Daily Mail - 13.08.2026
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- Boosty 帖子：Newspapers - 13.08.2026
- Environment / Wildfires / Controlled Burning Ban and Wildfire Risks：工党将禁止受控焚烧的规定扩大至160万英亩土地，旨在保护泥炭地和环境；但土地管理组织警告此举导致干燥植被堆积，反而增加了热浪期间山火蔓延的风险。
- Crime / Court News / Simon Levy Conviction and Police Failure：性犯罪者西蒙·莱维（Simon Levy）因谋杀及性侵被定罪；受害者家属指责英国运输警察和伦敦警察厅在莱维有严重前科的情况下四次将其保释，导致更多女性受害。
- Politics / Justice / Prison Overcrowding and Early Release Crisis：工党政府承认自2024年7月就职以来未计划建造新监狱，导致数千名囚犯在仅服刑三分之一刑期后被提前释放，引发关于公共安全和司法管理危机的争议。
- Royal / Appointments / King's Private Secretary Recruitment：随着克莱夫·奥尔德顿爵士即将离职，王室承诺将通过公开且严格的程序招聘下一任首席私人秘书，以改变以往非正式的任命方式。
- Entertainment / Cinema / James Bond Casting Rumors：据理查德·奥斯曼透露，《慢马》主演杰克·劳登（Jack Lowden）正被重点考虑接任詹姆斯·邦德一角。
- Lifestyle / Relationships / Relationship Advice for Holidays：建议伴侣在假期中坦率分摊“隐形行政工作”（如订餐、追踪护照），通过减轻单方心理负担来维持情欲和关系和谐。
- Opinion / Health / Ketamine Addiction and Legal Consequences in Japan：作者Izabel Rose分享在持有氯胺酮时被日本海关拦截并面临监禁的经历，警示年轻人氯胺酮在英国被常态化使用但具有严重的生理和心理成瘾性。
- Advertising / Shopping / Chums Ltd. Order Form：Chums Ltd.提供的男士套脚休闲鞋订购表格，包含商品规格选择、支付方式及隐私数据处理条款。
- Entertainment / TV Reviews / Netflix New Series Reviews：评述Netflix新剧《我的辉煌职业》（改编自1901年小说）及职场喜剧《轮胎》（The Tyres），前者探讨女性追求写作梦想与现实的冲突。
- TV Guide / Schedules / Freeview TV Programming Guide：列出ITV3、ITV4等频道的黄金时段节目单，包括《生活大爆炸》、《阿甘正传》及《心跳》等剧集。
- Lifestyle / Astrology / Daily Horoscopes：为狮子座和处女座提供个性化指导，建议狮子座关注情感连接而非完美细节，处女座则通过完成任务清单获得满足感。
- Advertising / Gardening / RHS Plant of the Year Promotion：推广2023年英国皇家园艺学会年度植物 'Black Jack'，该品种具有深紫色金属光泽花朵，适合阳光充足的容器种植。
- Business / Economy / Gambling Tax Hike and Shop Closures：由于远程游戏税从21%提高至40%，William Hill关闭了超过五分之一的投注店（278家），导致数百人失业且母公司Evoke出现巨额亏损。
- Sports / Personal / Messi's Tribute to His Father：梅西表达对父亲的思念，透露父亲是其参加世界杯的驱动力，并遗憾父亲在决赛前病情恶化未能亲临现场。
- Sports / Football / Aston Villa Youth Player Performance：17岁前锋马乔（Madjo）在超级杯中进球，成为该赛事历史上最年轻进球者，为维拉在英超揭幕战前带来鼓舞。
- Leisure / Puzzles / Daily Codeword Puzzle：提供每日密码字谜游戏，主题为Taskmaster参赛者AYOADE，用户可通过电话或短信提交答案赢取奖金。
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在没有人类干预的情况下自行生长，导致了大量干燥植被的堆积，在热浪中极易被点燃。传统上，猎场管理员和农民会在较凉爽的月份对石楠和草类进行受控焚烧——以促进新芽生长，供红原 grouse 和羊群啃食。
去年，工党将禁止焚烧的规定扩大到了 160 万 英亩的土地。该党表示，此举针对泥炭地，旨在改善空气质量并保护环境和公众健康。
乡村土地与商业协会（Country Land and Business Association）的乔纳森·罗伯茨（Jonathan Roberts）表示：“去年是记录以来山火最严重的一年，然而部长们的反应却是让土地管理者更难进行受控焚烧，而这正是防止山火在温暖月份蔓延所必需的。”
“政府实际上禁止了预防山火最重要的一种方法，而我们现在正在承受其后果。简单来说，他们必须立即撤销这项政策。”
乡村联盟（Countryside Alliance）也表达了同样的担忧，称部长们做出了一个“愚蠢的决定”。
“由于政府最近将我们高地中实际上禁止植被受控焚烧的区域扩大了三倍以上，荒原社区正面临着日益严峻的挑战，”该组织表示。“乡村联盟多次警告，如果忽视最新的科学证据，”
资源，南威尔士的消防员在昨天与七场独立火灾搏斗时将其描述为“像车厢一样拥挤”，他们认为其中一些火灾是恶意纵火。
安迪·伯纳姆（Andy Burnham）昨晚呼吁商店停止销售一次性烧烤炉，他表示许多火灾是由此引起的。他暗示未来可能会在夏季实施禁令。
再野化政策的激烈批评者博瑟姆勋爵（Lord Botham）敦促首相采取“果断”行动，并将管理该政策的环境、食品与农村事务部（Defra）因“鲁莽的无能”而置于特别监管之下。
“我们的山火危机是人为造成的。它是年复一年重复发生的糟糕政策失误的结果，”这位前英格兰板球队长说道。
“二十年来，我们在景观中增加了过多的植被，现在正承受着不可避免的后果。除非安迪·伯纳姆果断采取行动，否则将会出现死亡病例。”
英格兰自然局（Natural England）坚持认为焚烧石楠会破坏储存碳的泥炭，因此转而推广机械切割——但批评者表示，虽然这减少了所谓的“燃料载量”，但仍留下了可燃物质。
“冬季焚烧曾用于创建防火带。现在我们拥有大片连续的、老化的植被。结果就是一场又一场的灾难，”博瑟姆勋爵在一家报纸上写道。“新的冬季焚烧季将于 October 1. 开始。首相只有几周时间来撤销去年的禁令，并重启这些预防性的冬季焚烧。”
荒原协会（Moorland Association）的安德鲁·吉尔鲁斯（Andrew Gilruth）表示：“再野化听起来是个好主意，除非你最终面对的是一面火墙。我们的景观覆盖了太多、太多的植被，除非我们扭转再野化趋势，否则山火将变得越来越严重。”
环境、食品与农村事务部（Defra）表示，其政策是“长期”解决方案。
一名发言人表示：“泥炭地修复是减少退化泥炭地燃料载量最有效、最可持续且最长期的解决方案，因为更湿润、功能健康的泥炭地能在景观中更长时间地保持更多水分，并且对山火的影响具有更强的韧性。”
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这只能是一项由被称为“地球上最快的人”的人来完成的工作：使用 JCB 的发动机打破陆地速度记录。
英国车手安迪·格林（Andy Green）没有让人失望，时速达到了 406 英里以上——而且甚至还没有挂到最高档。
这位前英国皇家空军战斗机飞行员是迄今为止唯一一名驾驶汽车突破音障的人，他再次打破了记录，但这次使用的是氢能动力。
虽然 JCB 这个品牌通常与在建筑工地缓慢行驶的挖掘机联系在一起，但对于 64 岁的格林联队长（Wing Commander Green OBE）来说，周二那天大地确实在震颤。
他驾驶着一辆 32 英尺长的子弹形车辆飞驰在犹他州的 Bonneville Salt Flats 上，该车由 JCB 开发的两台氢内燃机驱动，这些发动机同样被用于其——字面意义上具有开创性的——氢能挖掘机中。
如图所示的格林表示：“在最狂野的梦想中，我们曾认为时速可能会达到 400 英里。这辆车有六个档位，每台发动机可产生 800 匹马力。”
“[为了打破记录]，我们仅使用了六个档位中的五个，从未挂到最高档，且仅使用了 800 匹马力中的 700 匹。实际上我们调低了发动机功率，因为我们
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最高时速： 406.320英里 / 小时
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轮胎： 固特异定制高速额定轮胎
发动机： 两台4.8升、直列4缸氢内燃机（一台驱动前轮，另一台驱动后轮），同样用于JCB的氢能挖掘机
功率输出： 每台发动机800马力，1,600hp总计
发动机重量： 每台405公斤 / 890磅
变速箱： 六速转轴变速箱，驱动独立轴
不需要全功率。他补充道：“这辆车太棒了——稳定、强劲且快速。这项纪录是一个世界级团队和卓越技术的巨大成就。”格林联队长驾驶JCB的1,600bhp Hydromax流线型赛车达到了官方记录的406.320英里 / 小时——这是两次独立运行的平均速度。
该纪录得到了国际汽车联合会（世界赛车运动管理机构）的验证，是氢动力汽车所达到的最高速度。
但这一壮举距离格林在近30年前创下的绝对陆地速度纪录仍有一定差距。1997年，他驾驶喷气动力Thrust SSC达到了763.035英里 / 小时，成为首位也是唯一一位在陆地上突破音障的人。
在内华达州黑岩沙漠（Black Rock Desert）的那些运行产生了音爆，震动了附近的格拉拉克镇。格林还持有柴油陆地速度纪录，2006年在邦纳维尔驾驶JCB的Dieselmax达到了350.092英里 / 小时。
二十年后，他重返盐滩，驾驶一辆零排放车辆超越了那个基准。而格林的406.320英里 / 小时的数据轻松打破了宝马H2R在2004年创下的185.5英里 / 小时的此前氢内燃机纪录。
他承认驾驶舱内的条件“可能比Thrust稍微热一点”，温度超过122华氏度（55摄氏度）。他说：“但我为此训练了四个月，既在健身房训练，也通过洗热水澡来适应。”
日食特辑
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太空奇观：布鲁斯·亚当斯在曼彻斯特市中心拍摄的一系列照片显示，太阳在43分钟内被月球缓慢遮蔽
英国静止的一天
...如果你错过了这次， 下一次日食要等到 November 2050!
Howzat！伯明翰埃奇巴斯顿的一名板球迷戴着日食眼镜
昨晚，数百万民众惊叹于这场一代一遇的日食，观星热潮席卷全国。
正当英国遭受今年第五波热浪袭击时，随着月球遮挡住 30℃ 的烈日，一股诡异但令人欣喜的凉意随之而至。
在人类历史上，日食一直激起人们的惊叹、恐惧与敬畏。这种奇异的感觉——白昼短暂地变成了诡异的黄昏——导致气温下降，阴影以奇怪的角度出现，动物的行为也变得异常。
月球被一圈火环环绕的壮观景象让全球
作者：Sam Greenhill 首席记者
心跳加速。数百万人在敬畏中观看这场天空表演，表演始于英国时间 6. 下午不久，月球开始从太阳的右边缘“咬”掉第一口。
日食分别于爱丁堡下午 6.08、伦敦下午 6.17 和康沃尔下午 6.18 开始。月球逐渐滑过太阳表面，直到大约一小时后几乎完全熄灭了光芒。目击这一现象的最佳地点是西班牙城市布尔戈斯，那里经历了持续近两分钟的 100% 全食。
35 岁的律师劳拉·斯图尔特（Laura Stewart）是聚集在伦敦普里姆罗斯山（Primrose Hill）的 500 人之一。她
地球中心：昨晚数千人聚集在伦敦格林威治公园观看
告诉《每日邮报》：“感觉完全被迷住了。”来自伦敦西区阿克斯布里奇（Uxbridge）的 24, 岁青年阿贾·利利特（Aja Lilit）补充道：“我能看到月亮和太阳。我微不足道——但也是其中的一部分。这简直太神奇了。”
伦敦东南部格林威治公园里响起了阵阵“哇”、“我的天呐”和“太酷了”的惊叹声。
这是自 August 1999. 以来英国首次出现真正的日食。那次日食被云层干扰，破坏了许多人的体验，但昨晚，英格兰大部分地区
享受到了极其晴朗的天空。这场狂热席卷了英国，从因弗内斯到彭赞斯以及更远的地方。最佳观测点是西利群岛的毕晓普岩（Bishop Rock），那里 96.5% 的太阳被遮挡。
德文郡、康沃尔郡以及威尔士彭布罗克郡最西端的部分地区也拥有绝佳的视野。对于那些视野被云层遮挡的苏格兰和北爱尔兰民众，格林威治皇家天文台在网上直播了
此次事件。莱斯特国家太空中心的群众在从十秒开始倒计时后爆发出了欢呼声。12, 岁的本杰明·费马格-李（Benjamin Firmager-Lee）希望在美国国家航空航天局（Nasa）工作，他说：“这真的很罕见，所以能看到它非常酷。”
在默西赛德郡的克罗斯比海滩上，一名 DJ 播放了披头士乐队的《Here Comes The Sun》。
英国下次可见的部分日食要等到 November 14, 2050, 而下次日全食则要等到 September 23, 2090
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昨晚。英国下次可见的部分日食要等到 November 14, 2050, 而下次日全食将于 September 23, 2090 发生
惊叹苍穹
日食。格林威治皇家天文台在网上对此次事件进行了直播。
届时，今天出生的婴儿将年满 64 岁。
昨晚，气温在短时间内明显下降，为英国的热浪提供了一次短暂的喘息。此次热浪有望使 2026 年成为自著名的 1976 年酷暑以来最热的一个夏天。
兴奋的英国人从周二晚上到昨天排队数小时，试图买到日食眼镜——这是直接观察太阳的唯一安全方式。短时间内直视太阳可能会对视网膜造成永久性损伤，而视网膜是没有痛感的。
布里斯托尔的警方在接到报案后出动，当时领取免费眼镜的队伍变得“混乱”，被形容为“电影《独立日》中的场景”。一名精明的商人被发现在伦敦西区以每副 £50 的价格出售这些眼镜。
在埃塞克斯郡的雷利，Hickey's DIY 的 51, 岁店主 Steven Hickey 表示：“一直没停过。简直是混乱。自从 [新冠] 封锁以来，我从未遇到过这种情况。”位于康威郡科尔温湾的 Cambrian Photography 店门前人们排起了长队，顾客在短短几小时内抢购了 500 副眼镜。
约翰刘易斯合伙公司表示，在 Nasa 建议将这种厨房必需品作为观察圆孔阴影变为新月形（而非直视太阳）的一种方法后，沥干锅的销量飙升了 40%。
在 1999 年的日食之后，数百人因视力模糊拨打医院求助热线。英国皇家
眼在天：在伦敦眼观星的人们
诡谲：在格拉斯哥看到的日食
夜晚之行：家庭成员聚集在达特穆尔的 Hound Tor 观看这一罕见现象
眼科医师学会表示，大约有 70 例病例在观察这一持续两小时的现象不到一分钟后出现了视力问题。
只有由于不可思议的宇宙巧合，地球上才会出现完美的日食。虽然月球比太阳小约 400 倍，但它恰好距离地球也近约 400 倍——这使得它能够完美地遮挡住这颗巨大的恒星。
作为一场天文演出的返场，在日食结束几个小时后，天空布满了流星，因为英仙座流星雨正接近其年度峰值，此时地球正穿过由 Swift-Tuttle 彗星留下的尘埃。
Nasa 的科学家利用昨晚的日食来揭开太阳的秘密，派遣一架 WB-57 高空飞机从冰岛出发追踪月球的阴影，并发射气球以研究突然的黑暗和降温如何影响低层大气。
日食特辑
从巴利阿里群岛到冰岛，欧洲如何尽享这场奇观
《新科学家》探索之旅 (New Scientist Discovery Tours)
在地球上的最佳观测点见证下一次日全食
2027 埃及 • 摩洛哥 • 西班牙
2028 澳大利亚 • 新西兰
由天文学专家引领的科学之旅，旨在将您带到全食带上。
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作者：Eleanor Mann 和 Imogen Garfinkel
昨天，欧洲各地的数百万人见证了日食的魔力。
这一现象始于俄罗斯西伯利亚当地时间正午左右，随后席卷格陵兰岛，最后在欧洲大陆迎接数百万观众。
邮轮船长 Sverre Rud 在格陵兰岛东部的 Rypefjord 水域盘旋，以确保他带领 MS Spitsbergen 号上的 126 名乘客处于完美位置，观看这场奇观。
对于这些乘客来说，这次日食令人震惊，因为他们在一次为期 17 天的航程中，大部分时间处于北极圈以北，一直经历着 24 小时的极昼。
突然之间，在两分钟的时间里，四周被黑暗吞没。
但最兴奋的或许是西班牙，因为虽然欧洲大陆已经 20 年没有经历过日全食，但这是该国一个多世纪以来的首次。
游客们涌向平时安静的村庄街道，见证白昼变为黑夜。全食的狭窄路径横跨伊比利亚半岛，从北部的 Atlantic 海岸延伸至南部的地中海。
人群带来了草地椅，
“我一生中第一次见到它”
雨伞和帽子，他们热切地等待着这场在傍晚早些时候开始的天文奇观。
在东部的塔拉戈纳海港，一名有进取心的年轻女孩用一个绘图盘制作了安全但古怪的观测眼镜。
而在特鲁埃尔附近的 Arcos de las Salinas 的 Javalambre 天体物理天文台这一极佳的观测点，观众们拥有真正超凡脱俗的视角。
与此同时，官员们预测，涌入该国的 448,000 名额外游客可能为经济带来 €1.47 亿 (£3 亿) 的可观增长。在东北部的一座罗马式山顶小镇梅迪纳塞利 (Medinaceli)，观星者们提前数小时抢占草地观测点，并挤满了当地的餐厅和酒吧。
24 岁的物理系学生 Oscar Pérez 从德国赶来见证这一事件，他表示：“这是我一生中第一次有机会在西班牙看到日全食。”
西班牙内政部表示，在人口稀少的内陆地区设立了 350 个官方观测点，同时部署了约 33,500 名执法人员前往观测区。
在冰岛，人们在雷克雅未克的公园聚集，戴上了防护眼镜，甚至戴上了全
美景：身着比基尼的观测者
太绝了！伊比萨岛外的船只见证了突然而至的日落
Wunderbar！柏林人拍快照
面罩。昨晚，随着冰岛人准备迎接 1954 年以来首次日全食，以及自 1433 年以来首次在首都可见的日全食，首都的酒店房价平均超过 $1,000 (£740)。
价格大约是 2025 年费率的两倍，当局预计
在法国海岸的尼斯观看
准备迎接太阳秀：一名女孩在西班牙塔拉戈纳用盘子制作的精巧观测眼镜，以及 Javalambre 天体物理天文台的惊人景观
将有多达 20,000 名额外的海外游客前来参加此次活动。
位于 Reykjanesbaer 市、拥有 70 间客房的知名 Keflavik 酒店已被订满，住客们希望看到约 1 分钟 45 秒的全食时刻。
酒店业主兼经理 Steinpor Jonsson 表示：“日食期间当然非常繁忙，很多人像去年一样提前来到了我们这里。”
琼森先生补充说，自1986年以来他从未见过这样的景象——那一年酒店开业，美国总统罗纳德·里根和苏联领导人米哈伊尔·戈尔巴乔夫在雷克雅未克举行了峰会。“当我开业这家酒店时，里根和戈尔巴乔夫在这里会面。当时这里非常繁忙，”他微笑着说道。
“除了里根和戈尔巴乔夫，这次日食是规模最大的。”
在芬兰、瑞典和丹麦，数百万人目睹了这一现象在头顶掠过——尽管他们未能像冰岛、西班牙和葡萄牙的观察者那样享受到罕见的全食。
而在法国地中海沿岸的尼斯，身着比基尼的观众们遵守规则，佩戴着经过批准的专业护目镜。与此同时，在德国柏林，观察者们用手机拍摄了得体的照片。
欧洲最后的观测发生在西班牙的巴利阿里群岛，当地时间大约 8.33pm。在伊比萨岛圣安东尼奥海岸附近，休闲游艇在太阳收缩成新月形的背光下突然显现出轮廓。
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“巴士大小”的船只“更容易拦截”，但法国拦截数量少于去年
尽管许多移民船现在体积大得多且更容易被发现，但规避法国当局穿越英吉利海峡的移民船数量依然在增加。
专家表示，随着“巨型充气艇”（部分比双层巴士长10英尺）的发射数量增加，这类船只本应更容易被拦截，但截至8月2日的一年里，法国当局仅拦截了略多于一半（56%）的尝试跨境船只。
根据《每日邮报》的分析，这一比例低于前12个月的57%。
此前，工党向法国当局提供了数亿英镑的额外资金以拦截跨境行为。这项由内政大臣沙巴纳·马哈穆德（Shabana Mahmood）于4月签署的协议包括：
独家报道 作者：大卫·丘吉尔（David Churchill）
一笔无条件的£5 亿用于支付法国的海滩巡逻费用，以及£1.6 亿的与绩效挂钩的资金。
但分析发现，在截至8月2日的12个月中，1,057次尝试穿越英吉利海峡的行动中，总共仅有598艘（56%）载有14,462名移民的船只被拦截。
而在前一年从法国和比利时海岸线出发的1,849艘船中，1,057艘（57%）载有30,012名移民的船只被法国当局拦截。
每艘船上挤进的移民平均人数在五年内增加了一倍多，达到了历史最高水平：
从2021年的每艘27人增加到今年至今的近70人。
保守党影子内政大臣克里斯·菲利普（Chris Philp）表示，移民登上大型船只所需的时间更长，且航行速度更慢，这意味着法国当局应该更容易拦截他们。他告诉
“他们在嘲笑我们”
《每日邮报》：“巴士大小的船只在光天化日之下穿越英吉利海峡，而法国人拦截的比例竟然比以前还要低。”
跨境行为已变得如此常规，以至于边境部队（Border Force）和法国巡逻队护送非法移民抵达英格兰海岸就像出租车服务一样，而工党仍然向法国移交数亿英镑，仿佛法国人履行了协议中的承诺一样。”
改革英国党（Reform UK）内政发言人齐亚·尤苏夫（Zia Yusuf）表示：“法国人现在做得更少了。他们在嘲笑我们。”
周一，一艘载有创纪录230名移民的“巨型充气艇”抵达多佛，使得自2024年工党执政以来的抵达总人数突破80,000人。
边境安全与庇护部长安娜·特利（Anna Turley）坚称，在拦截跨境行为方面取得的“实质性进展”产生了“分散效应”，这意味着船只开始在远离加来和敦刻尔克的海岸线发射。
亚历山大·多纳（Alexander Donner）- 第16页
离职：卡罗琳·利维特（Karoline Leavitt）
特朗普新闻首席表示将辞职
作者：罗斯·伊贝特森（Ross Ibbetson）
唐纳德·特朗普的新闻秘书卡罗琳·利维特昨晚表示，她将离开白宫，以便将时间花在她的年幼家庭上。
28, 岁的利维特女士于5月生下第二个孩子，并仅在7月16, 日结束产假回归工作，她表示这是一个“苦乐参半的决定”。
她在X上写道：“在世界上压力最大的工作之一中工作，同时作为一名母亲迎接新宝宝，是我人生中最有成就感但也最具挑战性的阶段。”
“自从女儿出生后回归工作，我内心感到，在投入白宫新闻秘书所需的持续时间、精力和关注的同时，我无法成为两个年幼孩子所期待的最佳母亲。”
特朗普先生在Truth Social上发帖称，这是一个“我完全理解并尊重的决定”。
利维特女士的丈夫尼古拉斯·里乔（Nicholas Riccio）现年61, 岁。她以效仿总统攻击“假新闻”以及痛斥任何敢于违背政府意愿的记者而闻名。
法国某镇禁止使用6英尺长的狗绳
法国的一个小镇已禁止使用长度超过6英尺的狗绳。此前在6月，一只系着长绳的哈士奇袭击并杀死了一只吉娃娃。
在法国北部的圣康坦（Saint-Quentin），如果主人无视该规定，将面临£130的罚款。
市议会表示，此举将让宠物主人放心，确保危险犬类处于受控状态。
但一些当地人质疑这是否能阻止袭击。其中一人表示：“如果你养了一只体重五、八或九英石的狗，只要它想挣脱，即使狗绳只有6英尺或更短，它也能挣脱。”
部长承认：将寻求庇护者安置在贫困地区已导致“社会动荡”
作者：Greg Heffer
工党边境事务部长昨日承认，将寻求庇护者安置在较贫困的社区已引发社会动荡。
安娜·特利（Anna Turley）表示，将移民安置在价格较低的住房中对社区产生了“巨大影响”。
但她坚持认为，现在必须由更富裕的地区承担这一负担，并再次强调安迪·伯纳姆（Andy Burnham）关于这些地区必须“发挥作用”的主张。
特利女士表示，需要建立一个“公平且公正的系统”来分配寻求庇护者。她为计划在牛津郡皮丁顿（Piddington）村附近安置 1,200 名移民的行为辩护，该村人口仅 400 人。
她告诉 BBC：“我们过去看到的是像黑池以及全国其他住房可能更便宜、更充足的社区，不得不承担超过其合理份额的寻求庇护者。”
“这给当地社区带来了沉重负担，并造成了真正的社会
“他们将被允许外出”
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，从而减轻对当地社区的影响。”
首相本周表示，他将确保抵达者不仅被安置在“最贫困的社区”。
他的言论引发了保守党关于这将是对“英国中产阶级的一次恶意惩罚性打击”的警告。
根据内政部的计划，比斯特（Bicester）的一个前军事基地将为 1,250 名男性寻求庇护者提供住宿。但作为抗议该计划的一部分，皮丁顿的居民已投票决定举行一次关于脱离英国的象征性全民公投。
特利女士说：“这关乎公平。这是为了确保在全国范围内进行分布，是为了建立一个更公平公正的系统，以限制对当地社区的影响。”
在被问及潜在的寻求庇护者人数可能是皮丁顿人口三倍时，这位内政部部长表示：“嗯，我想他们不会住在村子里。他们将被安置在一个前军事基地内。”
但在被追问寻求庇护者是否可以自由离开该场地时，特利女士说：“他们将被允许外出，但所有
评论：安迪·伯纳姆与边境事务部长安娜·特利（中），以及在多佛回收的一艘充气艇
他们需要的一切都将在该场地内。因此他们将被管理。他们将被限制在内部。”
她补充道：“他们处于一个独立封闭的场地。我们正在考察全国各地的前军事基地。”
“我们知道人们在哪里。我们可以管理这个系统。”
当被问及是否愿意让类似数量的人抵达她的雷德卡（Redcar）选区时，特利女士说：“我们没有前军事基地……但现实情况是，这关乎公平。”
在被问及牛津郡的抗议活动时，伯纳姆先生告诉 GB News：“我会倾听人们的说法，并回应他们提出的担忧。我还不知道具体问题，但据我理解，在某些方面，这是关于创建安全空间的问题。”
首相补充道：“这显然将具有挑战性，但我准备好随时倾听人们的声音，与人们合作并接纳合理的担忧，我将解决这些担忧。”
“我必须说，我们不能出现这样一种情况，即全国只有最贫困的社区接收所有分散安置的难民和寻求庇护者。我相信全国所有地区都需要协作，发挥各自的作用。”
“我们理解人们的担忧，我将调查皮丁顿好人们提出的问题。”
影子内政大臣克里斯·菲尔普（Chris Philp）表示：“安迪·伯纳姆计划给英国中产阶级再来一次恶意惩罚性的打击。”
“工党用大量的惩罚性增税、增加监管以及飙升的能源账单，沉重打击了勤奋工作的家庭。”“现在，伯纳姆计划故意让数千名被他允许进入这个国家的非法移民涌入更多社区，其中许多人将犯下包括强奸和谋杀在内的严重罪行。”
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“我的女儿用生命阻止了你伤害更多女性”，母亲对凶手说道
双重谋杀犯被告知将在狱中终老，受害者家属抨击伦敦警察厅
作者：Rebecca Camber 犯罪与安全编辑
双重杀手 Simon Levy 的一名受害者母亲昨日表示，虽然她的女儿失去了生命，但这意味着“无数”其他女性免于遭受这个怪物的未来袭击。
这名 40 岁的性掠夺者在因多次性袭击被保释期间，谋杀了两名女性，并强奸且险些杀死第三名女性。在昨日被判处终身监禁后，他将在狱中终老。
由于警方和检察官的一系列失误，Levy 在去年得以在自由状态下杀害 53 岁的 Carmenia Valencia-Trujillo 和 39 岁的 Sheryl Wilkins，并强奸第三名女性。
Levy 在 2018 年至 2025 年期间至少实施了 13 起性袭击，但即便在他因谋杀案接受调查期间，警方、检察官和治安法官仍一再未能将其羁押。
活动人士已呼吁进行独立调查，称此案表明“刑事司法系统处于崩溃状态”。
Wilkins 女士的母亲 Mary 表示，她的女儿在去年 8 月的死亡最终迫使警方采取行动。在的一份受害者影响陈述书中，她
“你彻底毁了我们的生活”
对凶手说道：“西蒙·莱维（Simon Levy），你彻底毁了我们的生活。你以前就这么做过，而且绝不会停止。
我们的谢丽尔（Sheryl）终结了你伤害其他任何人的机会，她为此失去了生命，但我们深信，谢丽尔救了无数女性，使她们免受你那些令人作呕且恐怖的行为之苦。我希望你永远不要再走在街上，因为你对所有女性都是威胁。”
谢丽尔的姐姐林赛·希克斯（Lindsey Hicks）在中央刑事法院（Old Bailey）泣不成声，她告诉他：“我希望你在监狱里烂掉，直到你生命的尽头。”
尽管莱维在性暴力方面有着可追溯至2018年的惊人记录，但英国运输警察（BTP）、伦敦警察厅（Met Police）以及治安法官都未能意识到他所构成的危险，先后四次将其保释。
在被释放期间，他在地铁上实施了至少六起性侵犯。去年1月，他强奸并窒息了一名性工作者，将其弃之待死，随后在几个月后又犯下两起谋杀案。
昨天，那名强奸受害者将莱维描述为“怪物”，她说：“那天晚上他夺走了我的灵魂，夺走了我的尊严。他像寄生虫一样夺走我的灵魂，好让自己感到强大，让我感到软弱。”
这名女性于2012年被人口贩卖至英国，她说在举报袭击时，警察让她感觉“像个孩子”，并补充道：“没有人听我说话。”她说：“这个怪物选择那些他认为不会报警的女孩。”
莱维部分失明，在量刑听证会上戴着太阳镜，他在进入被告席时面带微笑。马克·卢克拉夫特（Mark Lucraft）法官说，这名双重杀手对“性、强奸和犯罪有着病态的痴迷”。
莱维在被判刑时没有表现出任何情绪。他曾因2018年在诺丁山狂欢节（Notting Hill Carnival）以及伦敦北部卡姆登（Camden）的一场街头派对上对两名女性实施性袭击，于2021年被判处三年监禁。
他于2023年2月获释，并于次年11月因在地铁上实施两起性袭击而被捕，但一名英国运输警察（BTP）警员推迟了身份核查，而是选择在2025年1月21日延长其保释期。那天晚上，莱维强奸并几乎杀死了一名妓女。3月17日，他通过压迫颈部并捂住面部杀害了瓦伦西亚-特鲁希略（Valencia-Trujillo）女士。
他几天后被捕，但由于这名53岁的吸毒者的死因被认定为“不明确”，他被保释。5月2日，他被指控在地铁上实施五起性袭击，但尽管他同时被怀疑涉嫌谋杀，治安法官仍将其保释。
三周后，一名英国运输警察（BTP）警员在地铁上发现了他，并指控他违反保释条件。令人难以置信的是，莱维再次获得保释。他未能出席7月18日和8月11日的听证会，但警方并未申请逮捕令。
8月28日，莱维杀害了威尔金斯（Wilkins）女士。在面部识别摄像头将其在现场识别后，警方于9月5日将其逮捕。
女性司法中心（Centre for Women's Justice）首席执行官哈丽雅特·威斯特里奇（Harriet Wistrich）表示：“本案中一系列综合失败的记录提供了令人恐惧的证据——如果还需要证据的话——证明我们的刑事司法系统处于崩溃状态。考虑到伦敦警察厅在令人震惊的警方失败历史之上的这一系列灾难性失败……我们必须得出结论，伦敦警察厅已无法胜任其职责。我们必须进行独立调查。”
警察局长马克·罗利（Mark Rowley）表示，警队已表示道歉，但他将此案描述为“整个系统的失效”。
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下一代将面临“债务大山”
政府收到警告，称其正在积累一座债务大山，并将将其交给下一代。
根据公共政策研究所（IPPR）的数据，到 2075 年，政府征收的每 £5 税款中，就有 £1 将被用于支付利息。
这家左翼智库表示，英国“不处于一个财政可持续的轨道上”，而未来 15 年内出生的人将被迫承担这一“沉重负担”。
该研究发现，在最可能出现的情况下，50 年后政府借款的债务利息可能会占据其收入的 21%——而在最糟糕的情况下，这一比例将达到令人瘫痪的 47%。昨晚
作者：Sam Merriman 政治记者
影子财政大臣 Sir Mel Stride 表示：“就连 [安迪]·伯纳姆最喜欢的智库也说工党正在积累一座债务大山。部长们缺乏勇气去面对那些只想增加福利开支的左翼后座议员。
伯纳姆和财政大臣约翰·希利除了进一步借债，根本不知道如何收拾这个烂摊子。”
IPPR 高级经济学家 William Ellis 称英国目前的财政框架“不符合实际需求”。
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限制零小时合同将使企业损失 £30 亿加元
工党昨日悄悄承认，安吉拉·雷纳（Angela Rayner）对零小时合同的打击将使企业每年损失高达近 £30 亿加元。
部长们被告知，在官方分析揭示了保证员工轮班以及在轮班取消时支付补偿金的全部成本后，此举可能会引发一场“就业恐怖剧”。
政府昨日泄露的分析报告称，由雷纳女士在担任副首相期间强力推动的《就业权利法案》中的措施，将通过提高“员工福祉”对增长产生“微小且积极的影响”。
但报告承认：“由于在通知时间较短的情况下更改轮班需支付费用，这些措施将增加行政成本
作者：Martin Beckford 和 Hugo Duncan
具体费用将取决于员工每周必须工作多少小时才能获得保证工时的权利。
行业负责人警告称，这些改革还将产生反作用，使招聘员工变得更加复杂且昂贵，从而推高失业率，尤其是年轻人的失业率。
自工党上台以来，失业率已从 4.1% 跳升至 4.9%，由于企业受到高税收的打击，已有 151,000 个工作岗位流失。
小企业联合会负责人 Tina McKenzie 指责政府“偷偷泄露”了“高达数十亿英镑的企业成本，却不屑于量化有多少人将因为这些毫无意义的政策而失业并领取救济金”。
招聘与就业联合会的 Neil Carberry 表示，政府的估算“低估了企业将面临的合规和流程成本”。
他补充道：“即便如此，在迅速上升的雇佣成本基础上潜在增加的 £29 亿加元，只会让我们的青年失业问题更加恶化”。
行业机构英国酒店业协会（UK Hospitality）负责人 Kate Nicholls 表示：“政府应该激励酒店业的就业，因为该行业雇佣了最多的年轻人、最多的兼职人员和最多的非大学毕业生。相反，这些改革增加了更多成本，其规模远超员工所获得的成本收益。”
政府表示：“我们绝对致力于结束剥削性的零小时合同。”
池塘开始干裂，回响 1976 年之夏
干涸：1976 年伦敦布莱克希斯的一个池塘
那是大地真正干涸的夏天。
在 1976 年那场打破纪录的热浪导致英国陷入停滞 50 年之后，历史再次重演，全国各地的池塘和河流都干涸了。
昨日，埃平森林的孩子们能够走到 Hollow Pond 的中心，拍。
为首都的花园提供水援
作者：伊丽莎白·海格（Elizabeth Haigh）
上个月，当伦敦全境实施软管禁令时，两名男子听到了同行园艺爱好者的痛苦哀鸣，决定采取行动。
30岁的乔治·拉扎里德斯（George Lazarides）和27岁的乔·帕滕（Joe Patten）收集了数十个空的两升塑料瓶，随即开车向南行驶50英里前往布赖顿——那里的水务供应商尚未实施软管禁令。
在用一根“合法”的软管将瓶子灌满后，两人返回首都，并于周一在克罗克斯泰德路园艺中心（Croxted Road Garden Centre）和斯托克韦尔站（Stockwell station）外设立摊点，将水分发给心怀感激的园艺爱好者。
在广告业工作的拉扎里德斯先生表示：“我们发现伦敦实施了软管禁令，而布赖顿没有，但整个郡都深受干旱之苦。”
“我们想通过这种方式向水务公司抗议不公平的禁令，同时也想帮助伦敦人，尽量确保他们能妥善照料自己的花园和绿地。”
“这在一定程度上是个玩笑，但也有想帮一把的意思。一个郡有软管禁令而另一个郡没有，这很奇怪。”两人补充道：
新鲜供应：右侧的乔治·拉扎里德斯正在分发他的水瓶
“我们得到了很好的反响，所以肯定会再次这样做。”
“当我们与人们和园艺爱好者交谈时，他们都在表达对软管禁令的沮丧之情。”
自7月23日以来，伦敦约一千万户家庭一直处于软管禁令之下。
根据《园艺世界》（Gardeners' World）的数据，在干燥天气下，每平方米的蔬菜园每周需要多达50升水。草坪每平方米每周需要多达30升水，而花坛则需要多达25升。
“毫无意义的政策”
并降低了雇主的灵活性。这可能会使雇主更难以应对需求的波动，从而对产出产生潜在的连锁影响。”
报告称，受影响最大的将是酒店业、零售业和医疗保健等需求多变的行业，目前这些行业的雇主采用的是灵活的人员配置模式。
报告估计：“这些改革给雇主带来的直接成本每年可能在£3.5 亿和£29 亿加元之间。”并且指出，总体而言，这些改革将给经济带来每年£3 亿和£14 亿加元之间的净成本。
这些数字包括赋予正式员工要求保证工作时数的权利所产生的成本，以及
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每日邮报记者
tured above, after weeks of soaring temperatures and virtually zero rain left water levels low.
在1976年的热浪期间，烈日使溪流和水库干涸，气温最高达到了35.6℃ – 而今年这一记录已被打破，诺福克郡的林伍德（Lingwood）记录到了38℃。英国气象局昨晚表示，英国目前正朝着史上最热夏季迈进——只要8月剩余时间的平均气温达标，即可打破记录。
生活在受干旱影响的英格兰各地的民众被告知，本周的预报中没有降雨，部分地区已经完全干旱了两个月。
目前，全国近四分之三的地区被正式列为干旱状态。
汉普郡和西萨塞克斯郡的部分地区已经59天没有降雨。随着英国今年的第五次热浪向预测中今日将成为史上最热之日推进，焦灼的景观将进一步恶化。
裂缝：1976年的北安普顿郡皮茨福德水库（Pitsford Reservoir）
总理敦促商店停止销售一次性烧烤炉
安迪·伯纳姆（Andy Burnham）昨晚呼吁所有商店停止销售一次性烧烤炉，因为这存在引发林火的风险，而英国正准备迎接记录以来最热的一天。
总理要求“无论规模大小”的零售商自愿暂停销售这种一次性烤架，这类产品在野餐和户外派对的烹饪中很受欢迎。
昨天，伯纳姆先生主持了紧急内阁办公厅（Cobra）委员会会议，今年第五次热浪预计在今天将达到 38℃ 的高温。虽然他没有直接下令全面禁止一次性烧烤炉，但他表示，关于
作者：马克·杜埃尔（Mark Duell）
在夏季月份实施临时禁令的问题正在讨论之中。
在此之前八天，政府曾表示不计划引入此类禁令。
根据英国全国消防局长委员会（National Fire Chiefs Council）发布的指南，大多数大型超市在最近几周已自愿暂停销售。
气象局（Met Office）针对英格兰南部和中部发布了罕见的 15 小时琥珀色“极端高温”预警，从今天上午 9 点开始——这是该局四年来的第二次此类警报。
英格兰全境也被英国卫生安全局（UK Health Security Agency）置于琥珀色高温健康警报之下，直至明天晚上，该警报警告“死亡人数将增加”。 5 月和 6 月早些时候的热浪导致 2,800 多人死亡。
在 Cobra 会议后，总理表示：“全国面临的最大风险是林火。我们目前看到的是多起严重事件。”
消防部门大体上通过相互援助来共同应对这些事-
“多起严重事件”
件，但我们正对此保持密切关注。
“这里有给公众的建议，不要使用一次性烧烤炉。我们今天通过全国消防局长委员会确认，限制零售销售此类一次性烧烤炉的框架正在延伸。现在我要求所有无论规模大小的零售商都遵守该框架。”
“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。”
消防旅工会（Fire Brigades Union）总书记史蒂夫·赖特（Steve Wright）警告称，随着全国各地火灾频发，英国“此时此刻”正面临国家紧急状态。
38℃ 的高温将使其成为英国记录中并列第五热的一天。2022 年 7 月 19 日在林肯郡科宁斯比（Coningsby）记录到的 40.3℃ 仍是英国有记录以来的最高气温。
东米德兰铁路（East Midlands Railway）、奇尔滕铁路（Chiltern Railways）和北方铁路（Northern）均告知客户今天“仅在必要时出行”。
作者：马特·斯特鲁德威克（Matt Strudwick）
朋友、家人和政治同僚昨日在安·威德科姆（Ann Widdecombe）埋葬于其德文郡住所附近时向其表达了哀悼。
这位上月在住所内被杀的前保守党部长的葬礼在巴克法斯特修道院（Buckfast Abbey）举行，并举行了私人安魂弥撒。
在葬礼之前，人们看到携带嗅探犬的警员在修道院 grounds 区域进行搜查，威德科姆女士经常在此礼拜。
仪式包括巴克法斯特院长大卫·查尔斯沃思（David Charlesworth）阁下的讲道。他
“一位信仰深厚的女性”
说道：“在围绕她之死的震惊、喧嚣以及有时是不恰当的评论之中，我们的回应是为她的灵魂安息祈祷，感谢她的坚韧，并在安称之为避风港的这座修道院教堂中举行圣弥撒。”
威德科姆女士在去世时是改革英国党（Reform UK）的发言人，她于 7 月 8 日在达特穆尔（Dartmoor）海托尔谷（Haytor Vale）的家中吃午餐时遭到袭击身亡。这位 78 岁的女性头部被锤子击打 21 次。
来自南约克郡罗瑟勒姆（Rotherham）的 28, 岁男子约书亚·克里（Joshua Kerry）于 7 月 20 日被指控谋杀。
吊唁者表达哀悼
告别安
前国会议员葬礼在严密安保中举行
安魂弥撒
为祈愿 安·诺琳·威德库姆（ANN NOREEN WIDDECOMBE） 之灵魂安息 （1947年10月4日 – 2026年7月8日）
哀悼之日：左侧为安·威德库姆的灵柩，上方为葬礼仪式流程单
昨日出席者包括影子财政大臣梅尔·斯特赖德（Mel Stride）、前司法大臣克里斯平·布朗特（Crispin Blunt）以及广播员伊恩·戴尔（Iain Dale）。
仪式流程包括由罗杰·威德库姆（Rev Roger Widdecombe）牧师——威德库姆女士的侄子——以及她的好友克里斯蒂安·斯威廷爵士（Sir Christian Sweeting）发表的悼词。
修道院的一份声明写道：“安是一个信仰深厚的女性……这种信仰在政治的公共论坛中得到了体现。安无惧于表达她坚定的信念，而这些信念源自她的罗马天主教信仰。”
在LBC网站的一篇帖子中，戴尔先生表示，他希望有一天能在天堂再次见到他的朋友。
公开纪念活动将于今年晚些时候举行。
公众支持宾脸伯爵，但法拉奇有望赢得克拉克顿选区
作者：索菲·丘奇（Sophie Church） 政治记者
一项调查显示，在今日克拉克顿（Clacton）的补选中，公众正期待宾脸伯爵（Count Binface）能击败奈杰尔·法拉奇（Nigel Farage）。
在选民前往投票站之际，智库 More In Common 的一项民调显示，37% 的英国人表示希望该候选人当选国会议员，而支持改革英国党（Reform UK）领导人法拉奇先生的比例仅为 32%。
但法拉奇先生——他在上个月因所获财务支持受到严密审查而辞去该埃塞克斯选区议员职务——仍是博彩公司看好的获胜者。由于所有主要反对党均拒绝参选，这场竞争已演变成一场闹剧。
民调公司 Survation 预测，尽管有 34 名候选人参选，他仍将赢得近四分之三的选票。
More In Common 的主任卢克·特里尔（Luke Tryl）昨日表示：“宾脸获胜的可能性非常低。但改革英国党面临的风险是，人们可能会完全失去兴趣，导致投票率跌至历史新低——这一结果对法拉奇来说可能会很尴尬。”
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纵身一跃：凯特·摩丝在福门特拉岛外的船上伸展双臂，完成一次完美的跳水
凭借一次模范跳水，凯特证明泳装不只是用来摆拍的
佩斯利花纹：莱拉·莫斯
在担任英国最著名的超级模特三十多年后，凯特·莫斯（Kate Moss）深谙穿着泳装摆拍的门道。
而且，看来她还知道如何穿着泳装完成一次完美的跳水。
52岁的莫斯女士身着一件深V黑色泳衣，在从地中海的一艘游艇上跳下时，完成了一次教科书般的跳水。
她和23岁的女儿莱拉（Lila）正在巴利阿里群岛的西班牙福门特拉岛海岸晒太阳。
莫斯女士用金环耳环、一串珠子手链和太阳镜来搭配她的泳装（她在入水前摘掉了太阳镜），而莱拉则选择了一套红色佩斯——
作者：奥利维亚·肯普（Olivia Kemp） 娱乐记者
——利花纹的系带比基尼。她们的这次出行还有朋友陪同，包括时尚影响力人物26岁的鲁比·林（Ruby Lyn）和24岁的奥利维亚·尼尔（Olivia Neill）。
随行的还有莫斯女士的好友罗斯·弗格森（Rose Ferguson），她是一名从模特转型为营养学家的专业人士，也是莱拉的教母。
莱拉追随莫斯女士进入了时尚界——由其母亲创办于2014年的凯特·莫斯经纪公司（Kate Moss Agency）负责管理。
她在2020年为Miu Miu 2021年春夏季系列走秀完成了她的T台首秀，随后开始为包括古驰（Gucci）、芬迪（Fendi）和YSL Beauty在内的领先品牌担任全球广告代言人。
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作者：罗伯特·福尔克（Robert Folker）
《布里杰顿》（BRIDGERTON）主演阿乔亚·安多（Adjoa Andoh）尽管被抓到五次超速，但仍避开了驾驶禁令。
63岁的安多女士在热门Netflix剧集中饰演丹伯里夫人（Lady Danbury），她表示她需要汽车去探望她年届85岁、身体虚弱且独居的母亲。
昨天，在伦敦南部的拉文德山地方法院，她因在西杜利奇的一条限速20英里 / 小时的道路上以25英里 / 小时的速度行驶，被判定为第五次超速。
安多女士被告知，允许她保留驾照的决定是“勉强通过”的，且她今后不能再使用同样的理由辩护。
“也许你的母亲需要寻求一些协助，今后不能再依赖你（开车）了，”法官席主席乔安娜·鲁特利奇（Joanne Rutledge）说道。
来自伦敦南部赫恩山的安多女士承认，在2月13日驾驶她的黑色2.0升沃尔沃V60沿A2199南克罗克斯特路行驶时违反了速度限制。她被处以£640的罚款，
《布里杰顿》主演因在20英里限速区超速而免于禁驾
被要求支付£256的受害者附加费，并被记三个扣分，使其总扣分达到12分。
检察官夏洛特·比尔奇（Charlotte Birch）表示，安多女士（如图中饰演的丹伯里夫人）在下午3:42被速度摄像头拍到以25英里 / 小时的速度行驶。她在2023年3月、2024年11月以及今年的1月31日和5月1日曾有四次超速定罪记录。
在昨天的听证会上，安多女士在证人席上回忆起1月父亲去世时情绪激动。她表示，由于她的母亲住在什罗普郡一个偏僻的市场小镇，如果只能依靠公共交通前往，将很难照顾她。
“虽然可行，但需要等待很长时间，而且从火车站到我母亲的小镇还需要开车40分钟，”安多女士告诉地方法官。
她补充道：“我的母亲是一位了不起的女性。她曾是一名学校教师，我的体育老师，但她身体虚弱。她患有骨质疏松症，有尿失禁，膀胱功能失效，且有血栓和肾脏受损。”她还表示，她需要驾照开车去探望她母亲的兄弟，后者患有认知障碍症，住在康沃尔郡。
父亲来自加纳的安多女士在2023年引发了争议，当时她在直播报道中将查尔斯国王加冕礼期间在白金汉宫阳台的亮相描述为“极其白人化”。她后来将加冕礼描述为“极好的”，并表示她“并非有意让任何人不快”。
尽管遭到抵制，安多女士仍于去年12月接受了威廉王子颁发的MBE勋章。
父亲贾斯珀表示，我们对露西抱有希望
作者：乔安娜·克劳利 (Joanna Crawley)
在女儿露西·戴维斯 (Lucy Davis) 透露其癌症无法治愈后，贾斯珀·卡罗特 (Jasper Carrott) 的家人对其未来表示“抱有希望”。
这位 81 岁的喜剧演员表示，他们为这位《办公室》(The Office) 明星感到“非常自豪”，而她应对疾病的方式是“给我们所有人的一课”。
53 岁的戴维斯女士周二表示，她患有四期乳腺癌，不知道自己还剩多少时间。她的父亲（与她合影）表示：“我们非常感谢所有的支持，并对她的未来充满希望。”
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警察安德鲁·哈珀 (PC Andrew Harper) 悲痛的母亲表示，如果安迪·伯纳姆 (Andy Burnham) 违背其阻止凶手提前释放的承诺，她将感到“绝对愤怒”。
在一次情感激动的采访中，黛比·阿德拉姆 (Debbie Adlam) 表示，唐宁街关于杰西·科尔 (Jessie Cole) 和阿尔伯特·鲍尔斯 (Albert Bowers) 能否被继续关押的矛盾信息让她感到“精疲力竭”。
她告诉《每日邮报》的 Trial 播客，国家“期待正义”，政府的反复无常给她的家庭带来了“沉重打击”——但她现在重新燃起希望，认为他们不会在 1 月被释放。
此前，代表英国所有警队的 50 位警察领导人联合谴责工党的软弱司法改革，呼吁首相废除释放数千名危险囚犯的计划。
伯纳姆先生周二表示，他“越来越有信心”一种“更精准的方法”将减少被释放的人数，“并且，对于像被判定杀害哈珀警官那样最严重的罪犯，将完全阻止其提前释放”。
当被问及如果首相再次反悔会有什么感受时，阿德拉姆女士说：“那这一切就都白费了，我
“这在玩弄你的情绪”
会感到绝对愤怒，因为安德鲁的生命是以如此恐怖的方式终结的。国家期待正义，而现在感觉我们就像被推下了悬崖。
‘如果那样发生，我真的不知道该如何支撑下去。’”
她认为其中一个方案是制定紧急立法，规定因杀害紧急工作人员而服刑的罪犯不具备提前释放的资格。
这位 28 岁的新婚人士于 2019 年在执行公务时被杀。当时他在伯克郡的萨尔汉姆斯特德 (Sulhamstead) 试图阻止三名青少年偷窃一辆四轮摩托车，结果被拖在车后行驶了一英多米。
在凶手被判刑引发愤怒后，他的遗孀利西 (Lissie) 为《哈珀法》(Harper's Law) 而奋斗——该法规定，任何在执行公务期间杀害紧急工作人员的人必须被判处强制终身监禁。
科尔和鲍尔斯当时是逃跑车辆上的 17 岁乘客，他们在 2020 年因过失杀人被判处 13 年监禁。
这两名暴徒是即将于 9 月起在工党的软弱司法囚犯释放计划下获释的一波杀人犯、性犯罪者和暴力犯罪者中的一员。
司机亨利·隆 (Henry Long) 因过失杀人被判处 16 年的延长刑期，因此不具备提前释放的资格。
工党希望通过其提前释放计划，在十个月的时间里释放约 5,000 名严重罪犯（包括杀人犯和殴打妻子的罪犯），作为解决监狱过度拥挤努力的一部分。
然而，在日益激烈的抵制声中，部长们正在考虑一项非常规计划，即清空女性监狱，以为男性囚犯腾出牢房空间。此外
哈珀警员之母揭露总理反复无常带来的折磨并警告：“国家现在期待正义”
杀人犯：2019年法庭外的 Albert Bowers 和 Jessie Cole
目前讨论的方案包括驱逐更多外国罪犯，以及释放很久以前被判处不定期监禁的囚犯。
昨天，国家警察酋长委员会发布了一封由 48 个英国警队负责人、国家犯罪局和泽西岛警方签署的非同寻常的联名信，谴责这些计划，并警告这“有破坏公共安全、受害者信心以及对刑事司法系统更广泛信心的风险”。
签署者希望伯纳姆先生探索“每一个合法选项”以阻止杀害哈珀警员的凶手被释放，并暗示政府提前释放罪犯的计划是对一项为了纪念他而出台的法律的背叛。
伯纳姆先生已命令司法大臣亚历克斯·诺里斯（Alex Norris）在下个月议会复会时“快速推进”一项计划，否决了司法部关于已无能为力的说法。
阿德拉姆夫人告诉《每日邮报》：“有过希望，又失去了希望，有过希望，又失去了希望。每一次这都会在你的承受能力上留下痕迹，在很大程度上干扰你的情绪和力量。
愤怒：莉西·哈珀与丈夫安德鲁
我完全精疲力竭，因为现在这件事开始对我产生了一定的影响。这种情况已经持续了几天，但现在我认为看起来有了希望。”
她建议政府可能需要制定紧急立法，使那些因杀害紧急服务工作者而服刑的人员能够免于提前释放。
“这是非常需要研究的事情，”她说。“我知道这不是一件简单的事，但我认为对于紧急服务工作者来说，这是一个非常重要的问题，因为如果这件事没有实现，我们可能会陷入非常深重的麻烦。”
她说，公众压倒性地支持将两人继续关押，这一点可以通过在短短一周多时间内就有近一百万人签署请愿书这一事实得到证明。
当被问及是否感到被体制辜负且“心如刀割”时，她说：“所有这些，甚至更多。”
她说，她致力于奋斗将他们留在监狱中，是为了给她的儿子争取“最好的结果”，而她的儿子“热爱他的工作”。
“如果安德鲁没有在那个岗位上履行职责，他本不会被杀，”她补充道。“他本该在家，那时距离他的班次结束已经过了 12 小时，但他仍在值勤，然后最终导致了他的死亡。
“我认为人们需要意识到，有时，我只能为此挺身而出。
“这就是动力。因为我是他的母亲，我想，我对我的感受有着如此强烈的激情。而对于其他人，我需要为那些没有机会的人挺身而出。
“我绝对精疲力竭，但在事情完成之前我不能停止。”
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工党仍无计划建造任何新监狱
作者：Martin Beckford 政策编辑
尽管工党在就监狱过度拥挤问题发出警报，但该党已承认，自执政以来尚未计划建造任何新监狱。
在 2024 年 7 月就职后几周内，部长们宣布，在由南港谋杀案引发的骚乱期间，为了在狱中创造更多空间，大量罪犯将不得不被提前释放。
现在，根据提前释放计划，数千名囚犯在仅服刑三分之一的刑期后将被允许出狱——这促使安迪·伯纳姆（Andy Burnham）匆忙寻求将强奸犯和杀害警察安德鲁·哈珀（PC Andrew Harper）的凶手排除在计划之外。
但目前情况表明，尽管工党在两年时间里一直警告监狱空间不足，并将这场危机归咎于保守党，但工党政府并未提出建造更多监狱的方案。
司法部长杰克·理查兹（Jake Richards）最近在一次议会书面答复中透露：“自 2024 年 7 月 5 日 [基尔·斯塔默搬入 No 10 之日] 以来，没有任何新监狱被 (a) 计划或 (b) 批准。”
根据 2024, 年 12 月制定的监狱容量战略，工党目标是在 2031 年前创造 14,000 个
部长在哪？
失踪：麦金内尔女士
监狱部长被指在提前释放危机期间失踪。
凯瑟琳·麦金内尔（Catherine McKinnell）于 7 月 21, 日被任命，但此后她尚未就工党提前释放数千名囚犯的计划，或首相随后的政策反转发表评论。
在《每日邮报》联系政府几小时后，纽卡斯尔-upon-泰恩北区议员麦金内尔女士在社交媒体上发布了自己在法院和监狱外的照片。她写道：“三周。四次访问。大量的对话。”
更多名额，部长将其描述为“四座新监狱”。然而，这些选址早在 2020 年 6 月就由保守党宣布，其中包括已经启用的大门 HMP Millsike。
另一座计划已久的监狱 HMP Welland Oaks 预计直到 2029, 年才会启用，而另外两座则尚未开工建设。
昨晚，一名保守党发言人表示：“工党想把监狱空间不足归咎于其他所有人，但现在很明显，
他们在进入政府以来对建造任何新监狱都没有兴趣。
‘安迪·伯纳姆不需要花数周时间试图决定是否让强奸犯、恋童癖和杀人犯提前出狱，而应该告诉他那些表现不佳的司法部长们赶紧着手建造新监狱。’”
周二，伯纳姆先生表示，他现在有信心能让杀害哈珀警官的凶手继续被关押。此后，他被指责不公正地将这种不确定性归咎于司法部官员。
缓刑主管：提前释放甚至可能导致谋杀
一名缓刑主管昨日声称，提前释放数千名杀人犯、暴徒和恋童癖者的计划可能会导致“严重的性犯罪或暴力犯罪，甚至谋杀”。
陛下缓刑首席监察官马丁·琼斯（Martin Jones）表示，缓刑服务机构已经承受着“前所未有的压力”，而提前释放更多囚犯将威胁到整个系统的崩溃。
更糟糕的是，缓刑工作人员本周投票支持采取工业行动，这意味着罢工可能会从10月开始。
而就在那个月，政府将根据其解决监狱过度拥挤的计划，在十个月的时间里提前释放5,000名严重罪犯。
缓刑主管们表示，该服务机构目前已经人员不足，如果缓刑官
作者：大卫·丘吉尔（David Churchill）
被迫简化工作流程，可能会引发再次犯罪。
琼斯先生表示：“最终，会有一小部分严重的再次犯罪率。而这可能是严重的性暴力甚至谋杀。归根结底，我不完全相信缓刑服务机构能够应对如此巨大的工作量。”
缓刑官在囚犯出狱后对其进行监督，并检查他们是否遵守释放条件，例如遵守宵禁和不服用毒品。如果他们没有得到适当的监督，再次犯罪的可能性可能会增加。
缓刑服务机构雇用了约21,000名全职员工，但短缺约1,500名全职缓刑官。
恐惧：PC Harper悲痛的母亲黛比·阿德拉姆（Debbie Adlam）
健康单元评论
工党日益增加的犯罪记录
无论以任何标准衡量，刑事司法系统都处于彻底的混乱状态。
过去的错误——正如在双重谋杀犯兼强奸犯西蒙·莱维（Simon Levy）那个令人震惊的案例中那样——正面临着被重复的严重风险。
但在现有的系统性失效之上，这个工党政府正在引入一系列全新的问题。
它已经提前释放了超过70,000名囚犯，而另一项将在不到三周内生效的计划，其范围甚至更广。
由于在多个方面面临压力，需要解决其政党那可怕计划所带来的巨大不公正，首相正在犹豫不决。
被杀害的警员安德鲁·哈珀（Andrew Harper）的母亲黛比·阿德拉姆（Debbie Adlam）昨日明确表示，如果伯纳姆先生违背其阻止杀人凶手提前释放的承诺，她将“绝对愤怒”。
如果这还不够，警方首脑们已统一发出警告，称该计划“有破坏公共安全的风险”。
伯纳姆在此问题上缺乏果断的领导力，对他造成了巨大的损害。
为了挽救自己的名声，他需要将整个计划扔进垃圾桶并想出一个解决方案——时间在流逝。
债务追偿
工党对英国经济的管理已经是一场灾难。
两年来，它将数十亿资金投入福利预算，并用额外的税收和繁文缛节使企业陷入瘫痪。
现在，有警告称情况将变得更糟——而且这一次，发出警报的是该党最青睐的左翼智库。
公共政策研究所（Institute for Public Policy Research）表示，未来几代人每缴纳 £5 的税款中，就有 10 亿英镑 将被用于偿还国债利息。
其预测显示，到 2074 年，他们税单中的 21.3% 将用于偿还借款；在最糟糕的情况下，这一比例可能高达 47%。
该智库含蓄地警告称，除非政府在下一个议会期间进行重大改革，否则这一切将成为“未来 15 年内出生的人们的沉重负担”。
然而，人们很难相信政府有扭转局面的意愿。
今年早些时候有消息透露，部长帕特·麦克法登（Pat McFadden）曾抱怨说，在与工党议会党团成员的“每一次会议”中，他们都会问：“我们可以向谁征税，以便向其他人支付福利？”
他们只关心如何确保福利补贴能稳住工党选区的选票。
而那些尚未出生的人，也将为这种挥霍无度付出沉重代价。
地狱般的增值税
工党带来的另一个财务冒犯，是它从加油站油价中攫取的巨额资金。
自 2 月伊朗战争爆发以来，财政部从高企的汽油价格中额外净赚了 10 亿英镑的增值税。
如果这是一家利用公众不幸来获利的私营公司，伯纳姆先生肯定会谴责他们是投机商并威胁要进行监管。
但由于受益的是政府金库，现场却是一片死寂，而驾驶员们被要求忍气吞声。
P&L 声称在解决生活成本危机方面是认真的——那么他应该削减加油站的增值税，并且立即执行。
除非英国开始将每一名穿越英吉利海峡的移民送往国外处理，否则船只将永远不会停止到来
阶级斗争？还是纯粹的报复？安迪·伯纳姆（Andy Burnham）本周宣布英国的中产阶级地区必须接收更多非法移民，这既可预见又令人心寒。
自两年前工党上台以来，约 80,000 人乘坐小型船只穿越海峡进入英国。周一，一艘近 50 英尺长的充气艇抵达，船上挤满了 230 名移民。
工党在竞选时承诺要“摧毁帮派”。他们承诺投入资源追踪人口走私者并将其绳之以法，停止这种利用准备冒生命危险来到英国的绝望之人来赚钱的残酷贸易。这项政策现在看来毫无进展。
可悲
我当时就说过这行不通——事实上，在我大部分的政治生涯中，我一直在警告不要采取这类可悲的解决方案。
在本世纪初担任约十年的澳大利亚外交部长期间，我监督执行了一项确实有效的政策：重新安置。
只要英国继续允许非法抵达的移民停留，他们就会继续到来。
一旦政府决定将他们送往其他地方，并明确表示这是一项没有例外地规则，人口贩卖贸易就会停止。就这么简单。
但这必须是一项连贯且可行的政策——而不是为了作秀和抢头条而实施的政策，因为那会导致社会崩溃。
在牛津郡的皮丁顿（Piddington），当地的 250 个村庄对内政部计划在附近的比斯特（Bicester）军营安置 1,250 名移民的计划反应极其恐惧，这是可以理解的。他们担心被淹没，担心他们的家庭生活被一项除了恐慌之外似乎没有任何理由的政府政策所摧毁。
然而，左右两派的太多政治家一直将这场危机视为一场政治游戏，一个用来 [...OMITTED...]
