑰行动”（Aktion Rose）开始了。

就在几个小时前，在一次所有东德领导人都出席的花园派对上，国务委员会主席瓦尔特·乌布里希特（Walter Ulbricht）签署了那道将这座伟大但动荡的城市撕裂的命令。但真正的指令来自莫斯科。

多年来，苏联领导人尼基塔·赫鲁晓夫（Nikita Khrushchev）一直忧心地看着成千上万才华横溢的年轻专业人士——那些苏联主导的东欧急需的科学家、医生和工程师——每月从德国这个“工人天堂”逃往西方开始新生活。

在1949年和1961年之间，有超过300万德国人进行了这次旅程，其中大多数人利用著名的“开放城市”柏林（由英国、法国、美国和苏联军队共同占领）作为便捷的中转点。失去如此多的人才——几乎占人口的20%——是对所有关于共产主义制度优越性宣传的羞辱；如果该制度想要有未来，这种“人才流失”必须停止。

1961年夏天，赫鲁晓夫终于失去了耐心，并将消息传达给了乌布里希特，而后者就在几周前还公开声明“这里没有人有修建墙壁的意图”。乌布里希特则将秘密命令下达给了他野心勃勃的安全主管、未来的东德领导人埃里希·昂纳克（Erich Honecker），后者以令人胆寒的精准度组织了接下来的行动。于是，在煤气灯那超现实的黄色光芒下，数千名士兵、警察和战斗群（Kampfgruppen，工厂民兵单位）向边境进发。

在著名的勃兰登堡门附近，武装人员开始堆砌空心砖并浇筑湿水泥，筑起第一批简陋的障碍物。西柏林警察聚集在附近，难以置信地注视着这一切。

直到日出，一座城市——以及一个大洲——被分成了两半，数百万东德人意识到，他们面临着被锁在混凝土笼子里的未来。许多家庭在睡梦中被分隔，工人们被困在边境的错误一侧。这是冷战一个可见的、物理的且恐怖的标志。

普通的建筑工人被从床上叫醒参与行动，并受到安全部队的严密监视，以防他们趁机逃跑。

但令人惊讶的是，第一批逃离的人之一竟然是一名士兵。19岁的边防卫兵康拉德·舒曼（Conrad Schumann）在8月15日与战友一起被送到鲁皮纳大街（Ruppiner Strasse）和贝尔瑙尔大街（Bernauer Strasse）的拐角处。一名军官说，他们的工作是“保护边境免受社会主义敌人的侵害”。但康拉德看到的并非敌人，而是不快乐的平民。从西侧，人们指着他大喊：“你和集中营看守一样糟糕”，而就在附近，他看到一名流泪的年轻女子试图将一束花扔过铁丝网，交给她在西柏林的母亲。

舒曼意识到，他职业生涯的余下时间将是在违背人们意愿的情况下将他们分开。于是，趁军官转身时，他跳过了铁丝网，在半空中丢弃了他的冲锋枪。新闻摄影师就在附近，在那名年轻士兵充满希望的一跃中，他们捕捉到了后来成为柏林墙标志性的影像。

“在那名年轻士兵充满希望的一跃中，摄影师捕捉到了后来成为柏林墙标志性的影像”

沿着贝尔瑙尔大街（Bernauer Strasse），公寓楼的前门面向苏联占领区，而窗户则直接对着西方。居民们将床垫扔到下面的行人道上，从高层窗户跳下，落入西柏林消防队准备好的双臂——以及网兜——之中。其他人

查理检查站与

在这座紧张且被新划分的城市中，公开冲突的威胁始终存在。1961年10月22日，一名美国外交官前往东柏林观看歌剧，东德守卫要求其出示证件，冷战险些因此演变为热战。随之而来的对峙震惊了世界。

美国将军卢修斯·克莱（Lucius Clay）向边境派遣了部队，到10月27日早晨，位于腓特烈大街（Friedrichstrasse）的东西方过境点——即查理检查站（Checkpoint Charlie）——成为了地球上最危险的一百码。

10辆M4B巴顿坦克与10辆苏联T-54坦克面对面僵持。一次简单的回火，一个

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在失去了300万公民后，东德正走向衰亡。因此，在65年前的1961年8月13日一夜之间，柏林被分成了两半……在人们熟睡之时将家庭强行分离，并让工人们被困在世界上最致命边境的错误一侧。

几天后，“击毙”成为了现实。冈特·利芬（Günter Liffin）是一名24岁的裁缝，梦想在西方设计并销售服装，他发现自己与想象中的未来被切断了。夜晚，他潜入洪堡港（Humboldhafen）的水中，向英国占领区游去。

东德交通警察的探照灯发现了他在水中，守卫们无视他举起双臂的动作，直接开火——子弹击中了利芬的后脑勺。史塔西（Stasi）安排了他的葬礼，并将他死亡的真实原因向其家人隐瞒了多年。

虽然新的屏障给柏林人带来了死亡和心碎，但在西方，一些担心情况会变得更糟的领导人们私下对此表示欢迎。

自从1948 / 9年的柏林空运以来，北约（NATO）官员一直在制定计划，以防苏联试图通过武力进入西柏林来阻止人才流失，从而引发一场全球性的——且可能是核性的——对抗。

总统约翰·F·肯尼迪（John F. Kennedy）在公开场合谴责这堵墙，但他告诉一位心腹：“这不是一个很体面的解决方案，但有一堵墙比一场战争要好得多。”

回到莫斯科，赫鲁晓夫将其视为一次胜利。在止住了东德的经济失血后，他向其核心圈子夸耀道：“我知道墙是个丑陋的东西。但它关闭了边境并阻止了难民。这对我们来说是一次真正的胜利。”

在随后的几年里，1961年8月的临时屏障被多层混凝土墙、岗哨塔和极少有人能穿越的布满陷阱的“死亡地带”所取代。西柏林依然是西方自由与繁荣的璀璨、颓废且霓虹闪烁的橱窗，坐落在灰色、阴森的共产主义共和国中心。

通过用混凝土和铁丝网将自己的人民围困，该政权成功阻止了经济的失血。

东德工人被迫安定下来重建，他们的国家很快成为了东方集团的经济之星，实现了令共产主义世界羡慕的生活标准。对于一代人来说，这堵墙恰恰实现了尼基塔·赫鲁晓夫的要求——一个安全的边境，一个可行的卫星国，以及一个将冷战冻结在原地的可预测的现状。

然而，通过压制对自由的渴望，该政权不仅建起了一堵墙，还制造了一个压力锅。因为人们天生想要见到姐妹，给母亲送花，并利用自己的才华创造最好的生活。而以冷酷意识形态之名压制这些渴望，只会让欲望更加强烈。

这堵墙将东德的崩溃推迟了28年，但当压力最终爆发时，德国共产主义及其执法者已无法回头。正常、健康的政权建墙是为了将威胁挡在外面——极权主义建墙是为了将自己的人民困在里面。然后在黑暗中杀死他们。

● 菲尔·克雷格（Phil Craig）是《1945：清算》（Hodder, £12.99）一书的作者。

1961年10月：大对峙

一次紧张的抽搐或一个被误解的手势，都可能引发一场后果极其严重的血腥枪战。美国总统约翰·F·肯尼迪绕过了正式渠道，直接与苏联领导人尼基塔·赫鲁晓夫取得联系，双方达成了一次微妙且经过精心编排的撤退协议。

10月 28, 一台苏联坦克的发动机发出轰鸣，车辆后退了几码。片刻之后，一辆美国坦克也随之撤退。

这是一场缓慢的、为了留面子的舞蹈，化解了危机——证明了两个超级大国都愿意窥视深渊，但都没有准备好跳下去。

人们简单地从铁丝网尚未拉紧的缝隙中冲过去。在最初的那些日子里，守卫们经常犹豫不决且感到困惑，不愿执行新命令。但很快，士兵们变得更加强硬，窗户被砖块封死，并实施了“击毙”命令，而无处不在、时刻监视的秘密警察——史塔西（Stasi）则加强了这一执行。

伊达·西克曼（Ida Siekmann）是一名58岁的护士，同样住在贝尔瑙尔大街（Bernauer Strasse）。她心爱的姐姐就住在几百码外的西区。8月 22, 在听说自己的窗户很快将被封死后，她将床上用品和少量 meager 的财物扔到下面的街道上，然后纵身跳下。由于惊慌，她跳得很笨拙，没能落在安全网上，在被送到医院之前就去世了。两个

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作者：詹姆斯·斯特杰斯卡尔（James Stejskal）

冷战时期的柏林成为了欺骗之都，激发了英国间谍文学的黄金时代，从伦·戴顿（Len Deighton）和约翰·勒卡雷（John le Carré）到约瑟夫·卡农（Joseph Kanon）、保罗·维迪奇（Paul Vidich）……以及我。“你是否曾向一个很久以前差点结婚的女孩问好？她是否依然带着同样迷人的微笑，用一种你几乎已经忘记的姿态拥抱你的手臂？”

“当她微笑时，那些皱纹是否让你好奇自己错过了怎样的美好时光？这就是我每次回到柏林时的感受。”

伦·戴顿在小说《柏林游戏》（Berlin Game）中这样写道，这是通过一个虚构的中年且有些厌倦的情报官员伯纳德·桑普森（Bernard Sampson）之口，写给这座分裂城市的一封情书。没有哪座城市像柏林这样深刻地塑造了间谍小说。

在第二次世界大战的废墟中，柏林作为一个遭受创伤、心理留下伤痕的城市出现——这是一个危险的舞台，东西方两种对立的政治体制在此面对面，进行一场关乎生存的生存之战。

我知道桑普森的意思；我在柏林生活了10年，1977年作为一名年轻的特种部队潜伏特工抵达那里，准备与苏联作战，稍后又作为一名中央情报局（CIA）的案件官员执行秘密情报行动。

我的工作让我体验到了柏林的所有面貌：一座光明与黑暗、欺骗与对抗之城，以及现代间谍小说的故乡。

夜晚沿着柏林墙行走是一种超现实的体验。你在物理上处于一边是共产主义东区，另一边是资本主义西区的前线。

两个巨人在墙壁、检查站和铁丝网边境对面僵持，战争随时可能爆发。但你也可以走进当地的一家小酒馆（Kneipe），喝杯啤酒，读本书，而完全意识不到那场斗争。来自数十个国家的情报机构都在这里，外交官、间谍、叛逃者和线人挤在城市的咖啡馆里。每一次偶然的相遇似乎都能改变历史，有时确实如此：查理检查站的坦克对峙，格利尼克桥的间谍交换，或者东德安全部门从库达姆大街（Ku'damm）的一家咖啡馆绑架知名政治人物。

1977年2月我第一次来到这座“城市”时，我的想法远没有那么深奥。我所知道的是，我是民主和自由的忠实拥护者；这是“我们对抗他们”，每当我靠近那道边界，我就知道，无论我热爱西方的什么，在柏林墙面前都戛然而止。

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这里有旨在将人们挡在外面或禁锢在里面的围栏和障碍。柏林曾有其“反法西斯保护墙”——一个几乎不可逾越的庞然大物，由东德人建造，表面上是为了防止“法西斯”西方人进入东柏林，但实际上是为了将他们自己的国民囚禁起来。它是东西方分裂的象征。

最顶尖的间谍小说家不需要去研究柏林。他们行走在街道上，接触人们，亲身体会这座城市所遭受的创伤。但他们也了解居住在柏林墙两边的人们特有的乐观幽默。这一切都成为了绝佳的故事素材。

套用戴顿的话来说，正是那些转向虚构创作的目击者，才写出了最令人信服的战争记录。

没有哪个作家比约翰·勒卡雷更能体现这一点。他原名大卫·康威尔，在第二次世界大战和冷战期间曾在英国情报部门服役，20世纪50年代被派驻西德，并在柏林墙建成前访问过柏林。勒卡雷的小说《冷战谍影》（The Spy Who Came in from the Cold）。

柏林如何助力现代间谍

这座被分割的城市处于东西方冷战冲突的核心……并启发了从约翰·勒卡雷（John le Carré）到伦·戴顿（Len Deighton）以及米克·赫伦（Mick Herron）等间谍小说作家。

他将这一原本属于逃避现实的冒险类型转变为冷酷的现实，并将柏林作为完美的背景。

他的主角乔治·史迈利（George Smiley）与伊恩·弗莱明（Ian Fleming）笔下那个光彩夺目、飞往全球的间谍詹姆斯·邦德（James Bond）截然相反。在勒卡雷的塑造中，史迈利是一个毫无特色的官僚，一个凭借耐心和同理心在妥协而非零和博弈中周旋的“间谍”。

与此同时，柏林本身也变成了一个悲剧性的角色，其分裂反映了居住在那里的每个人的忠诚之分裂。

在柏林，忠诚始终是一个问题，许多人在现实生活中以及小说页面中都发现了这一点，且往往伴随着致命的后果。伦·戴顿通过他在柏林的工人阶级主角将故事推向了更深一步；哈里·帕尔默（Harry Palmer）——在迈克尔·凯恩（饰演该角色的人）坚持其电影版本必须有一个无聊的名字之前，在戴顿的小说中是匿名的——以及伯纳德·萨姆森（Bernard Samson），两人都愤世嫉俗、聪明且对权威持怀疑态度。

萨姆森是戴顿两位英雄中“分量更重”的一位，他熟悉这座城市的每一家咖啡馆、每一个安全屋以及几乎每一个有用的人。他还知道最好的用餐地点，比如 Ganymed，一家法国小酒馆，是史塔西（东德秘密警察）和大卫·鲍伊（David Bowie）的最爱，目前仍在营业。

他笔下的柏林既亲密又不可知，一个个人关系与周围无处不在的无声战争融为一体的地方。

戴顿的情感画像描绘了一座他深爱的城市，但同时也是一个他深知今天的朋友可能是明天敌人的地方。这里没有赌场和无礼服，只有一群疲惫、厌倦的专业人士在从事艰巨且通常危险的工作。

另一方面，伊恩·弗莱明并不喜欢柏林。在写完他的游记《惊心动魄的城市》（Thrilling Cities）后，他“毫无遗憾地离开了”那里。在那里，他看到了“德国民族阴森的一面”。

在他唯一涉及柏林的故事《阴谋杀机》（The Living Daylights）中，邦德必须在一次逃亡中保护一名特工。柏林墙不仅带来了危险，还提供了探照灯的奇观和戏剧性的过境场景，这符合邦德的高风险世界。

与勒卡雷笔下的亚历克斯·利马斯（Alex Leamas）不同，邦德的特工安全脱险了，但毕竟邦德是一个才华横溢到不可思议的特工。

即使在统一数十年后，柏林继续启发着作家们。

许多关于柏林的故事无需润色。柏林墙的建立、军情六处（MI6）和中央情报局（CIA）发起的间谍隧道行动、高调的逃亡、叛逃以及

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精心策划的绑架案，在成为历史之前，似乎都像是小说里的情节。

对于作者而言，柏林提供了一个将间谍活动的道德模糊性与冒险、精致和韧性相结合的地点。

这里也是一个可能阴暗、具有欺骗性且危险的地方，一座充满模棱两可的城市，一个将 20 世纪的大部分历史浓缩在一小块土地上的地方。

地球上没有其他地方的历史像这里一样沉重地压在日常生活中：希特勒“千年帝国”的废墟与闪亮的现代建筑并存，一道令人生畏的墙，东德边防军拿着卡拉什尼科夫步枪在铁丝网对面瞪视着

西柏林人，以及一座间谍像棒球卡一样被交换的桥梁。

像约瑟夫·卡农（Joseph Kanon）和保罗·维迪奇（Paul Vidich）这样的当代作家继续挖掘柏林的故事，甚至米克·赫伦笔下的杰克逊·兰（Jackson Lamb），那位年长的“慢马”（Slow Horse），在前传《秘密小时》（The Secret Hours）中也潜入了柏林。卡农的故事充满了悬疑。

五本入门间谍小说推荐

我一直认为，如果说有哪个地方天生属于间谍小说，那一定是柏林。这座城市见证了一切——大胆的逃亡、双面间谍、秘密接头、投诚，以及足以让小说家们忙碌数代的真实阴谋。这里曾是冷战最激烈的前线。正如伦·戴顿（Len Deighton）那句名言所说，柏林是“一个分裂世界的缩影”。如果你对冷战着迷，那么这五本关于柏林的间谍小说是我推荐的。

作者：谢恩·惠利（SHANE WHALEY） Spybrary 创建者

核心角色。最棒的部分？这是戴顿宏大的萨姆森（Samson）系列的开篇，所以如果你喜欢它，后面还有很多值得品味的内容。提醒一下：它像惊险一样令人上瘾。

《来自冷战的间谍》

约翰·勒卡雷（JOHN LE CARRÉ），1963,：出版于 1963 年，就在柏林墙建成两年之后，《来自冷战的间谍》至今仍是关于柏林墙的定义之作。它紧张、令人心碎且在道德上极其复杂，其结局在 60 年后的今天依然让读者感到震惊。不过要提醒你，它的高潮部分如此震撼，以至于我推荐给朋友后，他们在读完之后好几周都不愿跟我说话！

《柏林的葬礼》

伦·戴顿（LEN DEIGHTON），1964：

哈里·帕尔默（Harry Palmer）可能没有詹姆斯·邦德那样的各种装备，但他也同样有趣。伦·戴顿捕捉到了那个时代和那种氛围，因为他曾徘徊在东柏林和西柏林的街道上，潜行于各个检查站之间。他精彩地勾勒出了一座城市，这里的分界线并非由河流或山脉标示，而是由墙壁、废弃建筑以及布满机枪的瞭望塔组成。他笔下的柏林感觉真实、危险且充满威胁。

伦·戴顿 (LEN DEIGHTON) 的《柏林游戏》(BERLIN GAME)，1983年：

这是剥离了光鲜外表的间谍活动。伯纳德·萨姆森（Bernard Samson）在这样一个信任稀缺、背叛常态化的世界中活动，而柏林则成为了故事中的一个

《柏林之子》(PRINCE OF BERLIN)，丹·舍曼 (DAN SHERMAN) 著，1983年：丹·舍曼这部被不公正地忽视的《柏林之子》是那些被遗忘的伟大冷战惊悚小说之一，充满了敌对的情报机构、变幻的忠诚以及一座永久处于紧张状态的城市的独特氛围。如果你从未听说过这部作品，那么你将迎来一场盛宴。

《柏林交换》(THE BERLIN EXCHANGE)，约瑟夫·卡农 (JOSEPH KANON) 著，2022年：卡农证明了柏林在今天依然能激发出色的间谍小说。故事背景设定在1963,，《柏林交换》讲述了一名美国科学家在一次囚犯交换中返回家乡，却发现自己陷入了一场危险游戏的故事。它提醒人们，冷战影响了普通人的生活。

如果这五部作品还不能满足你，我还推荐丹·费斯珀曼 (Dan Fesperman) 的《冬季工作》(Winter Work) (2022)、保罗·维迪奇 (Paul Vidich) 的《媒人》(The Matchmaker) (2022) 以及米克·赫伦 (Mick Herron) 的《秘密小时》(The Secret Hours) (2023)，每部作品都为柏林及其冷战遗产提供了全新的视角。虽然伊恩·弗莱明 (Ian Fleming) 1966年的短篇小说《阴谋》(The Living Daylights) 并非长篇小说，但同样值得一提。尽管柏林墙在1989,倒塌，但多亏了这些书以及另外数十部作品——仅挑选五部几乎是不可能的——柏林依然是无可争议的间谍小说之都。

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遗憾与重生。他极具氛围感的真实小说《柏林交换》(Berlin Exchange) 和《好德国人》(The Good German) 利用了战后柏林的混乱，以及东德无孔不入的安全机构所 instill 的幽闭恐惧感。

保罗·维迪奇继承了勒卡雷的许多风格。他节奏缓慢的故事展示了从事间谍活动的个人代价。在《媒人》中，他引入了一个真实人物作为其反派之一：马库斯·沃尔夫 (Markus Wolf)，史塔西 (Stasi) 的顶级间谍头目。在柏林墙倒塌后，当沃尔夫在努力与他的新现实达成和解时，我曾见过这个男人，这个宿敌。维迪奇对这个人的描述非常精准。

柏林不是一个地方；它是一个角色，也是依然困扰我们思想的大国竞争的象征。在这样一个错误的决定可能导致致命后果的城市里，没有任何事情是确定的。不再

被一道墙所分隔，柏林在历史中的地位依然存在争议。就像一名克格勃 (KGB) 招募员一样，它继续用其冰冷的现实和阴暗的过去诱惑着作家们。

真实的柏林提供了真实的问题和答案，而这些在书页和屏幕上变成了虚构的戏剧。这或许就是为什么在柏林墙倒塌很久之后，读者们依然发现自己回到那里——不是为了寻找答案，而是为了追求那种持久的不确定之快感。

● 詹姆斯·斯特杰斯卡尔 (James Stejskal) 是一位历史学家、冲突考古学家和作家。他曾作为绿贝雷员在美国特种部队服役，随后在中央情报局 (CIA) 工作了35年，期间曾在柏林任职。他的著作包括《柏林的捕鼠人》(The Rat Catcher of Berlin) 以及《柏林：间谍视角下的冷战历史故事与图像指南》(Berlin: A Spy's Guide to its Cold War History in Story and Image)

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大卫·鲍伊（David Bowie）曾这样歌唱，他是从柏林及其冷战氛围中汲取灵感的最重要的音乐家和艺术家之一。仅仅12年后，当柏林墙倒塌时，他的这首歌便成为了自由与解放的赞歌。

在他1977年同样具有标志性的热门单曲《英雄》（Heroes）中，大卫·鲍伊构思了两个德国恋人的故事——一个来自东柏林，另一个来自西柏林——他们时刻担心自己的生命安全，但依然决心

继续他们被禁止的（或者至少在政治上很危险的）激情。鲍伊的歌曲在一段激昂的高潮中推向顶峰，他地想象道：

“我，我记得。 站在墙边 枪声在我们的头顶响起 而我们接吻 仿佛没有什么会崩塌。”

这首歌的成功使鲍伊被视为一名荣誉柏林人。当他在2016, 年去世时，德国外交部在社交媒体上写道：“再见，大卫·鲍伊。你现在已跻身于#英雄（Heroes）之列。感谢你帮助推倒了#柏林墙（wall）”，以此回报这份情谊。

这是对鲍伊的一次令人瞩目的致敬。他在1976年至1978, 年期间居住在柏林，并在该市录制了两张专辑《Low》和《Heroes》，同时与制作人托尼·维斯康蒂（Tony Visconti）及共同作者布莱恩·伊诺（Brian Eno）合作创作了另一张专辑《Lodger》。

他当时是为了逃离毒瘾以及对他此前在加利福尼亚生活期间占据主导地位的神秘学日益增长的痴迷——尽管那段经历产出了可以说是我最伟大的专辑《Station to Station》——他用可卡因和红辣椒的饮食习惯，换成了与他的朋友兼

作者：亚历山大·拉曼（Alexander Larman）

合作者伊基·波普（Iggy Pop）在那个被他称为“我能想到的最艰苦的城市”中的合租房。

当鲍伊在第二次世界大战结束三十多年后抵达这里时，柏林那种放荡不羁的生活名声以及他重新回归匿名状态的情况都让他感到惊喜。正如他所说：“我快破产了，这里生活成本很低。出于某种原因，柏林人根本不在意。嗯，至少不在意一个英国摇滚歌手。”

他与 Tangerine Dream 乐队的埃德加·弗罗泽（Edgar Froese）成为了朋友，后者已成为该市音乐界的领军人物；同时，他以一种好奇与羡慕交织的目光注视着杜塞尔多夫的 Kraftwerk 乐队，他们制作了如《Trans-Europe Express》和《Autobahn》等具有影响力的电子专辑。

这些作品反映了一种纯粹的德国风格，与当时在英国和美国流行的朋克场景相去万里。他们用节拍精准的电子乐取代了愤怒的不满和哀鸣的吉他，这几乎预示了过去半个世纪以来出现的每一个成功的舞曲艺人。

Kraftwerk 为这种音乐起的名字是“Krautrock”，如果说有哪个地方比其他任何地方都能更好地概括这种风格，那就是汉莎录音室（Hansa Studios）。它距离柏林墙仅150米，因此得到了“墙边的汉莎”这一绰号。

它在七十年代中期成立为一家录音室。在经历了一段时间用于电影原声带和古典音乐录制后，它成为了鲍伊、波普以及后来一批音乐人的首选目的地，其中包括风格前卫的尼克·凯夫（Nick Cave）、Depeche Mode、Siouxsie and the Banshees，以及没那么时髦的 Marillion 和 U2。

然而，七十年代的柏林并不是一个人们行为端正的城市。

早在1963, 年出版的约翰·勒卡雷（John le Carré）的《冷战谍影》（The Spy Who Came in from the Cold）中，东柏林就被描绘成人间共产主义地狱，充斥着怀疑与背叛。而鲍伊和波普的偶尔合作者卢·里德（Lou Reed）在他1973年以该地命名的专辑中，就已经预见了这里波希米亚主义与肮脏贫困的结合（尽管该专辑是在伦敦和纽约录制的）。

廉价的快感与更廉价的生活成本相结合，产生了一种吸引艺术气息和混乱之人的特质。伊基·波普比他的室友鲍伊更具备这两点。与鲍伊一样，他抵达了

这座城市，以摆脱令他衰弱的药物成瘾为目的——两人都用酒精替代了海洛因，这确实是一种方法——但与鲍伊不同，他并没有获得过任何能让他拥有选择权的艺术或商业上的成功。因此，幸运的是，他身边有这位英国天才可以帮助他共同创作并制作他作为独唱艺人最著名且最受喜爱的两张专辑。

《白痴》（The Idiot）是在法国和慕尼黑创作并制作的，但其续作《渴望生活》（Lust For Life）不仅通过鲍伊参与共同创作的同名主打歌（这首歌在电影《猜火车》的开头被著名地使用过）赋予了波普或许是最具标志性的歌曲，而且同样是在汉莎录音室录制的。

鲍伊和波普之间既有职业上的尊重，也有竞争；后者评论道：“鲍伊是个速度极快的人……我意识到我必须比他更快，否则这专辑最后会变成谁的。”《渴望生活》——以 50 年代关于文森特·梵高的传记电影命名——证明了它对两人都具有激励作用。正如波普所说：“大卫和我决定要非常快速地录制这张专辑，我们用 8 天时间完成了创作、录制和混音，正因为我们做得如此之快，预付款还剩很多钱，我们把它平分了。”

它至今仍是一部深受喜爱的杰作

“那是我做过最动情的表演之一。我流泪了，”鲍伊说道

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至今，它与鲍伊的“柏林三部曲”一起，在音乐上定义了这座城市。

然而，如果认为柏林只是一个虽然粗糙但本质上仁慈的地方，那就错了。青少年卖淫、海洛因使用以及无处不在的政治暴力威胁——或者仅仅是街头暴力——主导了那里生活，而这种生活在很大程度上受到一群幻灭的退伍军人的影响，他们在一个仍从战争末期俄罗斯入侵的余震中恢复的国家里勉强维持生计。

此外，还有寻求廉价逃避和匿名性的泛欧辍学者，以及希望（或许是徒劳地）重建 20 年代魏玛共和国那个更迷人（且同样肮脏）世界的艺术家和作家，而那个世界在纳粹上台时被横扫一空。

关于这段时期柏林生活最好的书籍不是小说，而是一部非虚构作品，《车站动物园的孩子们》（Wir Kinder vom Bahnhof Zoo）。

该书基于 14 岁的克里斯蒂安·费尔舍里诺（Christiane Felscherinow）的回忆，她染上了毒瘾并出卖身体以换取下一次药剂，这震惊了西方观众，因为他们完全不知道在表面上更文明、更欧洲的西柏林，生活竟如此艰辛且充满挑战。

它被导演乌利·埃德尔（Uli Edel）改编成了一部备受赞誉的电影《克里斯蒂安 F》（Christiane F），电影在费尔舍里诺曾待过的许多地方取景，包括动物园火车站的耶本街（Jebenstrasse），以及根据你的视角而定是时髦或臭名昭著的 Sound 夜总会，她在那里第一次接触到了海洛因。

至于鲍伊，他在 1978 年离开柏林前往瑞士，并在那里完成了《房客》（Lodger）的制作。那是他生活和事业中一个波折且激烈的时期，充满了快节奏的生活以及对麻醉品和酒精的尝试——波普曾以一种委婉的低调评论道，“和鲍伊及其朋友们住在柏林的公寓里很有意思”——但这座城市的 DNA 渗透进了他在那里录制的音乐中。

因此，当《克里斯蒂安 F》最终在 1981 年发行时，不仅他的音乐成为了电影的配乐——包括在角色们狂喜地跑过购物中心的关键场景中使用了《英雄》（Heroes）——而且他还以本人的身份客串出演，表演了《车站到车站》（Station to Station），从而使他决定做一些英雄之举时开启的那个圆环闭合了。

这一切还有一个幸福的续篇。1987年，鲍伊在进行“玻璃蜘蛛”（Glass Spider）巡演期间，在该市的国会大厦前举行了一场标志性的演唱会。虽然在他离开柏林十年后，东西方之间的紧张局势有所缓解，但这种紧张局势依然存在，因此鲍伊的演出在真诚与戏剧感的结合中，旨在利用这些紧张局势来营造氛围。

正如他回忆道：“我们隐约听说一些东柏林人可能会有机会听到演出，但我们没意识到他们会出现多少人。在墙的另一边，有数以千计的人聚集在靠近柏林墙的地方。”

总计约 15,000 名东柏林人聚集在铁丝网和混凝土屏障后面，他们能听到但看不见鲍伊。而这位巨星将听到数千名看不见的人随之合唱描述为“几乎像一场祈祷”，并评论道：“那就是这首歌创作的城市，也是它所描述的特定情境。这简直太不可思议了。”

当他唱完《Heroes》时，他用德语说道：“我们将祝福送给所有在墙另一边的朋友们。”两年后，柏林墙倒塌，鲍伊那充满力量且感人至深的演出被广泛认为也是导致其倒塌的原因之一。

他回忆道：“那是我演艺生涯中最令人动情的演出之一。我流泪了。天哪，即便现在我依然哽咽。它令我心碎。我这辈子从未做过这样的事情，我想以后也不会再有了。太令人触动了。”

● 亚历山大·拉曼（Alexander Larman）是《拉撒路：大卫·鲍伊的第二次降临》（Lazarus: The Second Coming of David Bowie）一书的作者，该书由 New Modern 出版，定价 £25

汉莎之选：五张来自柏林的专辑

汉莎录音室成立于1965年，距离柏林墙仅150码。它让到访的音乐家能够沉浸在东西柏林分裂而产生的诡谲氛围中。约翰·厄尔斯（JOHN EARLS）从中挑选了五张在此录制的经典专辑。

大卫·鲍伊《LOW》（1977）

作为这位偶像经典“柏林三部曲”专辑中的第一部，鲍伊通过在柏林隐居克服了可卡因成瘾。在革命性的Kraftwerk等德国音乐以及柏林这座城市本身的启发下，《Low》的未来主义之声领先于时代多年。在随后的专辑《Heroes》和《Lodger》中，鲍伊继续进行更深层的探索，并创作了如《Sound And Vision》等经典热门歌曲。

伊基·波普《LUST FOR LIFE》（1977）

在朋克乐队“The Stooges”解散后，以放荡不羁著称的歌手伊基（IGGY）在录制其前两张个人专辑期间，成为了大卫·鲍伊在柏林的室友。鲍伊共同制作并参与了这两张专辑的演奏，其中第二张专辑的主打歌后来被用于邪典电影《Trainspotting》。

Depeche Mode《SOME GREAT REWARD》（1984）

在20世纪80年代初，由于《Just Can't Get Enough》等热门歌曲，Depeche Mode被视为一支轻量级的合成器流行乐队。在沉浸于柏林的地下俱乐部场景后，他们开始探索更阴郁的情绪。主创词曲作者马丁·戈尔（Martin Gore）在谈到这座城市的夜生活时说：“性别障碍很愚蠢。我和我的女朋友交换化妆品、衣服，任何东西。那又怎样？”这种态度体现在包括《People Are People》在内的紧张的新赞歌中。

U2《ACHTUNG BABY!》（1991）

在1987年凭借《The Joshua Tree》成为全球最大的乐队后，U2希望在下一张正式的录音室专辑中打破其传统的摇滚风格。除了柏林还能有哪里更好呢？而且还有曾参与鲍伊“柏林三部曲”制作的制作人布莱恩·伊诺（Brian Eno）提供帮助。电子实验成为了必然，而前一年柏林墙的倒塌增强了自由感，尽管贝斯手亚当·克莱顿（Adam Clayton）承认：“我们必须付出艰苦的努力。”

BIFFY CLYRO FUTIQUE (2025)：

近年来，包括 Manic Street Preachers、Snow Patrol 和 Pet Shop Boys 在内的乐队继续将柏林作为进行激进变革的基地。苏格兰邪典摇滚乐队 Biffy Clyro 最近成为了受益者，去年凭借一张以“未来主义”（futuristic）与“古董”（antique）结合命名的长篇专辑登顶 No. 1。主唱 Simon Neil 表示：“鲍伊（Bowie）和伊基（IGGY）在柏林的幽灵通过渗透融入到了歌曲之中。”

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作者：Phil Craig

几十年来，德国人一直开玩笑说，富裕的资本主义西柏林居民比他们的东边邻居更像共产主义者。在这座分裂城市闪耀的西部区域，激进和革命团体蓬勃发展，以及各种形式的另类生活方式，从占屋运动（“财产即偷窃，宝贝！”）、公开吸毒到违禁的卡巴莱表演。

来自各种马克思列宁主义派系的学生们在抗议北约（NATO）和美国时游行并与防暴警察战斗，但却赞扬 IRA 和 PLO。然而，对于那些在真实的共产主义统治下受苦的人来说，所有这些抗议让西方的生活方式显得更具吸引力。因为在他们的社会中，走上街头挑战权威是绝对不可能的。1956年匈牙利和1968年捷克斯洛伐克暴力军事镇压的惨痛记忆确保了这一点。

我在 20 世纪 80 年代前往东德和捷克斯洛伐克旅行，遇到了许多同样 20 多岁的同龄人。是的，他们羡慕在西方电视频道上非法看到的汽车、冰箱和其它消费品，但真正激励他们的是乐趣和自由——他们想要蓝色牛仔裤、自由恋爱、大卫·鲍伊，以及欧洲歌唱大赛。

他们希望能够公开说话而不用担心邻居向秘密警察举报，他们希望前往那些只在学校里读到过的地方。我记得一名年轻教师在说他渴望访问苏格兰时激动得流下眼泪，我给了他一张旧地图。

而且，是的，他们也非常渴望拥有抗议的权利。但直到 1988 年，很少有人相信他们能获得这一权利。改变这一切的是政治疲惫、经济崩溃以及一名官僚的口误的综合结果。

在东柏林一个阴沉、铅灰色的夜晚，1989 年 11 月 9 日，东德国家的一名低级职员冈特·沙博夫斯基（Günter Schabowski）到岗担任共产党的新闻发言人。沙博夫斯基是一名经验丰富的记者，看起来完全像个官僚主义的老将，在经历了一整天混乱的会议后，他只渴望能和妻子一起安静地在家度过夜晚。

然而，命运对他另有安排。就在几周前，柏林墙的建筑师埃里希·昂纳克（Erich Honecker）在一场没有流血的内部政变中被罢免，留下毫无灵感的埃贡·克伦茨（Egon Krenz）引导国家走向未来。随后，50 万名不满的东柏林人在亚历山大广场（Alexanderplatz）聚集，要求改革、自由以及塑造自己命运的权利。克伦茨承诺将进行渐进式改变，但私下里担心莫斯科是否会允许他这样做。

每日党报的新闻发布会成为了全球关注的焦点，并向一个处于爆发边缘的国家进行直播。因此，当沙博夫斯基在那个秋夜登上讲台，两侧站着面无表情的党僚时，他知道自己必须非常谨慎地措辞——但他没有这样做。

关键问题是关于旅行自由。东德人正以创纪录的人数驾驶着他们摇摇欲坠的 Trabant 汽车穿过捷克斯洛伐克进入西方，当局希望停止这种情况。

一份由克伦茨亲手交给他的备忘录解释了一项新政策，允许两国之间进行一些有限的旅行，但仅限于获得特别许可的人员，且必须在边防警卫被告知谁可以——以及谁不可以——通过之后。沙博夫斯基在电视灯光的照射下，朗读了备忘录的内。

柏林墙倒塌之日

最终，仅仅因为一次口误，在经历了28年后，这道屏障崩塌了

帐篷。当被追问时间表时，他显得心不在焉，随口回答道：“哦，根据我的信息，这立即生效，毫不延迟”，而他忽略了一个至关重要的细节：公民仍需申请正式许可，且该公告原定在次日早晨前禁发，以便军队在夜间向边境巡逻队进行简报。这就像一声发令枪。

在几小时内，来自东柏林和西柏林的柏林市民涌向柏林墙。那些困惑且毫无准备的卫兵们看向他们的长官以寻求指导。

而长官们则转而致电军队总部，那里一片混乱与迷茫。

很快，人们拿着锤子和镐子出现，攻击墙体并将碎片掰下来作为纪念品。

随后，一个繁荣的柏林墙碎片市场随之兴起。最终，大多数士兵只是站在一旁，看着这座城市最臭名昭著的建筑在普通人的热情以及一个困惑且精疲力竭的政权之惯性共同作用下被突破。

与此同时，就在北约（NATO）将军们屏息以待时，苏联的坦克依然停在车库里。

当记者们争先恐后地提交报道，冷战的象征性边界崩塌之时，一名记者在查理检查站停下脚步，询问一名边境卫兵他的想法。“我拿工资不是为了思考的，”对方回答道——这对于一个致命地低估了人民渴望思考、渴望派对、渴望旅行以及渴望在没有秘密警察和混凝土墙约束下生活之愿望的政权来说，是一个完美的墓志铭。

如今，柏林墙的部分遗迹依然存在，但仅作为旅游景点，以及提醒人们记住那场旨在将人们隔离开来的反乌托邦社会实验。

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Bride had to hurry back to milk cows before her reception in Somerset.

I move!

Bride rides on fave cow to her wedding

BY TOM BEVAN

A FARMER bride looked udderly delightful as she rode her favourite cow into the church.

Victoria Lee was borne by beefy bovine White Chocolate Button, which wore a flower crown as her owner milked their entrance.

It was a scene Victoria had been fantasising about since she was 10.

The dairy farmer, 37, said: "It was what I'd always dreamt of – it was truly incredible.

"Even though it's pretty unheard of, people ride horses and there is no difference to riding a cow! White Chocolate Button absolutely loved it – she was such a good girl and just took it in her stride.

"It wouldn't have been my wedding if a cow wasn't there! Our cows are our family and our life."