作者：亚历山大·道纳（ALEXANDER DOWNER），曾终止非法海上入境的澳大利亚政治人物
摆姿态并指责对手。奈杰尔·法拉奇（Nigel Farage）正是这么做的。他的政策将是把寻求庇护者和非法移民从小型船只上带走，将他们安置在英国皇家海军的舰船上，并将其遣返回法国。
诚然，如果法国同意接收每一名移民，问题就解决了。但当然，法国绝不会这样做。从法国的角度来看，他们正好摆脱了麻烦。毕竟，这些人并不是逃离法国的法国人。
法拉奇和其他人误传了澳大利亚政府如此成功实施的政策。他们认为我们是通过“拦截船只”停止了来自印度尼西亚的非法移民。
但情况在两方面有所不同。
首先，即使在最近的地方，澳大利亚和印度尼西亚之间也相距 90 英里，中间有一大片国际水域。在法律上，澳大利亚能够拦截在国际水域中意图非法进入澳大利亚领海的船只，并将其遣返。
在现实中，这种情况很少发生，澳大利亚从未考虑过将载满非法移民的军舰送入印度尼西亚领海。那将导致两国关系的崩溃。
相反，我们停止船只最有效的手段是建立离岸安置。这是由我亲自执行的。我与瑙鲁这个岛国达成了协议，瑙鲁位于太平洋中部，面积约 8 平方英里，有 12,000 名居民。它是世界上最小的岛国。
任何乘坐小型船只试图非法进入澳大利亚的人都会被拦截，然后被送往
瑙鲁，无需询问。他们被安置在澳大利亚建立并出资的遣返中心。
所有难民申请在他们居住期间均得到处理。这一举措迅速证明了其成功，以至于澳大利亚政府规定，任何试图通过小型船只抵达澳大利亚的人都永远不得踏上我们的土地。他们可以无限期地留在瑙鲁，如果在安全的情况下可以返回原籍国，或者寻找一个愿意接收他们作为难民的第三国。
这彻底截断了非法移民的贸易链。
离岸安置
我在为内政部撰写的一份关于英国边境部队的报告中，研究了英国是否可以采取同样的政策。我认为，通过允许非法移民留在英国来奖赏他们不仅是不道德的，而且会积极鼓励其他人效仿，同时让经营这些路线的团伙获利。
这就是工党执政下的现实。
但拦截船只在法律上是不可行的。即便可行，法国很可能会拒绝接收他们。虽然不太可能，但并非不可能导致英国和法国海军舰艇之间发生公开冲突，但法国极有可能通过采取各种民事措施来报复。
例如，他们可以干扰所有跨英吉利海峡的交通，包括进出口贸易，这很容易实现且会对英国造成巨大损害。
正如我所说，唯一可行的答案是离岸安置。之前的保守党政府尝试将此政策应用于
卢旺达，但他们缺乏足够迅速地实施该政策的决心。该政策在激进律师的阻挠下失败了。随后，工党出于意识形态原因放弃了它。
尽管失败了，但卢旺达计划是可行的——凯米·巴德诺克（Kemi Badenoch）领导下的保守党意识到了这一点。为了阻止非法移民并胜过那些律师，英国必须退出《欧洲人权公约》。
那又怎样？没有其他事情会改变。英国不会陷入极权主义。即使没有欧洲法律的认可，真正的人权也将继续存在。
可行方案
而且卢旺达并不是唯一愿意与英国合作的国家。
伯纳姆（Burnham）应该立即与他的意大利同行乔治亚·梅洛尼（Giorgia Meloni）展开谈判，后者目前正在与阿尔巴尼亚协商一项关于安置和处理寻求庇护者的协议。
其他选项包括升天岛（Ascension Island），这是英国在大西洋的一个领地——面积 34 平方英里的火山岩，位于非洲和南美洲之间。
没有任何压倒性的物流原因可以证明，在处理数千人的庇护申请期间，不能将其用作安置中心。
如果移民是因为战争、宗教迫害或其他令人信服的原因而逃离家园，且确实担心生命安全，那么离岸安置对他们来说是一个安全的选项。他们应该对此表示欢迎。
但正如我们所知，事实是，他们中几乎所有人都会对这个想法感到震惊。
移民大规模涌入英国的情况将立即停止。这就是如何“摧毁犯罪团伙”的方法。
这看起来可能很苛刻，而且绝对不是一项适合胆小者的政策。但另一种选择是无限制的移民，允许任何想来英国的人在无需质疑的情况下进入。
如果这就是安迪·伯纳姆（Andy Burnham）想要的，他必须明确表示。
■ 亚历山大·道纳（ALEXANDER Downer）是政策交流（Policy Exchange）智库的主席，曾于 1996 年至 2007 年担任澳大利亚外交部长。
我们难道不应该是那个“健康与安全之邦”吗？因为当局说举行某些活动不安全，所以从滚奶酪比赛到纪念日游行，几乎所有事情都被禁止了。
然而，政府却故意允许两种极其危险的威胁进入我们的道路和街道：电动滑板车和电动自行车。当你真正需要健康与安全保障时，它们在哪里？
几乎没有哪个城镇或城市没有听过这些机器的疾驰声和嗡嗡声，或者没有看到它们带来的变化。
本周，英国广播公司（BBC）报道称，利物浦、曼彻斯特和谢菲尔德的三家创伤中心表示，自 2019 年以来，他们治疗了 477 名因电动滑板车受伤的 16 岁以下青少年，年病例数从 2019 年的不足 10 例增加到 2024 年的近 150 例。大曼彻斯特警察局的侦查警员史蒂夫·彭宁顿（Steve Pennington）警告称，电动滑板车“并非无害的玩具，由缺乏经验的骑手使用时可能会导致可怕的后果”。
官方对此的回答是，经常涉及这些事故的私有滑板车仍然是非法的。从技术上讲，你不能在公共道路上骑行。但任何道路或人行道使用者都知道，这项法律已经不再以任何系统性的方式执行。
它们无处不在。其中一个主要原因是政府削弱了自身的法律。它在包括伦敦和我的家乡牛津在内的 50 多个英格兰城市批准了租赁滑板车的使用。
最近，它又在利兹、布赖顿和霍夫、普利茅斯以及康沃尔郡增加了相关计划。
这些豁免被认为是实验，尽管它们在 2020 年以新冠疫情为借口开始，但目前没有迹象表明它们会结束，也没有明确迹象表明在什么情况下它们会被视为失败。
如果政府真的想让法律看起来像个笑话，它不可能想到比这更好的方法。牛津到处都是这些设备，左右摇摆、碰撞，闯红灯疾驰，威胁着行人、骑行者，并让驾驶员的道路环境变得更加混乱。
它们几乎把我们带回了第三世界。它们像丑陋的橙色堆积物一样散落在历史古迹附近，或者停在由地方当局提供的同样丑陋的官方预留区内。当然，它们经常被骑手直接丢在结束行程的地方。
人行道上还划出了专门的停放区域。如果这些是合法的，那么谁还能认真对待对私有滑板车的禁令？
一项针对 29 个警队的调查发现，在 2023 年至 2025 年底期间，共有 5,544 辆非法电动滑板车被没收并从街道上清除。这个数量并不多。从
为什么我担心在领导层采取严厉打击措施之前，必须先发生一场可怕的悲剧
被遗弃：合法的电动自行车和电动滑板车散落在伦敦的一处人行道上
电动自行车与电动滑板车的祸害
就我所见，这意味着有数以万计的人在违规而未受干扰。
至于合法的那些，它们大大降低了生活质量。我在牛津庄严的高街（High Street）上曾被其中一辆撞到（幸运的是程度相当轻微）。当时我正在帮助一名绊倒摔倒的行人。
最令人惊讶的是，骑行者对自己所做的事情完全没有悔意、尴尬，甚至没有任何兴趣。我只能假设她处于某种药物影响之下。我从未见过警察拦截那些违反租赁滑板车明确规则的人，例如规定一次只能由一个人骑行的规则。
这种情况发生得如此频繁，以至于参与者可能认为这一定是合法的，我很难责怪他们。警察即使在场，显然也毫无兴趣。
我找不到关于因这种公然且频繁的违规行为而被拦截或罚款的具体数字。在揭露电动滑板车及其更具威胁性的近亲——电动自行车——的现状时，这经常是一个问题。中央记录很难找到。而对于那些更难察觉的违规行为，如醉酒或服用药物骑行，或未成年骑行或没有任何形式的许可证骑行，其执法力度必然更加薄弱。
现实世界中的每个人都知道，电动滑板车和电动自行车上所谓的将速度限制在16英里 / 小时以下的限速器就是一个糟糕的笑话。其中许多设备可以达到40英里 / 小时，甚至更高，并且可以看到它们在街道上横冲直撞——而且不受惩罚。因为抢劫犯、抢手机者和其他罪犯很快就发现，它们是犯罪的理想工具。它们没有车牌，无法追踪。它们在人行道上畅行无阻，因为没有人会阻止它们出现在那里。谁能抓住他们？
任何稍微有点想象力的人肯定都能预见到，在一个警察在很大程度上缺席街道的国家，允许这些“实验”可能带来的后果。
我们对人工智能可能带来的威胁陷入了一种全国性的狂热。也许它会终结我们的文明。这很难说。但电动滑板车和电动自行车是此时此地真实存在的问题。它们以坚硬、快速的金属块形式，在我们之中疾驰。
强大、廉价、轻便且易于充电的电动汽车实际进入我们的城市，几乎没有引发任何思考——尽管这是自汽车发明以来最重大的技术变革之一。任何提起这个话题或暗示其重要性的人，几乎总是会在反社会媒体上遭到空洞的嘲讽：“难道你没有更重要的事情需要担心吗？”
关于它们的许可制度在议会中几乎没有被讨论过。
电动自行车是通过一项未经讨论便获得确认的欧盟（EU）法规而被允许在道路和自行车道上行驶的。电动滑板车则是通过一种被称为“否定程序”的可疑程序实现了半合法化，根据该程序，只要没有实质性的反对，新规则就会（在短短几天内）通过。而事实上并没有反对。
早在2020年7月，一个鲜为人知的机构——二级立法审查委员会（Secondary Legislation Scrutiny Committee）曾询问：“这是否是一个测试争议车辆在英国道路上可行性的试点计划？这是否是新冠疫情期间快速扩大全国各城市交通能力的手段？而这两个目标是否兼容？”
该委员会表示，国会议员和贵族院议员可能希望要求交通部提供更多证据，以支持其扩大试点计划数量的理由。它质疑是否有足够的关于安全性、干扰以及地方当局可能承担的成本的数据来证明这种扩张的合理性。它寻求明确这些试点的实际目标和目的。
它还提到，其他国家的类似计划“极具分歧”，这也是描述巴黎等城市中人们对其愤怒的一种方式。
我没有看到任何迹象表明有人在倾听。是否有什么强大且富有的游说团体在推动相反的方向？我们需要一场真正的全国性辩论和真正的议会审查。
多年来，我一直在寻找政府中是否有人在认真思考这个问题的迹象。难道又将是老样子——我们必须等到一场可怕的悲剧发生，且其所有阴森的痛苦与苦难或许被摄像机捕捉到之后，才会采取行动吗？
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乔舒亚·博恩希尔-佩恩（JOSHUA Bonehill-Paine）曾是一名纳粹分子。2015 年，他因种族加重骚扰犹太裔工党贵族及前国会议员卢西亚娜·贝尔杰（Luciana Berger）男爵夫人而被判入狱。因此，凯米·巴德诺克（Kemi Badenoch）决定批准他作为保守党候选人参加萨默塞特郡议会选举，这一决定引发了一波抗议，这并不令人惊讶。
即便在博恩希尔-佩恩撤回申请并承认其错误给犹太社区带来了痛苦之后，这种愤怒依然在持续。
但这种愤怒是错位的。随着争论的持续，工党左翼部分成员表现出的虚伪之风也日益严重。
博恩希尔-佩恩的罪行令人震惊。如此震惊，以至于他为此在监狱中度过了三年，期间他被迫反思自己的行为。正如他在本周早些时候发布的一份声明中所承认的那样：“我无法用任何语言来挽回我的所作所为，也无法修复当年那个鲁莽的 21 岁青年所造成的伤害。我也完全理解贝尔杰男爵夫人可能永远不想接受我的道歉。这是她的权利，我并不期待被原谅。我能做的就是为自己的行为承担责任，并通过我的行动证明我已经改变。”
贝尔杰确实拒绝了这次道歉。这是她的选择。任何此类攻击的受害者都没有义务接纳其施暴者，无论对方的悔意多么真诚。
但她的许多议会同事却争先恐后地对博恩希尔-佩恩、凯米·巴德诺克以及整个保守党表示谴责。与其如此猛烈抨击，他们更好的建议是审视自身。
乔舒亚·博恩希尔-佩恩并非一个仅仅意识到自己错了的人。他积极地进行了改造，并开始利用自己在极端主义道路上的经历来直接对抗极端主义。他完成了由托尼·布莱尔领导的工党政府首次引入的“预防”（Prevent）去极端化计划，并向学校、学院、大学、警察和缓刑专业人员讲述他的经历。这类人员对于打击反犹主义和其他形式的种族主义至关重要。
我知道这一点，是因为我在反极端主义组织“希望而非仇恨”（Hope Not Hate）工作期间，曾与改造后的新法西斯分子合作。在工党内部，我也曾与一名绰号为“纳粹戴夫”（Dave The Nazi）的改造后法西斯分子共事，他曾是一名工党高级政治人物的顾问。
在那个时候，左翼的理智人士明白将像博恩希尔-佩恩这样的人重新纳入主流政治圈的重要性。
但在过去的两周里，工党似乎更感兴趣于在政治上得分。或者更糟，利用这场争论来掩盖党内自身的反犹主义问题。
2012 年，玛格丽特·伯克（Margaret Burke）被选为米尔顿凯恩斯的工党议员。而她恰巧曾是一个当地新纳粹组织的二把手，该组织成员身着纳粹制服，招募青年帮派分发种族主义传单，并在建筑物上涂抹万字标志。
在摒弃纳粹主义后，她加入了动物解放阵线，并因破坏一家肉店而被判入狱。在她当选之后。
工党对一名改过自新的种族主义者的愤怒简直是彻头彻尾的虚伪
作者：丹·霍奇斯 (Dan Hodges)
当地工党小组的负责人表示：“我们完全不怀疑她 20 或 30 年前的过错是严重的，但我认为一个人不应该因为很久以前所做的事情而受到惩罚或处罚。”
在伯克 (Burke) 当选时，工党领袖是埃德·米利班德 (Ed Miliband)，他本周与犹太社区代表会面，讨论工党对以色列“演变中”的立场。
伯克在竞选期间与戴安娜·艾博特 (Diane Abbott) 的合影也被拍到。正是这位戴安娜·艾博特在两周前被重新接纳进入工党，此前她因淡化英国犹太社区遭受的反犹主义而遭到停职。艾博特并非个例。今年 5 月，布拉德福德工党议员纳兹·沙阿 (Naz Shah) 被基尔·斯塔默 (Keir Starmer) 选中，在国会开幕式上代表其党派发表忠诚致辞。而正是这位纳兹·沙阿在 2016 年因早年发布的推文被曝光而遭到工党停职，她承认这些推文具有反犹主义色彩。
与博恩希尔-佩恩 (Bonehill-Paine) 一样，工党的议会和议会候选人们对自己的行为和言论表达了真诚的悔意。但与博恩希尔-佩恩不同的是，他们的道歉被接受了。
因此，我们被拖回到了那个时代，当时工党议员们的观点是：任何种族主义都不能被原谅或纵容，除非这种行为源自他们自己的内部。那些排队指责凯米·巴德诺克 (Kemi Badenoch) 和博恩希尔-佩恩的卢西亚娜·贝尔格 (Luciana Berger) 的同事们，记忆力便捷地“缺失”了。
就在七年前，他们还在为自己的政党竞选——平等与人权委员会 (EHRC) 认定该党在处理贝尔格男爵夫人本人所面临的那类反犹主义问题上，多次违反了《平等法》——他们希望在杰里米·科尔宾 (Jeremy Corbyn) 的领导下进入政府，而这位领导人同样被指控存在反犹主义。
2018 年 9 月，在利物浦举行的工党会议上，贝尔格在经历了数月的反犹主义辱骂和死亡威胁后，由警方护送——而许多科尔宾的支持者声称这种保护是不必要的。
仅仅一年后，时任工党副领袖汤姆·沃森 (Tom Watson) 就被迫调查利物浦韦弗特里分部（贝尔格的选区）的成员，原因是他所说的针对她的“欺凌”行为。
所以，再次看来，工党认为种族主义对于自身有一套诉讼时效，而对于其他人则有另一套。
在政府的“预防” (Prevent) 计划方面，似乎也存在类似的双重标准。去年，沙巴娜·马哈茂德 (Shabana Mahmood) 领导的内政部开始推广阿卜杜勒·阿哈德 (Abdul Ahad)，他曾是一名伊斯兰极端分子，与被禁的恐怖组织“解放组织” (Hizb ut Tahrir) 有联系。阿哈德已经改过自新，现在致力于解决穆斯林社区的极端主义问题。
根据内政部制作精良的视频下方的简介：“在脱离之后，阿卜杜勒转向帮助他人避免陷入同样的陷阱——加入了英国政府的‘预防’计划。凭借自己被洗脑的经历，他现在与有风险的青年接触，挑战极端主义言论，并重建脆弱社区的信任。”
看来，不会有由纳税人出资的视频来推广约书亚·博恩希尔-佩恩的反极端主义活动。他显然是那种“错误类型”的改过自新的种族主义者。
沙希德·巴特 (Shahid Butt) 曾因 1999 年策划炸毁英国驻也门领事馆而被定罪，他却可以自由地参加今年的地方选举。
前改革英国党 (Reform UK) 议员詹姆斯·麦克默多克 (James McMurdock) 在 2006 年因袭击其当时的女友而被定罪，但他被允许在 2024 年大选中代表该党成功参选。
杰里米·科尔宾公开提到他“在哈马斯的朋友”。然而，根据工党近期那些加入反犹主义十字军行动的人的观点，博恩希尔-佩恩显然必须被禁止进入公众生活。
本周，凯米·巴德诺克（Kemi Badenoch）被敦促将其开除。但她拒绝了。“我们应该希望种族主义者停止成为种族主义者。我们应该希望反犹主义者停止成为反犹主义者。而且当有人真正改过自新时，我们应该希望这种改变能够持续，”她在宣布任命他为她的极端主义顾问之前如此说道。
很好。反对种族主义的斗争过于重要，不能沦为琐碎的党派政治游戏。工党曾经意识到这一点。但在经历了令科尔宾时代蒙垢的反犹主义之后，他们显然必须重新学习这一教训。
埃夫拉伊姆·哈德卡斯特 (Ephraim Hardcastle)
随着克莱夫·奥尔德顿爵士（Sir Clive Alderton）即将离职的消息传出，寻找国王下一任首席私人秘书的工作已经展开，官方承诺将进行一次“公开且严格”的招聘过程。这与很久以前那些不那么正式的日子截然不同：在1990年聘请克里斯托弗·艾里爵士（Sir Christopher Airy）担任私人秘书之前，查尔斯曾就此次任命向非官方皇家顾问吉米·萨维尔（Jimmy Savile）寻求指导。
在今年早些时候公布的曼德尔森文件中，一些奇闻轶事包括一场由计划向唐纳德·特朗普赠送一个大臣风格红箱子而引发的幕后骚动。当时，紧张的白厅官员之间进行了无休止的谈判，让曼迪（Mandy）愤怒不已，而那个箱子的下落至今仍是个谜。是否还有其他力量在起作用？一名宫廷内线现在低声透露：“陛下实际上明确表示，他认为这有降低政府尊严的风险——尤其是如果特朗普最后让某个跟班帮他拎着里面的文件的话。”
在一次关于美国运通公司（American Express）拒绝提高其信用额度且广为人知的抱怨之后，老魅力男舒格勋爵（Lord Sugar，净资产超过 10 亿英镑 billion）确认道：“好消息，美国运通现在已经提高了我的信用额度。所以任何想翻我的垃圾桶来寻找我的铝制美国运通卡的人……放弃吧。”
资深剑客奈杰尔·哈弗斯（Nigel Havers，如图）惆怅地回忆道：“我以前经常在邮件里收到内裤……现在我不收到内裤了。”他费力地补充道：“我仍然有一些特定年龄的女性崇拜者。”陪伴在奈杰尔身边的，是正在巡演中的第三任哈弗斯夫人，她负责将那些祖母辈的女性挡在外面。
约翰·克利斯（John Cleese）与庸俗的广播员马修·斯塔德伦（Matthew Stadlen，此前被聘为他在舞台剧中的采访者）发生冲突，克利斯厉声说道：“我一直告诉推广人你不是一个好的采访者，但她一直把你推向前台。”斯塔德伦则反击这位86岁的老人：“当你陷入关于你的一位蒙提·派森（Pythons）队友的古怪抱怨时，是我帮你在那个晚上维持了幽默感。你甚至在其中一场活动的下半场重复了一个不愉快且自恋的故事，而这个故事你在上半场已经讲过了。”男孩们！
在凭借《不要伤我的心》（Don't Go Breaking My Heart）登顶排行榜50年后，基基·迪（Kiki Dee）谈到埃尔顿·约翰爵士（Sir Elton John）时说：“我们不经常见面，而且肯定不在同一个社交圈子里。”在这位超级巨星与母亲希拉（Sheila）闹翻后，基基勇敢地同意在她的90岁生日会上与一名埃尔顿模仿者共同演出。
在ITV的《早安英国》（Good Morning Britain）节目中讨论自由主义成长环境时，受艾伦·帕特里奇（Alan Partridge）启发的主持人理查德·马德利（Richard Madeley）陷入了回忆，他想起自己在文法学校时被不公正地“抽了三下藤条”。“六个月后我的臀部还有淤青！”他愤怒地说道。这难道不更适合在心理治疗师的沙发上讨论吗？
电子邮件：ephraim.hardcastle@dailymail.co.uk
60名国会议员敦促伯纳姆引入18周痴呆症诊断目标
数十名国会议员呼吁安迪·伯纳姆（Andy Burnham）在国民医疗服务体系（NHS）中引入18周的痴呆症诊断目标。
这个由前国务大臣组成的跨党派议员小组警告称，首相面临着发送“完全错误
独家报道
作者：肖恩·伍勒 (Shaun Wooller) 健康编辑
如果他未能改善疑似患有这种致残性脑部疾病的患者的诊断情况，将发出一个“错误信号”。
NHS 被要求在严格的时间范围内为癌症或心脏病患者做出诊断，但尽管痴呆症每年夺走 76,000 人的生命，是英国最大的杀手，却没有任何此类衡量标准。
在英格兰，三分之一的痴呆症患者没有获得正式诊断，而其余的人在获得诊断前平均等待了三年半。与此同时，根据最新数据，痴呆症患者从由全科医生（GP）转诊至记忆诊所到获得诊断的等待时间自 2019 年以来增加了近 70%，从 13 周飙升至 22 周。
慈善机构警告称，缺乏明确的目标意味着服务可能会被削减，导致更多患者在病情恶化的情况下等待数月或数年。
这可能意味着他们的病情进展过快，以至于无法从突破性药物中获益，而这些药物必须在疾病的早期阶段服用。
这封由保守党议员乔·罗伯逊 (Joe Robertson) 协调发给伯纳姆 (Mr Burnham) 先生的信函得到了 60 多名议员的支持，其中包括前国务大臣伊恩·邓肯-史密斯爵士 (Sir Iain Duncan Smith)、
在 18 周内完成，但痴呆症仍然缺乏一个可比的标准。
“我们担心，在 18 周诊断目标上的沉默将发出完全错误信号，并导致全国范围内的痴呆症服务碎片化。”
伯纳姆先生曾讲述过，他的父亲因为患有阿尔茨海默病，并不知道他已经成为了首相。
阿尔茨海默病协会 (Alzheimer's Society) 首席执行官米歇尔·戴森 (Michelle Dyson) 警告称，政府的痴呆症计划——名为《痴呆症与衰弱现代服务框架》——将“毫无价值”，因为在最新草案中，之前版本中出现的该目标被删除了。
她表示，该框架本应是一项为期十年的计划，旨在改变英国 100 万名患者的护理状况，但她现在对该文件“几乎没有信心”，因为其雄心似乎“极低”。
《每日邮报》与阿尔茨海默病协会合作开展了“击败痴呆症”活动，旨在提高人们对该疾病的认识，以努力增加早期诊断、促进研究并改善护理。
在上个月接受《每日邮报》的独家采访中，戴森女士指责 NHS 将痴呆症患者视为“二等公民”，他们被简单地“抛弃”，通常在回家时仅拿到一份传单。
卫生和社会护理部承认，痴呆症对患者及其照顾他们的家庭产生了“毁灭性的影响”。一名发言人补充道：“我们希望所有受影响的人都能获得高质量的个性化支持。”
安德鲁·米切尔 (Andrew Mitchell)、卡伦·布拉德利女爵士 (Dame Karen Bradley) 和基特·马尔特豪斯 (Kit Malthouse)，以及下议院遴选委员会主席杰弗里·克利夫顿-布朗爵士 (Sir Geoffrey Clifton-Brown)、卡罗琳·迪宁奇女爵士 (Dame Caroline Dinenage)、鲍勃·布莱克曼 (Bob Blackman) 和莱拉·莫兰 (Layla Moran)。
《每日邮报》看到的这封信中写道：“随着具有变革性药物的可能出现，及时且准确的诊断至关重要。
‘虽然通过政府承诺 92% 的转诊至治疗路径’
常用血液稀释药物可能减缓阿尔茨海默病
研究表明，血液稀释药物可能通过改善大脑血流量来减缓阿尔茨海默病。
在英国，这类抗凝血药物被定期开给 160 万 多名患有心房颤动（AF）——一种心律失常——的患者。
然而，这种益处仅在服用新型血液稀释药物的人群中被观察到。
来自斯德哥尔摩卡罗林斯卡大学医院的瑞典研究人员认为，这一发现对于英国 100 万名患有认知障碍症（阿尔茨海默病是其中最常见的类型）的人群具有重要意义。
研究主作者玛丽亚·埃里克斯多特（Maria Eriksdotter）博士在《欧洲心脏杂志》中写道：“该治疗可以通过改善
作者：佐伊·哈迪（Zoe Hardy）
血流量并减少大脑中的小规模损伤，从而对认知产生积极影响。”
该研究分析了 7,308 名患有心房颤动和阿尔茨海默病的人员数据。参与者被分为三组：服用利伐罗沙班（rivaroxaban）等新型药物的人员、服用华法林（warfarin）——一种旧版本药物——的人员，以及未服用任何抗凝血药物的人员。与其他人相比，服用新型抗凝血药物的人员认知功能下降速度较慢。
研究人员并未建议将这些药物推荐给不患有心房颤动的人员。
在此之前，美国的纽约大学朗格尼医学中心（NYU Langone Health）声称，在 45 至 65 岁之间保持正常血压、不患糖尿病且不吸烟，可以增加 13 年无认知障碍症的寿命。
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作者：埃莉诺·哈丁（Eleanor Harding） 教育编辑
学生们即将迎来迄今为止最好的 A-level 成绩公布日，预计顶尖成绩将创纪录，且进入大学的人数将达到历史最高。
随着数十万名高中六年级学生在今天领取成绩，几乎三分之一的报考科目将获得至少 A 级的成绩。
专家预测，与去年相比，获得该等级的人数将增加“数千名”。
这将意味着在新冠疫情时期之外创下最高纪录——在疫情期间，由于考试取消且由教师评定分数，成绩被推高。
2025, 年，共有创纪录的 439,180 人被录取进入学位课程，增长了 3%。
此外，进入补录（Clearing）阶段——允许学生调整其课程等级——的学生人数预计将创下新高。
官方录取机构 Ucas 的首席执行官乔·萨克斯顿（Jo Saxton）表示：“我们预计今年夏天将有创纪录的人数通过补录接受录取名额，而且我们可能还会看到直接申请补录的人数创纪录。”
由于签证规则的变化导致国际学生收入下降，大学正热衷于吸纳国内学生，离校学生将享受到一个“买方市场”。
分析显示，目前仍有超过 22,800 门课程在招收学生，其中 3,530 门在 18
成绩预期……史上最佳 A-level 成绩公布日，顶尖成绩创纪录
前途光明：今日三分之一的学生将获得至少 A 级成绩
在 24 所精英罗素大学集团（Russell Group）大学中。Ucas 网站上宣传的一些更具声望的课程包括华威大学的工程学、埃克塞特大学的数学和约克大学的经济学。录取机构发布的数据显示，许多课程接受至少有三门成绩低于官方要求的学生。
然而，伯明翰大学昨天表示，未来将引入三个 B 级的最低入学要求以维护标准。
补录（Clearing）是为那些未能达到所选大学所需成绩并希望寻找另一个名额的学生准备的。此外，成绩超出预期的学生可以通过“升级”进入更具声望的大学。
去年，获得 A / A 的成绩占比为 28.3%，而 2024 年为 27.8%，2019 年为 25.4%。仅看 A 成绩，获得该成绩的占比为 9.4%——高于 2024 年的 9.3% 和 2019 年的 7.7%。
虽然预计今年顶尖成绩的增长幅度将低于 0.5 个百分点，但这将转化为数千份成绩单。
此前，保守党昨天再次呼吁首相将学生贷款利率上限设定在由英国零售价格指数（RPI）衡量的通胀水平。凯米·巴德诺克（Kemi Badenoch）在二月份宣布这是其政党的政策，认为这将为毕业生节省数万英镑。
今天在补录中寻找课程？
不要错过《每日邮报》针对英国每所大学提供的权威排名表和互动指南
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布拉德（Brad）的理由
作者：Emma Powell 美国娱乐执行编辑
布拉德·皮特（Brad Pitt）曾声称他能“用俄罗斯人的伏特加把俄罗斯人喝趴在桌下”。虽然当时这番话带有自我反思，但考虑到这发生在2017年，就在他那场令人恐惧的私人飞机醉酒暴怒事件的一年后，这番言论显得格外令人不安——那次事件最终让他失去了婚姻和家庭。
因此，当戒酒七年的皮特本周透露他重新开始喝酒时，人们感到十分惊讶。
他是否有可能恢复理智饮酒？62岁的皮特似乎认为可以。
“我戒酒了七年。然后我又重新开始喝酒了，”他告诉《时尚先生》（Esquire）杂志。据采访者称，他当时甚至还“轻笑了一下”。
他坚称自己现在饮酒“更加克制”，并描述自己曾“几次过于自信，然后意识到：‘是的，不行，这对我没好处。’不能大量饮酒。”
他澄清说，他可以喝“几杯”葡萄酒，但不能更多。“我必须对此保持专业态度。”
本周，一名接近皮特的消息人士告诉《每日邮报》，这位明星重新开始饮酒是“近年来一个渐进的过程”，因为皮特在慢慢摸索“他感到舒适的状态以及他认为适合自己的方式”。
“朋友们最近对此有了更多察觉，”这位知情人士表示，并补充说他会与好友以及交往四年的女友伊内斯·德·拉蒙（Ines de Ramon）一起喝酒。
据消息人士透露，正是德·拉蒙阻止了皮特过量饮酒，防止他屈服于成瘾的诱惑。
皮特自2022年下旬起与这位33岁的珠宝高管约会，这对行踪低调的情侣在洛杉矶同居，随后在2024年的威尼斯电影节上首次共同亮相红毯。
直到今年7月，这位出生于新泽西州的女性才在Instagram上正式公开两人的恋情，分享了他们在纽约麦迪逊广场花园举行的泰勒·斯威夫特（Taylor Swift）和特拉维斯·凯尔塞（Travis Kelce）婚礼上的几张照片——据告知，皮特当时在喝酒。“伊内斯抽烟，并且喜欢喝一两杯葡萄酒，尤其是在晚餐时，”一名接近皮特制作公司Plan B Entertainment的消息人士表示。
“她从未给布拉德设定界限，但直到最近，他一直设法抵制酒精。”
他与伊内斯达成了一个协议，由她确保他的习惯不会失控。
“布拉德经历了人生中最压力山大的一年，”该消息人士补充道。“除了处理一场看似永无止境的离婚诉讼，他发现很难走出母亲去世的阴影。”
“伊内斯理解过去一年他所承受的压力。她陪伴在他身边，以确保他不过量。”
但已经表示怀疑的人中包括前妻安吉丽娜·朱莉（Angelina Jolie），据报道她对皮特重新饮酒“并不感到惊讶”。
在他们臭名昭著的八年离婚大战期间，朱莉提交的法庭文件指控皮特在2016年9月一次私人飞机上的据称争吵中，醉酒攻击了她和一些孩子。
朱莉指控她当时的丈夫在飞机上“身体虐待”了他们的六个孩子——当时15岁的马多克斯（Maddox）、12岁的帕克斯（Pax）、11岁的扎哈拉（Zahara）、10岁的希洛（Shiloh），以及8岁的双胞胎薇薇安（Vivienne）和诺克斯（Knox）。2022年公开的FBI文件详细记录了这次恐怖经历的程度。
文件称，当孩子们试图保护母亲时，皮特向其中一名孩子“猛扑”，随后“掐住”了其中一个人的脖子，并“击打另一人的脸”。
“有些孩子恳求皮特停止。他们都吓坏了。许多人在哭泣，”文件写道。“在某个时刻，他把啤酒泼在朱莉身上；在另一个时刻，他把啤酒和红葡萄酒泼在孩子们身上。在经历了许多紧张的小时后，皮特终于睡着了。”
着陆后，朱莉把他叫醒，说她和孩子们将前往酒店而不是回家，但根据法庭文件，皮特“大喊没有人能下飞机，并阻止家人下机约20分钟”。
直到“一名孩子介入并要求离开”后，皮特“才终于让步”。
“但一旦走出飞机舱门，皮特再次对他们的一个孩子实施肢体虐待，”文件写道。“他还抓着乔丽的头部和肩膀摇晃，导致其中一个孩子恳求道：‘不要伤害她。’”
“他放开了乔丽，但随后称她为‘婊子’，接着补充道：‘操你，操你们所有人。’”
联邦调查局（FBI）启动了调查，但从未提起指控。儿童服务机构也未发现虐待行为。
皮特要么是寻求了帮助，要么是被鼓励这样做，有人看到这位演员在同一个月离开了匿名戒酒会（Alcoholics Anonymous）。
“布拉德保持清醒的时间那么长，是因为他已经持续饮酒超过 40 年了，”一名接近这位明星的内部人士告诉《每日邮报》。
“很多很多次，他与朋友一起或者独自一人饮酒过量。他知道是时候停止并过上清醒的生活了。长期饮酒给他带来了太多的问题。”
去年，他在达克斯·谢泼德（Dax Shepard）的《扶手椅专家》（Armchair Expert）播客中透露了他的成瘾程度：“我几乎是跪在地上，而且非常坦诚。我尝试任何方法和任何人，尝试任何别人提供给我的东西。那是一段困难的时期。我需要重启。我需要在某些方面彻底清醒过来。”
他此前将戒酒之功归于演员布拉德利·库珀（Bradley Cooper），并在 2020 年声称“从那时起，每一天都变得更快乐了。我爱你，谢谢你”。他开玩笑说，在他将首选饮料改为“蔓越莓汁和气泡水”后，他拥有“全洛杉矶最干净的尿道”。
“布拉德的一些匿名戒酒会朋友对他再次饮酒表示担忧，”一名好莱坞内部人士表示。
考虑到他的事业似乎并未受到飞机事件媒体关注的影响，现在如果再次复饮，对皮特来说将是灾难性的。
他的战争剧《盟军》（Allied）在两个月后上映并获得了良好反响——尽管当时有传闻称他与女主角玛丽昂·歌迪亚（Marion Cotillard）有染，但后者公开否认了这一点。她当时处于一段长期关系中。
随后，他的 Plan B 娱乐公司在 2017 年凭借一部成长题材剧获得了奥斯卡最佳影片奖。
乐观的一面：这位演员在 2009 年的戛纳电影节上
数十年的酗酒让他加入了匿名戒酒会。现在，在经历了多年的清醒生活后，他的孩子们与他反目，而布拉德·皮特承认自己再次饮酒。那么，这次与女友伊内斯（Ines）的约定能否控制他的成瘾行为？
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如此亲密： 布拉德·皮特 与伊内斯·德·拉蒙
月光。不出所料，皮特并未出席。
有一段时间，他的演员角色很少，因为他退到了幕后，制作了大量电影，随后重新出现并凭借《好莱坞往事》(2019) 赢得了一项奥斯卡最佳男配角奖，并在今年早些时候凭借电影《F1》获得了奥斯卡最佳影片提名。这位好莱坞万人迷，据估计身价 4亿美元 (£2.96 亿)，目前有 19 个处于拍摄、前后期制作不同阶段的待办项目。
家庭：2015 年与安吉丽娜·朱莉以及孩子们帕克斯、马多克斯、薇薇安、扎哈拉、诺克斯和希洛在一起
那么，是什么导致他再次开始饮酒？
皮特或许在德·拉蒙身上找到了幸福，并阻止了他的整个生活陷入崩溃，但在对待孩子们方面他却没有这样的运气。他的孩子们都与这位演员保持距离，除了现年 23, 岁的帕克斯，其余的孩子甚至采取了法律手段，申请在姓氏中去掉“皮特”。
当希洛年满 18, 岁时，她在 2024 年 5 月申请将名字改为希洛·努维尔·朱莉，该申请在几个月后由洛杉矶法院批准。同月，当时 15, 岁的薇薇安在百老汇剧作《局外人》的演出单（Playbill）中使用了“薇薇安·朱莉”这个名字，该剧是由她与母亲共同制作的。
随后在今年 5 月，24, 岁的马多克斯在法律上去掉了父亲的姓氏；而扎哈拉在佐治亚州亚特兰大的斯佩尔曼学院毕业时，被宣布为“扎哈拉·马利·朱莉”。次月，她向洛杉矶高等法院提交了正式更改姓名的申请。听证会定于 9 月 28. 日举行。她的弟弟诺克斯在今年夏天的中学毕业证书上也去掉了“皮特”这个姓氏。
这种疏离感已经延伸到了更广泛的皮特家族。一名家族内部人士在 2024 年告诉《每日邮报》，尽管尝试过联系，但皮特的父母已经八年没见到他们的孙辈了。
朱莉面临着试图在皮特和孩子们之间制造隔阂的指控。曾为该家庭工作超过 20 年的前英国特种空勤团（SAS）士兵托尼·韦伯声称，一名同事告诉他，曾听到这位女演员“鼓励孩子们在监护探视期间避免与皮特共度时光”。
本周，一名接近皮特的消息人士坚称，这位演员并非因为持续的疏离而恢复饮酒。
“孩子们带来的极端痛苦的孤立感确实很难熬，但他决定饮酒与此无关。这并不是[因为]改名。”
然而，皮特决定饮酒的时机很难被忽视。如果戒酒是为了证明他能成为一名好父亲，那么考虑到孩子们已经明确表达了立场，他似乎没有理由继续证明自己。
一名接近 Plan B Entertainment 的消息人士表示：“布拉德知道当希洛在 2024, 年底获得去掉‘皮特’姓氏的批准时，他的其他孩子也会效仿。”
“每当另一个孩子这么做时，他都感到很受辱——他对此无能为力。当薇薇安最近申请去掉‘皮特’[就在上个月她 18 岁生日后几天]时，尽管他预料到了，但这几乎成了最后一根稻草。”
朱莉对他们婚姻的破裂谈得很少，仅表示这是“正确的决定”。
“我继续专注于他们的疗愈，”她在 2021 年告诉《Vogue》杂志，指的是他们的六个孩子。“有些人利用了我的沉默，孩子们在媒体上看到了关于自己的谎言，但我提醒他们，他们知道自己的真相和想法。”
她还试探性地谈到自己曾一度迷失自我，但得到了孩子们的鼓励而坚持走下去。除了帕克斯，孩子们在公开场合也大多保持沉默。
他在2020年父亲节的一次爆发式Instagram发帖中，攻击他那“该死的、糟糕的人类”父亲，指责这位演员让身边最亲近的人的生活变成了“永恒的地狱”。
在配上一张皮特获得奥斯卡最佳男配角奖的照片时，他写道：“你一次又一次地证明了你是一个可怕且卑劣的人。”
“你对你最小的4个孩子没有任何体谅或共情，他们在你面前时会恐惧地颤抖。”
他声称皮特“永远不会理解”他给家庭造成的伤害，因为他“没有能力”，并补充说“真相总有一天会水落石出”。
尽管在2019年被宣布在法律上为单身，且整个离婚程序在2024年12月最终敲定并签署，但这对前夫妻仍陷入一场激烈的争端——被称为“玫瑰之战”——争夺他们在普罗旺斯拥有1,200英亩的米拉瓦（Miraval）庄园的股份，他们于2013年推出的获奖葡萄酒便产自此处。
“尽管他们仍在激烈争斗，但他觉得重新酗酒不会成为问题，”一名消息人士表示。“如果他不是如此深陷爱河，且事业处于如此绝佳的状态，那么家庭的悲伤和安吉带来的问题将让他难以承受。”
“当这一切结束，她完全从他的生活中消失时，他觉得自己终于能再次呼吸了。”
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普京威胁英国航运
他警告俄罗斯可能会在太平洋捕获我们的商业船只
作者：Will Stewart 和 Imogen Garfinkel
弗拉基米尔·普京威胁要没收太平洋中与英国相关的商业船只，这升级了西方国家因对俄罗斯“影子舰队”实施制裁而引发的紧张局势。
这位俄罗斯总统在视察太平洋舰队大规模演习期间身着海军风格制服，他警告称，在英国及其盟友采取行动打击被指控帮助资助克里姆林宫战争机器的油轮后，莫斯科已准备好做出回应。
在俄罗斯远东海岸外的演习期间，普京在“瓦良格”号导弹巡洋舰上发表讲话，指责西方国家针对与俄罗斯相关的船只，其行为如同“海盗”。他说：“最近，他们甚至走到了没收我们的船只并出售从我们这里掠夺的财产的地步。显然，这除了是海盗行为和抢劫之外，别无他物。”
此前，英国皇家海军陆战队突击队于6月14日在多塞特郡海岸附近发起了一场大胆的六小时突袭，没收了俄罗斯影子舰队的油轮“Smyrtos”号。普京警告称，莫斯科可能会“被迫采取同样的报复措施”。
与此同时，有消息透露，JD Vance 已要求乌克兰停止对俄罗斯黑海关键港口油轮的无人机袭击，因为这正在扰乱石油市场。
这位美国副总统致电总统弗拉基米尔·泽连斯基，表示在诺沃罗西斯克的袭击威胁到了美国在该地区的商业利益。自7月31日的通话以来，CPC码头附近的油轮再未遭到袭击。
在另一条令人不寒而栗的信息中，普京表示，任何报复行动不一定会发生在俄罗斯船只被攻击的同一海域。相反，俄罗斯将在“我们认为必要的任何地方”采取行动。
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香草味电子烟可能伤害胎儿，母亲们收到警告
每日邮报记者
科学家表示，应警告孕妇及试图怀孕的女性，电子烟中一种受欢迎的调味剂可能会潜在地伤害胎儿。
实验室测试发现，香草醛（vanillin）——一种用于制造香草味电子烟的常见成分——会干扰早期胚胎发育的相关过程。
这些发现引发了要求更清晰标签以及临床医生与准母亲讨论潜在风险的呼吁。
加州大学河滨分校的科学家将人类胚胎干细胞暴露在不同浓度的香草醛中。
首席研究员普鲁·塔尔博特（Prue Talbot）教授在《人类生殖》（Human Reproduction）杂志上表示，她的团队发现，即使在极低浓度下，细胞也会失去发育为不同细胞类型的能力，而较高浓度则被证明是致命的。
她补充道：“这些变化潜在地非常严重。”
一些专家对该研究持谨慎态度，指出该研究并非在孕妇的细胞上进行的。
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安迪·多兰（Andy Dolan）报道
一名 Co-op 的女性货车司机在一名“霸凌”同事指责她通过“露胸”来获取想要的东西后，获得了 1.9 万英镑 的赔偿金。
HOV 司机夏洛特·布鲁克斯（Charlotte Brooks）收到了一条来自凯里·道森（Kerry Dawson）的语音消息，称她仅仅因为拥有“f++++ t+s”，就认为自己可以露胸，而且任何人都会为她做任何事。
道森女士还指责布鲁克斯女士通过提供性服务来达到自己的目的。
布鲁克斯女士称这种“霸凌”持续了两年。这家超市巨头承认该同事的言论构成了性骚扰。
“本应被严肃对待”
随后该同事被解雇。然而，道森女士成功就解雇决定提出上诉并得以重返工作岗位——这让布鲁克斯女士感到焦虑和痛苦。
在起诉合作社集团（Co-operative Group）后，布鲁克斯女士现已就性骚扰和直接性别歧视的指控赢得了 19,042 英镑。
就业法庭获悉，布鲁克斯女士于 2022 年 1 月开始在 Co-op 担任货车司机学徒，目前仍在该公司担任合格的 HOV 司机。
道森女士当时也在接受司机培训。
在那个夏天的课程期间，道森女士向指导员声称布鲁克斯女士会通过
货车司机因被指“露胸以获得晋升”赢得 1.9 万英镑
性行为来获取她想要的东西。布鲁克斯女士在得知此事后“非常难过”，但不想参加调解。
然而，埃克塞特（Exeter）的法庭被告知，随着道森女士发送语音消息，情况进一步升级。
公司发现道森女士在 2022 年 6 月至 2024 年 10 月之间的行为“不恰当”，但解雇她的决定被改为书面警告。一名分销经理作为上诉经理，裁定最初的结果在“程序上有缺陷”。
在得知道森女士将于去年 1 月重返工作岗位后，布鲁克斯女士变得“痛苦”，并请假直到 2 月份，称自己不适合工作。
就业法官保拉·沃尔克默（Paula Volkmer）表示，道森女士的言论确实构成了性骚扰。她指出，上诉过程
被骚扰：夏洛特·布鲁克斯感到“痛苦”并离职
没有考虑到道森女士行为的严重性。
沃尔克默法官补充道：“我认为，如果这种行为发生在异性之间，（上诉经理）会对待得更加严肃。”
沃尔克默法官表示，这些事件让布鲁克斯女士感到“受辱”且焦虑，直到去年 9 月她仍在接受治疗。布鲁克斯女士关于遭受被害报复的指控未获支持。
慢着！邦德接班人竞争出现新面孔
据理查德·奥斯曼（Richard Osman）透露，《慢马》（Slow Horses）主演杰克·劳登（Jack Lowden）正被“重点考虑”作为下一任詹姆斯·邦德。
这位作家兼前《Pointless》节目主持人表示：“我听到的名字是杰克·劳登。”
“这绝对还没有到‘他肯定拿到了’的程度。但他绝对在被重点考虑中。我认为他会
表现得非常出色。”图中 36 岁的劳登最著名的角色是在 Apple TV+ 热播剧《慢马》中饰演 MI5 特工里弗·卡特赖特（River Cartwright），该剧的选角导演同样是 59 岁的尼娜·戈尔德（Nina Gold）。他很快将在 Netflix 改编的《傲慢与偏见》中饰演达西先生。
当被问及制片厂是否向她施压，要求雇佣在社交媒体上有显著影响力的演员时，戈尔德女士表示：“对我来说没有。我不了解那些东西。我甚至在手机上都找不到。”
在曾经被称为苏联“玻璃之都”的乌克兰城市里，一切都凝固了。科斯蒂安廷诺夫卡（Kostiantynivka）的街道因多年的炮击、导弹和炸弹而扭曲变形，如今已空无一人。房屋在废墟中坍塌。
那些让这座没落工业巨头获得美誉——并锻造出列宁的水晶棺以及至今仍装饰在克里姆林宫上的红宝石之星——的工厂已被遗弃。或者说，看起来是这样。
“看屏幕，”弗拉基米尔（Volodymyr）说着，指向一台在顿涅茨克东部地区数百米高空盘旋的观测无人机传回的实时全彩图像。“它看起来像一座空城——但其实不是，”这位 42 岁的乌克兰无人机飞行员低声说道，其身份无法被完全公开。
“我们的人在那里。俄罗斯人也在那里。没有人敢露面。这就是现在的战争模样。”
为了躲避绘制这片战争蹂躏的地狱景观每一寸土地的无人机群，在废墟和仅在夏季才有的植被掩护下，俄罗斯渗透小组与乌克兰防御者正陷入一场决定这场战争下一个转折点的殊死搏斗。
上个月，《每日邮报》获得了进入顿涅茨克第 104 独立领土防御旅 Seraphytny 无人机系统营的罕见机会。
在这里，我们见证了科斯蒂安廷诺夫卡的战斗，它是构成乌克兰“堡垒带”的顿巴斯四个城市之一。这条地带在物流上至关重要，位于莫斯科及其宣称的夺取该地区的战争目标之间——并共同构成了乌克兰在顿涅茨克州剩余防御的骨干。
虽然许多人认为科斯蒂安廷诺夫卡的陷落只是时间问题（已有高达 200 名入侵者突破防线），但乌克兰利用无人机创新来减缓俄罗斯推进的方式，可能为如何将他们完全赶出剩余三个关键城市提供蓝图。
简而言之，这里正在发生的革命将决定这是否会是俄罗斯夺取的最后一个大堡垒——如果事实确实如此，最终可能会迫使弗拉基米尔·普京最终进入和平谈判。
科斯蒂安廷诺夫卡就像科幻小说一样。在 15 英里的“杀伤区”内，车辆、重型装甲和坦克在过去 12 个月里几乎全部消失。炮兵虽然依然至关重要，但被严密伪装且使用谨慎。因为体积太大，太容易被发现。在这里，无人机统治天空，炮兵往往变成了“自毁武器”。
相反，士兵们一两个一组，从一个掩体移动到另一个掩体，从一个地窖移动到另一个地窖。被上方发现就意味着死亡。
一旦识别出第二次人类活动，被发现的整栋建筑就会被无人机摧毁。“人们就像蚂蚁一样，”弗拉基米尔解释道。“他们躲藏、爬行，不断在地下移动。一旦有人被发现，15 架无人机就会在路上。”他摇了摇头，补充道：“这是一场可怕的战争。”
但弗拉基米尔并不在“蚂蚁”之列。得益于乌克兰巧妙的创新，他正从 37 英里外一个《每日邮报》受邀前往的秘密地点，操控着他那台庞大的第 17 号轰炸无人机。
在像这样的大型无人机上，基辅安装了 Starlink 终端，以提供一个基本无法被干扰的安全卫星连接。这意味着曾经坐在距离机器三英里范围内的轰炸机飞行员，现在已被移出了击杀区。
这是一个改变游戏规则的举措。至于那些留在前线的人所面临的危险，无需过多赘述，在弗拉基米尔的观察屏幕和显示城市战术地图的平板电脑旁边，还放着第三台显示器，而我们并未
在乌克兰，前线已成为无人机部队（TRONITE UNIT）……勇敢的防御者们在一次战术革命中从数英里外对俄罗斯人实施死亡打击，这可能会迫使普京请求和平
作者：Dmytro Durnyev 发自克拉马托尔斯克（KRAMATORSK） 以及 Andy Jehring
被允许拍照。它显示着当天的作战情况。一名俄罗斯士兵被定位在一栋房子里。那里现在成了目标。侦察小组、无人机飞手和指挥官实时协调打击。行动在沉默中展开。无人机飞手继续通过无线电交谈。一架轰炸无人机投放了弹药。弹药未能爆炸。俄罗斯士兵脱离掩护，从房子里冲向一片灌木丛。
一架携带 1.5 千克高能炸药的第一人称视角（FPV）自杀式无人机向他俯冲而去。机载画面冲入叶丛——然后消失。这里没有电影般的爆炸。屏幕直接变黑。这就是 21 世纪士兵面对死亡的方式。
弗拉基米尔现在可以离开去冲杯咖啡了。他的无线电就在触手可及的地方。每当侦察员在科斯蒂安廷诺夫卡（Kostiantynivka）的废墟中发现另一个目标时，他就会回到工作站，控制他的轰炸无人机并执行另一次任务。
这种作战方式是米哈伊洛·费多罗夫（Mykhailo Fedorov）的构思，他此前担任国防部长，但在上任仅六个月后被弗拉基米尔·泽连斯基解职，这在今年早些时候引发了全国性的抗议。在之前担任乌克兰数字化转型部部长的职务期间，费多罗夫针对俄罗斯 2022 年的全规模入侵，以前所未有的规模扩大了无人机的采购。
正是在这里，“无人机防线”（Drone Line）的概念——将无人系统作为步兵严重不足的前线骨干——得到了制度上的支持。鉴于乌克兰仅拥有规模有限的空军且面临严重的人力挑战，该构思旨在利用无人机来保护人员生命并击退俄罗斯人。无人系统将被用于建立一个杀伤区，敌军若不承受重大损失就无法从中推进。
当费多罗夫在 1 月被提升为国防部长时，“无人机防线”计划大幅激增，因为他将武器预算的 90%（不包括西方提供的庞大军火库）投入到了机器人战争中。
在科斯蒂安廷诺夫卡，这一点得到了最极端的体现。
俄罗斯此前已开始对该市进行渗透攻击，正如所述，到今年 5 月，约 200 人已成功潜入。
“然而这座城市并未陷落。随着乌克兰无人机能力的增强，入侵者几乎在瞬间被识别并被清除。”
“让我着迷的是我们现在正在进行的战争，”营指挥官塞尔希·科斯廷斯基（Serhii Kostynskyi）告诉我们。“我们在 2022 年和 2023 年作战的方式令人恐惧。你整天都被炮火覆盖。敌人根本不需要进入步枪射程。他们直接用火炮和迫击炮将你抹除。然后坦克开进。俄罗斯人在火炮方面拥有压倒性优势——那真的像是一战。”
“现在不同了。我们和他们都拥有极其广泛的可用工具。”
在杀伤区内，步兵被分散成小至两三人的小组。他们躲在掩体和地下室中，主要充当观察员，以便在发现潜入者时请求无人机打击。
无人机器人车辆为他们提供补给并撤离伤员。为他们提供掩护的是同样潜伏在前线的飞手，他们通过像蛛丝一样的光纤电缆操控 FPV 自杀式无人机。这些无人机的航程约为 9 英里且无法被干扰，由另一组士兵负责发射。
一年前，部队会开车进入阵地，卸货然后迅速离开，但敌方观察和攻击无人机的激增意味着现在这已是不可能——
--。
机器人战争：重型轰炸无人机，以及插图所示的乌克兰侦察机图像
……组建第二个无人系统营的最后阶段。作为一名领土旅，Seraphymy 在军队中的排名较低，但却获得了最尖端的供应。在短短六个月内，军队的目标是将无人机机组的人数增加六倍。
军事专家、乌克兰-英国国防公司 Trypillian 的合伙人鲍勃·西利（Bob Seely）表示：“我们正在见证战争的一次重大演变。遗憾的是，西方国家没有足够的士兵和政治家意识到这一点。”
前国会议员、英国士兵西利先生补充道，将飞行员移出杀伤区长期以来一直是“乌克兰的优先事项”，因此我们现在看到了“机器的崛起”。他说：“未来的战争很可能在很大程度上由决策机器进行——至少在我们的这一方，由人类进行监督。”
“机器的质量和生存能力将决定你的胜负。”
虽然观察员们对乌克兰的进展感到惊叹，但专家们普遍反对步兵将会消失的说法。乌克兰安全与合作中心高级分析师安东·泽姆拉尼（Anton Zemlanyi）表示，此类说法“为时过早”，因为对领土的控制“仍然依赖于步兵”。
美国海军战争学院教授、美国退役上校弗兰克·索布恰克（Frank Sobchak）引用马克·吐温的话说：“关于步兵已经过时的报道被大大夸大了。”
他指出此前此类错误预测发生的频率，并补充道：“步兵在战场上永远会有其作用，因为没有其他兵种能够夺取并占领地形。”
虽然目前尚不清楚北约在这样的战争中表现如何，尽管其物流和空中力量具有绝对优势，但该联盟无疑在追赶。
乌克兰目前处于优势地位，但它已经意识到这不能保证任何结果。天平最早可能在今年秋天就会发生倾斜。
俄罗斯已经在部署其认为可以干扰 Starlink 的技术。它正在寻找可用于自身进攻的替代方案。
这就是为什么泽连斯基先生在如此关键的时刻撤换费多罗夫先生如此令人不安的原因。
现在，广受尊敬的米哈伊洛·德拉帕蒂（Mykhailo Drapatyi）将军已接任总司令，而前情报局局长叶夫根尼·赫马拉（Yevhenii Khmara）则是费多罗夫的代理接任者。
人们必须希望他们以及国防部能够迅速掌握这个革命性的战场，国防部的开支比该国所有其他部门的总和还要多。科斯蒂安廷诺夫卡（Kostiantynivka）以及乌克兰其余地区的未来取决于此。
……能。因此，发射人员成对步行进入。一人推着装满无人机、电池和弹药的手推车。另一人走在前面，脖子上挂着无人机探测器，扫描地面的地雷。
为了避开俄罗斯的电子战，乌克兰的“蜂王”母舰在杀伤区高空飞行，其飞行员位于前线数英里后方。这些母舰携带大量小型 FPV 攻击机，并将它们投放到敌方阵线后方深达 20 英里的地方。
此外还有装载反坦克地雷和迫击炮弹的重型轰炸机，它们通过埃隆·马斯克的 Starlink 碟形天线与像弗拉基米尔（Volodymyr）这样的飞行员连接。他们使用热成像摄像头来抹除
俄罗斯装甲车辆并摧毁混凝土工事，而其机组人员则安全地处于射程之外。保护人员和机器的是拦截无人机——配备 AI 追踪功能的超快速、高敏捷四旋翼飞行器，它们负责击落侦察无人机，有效地使敌人致盲。
“无人机防线”由一层持续运行的固定翼 AI 侦察无人机缝合而成，这些无人机绘制战场的每一寸地图，并将其实时输入到战斗管理系统中。
软件会自动标记数字屏幕上移动的像素。
能够立即识别隐藏的俄罗斯军队，并自动将坐标发送给最近的无人机机组。俄罗斯拥有大致类似的无人机阵列，这是一场持续的、势均力敌的较量。
目前，得益于基层倡议以及与西方技术的整合——其中最重要的是 Starlink，乌克兰占据优势。塞拉菲米（Seraphymy）的人们相信，很快就会到来这样一天：人类几乎被从战场上移除，这并不奇怪。弗拉基米尔（Volodymyr）认为，很快每一架无人机，而不仅仅是
重型轰炸机，都将通过 Starlink 运行。侦察机组和 FPV 团队将不再需要占据科斯蒂安廷诺夫卡（Kostiantynivka）杀伤区边缘的暴露阵地。
相反，他坚称他们将在像他这样的房间里工作，那里有咖啡机、可靠的互联网连接，并且与战场相隔数十公里。
他补充道：“一年之内，步兵将几乎从杀伤区消失。地面机器人将携带武器。每个人都将坐在控制台后面，通过 Starlink 连接，距离战斗现场数英里之遥。”
“关注接下来的六个月会发生什么……一切都将远程完成。这就是这场战争的发展方向。”
尽管费多罗夫（Fedorov）被不合时宜地撤职，但投资仍在源源不断地涌入乌克兰的无人机部队。第 104 独立领土防御旅已经处于
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作者：伊丽莎白·海格（Elizabeth Haigh）
在北伦敦的一所综合学校与这名青少年调情，随后在20世纪80年代后期与其发生了“20 to 30 times”性行为。哈罗刑事法院（Harrow Crown Court）的陪审员获悉，这名当时 25, 岁的教师在 1986 和 1988, 期间，还允许另一名男孩在学校附近的一家咖啡馆午餐期间触摸她的乳房并亲吻她。
现年 64, 岁的鲍恩来自赫特福德郡的赫梅尔海姆斯特德（Hemel Hempstead），她被指控对第一名男孩实施六项猥亵袭击，对第二名男孩实施两项猥亵袭击——两名男孩当时的年龄均在 14 to 15 岁之间。
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据报道，该男孩告诉警方，鲍恩抓到了他持有色情杂志，他原以为她会没收。
但沃尔夫女士表示，这名教师只是拿过杂志，指着一张照片将其与她自己的身体构造进行对比。鲍恩否认八项猥亵袭击指控。
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AUGUST 13, 1992 (13, 1992)
奥运之星萨莉·冈内尔（Sally Gunnell）专门前往她在伦敦海顿花园（Hatton Garden）兼职的一家会计师事务所，向同事展示她的 400 米栏金牌。
AUGUST 13, 2005 (13, 2005)
随着政府对仇恨传教者的打击力度加大，奥马尔·巴克里·穆罕默德（OMAR Bakri Mohammed）昨日最终被禁止返回英国。这位所谓的“托特纳姆大阿亚图拉”在黎巴嫩被一名英国领事官员告知，内政大臣查尔斯·克拉克（Charles Clarke）已撤销其在英国无限期居留的权利。
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费加尔·沙基（FEARGAL SHARKEY），68. 岁。这位来自伦多德里的歌手后来成为环境活动家，曾与朋克乐队 Undertones 合作推出包括《Teenage Kicks》在内的热门单曲。去年被诊断出患有前列腺癌时，他表示：“我做了一个决定。我说，‘我要把剩下的每一天都用来钓鱼’。”
菲尔·泰勒（PHIL TAYLOR），66. 岁。这位来自斯托克的飞镖之星在 1990. 年赢得了他创纪录的 16 次世界冠军赛中的首冠。1995 年，一名喜欢德国 Eurodance 组合 Snap! 同名歌曲的天空体育（Sky Sports）现场经理给了他“The Power”这个绰号。
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玛丽·李 (MARY LEE, 1921-2022)。这位来自格拉斯哥的歌手兼喜剧演员最初以模仿格雷西·菲尔兹 (Gracie Fields) 和莫里斯·舍瓦利埃 (Maurice Chevalier) 出名。在《旋律制造者》(Melody Maker) 的读者投票中，她击败了薇拉·琳 (Vera Lynn)，被评为 1937 年最佳歌手。
伯纳德·曼宁 (BERNARD MANNING, 1930-2007)。这位来自曼彻斯特且以“政治不正确”著称的喜剧演员曾开玩笑说：“前几天我去看了帕瓦罗蒂。他真是个可怜的混蛋，不是吗？他不希望你跟着唱。”在他去世前一个月，他参加了自己的“守灵仪式”——这是为 Channel 4 的节目《这就是你的人生》(This Was Your Life) 而举办的一次聚集，共有 600 名朋友和粉丝参加。
8月 13 日历史上的今天...
1964, 年，彼得·安东尼·艾伦 (Peter Anthony Allen) 和格温·欧文·埃文斯 (Gwynne Owen Evans) 成为英国最后两名被执行死刑的罪犯。
2004, 年，美国电视名厨朱莉亚·查尔德 (Julia Child) 去世，享年 91 岁。她在电影《朱莉与朱莉亚》(Julie & Julia) 中由梅丽尔·斯特里普 (Meryl Streep) 饰演。
文字魔术
猜定义
PERDICINE (创造于19世纪)
A) 与鹧鸪有关。 B) 与雉鸡有关。 C) 与企鹅有关。
答案见下方
短语解析：
Take up the mantle：接任某人的职责；该词源自圣经，先知以利亚在升天时留下了他的斗篷，以利沙在接任以利亚的先知角色之前穿上了它；mantle 类似于斗篷或大衣。
今日金句
如果你有任何时间，请务必尝试自己熬制鸡汤。
西蒙·沙玛爵士 (Sir Simon Schama)，英国历史学家
今日笑话
我解雇了我的裁缝……他说：“随你便 (Suit yourself)！”
猜定义答案：A
由 ETAN SMALLMAN 和 ADAM JACOT DE BOINOD 编译
Eden Confidential
凯特·摩丝因品牌失败欠下巨额债务
今年五月，在切尔西花展上，有一款以她命名的玫瑰让她显得欣喜若狂——而本周，她则处于一种无忧无虑的状态，潜入西班牙晶莹剔透的海水中。
但人生总有风雨——凯特·摩丝对此深有体会。
事实上，看来她可能不得不准备迎接一场大雨，这或许是这位美女在二十年前与问题摇滚歌手皮特·多尔蒂（Pete Doherty）恋爱（那段感情曾导致摩丝入住康复诊所）以来所经历的最严重的一次风暴。
这一次，风暴云化作了一份关于 Cosmos 的清算报告。这是摩丝在 2022 年推出的健康品牌，但该品牌随后陷入困境，并于去年倒闭，债务高达 290 万英镑（£290 万）。
当时据估计，其中绝大部分——约 230 万英镑（£229 万）——是欠摩丝本人的，因为这是欠最大债权人的金额，而该债权人正是以摩丝名字命名的模特经纪公司，她既是该公司的所有者也是唯一董事。
但这仍然留下了 60 万英镑 未能交代，根据本周清算人的第二份报告，这笔款项不太可能被偿还。其中没有一分钱是欠纳税人的。但是，
■ 讽刺的是，剑桥大学的副校长竟然没有察觉到学院内部的群体思维，而该学院竟然容忍了幻想家教授杰森·阿尔代（Jason Arday）。心理学家德博拉·普伦蒂斯（Deborah Prentice）专门研究“多元无知”现象，即人们为了避免让自己与某个小圈子格格不入而坚持某种谬论。
还有许多小公司现在可能在后悔与 Cosmos 交易。Cosmos 为摩丝的崇拜者提供了购买 72 英镑（£72）的“神圣之雾”香水、售价 98 英镑（£98）的“金色花蜜”CBD 精油，或 21 英镑（£21）的 25 包茶包的机会。
Cosmos 的债权人之一，化妆品咨询公司 Annel Ltd 证实其受到了影响。联合创始人伊莉莎·古尔科（Eliza Gulko）告诉我：“与任何小企业一样，未支付的账单可能会产生重大影响。”其他债权人还包括查尔斯国王的律师事务所 Harbottle & Lewis，他们被欠了 2.3 万英镑 的巨额款项。
52 岁的摩丝在 2021 年以 1150 万英镑（£1150 万）卖掉她的伦敦豪宅后，大部分时间都在她位于科茨沃尔德（Cotswolds）的田园住宅中度过，她曾解释过为什么她从不谈论钱。
“这完全是不礼貌的，”她反思道，“我做一些荒唐的事情就能拿到荒唐的报酬。”
她现在保持沉默——但也许在适当的时候，她会破例一次。
火辣宝贝：卡拉在音乐视频中裸露上身
登上《花花公子》（Playboy）杂志封面似乎释放了卡拉·德文宁（Cara Delevingne）火辣的一面。
这位从模特转型为歌手的艺人在她的新歌《Crazy, Baby》的视频中裸露上身。
可以看到她用手遮住胸部，在跑步机上大步走动。
34 岁的卡拉表示，今年夏天为《花花公子》拍摄的照片让她获得了“掌控我的性感和掌控我的身体”的自由。她在今年早些时候与华纳唱片（Warner Records）签约，随后发行了《I Forgot》和《Out Of My Head》，并表示新的舞曲《Crazy, Baby》是献给“所有曾经不正常的人”的。
凯特的友人们经营的外套公司停业
威尔士王妃经常被看到穿着 Troy London 的派克风夹克，该品牌由她的好友 Rosie van Cutsem 和 Lucia Ruck Keene 创立。
因此，照片中穿着该外套的凯瑟琳在听到这对姐妹决定关闭这家于 2013. 年创立的公司时，可能会感到难过。歌手 Rita Ora 和演员 Pamela Anderson 也曾穿着该品牌的服装。
该公司是以她们在牛津郡的童年故居——二级保护建筑 Troy 庄园命名的。
■ 衣着考究的演员 Bill Nighy 表示，一些粉丝错误地认为他拥有爵位。“人们在街上叫我‘爵士’，我突然想到也许他们认为我去过宫殿，”Nighy, 76, 告诉我他在 Curzon Mayfair 电影院观看其新片 & Sons 的放映时。“我被误认为是一名爵士，这是年长者的好处之一。”这位《真爱至上》的明星补充道：“这种情况发生过几次。”荣誉委员会有人在听吗？
■ SIR David Beckham 在牛津郡的家中正遭受抨击。6 月，我披露了 Becks 因在湖中一个小岛上安装火坑而受到严厉批评，该举措本意是为了增加其“对野生动物的价值”。现在，另一项反对意见已提交给当地议会。一名批评者指出，新的布局图中出现了“Hot tub”。“也许这是给野生动物的新玩具，好让它们在辛苦寻找食物的一天后泡个澡？”
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得分！《泰德·拉索》的汉娜获利 300万英镑
HANNAH Waddingham 在被选为足球喜剧《泰德·拉索》（Ted Lasso，目前已进入第 4 季）的演员后，在人生相对较晚的阶段成名。
但这位 52 岁的女演员一直在弥补失去的时间。我可以透露，她在 HK Waddingham 这家用于接收其收入的私人公司中积累了 300 万英镑.300万美元。其收入包括截至去年 10 月的一年内 £160 万 的利润——即每周 3.1 万英镑。
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大多数夫妇到达机场时已被工作和家庭生活搞得精疲力竭。这里性爱专家 MAIA MAZAURETTE 分享了她关于如何……的令人惊讶且大胆的技巧。
这个夏天给你的性生活注入活力——就像法国人那样
每年八月的第一周，我总会被一种笼罩在我挚爱的家乡巴黎之上的寂静所震撼。
当地的面包店在卷帘门上贴了一张手写的停业告示：“Fermeture annuelle, retour le 25 août。”药店也是如此，而我街道上的一半车辆都消失了，想必现在正双排停在里维埃拉某个亲戚家门前，或者在排队等候前往科西嘉岛的渡轮。
这就是“大迁徙”——一场年度的、近乎虔诚的集体出走。法国人口中的很大一部分人在整个月的时间里奔向海滩和山峦，其庄重程度就像一个国家在庆祝一个纯粹为了自身享乐而发明的宗教节日。
毕竟，“享乐”在这里是关键词。正如在法国的一切一样，对浪漫和性快感的维持深深植根于生活的日常仪式之中——而在八月，这一点尤为明显。
法国人如此痴迷于逃离这种能高效扼杀性欲的日常琐事，以至于我们甚至有一个专门描述这种逃离对象的词组——“métro-boulot-dodo”（地铁-工作-睡觉）——这三个词
概括了当生活被优化得如此高效，以至于快感悄然从日程表中完全消失的时刻。
因此，我们休假一个月，商店和办公室关闭，然后在九月回归，精神焕发，活力充沛，性火花——以及感情——被切实地重新点燃。
长期的关系会像发动机积垢一样积累摩擦——并非通过某种单一的剧烈故障，而是通过数以千计微小且平凡的时刻。
接送孩子上学。没清空的洗碗机。在床上习惯性地刷手机，而不是看向伴侣。
再加上两个全职工作者的极度疲惫，被孩子、年迈的父母、房贷和学校WhatsApp群组占据的心理带宽，显而易见，为什么这么多夫妇在进入夏天时，驱动他们的是疲惫而非欲望。
尤其是此时学校放假，你得在漫长的六周里同时兼顾工作和照顾孩子。
作为一名法国性专家，我非常赞同这种夏季出走。欲望需要不可预测性和一定的距离感才能生存——这就是为什么在夏天打破常规，哪怕只是一周的假期，也能给你的性生活带来奇迹。
数据有力地支持了这一点：一项针对 2,000 人的英国调查发现，夫妇在度假时的性爱次数是他们在家里时的两倍。
因此，虽然法国人将八月的性连接行为提升到了艺术的高度，但这并非我们海岸线所独有。
那么，以下是我在这个夏天重新点燃你们关系中性之火的顶级建议——它们或许能让你体验到今年以来最美妙的爱抚……
1. 分担心理负担，避免激情杀手
这一点比听起来更重要，因为怨恨是最可靠的激情杀手之一，而假期并非自动豁免。
一个花了一整周时间默默处理后勤事务的伴侣——打包清单、租车，以及那句令人头疼的“有人注意到防晒霜快用完了吗？”——绝不会是一个有情调的伴侣。
因此，请大声且提前地分摊这些隐形行政工作：谁负责订餐厅，谁负责追踪护照，谁负责明天早起照顾孩子好让另一方多睡一会儿。
在第一晚喝酒时坦率地讨论，像签署一份小型家政合同一样分配任务，如果执行不畅就重新商议。
这听起来极其不性感。但事实上，这是夫妇之间最能产生情欲的对话之一，因为没有什么比觉得自己是房间里唯一的成年人更能快速扼杀欲望了。
2. 尝试在意想不到的时间幽会
在家里，性生活很大程度上被局限在入睡前那十分钟的精疲力竭之中。假期让你从这种时间表中解脱出来，而法国人不出所料地已经意识到了这一点：大多数人（57%）表示，他们更喜欢在夏季假期期间在“经典”的夜晚时段之外做爱，其中早晨醒来后的性爱在替代方案列表中名列前茅。
百叶窗紧闭的午后小憩，在家里或酒店其他任何人醒来之前的清晨幽会，或者在下午时分以“换衣服”为由计划外地回到房间一小时——去争取那些你平时绝无机会接触的时段。
不同的光线，不同的能量水平，不同的你。
3. 在卧室中追求新鲜感
在日常生活中你不会去尝试拖曳伞，但度假时你会很乐意系上安全带，因为这很有趣——那么，为什么不将同样的好奇心延伸到你自己的身体，或者你伴侣的身体上呢？
首先尝试颠覆你们惯常的剧本：不要遵循那个熟悉的顺序——前戏，然后进入，最后随口亲吻一下——而是反过来运行，从进入开始，并在很久之后，以一场漫长且不匆忙的纯亲吻环节结束。
尝试带有“指令”的共同自慰：其中一人只需观看，并引导另一人具体如何以及以什么样的速度触摸自己。
将晚餐变成一场游戏，每喝完一杯酒就能换取一个交换的秘密——一些直到现在才真正说出口的话。或者设定一个计时器，承诺以某种形式持续做爱，直到达到两小时的标记。
为什么这些方法有效？因为从生物学上讲，激情是懒惰的；它对新鲜感的反应远比对努力的反应更迅速，对少量且恰到好处的风险感比对安全感的反应更强烈。
4. 感受性幻想的燃料
幻想需要燃料，而假期是我们拥有胃口和时间去喂养它的罕见时刻。在飞往目的地的航班上，不要默认选择听真实犯罪类节目，尝试一些能让你进入状态而非进入停尸房的内容。
暗黑浪漫主义（Dark romance）和浪漫奇幻（romantasy）小说已成为出版业最大的增长故事之一，英国的科幻与奇幻类别——在浪漫奇幻类书籍的强力推动下——在 2025 带来了超过 £1 亿 的收入。
如果在泳池边阅读让你觉得太
绝佳建议：Maia Mazaurette
暴露，那么有声书可以解决这个问题：每天早晨下载一章，在准备开始一天活动时让它在后台静静播放；到了晚上，你们脑海中都会出现相同的场景，这为你们亲自重新演绎该场景提供了一个非常好的起点。
5. 共同拥抱乐趣感
长期的欲望之死，并非源于过度的亲密，而是源于过度的端庄。承担起育儿和事业的责任，可能会迫使我们变得过于严肃，过于循规蹈矩。
假期赋予了一种奇特但真实的社交许可，允许人们变得滑稽：在不属于你的厨房里笨拙地跳舞，对着一个并不好笑的笑话大笑，在餐桌两端像你们在背负房贷之前那样调情。
事实上，情色感可以从游戏中学习很多东西：对挑战的渴望，大笑和获胜的冲动，最重要的是角色扮演的奇妙力量——在这种扮演中，你们双方都心知肚明自己看起来很滑稽，但它依然有效。
现在每家成人用品店都摆放着专门为此设计的游戏货架——骰子、卡片、提示词，应有尽有——因为伴侣需要的不仅是善意，还需要一种允许搞怪的结构。
不过，你不需要购买任何东西：任何被重新用于此场合的破冰游戏都能起到同样的效果。尝试一轮游戏，每人必须承认一件关于性经历的尴尬往事，以及一个从未大声说出的尴尬幻想。从技术上讲，没有人获胜，但每个人都参与其中。
将这种许可也带到床上。是否有一种姿势，或者仅仅是一个动作，你平时在家里会因为觉得两个所谓的成年人这样做显得有些滑稽而将其排除在外——比如一次漫长且不匆忙的接吻，没有目的地，就像你们青少年时期那样，拥有全世界的时间且毫无紧迫感？
在发生任何其他事情之前，先玩一个傻傻的游戏：用嘴传递一块冰块直到它融化，或者在只有你们两人的情况下玩一轮简化版的“真心话大冒险”。目标不是为了更好的表现，而是为了减轻表现的压力。
6. 彻底迷路以增强欲望
不是隐喻上的，而是真正的迷路。在某个下午将手机调至飞行模式，故意走错路，在没有目的地的城镇中漫游。
彻底迷路会增强欲望，因为不确定性会让大脑保持警觉，而舒适感永远无法做到这一点。不知道自己究竟身在何处，或者会发生什么
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“将一整天都视为前戏，让欲望在喝下第一杯葡萄酒前不断积聚”
接下来，这种轻微的压力和轻微的刺激感会推动吸引力的产生——而且两者的生理迹象是重叠的：呼吸加快、注意力集中、脸颊泛红。
在没有熟悉环境可以退避的情况下，你们最终会依赖彼此来确定方向。这种高度兴奋且略微失去平衡的状态，是无法在有着固定行程的日光浴躺椅上获得的。
7. 将一整天都视为前戏
在家里，性行为经常被匆忙地塞进各项义务之间的空隙中。而在度假时，你们拥有长期关系中最稀缺的资源：非结构化的时间。利用它让一切慢下来。
刻意营造期待感。一场演变成暗示的长午餐。
一个下午不紧不慢的肢体接触，直到很晚才接近床铺——在咖啡馆桌下将手搭在裸露的大腿上，在排队买冰淇淋时手指沿脊柱滑动，在酒店阳台上进行缓慢的按摩，
并且你们双方都大声同意，这“仅仅”是一次按摩。在早餐时许下的承诺，并刻意直到夜晚才兑现。“今晚，我会花很长时间陪你，”这句话足够具体，足以在全天营造期待感，而无需承诺任何具体行为，而这正是关键所在。正是这种不确切知道将发生什么的心理在起作用。
一项 2024 年关于性期待的研究发现，仅仅是期待一次令人兴奋的邂逅，就能显著提高兴奋感本身，并在过程中扭曲我们的时间感，使浪漫时刻感觉更加愉悦。
在实践中，这可能意味着约定在露台上喝完一整杯葡萄酒之前不脱对方的衣服，或者约定夜晚的第一个吻必须等到关上门之后——
这些微小的、随机的延迟让兴奋感攀升，而不是立即得到解决。
将一整天都视为前戏，让欲望积聚，而不是像在家里周二早晨那样，寻求通往高潮最快、最高效的默认路径。
8. 让他人点燃你的欲望
夏季总是能扰乱人们的幻想生活：一项调查发现，男性在夏天最幻想的角色是“邻家女孩”（41% 的人希望实现露营地邻居的场景），而四分之一的女性则幻想救生员、冲浪者或体育教练。
同一项研究发现，在恋爱关系中的男性中有 34%，女性中有 16% 在夏天感到更强烈的更换性伴侣的冲动——尽管只有 6% 的人曾在夏天之前真正离开伴侣以享受单身生活。
这种“心痒”的感觉是真实且普遍的，但几乎从未被付诸行动。
与其假装它不存在，不如借用它的能量。在酒店酒吧里以“陌生人”的身份与自己的伴侣见面。
点一杯你平时绝不会点的饮料。用名字（真实的或虚构的）互相介绍，并在向对方提问时保持角色设定，就好像过去的这几年从未发生过一样。告诉对方你今天注意到了谁或什么——海滩上的一个陌生人，某人给你的一个眼神——并让你的伴侣以角色身份而非真实身份做出回应，带一点嫉妒，带一点好奇。
将这种氛围带到楼上，它赋予你们双方的权限去要求某些事情，或做某些事情，而这些如果由平时的你们提出，会显得异常正式。毕竟，脱你衣服的是那个“角色”，而不是你的配偶。
9. 对于那些有孩子的夫妇……
上述所有建议都不需要五星级的蜜月套房。一扇锁上的门和让孩子们真正早睡（是强制执行，而非仅仅是愿望）对婚姻的帮助将比任何水疗护理都大。
如果酒店有儿童俱乐部，或者祖父母和朋友在附近，请刻意地利用哪怕一个没有孩子的下午，而不是心怀愧疚地利用。
当无法获得大段的私密时间时，不要轻视在公共场合的小动作——在餐厅桌下将手放在大腿上，或者在孩子们被冰淇淋吸引注意力时偷吻一下，这些依然算作感情维护，即便正戏必须等到天黑。
效仿法国人，不要忘记你的目标：以一种只有脱离枯燥日常才能实现的方式来修复婚姻。
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这种折磨无数女性的疾病摧毁了我的性生活，毁掉了我的感情，并几乎摧毁了我的事业
我蜷缩在医院的病床上，因剧痛而痛苦地翻滚，捂着肚子，强忍着泪水，直到听清医生的话。“我不明白你为什么又回来了，斯科特小姐，”他说，完全没有掩饰他的沮丧，“我们做了和上周一样的检查，结果都正常。你只是经期不适而已。”经期不适？这根本无法形容我所经历的痛苦。
是的，我的经期确实“不适”。以这次为例，急救人员在看到我呕吐、因疼痛而抽搐并流失惊人 amount 的血液后，开启蓝色警灯将我紧急送往医院。
因此，我被反复送入医院。因此，恋爱或任何形式的亲密关系都成了不可能，因为性行为太痛苦了。
我的经期痛苦到让我失去了学术研究员的工作。它们主宰了我生活的每一个元素。
然而，这一切在那个医生看来似乎毫无意义。
“继续服用止痛药就好。如果有什么严重问题，检查结果会显示出来的，”他继续说道，随后拉开隔帘，示意我离开。
那是十年前，当时我 28 岁，但我认为我永远不会忘记那种痛苦被如此迅速地否决而产生的绝望感。
此后，类似的经历我已经数不清了。
我的“经期”是由子宫内膜异位症引起的，这是一种慢性疾病，类似于子宫内膜的组织在子宫外部生长。我推测自己在 13 岁初潮后不久就患上了此病，因为从一开始我的经期就非常痛苦。
我艰难地经历了七次失败的腹腔镜手术——这是一种通过在腹部插入摄像头检查器官，并用激光切除可见的异位内膜的手术。在绝望之中，我最终在去年 2 月接受了子宫切除术。
当时我 37 岁，已经恳求我的 NHS 医生长达七年时间帮我切除子宫、子宫体和卵巢。他们反复拒绝，称这并非保证能治愈的方法，且由于我处于生育年龄，我可能会后悔没有成为一名母亲。
无论我解释多少次，似乎都毫无作用。我解释说，虽然我很想成为一名母亲，但我的子宫内膜异位症意味着我连照顾自己都力不从心，更不用说照顾孩子了。
我当时是如此绝望，以至于在 2023 年 11 月住院期间——当时我处于剧痛之中，因为子宫内膜异位症附着在我的肠道上，导致肠道受影响严重，我需要使用灌肠剂和泻药——我在网上发起了一个 GoFundMe 筹款，旨在筹集 1.2 万英镑 以支付私人子宫切除手术的费用。
2025 年 2 月，我终于被推入了位于我家附近汉普郡法恩伯勒的普伦利公园医院的手术室。
作者：埃弗林·斯科特（Evelyn Scott）
我曾希望有一个奇迹般的疗法。令人心碎的是，这并没有发生。
这可能是因为残留的疤痕组织，或者是因为外科医生不想让我如此年轻就直接进入绝经期，因此留下了一个卵巢。这意味着我仍在产生雌激素——这种女性性激素会加剧子宫内膜异位症——我的疼痛往往依然如故。
我绝非孤例。英国约有 150 万 名处于生育年龄的女性（十分之一）患有子宫内膜异位症。
因此，在 2019 年，在我放弃古典和法医考古学博士学位后，我首次产生了写一本书的想法，书名为《血色丑闻：医学如何辜负疼痛中的女性》（A Bloody Scandal: How Medicine Fails Women In Pain），旨在揭露这种令人愤怒的现象——即认为像我这样的经期仅仅是“不幸”的医学厌女症。
自从我痛苦的经期开始以来，医生和护士一直告诉我，我的经期并不比其他女性更糟糕。
我被反复打发，被告知这“全在你的心理作用”。
甚至有朋友问我：你确定这种疼痛不是心理上的吗？
无需多言，这些人现在不再是我的朋友了。
尽管我的症状完全符合教科书上的描述，但我被告知不可能患有子宫内膜异位症，因为每次超声波和血液检查的结果都显示“正常”。
当我 30 岁再次被送入急诊室（A&E）时，我以为自己走运了。当时一名子宫内膜异位症专家在值班，他将我转诊到了他的诊所。他解释说，检测这种疾病的唯一方法是在全身麻醉下进行腹腔镜检查。这项手术
摄影：NATHAN FUDDER / THAI 和 Michael GINGER
艰苦的斗争：埃弗林·斯科特（Evelyn Scott）一直在与医疗领域的厌女症作斗争
可以揭示异常组织生长的位置——常见部位包括卵巢、输卵管，甚至包括肠道和膀胱。
这些组织在每次月经周期中都会肿胀并出血，导致疼痛、炎症和疤痕。随后可以使用激光或手术刀将这些组织切除。
我记得当时我因终于有人认真对待我的痛苦而泣不成声。
几个月后，我接受了腹腔镜手术。术后，外科医生给我看了我的子宫、卵巢和输卵管的图像，上面布满了黑色的条纹。他指着这些较暗的区域说：“这些全部是子宫内膜异位症，我们现在已经将它们切除了。你现在应该感觉舒服多了。”
我的希望很快就破灭了。在一个月内，子宫内膜异位症就复发了。在接下来的七年里，我每年都要进行一次腹腔镜手术，期间复发的子宫内膜异位症会被切除，然后再次生长。我仍然觉得自己在医生眼中是个麻烦，是一个应该默默忍受的人。
而且不仅仅是男性医生。即使是没有经历过子宫内膜异位症剧痛的女性，也可能难以产生共情。
一名女性医生（她是准备为我进行其中一次腹腔镜手术的团队成员）告诉我：“我们这么做只是为了迁就你。”她偷偷溜走了，当外科医生在手术后回来向我展示切除的大量子宫内膜异位症组织时，她一言不发。
我已经四年没有谈恋爱了。我已经放弃寻找一个能够忍受我病情现实的人。
男朋友们很快就会厌倦这样一个事实：对我来说，性行为往往过于痛苦。
令人震惊的是，我交往过的不止一个男人在激情之中听到我说他们弄疼我时，会回答道：“别担心，我很快就结束了。”
回想起来，我想知道为什么我没有说：“赶紧给我停下！”但我因为将我的疾病强加在他人身上而感到非常愧疚。
六年前，我尝试给另一个男人机会。当他看到我在性爱中因疼痛而挣扎时，他立即停止了。
当时我出血非常严重，他惊恐地叫了救护车并陪我去了医院。
但几个月后我们分手了，因为我对缺乏性生活感到非常糟糕。
其他关系之所以结束，是因为一旦蜜月期过去，而我仍然病得无法参加聚会甚至无法做晚餐，我就被搞得觉得自己像个累赘。
不出所料，我曾经历过极其灰暗的时光，自杀似乎是唯一的出路。在我成年后的生活大部分时间里，我一直在服用抗抑郁药。一名精神科医生诊断我患有复杂性创伤后应激障碍（CPTSD），这是由于我自月经初潮以来遭受的剧烈疼痛，以及被医生反复忽视所带来的痛苦共同导致的。我希望子宫切除术能治愈一切，尽管医生曾警告我可能没有效果。
子宫内膜异位症可以生长在盆腔之外，因此切除子宫不能保证缓解。但我当时已经绝望了。我的术后疼痛比预想的更剧烈，而且我感到极其恶心。我被开强效阿片类药物曲马多（Tramadol），在六个月的时间里几乎无法正常生活。
我目前正在服用 Zoladex，这是一种激素疗法，在我等待另一个漫长的手术名单以切除剩余卵巢期间，它将使我的剩余卵巢停止工作。我的疼痛依然持续，我认为这是由于之前手术留下的显著疤痕组织而加剧的。
我仍然在服用抗抑郁药，以及高剂量的 Co-codamol（一种强效阿片类药物）和 Naproxen（一种强效抗炎药）。这些药物能减轻——但很少能消除——疼痛。
当疼痛变得难以忍受时（这种情况在大多数月份仍会发生），我最终会被送进医院接受吗啡治疗。谢天谢地，这能带来一些暂时的缓解。
我无法用语言表达这种毁灭感：即便在接受了所有这些治疗之后，我仍然得依赖多种药物的混合治疗。
我和弟弟住在一起，他以及我那曾任护士的祖母给了我巨大的支持。他们，以及我心爱的狗和马，给了我继续生活并努力保持积极心态的理由。
我对处于类似情况的其他女性的建议是：尽可能早地坚持寻求专科医生的帮助，并且在就诊时携带笔记，以便所有的问题和顾虑都能得到解答。看医生的过程可能会让人不知所措，笔记很有帮助。
但由于这是一种纯女性疾病，你必须准备好去对抗我们医疗系统中根深蒂固的医疗厌女症。
没有任何保证能让我彻底摆脱疼痛——这个前景如此难以忍受，以至于我无法深思。但我会继续战斗，并希望有一天能从这种可怕的病症中获得真正的解脱。
讲述给 HELEN CARROLL
■ 《血色丑闻：医学如何辜负疼痛中的女性》（A Bloody Scandal: How Medicine Fails Women In Pain，£18.99, 4th Estate）今日上市
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作者：Victoria Woodhall
我的物理治疗师最近给了我一个令人清醒的诊断。在 58, 岁时，我的慢性背痛在很大程度上是因为我的臀部功能不足。
数十年的办公室工作让我的臀大肌变得如此虚弱，以至于它们几乎处于“关闭”状态。这甚至有一个名称：“臀肌失忆症”或“死臀综合征”。
而且我并不孤单——臀肌无力是腰痛的常见原因。作为人体最大的肌肉群，它们负责维持身体直立，并帮助你弯腰和爬楼梯。
但如果你长期久坐，它们就会忘记自己应该做什么，从而让你的背部承受压力。领先的肌肉健康医生 Gabrielle Lyon 博士将肌肉称为“长寿器官”，她表示，我们年老时的生活质量取决于我们的肌肉健康状况。
肌肉不仅能让我们在晚年保持行动能力，而且它是一种代谢活跃的组织，有助于调节血糖并在休息时燃烧卡路里。
功能性激素营养师 Pippa Campbell 表示：“肌肉是餐后存储大部分葡萄糖的地方。你的肌肉越多，处理血糖的能力就越强。”
但我真的必须在健身房花好几个小时做深蹲才能获得更强壮的臀部吗？或者，我在想，是否有一种捷径——而且还能顺便给我一个金·卡戴珊（Kim Kardashian）风格的翘臀？
根据 Tesla Former（与埃隆·马斯克的电动汽车无关）制造商的说法，其机器正是为此设计的。它通过绑在臀部、大小如餐盘的巨型电磁垫，在 30 分钟内实现 50,000 次臀肌收缩，以增强和紧致
之前
我在走进健身房后是如何解决我的“死臀综合征”的！
肌肉。你唯一需要做的就是，嗯，什么都不用做。
于是我决定在伦敦的 Genevix 诊所尝试一下。其创始人 Viviana Botoaca 将我固定在那个看起来有点恐怖的机器上，并调高了强度。
在 30 分钟的疗程中包含 39 项练习，从挤压、拍击、轻敲和脉冲到震动——以及强力抓取，强到我的脚趾都感到发麻。
我能感觉到盆底肌肉在发生变化。这到底是怎么回事？
“该机器使用被称为 FMS 的功能性磁刺激技术来兴奋运动神经并触发收缩，具体来说，在 30 分钟内可产生 50,000 次收缩，这是无法通过自主意识完成的，”Botoaca 解释道。
在最高强度下，它可以达到 12 厘米的深度。
即便我能一次性完成 50,000 次深蹲，且动作完美，我也无法动用所有可能的肌肉纤维。“当我们正常锻炼时，身体不会一次性激活每一根肌肉纤维，”她说。
“相反，它会随着力量需求的增加而逐渐动用它们。FMS 通过从身体外部触发强力肌肉收缩，绕过了身体正常的自主激活过程。这使得更多的肌肉纤维能够同时收缩，创造出仅凭自主锻炼难以实现的强度。”
FMS 可以治疗身体任何部位的肌肉。而且与你的私人教练不同，Tesla Former
图片：NARASHA PIZZINKO(LEZL) • ROSE 不在乎你是否疲惫，而且它绝不会让你的动作变形。
我打断了 Botoaca，询问那种突然的轻敲感是什么，就像有一根橡皮筋在弹我的屁股。显然这是一种“恢复”模式，有助于防止引起抽搐和痉挛的乳酸堆积。
这种感觉很奇怪，并不疼痛，在接下来的几天里，我很开心没有感受到像锻炼后那样延迟性肌肉酸痛（DOMS）。
在三周内进行了六次疗程后，效果显现了——我的屁股现在更挺拔，不再像煎饼一样扁平。我的
CLARE FOGES 正在休假
臀瓣与大腿交接处的褶皱现在有了上扬的趋势——我简直想说它们在微笑。
这个想法并不是用机器取代你的锻炼计划，而且推荐的六次疗程套餐价格为 3,000 英镑，确实很贵。但它确实能给你一个启动动力，尤其是如果你正处于，比如，手术恢复期。或者如果你想要快速提升臀部（大多数人，像我一样，每周可以进行两次疗程）。
为了获得最佳治疗效果，你需要摄入富含肌肉构建蛋白质的饮食，如鸡蛋、鸡肉和三文鱼，而我的饮食正是如此。每隔一到三个月进行一次维护疗程（如果不购买另一个套餐，每次 £700）可以帮助你保持良好状态。
那么我的背痛呢？这仍在改善中，但由于新获得的“钢臀”提供了更好的支撑，背痛已明显减轻。Botoaca 发现，从侧面看，我的左侧臀肌提升程度不如右侧。事实上，这与我背痛更偏左侧的问题相吻合。
物理治疗师 Mattia Zappala 解释道：“当你患有慢性疼痛时，你往往会避免使用疼痛的肌肉，从而形成一个恶性循环。慢性疼痛会干扰大脑动用这些肌肉的能力，因此你必须重新训练这种连接。”
他同意 Tesla Former 有助于唤醒那些被忽视的肌肉，但它不能替代深蹲、箭步蹲、力量训练，也不能替代自主建立那些至关重要的大脑到肌肉的连接。
虽然 FMS 是肌肉构建领域的“劳斯莱斯”，但一个更便宜（但功率较低）的选择是在锻炼时穿着全身电刺激（EMS）套装。它们看起来像接了线的潜水服，可以在 E-Pulsive 等专业健身房找到（20 分钟 £80）。
然而，这里没有水疗按摩床——你必须得出汗。单次疗程中 36,000 次的电刺激肌肉收缩仅在你实际运动时对肌肉起作用。
这让我明白，目前流行的大屁股（只要是有肌肉的）实际上对健康有益……但没有什么能比得上健身房。我穿这个屁股看起来大吗？我希望如此！
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冒险：伊莎贝尔·罗斯在日本
这本该是我梦寐以求的假期——一次前往日本的独自旅行，那里长期以来一直是我愿望清单上的首选目的地。我计划用整整一个月的时间让自己沉浸在日本文化中，体验一种完全不同的生活方式。
这次旅行并不便宜——全部花费大约 5,000 英镑 ——但多亏了我在几年前去世的挚爱祖母留给我的遗产，我觉得自己能够大胆尝试。
我从未想象过，就在我这次一生一次的冒险开始仅 11 天后，有一天早晨我在东京的酒店醒来，发现自己被九名警察包围，他们正用日语对我大声下令。
我的梦想变成了彻头彻尾的噩梦。我后来被判定为向日本走私毒品，并在大阪的一所监狱中度过了五个极其痛苦的月份。但这并非司法误判。相反，这是完全合理的。
我看起来不像是个会走私毒品的人。我只有 4英尺 11英寸高，所以看起来比我实际的 27 岁要年轻得多。我的家庭支持我且稳定，我在典型的郊区——萨里郡的韦布里奇长大。我受过大学教育，在市场营销和公共关系领域拥有成功的职业生涯。
但正如我深知的那样，无论社会地位如何都无法保护你免受成瘾之苦。由于在大学期间多年尝试毒品以及工作中狂欢的文化，不久我就开始每天服用毒品。
像越来越多 20 岁左右的人一样，我请了长假并于去年 4 月飞往东京。但这不仅仅是为了旅行的刺激——我已经严重依赖氯胺酮，这是一种旨在用作马匹镇静剂的街头毒品。我前往日本的部分原因是为了进行最后一次尝试戒毒。
我觉得能做到——但在落地时，我感到了熟悉的戒断症状：深度低落、焦虑、极度不安、精疲力竭和严重的头痛。于是我安排在英国的人将 7克 毒品隐藏在生日卡片中邮寄到我的酒店。
这太愚蠢了——但我当时既绝望又天真。在家里，我曾发誓大多数日子都要停止，但从未认真尝试过戒除。
讽刺的是，在接下来的一个星期里，当我等待包裹到达时，我感觉比很长一段时间以来都要好，在混乱的涩谷十字路口（据报道是世界上最繁忙的行人过路口）伫立，以及探索历史悠久的浅草寺时，体验到了真实而纯粹的快乐。
在终于尝试拥抱清醒的生活时，我开始后悔订购了那个
我的氯胺酮成瘾让我陷入了残酷的日本监狱。
但这就是为什么这是发生在我身上最好的事情
作者：Izabel Rose
药物。即便到那时我已经不再想服用它们，但我没料到海关人员会拦截它们。
日本是一个对所有非法和娱乐性药物采取零容忍政策的国家。即便仅仅是持有，最高可被判处七年监禁。
由于信封上写着我的名字和我入住酒店的地址，警方准确地知道在哪里能找到我。
在那个四月的余下时间里，我的酒店房间在搜寻更多药物时被翻得乱七八糟，随后我接受了审问并被关进牢房。我离家 9,000 英里，面临着被判处两年半监禁的威胁。
据估计，目前英国约有 300,000 人将氯胺酮用于娱乐。我敢打赌，许多人开始使用它的方式和我一样——几乎没有考虑过，也不了解它的影响。
这是因为对于许多年轻人来说，氯胺酮被认为就像在工作日结束时喝一杯冰镇白葡萄酒一样正常。没有污名化。但人们对其迅速导致的有害生理和心理成瘾也几乎没有意识。
我 18 岁时住在伦敦一所大学的学生宿舍里，当时有人给了我第一次“bump”（小剂量吸食）——一小剂 10mg 的氯胺酮。我和两个朋友经历了一种被称为“K-hole”的状态，这是一种完全解离的恍惚状态，期间我们无法移动或说话。
那是一次极其恐怖的经历——就像我离开了身体，从上方观察自己——持续了大约一小时。
我被吓坏了，真心认为自己再也不会尝试它。
然而仅仅一周后在一次家庭派对上，我发现自己又接受了另一次 bump。
为什么我会答应？年轻、鲁莽、想要融入群体——以上皆是。这次的效果没那么可怕。讽刺的是，我从未真正喝过多少酒，因为我不喜欢那个味道或效果——但我从青少年早期开始就经常抽大麻。事后看来，对我而言这是一种“入门药物”——让我对“意识模糊”的感觉脱敏，并减轻了我尝试其他物质的恐惧。
在接下来的四年里，没有药物的派对是不完整的。随着耐受力的增加，30mg 的 snorted bump（鼻吸小剂量）被 75mg 的粉末状药物“line”（一条线）所取代。在我离开学习新闻专业的大学，并在 22 岁时搬进与两个朋友共用的公寓后——其中一人我认为已经对氯胺酮上瘾——我的成瘾情况完全失控了。
我的营销工作为我提供了不错的收入，而且由于我的同事大多也是年轻人，派对是文化中非常重要的一部分。吸毒被
“毒贩直接送到家。就像点披萨一样简单”
视为正常现象——就像夜生活中的喝酒一样——完全没有禁忌，我知道对于任何不在这个圈子里的人来说，这很难理解。
在大学期间，我只在周末服用氯胺酮。但现在，我和室友以及其他朋友在周中也会使用，甚至当我们只是留在家里看电影时也是如此。
我告诉自己，其他女性在下班后会倒一杯灰皮诺白葡萄酒——为什么我也不能稍微纵容一下自己呢？
不需要去阴暗的毒窟寻找快感。如今毒贩直接送到家；这就像点披萨一样简单。上瘾并不困难——它很平庸。
23 岁时，我每隔一天就会收到货，每周花费高达 £300 来满足我的瘾头。
一年后，我的耐受力变得如此之高，以至于我一醒来就鼻吸，并在工作日中午使用。我的工作能力很强，所以没有引起任何怀疑。到了这个阶段，我已经成瘾到绝望，根本不在乎了。
到那时，避免可怕的戒断反应（焦虑、抑郁、失眠和闪回）的唯一方法就是每隔几个小时鼻吸一次。
回想起来，我完全不知道我那瘦小的身体——我穿6号码——是如何代谢掉如此大量的药物而没有产生更严重后果的。
我已经知道有些人因为氯胺酮引起的瘢痕和炎症而不得不切除膀胱甚至肾脏。这是因为这种药物会破坏膀胱内壁。炎症和瘢痕会蔓延到输尿管（连接膀胱与肾脏的管道），导致其堵塞。即便知道这些，也没能阻止我。而且，
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经过多年的大量使用，氯胺酮现在开始造成严重的身体损害，包括夺走了我的嗅觉。我数不清有多少次因为严重的胃炎、剧烈的胃部和胸部疼痛（被称为“氯胺酮痉挛”）以及尿路感染而前往急诊室（A&E）。
然而，我从未向任何检查我的医生承认我服用过氯胺酮。我太害怕这件事被记录在医疗档案中可能带来的职业和法律后果。
血液检查和扫描未能揭示原因，因此他们会让我出院，并说我除此之外似乎“健康状况良好”。
但疼痛往往如此剧烈，唯一能带来缓解的方法就是服用更多的氯胺酮。由于渴望摆脱这种药物，我告诉自己，离开一个月就是打破成瘾的解决方案。
在前往盖特威克机场乘坐飞往东京的航班途中，我买了 1. 5g 氯胺酮，在通过护照检查前服用，告诉自己这是我的“最后的狂欢”。我坚信在返回时，我已经战胜了成瘾。
我在途中顺便去了我父亲家——我的父母已经离婚，他们都知道我在使用氯胺酮，并且对我每次见到他们时都处于“亢奋”状态深感担忧，恳求我停止。
父亲担心我可能会愚蠢到尝试在航班上走私毒品，但我告诉他我不会那么笨。遗憾的是，事实恰恰相反。我在盖特威克服用的氯胺酮在一小时内失效了，但在飞行过程中我觉得还好。然而，就在我降落在东京的那一刻，戒断症状发作了。
我惊恐万分，给去过日本的朋友发信息，询问他们是否能推荐一个我可以买到更多药的地方。他们不能，但建议我让一个朋友直接从英国邮寄给我，他们听说过其他人出国时这样做。
虽然这需要七
这是囚犯必须遵守的众多规则之一。
前六周的大部分时间，我都在恐惧中抽泣和呕吐。我会用头撞牢房的墙壁。如果我有能力，我会尝试自杀。
我不会说日语，狱警也不会说英语，所以我们通过一个名为Pocketalk的双向AI翻译设备进行交流。禁止与其他囚犯接触。我记得在被押送到淋浴间时，一名女性低声对我耳语“English?”。我回答“Hai”，在日语中意思是“是的”。
狱警把脸凑到她面前大声呵斥——她再也没有跟我说过话。
缺乏人类的联系——尤其是与亲人的联系，因为在最初的日子里，我不被允许写信或打电话——是最大的挑战。从未见过阳光，感受不到新鲜空气，且无法行走超过两米（也就是我牢房的长度），这让我濒临崩溃。
然而，随着周数的增加，我内心深处有些东西开始发生变化。我决定利用漫长而孤独的时间练习冥想、阅读并写日记。
我不再抱怨处境的悲惨，而是开始感到感激。我是安全的。我有遮风挡雨的地方，每天有三餐。早餐是两个面包卷，午餐和晚餐是米饭配鸡肉或豆腐和蔬菜——通过牢房金属门上的一个小口递进来。
在接下来的五个月里，我被带到法院三次，第一次是认罪，第二次是提供证据，最后是在 9月 5, 日被宣判。
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当我的法庭翻译告诉我，审理我案件的三位法官决定对我判处四年缓刑时，我因宽慰而崩溃。我知道这意味着如果我在接下来的四年里在日本再次犯罪，我将被送入监狱，但同时也意味着我可以自由回家了。
我不希望让我那两位身体欠佳的父母经历在法庭上看到我的折磨，也不希望我的姐姐看到我处于那种状态。但当我的飞机降落在盖特威克机场时，他们三人都在等我。我们之间爆发了强烈的情绪——拥抱、哭泣、大笑。
我回到了原来的生活——在我入狱期间，我的父亲非常慷慨地帮我支付了伦敦东区公寓的房租。我的雇主向大阪法院发送了一份“品行良好”的推荐信，并将我的职位保留到了我被释放前两周；由于这是一个关键岗位，他们不得不填补该空缺。但回到原来的家和朋友身边是一个错误。
“前六周的大部分时间里，我一直在抽泣和呕吐”
回家六周后，我发现了在旅行前藏在房间里的氯胺酮。
诱惑太大，让我无法抗拒——这导致了我复吸。
今年年初，为了彻底摆脱氯胺酮，我联系了我的全科医生（GP）和市议会，在一名药物支持工作人员的帮助下开始了排毒。从那时起，我一直参加禁毒协会（Narcotics Anonymous）的会议，并且在一家稳定中心作为志愿者住院治疗后，现在已经近两个月没有接触任何药物了。
我决心战胜这个病魔——我很大一部分动力来自于我在 TikTok 上与 23,000 名粉丝分享我的心路历程。我收到了一些令人心碎的信息，那些人的亲人也像我一样，生活被氯胺酮毁了。
监狱的生活改变了我。我不想在营销领域工作，向人们推销他们不需要的东西。相反，我希望我的新生活能包括提高意识，并为那些像我一样被卷入药物世界的人提供支持。
那五个月的监禁是我人生中最糟糕的时光——但也是可能发生在我身上最好的事情。
如果我没有做过向日本走私药物那样愚蠢的事，我就没有时间反思氯胺酮所造成的伤害。
如果没有这次警钟，我毫不怀疑我的成瘾程度会升级，从而导致更严重的健康问题。
现实情况是，那些日本海关官员很可能救了我的命。
口述给 HELEN CARROLL
康复：伊莎贝尔（Izabel）以及插图中的大阪拘留中心
几天就能送达，这听起来像是个天才计划——我甚至从朋友那里拿到了追踪信息，以便跟踪包裹。
这意味着我可以看到它在进入日本的海关被扣留了。然而，天真地想，我从未想到过我会因为那么小的一点数量而被监禁并定罪。
当逮捕我的警员指控我涉嫌药物犯罪时，那种羞愧的深度难以用语言形容。
我的手机在酒店被没收了，所以我无法让家里的任何人知道我被捕的消息。后来我发现，在我的姐姐注意到我反常地 24 小时没有在社交媒体上发布任何内容后，我的父母联系了外交部。他们被告知联系英国驻日本大使馆，大使馆随后与警方进行了沟通。他们惊恐地发现我被逮捕了。
由于我不是日本居民，被认为有潜逃风险，我在等待审判期间被拒绝保释，并被送往大阪拘留中心的一个牢房。除了每周几次短暂的洗澡时间外，我一天 24 小时处于隔离状态，在清醒时间被强迫盘腿而坐或跪着，每天仅允许半小时的室内运动。
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习惯英国夏季酷暑这种新的“常态”需要付出一定的努力，这还是委婉的说法。但对于我们中估计有 30% 可能会出现热疹（也称为痱子）的人来说，这是一个特别的挑战。
这种病症表现为微小的红色（如果皮肤较深，则为灰色或白色）水疱，可以迅速扩散，且像荨麻疹一样瘙痒和灼热，这种感觉可能令人愤怒地随机，并破坏你对炎热晴朗日子的享受。
庆幸的是，一旦你知道自己在面对什么，就有有效的方法来管理它。重要的是不要将其误认为另一种夏季诱发的皮疹，因为后者可能需要不同的治疗方法。
由于英国气象局（Met Office）今天发布了极端高温的琥珀色天气预警，英格兰部分地区的温度预计将达到 38℃，我们询问了皮肤科医生如何预防和控制这些愤怒的、刺痛的皮疹。
什么是痱子？
皮肤科顾问申英-乔（Shin-Young Cho）博士表示，大多数人所熟知的“痱子”，其正式名称为汗管阻塞症（MILLARIA）。它是由于汗腺导管堵塞，导致汗液被困在皮肤下方并引发炎症而引起的。
她指出，最强的风险因素包括高温、高湿度、紧身衣物以及长期的皮肤闭塞和压力（例如褥疮）——所有这些因素都会阻碍汗液的正常蒸发。她还表示，有证据表明，皮肤上天然存在的一些细菌会产生某些物质，可能导致汗腺导管堵塞，从而增加患痱子的可能性。
身体哪些部位容易出现痱子？
乔博士表示，最常见的地方是躯干、颈部以及皮肤褶皱处，如腋下、腹股沟和乳房下方，这些地方的汗腺分布更集中，且水分容易积聚。然而，在任何汗液被衣物困住的地方都可能出现。面部出现的情况较少，但确实会发生，尤其是在炎热潮湿的气候中。
如何预防？
在热浪期间，这说起来容易做起来难，但目标是避免过热和过度出汗。乔博士表示，最有效的治疗就是预防：在通风良好的空间保持凉爽，穿着宽松、透气的衣服，尽可能多洗冷水澡，避免出汗的运动和厚重的护肤产品，特别是闭塞性软膏以及含有凡士林、硅酮和乳木果油等成分的乳霜。这包括防晒霜，因为防晒霜质地浓稠，且需要多次涂抹，容易在皮肤上堆积。建议选择无香精的凝胶或无油的防晒乳液，以提供持久的保护。
如何缓解？
“炉甘石洗剂（CALAMINE lotion）可以减轻最严重的灼热刺痛感，”皮肤科顾问马格努斯·林奇（Magnus Lynch）博士说，“其中的氧化锌和氧化铁有助于
图片：Donald by models GETTY
如何治疗痱子——仅需 £2.00 起
作者：因格博格·范·洛特林根（Ingeborg van Lotringen）
冷却皮肤并支持皮肤屏障，同时让身体清除堵塞的汗腺导管。请少量使用，尤其是对于皮肤易干燥的人群。”
“炉甘石洗剂随着时间的推移可能会产生干燥效果。建议在早晨使用，晚上则换成含有甘油、神经酰胺或依克多因（ectoin）的轻盈无香精保湿霜。”
林奇博士表示，抗组胺药片也可以缓解瘙痒，尽管它们无法帮助改善病情本身，因为痱子并非由过敏反应引起。“白天可以尝试使用西替利嗪（cetirizine）等非嗜睡类药物；如果瘙痒影响睡眠，晚上可以尝试使用像皮力通（Piriton）这样具有助眠作用的药物。”
如果你进行运动，请投资购买排汗运动面料，并及时更换出汗的衣服，随后尽快洗澡，以免汗液在皮肤上停留并加重病情。此外，不要抓挠：这会加剧刺激并增加感染风险。
它与汗疹（SWEAT RASH）是一回事吗？