Victoria said the ride was only about 30 seconds long – but it was "very memorable" – before the mother-of-four married Mike Lee, 40, on their 10-year anniversary.

Beloved

She rode on a tractor to the ceremony before making the final part of the journey on her beloved cow into Holy Cross Church, in Mark, Somerset.

Victoria said: "White Chocolate Button will do anything. She follows you around the fields, the yard, she comes into the house and eats bread too. So I hopped up to sit on her back a few weeks before the ceremony and gently kicked her on and she stopped and walked, and didn't mind it at all.

"She was always going to be a part of the day – whether it was a bridesmaid or a ring bearer! I used to ride my childhood cow, Sadie, to the village shop to get sweets and pick up my grandad's newspapers."

After the ceremony, guests made their way to the reception – but Victoria and Mike had to rush back to their farm to milk the cows before joining in with the festivities.

Victoria said: "We were on such a tight schedule! I had so much to do that I only got one-hour's sleep before the wedding.

"I was even up at 4.30am on my wedding day to start milking before the ceremony."

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BY KATIE HARRIS

Senior Political Correspondent

ANDY Burnham has been urged by every police chief in Britain to prevent the early release of PC Andrew Harper's killers.

A letter from 50 police leaders, including Met Commissioner Sir Mark Rowley and National Crime Agency director general Graeme Biggar, heaps more pressure on the Prime Minister over the row.

Mr Burnham has ordered Justice Secretary Alex Norris to draw up plans to free prison space for serious offenders as he seeks to stop two of PC Harper's killers from being let out.

The police leaders welcomed the intervention but raised wider concerns over the government scheme.

Sacrifice

The letter, signed by police chiefs across England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, says: "When the state asks people to run towards danger on behalf of the public, they should be able to trust that the justice system will stand behind them when the worst happens.

"PC Andrew Harper's case also raises a wider question. When someone is sentenced for an exceptionally serious offence, how much confidence can victims, bereaved families and the public place in that sentence if subsequent changes to release arrangements result in an offender being

Met commissioner Sir Mark Rowley has signed letter

Every police chief demands block on early release of two Harper killers

'Justice system must back us'

released significantly earlier than originally anticipated?"

They added: "Families across the country are now facing the distress of learning that offenders may be released earlier

than they understood when sentence was passed.

"Officers and staff understand that the law must be applied as it stands. But they will question what message this sends about the value placed on their service and sacrifice when they put themselves in harm's way to protect others. Police officers

and staff see first-hand the impact serious crime has on victims and their families.

"They support people through some of the most difficult moments of their lives and ask them to place their trust in the justice system. That trust is vital and should not be weakened." Mr Burnham has said

he is "increasingly confident" PC Harper's killers, Albert Bowers and Jessie Cole, will not be released early. The newlywed officer, 28, died after his ankle got caught in a tow-rope behind a getaway car. He was dragged down a country road as three men fled a quad bike theft in Sulhamstead, Berkshire, in 2019.

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This reduces blood flow, which can cause

Balloon fixes stent in artery

chest pain or lead to a heart attack.

Coronary stents are inserted during a minimally invasive procedure called an angioplasty.

A thin tube is threaded through a blood vessel in the wrist, arm or groin up to the heart. A small balloon inflates inside the blocked artery to expand the stent.

It locks it against the artery wall before the balloon is removed.

Heart surgery

Rod ends tour

BY MARK JEFFERIES AND JESSICA COATES

SIR Rod Stewart cancelled the rest of his US and Mexico tour after heart surgery, but at least he's got Penny Lancaster to cheer him up.

The 81-year-old singer confirmed he is taking four weeks off to recover having had a coronary stent put in.

And wife Penny showed her support by posting a picture of her kissing her man to the soundtrack of his 1977 hit You're in My Heart.

The veteran rocker's team said: "Sir Rod Stewart has successfully undergone a routine coronary stent procedure. Doctors are pleased with his recovery, and Rod is doing very well and has returned to his normal daily activities.

"On the advice of his doctors, he will take the next four weeks to recuperate and regain full fitness before returning to the stage. Unfortunately, this means he will be unable to continue his current tour dates."

Rod added: "I'm already feeling better and very much on the mend. I want to thank the doctors, nurses and everyone who has taken such wonderful care of me.

"I'm deeply disappointed to miss these shows and sorry to let my fans down, but I look forward to getting back on stage and having a good time with you all again soon."

Health problems also forced the cancellation and postponement of shows earlier this year. And Rod sparked health concerns in June when he appeared on stage in Utah with an oxygen tank after he told crowds: "I nearly f***ing fainted there."

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physical activity into daily life". While health advice promoting time-consuming workouts can be off-putting, Prof Vassiliou said: "With more than a quarter of adults worldwide failing to meet recommended activity levels, choosing to take the stairs offers a realistic, scalable intervention."

The analysis looked at data from five previous studies involving over 450,000 people aged 35 to 84, some healthy and some with a history of heart problems.

One of the studies suggested climbing six flights of stairs per day – the equivalent of 60 steps – may deliver the greatest benefits.

Prof Vassiliou, of the University of East Anglia, said: "If you're not at the moment climbing the stairs or doing any physical activity, even if you start to climb one set or two, that would be a lot more helpful than not doing anything.

"It seems that the more stairs you climb, the better, but even a minimal amount is beneficial."

However, he said healthy eating, other physical activity, maintaining a healthy weight and stopping smoking are also important. He

added: "Cardiovascular disease is the leading cause of death worldwide, with cases nearly doubling between 1990 and 2019. But it is largely preventable through a healthy lifestyle including regular physical activity.

"We wanted to better understand how this everyday activity could have life-saving potential."

Stairs might not be suitable for people with mobility issues or joint problems, noted researchers at UEA and Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital, who published their findings in the American Journal of Cardiovascular Drugs.

But Prof Vassilios said encouraging people to take the stairs when possible at home, work and in public places “could form part of a wider strategy to reduce cardiovascular disease at population level”.

Express health columnist Dr Azeem Majeed, a professor of primary care and public health at Imperial College London, said even small amounts of exercise incorporated

60

steps climbed per day delivered most benefit, said one study

into daily routines add up. He advised: "Physical activity doesn't always need to involve going to the gym or setting aside a large amount of time.

"Taking the stairs rather than the lift is one simple way to build more physical activity into everyday life. The same principle applies to other small habits such as walking on short journeys rather than driving."

As it was observational, the study could not prove taking stairs cut the risk of heart issues, but it showed an association.

Dr Sophie Paddock, of UEA's Norwich Medical School, said: "Climbing the stairs is a good option for people who don't have much time or easy access to exercise."

Juliet Bouverie of the Stroke Association called the findings “encouraging”. Regina Giblin of the British Heart Foundation said: “This large-scale study backs up what we know about how important regular exercise is to prevent cardiovascular disease.”

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The phenomenon was also visible across large parts of Europe and North America, and there was a rare total eclipse in Iceland and Spain. Crowds fell silent at Land's End in Cornwall, the most westerly point in England, as 98.5% of the Sun was covered.

Hundreds excitedly gathered on a cliff top overlooking the Atlantic to watch darkness fall for around a minute.

Van Sabellina, 31, from Truro, watched the eclipse with her husband and their baby.

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and being able to witness it in Land's End was spectacular.

"It was a bit eerie. You feel the change in temperature from hot to refreshing and cold. I feel very lucky to have watched it. We don't know when there will be another one."

Judy's Body Art, a shack next to the Land's End sign, sold over 140 pairs of eclipse glasses in just two hours. Owner Judith Dyulaine Buskas said: "We have been very busy today."

Another way to view without damaging the eyes was to use a collander to spot-project the eclipse on to a sheet of paper.

Abdul Othman, 28, watched at the National Space Centre in Leicester. A crowd of 400 cheered after counting down from 10 until the eclipse reached its maximum coverage.

Abdul said: "It's a once in a lifetime

opportunity. You hear about it all the time in your life, and then to see it with your own eyes and actually see the moon go across the sky and turning the Sun into just a little crescent, it's kind of surreal. And then when you see the sky getting darker, that's also quite amazing to see."

Dhara Patel, who is a space expert at the centre, said: "We've had solar eclipses over

Sign in Falmouth, Cornwall and, right, collander projector

the last couple of years, about 30% coverage, but this is a different scale. And what's really nice is it's a way to connect with nature – looking up at the sky at objects that we typically take for granted."

People also swarmed to Greenwich Park, South East London, to experience the eclipse.

Kim Rebecca, 26, of Canada Water, said: "You could definitely notice it getting darker."

The city asset management worker added: "I have never seen an eclipse before and it is an amazing phenomenon. It is still hot but it is noticeably cooler than it was.

"There was champagne corks popping. It has been good because it has been a real community thing and got a lot of people together."

Will O'Grady, 36, who is studying physics at Cardiff University, took a telescope to

Cardiff Bay and shared it with passers-by. He said: "Loads of kids loved it. It's nice for people visiting from another country as well, their English is not great, but you get the idea of 'have a look'."

"For two hours everyone gets together and does the same thing. It doesn't matter if you know anything about it, or whether you're a geek like me. That's what I love about things like this."

Beaches were packed in northern France. On the Baie de Somme hundreds sat enjoying picnics as the eclipse edged nearer.

Northern Spain and Iceland were among the nations to get a totality – meaning the moon covered nearly 100% of the Sun's surface. The display was received with whoops and cheers in Reykjavik, Iceland's capital, and many were stunned into silence in Burgos, Spain.

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Today's summary: Sunny start, cloudier later

North West: Sunny start, clouds later. Breezy, warm throughout. High 33C (91F).

Northern Ireland: Cloudy with some rain. Thunderbloms later. Light winds, becoming warm. High 25C (77F).

Wales: Sunny spells, clouds later. Gentle breeze, becoming brisk. Warm throughout. High 31C (88F).

Midlands: Sunny spells, turning cloudy later. Warm with a gentle breeze throughout. High 35C (95F).

North East/Toledo: Cloudy with sunny spells. Breezy later. Warm temperatures throughout the day. High 34C (92F).

Scotland: Cloudy with sunny spells. Breezy later with clear skies. Light southwesterly winds, warm. High 25C (77F).

UK OUTLOOK TOMORROW: Anticipate mostly sunny conditions with mild breezes. Clouds may gather later, but no significant weather disruptions expected.

East Anglia: Sunny and warm, clear skies later. Gentle breezes throughout, temperatures high. High 32C (90F).

London/South East: Sunny throughout. Clear skies later. Light breezes. Warm to very warm conditions. High 35C (95F).

South: Sunny throughout. Clear skies later. Light to moderate winds, staying warm. High 31C (88F).

South West: Sunny early, clear skies later. Winds increasing, becoming breezy. Warm throughout. High 33C (91F).

Channel Isles: Sunny spells, turning clear later. Gentle breezes, warm initially but cooling overnight. High 25C (77F).

Sea: North Sea; Moderate. Irish Sea; Slight. Channel: Moderate.

SIX-DAY FORECAST Temperatures in Centigrade

	FRI	SAT	SUN	MON	TUE	WED
London	12 17 32	15 26	15 26	15 23	15 26	14 24
Belfast	12 23	11 18	13 18	13 18	13 18	11 18
Birmingham	13 28	10 23	12 23	12 21	12 23	11 21
Cardiff	14 26	11 25	13 23	13 22	13 23	12 22
Glasgow	12 19	12 18	13 18	13 18	13 18	12 17
Manchester	13 24	11 20	12 21	12 19	12 21	11 19
Newcastle	12 24	15 20	12 19	12 18	12 20	11 18
Norwich	17 30	13 22	14 22	15 22	14 23	12 22
Plymouth	14 25	12 25	14 23	15 23	15 23	12 22

Air	Sun	Mon	Tue	Fri	Sat	Sun	Mon	Tue	Wed
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Britain Extremes: (All items in item families)	Woman: Noon to Hop, It's, Unkiss: Witness, Nothing, It's, Winger: 0.4bar, 1.0bar, Survival: Hum, 10.8hs		Lightning-up times
			Belfast Birmingham Bristol	0.00pm-5.0am 0.0pm-6.4bar 0.00pm-5.5am

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Brussels	Sunny	35C/95F	Brussels	Sunny	36C/87F
Dublin	Fair	38C/79F	Dublin	Cloudy	33C/72F
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Geneva	Sunny	36C/97F	Geneva	Sunny	34C/93F
Lisbon	Sunny	31C/88F	Lisbon	Sunny	30C/86F
Madrid	Sunny	40C/104F	Madrid	Sunny	39C/102F
Paris	Sunny	36C/102F	Paris	Sunny	35C/102F
Rome	Sunny	36C/97F	Rome	Sunny	35C/95F

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Labour 'building up a mountain of debt'

Warning next generation will inherit burden

BY DAVID WILLIAMSON

Chief Political Commentator

FUTURE generations of Britons are on track to see £1 in every £5 of taxes swallowed up by debt interest, according to a major new financial analysis.

Debt interest could account for over 21.3% of government revenue by 2074-75 in the most likely scenario.

In the worst case, it could hit 47%.

This has heightened fears that those born over the next 15 years could inherit a crushing debt burden unless action is taken.

The warning is likely to strike home in Andy Burnham's government as it comes from the Left-leasing Institute for Public Policy Research.

The government spent around £110billion on debt interest in 2025-26 – 8.1% of total public spending.

The amount spent on debt interest has soared over the past decade.

Shadow Chancellor Sir Mel Stride pledged to cut benefits, saying: "Even Andy Burnham's favourite think-tank say Labour are building up a mountain of debt to hand to the next generation.

"Ministers refuse to get spending under control because they lack the backbone to face down their Left-wing backbenchers who just want more money to spend on benefits."

Sir Mel added: "Burnham and John Healey have no idea how to fix the mess other than to borrow even more than Keir Starmer and Rachel Keeves

did." He said the Tories would "cut the deficit" and "cut welfare spending".

Meanwhile, Reform UK's Robert Jenrick referred to an analysis of International Monetary Fund data.

Families

He said: "We have the second-fastest rising levels of debt of any country after Botswana.

"Burnham's response has been to make a wish list of expensive spending schemes with no plan to pay for them. That means one of two things: even more borrowing – interest on which is paid for by the taxpayer, or even more

tax rises. Working families will have to pay for all this."

The IPPR argues that gradual reform can keep debt costs sustainable. It says a "well-targeted package of reform and long-term investment – including action on preventive health, climate resilience and productivity – could significantly improve the outlook".

The Treasury said: "Fiscal discipline is the bedrock of economic stability and national security. The Chancellor and PM are in lockstep that the government will meet the fiscal rules, with a buffer against uncertainty – and that includes getting debt down."

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Advice is don't share anything

Alert over

scammers targeting card details

BY VICKY SHAW

CRIMINALS are plotting debit and credit card scams after improved controls to prevent other payment fraud, a consumer group warns.

It means unsuspecting victims face being left without the refund protections they expect.

Controls were introduced in 2024 to limit authorised push payment fraud, when people are manipulated into sending money to a scammer by bank transfer. But fraudsters are now persuading victims to approve card payments as well.

They might use similar tactics, such as posing as a bank to convince someone to share security codes or approve payments in their banking app.

Which? describes it as a “critical wake-up call” after years of security efforts being focused on fighting fraud involving bank transfers.

Manipulated

It warns that people who are manipulated into approving card payments may struggle to get their money back.

This is unlike unauthorised card fraud, where spending happens without a cardholder's authorisation or knowledge, which is generally refunded, while victims of APP fraud have reimbursement scheme protections.

Lisa Webb, a consumer law expert at Which?, said: "This is a particularly dangerous scam since card payments fall outside of the automatic refunds banks are obliged to provide for authorised push payments."

UK Finance said: "Never share sensitive information – including one-time passcodes – with anyone other than a service you were expecting to hear from.

"If you receive an unexpected call from someone claiming to be your bank, hang up and call the number on the back of your card."

BY STEPH SPYRO Environment Editor

ANDY Burnham has said he will consider banning disposable barbecues because of the risk of further wildfires.

The Prime Minister made the comments before chairing his first emergency Cobra committee yesterday following the fifth heatwave this summer.

Speaking afterwards he urged all retailers to withdraw the sale of disposable barbecues to prevent more summer infernos.

Firefighters have been called to 1,017 wildfires in England and Wales this year, including 185 in the first 10 days of August, officials said.

Mr Burnham warned that the extreme heat conditions “could be with us for some weeks yet”.

He urged a voluntary pause on selling disposable barbecues to prevent wildfires but stopped short of temporarily banning the grills.

The PM said: "We are seeing multiple serious incidents. The advice to the public is not to use disposable barbecues. Longer term we will look at whether a temporary ban in summer months is justified."

Attendees at the Whitehall meeting included representatives from the Met Office, Environment Agency and UK Health Security Agency, as well as ministers from the Environment, Housing, Health and Cabinet Office departments.

Temperatures are expected to hit 38C in some parts of the country today. A rare amber “extreme heat” warning has been issued for London and parts of the South East, East Midlands, East of England, West Midlands and South Yorkshire from 9am to midnight today. Mr

Prime Minister Andy Burnham

Disposable BBQ

ban on cards to ease wildfire risk

PM warns more extreme heat to come

Burnham said people should not be using single-use grills “at this time” amid a “significant problem” of wildfires in the South, where a blaze hit protected heathland in the New Forest, Hampshire.

On a visit to Stevenage yesterday, he said: "Many wildfires have been created by disposable barbecues. I understand why people want to go out and do that. But we need to

have a situation where we almost just have a temporary ban on those things.

"People should not be using those barbecues outside at this moment."

Phil Garrigan, chairman of the National Fire Chiefs Council, gave his backing to measures to curb the sale of disposable barbecues, as the “current wildfire risk remains exceptionally high”.

He added: "We all need to do what we can to reduce the risk of preventable fires – one small spark can be all that is needed to start a wildfire with the conditions as they are."

Most major UK supermarkets suspended sales of throw-away grills in recent weeks, in line with voluntary guidance from the NFCC.

This summer is on track to be the UK's hottest on record, with much of the country at “exceptional” risk of severe wildfires if they ignite. Nearly three-quarters of England and all of Wales are in drought, after a record

Worrying map of the wildfire severity risk

dry July and very dry start to August. Combined with high heat it put pressure on water for households, agriculture and the environment.

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Farage takes on 'political class' in poll showdown

BY KATIE HARRIS

VOTERS in Clacton go to the polls today for Nigel Farage's "people versus establishment" by-election.

The Reform UK leader quit as an MP to trigger the contest in the Essex seat amid questions over his finances. He insisted the people of Clacton should be the judge of his actions and is standing for re-election.

Despite the main parties snubbing the race and branding it a "stunt". Mr Farage is one of 34 candidates on the 3ft-long ballot paper.

His opponents include Count Binface, TV actor-turned-activist Laurence Fox and three candidates from the Official Monster Raving Loony Party.

Mr Farage was facing a parliamentary probe into a £5m gift he received from cryptocurrency tycoon Christopher Harborne before he became an MP, which he has insisted was to pay for his security.

Message

The investigation, looking at whether he should have declared the money when he became an MP, was paused on his resignation, but is likely to resume if he wins the by-election.

Mr Farage has denied any wrongdoing and says the probe is "being used as a political tool".

Yesterday, he said of the election: "It's about the people versus the establishment, and it is our chance to send a stunning message to the political class." The result is due between 5am and 7am tomorrow.

Meanwhile, Restore Britain leader Rupert Lowe hit out at Reform UK yesterday in a row over a potential deal between the parties.

Mr Lowe ruled out sacking co-founder Charlie Downes, who is accused of antisemitism, to seal an agreement. He said: "If Reform want to discuss policy, not personality, then they know where to find me."

Villagers set to vote 'out' of UK over asylum base

RESIDENTS of a tiny Oxfordshire village say they fear their quiet way of life could be transformed if a former military site is used to accommodate up to 1,250 asylum seekers at MoD Bicester.

The village has a population of only a few hundred people and residents say the proposed accommodation would represent a dramatic increase in the numbers living in the area.

The ex-military site sits close to a recreation area, sports pitches and homes, with some residents saying gardens back directly on to the site.

Piddington locals voted overwhelmingly in favour of having a referendum on whether to leave the UK, with 96% backing the move. The ballot was held on July 4 and was chosen to coincide with the US Independence Day. The symbolic referendum itself

BY JENNIFER PINTO

is set to take place on September 15 - the same day as the Battle of Britain Day and the United Nations' International Democracy Day.

Tim McNally, chairman of Piddington Parish Council, said: "On that day, we're going to send a message back to this country."

He told the Daily Express it's not about protesting but about "going for the political jugular".

Mr McNally said the scale of the proposal is concerning for a community that has just 268 adults and 46 children and that the village felt "absolutely trapped and in a corner". He added: "I thought how do I get to the government and make them realise this is all wrong?" The Express

reported last week how the village children sent pleading letters and drawings to PM Mr Burnham.

Mr McNally said one of the main concerns was the safety of residents. The village has no shop nor pubs. He said: "Resources are already stretched."

Villagers Derek and Karen Joy are worried about the impact, with Karen saying: "Some gardens back on to the site so there's a noise factor but there's also a security factor."

But Home Office minister Anna Turley insisted yesterday: "They're not going to be in the village, they're going to be contained in a base. They will be allowed out, [but] everything they need will be on that site." While Mr Burnham said on Tuesday: "We understand people's concerns and I will look into the issues raised by the good people of Piddington."

Anger over PM's plan to 'spread migrant misery'

ANDY Burnham's plans to spread Channel migrants across the country shows how out of touch he is, critics blasted last night.

The Prime Minister has sparked fury after claiming "all parts of the country need to play their part" and house more asylum seekers.

A Home Office minister admitted a failure to stop small boat crossings has led to "civil unrest" in poorer communities bearing the brunt of the crisis because housing is cheaper.

But critics warned the government is planning to "spread the misery" into more affluent areas, the suburbs and shires "so everybody suffers". They claimed the "solution is to deport illegal immigrants". The Daily

BY MICHAEL KNOWLES

Home Affairs Editor

Express has previously disclosed how the Home Office plans to eventually house 40,000 asylum seekers in the South of England, the South-East, the East, the South West and London.

Shadow Home Secretary Chris Philp said: "Andy Burnham's suggestion middle-class areas or areas where hard-working families live should have illegal immigrants imposed on them shows how out of touch he is.

"It's absolutely disgraceful that he seems to think the solution to this is to spread the illegal immigrants around the country, so everybody suffers with these mostly young men living in their

neighbourhood. The solution is to deport illegal immigrants immediately. They shouldn't be accommodated."

Home Office minister Anna Turley said communities where "housing is perhaps cheaper and more plentiful have had to take more than their fair share of asylum seekers".

Unrest

She added: "That's put a huge burden on communities and created real civil unrest, so we want to make sure we're managing the system much better in a more sustained way that's reducing the impact."

But Mr Philp warned of further civil unrest. He said: "No community

should have to put up with that." Under Home Office plans, a former military base in Bicester, Oxfordshire, will provide accommodation for 1,250 male asylum seekers.

But the residents of Piddington - which sits near the proposed site - have voted in favour of having a symbolic referendum to leave the UK as part of their protests against the plans.

Robert Bates, research director at the Centre for Migration Control, said: "Burnham clearly has no plan to stop the boats, and is instead openly discussing plans to spread the misery further around the country.

"No British community should be forced to accept unvetted men from culturally distant nations."

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Man, 102, is critical after pub 'assault'

BY ELEANOR STOREY

A 102-YEAR-OLD man is in a critical condition after allegedly being assaulted at a pub.

Emergency services were called to the Crow's Nest in Cwmbran, South Wales, at about 10.25pm on August 1 and the man was taken to hospital.

A 56-year-old man from Llanelli was arrested on suspicion of section 20 assault and has since been released under investigation.

Gwent Police said the 102-year-old is still in a critical condition.

Officers want to speak to people who were in the pub between 10pm and 11pm on the night.

Anyone with information can contact the force by calling 101.

Casey Smith, manager of Llanyrafon Social Club, said the 102-year-old man often visited the venue.

She added: "He's been a regular in here for ages, we did his 100th birthday party.

"We hope he's on the mend – 102 isn't exactly the best age to be [injured]."

Shark-bite man airlifted from boat

BY JONATHAN McCAMBRIDE

A MAN was airlifted to hospital with a suspected shark bite off the coast of Ireland.

The incident happened near Co Waterford on Tuesday afternoon.

The man was winched to an Irish Coastguard helicopter from a pleasure craft with five people onboard.

The Irish Department of Transport said he had suffered a leg injury.

They added: "At approximately 4.15pm, the Marine Rescue Co-ordination Centre was alerted to an incident on board a small fishing vessel.

"The report was that a male on board had a leg injury inflicted by a bite from a shark.

"The Coast Guard's helicopter, Rescue 117, was tasked to the scene.

"The male casualty was winched on board and taken to Cork University Hospital."

Shark bites have occurred before off the Irish coast. In 2018, a Belfast fisherman was bitten by a blue shark as he attempted to haul it onto a boat.

Leeming gets 'vile abuse' after slating White

Former BBC broadcaster Jan Leeming has faced a backlash after she criticised Charlene White of ITV News, inset, on X

JAN Leeming says she has been subjected to "vile abuse" after criticising ITV News presenter Charlene White.

The former BBC News broadcaster, 84, posted on X White had a "condescending" way of addressing viewers and that she "doesn't hack it as a newsreader".

White, 46, responded to Leeming's remarks by saying she was surprised to see someone she "admired as a kid deciding to slate me".

Leeming then wrote on X yesterday: "Went't be using account for next few days. Was unwise to make a comment about style but don't believe it warranted vile abuse. I received

BY SEAN O'GRADY

far worse criticism and nastiness from mostly female journalists in my heyday."

In her original post, Leeming wrote: "Wish ITV's Charlene would stop addressing us as if we were children. She has such a condescending style.

"Don't know whether or not she is an excellent journalist but don't think she hacks it as a newsreader."

White responded: "In an industry where women, especially black women, have to work incredibly hard to get ahead; this type of disrespect from a fellow female journo feels like sitting from a bygone era."

Leeming said her criticism of White had nothing to do with race and believes it was much easier for people of minority ethnic backgrounds to "get ahead" now, writing: "I said I didn't know how good you are as a journalist but I find your delivery condescending. It has nothing to do with colour. It is far easier these days for BAME people to get ahead in all walks of life. It was only an opinion and my apologies to you."

Strictly's new era...with underwhelming celebs

ANALYSIS

SASHA MORRIS

Head of Showbusiness

With the final Strictly contestant now revealed, our resident expert gives her verdict on this year's line-up...

STRICTLY Come Dancing's full 2026 line-up is underwhelming. Gavin & Stacey actress Melanie Walters was the final star to be confirmed, and was a highlight of a rather lacklustre series of announcements this year.

The pressure was on BBC bosses to find a high-calibre list of stars, as the show faces a huge change following the exits of beloved presenters Tess Daly and Claudia Winkleman.

But the results have been mixed, with the inclusion of social media content creators and hairdressers leading some to call it the "worst line-up yet".

The announcements started strong, with EastEnders legend Lacey Turner and returning Dani Dyer (daughter of Danny) being confirmed as the first two stars. Neighbours actress and singer Delta Goodrem was the third, making it three out of three with a soap connection.

Everyone loves a soap star but with Lawrence Robb from Emmerdale, and Jaime Winstone, who played a young Peggy Mitchell in an EastEnders spin-

Gavin & Stacey's Melanie Walters and, inset, fellow hopefuls John Nellis and Lacey Turner

off, also in, this year has really pushed it to the limit.

Things went further downhill when celebrity hairdresser Chris Appleton was named as the fifth hopeful. I'm not sure blow-drying Kim Kardashian's hair is enough to land you a spot on one of the biggest shows on TV but his four million Instagram followers are likely to have helped seal the deal. He was joined by Cach Mercer (your guess is as good as

mine), whose claim to fame is winning Love Island in 2025.

It seems the bosses' rumoured rule of "no reality stars" has gone out of the window as long as they have enough fans on social media.

The pair were joined by YouTube sports creator John Nellis, who has a whopping 15 million subscribers on his channel. Followers are important, but will the average Strictly fan know him and want to vote for him each

time? I highly doubt it. The same goes for actress Bethany Antonia, who is no doubt very talented but I fear there will have been a lot of fans googling her name when she was confirmed.

The sporting trend continued with the impressive Dame Sarah Storey, our most successful Paralympian. Great, but did we really need two Olympians in one year? Tabby Stoecker's career has been impressive but viewers may wonder whether she would have fared better in 2027. Sadly, people will recognise Sarah

'There are content creators and even a hairdresser'

before they will her. This year's contestants seem to be a bizarre mishmash appealing to young fans and loyal older viewers, and sadly, never the twain shall meet.

Channel 5's Dogs Behaving Very Badly star Graeme Hall and former footballer Shaun Wright-Phillips will leave teens scratching their heads, while Big Brother's Will Best may leave older fans asking "who?"

I think there have been worse line-ups but with new presenters testing the audience's loyalty, time will tell if BBC bosses' gamble with the contestants will pay off in viewing figures.

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Moving little and often is best way to boost health

T MIGHT sound obvious but sometimes the best medicine does not come in the shape of a pill or out of a bottle.

For many, our impossibly hectic lives make it virtually impossible to do the 150 minutes of weekly exercise recommended by health chiefs.

Neither is it always possible to reach the magic 10,000 steps we have been conditioned into thinking we need to hit every day.

Despite us all being bombarded with adverts for miracle cures, cheat codes and hacks, the truth is there is no silver bullet to good health.

But there is something that has always stood the test of time: movement, little and often.

And that is why the most effective medicine is often found in the most obvious places.

Getting off the bus a stop or two early, traipsing up a flight of stairs instead of using a lift, and walking to the shops instead of driving might sound meaningless but, little by little, they all add up.

The message we should heed? In an age when being sedentary has never been easier, the trick is to keep moving.

Most of us are left exhausted at the end of each day just trying to keep our heads above water so the benefits of diet and exercise are often overlooked.

But we should all remember movement is the best drug of all.

Burnham must finally tackle debt mountain

WHAT Britain needs now is a reality check, not a promise to unleash more damaging tax-and-spend socialism.

The country is on its uppers and mired in debt – some £3trillion of it.

As the Budget approaches many fear we are about to see what a real Left-wing government looks like, with Prime Minister Andy Burnham doubling down on the calamitous mistakes Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves made.

Ms Reeves saddled families and businesses with an extra £66billion in tax. They cannot withstand another onslaught.

The hallmark of every Labour government in living memory has been to tax more, spend more and borrow even more.

This recklessness with public money is not just for us to fret over, it will become a problem for our children, their children, and the children after them.

Deeply depressing analysis by the Institute for Public Policy Research suggests Labour are building up a mountain of debt to hand over to the next generation, with £1 in every £5 of future generations' taxes set to service the interest. It cannot go on like this.

Endless drought makes water even more vital

A STHREE-QUARTERS of Britain shrivels under drought conditions it has now been 860 days and counting without any meaningful rain.

The effects of this devastatingly dry period can be seen all around us.

And that is why we must all redouble our efforts to responsibly preserve water.

Foreign powers keep our lights on as green grids switched off

MANY moons ago, I did an episode of the Alexis Conran show on Channel 5 with then Green Party leadership hopeful Zack Polanski. I wasn't told beforehand by the producers who I would be on with, but it had never bothered me before.

Looking back, I imagine I was paired with him because he was trying to raise his profile for the leadership election and I'd always got on relatively well with whoever I shared a panel with. He was perfectly polite, charming and, I must add, as dim as a cave.

At times, I was so taken aback by his ignorance that I was genuinely stunned into silence. Of course, he had come prepared with the usual platitudinous bilge. But when we got onto energy prices, he let his utter cluelessness slip by saying something to the effect of, "I don't know why we let gas set the marginal price for energy in this country. When I become Prime Minister, I'll make it wind". It was at that point I knew that we were doomed.

Not because he wouldn't concede my point. Indeed, gas sets the price because it's what's readily available and efficient when the sun isn't shining or the wind isn't blowing. Nor because he clearly had as much sense as a baby rattle. But because he's not far off the rest of our politicians in Westminster.

Their luxury beliefs have been paid for by everyone else, and nowhere is the bill more visible than in energy. It's impossible to overstate just how crucial energy is to everything we do. It powers industry and heats our homes. It keeps the hospitals lit and moves the food we eat and the water we drink.

THE ONLY people who've never had to think about what happens when the lights go out are the ones who never imagined it could happen to them.

We spent £439million

Former Energy Secretary Ed Miliband put his trust in heat-averse wind and solar power

Esther Krakue

Daily Express columnist

importing power from Europe in May alone, the highest monthly bill ever recorded outside the Ukraine energy crisis, and £1.7billion between January and May. We're on course to beat last year's £3.6bn, half of which went to France's state-owned EDF.

On some days last week, three-quarters of the electricity keeping London and the South East going came down a cable from France and the Low Countries, and in June our own grid engineers had to ring Paris to keep the lights on.

The greatest irony is that because heatwaves are often associated with high-pressure zones that lead to low winds, wind farms suffer lower output. Solar panels also become less efficient in high temperatures – they are tested at 25C in a lab and lose output by up to a fifth in real summer sun.

You couldn't make this stuff up. Wind farms are useless when

there are low winds. And solar farms aren't great with warm weather (fire the design engineers!). When we need them the most, the energy forms we've ploughed so much money into don't even work.

Ed Miliband may not be solely responsible for the sorry state of Britain's energy, but he certainly played a huge role.

He is 56 now, and is currently standing in his fourth Cabinet role. And I cannot for the life of me work out what qualified such a woefully unremarkable man to head up this country's energy policy.

He's never had a real job. He left Oxford in 1992, spent a year as a researcher on a Channel 4 politics programme, and by 1993 was writing speeches for Harriet Harman at the age of 23.

He moved onto Gordon Brown's team the year after that, became his special adviser at 27, and was parachuted into

'The energy forms we've ploughed so much money into don't even work'

the safe seat of Doncaster North in 2005.

The US Secretary of Energy, former oil industry CEO Chris Wright – who has said "there is no climate crisis and we're not in the midst of an energy transition either" – supposedly nicknamed his then-counterpart "Miliwatt". And who can disagree?

AS OF LAST month, the man is no longer Energy Secretary. The job has passed to another busy-body you haven't heard of – Matta Fahnbulleh, who is even keener than her predecessor on refusing new North Sea licences, and believes that the climate crisis is a "crisis of capitalism".

Isn't it awkward then, that it's capitalists across the Channel who've been keeping us supplied, and charging us handsomely for the privilege?

Energy policy in this country has clearly been set by people who don't have to worry about consequences if they do a poor job. It's the only way to explain the predicament that we're in. Miliband, after all, hasn't been sucked. He's been promoted to the Foreign Office.

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Downing St Dalek's left us in peace

HAVE you noticed a slight lessening in the robotic tones around us?

I speak not of Al, but of our poor departed Prime Minister (RIP) and his ghastly Chancellor (not so much). The dreaded duo of Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves not only managed to install an atmosphere of unrelenting gloom across the country, but launched an assault on our eardrums every time they opened their mouths.

I fully expect Andy Burnham to be an abject failure in No.10, and will probably make matters worse than they already are. But at least he sounds like a human and not the Dalek next door.

I SIMON & Schuster have said they will press ahead with the publication of that fantasist Jason Arday's memoirs.

I bet they will. Forget the fact that there's no way of knowing how much, if any of it is accurate, but can you imagine how many people will buy it out of curiosity?

Maybe Arday will finally have something to boast about: a No.1 bestselling book.

Party snoopers

ONE of the less attractive aspects of the heatwave is the number of people dobbing in neighbours for using a hosepipe.

Yes I know they shouldn't but no one likes a snitch. Someone living near us once called the fire brigade when we were using our firepit in a stone patio: not only did the fire-fighters accept immediately there was no problem but they recognised my husband from his frequent TV appearances and turned out to be fans. If I knew who the neighbour was I'd have rubbed their noses in it. Snoops; just keep your curtains shut.

VIRGINIA BLACKBURN

"A clear conscience is a sure sign of a bad memory." Mark Twain

MY CHAMPAGNE GLASS IS ALWAYS HALF FULL

Email me at virginia.blackburn@reachplc.com

Hollow ring to PM's high street hysteria

THE Labour Party is talking about town centres being "hollowed out" after decades of decline on the high street. Is this the same Labour Party that ratcheted up business rates, made it more expensive to employ people and all but wiped out that old staple, the Saturday job?

The same Labour Party that gives a very good impression of thinking that all employers are evil, that wealth creation is to be stamped on and that is implementing Angela Rayner's insane employment restrictions which will make the situation even worse?

The economic incompetence of these people knows no bounds. Our new PM-without-a-mandate is talking about getting rid of vape and betting shops: marvellous, but what's he going to replace them with? More charity shops and estate agents?

Our "hollowed out" high streets, exhausted, depressing and unwelcoming, are a symbol of the whole country. And a great deal of this can be laid at the feet of the people currently running the show. It's no good blaming poor Liz Truss.

My husband and I are lucky: we live near a high street that still boasts a fishmonger, a butcher, a couple of very upmarket delis and some nice dress shops. That used to be the norm. But even that street has changed over the last few decades: shops have been closing down never to reopen and quite a lot of that is due to brutal business rates.

Labour is adopting exactly the same approach to the high street as it does to the rest of the economy: if it moves, tax it.

And then there's the issue of all those iffy barber shops and nail salons, manned by, well, we're not quite sure who and very possibly money laundering. Who let the people who run them in?

If Andy Burnham really wants to rejuvenate the high street, he should slash taxes and regulation, encourage entrepreneurs rather than penalising them and stop local mayors – he was one until a couple of weeks ago – messing up the traffic lanes so badly that no one can get to the shops, let alone buy anything. But we all know this isn't going to happen.

Burnham is a socialist, of the same creed that produced the Soviet Union, a place in which people queued for hours to get to the shops only to find there was nothing in them.

The British people are far too pragmatic to let anything similar happen here. But change at the top simply cannot come too soon.

ANDY Burnham has been going around the UK on a "listening tour": OK, then, listen to this. Cut taxes. Cut benefits, and you'll see growth begin in months.

Glad Brad is back to his vintage best

YOU ARE not supposed to say this but I, for one, am glad that Brad Pitt has taken up having the odd glass of wine again after seven years of sobriety.

Of course you shouldn't get smashed and cause a row in a private jet as he is reported to have done, but alcohol is the nectar that oils the wheels of society.

As long as you don't overdo it there's nothing wrong with Mad. And it's noticeable dry countries are the most repressive and joyless places on earth.

As Sir Winston Churchill put it, "I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me" – and he lived until he was 90. Cheers, Brad!

I BARBIE has changed shape! A new version of the famous doll has come out that more closely resembles the proportions of a real woman. Well, some real women.

Given the rates of obesity in this country an even more accurate reflection might have been to manufacture her in the shape of a beach ball.