虽然林奇博士认为两者是同一回事，但其他人使用“汗疹”一词来指代一种被称为念珠菌间擦症（candida intertrigo）的病症。这通常表现为疼痛、发红（而非凸起）的炎症，有时伴有皮肤破裂和边缘脱屑。它是由汗液和摩擦引起的，通常伴有酵母菌和细菌的过度生长，通常出现在皮肤褶皱处，包括手指和脚趾之间。在这种情况下，抗微生物次氯酸喷雾有助于中和细菌并镇静皮肤。如果你不确定自己患的是哪种
皮疹，不必担心。乔博士说：“虽然在治疗痱子时不需要抗菌产品，但温和且具有补水作用的次氯酸喷雾不会加重病情，并有助于缓解炎症。”
它与日光过敏相当吗？
不相当，尽管两者在外观和感觉上具有极强的欺骗性，看起来非常相似。日光过敏，或称多形性日光疹（PLE），发生在极少接触阳光的皮肤对主要 UVA 射线产生过度反应时，表现为红色、瘙痒的斑块和水疱，而非热疹典型的微小凸起。它通常在接触阳光后的几个小时内出现在皮肤表面，而不是出现在皮肤褶皱或汗液积聚的地方。
管理热疹的最佳产品
- Care 炉甘石洗剂，£2.69，superdrug.com：一种舒缓的常备药。
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很久以前我就停止在打折季购物了。我非常擅长寻找廉价商品——而这正是问题所在。
我的目标是寻找最昂贵单品上的最大折扣，无论我是否需要它——甚至无论我是否喜欢它。
结果我的衣橱里塞满了那些我绝不会原价购买且从未穿过的东西。我得出结论，打折是一场骗局：一种说服我们购买商店无法原价售出的商品的方式。
然后，上周，我去寻找芭蕾平底鞋。我想找一双简单的皮革鞋，以替换掉那双在经过十年的艰苦穿着后终于散架的鞋。我找到了——而且有 25% 的折扣！就在那时我
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一件优质的 100% 全棉衬衫无论白天还是夜晚，在任何场合都可以穿着。现在可以将其披在泳装外，敞开领口并卷起袖口；到了秋冬，则可以将其叠穿在 T 恤外或西装外套内。
白色、浅蓝色或粉色衬衫，可能带有经典条纹，比如 The White Company 的这款设计，现价 £77，是永恒的经典且百搭。为什么要付全价呢？
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慵懒风单肩包
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没错，实用性是关键，但这并不意味着你必须在风格上妥协。
如果预算允许，请选择真皮的奢华感，因为真皮随时间流逝会更有质感。
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直筒牛仔裤
虽然个性牛仔单品可能主导了秋冬 T 台，但在现实生活中，直筒牛仔裤才是值得购买的款式。如果宽腿裤从未适合你的身形，而你又准备告别紧身裤，那么直筒裤就是完美的折中选择。可以说它是最百搭的形状，可以轻松地穿出正式感或休闲感。为了获得最修身的剪裁，请寻找高腰款以及带有少量弹力的牛仔面料，以避免腰带处出现空隙。你不希望面料紧贴小腿，因此可以选择“宽松直筒”剪裁以获得更多空间。大幅折扣意味着现在是投资高端品牌的绝佳时机。相信我，它们绝对物有所值。这款来自 Jigsaw 的牛仔裤优惠了 £60。
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我喜欢经典的皮革，但麂皮更有秋季氛围，尽管在雨天可能会比较麻烦。否则，可以选择一些更令人兴奋的款式，比如这款来自 Massimo Dutti 的铆钉款，价格从 £119 降至 £49.95。
它们百搭。现在买，现在穿，只要天气允许就一直穿下去。
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“当我喜欢某人时是很明显的——他当时在‘好友区’”
MICHELLE，30 岁
基本情况 单身，无子女。
目前职业 广播员及电台主持人。
希望结识
一位有动力且有抱负的绅士。我被才智和骑士精神所吸引。
“她在跟我调情……眼睛在不停地眨”
LEMMAR，28 岁
基本情况 单身，无子女。
目前职业 群众演员、演员及模特。
希望结识
一个随和、有趣，且具有幽默感和冒险精神的人。
图片：BENJUDER，他以及化妆师 COLDETTE, RUDY
约会经历？
我一直以来都是单身。但这并不意味着我从未约会。我参加过无数次约会，也有过几次亲密时刻，但我还没有找到“那个人”。
约会前会紧张吗？
不，我很擅长结识新朋友。蜘蛛让我紧张，男人不会。
第一印象？
积极——Lemmar 准时到达。穿着金色连衣裙和蓝色高跟鞋的我感到自信且状态良好。Lemmar 看起来是一个非常冷静且沉着的人。从外形上看，他身材高挑且相当苗条。我觉得他很有吸引力，但不是我的类型。我的心跳会为英国演员亨利·卡维尔（Henry Cavill，饰演过超人）加速。
是否容易沟通？
是的，他对自己的约会经历很坦诚，我了解到他上一段感情失败是因为对方专注于安定下来，而他还没准备好。
我解释说，在开启人生下一个章节之前，我也想充分利用现在的生活。我们发现彼此都是基督徒，并且都喜欢独自旅行。他最近最难忘的经历之一是马拉喀什，而我最近去了巴黎。我的下一个计划是去温泉水疗中心。
尴尬时刻？
没有出现失礼行为，尽管我穿着高跟鞋时踉跄了一下。幸运的是，鞋子没坏——其他东西也没坏。
是否擦出火花？
我们之间有一种轻松、俏皮的默契，但有浪漫的化学反应吗？没有。当我喜欢某人时，我倾向于通过暗示和调情来让对方明显感觉到，比如拨弄头发。不过，我这样做的方式比较害羞。他对我有爱慕之情吗？我的印象是这仅限于友谊。
会再次见面吗？
会，但作为朋友。我们交换了 Instagram 账号并一起拍了自拍。这将成为一段回忆，因为我不确定我们两人是否还会再次参加相亲。
我们在一起大约三个小时，我会将其定义为 100% 完美的相亲。我们相处得很好，他是一个很好的倾听者，但对我来说，他绝对处于“友谊区”。
你认为他怎么看你？
他告诉我我很活泼且相当外向，这很准确。我爱聊天且健谈，他看到了我这一面。我也很细心，喜欢让陪伴在我身边的人感到自在。
你的朋友会喜欢他吗？
会。Lemmar 是个不错的人，非常放松。甚至他的语调都很平静。我的朋友们会喜欢与他见面。
约会经历？
我已经单身七年了。我曾有过一段持续两年半的正经感情，之后也参加过约会，但我通常更倾向于一种单配偶的“类关系”（situation-ship）。这意味着你们排他性地交往，并做人们在恋爱关系中通常会做的事——共度时光并保持亲密——但你们不将其定义为一段恋爱关系。
对于我这一代人来说，这是一种非常正常的浪漫安排。我目前正处于这样一段关系中，不过现在处于暂停状态，因为对方从三月份起就在国外，这就是为什么我能参加这次约会。
约会前紧张吗？
紧张，但我知道只要我们找到共同话题，我就会平静下来。
第一印象？
我们以拥抱迎接彼此。Michelle 选了一件金白相间的连衣裙，非常适合她。我也很用心，穿着一件海军蓝衬衫和米色休闲裤。她是个丰满的女性，我觉得她很有吸引力，虽然不是我通常喜欢的体型。即便如此，我还是告诉她看起来很美，因为她确实很美。
是否容易沟通？
非常容易。Michelle 很坦诚，性格阳光，还开了不少玩笑。我们交流了对未来生活的看法，包括希望在什么时候结婚。
在五六年内，我希望能在一段稳定的关系中安定下来，而 Michelle 希望在未来四年内实现这一点。除了基督信仰，我们没有发现太多共同点，但这并不困扰我。
尴尬时刻？
我们两个都不完全确定该在什么时候使用什么样的餐具。我们通过观察餐厅周围并模仿其他人的做法解决了这个问题。
是否擦出火花？
Michelle 是一个非常有趣且聪明的女性，我们确实相处得很好，但有浪漫感觉吗？没有。我确实感觉到她在向我调情。她眼神闪烁，笑容很多，而且肢体接触很多。
是否会再次见面？
我会以朋友的身份再次与她见面。餐后我们一起去公园散步放松。告别时我们深情拥抱。
你认为她对你的看法如何？
认为我是一个酷、友善且随和的家伙。约会进行到一半时，她告诉我，我是她见过的最淡定的人之一。
你的朋友会喜欢她吗？ 从第一印象来看，是的。
采访人：萨曼莎·布里克（SAMANTHA BRICK）
MICHELLE 的评分：6 / 10
喜欢的地方？ 我们的对话。 遗憾之处？ 没有。 喝咖啡还是打车（回家）？ 以朋友身份喝咖啡。
LEMMAR 的评分：8 / 10
喜欢的地方？ 很容易沟通。 遗憾之处？ 完全没有。 喝咖啡还是打车（回家）？ 以朋友身份喝咖啡。
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电视
新艺术系列
《与斯蒂芬·麦戈文共谈大交易》(The Big Deal With Steph McGovern)，晚上9点，BBC2
从 BBC Breakfast 的财经报道到主持自己的午间节目，我们见证了斯蒂芬·麦戈文（图中）涉猎所有领域。在这里，她挖掘了由父亲传承的一种热情——艺术世界。在这个新系列中，七支队伍进入艺术交易市场，他们将买卖自己挑选的作品。在每一集中，搭档们将被赋予一项新任务，淘汰将取决于各队获得的实际佣金。在系列结束时，被评为最佳交易员的夫妇将赢得价值 5 万英镑 的英国艺术品。第一笔交易全部关于毕业生艺术——但哪一对搭档能够发现下一个大天才？
今日电视精选
《穿越时间的房子》(A HOUSE THROUGH TIME)，晚上9点，BBC2
主持人大卫·奥卢索加（图中）回归，在他引人入胜的社会历史系列中探索一座目前最古老的建筑，其历史可追溯至 18 世纪。他驻在爱丁堡，在那里研究一座位于卡尔顿山的房子的首批居民的生活，该地现在是联合国教科文组织世界遗产地。“通过挖掘档案，我们将利用这座房子居民的个人历史来讲述跨越 250 年的戏剧性故事，”奥卢索加说。“关于财富积累与丧失、浪漫与丑闻、冒险与悲剧的故事。”这座房子建于 1795 年，最初由威廉·菲茨西蒙斯牧师居住，他是一位圣公会牧师，因帮助法国囚犯从爱丁堡城堡逃脱而被捕。随着苏格兰首府（被亲切地称为“老烟城” Auld Reekie）进一步进入工业革命，奥卢索加向我们介绍了弗朗西斯·罗纳尔森，一名前邮局员工，他曾监视格拉斯哥的织工以探测激进主义的迹象；以及 Steell 家族，包括一名技术精湛但商业能力糟糕的工匠约翰，以及他的儿子小约翰·斯蒂尔，后者成为了爱丁堡最优秀的雕塑家之一。
BBC1
6.00 Breakfast（早餐节目）
9.30 Animal Park（动物公园）(AD,R)
10.00 Tracy, Track, Get My Car Back（追踪找车）(R)
杰森和艾伦在梅登黑德追踪一辆被盗的租赁车。
10.30 2026年伯明翰欧洲田径锦标赛。珍妮特·夸基主持亚历山大体育场第四日开幕赛事的报道，包括女子800米和400米半决赛。
1.15 BBC News at One（一点新闻）；天气预报
1.40 BBC Regional News（BBC地区新闻）；天气预报
1.50 at One（一点新闻）；天气预报
2.00 Money for Nothing（废物利用）。在萨里郡的Wiley回收中心，莎拉·摩尔发现了一把可以改造的花园遮阳伞，拉里莎则在处理一对破旧的20世纪70年代扶手椅。
2.45 Escape to the Country（逃离城市）(AD,R)
3.30 The Repair Shop（修复店）(AD,R)
4.30 The Answer Run。由杰森·曼福德主持的问答节目。
5.15 Pointless（毫无意义）(R)。亚历山大·阿姆斯特朗与共同主持人里亚·利纳一同主持。
6.00 at Six（六点新闻）；天气预报
6.30 Regional （BBC地区新闻）；天气预报
7.00 The One Show。由亚历克斯·琼斯和罗马·肯普主持。
7.30 EastEnders（《东区东区》）(AD)。艾米向一个出人意料的对象倾诉心事。
BBC2
6.30 The Bidding Room（竞拍室）(R)
7.15 Money for Nothing（废物利用）(R)
8.00 Gardeners' World（园丁世界）(AD,BSL,R)
9.00 （BBC新闻）
10.30 Antiques Road Trip（古董公路旅行）(R)
11.15 Homes Under the Hammer（房屋拍卖）(AD,R)
房产已在格拉斯哥、东伦敦和德比的拍卖会上售出。
12.15 Bargain Hunt（淘宝猎人）(R)
1.00 Richard Osman's House of Games（理查德·奥斯曼的游戏屋）(R)。问答节目。
1.30 The Finish Line（终点线）(R)。问答节目。
2.15 Do You Know Your Place?（你知道你的位置吗？）(R)
2.45 The Great Rift: Africa's Wild Heart（大裂谷：非洲的狂野之心）(AD,R)。创造东非大裂谷的地质力量。
3.35 Spy in the Ocean（海洋间谍）(AD,R)。海洋生物必须克服的挑战。本系列最后一集。
4.35 Vintage Antiques Roadshow（经典古董路演）(R)。来自邓罗宾城堡。
5.15 Flog it（把它卖掉）(R)。来自郡达勒姆。
6.00 Richard Osman's House of Games（理查德·奥斯曼的游戏屋）(R)。问答节目。
6.30 Bear Grylls: Wild Reckoning（贝尔·格里尔斯：荒野清算）(AD,R)。一名想要修复与女儿破裂关系的女性。
ITV1
6.00 Good Morning Britain（早安英国）
10.00 This Morning。综合类每日杂志节目，涵盖名人访谈、演艺圈新闻、生活方式专题、热门话题讨论、健康美容建议等。包括当地天气预报。
1.30 （新闻）；天气预报
1.55 Regional （地区新闻）
2.00 Dickinson's Real Deal（迪金森的真实交易）(AD,R)。纽卡斯尔赛马场作为举办地，其中一对手枪吸引了海伦·加德纳的注意，而亨利·尼科尔斯则随心而行，挥金购买了一张罕见的圣诞单曲唱片。
3.00 Deal or No Deal（交易或不交易）(AD,R)。由斯蒂芬·穆尔赫恩主持，参赛者Zee尝试按正确顺序打开22个红盒子，与臭名昭著的“银行家”对决，以赢取足以改变生活的现金大奖：地区天气预报
4.00 Tipping Point（临界点）(R)。由本·谢泼德主持的问答节目。
5.00 The Chase（追击）(R)。亚历克斯、卡伦、朱迪和迪隆在问答赛中竞争。
6.00 Regional （地区新闻）
6.30 （新闻）；天气预报
第4频道 (CHANNEL 4)
6.30 《女王之王》(The King of Queens) (AD,R)
7.45 《大家都爱雷蒙德》(Everybody Loves Raymond) (AD,R) 三集连播。
9.10 《弗雷泽》(Frasier) (,R) 四集连播。
11.10 《拉姆齐厨房噩梦》(Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares) 美国篇 (R) 戈登尝试改造新泽西州的一家乡村俱乐部和高尔夫球场餐厅。
12.05 第4频道新闻摘要
12.10 《寻找、修复、出售》(Find It, Fix It, Flog It) (,R) 亨利·科尔 (Henry Cole) 和西蒙·奥布莱恩 (Simon O'Brien) 前往布赖顿会见回收商 Cat。
1.10 《大宅赠送》(The Great House Giveaway) (R)
2.10 《倒计时》(Countdown) 主持人：波琳·麦克林 (Pauline McLynn)。
3.00 《阳光之所》(A Place in the Sun) (R) 贾斯敏·赫曼 (Jasmine Hurman) 帮助德博拉 (Debra) 和格雷格 (Greg) 在西班牙穆尔西亚寻找度假屋。
4.00 《与佩内洛普·基思一起拯救乡村住宅》(Saving Country Houses with Penelope Keith) (,R) 改造阿什比庄园 (Ashby Manor) 广阔的公园绿地。
5.00 《城堡DIY》(Chateau DIY) (,R) 克里斯 (Chris) 和乔利昂 (Jolyon) 装修他们的豪华卧室和浴室。
6.00 《美国拾荒者》(American Pickers) (,R) 垃圾专家迈克·沃尔夫 (Mike Wolfe) 和弗兰克·弗里茨 (Frank Fritz) 发现了一辆从未见过的农民迷你摩托车。
7.00 第4频道新闻
7 PM 琼斯 (Jones) 和罗曼·肯普 (Roman Kemp)。
7.00 欧洲田径锦标赛：伯明翰 2026 第四天晚间赛，地点在亚历山大体育场，包括女子三级跳远和撑杆跳高决赛的开始。在 BBC1 频道继续播出。
8.00 《大交易》(The Big Deal) 主持人：斯蒂芬·麦戈文 (Steph McGovern) () 新系列。七对有抱负的艺术交易商竞争，旨在挖掘人才、协商交易并获利，以赢取价值 5 万英镑 的英国艺术品的最终机会。
9.00 《穿越时光的房子》(A House Through Time) () 新系列。大卫·奥卢索加 (David Olusoga) 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 《红矮星号》(Red Dwarf) (R) 里默 (Rimmer) 试图被调到一艘由全息图组成的船员队伍中。克里斯·巴里 (Chris Barrie) 主演。
10.30 《新闻之夜》(Newsnight) 头条分析。（随后为天气预报）
11.05 《谋杀审判：遛狗者之死》(Murder Trial: Death of a Dog Walker) (,R) 第一部分（共两部分）。前猎场看守大卫·坎贝尔 (David Campbell) 被指控蓄意谋杀布莱恩·洛 (Brian Low)，后者是两人共同工作的同一庄园的园丁。
12.05 《家庭中的恶魔：露比·弗兰克之陨》(The Devil in the Family: The Fall of Ruby Franke) (,R) 在弗兰克一家被孤立的情况下，外界试图查明发生了什么。本系列最后一集。
12.55 《救护车》(Ambulance) (,BSL,R)
1.55 《进化》(Evolution) (,BSL,R)
2.55 这是 BBC2
7.30 《汤姆·克里奇烹饪意大利》(Tom Kerridge Cooks Italy) () 汤姆探索意大利的山区，揭秘栗子和面食的烹饪秘密。在艾米利亚-罗马尼亚大区的亚平宁山脉，他加入了制作者亚德里安 (Adrian) 的栗子收获工作。
8.00 《艾默代尔》(Emmerdale) () 迪伦 (Dylan) 向艾普里尔 (April) 承认他一直处于挣扎之中。
8.30 《加冕街》(Coronation Street) () 蒂姆 (Tim) 在没有咨询萨莉 (Sally) 的情况下收留了里奇 (Richie) 的女儿露西 (Lucy)。
9.00 《环球追击》(The Chase Around the World) () 队伍抵达苏黎世，挑战“女管家” (the Governess) 和“黑暗毁灭者” (the Dark Destroyer)。参赛者必须通过回答问题在城市中导航，并在终点线找到布拉德利·沃尔什 (Bradley Walsh)。
10.00 新闻（随后为天气预报）
10.30 地区新闻
10.45 《量子之谜》(Quantum of Solace) (2008) (12) 火 () 詹姆斯·邦德执行一项私人复仇任务，并揭露了一场在拉丁美洲国家发动政变的计划。间谍惊悚续集，丹尼尔·克雷格 (Daniel Craig) 和奥尔加·库里连科 (Olga Kurylenko) 主演。
7.00 第4频道新闻
8.00 《翻新救援》(Renovation Rescue) () 沃格·威廉姆斯 (Vogue Williams) 和卢克·马博特 (Luke Mabbott) 帮助寡妇菲奥娜 (Fiona) 为她心爱的、承载着诸多珍贵回忆的家庭住宅注入新生命。
9.00 《隔壁的间谍：安娜·查普曼的故事》(Spy Next Door: The Anna Chapman Story) () 美国联邦调查局 (FBI) 透露，安娜·查普曼 (Anna Chapman) 只是在美活动的一张庞大俄罗斯特工网络中的一员。
10.00 《女学生恐怖分子？》(The Schoolgirl Terrorist?) () 探讨导致里安南·鲁德 (Rhianan Rudd) 在 2020 年年仅 15 岁时成为英国最年轻的被指控恐怖主义罪行女孩的事件。
11.05 《社交媒体怪物》(Social Media Monsters) (,R) 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，随后又转向其他目标。
12.10 《犯罪现场清理员》(Crime Scene Cleaners) (,BSL,R)
1.05 《吉普赛妻子的秘密生活》(Secret Lives of Gypsy Wives) (,BSL,R)
1.55 《拉姆齐酒店噩梦》(Ramsay's Hotel Hell) (,BSL,R)
2.45 《独裁者：希特勒访谈录》(Dictator: The Hitler Interviews) (,BSL,R)
3.40 Fur Babies (AD,BSL,R) 4.35
Kirste's House of Craft (R) 4.55
Couples Come Dine with Me (R)
5.50 Countdown (R)
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(R) 重播。(HD) 高清。(AD) 语音描述。(b / w) 非彩色。(BSL) 英国手语。
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阳光犯罪剧
《贝尼多姆谋杀案》，晚上9点，5频道
流动的饮品和贝尼多姆温暖的夏装天气，很容易将一场狂野的单身女派对变成一个难忘之夜。但在这里，事情似乎失控了……丹尼斯（约翰·汉纳 饰）能否帮助西班牙警方查明那位不幸的伴娘发生了什么？
真实犯罪纪录片
《女学生恐怖分子？》，晚上10点，4频道
这部纪录片探讨了 2005 年里安南·鲁德（Rhianan Rudd）案背后令人不安的细节。通过独家证词、家庭档案和此前未公开的资料，我们看到了里安南生活中的事件和影响，这些因素将她推向了一个危险的深渊。这名 14 岁的女学生沉溺于极右翼极端主义和白人至上主义，成为了军情五处（MI5）调查的对象，并导致了悲剧性的后果。她的亲近之人反思了那些被忽略的细节。
5频道
6.00 Milkshaker! 《小猪佩奇》(R) 6.10 《Tweedy & Fluff》(R) 6.15 《Ddo》(R) 6.20 《托马斯和他的朋友们》(R) 6.35 《消防员山姆》(R) 6.45 《小猪佩奇》(R) 6.50 《Pip and Posy》(R) 7.00 《汪汪队立大功》(R) 7.10 Move It Milkshaker! (R) 7.20 《小砾与工程队》 7.35 《小猪佩奇》(AD,R) 7.45 《太空中的蒂姆·雷克斯》(R) 8.00 《斯坦与奶奶》(R) 8.15 《汪汪队立大功》(R) 8.25 《帕丁顿熊的冒险》(R) 8.40 《本和霍莉的小王国》(R) 8.50 《袋鼠海滩》 9.00 《小猪佩奇》(AD,R) 9.10 《爪爪行动》(R)
9.15 杰里米·Vine
11.30 Storm & Alexis
12.45 5频道午间新闻
12.50 马特·奥尔赖特
2.20 《替代女儿》
电影 (2024) (PG) 当杰西卡的母亲遭遇肇事逃逸时，她落入一名富有的女性照顾之下，但并非一切都像表面看起来那样。惊悚片，由斯泰西·海杜克和艾米莉·米塞利主演。
4.00 《Castle》(R) 一名人身伤害律师被谋杀。
4.55 《Love Nature》(R)
5.00 丹·沃克主持的5频道新闻
6.00 《克里特岛：地中海之珠》(R)
6.55 5频道新闻快讯
7.00 《头等舱环游世界》 乔西·吉布森前往芬兰和瑞典的旅游胜地，探索斯德哥尔摩，并享受一次飞越部分群岛的直升机之旅。
7.55 5频道新闻快讯
8.00 《约克郡兽医特辑：彼特的梦想》 新剧集。镜头跟随彼得·赖特，记录他如何创建一座约克郡宠物纪念花园，其灵感来自萨塞克斯的宠物牧师和教堂。
9.00 《贝尼多姆谋杀案》(AD) 当一名清洁工发现一名谋杀受害者时，丹尼斯和罗莎展开调查。犯罪剧，由约翰·汉纳和卡罗琳娜·贝克尔主演。
10.00 《犯罪现场的杀手》(R) PCL 水疗中心老板伊尔迪科·克拉伊尼亚克之死，她在加利福尼亚州橙县自己的美容水疗中心的一场爆炸中被杀。
11.05 《泰晤士河中的尸体》(R) 关于亚当的故事——这个无名男孩被肢解的尸体于 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。
12.05 《街头警察：抓捕Yoke》(R) 1.00 Cruise TV with LovettBook(R) (R) 2.00 5频道娱乐新闻 5.2.30 GPL：《闭门之后》(R) 3.05 《Castle》(R) 3.50 《老友记》(AD,R) 4.15 《老友记》(AD,R) 4.35 与苏珊·卡尔曼一起巡航 (AD,BSL,R) 5.25 5频道娱乐新闻 5.5.35 《汪汪队立大功》(BSL,R) 5.45 《帕丁顿熊的冒险》(BSL,R)
▲ 特别容易引起反感
警察的糟糕一天，但这场谋杀案审判充满了戏剧性
这就是警方不希望我们看到的法庭录像。真实犯罪类录像通常经过剪辑，以展现警员正面的一面，这是发布视频时达成协议的一部分——但这次并非如此。
“我是否可以公平地说，这一切对苏格兰警方来说都非常尴尬？”在两集纪录片《谋杀审判：遛狗者的死亡》（Murder Trial: Death Of A Dog Walker）引人入胜的第一集中，辩护律师这样询问一名侦探警员。
“我无法对此发表评论，”对方回答道。
该警员的声音经过处理，我们无法看到他的全脸，只能看到他的下巴和嘴唇。但事实无法掩盖。
2024年2月，他在珀斯郡（Perthshire）农村地区接到了一个999报警电话，发现一名65岁男子的尸体侧卧在田野中。他的面部血迹斑斑，以至于该侦探警员拍摄的照片在播出时必须进行模糊处理。该男子的兄弟后来表示，那一幕“如此恐怖，我几乎呕吐出早餐”。
但这位不幸的警察将
本周咖啡时间：
《隔壁的间谍：安娜·查普曼的故事》（Spy Next Door: The Anna Chapman Story）讲述了包括一名持有英国护照的女性在内的俄罗斯特工如何在纽约的星巴克咖啡店会面。这比军情五处（MI5）坐在公园长椅两端的方法要温馨且隐秘得多。
将其记录为“医疗突发事件”。他告诉法庭：“我怀疑死者在散步时因跌倒导致面部受伤。”这一评估在六天内没有被修正——尽管在停尸房将尸体从回收袋中拉开拉链时，散弹枪的弹丸滚了出来。
事实上，受害者布莱恩·洛（Brian Low）是被一把双管散弹枪杀害的。更混乱的是，他的伴侣帕姆（Pam）因悲痛而极度困惑，起初告诉警方，她在从工作的护理院结束长时间轮班回家后见过他。
这表明他一定是在第二天早晨遛狗时被谋杀的。直到几周后，她才意识到自己的记忆出现了偏差。布莱恩在她回家之前就已经被杀害了。
这造成了两个严重的
北爱尔兰电视节目变动
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8.30 FLM. 9mm / day (2010-12).
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held in Llanford, Peninsha
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8.25 Gwisely 2-bug: Gwilym Bowen Rhys.
The history, language, music and culture of
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昨晚电视回顾
谋杀审判：遛狗者的死亡 (BBC2) ★★★★☆
给调查人员带来了麻烦。布莱恩死亡的偏僻地点未被作为犯罪现场保存，且侦探们一直在核实错误日期的不在场证明。
对于辩方而言，这是一个天赐良机。首席嫌疑人是一名叫作大卫·坎贝尔（David Campbell）的退休猎场看守，这个男人眉头紧锁，留着胡茬，他在被告席上的行为不太可能赢得陪审团的好感——他翻白眼、冷笑，并在某个时刻对着检察官厉声呵斥“别再叫我骗子”。苏格兰法律允许对审判进行拍摄，但画面通常像闭路电视一样平淡且毫无生气。而这部剧则不同——剪辑室里完成了真正的魔法，使法庭录像充满了紧张的戏剧感。
在某一时刻，镜头位于一名专家证人的身后，当他提供证据时，我们透过该男子的眼镜看到了坎贝尔的画面。这样的镜头足以让任何好莱坞电影摄影师感到自豪。
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48 数字与点播
数字与点播电视精选
HIT POINT, 晚上9点, U&DAVE
《HIT Point》是那种你永远无法完全确定其定位的剧集。它是黑帮剧吗？也许吧。是一部古怪搭档的侦探喜剧吗？有一点。或者，甚至是一段“会在一起还是不会在一起”的浪漫爱情？在第一集中，该剧展现了这三种元素，开篇是一起让警方抓耳挠腮的 £1000 万 抢劫案。随后我们的侦探双人组贝拉和利奥（Bella and Leo，由 Saffron Hocking 和 Nick Blood 饰演，见图）登场，两人之间有着轻松的打趣。他被……深深吸引。
英俊的戏剧
《我的辉煌职业》(My Brilliant Career)，Netflix
《我的辉煌职业》是澳大利亚小说家迈尔斯·富兰克林于1901年创作的经典小说，以及1979年的里程碑式电影，讲述了一个贫穷的农村家庭试图将其中一个女儿嫁出去的故事。在这部充满活力的Netflix新剧中，它给人一种简·奥斯汀作品的全新演绎感。西比拉（Philippa Northeast 饰）想要成为一名作家而非妻子，她的欲望与现实之间的碰撞构成了一部非常精彩的 six-partner。演员阵容包括杰克·邓恩、《慢马》(Slow Horses) 的克里斯托弗·钟（最右侧，与 Northeast 和 Dunn 同框）以及安娜·钱斯勒。
生存系列
《独自生存》(Alone)，晚上8点，Sky History 频道
一部新剧集开始，十名生存主义者被投放到北极荒野，以观察谁能坚持最久。他们来自七个不同的国家，因此国家荣誉和个人自尊都处于竞争之中。
美国车库喜剧
《轮胎》(Tires)，Netflix
当美国人改编《办公室》(The Office) 时，他们将其变得更温和，但旨在长期运行——一部充满职场喜剧色彩的作品，其中的角色比原版更容易让人接受，尽管喜剧的锐利度有所降低。《轮胎》有同样的感觉。该剧设定在一家老式美国车库中，最初由其创作者兼主演谢恩·吉利斯 (Shane Gillis) 和史蒂夫·格本 (Steve Gerben) 资助，随后被 Netflix 收购。新一季第三季于本周上线，核心冲突依然如故——威尔（Gerben 饰）是负责任的一方，而他的同事谢恩（Gillis 饰）则是一个满头大汗、性别歧视的白痴。
时间表
BBC 4
E4
ITV2
7.00pm
7. 《海边村庄》(Villages by the Sea) 本·罗宾逊探索卡莱尔港 (Port Carlisle) 一个失落港口的遗迹
7.30pm
8. 《韦恩赖特徒步》(Wainwright Walks) 攀登英格兰最高峰斯卡费尔峰 (Scafell Pike)。本系列最后一集
8.00pm
9. 《 the Mincemeat 行动》(Operation Mincemeat) 讲述英国如何欺骗希特勒，使其认为盟军计划在1943, 入侵希腊，从而使盟军能以最小的阻力在西西里岛登陆
9.00pm
10. 《科恩兄弟故事》(The Coen Brothers Story) 演员和合作者回顾科恩兄弟的职业生涯，探讨使其电影成为现代经典的风格与工艺
10.00pm
11. 《inside Llewyn Davis》(2013,15) 一名有抱负的音乐家在 1900 年代初的纽约民谣圈中努力成名。由奥斯卡·艾萨克和凯瑞·艾杜利潘主演的科恩兄弟剧情片
10.30pm
11.00pm
11.30pm
《辛普森一家》(The Simpsons) 一家人参观一个恐怖的主题公园
《辛普森一家》(The Simpsons) 边秀鲍勃 (Sideshow Bob) 的罪行获得赦免
《名人烘焙大赛：为抗癌单口喜剧而战》(The Great Celebrity Bake Off for Stand Up to Cancer) Annie Mac, El Garrido, Example 以及主持人马特·卢卡斯 (Matt Lucas) 为慈善事业而烘焙
《巡航天堂：甲板之上与之下》(Cruising Paradise: Above and Below Deck) 船员们必须匆忙准备一整天的船上娱乐活动
《沙发评论员》(Gogglebox) 这些业余评论员分享他们对 HBP bites, Hbe 和 Nat, Challenge-Anneka, Race Across the World, The Kerrang 以及 ABC 新闻简报的看法。来自 2023 年
11.05 《裸体吸引力》(Naked Attraction) 一名来自布赖顿的 30 岁女性第三次出现在节目中，此前曾两次参加，随后是一名来自牛津的学生（至 12.00）
《地板》(The Floor) 仍有 65 名参赛者在场，主持人罗布·布赖登 (Rob Brydon) 增加了压力，参赛者们争夺更多方格和 13,000 的地板奖金
由李·麦克 (Lee Mack) 主持的《1%俱乐部》(The 1% Club) 问答赛，问题关于逻辑和常识，160 名参赛者有机会赢得高达 10 万英镑 的奖金
拉梅什·兰加纳坦 (Ramesh Ranganathan) 的家长会之夜，乔纳森·罗斯 (Jonathan Ross) 和理查德·马德利 (Richard Madeley) 参加
《改变终点》(Changing Ends) 卡尔一家前往伦敦
10.35 《格里芬一家》(Family Guy) 布莱恩 (Bicowe's) 的梅格有一个秘密男友
11.05 《格里芬一家》(Family Guy) 斯图尔特克隆了自己
11.35 《美国爸爸！》(American Dad!) 史蒂夫把女朋友输给了另一个男孩（至 12.05）
娱乐与纪实
板块
Freeview 33 Sky 150
11.15am 《噱头》(Gimmicks) 12.30pm 电影《执法者》(Lawman) (1971) (15) 2.25 电影《高高的T》(The Tall T.) (1957) (PG) 4.00 《地狱公路》(Highway Thru Hell) 5.00 《高速公路抄截：抓捕英国超速者》(Motorway Copy. Catching Britain's Speeders) 6.00 《警察拦截者》(Police Interceptors) 6.00 《高速公路抄截：抓捕英国超速者》(Motorway Copy. Catching Britain's Speeders) 9.00 《警察拦截者》(Police Interceptors) 10.00 《木材巨头》(Timber Titans) 11.00 《X档案》(The X-Files)。
BBC THREE
Freeview 33 Sky 125 Virgin 107 7.00pm The Catch Up. 7.05 Deadly 60. 8.00 Sort Your Life Out with Stacey Solomon. 9.00 Better Date than Never. 10.30 Bulbul's Drag Race UK. Meet the Queens. 10.55 电影. Bridgey James Baby (2006) (15)
COMEDY CENTRAL
Sky 113 Virgin 133
12noon The Upper Hand 1.05 Friends 9.00 电影 The Commitments (1991) (15) 11.30 Stupid Central
DISCOVERY
Sky 125 Virgin 177
11.00am Building Off the Grid. 1.00pm Dr Jeff Rocky Mountain Vet 3.00 How It's Made. 5.00 Alaska Homestead Rescue 7.00 Superior Showroom. 8.00 Wheeler Dealers 9.00 Roads and Afraid Global Showdown. 11.00 Expedition X
E4 (日间)
Freeview 13 Sky 125 Virgin 106 11.00am Below Deck. Mediterranean. 12noon The Simpsons. 2.00 Brooklyn Nine-Nine. 3.00 Modern Family. 5.00 The Simpsons.
5STAR (日间)
Freeview 32 Sky 128 Virgin 126 12noon Traffic Copy. 2.00 Police Enterprises 5.00 Shoplifters. Caught Red Handed. 6.00 Home and Away
5 SELECT
Freeview 46 Sky 153 Virgin 138 12noon All Creatures Great and Small 1.00 Murder, She Wrote 3.00 Columbus Swan Song 5.00 Dorset Country and Coast 6.00 Abandoned Engineering 7.00 Ben Fogle. New Lives in the Wild 9.00
PD James: An Unsuitable Job for a Woman. 10.00 The Good Ship Murder. 11.05 Prisoner: Cell Block H.
5 USA (日间)
Freeview 21 Sky 141 Virgin 120 12noon Law & Order. 6.00 NCIS
FOOD NETWORK UK
Freeview 63 Sky 148 Virgin 168 11.00am The Great British Bake Off. 1.00pm James Martin's Islands to Highlands. 3.00 The Harry Bilkey Do West. 4.00 James's One-Pan Wonder. 5.00 The Pioneer Woman. 6.00 James Martin Islands to Highlands. 7.00 The Great British Bake Off. 9.00 Michel Brooks French Country Cooking. 10.00 Nigel Slater's Simple Suggests. 11.00 Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives.
GREAT! TV
Freeview 34 Sky 157 Virgin 170 12noon Little House on the Prairie. 1.00 The Waltons. 4.00 Little House on the Prairie. 6.00 The Irish EM. 7.00 HUVIVE 9.00 电影. Carry On Regardless (1961) (1) 10.55 Robots Man. 11.30 HUVIVE
ITV2 (日间)
Freeview 4 Sky 118 Virgin 155 10.15am Dawson's Creek 11.10 Channel 12.10pm Deal to 30 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 Catchphrases
ITV3 (日间)
Freeview 10 Sky 115 Virgin 157 11.30am Heartbeat 1.35pm Midcomer Murder. 3.35 Classic Emmerdale. 4.40 Classic Cremation Street. 5.50 Heartbeat
ITV4 (日间)
Freeview 26 Sky 120 Virgin 118 10.10am The Professionals 11.15 Robin of Sherwood. 12.20pm Magician. 17.3.25 The Casebook of Sherlock Holmes. 3.30 Boon. 4.35 The Professionals. 5.45 Minder. 6.50 Sharpe.
MORE4 (日间)
Freeview 18 Sky 126 Virgin 187 12.40pm Come Dine with Me. 3.20 Four in a Bed. 5.50 Car 3.55
NAT'L GEOGRAPHIC
Sky 129 Virgin 183
11.00am Car 5.05 12noon Ultimate Airport Dubai 1.00 Air Crash Investigation. 2.00 World War II Secrets from Above 4.00 Lost Treasures of Egypt. 5.00 Drinking Change What Lies Beneath. 6.00 Flames that Changed History. 7.00 Air Crash Investigation. 8.00 Apocalypse Hitler Takes on the Past. 10.00 Lost Ships of WW2. 11.00 Air Crash Investigation.
PBS AMERICA
Freeview 84 Sky 173 Virgin 187 11.55am Inside Japan's War 1.00pm Weathered Earth's Extremes. 1.35 Digging Up Britain's Past. 2.35 Walrus Life on Thin Ice 3.45 Peleids WWII's Most Well-Preserved Battlefield. 4.55 Inside Japan's War 6.00 Digging Up Britain's Past. 7.00 Walrus Life on Thin Ice. 8.10 Peleids WWII's Most Well-Preserved Battlefield. 9.15 Inside Japan's War. 10.30 Walrus Life on Thin Ice. 11.30 Weathered Earth's Extremes.
REALLY
Freeview 44 Sky 142 Virgin 165 12noon The Yorkshire Auction House 2.00 The Repair Shop. 3.00 Salvage Hunters. 5.00 Who Do You Think You Are? Dame Judy Dench. 6.00 The Repair Shop. 7.00 The Yorkshire Auction House. 8.00 Antiques Road Trip. 9.00 The Bad Skin Clinic. 11.00 Help! My House Is Haunted.
SKY ARTS
Freeview 28 Sky 122 Virgin 123 12noon 伊恩·内森谈电影艺术 (The Art of Film with Ian Nathan)。1.00 意外故事 (Tales of the Unexpected)。2.00 希区柯克之首 (The Alfred Hitchcock Head)。3.00 视觉艺术 (The Sighties)。4.00 探索克劳德·雷恩斯 (Discovering Claude Rains)。5.00 年度肖像画家 2022. 6.00 意外故事 (Tales of the Unexpected)。7.00 山谷之声 (Voices of the Valleys)。8.00 探索米歇尔·菲利普斯 (Discovering Michelle Phillips)。9.00 克林特·伊斯特伍德：电影人生 (Clint Eastwood: A Life in Film)。10.00 电影：《我是阿尔弗雷德·希区柯克》(I Am Alfred Hitchcock) (2021) (15)
SKY ATLANTIC
Sky 128 Virgin 131
12.35pm 街头静止生活 (Immobile Life on the Street)。2.30 亿万 (Billions)。4.40 最后的生还者 (The Last of Us)。6.40 龙之家族 (House of the Dragon)。9.00 占有 (Possession)。11.00 全部过错 (All the Fault)。
广播
RADIO 4
FM: 32.4 / 34.5 / 40.12
5.00am 新闻摘要。
5.04 侧写 (Sideways)。
5.32 天气预报。
5.34 航运预报。
5.43 今日祷告。
5.45 今日农业。
5.45 今日农业。
6.00 今日 (Today)。
9.00 娜塔莉·海恩斯谈古典文学 (Natalie Haynes Stands Up for the Classics)。
9.30 吉他故事 (The Guitar Story)。
10.00 女性之举 (Woman's Move)。
11.00 儿童三个阶段 (Three Ages of Child)。
11.45 本周之书：
广岛，8.15：
遗失的回忆录 (The Lost Memoir)
作者：谷本清 (Kiyoshi Tanimoto) 与近藤光子 (Koko Kondo)。
12noon 新闻。
12.04 诈骗秘密 (Scam Secrets)。
12.32 切片面包 (Sliced Bread)。
1.00 一点钟的世界 (The World at One)。
1.45 人类智能 (Human Intelligence)。
2.00 亚契斯 (The Archers)。
2.15 剧集：《安全》(Security)。 一部关于被推向极限的 幽默家庭剧。
今日广播精选
外交之树 (TREE OF DIPLOMACY)，上午 9.30，
晚上 8.05，BBC 全球服务 (BBC WORLD SERVICE)
我们都听过沉浸在自然中、在树木环绕下度过时光具有治愈力。但这部纪录片在更广泛的背景下探讨了树木的力量，并研究了中国和美国多年来在所谓的“植物外交”中是如何开展合作的。作为软实力行使的一个完美案例，来自这两个强国的植物科学家们一直在默默地交谈与协作，无论两国之间的政治关系变得多么紧张。
3.00 9.00 自然生活 (This Natural Life)。
3.30 反馈 (Feedback)。
4.00 简报室 (The Briefing Room)。 我们如何改革 社会护理？
4.30 BBC 内部科学 (BBC Inside Science)。
5.00 PM：天气预报
6.00 六点新闻。
6.30 Icklewick FM。 广播团队正在 第 233 届农业节 现场。
7.00 亚契斯 (The Archers)。弗雷迪试图崭露头角。
7.15 前排 (Front Row)。来自艺术、电影、文学 和音乐世界的 新闻。
8.00 风险自担 (At Your Own Peril)。 露西·伊斯霍普 (Lucy Easthope) 探索风险的历史。
8.15 媒体秀 (The Media Show)。 来自媒体世界的 最新消息。
SKY COMEDY
Sky 113 Virgin 112
11.45am 威尔与格蕾丝 (Will & Grace)。12.15pm 排练 (The Rehearsal)。1.45 挺直 (Upright)。3.00 威尔与格蕾丝 (Will & Grace)。4.00 办公室搬运工 (The Office Movers)。5.00 社区 (Community)。6.00 威尔与格蕾丝 (Will & Grace)。7.00 办公室 (美国版) (The Office (US))。8.00 办公室搬运工 (The Office Movers)。9.00 米基·弗拉纳根：如果我们需要它 (Micky Flanagan. If Ever We Needed It)。10.15 今晚我有一周 (I've A Week Tonight) 与约翰·格伦 (John Glenn)。11.00 排练 (The Rehearsal)。
SKY DOCUMENTARIES
Sky 114 Virgin 121
12noon 塞尔吉奥·莱昂内：发明美国的意大利人 (Sergio Leone: The Italian Who Invented America)。2.00 英超 360 (Premier League 360) —— 大萨姆的博尔顿 (Big Sam's Bolton)。4.00 导演们 (The Directors)。5.00 探索凯文·科斯特纳 (Discovering Kevin Costner)。5.55 霜之重担 (Burden of Frost) 谁杀了詹妮弗·潘多兹 (Jennifer Pandoz)？8.00 埃塞克斯谋杀案 (The Essex Murders) 谁杀了金手指 (Goldfinger)？11.00 电影：《触碰虚空》(Touching the Void) (2003) (15)
SKY HISTORY
Sky 123 Virgin 131
10.30am 杂乱无章 (Junk & Disorderly)。11.05 仓储新闻 (Storage News)。12noon 独自生存 (Alone)。2.00 诗歌之星 (Poem Stars)。6.00 美国拾荒者 (American Pickers)。7.00 锻造之火 (Forged in Fire)。8.00 独自生存 (Alone)。10.00 灾难发现 (Discovered by Disaster)。
SKY ONE
Sky 106 Virgin 109
12noon 大猫小世界 (Big Cats Small World)。1.00 天海一方 (Hawaii Five-O)。3.00 特警 (SWAT)。9.00 辛普森一家 (The Simpsons)。6.00 动物控制 (Animal Control)。6.30 辛普森一家 (The Simpsons)。8.00 鲍勃与拉梅什对抗拉斯维加斯魔法 (Bob & Ramesh vs Magic in Vegas)。9.00 染匠房车公园 (The Dyers' Caravan Park)。10.00 报纸 (The Paper)。11.00 动物控制 (Animal Control)。11.30 格林 (Grimm)。
SKY SCI-FI
Sky 145 Virgin 143
11.00am 星际迷航：企业号 (Star Trek Enterprise)。 12noon 星际迷航：航海家号 (Star Trek Voyager)。1.00 星门：亚特兰蒂斯 (Stargate Atlantis)。2.00 13号仓库 (Warehouse 13)。4.00 星门：SG1 (Stargate SG1)。5.00 星际迷航：航海家号 (Star Trek Voyager)。6.00 星际迷航：企业号 (Star Trek Enterprise)。7.00 星门：亚特兰蒂斯 (Stargate Atlantis)。8.00 星门：SG1 (Stargate SG1)。9.00 异星居民 (Resident Alien)。10.00 格林 (Grimm)。11.00 行尸走肉 (The Walking Dead)。
SKY WITNESS
Sky 107 Virgin 110
12noon FBI。2.00 《菜鸟警探》(The Rookie)。3.00 《法律与秩序：刑事意图》(Law & Order Criminal Intent)。4.00 《申报》(Nothing to Declare)。8.00 《行车记录仪捕捉》(Caught on Dashcam)。9.00 CIA。10.00 《法律与秩序：特殊受害者组》(Law & Order: Special Victims Unit)。11.00 《菜鸟警探》(The Rookie)。
TLC
Freeview 12 Sky 133 Virgin 133
12noon 《生活大爆炸》。2.00 《中间》。3.30 《少年谢尔顿》。5.00 《生活大爆炸》。9.00 电影：《阿甘正传》(1954) (12) 汤姆·汉克斯主演的奥斯卡获奖喜剧正剧。
FREEVIEW 黄金时段规划表 49
ITV3 / ITV4 / MORE4 / SKY MIX / QUEST. / U&DAVE / U&DRAMA / 5STAR / 5USA
10 / 26 / 18 / 11 / 17 / 19 / 20 / 32 / 21 6.55 《心跳》默顿试图抓住一名一直在艾登菲尔德周边农场偷拖拉机的窃贼 / 6.50 《夏普》在终于从挚爱特蕾莎的死中恢复过来后，夏普娶了简·吉本斯。在蜜月结束前，他被迫匆忙出发去夺取法军线后的一座堡垒——而他在外期间，一场发热疫情威胁要中断他的新婚生活。肖恩·宾主演 / 6.50 《汽车》5.0.5 蒂姆·肖和菲兹·汤森前往南约克郡 / 《星际迷航：下一代》在皮卡德因一次碰撞被困在电梯后，此人被迫接任船长 / 《古董公路旅行》保罗·马丁和玛吉·库珀驾车穿过康沃尔，收集一件古董挤奶 支架和一只 1920 年代的汽车喇叭 / 《莫蒂默与怀特豪斯：去钓鱼》鲍勃和保罗前往诺福克 / 7.20 《夏日之酒》福吉带着康纳和克莱格前往凯利和沃斯谷铁路进行一次怀旧一日游，乘坐蒸汽火车 / 《GPx：闭门之后》在伯明翰，一名一直出现过敏反应的男子不确定是什么触发了这些反应 / 《海军罪案调查处》(NCIS) 一架海军直升机被发现遗弃在一个麦田圈中，目击者报告在夜空中看到奇怪的光芒 / 《薇拉》侦探调查一名谢尔曼的谋杀案，其尸体被发现缠在拖网渔船的网中，他可能是家族世仇的一部分而被杀 7.55 《宏伟设计》设计工程师乔·斯图尔特和服务设计师莉娜·尼布森挑战伦敦房产市场，他们在一个小小的 38 平方米地块上建造自己的家 / 《警察 24 / 7》一名转弯者因吸食芬太尼被拦截，一辆可疑车辆导致一起毒品逮捕案 / 《内陆卡车司机》史蒂夫·戈尔丹特在残酷的沙漠行程中碰运气。吉姆·弗卢基与季风雨赛跑。约吉在纳拉博平原运送价值百万美元的货物 / 8.20 《你会对我撒谎吗？》嘉宾：加雷斯·马龙、阿曼达·阿宾顿、理查德·奥斯曼和菲尔·贾皮图斯 / 《马洛谋杀俱乐部》当市长在会议中途去世时，贾斯汀、比克斯和苏齐揭露了谎言、丑闻和敲诈勒索 / 《急诊室 24 / 7：分秒必争》一名疑似药物过量患者被紧急送入，一名 8 岁儿童在学校头部受伤后就诊 / 《海军罪案调查处》(NCIS) 一起强奸谋杀案的调查回顾。对于曾处理过一起凶手从未被捕的类似案件的达基来说，这段记忆被唤醒 《贝尼多姆》这部喜剧剧集的第一集，由约翰尼·维加斯和戴尔·凯利主演 / 《我村里的杀手》新剧集，一名女性失踪，她的家人发现了令人震惊的线索 / 《内陆欧泊猎人》切尔一家与洪水以及多年来最糟糕的开局作斗争，斯利姆·皮金斯在运气耗尽前赶在搬迁 / 《命中点》新剧集，浪漫惊悚片，讲述两名侦探在处理一起案件时被卷入危险地下世界的经历 / 《急诊室之夜》一名患有肺塌陷的 66 岁患者被紧急送往北米德尔塞克斯综合医院 / 《血族》冲击波波及里根家族，警匪剧，汤姆·塞莱克和迪昂·温伯格主演 / 《格兰切斯特》阿尔法震惊地发现他认识的一名年轻女性失踪了，不久之后，一名有志于成为记者的学生被发现死亡 | 9.35 《贝尼多姆》 |
马丁和凯特在市中心迷路 / 9.35 《贝尼多姆》(Benidorm) 马丁和凯特在市中心迷路 / 24 《24小时急诊室》(24 Hours in A&E) 医生治疗一名患有喉癌且出现出血症状的63岁男子，以及一名遭遇越野摩托车事故的年轻准父亲 / 《弗雷德·韦斯特：格拉斯哥女孩》(Fred West: The Glasgow Girls) 随着又有两具尸体被发现，搜寻工作转移到弗雷德·韦斯特及其新婚妻子罗斯玛丽的第一处住所，本系列最后一集 / 《我有更多新闻给你吗》(Have I Got a Bit More News For You) 凯瑟琳·帕金森主持这场讽刺问答赛，加里和杰米玛·凯利加入，与队长保罗·默顿和伊恩·希斯洛普同队 / 《新线索》(New Tricks) 团队重新调查一起近期发生的强奸案，该案与10年前一家工厂发生的两起未破袭击案有关 / 《救护车：红色代码》(Ambulance: Code Red) 在伍尔弗汉普顿，一名机器操作员的手被工业压力机压碎，重症监护团队准备为该男子截肢 / 《法律与秩序：特殊受害者单元》(Law & Order: Special Victims Unit) 本森
与一名强奸受害者分享个人秘密，希望这能帮助她回忆起自己创伤经历的细节 / 《格兰彻斯特》(Grantchester) 乔治和拉里调查一名鲁莽男子的死亡 / 《贝尼多姆》(Benidorm) 凯莉宣布她与马特奥订婚 / 《贝尼多姆》(Benidorm) 玛奇给唐纳德和杰奎琳留下了错误的印象 / 11.05 24 《24小时急诊室》(24 Hours in A&E) 一名74岁男子因疑似中风被送入医院（至12.10） / 《格林》(Grimm) 一个奇怪的生物给女性施了咒语，奇幻犯罪剧，由大卫·吉恩托利主演（至12.00） / 《他们是怎么做到的？》(How Do They Do It?) 能承受任务重量的应急桥梁 / 11.20 《路德》(Luther) 这位侦探漫长的休假被一起暴力袭击的消息打断。惊悚剧，由伊德里斯·艾尔巴主演（至12.35） / 《皮肤》(Skin) 急诊室医生艾玛·麦克马伦帮助一名村会堂经理去除肿块，为她的生日派对做好准备（至12.00） / 《法律与秩序：特殊受害者
单元》(Law & Order: Special Victims Unit) 团队卷入一场网络骗局，导致一名网络名人被强奸。本森给斯内克制定了一些严格的底线规则（至12.00） / 11.50 《审判与惩罚》(Trial & Retribution) 两部分之二（至1.25） / 《贝尼多姆》(Benidorm) 玛奇给唐纳德和杰奎琳留下了错误的印象 / 《黑帆》(Black Sails) 看到弗林在新闻中的崛起让韦恩觉得他可能对自己地位构成威胁，而埃莉诺决定选择哪一边（至12.15） / 《他们是怎么做到的？》(How Do They Do It?) 如何吹制世界上最精美的水晶（至12.00）
| ■ ADVENTURER, wild camper and writer Phoebe Smith (pictured) is Martha Kearney's guest today on THIS NATURAL LIFE (3PM, RADIO 4). They walk to one of her favourite places, Tryfan mountain in Eryn National Park in north Wales. She grew up 附近 but never explored, feeling that adventure was not for her. Now, she loves the freedom and peace of being outdoors and has helped set up the WeTwo Foundation to inspire other young people to become adventurers. |
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| 9.00 Loose Ends. Stuart Maronin presents from Belfast as the city hosts Pheath Cheoli na hBenson. |
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| 9.45 The Cows Are Mad. A mother embarks on a quest for answers. |
| 10.00 The World Tonight. With Shaun Ley. |
| 10.45 Book at Bedtime: The Vicar of Wakefield. By Oliver Goldsmith. |
| 11.00 Radical. Conversations about the global forces reshaping the world and ideas defining the future. | | 11.30 A Good Read. 12midnight News and Weather. | | 12.30 Book of the Week: Hiroshima, 8.15: The Lost Memoir. | | 12.48 Shipping Forecast. | | 1.00 BBC World Service. |
| U&ALIBI | | Sky 109 Virgin 114 | | 12noon Body of Proof 1.00 Death in Paradise 2.00 Murdoch Mysteries 4.00 The Mountain 5.00 Hudson & Rex 6.00 Body of Proof 6.55 Private Eyes 7.50 Poolsub. Jack gets an unexpected answer when he confronts Trotta and Book 9.00 The Hunting Party. Rex races to catch a class-dominated aerial killer who bludgeoned wealthy New Yorkers 10.00 Death in Paradise. Patterson is targeted by an assassin 11.00 Private Eyes. |
[⚠ 低质量翻译，建议复核] / U&DAVE (DAYTIME) | --- | | Freeview 10 Sky 110 Virgin 117 | | 11.20am Yukon Gold 12.15pm Top Gold 2.20 Mortimer & Whitehouse: Gone Fishing 3.00 Guy Martin: Proper John 4.00 Hairy Biker: Best of British 5.00 Rick Stein's Cornwall |
| U&DRAMA (DAYTIME) |
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| Freeview 20 Sky 143 Virgin 116 |
| 11.40am The Bill 12.40pm Classic EastEnders 2.00 Classic Neighbours 3.00 Photatable Pearl. |
| 4.10 Lovegay 5.20 As Time Goes By. |
| 6.00 Last of the Summer Wine. |
| U&EDEN | | Freeview 57 Sky 168 Virgin 176 | | 12noon Canal Boat Diaries. | | U&GOLD | | Sky 110 Virgin 124 | | 12.25pm Only Fools and Horses. | | 1.05 Keeping Up Appearances 1.45 Dads Army 2.25 The Green Green Grass 3.05 An You Being Served? 3.45 Dad 4.25 Dads Army 5.00 Last of the Summer Wine 6.20 Keeping Up Appearances 7.00 Porridge 7.35 Dads Army 8.20 Are You Being Served? 9.00 Fawlty Towers 9.40 Joe & David's Magical |
| RADIO 2 FM 88-90 2M1F2 | | 6.30am The Sara Cox Breakfast Show 9.30 Vernon Kay 11.25 Radio 2's Piano Room 12noon Jeremy Vine 2.00pm Clara Ambs 4.00 Joel Donnett 7.00 Edith Bowman Shiny Happy Playlist 7.30 Edith Bowman 8.45 Radio 2's Piano Room 9.00 The Country Show with Darius Rucker. Darius presents music from across the generations 10.00 The Good Groove with Melvin Odoom 12midnight O.J. Berg Music and chat |
| RADIO 3 FM 90-2-92 4M1F2 | | 6.30am Breakfast 9.30 Essential Classics 1.00pm Classical Live. | | 4.00 Composer of the Week. Menopausal 5.00 In Time 7.00 BBC Proms 2026 10.00 Night Tracks 11.30 Round Midnight 12.30am Through the Night. |
| RADIO 5 LIVE | MW 685 / WGN 117 | 5.00am Wake Up to Money 6.00 5 Breakfast 9.00 Nicky Campbell 11.00 Gordon Smart 2.00pm Matt Charley 4.00 5 Drive 7.00 5 Sport 7.
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体育
SKY MAIN EVENT
Sky 401 Virgin 501
12noon 直播 2P 世界巡回赛高尔夫：丹麦高尔夫锦标赛 5.00 直播 PGA巡回赛高尔夫：联邦快递圣朱德锦标赛 7.00 转会秀 7.30 直播 贝德福德超级联赛：兰多犀牛队 v 莱利豹队 (开球 Rpm) 10.15 直播 PGA巡回赛高尔夫：联邦快递圣朱德锦标赛 11.00 直播 Torcos
PREMIER LEAGUE
402 Virgin 502
12noon 转会 Tula 1.00 英超集锦 1.30 FNF 2.00 集锦 5.00 Braziliana in the 6.00 故事 6.30 远离家园 7.00 转会秀 8.00 俱乐部英雄 8.30 故事 9.00 转会 IIG 10.00 远离家园 10.30 故事 11.00 年代
CRICKET
405 Virgin 505
10.00am The Hundred 1.30pm
The Hundred Bitesize 2.00 The Bitesize 5.45 The 5.45 The 7.00 The 10.30 The 11.00 The .
MIX
410 Virgin 511
12noon 我的偶像：Libby Clegg 12.15 我的偶像：Jennie Peacock 12.30 飞镖金牌 12.45 飞镖五大时刻 1.00 NFL集锦 2.00 30 Years of the PDC World Champa 2.30 直播 欧洲女子巡回赛高尔夫：VP银行瑞士女子公开赛 5.30 NFL Bitesize集锦 6.00 NBC职业足球谈话 8.00 一级方程式 11.00 NFL集锦
SPORTS 1
410 Virgin 511
12noon TNT体育回顾 12.30 直播 斯诺克中国公开赛 4.00 TNT体育回顾 4.30 探索高尔夫 5.00 CPL集锦 5.30 MLB集锦 6.30 直播 MLB 纽约洋基队 v 西雅图水手队 (开始时间 6.35pm). 9.30 硬汉：与西雅图海鹰队的训练营 10.30 TNT体育回顾 11.00 UDF CHGO世界锦标赛集锦 11.30 TNT体育板球回顾.
TNT SPORTS 2
411 Virgin 523
12noon 欧洲超级杯 1.30 CPL集锦 2.00 直播 男子自行车职业系列赛 3.30 MenGP集锦 4.30 终极台球 6.00 UIM FHLQ世界锦标赛集锦 6.30 FIM速度赛大奖赛集锦 7.30 欧洲超级杯 9.00 UFC解析 9.30 裁决 10.15 UFC倒计时 11.15 UFC彩排
TNT SPORTS 3
413 Virgin 524
10.30am 直播：欧洲田径锦标赛：赛事第四日回顾 4.00pm 欧洲超级杯 5.10 足球旋风 6.30 直播 欧洲田径锦标赛 10.00 斯诺克中国公开赛
电影
FILM4
Freeview 14 313 Virgin 428 11.00am 地心之旅 (1959) (U) 1.40pm 夏洛克·福尔摩斯与秘密武器 (1942) (PG) 3.00 Film4访谈节目 Talking Film 3.10 杰西·詹姆斯的真实故事 (1957) (PG) 5.00 托尔金 (2019) (12) 7.10 月球 (2009) (15) 9.00 绝地女王 (2022) (15) 11.40 安娜 (2019) (15) 2.00am 贝尔贝里安录音室 (2022) (15)
GREAT ACTION
Freeview 42 210 Virgin 426 10.30am 两身合一 (1961) () 12.40pm 猎犬 1.50 截获情报 3.50 第一杀 (2017) (15) 6.00 特种部队 7.00 截获情报 9.00 蓝色士兵 (1970) (18) 西部片，由 Candice Bergen 主演 11.30 复仇者
GREAT MYSTERY
Freeview 50 125 Virgin 425 12noon 难忘 1.00 显而易见 2.00 Castle
3.00 诊断谋杀 5.00 谋杀她写了 7.00 Castle 8.00 难忘 9.00 显而易见 10.00 早间节目之谜：心中之谋 (2019) () 由 Holly Robinson Peete 主演 11.55 海莉·迪恩之谜
GREAT ROMANCE
Freeview 52 142 Virgin 424 12.05pm 与爱约会 (2016) () 2.00 致英格兰，带着爱 (2023) () 4.00 加勒比之夏 (2022) () 5.00 带着爱的阿齐扎 (2022) () 7.50 当爱萌芽 (2023) () 9.40 爱之溅射 (2022) (U) 浪漫喜剧，由 Rhiannon Fluk 主演 11.40 双赢 (2022) ()
2024
210 Virgin 420
11.00am 一个接一个的地球 (2025) (15) 1.45pm 波希米亚·夏皮罗 (2020) (U) 4.00 海洋 (1978) () 6.00 希腊 2 (1982) () 8.00 一个巨星的诞生 (2019) (15) 由 Bradley Cooper 主演 10.25 属于他们自己的 A (1992) ()
SKY PREMIERE
Sky 320 Virgin 601
10.40am 《奥斯威辛》(Auschwitz) (2025) (12) 12.20pm 《正常》(Normal) (2026) (15) 2.00 《七位歌手》(Seven Singers) (2026) (15) 3.40 《蓝色之歌》(Song Sung Blue) (2025) (12) 6.00 《异教徒》(Heretic) (2024) (15) 恐怖片，休·格兰特主演 8.00 《正常》(Normal) (2026) (15) 动作喜剧，鲍勃·奥登科克主演 9.40 《七位歌手》(Seven Singers) (2026) (15) 惊悚片，拉达·米切尔主演 11.20 《灵长类》(Primate) (2025) (18) 恐怖片，强尼·德斯佩瓦主演
TALKING PICTURES TV
Freeview 43 Sky 234 Virgin 445 10.50am 《小后房》(The Small Back Room) (1940) (PG) 1.00pm 《兰斯洛特爵士历险记》(The Adventures of Sir Lancelot) 1.30 《蝴蝶》（Rebecca） (1940) (PG) 4.00 《开场》(Opener) (1962) (PG) 6.10 《审视生活》(Look at Life) 6.20 《离奇但真实》(Strange But True) 6.55 《兄弟》(The Brothers) 8.00 《马克·萨伯》(Mark Saber) 8.30 《惠特拉珀斯与快门社交俱乐部》(The Wheatlappers and Shutters Social Club) 9.20 《大海不能拥有他们》(The Sea Shall Not Have Them) (1995) (U) 剧情片，迪克·鲁佩尔斯出演 11.10 《喜剧演员》(The Comic) (1969) (PG) 喜剧剧情片，迪克·范·戴克主演
白羊座 3月21日 - 4月20日 你是否注意到，一旦开始组装过程，说明书就会迅速变得易懂？一张 20 示意图无法比拟材料在现实世界中的表现。可能有一种情况正要求你停止思考，而开始付诸行动。在迈出第一步之前，你不需要拥有所有答案。经验有一种神奇的方式可以填补空白。每一次尝试，无论多么不完美，都会让你在一天结束时比开始时多知道一些事情。对爱情、事业或人生选择感到好奇？获取个性化指导——请致电 0905 789 0301*
金牛座 4月21日 - 5月21日 完美难以捉摸。我们对某件事的构想期待得越久，现实往往就越难以企及。当我们犹豫不决时，机会可能会溜走。但一个新的开始并非旨在完美，而是旨在发展。沿途的错误是不可避免的。等待直到一切感觉完全正确，可能会推迟一件已经足够好到可以开始的事情。你的想法不会因为演变而失去价值。在过程中愿意做出改变，将为成功铺平道路。对爱情、事业或人生选择感到好奇？获取个性化指导——请致电 0905 789 0302*
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巨蟹座 6月23日 - 7月23日 洗衣服可能无法与登山的艰辛相提并论，但许多洗衣篮看起来就像一座需要攻克的顶峰。洗涤、干燥、折叠和收纳的过程，就像攀登岩壁一样艰巨。而当以勇敢的心面对时，这两项壮举都能带来满足感。你正面临一个可能感觉无法逾越的情况。你正在取得进展。
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想法在离开我们的脑海后往往会变得更好。
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不过，今天提醒你，持之以恒比爆发式的活动能让你走得更远。对爱情、事业或人生选择感到好奇？获取个性化指导——请致电 0905 789 0304*
狮子座 7月24日 - 8月23日 最优秀的
讲述者很少能准确记住每一个细节。他们擅长以一种能唤起情感的方式来描述事件。这正是让其他人对叙事产生共鸣的原因。这起到了一个有用的提醒作用：细节并不总是像我们想象的那样重要。试图让一切都完美无瑕，可能会抹去那些让事物变得令人难忘的特质。你的热情将带你走得很远，并让你建立起真实的连接。对爱情、事业或人生选择感到好奇？获取个性化指导——请致电 0905 789 0305*
处女座 8月24日 - 9月23日
大多数人，尤其是像你这样的处女座，知道在清单上勾掉一项任务的满足感，即使他们紧接着在下面写了三项新任务。生产力会产生正向的反馈循环。今天，月亮进入你的星座，而你的守护星水星与天秤座中充满爱意的金星相连。你可以预见接下来需要发生什么，但不要让这一点分散你的注意力，而忽略了你已经走了多远。你所付出的努力至关重要。对爱情、事业或人生选择感到好奇？获取个性化指导——请致电 0905 789 0306*
天秤座 9月24日 - 10月23日
有些人准备粉刷房间的方式是将样本带回家。当然，也有人更倾向于一种更凭直觉的方法。他们是更擅长选择合适的东西，还是仅仅更能应对不那么完美的匹配？在对一个人或一种情况下结论之前，请尝试从不同的角度观察。今天的对话鼓励通过视角而非假设来达成理解。对爱情、事业或人生选择感到好奇？获取个性化指导——请致电 0905 789 0307*
天蝎座 10月24日 - 11月22日
人们经常在开始烹饪之后才发现食谱中缺失的配料。有时可以用其他东西替代。但有些味道是不那么容易被替代的。在那时，准备工作必须暂停，直到你去买到那个难以寻觅的物品。你今天能否利用现有条件让情况运转起来——还是你需要重新评估菜单上的内容？不要低估你的创造力。对爱情、事业或人生选择感到好奇？获取个性化指导——请致电 0905 789 0308*
射手座 11月23日 - 12月21日
收藏家保留旧漫画、硬币、玩具和邮票，是因为他们看到了这些物品价值累积的潜力。基于一个不能必然保证的未来赌注来做出选择，这是否愚蠢？也许吧。但心怀希冀并期待最好的结果，不正是人类的天性吗？你所学到的东西比你有时愿意相信的要多。给你目前对哪些东西值得保留的评估给予应有的认可。对爱情、事业或人生选择感到好奇？获取个性化指导——请致电 0905 789 0309*
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水瓶座 1月21日 - 2月19日
你是否注意到，那些最基础的设备往往变得如此不可或缺！我们大多数人都离不开电水壶或烤面包机。但在很久以前，准备茶和吐司需要的不仅仅是按下一个按钮。优秀的发明之所以令人印象深刻，并非因为它们复杂，而是因为它们让生活变得更简单。今天鼓励你不要仅仅因为某个解决方案看起来显而易见就将其否定。它或许能以一种绝妙的方式改变局面。对爱情、事业或人生选择感到好奇？获取个性化指导——请致电 0905 789 0311*
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让我们骑着带边车的摩托车去非洲吧
回溯到 2005 年 5 月，我和我的妻子，以及她的双胞胎姐妹和姐夫（我们当时都在 50 多岁），骑着俄罗斯“乌拉尔 (Ural)”边车摩托车从梅登黑德 (Maidenhead) 的家中出发，经陆路前往摩洛哥。在烈日下骑行七天后，我们抵达西班牙南部的塔蒂克 (Tartik)，准备乘轮渡前往丹吉尔 (Tangier)。一旦我们在丹吉尔港口下船，我们就被拘留了。几个小时后，在向各种官员支付费用以解决“文书问题”后，我们才被允许离开（一个实用建议……不要把所有现金都放在钱包里！）。随后，我们在正午的阳光下朝着
拉巴特 (Rabat) 的方向前进。作为此次旅行的副产品，我们还在为当地的空中救护车筹款，而我们的“使命”在进入摩洛哥后便已达成。因此，在短暂地停下来喝茶休息后，我们返回港口回到西班牙。回程的旅途与去程类似；整天骑在车上，然后露营，第二天早上再次出发。然而，到此时我的摩托车又出现了一个额外的问题：离合器漏油，每天大约有一个小时离合器打滑，直到它变得足够热，我才能“掌控局面”。我们最终蹒跚地回到了西班牙北部，在那里乘坐“毕尔巴鄂之傲号 (Pride of Bilbao)”返回朴次茅斯 (Portsmouth)，随后在出发两周后回到了家中。我仍然保留着那辆边车摩托车，现在它成了一个巨大的花盆，在花园里静静地“安息地生锈”。正如当时有人评论的那样，“飞过去会更容易”，但我们感兴趣的是旅程，而不仅仅是目的地，最终我们在沿途经历了一场地道的传统冒险。
David Cox，伯克郡，梅登黑德
手语
我没看到船： 我在克赖斯特彻奇 (Christchurch) 的穆德福德码头 (Mudeford Quay) 的“观景点”发现了这个在拉鲱鱼网的场景。Gaye Slade，多塞特郡，南本 (Southbourne)
后续
在萨里郡的雷盖特 (REIGATE)，泽西乳业 (Jersey Dairies) 拥有一个装瓶厂和一个马厩。他们使用退役的马戏团马匹来拉车。这一切多年来运行得非常好，直到有一天，当地的陆军少年兵军乐团
沿着相邻的道路行进，演奏了一首某匹马曾在表演环中表演过的曲调。这匹马的记忆被唤醒了，它试图再次表演，但此时仍拉着车——而送奶工则在后面追赶！
R. Knight，德比
时代之韵
太阳待得太久，不再受欢迎， 请你，请你快走开， 但我们在这里，结果又是这样， 他今天又出来了。 Jane Reed，柴郡，诺威奇 (Northwich)
五行诗
如果索霍区 (Soho) 的夜店客 站着喝完他们的啤酒， 难道你不认为 这是个好消息？他们已经掌握了 如何不喝醉—— 否则他们怎么能垂直饮酒！ Mike Mesterlon-Gibbons，约克
想象一下！
面部识别： 有人躲在我的浴室窗帘后面！ Tony Quinn，伯克郡，纽伯里 (Newbury)
今日诗篇
手机成瘾的米米：一个警示故事
有个女孩叫米米，她觉得最好 让活跃的大脑休息一下。 她买了一部最新的手机， 和她最好的朋友琼买的一模一样。 她整天浏览、滚动屏幕， 这很快成了她唯一的目标。 在学校里，随着时间流逝， 她发现自己依赖上了人工智能。 她的作业分数超级好， 但她的老师们明白， 她的能力已经僵化， 神经细胞已经纷纷死去。 然后，在没有手机的情况下， 就像她最好的朋友琼一样， 她的期末考试全部挂科， 然后在当地购物中心找了份工作。 在那里你会看到她供应薯条 和汉堡，直到她死去的那一天。
保罗·弗里曼，毛里塔尼亚，努瓦克肖特
笑话
我腋下夹着一名歌剧演员走进一家酒吧。“打扰一下，”我说，“你有tense的零钱吗？”
托尼·桑迪，罗斯郡，阿尔内斯
读者来信
性别与法律
去年4月，英国最高法院裁定，《2019年平等法》项下的性别是指一个人出生时自带的生物学定义。
那么，为什么这么多公共机构和其他组织仍然允许生物学男性使用女性专属空间？理由似乎总是说他们正在审查政策。
这简直是胡说八道。法院已经做出了裁决，无需审查，只需遵守。
这对J.K.罗琳以及所有为保留单性别空间而奋斗的女性来说是个好消息。
让我们把几个机构负责人带到法庭上吧。他们很快就会发现，自己的职业生涯和养老金比通过“美德信号”来标榜自己更重要。
保罗·莫利，北约克郡，朗普雷斯顿
不切实际的观点
教育大臣露西·鲍威尔发起的关于三角函数等应用数学教学是否仍然相关的讨论，比起其他任何事情，都更能揭示她对世界的看法。
如果你生活在政治世界里，你可能不需要实用技能。但如果你生活在人们设计或制造日常用品的现实世界里，你绝对需要。
迈克尔·林切豪恩，威勒尔，瓦拉西
干幽默
继罗伊·卡曼（见读者来信）关于工党赢得选举后出现干旱的巧合评论之后，伯纳姆当然应该任命一名干旱部长。
危险在于，在2026年，这样一位部长可能需要一个工作组、一套战略、几名地区干旱专员、一个在线门户网站以及一项关于“雨”之定义的咨询。到那时，秋天已经到了。
珍妮特·迈耶斯，肯特郡，阿什福德
狐狸般的陷害
阿曼达·诺克斯继续承受着巨大的敌意和缺乏同情。对我来说，她是典型的被警方“栽赃陷害”犯罪的受害者。
真正的凶手鲁迪·格德最终因谋杀梅雷迪思·克彻仅服刑13年。他的DNA在受害者身上到处可见。
而阿曼达·诺克斯的DNA在任何地方都没有被发现，这也是她被判无罪的部分原因，结果却在重新审判中被可耻地再次定罪。
她因为一项没有犯下的罪行被监禁了四年！ 菲利普·罗伯茨，登比郡，唐弗罗姆
两轮恐怖
伦敦市长增加收入的一种方法是在所有行人过路处安装摄像头。
这样，每一个闯红灯的配送单车、轻便摩托车或踏板车都会被拍下来。
虽然没有车牌，骑手可能无法被识别，但雇佣他们的食品配送和快递公司是可以识别的。
一旦这些公司发现罚单落在他们的收件箱里，他们可能会重新考虑是否雇佣那些完全不懂《公路法规》的人。
几周前，我站在伦敦桥车站外等朋友，没有一个骑手在停止信号前停下。我放弃了计数。
埃莉诺·威廉姆斯，萨里郡，谢珀顿
警务挑战
我们一直被告知，需要采取新措施来打击日益增长的犯罪行为，例如反社会行为、诈骗、手机盗窃、道路交通违规和欺诈。
然而，大多数违法行为已经涵盖在法律之中。我们缺乏的是调查和监管这些行为的人员。
现在肯定到了对警务系统进行全面改革的时候了：建立一个专注于最严重犯罪的国家级组织，一个国家级交通部门，以及负责处理反社会活动和低级别犯罪的区域部队和地方部队，且主要依赖于传统风格的警务模式。
你可以制定任意数量的法律，但如果没有执法，它们就只是纸上谈兵。
大卫·洛（DAVID LOWE），萨默塞特郡，波利特（Pawlett, Somerset）
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不适任
我的一位朋友曾攀登过珠穆朗玛峰，跑过伦敦马拉松，还徒步穿越过巴西丛林，结果他被告知，担任邮递员对他来说资历过高。
西里尔·弗农（CYRIL VERNON），埃塞克斯郡，申菲尔德（Shenfield, Essex）
历史虐待
在上周五一篇关于哈罗盖特陆军基础学院（AFC）涉嫌性侵指控的报道中，一名陆军发言人表示，此类行为在我们的武装部队中“绝对没有生存空间”。
好吧，在成为 AFC 之前，它是几所陆军学徒学校之一，就像我 1957 年加入的那所一样。
在那个年代，课程持续三年。前六个月是基础贸易和教育培训，对于我们这些 15 岁的人来说，有时很艰苦；但第二个六个月简直是人间地狱。那时我们必须听命于那些被称为“ The Draft”的高年级学徒的反复无常和愿望。
当他们晚上出去玩回来时，我们会发现自己被从床上扔出去。
他们会加热鞋油罐，我们必须用鼻子将鞋油罐从营房的一端推到另一端。当他们被分配卫兵任务时，我们还必须清洗并熨烫他们的制服。
有一次，我们的一名新兵被命令做一个雪人，当雪人达到可接受的大小后，又被指示与它亲热（这不是他们当时使用的原话）。
在我们完成一天的训练后，正式工作人员几乎全部消失，高年级学徒们则肆意妄为。没有任何权力部门对此采取过任何行动。
埃里克·沃特斯（ERIC WATERS），西萨塞克斯郡，兰辛（Lancing, W. Sussex）
快点行动吧
我们选举政府来治理国家，他们可以接触到所有顶尖的金融和监管人才。现在安迪·伯纳姆（Andy Burnham）想要在英国巡演，询问人们如何应对生活成本问题。
我感到绝望。你能想象一名顶尖足球教练在街头向路人征集战术建议吗？
这是一个愚弄大众的噱头，旨在为他争取更多时间，因为他看起来完全力不从心。现在他心中一定在考虑大选。
西蒙·霍姆斯（SIMON HOLMES），诺福克郡，德辛汉姆（Dersingham, Norfolk）
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我们的首都已变成怎样的垃圾场
最近《每日邮报》在线报道强调了伦敦市中心状况的恶化，特别是无家可归、药物成瘾以及明显被忽视的问题，这些问题正困扰着曾经繁荣、长期被认为代表这座城市最高水准的地区（具体为贝尔格莱维亚的格罗夫纳花园和科文特花园）。我已经就此事给市长团队以及我的国会议员利亚姆·康隆（Liam Conlon）发了电子邮件，后者已致信威斯敏斯特市议会。作为一名在奥德威奇（Aldwych）和斯特兰德（Strand）地区生活并了解该地超过 30 年的人，我在与 12 岁女儿前往科文特花园看戏时所目睹的一切令我感到心碎。整体的衰落无法被忽视，人行道和其他公共区域肮脏、恶臭且明显被忽视，有些地方甚至有浓烈的尿味。斯特兰德路的一家麦当劳员工甚至不得不拿着拖把和水桶清理店外的行人路。我相信许多其他伦敦人、工作人员和游客也持有同样的担忧，因为我知道包括 The Delaney 餐厅和华尔多夫酒店在内的当地
瘫倒在地：科文特花园附近人行道上的一名露宿者
企业也是如此。这些并非孤立的问题，而是首都中心日益可见的更广泛衰落的一部分，盗窃、反社会行为和暴力犯罪水平正在上升。这一切都让人感觉到，伦敦正难以维持其曾经引以为傲的标准。它的名声正处于危机之中。再举一个例子：几天前，在维多利亚车站附近，一名醉酒的无家可归者在光天化日之下跟踪我，这让人感到不安，任何人遇到这种情况都会如此。现在需要的是一个协调的整体审查，而不是零散的应对措施。任何有权力的官员只要走在这些已经坦白地变成了耻辱的区域中，就能理解这个问题。伦敦值得更好的待遇，伦敦人应当在他们称之为家的这座城市中感到安全并感到自豪。
乔安娜·富勒夫人（Mrs JOHANE FULLER）， 肯特郡，西威克汉姆
重型部队
每当特朗普总统被穆拉（mullahs）击退时，我们总能察觉到。费尔福德（Fairford）的 B-IB 轰炸机启动并出发，低空、喧闹且快速地向南飞越斯温顿，前往最终目的地。
E. 哈里森（E. HARRISON），威尔特郡，斯温顿
闯入球场
我们是从什么时候开始，以及为什么停止使用公顷和英亩来描述面积，而开始使用“足球场”？
对于我们这些从未看过足球赛且无意观看的人来说，这完全是一个毫无意义的计量单位。
利兹·佩奇（LIZ PAGE）， 多塞特郡，克赖斯特彻奇
法式摊手
法国在任何船只出海前都有严格的安全规定。没有任何非法移民的小艇符合这些规定，因此法国人正在违反他们自己的海事法。
为什么我们的政府从未提及这一事实？
D. J. 麦克弗森夫人（Mrs D. J. McPHERSON）， 德文郡，牛顿阿博特
弗雷德说得对
我最喜欢的板球故事（读者来信）涉及无与伦比的约克郡快球手弗雷迪·特鲁曼（Freddie Trueman）。他向击球手（现在称为 batter）投球，全场都能听到一声沉重的边缘击球声。“没出局，”裁判说。下一球，明显的腿前球（LBW）。裁判摇了摇头。
下一球，弗雷迪将三柱门击散在场地上，然后转向裁判说：“这次差点就搞定他了，不是吗？”
J. T. 史密斯（J. T. SMITH）， 达勒姆郡，哈特尔普尔
降低标准
我想我知道为什么一名清洁工发现的 35 年前的玛氏巧克力棒比现在的要大得多。
回到 1991 年，该公司还在使用广告曲“每天一块玛氏，助你工作、休息和娱乐”。显然，“工作”部分已经被删除了。
罗兰·哈特利（ROLAND HARTLEY）， 兰开夏郡，格雷特哈伍德
本周之信
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努力在“觉醒者”中显得最“觉醒”
杰森·阿尔代（Jason Arday）事件让我想起了 20 世纪 60 年代我在剑桥大学做学生时的时光。那是多么大的反差。那时还没有社会学系，社会学被认为是一种“米老鼠学科”（指不严肃的学科），更适合那些被轻视的红砖大学或新型玻璃大学（如萨塞克斯大学）。这种观念至少在 1988 年依然存在，在那个令人难忘的英国电信（BT）电视广告中就有体现。比蒂奶奶在电话中听着她忧郁的孙子列举的一长串 O-level 考试失败科目，但当得知他通过了陶艺和社会学时，她高兴了起来：“他学了一个‘学’（ology）！安东尼，你是个科学家！”虽然社会学在今天被普遍接受为一门严肃的学科，但可以说它仍然倾向于缺乏成熟学科的标志——一个所有学生必须首先掌握的、被普遍认可的核心教学大纲，在某些机构中，它倾向于成为左翼理想主义者的游乐场。就像保守党曾经陷入一场布莱尔之后的自我批评狂欢（“他们称我们为‘恶毒党’），并在第一时间冲去清除其形象中的“恶毒”一样，剑桥大学也一直费尽心思地不想成为一所“恶毒大学”，并努力在“觉醒者”中显得最“觉醒”。在这样做的时候，它让自己看起来很可笑。阿尔代教授在经济学、法律、历史或物理学领域永远不可能攀登到顶峰。
史蒂夫·坦纳（STEVE TANNER），卡马森
杰森·阿尔代（JASON ARDAY）比不上我的一个老同事。一位来访的朋友注意到他的车库里有一个巨大的木制工具箱，并询问是从哪里弄来的。他回答说那是从法国带来的。战争结束时，他是背着这个箱子游过英吉利海峡的。
布莱恩·索德（BRIAN SWORD）， 诺森伯兰郡，莫佩斯
直截了当地
■ 不喜欢监狱生活（信件）？那就不要犯罪。
苏·巴伦（SUE BARRON），诺森伯兰郡，克拉姆林顿
■ 为什么掌权者不照顾那些体面的人？
基思·杰弗里（KEITH JEFFERY），肯特郡，查塔姆
■ 英国广播公司（BBC）给罗梅什·兰加纳坦（Romesh Ranganathan）带来了什么？他应该问问他的银行经理。
B. C. 巴罗（B. C. BURROW），柴郡，克鲁
■ 监狱过度拥挤成为新闻，伊恩·比尔（Ian Beale）是在进行“牢房封锁”吗？
埃德·考利（ED CAWLEY），兰开夏郡，福姆比
■ 是时候加入美洲原住民的祈雨舞了。
大卫·凯（DAVID KAY），西萨塞克斯郡，海沃兹希思
■ 法国难道没有儿童保护法吗？
塔尼娅·克洛斯-琼斯（TANYA CLOSS JONES），格温特郡，朗斯通
■ 特朗普说撤换詹尼·因凡蒂诺（Gianni Infantino）将是一个错误。如果国际足联（FIFA）这么做了，他会威胁要把他们带回石器时代吗？
基思·戴（KEITH DAY），西米德兰兹郡，戈纳尔伍德
■ 斯塔默（Starmer）给安迪留了他的安全帽和高可见度反光背心吗？
卡罗尔·罗森伯格-福克斯（CAROL ROSENBERG-FOX），赫特福德郡，史蒂夫尼奇
■ 船还在继续来，安迪。
匿名，肯特郡，迪尔
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QUESTION 20世纪60年代的音乐团体 Hedgehoppers Anonymous 的故事是什么？
节拍乐队 Hedgehoppers Anonymous 由五名英国皇家空军（RAF）人员 Mike Tinsley、John Stewart、Tony Cockayne、Ray Honeyball 和 Leslie Dash 于 1963 年组成。
这些人当时都是驻扎在 RAF Wittering 的地勤人员，该基地位于彼得伯勒（Peterborough）附近斯坦福镇（Stamford）旁的 A1 公路边。
该团体最初名为 The Trendsetters，不久后被称为 The Hedgehoppers，随后 Cockayne 离开了乐队，由一名非空军人员 Alan Laud 接替。
Hedgehoppers 这个名字源于当时的 V bombers (Vulcans)，据说它们会低空飞行以避开雷达探测。
该团体于 1965 年来到剑桥在 Corn Exchange 演出，在那里遇到了本科生 Jonathan (Kenneth) King，他建议他们在乐队名称中加上“Anonymous”。Decca 曾发行过 King 创作并演唱的一首歌《Everyone's Gone To The Moon》，并向该团体提供他的另一首歌。那首歌是《It's Good News Week》，在 King 的制作下，Decca 于 1965. 9月发行。该曲在英国排行榜上达到了第 5 名。
不久之后，Dash 和 Honeyball 因为无法获得英国皇家空军（RAF）的退伍证明，被迫正式离开乐队。两人由 Tom Fox 和 Glenn Martin 接替。
1966, 我 17 岁，我父亲被派往 RAF Wittering，当地的团体会在周三在基地的 A1 俱乐部演出。像我这样的学生会去俱乐部与空军人员交流。像 Marmalade 这样崭露头角的乐队曾在那里演出，我确信 The Hedgehoppers 在某个阶段也演过。
当我 1971, 去剑桥时，我的学院靠近桥街（Bridge Street）的 The Baron Of Beef 酒吧，我们中的一些人曾在那里喝酒。关于 King（他也常在那家酒吧喝酒）和 Hedgehoppers 的这个故事在当地人那里得到了证实。
Peter Rowan 博士，诺里奇
QUESTIONS
Q: 哪家汽车制造商首先提供了空调选项，是在什么时候？ Nick Vincent，伯克斯郡，布拉克内尔
Q: 蝙蝠在大型群体中时能识别自己的信号吗？
Keith Thompson，柴郡，沃灵顿
Q: 在汉普郡名为 Brockenhurst 和 Lyndhurst 的地方，“hurst”的来源和含义是什么？
John MacDonald，赫里福德
从英国皇家空军到排行榜
跳升至第 5 名：1966 年 3 月的乐队成员，从左至右依次为 John Stewart, Glenn Martin, Mike Tinsley, Alan Laud 和 Tom Fox
问题 如果成年后已经患过带状疱疹，接种带状疱疹疫苗是否会有积极效果？
带状疱疹是一种常见的疾病，会导致疼痛性皮疹，有时会导致长期疼痛和轻微损失等问题。它是神经及其周围皮肤的感染，由引起水痘的水痘-zoster病毒重新激活引起。
在患水痘或接种水痘疫苗后的数十年里，这种病毒可能在体内潜伏，但如果你年事已高或免疫系统严重受损，则更有可能患上带状疱疹。
成年后患过带状疱疹的人不太可能再次患病，但这并非绝无可能，因此卫生部门建议接种疫苗。它甚至可能第三次复发，尤其是在免疫系统虚弱的人群中。
在患病后的最初几年里，你最不容易患上带状疱疹——甚至比从未患病的人更不容易。随着时间的推移，复发的可能性会增加。
NHS 为年满 65 岁的人、70 至 79 岁之间的人，以及 18 岁及以上免疫系统虚弱的人提供带状疱疹疫苗。
水痘主要影响儿童，而带状疱疹主要影响成年人。水痘通常在一两周内痊愈，无需就诊全科医生（GP），而带状疱疹的康复时间大约是其两倍，但可以通过咨询药剂师来辅助康复过程。
D. Clarkson, 牛津
问题 大西洋和太平洋是在何时以及如何得名的？
在大西洋和太平洋这两个名字中，大西洋的历史更久。早在公元前 5 世纪，古希腊作家就将直布罗陀海峡之外的广阔海域称为“阿特拉斯之海”（Atlantikos Pelagos）。阿特拉斯是希腊神话中的一名泰坦，被判处永恒地支撑苍穹。非洲西北部的阿特拉斯山脉也与这位传奇泰坦相关联，这加强了这种联系。
对于希腊人来说，这部分地区位于已知世界的西缘，因此其后的海洋自然而然地与他联系在一起。
相比之下，太平洋直到 18 世纪才得名。1520 年，代表西班牙航行的葡萄牙探险家斐迪南·麦哲伦航行通过了南美洲南端那条如今以他命名的危险通道。
在与波涛汹涌的大海搏斗数周后，他进入了一片出奇平静的海域。被这种反差所震撼，他将其称为“Mare Pacificum”，在拉丁语中意为“和平之海”。
事实上，太平洋绝非和平。它是世界上最大且最深的海洋，也是地震活跃的“环太平洋火山带”所在地，那里地震、火山爆发和海啸频发。但麦哲伦的第一印象令人难忘，这个名字便沿用至今。
Colin McPherson, 格拉斯哥
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工党税收突袭重创 William Hill
由于受到针对博彩业税收突袭的打击，William Hill 已关闭超过五分之一的投注店，导致数百个工作岗位流失。
所有者 Evoke 在截至 6 月底的一年内将其店址削减了 278, 家，即 21. 4pc，减至 1,024 家——其中约 200 家在 5 月关闭。
此前，瑞秋·里夫斯（Rachel Reeves）决定在今年 4 月将远程游戏税从 21pc 提高到 40pc，而在线体育博彩的征收额也将从 15pc 跳升至 25pc。税收上涨引发了投注店的关闭，以及希腊博彩公司 Bally's Intralot 提议以 2.43 亿英镑 收购 Evoke 的计划。
Evoke 昨日表示，在 2026, 上半年，它额外支付了 4600 万英镑 的税款，这主要是英国税制变更的结果，该公司在该期间公布的亏损为 8000 万英镑。
就在几天前，博彩与游戏委员会（BGC）的数据显示，自预算案出台以来，已有超过 540 家投注店关闭，4,500 个工作岗位流失。
首相安迪·伯纳姆（Andy Burnham）本周在概述拯救英国“空心化”商业街的计划时，将“投注店”与电子烟店以及“与有组织犯罪相关的可疑企业”归为一类，这引发了进一步的愤怒。
影子文化大臣路易·法兰奇（Louie French）表示：“安迪·伯纳姆竟然可耻地暗示，数百万民众安全享有的博彩和投注店是可疑的。工党的道德警察认为人们会停止博彩，这是错误的。”
“这只会刺激非法市场，对消费者、体育运动和政府来说都是双输的结果。”BGC 首席执行官 Grainne Hurst 补充道：“更多的店铺即将消失，随之而去的是就业机会、投资和税收。”
“这些是真实的商业和真实的生活生计在为此付出代价。政府不能通过征税将一个行业推向衰落，却指望增加收入。店铺和岗位的减少意味着税基缩小，用于体育和赛马的资金减少，以及监管部门的削弱。”
伊朗战争威胁摧毁英国经济
财政部官员警告增长可能放缓至仅 0. 3pc
作者：Hugo Duncan
安迪·伯纳姆（Andy Burnham）收到警告，如果唐纳德·特朗普继续推进其对伊朗的战争，英国经济将陷入停滞——而此时接连而至的热浪正冲击产出。
财政部官员预测，如果由于冲突导致霍尔木兹海峡在今年余下时间内实际上处于关闭状态，2027 年的增长将放缓至 0. 3pc。
这将是自 2023, 年以来的最差表现，当时英国在俄罗斯入侵乌克兰后陷入生活成本冲击的掌控之中，且远低于预算责任办公室（OBR）预测的 1. 6pc 的增长。
内部预测还警告，2027, 第一季度的通货膨胀率可能会从 2. 6pc 上升到 4. 3pc，从而打击生活水平。
据彭博社报道，财政部的这份简报出炉之际，伊朗和美国在永久结束海湾战争的问题上仍处于僵持状态。
而且这代表了一个重大的
夏季住房忧郁
由于需求疲软冲击销售额和房价，住房市场依然陷入低迷。
行业机构英国皇家特许测量师学会（RICS）的一份报告显示，由于对高额抵押贷款成本和房价的担忧，7月份的新买家咨询量有所下降。
销售额有所下滑，房价亦然，其中伦敦、东南部和西南部受影响最严重。该报告出台前几天，房屋建筑公司 Bellway 的负责人曾呼吁降低印花税并推出新的“购房帮扶”（Help to Buy）计划，以振兴死气沉沉的市场。
RICS 首席经济学家 Simon Rubinsohn 表示：“很明显，地缘政治、国内政治气候以及抵押贷款融资成本的结合，正持续压制市场情绪。”
对于伯纳姆（Burnham）及其财政大臣约翰·希利（John Healey，如图所示）来说，这在 10 月份预算案出台前是一个巨大的头痛问题。分析人士警告称，为了资助奢侈的支出计划，预算案可能会带来 250亿英镑 的税收增长。
任何增速放缓——例如财政部官员所概述的情况——都将随着税收收入下降和福利支出增加，在公共财政中撕开一个新的缺口。而飙升的通货膨胀将削弱政府帮助家庭应对生活成本的努力。
预计今日公布的官方数据显示，在今年前三个月增长 0.6% 之后，第二季度的增长速度有所放缓。
人们担心经济在 6 月份陷入停滞，增长率为 0.，这增加了出现痛苦的“滞胀”时期的可能性，并进一步削弱了前财政大臣瑞秋·里夫斯（Rachel Reeves）关于已让英国立足于稳固基础的说法。
伯纳姆和希利还收到警告，热浪正造成严重影响：生产力下降，商业街销售萎缩，干旱损害收成并威胁导致粮食短缺。
WPI Strategy 的经济学家 Martin Beck 估计，炎热天气给英国经济造成了约 30亿英镑 的损失，而绿色智库 Verdant 将这一数字定为 44亿英镑。
由于霍尔木兹海峡的航运受阻，昨晚油价仍维持在 $90 每桶左右。在战争爆发前，全球五分之一的石油和天然气供应经过该海峡。
国际能源署昨日警告称，由于冲突，“全球石油储备正在迅速枯竭”。
美国物价回落，美联储获得利率缓刑
随着通胀回落减轻了央行提高利率的压力，美国联邦储备委员会的新任负责人有望避免与唐纳德·特朗普发生冲突。
昨日的官方数据显示，截至 7 月的一年内，消费者价格上涨 3.4%，低于上月的 3.5%。
这一跌幅表明，美联储及其新任主席凯文·沃什（Kevin Warsh）将在下个月将美国利率维持在 3.5% 至 3.75% 的区间内。
这将避免与特朗普发生冲突，后者自就任总统以来一直主张降低利率。