CAMBRIDGE COUNCIL KNOWS DIDDLY SQUAT ABOUT PUBLIC CONVENIENCE

WHEN I first saw a squat loo, in Hong Kong, I couldn't face it. A few years later, in Tanzania, I had to as there was no choice. In the years since there has always been an anxious scoot through public facilities in far-flung climes to make sure

there was something I could use; it was always a relief to be back in Blighty where no such worries prevailed.

Not if you're in Cambridge, though: the (Labour) council has just spent £1million on the

things for "international visitors". It's the council, not the university, responsible for this nonsense, but this is the same place where a PE teacher was allowed to pass himself off as an esteemed academic. Interesting times, no?

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by Harvey Jones

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WE BRITS are hopeless at haggling. We see a price and assume that's exactly what we have to pay. But that's not always the case.

The very suggestion of haggling brings me out in hives. My reluctance has cost me a fortune over the years. Especially on big ticket purchases such as homes. In my view, we're looking at it all wrong. The trick is not to see it as confrontation, but as a game. Keep cool, stay polite, be prepared to walk away, and you might be surprised at the response.

With household budgets under pressure, haggling is more valuable than ever yet too many are simply too embarrassed to try, according to consumer rights campaigner Helen Dewdney, better known as The Complaining Cow.

She said: "What have you got to lose? They can only say no!"

It helps to do your homework first. Check competitors' prices and decide the maximum you're prepared to pay. Don't just haggle over the headline price. Delivery, installation, administration fees and accessories can all be up for negotiation, she said. "Could the business throw in something? Delivery charges, installation fees and accessories can all be negotiable."

Timing helps. Try visiting a shop when it is quiet, rather than when staff are rushed off their feet. If buying a car, September is a good time to negotiate as dealers are keen to shift outgoing registrations.

Tell a business you can pay today if you're a cash buyer, and make sure you're talking to someone with the authority to offer a discount.

Be calm, polite and assertive. Crucially, don't be afraid of silence. Once you've asked for a better price, stop talking. A salesperson may feel uncomfortable with the silence and offer something more, Dewdney

Haggle your way to a better deal

said. Online shoppers should haggle too. You can even keep a screenshot of a rival offer and take it to a store.

The same applies to insurance, broadband and mobile contracts. Check what new customers are being offered and ask whether loyal customers can get the same deal.

The golden rule is simple. Be prepared to walk away. Haggling only works if you're genuinely willing to say no.

As Dewdney put it: "A haggled price is a win-win." The business gets a sale and you get a better deal.

Being a bit less British could leave you considerably better off. One day, I might even try it myself.

DEAL OF THE WEEK

FROZEN food chain Iceland is offering its Summer Holiday Essentials Bundle, where shoppers can choose 24 items from a selection of 40 for £33.50. This offers savings of up to £25.30. Iceland says the bundle has been "designed to deliver exceptional value" on a range of everyday items to help Brits weather the costs of school holidays. It is only available online and lasts until August 31.

PM ANDY Burnham has promised to crack down on subscription traps, making it easier to cancel unwanted services and forcing companies to give clearer warnings before contracts automatically renew at a higher price. But can he do it?

Subscription traps are a real problem, particularly for pensioners who struggle with online services and may end up paying for things they don't use - for months or even years.

There are around 155 million active subscriptions in Britain. Consumers are estimated to waste £1.6billion a year on ones they don't want.

Giles Tongue, subscription expert at Bangø, said most of us have encountered subscription traps on websites and apps. "They're designed to secure a quick sign-up and hope you either forget you're paying or find it too difficult to leave."

The reforms have been mooted for years and won't come into force until

at least January 2027. So don't wait for Burnham. Check your bank statements and online banking for recurring payments. Look particularly closely at streaming services, gym memberships, cloud storage, gaming, software and delivery subscriptions. Free trials are a danger, as they can sneakily turn into paid subscriptions.

Joe Lytwyn, personal finance expert at thimbl.com, said: "A £4.99 payment here and a £9.99 payment there doesn't feel significant on its own, which makes it easy for people to overlook how much they're spending."

Harry Goodiffe, director at HTG Mortgages, said companies aren't the only culprits. Politicians are trying the same tricks, notably by freezing income tax thresholds so that more of our earnings creep into higher tax bands. "Now we're watching ministers crack down on gyms and streaming services for the same trick they're pulling themselves."

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ANN WIDDECOMBE OCTOBER 4, 1947 - JULY 8, 2026

‘I do hope Ann’s views on Heaven and afterlife have turned out to be true...’

‘Incredibly sad day’ at funeral for ex politician

BY ADAM TOMS in Buckfast Abbey

MOURNERS gathered in the picturesque grounds of Buckfast Abbey yesterday to say a final farewell to Ann Widdecombe, who was killed in her own home last month.

The former Conservative MP and Reform UK spokeswoman, who wrote a column for the Daily Express for 20 years, had rested overnight inside the Devon abbey in keeping with Catholic tradition ahead of a private funeral attended by family and friends.

As the service began at around 2pm, Amazing Grace could be heard drifting across the sun-scorched grounds.

After around one and a half hours, the doors opened and Ms Widdecombe’s coffin emerged to the sound of Gregorian chant, accompanied by candles and topped with pale blue and purple flowers.

Police had swarmed the abbey grounds yesterday morning, conducting an extensive search of bushes, bins, flower beds and drainage. A sniffer dog was also deployed.

Mourners included Ms Widdecombe’s assistant Harriet Bastide, broadcaster Iain Dale and ex-Tory minister Conor Burns.

Battered

Former Tory MP Crispin Blunt and journalist Andrew Pierce were also there.

Mr Pierce, who knew Ann for more than 30 years, told The Express that it was “an incredibly sad day” and his friend “never hesitated to share her strong opinions whether you liked them or not”.

He also described her as great fun and great company. But Mr Pierce said that the way her days ended was appalling.

He added: “She used to talk to me all the time about how one day she hoped she’d be able to find a house on Dartmoor so she could go walking and read and relax.

“She never really did relax, did she?”

Ms Widdecombe had always wanted her funeral to be at Buckfast Abbey, Mr Pierce said. Mr Dale was driven down to Devon from Scotland by his best friend for the service.

He wrote on his Substack: “I don’t normally cry at funerals, but I am fully expecting to be in floods of tears at this one, staring at the coffin which will contain poor Ann’s battered body.

“I think that’s when it will really hit me. I do hope Ann’s

Procreation inside Buckfast Abbey, main wall, blockette, Ms Widdecombe, police search, outside abbey and PA Ms Bastide, inset, police/other day

views on Heaven and the afterlife have turned out to be true. I hope I meet her there one day.”

The Right Reverend David

Charlesworth OSB, Abbot of Buckfast, said in a homily at the service: “Our response is to pray for the repose of her soul.”

Joshua Kerry, 28, has been charged with Ms Widdecombe’s murder. She was report-

repertedly hit in the head 21 times with a hammer. Police are also investigating whether Kerry could be linked to an alleged fire-bomb attack at Reform UK leader Nigel Farage’s home in 2025.

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KILLER JOINS CLUB OF INMATES GETTING ULTIMATE SENTENCE

BY PAUL JEEVES

SIMON Levy has joined some of the country's most infamous criminals after he was handed a whole-life order for murdering two women and raping a third.

Other criminals who have been sentenced to whole-life orders in recent years include notorious baby killer Lucy Letby.

She was jailed in August 2023 for murdering seven infants and trying to murder seven others.

Wayne Couzens, who abducted, raped and murdered Sarah Everard while he was a serving PC with the Metropolitan Police, also got the ultimate sentence.

Earlier this year, double killer David Taylor was given a whole-life order for murdering child killer Kyle Bevan at HMP Wakefield while on remand for killing Alisha Apostoloff-Beyerin, 24, as well as trying to murder a detective in a prison interview

Lucy Letby and Wayne Couzens

room. Mark Fellows and Lee Newell are also serving whole-life orders for the Bevan murder.

In June, paedophile and killer Jamie Varley was put away for life for the murder and sexual abuse of his adopted 13-month-old baby Preston Davey.

Sharaz Ali was given a whole-life order in March for killing his ex-partner's sister, and her three children by setting fire to their home in Bradford in 2024.

Double murderer Shaine March was told he would spend the rest of his days in prison after Court of Appeal judges ruled that the sentence he was given for the murder of his girlfriend while on life licence for a killing was "unduly lenient".

About 70 criminals are serving whole-life orders. They will never be considered for release unless for exceptional compassionate grounds.

Sex predator Levy will die in prison

BY PAUL JEEVES Crime Editor

A SERIAL sex attacker who was left free to rape one woman and murder two others has now been told he will die behind bars as he was handed a whole-life term.

Simon Levy, 40, assaulted women on the London Underground but was repeatedly bailed, and went on to rape a woman in a car park in January last year.

The surviving victim told police where he lived – yet she was not formally interviewed until after Levy had gone on to kill twice.

First he murdered grandmother Carmenza Valencia-Trujillo, 53, in March last year, dumping her body near abandoned flats in Walworth, south-east London.

Months later, in August 2025, he killed mother-of-four Sheryl

'He took away my soul and my dignity that night'

Wilkins, 39, leaving her in the same car park in Tottenham, North London, where he had raped before. He suffocated both his murder victims in sexually motivated attacks.

Sentencing him at the Old Bailey yesterday, Judge Mark Lucraft KC, the Recorder of London, told the killer he was "clearly someone who ruthlessly exploits others for your own personal sexual satisfaction".

It came after Levy was found guilty of two counts of murder, two counts of rape, grievous bodily harm with intent and the non-fatal smothering of the rape victim.

He was also convicted earlier this year at Inner London crown court of 11 sexual assaults on the city's public transport network.

Levy, who wore sunglasses and grinned as he entered the dock to be sentenced, showed no emotion as he was told he would die in jail.

His surviving rape victim said: "He took away my soul that night

and he took away my dignity. This man is a parasite not worthy of any more of my words or time."

Ms Wilkins's sister Lindsey Hicks sobbed as she told Levy he had "destroyed our lives".

Ms Valencia-Trujillo's daughter, Nazly, told the court: "Our world has been ripped apart."

The Metropolitan Police, British Transport Police and Crown Prosecution Service have admitted failings in how they dealt with Levy.

The Independent Office for Police Conduct said it had served a gross misconduct notice on a Metropolitan Police constable and a misconduct notice on a detective sergeant.

Levy was jailed in 2021 for groping two women in London in 2018.

He was then arrested in 2024 for sexual assaults on the Tube, but delays in organising an identification parade left him free to escalate his attacks.

After Ms Valencia-Trujillo's murder Levy was released on bail at two magistrates court hearings in May and June 2025.

The CPS admitted it had not opposed bail at the first hearing, and the prosecutor had not given the court all the relevant information for consideration at the second.

There were another three crown court hearings that he failed to attend, yet no arrest warrant was requested.

As a convicted sex offender, Levy was being monitored by the probation service and police but lied to

officers who visited him at the home he shared with his mother in Tottenham, saying he did not go out.

Sir Mark Rowley, the Metropolitan Police Commissioner, hit out at justice system failures.

He said it is "not acceptable for a struggling criminal justice system to put increasing amount of risks on the street, and then say to the police 'we're going to give you a bigger and bigger list of dangerous people to monitor' and then focus all the criticism on us if we don't do it as well as we could".

Sir Mark added yesterday: "We will do everything we can do to do better but the justice system needs to carry more of the load than it is at the moment, rather than passing it back on to the streets."

Soaring acid attacks put more women at risk

Chemical attacker Abdul Ezedi, in 2024

ACID attacks have rocketed by 61% in the past year, with violent assaults on women making up an ever-increasing number of them.

Chilling research conducted by charity Acid Survivors Trust International (ASTI) reveals 1,690 offences involving corrosives were recorded last year, compared with 1,050 in the previous year.

Beyond the devastating impact attacks have on the victim, a single incident costs £63,000 for medical and psychosocial support, in addition to the costs to the police and the judicial and penal systems, coming to a total of £24million.

The shock figures have been

BY PAUL JEEVES Crime editor

compiled following a Freedom of Information request sent to all police forces in the UK.

Worryingly, the data shows a 39% increase in female victims, from 370 in 2024 to 514 in 2025.

In comparison, there were 395 male victims in 2025, compared with 400 in the previous year.

Chemical attacker Abdul Ezedi, 35, took his own life after attacking a woman and two girls in Clapham, south-west London, on January 31, 2024.

Out of the 1,690 total offences, almost a quarter were violent

offences against a person (388), while the other 1,302 were threats of attacks and other acid-related offences, such as possession.

In many cases, the threat of attack is used as coercion alongside crimes such as rape or robbery.

Trauma

According to ASTI, the real figures are likely to be even higher because of under-reporting, and because five police forces did not respond to its data request.

Historically, acid attacks in the UK have been associated with male-on-male violence and are

often linked to gang activity. But trends show the use of acid as a weapon, predominantly as a threat, is becoming increasingly linked with violence against women and girls.

In terms of suspects, 218 were males and 55 were female.

Jal Shah, executive director at ASTI, said: "Threatening someone with acid is a terrifying form of violence, with lasting trauma.

"With a new government in place, there must be urgent action to tackle the root causes, while addressing the growing use of corrosive substances as violence against women and girls."

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BILL NICHY IS DRYLY

By Marc Baker

DEEPLY resistant to any sort of loungewear or attempt at humdrum domesticity, the urbane Love Actually star Bill Nighy admits playing a dishevelled character in his new movie & Sons left him horrified.

Famous for his sharp polished look in bespoke tailored suits, the 76-year-old actor found himself forced to wear sloppy trackie bottoms and shorts in his new scorn role as scruffy, reclusive alcoholic author Andrew Dyer.

Slightly appalled, Bill says: "I never thought I would be in a major motion picture in shorts. I have never been seen public in shorts. Not since I played rugby at school."

The stylish man about town has many strict rules when it comes to his attire.

"I run my wardrobe like a fascist state," he admits wryly.

Which means leisurewear of any sort has been banned completely.

"I haven't been in swim attire or owned swimming trunks this century, or before that," he grimaces, adding, "The thought of me in Speedos is apparently unsurvivably funny."

He is tickled by the thought of the athleisure trend among people who have no intention of breaking a sweat.

"The kind of sports luxe green tracksuit bottoms I wear in the film amuse me too. The idea of old people in exercise gear. Most people who wear that stuff are not going to exercise anytime soon."

HE RECALLS his Scottish-born mother Catherine once buying herself a tracksuit. "My mum bought a shell suit when she was like 79 and started walking around as if she was about to go jogging. It just makes me laugh.

"It's a good job I never watch anything I am in, as I don't want to watch this one!"

Sounding suave and self-assured, the actor admits he wasn't always like that, but age has brought many benefits. He says: "I made a mess of being young. I like my head not being a war zone anymore. Things are far less complicated in my head now."

While he found being a young actor stressful and has openly discussed earlier battles with drink and drugs, Bill has been sober since 1992 and reveals he never prepares for roles now.

In his latest film, which is based on the novel by David Gibert, he plays errant Andrew Dyer trying to explain his way out of an affair to his ex-wife Isabel (Imelda Staunton).

Dyer claims his 17-year-old lovechild and

I never thought I'd be in a film in shorts. I run my wardrobe like a fascist state

Suave icon runs his bespoke rule over athleisure wear, ageing and protecting his hair

third son (Noah Jupe) is the result of a wacky human clone experiment, and finds himself reuniting with his two estranged sons (Johnny Flynn and George MacKay) over fears he is about to die.

In real life, Bill has a daughter Mary Nighy with actress Diana Quick from their 26-year relationship until they split amicably 2008. Another advantage of ageing for Bill is that success means never having to wash his own clothes. "I don't have a washing machine. I'm decadent. I send it out," he reveals.

As a young jobbing actor, Bill spent a lot of time in rented rooms where residents got their clothes cleaned and thought it was the height

of luxury. "I was in one particular digs in London where the other residents had a laundry system.

THEY all had these sort of oblong boxes with a leather strap tied around them and their name on the lid. I thought, 'if I ever make any money, I'm having one of those.' So now I have one. My laundry comes back sheathed. It's so glamorous to me."

He admits to "a deep relationship with the laundry service and with dry cleaning". "If it stands still for six seconds, I dry clean it." It seems entirely reasonable that a chap who makes that much effort to look good, probably likes to go out to eat – which is

why the kitchen in Bill's flat in Pimlico, south west London is also missing a cooker.

He says: "I have a small grill/oven thing that you might find in a tent. It's never been turned on. In my last flat, I didn't have

an oven at all." He explains that after moving into a new place, the builders removed the oven. "They asked, 'When's the new one coming?' I realised in the moment that there was never going to be a new one because who needs it?

"My daughter was there and she said, 'Dad, don't be weird'. So I had a hob in order not to be weird, but I never used it."

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world's most stylish woman. The rumour mill went into overdrive when he arrived arm-in-arm with his long-term friend, global editorial director of Vogue, Anna Wintour, to the 2023 Met Gala and everyone wrongly thought they were dating.

However, Bill, whose credits include Shaun of the Dead, Pirates of the Caribbean, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Their Finest and The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, has been "married" to his & Sons co-star Imelda. He jokes, "It was

great to have Imelda with me. I have known her all my life. I have been married to her before and we have certainly slept together."

But there is one person who does make Bill's heart skip a beat – his style icon, late Rolling Stones drummer Charlie Watts.

Describing Charlie's preference for playing drums wearing a three-piece suit as "radical," Bill adds: "Charlie had infinite class."

Describing their only meeting on a winter's day walking down London's Bond Street, he says: "Somebody said 'Bill'. I

in, from left, Shaun of the Dead, Their Finest with Gemma Arterton and Love Actually

turned around and it was Charlie Watts. The fact that he knew that I was called Bill was kind of thrilling.

"He leaned forward and took my lapel. I was wearing a reasonable suit. He looked absolutely sensational.

"He felt my lapel and said, 'You're an actor, you're supposed to be skint.' I replied, 'Well, things looked up'. And he said, 'I'm glad to hear it'. Then he got in the car and drove away."

Despite being forced to lower his sartorial standards for his latest film, Bill found himself having to draw the line at the film director's demands. He reveals, "Pablo Trapero wanted me to shave my head for the role, but I told my agent I was

not going to do that. I threw him a lifeline and grew a beard, which got out of hand. We finished filming on a Friday at about 10pm and the next morning I was outside Geo. F. Trumper, the barbers, by appointment to the Queen, waiting for them to open the doors. They gave me a full shave with extract of lime tonic. It was gorgeous."

All that effort must surely put Bill in the running for an Oscar, although his fans already seem to think he has one.

He reveals, "One came up to me in the street and said, 'What is it like when they hand the Oscar to you?' I said 'I have never had one'. I should have shut up."

● & Sons is released in cinemas August 21.

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Fears our coffee prices could soar by 300% under EU rules

BY KATIE HARRIS Senior Political Correspondent

BREXITEERS have raised fears that European Union pesticide plans could push up food prices in the UK.

Brussels is considering tightening standards to prevent food with traces of certain pesticides from entering the bloc.

But the move would lead to fewer imports into Europe and rocketing price rises for consumers, according to new analysis by the European Commission.

The UK imports much of its fresh produce, coffee, and fruit from the same global suppliers that serve the EU and under a worst-case scenario, the price of coffee would soar by 332% and citrus juice would jump by around 82%, according to the Joint Research Centre.

Meanwhile, the EU's agricultural imports

Pesticide plans set to hit groceries

would drop by 41% and livestock farmers would face higher costs.

Even under a more optimistic scenario, consumer prices would still rise and imports would go down, although domestic production would increase.

Lord Matthew Elliott, former chief executive of Vote Leave and also a member of the House of Lords' European Affairs Committee, said: "With everyday living costs being such a struggle for people, any new rules which drive up the cost of groceries need to be challenged to determine whether they are necessary.

"Whether these rules affect British

consumers indirectly by driving up food prices in the EU or whether they affect us directly through the government's EU reset, the needs of consumers need to be prioritised.

"Grocery bills have shot up in recent years and everyone is feeling the pinch."

EU reset minister Hamish Falconer has insisted the UK will pursue closer ties with the bloc under Andy Burnham, as it did under predecessor Sir Keir Starmer.

The proposed ban on foods with traces of certain pesticides is popular with EU farmers who want a level playing field with their

foreign counterparts. But opponents argue that it goes against global trade rules as it essentially imposes EU regulations on foreign producers.

It comes as food and drink manufacturers warn of shortages and higher costs into next year. The Food & Drink Federation this week said the scorching weather will hit supplies of fruit, vegetables and grains.

Dr Liliana Danila, chief economist at the FDF, added: "Across most of Europe heatwaves and droughts are impacting [food] supply. The additional pressure will be reflected in prices."

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EXCLUSIVE BY PAUL JEEVES

THE lowest-ever number of A-level music students receive their results today as numbers in the subject have plummeted further and pushed the subject into crisis mode.

Industry insiders fear that despite music being a British success story, bringing more than £8billion into the economy and spreading soft power around the globe, the subject could vanish over the next decade.

The statistics from Ofqal, which are for exam entries this summer, show A-level music entries fell by 4.9% from last year to 4,635 pupils. GCSE music entries are down 1.3%.

The fall comes despite overall exam entries rising in line with the 18-year-old population. Overall GCSE entries have increased by 1.1% since last summer, while A-levels are up 2.9%.

But analysis by Campaign for the Arts in 2025 shows the share of total entries in A-levels arts subjects contracted by 0.5%, reaching the lowest level in 15 years.

The uptake of A-level music has fallen by nearly 50% since 2010, the year then-Tory education chief Michael Gove's EBacc system was introduced. It incentivised schools to focus on a set of subjects such as maths, English and science while excluding music and all arts subjects. Meanwhile, recent research by the Cultural

Music A-level 'in peril' as exam numbers plummet

Learning Alliance and Royal Shakespeare Company showed the number of young people taking arts GCSEs in state schools has fallen by 41.7% since 2010.

Although GCSE music had shown signs of a modest recovery in the past few years, the trend has been one of decline since 2010, with over a third of schools in England now not

offering GCSE music. Deborah Annetts, chief executive of the Independent Society of Musicians, said: "On a day when young people are hopefully celebrating their exam results, the provisional music entries in England shows us the future of music A-level is in peril.

"Without urgent action there's a real risk A-level music could disappear from state schools altogether

within a decade." Ms Annetts said it is crucial that the government urgently address the decline, as the stakes could not be higher.

The Express's Strike A Chord crusade aims to protect and restore music education in schools.

Ms Annetts added: "The government says it wants music to flourish in all schools but has shown none of the action required."

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AN astonishing 19 million people wish they had kept going with learning music at school and beyond.

Some 34% of adults wish they had continued making or studying music when they were younger, rising to 45% among 25 to 34-year-olds, research has found. In comparison, just 3% wished they had continued subjects such as law, engineering, finance or accountancy.

The survey of 2,000 adults, commissioned by chamber orchestra London Concertante, found one in three people wished they had continued with at least one form of music, whether learning an instrument, singing, studying music, being in a choir or playing in a band, orchestra or ensemble.

Among adults overall, 21% wished they kept learning a musical instrument, while 9% wished they kept singing, 7% studying music, 7% being in a choir and 6% playing in a band, orchestra or ensemble.

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'Worst boy racer' recorded himself driving at 191mph

A DRIVER described as Britain's "worst boy racer" has been jailed after speeding at up to 191mph in his £90,000 BMW X3M Competition.

Connor Charlton, 32, was recorded on his car's computer hitting high speeds on at least eight occasions within a 12-month period, including 191mph, 186mph and 175mph.

The semi-professional footballer, who plays as a striker for Nostell Miners Welfare FC in the Northern Counties East Football League, according to the club's website, also recorded himself speeding.

Police were alerted to videos on social media showing him driving at dangerously high speeds in 2023.

In one clip played in court he was seen weaving in and out of traffic before building up to 160mph, with a caption saying "Wow" alongside a smug and laughing emoji.

In another, a person can be heard saying "woah woah woah" before screeching with laughter as Charlton pulls in front of a white van and almost causes a crash.

Another captioned "UK No1" shows him speeding from a red light at up to 157mph. It was also found that he had been chatting to motorists

BY CHARLIE FENTON

arranging for others to take speeding penalty points. A note was also found on his phone outlining a fabricated story about a crash he was involved in, claiming it was another driver's fault and that they had fled.

Connor Charlton was jailed

After this crash in Leeds, West Yorks, in 2023 police seized the BMW and downloaded information from its onboard computer showing it had been driven at high speeds on roads including the M1, M62 and A1(M) motorways.

Charlton was held in November 2023 and gave a no-comment interview to police.

But at Leeds Crown Court, Charlton of Hunslet, Leeds, admitted 10 counts of dangerous driving and four of perverting the course of justice. Judge Kate Rayfield handed him a four-year jail term and a road ban of four years and seven months.

Nicholas Lyes of the Institute Of Advanced Motorists said: "This case is a stark reminder that dangerous driving can have life-changing consequences, not only for the driver but for everyone else using the road."

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Brits dig in to set 406mph hydrogen speed record

A British hydrogen-powered JCB has set a new 406.320 mph world land speed record.

The JCB Hydromax car became the fastest hydrogen-powered vehicle as it recorded an average speed of 406.320 mph this week on the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah.

Driven by wing commander Andy Green DBE, the 64-year-old ex RAF pilot hit an average speed of 400.623 mph in the first run and 412.135 mph on the second. The twin-engined, 32ft-car completed the two runs required by FIA rules - one in each direction within an hour - easily beating the 185.5 mph set by the

BY DEAN MURRAY

BMW H2R in 2004. The new record was set using two of JCB's own hydrogen digger engines, producing a combined 1,600 bhp, which power JCB machines rolling off production lines at the company's factory in Foston, Derbyshire.

Green, who set the unbroken world land speed record of 763.035 mph in 1997 in Nevada driving the jet-powered car ThrustSSC, said: "Bonneville is the spiritual home of the world land speed record, and JCB Hydromax has just written itself into that history. The car was stable, strong and fast."

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After 2,000 games in a row, I'm the Don at stats

BY SAM ELLIOTT-GIBBS

A FOOTBALL megafan has not only seen every one of his team's matches since 1989, he can remember all the results of them too.

Michael Taliaodoros saw his 2,000th consecutive Wimbledon match on Saturday, having followed the club through their 2004 change into MK Dons.

Michael, known as MikeyT at Stadium MK, now helps the League One team as a matchday commentator as well.

He said: "The run started away to Charlton on May 6, 1989, and the last match I missed was at Manchester United a few days earlier.

"I had only just started work, and I hadn't had my first pay packet."

Testing his claims of encyclopaedic knowledge, Mikey, 55, was asked to give details of Wimbledon's 1992-93 season opener.

He replied, accurately: "We played Leeds United away on August 15. We lost 2-1."

He was able to see games during Covid due to commentating.

He said: "There's been ups and downs. But this is my club and I love every second of it."

Dame Prue: Feared stroke was a bad migraine

Dame Prue in trademark glasses, and below, with her Bake Off co-stars

BY FRAN WINSTON

GREAT British Bake Off icon Dame Prue Leith was rushed to hospital in an ambulance amid fears she was having a stroke.

The 86-year-old TV star was holidaying in Yorkshire when her "incomprehensible jumble of disconnected words" led her husband, John Playfair, to fear she had had a stroke.

She was taken to A&E and spent 10 hours being checked over, including a brain scan.

Dame Prue said: "A few weeks ago, staying in Yorkshire, I had a migraine attack.

"It followed a familiar path. First, I can see only half of whatever I'm looking at. This is speedily followed by a bright circle of flickering, coloured lights in the upper right field of vision.

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"If I don't swiftly swallow one of my migraine 'bombs' (three pills: paracetamol, ibuprofen and sumatriptan), a crashing headache will follow.

"Since the speech problem is a classic symptom of a stroke, and my extreme old age being a time when mini-strokes are common, everyone was determined to be safe not sorry."

Reassuring fans she was fine, she said the staff even went out of their way to feed her with a sandwich of "white bread with a skinny slice of processed ham".

Writing in Prue's News in the September issue of The Oldie magazine, out tomorrow, she said: "Not the healthiest supper for nurses on night shift, but John and I wolfed it down."

Prue announced her departure as a judge on Bake Off earlier this year.

Jasper: We are so proud of our daughter and love her so much'

Jasper Carrott and daughter Lucy Davis

COMEDIAN Jasper Carrott said he is "so proud" of his actress daughter Lucy Davis after she revealed that she has incurable breast cancer.

The Office star, 53, opened up about her condition on Tuesday, saying she "doesn't know how long" she has left.

Jasper, 81, said: "This is a very difficult time for the whole family, and we have been supporting her in every way possible since her diagnosis. We are so grateful for all the support we have had over this trying time and we are very hopeful

BY FRANCES MILLAR

for her future being what she wants it to be. We are so proud of our daughter and love her so much.

"The way she has conducted herself through many traumatic health issues is a lesson to us all.

"We would request privacy for the coming months, but thanks once again for the love and concern shown by so many people."

Lucy said she was diagnosed a year and a half ago and the cancer has metastasised to her bones including her spine, right hip and

ribs, leaving it "too late" for chemotherapy. She wrote: "As of now, I'm trying to live out whatever might be left of my life in as fun a way as I possibly can.

"I'm not scared of whatever comes next. I'm at peace with it."

The Office US star and breast cancer survivor Jenna Fischer – said: "Beautiful post. Love you lots. And yes to working with cancer! Let's spread that message far and wide!"

Lucy played receptionist Dawn Tinsley in the original British show The Office. Jenna, 52, took the same role, renamed Pam Beesly, in the

American version. Ricky Gervais, who co-wrote and starred in the show, posted a heart emoji on Instagram. Davis replied: "xxx."

Stars sending support included Hugh Bonneville, Ulrika Jonsson, Amanda Abbington, Piers Morgan Sarah Paulson and Kiernan Shipka.

Sir Chris Hoy, the Olympic cycling champion who was diagnosed with stage-four prostate cancer, wrote: "Keep going Lucy."

Broadcaster Trisha Goddard, who also has stage-four breast cancer, posted: "Sending big love from a fellow stage 4 club member."

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Vanilla vape flavouring 'a risk for pregnant women'

Women 'should be alerted'

PREGNANT women should be told of potential harm linked to a chemical used to flavour vapes, say scientists.

Studies said vanillin, a common vanilla flavour chemical in e-cigarettes, may "compromise core processes of early human development".

Experts said women trying to get pregnant and mothers-to-be should be alerted and regulators consider mandatory ingredient disclosure on packs. Scientists exposed embryonic stem cells to vanillin in lab tests.

Professor Prue Talbot, of the University of California Riverside, and

BY ELLA PICKOVER

her colleagues exposed the cells to different levels of the chemical.

They found even low doses, known as nanomolar concentrations, led to early-stage cells losing the ability to develop into all cell types, and higher doses killed the cells. She said: "These changes are potentially very serious and could prevent normal development of embryos. Our data predict that nanomolar concentrations of vanillin may reach the embryo in pregnant women who vape."

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THE number of patients getting care at home from community health nursing services in England has not changed in a decade despite referrals rising by 50% in the same period, according to analysis.

Patients are also being seen for shorter periods, the analysis revealed.

As this includes palliative care, a doctor behind the research said the findings support Prime Minister Andy Burnham's stance that end-of-life care must be improved

BY AINE FOX

before any assisted dying service becomes law. Prof Fliss Murtagh, director of the Wolfson Palliative Care Research Centre at the University of Hull, said: "This study adds to a growing body of evidence showing that the way we provide end-of-life care is increasingly out of step with rising need."

The palliative medicine consultant added: "Many of the arguments towards assisted dying were about people dying with uncontrolled symptoms.

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not gone up for leap in demand

care is there." Prof Murtagh and her team analysed national district and community nursing data across England, from 2013 to 2024.

They also drew on three years of local data from Birmingham, compiled from 2023 to 2025.

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Their paper, published in the Journal of Clinical Nursing, found referrals to community health nursing services in England rose from around 4,000 per 100,000 people in 2013 to around 6,000 in 2024. In this period, the number of patients cared for remained stable at 2,600-2,800.

The average length of time patients

spent under community nursing care across the decade fell by almost two-thirds from more than 150 days to around 50 days per patient.

The Birmingham data showed palliative and end-of-life care accounted for 9.6% of all district and community nursing clinical time, although researchers said they believed this could be an underestimate.

Lauren Edwards, the MP who has reintroduced the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill to Parliament, has insisted there is time to improve end-of-life care before the bill is enacted.

She said: "Improving social and palliative care and offering choice in the last weeks of a dying person's life can and must go hand in hand."

Shrinkflation and standing charge top poll of 'rip-offs'

MODERN life's top three biggest swindles are energy standing charges, shrinkflation and airport drop-off fees.

A poll of 2,000 fed-up adults confirmed the top 10 list of overpriced and overvalued products and services.

In all, 39% named standing charges among the country's worst money-grabbers, while 33% slammed shrinkflation – sneakily reducing the size, weight or quantity of a product while keeping its original retail price the

BY JASMINE LENTHALL

same. Meanwhile, 30% were fed up with airport drop-off fees, with TV licensing (30%) and council tax (29%) close behind. Train tickets, event booking fees and paying to sit next to family and friends on flights also featured.

The research was commissioned by iD Mobile as part of its Mugsville campaign, which aims to highlight everyday price rises, sneaky charges and overpriced contracts. The study also found

hidden fees, unexpected charges and surcharges cost the average adult an estimated £126 a year.

Half of those polled think Britain is becoming a place where hidden fees and overcharges are simply part of life.

Lewis Henry, from iD Mobile, added: "Hidden fees and surprise charges have become something many of us simply expect to encounter, with most of us having stopped questioning it.

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THE SEA was at its cruellest. Charles Lightoller was being sucked towards a ventilator shaft with a drop of 100 feet. Only a light wire grating covered the shaft's opening, which was wide enough to swallow a man. Then, suddenly, a terrific blast of hot air blew him back to the surface.

The water was freezing "like a thousand knives being driven into one's body". But there, within reach, was one of Titanic's lifeboats.

The bow of the White Star liner had disappeared, and her stern was rising into the night sky, with many hundreds of panic-stricken people scrambling upwards to reach an illusion of safety. The disaster cost the lives of some 1,500 passengers and crew. Lightoller would be the most senior officer to survive.

On April 10, 1912, the 46,328-ton "unsinkable" ship had left Southampton for New York on her maiden voyage. The omens were not great. Titanic nearly collided with an American liner soon after leaving. After calling at Cherbourg and then Queenstown she headed out into the Atlantic – increasing speed.

About 20 minutes before midnight on April 14, lookouts rang the crow's nest bell three times and phoned the bridge: "Iceberg right ahead!" A desperate attempt to steer the ship clear left her fatally wounded.

Lightoller knew there were not enough lifeboats. He was one of the officers responsible for those on the port side. Believing he was following the orders of the captain, Edward Smith, he allowed only women and young children to board them. Many male passengers were turned away. And lifeboats were lowered with empty places.

As dawn broke, only one ship, the Cunard liner Carpathia, was there to pick up survivors. Lightoller was the last person to board her.

It was not the first time he had been shipwrecked – and it would not be the last.

Lightoller came from Chorley, Lancashire, where the family had a tradition of running cotton mills. As a young lad he wanted to escape the mills, and he saw the sea as the answer. There were no pressing family ties in Chorley anyway – his mother and stepmother had died, and his bankrupt father had disappeared to New Zealand with a servant girl.

So one day in February 1888, 13-year-old Lightoller boarded the sailing ship Primrose Hill in Liverpool as an apprentice. The ship set off with her cargo on the long voyage to San Francisco via the treacherous Cape Horn

Charles Lightoller is best remembered as the Titanic's senior surviving officer but as a brilliant new book reveals, he was a hero of Dunkirk who escaped death on the ocean multiple times

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off the southern tip of mainland South America, the gateway to the Pacific Ocean from the Atlantic Ocean.

He survived the many hazards, and soon after his return to Liverpool, he set off on a voyage to Calcutta, this time in a sister ship, Holt Hill. It seems incredible that a vessel should end up smashed against rocks on a speck of island in the vastness of the Indian Ocean, but that is what happened to the four-masted Holt Hill. Lightoller jumped from the wreck and clawed his way up a cliff face on St Paul Island, where he and other crew members remained, thirsty and hungry, with little shelter, for more than a week before being rescued and, then, only by chance.

During another voyage, off the west coast of Africa, he was in a ship's gig that overturned in rough seas. He swam to the shore and collapsed. Four of his companions died. On the trip back to Britain he suffered a near-fatal bout of malaria.

Deciding it was time to take a break from the sea, and enticed by the idea of making a fortune, Lightoller headed to Canada in 1897 to join the gold rush, the Klondike stampede. Of the roughly 100,000 people involved, only a few hundred found enough gold to call themselves rich. Conditions were appalling, with scurvy, frostbite and gangrene common.

Lightoller was forced to abandon his quest after several weeks. Though broke, he emerged in reasonable health. The stampede is thought to have cost over 10,000 lives.

Before the First World War broke out in 1914, Lightoller was serving as first officer in

the White Star Line's Oceanic, the Queen of the Seas. After an Atlantic run the liner underwent conversion as an armed merchant cruiser, and he remained with her as a lieutenant in the Royal Naval Reserve.

In the September, the ship (17,272 gross tons) was sent to patrol the difficult waters around Shetland, a task unsuitable for a vessel of her size. Close to the island of Foula she ended up on a reef.

OCEANIC was Lightoller's favourite ship, and he recalled: "Lying broadside on to the reef, with the tide strong on to it, she was held there, lifting and falling each time, with a horrible grinding crash. I know it nearly broke my heart to feel her going to bits under my very feet after all those years. The sensation, as those knife-edged rocks ground and crunched their way through her bilge plates, was physically sickening. How she held together long enough for us to get everyone out of her was a miracle."

Safe on land, Oceanic's captain looked out to his stranded ship two miles away and observed that she would remain on the reef as a monument. One of the locals commented wryly: "I'll give her two weeks." The man was not far out. The ship disappeared in one of Shetland's unforgiving gales.

As the war progressed, Lightoller was given his own command, a torpedo boat. One night, off the Thames Estuary, he engaged a

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Lightoller took part in the 1940 Dunkirk evacuation, saving 130 men with his motor yacht, Sundowner, left, which had a capacity of just 21; above, troops rescued from French beaches

Zeppelin that was on its way to bomb London. The airship fled back to its base.

His next command was a destroyer, HMS Falcon. While on convoy duty in the North Sea, Falcon was almost sliced in two by another escort, an armed trawler. Lightoller remained on board with two officers after the rest of the crew were taken off.

Later the fore part broke away and sank, but Lightoller was determined to save what was left of his ship.

The three officers went to his cabin and while waiting for help to arrive they made tea and listened to gramophone records. In the early hours, Falcon sank, leaving the men in the water. They were almost run down by another trawler before being rescued.

Like many British sailors, Lightoller developed an intense loathing of U-boat crews because of their attacks on merchant ships, especially the sinking of the liner Lusitania, with the loss of many women and children.

When his destroyer HMS Garry spotted UB-110 on the surface in the North Sea, he gave the order to ram the submarine. Not content with one attack, Garry circled and rammed again, sinking UB-110. But the destroyer was also badly damaged, her bows crushed.

In danger of sinking at any time, Lightoller began an epic voyage back to base some 100 miles away – stern first. The U-boat captain later accused him of a war crime, claiming his men were murdered as they struggled in the water.

Even at the age of 66, Lightoller did not think twice about putting his life in danger.

When the call came for private boats to be used in the evacuation of British troops from Dunkirk in 1940, he took his motor yacht Sundowner – maximum capacity 21– across the Channel and, defying attacks by the Luftwaffe, returned with a total of 130 men.

BUT SUNDOWNER almost capsized as she entered Ramsgate Harbour. Relieved to be back in England, sol-

diers on deck moved to one side for a better view, and men below tried to scramble up. Lightoller shouted for calm, and Sundowner moored safely.

Those on the quayside were staggered at the number who left the boat. “God’s truth mate, where did you put them?” said one sailor.

Charles Lightoller had shown remarkable resilience from an early age. With so many escapes, he led a charmed life.

By a strange coincidence he was born just six days after one Erik Weisz, who became Harry Houdini, the famous escape artist.

Lightoller was, without doubt, Houdini of the Sea.

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Even the cocoa pods were grown here in a climate-controlled centre. And after being harvested they were dried under the English sun.

Reading University food security student Maha Khan then crushed the pods into a powder, which was combined with British-grown sugar and milk.

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GPS tags will keep track of repeat thieves

GPS tracking tags may be fitted to persistent shoplifters who are creating misery in one of Britain's most crime-ridden town centres.

The hi-tech pilot scheme would form part of a huge drive to slash retail crime and improve safety for residents, workers and visitors.

Croydon Council's proposal forms part of Conservative Mayor Jason Perry's zero-tolerance approach to crime and antisocial behaviour in the South London town.

He says repeat offenders would have to wear ankle tags and could be excluded from specific areas, such as the town centre.

Officials in Croydon have met with Sussex Police, which was the first area in the UK to successfully pilot the GPS technology and are now advocating a national roll-out.

Like many areas, businesses in Croydon are falling victim to repeat offenders but are trying to fight back.

There were 4,796 reported shop thefts in the town centre over the past 12 months compared with 5,043 the year before – a 4.9% reduction.

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The Shoplifters campaign show that the top 10% of offenders nationwide are responsible for around three-quarters of total loss and harm in UK stores. One in seven incidents involve threats, aggression, verbal abuse or other serious behaviour. One in 10 are violent or involve weapons.

However, increased Met Police activity, including the use of live

facial recognition cameras, has helped spark a turnaround in the capital. And Croydon hopes to go one step further.

As in Sussex, prolific thieves will be tagged using court-imposed Criminal Behaviour Orders. Benedict Selvaratnam, managing director of Freshfields Market and co-founder of Croydon Business Association, said: 'Shoplifting has a significant impact on

businesses, particularly retailers. It is not simply the financial value of the goods being stolen. There is also the cost of additional security, and the pressure it puts on staff and morale.

'Persistent offenders make staff feel unsafe, and many businesses feel frustrated when the same people return repeatedly.

'There needs to be a meaningful deterrent and a way of preventing that cycle continuing.

'From my experience, businesses want to see a system where persistent shoplifting has real consequences.'

Mayor Perry added: 'Our businesses have had enough of prolific offenders repeatedly targeting their shops. My message is clear – that if you come to Croydon to steal, you should expect consequences.

'Zero-tolerance means backing our businesses and using every legal tool available to protect them.

'GPS tagging could help us monitor persistent offenders, enforce exclusion zones and prevent the same people returning time and again.'

The council now aims to secure funding for the scheme.

Mr Perry added: 'We will continue working with the police, businesses and technology providers to develop this pilot and make Croydon a safer place in which to work, shop and live.'

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Sky is dishing out a nice freebie for customers with homes getting access to Hayu without paying extra.

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It's made from supple Nappa leather along with a sturdy zinc alloy base with hidden cable management to cut down on mess.

There's even an additional USB-C output for charging a second device simultaneously. It's available in different sizes at twelvesouth.co.uk with prices starting from £129.99.

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VODAFONE FREEBIE

Good news, Vodafone is dishing out useful free SIM upgrades to thousands of UK iPhone and Android users. The data boost will be available for those heading to the summer's biggest festivals, including Reading and

Those wanting to give Vodafone's network a go simply need to scan a QR code that will be dotted around the venues with an eSIM automatically installed on their device.

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SMARTER HEALTH TRACKER ENTERING THE RACE

Garmin is known for making some of the finest running smartwatches on the planet, but now it's launching something a little different.

The fitness firm is following rivals such as Google's Fitbit with a screen-free tracker that's much more subtle than a giant digital watch strapped to the wrist.

The CIRQA Smart Band will keep track of daily exercise, heart rate and how much sleep you've been getting.

Data is then combined to provide an overall health rating and a precise Body Battery level, to show your

energy in real time. It can even check for stress and if body temperatures aren't right. Detailed analysis is sent straight to the Garmin smartphone Connect app, where it can be viewed when it suits you, rather than getting constant alerts on a screen.

One of Garmin's biggest selling points is no monthly subscription. While Fitbit charges £7.99 per month for its Premium service to unlock advanced health insights and coaching, Garmin includes all its key features at no extra cost.

Battery life is another major

advantage. The CIRQA lasts up to 10 days on a single charge - far longer than the two-day lifespan offered by many smartwatches.

It also packs in plenty of smart wellness features, including Jet Lag Adviser, a Smart Wake Alarm that gently wakes you at the ideal point in your sleep cycle, and Nap Detection, which tracks daytime snoozes and shows how they affect your recovery.

The band can be worn on either your wrist or upper arm depending on your activity or sleeping preferences, and it's available in five colours: Citron Grey,

Mauve, French Grey, Dark Olive and Captain Blue.

It costs £179.99, making it almost £100 more expensive than Google's £84.99 Fitbit Air.

But with no subscription fees, excellent battery life and compatibility with Android and iPhone, it could prove an attractive alternative for anyone who wants comprehensive health

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EWAN THE DREAM SHEEP

If you don't want to ruin your Spotify Wrapped with nursery rhymes and a white noise playlist, this cute Ewan the Dream Sheep Deluxe is a wonderful baby soother in disguise.

The machine-washable, deluxe version of Ewan has a rechargeable unit inside that can play 10 soothing sounds, including rainfall, waves and womb to help your little one nod off at night. It can be strapped to a cot by the tail, has a glowing night light inside, and even has a cry sensor so it can do its thing right on cue.

It's priced at £44.99 from sweetdreamers.co.uk.

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EUFY E21 BABY MONITOR

There are cheaper baby monitors out there, but the Eufy E21 has a great set of features that make keeping an eye on your baby a breeze. It gets a rechargeable camera along with a separate 5in screen, so there's no app or wifi connection needed.

You get 4K UHD resolution, night vision, and full pan and tilt controls to zoom in on the baby wherever you place the camera. There's also two-way audio, a temperature monitor, and crib and wall mounts in the box.

The Eufy E21 Smart Video Baby Monitor can be picked up at eufy.com for £249.

STAY SAFE

COLD WATER STERILISER

Milton's Cold Water Steriliser will save you money by sterilising baby bottles, pumps, dummies and toys in cold water rather than forking out for a pricey steam machine.

This cold water steriliser sits on the kitchen counter, and simply needs replacement water every 24 hours, along with one tablet (a pack of 40 is £3.60 from Boots). Items are sterile after 15 minutes, and there is no need for boiling water or any electrical equipment. It's simple,

and you can pack the tablets for an easy way to sterilise when travelling.

The Milton Sterilising Unit costs £21.99 from boots.com.

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DOONA CAR SEAT/STROLLER

The Doona X car seat and stroller is a godsend. Rather than faffing about putting a pram in the boot of the car while you struggle to get your baby into the car seat, why not have a car seat that turns into a stroller?

The Doona X is just 8.3kg and is suitable for infants from 40-85 cm up to 13kg. The chair has three recline positions and can be secured in the car with a seatbelt or an optional £159 ISOFIX base. Sleek and space-saving.

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At £200, the Medela Motion InBra Double Electric Wearable Breast Pump isn't cheap, but it offers far greater success than cheaper versions.

The two units can sit inside a bra and are easy to disassemble to clean, and come with different-sized nipple inserts for a better fit.

The devices are rechargeable via USB-C, and you can easily express and then pour directly into bottles for feeding, making them great for travel too. Expect to pay £199.99 at shop.medela.co.uk.

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It's sometimes hard to get around with a new baby, but the Flybaby Baby Carrier now makes it a little easier to carry your newborn.

The knit provides a close fit, and the fabric's holes make it nicely breathable.

There's also a clever, flexible 3D material, which means this fully adjustable premium baby carrier packs away neatly at the end of the day.

It's suitable from 3.2-15kg, and the material means it grows with your baby too - £279, uk.flybaby. berlin.

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Keeping up with F1

It's not just the Formula 1 drivers enjoying a well-earned summer break. The team responsible for bringing every race to billions of fans around the world is also taking a breather before the hectic run to the end of the 2026 season. The final 12 races will decide this year's championship, and every overtake, pit stop and dramatic crash will be broadcast to viewers in more than 70 countries via an old RAF base in the UK.

Biggin Hill might not seem like the usual glamorous location for F1, but going behind the scenes at the Media and Technology Centre is like taking a trip to Nasa.

Rows of giant screens monitor every corner of the circuit while more than 150 specialists oversee team radio, edit instant replays, create on-screen graphics and verify the timing data that keeps the sport running.

When the lights go out, it becomes a military-style operation. Around 100 crew members who fly out to the circuits transmit over 500 terabytes of data back to the base in Kent, where it's processed, edited and distributed to broadcasters, such as Sky, in a matter of seconds.

With hundreds of cameras, sprawling circuits across five continents and a global audience demanding more angles, more data and more insight than ever

before, Formula 1 has become one of the most technically demanding live broadcasts on the planet.

To keep everything running at full speed, Formula 1 has partnered with Lenovo, whose technology underpins much of the operation.

Lenovo's latest infrastructure powers around 270 virtual machines, processing vast amounts of data to ensure every live broadcast reaches viewers without missing a beat.

The company has also deployed its Neptune liquid cooling technology, which uses warm water rather than air to remove heat directly from servers.

The system is far more energy-efficient, enabling Formula 1 to handle increasingly demanding workloads and real-time data processing without dramatically increasing

power consumption. The innovations aren't slowing down either. AI is already helping producers quickly identify the most compelling team radio moments, additional camera angles are being added at circuits and remote drones are capturing spectacular new views from above the track, bringing fans even closer to the action.

So when the lights go out again at the Dutch Grand Prix later this month, remember there's far more happening than the cars battling for position.

Behind every second of live coverage are days of preparation, cutting-edge technology and more than 200 people working together to make sure fans don't miss a moment.

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SPLATOON RAIDERS

Splatoon fans now have a fun single-player ink gun game to enjoy, and while it won't blow gamers away, it does a good job in delivering a quirky take on the third-person shooter. Splatoon Raiders is effectively one big treasure-hunting game.

It takes the multiplayer mayhem and repurposes it into a single-player campaign game. The result is a mix of shooter chaos and exploration as you hunt down treasures and take on waves of Salmonid baddies in a colourful splatter of cartoony goodness.

You are placed in the role of a mechanic working with members of the swashbuckling musical trio Deep Cut.

Together, you'll raid the Spirhalite Islands for undiscovered spoils and fend off hordes of malicious Salmonids standing between you and your treasure.

As in previous Splatoon games, there are no bullets here.

Instead, Nintendo goes for the more cutsey factor by equipping our mechanic hero with an ink-firing gun that splatters colour all over the floor and slowly wears out baddies by sapping their health.

When your paint tank is empty, you have to switch quickly to squid form to wade through the inky splatters of colour on the floor to

effectively reload your tank.

Nearly everything you collect can make you stronger, and you can level up your character and power up your weapons with the trinkets and treasures you find during your island excursions.

Overall, this is a fun side-step in the Splatoon universe that's colourful to watch and enjoyable to play.

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EE BROADBAND

A massive UK broadband boost has been announced that aims to fix dismal downloads and stuttery streaming.

EE has just confirmed the switch-on of its latest service, Advanced Full Fibre broadband, which offers speeds of up to 8Gbps per second, around 80 times faster than standard.

With this system installed, it would take just four seconds to download a full HD movie or just over a minute to install a 70GB PlayStation game.

The boost has been made possible thanks to the next-generation XGS-PON upgrade. This is a fibre broadband technology that delivers much faster internet access over full-fibre networks.

Right now, EE's Advanced Full Fibre is available in Guildford, Woking and surrounding areas. EE's Advanced Full Fibre 2.3Gbps plan is available from £54.99 per month, and the 8Gbps plan is available from £74.99 per month.

TARANTULA PC CONTROLLER THRILLER

PC gamers can now battle their console rivals with more precision and speed.

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Miura's looking so super at 60

Lamborghini is celebrating the 60th birthday of its Miura with a special version of its Revuelto supercar.

The Miura was unveiled in 1966 and instantly shot to stardom thanks to its high performance and stylish looks. It was one of the most powerful cars of the time, too, with a top speed of up to 181mph.

Just 99 examples of the Revuelto Miura 60 Homage will be produced and all come through Lamborghini's Ad Personam program, which works to make bespoke and outlandish versions of its vehicles.

It takes styling cues from the Miura, with two distinct liveries drawn from the classic and interior leather detailing. All cars use a dedicated Miura 60 logo positioned near the rear wheel arch.

As with the standard Revuelto, the Miura 60 uses a naturally aspirated V12 engine linked to a hybrid system for a total output of 1,000bhp and a 0-60mph time of 2.5 seconds. Pricing has not been released.

Audi's new third-gen Q7 seven-seater is on sale, with all versions getting a 3.0-litre turbocharged V6 diesel engine with mild-hybrid tech.

In the UK, there are three specifications - S Line, Edition 1 and Vorsprung. S Line kicks things off with 20in alloys, privacy glass and a powered boot. Inside, there's a 14.5in infotainment system alongside an 11.9in virtual cockpit and 12.3in passenger display.

BYD has introduced a new challenger to the Land Rover Defender with its plug-in hybrid TI 7.

Priced £47,995, the new SUV combines a 1.5-litre turbocharged petrol engine with an electric motor and battery for a total output of 402bhp and a 0-60mph time of 4.5 seconds.

The Ti 7 will also manage a claimed electric-only range of up to 74 miles. As with other BYD models, the Ti 7 comes

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You also get red brake calipers and customisable headlight signatures. Inside, there's full Nappa leather upholstery, while front seats are ventilated with massage functions.

Top of the range is Vorsprung with 23in

alloys wheels and upgraded digital Matrix LED headlights. The grille is illuminated and there's a 22-speaker Bang & Olufsen sound system. Prices start from £81,665.

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with a high level of standard equipment, including a 15.6-inch infotainment system with all key media and navigation functions, dual fast wireless smartphone charging pads and even an in-car fridge.

In terms of practicality, the Ti 7 offers seating for up to seven people.

It can be pre-ordered for £500, matched by a £500 contribution from BYD. First deliveries are expected in January 2027.

Corsa can with GSE hot hatch

Vauxhall has confirmed its new Corsa GSE will be priced from £32,995 when it goes on sale next month. The Corsa GSE is a modern interpretation of some of Vauxhall's classic hot hatches, including the Corsa VXR and the Nova GTE.

The Corsa GSE uses a single electric motor which produces 277bhp and 345Nm of torque, enabling a 0-60mph time of 5.2 seconds. It'll also manage a top speed of 112mph.

Linked to a 54kWh battery, this setup gets a claimed range of up to 232 miles, while a 0-80% charge time of 30 minutes comes courtesy of 100kW rapid charge speed. Features include wireless smartphone charging and a six-speaker sound system. The new Corsa GSE will go on sale in September, ahead of first deliveries in the winter.

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STING IN BUZZ TALE

Volkswagen's ID.Buzz has actually been with us for a little while now. Launched in 2022, it arrived as a modern interpretation of this German brand's iconic "bus", bringing a style-conscious exterior but with an electric powertrain underneath.

This model – the GTX – is the most powerful of the lot, with dual electric motors. But since this van is based around practicality, does the GTX package change its classic appeal?

WHAT'S NEW?

The GTX takes the standard ID.Buzz and adds an extra bit of performance. We're testing it in long-wheelbase form, adding space to this already spacious model. There's also the option of five, six and seven-seater configurations.

There's only the option to specify the passenger-carrying ID.Buzz in GTX form, with the more trade-focused Cargo unable to get this dual-motor configuration at present.

WHAT'S UNDER THE BONNET?

It uses a dual-motor configuration, with one on each axle delivering four-wheel drive through Volkswagen's 4Motion setup. Driving those motors is an 86kWh battery capable of delivering a claimed range of up to 282 miles. Volkswagen says if you hook it up to a rapid charger capable of reaching this model's maximum charge speed of 200kW, a 5% to 80% top-up can take 30 minutes.

There's 335bhp and 560Nm of torque, allowing for respectable acceleration for a car of this size. Zero to 60mph comes in 6.1 seconds and flat out, it'll manage 99mph.

WHAT'S IT LIKE TO DRIVE?

In long-wheelbase specification, the ID.Buzz GTX is a large car to drive around in. But aside

Volkswagen's ID.Buzz GTX is a proper head-turner, delivering style, space, and dual-motor electric power. But that performance comes at a premium...

from parking and positioning, it's a very easy vehicle to navigate thanks to its relatively light steering and square proportions. As with all ID.Buzz models, there's a huge dashboard area to see over, and this does mean it can be trickier to judge where the front of the car is.

The dual-motor design gives the Buzz a lot of zip away from the line, too, and while we'd argue that a vehicle of this type isn't designed for outright performance, it's nice to have that background acceleration there if you need it.

The extra power over other Buzz models gives you more confidence when you're driving fully-loaded with people or luggage. The only issue is range and efficiency – the Buzz

struggles to hang on to its range and when you're on the motorway, it falls away very quickly.

HOW DOES IT LOOK?

The GTX specification has a range of exterior changes that help make the ID.Buzz look even better. There are reshaped front bumpers and plenty of the trim pieces finished in high-gloss black for a racier appearance. The Cherry Red colour is exclusive to the GTX, and it looks even more vibrant in the metal.

Huge 20in wheels are painted gloss black too. It might not have the retro feel of other Buzz models, but it's still a proper head-turner.

WHAT'S IT LIKE INSIDE?

In long-wheelbase format, it provides more than enough space inside. Our test van came in a six-seater configuration and that gives

everyone on board acres of space and loads of room to stretch out. In the GTX, you also get a black headlining and this gives a more understated, cocoon-like feeling inside too.

You'll do well to find many vehicles with as much boot space. Even with all three rows in place, you've got 306 litres to play with, but fold the second and third rows down and you get a cavernous 2,469 litres.

WHAT'S THE SPEC LIKE?

The GTX model is one of the most highly specified in the ID.Buzz range, so it's a great option for drivers who want all the bells and whistles. Highlights include the 12.9in touchscreen, an upgraded Harman Kardon sound system and a range of extra GTX-specific touches, such as seats embroidered with the performance name branding.

The only downside is the price. GTX models start from £68,891, and our test van with a few options came in at £73,051. If you went for an equivalent six-seater ID.Buzz in entry-level Life specification with the larger battery, it'd drop the price to £59,777, and you'd get slightly more range than the GTX at 300 miles, too.

VERDICT

The GTX has a high level of standard equipment, added performance and looks great, too, with all of those additional GTX styling touches bringing extra character.

But its price will likely be too high for most drivers, and while its dual-motor setup is a handy feature, we'd argue that the standard – and already very useful – ID.Buzz would be the best bet.

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TODAY'S TV ONES TO WATCH

by MIKE WARD TV critic

TOM KERRIDGE COOKS ITALY, ITVI, 7.30PM

I'm aware I've been a tad disrespectful to Tom's show lately, teasing him for apparently bringing M&S ingredients to Italy from home just so he can flash their labels for product placement purposes in the recipe sections.

So tonight, instead, let me stress the loveliness of the regional Italian ingredients he's celebrating from local producers with whom stores like M&S work.

His recipes this time include a delicious pork dish using local chestnuts Tom has personally helped harvest. Wonderful, eh? Although, he could have saved himself the hassle and bought some in a vacuum pack at Asda for £2.48

RENOVATION RESCUE, CA, 0PM

My favourite bit this week is when they build bespoke accommodation for the owner's lovely dog, Alfie. The renovation work having forced him to vacate his usual spot, he's getting what co-host Vogue Williams calls a "doggy hotel".

For this, she's repurposed an old kitchen cabinet, taking off its doors and creating a kennel-like front from MDF. Inside it, she's popped a nice, cosy cushion for Alfie to kip on. "I love it," Vogue exclaims, rightly proud of her handiwork. "Hopefully, Alfie will too."

My guess is that Alfie will adore it, at least until he discovers his hotel room has no trouser press.

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THE YORKSHIRE YET SPECIAL: PETER'S DREAM 5, 0PM

Pets are beloved members of our families, but unlike when we lose a person there is no official way to celebrate their life. Vet Peter Wright wants to change all that.

THEIR ART IS IN THE RIGHT PLACE

IF YOU ever applied to take part in one of these TV challenges, what would be your main motivation? The chance just to have a bit of fun? The chance to get yourself on the telly and, who knows, maybe even establish yourself as "a bit of a character", and so get asked to appear on lots of other TV programmes where, if one is "a bit of a character", this is somehow considered entertaining, rather than making one a pain in the neck.

Or would your motivation, first and foremost, be the prize?

Let's assume it's the latter, shall we? In which case, how does "£50,000 worth of brilliant British art" grab you? Tempting? Or a bit weird?

The reason I ask is that this is what the

winners of this new business challenge will receive. These seven pairs – best friends, a pair of siblings, a dad and his daughter, a mother and hers etc – are here to show they have what it takes (even though some of them clearly haven't), to become dealers in the art business.

The way this contest will work is that each team will hook up every week with a different artist, starting tonight with art school graduates, and take some of their work to auction. On whatever sells, they'll earn 30% commission, which they'll keep. Of the teams who make the least money in each episode, one will be told: "You're fired."

Well, OK, they won't, not in those actual words, and yet it wouldn't sound wholly inappropriate if that's how they were

dismissed, the format feeling very much like one of Lord Sugar's Apprentice challenges. That, plus a bit of Bargain Hunt.

I like it though, I really do.

The contestants aren't too annoying, which is always a bonus with these things, and it's actually fun to look at some of this art and form our own opinions.

There are no Van Goghs, it has to be said, but there is a van door.

One of the artists acquired one and painted two naked bodies on it, in a style I believe is known in the art world as "absolutely hideous".

The reserve price for that is £1,200. So the £50,000 worth of "brilliant British art", to be awarded at the end of the series, might just be 42 of those.

BEST HISTORY

A MUDGE THROUGH THE REC, 0PM

David Olusoga returns for the sixth series of his hugely compelling programme. This time he is in Edinburgh to take a deep dive into a property built on Calton Hill in 1785.

BEST THRILLER

BENDOIRN IS MURDER 5, 0PM

At her hen party, maid of honour Megan humiliates bride Leona and friends before revealing a villa. But they reject her plans. By morning, a murder shocks the resort.

BEST DOC

THE SCHOOLCARE, FERRORIST? £4, 30PM

In April 2021, Rhianan Budd, 15, from Derbyshire became the youngest girl to be charged with terror offences. A year later, she was found dead in a children's home.

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FILM RATINGS

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ALL PROGRAMMES ARE LISTED IN MEDIUM DRAWING TIME (EST).

BBC One

• 6.00am Breakfast News headlines.
• 9.30 Animal Park Keepers hand-rear tennessee fox kits. (R)
• 10.00 Trace, Track, Get My Car Back Jason and Alan close in on a car in Maidenhead. (R)
• 10.30 FACE European Athletics Championships: Birmingham 2026 Jeanette Kwakan presents coverage of the opening session on day four from Alexander Stadium, including the women's 800m and 400m semi-finals.
• 1.15pm BBC News; Weather
• 2.00 Money for Nothing Sarah Moore searches Whitey recycling centre in Surrey.
• 2.45 Escape to the Country A couple search for a new home in either Worcestershire or Warwickshire. (R)
• 3.30 The Repair Shop Experts restore a vintage rugby shirt, a serving plate and a map. (R)
• 4.30 The Answer Run Quiz, hosted by Jason Manford.
• 5.15 Pointless Quiz show. (R)
• 6.00 BBC News at Six; Weather
• 6.30 Regional News; Weather

BBC Two

• 6.30am The Bidding Room (R)
• 7.15 Money for Nothing (R)
• 8.00 Sign Zone: Gardeners' World Damson Farm. (R)
• 9.00 BBC News Headlines.
• 10.30 Antiques Road Trip (R)
• 11.15 Homes Under the Hammer Properties in Glasgow, east London and Derby. (R)
• 12.15pm Bargain Hunt (R)
• 1.00 Richard Osman's House of Games Quiz show. (R)
• 1.30 The Finish Line Quiz. (R)
• 2.15 Do You Know Your Place? Celebrities read: Bristol. (R)
• 2.45 The Great Rift: Africa's Wild Heart Documentary. (R)
• 3.35 Spy in the Ocean (R)
• 4.35 Vintage Antiques Roadshow From 2002. (R)
• 5.15 Flog It! From Co Durham. (R)
• 6.00 Richard Osman's House of Games Chris Bisson, Danielle Harold, Katharine Merry and Robert Webb take part. (R)
• 6.30 Bear Grylls: Wild Reckoning A woman who wants to mend her fractured relationship with her daughter. (R)

ITV1

• 6.00am Good Morning Britain A lively mix of news, current affairs and lifestyle features.
• 10.00 This Morning Topical daily magazine, featuring a mix of celebrity chat, showbusiness news, advice and discussion, including Local Weather.
• 1.30pm ITV News; Weather
• 1.55 Regional News; Weather
• 2.00 Dickinson's Real Deal Newcastle Racecourse plays host, where a couple of pistols catch Helen Gardiner's eye. (R)
• 3.00 Deal or No Deal Stephen Mulhern hosts as Zee tries to open the 22 red boxes in the right order. (R)
• 3.59 Regional Weather
• 4.00 Tipping Point Quiz, hosted by Ben Shephard. (R)
• 5.00 The Chase Bradley Walsh hosts as Alex from Northampton, Karen from Doncaster, Judy from Manchester and Ziridon from Luton pit their wits against one of the ruthless experts. (R)
• 6.00 Regional News; Weather
• 6.30 ITV Evening News; Weather

Channel 4

• 6.30am The King of Queens (R)
• 7.45 Everybody Loves Raymond Triple bill of the sitcom. (R)
• 9.10 Frasier Four episodes. (R)
• 11.10 Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares USA (R)
• 12.05pm Channel 4 News Summary Headlines.
• 12.10 Find It, Fix It, Flog It Henry and Simon head to Brighton to meet recycler Cat. (R)
• 1.10 The Great House Giveaway A property valuer and a teaching assistant buy a house in Merseyside. (R)
• 2.10 Countdown With Pauline McLynn in Dictionary Corner.
• 3.00 A Place in the Sun Jasmine Harman helps Debra and Greg find a home in Murcia. (R)
• 4.00 Saving Country Houses with Penelope Keith Transforming Ashby Manor's expatriate parkland. (R)
• 5.00 Chateau DIY Chris and Jolyon work on their luxury hotel-style bedroom. (R)
• 6.00 American Pickers Mike and Frank encounter a never-before-seen farmer's bike. (R)

5

• 6.00am Milkshake! Children's TV.
• 9.15 Jeremy Vine Discussion.
• 11.30 Storm & Alexis Debate.
• 12.45pm 5 News at Lunchtime
• 12.50 Matt Allwright Debate.
• 2.20 FACE The Replacement Daughter (2024, FB) Mystery thriller, starring Stacy Haduk and Emily Miceli. ★★
• 4.00 Castle Beckett and Castle are faced with a long list of possible suspects when an attorney is murdered. (R)
• 4.55 Love Nature A red kite feeding centre in Wales. (R)
• 5.00 5 News with Dan Walker
• 6.00 Crete: Jewel of the Med The largest of the Greek Islands, Crete is home to around 670,000 people. Stretching 160 miles from east to west, it is a haven to those seeking the sun. Joanna Lumley narrates this exploration of the region, taking in turtle-nesting sites, the Palace of Kronosios, culture, windmills and musical traditions, such as the Cretan Lyra. (R); 5 News Update

8pm, EUROPEAN ATHLETICS CHAMPIONSHIPS: Amy Hunt

6pm, RICHARD OSMAN'S HOUSE OF GAMES: Richard

7.30pm, TOM KERRIDGE COOKS ITALY: Tom

8pm, RENOVATION RESCUE: Luke Mabbott

8pm, THE YORKSHIRE VET SPECIAL...: Peter Wright

7

• 7.00 The One Show Alex Jones and Roman Kenny present the live magazine show.
• 7.30 EastEnders Amy confides in an unlikely source, Nicola and Eve bond over their shared experiences, and Ian finds himself in a worrying situation.

8

• 8.00 FACE European Athletics Championships: Birmingham 2026 Gabby Logan presents further coverage of the evening session on day four from Alexander Stadium. Great Britain's Daryl Neita was runner-up to Switzerland's Mujinga Kambundi in the 200m final two years ago, and though Neita is absent this time, Dina Asher-Smith and Amy Hunt entered the championships as medal hopes over the distance this time around.

10

• 10.00 BBC News at Ten
• 10.30 Regional News; Weather
• 10.40 FACE Yesterday (2019, 12) Jack, a struggling musician, gets hit by a bus during a mysterious event. When he regains consciousness, he finds that he is the only person who can remember the Beatles, and sets out to exploit the opportunity by passing their hits off as his own compositions. Comedy, with Himesh Patel, Lily James and Sophia Di Martino. Directed by Danny Boyle. ★★★

12 MIDNIGHT

• 12.30am Alan Carr's Picture Slam. Game show in which contestants from Coventry, London and Glasgow have to identify a board full of images, with a chance of winning up to £10,000 if they know them all. (R) 1.15 Weather for the Week: A track ahead to the latest forecast. 1.20-6.00am BBC News

• 7.00 FACE European Athletics Championships: Birmingham 2026 Coverage of the evening session on day four from Alexander Stadium, including the women's triple jump and pole vault finals. Continues on BBC One.

• 8.00 NEW The Big Deal with Steph McGovern Seven pairs of aspiring art dealers face challenges testing creativity, business skills and market instincts for the ultimate chance to win £50,000 worth of British art.

• 9.00 NEW A House Through Time Documentary series in which historian David Clousga charts more British history as lived through by the successive inhabitants of a house, this time a property in Edinburgh.

• 10.00 Red Dwarf Filmmor tries to earn a commission and qualify for transfer from Red Dwarf to an advanced holoship containing the cream of the Space Corps, and a woman he has feelings for. (R)

• 10.30 Newsnight; Weather

• 11.05 Murder Trial: Death of a Dog Walker Part one of two. Former gamekeeper David Campbell stands accused of the premeditated murder of Brian Low, a 65-year-old groundsman on the same estate where they worked. (R)

• 12.05am The Devil in the Family: The Fall of Ruby Franke. With the Franke family isolated, outsiders try to find out what is happening. Last in series. (R)

• 12.55 Sign Zone: Ambulance. A man falls 20ft off a ladder on to concrete. (R) 1.55 Sign Zone: Evolution (R)

• 2.55-6.30am This is BBC Two

• 7.30 Tom Kerridge Cooks Italy Tom explains Italy's mountains, uncovering the culinary secrets of chestnuts and pasta. In Emilia-Romagna's Apennines, he joins producer Adrian for the chestnut harvest.

• 8.00 Emmerdale Kev is thrilled, while Billy is in a determined mood and Dylan admits to April that he's been struggling.

• 8.30 Coronation Street Tim takes in Richie's daughter without telling Sally, and Harry objects to Kit's childcare solution.

• 9.00 The Chase Around the World The teams land in Zurich to take on the Governess and the Dark Destroyer. Players must solve questions to navigate the city and find Bradley Walsh at the finish line.

• 10.00 ITV News at Ten; Weather

• 10.30 Regional News; Weather

• 10.45 FACE Quantum of Solace (2008, 12) James Bond sets out on a personal mission of vengeance as he pursues the secret criminal organisation Quantum. His search leads him to the head of an ecological corporation, who is plotting to orchestrate a coup in a Latin American country to get his hands on a precious natural resource. Spy thriller sequel, starring Daniel Craig and Olga Kurylenko. ★★★

• 12.35am Shop on TV 3.00 The Summit. The Mountain's Keeper gives one of the group the tough decision to choose someone to leave the mountain, while tensions increase when they are forced to wild camp. (R) 3.50 Unwind with ITV 5.05-6.00am Deal or No Deal: Celebrity Special (R)

• 7.00 Channel 4 News A round-up of all the latest headlines, in-depth interviews and analysis of political developments and current affairs. Plus, the day's leading sports stories and up-to-the-minute weather reports.

• 8.00 Renovation Rescue Vogue Williams and Luke Mabbott come to the aid of mum and son Fiona and Josh finally breathe new life into her beloved family home in Worcestershire that holds so many precious memories.

• 9.00 Spy Next Door: The Anna Chapman Story When President Obama closes out a round of diplomacy with Putin, a sweep of FBI officers swoop on the network of Russian spies, leading to one of history's biggest spy swaps.

• 10.00 The Schoolgirl Terrorist? Drawing on testimony, family archive and unseen material, this documentary re-examines the events that led Rihanan becoming the youngest girl to be charged with terror offences in the UK in 2020.

• 11.05 Social Media Monsters How a stalker sought revenge on her former boss, using LinkedIn, Instagram and X to run her reputation online, before moving on to other targets, including a motivational speaker. (R)

• 12.10am Crime Scene Cleaners. Skeletal remains are discovered. (R) 1.05 Secret Lives of Gypsy Wives (R) 1.55 Ramsay's Hotel Hell (R) 2.45 Dictator: The Hiller Interviews (R) 3.40 Fur Babies (R) 4.35 Kirstie's House of Craft (R) 4.55 Coaster, Come Dire with Me (R) 5.50-6.30am Countdown (R)

• 7.00 Around the World in First Class June Gibson heads for the tourist hotspots of Finland and Sweden. She arrives in Helsinki for a night at The Hotel St George and dinner at Restaurant Savoy. Followed by 5 News Update

• 8.00 NEW The Yorkshire Vet Special: Peter's Dream Cameras follow Peter Wright as he embarks on a passion project to create a Yorkshire pet memorial garden, inspired by Sussex's pet chaplain and church.

• 9.00 Benidorm Is Murder At her twin party, maid of honour Megan humiliates shy bride Lenna and their friends before revealing a luxury villa. When they reject her plans, she storms off alone. By morning, a murder shocks the resort.