Nedgroup Investments 的投资组合经理 Matt Cornwell 表示：“没有令人不快的意外，意味着沃什可以维持他的观望倾向。”该报告是在上周传出 7 月份出现意外裁员的消息之后发布的，并表明中东冲突引发的油价冲击影响有限。
但经济学家表示，由于通胀率高于美联储 2% 的目标，加息方案仍在考虑之中。
BMO Capital Markets 的首席美国经济学家 Scott Anderson 表示：“该报告应进一步减轻美联储对能源驱动的通胀螺旋的担忧。”
“在完全撤回加息威胁之前，美联储需要看到更多证据，证明核心服务通胀确实在放缓。”
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Harvey Nichols 的生存计划
迈克·艾希利（Mike Ashley）在 2002 年首次尝试进军英国奢侈品市场时并不顺利，当时他收购了英国的高端体育用品店 Lillywhites。
那时，该店深受温布尔登球星、运动员和私立学校的青睐。他在皮卡迪利（Piccadilly）门店的低层摆满了成排的 T 恤和 Sports Direct 的救市品牌（如 Everlast）。这导致其品牌声望毁于一旦。
2019 年，在租赁方要求提高租金后，这位 Sports Direct 的创始人曾试图抛弃该企业，但未能成功。
艾希利及其女婿迈克尔·默里（Michael Murray）从中吸取了教训。廉价体育服装和设备仍是 Frasers Group 的核心，但公司进行了升级，部分本土品牌在与 Nike、Adidas 和 Hugo Boss（目前正受到艾希利的围攻）并排销售的同时，规模有所缩减。
其结果是门店外观更美观，利润率提高，贸易利润超过 10亿英镑。强劲的现金流使持有 72% 股份的艾希利和默里拥有资金投资于更大、更好的门店。
他们继续通过持有 Aioa、AG World、THG、Hugo Boss 的股份，以及从挪威到澳大利亚的海外体育零售商，对英国商业街和在线购物发起猛攻。
本周进入 Frasers 视野的是顶级高级时装店集团 Harvey Nichols，该集团以其引人注目的橱窗展示和五楼餐饮而闻名。
多年来，它一直依赖于电视剧《绝对 fabulous》（Absolutely Fabulous）带来的名声。如今它已成为亏损企业，所有者狄克森·普恩（Dickson Poon）已忍无可忍。
天空新闻（Sky）报道称，Frasers 即将将该集团（在包括曼彻斯特和利兹在内的英国各地区设有门店）从破产边缘救出。
成功的关键将是避免重蹈 Lillywhites 那种混乱的覆辙。艾希利需要说服 Balmain、Armani、Cartier、Max Mara 和 Ralph Lauren 等挑剔的奢侈品供应商，证明他是一个合适的所有者。
在 Hugo Boss 的主导地位以及对萨维尔街（Savile Row）裁缝店 sleeves & Hawkes 的所有权可能会有所帮助。他们需要 Frasers 的资金，正如他需要他们一样。
虽然会有关于就业的承诺，但无法保证门店组合将保持完整。
今年夏天早些时候，Frasers 关闭了其伯明翰市中心的门店（原 Rackhamis）。经营百货公司并非易事，正如我们本周从约翰刘易斯合伙公司（John Lewis Partnership）得知的那样，其老板彼得·鲁伊斯（Peter Ruiz）已辞职。
伦敦和英国各地区作为购买顶级品牌购物胜地的未来，正被英国财政部（HM Treasury）地扼杀。英国对海外购物者礼品的“游客税”使巴黎和米兰占据了优势。
如果安迪·伯纳姆（Andy Burnham）认真对待支持各地区、建设更好的商业街和保护就业，那么为访客提供退税将是一个早期的胜利。
剑桥起飞
对杰森·阿尔代（Jason Arday）教授和剑桥大学招聘的高度关注，不应分散人们对该大学在科学、研究和创新方面巨大贡献的注意力。
据透露，Cambridge Aerospace（剑桥航空航天公司）的估值已大幅跃升。这是一家致力于构建低成本反无人机和反导弹防御系统的初创公司，在乌克兰和中东的战争中发挥了关键作用。
该公司由就职于该大学的航空航天工程师史蒂夫·巴雷特（Steve Barrett）在两年前创立，刚刚筹集了 5 亿英镑 用于扩大研发和制造。
这使得该企业的估值达到 44亿英镑。该公司已在英国获得合同，并在德国、波兰、乌克兰和澳大利亚引起了兴趣。
能够击落伊朗 Shahed 无人机的简易拦截机 Skylhammer 已经上市。
Cambridge Aerospace 计划在 2027 年前推出一种能够摧毁高价值导弹的设备。遗憾的是，大部分资金来自加利福尼亚州的 DFJ Growth，而非英国。
规则之火
蕾切尔·里夫斯（RACHEL Reeves）已离开财政部，但改革英国监管机构的努力仍在继续。
竞争与市场管理局（CMA）正在审查过去四分之一个世纪以来对英国企业的限制，审查范围涵盖了从冰淇淋到英国广播公司（BBC）、零售银行以及度假套餐的所有领域。
由于环境的变化，例如地面电视观众人数的大幅下降，这意味着这些限制可以被彻底清除。太棒了！
中东战争引发 TUI 更多动荡
欧洲最大的旅游运营商 Tui 利润大幅下滑，原因是伊朗战争推高了成本，并令那些倾向于延迟预订假期的消费者感到不安。
在截至 6 月底的三个月里，由于燃料成本上升和降价压力影响了底线，利润下降 43%，至 1300 万英镑。
客户数量下降 3%，至 9.9m，营收下降 5.6pc 至 30亿英镑。
在德国上市的股票下跌 1%。老板塞巴斯蒂安·埃贝尔（Sebastian Ebel）表示，战争影响了购买决策的时机，尽管过去四周的预订量增长了 7pc。
近期的高温天气对经营邮轮、酒店和航空公司的 Tui 影响有限。
AJ Bell 市场主管丹·科茨沃思（Dan Coatsworth）表示：“美伊和平谈判的失败给该行业带来了麻烦。Tui 保持乐观，称人们仍在旅行。”
“投资者并不认同管理层的信心。”
利润激增，Balfour Beatty 股价创纪录
作者：Angharad Carrick
由于从重大基础设施项目中获利，HS2 承包商 Balfour Beatty 的股价昨日飙升至历史新高。
这家富时 250 指数公司表示，在今年前六个月利润增长 46% 至 1300 万英镑9m 后，公司“以强劲的势头进入下半年”。
该公司上调了年度利润预测，目前预计将实现“低两位数百分比增长”，此前预计为“高个位数增长”。
股价在小幅回落前上涨 12%，最终收盘上涨 7.1pc，即上涨 61p，至 926.8p —— 使今年的涨幅达到 30%。
该股在过去五年中的价值几乎翻了三倍，而在此之前的 14 年里，其价值损失了约三分之一。
Balfour 从事交通、能源和国防领域的公共及私营部门项目，是 HS2 铁路的主要承包商，该公司正在西米德兰兹郡一段 55 英里的路段建设高架桥和隧道，以及在伦敦建设老橡树公地（HS2铁路沿线新站）。
英国政府增加在电网改进方面的支出也为其提供了助力，该公司还参与了 Hinkley Point C 和 Sizewell C 核电站项目，以及 Net Zero Teesside 的建设，后者旨在成为全球首座配备碳捕集与封存技术的燃气发电厂。
国防开支的增加以及其美国建筑部门需求的增长带来了进一步的收益。
首席执行官菲利普·霍尔（Philip Hoare）补充道：“我们继续获得高质量的工作，提高盈利能力并产生强劲的现金流。”
eToro 市场分析师亚当·韦特塞（Adam Vettese）表示：“这正是目前市场想要的那种低风险、高可见度的业务，英国主要的能源和国防项目仍将进入订单簿，且美国业务的储备充足。”
Balfour 将中期股息提高了 7pc，至每股 4.7p。
IG 首席市场分析师克里斯·博尚普（Chris Beauchamp）表示：“对于股东来说，这又是另一个好消息。在经历了多年糟糕的股价表现后，他们的耐心得到了丰厚的回报。”
作者：Emily Hawkins
在就就业和门店问题进行谈判后，迈克·阿什利（MIKE Ashley）希望最快在今天宣布收购 Harvey Nichols。
这位零售大亨的 Frasers Group 帝国包括 Flannels 和 Sports Direct，他正接近达成一项收购这家百货公司连锁店的协议
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体育 65
索尔兹伯里，纽约 (SALISBURY, NY)
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哈德森-史密斯捍卫主场夺冠
作者：保罗·马丁 (PAUL MARTIN)
昨晚，马修·哈德森-史密斯 (MATTHEW Hudson-Smith) 在主场赛道上勇夺欧洲冠军——随后直接走向了以他命名的看台。
这位 31 岁的运动员从小就在亚历山大体育场 (Alexander Stadium) 的赛道上训练，他利用对当地环境的熟悉，在 400 米比赛中以 44.17 秒的成绩夺冠。
哈德森-史密斯通过享受来自“第二城市”观众的热烈欢呼来庆祝胜利，观众们在连续三个夜晚见证了英国第三枚金牌的诞生。
“语言无法描述这对我意味着多少，”他说。“我的教练告诉我，‘这是你的主场，捍卫它’。我知道如果有人想超过我，必须付出极大的努力。”
“在这个赛道上没有人能打败我，这是我的家。我从 9 岁起就在这里，我对这条赛道了如指掌。”
“我知道我是世界上最强的，我知道我比这里的所有人都快。这只是我与时间的较量。”
在前一晚的半决赛中，哈德森-史密斯在起跑后迅速冲出，但在最后直道被追上。
事实证明他只是在节省体力。在决赛中，哈德森-史密斯被分在最外道，他从一开始就掌控局面，并在冲过后直道时扩大领先优势。这一次没有人能追上他，他夺得了第五个欧洲冠军头衔。
“预赛的全部意义就在于生存并晋级……我只是执行了比赛计划，然后顺势而为。”
五枚欧洲金牌使他与罗杰·布莱克 (Roger Black) 和莫·法拉爵士 (Sir Mo Farah) 持平，而在英国运动员中，只有迪娜·阿舍-史密斯 (Dina Asher-Smith) 赢得的洲际奖牌更多。继艾米·亨特 (Amy Hunt) 和罗梅尔·格拉夫 (Romell Glave) 在 100 米项目中获胜之后，这标志着东道国在本届赛事中夺得第三枚金牌。
赛道之王：哈德森-史密斯在主场体育场展示他的 400 米金牌 EPA
亨特通过轻松进入今晚的 200 米决赛，使其冲击欧洲四冠的惊人目标得以延续。这位新晋的欧洲 100 米最快女性在起跑领先之后，在最后直道选择了减速，并以 22.37 秒赢得了半决赛。
“我会给这次表现打 8 分（满分 10）,”去年在东京世界锦标赛 200 米中获得银牌的亨特说道。
“我知道我需要进行一次非常强力的冲刺，在 150 米处击败他们，这样就没人能跟上我。保持放松和快乐是最重要的。关键是要尝试保持社交状态，不要让自己过于严肃。否则你会把自己累垮的。”
阿舍-史密斯在同样毫无压力的半决赛后与亨特一起进入决赛。这位 30 岁的运动员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。
“我不去想过去发生了什么，也不去想未来会怎样，我只是尝试活在当下，”阿舍-史密斯说。
英国冠军萨克塞斯·埃杜安 (Success Eduan) 以 22.56 秒作为两名成绩最快落选者之一晋级，确保了三位主场希望之星都将站在起跑线上。
在其他项目中，马克斯·伯金 (Max Burgin) 正期待着今晚一场英爱之争的金牌战。这位 24 岁的运动员在昨天的男子 800 米首场半决赛中以 1:44.73 获胜，随后爱尔兰的马克·英格利什 (Mark English) 跑出 1:43.49，打破了维持 48 年的锦标赛纪录，为争夺洲际之王的激烈对决埋下伏笔。
“在半决赛中就打破锦标赛纪录太惊人了，”伯金说。“我希望这让他消耗掉了一些体力！”
根源：要聪明，要理智……要像个成年人一样
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在板球监管机构对他于在勋爵板球场击败新西兰队后，于午夜之后出现在切尔西一家夜总会一事进行调查后，他面临着需要回答的问题，因为他不认为比赛结束后还设有宵禁。在此之后，任何英格兰全队成员若打算在晚上 90pm 之前离开球队酒店，均须通知管理层。
然而，鲁特坚持认为：“要像成年人一样，照顾好自己，照顾好彼此，营造一种良好且强大的文化，让你们知道什么时候是庆祝和享受胜利的正确时机，或者什么时候可以适度喝杯啤酒，但请记住——你们是在为英格兰队而战。”
“我不希望人们觉得，因为想喝杯啤酒，或者在合适的时机放松一下，就不能享受赢得一场测试赛的快乐，那样绝对没问题。”
“我们是人类。你们知道自己的责任，知道如何为测试赛做准备以及需要付出什么，以及这些事情会对你们产生什么影响。所以要聪明，要理智，就做一个成年人。”
一名英格兰及威尔士板球委员会（ECB）发言人告诉《每日邮报》体育版：“我们有测试赛队长和教练，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。我们将确保所有球员在参加即将到来的测试赛系列赛时，对预期要求有清晰的理解。”上周，斯托克斯否认英格兰队存在酒精问题，而是表示：“板球有一种饮酒文化，这一点没有改变。它一直存在，并已根植于这项运动之中。”
体育简讯
季前友谊赛
埃弗顿... (2) 1 纽卡斯尔... (0) 1 Burns 27 Barron 30 Hilton 30 (end) George 11 曼联... (1) 1 利兹... (1) 1 Zimbabwe 16 Karolinska 20 ARGONAL... (1) 1 CRAIG... (1) 1 Lewis Smith 23 Spacitors 41 诺丁汉森林... (1) 2 B-LEVORKINEN... (1) 1 Noburn & Ashman 10 12 NIKKALA... (1) 2 PILLMAN... (1) 2 Church 26 Senegron 24 Journey 18 (1 free)
■ 板球 THE WINNEBED — Edgington, Mem. MI 伦敦 157-6 (3rd Balls) 伯明翰凤凰 150-7 (100 Balls) MI 伦敦以 54-2 分获胜。 女子组 MI 伦敦 120-6 (100 ) 伯明翰凤凰 120-5 (94 ) E & Perry 42nd. 伯明翰凤凰以 5 个三柱门获胜。 安哥拉，伦敦，男子组 伦敦精神 10-6 (100 ) 威尔士之火
125-7 (100 ) D J Willey 3-20. 伦敦精神以 6 分获胜。 女子组 威尔士之火 130-7 (100 ) S M Harris 3-65. 伦敦精神 123-8 (99 ) E F A Potts 3-23. 威尔士之火以 15 分获胜。 第四场一日国际赛 — 贝尔法斯特，阿富汗 341-3 (58, 8 overs. Real 14). Zadran 107. (4) Dunnough 3 min. 爱尔兰 301-10 (48, 8 overs. Badlands 8th. Campher 84. Abkhazia 4-7). Arinan 1-49. 阿富汗以 42 分获胜。
■ 斯诺克 中国公开赛（宿迁市） — 第二轮。周 (中) 6-4 胜 刘 (中)。D Gillbert (新) 6-2 胜 吴 (中)。S Murphy (新) 6-2 胜 肖 (中)。N Sannigham (泰) 6-4 胜 R O'Sullivan (新)。
■ 今日赛事
欧联杯第三轮资格赛次回合 哈茨 (3) v 本菲卡 (8)... (7,45) 埃格纳蒂亚 (0) v 夏姆洛克 8 (0)... (8,0) 格拉斯哥流浪者 (1) v J Blatydon (2)... (7,30) 欧协联第三轮资格赛次回合 中日德兰 (2) v Bohannan (0)... (8,0) 马瑟韦尔 (1) v KIR (1)... (7,30) 谢尔本 (1) v 亚贾克斯 (2)... (7,45) Premier Sports 直播 Shkandja (1) v 希伯尼安 (2)... (7,0) 板球 — 第一场测试赛 — 澳大利亚 v (Darnes, 1,30am) 第 1 天。第一场测试赛 — 澳大利亚 v (班加罗尔 (Darnes, 1,30am) 第 1 天。 高尔夫 — FedEx 圣 jude 冠军赛（TFC Southwick, 田纳西州孟菲斯）。丹麦高尔夫锦标赛（多伦多）。LPGA 标准波特兰经典赛（俄勒冈州波特兰）。VP Bank 瑞士女子公开赛（Roch, Bethesda）。 联盟式橄榄球 — Bafford 超级联赛 (8,0)。Hull 6-8 v Cobham (Drayton, 利兹 v 莱斯, 沃灵顿 v 约克)。
博思威克亮出底牌
北安普顿队的锁骨（lock）亚历克斯·科尔斯（Alex Coles）是昨天获得英格兰增强精英球员名单（EPS）合同的五名新球员之一，史蒂夫·博思威克（Steve Borthwick）借此亮出了他的世界杯底牌。国家队主教练博思威克公布了一份25人的名单，科尔斯、塞布·阿特金森（Seb Atkinson）、杰克·范·普特弗利特（Jack van Poortvliet）、阿舍尔·奥波库-福乔尔（Asher Opoku-Fordjour）和盖伊·佩珀（Guy Pepper）是新面孔。奥利·劳伦斯（Ollie Lawrence）、汤姆·罗贝克（Tom Roebuck）和埃利奥特·戴利（Elliot Daly）是与去年此时公布的名单相比，此次被剔除的重点人物。同样遭遇这一命运的还有前
橄榄球联盟
作者：亚历克斯·拜沃特（ALEX BYWATER）
萨拉森队的8号球员汤姆·威利斯（Tom Willis），他在2025-26赛季没有为英格兰队出战，因为他同意加盟法国巨头波尔多队，从而宣布退出竞争。一份EPS合同为每位球员提供约 15 万英镑 的资金，由英格兰橄榄球联合会（RFU）在球员俱乐部薪水之外支付。他们不能获得英格兰队的比赛费，但这意味着他们受到博思威克及其团队更密切的管理。一份EPS合同
并不保证能入选国家队，但在距离明年澳大利亚世界杯还有一年多时间之际，它为博思威克的想法提供了一个线索。尽管2026年表现糟糕，且从统计数据来看是英格兰历史上最差的六国赛，但博思威克依然对他的核心阵容保持信心。科尔斯的EPS协议反映了他在国家队级别日益提升的地位。这位26岁的球员在今年夏天的国家锦标赛中表现出色，顶替了因考虑世界杯而休息的队长马罗·伊托杰（Maro Itoje）。
足球 / 每日邮报体育 67
作者：奥利·刘易斯（OLLIE LEWIS）
利昂内尔·梅西（LIONEL MESSI）在父亲豪尔赫（Jorge）去世后暗示他将退役。豪尔赫在传奇儿子职业生涯中扮演了至关重要的角色，上周在与疾病斗争后去世。这场病魔掩盖了这位阿根廷队长在美国那场令人迷醉的世界杯征程，在那次比赛中他带领球队进入了决赛。在阿根廷队小组赛战胜阿尔及利亚后，由于豪尔赫的健康状况恶化，梅西（右）失声痛哭。他在Instagram上分享了一封写给父亲的令人心碎的信——在信中，他对自己的球员生涯前景表示怀疑。“爸爸，我仍然不敢相信你已经离开了。我还没能意识到这一点，或者说，我不想接受它。对我来说，想象再也见不到你，再也
心碎的梅西在父亲去世后可能退役
再次与你交谈。我知道你一直在受苦，而这也许是最好的结果，但你离开得太早了。我们还有这么多美好的时光可以一起享受。“我不知道没有你我该怎么办。我不知道该如何继续生活。我唯一做的事就是踢足球，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，离终点已经那么近了。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？”梅西透露，他的父亲是他决定
参加今年夏天世界杯的驱动力。他说：“你一直要求我参加上一届世界杯，就在比赛开始前几天，你的病情恶化了。那是你第一次无法参加锦标赛，但妈妈一直告诉我你会好起来，身体状况足以支撑旅行。我告诉你我们会打进决赛，这样你就能来了。“每场比赛结束，我都在等待并想念你的信息。那时我才意识到情况真的很严重。即便如此，我还是无法停止
思考如何尽可能走得更远，为你争取时间，让你能看一场比赛。“我们打进了决赛，但你没能到场。我想赢下它，把它带给你，给你看一座新的。但我没能做到，我的腿再也支撑不住了。这一次我试图挑战我的身体极限，但我做不到。我从未感觉到状态良好。“当我到达时，你以为我们在决赛中通过点球大战输了。我们无法谈论发生的一切。你无法享受其中的任何部分。我们没有赢，但你不知道我们享受每一场比赛的程度。再一次，你是对的：我必须在那里，必须去比赛。“我告诉你这些，是因为这是我们唯一没能谈论的事情，因为其他的一切你都知道。”39 岁的梅西在周日缺席了国际迈阿密输给蒙特雷的比赛，在父亲去世后返回家中，并感谢球迷们的良好祝愿。
曼城更好，Ethad！我不（是的，我这么叫）！
为什么失去世界杯最佳球员并非完全是坏事
罗德里（RODRI）预计将于明天回到曼彻斯特。在赢得世界杯后，由于计划进行背部手术，这位西班牙队队长比其他所有在美国坚持到最后的球员多获得了两天的假期。
但考虑到他需要完成的康复训练，以及他的未来不在曼彻斯特城这一残酷现实，如果这位 2024 年金球奖得主没有返回俱乐部参加常规季前测试，也不会令人感到意外。
曼城正准备与巴塞罗那进行进一步的讨价还价，对于一名处于合同最后一年且上个月被评为赛事最佳球员的中前卫，他们希望获得超过 6000万美元 的转会费。罗德里在上赛季经常显得体力不支，但在美国的国际赛场上却表现得不可一世。
足球总监雨果·维亚纳（Hugo Viana）需要寻找一个平衡点，既要确保曼城实现其价值最大化，又要意识到这次精心策划的离队——这一迹象在一年内已被多次暗示，并随着佩普·瓜迪奥拉（Pep Guardiola）的离职而最终确定——对于一名在过去两个赛季中仅首发 18 场英超比赛的球员来说，结果可能只有一种。
瓜迪奥拉在去年秋天就预言过——整个赛季曼城都无法看到这位“节拍器”的最佳状态，而他的最佳状态将为世界杯而保留。这个暗示让人觉得耐人寻味，更多是因为其表达方式——一种
作者：杰克·高汉（JACK GAUGHAN）
略带知情且无奈的语气——而非内容本身。曼城的医疗团队当时正试图抑制罗德里急于从各种伤病中复出的欲望。
有些人认为，在美国比赛期间，由于气温决定了比赛节奏较慢，他的表现证明了在整个欧洲没有比这位 30 岁球员更出色的人。
在尝试接受分道扬镳的事实时，曼城可能会注意到收益递减的情况：在之前的两个赛季中，罗德里首发的比赛场次中，曼城获胜的场数少于他缺阵或替补出场的比赛。
在英超联赛中，有他首发时的胜率恰好只有没有他时的一半，后者为 60.3%。在所有赛事的 29 场首发中，情况非常相似。在罗德里的曼城生涯中，从未出现过球队在他缺阵时赢得更多比赛的情况。
虽然这并非精确的科学——当罗德里担任后腰时，曼城平均失球数仍然较少——且样本量较小，但这仍是一个值得注意的对比。曼城和恩佐·马雷斯卡（Enzo Maresca）更希望继续使用他，但他们在转会窗口的行动表明，事情正朝着一个方向发展。
夏天伊始，俱乐部对切尔西估值 1.2 亿英镑 的恩佐·费尔南德斯（Enzo Fernandez）感兴趣一事予以积极且强力的否认，而现在则变成了沉默。费尔南德斯希望与他的前主帅重聚，且其身边的人认为这种感觉是相互的。
在世界杯上大放异彩的摩洛哥中场阿尤布·布阿迪（Ayoub Bouaddi）正接近从里尔加盟，这家法国俱乐部开价 8500 万英镑。
消息人士称，布阿迪与罗德里的未来没有关联，无论如何他们都会追求他——这位 18 岁球员并非“一进一出”政策的一部分，而该政策正主导着这个转会窗口，且如果蒂贾尼·赖因德斯（Tijjani Reijnders）和另一名中场离队，窗口可能会变得非常繁忙。
然而，布阿迪在近 100 场成年组比赛中的表现，以及他在无球状态下的身体素质和有球状态下的智能表现所赢得的高度评价，表明他已经准备好影响曼城的命运。
他的出场时间必须经过仔细的监控和管理。昨天在
动态：罗德里希望离开伊蒂哈德球场加盟巴塞罗那。
埃利奥特·安德森（Elliot Anderson）在伊蒂哈德球场的一场活动中向支持者亮相时，情况似乎变得明显：这位身价 1.16 亿英镑 的俱乐部纪录签约球员更倾向于担任游走于前后的“全能中场”（box-to-box）角色，而非填补罗德里留下的空白。
“我和教练谈过几次——他解释了我需要做的事情，”安德森说。“需要大量的奔跑，大量的能量。是为了尝试控制比赛。这就是我能做到的。”
“我会看看自己会被安排在什么位置。是创造机会、向前推进，还是如果他们要求我承担另一种角色。在过去的10年里，凯文·德布劳内一直是我仰慕的球员。我非常喜欢看他比赛。能来到同一家俱乐部，并在他曾经的位置上踢球，这很特别。”
曼城认为安德森的侵略性和传球力度非常符合如今英超联赛的运作方式。
马雷斯卡在季前赛中采用了双中场体系——周日在韩国对阵马德里竞技时由马特奥·科瓦契奇和赖因德斯出战——在这种体系中，安德森（左图，签约曼城后）将扮演那个向前突击的角色，并像他在3月份对阵曼城的2-2平局中那样，通过后插上打入进球。在顺位上，科瓦契奇领先于尼科·冈萨雷斯，预计将在加的夫举行的周日社区盾杯对阵阿森纳的比赛中首发。冈萨雷斯和科瓦契奇已表示他们这个夏天不希望离开。
马雷斯卡对中场球员的体能要求极高，菲尔·福登或拉扬·谢尔基正在竞争那个与埃尔林·哈兰德并肩前插的位置。
马雷斯卡在双中场的人选中考虑了大约六个选项，其中第二个跑动者的角色至关重要。赖因德斯在友谊赛中冲入禁区的方式正是训练场上所强调的。
“知道自己能在世界杯舞台上表现，我获得了巨大的信心，”安德森说道，他同时承认自己仍在努力消化英格兰在半决赛中负于阿根廷的失利。
“我之前还没有参加过这么大型的比赛。在选择加入哪支球队时，我面临一个重大决定，我相信我做出了正确的选择。”
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作者 内森·索尔特（NATHAN SALT）
当尤里·蒂勒曼斯代表安德莱赫特对阵洛克伦完成职业生涯首秀时，他现在的老板迈克尔·卡里克在曼联的球员生涯还剩下五年。
这在一定程度上凸显了他在顶峰时期的长久生命力。蒂勒曼斯在2013年16.岁完成职业首秀时，在比利时是一个现象级人物。只有拉明·亚马尔在比他更年轻的时候达到了10场欧冠出场数——蒂勒曼斯在17.岁时就实现了这一点。到18,岁时，他已经参加了超过100场职业比赛。
现在，29岁的蒂勒曼斯职业生涯出场数已达668场，他很有机会在5月年满30岁之前，在出场总数上超越利昂内尔·梅西（701场）和克里斯蒂亚诺·罗纳尔多（720场）。
重返欧冠意味着曼联本赛季将至少进行48场比赛。到最后一个周末客场挑战伯恩茅斯时，蒂勒曼斯很可能已经轻松超越梅西的纪录。如果再加上杯赛的深入，罗纳尔多的纪录也可能被打破。考虑到这一点，让我们来认识一下曼联的新“马拉松跑者”。
在爱尔兰本周训练营的五星级球队基地坐下来聊天时，蒂勒曼斯一直面带微笑。
议程很丰富：他与卡里克的一次初次通话，他与布鲁诺·费尔南德斯之间“非常自然”的配合，以及他对本赛季在曼联预期扮演角色的见解。
但首先是出场时间、损耗以及蒂勒曼斯能否在可能长达60多场的赛季中被信赖的问题。
“是的，我很[自信]，”他说。“事实上，我觉得状态非常好。在世界杯期间我出了一点小问题，现在已经解决了，我觉得已经恢复到100%的健康状态。”
“显然，季前赛的核心就是为赛季积累体能，但我感觉很棒。我觉得我已经准备好出发了。”
蒂勒曼斯并不回避上赛季因脚踝和腓肠肌问题缺席了阿斯顿维拉21场比赛的事实。他也没有掩饰自己在艰苦的2024-25赛季中出场60次的事实。
在今年夏天的世界杯上，他的身体达到了无法抗拒的极限，导致他在被列入首发名单后，因腿筋受伤在最后一刻被迫退出比利时对阵西班牙的四分之一决赛。
“只是最后那场比赛，”蒂莱曼斯解释道，“比赛太多了，导致负荷过重，太
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这位曼联新援在积累了近 700 场比赛经验后，正沉浸在这次重大转会的喜悦之中
“太多比赛，太多分钟数，我的身体再也无法承受了。”
蒂莱曼斯了解自己的比赛，了解自己的身体。在他人持有保留意见的地方，他拥有信心和信念——在与曼联签署一份为期五年的合同后，他认为自己依然潜力十足。
“问题是，在世界杯上，我们对阵塞内加尔打了 120 分钟，从那时起，比赛之间的间隔时间就变短了，”他继续说道。“五天后我们对阵美国队，然后四天后我们对阵西班牙队。在热身阶段，我的身体不知为何突然‘断电’了。”
“我不认为我是一个绝对需要休息的球员。比赛确实很多，主教练需要管理球队，但当我状态好时，我就是状态好，你知道的……（需要休息的情况）并不经常发生。”
如果情况有所不同，蒂莱曼斯最早可能在 2019 年首次被接触时就加入曼联。那时他正准备离开摩纳哥，但最终蒂莱曼斯加盟了莱斯特城。
曼联在 2022 年夏天再次尝试签下他，但最终在其中场位置签下了卡塞米罗和克里斯蒂安·埃里克森。
如果蒂莱曼斯认为前往老特拉福德的机会已经流逝，人们也会原谅他。那么现在，他来到了这里，填补了卡塞米罗留下的空白，在接替这位巴西人的位置时，他是否感到压力？
“并不真正感到压力，因为我们都是不同的球员，”蒂莱曼斯说。“他有不同的特质，他有不同的职业路径。我只是尝试做我自己，将我自己的特质带给球队，并享受在这里的时光。但这对我来说完全没有增加任何压力。”
以 3500 万英镑的违约金价值来看，他是一笔划算的买卖。曼联内部人士认为，就性价比而言，蒂莱曼斯可能会证明自己是今夏英超联赛中最有价值的签约。
蒂莱曼斯在帮助维拉——他称这家俱乐部在将其恢复到最佳水平方面“欠了全世界”——在伊斯坦布尔的欧联杯决赛中击败弗赖堡夺冠的过程中发挥了核心作用，并且拥有 Ineos 和曼联如此看重的“英超证明”标签。
除了数据之外，曼联一直渴望一名节奏掌控者。一名能够帮助他们控制比赛的“节拍器”。
“他希望掌控球权，希望以某些方式进行压迫，”蒂莱曼斯解释道，透露了他与卡里克早期的其中一次战术对话。
“这可能与你习惯的、我习惯的不同，但在我看来，这些是逻辑上的必然。这只是对足球的直觉，这也是我从小在安德莱赫特时期就在做的事情。所以对我来说，没有什么改变。”
蒂莱曼斯曾担任过后腰、全能中场以及更前位的 10 号位，他认为自己扮演什么角色最能帮助曼联重返巅峰？
“我只是尽量尽可能多地向前传球，”他说。“无论是传给布鲁诺 [费尔南德斯] 还是前线，尽量让他们处于能够自由进攻并发挥特质的位置。”
“在我的职业生涯中扮演过不同的角色，所以我并不死板地拘泥于某一套体系或某个角色。我尝试面面俱到。”
“成为防守和进攻之间的纽带，这最适合我。”
蒂莱曼斯也将成为这群年轻球员中的关键导师，与 19 岁的泰勒·弗莱彻、21 岁的科比·梅努以及同为新援的 22 岁安德烈·桑托斯在一起。
“我只是尝试做我自己，一切都会自然而然地发生，”他说。“我不会试图指挥任何人，因为没人喜欢那样。我只是尝试做我自己，保持自然，然后通过出色的表现来引导他人效仿。”
在顶尖水平通过榜样引领，是蒂莱曼斯 13 年来一直所熟知的事情。这就是为什么在终于来到曼联之后，梅西、罗纳尔多、载入史册的记录以及足球界最高荣誉，现在都成为了他的目标。
作者：CRAIG HOPE
穿着全新的粉色备用球衣，纽卡斯尔联在昨天下午于默里菲尔德球场 3-1 负于埃弗顿的比赛中表现得像“畏缩的紫罗兰”般低调。这场失利引发了人们对该球队英超赛季准备情况的严重质疑，新任主帅马蒂亚斯·贾斯莱（Matthias Jaissle）接手的是一支在关键领域不仅缺乏质量且缺乏领导力的队伍。在爱丁堡，大卫·梅耶斯（David Mayes）的球队在……之后成为了实至名归的赢家
巴莱巴进入贾斯莱的愿望清单，埃弗顿揭露喜鹊之弱
蒂尔诺·巴里、伊利曼·恩迪亚耶和泰里克·乔治的进球决定了这场比赛，太妃糖队在比赛中展现出了更强的掌控力和沉着。哈维·巴恩斯在比赛末段为喜鹊队扳回一球。对于他们来说，这并非一次“现实敲击”，因为他们所处情况的现实已经显而易见。纽卡斯尔在这个夏天失去了四名最优秀且经验最丰富的球员，主教练埃迪·豪在季前赛前夕表示他无法继续支撑。被揭露的不仅是纽卡斯尔首发阵容中的漏洞，其阵容深度看起来也十分匮乏。他们需要两名边后卫、更好的中场球员以及进攻端的新火花。我们获悉，布莱顿中场卡洛斯·巴莱巴是贾斯莱所欣赏的球员之一，俱乐部已将这位喀麦隆球星列入目标名单。这并非一项活跃的转会——这位 22 岁的球员目前患有脚踝伤势——但随着转会窗口的推进，这是一个值得关注的目标。
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阿森纳考虑出售刘易斯-斯凯利的真实原因
迈尔斯·刘易斯-斯凯利（Myles Lewis-Skelly）在阿森纳的未来取决于是否遵守欧足联（UEFA）的支出规则以及俱乐部进一步增强阵容的能力，这一事实概括了在足球财务格局中航行的复杂性。
本周有报道称，俱乐部已邀请切尔西和曼彻斯特联对这名19岁的青训产品出价，这让枪手球迷感到震惊。
阿森纳坚称情况并非如此，但据信一名中间人已告知两家俱乐部，只要价格合适，该球员可以出售。
消息人士还透露，导致这一局面的主要驱动因素之一是欧足联的支出规则，该规则按日历年而非按赛季执行。
这意味着，如果需要的话，本次转会窗口是获取转会收入的最后机会。同时，如果阿森纳需要通过清理球员来为更多新援腾出空间，这也是最后的时机。
对于刘易斯-斯凯利，有人提出了£4500 万的潜在转会费。他曾在上赛季对阵巴黎圣日耳曼的欧冠决赛中首发，并拥有6次英格兰国家队出场记录。然而，知情人士认为，价格需要大幅提高才能说服阿森纳出售。
刘易斯-斯凯利是俱乐部的青训产品，因此出售他所获得的任何资金将被视为“纯利润”，并将显著提升阿森纳的资产负债表。
由于规则中的这一项，其他俱乐部也不得不勉强出售珍贵的本土资产以确保合规，例如纽卡斯尔在2024年7月将埃利奥特·安德森（Elliot Anderson）出售给诺丁汉森林（尽管那是为了遵守英超而非欧足联的规则）。
阿森纳有其他选择。有几名球员被认为在本赛季不太可能获得出场机会，在理想情况下，他们应该在刘易斯-斯凯利之前离开，因为后者深受主教练米克尔·阿尔特塔（Mikel Arteta）和球迷的喜爱。
例如，看到赖斯·尼尔森（Reiss Nelson）和加布里埃尔·热苏斯（Gabriel Jesus）在本月离开这支冠军球队将不会令人惊讶。然而，随着9月1日截止日期的临近，如果其他人没有离开，刘易斯-斯凯利离队的可能性将会增加。
作者：迈克·基根（MIKE KEEGAN） 首席体育记者
9月 1 日，如果其他人没有离开，刘易斯-斯凯利离队的可能性将会增加。
至于感兴趣的一方，曼联正在寻找一名左后卫，并一直在关注情况。切尔西已完成了从巴列卡诺签下西班牙左后卫佩普·查瓦里亚（Pep Chavarria）的1600 万英镑m交易，但刘易斯-斯凯利可能依然是一个极具吸引力的目标。
本月早些时候，阿森纳以7500 万英镑m从纽卡斯尔签下了布鲁诺·吉马良斯（Bruno Guimaraes）。6月，他们以3400 万英镑.5m的价格将皮耶罗·欣卡皮（Piero Hincapie）从勒沃库森的租借转为永久转会。他们还为俱乐部布鲁日的前锋克里斯托斯·佐利斯（Christos Tzolis）支付了3400万英镑，且去年夏天他们花费了约2.5 亿英镑m引进八名球员。
商业活动的激增以及赢得英超冠军和闯入欧冠决赛带来的奖金将有助于改善他们的财务状况，不过球员奖金也从俱乐部金库中拿走了一大块。
在球员离队方面，这支英超冠军球队今年夏天通过利安德罗·特罗萨德（Leandro Trossard）、雅库布·基维奥尔（Jakub Kiwior）和克里斯蒂安·诺尔高（Christian Norgaard）的离队获得了约4100 万英镑。
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GUNNERS MUST COUGH UP 6000 万英镑 FOR KONSA AS VILLA REJECT 4000 万英镑 BID
■ 阿森纳就签下阿斯顿维拉后卫埃兹里·孔萨（Ezri Konsa）的交易进行了进一步谈判。然而，据了解，这位英超冠军球队的报价约为4000 万英镑00 万，仍低于维拉对这位英格兰中后卫，28. 的6000 万英镑m估值。维拉正在敲定从马德里竞技签下马特奥·鲁格里（Matteo Ruggeri）的交易，并正在讨论引进西汉姆联右后卫亚伦·万-比萨卡（Aaron Wan-Bissaka）的计划。富勒姆也为万-比萨卡，28, 提交了报价，但形式为初步租借。维拉继续与拜仁慕尼黑就签下若昂·帕利尼亚，31, 进行谈判，后者已同意
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By SIMON JONES
加盟。他们还向拜仁询问了关于中后卫金玟哉，29 的情况。
■ 托特纳姆热刺和国际米兰正处于出售杰德·斯彭斯（Djed Spence）的最后谈判阶段，价格为2690 万英镑m外加附加费，以及 10% 的二次转会分成。预计国际米兰接下来将把注意力转向利物浦估价3500 万英镑m的柯蒂斯·琼斯（Curtis Jones）。这位中场球员在因轻微髋部受伤缺席周日输给摩纳哥的友谊赛后，昨日已恢复正常训练。
■ 马德里竞技已与热刺就后卫克里斯蒂安·罗梅罗（Cristian Romero）达成3600 万英镑m的交易。在谈判结束后，这位阿根廷人的经纪人在社交媒体上暗示其即将加盟。协议中包含一项 15% 的二次转会分成条款。
■ 水晶宫为摩纳哥中场拉明·卡马拉（Lamine Camara）开出的4000 万英镑m报价被拒绝。水晶宫已从阿斯顿维拉租借签下埃万·盖桑（Evann Guessand）。
■ 赫尔城与红牛萨尔茨堡就中场卢卡斯·古尔纳-杜阿特，23. 达成350 万英镑m的交易。“老虎队”还从科罗拉多快色车签下了澳大利亚后卫卢卡斯·赫林顿，18, 以及后卫诺贝尔·门迪，21, 来自巴列卡诺。
■ 纽卡斯尔联正推进以3000 万英镑m从本菲卡引进阿马尔·德迪奇（Amar Dedic）。这位 23 岁右后卫曾在红牛萨尔茨堡效力于纽卡斯尔新主帅马蒂亚斯·雅伊塞（Matthias Jaissie）麾下。
■ 巴塞罗那提高了对罗德里（Rodri）的报价，但仍低于曼城6800 万英镑m的估值。曼城以170 万英镑m从马赛签下了门将赫罗尼莫·鲁利，34, 。这家法国俱乐部已询问关于利兹联门将卢卡斯·佩里（Lucas Perri）的情况。
■ 沃特福德正在考虑与前西汉姆联前锋米凯尔·安东尼奥（Michail Antonio）达成一项短期协议。这位牙买加人，36, 目前正在这家英冠球队训练。
■ 切尔西以1630 万英镑m外加附加费，与巴列卡诺左后卫佩普·查瓦里亚，28, 签下了一份为期五年的合同。
■ 伊普斯维奇即将完成从斯特拉斯堡的双线签约，引进胡利奥·恩西索，22, 和右后卫阿卜杜·瓦塔拉，20。
■ 雷克瑟姆正为莱斯特城后卫哈里·索特尔（Harry Souttar）开出750 万英镑m的报价，谢菲尔德联同样将其视为目标。
■ 狼队即将达成一项6000 万英镑m的交易，引进雷恩中场乔丹·詹姆斯（Jordan James）。
■ 伯恩茅斯前锋埃内什·乌纳尔（Enes Unal）将通过自由转会重新加盟赫塔费，但包含潜在的120 万英镑m奖金和 20% 的二次转会分成条款。
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欧洲超级杯虽然属于巴黎圣日耳曼，但阿斯顿维拉离开萨尔茨堡时获得了一些比季前赛奖杯更为珍贵的东西。
布莱恩·马乔（Brian Madjo）和乔治·海明斯（George Hemmings）这两名青少年球员合计仅为维拉出战过六场正式比赛。然而，两人都让连续两届欧冠冠军感到胆战心惊，基于此表现，乌奈·埃梅里将给他们更多机会。
维拉在摩根·罗杰斯（Morgan Rogers）、尤里·蒂莱曼斯（Youri Tielemans）和卢卡斯·迪涅（Lucas Digne）身上出售了价值£1.5 亿的天赋球员
杜埃否决维拉，但少年球员让主帅埃梅里窥见新曙光
自从赢得欧联杯以来，[球队]对其他关键球员的未来持有疑虑。
但没有什么比青少年球员挺身而出更令人振奋的了，他们的表现将给维拉在 8 月 23 日对阵布莱顿的英超揭幕战前带来极大的鼓舞。
Madjo, 17, 成为了超级杯历史上最年轻的进球者，他在半场结束前将约翰·麦金（John McGinn）的传中球推入网窝。在此之前，这位身高 6 英尺 4 英寸的中锋错失了两次绝佳机会，并凭借身体优势压制了世界顶尖中后卫之一的威廉·帕乔（Willian Pacho）。维拉在 1 月以 1000 万英镑 从梅斯签下了马乔，但由于注册问题，他直到今年夏天才获得参赛资格。
在他的进球前后，克维查·克瓦拉茨赫利亚（Khvicha Kvaratskhelia）和德西雷·杜埃（Desire Doue）的进球确保了巴黎圣日耳曼（PSG）卫冕此项冠军。需要说明的是，PSG 尚未完全恢复最佳竞技状态，且利物浦的目标人物布拉德利·巴尔科拉（Bradley Barcola）全程在替补席上。然而，维拉的许多球员也同样没有处于巅峰状态。幸运的是，赫明斯（Hemmings）是那些决心证明自己的人之一。
这位 19 岁的球员出自维拉的青训系统。鉴于俱乐部在欧足联财务规则方面面临的困难，一名进入一线队的本土球员堪称瑰宝。
虽然马乔凭借进球和机会吸引了目光，但在现阶段，赫明斯看起来是一名更成熟的球员。他司职左路，敢于无畏地冲击可能是地球上最强的右后卫阿什拉夫·哈基米（Achraf Hakimi）。他在持球时也表现出了极大的成熟度，在一次进攻中，他在靠近自家底线的位置从努诺·门德斯（Nuno Mendes）脚下抢球，并轻巧地将球挑给埃米·布恩迪亚（Emi Buendia）。
预计在接下来的几周里，我们将看到这个孩子更多地登场。
现在埃梅里的注意力必须转向转会市场，他在维拉公园球场任职期间在此方面曾有过失误。尽管马乔表现出色，但肯定还会有另一名前锋加盟，同时维拉在签下中场若昂·帕利尼亚（Joao Palhinha）和左后卫马特奥·鲁杰里（Matteo Ruggeri）的交易中继续取得进展。
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欧洲之星： 杜埃为 PSG 锁定 超级杯冠军（左）， 这支欧冠冠军球队 通过 克瓦拉茨赫利亚 （上图）取得领先， 随后维拉少年 马乔扳平比分 （右）
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自从不到三个月前赢得欧联杯以来，维拉发生了很大变化。罗杰斯（Rogers）和蒂莱曼斯（Tielemans）已经离队，他们两人在那晚对阵弗赖堡的比赛中均有进球，而迪涅（Digne）则坐在 PSG 的替补席上。埃梅里的教练团队中也有三人离职。
这意味着在伊斯坦布尔首发的球员中，本次仅有五人出场，埃兹里·孔萨（Ezri Konsa）、奥利·沃特金斯（Ollie Watkins）和埃米·马丁内斯（Emi Martinez）仍在休假。由于阿森纳在当天早些时候为孔萨开出了 4000 万英镑 的报价方案，这位英格兰中后卫还能身披维拉球衣出战多少次尚不明确。
埃梅里和队长约翰·麦金在周二对“新维拉”充满信心，而在对阵 PSG 的上半场中，我们看到了原因。尽管 PSG 大部分球员在世界杯后尚未恢复全速状态，但他们依然是世界上最顶尖的球员，看到赫明斯和马乔与他们正面交锋令人心潮澎湃。
赫明斯在比赛早段获得了一个由裁判奥马尔·阿尔坦（Omar Artan）判罚的任意球，这位索马里籍官员在世界杯前被拒绝进入美国。虽然维拉没有通过这次任意球创造出机会，但他们已经发出了信号。即便只有一半的速度，PSG 依然极其危险。在马尔科·比佐特（Marco Bizot）扑出杜埃被折射的射门后，马乔的一次触球失误导致球落到了维蒂尼亚（Vitinha）脚下。他找到了杜埃，而当克瓦拉茨赫利亚接球时，皮球很快飞入了球门顶角。
在那之前，马乔看起来还很稚嫩，他的技术需要磨练，但他没有气馁，在上半场的后半段，PSG 无法应对他。
Madjo两次将麦金（McGinn）精妙的传中球顶出门框，其中第二次错失机会尤为严重。在这些机会之间，在赫明斯（Hemmings）一次令人印象深刻的组织后，他的射门在角度较小时偏出，另一次尝试则被挡出。片刻之后，Madjo在顶住帕乔（Pacho）的防守后击中门柱外侧，但这次进攻被判定为越位。
当Madjo最终得分时，这次机会比他之前错过的那些要困难得多。在麦金的另一次传中中，Madjo找到了突破帕乔防守的危险位置，随后用凌空抽射将球送入马特维·萨福诺夫（Matvey Safonov）把守的大门。
下半场开始后不久，维拉本有机会取得领先。Madjo再次参与进攻，这次他接到了布恩迪亚（Buendia）的传球，冲入巴黎圣日耳曼高位防线后的空档。随后他将球传给麦金，后者的射门击中了帕乔，这让萨福诺夫多出了极短的一瞬间做出扑救。在比赛接近一小时前，布恩迪亚在无人盯防的情况下头球顶出，但面对巴黎圣日耳曼，如果你在极短的时间内失去专注，就会受到惩罚。
多埃（Doue）在接替补球员奥斯曼·登贝莱（Ousmane Dembele）——能派上这样一名球员并非坏事——的传球并将球射入比佐特（Bizot）门内时，看起来处于越位位置。
该进球在场上被判定无效，但回放显示马蒂·卡什（Matty Cash）让多埃处于在位状态。
维拉随后发起反击，赫明斯迫使萨福诺夫做出扑救。巴黎圣日耳曼在反击中显得越来越危险，但在最后10分钟里，阿里森（Alysson）未能找到回传路线，无法给同样是替补登场的塔米·亚伯拉罕（Tammy Abraham）提供一个简单的扳平机会。
巴黎圣日耳曼 (4-3-3)：萨福诺夫 7；哈基姆 6，曼古尼奥斯 6，帕乔 5，努诺·门德斯 6（埃尔南德斯 75分, 6）；扎伊尔-埃梅里 6，维蒂尼亚 7，若昂·内维斯 6（鲁茨 75, 6）；多埃 7（马尤卢 87），阿克卢什 6（登贝莱 46, 6），克瓦拉茨赫利亚 7,5（博纳尔多 88）。进球者：克瓦拉茨赫利亚 20，多埃 61。黄牌：无。 主教练：路易斯·恩里克 6,5。 阿斯顿维拉 (4-2-3-1)：比佐特 6；卡什 5,5，林德霍夫 6,5；托雷斯 6（明戈 79），马特森 7；卡马拉 7（博加德 72, 6）；J·戈麦斯 6（巴克利 80）；麦金 7,5（阿里森 75, 6）；布恩迪亚 7,5。赫明斯 8：Madjo 7,5（亚伯拉罕 72, 6）。进球者：Badjo 45。 黄牌：托雷斯，戈麦斯，麦金。 主教练：乌奈·埃梅里 7。 裁判：奥马尔·阿尔坦（索马里） 6。 观众人数：27,681。
姆贝莫成为曼联的核心人物
在曼彻斯特联这个既像进化又像革命的夏天，布莱恩·姆贝莫（Bryan Mbeumo）出任前锋的实验正产生一些令人着迷的结果。
这位喀麦隆球员绝非典型的 9 号位，但对于迈克尔·卡里克（Michael Carrick）来说，这正是其吸引力所在。
这里有多种因素在起作用。曼联希望为青训之星谢伊·莱西（Shea Lacey）提供一个全职的一线队角色，而他主要在右路出击。此外还有阿马德（Amad），他在右路这个位置上面临着一个决定性的赛季。
再加上曼联目前只有一个正统的 9 号位选择，即本杰明·塞斯科（Benjamin Sesko），且由于胫骨受伤，他在季前赛期间未能上场踢球，尽管他确实前往爱尔兰参加了为期一周的训练营。
因此，姆贝莫作为一名前锋，而且是一名灵活的前锋，具有巨大的吸引力，且在老特拉福德在转会截止日期前没有新前锋加盟的情况下，或许具有重要意义。
姆贝莫在上赛季下半场在门前的表现陷入了低谷，难以找回上半场让球迷们兴奋不已的势头，这引发了人们对卡里克将如何激发他最大潜能的疑问。 但在斯德哥尔摩对阵马德里竞技时打入两球，在哥德堡对阵巴黎圣日耳曼时打入扳平球，以及在都柏林这里为约书亚·齐尔克齐（Joshua Zirkzee）首开纪录的一次精彩个人表演及助攻，都表明了姆贝莫现在血液中流淌着多么强大的自信。 在首个进球中——他在上半场曾有一次射门击中横梁，本应为自己 ghi 一个进球——他在沿左路突破时连续裆下过掉两名利兹联球员，随后将球传给齐尔克齐，后者破门得分，攻破了新 1 号门将詹姆斯·特拉福德（James Trafford）的大门。 利兹联在半场结束前由布伦登·亚伦森（Brenden Aaronson）扳平比分，在经历了一个不稳定的开局后，这个结果对他们来说是公平的。 尽管卡里克的球队在主力球员上场后掌控了球权，但比赛在克罗克公园（Croke Park）82,000 名观众的满座见证下以 1-1 结束。 姆贝莫将在对阵赫尔城（Hull City）的比赛中首发出任中锋，以开启英超联赛的征程，从那时起，他的前景似乎真的没有上限。这现在是一套成熟的方案，而不仅仅是一次实验。
« 蒂莱曼斯称：将成为曼联的马拉松人，见第 68 页
刘易斯-斯凯利向阿森纳证明自己
一个心形庆祝动作 以及双手合十的祈祷姿势，迈尔斯·刘易斯-斯凯利（Myles Lewis-Skelly）表达了他的观点。
在关于其未来的猜测中，这位青少年在阿森纳与塞斯克·法布雷加斯（Cesc Fabregas）率领的科莫队 14 平局的上半场打入一球。枪手队在随后的练习点球大战中以 4-3 获胜。
有报道称，中间人已将这位 19 岁球员推荐给切尔西和曼彻斯特联，但阿森纳坚称事实并非如此。无论如何，刘易斯-斯凯利在一次充满希望的表现中将这些噪音抛之脑后。
门将让·布特兹（Jean Butez）的开球被刘易斯-斯凯利头球传给加布里埃尔·马蒂内利（Gabriel Martinelli），后者随后为他创造机会，使其在第 33 分钟破门得分。
进球引发了“迈尔斯·刘易斯-斯凯利，他是我们自己人”的欢呼，在这个夜晚，他向观察者们提醒了自己的天赋。然而，这位中场球员在进球后的行为显示了他的意图所在。刘易斯-斯凯利面向人群合起双手，随后比出一个心形，这是一个明确的意图信号。
马蒂·萨蒙（Marti Salmon）和马克斯·道曼（Max Dowman），两人均为 16, 首发，此外还有西奥·朱利安，18, 他完成了首次
阿森纳
科莫
伊桑·汗（ISAAN KHAN）
在酋长球场
一线队首发。尤其是萨蒙，一名 16 岁球员在第一队担任中后卫首发实属罕见。在进攻端，加布里埃尔·热苏斯首发，维克托·约克雷斯（Viktor Gyokeres）和凯·哈弗茨（Kai Havertz）在替补席上。挑战已经发出，这是来自米克尔·阿尔特塔（Mikel Arteta）的一次暗示，仿佛在说：“让我看看你们有什么本事”。
但这并没有持续太久，热苏斯在有限的客串后，于第 32 分钟被换下，由约克雷斯接替。他确实尝试了。他付出了努力，试图通过向前突击和在球门周围的活跃来撕破对方防线。热苏斯的表现以第 6 分钟的一次失误为标志，当时埃伯雷基·埃泽（Eberechi Eze）将伊桑·赫万特（Ethan Hwanert）拦截后的球传给了他。
由于门将已离开禁区，热苏斯面对的是一个空门——但他击中了门框。这打击了这位前锋的信心，且他从未真正恢复。
枪手队接下来的对手是曼彻斯特城，他们将在周日于加的夫举行的社区盾杯中交锋。
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强势的哈德逊-史密斯捍卫他的城堡
田径：第 66 页
恩佐 D-日
鲁特取消宵禁并要求球员端正行为
切尔西给曼城截止到明天下午5点签约费尔南德斯
作者：SIMON JONES
切尔西已告知曼城，他们必须在明天下午5点前支付£1.2 亿以签下恩佐·费尔南德斯（Enzo Fernandez）——否则就放弃这次转会。
正如《每日邮报》体育版在此次转会窗口之前报道的那样，曼城对这位阿根廷中场球员很感兴趣，他在恩佐·马雷斯卡（Enzo Maresca）担任切尔西教练期间与后者建立了深厚的关系。
费尔南德斯在帮助国家队进入世界杯决赛后，于本周回到了切尔西的训练中，他的合同还剩六年。
如果曼城不能满足切尔西的要求，这家斯坦福桥俱乐部不打算在本次窗口期出售费尔南德斯。
曼城对该球员的兴趣在上赛季末就已为切尔西所知，当时中场球员的估值已告知费尔南德斯的经纪人哈维尔·帕斯托雷（Javier Pastore）。
切尔西要求的费用远超大多数感兴趣方的支付意愿，包括两家马德里俱乐部和巴黎圣日耳曼。此前认为费尔南德斯更倾向于加盟这三支球队。
这位25岁的球员是那些在亚特兰大举行的、气氛紧张的世界杯半决赛后激怒英格兰队的阿根廷球员之一，那场比赛阿根廷以 2-1 获胜。
这位切尔西球员在 85 分钟将比分扳平，随后立即冲到英格兰球迷面前，双手捂在耳后，吐出舌头，然后飞吻。
致命双人组：巴黎圣日耳曼进球者杜埃（Doue，上）和克瓦拉茨赫利亚（Kvaratskhelia）庆祝首粒进球
作者：RICHARD GIBSON
乔·鲁特（JOE ROOT）在禁令制定仅一个月后就废除了英格兰队的宵禁规定。这位35岁的球员将于下周执掌他第二次担任测试赛队长后的首场比赛，并确认由板球总监罗布·基（Rob Key）制定的业余时间指南将不再强制执行。
相反，在下周三于利兹开始的对阵巴基斯坦队的系列赛之前，鲁特要求他的球员表现得像“成年人”。
“不会有宵禁。坦白说，我认为这不需要成为一件大事，”鲁特告诉天空体育（Sky Sports）。
“我对宵禁的看法是，球员们在履行自己的职责，如果你希望球员在场上承担责任，他们必须感觉到自己在场下可以像成年人一样，做出正确且坚定的决定。”
“这对我们作为一支球队来说需要良好地管理，对我以及[新任测试队教练]斯蒂芬·弗莱明（Stephen Fleming）来说需要良好地监督。”
“我们应该以打板球的方式以及在场上的表现而闻名。我们应该出现在报纸的背面。”
鲁特和即将上任的测试赛教练弗莱明所采取的立场是一个大胆的举动，就在几周前，英格兰及威尔士板球委员会（ECB）高层还认为有必要详细规定球员能做什么和不能做什么——包括禁止在国际比赛前一天、比赛期间及赛后饮酒。
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你有十分钟时间，利用轮盘中的字母尽可能多地找出单词。每个单词必须包含中心字母以及至少三个其他字母，且每个字母只能使用一次。不能使用复数形式、外来词或专有名词。允许使用以“s”结尾的动词。今日九字母单词的提示：Twisted net kept inside cannot be missing a base。评分标准：15个单词为平均水平；20个为良好；25个为优秀；30个或更多为卓越。明日公布答案
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姓名游戏 (NAME GAME)
网格中隐藏了一位歌手的名字。请回答问题，然后将对应答案的字母重新排列以填入姓名。明日公布答案
方框 1：杰丽·哈利威尔-霍纳（Geri Halliwell-Horner，如图所示）1999年的首张专辑标题是什么？Schizophrenic (L) Madaudio (K) Insanacoustic (G)
方框 2：谁写了1998年的小说《大鱼：一部神话比例的小说》(Big Fish: A Novel Of Mythic Proportions)？约翰·欧文 (John Irving) (T) 丹尼尔·华莱士 (Daniel Wallace) (A) 大卫·米切尔 (David Mitchell) (W)
方框 3：以下哪个词与“toper”的意思最接近？Winner (D) Drunkard (E) Cheater (C)
方框 4：哪个国家的国歌歌词出自弗朗西斯·斯科特·基的《麦亨利堡保卫战》(Defence Of Fort M'Henry)？加拿大 (D) 澳大利亚 (T) 美国 (S)
方框 5：伊格纳西奥·布塞 (Ignacio Buse) 目前是哪个国家排名最高的男子单打网球选手？哥伦比亚 (F) 秘鲁 (O) 摩纳哥 (M)
方框 6：纯某种颜色的家猫比其他颜色的猫更容易患上耳聋？灰色 (M) 黑色 (I) 白色 (Y)
方框 7：世界上贸易量最大的野生哺乳动物是什么？穿山甲 (R) 大象 (K) 老虎 (U)
方框 8：女演员塞尔玛·巴洛 (Thelma Barlow) 在哪部电视肥皂剧中饰演梅维斯·威尔顿 (Mavis Wilton)？《东区东区》(EastEnders) (V) 《加冕街》(Coronation Street) (E) 《Hollyoaks》(P)
昨日答案：LILY TOMLIN (IL, 2Y, 3L, 4D, 5T, 6I, 7N, 8M, 9I, 10L)
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铺轨 (MAKING TRACKS)
铺设轨道，使火车能够从 A 村 traveling 到 B 村。数字表示每行和每列中轨道的节数。
只有直线轨道和曲线轨道。轨道不能自我交叉。
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B
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蜂巢 (HONEYCOMB)
所有答案均围绕其数字顺时针排列。线索 1 的答案从给定的字母开始。
- Raved
- Tacked
- Draw
- Ember
- Blush
- Erase
- Bank clerk
- Cultural heads
- Lifts
- Crescent
- Find
- Clergy member
答案：见封底插页
数和 (KAKURO)
仅使用数字 1 到 9 填充网格中的空白方格，且在任何一条空白方格线中不得重复任何数字。填充的数字之和必须等于每条线顶端或起始处阴影框中的总数。阴影框下半部分的数字表示纵向总和；上半部分的数字表示横向总和。
大师测验 (MASTERQUIZ)
- Gulets 是两桅或三桅的木制帆船，与哪个国家关系最为密切？
- 哪个黄道星座包含蟹状星云？
- 1930 年谁接替罗伯特·布里奇斯 (Robert Bridges) 成为桂冠诗人？
- 新核电站的计划最近获得批准
脑筋急转弯 (MINDBENDER)
- 在一个有 450 名居民的村庄里，238 人观看了一场邦德电影的户外放映，196 人观看了随后的浪漫喜剧，65 人两部电影都看了。有多少人一部也没看？
- equal, sick 和 strike 之间有什么联系？
杀手数独 (KILLER SUDOKU)
填充网格中的方格，使每行、每列以及每个 3x3 方格都包含 1 到 9 的所有数字。由虚线连接的每组单元格之和必须等于左上角的数字。每组单元格内数字不能重复。
答案
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在 Wyifa 的建设，是在英国的哪个岛上？
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- 赛门与加芬克尔 1968 年的热门歌曲《罗宾逊夫人》中提到了哪位体育明星？
答案：见插页封底
- 哪个婚礼术语可能会因为“OH, NO MONEY”而变得困难？
- 哪个是不合群的：斯卡拉剧院、大都会歌剧院、凤凰剧院、庞皮杜中心？
- 从 A 开始，每次增加一个字母并重新排列以组成一个新单词，直到达到 GERMINATE。
答案：见插页封底
PITCHERWITS™
1a. 发起一场没有电力的烘烤 (8,3)
9a. 带着液体重量愤怒地行走 (7)
10a. 在 set nine 中挣扎，以被强烈感受到 (7)
18a. 当偷猎是 DNA 的一部分时，恳求 (2,3,2,4)
Id. 在多尼戈尔的一次爆裂后稳步滚动 (6,5)
4d. 在工作中被检查时，被删除的拳头被重建 (5-6)
6d. 否认无花果果酱具有挑战性 (7)
8d. 代谢物没有在屋顶椽子碎片中丢失 (3,4)
横向
1 图片线索 5 画了一个程式化的饮水器 (5) 7 柔软的一小部分冠词 (5) 9 图片线索 11 你在这一周的轻快部分能找到蝉吗？ (3)
12 缰绳的无聊部分？ (3) 13 图片线索 16 关于身体部位的呻吟 (5) 17 刺激，如果没有我们，可能会被推向边缘 (5) 18 图片线索
在 Pitcherwits 中挑战你的智慧——这是一个令人兴奋的谜题，其中一些答案是以图片形式呈现的！视觉线索的答案填入网格中的阴影区域。
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纵向
1 图片线索 2 腐烂回归，因此结束了树干 (5) 3 赌场语言中的歌唱姐妹 (5) 4 图片线索 6 图片线索 8 图片线索
10 危险练习中的就业 (3) 14 在船上有这样的重量，你如何能达到 100？ (3-2) 15 任何跳远运动员的材料 (5)
昨日答案 — 横向：1 Impugning. 5 Gin. 6 Car. 7 Relapse. 10 Urn. 11 Steepen. 12 Tao. 13 Soda ash. 16 Elf. 17 For. 18 Radiators. 纵向：1 Incensed. 2 Purr. 3 Nova. 4 Gone too far. 5 Gloucester. 8 Epees. 9 Pontiffs. 14 Anti. 15 Hero.