• 10.00 Killer at the Crime Scene Investigating the death of Ildiko Krajnyak, who was killed in a explosion at her spa in California. Forensic experts meticulously combed through the wreckage, uncovering remnants of a parcel bomb. (R)

• 11.05 The Body in the Thames The story of Adam – the unknown boy whose dismembered body, discovered in the River Thames in 2001, launched an investigation that took officers around the world. (R)

• 12.05am Street Cops: Catching the Yobs (R) 1.00 Cruise TV (R) 2.00 Entertainment News 2.10 Ofrs: Behind Closed Doors (R) 3.05 Castle (R) 3.50 Friends (R) 4.35 Cruising with Susan Calman (R) 5.25 Entertainment News on 5.35 The Flame (R) 5.45-6.00am The Adventures of Paddington (R)

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ITV2	RELATIVE
6.00am Backyard Builds 6.30 Dress to Impress 7.30 The Real Housewives of Potomac 8.20 The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills 9.15 The Only Way Is Essex 10.15 Dawson's Creek 11.10 Charmed 12.10pm Deal or No Deal 1.10 Supermarket Sweep 2.10 The Floor 3.10 The Only Way Is Essex 4.10 The Real Housewives of Potomac 5.00 The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills
6.00 Celebrity Catchphrase Gameshow. 7.00 The Floor The 65 remaining contestants fight for more squares. 8.00 The 1% Club Hosted by Lee Mack. 9.00 Romesh Ranganathan's Parents' Evening With Me! 0 and Jonathan Ross. 10.00 Changing Ends The Carrs head to London to spend time with Terri. 10.35 Family Guy Double bill. 11.35 American Dad! Double bill. 12.35am Dick's Burgers: double bill 1.30 Deal or No Deal 2.20 Unwind with ITV 3.00-6.00am Teleshopping

U&Dave

6.00am Teleshopping 7.25 Top Gear 8.20 Border Force: America's Gatekeepers 10.30 Rick Stein's Cornwall 11.20 Yukon Gold 12.15pm Top Gear 2.20 Mortimer & Whitehouse: Gone Fishing 3.00 Guy Martin: Proper Jobs 4.00 Hairy Bikers' Best of British 5.00 Rick Stein's Cornwall

6.00 Rick Stein's Cornwall Double bill. 7.00 Mortimer & Whitehouse: Gone Fishing Paul Whitehouse and Bob Mortimer head to Norfolk. 7.40 Would I Lie to You? Double bill. 9.00 2.00 Hit Point Romantic thriller, starring Nick Blood and Saffron Hocking. 10.00 Have I Got a Bit More News for You Katherine Parkinson hosts an extended episode of the satirical quiz, with Julian Clary and Jemima Kelly. 11.00 Taskmaster Gameshow. 12.00m't Mock the Week 12.40 Would I Lie to You? 2.00 Hit Point 2.50 Richard Osman's House of Games 3.35 Parks and Recreation 4.00-6.00am Teleshopping

E4

6.00am Modern Family 6.55 Rudefish! Tube Shorts 7.00 Couples Come Dine with Me 8.00 Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares USA 10.00 America's Funniest Home Videos 11.00 Below Deck: Mediterranean 12.00noon The Simpsons: four episodes 2.00 Brooklyn Nine-Nine 3.00 Modern Family: four episodes 5.00 The Simpsons: double bill

6.00 The Simpsons Four episodes 8.00 Vanderpump Rules Reality series. 9.00 Cruising Paradise: Above and Below Deck Turbulent weather means the crew have to improvise. 10.00 Gogglebox Opinions on recent TV. 11.05 Naked Attraction A student hopes to find his ideal partner in crime. 12.10am First Dates 1.15 Cruising Paradise: Above and Below Deck 2.15 Vanderpump Rules 3.05 Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares USA 3.55 The Simpsons 4.20 The Goldbergs 5.10-6.00am Brooklyn Nine-Nine

Variations & S4C

WALES As BBC1 except: 1.40-1.50pm BBC Wales Today. A round-up of the latest headline reports: Weather 6.30-7.00 BBC Wales Today 10.30-10.40pm BBC Wales Today. Headlines.
WALES As BBC2 except: 11.05pm-12.05am Eisteddfod 2026 with How Stephens
MERIDIAN As ITV1 except: 1.55-2.00pm ITV News Meridian 6.00-6.30 ITV News Meridian; Weather 10.30-10.45pm ITV News Meridian
CENTRAL As ITV1 except: 1.55-2.00pm ITV News Central; Weather 6.00-6.30 ITV News Central 10.30-10.45pm ITV News Central
ITV WALES As ITV1 except: 1.55-2.00pm ITV News Cymru Wales; Weather 6.00-6.30 ITV News Wales at Six; Weather 10.30-10.45pm ITV News Cymru Wales; Weather
WEST As ITV1 except: 1.55-2.00pm ITV News West Country; Weather 6.00-6.30 ITV News West Country; Weather 10.30-10.45pm ITV News West Country. Headlines; Weather
ANGUA As ITV1 except: 1.55-2.00pm ITV News Anglia; Weather 6.00-6.30 ITV News Anglia. The latest headlines; Weather 10.30-10.45pm ITV News Anglia; Weather

ITVQuiz

9.00am Deal or No Deal 10.00 Tipping Point 1.00pm Liege 2.00 Terrible 3.00 Supermarket Sweep 4.00 Riddiculous 5.00 Deal or No Deal. Gameshow.
6.00 Liege Triple bill. Mother and son team Diana and Nigel, West Sussex friends Jane and Sue, and Nottingham pals Ally and Cheryl take part in the quiz.; Twins Ann and Al from Birmingham, friends James and Holly from Surrey and mother and daughter-in-law Tracy and Georgina from Manchester complete; with contestants from London, Manchester and Sandbach.
9.00 Supermarket Sweep Rylan Clark hosts a revival of the supermarket based game show in which pairs of shoppers go wild in the aisles to win a $3,000 prize.
10.00 Tipping Point Double bill. Quiz show, hosted by Ben Shephard.
12.00m't Tipping Point 12.55 Terrible 1.50 Riddiculous 2.40 Unwind with ITV 3.00-9.00am Teleshopping

U&Drama

6.00am Teleshopping 7.15 The Bill 8.05 Doctors 9.20 Classic Hobby City 10.40 Casualty 11.40 The Bill 12.40pm Classic EastEnders 2.00 Classic Neighbours 3.00 Whistadale Pearl 4.10 Lovejoy 5.20 As Time Goes By. Classic comedy.
6.00 Last of the Summer Wine Triple bill. 8.00 The Marlow Murder Club When the Mayor dies in the middle of a meeting, Judith, Becks and Suzie uncover lies, scandal and blackmail. With Peter Davison.
9.00 2.00 Hit Point Romantic thriller, following two detectives as a case pulls them into a dangerous underworld. Leo and Bella investigate a confusing twist.
10.00 New Tricks The team reinvestigates a recent rape linked to two unceived attacks at a factory 10 years previously.
11.20 Luther The detective's holiday is interrupted by news of a violent attack.
12.35am Lovejoy. Starring Ian McShane. 1.45 Sister Boniface Mysteries 2.45 Hotel Portofino 4.00-6.00am Teleshopping

More4

8.55am Find It, Fix It, Flog it 10.00 Four in a Bed: five episodes 12.40pm Come Dine with Me: five episodes 3.20 Four in a Bed: five episodes 5.50 Car S.O.S
6.50 Car S.O.S Tim Shaw and Fuzz Townshend travel to South Yorkshire to pick up a Car SOS first - a Ferguson TE20 tractor. But it is not going to be easy to steal it away from the owner.
7.55 Grand Designs Design engineer Joe Stuart and service designer Lina Nilsson take on the London property market, as they build their own home on a small 38-square-metre plot.
9.00 The Reclaimers: Made in Suffolk Hayley embraces wildlife projects and creates a postcard pinboard for local farmer Hesti, while Andy races to supply pubs and event spaces. Last in series.
10.00 24 Hours in A&E Double bill. 12.10am 999: On the Front Line. Documentary series. 1.15 24 Hours in A&E 3.25-3.55am A Place in the Sun

WESTCOUNTRY As ITV1 except: 1.55-2.00pm ITV News West Country; Weather 6.00-6.30 ITV News West Country; Weather 10.30-10.45pm ITV News West Country

S4C 6.00am Cyw 12.00noon Newyddon S4C a'r Tywydd 12.05pm Cass Quinnell 12.30 Hano 1.00 Cold Hwyl 1.30 Sgwrn Dan y Llor 2.00 Newyddon S4C a'r Tywydd 2.05 Pryrhawn Da 3.00 Newyddon S4C a'r Tywydd 3.05 Soe Mon 2026 4.00 Avr Fawr 5.00 Shergirl 6.00 Cyrefin. Heledd Cyneal, leslyn Jones and Sion Tomos Owen explore Nefyn. 6.59 Newyddon S4C 7.00 Hano, Nighty magazine. 7.30 Newyddon S4C a'r Tywydd 8.00 Pobol y Cwm. Hywel is concerned for Griffiths as he uncovers Janet's identity. Sion is determined to stop Darry from getting his hands on Bethania. 8.25 Gwlad y flasig: Gwtym Bowen Rhys. The history, language, music and culture of various overseas destinations. 8.55 Newyddon S4C a'r Tywydd 9.00 Fairbourne: Y Mor Wirth y Dress. A look at the village facing catastrophic consequences from climate change and how the people living there are dealing with it. 10.00 Tecton Ty. With Sarra Elgan. 10.30-11.35pm Yr Afon. Cerys Matthews travels along the Mississippi.

BBC3

7.00pm The Catch Up Headlines. 7.05 Deadly 60 Double bill. 8.00 Sort Your Life Out with Stacey Solomon The Jamieson family from East Sussex enlist the help of Stacey and the team as they endeavour to decipher the home that's been in their family for 40 years. 9.00 2.00 Better Date than Never Triple bill. People take their first steps into the dating scene; Jack hopes to meet someone he can be himself around; Charles returns to continue his search for romance. 10.30 RuPaul's Drag Race UK: Meet the Queens RuPaul introduces the 12 queens competing for the title. 10.55 2.00 Bridget Jones's Baby (2015, 15) Comedy sequel, starring Nenan Zellesiger. ★★★★ 12.50am The Kim Kardashian Diamond Heist 1.35 The Trouble with Kanye 2.50-3.50am Better Date than Never

BBC4

7.00pm Villages by the Sea Ben Robinson explores the remains of a lost harbour in Port Carlisle. 7.30 Wainwright Walks Julia Bradbury climbs Scatell Pike, England's highest peak. Last in series. 8.00 Operation Mincemeat A British mission to deceive Hitler in 1943. 9.00 The Coen Brothers Story Documentary on the Coen brothers. 10.00 2.00 Inside Llewyn Davis (2013, 15) An aspiring musician struggles to make a name for himself in the New York folk scene of the early 1960s. The Coen brothers' drama, starring Oscar Isaac and Carey Mulligan. ★★★★ 1.40 2.00 Shaft 1971, 15 Blaxproatlon detective thriller, starring Richard Roundtree. ★★★★ 1.15am Wainwright Walks 1.45 Operation Mincemeat. Documentary. 2.45-3.15am Villages by the Sea

GB News

6.00am Breakfast with Stephen and Elie 9.30 Ontario's Newsroom 12.00noon Good Afternoon Britain. The latest stories from across the United Kingdom. 3.00 Martin Daubney. The latest updates.
6.00 Dewbs & Co Michelle Dewberry delivers her take on the day's news.
7.00 GBN Tonight The issues that matter with big political interviews.
8.00 Jacob Rees-Mogg's State Of The Nation Jacob Rees-Mogg presents his take on the day's stories.
9.00 Patrick Christys Tonight Debate
11.00 Patrick Christys Tonight Late Edition Tomorrow's news, tonight. All the major stories making the front pages and full coverage of all the breaking news at home and abroad.
12.00m't-6.00am Vote 2026: The People Decide. Coverage of the Clacton by-election with reaction from experts and politicians.

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6.00am Sky Sports News 7.00 Sky Sports Breakfast 9.00 Good Morning Transfers 10.00 Sky Sports UTC The major football headlines. 12.00noon LGE Off World Tour Golf The Danish Golf Championship. Coverage of day one of the tournament at Great Northern in Kertanmide. 5.00 LGE PGA Tour Golf The FedEx St Jude Championship. Coverage of the featured groups on day one of the first event in the FedExCup Playoffs, held at TFC Southwark in Memphis. 7.00 The Transite Show The latest transfer news. 7.30 LGE Betfred Super League Leeds Phinics v. ABC Leopards kick-off 8.32pm. All the action from the match at AMT Headings Stadium. 7.30 Phinics have enjoyed an excellent season so far and are looking to win the League Leaders' Breast for the first time since 2015, while the Leopards have also impressed this term and will hope to qualify for the play-offs. 10.15 LGE PGA Tour Golf The FedEx St Jude Championship. Coverage of day one of the first event in the FedExCup Playoffs, in Tennessee. 11.00 PGA Tennis The Canadian Open women's final. Coverage of the showpiece match on day 12 of the WTA 1500 event in Toronto. 1.00am LGE Tennis The Canadian Open men's final. Coverage of the showpiece match on day 12 of the ATP 1500 event in Montreal. 3.00 LGE Tennis The Montreal Open. 4.00-6.00am Sky Sports News

SKY SPORTS BUDGET

6.00am The Hundred 8.15 The Hundred Blessize 8.45 The Hundred Blessize 10.00 The Hundred 1.30pm The Hundred Blessize 2.00 The Hundred Blessize 6.15 The Hundred Blessize 7.00 The Hundred Blessize 10.30 The Hundred Blessize 10.45 The Hundred Blessize 11.00 The Hundred 2.15am The Hundred Blessize 4.00 Women's ICC World T20 Cricket 4.30 The Hundred Blessize 5.00 The Hundred Blessize 5.15 Best of ICC WT20 5.45-6.00am The Hundred Blessize

SKY SPORTS FOOTBALL

6.00am UTC Cup Reject 8.45 UTC Greatest Games 9.00 SPFL Greatest Games 9.30 EFL Greatest Games 10.00 Championship Season Review 11.00 SPFL Greatest Games 11.30 EFL Greatest Games 12.00room Championship Season Review 2.00 EFL Preview Show 3.00 EFL Highlights 8.00 EFL 9.00 EFL Highlights 9.30 EFL Highlights 10.00 EFL Preview Show 11.00 EFL Highlights 12.00mFL Retro League One. 2.00 Best Moments From The Championship Play-Off Final (1993-2019) 2.30 Best Moments From The League 1 & 2. Play-Off Final (1993-2019) 3.00 SPFL Highlights 3.30 EFL Greatest Games 4.00 UTC Cup Retro 4.30 EFL 5.00-6.00am EFL Greatest Games

SKY SPORTS GOLF

6.00am PGA Tour The Golf & 30 PGA Tour Golf 7.30 Legends Tour Golf 8.30 PGA Tour Golf 9.30 PGA Tour. The Club 10.00 Hotel Partner Tour Golf Highlights 10.30 Ladies European Tour Golf 11.30 OP World Tour Golf 12.00noon LGE Off World Tour Golf The Danish Golf Championship. Coverage of day one. 5.00 LGE PGA Tour Golf The FedEx St Jude Championship. The featured groups on day one. 7.00 LGE PGA Tour Golf The FedEx St Jude Championship. The 6x6x6 Cup Playoffs. 11.00 LGE PGA Tour Golf The Standard Professional Classic. Day one of the tournament. 2.00am Justin Rose: Chasing Forever. A profile of the English globe. 3.00 PGA Tour Golf 4.00 School of Golf 5.00-6.00am Golf Academy

SKY SPORTS 1

6.00am LV Golf. A kick back at the 11th round. 7.00 LGE Snooker China Open Coverage from round two at Riverside Sports Centre in Taiyuan. 10.30 The Guay466 10.45 MotorDP Rewind 11.00 Discovery Golf 11.30 Golden Trail World Series 12.00noon TNT Sports Reised 12.30 LGE Snooker China Open Coverage from down two at Riverside Sports Centre in Taiyuan. 4.00 TNT Sports Reised 4.30 Discovery Golf 5.00 UTC Highlights 5.30 V6.5 Highlights 6.30 LGE MLB New York Yankees v Seattle Manners Start time 6.30pm. At Yankee Stadium. 9.30 Hard Knocks: Training Camp with the Seattle Seahawks 10.30 TNT Sports Reised 11.00 UMF1 HUD World Championship 11.30 TNT Sports Cricket Reised 12.00mFL CPL Highlights 12.30 LGE CPL Jamaica Krigsmen v Guyana Amazon Markets. Coverage of the 120 match. 4.45 TNT Sports Cricket Reised. The best towling 5.00-6.00am Formula E: Driver

TNT SPORTS 2

6.00am UEFA Ballon Cup 7.30 Men's Cycling Pro Series 8.30 FL Legends 10.30 Ultimate Pool 8.00am UEFA Super Cup 8.30 CPL 2.00 LGE Men's Cycling Pro Series Coverage from the first stage of the Tour of Chantou 3.30 MotoGP Highlights 4.30 Ultimate Pool 6.00 UMF1 HUD World Championship 6.30 FIM Speedway Grand Prix 7.30 UEFA Super Cup 9.00 UFC Breakfast 9.30 The Verdict 10.15 UFC Countdown 11.15 UFC Reiseded 1.45am UFC The Ultimate Fighter 2.45 UFC Countdown 3.45 TNT Sports Reised. 4.00-6.00am Snooker China Open

Entertainment & Festival

ITVJ

6.00am George and Michael 7.05 Classic Entrenesses 8.10 Classic Coronado Street 8.10 Agatha Christie's Picnic 11.30 Heartbeat 1.30pm Midcomer Murders 3.30 Classic Entrenesses 4.40 Classic Coronator Street 5.00 Heartbeat 8.00 Vero 10.00 Grandmaster 11.30 Trial & Retribution 1.25am Agatha Christie's Picnic 2.20-2.30am Unwind with ITV

ITVX

6.00am The Darts Through the Years 8.20 River Monsters 8.00 Magnum, Pi 7.50 Robin of Sherwood 9.00 Boom 10.10 The Professionals 11.15 Robin of Sherwood 12.20pm Magnum, Pi 2.25 The Casebook of Sherlock Holmes 3.30 Boom 4.25 The Professionals 5.45 Winter 6.00 Sharpe 9.00 Spenders 11.00 Black Stars 12.15am Hatt's Kitchen 1.10 The Professionals 2.15 Auto Munster 2.45-3.00am Unwind with ITV

iSITA1

6.00am Bargam Comedy Room in the Sun 10.00 Nightmare The Hanks, Slum Landlords 11.00 Tenth, Copia 2.00pm Police Interception 5.00 Shoplifters: Caught Red Infected 6.00 Home and Aimea 7.00 UFA: Behind Closed Doors 8.00 Casualty 3.47: Every Second Counts 9.00 H&E After Care 10.00 Heliotance Code Reel 11.00 Skin Add: 12.00mH Killer of the Crime Scene 1.00 Cold Case Killers 2.00 Casualty 3.47: Every Second Counts 3.45 Skin Add: 3.35-4.00am Friends

iREALLY

6.00am Celebrity Fantasy Homes 7.00 Cruse TV with Lowellhood 8.00 Escape to the Country 9.00 Salvage Hunters 12.00noon The Yorkshire Auction House 2.00 The Repair Shop 3.00 Salvage Hunters 8.00 Who Do You Think You Are? Damn Lash Dendle 6.00 The Repair Shop 7.00 The Yorkshire Auction House 8.00 Antiques Road Trip 9.00 The Bad Skin Clinic 11.00 Heist My House In Haunted 2.00am Telephoning 4.00-6.00am Salvage Hunters

SKY TOU

9.00am Entertainment News on 5.9.15 Teaching Hall 10.15 Police Interception 11.15 Guizomoke 12.20pm D&H Lawman (1971-1975) Winners, starring Kurt Lancaster. ★★★★★ 2.25 F&B The T&T (1957-1976) ★★★★★ 4.00 Highway: Thru Hall 5.00 Motorway: Copic: Catching Britain's Speeders 6.00 Police Interception 8.00 Motorway: Copic: Catching Britain's Speeders 9.00 Police Interception 10.30 Timber Titans 11.00 The X-Files 12.00mT Walker 1.00 Outback: Truckers 2.00 Tricking Heavy 3.50-4.00am Entertainment News on 5

SKY ARTS

6.00am The Wolfson 6.00 Artist of the Year Masterclass 9.00 Tales of the Unexpected 10.00 Alfred Hitchcock Presents 11.00 Discovering: Yul Brynner 12.00noon The Art of Film with Ian Nathan 1.00 Tales of the Unexpected 2.00 The Alfred Hitchcock Hour 3.00 The Eighteen 4.00 Discovering: Classic Rams 5.00 Portrait Artist of the Year 2022 6.00 Tales of the Unexpected 7.00 Unwind of the Valley 8.00 Discovering: Michelle Pfeffer 9.00 Dirt Easewood: A. Ike in Film

Live PGA Tour Golf Sky Sports Main Event, 5pm The first of three events in the FedExCup play-offs, the St Jude Championships, tees off at TFC Southwark in Memphis. Justin Rose (left) won here last year.

10.50 D&H Am Alfred Hitchcock (2021/15) ★★★ 12.30am Dragón: The Birth of the Tramp 1.45 Laurel and Hardy: Their Lives and Magic 3.30 Inside Art: Lubaine Pered at Title Modern 4.00 Skinner & Minta Literary Road Trip: Hope & Duel 5.00- 6.00am The Art of Film with Ian Nathan

LAGOLD

7.10am Don't Wait Up 1.00 Good 6.30 Dirty Fools and Horses 9.10 The Green Green Grace 8.00 Are You Being Swined? 10.30 Last of the Summer Wine 11.30 Duel 12.20pm Only Fools and Horses 1.00 Keeping Up Appearances 1.45 Dad's Army 2.25 The Green Green Grace 3.00 Are You Being Served? 3.00 Duel 4.25 Dad's Army & 5.00 Last of the Summer Wine 6.20 Keeping Up Appearances 7.00 Prondge 7.30 Dad's Army 8.00 Are You Being Served? 9.00 Fawlty Towers 9.40 Joe & David's Magical Broom Tour 10.00 Fawlty Towers 11.25 Mrs Brown's Boys 12.05am Fawlty Towers 1.25 Mrs Brown's Boys 2.00 Don't Wait Up 2.45-4.00am The Outlaws

7.15 EYEFLOU

6.10am Abandoned Engineering 8.00 Bangers & Cash: Restoring Classics 10.00 Bverb Wall: The Night the Iron Curtain Closed 11.00 The World at War 12.00noon Antiques Roadshow 2.00 Bangers & Cash 4.00 Bverb Wall: The Night the Iron Curtain Closed 5.00 The World at War 6.00 Antiques Roadshow 7.00 A Perfect Planet 8.00 Bangers & Cash 9.00 Bangers & Cash: Restoring Classics 10.00 Bangers & Cash 12.00mT Bangers & Cash: Restoring Classics 1.00 Find It, Fix It, Frog It 2.00-3.00am Abandoned Engineering

LAALIBI

7.10am Murdoch Mysteries 9.00 Shakespeare & Hathaway: Private Investigators 10.00 The Mermaid 11.00 Hudson & Rex 12.00noon Body of Proof 1.00 Death in Paradise 2.00 Murdoch Mysteries 4.00 The Mermaid 5.00 Hudson & Rex 6.00 Body of Proof 6.20 Private Eyes 7.50 Bookish 9.00 The Hunting Party 10.00 Death in Paradise 11.00 Human Eyes 12.00mT Shakespeare & Hathaway: Private Investigators 1.00 Death in Paradise 2.00-4.00am Murdoch Mysteries

YAYAG

6.00am Mornings & 30 Mornings 7.00 Mornings with Ridge and Frost 8.00 Stargate SG-1 10.00 Will & Grace

11.00 The Simpsons 12.00noon Sky Cats Small World 1.00 Hawaii Free-& 3.00 S.W.A.T 5.00 The Simpsons 6.00 Animal Control 6.30 The Simpsons 8.00 Rob & Romesh vs Magic in Vegas 9.00 The Dyers' Caravan Pack 10.00 The Player 11.00 Animal Control 11.30 Grimm 12.30am The Force: Manchester 1.30 Road Wars 2.00 Frank Skinner: 30 Years of Dirt 3.30 Hawaii Free-& 4.00-6.00am S.W.A.T

SKY ATLANTIC

6.00am Fish Town 8.00 Billions 10.15 House of the Dragon 12.20pm Homecam: Life on the Street 2.30 Billions 4.40 The Last of Us & 40 House of the Dragon 9.00 Possession: Double bill. Silver becomes unexpectedly violent at Hope Hill. Double seems out her Aunt Mercy to help her defeat Charlotte. 11.00 All Her Fault 12.05am House of the Dragon 2.45 Billions 5.00-6.00am The Guest Wing

LAGOLD

6.00am Bond Rescue 7.00 Border Patrol 8.00 Send in the Dogs 9.00 Get Great Law & Disorder 10.00 Stop. Search. Seize 11.00 Police 24/7 12.00noon FB 2.00 The Rookie 3.00 Law & Order: Criminal Intent 4.00 Nothing to Decline 5.00 Caught on Dashcam 9.00 CIA 10.00 Law & Order: Special Victims Unit 11.00 The Rookie 12.00mT FB 1.00 Chicago Med 2.00 Chicago Fire 3.00 Chicago PD 4.00 Motorway Patrol 5.00-6.00am Border Security: Cannabis Front Line

SKY COMEDY

6.00am Will & Grace 9.00 Sort Of 10.00 Lipight 11.15 Will & Grace 12.15pm The Rehearsel 1.45 Lipight 3.00 Will & Grace 4.00 The Office Movers 5.00 Community 6.00 Will & Grace 7.00 The Office 2.15 8.00 The Office Movers 9.00 Motor Passages: If Ever We Needed 1.10.15 Last Week: Tonight with John Olver 11.00 The Rehearsel 12.15am The Office Movers 1.30 The Comeback 3.00 Community 3.30-5.00am Sort Of

DISCOVERY

6.00am How It Is Made 7.30 The Pool Master 9.00 Gold Rush 11.00 Building Off the Grid 1.00pm Dr Jeff: Ricky's Mountain 1in 3.00 How It's Made 5.00 Aisleus: Homestead: Rescue 7.00 Superior Showroom 8.00 Wheeler Dealers 9.00 Naked and Afraid: Global Showdown 11.00 Expedition X 12.00mT Deadliest Catch 1.00 Naked and Afraid: Global Showdown 3.00 Gold Divers 4.00-5.00am Moonshiners: Master Distiller

NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC

6.00am Disaster Analysis 9.00 Joint Investigation 10.00 World's Greatest Train Journeys from Alpsne 11.00 Car S.G.S. 12.00noon Ultimate Airport Dubai 1.00 Air Crash Investigators 2.00 World War II: Secrets from Alpsne 4.00 Lost Treasures of Egypt 5.00 Drawing Chicago: What Lies Beneath 6.00 Thieves that Changed History 7.00 Air Crash Investigation 8.00 Apocalypse: Hitler Takes on the East 10.00 Lost Ships of World 11.00 Air Crash Investigation 12.00mT Amsterdam Central LV 7.1.00 Northwoods Survive 2.00 Lords of War 2.30 Abandoned 3.20 Food Factory 4.10-5.00am Train of the Wild

Radio

BBC RADIO 1

97.6-99.8MHz 6.5am Newsbeat 7.00 Radio 1 Breakfast 11.00 Richie, Maure and Charlie 12.45pm Newsbeat 1.00 Matt and Molin 2.00 Radio 1 Play: Anthems 3.30 Newsbeat 3.33 Going Home with Vick Aride and Jamie on Radio 1 5.45 Newsbeat 6.00 Radio 1's New Music Show with Jack Saunders 8.00 Radio 1's Piano Up with Ankle Free 10.00 BBC Introducing Dance 11.00 The Residents on Radio 1 Dance 1.00am Danny Howard's Club Mix 2.00 Radio 1 Anthems 4.00 Radio 1's Workout Anthems 5.00-6.55am Early Breakfast

BBC RADIO 2

88-91MHz 6.30am Save Cox 9.30 Vernon Kay 11.25 Place Room 12.00noon Jeremy Vine 2.00 Class Arms 4.00 Just Dormit 7.00 6:00 Bowman & 48 Hacks 2's Place Room 9.00 The Country Show with Darius Hucker 10.00 The Good Groove with Melvin Osborn 12.00mT U2 Borg 3.00 Dance Sounds of the 90s with Vernon Kay 4.00-6.30am Owain Wyn Evans

TV RADIO 3

90.2-92.4MHz 6.30am Breakfast 9.30 Essential Classics 1.00pm Classical Live 4.00 Composer of the Week: Montgomery 5.00 In Town 7.00 OBC/Prams 2.00 10.00 Night Tracks 11.30 TRound Midnight 12.30-6.30am Through the Night

BBC RADIO 4

FM 92.4-94.6MHz 6.00am Today 9.00 Natalie Haynes: Broom Up for the Classics

CHOICE

Drama: Security

Radio 4, 2.15pm Kelly Jones' darkly funny drama about being pushed to our limits. Controls adult daughter Sara has been missing for several months, so to help her surely, she takes a job as a security guard at a supermarket. But how will she react when she spots her first shoplifter - single mum Marie?

9.30 The Guitar Story 10.00 Woman's Hour 11.00 The Three Ages of Child 11.45 Book of the Week: Hiroshima, 8.15: The Lost Memoir 12.00noon News 12.04 Scam Secrets 12.32 Street Bread 13.57 Weather 1.00 The World at One 1.45 Human Intelligence 2.00 The Archer 2.15 Diaries: Security 3.00 The Natural Life 3.27 Radio 4. Kapsal 3.30 Headland 4.00 The Briefing Room 4.30 ISIC Inside Science 5.00 FM 5.57 Weather 6.00 News & 8.00 Ushana's FM 7.00 The Archers 7.15 Front Flow 8.00 At Your Own Five 8.15 The Media Show 9.00 Loose Souls 9.45 The Cows Are Add 10.00 The World Tonight 10.45 Book at Northern The Vicar of Wakefield 11.00 Radical 11.30 A Good Read 12.00mT News 12.30 Book of the Week: Hiroshima, 8.15: The Lost Memoir 12.40 Shipping Forecast 1.00 As BBC World Service 5.00 News Summary 5.04 The Briefing Room 5.32 Weather 5.34 Shipping Forecast 5.43 Prayer for the Day 5.45-6.00am Farming Today

BBC RADIO 5 LIVE

693/909kHz 6.00am 5 Live Breakfast 789/909kHz 7.00am 11.00 Gordon Smart. Sitting in for Action Chiles. 2.00pm Matt Chorey 4.00 5 Live Drive 7.00 5 Live Sport 7.30 Athletics. Eleanor Oldroyd presents coverage of the European Athletics Championships in Birmingham. 10.00 Johnny TAnson 1.00am Charlie Taylor 5.00-6.00am Wake Up to Money

BINGERON 3 CH 15

FM: 94.6MHz 6.00am News & 65 Wake Up with Radio Wines 8.31 Country Police 7.00 Radio Wales Breakfast 9.00 Bronwen Lewis 12.00noon The Phone in 2.00 Batrina Akingar 5.00 Radio Wales Drive 6.30 Ke's Comedy Club 7.00 Alegrana Scott 10.00 Elon Sion 12.00mT Relax with Radio Wales 1.00-6.00am Air Radio 5 Live

CLASSIC FM

100-102MHz 6.30am Classic FM Breakfast with Tim Lhonesa 9.00 The Classic FM Hail of Fame Hour with Tim Lhonesa 10.00 Aled Jones 1.00pm Arson Makei Minnal 4.00 Margherita Sport 7.00 Relaxing Framings with John Bruning 9.00 Classic FM's Composer: Canucal With John Bruning 10.00 Cain Classics 1.00am Bill Overton 4.00-6.30am Early Breakfast

ASSOCIATED

DAB 6.00am Dave Berry 10.00 Leona Girdam 1.00pm Dan Burnet 4.00 Hometime with Bush & Richie 7.00 Danielle Perry 10.00 Jay Lawrence 1.00-6.00am Dan Noble

Movies

FILM

11.00am Journey to the Center of the Earth (1959/U) SG-1 adventure, starring the Boone and James Mason. ★★★ 1.40pm Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Wagner (1962/63) Murder thriller, starring Saal Rathbone and Nigel Bruce. ★★★ 3.15 The Day Story of Jesse James (1957) PGI Biopic, starring Robert Wagner. ★ 5.00 BIRCH (2019/12) JRR Taliban target, starring Nicholas Hurd and Lily Collins. ★★★ 7.10 Mean (2009/15) So-4 drama, starring Sam Rockwell and Kevin Spacey. ★★★ 9.00 The Woman Wing (2022/13) Historical Drama, starring Vick Davis. ★★★ 11.40 Area (2019/15) Action thriller, starring Sasha Luss and Helen Miner. ★★★ 10-3:30am Berberian Sexed Studio (2012/13) Thriller, with Toby Jones. ★★★

SKY CINEMA PREMIERE

1.20am Journey Tunes: The Dog the Earth Blew Up (2024/16) Animated adventure, featuring the voice of Eric Dauda. ★★★ 9.00 Eleanor the Great (2025/12) Joe 4 Stars. ★★★ 10.40 Anaconda (2025/13) Comedy adventure, starring Jack Black and Paul Rudd. ★★★ 12.20pm Normal (2026/15) Sue 6:33pm. ★★★ 2.00 Seven Snipe (2026/15) Sue 3:43pm. ★★★ 3.40 Song Song Blue (2025/13) Drama, with Hugh Jazmin and Dean Hudson. ★★★ 6.00 Heretic (2024/15) Horror, starring Hugh Grant and Sophie Thurton. ★★★ 8.00 Normal (2026/15) Director from Amazon's Action Comedy, with Bob Oakeson. ★★★ 9.40 Seven Snipe (2026/15) Thriller, starring Rachel Mitchell and Charles Cotter. ★★★ 11.20 Private (2025/15) Horror, with Johnny Muguyah and Jessica Alexander. ★★★ 12.00am Salem (2025/15) Crime drama, starring Theodore Pellerin. ★★★ 2.40 In Gold Light (2025/15) Crime thriller, with Makki Mennon and Alan Hawco. ★★★ -30-6:30am Eleanor the Great (2025/12) Drama, starring June Squibb. ★★★★

SKY CINEMA CRAMA

4.00pm Stream (1978/79) Musical with John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John. ★★★★ 6.00 Greses 2 (1982/80) Musical, starring Michelle Pfeifer and Maxwell Caulfield. ★ 8.00 A Star Is Born (2018/19) Drama, starring Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper. ★★★★ 10.20 A League of Their Own (1992/90) Drama, with Geena Davis and Tom Harris. ★★★ 12.45am The Brutalist (2020/19) Drama, with Adrien Brody and Felicity Jones. ★★★★ 4.10-6:00am Cicada (2020/19) Drama, with Matthew Filer and Sheldon D Brown. ★★★

TAKING THE EARTH

4.20pm Fantastic Mr Fox (2009/90) Toby Hurd's animated adventure. ★★★★ 6.00 Jackie Chan's The Toxedo (2002/12) Comedy adventure, with Jackie Chan. ★★★ 7.40 The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002/12) Fantasy adventure sequel, starring Elijah Wood and Virgin Mortensen. ★★★★ 10.40 Lamony Brackett's Series of Unfortunate Events (2004/95) Comedy adventure, starring Jim Camp. ★★★★ 12.30am Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2014/13) Fantasy adventure, starring Megan Fox and William Fichtner. ★ 2.15 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows (2016/12) Action adventure sequel, starring Megan Fox and Will Arndt. ★★★ 4.10-6:00am Chantelle's Web (2006/11) Family Drama, starring Claudia Farrang. ★★★

TALKING PICTURES TV

4.05pm Jigsaw (1982/93) Murder mystery, with Jack Warner and Ronald Lewis. ★★★ 6.20 Strange But True Unexplained stories. 6.30 The Brothers Richard Easton stars. 8.00 Mark Salter Donald Gray stars. 6.30 The Wrestleggers and Numbers Social Club The Crickets perform their hit Everyday. 9.00 The Sea Shall Not Have Them (1995/12) Drama, starring Dan Bogarde. ★★★ 11.10 The Comic (1969/90) Comedy drama, with Dick Van Dale and Michele Lee. ★★★ 1.00am X the Unknown (1956/90) Hammer so A horror, starring Dean Jaggar. ★★★ 2.40 Colonel March Investigates - 4.00 Burke's Law Directive series. 5.00-6:00am Film Now

GREAT MYSTERY

4.00pm Diagnosis Murder (2009) drama. 5.00 Murder, She Wrote Two episodes. 7.00 Cattle in Premier crime drama. 8.00 Unforgettable Poppy Montgomery stars. 9.00 In Plain Sight Men McConnove stars. 10.00 Morning Show Mysteries: A Murder in Mead (2019/90) Mystery, starring Hella Robinson Peete and Rick Fox. ★ 11.00pm Hatty Owen Mysteries 1.45am Scandal: My Daughter's Secret (2021/95) Thriller with Kevin Carmony. ★★★ 3.30-6:00am The Threat Next Door (2023/90) Mystery thriller, starring Shiva Negar. ★

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PUBLIC NOTICES

Department for Energy Security and Net Zero

ONE EARTH SOLAR FARM

THE PLANNING ACT 2008 AND THE INFRASTRUCTURE PLANNING (ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT) REGULATIONS 2017 NOTICE OF A DECISION ON AN APPLICATION FOR AN ORDER GRANTING DEVELOPMENT CONSENT FOR EIA DEVELOPMENT

The Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero ("the Secretary of State") gives notice under regulation 31(2) of the Infrastructure Planning (Environmental Impact Assessment) Regulations 2017 that a determination has been made on an application made by National Grid Electricity Transmission plc ("the Applicant") for development consent under the Planning Act 2008 ("the 2008 Act") for development that constitutes "Environmental Impact Assessment development" as defined in the 2017 Regulations.

The application is for the construction, operation and maintenance, and decommissioning of a solar photovoltaic ("PV") array electricity generating facility. The project includes solar PV panels, battery energy storage systems ("BES"), on-site substations and associated grid connection infrastructure which will allow for the generation and export of 740 megawatts ("MW") of electricity to the proposed National Grid High Manihum Substation. The Proposed Development has within Nottinghamshire County Council ("NCC"), Lincolnshire County Council ("LCC"), Basertree District Council ("BDC"), Newark and Sherwood District Council ("NSDC") and West Lindsay District Council ("WLDC") administrative areas.

The Secretary of State has decided, following consideration of the report of the Examining Authority who conducted an examination into the application, that development consent should be granted for the Proposed Development.

The statement of reasons for deciding to make an Order granting development consent, which has been prepared by the Secretary of State under section 116 of the 2008 Act and regulation 31(2) of the Infrastructure Planning (Environmental Impact Assessment) Regulations 2017, containing the content of the decision, the requirements imposed in connection with the development, the main reasons and considerations on which the decision is based including relevant information about the participation of the public, a description of the main features to avoid, reduce and offset any major adverse effects of the development, is published on the Planning Inspectorate's website:

https://national-infrastructure-consenting.planninginspectorate.gov.uk/projects/EN010159

The statement of reasons contains the information required by regulation 30(2) including information regarding the right to challenge the decision and the procedures for doing so.

Hard copies of the decision documentation will also be available to inspect at the Planning Inspectorate's offices (by appointment using the contact details below): The Planning Inspectorate, National Infrastructure Directorate, c/o QANDERT, 69 Buckingham Avenue, Slough SL1 4PN

To make an appointment for inspection of the documents contact the Planning Inspectorate on 0303 444 5000 or email MErequiredtplanninginspectorate.gov.uk.

Copies of the Secretary of State's decision letter and the text of the Order can be obtained by writing or sending an email to the Planning Inspectorate. No charge will be made for this service.

STATUTORY

DEAR MOOR SOLAR FARM PROJECT

The Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero ("the Secretary of State") gives notice under regulation 31(2) of the Infrastructure Planning (Environmental Impact Assessment) Regulations 2017 ("the 2017 Regulations") that a determination has been made on an application made by PIS Dean Moor Limited ("the Applicant") for development consent under the Planning Act 2008 ("the 2008 Act") for development that constitutes "Environmental Impact Assessment development" as defined in the 2017 Regulations.

The application is for the construction, operation and maintenance and decommissioning of a ground-mounted solar photovoltaic energy generating station with a gross electrical output capacity exceeding 50MW, and associated development including: substations, a control building, Point of Connection to the local distribution network infrastructure and electrical equipment, communications masts, electrical cabling and connecting infrastructure, internal access tracks and highway access works, temporary construction compounds, security and monitoring infrastructure, operational and maintenance facilities, drainage and irrigation works, landscaping, green infrastructure, biodiversity mitigation and enhancement measures, permission paths, noise attenuation works and all ancillary works and infrastructure ("the Proposed Development").

The statement of reasons for deciding to grant development consent, which has been prepared by the Secretary of State under section 116 of the 2008 Act and regulation 31(2) of the 2017 Regulations, containing the content of the decision, the requirements imposed in connection with the development, the main reasons and considerations on which the decision is based including relevant information about the participation of the public, a description of the main features to avoid, reduce and offset any major adverse effects of the development, is published on the Planning Inspectorate's website:

https://national-infrastructure-consenting.planninginspectorate.gov.uk/projects/EN010155

The statement of reasons contains the information required by regulation 30(2) of the 2017 Regulations including information regarding the right to challenge the decision and the procedures for doing so.

Hard copies of the decision documentation will also be available to inspect at the Planning Inspectorate's offices (by appointment using the contact details below): The Planning Inspectorate, National Infrastructure Directorate, Temple Quay House, Bristol BS1 6PN To make an appointment for inspection of the documents contact the Planning Inspectorate on 0303 444 5000 or email MErequiredtplanninginspectorate.gov.uk.

PEARTREE HILL SOLAR FARM PROJECT

The Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero ("the Secretary of State") gives notice under regulation 31(2) of the Infrastructure Planning (Environmental Impact Assessment) Regulations 2017 ("the 2017 Regulations") that a determination has been made on an application made by RWE Renewables UK Solar and Storage Limited ("the Applicant") for development consent under the Planning Act 2008 ("the 2008 Act") for development that constitutes "Environmental Impact Assessment development" as defined in the 2017 Regulations.

The application is for the construction, operation, maintenance and decommissioning of a solar farm made up of photovoltaic panels, generating up to 320 megawatts gross electrical output, including cabling for National Grid connectivity, a battery energy storage system and other associated development ("the Proposed Development").

In addition, the Order would contain compulsory acquisition powers in relation to land and rights that would be required for the purposes of the development.

The statement of reasons for deciding to grant development consent, which has been prepared by the Secretary of State under section 116 of the 2008 Act and regulation 31(2) of the 2017 Regulations, containing the content of the decision, the requirements imposed in connection with the development, the main reasons and considerations on which the decision is based including relevant information about the participation of the public, a description of the main features to avoid, reduce and offset any major adverse effects of the development, is published on the Planning Inspectorate's website: https://national-infrastructure-consenting.planninginspectorate.gov.uk/projects/EN010157

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Stop the boats and UK's illegals problem will end

LEAFY villages must accept more asylum seekers, insists the PM.

How about this, Mr Burnham, you stop the boats arriving in the first place then no one has to be forced to accept them.

Seems like a plan to me and the thoughts of the majority of the UK people I'm sure.

Viv Birley,

Whittlesey, Cambs

Let the Taliban do their worst to Afghan rapist

SO ABDUL Nabizada, an Afghan who interpreted for British Forces and who was granted asylum in Britain repays us by raping a teenage girl ("Afghan taxi rapist jailed for teen attack", August 12).

I'm afraid that I simply do not care what the Taliban, or anyone else, might do to him. Just send him back to Afghanistan.

John Kennedy,

Hornchurch, Essex

Locate mega dinghies and puncture before launch

THE Channel dinghy situation is a farce ("PM: We'll have to change tactics over mega dinghies", August 12). French locals, police drones and coastal patrols must be able to see these massive vessels being delivered and assembled. Because loud air compressors are needed to pump them up, they could easily be located by sound. They should be punctured before they get near water. If the French refuse to do it, perhaps our Special Forces could?

Philip Fowler,

Moretonhampstead, Devon

We want receipts from the French for our generosity

IT IS apparent the French are doing nothing to stop illegal migrants. Our Government should insist on a monthly itemised record of exactly what France is spending our money on and this data must be published.

Angela Briscoe,

Shipley, WYork

Win-win for Gallic cousins as they play both sides

I RECENTLY read that businesses in northern France are making a fortune supplying smuggling gangs with lifejackets and equipment.

If true, it is little wonder the French refuse to stop the boats; they win both ways. The UK pays them a fortune to police the beaches, yet their local economy profits from the smugglers.

A huge fuss needs to be made about this. Where are these huge inflatables being manufactured?

Andrew Tiffin,

Tiptree, Essex

Employ health and safety jobsworths to end invasion

THERE is no need to involve the Royal Navy in the Channel. Simply send health and safety zealots mid-Channel to turn the dinghies back on the grounds that they are dangerously overloaded.

William Robinson,

Leeds

LETTER OF THE DAY

Andy Burnham must send illegals back over Channel

Burnham's a village idiot on migrants

I'M OUTRAGED by the latest statements from Andy Burnham ("Leafy villages' must accept more asylum seekers, insists Burnham", August 12).

Why is this government determined to ruin our way of life? Illegal asylum seekers should not be treated better than the indigenous people of this country, and in many cases at the moment, they are.

Wethersfield is a fine example of this mess, where the population of young male asylum seekers is now larger than the village itself.

You can be certain these arrivals won't be placed in the politicians' own local towns. We need to stop treating illegal migrants as guests and return them to where they came from.

Sue Hills,

Sanderstead, Surrey

Unite the Right to put a stop to this pantomime

I SPEAK for the majority, I think, when I say the British public has been brainwashed to give up its core principles. For 26 years, successive governments, an unaccountable civil service, and Left-wing fringe groups have destroyed our way of life, aided by a biased BBC. My solution's simple: the political Right must unite. I implore Nigel Farage and Richard Tice to grasp this chance. It is unacceptable to cram 230 illegal migrants onto a single dinghy.

Mike Kane,

Corby, Northants

Deafening public outrage forces screeching U-turn

WITH yet another U-turn on the cards regarding the early release of PC Andrew Harper's killers, I am convinced our current crop of MPs lacks courage and moral fibre ("Andy U-turns on early release plan", August 12).

If it were not for a fierce public backlash, these killers – along with many others – would be free to roam to commit further crimes.

Despite being in opposition for 14 years, Labour seems to have no idea how to run the country. A clear

pattern has formed: this government announces ill-thought-out, half-baked ideas to gauge the reaction of the public, unions and backbenchers before making drastic modifications or a total U-turn.

This is performative testing, it is not leadership.

Richard Burridge,

Wheatley, Oxon

Do as I say, not as I do - says champagne socialist

ESTHER McVey reports that our current Net Zero Secretary, the privately educated Miatta Fahnbulleh, sends her three children to private school ("Labour try to hide their private parts", August 11). What is so unusual about that? She is a socialist.

Christopher Humphreys,

Euclos, Flint

PM Andy's indecision is final, or is it, who knows?

I'M DRIVEN to despair by the comments coming out of Andy Burnham's mouth; it is a display of slippery, zero-leadership politics that changes policy day by day.

One day he states he does not want to see a single prisoner released early, yet within 24 hours the bureaucracy overrides him.

Who is actually running this

government? The more he blows hot and cold – especially while failing to stop the illegal crossings – the worse this ticking will get.

Peter Rushton,

Chorley, Lancs

All killers must serve full sentence with no parole

THE Government claims it cannot exempt individuals from its early prison release scheme, but the solution is plain: simply add manslaughter to the list of excluded offences, as with rape.

Anyone who takes a life should serve their full term with no chance of parole or early release. It is time the PM showed some backbone.

Ronald Brown,

Uckfield, E Sussex

Sort out the problems in your own back yard first

CAN someone tell Andy Burnham he was elected to be the PM of the UK, not the rest of the world? His core duty is to support the working people of this country, not to bankrupt them with ever higher taxes and saddle them with endless financial burdens ("Cost-crisis solution is simple Andy. Stop your tax obsession!", August 12).

Dick Bedford,

Cullompton, Devon

SKIPPER MCGINN AND HIS BOYS HAVE STILL GOT THAT VILLA SPARK

THE big Premier League kick-off is approaching again and Aston Villa captain John McGinn is full of optimism to do well ("McGinn ready for another Villa thriller", August 12).

A few of our top class players have now exited Villa Park during the summer but I really

hope that the Villans can follow on from last season's success and be a great Midlands team.

And I am very excited and looking forward to some new players coming along.

I'm with my great team as always, wishing them well.

Annette Hale,

Aldridge, W Mids

TODAY: Thursday

August 13, 2026

ON THIS DAY

86 years ago (1940)

Our front page declared "The Battle of Britain is on" and described how brave Spitfire and Hurricane pilots fought off the biggest bombing raid of the war, as more than 500 Luftwaffe planes targeted Portsmouth and aerodromes along England's south coast.

This marked the start of a new "intensified" phase in the battle as the Germans shifted their sights from English Channel shipping to airfields and industrial sites instead.

49 years ago (1977)

More than 100 people were injured in the so-called Battle of Lewisham when National Front members ferociously clashed with anti-fascist demonstrators.

The far-Right group gained followers during the late 1970s, amid rising unemployment in Britain.

60 years ago (1966)

People's Republic of China leader Mao Zedong - Chairman Mao - embarked on a purge of his political rivals which became known as the Cultural Revolution.

Intellectuals and the educated middle class were terrorised by the Red Guards, and children were forced to inform on their parents and teachers, as Mao sought to wipe out capitalist influences.

BIRTHDAYS

Model Marie Halvin is 74. She grew up in Hawaii. Former darts world champion Phil Taylor is 66. He is nicknamed The Power. Punk icon Feargal Sharkey is 68. He is a prominent environmental campaigner Food writer Madhur Jaffrey is 93. She started out as an actress.

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ARIES MARCH 21-APRIL 20

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LEO JULY 24-AUG 23

You're shining, and people are responding. Creativity, charm, and confidence all work in your favour. Conversations flow easily, especially in romance or friendship. Sharing your thoughts brings you closer to others. A little self-reflection also helps you stay grounded. Balance your boldness with awareness, and you'll make the most of things.

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SAGITTARIUS NOV 23-DEC 21

You're feeling confident and open to new possibilities. Conversations, especially with friends or colleagues, could lead to exciting opportunities. Collaboration suits you – don't go it alone. At home, simple pleasures bring unexpected insight. You're being guided towards experiences that expand both your thinking and your connections.

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TAURUS APRIL 21-MAY 21

There's a simple pleasure that shouldn't be overlooked. Whether it's time with family or a satisfying task at home, it all adds up to something grounding. Conversations feel easier, more genuine. If something's been left unsaid, now's a good time to address it calmly. Balance practicality with warmth, and you'll find things fall into place naturally.

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CANCER JUNE 22-JULY 23

There's a steady, productive feel to the day, especially when you combine creativity with practicality. Conversations could lead to useful ideas, whether for work or home life. Emotionally, you're in a warm and generous space, making it easier to connect with others. Say what you feel – it will be well received. When making decisions, they're reliable ones.

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VIRGO AUG 24-SEPT 23

A thoughtful mood suits you. Taking time to reflect helps you understand what's been building. At the same time, connections with friends can feel surprisingly uplifting. Don't isolate yourself completely – sharing your thoughts could lead to something meaningful. Trust your instincts – they're helping you sort through what truly matters.

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CAPRICORN DEC 22-JAN 20

Clarity arrives, especially around your ambitions and emotional priorities. You're better able to express what you want, which makes conversations more productive. In relationships, honesty deepens trust. At work, your ideas are well-received. Don't hold back. Trust your instincts – they're helping you align your goals with what truly matters to you.

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LIBRA SEPT 24-OCT 23

You're surrounded by positive energy, especially in your social circle. Conversations feel inspiring, and ideas flow when you're with the right people. This is a good time to reconnect with someone who shares your vision. If a relationship needs attention, approach it with honesty. Your instincts are guiding you towards genuine connections.

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AQUARIUS JAN 21-FEB 19

Connections take on a deeper tone. Conversations that go beyond the surface bring satisfaction and insight. Whether in friendships or something more romantic, openness strengthens the bond. Your creativity is also flowing. Share your ideas, even if they feel a bit different. Your instincts are strong, guiding you towards meaningful experiences.

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SCORPIO OCT 24-NOV 22

Work and ambition are highlighted, and you're in a strong position to progress. Speak up – your ideas carry weight. At the same time, your emotional awareness is deepening, particularly in friendships. A meaningful conversation could shift your perspective. Take a moment to reflect as well as act. Balance between the two brings growth.

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PISCES FEB 20-MARCH 20

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He cries, "Thanks!" as they reach the shore, Then dives into the sea once more.

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The fish leaps out of the water and casts a glance at the incoming tide. "It's close enough for you to carry me back now," it says. "Just hold out your arms. Rupert does as he is asked. The fish jumps up into his outstretched arms and Rupert hurries towards the water's edge. "Before you go, tell me how it is you can talk," he asks the fish. "Learned how to from Sea Sprites and the like," it replies proudly. "Thanks for saving me!" it cries, and, with a final flick of its tail, it dives into the sea.

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AT A GLANCE

STOCK MARKET
FTSE 100	10833.2	▼ +11.0
FTSE 250	24814.9	▲ +15.1
FTSE ALL SHARE	5843.1	▼ -4.8
Shares Traded	10383.5 million

POPULAR SHARES ON THE RISE
Aviva	704	+7
AMT Systems	3679	+40
Barclays	5791	+31
Centrica	553	+16
HSBC Holdings	5537%	+131
NY Consolidated Airlines	842	+2
Legal & General	3021	+1
Lloyds Banking Group	1151	+11
Nettfield Group	7141	+71
National Grid	11961	+11
Pro Time	7523	+28
Rolls-Royce Holdings	1346	+13
Wolafonte Group	1191	+1
Whitbread	2479	+14

POPULAR SHARES ON THE SLIDE
AutraZeneca	11702	-142
BP	5301	-51
BT Group	195	-1
Diageo	1732	-34
GSK	1869	-27
Haleon	360	-51
Marks & Spencer Group	3851	-16
Sainsbury US	338	-61
Shell	2377	-131
Tesco	4521	-9
Unilever	45701	-36

WORLD MARKETS
WALL STREET	53,770.2	▼ -21.5
TOKYO	67524.1	▲ +553.8
HONG KONG	25440.2	▼ -312.7
GERMANY	26331.1	▼ -60.3
FRANCE	8674.9	▼ -40.0

STERLING VALUE
Dollar	1.351	▼ -0.002
Yen	215.057	▲ +0.035
Euro	1.170	▼ -0.001

DOLLAR VALUE
Dollar/Yen	139.191	▲ +0.035
Dollar/Euro	0.866	▲ +0.002

COMMODITIES
GOLD(S)	▲ 4431.06
KRUGERBAND(GIP)	▲ 3272.69
SEVER(pence)	▲ 4827.92
BRENT CRUISE(S)	▼ 88.90

OTHER INDICATORS
Beer rate	3.75%
Halifax mortgage rate	7.24%
Retail Price Index	+3.0% (CP: +2.6%)
House price Index	+2.7%
Unemployment	1,760,000

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TOURIST'S POUND

Australia	1.87 dollar
Canada	1.83 dollar
China	8.54 seominds
Czech Rep.	26.67 koruna
Denmark	8.31 kréter
Eurozone	1.15 euro
Hong Kong	9.96 dollar
Hungary	400.79 forint
Israel	3.81 dodeil
Japan	206.57 yen
Jordan	0.89 dexp
Mexico	21.80 peso
New Zealand	2.23 dollar
Norway	12.38 krone
Poland	4.79 duty
South Arabia	4.83 rtaif
South Africa	20.97 rand
Sweden	12.24 krona
Switzerland	1.06 franc
Thailand	43.01 baht
Turkey	59.96 fey
United States	1.33 dollar

Most shoppers think stores are profiting from price rises

THE majority of Britons believe supermarkets are profiteering from rising food prices due to the Iran war, a poll shows.

It comes despite Chancellor John Healey recently admitting there was little evidence of the practice.

Some 70% of UK voters think stores make “excessive” profits from food inflation, the City AMI Freshwater Strategy poll found.

A total of 43% “agree slightly” with the suggestion supermarkets are unfairly profiting from rising prices, while 27% said they strongly believe grocers are price-gouging.

When asked to estimate grocers' profit from every pound spent, voters plumped for 32p – over 10 times the actual level.

Told supermarkets make only 3p in profit from each pound in sales, Britons' belief that they are price-gouging bill.

The Chancellor warned retailers against ramping up prices unnecessarily before admitting he had not seen any signs of it happening.

Writing in the Sunday Telegraph, Mr Healey said he is prepared to crack down on retailers taking shoppers “for a ride” by using soaring energy and supply costs caused by the closure of the Strait of

BY FELIX ARMSTRONG

Hormuz as an excuse to raise prices. He added: “Companies’ willingness to work with the government throughout this crisis has been positive, and there has been no significant evidence of so-called

supermarkets say they're low margin

price gouging, but I want to be blunt in reassuring the public that our regulators have the powers to clamp down on it if it happens.”

Stores hit back at the suggestion. The British Retail Consortium – representing the UK's biggest retailers including Sainsbury's, Tesco and Asda – has said it is prepared to prove that it is keeping prices down.

Jim Bligh, BRC corporate affairs director, said: “It's not

helpful for the Chancellor to label retailers as potential profiteers when it's one of the UK's lowest margin industries.”

Britons' perceptions of supermarket price gouging comes despite food inflation slowing in recent months, reaching as low as 1.7% in June.

Food industry figures had warned that inflation could hit as high as 10% later this year, but the BRC says intense competition among retailers is keeping a lid on rising prices.

TUI PROFITS NOSEDIVE AS FLIERS STALL

Holidaymakers are now leaving it later to make their bookings

HOLIDAY firm Tui has seen quarterly earnings plunge as consumers continue to leave bookings until the last minute due to the Iran war.

Pre-tax profits at Europe's largest travel operator tumbled 43% to £13m in its third quarter to the end of June, with the group hit by rising fuel costs and pressure to lower prices

because of weak demand and increased competition.

Underlying earnings fell 27% to £199m as it said customer numbers fell 3% to 9.9 million.

Chief executive Sebastian Ebel said: "This is no ordinary year [but] Tui has held its own.

"Travel remains highly relevant to people's lives, but the timing of travel decision has shifted."

Infrastructure firm on a high

Balfour powers ahead and makes light of gloom

BALFOUR Beatty has boosted its earnings and cash flow targets, as the construction firm's "real momentum" defies wider gloom facing the sector.

The group, which works with the government on major infrastructure projects, has seen the value of its order book jump by 17% to £22.9bn in the

six months to June, as its revenue increased by 8% to £5.6bn.

This boost was driven by rising demand in US housebuilding and the UK's power industry, the firm said, as it lifted its earnings targets.

Chief executive Philip Hoare said: "Balfour Beatty enters the second half

with real momentum." Its upbeat trading update defies the wider gloom facing the UK's construction sector.

Alex Pugh, an analyst at Freetrade, said the group has focused on demand “in areas where spending is hard to avoid: power networks, transport, defence and US buildings”.

++ THE FTSE 100 THE FTSE 100 THE FTSE 100 ++

COMPANY	CLOSE	+/-	52 WEEK
			HIGH	LOW
It Group	2813	+71	4845%	5634%
A & Foods	2043	-30	2358%	1729%
Marathon Group	2505	+1%	265	171%
Admiral Group	3628	+108	4006	2627%
Airtel Africa	3241	+1	4561	336
Millions Widen	1367	+1	1391	178
Anglo American	4058	+37	4239	2114%
Andelgopta	4029	+4	4414%	2513%
AutoZeneca	11702	-142	15729%	9891%
Auto Trader	5201	-3	831	418%
Aviva	704	+7	717%	590%
AMT Systems	2270	+40	2359%	1529
BP	5301	-51	6001%	3991
BT Group	195	+1	243	173
BalconX International	1205	+14	1527	902%
Barclays	1191	+31	1581%	352%
Barrett Motors	531	+116	4155%	2191%
Beatty Group	12021	+1	1296	749%
British Airtel Sub	4150	-52	5368	3675%
British Land	4351	-1	4511%	2251
Brazil	2754	-52	2886	1880%
Barberry Group	11700	+91	13761%	576
Cambra	155	+4	2201%	1511
Coca-Cola EuropacRe	7920	+133	7600	5800
Coca-Cola HIB	4604	-10	5195	3269
Company Group	53	-1	341	19%
Compulscenter	4628	-22	4962	2231%
Convister Group	2331	-1	2591	193
Coola International	3268	-6	5552	2425%
CCL	5271	+3	6740	4187
Diageo	1732	-34	2141%	1291%
Diploma	7420	-120	7192	4969%
Endurance Mining	4288	+105	5409	2389
Entain	560	+31	967	500%
Exporter Group	2629	+31	3861	2355%
F&C Inv Trd	5441	-1	356	286%
Forcella	3016	+68	4471	1616%
Garner Workshop	18990	-245	23539	14066%
GlaxoSmithKline	1869	-27	22811	12801

COMPANY	CLOSE	+/-	52 WEEK
			HIGH	LOW
Glencore	573	+1%	707%	282
HSBC Holdings	15374	+131%	1610	927%
Halarn	360	-51	416	216%
Halma	3764	+46	4901%	3193%
Hirsch	1880	+20	1904	1257
Houston Johnny	8181	-51%	9801%	715
ICG Interim Cap	2052	-	2339	1424%
IG Group	1354	-36	1956	1015%
IML	3148	+24	3162	2215%
Imperial Brands	2598	-30	3631	2613
Infizoma	9101	+81%	9999%	7181%
InterContinental Hlt	1591	+4	1751%	1141%
Intertek Group	5845	+5	5855	3518%
Intl Consolidated Airlines	442	+2	493	332%
Investex	6701	+1%	680	499%
J&T Systems	2911	+1%	1083	64
Kingfisher	5221	-1	3721	2401%
Land Securities	708	+6	726	522%
Legal & General	3021	+1	318	217
Lois Finance Group	12720	+90	13190	8902%
Lloyds Banking Svc	1151	+11%	1161	71%
London & Stumford Prop	193	-	2161	175%

COMPANY	CLOSE	+/-	52 WEEK
			HIGH	LOW
London Stock Ex.	8752	-54	10140	8683%
MBCI	3511	+1	367	246%
Marks & Spencer	3874	-16	4181	301
Melrose	4931	+6	685	410
Merber Energy	926	-	1061	291%
Nartland Group	7141	+7%	726	158
National Grid	11961	+11	14285	999%
Next	15330	-255	16171	1119%
Pearson	11921	-11	1337	874%
Pending Square Hold	3894	-20	5094%	3636
Persimmon	11691	+61%	13511%	947%
Polar Capital Tech.	677	+13%	7431%	384
Prudential	1012	+5	12274%	910%
RELA	2541	-67	1653	1990%
Reckitt Benckson	5158	-146	8517%	3663%
Reckold Metal	360	-1%	507	229%
Rio Tinto	7521	+28	9117	4432%
Rolls-Royce Group	1546	+13	1586	990
SEGRC	957	+5	9871	6025%
SSE	2431	+33	2767	1596%
Sage Group	1020	-19%	1586%	771%
Sanitbury (V)	2361	+81	2881	292
Schroders	583	+1%	5991	3581
Scottish Mortgage	14251	+1	1563	1015%
Seven Trent	3198	+24	3334%	2380
Shell	15237	-55%	17381	3533%
Smith & Nephew	10931	-141%	14611%	1050
Smiths Group	2647	+5	2754%	2087%
Spinar Sero	7731	-10	8048%	5950
St James's Place	1183	+41%	1575%	1038%
Standard Chartered	2225	+7	2277%	1384%
Standard Life	914	+12	1480%	614%
Tesco	4521	-9	5101	408
Tribe Big Box	1621	+1%	1751	1321%
Unilever	14191	+80	15961	8043%
United Utilities	1430	+21	14961	1571%
Vodafone Group	1191	+1	131	83%
Weir Group	2762	+22	3579%	2254
Whitbread	2479	+14	3300%	2097%

Evoke's earnings fall amid takeover

WILLIAM Hill and 888 owner Evoke took a £46million earnings hit from higher gambling taxes as it prepares for a £243m takeover by Greek gambling firm Bally's Intralet.

The London-listed company said underlying earnings slumped 10% to £150.2m in the six months to June 30, largely as a result of the hike in remote gaming duty from 21% to 40% from April.

Former Chancellor Rachel Reeves also announced last year there would be a new online sports betting duty of 25%. It will cover all sports except horse racing, from 2027, with Evoke previously warning its duty costs will increase by up to £135m a year from 2027 as a result of the combined changes.

The company saw first-half pre-tax losses widen to £80m from £77.7m a year earlier.

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COMPANY	CLOSE	( \nu )	12 WEEK HIGH	LOW
Receptance & Defence
Avon Rubber	15204	14	2145	1520
Babcock International	1,220	<14	1502	931
BAC Systems	2270	<40	2330	1609%
Chemistry Group	6371	0	644	460
ChardQ Group	3634	4%	5785	408
Chalk-Royce Group	15464	<13	15705	1526
Senior	2925		311	164%
Alternative Energy
Forvair	8869	<10	912	698
Banks
Barclays	51914	<3%	5385	817%
Bio Santander	1098	<4	1108	695
Chow Brothers	424	<3%	546	340
HSBC Holdings	15275	<13%	15875	939
Investor	6765	<1%	6785	518
Orpids Banking Grp	11554	<1%	117	78%
Marks Bank	1765	<3%	1795	100
NatWest Group	7145	<7%	7229	555%
Pangren Group	8175	2%	9265	711%
Standard Chartered	2259	<7	2248	1305%
Beverages
Ren (AG)	452	4	710	598
Coca-Cola HBC	4606	10	5176	3306
Diagen	1752	34	2121	1362%
Chemicals
Carcia	40	<1%	80	30%
Croda International	5288	6	5222	2483
Daneset	184	2%	189	142%
Johnson Matthey	2212	<26	2368	1175
Synthome	164	<4	122	17%
Riches	817	<1	830	539
Construction & Materials
Balfour Realty	5065	<47	973	552
Coastal Group	2745	<7	2285	1285%
Daight	520		530	186
Gallifred Pty	620		632	412%
Glennan BCC	279	<4%	427	221
Keller Group	3122	<74	3450	1282
Klar Group	2576	<2	256	180%
KlarHealth	175	<1	202	125%
Morgan Gindall	4552	<12	5130	4050
Snowfield Rowan	38	1%	38%	24
Smart (3 & Co.)	1125		1325	107
Electricity
Ona Group	7335	7	918	620%
SSE	24514	<33	27575	1612
Telecom Plus	8534	<7	1892	710
Electronic & Electrical Equipment
Kalma	37644	<46	4878	3210
Oxford Instruments	29204	<4	3382	1766
Revolution	5248	<30	5453	2975
TT Electronics	130	2	154	91
Robo	568	<3	696	332
PP Power	1762	34	2010	857
Equity Investment Instruments
Wardown Asian Sml	452	<6	461	345
Warrheith SmlCo	17304		1756	1418
Wilson Tech & Gen VCT	635	<2%	685	63
Alliance Trust	1387	<1	1394	1188
Avonix Inv.Tst	256	<1	279	226
AP Global Tst	263	1%	276	239%
Baillie Gifford Japan	1074	<2	1082	830
Baillie Gifford Shm Rep	1724	<1%	1724	1235
Bartens Inv.Tst	15254	<1%	1535	1225
BH Macro GBP	4255	2	444	390%
Biotech Growth Trust	1724	<24	1730	822
BlueRock Mining	988	<3	1088	555
Brumar Inv.Tst	15644	4	1576	1354
Caledonia Inv.	395	0	4015	312
City Natural Res.Tst	4874	<3	446	218%
City Of London	3914	2	597	488
Diameter Income	3144	0	520	280
Fair-Wauble Inv.	2095	<3%	2095	180
Effective Tst	831	4	861	760
FSC CapSlim	361	<1	372	326
FSC Inv.Tst	3445	<1%	3515	288

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F&C US Smaller Companies	1620	0	1662	1280
Fidelity Asian	610		668	558
Fidelity European	445		443%	372
Fidelity Special	474	<1	477	372
Findbury Goldfish	809	<13	913	710
Genesis E.M.T.	1465	<26	1562	839
Graphite Ent	1468	20	1600	1310
Harco Tst R	2004	<6	332	246
Harco Tst PA	1584		342	255
Henderson For Est	26114	<2	2805	2285
Henderson High Inv	207	1	211	178
Herald Inv.Tst	8045	<10	5300	2305
Hill Capital Tst	403	<3	373	323
HSBC Infrastructure	1376	<5	1395	109
Hyque Inv.Hills	445	<1	4755	381%
Int Biotech.Tst	10904	<5	1205	652
International Public	140		1445	1171%
Invesco Asia	482	<1	518	375
Invesco Regs UK	26714	<3%	401	325
JPM American	1246		1250	1056
JPM Asian	3824	<12	650	395
JPM Cleanhouse	9684	6	984	796
JPM Energy Mkt	16414	<1%	1805	1195
JPM Euro Sml Co	630		665	557
JPM Global Emerging	204	<1	217	149
JPM Indian	8914	<10	1086	800
JPM Japanese	852	<11	854	461
JPM Overseas IT	6335	2	6385	535
JPM Smaller Co	3035	1%	3675	295
JPM US Sml Co	4335	<4%	460	369
JZ Capital Partners	175		199	166
Law Debenture	1200	2	1276	982
Loveland Invest Co	1875	<1%	189	145
Mapside Inv	332	<6	338	230
Manchester&Ltd	986	<10	1100	744
Mason Income, Avid Growth PCT 32.64			35%	31%
Mercantile Inv.Tst	2855	<1	2885	237
Merchants Tst	6784	2	685	527
Mid-Wynd Int	790	2	800	686
Morris Inv.Tst	16364	8	1650	1374
Montanaro Euro Tst	17714	<1%	188	146%
Montanaro UK	1105	<1	1125	91%
Munay Inv.Tst	10944	4	1024	873
Munay Int.Tst	86914	<1	217	291
New India	732		828	652
North All Sml.Tst	425	4	422	350
Pacific Assets	425	<4	434	347
Pacific Horizon	1104	<20	1252	658
Pantheon Int	4015	<1%	4075	323%
Pending Square Hold	3894	20	5090	3042
Peter Cap Tech	677	<15%	1335	680%
RT Capital Partners	2625	<5	2630	1942
Baffer Investment	298	<1%	3135	283%
Schneider Asia	858	<11	888	481
Schneider Inc	215	<1	217	312
Schneider Japan	393	<3	397	277
Schneider	227	4	231	156
Schneider UK M&S	766	6	782	663
Scottish American	345	0	576	487
Scottish Mortgage	14335	<1	1345	9236%
Small Comp De Tst	142	1%	147%	128
Temple Bar	423	4	429	335
Templeton Energ	3185	<4%	350	197%
The European Inv.Tst	129	0%	132%	92%
TB Euro Growth	2379	<1%	2465	186
TB Prop. IT	311	<1%	355	295
Weedle Healthcare	3955	<1%	397	308
Financial Services
SI Group	2013	<71	4459	2082
SI Infrastructure	383	<1%	393%	326
Wards	2095	<1%	2675	182
Azimcon Group	2335	1%	2665	152%
Cook Group	84	1%	95	75%
KL Group	1354	56	1958	1025
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IP Group	716	<1%	72%	46%
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Libertant Asset Man	318	<3	373	231%
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Mart Group	31414	<1%	316	1345
Newport Banking	95	1%	1285	78
Nathstone Brothers	1694	8	2235	1592
S & G	19575	1%	2480	1625
Schroders	3834	<1%	3885	2615
St Jemish Place	11824	<6%	1553	1053%
TP ICAP	5255	<1%	355	2405
Food Line Telecommunications
Artell Africa	5345	<1%	4265	2135
BT Group	1954	<1	2395	1745
Food & Drug Retailers
Geogas	1647	4%	2832	1418
Marks & Spencer	3855	1%	4105	309
Orcato	210	<34%	271	159%
Sainsbury (I)	338	<6%	559%	295
Tesco	4525	<6	5615	4125

Food Producers

COMPANY	CLOSE	( \nu )	12 WEEK HIGH	LOW
BM Group	101	<1%	115	89
Target Tiles	381	<1%	50	31%
WH Smith	437	<7%	1117	985%
Health Care Equipment & Services
Consatec Group	2335	1	2565	194
Smith & Nephew	10065	<14%	1435	1073%
Household Goods & Home Construction
Barrett Development	521	<1%	409%	241%
Belway	2146	<8	2868	1752
Berkeley Ogi Hldgs	3548	8	4350	3104
Brook Honors	2635	<6	1365	2245
Michelle	1835	1%	108	107
Masterman	11805	<6%	1319	998%
Reckitt Benckiser	51384	<16(16)(187)	4443
Taylor Wimpay	85	<1%	116%	74%
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ZEUS OLYMPIOS will fly the flag for connections of the retired Bow Echo in Sunday's Prix Jacques Le Marois.

Tuesday's along! announcement that the late Sheikh Mohammed Obaid Al Maktoum's unbeaten 2,000 Guinean winner would not contest the Deauville showpiece has robbed the race of its star name.

But the owners have a ready replacement in the Karl Burke-trained Zeus Olympics, a Group Two-winning miler who will get another chance to secure a first top level success.

Yesterday Boughes explained the decision to retire this month's Sussex Stakes winner was due to minor lameness, a setback he might have been given time to recover from had it occurred earlier in the year.

Zeus Olympics finished third in the Lockinge Stakes and fourth in the Raven Anne Stakes before defeating stalksmate Holloway Boy in the Group Two Summer Mile last time.

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ABILENE SKY (3.15, rop) is taken to follow up in the Marines Letter 13. The Naces Nursery Interplay at Neunory.

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RACING REST OF TODAY'S CARDS

LINGFIELD SKY SPORTS RACING

THE SCOUT

5.23.Aldo De Claro

5.58.Bradishank

6.28.Overbank

6.58.Bilger

7.29.Molling De Stars

7.50.Sultan Darlan

5.23 FREE TOPS ON AT THERACKS.COM HANDICAP
7.64.357 (Class 5) 7m 27 1yds (9 declared)
1 (1)	780 (R)	KAJABANAR (2D) / RUSH 9 0 1	2 Caltex 74
2 (1)	1200 (R)	STP OF 2GD (4D) 4' (Houses 4 0 1)	3 Plum 75
3 (6)	40 (1/4)	BARRY'S SKY (3D) 1' (Castler 4 0 1)	4 Bass 73
4 (2)	5664 (2)	JACK SPAROWE (4D) (2D) / RUSH 7 9 0	5 Prudential 9 76
5 (6)	2+40 (1)	MISCOSMOSHOS (3D) (8) / Roots 3 9 9	6 Plum 75
6 (5)	1+40 (1)	JACKS AT THE (5D) (Color Case 3 9 9)	7 Plum 75
7 (3)	48 (4/7)	BARRIER ROY (4D) (8) 4 bns 3 9 9	8 Barry Hypercl 75
8 (3)	780 (1)	W. ALICE DE CLARE (5D) (8) / Fanchions 7 9 6	9 Doughn 75
9 (4)	404 6	TURNS (3D) 1,6 (2 Colloid 3 9 9)	10 Keenan 71

SP FORECAST: 1-5 (Class 5) 7m 2yds (9, Barry's Sky, Bradishank), 1 Alice De Claro, 6 Eagles Aldrin, 10 Barbers Boy, 1 bns, (2) City Of God.

2025 No corresponding meeting.

5.58 ATTERRACKS ON X EBF RESTRICTED MAIDEN STAKES
2YD. 15.23.64 (6) 7f 1yds (12)
1 (1)	2 (1)	JOHN (2D) 1m 1.6m 9 7	Jason Watson 9 76
2 (1)	4 (1)	M. MISSORCHINI (1D) 1m 1.6m 9 7	J Caltex 74
3 (1)	5 (1)	CALIFERAR ROY (4D) 1' (Houghton 9 7)	C Bishop 55
4 (1)	6 (1)	MARK BARRY (7D) 1' (Jackson 9 7)	C Overbank 74
5 (1)	7 (1)	LUCKY LARRY (4D) 1/4 (Merrill 9 7)	P Plum 70
6 (1)	8 (1)	MR RASHER 9' (Houses 9 7)	D Muscatt 74
7 (1)	9 (1)	NORTHERN EXPRESS (3D) 1m 1.6m 9 7	Jovan Dracyn 74
8 (1)	10 (1)	JOHN HOLCE (3D) 1' (Houses 9 7)	D Muscatt 74
9 (1)	11 (1)	RODRONALLAK (3D) 2m 1.6m 9 7	W Cara 74
10 (1)	12 (1)	DEANCOCHE (3D) 1' (Houses 9 7)	J J Leary 67
11 (1)	13 (1)	ROBERT MCCOY (3D) 1' (Houses 9 7)	P March 53
12 (1)	14 (1)	ROBERT'S LEGACY (7D) 1m 1.6m 9 7	D Muscatt 74

4000s No. 1

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SNOOKER

RONNIE O'SULLIVAN'S poor start to the season continued after he lost 6-4 to Noppon Saengkham in the second round of the China Open. The seven-time world champion led 3-1 before errors crept in.

Saengkham produced a break of 88 to level and took a scratchy seventh frame.

The Thai star made it four frames in a row to move 5-3 up, but O'Sullivan hit back with an excellent 88.

It set up a tantalising finale and even though O'Sullivan clawed back two snookers, Saengkham took the frame 64-46 to send him packing.

WORLD OF SPORT

RUGBY UNION

BY ADAM HATHAWAY

SALE'S Asher Opoku-Fordjour was one of five big winners as England head coach Steve Borthwick hinted at his World Cup plans.

Prop Opoku-Fordjour, Northampton lock Alex Coles, Bath flanker Guy Pepper, Gloucester centre Seb Atkinson and Leicester scrum-half Jack van Poortvliet have all been handed enhanced Elite Player Squad (EPS) contracts.

Borthwick is restricted to handing out 25 of the deals - worth about £150,000 a year - so Ollie Lawrence, Elliot Daly, Ben Curry and Tom Roebuck have lost theirs. And

Borthwick's high five

No.8 Tom Willis is not on the list because of his move to Bordeaux-Besles this summer, which bars him from England duty.

Borthwick will name 33 players for next year's World Cup in Australia and those in this 25 are in pole position to be on the plane.

Opoku-Fordjour, 22, can play at tight or loosehead and his versatility could prove invaluable.

It is not the end of the road for players who are not in the 25 and

inclusion does not guarantee selection. But Borthwick and his staff - and not clubs - have the final say on conditioning and rehab for the elite group.

BORTHWICK

Coles, 26, played in all 12 of England's Tests this season.

Atkinson has started the past five internationals and Van Poortvliet's promotion signals he is ahead of

Bath's Ben Spencer in the scrum-half pecking order, alongside Alex Mitchell.

1. Which athlete won men's 400m at successive Diamond League meets in Paris, Eugene and Monaco this summer?
2. Who did Murat Gassiev beat in the first defence of his WBA Heavyweight title last month?
3. Which northern hemisphere rugby union side lost their opening two matches in the 2026 Nations Championship?
4. Which Scottish League One football team is based in Singwall?
5. Which cricket club won the County Championship in 1991 and 1992?
6. Who became the first Australian winner of the US Masters, in 2007?
7. Which Northern Irish figure cluster won a record 11 British national championships between 2003 and 2014?
8. Which West German high jumper was Olympic women's champion in 1972 and 1984?
9. In which African country was cyclist Chris Froume born?
10. Which French tennis player won the ladies' singles at Wimbledon in 2007?