MAILWORD
横向
1 错误 5 音乐符号 9 剧本章节 10 享受 11 罗马诗人 12 雇佣 13 惊愕 14 羊毛动物 16 切碎 17 埃及神祇 18 刑事纵火 20 轻盈面料 24 天花板支撑 26 逃跑 27 必要性 29 自我形象 30 管理员 31 未被察觉
33 顾问 34 大厅 35 快乐 36 瞥见
纵向 1 紧固件 2 牧场 3 倾斜 4 紧身裙 5 尴尬 6 蒙娜 __（画作） 7 增加 8 为……提供餐饮 9 植入者 11 凹陷的沟渠 15 疾病 19 服从命令 21 寒冷
22 风暴 23 立即 25 虐待 27 金属钉 28 传奇 30 绝缘 32 浸透
答案
明天公布
HIDATO
完成网格，使所有数字 1 到 72, 连接 consecutively — 水平、垂直或对角线。提示：你不必从 1 或 72. 开始。从中间数字入手可能会让你更容易开始。
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KENKEN
每行和每列应包含 1 到 6，且不得重复。笼格中的数字必须使用给出的数学符号（顺序不限）进行运算，以得出该笼格起始处显示的目标数字。单格笼格可直接填入给出的数字。
明日答案
M / S / A
G / T R / E S / T S / N / Y
M A R A U D I N G
NINE TO FIVE
将给定单词的乱序字母填入网格中，以组成六个横向和纵向的五个字母单词。
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世界最小最难十字谜题
横向
- 恶心的（口语） (4)
- 赞成票 (3)
- 文字游戏 (3)
- 飞行 (4)
纵向
- 胚胎膜 (4)
- 圣经中的牛 (4)
- 古英语代词 (2)
- 旧德国硬币（缩写） (2)
1 / 2 / 3 / 4
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数字十字谜题
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7 / 23 4 / 20 8 / 19 5 / 21 13 / 12 / 30 / 28 / 16
今日挑战时间：
4 分 36 秒
您的用时：
□ 分 □ 秒
在每个方格中填入 1 到 9 的数字。横向方格之和等于右侧的总数。纵向方格之和等于底部的总数。穿过中心的对角线方格之和等于右上角和右下角的总数。
密码字谜 (CODEWORD)
密码字谜网格中的每个数字代表字母表中的一个不同字母。今天 18 代表 1，因此每当数字 18 出现时，请填入 1。控制网格中已有两个字母供您开始。将它们填入主网格的相应方格中，然后利用您的词汇知识推断缺失方格中应填入哪些字母。明日答案
完成密码字谜以揭晓阴影方格中的单词。 如何参与：致电 0901 293 6232 留下您的答案和详细信息，或发送短信至 65700，内容包含单词 CODE、您的答案以及您的姓名。短信和电话费用为 £1 加上标准网络费用。将在周一 00.01 至周六 23.59 之间收到的所有正确每日参赛者中随机抽取一名每周获胜者。答案每天 00.01. 变更。仅限 18 岁及以上的英国居民，不包括北爱尔兰。详见条款与条件。
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单词搜索
列出的单词都可以在网格中找到——包括正向、反向、向上、向下和对角线——但除了一个。为了获得获胜机会，请找出缺失的单词。
今日主题：Taskmaster 参赛者
AYOADE MARTIN BAYNTON MATAFEO EL-GHORRI MORTIMER GAMBLE RYAN KHAN TARBUCK
如何参与：致电 0901 293 6234 留下您的答案和详细信息，或发送短信至 65700，内容包含单词 WORD、您的答案以及您的姓名。短信和电话费用为 £1 加上标准网络费用。将在周一 00.01 至周五 23.59 之间收到的所有正确每日参赛者中随机抽取一名获胜者。答案每天 00.01. 变更。仅限 18 岁及以上的英国居民，不包括北爱尔兰。详见条款与条件。明日答案
数独 X (SUDOKU X)
在每行、每列、每条对角线（突出显示为 X 形）以及每个 3x2 横向方格（有线框）中各填入一次数字 1-6。明日答案
| | | | | | | | 5 / 2 2 / 4 | | 1 | | | | | | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | | | 6 | | | | |
快速问答
- 亚得里亚海沿岸哪个地区的名字被用来命名一种带有斑点皮毛的狗？
- 臭名昭著的 Jack Ketch 的职业是什么？
- Ed Davis 在 5 月的议会开幕式上担任了什么角色？
- 传奇瑞士英雄 William Tell 用箭从他儿子的头上射下了什么物品？
- 乌兰巴托是哪个国家的首都？
答案：见封底抽页
GOGEN
BYE CHAIN CLOT DOLPHIN FLOCK GUM JAM KEY KIN QUICK SPEARMINT VEX WHEY
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y
在相邻的单元格之间水平、垂直或对角线方向任意移动，插入字母以组成列出的单词。将字母表的所有剩余字母（除 2 个外）填入网格中，使所有列出的单词都被拼写出来。
明日公布答案
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MailPuzzles
BRIDGE MASTERCLASS CRYPTIC CROSSWORD
West
AKQJ73
+AKQJ73
+A652
104
East
AQJ64
542
+743
你坐在 West 位置，听到 partner 开叫 1. 你响应 3. 且 North 进入竞标叫 4. 你的 partner 以 4. 支持你，然后你 cue-bid 4. Cue-bidding 继续， 叫 5. 你叫 5. 且 现在叫 5. 这又是另一次 cue-bid， 应该这样做，因为你是 unlimited 且可能在考虑 grand slam。然而，在这手牌中，由于 做了一个非强迫性的 6. 叫，且你在 minors 中有 gaps，你对此不感兴趣。你叫 6. 竞标结束。
NORTH 领出 4K，你在 dummy 中赢下，且 South 跟牌。你计划如何打牌？
现在 dummy 的 entry 已被移除，除非 trumps 分布为 two-two，否则 spade blockage 将是一个问题。然而，当你 draw trumps 时，你发现 仅持有一张。再 cashing 几张 extra trumps 后，发现 South 弃掉 2，而 仅弃掉 clubs。
为了进一步了解牌局，你 cash 4A 发现 一张也没有！ 的原始分布是什么，你能找到达成合约的方法吗？
明天我们将揭晓完整牌局。
HEATHER DHONDY
No 17,943
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ACROSS
1 Cheeky rogue in prime tent (11)
9 Genuine person whose skill is instinctive (7)
10 Two salary start to enjoy dish of raw meat (7)
11 Harmless policy? That's a fib (3)
12 Lose for berr hter with lightheartedness first off — and succinctness (7)
13 Line reported by academic author(s) in school (7)
14 Understand playground device? Not half (3)
15 Good mime when analysed is easily achieved thing (5)
17 Some felt a gust in European river (5)
18 Adores party with group making comeback (3)
20 Loosen or get together after a small adjustment (5)
22 See lime regularly — or another tree (3)
24 Neal got out hybrid fruit (7) 25 Messy meal with bun and part of an egg (7)
26 Permit Albert to drop out at intervals (3)
27 Work and film in church showing small group of trees (7)
28 Thing to keep locks in place? (7)
29 Disciptionians request streams to regroup after end of visit (3)
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从左侧给出的数字开始，并按照指令向右进行计算。在30秒内，初级玩家必须完成自己的挑战；中级玩家必须完成自己的挑战以及初级玩家的挑战；高级玩家必须完成自己的挑战以及中级玩家的挑战。
答案在下方
初级 / 50 / ×6 / ÷25 / 自乘 / ÷9 / +5 / ÷3 / ×11 / 翻倍 / -55
中级 / 9 / +16 / 自乘 / +5 / ( \frac{3}{7}7 ) 之其 / ( \frac{7}{7}18 ) 之其 / ( {2}{7}3 ) 之其 / 自乘 / 5% 之其 / ( {4}{7}5 ) 之其 高级 / 64 / ×2 ( {3}{7}8 ) / -80 / ( {5}{7}18 ) 之其 / ×48 / 加上 17 ( {1}{2} )% / 25% 之其 / -40 / ( {6}{7}11 ) 之其 / 减去 25%
KENKEN
5 / 1 / 6 / 4 / 2 / 3
4 / 3 / 5 / 6 / 1 / 2 1 / 2 / 3 / 5 / 4 / 6 3 / 6 / 4 / 2 / 5 / 1 2 / 5 / 1 / 3 / 6 / 4 6 / 4 / 2 / 1 / 3 / 5
杀手数独 (KILLER SUDOKU)
6 / 5 / 3 / 6 / 7 / 9 / 2 / 4 / 1 7 / 4 / 1 / 3 / 5 / 2 / 6 / 9 / 6 9 / 2 / 8 / 1 / 6 / 4 / 5 / 7 / 3 6 / 9 / 4 / 7 / 3 / 1 / 6 / 2 / 5 3 / 6 / 5 / 2 / 9 / 6 / 7 / 1 / 4 2 / 1 / 7 / 4 / 5 / 3 / 6 / 8 1 / 3 / 6 / 4 / 6 / 7 / 9 / 6 / 2 4 / 8 / 9 / 5 / 2 / 3 / 1 / 6 / 7 5 / 7 / 2 / 9 / 1 / 6 / 4 / 2 / 8
GO
数独 X (SUDOKU X)
2 / 5 / 8 / 4 / 3 / 1 1 / 3 / 4 / 5 / 2 / 6 6 / 2 / 1 / 3 / 5 / 4 3 / 4 / 5 / 6 / 1 / 2 5 / 6 / 2 / 1 / 4 / 3 4 / 1 / 3 / 2 / 6 / 5
杀手数独 (KILLER SUDOKU)
5 / 6 / 3 / 6 / 7 / 9 / 2 / 4 / 1 7 / 4 / 1 / 3 / 5 / 2 / 6 / 9 / 6 9 / 2 / 8 / 1 / 6 / 4 / 5 / 7 / 3 6 / 9 / 4 / 7 / 3 / 1 / 6 / 2 / 5 3 / 6 / 5 / 2 / 9 / 6 / 7 / 1 / 4 2 / 1 / 7 / 4 / 5 / 3 / 6 / 8 1 / 3 / 6 / 4 / 6 / 7 / 9 / 6 / 2 4 / 8 / 9 / 5 / 2 / 3 / 1 / 6 / 7 5 / 7 / 2 / 9 / 1 / 6 / 4 / 2 / 8
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Moomin. 2 Muesli. Ofertory. 4 Hydration break. Uncle. 7 Customer. 8 Arabella. Invisible Touch. 15 Cassandra. Template. 17 Arbroath. Sparta. 20 Ragout. 22 Homer.
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横向：1 Breeches busy, 8 Charlie. 9 Cardiac. 11 Dispatcher. 12 Lama. 14 Marbling. 16 Pariah. 17 Tub. 19 Captor. 21 Malaysia. 24 Lily. 25 Defacement. 27 Yachtle. 28 Chorale. 29 Standardised. 向下：1 Browser. 2 Extraction. 3 Crescent. 4 Enceed. 5 Bark. 6 Origami. 7 Academically. 10 Coach parties. 13 Calaverous. 15 Gum. 18 Balanced. 20 Polecat. 22 Steward. 23 Helena. 26 Shun.
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今日谜题答案
快速问答 (QUICK QUIZ)：1 达尔马提亚 (Dalmatia)。
2 刽子手 (Executioner)。3 黑杖官 (Black Rod)。
4 一个苹果 (An apple)。5 蒙古 (Mongolia)。
脑筋急转弯 (MINDBENDER)：
1 18 人。2 它们可能都出现在 pay 之前。3 蜜月 (Honeymoon)。 4 庞皮杜中心 (Pompidou Centre)；其余的是歌剧院。 5 其中一种方式是 a, an, man, mean, mange, German, mangler, emigrant, germinate。
大师问答 (MASTERQUIZ)：
1 土耳其 (Turkey)。2 金牛座 (Taurus)。3 约翰·梅斯菲尔德 (John Masefield)。4 安格尔西岛 (Anglesey)。 5 格拉斯哥 (Glasgow)。6 乔·迪马乔 (Joe DiMaggio)。
蜂巢谜题 (HONEYCOMB)：
1 Barted。2 Hailled。3 Depict。 4 Under。5 Redden。6 Delete。 7 Seller。8 Elders。9 Raises。 10 Sickle。11 Locate。12 Deacon。
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ECLIPSE SPECIAL
Britain finally gets a break from the Sun (for a few minutes!)
See the light: Onlookers in London yesterday
SEE PAGES 4-7
REWILDING LINK
TO RECORD FIRES
By Inderdeep Bains and Colin Fernandez
A RECORD year for wildfires was last night blamed on Labour's environmental policies. Some 1,017 infernos have ravaged England and Wales
After 1,017 wildfires ALREADY this year, eco-dogma is blamed for turning country into tinderbox
this year – already as many as there were in the whole of 2025, the previous worst year.
With temperatures forecast to hit 38C today, campaigners say the Government has ignored warnings that its policies have turned swathes of countryside into tinderboxes.
They say Labour's rewilding drive, which involves allowing nature to
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Summary: Sunny, warm
UK TODAY: Sunshine dominates the morning with light easterly winds. Temperatures rise to hot by midday, with a slight breeze from the southeast. Evening brings cooler air and mostly cloudy skies. Max 35c.
Today's weather
| 9am | 12noon | 3pm | 6pm | 9pm | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| London | 0 25c | 0 32c | 0 36c | 0 35c | 0 30c |
| Plymouth | 0 22c | 0 26c | 0 27c | 0 26c | 0 20c |
| Cardiff | 0 23c | 0 26c | 0 26c | 0 24c | 0 22c |
| B'ham | 0 24c | 0 31c | 0 34c | 0 34c | 0 28c |
| M'chester | 0 26c | 0 30c | 0 33c | 0 30c | 0 25c |
| Newcastle | 0 24c | 0 29c | 0 31c | 0 28c | 0 24c |
| Glasgow | 0 20c | 0 23c | 0 23c | 0 23c | 0 20c |
| Aberdeen | 0 20c | 0 23c | 0 24c | 0 23c | 0 20c |
| Belfast | 0 19c | 0 22c | 0 24c | 0 24c | 0 21c |
5 day forecast
| Fri | Sat | Sun | Mon | Tue | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| London | 0 32c | 0 26c | 0 26c | 0 24c | 0 24c |
| Plymouth | 0 25c | 0 25c | 0 24c | 0 22c | 0 23c |
| Cardiff | 0 26c | 0 25c | 0 24c | 0 22c | 0 22c |
| B'ham | 0 28c | 0 23c | 0 23c | 0 21c | 0 21c |
| M'chester | 0 24c | 0 21c | 0 20c | 0 19c | 0 20c |
| Newcastle | 0 26c | 0 20c | 0 18c | 0 18c | 0 20c |
| Glasgow | 0 19c | 0 17c | 0 18c | 0 17c | 0 18c |
| Aberdeen | 0 20c | 0 18c | 0 17c | 0 16c | 0 18c |
| Belfast | 0 19c | 0 18c | 0 19c | 0 18c | 0 18c |
Europe forecast
| October | 1st | 2nd | 3rd | 4th | 5th | 6th | 7th | 8th | 9th | 10th | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Amsterdam | Sun | 33 30 | Sun | 33 30 | Madrid | Sun | 40 50 | Sun | 39 60 | Sun | 30 00 |
| Brussels | Sun | 35 00 | Sun | 36 30 | Paris | Sun | 38 00 | Sun | 39 00 | Sun | 30 00 |
| Frankfurt | Sun | 35 00 | Sun | 36 30 | Basel | Sun | 38 30 | Sun | 35 30 | Sun | 30 00 |
Around the world yesterday
| October | 1st | 2nd | 3rd | 4th | 5th | 6th | 7th | 8th | 9th | 10th | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Algiers | Fri | 33 30 | Florence | Fri | 30 00 | New Delhi | Sun | 33 30 | Sun | 33 30 | Sun |
| Amsterdam | Sun | 33 31 | Geneva | Sun | 29 00 | New York | Sun | 33 30 | Sun | 33 30 | Sun |
| Athens | Sun | 35 00 | Gibraltar | Sun | 29 79 | New York | Sun | 33 30 | Sun | 33 30 | Sun |
| Auckland | Sun | 35 59 | Guernsey | Sun | 32 00 | Oak | Oak | Oak | Oak | Oak | Oak |
| Bahrain | Sun | 40 00 | Helsinki | Oak | 36 30 | Palma | Sun | 33 30 | Sun | 33 30 | Sun |
| Barcelona | Sun | 32 90 | Hong Kong | Sun | 23 30 | Paris | Sun | 32 90 | Sun | 32 90 | Sun |
| Buora | Sun | 50 22 | Inderleck | Sun | 28 82 | Perth | Sun | 30 66 | Sun | 30 66 | Sun |
| Beijing | Thur | 26 79 | Istanbul | Sun | 31 00 | Prague | Sun | 22 72 | Sun | 22 72 | Sun |
| Bristol | Sun | 32 90 | Jersey | Sun | 33 30 | London | Sun | 30 00 | Sun | 30 00 | Sun |
| Belfast | Oak | 24 79 | London | Sun | 34 00 | Yale | Sun | 24 00 | Sun | 24 00 | Sun |
| Belgrade | Sun | 31 00 | Las Palmas | Sun | 27 30 | Rome | Sun | 24 00 | Sun | 24 00 | Sun |
| Berlin | Sun | 22 77 | Lisbon | Sun | 29 00 | Singapore | Fri | 31 00 | Sun | 31 00 | Sun |
| Brunel | Sun | 27 30 | London | Sun | 30 00 | Stockholm | Fri | 28 00 | Sun | 28 00 | Sun |
| Bridgway | Sun | 31 70 | Los Angeles | Sun | 28 79 | Strasbourg | Sun | 30 00 | Sun | 30 00 | Sun |
| Brussels | Sun | 31 70 | Lyon | Sun | 30 00 | Sydney | Fri | 30 00 | Sun | 30 00 | Sun |
| Bucharest | Sun | 33 00 | Madrid | Sun | 34 00 | Saigon | Sun | 32 90 | Sun | 32 90 | Sun |
| Budapest | Sun | 33 82 | Malaga | Sun | 32 00 | Toronto | Sun | 34 00 | Sun | 34 00 | Sun |
| Cairo | Sun | 36 37 | Malta | Sun | 34 00 | Towne | Sun | 28 00 | Sun | 28 00 | Sun |
| Cape Town | Sun | 31 70 | Melbourne | Fri | 34 00 | Swan | Thur | 25 77 | Sun | 25 77 | Sun |
| Casablanca | Fri | 33 82 | Mexico City | Sun | 22 72 | Toronto | Sun | 28 82 | Sun | 28 82 | Sun |
| Copenhagen | Sun | 30 66 | Miami | Sun | 23 30 | Tunis | Sun | 27 00 | Sun | 27 00 | Sun |
| Corfu | Sun | 36 37 | Milan | Sun | 34 00 | Vancouver | Sun | 27 78 | Sun | 27 78 | Sun |
| Dubai | Sun | 44 30 | Montreal | Sun | 28 79 | Vienna | Sun | 28 78 | Sun | 28 78 | Sun |
| Dublin | Fri | 35 77 | Moscow | Thur | 30 00 | Vienna | Sun | 28 77 | Sun | 28 77 | Sun |
| Dubravnik | Sun | 35 00 | Mumbai | Thur | 30 00 | Warsaw | Fri | 27 78 | Sun | 27 78 | Sun |
| Faro | Sun | 28 82 | Nairobi | Sun | 23 73 | Wellington | Oak | 30 00 | Sun | 30 00 | Sun |
Moon and Sun
5000m from 6.30am, sets: 6.40pm Sunrise London: 5.42am, sets: 6.27pm Manchester river, 5.44am, sets: 6.49pm NEATIDE London Bridge: 3.18pm Uverpool: 12.28pm
Extremes (24 hrs to 9pm Tue)
Warmest: Rose De-Wys, 8th. Coldest: Webster, Hathery, 8c. Wettest: St. Albert, 1.00pm. Sunrise: Hum, 13.8pm.
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look after itself without human interference, has caused a huge build-up of dry vegetation primed to ignite in heatwaves. Gamekeepers and farmers traditionally carried out controlled burning of heather and grasses in the cooler months - encouraging new shoots on which grouse and sheep graze.
Last year, Labour extended rules preventing the burning on 1.6 million acres of land. It says the move, targeted at peatlands, would improve air quality and protect environmental and public health.
Jonathan Roberts, of the Country Land and Business Association, said: 'Last year was the worst on record for wildfires, yet ministers responded by making it harder for land managers to carry out the controlled burning necessary to stop wildfires taking hold in the warmer months.
'Government has in effect banned the single-most important method of preventing wildfires, and we are now living with the consequences. Put simply, they must reverse the policy immediately.'
His concerns are echoed by the Countryside Alliance which said ministers had made a 'foolish decision'.
'Moorland communities are facing increasing challenges,
Tinderbox: A recent wildfire on the north Wales coast
the Government having recently more than trebled the area over which the controlled burning of vegetation is effectively banned in our uplands,' it said. 'The Countryside Alliance has repeatedly warned that by ignoring the latest scientific evidence,
resources, with crews in South Wales yesterday describing 'carriage' as they battled seven separate blazes, some of which they believe were set maliciously.
Andy Burnham last night called on shops to stop selling disposable barbecues, which he said were behind many of the blazes. He hinted at a summertime ban in the future.
Lord Botham, a vocal critic of rewilding, urged the Prime Minister to take 'decisive' action and place the Department for Environment Food and Rural Affairs (Defra), which manages the policy, into special measures for 'reckless incompetence'.
'Our wildfire crisis is man-made. It is the result of dreadful policy mistakes repeated
year after year,' the former England cricket captain said.
'For two decades we have added far too much vegetation to our landscape and are now suffering the inevitable consequences. Unless Andy Burnham acts decisively there will be fatalities.'
Natural England insists heather burning damages carbon-storing peat and it instead promotes mechanical cutting - but critics say while this reduces the so-called fuel load, it leaves ignitable materials behind.
'The winter burns used to create firebreaks. Now we have huge expanses of continuous, ageing vegetation. The result is disaster after disaster,' Lord Botham wrote in a newspaper. 'The new winter burning season is due to start on October 1. The Prime Minister has only weeks to reverse last year's ban and get these preventative winter burns restarted.'
Andrew Gilruth, of the Moorland Association, said: 'Rewilding sounds like a good idea, unless you end up facing a wall of flames. We simply have far, far too much vegetation covering our landscape and until we reverse rewilding, the wildfires will get worse and worse.'
Defra said its policies were a 'long-term' solution.
A spokesman said: 'Peatland restoration is the most effective, sustainable, and long-term solution for reducing fuel load on degraded peatlands, as wetter, healthy-functioning peatlands hold more water in the landscape for longer and are more resilient to the impacts of wildfire.'
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World's fastest JCB
Briton's 406mph in hydrogen 'car'
Can you dig it? JCB team celebrate record on Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah
By Rob Hull Motoring Editor
IT could only ever have been a job for someone known as the 'fastest man on Earth'. Breaking the land-speed record using engines from a JCB.
And British driver Andy Green didn't disappoint, reaching more than 406mph – without even getting into top gear.
The former Royal Air Force fighter pilot, who remains the only person ever to break the sound barrier in a car, smashed records again, but this time using hydrogen power.
While the brand name JCB might normally be associated with a building site digger plodding along at a sedate pace, the earth would have certainly moved for 64-year-old Wing Commander Green OBE on Tuesday.
He rocketed across Utah's Bonneville Salt Flats in the 32ft bullet-shaped vehicle, which is powered by two hydrogen combustion engines developed by JCB and also used in its – literally groundbreaking – hydrogen-powered excavator.
Green, pictured, said: 'We had, in our wildest dreams, thought we might get up to 400mph. The car has got six gears and each engine can develop 800 horse power.'
'[To break the record], we used only five of six gears, we never got into top gear, and we only used 700 of the 800hp. We actually had the engines turned down because we
Will it fit in my storage yard?
Length: 32ft
Top speed: 406.320mph
Weight (fully laden with fuel, oil, coolant and pilot, Andy Green): 2,700kg/2.6 tons
Tyres: Goodyear custom-made high-speed-rated tyres
Engines: Two 4.8-litre, in-line 4-cylinder hydrogen internal combustion engines (one driving the front wheels and the other the rear), also used in JCB's hydrogen excavator
Power output: 800 horsepower per engine, 1,600hp combined
Engine weight: 405kg/890lb each
Transmission: Six-speed transaxle gearbox driving separate axles
didn't need full power. He added: 'The car was terrific – stable, strong and fast. This record is a huge achievement by a world class team and superb technology.' Wing Commander Green reached an official 406.320mph
in JCB's 1,600bhp Hydromax streamliner – an average speed over two separate runs.
The record was verified by the Federation Internationale de l'Automobile, the governing body of world motorsport, as the highest speed ever achieved by a hydrogen-powered car.
But the feat is still some way short of the outright land-speed record Green famously set almost 30 years ago. In 1997, he piloted
the jet-powered Thrust SSC to 763.035mph, becoming the first and only person to break the sound barrier on land.
Those runs in Nevada's Black Rock Desert generated sonic booms that rattled the nearby town of Gerlach. Green also holds the diesel land-speed record, having reached 350.092mph at Bonneville in JCB's Dieselmax in 2006.
Twenty years on, his return to the flats saw him eclipse that
benchmark with a vehicle producing zero emissions. And Green's 406.320mph figure easily trumped the previous hydrogen-combustion record of 185.5mph set by BMW's H2R in 2004.
He admitted cockpit conditions were 'probably a little hotter' than in the Thrust, with temperatures above 122F (55C). 'But I've been training for four months for that, both in the gym and by getting used to it with hot baths,' he said.
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ECLIPSE SPECIAL
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Space oddity: The Sun is slowly eclipsed by the Moon over the space of 43 minutes in a series of photos taken by Bruce Adams in Manchester city centre
Day Britain stood still to
...and if you missed it, the next eclipse isn't until November 2050!
Howzat! Cricket fan in eclipse glasses at Edgbaston in Birmingham
STAR-GAZING mania gripped the nation last night as millions marvelled at the once-in-a-generation solar eclipse.
As Britain sweltered in the fifth heatwave of the year, an eerie yet welcome chill descended as the Moon blocked out the unrelenting 30C sunshine.
Throughout human history, eclipses have stirred wonder, fear and reverence. The uncanny sensation – as day briefly turned into a strange twilight – caused temperatures to drop, shadows to appear at odd angles and animals to behave unusually.
The spectacle of our Moon ringed by a fiery halo set pulses
By Sam Greenhill Chief Reporter
racing across the world. Millions watched the sky show in awe, starting when the Moon took its first bite out of the Sun's right-hand edge shortly after 6pm in the UK.
It began at 6.08pm in Edinburgh, 6.17pm in London and 6.18pm in Cornwall. The Moon gradually slid across the face of the Sun until it all but snuffed out the light around an hour later. The best place to witness the phenomenon was the Spanish city of Burgos, which enjoyed 100 per cent totality lasting nearly two minutes.
Laura Stewart, a 35-year-old lawyer, was among 500 gathered on London's Primrose Hill. She
The centre of the Earth: Thousands gathered at Greenwich Park in London last night to watch the
told the Daily Mail: 'It feels utterly enchanting.' Aja Lilit, 24, of Uxbridge, west London, added: 'I can see the Moon and the Sun. I am nothing – but also a part of this. This is just so amazing.'
Gasps of 'wow', 'oh my god' and 'this is so cool' rang out at Greenwich Park in south-east London.
It was the first proper solar eclipse in Britain since August 1999. That was blighted by clouds, ruining the experience for many, but last night, most of England
enjoyed beautifully clear skies. The frenzy swept the UK from Inverness to Penzance and beyond. The best place to see it was Bishop Rock in the Isles of Scilly, where 96.5 per cent of the Sun was obscured.
Devon, Cornwall and the westernmost parts of Pembrokeshire in Wales also got fantastic views. For those in Scotland and Northern Ireland, whose views were spoiled by clouds, the Royal Observatory Greenwich live-streamed the
event online. A crowd at the National Space Centre in Leicester erupted into cheers after counting down from ten. Benjamin Firmager-Lee, 12, who wants to work for Nasa, said: 'It's really quite rare so it's quite cool to see.'
On Crosby beach in Merseyside, a DJ played Here Comes The Sun by The Beatles.
The next partial eclipse visible in the UK is not until November 14, 2050, and the next total eclipse is not until September 23, 2090,
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last night. The next partial eclipse visible in Britain is not until November 14, 2050, and the next total eclipse will occur on September 23, 2090
marvel at the heavens
eclipse. The Royal Observatory Greenwich live-streamed the event online
when a baby born today will be aged 64.
Last night, for a few minutes, temperatures dipped noticeably in a brief respite from the UK heatwave which is on course to make 2026 the hottest summer since the famous scorcher of 1976.
Excited Britons had queued for hours throughout Tuesday night and yesterday in a bid to get their hands on solar eclipse glasses – the only safe way to directly watch the Sun. Looking at the Sun for a
short amount of time can cause permanent damage to the retina, which does not register pain.
Police in Bristol were called when a queue for free specs grew 'unruly' in what was dubbed 'a scene from the movie Independence Day'. One canny salesman was seen selling them in London's West End at £50 a pop.
In Rayleigh, Essex, Steven Hickey, 51, of Hickey's DIY, said: 'It's been non-stop. It's chaos. I've never had anything like this since
the [Covid] lockdown.' Cambrian Photography, in Colwyn Bay, Conwy, had people queuing down the street as customers snapped up 500 pairs in just a few hours.
John Lewis said colander sales had soared 40 per cent after Nasa recommended the kitchen essential as a way to view the shadows of round holes turning to crescents, rather than staring at the sun.
Following the 1999 eclipse, hundreds called hospital helplines with blurred vision. The Royal
Eye up: Star-gazers on the London Eye
Eerie: The eclipse as seen in Glasgow
Night out: Families gather at Hound Tor in Dartmoor to watch the rare phenomenon
College of Ophthalmologists said around 70 cases of people had suffered vision problems after looking at the two-hour phenomenon for less than a minute.
It is only due to an incredible cosmic coincidence that perfect solar eclipses can occur on Earth. While the Moon is about 400 times smaller than the Sun, it also happens to be about 400 times closer to Earth – allowing it to perfectly obscure the giant star.
As an astronomical encore, a few
hours after the eclipse, the sky was filled with shooting stars as the Perseid meteor shower approached its annual peak, as the Earth ploughed through dust left behind by the Swift-Tuttle comet.
Nasa scientists used last night's eclipse to unlock secrets of the Sun, sending a high-altitude WB-57 aircraft from Iceland to follow the Moon's shadow, and launching balloons to study how the sudden darkness and cooling affect the lower atmosphere.
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MILLIONS of people across Europe yesterday witnessed the magic of the eclipse.
Beginning in Siberia, Russia, at around midday local time, the phenomenon swept around to Greenland before greeting millions on the Continent.
Cruise captain Sverre Rud circled the waters of Rypefjord in eastern Greenland to ensure he was perfectly positioned for his 126 passengers aboard MS Spitsbergen to view the spectacle.
The eclipse was startling for the passengers, who have been experiencing 24 hours of daylight on a 17-day cruise in locations mostly north of the Arctic Circle.
Suddenly, for two minutes it was engulfed in darkness.
But excitement was perhaps highest in Spain, as, while mainland Europe has not experienced a total solar eclipse for 20 years, it was the country's first in more than a century.
Tourists thronged the streets of normally quiet villages to witness day transform into night. The total eclipse's narrow path cut across the Iberian Peninsula from the northern Atlantic coast to the Mediterranean Sea in the south.
Crowds brought lawn chairs,
'First time in my life I've seen it'
umbrellas and hats as they eagerly awaited the celestial spectacle, which began early in the evening.
One enterprising young girl created safe, if bizarre, viewing specs from an illustrated plate at the sea port of Tarragona, in the east.
And from a highly appropriate viewing point at the Javalambre Astrophysical Observatory in Arcos de las Salinas, near Teruel, spectators had a truly otherworldly perspective.
Meanwhile, officials predicted that the 448,000 extra tourists who had flocked to the country could have brought a welcome €147million (£300million) boost to the economy. In Medinaceli, a Romanera hilltop town in the north-east, skygazers secured grassy viewing points hours early and crowded its restaurants and bars.
Oscar Pérez, a 24-year-old physics student who had travelled from Germany to witness the event, said: 'It's the first time in my life-time that I'll get to see a total eclipse in Spain.'
Spain's Interior Ministry said 350 official viewing sites had been set up across the sparsely populated interior, while some 33,500 law enforcement officers were deployed to observation areas.
And in Iceland, crowds donned protective glasses and even full
Nice outlook: Bikini-clad gazers
Well, Isle be! Boat off Ibiza is treated to a sudden sunset
Wunderbar! Berliners take snaps
face coverings as they gathered in parks in Reykjavik. Rooms in the capital were averaging more than $1,000 (£740) last night as Icelanders prepared for their first total solar eclipse since 1954 and the first visible from the capital since 1433.
Prices were roughly double those of 2025 rates, and authorities expected
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watch from Nice on French coast
Ready for the solar show: A girl's ingenious viewing specs made from a plate in Tarragona, Spain, and an incredible view at the Javalambre Astrophysical Observatory
up to 20,000 additional overseas visitors for the event.
The popular 70-room Hotel Keflavik in the Reykjanesbaer municipality was fully booked with guests hoping to see around one minute and 45 seconds of eclipse totality.
The hotel's owner and manager
Steinpor Jonsson said: 'Eclipse time, of course, has been very demanding, and many people came to us early, like last year.'
Mr Jonsson added that he had seen nothing like it since 1986 – the year the hotel opened and US President Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev
held their summit in Reykjavik. 'When I opened the hotel, we had Reagan and Gorbachev meeting. It was very hectic here,' he said with a smile.
'Besides Reagan and Gorbachev, the eclipse is the biggest.'
In Finland, Sweden and Denmark, millions of people watched
the phenomenon pass overhead – though they did not enjoy the rare total eclipse that onlookers in Iceland, Spain and Portugal enjoyed.
And in Nice, on France's Mediterranean coast, bikini-clad spectators stuck to the rules in their sensible approved specs. While over in Berlin, Germany, onlookers
snapped tasteful images on their mobile phones.
Europe's final sighting happened over Spain's Balearic Islands, at around 8.33pm local time. Off the coast of San Antonio, Ibiza, leisure cruisers were suddenly silhouetted by the Sun's contracting crescent.
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Bus-sized boats 'easier to stop' but French block fewer than last year
THE number of migrant boats evading French authorities to cross the Channel has risen despite many now being much bigger and easier to spot.
Amid a rise in launches of 'mega-dinghies' - some 10ft longer than a double-decker bus - which experts say should be easier to intercept, the French authorities stopped just over half (56 per cent) of attempted boat crossings in the year to August 2.
This was down from a rate of 57 per cent for the previous 12 months, according to analysis by the Daily Mail.
It comes despite Labour giving hundreds of millions of pounds more to French authorities to block crossings. The deal - signed by Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood in April - included an
EXCLUSIVE By David Churchill
unconditional £500million to pay for beach patrols in France, plus £160million in performance-related funding.
But the analysis found that of 1,057 attempted Channel crossings in the 12 months to August 2, a total of just 598 boats (56 per cent) carrying 14,462 migrants were stopped.
Of 1,849 boats launched from the French and Belgian coast the year before, 1,057 (57 per cent) carrying 30,012 migrants were halted by French authorities.
The average number of migrants crammed on to each vessel has more than doubled over five years to a record high,
from 27 per vessel in 2021 to nearly 70 so far this year.
Tory Shadow Home Secretary, Chris Philp, said it takes longer for migrants to board larger vessels and they travel more slowly, meaning the French authorities should find them easier to intercept. He told the
'They are laughing at us'
Daily Mail: 'Boats the size of buses are crossing the Channel in broad daylight, and somehow the French are managing to catch a lower rate of them than before.'
Crossings have become so routine that Border Force and French patrols escort illegal
immigrants to English shores like a taxi service, and still Labour hand over hundreds of millions of pounds to France as if the French are holding up their end of the bargain.'
Reform UK's home affairs spokesman, Zia Yusuf, said: 'The French are now doing even less. They are laughing at us.'
On Monday a 'mega-dinghy' carrying a record 230 migrants reached Dover, pushing the total of arrivals since Labour came to power in 2024 past 80,000.
Anna Turley, minister for border security and asylum, insisted 'substantial progress' on crossings was having a 'dispersive effect', meaning boats are being launched on the coast further away from Calais and Dunkirk.
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Off: Karoline Leavitt
I'm quitting, says Trump press chief
By Ross Ibbetson
DONALD Trump's press secretary Karoline Leavitt is quitting the White House to devote time to her young family, she said last night.
Ms Leavitt, 28, who gave birth to a second child in May and had returned from maternity leave only on July 16, said it was a 'bittersweet decision'.
'Being a mother and welcoming a new baby while working in one of the most demanding jobs in the world has been the most rewarding yet challenging season of my life,' she wrote on X.
'Since returning after the birth of my daughter, I have felt in my heart that I cannot be the best mom my two young children deserve while devoting the constant time, energy, and attention required of the White House press secretary.'
Mr Trump posted on Truth Social that it was 'a decision I totally understand and respect'.
Ms Leavitt, whose husband Nicholas Riccio is 61, is known for mirroring the President in attacking 'fake news' and lambasting any reporter who dares to cross the administration.
French ban 6ft dog leads
DOG leads longer than 6ft have been banned in a French town. It comes after a husky on a long lead attacked and killed a chihuahua in June.
Owners in Saint-Quentin, in northern France, face a £130 fine if they ignore the rule.
The council said the move would reassure owners that dangerous dogs were being kept under control.
But some locals questioned whether it would stop attacks. One said: 'If you've got a dog weighing five or eight or nine stone, it will break away if it decides to, even if the lead is 6ft or less.'
Housing asylum seekers in poor areas has led to 'civil unrest', admits minister
By Greg Heffer
HOUSING asylum seekers in poorer communities has created civil unrest, Labour's borders minister admitted yesterday.
Anna Turley said putting migrants into cheaper housing has had a 'huge impact' on communities.
But she insisted the burden must now be placed on more affluent areas as she doubled down on Andy Burnham's insistence they must 'play their part'.
Ms Turley said there needed to be a 'fair and equitable system' for distributing asylum seekers. And she defended plans for 1,200 migrants to be housed near the Oxfordshire village of Piddington, with a population of just 400.
She told the BBC: 'What we've seen in the past is places like Blackpool, and other communities around the country where housing is perhaps cheaper and more plentiful, have had to take more than their fair share of asylum seekers.'
'That's put a huge burden on local communities and created real civil
'They will be allowed out'
unrest, so we want to make sure that we're managing the system much better in a more sustained way that's reducing the impact on local communities.'
The Prime Minister said this week he will make sure arrivals are not only placed in the 'poorest communities'.
His comments sparked Tory warnings of a 'vindictive punishment beating to the UK's middle classes'.
Under Home Office plans, a former military base in Bicester will provide accommodation for 1,250 male asylum seekers. But the residents of Piddington have voted to stage a symbolic referendum on leaving the UK as part of their protests against the plans.
Ms Turley said: 'This is about fairness. This is making sure that there is distribution around the country, and this is about a more fair and equitable system that limits the impact on local communities.'
Asked about a potential influx of asylum seekers three times as large as Piddington's population, the Home Office minister said: 'Well, I suppose they're not going to be in the village. They're going to be contained in a former military base.'
But pressed on whether asylum seekers would be free to leave the site, Ms Turley said: 'They will be allowed out, but everything
Criticism: Andy Burnham and borders minister Anna Turley, centre, with a recovered dinghy in Dover
they need will be on that site. So they will be managed. They will be contained.
She added: 'They're on a self-contained site. We are looking at former military bases around the country.'
'We know where people are. We can manage the system.'
Asked if she would be happy for
a similar number of people to arrive in her Redcar constituency, Ms Turley said: 'We don't have a former military base... but the reality is it's about fairness.'
Asked about the Oxfordshire protests, Mr Burnham told GB News: 'I will listen to what people are saying and respond to the concerns that they are putting
forward. I don't know the issue yet in detail, but in some ways, as I understand it, it is about creating secure space.'
The PM added: 'It's obviously going to be challenging, but I am prepared always to listen to people, to work with people and to pick up legitimate concerns, and I will address those concerns.'
'I do have to say, we cannot have a situation where it's only the poorest communities in the country that receive all of the dispersal of refugees and asylum seekers. I do believe all parts of the country need to work, to play their part.'
'We understand people's concerns and I will look into the issues raised by the good people of Piddington.'
Shadow Home Secretary Chris Philp said: 'Andy Burnham is planning to dish out another vindictive punishment beating to the UK's middle classes.'
'Labour has hammered hard-working families with punitive tax increases galore, increased regulation and soaring energy bills. 'Now, Burnham plans to deliberately flood more neighbourhoods with thousands of illegal immigrants who he has let into this country, and many of whom will commit serious crimes including rape and murder.'
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My daughter gave her life to stop you hurting any more women, mother tells killer
Families hit out at Met as double murderer told he'll die in jail
By Rebecca Camber
Crime and Security Editor
THE mother of one of double killer Simon Levy's victims yesterday said while her daughter lost her life it meant 'countless' other women were saved from future attacks by the monster.
The 40-year-old sexual predator who murdered two women and raped and almost killed a third while he was on bail for multiple sex attacks, will die behind bars after receiving a whole life sentence yesterday.
In a series of blunders by police and prosecutors, Levy was left free to kill Carmenia Valencia-Trujillo, 53, and Sheryl Wilkins, 39, and rape a third woman last year.
Levy committed at least 13 sexual assaults between 2018 and 2025, but police, prosecutors and magistrates consistently failed to remand him in custody even when he was under investigation for murder.
Campaigners have called for an independent inquiry, saying the case shows that the 'criminal justice system is in a state of collapse'.
Ms Wilkins' mother Mary said her daughter's death in August last year had finally forced police to act. In a victim impact statement, she
'You have completely destroyed our lives'
told the killer: 'Simon Levy, you have completely destroyed our lives. You have done this before and wouldn't have stopped.
'Our Sheryl has ended your chances of hurting anyone else, she lost her life to do this, but we truly believe Sheryl has saved countless women from being subjected to your disgusting and horrendous acts. I hope you never walk the streets again as you are a threat to all women.'
Sheryl's sister Lindsey Hicks wept at the Old Bailey as she told him: 'I hope you rot in prison for the rest of your life.'
Although Levy had a shocking record for sexual violence dating back to 2018, British Transport Police (BTP), the Met Police and magistrates all failed to appreciate the danger he posed, releasing him on bail four times.
While set free he carried out at least six sexual assaults on the Tube. He raped and suffocated a sex worker, leaving her for dead in January last year, before going on to commit two murders months later.
Yesterday, the rape victim described Levy as a 'monster', saying: 'He took away my soul that night and he took away my dignity. He took my soul like a parasite to make him feel strong and make me feel weak.'
The woman, who was sex trafficked into the UK in 2012, said police had made her feel 'like a child' when she reported the attack, adding: 'No one ever listened to me.' She said: 'This monster chooses girls he thinks won't go to the police.'
Levy, who is partially blind and wore sunglasses during the sentencing hearing, smiled as he entered the dock. Judge Mark
Smiled in the dock: Sex predator and double murderer Simon Levy
Second victim: Sheryl Wilkins
Smothered: Ms Valencia-Trujillo
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Lucraft said the double killer had a 'morbid fascination with sex, rape and crime'.
Levy, who showed no emotion as he was sentenced, had been jailed for three years in 2021 for sex attacks on two women at the Notting Hill Carnival and a street party in Camden, north London, in 2018.
He was released in February 2023, and arrested in November the following year for two sex attacks on the Tube, but a BTP officer delayed doing ID checks, opting instead to extend his bail on January 21, 2025. That night, Levy raped and almost killed a prostitute. On March 17 he killed Ms Valen-
cia-Trujillo by compressing her neck and smothering her face.
He was arrested days later but was released on bail after the cause of the 53-year-old drug user's death was deemed to be 'unascertained'. On May 2 he was charged with five sex assaults on the Tube, but he was released on
bail by magistrates even though he was also suspected of murder.
Three weeks later he was spotted on the Underground by a BTP officer and charged with breaching his bail conditions. Incredibly, Levy was granted bail again. He failed to attend hearings on July 18 and August 11, yet no arrest warrant was sought.
On August 28, Levy killed Ms Wilkins. Police arrested him on September 5 after he had been identified at the scene on a facial recognition camera.
Harriet Wistrich, chief executive of the Centre for Women's Justice, said: 'The catalogue of combined failures in this case provides terrifying evidence – if it was needed – that our criminal justice system is in a state of collapse. Given the series of catastrophic failures by the Met Police on top of an appalling history of police failures... we must conclude that the Met Police is not fit for purpose. We must have an independent inquiry.'
Commissioner Mark Rowley said the force had apologised, but described the case as a 'whole-system failing'.
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Next generation face a 'mountain of debt'
THE Government has been warned it is building up a mountain of debt to hand to the next generation.
By 2075, £1 in every £5 of tax collected by the government is set to be swallowed up in interest payments, according to the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR).
The Left-wing think-tank said the UK was 'not on a fiscally sustainable track' and those born over the next 15 years would be left to shoulder the 'heavy burden'.
It found, under the most likely scenario, that in 50 years the debt interest on government borrowing could take 21 per cent of its revenue - and in the worst case a crippling 47 per cent. Last night
By Sam Merriman Political Correspondent
Shadow Chancellor Sir Mel Stride said: 'Even [Andy] Burnham's favourite think-tank says Labour are building up a mountain of debt. Ministers lack the backbone to face down their Left-wing back-benchers who just want more money to spend on benefits.
Burnham and Chancellor John Healey have no idea how to fix the mess other than to borrow even more.'
IPPR senior economist William Ellis called the UK's current fiscal framework 'not fit for purpose'.
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Zero-hours clampdown to cost firms £3BILLION
ANGELA Rayner's crackdown on zero-hours contracts will cost businesses up to almost £3billion a year, Labour quietly admitted yesterday.
Ministers were told they could unleash a 'jobs horror show' after official analysis revealed the full cost of workers being guaranteed shifts and receiving compensation if the shifts are cancelled.
The analysis slipped out by the Government yesterday claimed that the measures in the Employment Rights Act, driven through by Ms Rayner when she was Deputy Prime Minister, would have a 'small, positive impact on growth' by increasing 'worker wellbeing'.
But it conceded: 'The measures will increase administrative costs
By Martin Beckford and Hugo Duncan
as payments for shifts changed at late notice. The exact bill for the measures will depend on how many hours staff have to work each week in order to gain the right to guaranteed hours.
Industry chiefs warned the reforms will also backfire by making it more complicated and expensive to hire staff - pushing up unemployment, particularly among the young.
Unemployment has already jumped from 4.1 per cent to 4.9 per cent since Labour came to power, with 151,000 jobs lost as firms are battered by higher taxes.
Tina McKenzie, head of the Federation of Small Businesses, accused the Government of 'sneaking out' the 'multi-billion-pound cost to business without bothering to quantify the number of people who will be left out of work claiming benefits as a result of policies that make no sense'.
Neil Carberry, of the Recruitment And Employment Confederation, said the Government's estimate 'undercounts the compliance and process costs business will face'.
He added: 'Even so, a potential £2.9billion addition to the rapidly rising cost of employment will only make our youth unemployment issues worse'.
Kate Nicholls, head of industry body UK Hospitality, said: 'The Government should be incentivising employment in hospitality, as a sector that employs the most young people, most part-time workers and the most non-graduates. Instead, these reforms add yet more cost, at a scale that far outweighs the cost benefits for employees.'
The Government said: 'We are absolutely committed to ending exploitative zero-hours contracts.'
Echoes of '76 as the ponds start cracking'
High and dry: A pond at Blackheath, London, in 1976
IT WAS the summer that the earth literally dried up.
And 50 years after the record-breaking heatwave of 1976 brought Britain to a standstill, history has repeated itself with ponds and rivers across the country running out of water.