SHOOKER / C. Coles, 6, 8, 10, 12, 14, 16, 18, 20, 22, 24, 26, 28, 30, 32, 34, 36, 38, 40, 42, 44, 46, 48, 50, 52, 54, 56, 58, 60, 62, 64, 66, 68, 70, 72, 74, 76, 78, 80, 82, 84, 86, 88, 90, 92, 94, 96, 98, 100, 102, 104, 106, 108, 110, 112, 114, 116, 118, 120, 122, 124, 126, 128, 130, 132, 134, 136, 138, 140, 142, 144, 146, 148, 150, 152, 154, 156, 158, 160, 162, 164, 166, 168, 170, 172, 174, 176, 178, 180, 182, 184, 186, 188, 190, 192, 194, 196, 198, 200, 202, 204, 206, 208, 210, 212, 214, 216, 218, 220, 222, 224, 226, 228, 230, 232, 234, 236, 238, 240, 242, 244, 246, 248, 250, 252, 254, 256, 258, 260, 262, 264, 266, 268, 270, 272, 274, 276, 278, 280, 282, 284, 286, 288, 290, 292, 294, 296, 298, 300, 302, 304, 306, 308, 310, 312, 314, 316, 318, 320, 322, 324, 326, 328, 330, 332, 334, 336, 338, 340, 342, 344, 346, 348, 350, 352, 354, 356, 358, 360, 362, 364, 366, 368, 370, 372, 374, 376, 378, 380, 382, 384, 386, 388, 390, 392, 394, 396, 398, 400, 402, 404, 406, 408, 410, 412, 414, 416, 418, 420, 422, 424, 426, 428, 430, 432, 434, 436, 438, 440, 442, 444, 446, 448, 450, 452, 454, 456, 458, 460, 462, 464, 466, 468, 470, 472, 474, 476, 478, 480, 482, 484, 486, 488, 490, 492, 494, 496, 498, 500, 502, 504, 506, 508, 510, 512, 514, 516, 518, 520, 522, 524, 526, 528, 530, 532, 534, 536, 538, 540, 542, 544, 546, 548, 550, 552, 554, 556, 558, 560, 562, 564, 566, 568, 570, 572, 574, 576, 578, 580, 582, 584, 586, 588, 590, 592, 594, 596, 598, 600, 602, 604, 606, 608, 610, 612, 614, 616, 618, 620, 622, 624, 626, 628, 630, 632, 634, 636, 638, 640, 642, 644, 646, 648, 650, 652, 654, 656, 658, 660, 662, 664, 666, 668, 670, 672, 674, 676, 678, 680, 682, 684, 686, 688, 690, 692, 694, 696, 698, 700, 702, 704, 706, 708, 710, 712, 714, 716, 718, 720, 722, 724, 726, 728, 730, 732, 734, 736, 738, 740, 742, 744, 746, 748, 750, 752, 754, 756, 758, 760, 762, 764, 766, 768, 770, 772, 774, 776, 778, 780, 782, 784, 786, 788, 790, 792, 794, 796, 798, 800, 802, 804, 806, 808, 810, 812, 814, 816, 818, 820, 822, 824, 826, 828, 830, 832, 834, 836, 838, 840, 842, 844, 846, 848, 850, 852, 854, 856, 858, 860, 862, 864, 866, 868, 870, 872, 874, 876, 878, 880, 882, 884, 886, 888, 890, 892, 894, 896, 898, 900, 902, 904, 906, 908, 910, 912, 914, 916, 918, 920, 922, 924, 926, 928, 930, 932, 934, 936, 938, 940, 942, 944, 946, 948, 950, 952, 954, 956, 958, 960, 962, 964, 966, 968, 970, 972, 974, 976, 978, 980, 982, 984, 986, 988, 990, 992, 994, 996, 998, 1000

IT'S RAW MCIROY

Memphis gig offers a chance to tune up

BY JIM VAN WLJK

RORY McILROY hopes to be able to see "where my game is" when he returns to action at the FedEx St Jude Championship aiming to deliver a strong finish to the season.

The successful defence of his Masters title in April has been followed by a run of disappointing results, which saw McIlroy tied for seventh at the US PGA before placing joint 32nd at the US Open and then in a share of 40th at The Open at Royal Birkdale.

The Northern Irishman, 12th in the FedEx Cup standings, skipped the St Jude Championship last year, but feels given his situation the trip to Memphis - where he will play in a marquee pairing alongside Scottie Scheffler - will prove time well spent.

"Having four weeks off going into the last two events of the year was probably going to be a little too much for me in terms of wanting to be competitive," McIlroy (right) said.

"So this is a good week - obviously I want to play well, but it's also a good week to just see where my game is, do a lot of practice, or as much as I can in the heat.

"It's the PGA Tour's play-offs, and I think it's important for all the players to be here."

McIlroy is also set to play at the Irish Open next month, as well as the BMW Championship at Wentworth and the DP World India Championship before the Abu Dhabi HSBC Championship and DP World Tour Champion-

ship in Dubai. Before that, though, the world No.2 remains fully focused on the challenges ahead in the USA.

"You have got to pace yourself. It is three long weeks," he said.

"We are going from here to St Louis [BMW Championship] to Atlanta [Tour Championship]."

"I have always tried to treat it like one big, long golf tournament and sort of get into the rhythm of it and go from there.

I have been lucky enough to do pretty well on these things over the years, so I will try to add another one to the list."

Justin Rose is the defending champion at TPC Southwind, where he will play the opening two rounds alongside Michael Brennan.

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DRAFT

CRICKET: ENGLAND v PAKISTAN SERIES

DIE'S GREAT ROOF

Joe is ready to take a new approach to Test captaincy

BY JOSHUA PECK

JOE ROOT is determined to right the wrongs of his previous spell as England captain.

Root returns as Test skipper next week as England welcome Pakistan, four and a half years since he stepped down as captain.

That spell ended with a run of just one win in 17 matches, with the 35-year-old admitting he got things wrong.

"The hardest thing for me will be people's opinion of how I captained four years ago," Root said. "It's very important to remember, and for me to remember more than anything, I'm a completely different player from what I was four years ago.

"As a player, I've always looked to evolve and move my game forward, I don't see this as any different. You've got to learn.

"When you make mistakes and when you get things wrong, you look at yourself and you know you don't want to make that mistake again. You learn from it and you deal with it for the next time around.

"That shouldn't be a hindrance. I hope people don't see it like that. I hope they see it as a massive upside to getting the chance to do it again."

Root takes over following the retirement of Ben Stokes, while Stephen Fleming replaces Brendon McCullum as head coach.

Fleming will not be in situ for the Pakistan series, but Root can't wait to get going under the New Zealander.

"I was gutted when I found out Brendon was no longer going to be the Test coach," Root added. "He's someone that I feel has really got the best out of me personally.

"Fleming and I have crossed paths a lot over the last few years when he's coached different teams around the world. He is

someone that I've always admired, someone that I really did admire as a player.

"The way that he's always held himself as a captain, first and foremost. His record as a coach has been exceptional, albeit in T20 cricket.

"There's so much that I'm looking forward to in that respect."

Jofra Archer will be key if England are to turn their fortunes around with less than a year until a home Ashes series.

In his first stint as skipper, Root was accused of overusing the pace bowler, who went more than four years without

playing a Test match between 2021 and 2025.

And he is determined not to make the same mistake again.

"At times maybe I did over-bowl him and overuse him," Root told the Sky Sports Cricket podcast. "The attack that he works with now complements him really well.

"I believe he's a generational talent and someone that is going

to have produced wonderful things for England across the formats.

"In Test cricket, he's capable of doing some wonderful things. Clearly, as I said, I didn't get everything right the first time around.

"I made mistakes, but he's going to be a really important factor in what we do moving forward. I'm very excited to work with him again."

Meanwhile, England opener Emilio Gay will get the chance to prove his fitness in a warm-up fixture against Pakistan this week.

Gay suffered a shoulder injury for Durham last week, but was included in a 14-player squad for the Professional County Club Select 32 match against Pakistan, which is a three-day fixture at Beckenham.

I hope that people are able to see the upside of getting the chance to do it again

Golden wonder Matthew homes in on history

FROM PAUL MARTIN IN BIRMINGHAM HOMETOWN hero Matthew Hudson-Smith lived out a childhood dream as he was crowned European 400m champion on the track that made him.

The 31-year-old blitzed the field from lane nine and held firm on the home straight to land his fifth continental gold and become the most decorated British man in the history of this competition.

He celebrated by heading straight into the stands at Alexander Stadium and pointing at the one which bears his name as he soaked up the acclaim of an adoring Second City crowd.

"Words can't describe just how much that meant to me," said Hudson-Smith.

"My coach said to me, 'This is your home, defend it'. I knew it would take a hell of an effort for someone to get past me.

"No one was going to beat me on this track, this is my home.

"I have been here since I was nine, I know this track like the back of my hand.

"I knew I was the best in the world, I knew I am faster than every single one of these guys. It was just me against the clock."

Amy Hunt kept her bid for a remarkable European quadruple on track by easing into tonight's 200m

final in Birmingham. The newly-crowned fastest woman on the continent over 100m was able to ease up down the home straight after a flying start and won her semi-final in 22.37secs.

"I knew I needed to put down a really hard turn, kill them to 150m and no one was ever going to hang with me," she said.

Dina Asher-Smith joins Hunt in the showpiece after a similarly stress-free semi.

Asher-Smith, a world and European champion over this distance in the past, cruised to victory in the opening semi-final in 22.49secs.

"I don't really think about what's

gone before or what lies ahead, I'm just trying to stay in the moment and execute," she said.

British champion Success Eduan advanced as one of two fastest losers in 22.56secs to ensure that all three of the home hopefuls will be on the start line.

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Joe calls time on curfew

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England men's managing director Bob Siga (latest) after Harry Brook was fined for an irreverence with a bouncer in New Zealand last November.

Root added: "That's for us as a team to manage well, and self-prince well, for me and if him (New coach Stephen Fleming) to manage well is many ways but ultimately you're grown adults, you know what it takes to stay for England, you know what your

contaminationer are off the field and we need to make sure we don't feel ourselves with my elite situations off the field.

"We should be known for how we play our cricket and what we do on the field, we should be on the back pages of the newsroom.

"Be adult's, look after yourselves, look after each other, create a good strong culture when you know when the right time is to celebrate and enjoy a win or to have a sensible beer or whatever, but remember you're playing for England.

The ECB confirmed: "We have a Test captain and coach, who are looking at how they set team standards and culture. As part of this, the curfew will no longer be in place."

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55

LOWE VILLA

THE WORLD...

BUT ONTERS

ARE ABOVE

THEM

While Tielemans can look back with pride,

finally joining United is a big deal for midfielder

BY TYRONE MARSHALL

THIS summer has been third time lucky for Your Tielemans.

Twice before, he has spoken to Manchester United about a move to Old Trafford, and twice before it has not come off.

Four years ago he could have signed at the same time as Casemiro, now he is part of the plan to replace the Brazil midfielder.

A regular starter for Anderlecht at 16, club captain as a teenager, Tielemans seemed destined to end up at one of Europe's superpowers sooner rather than later.

But it has been a slower-than-expected road to the very top, via spells at Monaco, Leicester City and Aston Villa.

"It is a great achievement for any player to end up here," he said of his move to Old Trafford.

"There have been two times that I spoke with the club, but it did not [come] to anything.

"When a move comes up, then if it needs to happen, it will happen. At the times that I have been linked with the club before, it did not happen, but it is what it is.

"I am very thankful to Aston Villa. I owe them the world. It is a great club, we did amazing things, and they have put me back to my best level. But there are clubs above Villa, and Manchester United is one of them."

United showed an interest when he was leaving Monaco in 2019 and then again after his third season at

Leicester in 2022, before swooping to activate his £35million release clause at Villa Park this summer, with a key role earmarked for him in head coach Michael Carrick's rebuild.

The question is whether the move is better late than never, or whether United are getting a player whose miles on the clock mean his best days might have been and gone.

Tielemans has 669 senior games under his belt for club and country and does not turn 30 until next May. He is on track to have played more games before hitting 30 than Lionel Messi's 701. He missed Belgium's World Cup quarter-final defeat by

Spain after breaking down in the warm-up and has missed games with calf and groin problems in the past three seasons.

But Tielemans, who came on as a substitute in the 1-1 draw with Leeds last night, insists he knows his body and will not need a rest.

"At the World Cup, I think we played 120 minutes against Senegal, and from there we had less time in between games," he said. "In the warm-up [against Spain], my body just switched off for some reason.

"I do not think I am a player that I absolutely need a rest. Obviously, there are a lot of games and the manager needs to manage the team, but

UP FOR NEW CHALLENGE

Tielemans along United as a shop, by agent, despite Europe League war with Villa (heart)

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when I am good, I am good. Unfortunately, my body is, when it does not go well, then I will know straight away and I will alert the manager, but it does not happen often."

United's deal for Tielemans came as a surprise this summer, and they were the only club to make a move for him, despite the presence of that release clause.

He will be tasked with playing in a midfield that will be more focused on possession and ball progression.

And once United's interest became clear, he spoke to Carrick about his plans.

"He wants me to be free on the pitch, to try and organise the team as best as possible," said Tielemans. "Obviously, he has got his principles, and I just try and do what he asks, but then add my qualities to it.

"It is just smelling football, and that is what I have been doing from when I was young at Anderlecht."

United's title drought is now into its 14th season, but Tielemans can remember when they were regularly kings of England and he is determined to play his part in restoring success to the club.

He said: "There are high demands inside the club. Obviously, it is a big institution, but the main thing that comes out, and especially when I was younger, when I used to watch the games in the Premier League, Man United were always on top.

"There was always that mentality of winning games, and that is what we are trying to bring back."

CONCERTED

EFFORT KEY

FOR TOON

Everton 3 Newcastle 1 Pre-season friendly

BY LEE RYDER

MATTHIAS JAISSLE has pushed the spotlight back on to Newcastle's "decision makers" after watching his new team beaten by Everton.

The new German boss suffered his first defeat in charge of Newcastle as the Magpies were served something of a reality check at Murrayfield.

Jaissle was forced into making 10 changes at half-time, before admitting a new right-back and a central midfielder need to be signed before the window closes.

The ex-Al-Ahli coach took on the challenge of the Toon job knowing that Anthony Gordon, Sandro Tonali and Bruno Guimarães had gone, not to mention Kieran Trippier leaving on a free transfer.

For the second time in 24 hours, Jaissle mentioned there is a power "vacuum" at St James' Park in terms of dressing-room experience.

When asked if a right-back and a central midfielder were needed,

Jaissle (right) said: "That's right. But you're smart.

"I will never tell you publicly. Like I said that already, we handle these

things internally with all the respect to the decision makers. And will always continue like that."

Jaissle used a German idiom, Wunschkonzert, when reacting to questions on whether his wish-list will be delivered.

And the new boss suggested his board need no reminders of what is required, adding: "Life is not a wish concert unfortunately [in terms of getting your desires]. Not in football, not in life.

"But again, internally we're really clear."

After going down to goals from Thierno Barry and Tyrique George either side of Iliman Ndiaye's penalty, a consolation strike from Harvey Barnes only added a slight bit of respectability to the scoreline late in the game.

And George (above) insisted the Toffees can continue improving.

"I definitely see positivity," he said. "Obviously, we want to get Europe [qualification] - that's the aim.

"That was the aim last season and hopefully we can do it this season.

"It's a great squad, a great bunch of lads. We get really well and we want to carry it on into the season."

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FOOTBALL: UEFA SUPER CUP

sky bet

CHAMPIONSHIP

EFL

WOLVES VOW TO GET BACK IN THE HABIT

BY KEITH WEBSTER

THE Old Gold faithful will be banking on a starkly different first half to the season after suffering through a Premier League nightmare a year ago.

By the mid-point of the campaign on December 30, Wolves earned a point at Manchester United. It was only their third up to that stage.

Their dreadful record - played 19, won none, drawn three, lost 16 - had Derby fans dreaming that someone was about to have an even worse Premier League season than their record low of 11 points in 2007-08.

As it happened, Wolves rallied somewhat in the final 19 games with three wins and eight draws. They finished bottom but on 20 points, a far better return than was on the cards at Christmas.

Now back in the Championship, they kick off the season 24 hours ahead of others when they host Blackburn tomorrow.

And for goalkeeper Dan Bentley, the need to set the correct tone right from the start is vital if Wolves want to stamp their authority on the division and think of possibly making a quick return to the top flight.

"It's something that we need to get in the habit of," said the 33-year-old from Basildon, who played more than 100 games for each of Southend, Brentford and Bristol City before landing at Molineux three years ago.

"I keep mentioning before games, and throughout the week, that winning is a habit, clean

sheets are a habit, good performances are a habit. The more

we can get into those habits, the more we can take momentum from game to game, which is vital in the Championship.

"I spent a long time in the Championship, and it's really important because the games do come so thick and fast, so we have to be good every week. Every time you set foot on the pitch there's expectation on us.

"If we can keep [clean] sheets, we've got the quality at the other end of the pitch to cause problems. Habits are vital, momentum is vital, and the more we can build that, the better."

Wolves got their season up and running last Friday with a 3-0 League Cup win over Port Vale, during which Bentley saved a penalty and kept a clean sheet.

Now attention turns to the serious business of a 46-game league campaign, their first in the Championship since 2018.

Bentley is sure they are ready to reset following last season's disappointment.

He said: "We've bottled the feeling, which is winning the first competitive game of the season off the back of two good performances in pre-season, where we won the games.

"We work hard through the week, and we take that momentum into the game."

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FOOTBALL: UEFA SUPER CUP

57

VILLA KAVAT

MADJONICITY

Teenager strikes as reshuffled Villa push Super stars all the way

PARIS SG 2 PARIS SG 1 ASTON VILLA 1

FROM JOHN TOWNLEY in Salzburg

UNAI EMERY failed to end his UEFA Super Cup curse - but the Aston Villa boss won't be worried ahead of the new season.

It is now four defeats in four Super Cups for Emery after Paris Saint-Germain prevailed in Salzburg.

But even without Ollie Watkins, Emi Martinez, and Ezri Konsa, Villa pushed the back-to-back Champions League winners all the way.

The PSG team was full of their World Cup stars while Khvicha Kvaratskhelia never even made it to North America.

And it was Georgian Kvaratskhelia who put PSG ahead when he fired home from inside the area. Brian Madjo

was given the starting nod over Tammy Abraham for Villa with Watkins out, and the 17-year-old proved he was worth the wait.

Madjo joined Villa in January from Metz, but had been unable to play due to FIFA rules surrounding the international transfer of minors.

Cleared to play earlier this month, he scored his first goal for Villa when he fired home at the back post. But PSG won it in the second half when Desire Doue beat the offside trap before skating home.

While Villa were without a number of players who will surely line up in the Premier League next weekend, PSG boss Luis Enrique named nine of the 11 starting players who lifted the Champions League at the end of May.

New signing Maghnes Akliouche played off the right.

Despite what many would suggest was an imbalance in quality, Villa held their own throughout and were backed

by 7,000 of their supporters, who roared at every duel won and every forward thrust.

PSG looked flustered by Villa's bright start, with Vitinha striking over from 40 yards before Boubacar Kamara sent Villa's first effort narrowly wide.

Kvaratskhelia wasn't kept quiet for long, however, as he opened the scoring just moments after Marco Bizot made a strong stop to deny Doue.

Villa's stand-in goalkeeper was beaten at his near post by the sheer power of Kvaratskhelia's strike.

PSG then smelt blood, with Nuno Mendes raiding down the left. Despite having three team-mates queuing up in the box, his cross somehow evaded all of them.

Down the other end, Madjo missed the first of his three chances, flicking John McGinn's cross wide of the far post before bending an effort wide

after being picked out by George Hemmings inside the box. He would have been kicking himself after getting his header all wrong when once again found by McGinn, but he wasn't going to miss a third delivery from his captain.

Madjo held off Mendes at the back post and powered the ball past Matvey Safonov.

Enrique turned to Ballon d'Or winner Ousmane Dembélé at the break, bringing the French winger on for Akliouche for the start of the second half, but it was Villa

who made the first opening. Madjo, a constant thorn in PSG's defence, broke into space before offloading the ball to McGinn on the right.

But goalkeeper Safonov read the situation well and palmed the Villa skipper's effort to safety. Villa were undone for the second time in the match when Doue raced clear and

tucked the ball past Bizot with a VAB check clearing the goal.

Emery turned to Abraham, Lamare Bogarde and Alysson, and the latter helped produce another big chance.

Safonov palmed his cross out to Gomes, who could then only strike his shot at the PSG keeper again.

It was Emery's fourth Super Cup, after previous defeats in 2014, 2015 and 2021, and his second meeting in the event against Enrique.

Yet, despite winning the Europa League on five occasions, this particular trophy continues to elude Emery (left) in his glittering career.

PSG (4-3-3): Safonov; Hakimi,

Marquinhos; Pacho; N Mendes

(Hernandez 75); Zaire-Emery; Vitinha,

J Neves (Ruiz 75); Akliouche (Dembélé

46); Doue, Kvaratskhelia (Bendelo 88).

ASTON VILLA (4-2-3-1): Bizot; Cash,

Lindfeld; Torres, Maidzen; Kamara

(Bogarde 72), Joao Gomes; McGinn

(Alysson 72), Hemmings, Buendle; Madjo

(Abraham 72).

REFEREE: Omar Artan (GDM).

OLD PAL Guessand on loan with the Eagles last season

Second Guess

CRYSTAL PALACE have re-signed Aston Villa's Evans Guessand on loan for the season with an option to buy.

The hory Coast forward scored twice in 14 appearances after moving to Seiburst Park in January until the end of last season, but last month Palace opted against making the move permanent.

The 25-year-old joined Villa from Ligue 1 side Nice in a £30million deal last summer but failed to win a regular place in Unai Emery's side.

He featured twice for his country at the World Cup as they reached the last 32.

Guessand said: "I'm so happy to be here.

"I already have good memories here, but I think it's only the beginning. I hope many more are coming."

RESULTS & FIXTURES

UEFA Super Cup

PSG (1) 2 ASTON VILLA (1) 1

Kvaratskhelia 25 Madjo 45

Doue 62

Pre-season friendlies

DESTON (3) 3 NEWCASTLE (0) 1

Barry 27 Barnes 85

Nelson 36 (pen)

Goniga 73

MAN UTD (1) 1 LEEDS (1) 1

Chicore 50 Baltimore 29

ARSONAL (3) 1 CONIO (1) 1

Lewis-Smith 33 Balestra 43

HOTTRI FOR (1) 2 BRYDD LID (1) 1

Nelson 4 Soltish 39

Kulmowska 90

MALAGA (1) 2 FULMAN (1) 2

Chuseta 26 Managnon 24

Iwde 57

CRICKET

THE HUNDRED MEN

(Sophia Gardens Cardiff) London

Spiirt 131/4 (100 Balls); Welsh

Fire 129-7 (100 Balls; D J Whitey

3-25). London Spirit by 6 runs.

(Edgbaston); MI London 157-6

(100 Balls); Phoenix 129-7 (100 Balls); MI London win by 2 runs.

Balls; MI London win by 2 runs.

THE HUNDRED WOMEN

(Sophia Gardens Cardiff) Welsh

Fire 138-7 (100 Balls; G M Harris

3-15). London Spirit 123-10 (99 Balls; G E A Potts 3-23). Welsh

Balls; G E A Potts 3-23). Welsh

Fire win by 15 runs.

(Edgbaston); MI London 120-6

(100 Balls); Birmingham Phoenix

131/4 (100 Balls; D J Petty 82nd); Phoenix win by 8 wickets.

TODAY'S DIARY

Europa League 3rd

Qualifying Round 2nd Leg

Welsh (1) Marika (0)

KF Egiptia (0) v Shamrock R (0) (bpm).

Ranger (1) v Blandock (2) (7.30).

Europa Conference League

3rd Qualifying 2nd Leg

Mothered (1) v HJK (1) (7.30).

Shemida (1) v Marnase (2) (1pm).

Midglobe (1) v Birkmeade (0) (bpm).

Sheffonne (1) v Kjio (3) (7.45).

RUGBY LEAGUE

Betfred Super League (Bpm): Hull

K R v Catalano Gregoria, Leeds v

Leigh, Warrington v York.

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Barca insists Gordon's days are not numbered

ANTHONY GORDON'S

representatives have been assured by

Barcelona that there will be no problems registering the winger for the new season.

Gordon's transfer was confirmed in May, but he has still not received a squad number, with the La Liga season kicking off in just over a week.

The England star (right) joined from

BY SCOTT TROTTER

Newcastle for £69.3m on a five-year deal.

But the Catalan club have previously had problems registering players as they

struggled to abide by La Liga finance rules.

Barcelona are understood to be registering players one by one and upcoming exits will leave enough salary space to include Gordon in their plans for the season.

ROM'S ON MOVE

BELGIUM striker Romelu Lukaku has joined Turkish Super Lig side Fenerbahce from Napoli.

The 33-year-old has previously played for Everton, Manchester United and Chelsea and had loan spells with Inter Milan and Roma before joining Napoli in 2024. During two seasons with the Italian team, he made 45 appearances and won a Serie A crown along with the Italian Super Cup.

Lukaku said: "It is a great honour and privilege for me to join your club and be a part of such a magnificent club with such a glorious history.

"Honestly, we have a great team, and I'm very happy to be a part of such a strong team.

"I will work hard every day, in training and on the pitch, to help the team in the best way. I want to make the most of every moment on the pitch."

Blues land Chavarria to Pep up backline

CHELSEA have completed the signing of defender Pep Chavarria from Rayo Vallecano for £16.3m plus £17m in add-ons.

An agreement was reached last week for the 28-year-old to move to Stamford Bridge on a five-year deal as the club continue to revamp their squad under new manager Xabi Alonso.

Chavarria (right), who was part of the

BY DARREN WELLS

team that reached last season's Conference League final, is a left-sided defender and will provide competition for Jorrel Hato.

"I'm so excited to get started. This is a dream for me as Chelsea are one of the biggest clubs in the world," said the Spaniard.

"It is a big opportunity, but I will work hard to help the team achieve success."

GRIEVING MESSI

FROM BACK PAGE

needed to be in every moment, and you were never wrong about anything. Beyond some reproaches or arguments, you were always right. In the end, things always turned out the way you said."

Messi is now 39, raising questions about his future in the game after almost 1,200 senior appearances and nearly 1,000 goals. He skippered Argentina to World Cup glory in 2022 and led them to this year's final, where they lost 1-0 to Spain.

Messi added: "I told you we were going to make it to the final so you could go. We reached the final, and you couldn't be there. I wanted to win it so I could bring it to you and show you a new one. I couldn't. My legs just wouldn't take it anymore."

TOP GUN MLS HAS HIS SAY

BY IRVAN TAYLOR

MYLES & CHILD-BACK-UP thumped the badge after scoring the opener for Arsenal in their Emirates friendly with Como last night – seemingly indicating that he is going nowhere.

Speculation over this England international's future has been rife in the past 36 hours, but the 19-year-old let his football do the talking by breaking the deadlock on 33 minutes against the Italian side.

Capitalising on a focus pass from goalkeeper Jean Baffey Lewis-Skelly (below) looked up, picked his spot and calmly carried home.

During a rather telling celebration, he made a praying gesture to supporters before topping the crest.

It's plain to see why he might be of interest to Chelsea and Manchester United, but Arsenal have a real gem on their hands and the teenage marvel should not be used as a P2R2 gain.

Mikel Arteta made seven changes from Sunday's 3-2 defeat to Barcosia Dortmund and his handling of several players, not least Lewis-Skelly, provided an indication of who is more out than to.

Gabriel Jesus started but was hooked after just 20 minutes with Nason

Targeting the

Brazilian striker.

Gabriel Martinez also started amid strong interest from Galatasaray but struggled, while Reiss Nelson was left out of the squad entirely as West Palm force.

The entirety of

Arsenal's World Cup stars are now back in the building, but Declan Rice, Diakayo Saka and Martin Zubimendi were not involved as they rebuild their fitness.

Manchester City can expect a much-stranger Gunners XI in Cardiff on Sunday.

Bruce Gunnarsson made his debut from the bench, while 16-year-old centre-back Mark Salmon sparked to stake his claim for a regular spot in the first-team set-up.

Como equalised just before half-time courtesy of a screamer from Martin Baturine.

Arsenal later won 4-3 on penalties after an unglutton start-ups from Christos Tzolis sealed victory. Noel Medovini hit the spot, but David Paez denied Hrvaja, Apolcia, and Alvaro Morata during the shoot-out via two fine saves.

City firm over Rodri fee

FROM BACK PAGE

happen. Rodri, 30, has entered the final 12 months of his deal at the Etihad. And while he could leave City for nothing next summer, club chiefs believe £70m is a fair valuation.

Rodri has now won the World Cup. Euros, Ballon d'Or and 13 trophies with City, including the Treble, to become one of the most decorated players on the planet.

City are said to be comfortable with the situation, and more than happy to keep Rodri at the Etihad for at least one more season.

In the meantime, Rodri is expected to report back to pre-season training tomorrow. He has been recovering from a back operation he

underwent after the World Cup, and is doubtful for Sunday's Community Shield with Arsenal.

Should City strike a deal with Barca to sell Rodri, they remain keen on Chelsea's Enzo Fernandez as his replacement.

But City are not prepared to meet Chelsea's valuation of £120m – and believe the midfielder is worth closer to the £100m mark instead.

City, meanwhile, have re-signed Argentina Geronimo Ruili from Marseille for £1.7m. The goalkeeper, 34, has agreed a two-year deal to become back-up for Gianluigi Donnarumma.

Ruili, who did not play for City before departing in 2017, fills the void left by James Trafford, who joined Leeds last week.

"I wanted to surround myself with these sort of players, proving myself daily"

TOUGH ACT TO FOLLOW

It's all limited to the amount as their forest site Anderson watches on last season

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HIL BENI ON

SUCCEED ME

New boy Anderson convinced he has what it takes to fill the boots of Rod almighty

BY JEREMY CROSS

FILLING the boots of Rodri would fill most footballers with a sense of utter dread.

Because let's face it, the new 'King of Spain' is ruling the game like no midfielder on the planet right now.

Rodri winning the World Cup this summer reminded the game what a special talent he still is.

Someone who will leave a huge void in the blue half of Manchester, should City and Barcelona agree a deal for the 30-year-old before the transfer window closes.

But instead of anticipating the challenge ahead with a feeling of huge apprehension, new signing Elliot Anderson believes he can achieve mission impossible and make sure Rodri won't be missed.

Throw in the fact Anderson has arrived at the Etihad at a cost of £1 16m, making him the club's re-

cord signing, and the pressure on him to succeed is immense.

Yet the England international insists he couldn't care less about his price tag, and can be just as good as Rodri to boot.

Anderson said: "It will

ARSENAL v MANCHESTER CITY

Community Shield Sunday, Sept. 1967

always be (attached) to me (the fee). As long as I focus on myself and my performances, that's all I can do. It's football, isn't it?"

He could get his first taste of action for City boss Enzo Maresca (inset below) in the Community Shield on Sunday. And when asked if he can perform a similar role to Rodri, Anderson added "Yeah,

I think so. I can do various things within midfield and I'll see where I get used.

"I'll play anywhere, to be honest. Creating things, driving forward, or the other (defensive) role, if they ask me.

"I've spoken a few times to the manager. He explained the sort of things I need to do.

"There is a lot of running, a lot of energy. Try and control games. That's what I can do." Anderson's represent-

atives started talking with City months ago, before it was announced Pep Guardiola (inset top) would be leaving.

The former Newcastle and Nottingham Forest star insists he found out about Guardiola's exit at the same time as everyone else - and it made no difference to his decision.

When asked if the Spanish coach's departure had had an impact, he said: "Not at all. It's

such a huge club and the players they have are the best.

"I knew of their interest shortly before the World Cup. I wanted to be surrounding myself with these sort of players, proving myself on a daily basis."

Anderson made himself an instant hero with fans after not only snubbing a move to Manchester United, but insisting the City remained blue.

Now he has stuck the boot in again on their bitter rivals and neighbours, insisting a move to Old Trafford was never an option. Not when he has had a decade-long obsession with his new club.

He added: "I've seen a few things (about what I said). It was blown out of proportion. I was probably eight or nine when (Sergio) Aguero scored that goal. I've been watching City for the past 10 years.

"You've got a big decision to make - and I'm confident I've made the right one."

Anderson believes helping England reach a World Cup semi-final proved he belongs on the biggest stage.

But also one which has left him heartbroken, following the Three Lions' last-gasp defeat to Argentina in Atlanta. He said, "I take huge confidence knowing I can perform on a World Cup stage. Obviously I hadn't played in anything as big before. That was a really good test for me.

"It's really hard. I'm still sort of struggling with that now. There are highs and lows in football. It's about how you bounce back."

RECORD SIGNING Mendy

A Nobel prize win for Tigers

BY BARRY COOPER

HULL have signed powerful central defender Nobel Mendy from Rayo Vallecano in a club-record deal in excess of £20m.

The move sees the Tigers break their record fee for the second time this summer, having signed Konstantinos Tzolakis from Olympiakos for £20m earlier this month.

Mendy has signed a five-year deal at the MKM Stadium, and joins the club in time for their final outing of pre-season against Ligue 1 side Nice on Saturday.

The Senegal star impressed last season, making 24 appearances, with his final one coming in the Conference League final defeat to Crystal Palace.

"I am very happy to be here and very proud to be here as well," said Mendy.

"I am a very athletic player, and I am a defender at heart. I also really enjoy coming out from the back cleanly and aggressively when needed.

"I have wanted to play in the Premier League since I was little."

The Tigers have also signed 18-year-old Australia defender Lucas Herrington on a five-year deal from MLS side Colorado Rapids.

Djed lands Italian job

BY MATTY HEWITT

TOTTENHAM have agreed a £27m deal with Inter Milan for England international Djed Spence.

The full-back has already agreed personal terms with the Italian side and is closing in on a move to Serie A.

Spence will play Champions League football with Inter next season, pending a medical at the San Siro.

The 26-year-old played six games for the Three Lions at the World Cup but has tournament winner Pedro Porro ahead of him at right-back, while Spurs have bolstered their options on the opposite flank with the arrival of Andy Robertson on a free transfer from Liverpool.

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GRIEVING MESSI CLOSE TO QUITTING

BY MATTY HEWITT

LIONEL MESSI has dropped a big hint that he is close to ending his illustrious playing career.

Messi's father, Jorge, died last week aged 68 in the Argentinian city of Rosario after a long illness. In an emotional tribute posted

on social media, Messi admitted his dad's death has left him considering retirement.

The Argentina and Inter Miami star (left) wrote on Instagram: "I don't know what I'm going to do without you. I don't know how to go on.

"I just played football, and now I

have serious doubts that I'll be able to keep doing it for much longer. You were by my side from the beginning; the end was so close. Why couldn't you hold on that little bit longer and we could have finished together?

"You were a father, a friend, and an agent. You were always the person you

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Root takes grown-up approach to England culture as skipper reveals the curfew is scrapped

JOHN

FREE

BECOM

BY GEORGE SESSIONS

JOE ROOT has urged his England players to be adults after ruling out a curfew under his captaincy.

Root takes the reins for a second time following the retirement of Ben Stokes (left) and sacking of head coach Brendon McCullum.

The end of Burball came following breaks of a midnight curfew by Stokes and Gus Atkinson, who were involved in an incident in June at London nightclub Rex Rooms.

Root said: "There's not going to be a curfew. I don't think this needs to be a big deal, to be honest.

"My view on curfews is I don't think they work, and if you want guys to take responsibility on the field they've got to be able to feel they can be grown adults off it and make good strong decisions off it." The curfew was put in place by

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TIME TO STAND UP Channel food wants to land driven the adults

TOYOTA

CITY FIRM OVER £70M RODRI FEE

BY JEREMY CROSS

BARCELONA have been told to stump up at least £70million if they want to land Manchester City superstar Rodri.

After seeing an initial £39m offer dismissed out of hand by City, Barca are said to be plotting an improved bid of £55m plus add ons, which would take the offer to £60m.

But this is still £10m short of what Etihad bosses are demanding for the World Cup winner.

City know the pressure is now on Barca to meet the asking price for someone the Spanish giants have promised to sign.

Rodri (above) snubbed a move to bitter rivals Real Madrid, in the belief he would be joining the La Liga champions.

But unless Barca president Joan Laporta is willing to pay what City want, the transfer will not

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SUDOKU

Fill the grid so that every column, row, and 3x3 square includes all of the digits from one to nine. Solutions tomorrow

EASY

7	4		3				1	9
9					1	8
		8	9	4		7	2
			1		4			2
4		2		5		6		8
8					3		5
		4		1	6	2
	8						6	5
	5		8		2		9	1

MEDIUM

8				5				3
4			2				1	5
		5	3		9	8
	3			4			5
		4	1		2	6
	1			7			2
		6	7		8	2
3					4		7	9
2			5					6

MEDIUM

	3		8			6		2
9	6			7
			6			8		5
8		1
	5						1
						3		9
5		6			1
				2			5	6
4		7			8		3

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ACROSS

• 7 Proportion (5)
• 8 Manage (7)
• 9 Upstart (7)
• 10 Civilian dress (5)
• 12 Skilled (10)
• 15 To be got (10)
• 18 Dash water over (5)
• 19 Highest (7)
• 21 Goodbye (7)
• 22 Mar (5)

DOWN

• 1 Fortunate (10)
• 2 Commencement (5)
• 3 Front (4)
• 4 Nape (6)
• 5 Hostile (8)
• 6 Volunteer (7)
• 11 Familiarly (10)
• 13 Banter (8)
• 14 Clad (7)
• 16 Movement (6)
• 17 Automaton (5)
• 20 Nosegay (4)

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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?

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SMALL CROSSWORD

ACROSS

• 1 Risky undertaking (9)
• 7 Mariner (6)
• 9 Salad plant (7)
• 10 Totals up (4)
• 12 Upper limb (3)
• 13 Female parents (7)
• 14 Cruise, actor (3)
• 15 Sunrise (4)
• 17 Mixed with a spoon (7)
• 19 Urban areas (6)
• 20 Gave an account of (9)

DOWN

• 1 An ocean (8)
• 2 Coloured (4)
• 3 Animal doctor (3)
• 4 Huge train (anag.) (9)
• 5 Marked as correct (6)
• 6 Bellows (5)

• 8 Jogged one's memory (8)

• 11 Radio crackling (6)

• 13 Film (5)
• 16 Used to be (4)
• 18 Steal from (3)

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KAKURO

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.

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1 In communications, a phonetic word for the letter e (4) 8 1958 novel by Lawrence Durrell (10) 9 City in the French Alps which hosted the 1968 Winter Olympic Games (8) 10 The derived SI unit of electric potential (4) 12 US singer-songwriter born Malcolm Rebennack in 1940 (2,4) 14 See 15 15 & 14 1993 US Open women's singles tennis championship runner-up (6,6) 17 & 4 Down Child actress who starred as Connie Harding in the 1939 film First Love (6,6) 18 'The ---', 1958 novel by Iris Murdoch (4) 19 Leading character in Raymond Chandler's novel The Maltese Falcon (3,5) 21 & 11 Down 1968 George A Romero film which starred Duane Jones (5,2,3,6,4) 22 City in central Poland associated with the textile industry (4)

DOWN

2 Author of the 1778 Gothic novel The Champion Of Virtue (5,5) 3 'The ---', 1976 Richard Donner horror film starring Gregory Peck (4) 4 See 17 Across 5 'The ---', 2001 Alejandro Amenábar film starring Nicole Kidman (6)

6 Central European republic whose capital is Bratislava (8) 7 One hundredth of a dollar in US currency (4) 11 See 21 Across 13 Dan, 1955 Best Actor Oscar nominee for The Adventures Of Robinson Crusoe (8) 16 Richard, choreographer who was artistic director of the Rambert Dance Company from 1986 to 1992 (6) 17 Light strong cotton fabric with woven stripes or squares (6) 18 Karl, German engineer who designed and built the first car to be driven by an internal-combustion engine (4) 20 Robert, British prime minister from 1841 to 1846 (4)

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SAMURAI SUDOKU

In Samurai Sudoku, normal sudoku rules apply, but the 9x9 sudoku at the centre shares four of its 3x3 boxes with those of the outer sudokus.

Solution tomorrow

	2					7	9					5	2	7
		9	3	4						8	2
4	5					3				1			7	2
	5				9					3		9	4	2
	7					6	4			1	6	9	3
	4	7				3	8						5	1
			6	1				3	1			8	3		4
7	4			8							3			8
8			4					5	6			1			6
					1	9				3	8
									9	2	6
					6	2	5
7		1	8				9	1						9	2
	2		4			6						4	7	8
4			5				6	7			8			1
3					9	6					1		9	5
		6	9	5						3		7	1
6	9				2					8		9	6
		5		7							9	8
5	7					8				9	1	8			4
		3			4	5				7		3		5

WORD BUILDER

Answer each clue so that every word contains the same letters as the previous word, plus or minus one.

Solution tomorrow

1□□ 2□□□ 3□□□□ 4□□□□□ 5□□□□ 6□□□ 7□□□

1 Curve 2 Automobiles 3 Frames 4 Grates 5 Speed contests 6 Tend 7 Epoch

SUMMIT UP

If the number in each triangle is the sum of the two below, what is the top number?

Solution tomorrow

QUIZWORD

Across:

7Niobe, 8Leivers, 9 Everest, 10 Brief, 12 James M Cain, 15 Air Marshal, 18 Tomei, 19 In Egypt, 21 Torelli, 22 Beryl.

Down:

1 Angel Heart, 2 Moses, 3 Jef, 4 Blithe, 5 Riobamba, 6 Pelican, 11 Fink-Nottle, 13 Amarillo, 14 Tremors, 16 Spirit, 17 Myrrh, 20 Elbe.

SAMURAI SUDOKU

SMALL CROSSWORD

Across: 1 Test case, 8 Truism, 9 Apex, 10 Emu, 11 Detest, 13 Scotch egg, 15 Menial, 17 Gar, 18 Acne, 19 Overdo, 20 As soon as. Down: 1 Toadstool, 2 Expect, 3 Suet, 4 Crescendo, 5 Aunt, 6 Siege, 7 Smugglers, 12 Uganda, 14 Ogres, 15 Mars, 16 Icon.

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ARROW-WORD

Arrow-words are like crosswords, but the clues are printed inside squares on the grid. Write your answers in the blank squares in the direction indicated by the arrows.

Solution tomorrow

WORDSEARCH

YOUNG ANIMALS

Find all the terms listed below in the grid.

Solution tomorrow

CALF ● CHICK ● CUB ● CYGNET ● DUCKLING

FAWN ● FOAL ● JOEY ● KITTEN ● LAMB

LARVA ● LEVERET ● NYMPH ● PIGLET

PUPPY ● TADPOLE ● WHELP

YESTERDAY'S SOLUTIONS

QUICK

CROSSWORD

Across: 1 Stillness, 8 Boo,

9 Deleterious, 11 Digress,

12 Aural, 13 Lustre,

15 Retard, 17 Grand,

18 Hessian,

20 Unconcerned, 22 Cur,

23 Desperado,

Down: 2 Tie, 3 Lithe,

4 Egress, 5 Stowage,

6 Observation,

7 Cotyledon,

10 Legislature,

11 Diligence, 14 Reduced,

16 Thanks, 19 Sieve,

21 End.

WORDSEARCH

ARROW-WORD

SUDOKU EASY

SUDOKU MEDIUM

SUDOKU DIFFICULT

BATTLESHIPS

KAKURO

KEIJO

TARGET

WHOLEMEAL

ahem alee aloe hale hame heal heel hell hello helm heme hole home lame male meal mellow meow mewl mole wale weal well whale whee wheel whole WHOLEMEAL

THE ALPHAPUZZLE

Across: Bouffant, Helium, Barium, Unclear, Venom, Open, Six, Use, Grin, Queen, Foolish, Worthy, Larval, Likewise (clue). Down: Vengeful, Orate, Sojourn, Flummox, Sell, Unearth, Then, Unquote, Disease, Ethos, Marzipan.

THE ALPHABEATER

Black squares: 2, 10, 11, 12, 16, 18, 21, 25, 28, 29, 34, 37, 38, 40. Across: Power, Station, Gnu, Peahen, Duke, Fraud, Imbalance, Hollyhock, Eject, Says, Stanza, Raj, Fairway, Moved. Down: Fights, Owner, Aqua, Axel, Lesser, Rapidity, Scarab, Openly, Lukewarm, Tundra, Nave, Oink, Craze, Exempt.

CROSS DOUBT

Across: THANK

Down: HARRY

SUMMIT UP

99 and 77

WORD BUILDER

Lap, Pals, Lapse, Pastel, Pleat, Tale, Let

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1 Learning aid is ostentatious and eccentric (5,4) 6 Chief executive sobs uncontrollably (4) 10 Rinse out some sticky stuff (5) 11 Skilled, fluster confused mother first (9) 12 Pet, male, has language (7) 13 Cheerful, take coach that's going to the capital (2-5) 14 After simple lunch, panel reveals some advertising (8,5) 17 Dreadfully thick, endanger source of food (7,6) 21 Terribly crude journalist shrank (7) 22 Musical right for a mechanic (7) 24 It makes pipes for orbiter or convertible (9) 25 Dramatist is capturing key space (5) 26 Hence in another gondola (4) 27 Pest forced a team to withdraw (4,5)

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1 Prediction in favour of English actors (8) 2 Tessa returned something of value (5) 3 Each will despatched after name and warning (6,4,4) 4 Calm about finding articles in calendar (7) 5 Interrupt birds flying around you in France (7) 7 Llowing, presented without consideration (9) 8 Solution disguised as sentence (6) 9 Caramel certain to be prepared in this part of the world (7,7) 15 Ban on jokes, really (2,7) 16 Fascinate - that's a way in (8) 18 Conceal oneself round America, being ugly (7) 19 Nocturnal attire - that's a different thing, that is (7) 20 Register for a very large drink (6) 23 Hiss breaks out about university food (5)

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TUESDAY'S SOLUTION

ACROSS: 1 Fact, 3 California, 9 Chef, 10 Compaction, 11 Lake Ontario, 15 Trattoria, 17 Delft, 18 Theme, 19 Letting up, 20 Unconcealed, 24 Insatiable, 25 Fair, 26 Resonating, 27 Dean.

DOWN: 1 Facilitate, 2 Checkmates, 4 Aloft, 5 Important, 6 On cloud nine, 7 Noir, 8 Aunt, 12 On the button, 13 Flagellate, 14 Stupid grin, 16 Reluctant, 21 Nylon, 22 Liar, 23 Asps.

Prizeword: Cuticle

TARGET

● The Target uses words in the main body of Chambers 2hf Century Dictionary (999 edition)

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 5 permitted.

TODAY'S TARGET

Good 13; very good 20; excellent 26 (or more). Solution tomorrow

Call 0907 181 2585

for today's Target solution

BATTLESHIPS

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 tomorrow

THE ALPHABEATER

TARGET TIME

4/8 tomorrow

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Solution tomorrow

Extra letter clues

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Full solution

0907 181 2558

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KEIJO

Place the tiles into the grid so that four different numbers and four different shapes appear in each row and column. Solution tomorrow

THE ALPHAPUZZLE®

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 tomorrow

DIFFICULTY, 7/12; TARGET: 22 mins; CLUE: Feathers trimmed for fruit.

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The day

the world split... August 13 1961 and the birth of the Cold War

On the 65th anniversary of the building of the Berlin Wall, recalling life in its shadow, the spies who came in from the cold and Bowie's 'Heroes'

West Berliners

Comb street

lions in mass

across the Wall

at Bernauer

Strasse in 1961

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1961 AND THE BIRTH OF THE COLD WAR

THE NIGHT THE

By Phil Craig

LIKE many shameful deeds, it took place under cover of darkness. Across central Europe, the night of August 12, 1961, was stiflingly humid. In Berlin, millions slept fitfully behind open windows. At 1am their rest was further disturbed by the noise of military vehicles driving down empty streets and a sudden clatter of construction work, as hundreds of heavy wooden posts were unloaded and hammered into place ready for the barbed wire. Aktion Rose had begun.

Just hours earlier, at a garden party attended by all the leaders of East Germany, Chairman of the Council Walter Ulbricht had signed the order that would tear a great but troubled city apart. But the real instruction had come from Moscow.

For years, Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev watched with growing concern as thousands of bright young professionals – the scientists, doctors and engineers that Soviet-dominated eastern Europe desperately needed – fled every month from the German “Worker’s Paradise” toward new lives in the West.

Between 1949 and 1961, more than three million Germans made the journey and most used the famously “open city” of Berlin – jointly occupied by the British, French, American and Soviet armies – as a convenient transit point. To lose so much talent – almost 20% of the population – was a humiliating rebuke to all the propaganda about the superiority of the communist system and, if that system was to have a future, this “braindrain” simply had to stop.

In the summer of 1961, Khrushchev finally ran out of patience and passed word to Ulbricht, a man who had publicly stated just weeks before that “Nobody here has any intention of building a wall”. For his part, Ulbricht gave the secret orders to his ambitious security chief, the future East German leader Erich Honecker, who organised what followed with chilling precision. And so under the other-worldly yellow glow of gas lamps, thousands of soldiers, police, and Kampfgruppen (factory militia units) marched to the border.

By the famous Brandenburg Gate, armed men began stacking breeze blocks and pouring wet cement, raising the first rudimentary barriers. West Berlin police officers gathered close by, watching on in disbelief.

BY SUNRISE, a city – and a continent – was split into two and millions of East Germans realised that they faced a future locked inside a concrete cage. Families were divided mid-sleep, workers were trapped on the wrong side of the border. It was a visible, physical and terrifying sign of the Cold War.

Ordinary construction workers were roused from their beds to join the operation, closely supervised by the security forces in case they took the opportunity to run.

But, surprisingly, one of the first people to escape was a soldier himself. Nineteen-year-old border guard Conrad Schumann was

driven with his comrades to the corner of Ruppiner Strasse and Bernauer Strasse on August 15. An officer said that their job was “to protect the border from the enemies of socialism”. But instead of enemies all

Conrad could see were unhappy civilians. From the western side, people pointed at him and yelled, “You’re no better than concentration camp guards”, while close by he saw a tearful young woman trying to throw a bouquet of flowers over the wire to her mother in West Berlin.

Schumann realised that he would be spending the rest of his career separating people

against their will and so, when the officer’s back was turned, he jumped over the barbed wire, shedding his sub-machine gun in mid-air. Press photographers were close by and, in that young soldier’s hopeful leap, they captured what would become an iconic image of the Wall.

‘in that young soldier’s hopeful leap, photographers captured what would become an iconic image of the Wall’

Along Bernauer Strasse, the front doors of apartment buildings opened on to the Soviet sector, while their windows looked directly into the West. Residents threw mattresses on to the pavements below and jumped from upper-storey windows into the waiting arms – and nets – of the West Berlin Fire Brigade. Others

CHECKPOINT CHARLIE AND

INSIDE the nervous and newly divided city, the threat of open conflict remained constant. And the Cold War nearly exploded into a hot one when East German guards demanded papers from a US diplomat visiting East Berlin on October 22, 1961, to see an opera. The resulting confrontation would stun the world.

US General Lucius Clay sent troops to the border and, by the morning of October 27, the East-West crossing at Friedrichstrasse – known as Checkpoint Charlie – was the most dangerous hundred yards on earth.

Ten M4B Patton tanks stood nose-to-nose with 10 Soviet T-54s. A single backfire, a

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Having lost three million citizens, East Germany was dying. So overnight on August 13, 1961, 65 years ago, Berlin was divided in two... parting families mid-sleep and leaving workers trapped on the wrong side of the world's deadliest border

days later shoot to kill became a reality. Günter Liffin, a 24-year-old tailor with dreams of designing and selling clothes in the West, found himself cut off from his imagined future. At night he slipped into the waters of the Humboldhafen and swam towards the British sector.

The searchlights of the East German transport police picked him out and, ignoring his raised arms, guards opened fire – their bullets striking Liffin in the back of the head. The Stasi arranged his funeral and kept the true cause of his death a secret from his family for many years.

While the new barrier brought death and heartbreak to Berliners, in the West it was privately welcomed by leaders who had feared much worse.

Ever since the Berlin airlift of 1948/9 Nato officials had been planning in case the Soviets tried to end their brain drain by fighting their way into West Berlin, thus triggering a global – and potentially nuclear – confrontation.

President John F. Kennedy publicly condemned the Wall but he told one confidante: "It's not a very nice solution, but a wall is a hell of a lot better than a war."

Back in Moscow, Khrushchev considered it a triumph. Having staunched the economic bleeding of East Germany, he boasted to his inner circle: "I know that a wall is an ugly thing. But it has closed the border and stopped the refugees. This is a real victory for us."

O

VER the years that followed, the makeshift barriers of August 1961 were replaced with multi-layered

concrete walls, guard towers and a booby-trapped "strip of death" few were ever able to cross. West Berlin remained a glittering, decadent, neon-lit shop window for Western freedom and prosperity, sitting at the heart of a grey, grim communist republic.

By encasing its own people in concrete and barbed wire, the regime successfully stopped the haemorrhaging of its economy.

East German workers were forced to settle down and rebuild and their nation was soon the economic star of the Eastern Bloc, achieving a standard of living that was the envy of the communist world. For a generation, the Wall delivered exactly what Nikita Khrushchev demanded – a secure border, a viable satellite state, and a predictable status quo that froze the Cold War in place.

And yet by suppressing the desire for freedom the regime had not only built a wall, it had built a pressure cooker. Because people naturally want to see their sisters, give flowers to their mothers and use their talents to make the best living that they can. And repressing that in the name of a cold ideology only makes the desire keener.

The Wall postponed the collapse of East Germany by 28 years, but when the pressure finally blew there was to be no way back for German communism or the men who policed it. Normal, healthy regimes build walls to keep threats out – totalitarism build them to keep their own people trapped inside. And then kill them in the dark.

● Phil Craig is author of 1945: The Reckoning (Hodder, £12.99)

THE BIG STAND-OFF: OCTOBER 1961

nervous twitch, or a misinterpreted gesture could have triggered a bloody shoot out with devastating implications. US president John F. Kennedy bypassed formal channels to reach Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev directly and a delicate, choreographed retreat was brokered.

On October 28, a lone Soviet tank engine roared, and the vehicle reversed a few yards. Moments later, an American tank mirrored the retreat.

It was a slow, face-saving dance that defused the crisis – proving both superpowers were willing to peer into the abyss, but neither was ready to jump.

simply sprinted through the gaps where the wire had not yet been tautly secured. In those early days the guards were often hesitant and confused, reluctant to enforce the new order. But soon the soldiers grew tougher, the windows were bricked over and a "shoot to kill" order was imposed, reinforced by the ever-present, ever-watchful secret police, the Stasi.

Ida Siekmann was a 58-year-old nurse who also lived on Bernauer Strasse. Her beloved sister lived just a few hundred yards away in the western sector. On August 22, hearing that her windows would soon be sealed, she threw her bedding and a few meagre possessions down to the street below and leaped. In her panic she jumped awkwardly, missed the safety nets and died before she even reached the hospital. Two

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By James Stejskal

COLD War Berlin became the capital of deception, inspiring a golden age of British espionage literature from Len Deighton and John le Carré to Joseph Kanon, Paul Vidich... and me. "Did you ever say hello to a girl you almost married long ago? Did she smile the same captivating smile, and give your arm a hug in a gesture you'd almost forgotten?"

"Did the wrinkles as she smiled make you wonder what marvellous times you'd missed? That's how I felt about Berlin every time I came back here."

So wrote Len Deighton in the novel Berlin Game, a love letter to the divided city through the voice of a fictional middle-aged and somewhat jaded intelligence officer, Bernard Sampson. No city has shaped the spy novel quite like Berlin.

From the ashes of the Second World War, Berlin emerged as a city traumatised, psychologically scarred – a dangerous stage where East and West, two opposing political systems, faced each other to fight an existential battle for survival.

I know what Sampson meant; I lived in Berlin for 10 years having arrived there in 1977 as a young Special Forces undercover operator preparing for a war with the Soviets and a bit later as a CIA Case Officer conducting clandestine intelligence operations.

My work allowed me to experience Berlin in all its guises: a city of light and dark, of deception and confrontation, and the home of the modern spy novel.

Walking along the Berlin Wall at night was a surreal experience. You were physically on the front line between the communist East on one side and the capitalist West on the other.

Two giants faced off across walls, checkpoints, and barbed wire frontiers where a war could erupt at any moment. But you could also pop into a local Kneipe, drink a beer, and read a book without ever being aware of that struggle. Intelligence agencies from dozens of nations were present, along with diplomats, spies, defectors, and informers who crowded the city's cafés. Every chance encounter seemed capable of changing history and sometimes it did: tank confrontations at Checkpoint Charlie, spy exchanges at Glienicke Bridge, or abductions of prominent politicians from a café on the Ku'damm by the East German security service.

My thoughts were nowhere near that profound when I first arrived in the "City" in February of 1977. What I did know was that I was a big fan of democracy and freedom; it was "Us vs. Them," and whenever I came near that border, I knew that whatever I loved about the West came to a dead stop at the Wall.

T

HERE are fences and barriers meant to keep people either out or in. Berlin had its "Anti-fascist Protection

Barrier" – an almost impenetrable monstrosity built by the East Germans ostensibly to keep the "fascist" Westerners out of East Berlin, but in reality to keep their own people prisoners. It was a symbol of the divide between West and East.

The finest spy novelists did not need to invest Berlin. They walked its streets, met the people, and felt first-hand the trauma inflicted on the city. But they also knew the typical good humour of the people living on both sides of the Wall. It all made for good stories.

To paraphrase Deighton, it is the eyewitness who turns to fiction who produces the most convincing accounts of war.

No writer embodied that better than John le Carré. Born David Cornwell, he served with British Intelligence during the Second World War and the Cold War, was posted to West Germany in the 1950s, and visited Berlin before the Wall was built. Le Carré's novel, The Spy Who Came in from the Cold,

HOW BERLIN HELP THE MODERN SPY

The divided city was at the very heart of the Cold War clash between East and West... and inspired espionage authors from John le Carré to Len Deighton and Mick Herron

transformed the genre, which had been escapist adventure, into grim reality using Berlin as the perfect setting.

His protagonist, George Smiley, was the polar opposite of Ian Fleming's glamorous, jet-setting spy, James Bond. Smiley was portrayed by le Carré as a colourless bureaucrat, a "spy" who navigated compromise rather than zero-sum games with patience and empathy.

At the same time, Berlin itself became a tragic character with its division reflecting the divided loyalties of everyone living there.

And loyalty was always a question in Berlin, as many discovered in real life as well as in the pages of a novel, often with deadly consequences. Len Deighton took his stories a step further with his working-class protagonists in Berlin; Harry Palmer – anonymous in Deighton's novels before Michael Caine (who

played the role) insisted his film version had a boring name – and Bernard Samson, both cynical, intelligent, and skeptical of authority.

Samson is the "larger" of Deighton's two heroes, a man who knew every café, safe house, and almost every useful person in the city. He also knew the best places to eat, like Ganymed, a French brasserie, a favourite of the Stasi (the East German secret police) and David Bowie, which is still in operation.

His Berlin is simultaneously intimate and unknowable, a place where personal relationships become one with the all-pervasive silent war around them.

Deighton's emotional portrait was of a city he loved, and at the same time, a place where he knew today's friends might be tomorrow's enemies. It was not a city of casinos and tuxedos, but one of tired, jaded professionals doing difficult and often dangerous jobs.

Ian Fleming, on the other hand, was not a fan of Berlin. It was a place he "left without regret," after writing his travelogue Thrilling Cities. There, he saw "the sinister side of the German nation".

In his only story involving Berlin, The Living Daylights, Bond must protect an agent during an escape. The Berlin Wall provided not only danger but also the spectacle of searchlights and a dramatic border crossing that suited Bond's high-stakes world.

Unlike le Carré's Alex Leamas, Bond's agent came out safely, but then Bond was an impossibly talented operator.

Even decades after reunification, Berlin continues to inspire writers.

Many of Berlin's stories require no embellishment. The construction of the Berlin Wall, the spy tunnel operation mounted by MI6 and the CIA, high-profile escapes, defections, and

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elaborate kidnappings all seemed to belong in novels before they became history.

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OR the author, Berlin offers a location that mixes the moral ambiguities of espionage with adventure, sophistication, and resilience.

It was also a place that could be dark, deceptive, and dangerous, a city filled with ambiguity, a place that compresses much of the 20th Century into a small plot of land.

Nowhere else on Earth did history press so heavily upon daily life: the ruins of Hitler's "Thousand-year Reich" beside gleaming modern buildings, a forbidding Wall where East German border guards with Kalashnikovs glared across barbed wire at

West Berliners, and a bridge where spies were traded back and forth like baseball cards.

Contemporary writers like Joseph Kanon and Paul Vidich continue to mine Berlin for its stories, and even Mick Herron's Jackson Lamb, the venerable Slow Horse, has slipped into Berlin in prequel The Secret Hours. Kanon's stories are steeped in suspense,

FIVE SPY READS TO GET YOU STARTED

I'VE ALWAYS believed that, if anywhere belongs to spy fiction, it's Berlin. The city saw everything - daring escapes, double agents, dead drops, defections and enough real-life intrigue to keep novelists busy for generations. This was where the Cold War ran hot. As Len Deighton famously wrote, Berlin was "a microcosm of a divided world". If you're fascinated by the Cold War, these are the five Berlin spy novels I'd recommend.

BY SHANE WHALEY Spybrary Creator

central characters. The best part? It's the first of Deighton's magnificent Samson series, so if you love it, there's plenty more to enjoy. Be warned: it's every bit as addictive as it is thrilling.

THE SPY WHO CAME IN FROM THE COLD BY

JOHN LE CARRÉ, 1963: Published in 1963, just two years after the Berlin Wall was built, The Spy Who Came In From The Cold remains the definitive Berlin Wall novel. It's tense, heartbreaking and morally complex, with an ending that still leaves readers stunned more than 60 years later. Be warned though, its climax is so shocking that friends I've recommended it to have refused to speak to me for several weeks after reading it!

FUNERAL IN BERLIN BY LEN DEIGHTON, 1964:

Harry Palmer may not have James Bond's gadgets, but he's every bit as entertaining. Len Deighton captured a time and a mood because he stalked East and West Berlin's streets and skulked through its checkpoints. He brilliantly evokes a city where the divide isn't marked by a river or mountain range but by walls, abandoned buildings and watchtowers bristling with machine guns. His Berlin feels real, dangerous and menacing.

BERLIN GAME BY LEN DEIGHTON, 1983:

This is espionage stripped of glamour. Bernard Samson operates in a world where trust is scarce, betrayal is routine and Berlin becomes one of the story's

PRINCE OF BERLIN BY DAN SHERMAN, 1983: Dan Sherman's unjustly overlooked Prince of Berlin is one of the great forgotten Cold War thrillers, filled with rival intelligence services, shifting loyalties and the unique atmosphere of a city living permanently on edge. If you've never heard of it, you're in for a treat.

THE BERLIN EXCHANGE BY JOSEPH KANON, 2022: Kanon proves that Berlin still inspires outstanding spy fiction today. Set in 1963, The Berlin Exchange follows an American scientist returning home in a prisoner exchange, only to find himself caught in a dangerous game. It's a reminder the Cold War affected ordinary lives.

If these five leave you wanting more, I'd also recommend Dan Fesperman's Winter Work (2022), Paul Vidich's The Matchmaker (2022) and Mick Herron's The Secret Hours (2023), each offering a fresh perspective on Berlin and its Cold War legacy. And although it's a short story rather than a novel, Ian Fleming's 1966 short story The Living Daylights deserves a mention. The Wall may have fallen in 1989, but thanks to these books and dozens more - picking just five is nigh on impossible - Berlin remains the undisputed capital of spy fiction.

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regret, and reinvention. His authentically atmospheric novels Berlin Exchange and The Good German capitalise on the chaos of post-war Berlin and the claustrophobic fear instilled by East Germany's all-pervasive security apparatus.

Paul Vidich inherits much from le Carré. His slow-burn stories showcase the personal cost of spying. In The Matchmaker, he introduces a very real person as one of his antagonists: Markus Wolf, the Stasi's top spy-runner, a man and nemesis I met after the Wall came down when Wolf was struggling to make peace with his new reality. Vidich's description of the man was spot on.

Berlin is not a place; it is a character and a symbol for the great power competition that still haunts our thoughts. Nothing was certain in such a city where the wrong decision can lead to deadly consequences. No longer

divided by a Wall, Berlin's place in history remains contentious. Like a KGB recruiter, it continues to lure writers with its cold realities and murky past.

The real Berlin provided the true-to-life questions and the answers that have become fictional drama on the page and the screen. And that is perhaps why, long after the Wall has fallen, readers still find themselves returning there – not in search of answers, but for the enduring pleasure of uncertainty.

● James Stejskal is a historian, conflict archaeologist, and author. He served with US Special Forces as a Green Beret, then with the CIA for 35 years, including in Berlin. His books include The Rat Catcher of Berlin as well as Berlin: A Spy's Guide to its Cold War History in Story and Image

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'AWE CAN

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So sang David Bowie, one of the most important musicians and artists to have drawn inspiration from Berlin and its Cold War vibes. Just 12 years later, when the Wall came down, his song would become an anthem of freedom and liberation

IN HIS iconic 1977 hit 'Heroes', the equally iconic David Bowie imagined the story of two German lovers – one from East Berlin and the other from West Berlin – who are in constant fear for their lives but determined to

continue their forbidden (or at least politically dicey) passion nonetheless. Bowie's song builds to a stirring crescendo as he imagines how:

"I, I can remember.

Standing by the wall

And the guns shot above our heads

And we kissed as though

nothing could fall."

The success of the song has led to Bowie being treated as an honorary Berliner and, when he died in 2016, the German foreign ministry repaid the debt by writing on social media: "Good-bye, David Bowie. You are now among #Heroes. Thank you for helping to bring down the #wall."

It was a striking tribute to Bowie, who lived in Berlin between 1976 and 1978, and recorded two albums in the city, Low and Heroes, as well as writing another, Lodger, in collaboration with producer Tony Visconti and co-writer Brian Eno.

He had fled from drug addiction and a growing obsession with the occult that had dominated his previous life in California – even if it produced arguably his greatest album in the form of Station to Station – and by exchanging a diet of cocaine and red peppers for a flatshare with his friend and

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collaborator Iggy Pop in what he called "the most arduous city I could think of".

When Bowie arrived just over three decades after the end of the Second World War, he was pleasantly surprised both by Berlin's reputation for louche living and his return to anonymity. As he put it: "I was going broke, it was cheap to live. For some reason, Berliners just didn't care. Well, not about an English rock singer."

He befriended Tangerine Dream's Edgar Froese, who had become a leading light in the city's music scene, and looked on with a combination of fascination and envy at the Düsseldorf band Kraftwerk, who were producing influential electronic albums such as Trans-Europe Express and Autobahn.

They reflected a purely German idiom that was a million miles away from the punk scene that was currently popular in Britain and America, replacing snarling disaffection and wailing guitars with metronomic electronics that anticipated virtually every successful dance act to have emerged over the past half-century.

The name that Kraftwerk gave to this kind of music was "Krautrock" and if there was

anywhere that summed it up better than anywhere else, it was Hansa Studios, which were situated just 150 metres away from the Berlin Wall, giving it its nickname of "Hansa by the Wall".

It had set up shop as a recording studio in the mid-Seventies. After a period being used for film soundtracks and classical recordings, became the destination of choice for Bowie, Pop and later musicians who included the stylish likes of Nick Cave, Depeche Mode

and Siouxsie and the Banshees and the less hip Marillion and U2.

Yet Berlin in the Seventies was not a city where people behaved well.

As far back as John le Carré's The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, which was published in 1963, East Berlin was being presented as a communist hell on earth,

riddled with suspicion and betrayal, and Bowie and Pop's sometime collaborator Lou Reed had anticipated its mixture of

bohemianism and squalor in his 1973 album named after the place (even though it was recorded in London and New York).

There was something about the combination of cheap thrills and cheaper living that attracted the artistic and chaotic. Iggy Pop, far more than his flatmate Bowie, was both. Like Bowie, he had arrived in the

city to get clean from his debilitating drug addiction – both men replaced heroin with alcohol, which is one way of doing it – but unlike Bowie, he had not had anything like the artistic or commercial success that would give him options. It was fortunate, then, that he had the British genius on hand to help him co-write and produce his two most famous and beloved albums as a solo artist.

The Idiot was written and produced in France and Munich, but its successor, Lust For Life, not only gave Pop perhaps his most iconic song in the Bowie co-written title track (as famously used at the beginning of Trainspotting) but was recorded at Hansa, too.

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HERE was a mixture of professional respect and rivalry between Bowie and Pop; the latter remarked that "Bowie's a hell of a fast guy... I realised I had to be quicker than him, otherwise whose album was it gonna be". Lust for Life – named after the 50s biopic of Vincent van Gogh – proved to be invigorating for both men. As Pop put it: "David and I had determined that we would record the album very quickly, which we wrote, recorded, and mixed in eight days, and because we had done it so quickly, we had a lot of money left over from the advance, which we split."

It remains a much-loved masterpiece

"It was one of the most emotional performances I've ever done. I was in tears," said Bowie'

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today and, along with Bowie's 'Berlin trilogy', helps define the city musically.

Yet it would be a mistake to think of Berlin as a rough-at-the-edges but essentially benevolent place. Teen prostitution, heroin use and the ever-present threat of political violence – or just street violence – dominated life there, which was largely influenced by a ragtag band of disillusioned military veterans, eking out a living in a country still recovering from the aftershocks of the Russian invasion at the end of the war.

Added to the mix were trans-European drop-outs looking for cheap escape and anonymity, and artists and writers hoping, perhaps in vain, to recreate the more glamorous (and equally seedy) world of the Twenties Weimar Republic, which was swept away when the Nazis came to power.

The best book written about life in Berlin at this time was not a novel but a work of non-fiction, Wir Kinder vom Bahnhof Zoo (Wir Children From Bahnhof Zoo).

Based on the recollections of the 14-year old Christiane Felscherinow, who became addicted to drugs and sold her body to find her next fix, it shocked Western audiences who had no idea that life in the apparently more civilised and European West Berlin was so gritty and challenging.

It was turned into an acclaimed film, Christiane F, from director Uli Edel, and it was filmed in many of the same places that Felscherinow spent time, including Jebenstrasse at the Zoologischer Garten

railway station, and the hip or notorious – depending on your perspective – Sound nightclub, where she discovered heroin for the first time.

FOR HIS PART, Bowie left Berlin in 1978, bound for Switzerland, where he finished work on Lodger. It was an eventful, torrid time in his life and career, full of fast living and narcotic and alcohol experimentation – Pop once commented, with delicate understatement, that 'Living in a Berlin apartment with Bowie and his friends was interesting' – but the DNA of the city seeped into the music that he recorded there.

It was appropriate, then, that when Christiane F was eventually released in 1981, not only was it his music soundtracking the picture – including Heroes in a key scene of the characters running ecstatically through a shopping mall – but he appeared in a cameo as himself, performing Station to Station, and thereby squaring the circle that began when he decided to do something heroic.

And there was a happy sequel to all this, too. While on his Glass Spider tour in 1987, Bowie performed an iconic concert in front of the Reichstag in the city. While, a decade after his stay in Berlin, the tensions between West and East had lessened, they still

remained, and so Bowie's performance was designed, with a mixture of sincerity and theatricality, to play to these tensions.

As he recalled: 'We kind of heard that a few of the East Berliners might actually get the chance to hear the thing, but we didn't realise in what numbers they would. And there were thousands on the other side that had come close to the Wall.'

In all, some 15,000 East Berliners gathered behind the wire and concrete barrier where they could hear but not see Bowie. For his part, the star described hearing thousands of people he could not see singing along as 'almost like a prayer', remarking: 'That's the town where it was written, and that's the particular situation that it was written about. It was just extraordinary.'

When he finished 'Heroes', he said, in German: 'We send our wishes to all our friends who are on the other side of the Wall.' Two years later, the Wall had fallen, and Bowie's powerful and emotive performance was widely credited with being one of the reasons it did.

As he recalled: 'It was one of the most emotional performances I've ever done. I was in tears. God, even now I get choked up. It was breaking my heart. I'd never done anything like that in my life, and I guess I never will again. It was so touching.'

● Alexander Larman is author of Lazarus: The Second Coming of David Bowie, published by New Modern priced £25

HITS FROM HANSA: FIVE ALBUMS FROM BERLIN

OPENED in 1965, the Hansa recording studio was just 150 yards from the Berlin Wall. It allowed visiting musicians to soak up the eerie atmosphere of the division between East and West. JOHN EARLS picks five classic albums recorded there.

DAVID BOWIE LOW (1977)

The first of the icon's classic 'Berlin trilogy' of albums, Bowie overcame his cocaine addiction by hiding out in Berlin. Influenced by German music such as the revolutionary Kraftwerk as well as Berlin itself, Low's futuristic sound was years ahead of its time. On the following albums Heroes and Lodger, Bowie continued to become even more exploratory, as well as creating classic hits like Sound And Vision.

IGGY POP LUST FOR LIFE (1977)

Following the break-up of his punk band The Stooges, famously debauched singer IGGY became David Bowie's flatmate in Berlin while recording his first two solo albums. Bowie co-produced and played on both, with the second's title track later used in cult film Trainspotting.

DEPECHE MODE SOME GREAT REWARD (1984)

At the start of the 1980s, Depeche Mode were seen as a lightweight synthpop band thanks to hits like Just Can't Get Enough. Once they immersed themselves in Berlin's underground club scene, they began exploring darker moods. Main songwriter Martin Gore said of the city's nightlife: 'Sexual barriers are silly. My girlfriend and I swap make-up, clothes, anything. So what?' This attitude was expressed in tense new anthems including People Are People.

U2 ACHTUNG BABY! (1991)

Having become the biggest band in the world with The Joshua Tree in 1987, U2 wanted to shake up their traditional rock style for their next proper studio album. Where better than Berlin, helped by producer Brian Eno, who had worked on Bowie's Berlin Trilogy. Electronic experimentation was in order, and the Wall coming down the year before helped the sense of freedom, though bassist Adam Clayton admitted: 'We had to put the work in.'

BIFFY CLYRO FUTIQUE (2025):

In recent years, bands including Manic Street Preachers, Snow Patrol and Pet Shop Boys have continued to use Berlin as a base for radical changes. Cult Scottish rockers Biffy Clyro were recent beneficiaries, reaching No. 1 last year with an LP named after its mix of 'futuristic' and 'antique'. Singer Simon Neil said: 'The ghosts of Bowie and IGGY in Berlin bled into the songs by osmosis.'

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By Phil Craig

FOR DECADES Germans joked that the inhabitants of wealthy, capitalist West Berlin were more communist than their eastern neighbours. In the glittering western sector of the divided city radical and revolutionary groups thrived, along with all manner of alternative lifestyles from squatting ("Property is theft, baby!"), open drug use and transgressive cabaret.

Students from the full range of Marxist-Leninist sects marched and battled riot police while protesting Nato and the US but praised the IRA and the PLO. And yet for those suffering under actual communist rule all this protest made the western lifestyle seem even more appealing. Because taking to the streets to challenge authority in their society was utterly impossible. Raw memories of violent military crackdowns in 1956 Hungary and 1968 Czechoslovakia had seen to that.

I travelled in East Germany and Czechoslovakia in the 1980s and met many fellow 20-somethings. Yes, they envied the cars, fridge-freezers and other consumer treats that they saw illicitly on western TV channels, but what really motivated them was fun and freedom – they wanted blue jeans, free love and David Bowie, and the Eurovision Song Contest too.

They wanted to speak openly without the fear of a neighbour telling the secret police and they wanted to travel to places they'd only read about at school. I remember a young teacher breaking down in tears when he said he yearned to visit Scotland, and I handed him an old map.

And, yes, they very much also wanted the right to protest. But as late as 1988 few believed that they ever would get it. What changed was a mixture of political exhaustion, economic collapse and a bureaucrat's slip of the tongue.

On a grey, leaden evening in East Berlin on November 9, 1989, a lowly functionary of the East German state, Günter Schabowski, reported for work as press spokesman for the Communist Party. Schabowski, a seasoned journalist who looked every inch the bureaucratic war-horse, longed only for a quiet night in with his wife after a day of shambolic meetings.

Fate, however, had other plans for him. Just weeks before, the architect of the Berlin Wall, Erich Honecker, had been ousted in a bloodless internal coup, leaving the uninspiring Egon Krenz to steer his nation into the future. Half a million unhappy East Berliners then gathered in Alexanderplatz, demanding reform, freedom, and the right to shape their own destinies. Krenz promised gradual changes but privately worried if Moscow would allow him to make any.

THE DAILY party press conference became the focus of global interest, broadcast live to a nation on the verge of eruption. And so, when Schabowski took his place on the podium that autumn evening, flanked by unsmiling apparatchiks, he knew that he had to choose his words very carefully – but he didn't.

The key questions were about freedom of travel. East Germans had been driving their rickety Trabants through Czechoslovakia and into the west in record numbers and the authorities wanted it stopped.

A memo, handed to him personally by Krenz, explained a new policy of allowing some limited travel between the two Germanys but only for those with special permission and after border guards had been briefed on who might – and might not – pass. Schabowski, under the glare of the television lights, recited the memo's con-

THE DAY THE WALL FELL

In the end, all it took was a slip of the tongue and, after 28 years, the barrier crumbled

tents. When pressed on the timeline, he seemed distracted and replied off-handedly: "Oh that comes into effect, according to my information, immediately and without delay", omitting the all-important detail that citizens still had to apply for formal permits and that the announcement was meant to be embargoed until the following morning so the Army could brief the border patrols overnight. It was like a starting

pistol. Within hours, Berliners from East and West surged towards the Wall. The guards, baffled and unprepared, looked at their officers for guidance.

They in turn called Army HQ where all was chaos and confusion.

Soon, people were turning up with hammers and picks, attacking the wall and breaking off pieces as souvenirs.

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fragments would spring up. In the end, most soldiers simply stood aside as the city's most notorious structure was breached by the passion of ordinary people aided by the inertia of a bewildered, exhausted regime.

Meanwhile, as Nato generals held their breath, Soviet tanks stayed in their garages.

AS JOURNALISTS raced to file their stories and the Cold War's symbolic frontier crumbled, one reporter paused at Checkpoint Charlie to ask a border guard his thoughts. "I am not paid to think," came the reply – a perfect epitaph for a regime that had fatally underestimated its people's desire to think, to party, to travel and to live life unconstrained by secret policemen and concrete walls.

Today parts of the Wall remain, but only as tourist attractions and reminders of a dystopian social experiment in keeping people apart.