Yesterday, children in Epping Forest were able to walk into the middle of Hollow Pond, pic-
Water aid for the gardens of the capital
By Elizabeth Haigh
WHEN the hosepipe ban across London kicked in last month, two men heard the anguished cries from fellow gardeners and decided to act.
George Lazarides, 30, and Joe Patten, 27, collected dozens of empty two-litre plastic bottles and jumped in a car to head 50 miles down to Brighton - whose water provider had not brought in a hosepipe ban.
After filling up their bottles from a 'legal' hosepipe, the pair headed back to the capital and set up outside Croxted Road Garden Centre and Stockwell station on Monday to hand out the water to grateful gardeners.
Mr Lazarides, who works in advertising, said: 'We saw that in London there is a hosepipe ban and in Brighton there is not, but the whole county is drought-ridden.'
'We wanted to make a point against the water companies on unfair bans, and we also wanted to help Londoners try to ensure they could look after their gardens and green spaces properly.
'It was partly a joke and partly trying to be helpful. It is strange, one county has a hosepipe ban and another doesn't.' The pair added:
Fresh supplies: George Lazarides, right, handing out one of his water bottles
'We got a good response so we will definitely do it again.
'When we spoke to people and gardeners, they were saying how frustrated they were with the hosepipe ban.'
Around ten million homes in London have been under a hosepipe ban since July 23.
According to Gardeners' World, a single square metre of vegetable garden needs up to 50 litres of water each week during dry weather. A lawn requires up to 30 litres per square metre per week, while a flowerbed requires up to 25 litres.
'Policies that make no sense'
and reduce flexibility for employers. This could make it harder for employers to respond to changes in demand, with potential knock-on impacts on output.'
The report said the biggest impact will be in sectors such as hospitality, retail and healthcare where demand is variable and employers currently adopt flexible staffing models.
It estimated: 'The direct cost to employers of the reforms as a whole could be between £350million and £2.9billion per year.' And it said that overall the reforms would lead to a net cost to the economy of between £300million and £1.4billion a year.
The figures include the cost of giving regular workers the right to demand guaranteed hours, as well
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Daily Mail Reporter
tured above, after weeks of soaring temperatures and virtually zero rain left water levels low.
During the 1976 heatwave, which saw streams and reservoirs dried up by the scorching sun, the temperature peaked at 35.6C – that has already been exceeded this year with 38C recorded at Ling-
wood in Norfolk. Now the UK is on course for its hottest summer ever – with only average temperatures needed for the rest of August to beat the record, the Met Office said last night.
People living across drought-hit England have been told to expect no rain in this week's forecast, with some areas having been completely dry for two months.
Almost three-quarters of the country is now officially classed as being in drought.
Some parts of Hampshire and West Sussex have not had rain for 59 days. The parched landscape will only deteriorate as Britain's fifth heatwave of the year builds towards what is predicted to be one of the hottest days on record today.
Cracks: Pitsford Reservoir, Northamptonshire, in 1976
PM urges shops to stop selling disposable BBOs
ANDY Burnham last night called on all shops to stop selling disposable barbecues because of the risk of sparking wildfires, as Britain braced itself for one of its hottest days on record.
The Prime Minister asked retailers 'big and small' to adhere to a voluntary pause on selling the one-use grills, which are popular for cooking during picnics and outdoor parties.
Yesterday Mr Burnham chaired a meeting of the emergency Cobra committee, with the fifth heatwave of the year set to hit highs of 38C today. While he stopped short of an outright ban on the single-use barbecues, he said the issue of
By Mark Duell
a temporary ban during summer months was on the table.
It came eight days after the Government said it was not planning to introduce such a ban.
Most major supermarkets have voluntarily suspended sales in recent weeks, in line with guidance issued by the National Fire Chiefs Council.
The Met Office has issued a rare 15-hour amber 'extreme heat' warning for southern and central England from 9am today – its second such alert in four years.
The whole of England has also been put under an amber heat health alert by the UK Health Security Agency until tomorrow night, which warns of a 'rise in deaths'. Earlier heatwaves in May
and June led to the deaths of more than 2,800 people.
Speaking after the Cobra meeting, the Prime Minister said: 'The big risk across the country is [from] wildfires. What we are seeing is multiple serious incidents.'
Fire services by and large are supporting each other through mutual aid to deal with those inci-
'Multiple serious incidents'
dents, but we are keeping a very close watching brief on them.
'There is advice to the public here not to use disposable barbecues. We have today confirmed through the National Fire Chiefs Council that the framework
restricting the retail sale of those disposable barbecues is being extended. Now I would ask all retailers big and small to adhere to that framework.
'Longer term we will look at whether a temporary ban in the summer months is justified.'
Steve Wright, general secretary of the Fire Brigades Union, warned the UK faces a national emergency 'right now' with fires across the country.
A 38C high would make it Britain's joint fifth hottest day on record. The 40.3C registered in Coningsby, Lincolnshire, on July 19, 2022 remains the UK's highest recorded temperature.
East Midlands Railway, Chiltern Railways and Northern all told customers to 'only travel if essential' today.
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By Matt Strudwick
FRIENDS, family and political colleagues paid their respects to Ann Widdecombe as she was buried near her Devon home yesterday.
The funeral of the ex-Tory minister, who was killed in her home last month, took place at Buckfast Abbey along with a private requiem mass.
Before the funeral, police officers with sniffer dogs were seen searching the grounds of the abbey, where Ms Widdecombe regularly worshipped.
The service included a homily from the Rt Rev David Charlesworth, Abbot of Buckfast. He
'A woman of profound faith'
said: 'In the midst of the shock, clamour and sometimes unwarranted comment surrounding her death, our response is to pray for the repose of her soul, to give thanks for her fortitude, and offer holy mass in this abbey church which Ann called her safe haven.'
Ms Widdecombe, a spokesman for Reform UK at the time of her death, died on July 8 when she was attacked while eating her lunch in her home in Haytor Vale on Dartmoor. The 78-year-old was hit over the head with a hammer 21 times.
Joshua Kerry, 28, of Rotherham, South Yorkshire, was charged with her murder on July 20.
Mourners paying their respects
Farewell to Ann
Funeral for ex-MP amid tight security
REQUIEM MASS
for the repose of the soul of ANN NOREEN WIDDECOMBE (4th October 1947 – 8th July 2026)
Day of mourning: Ann Widdecombe's coffin, left, and the funeral order of service, above
yesterday included shadow chancellor Mel Stride, former justice minister Crispin Blunt and broadcaster Iain Dale.
The order of service included tributes by the Rev Roger Widdecombe – Ms Widdecombe's
nephew – and her close friend Sir Christian Sweeting.
An abbey statement read: 'Ann was a woman of profound faith... which found expression in the public forum of politics. Ann was unafraid to express her unwaver-
ing convictions, formed through her Roman Catholic faith.'
In a post on LBC's website, Mr Dale said he hoped to see his friend again in heaven one day.
A public memorial will follow later in the year.
Public back Binface but Farage set to win Clacton
By Sophie Church Political Reporter
THE public are rooting for Count Binface to beat Nigel Farage in today's by-election in Clacton, a survey reveals.
As voters head to the polls, 37 per cent of Britons say they want the candidate to be elected as the MP – with just 32 per cent backing Reform leader Mr Farage in the poll by think-tank More In Common.
But Mr Farage – who resigned as MP of the Essex seat last month after intense scrutiny over financial support he has received – is the bookies' favourite to win. The contest has turned into a farce, with all major opposition parties refusing to take part.
Polling firm Survation predicts he will win nearly three-quarters of the votes – despite 34 candidates standing.
More In Common's director Luke Tryl said yesterday: 'Binface is very unlikely to win. But the risk to Reform is that people switch off altogether and turnout hits a record low – an outcome that could be an embarrassing one for Farage.'
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Taking the plunge: Kate Moss extends her arms and executes a perfect dive from her boat off Formentera
With a model dive, Kate shows swimwear's not just for posing
Paisley pattern: Lila Moss
AFTER more than three decades as Britain's best-known supermodel, Kate Moss knows a thing or two about posing in swimwear.
And, it appears, she also knows how to carry off a perfect dive while wearing it.
Ms Moss, 52, clad in a plunging black swimsuit, executed a textbook dive as she jumped from a yacht in the Mediterranean.
She and her 23-year-old daughter Lila were sunning themselves off the coast of the Spanish island of Formentera in the Balearics.
While Ms Moss accessorised her swimwear with gold hoop earrings, a stack of beaded bracelets and sunglasses, which she removed to enter the water, Lila opted for a red pais-
By Olivia Kemp Showbusiness Reporter
ley-print string bikini. The pair were joined on the outing by friends, including fashion influencers Ruby Lyn, 26, and Olivia Neill, 24.
Also with them was Ms Moss's close friend Rose Ferguson, a model turned nutritionist who is Lila's godmother.
Lila has followed Ms Moss into the fashion industry - managed by her mother's Kate Moss Agency, which was founded in 2014.
She made her runway debut in 2020 for the Miu Miu spring/summer 2021 show and has gone on to front global campaigns for leading brands including Gucci, Fendi and YSL Beauty.
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By Robert Folker
BRIDGERTON star Adjoa Andoh has dodged a driving ban despite being caught speeding five times.
Ms Andoh, 63, who plays Lady Danbury in the hit Netflix drama series, said she needed a car to visit her frail 85-year-old mother, who lives alone.
She was convicted of speeding for the fifth time at Lavender Hill Magistrates' Court, south London, yesterday, after driving at 25mph on a 20mph road in West Dulwich.
Ms Andoh was told the decision to allow her to keep her licence was 'borderline' and that she could not continue to make the same argument in the future.
'Maybe your mum needs to get herself some assistance, and you cannot be relied on going forward,' chairman of the bench Joanne Rutledge said.
Ms Andoh, of Herne Hill, south London, pleaded guilty to breaking the speed limit while driving her black two-litre Volvo V60 along the A2199 South Croxted Road on February 13. She was fined £640,
Bridgerton star dodges a ban for 20mph speeding
ordered to pay a £256 victim surcharge and was given three penalty points, taking her total to 12.
Prosecutor Charlotte Birch said Ms Andoh - pictured in her role as Lady Danbury - was caught driving at 25mph on a speed camera at 3.42pm. She has four previous convictions for speeding in March 2023, November 2024 and on January 31 and May 1 this year.
During yesterday's hearing, Ms Andoh became emotional in the witness box when recalling the death of her father in
January. She said that, as her mother lives in an isolated market town in Shropshire, it would be difficult to care for her if public transport was the only way to get there.
'It is possible, but there is a lot of waiting around and it is a 40-minute drive from the train station to Mum's town,' Ms Andoh told the magistrates.
She added: 'My mum is an amazing woman. She was a schoolteacher, my games mistress, but she is physically frail. She has osteoporosis, she's incontinent, her bladder doesn't work, she has blood
clots and damaged kidneys.' She also said she needed her licence to drive to her mother's brother, who has dementia and lives in Cornwall.
Ms Andoh, whose father was from Ghana, caused controversy in 2023 when she referred to the Buckingham Palace balcony appearance during King Charles's coronation as 'terribly white' during live coverage. She later described the coronation as 'marvellous' and said she 'didn't mean to upset anyone'.
Despite the backlash, Ms Andoh accepted an MBE from Prince William last December.
We're hopeful for Lucy, says father Jasper
By Joanna Crawley
JASPER Carrott's family are 'hopeful' for the future of daughter Lucy Davis after she revealed her incurable cancer diagnosis.
The comedian, 81, said they were 'so proud' of The Office star and how she has dealt with the illness is a 'lesson to us all'.
Ms Davis, 53, said on Tuesday she had stage four breast cancer and doesn't know how long she has left. Her father, pictured with her, said: 'We are so grateful for all the support and very hopeful for her future.'
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THE grieving mother of PC Andrew Harper has said she would be 'absolutely furious' if Andy Burnham reneges on his pledge to block the early release of his killers.
In an emotional interview, Debbie Adlam said she is 'absolutely drained' by the conflicting messages coming from Downing Street about whether Jessie Cole and Albert Bowers can be kept behind bars.
Saying the country 'expects justice', she told the Daily Mail's Trial podcast about the 'toll' taken on her family by the Government's flip-flopping - but that she now had renewed hope that they would not be freed in January.
It comes after 50 police leaders - representing every force in the UK - united to condemn Labour's soft justice reforms, calling on the Prime Minister to scrap plans to release thousands of dangerous prisoners.
Speaking on Tuesday, Mr Burnham said he was 'increasingly confident' that a 'more focused approach' would cut down the number freed, 'and, in the case of the most serious offenders like those convicted of the killing of PC Harper, prevent their early release altogether'.
Asked how she would feel if the PM performed another U-turn, Ms Adlam said: 'This would have been all for nothing, I
'It messes with your emotions'
would just be absolutely furious because Andrew's life was ended in such a horrific way. The country expects justice and it just seems like we're being pushed off a cliff right now.
'I really don't know how I would get by if that was to happen.'
She believes one option is emergency legislation making criminals serving time for killing emergency workers ineligible for early release.
The 28-year-old newlywed was killed in the line of duty in 2019 when he was dragged behind a car for more than a mile as he tried to stop three teenagers from stealing a quad bike in Sulhamstead, Berkshire.
His widow, Lissie, fought for Harper's Law - a mandatory life sentence for anyone who kills an emergency worker in the line of duty following outrage over the sentencing of his killers.
Cole and Bowers, who were 17-year-old passengers in the getaway car at the time, were sentenced to 13 years for manslaughter in 2020.
The two thugs are among a wave of killers, sex offenders and violent criminals set to go free from September under Labour's soft justice prisoner release scheme.
The driver, Henry Long, was handed an extended sentence of 16 years for manslaughter and so is not eligible for early release.
Labour want to release about 5,000 serious criminals - including killers and wife-beaters - over a ten-month period under its early-release scheme as part of efforts to tackle overcrowding in jails.
However amid a mounting backlash, ministers are considering an extraordinary plan to empty women's jails to free up cell space for male inmates. Also
Mother of PC Harper reveals torment at flip-flopping PM and warns: 'The country now expects justice'
Killers: Albert Bowers and Jessie Cole outside court in 2019
on the table are proposals to deport more foreign criminals and release inmates given open-ended sentences long ago.
Yesterday the National Police Chiefs Council released an extraordinary joint letter from the heads of 48 UK police forces, the National Crime Agency and Jersey Police, condemning the plans, warning it 'risks undermining public safety, victim confidence and wider confidence in the criminal justice system'.
The signatories want Mr Burnham to explore 'every lawful
option' to stop PC Harper's killers being freed, suggesting the Government's plans to release offenders early are a betrayal of a law brought in his memory.
Mr Burnham has ordered Justice Secretary Alex Norris to 'fast-track' a plan for when Parliament returns next month, overriding the Ministry of Justice's claims that nothing more could be done.
Mrs Adlam told the Mail: 'There was hope and there wasn't hope, and there was hope and there wasn't hope. And each time it takes a toll on how much you can
Anger: Lissie Harper, with husband Andrew
cope with and how much it messes with your emotions and your strength.
I'm absolutely drained because it's starting to catch up with me a little bit now. We've had a few days of this but now I think there's looking like there's hope.
She suggested the Government might need to put emergency legislation in place, so those serving time for killing emergency workers could be exempt from early release.
'It's something that really needs looking into,' she said. 'I know it's not a simple matter, but
I think it's a really important matter for emergency service workers because we're at risk of some very deep troubles here if it doesn't happen.'
She said the overwhelming public support for keeping the pair inside was evidenced by the fact that almost a million people had signed the petition in just over a week.
Asked if she felt let down and 'kicked in the guts' by the system, she said: 'All of that and more.'
She said she was driven to fight to keep them in prison to achieve the 'best outcome' for her son who 'loved his job'.
'Andrew would not have been killed had he not put himself in that role doing his duty,' she added. 'He should have been at home, [it was] 12 hours after his shift, but he was still on duty and then it ended up in his death.
'And I think people need to realise that sometimes, I can only stand up for that.
'That's the drive. It's because I'm his mum and I've got so much passion, I suppose, about my feelings. And for everybody else, I need to stand up for those that don't have the opportunity.
'I am absolutely exhausted, but I can't stop until it's done.'
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Labour still has no plans to build any new prisons
By Martin Beckford Policy Editor
LABOUR has admitted it has not planned to build any new jails since coming to power despite sounding the alarm regarding overcrowding.
Ministers announced within weeks of taking office in July 2024 that huge numbers of criminals would have to be set free early to create more space behind bars amid riots triggered by the Southport murders.
Now, under the early-release scheme, thousands more will be allowed out after serving just a third of their sentences – prompting a scramble by Andy Burnham to exempt rapists and the killers of PC Andrew Harper.
But it has emerged that despite warning about the lack of prison places for two years, and blaming the crisis on the Tories, the Labour Government has not set out proposals to build any more jails.
A recent written Parliamentary answer by Justice Minister Jake Richards revealed: 'No new prisons have been (a) planned or (b) approved since 5 July 2024 [the day Keir Starmer moved into No 10].'
Under a Prison Capacity Strategy set out in December 2024, Labour aims to create 14,000
Where's the minister?
MIA: Ms McKinnell
THE Prisons Minister has been accused of going missing during the early-release crisis.
Catherine McKinnell was appointed on July 21, but she has not commented since about Labour's plan to release thousands of prisoners early, or the PM's subsequent U-turns.
Hours after the Mail contacted the Government, Ms McKinnell, MP for Newcastle upon Tyne North, posted on social media photos of herself outside a court and a prison. She wrote: 'Three weeks. Four visits. A lot of conversations.'
more places by 2031 in what the minister described as 'four new prisons'. However, the sites had been announced by the Tories in June 2020 and include HMP Millsike, which has already opened its doors.
Another of the long-planned jails, HMP Welland Oaks, is not due to open until 2029, while construction has not begun on the other two.
Last night a Tory spokesman said: 'Labour wants to blame everybody else for the lack of prison spaces, but it's now clear
they had no interest in building any new prisons since entering government.
'Instead of spending weeks trying to decide whether to let rapists, paedophiles and killers out of jail early, Andy Burnham needs to tell his underperforming justice ministers to get moving on building new prisons.'
On Tuesday Mr Burnham said he was now confident PC Harper's killers could be kept locked up. He has since been accused of unfairly blaming Ministry of Justice officials for the uncertainty.
Probation chief: Releases could even lead to murder
PLANS to release thousands of killers, thugs and paedophiles early could lead to 'a serious sexual or violent offence or even murder', a probation chief claimed yesterday.
Martin Jones, HM Chief Inspector of Probation, said the Probation Service was already under 'unprecedented pressure' and that the early release of more prisoners threatened to overwhelm the system.
To make matters worse, probation staff voted in favour of industrial action this week, meaning strikes could start from October.
That is the month that the Government will start releasing 5,000 serious offenders early over a ten-month period under its scheme to tackle prison overcrowding.
Probation chiefs say the service is already understaffed and that if probation officers
By David Churchill
are forced to cut corners, it could spark re-offending.
Mr Jones said: 'Ultimately, there will be a small rate of serious re-offending. And that could be a serious sexual violence or even murder. Ultimately, I'm not fully confident that the Probation Service will be able to cope with this massive workload.'
Probation officers supervise offenders after prison and check they follow the terms of their release, such as sticking to curfews and not taking drugs. If they are not properly supervised, they may be more likely to re-offend.
The Probation Service employs about 21,000 full-time staff, but has a shortfall of about 1,500 full-time probation officers.
Fear: PC Harper's grieving mother Debbie Adlam
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Labour's growing criminal record
THE criminal justice system is an utter shambles, by anyone's standard.
Mistakes of the past, as in the shocking case of double murderer and rapist Simon Levy, are at grave risk of being repeated.
But on top of the existing systemic failings, this Labour Government is introducing a whole new series of problems.
It has already let more than 70,000 prisoners out of jail early and a separate scheme, due to come into force in less than three weeks, is even wider in scope.
The Prime Minister is flip-flopping as he comes under pressure on multiple fronts to address the huge injustices of his party's horrendous scheme.
The mother of slaughtered PC Andrew Harper, Debbie Adlam, yesterday made very clear she would be 'absolutely furious' if Mr Burnham reneges on his pledge to block the early release of his killers.
If that is not enough, police chiefs have united to warn the scheme 'risks undermining public safety'.
Burnham's lack of decisive leadership on this issue has done him immense damage.
To save his reputation, he needs to toss the whole scheme in the bin and come up with a fix - the clock is ticking.
Debt recovery
LABOUR'S stewardship of Britain's economy is already disastrous.
It has spent two years shovelling billions into the welfare budget and crippling businesses with extra tax and red tape.
Now, there is a warning that things will get even worse - and, this time, the alarm is being sounded by the party's favourite Leffie think-tank.
The Institute for Public Policy Research says future generations will see £1 in every £5 contributed in tax swallowed up by interest on the national debt.
Its forecasts predict 21.3 per cent of their tax bill will go on repaying borrowing by 2074, and in the worst-case scenario the share could be as high as 47 per cent.
The think-tank warns, with some understatement, that all this will be a 'heavy burden on those born over the next 15 years', unless the Government makes major reforms in the next parliament.
There can be little confidence in the Government's willingness to turn things around, however.
Earlier this year it emerged that minister Pat McFadden had complained that in 'every meeting' with members of the Parliamentary Labour Party they asked: 'Who can we tax in order to pay benefits to others?'
They only care about ensuring welfare handouts shore up votes in Labour constituencies.
And even those yet to be born are set to pay a dear price for such profligacy.
VAT out of hell
ANOTHER financial affront from Labour is the vast sum it is raking in from prices at the pumps.
The Treasury has netted an extra £1 billion in VAT from sky-high petrol prices since the Iran war began in February.
If it were a private company capitalising from the public's misfortune in this way, Mr Burnham would surely be condemning them as profiteers and threatening regulation.
But as it is Government coffers that are benefiting there is conspicuous silence, and motorists are expected to put up and shut up.
The P&L claims to be serious about addressing the cost-of-living crisis - so he should cut VAT at the pumps, and do so immediately.
Unless Britain starts sending every Channel migrant abroad to be processed, the boats will NEVER stop coming
CLASS warfare? Or just plain vindictive? Andy Burnham's announcement this week that Britain's middle-class areas will have to take in more illegal migrants is as cynical as it is predictable.
Since Labour came to power two years ago, about 80,000 people have entered the UK on small boats crossing the Channel. On Monday, a dinghy nearly 50ft long arrived, crammed with 230 migrants.
Labour was elected on a promise to 'smash the gangs'. They promised to pour resources into tracking down people-smugglers and bringing them to justice, halting their grisly trade of making money out of desperate people ready to risk their lives to come to Britain. So much for that policy.
Pitiful
I said at the time it wouldn't work - in fact, I've been warning against these kinds of pitiful solutions for most of my political life.
As Australia's Minister for Foreign Affairs for about a decade at the start of the century, I oversaw the one policy that does work: relocation.
As long as Britain continues to allow migrants to stay, despite arriving unlawfully, they will continue to come.
As soon as the Government decides to send them somewhere else, and makes it clear that this is a rule with no exceptions, the trade in people-trafficking will stop. It's as simple as that.
But it has to be a coherent, workable policy - not one implemented for show and headlines, because that will lead to social breakdown.
In Piddington, Oxfordshire, the 250 villages there have reacted with understandable horror to Home Office plans for housing 1,250 migrants at the nearby Bicester barracks. They fear being swamped, with their home lives destroyed by a Government policy that appears to have no rationale other than panic.
Yet too many politicians on both Left and Right have been treating this crisis as a political game, an excuse to
By ALEXANDER DOWNER, the Australian politician who halted illegal sea crossings
strike poses and berate their opponents. Nigel Farage is doing just that. His policy would be to take the asylum seekers and illegal migrants off their small boats, put them on Royal Navy vessels, and return them to France.
It's true that, if France agreed to take back every migrant, the problem would be solved. But, of course, France will do nothing of the kind. From the French point of view, they're well rid. After all, these are not French people fleeing France.
Farage and others misrepresent the policy which the Australian government implemented so successfully. They argue that we halted illegal immigration from Indonesia by 'turning back the boats'.
But the situation was different in two ways.
First, even at their closest, Australia and Indonesia are 90 miles apart, with a large stretch of international waters between them. Legally, Australia is able to intercept vessels in international waters that have the intent of making an illegal entry into Australian territorial waters, and send them back.
In reality, that rarely happened, Australia never contemplated sending warships loaded with illegal migrants into Indonesian territorial waters. That would lead to a meltdown in relations.
Instead, our most effective means of stopping the boats was establishing offshore relocation. I did that myself. I made the arrangements with the island state of Nauru, which covers about eight square miles in the central Pacific and has 12,000 inhabitants. It's the smallest island nation in the world.
Anyone who embarked on a small boat to gain illegal entry into Australia was picked up and then sent to
Nauru, no questions asked. They were given accommodation at the removal centre which Australia established and paid for.
All refugee claims were dealt with while they lived there. This proved successful so quickly that the Australian government decreed that no one who tried to get to Australia by a small boat would ever be allowed to set foot on our soil. They could stay in Nauru indefinitely, go back to their own country if it was safe to do so, or find a third country willing to take them as refugees.
That stopped the trade in illegal immigration dead in its tracks.
Relocation
I have examined whether the UK could adopt this same policy - in a report on UK Border Force for the Home Office. I take the view that to reward illegal migrants by allowing them to stay in Britain isn't merely immoral, it actively encourages other people to do the same, while enriching the gangs who run these routes.
That has been the reality under Labour.
But turning back the boats is not legally possible. Even if it were, France might well refuse to take them back. It's unlikely, though not impossible, that this would lead to open fighting between British and French naval vessels, but very likely that France would retaliate by taking all sorts of civil measures.
They could, for instance, disrupt all cross-Channel travel, including imports and exports, which would be easy to do and hugely damaging to the UK.
As I said, the only feasible answer is offshore relocation. The previous Conservative government tried this with
Rwanda, but they lacked the resolve to implement it quickly enough. The policy, obstructed by activist lawyers, foundered. The Labour Party then abandoned it for ideological reasons.
Despite its failure, the Rwanda plan was workable - the Conservatives under Kemi Badenoch recognise this. In order to stop illegal migrants, and лучше the lawyers, the UK would have to leave the European Convention on Human Rights.
So what? Nothing else would change. Britain would not descend into totalitarianism. Real human rights will continue to exist without the say-so of a European law.
Workable
And Rwanda is not the only country that would be willing to partner with Britain.
Burnham should open talks immediately with his Italian counterpart Giorgia Meloni, who is negotiating a deal with Albania to house and process asylum seekers.
Other options include Ascension Island, a British territory in the Atlantic - 34 square miles of volcanic rock midway between Africa and South America.
There is no overwhelming logistical reason why it should not be used as a relocation centre for thousands of people while their claims for asylum are dealt with.
If migrants are genuinely in fear for their lives as they flee their homelands, because of war, religious persecution or other compelling reasons, offshore relocation is a safe option for them. They should welcome it.
The truth, as we all know, is that almost all of them would be appalled at the idea.
The mass influx of migrants to the UK would stop immediately. This is how to 'smash the gangs'.
It might seem harsh, and it is certainly not a policy for the squeamish. But the alternative is unrestricted immigration, allowing everyone who wants to come to the UK to do so without question.
If that's what Andy Burnham wants, he must say so.
■ ALEXANDER Downer is chairman of the Policy Exchange think-tank and was Australia's Minister for Foreign Affairs from 1996 to 2007.
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AREN'T we supposed to be the Land Of Health And Safety, banning everything from cheese-rolling contests to Remembrance Parades because authorities say it just isn't safe to hold them?
Yet the Government has deliberately blessed the arrival on our roads and streets of two extraordinarily dangerous menaces, e-scooters and e-bikes. Where are Health And Safety when you really need them?
There is hardly a town or city that has not heard the rush and whine of these machines, or seen the changes they bring.
This week the BBC reported that three trauma centres - in Liverpool, Manchester and Sheffield - say they have treated 477 under-16s for e-scooter injuries since 2019, with the number of cases per year rising from fewer than ten in 2019 to nearly 150 in 2024. Detective Constable Steve Pennington, from Greater Manchester Police, warned e-scooters 'are not harmless toys and could lead to horrific consequences when used by inexperienced riders'.
The official answer to this is that the privately-owned scooters so often involved in these accidents remain illegal. Technically you cannot ride them on public roads. But any road or pavement user knows that this law has ceased to be enforced in any systematic way.
They are everywhere. And one main reason for this is that the Government has undermined its own law. It has licensed the use of hired scooters in more than 50 English cities, including London and my home town of Oxford.
Recently it added schemes in Leeds, Brighton and Hove and Plymouth, plus Cornwall.
THESE exemptions are supposed to be experiments, though they began in 2020, under the pretext of Covid, and there is no sign of them coming to an end or any clear indication of what would have to happen for them to be deemed a failure.
If the Government had been actually trying to make the law look ridiculous, it could not have thought of a better way. Oxford is full of these devices, swerving and bumping about, zooming through red lights, menacing pedestrians and cyclists and making the roads more chaotic for drivers.
They have more or less taken us into the Third World. They lie about in ugly orange heaps near historic monuments or are parked in equally ugly official reservations provided for them by the local authority. They are, of course, frequently just left where their riders finished with them.
Special sites for them are marked out on the pavement. If they are legal, how can anyone take the ban on privately-owned scooters seriously?
A survey of 29 police forces found that 5,544 illegal e-scooters were seized and taken off the streets between 2023 and late 2025. That isn't very many. From
Why I fear it will take a terrible tragedy before our leaders crack down on
Abandoned: Legal e-bikes and e-scooters lie scattered across a pavement in London
the scourge of e-bikes and scooters
what I have seen, this must mean that tens of thousands go unmolested.
As for the legal ones, they have greatly diminished the quality of life. I have myself been walloped (fortunately quite mildly) by one of them in Oxford's majestic High Street. At the time I was helping a pedestrian who had tripped and fallen.
The most amazing thing was the rider's total lack of remorse, embarrassment or even interest in what she had done. I can only assume she was medicated in
some way. I have never seen the police stop people breaking clear rules for hired scooters, such as the one saying only one person should ride them at a time.
This happens so often that perhaps those involved think it must be legal and I can hardly blame them. The police, even when present, are plainly uninterested.
I can find no specific figures for the numbers stopped or fined for this blatant, frequent offence. This is often a problem with revealing what is going on with e-scooters or their more menacing
ing cousins, e-bikes. Central records are hard to find. Enforcement of rules against harder-to-spot misdeeds, such as riding while drunk or on drugs, or riding underage or without any sort of licences must be weaker still.
Everyone in the real world knows that speed limiters on e-scooters and e-bikes, supposedly keeping them below 16mph, are a sick joke. Many of these devices can do 40mph, often more, and can be seen tearing round the streets - doing so with impunity. For, as muggers,
phone-snatchers and other criminals have quickly discovered, they are the ideal vehicles for crime. They have no number plates and cannot be traced. They have the freedom of the pavements, because nobody will prevent them being there. Who can catch them?
Anyone with two ounces of imagination could surely have seen the likely consequences of allowing these 'experiments' in a country where the police are largely absent from the streets.
We work ourselves into a national frenzy over the possible menace of Artificial Intelligence. Maybe it will end our civilisation. It is hard to tell. But e-scooters and e-bikes are a real problem here and now. They take the solid form of hard, fast hunks of metal hurtling about in our midst.
The actual arrival in our cities of powerful, cheap, lightweight, easily-recharged electric motor vehicles has stimulated almost no thought at all - even though it is one of the most significant technological changes since the invention of the motor car. Anyone who brings up the subject, or suggests it may matter, is almost always met with empty-headed catcalls on anti-social media of: 'Haven't you anything more important to worry about?'
The licensing of them has barely been debated in Parliament.
EBIKES were permitted on roads and cycle tracks through an EU regulation confirmed without debate. E-scooters were semi-
legalised through a fishy procedure called the 'negative process' by which the new rules would go through (in a few short days) as long as there was no substantial opposition. And there wasn't.
Back in July 2020, a little-known body called the Secondary Legislation Scrutiny Committee asked: 'Is it a pilot scheme to test the viability of a controversial vehicle on British roads? Is it a means to rapidly expand transport capacity in cities all over the country during the Coronavirus pandemic? And are those two objectives compatible?'
It said MPs and Lords might wish to ask the transport ministry for more evidence to support its case for scaling up the number of trial schemes. It wondered if there was enough data on safety, nuisance and likely costs to local authorities to justify this expansion. It sought clarity on the actual targets and objectives of these trials.
It also said that similar schemes in other countries had been 'very divisive', which is one way of describing the fury against them in cities such as Paris.
I see no sign that anybody listened. Is there some strong, rich lobby pushing the other way? We need a proper national debate and proper Parliamentary scrutiny.
I have searched for years for any sign that anybody in government is thinking seriously about the problem. Will it be the usual thing, that we must wait until a terrible tragedy has taken place, perhaps captured by cameras in all its grisly pain and misery, before anything is done?
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JOSHUA Bonehill-Paine is a former Nazi. In 2015, he was jailed for racially aggravated harassment of Jewish Labour peer and former MP Baroness [Luciana] Berger. So it's not surprising Kemi Badenoch's decision to approve his selection as a Conservative Party candidate for the Somerset Council elections has created a wave of protest.
Anger that has continued even after Bonehill-Paine withdrew, acknowledging a mistake that had brought distress to the Jewish community.
But that anger is misplaced. And as the row rumbles on, it has been attended by increasing hypocrisy from elements of the Labour left.
Bonehill-Paine's crimes were appalling. So appalling, that he spent three years in prison for them, during which he was forced to reflect upon his actions. As he acknowledged in a statement issued earlier this week, 'There is nothing I can say that will undo what I did, nor can I repair the harm caused by the actions of the reckless 21-year-old man I was then. I also understand entirely that Baroness Berger may never wish to accept my apology. That is her right, and I do not expect forgiveness. All I can do is take responsibility for what I did and demonstrate through my actions that I have changed.'
Berger did reject the apology. Which is her choice. No victim of such an attack is obliged to embrace their abuser, however heartfelt the contrition.
But many of her parliamentary colleagues have been falling over themselves to express their condemnation of Bonehill-Paine, Kemi Badenoch and the Tony Party in general. And rather than lashing out, they would be better advised to look closer to home.
Joshua Bonehill-Paine is not someone who has simply seen the error of his ways. He has actively reformed, and begun using his experiences on the far-flight to directly combat extremism. He has completed the Prevent deradicalisation programme - first introduced by Tony Blair's Labour government - and lectures schools, colleges, universities, police and probation professionals about his experiences. Such people are vital to the fight against anti-Semitism and other forms of racism.
I know this because I worked with reformed neo-fascists during my time at the anti-extremism group Hope Not Hate. In the Labour Party I also worked alongside a reformed fascist who went by the nickname 'Dave The Nazi', who was an adviser to a senior Labour politician.
AT that time sensible people on the Left understood the importance of bringing the likes of Bonehill-Paine back into the mainstream political fold.
But over the past fortnight, it seems Labour have been more interested in scoring points. Or worse, using the row to brush over the party's own anti-Semitism.
In 2012 Margaret Burke was elected as a Labour councillor for Milton Keynes. She also just happened to be a former second in command of a local neo-Nazi group who dressed in Nazi uniforms, recruited gangs of youths to hand out racist leaflets and daubed buildings with swastikas.
After rejecting her Nazism, she joined the Animal Liberation Front and was jailed for vandalising a butcher's shop. Following her election the
Labour's co-fected fury over the Tordesnirig a reformed racist is sheer hypocrisy
by Dan Hodges
leader of the local Labour group stated, 'We had no doubt at all that her misdemeanours of 20 or 30 years ago were serious matters but I do not believe that somebody should be punished or penalised for what they did such a long time ago'.
At the time of Burke's election, the leader of the Labour Party was Ed Miliband, who this week met with representatives of the Jewish community to discuss Labour's 'evolving' stance on Israel.
Burke was also photographed on the campaign trail with Diane Abbott. The same Diane Abbott reinstated to the Labour Party two weeks ago having been suspended for minimising anti-Semitism experienced by Britain's Jewish community. Nor was Abbott alone. In May, Bradford Labour MP Naz Shah was selected by Keir Starmer to move his party's Loyal Address at the State Opening. The same Naz Shah who in 2016 was suspended from Labour after historic tweets of hers emerged which, she admitted, were anti-Semitic.
Like Bonehill-Paine, Labour's parliamentary and council candidates expressed genuine remorse over their actions and statements. But unlike Bonehill-Paine, their apologies were accepted.
So we are being dragged back to the days when the view of Labour MPs was that no racism could ever be excused or condoned, unless it originated within their own
ranks. Those of Luciana Berger's colleagues who were queuing up to chastise Kemi Badenoch and Bonehill-Paine have conveniently short memories.
As recently as seven years ago they were campaigning for their party - which the EHRC determined had repeatedly breached the Equality Act in relation to the sort of anti-Semitism Baroness Berger herself faced - to enter government under Jeremy Corbyn, a leader who had also been accused of anti-Semitism.
In September 2018, Berger was escorted by police at the Labour Party conference in Liverpool following months of anti-Semitic abuse and death threats - with many Corbyn supporters claiming the protection was unnecessary.
ONLY a year later, Labour's then deputy leader, Tom Watson, was forced to investigate members of the Liverpool Wavertree branch - Berger's constituency - over what he said was 'bullying' behaviour towards her.
So again, it appears Labour believes in one statute of limitations on racism for itself, and another for everyone else.
There seem too to be similar double standards in relation to the Government's Prevent initiative. Last year Shabana Mahmood's Home Office began promoting Abdul Ahad, a former Islamic extremist with ties to the proscribed terror group Hizb ut Tahrir. Ahad, who has reformed, now works to tackle extremism in the Muslim community.
According to the blurb under the Home Office's
slickly produced video: 'After breaking away, Abdul pivoted to help others avoid the same trap - joining the UK government's Prevent programme. Drawing on his own journey through indoctrination, he now engages with at-risk youth, challenging extremist rhetoric and rebuilding trust in vulnerable communities.'
It appears there will be no taxpayer-funded videos promoting the anti-extremism campaigning of Joshua Bonehill-Paine. He is clearly the wrong sort of reformed racist.
Shahid Butt, a man convicted of a plot to blow up the British consulate in Yemen in 1999 was free to stand in this year's local elections.
Former Reform MP James McMurdock, convicted of assaulting his then-girlfriend in 2006, was allowed to successfully run for the party in the 2024 general election.
Jeremy Corbyn openly referred to his 'friends in Hamas'. Yet Bonehill-Paine must apparently, according to Labour's recent converts to the crusade against anti-Semitism, be barred from public life.
This week Kemi Badenoch was urged to cut him loose. But refused. 'We should want racists to stop being racists. We should want anti-Semites to stop being anti-Semites. And when somebody genuinely turns over a new leaf, we should want that change to last', she said, before announcing he had been appointed her extremism adviser.
Good. The fight against racism is too important for petty party-political games. The Labour Party once recognised that. But after the anti-Semitism that blighted the Corbyn years, they will clearly have to learn that lesson all over again.
Ephraim Hardcastle
WITH the hunt under way for the King's next Principal Private Secretary following news of Sir Clive Alderton's upcoming departure, an 'open and rigorous' recruitment process is promised. All a far cry from less formal days many moons ago: prior to hiring Sir Christopher Airy as his PS in 1990, Charles sought guidance on the appointment from unofficial royal adviser Jimmy Savile.
AMONG oddities in the Mandelson files, released earlier this year, were details of a behind-the-scenes commotion triggered by plans to present Donald Trump with his own ministerial-style red box. Endless negotiations between fraught Whitehall officials left Mandy spitting poison at the time, and the whereabouts of said box still remain unknown. Was another force at play? A Palace mole now whisper: 'His Majesty actually made it clear he felt it risked diminishing the dignity of the Government - not least if Trump ended up having some lackey carrying around his papers in it.'
FOLLOWING a much-publicised rant about American Express refusing to up his credit, old charmer Lord Sugar (net worth over £1 billion) confirms: 'Good news, Amex have now increased my credit limit. So anyone thinking of going through my garbage cans to find my aluminium Amex card... forget it.'
VETERAN swordsman Nigel Havers, pictured, wistfully reflects: 'I used to get knickers in the post... I don't get knickers nowadays.' He's at pains to add: 'I still have female admirers of a certain age.' Accompanying Nigel, 'A, on tour, the third Mrs Havers is on hand to keep grandmothers at bay.'
CLASHING with cheesy broadcaster Matthew Stadlen, previously hired as his interviewer during stage shows, John Cleese snaps: 'I kept telling the promoter that you were not a good interviewer and she kept pushing you forward.' Stadlen fires back at the 86-year-old: 'I helped keep the evening funny as you veered off into a weird rant about one of your fellow Pythons. You even repeated an unpleasant, narcissistic story in the second half of one of the events that you'd already told in the first half.' Boys!
FIFTY years after they topped the charts with Don't Go Breaking My Heart, Kiki Dee says of Sir Elton John: 'We don't see each other very often and certainly don't move in the same circles.' After the superstar fell out with mother Sheila, Kiki gamely agreed to perform at her 90th birthday with an Elton lookalike.
SUFFERING a flashback when discussing liberal upbringings on ITV's Good Morning Britain, Alan Partridge-inspired host Richard Madeley recalls unjustly receiving 'three strokes of the cane' at grammar school. 'There were bruises on my buttocks six months later!' he rages. Surely better for the therapist's couch?
Email: ephraim.hardcastle@dailymail.co.uk
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60 MPs urge Burnham to bring in 18-week dementia diagnosis
DOZENS of MPs have called on Andy Burnham to introduce an 18-week target for dementia diagnosis in the NHS.
The cross-party group of MPs, which includes former secretaries of state, warned that the Prime Minister risks sending 'entirely the wrong
EXCLUSIVE
By Shaun Wooller Health Editor
signal' if he fails to improve how patients suspected of having the debilitating brain condition are diagnosed.
The NHS is required to diagnose patients with cancer or
heart disease within strict time frames, but there is no such measure for dementia despite it claiming 76,000 lives a year as Britain's biggest killer.
One in three people living with dementia in England do not have a formal diagnosis, and the remainder waited an average of three and a half years before getting one. Meanwhile, the time
dementia patients must wait between being referred to a memory clinic by their GP and getting a diagnosis has increased by almost 70 per cent since 2019, soaring from 13 weeks to 22 weeks, according to the latest figures.
Charities warn that the lack of a firm target means services could be cut back, with more patients left waiting months or years while their condition worsens.
This could mean they become too far progressed to benefit from breakthrough drugs, which must be taken in the early stages of the disease.
The letter to Mr Burnham, co-ordinated by Tory MP Joe Robertson, was backed by more than 60 MPs and included former secretaries of state Sir Iain Duncan Smith, Sir
are completed within 18 weeks, dementia remains without a comparable standard.
'We are concerned that silence on the 18-week diagnosis target would send entirely the wrong signal and leave dementia services fragmented across the country.'
Mr Burnham has told how his father is unaware he has become Prime Minister because he is living with Alzheimer's disease.
Alzheimer's Society chief executive Michelle Dyson warned the Government's dementia plan – called the Modern Service Framework for Dementia and Frailty – will not be 'worth the paper it is written on' after the target, which appeared in an earlier version, was removed from the latest draft.
She said the framework was supposed to be a ten-year plan to transform care for the one million people in the UK living with the disease, but she now has 'very little confidence' in the document because the ambition appears to be 'extremely low'.
The Daily Mail and Alzheimer's Society have partnered in the Defeating Dementia campaign, which aims to raise awareness of the disease in an effort to increase early diagnosis, boost research and improve care.
In an exclusive interview with the Daily Mail last month, Ms Dyson accused the NHS of treating dementia patients like 'second-class citizens' who are simply 'cast aside' and typically sent home with little more than a leaflet.
The Department of Health and Social Care has acknowledged dementia has a 'devastating impact' on people living with the condition and on the families who care for them. A spokesman added: 'We want everyone affected to be able to access high-quality, personalised support.'
Andrew Mitchell, Dame Karen Bradley and Kit Malthouse, and Commons select committee chairmen Sir Geoffrey Clifton-Brown, Dame Caroline Dinenage, Bob Blackman and Layla Moran.
The letter, seen by the Daily Mail, says: 'With the possible advent of transformative drugs, a timely and accurate diagnosis is essential.
'While progress has been made in reducing elective care waiting times through the Government's commitment that 92 per cent of referral-to-treatment pathways
Common pills to thin blood could slow Alzheimer's
BLOOD-THINNING pills could slow down Alzheimer's disease by improving blood flow to the brain, research suggests.
The anticoagulants are regularly prescribed to more than 1.6 million patients in the UK who suffer from atrial fibrillation (AF) – a heart rhythm disorder.
However, the benefits were seen only in those on newer types of blood thinner.
The Swedish researchers, based at Karolinska University Hospital in Stockholm, believe the findings could be significant for the one million people in the UK who are living with dementia – a brain disorder of which Alzheimer's is the most common type.
Writing in the European Heart Journal, study lead author Dr Maria Eriksdotter said: 'The treatment could have a positive effect on cognition, by improving
By Zoe Hardy
blood flow and reducing small-scale damage in the brain.'
The study analysed data from 7,308 people with AF and Alzheimer's. Participants were divided between those on newer drugs, such as rivaroxaban, those taking warfarin – an older version – and those not taking any anticoagulants. Those taking newer anticoagulants experienced a slower decline in cognitive function compared to the others.
The researchers stopped short of recommending the pills for those who do not have AF.
The study comes after America's NYU Langone Health claimed that having normal blood pressure, being free from diabetes and not smoking between 45 and 65 could give 13 additional years of dementia-free life.
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By Eleanor Harding Education Editor
PUPILS are set to experience the best A-level results day to date, with record-breaking top grades predicted and the highest number ever set to go to university.
As hundreds of thousands of sixth-formers pick up their results today, almost one in three entries will get at least an A grade.
Experts are predicting 'several thousand' more will receive this grade compared with last year.
This would mean a record high outside of Covid times – when grades were inflated due to exams being cancelled and teachers deciding marks.
In 2025, a record 439,180 were accepted on to degree courses, following a 3 per cent rise.
And the number of pupils entering Clearing – which allows them to trade their course up or down – is predicted to be at a new high.
Jo Saxton, chief executive of Ucas, the official admissions body, said: 'We're expecting this summer to see record numbers accepting a place through Clearing but also we probably will see record numbers applying direct to Clearing.'
School-leavers will enjoy a buyer's market, with universities keen to hoover up domestic students at a time when international student revenue is falling because of changing visa rules.
Analysis shows there are more than 22,800 courses still recruiting, including 3,530 at 18
Grade expectations... record top marks on best A-level day ever
Future's bright: One in three will get at least an A grade today
of the 24 elite Russell Group universities. Some of the more prestigious courses advertised on the Ucas website include engineering at the University of Warwick, maths at Exeter and economics at York. And data
published by the admissions body shows that many courses are accepting students with at least three grades below the official requirements.
However, yesterday Birmingham University said it would in
future introduce a minimum entry requirement of three Bs to protect standards.
Clearing is for those students who have missed the grades they needed for their chosen university and want to find
another spot. In addition, students who have done better than expected can 'trade up' to get into a more prestigious university.
Last year, 28.3 per cent of entries got A/A, compared with 27.8 per cent in 2024, and 25.4 per cent in 2019. When looking at A grades alone, 9.4 per cent of entries achieved this – up from 9.3 per cent in 2024 and 7.7 per cent in 2019.
While the rise in top grades this year is predicted to be less than 0.5 percentage point, this would translate into several thousand entries.
It comes after the Tories yesterday renewed their calls for the Prime Minister to cap student loan interest at inflation as measured by the UK Retail Price Index. Kemi Badenoch announced this as her party's policy in February, arguing that it would save graduates tens of thousands of pounds.
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The reasons Brad's
by Emma Powell
US EXECUTIVE SHOWBUSINESS EDITOR
BRAD Pitt once claimed he could 'drink a Russian under the table with his own vodka'. Although self-reflective at the time, it was a particularly unsettling statement given that it came in 2017, just a year after the terrifying account of his drunken rage on board a private flight – which ultimately cost him his marriage and his family.
So, when Pitt, seven years sober, revealed this week that he was back on the booze, eyebrows were raised.
Is it possible for him to return to drinking sensibly? Pitt, 62, seems to think so.
'I was sober for seven years. And then I got back off the wagon,' he told Esquire magazine, apparently even 'offering a little laugh,' according to the interviewer.
He insisted that he now drinks 'in a more restrained manner,' describing how he 'got over-confident a couple times, went. 'Yep, nope, not good for me.' Not in big quantities.'
He clarified that he can 'have a few' glasses of wine, but no more. 'I have to be professional about it.'
This week a source close to Pitt told the Daily Mail that the star's return to drinking was a 'gradual process in recent years', as Pitt slowly figured out 'how he felt comfortable and what he felt was appropriate for him'.
'Friends had become more aware of it recently,' said the insider, who added he drinks with pals and his girlfriend of four years, Ines de Ramon.
It's de Ramon, according to sources, who stops Pitt from having one too many and succumbing to the pull of addiction.
Pitt has been dating the jewellery executive, 33, since late 2022, with the elusive pair moving in together in Los Angeles before making their red-carpet debut at the Venice Film Festival in 2024.
It was only in July this year that the New Jersey native made her romance Instagram-official, sharing several snaps of them at Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce's wedding at New York's Madison Square Garden – where we are told Pitt was drinking. 'Ines smokes and likes a glass of wine or two, especially at dinner,' said a source close to Pitt's production company Plan B Entertainment.
'She's never set boundaries with Brad, but until recently he's managed to hold off alcohol.'
HE'S made a pact with Ines that she won't let his habit get out of control.
'Brad has had one of the most stressful years of his life,' added the source. 'On top of dealing with what seemed like a never-ending divorce, he's found it very difficult to get over his mother's death.'
'Ines understands the strain the past year has been for him. She's by his side to make sure he doesn't overdo it.'
But one person who has already raised doubts is former wife Angelina Jolie, who is reportedly 'not surprised' by Pitt's return to drinking.
During their infamous eight-year divorce battle Jolie filed court papers accusing Pitt of drunkenly attacking her and some of their
children during an alleged altercation on a private jet back in September 2016.
Jolie accused her then-husband of 'physically abusing' their six children – Maddox, then 15, Pax, 12, Zahara, 11, Shiloh, ten, and twins Vivienne and Knox, eight – onboard. FBI documents made public in 2022 detailed the extent of the terrifying ordeal.
They claimed Pitt 'lunged' at one of the children as they tried to defend their mother, and later 'choked' one of them and 'struck another in the face'.
'Some of the children pleaded with Pitt to stop. They were all frightened. Many were crying,' the documents read. 'At one point, he poured beer on Jolie; at another, he poured beer and red wine on the children. After many tense hours, Pitt finally fell asleep.'
On landing, Jolie woke him up and said she and the children were going to a hotel instead of to their
home but, according to the court documents, Pitt 'shouted that nobody was getting off the plane and prevented the family from deplining for about 20 minutes.'
It was only 'after a child intervened and demanded to leave' that Pitt 'finally relented'.
'But once outside the plane door, Pitt again physically abused one of their children,' the documents read. 'He also grabbed and shook Jolie by the head and shoulders, causing one of the children to beg: 'Don't hurt her.'
'He let Jolie go but then called her a 'b', before adding: 'F you, f*** you all.'
An FBI investigation was launched, but no charges were ever filed. Child services also did not find abuse.
Pitt either sought help or was encouraged to do so, with the actor seen leaving Alcoholics Anonymous that same month.
'Brad was sober for so long
because he'd been drinking steadily for over 40 years,' an insider close to the star told the Daily Mail.
'Overdoing it with pals and even alone, many, many times. He knew it was time to stop and lead a sober life. Drinking has caused him too many problems for too long.'
LAST year he revealed the depths to which his addiction took him, telling Dax Shepard's Armchair Expert podcast: 'I was pretty much on my knees, and I was really open. I was trying anything and everyone, anything anyone threw at me. It was a difficult time. I needed rebooting. I needed to wake the f*** up in some areas.'
He previously credited actor Bradley Cooper with helping him get sober, claiming in 2020 that 'every day's been happier ever
since. I love you and I thank you'. He joked that he had 'the cleanest urinary tract in all of LA' after he switched his beverage of choice to 'cranberry juice and fizzy water'.
'Some of Brad's Alcoholics Anonymous friends have expressed concern about him drinking again,' said one Hollywood insider.
Falling off the wagon now would be especially catastrophic for Pitt, given that his career was seemingly unaffected by the media attention over the plane incident.
His war drama Allied was released two months later and was well received – despite the rumours of an affair with his co-star Marion Cotillard, something she publicly denied. She was in a long-term relationship.
This was followed by his company Plan B Entertainment picking up the Best Picture Oscar in 2017 for the coming-of-age drama
Glass half-full: The actor at the Cannes Film Festival in 2009
His decades of bingeing led him to Alcoholics Anonymous. Now, after years of sobriety, his children have turned on him and Brad Pitt's admitted he's drinking again. So can a pact with girlfriend Ines control his addiction this time round?
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back on the house
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So close: Brad Pitt and Ines de Ramon
Moonlight. Unsurprisingly, Pitt wasn't inattendance.
For a while, acting roles were minimal as he slipped behind the scenes, producing a
wealth of films before re-emerging and winning an acting Oscar for Once Upon a Time in... Hollywood (2019) and landing a Best Picture Oscar nomination for F1 The Movie earlier this year. And the Hollywood heartthrob, esti-
Family: With Angelina Jolie and kids Pax, Maddox, Vivienne, Zahara, Knox and Shiloh in 2015
mated to be worth \$400million (£296million), has 19 upcoming projects in various states of filming, pre-and post-production.
So what caused him to start drinking again?
Pitt may have managed to find happiness with de Ramon and to stop his entire life from free-falling, but he has had no such luck with his children who have all distanced themselves from the actor, with all bar Pax, now 23, even going as far as filing to legally drop Pitt from their last names.
When Shiloh turned 18, in May 2024 she filed to change her name to Shiloh Nouvel Jolie, which was granted a few months later in a Los Angeles court. That same month, Vivienne, then 15, went by the name of 'Vivienne Jolie' in the Playbill for Broadway's The Outsiders, which she produced alongside her mother.
Then, in May this year, Maddox, 24, legally dropped his father's last name, and Zahara was announced as 'Zahara Marley Jolie' when she graduated from Spelman College in Atlanta, Georgia. The following month she filed a petition in the Los Angeles Superior Court to officially change her name. A hearing is set for September 28. Her younger brother Knox also dropped the name Pitt from his high school graduation diploma this summer.
And the estrangement has stretched to the wider Pitt family, with one family insider telling the Daily Mail in 2024 that Pitt's parents hadn't seen their grand-
children in eight years, despite attempts to make contact.
Jolie faced accusations of trying to drive a wedge between Pitt and the children, with former British SAS soldier Tony Webb, who worked for the family for more than 20 years, claiming that a colleague told him he'd overheard the actress 'encouraging the children to avoid spending time with Pitt during custody visits'.
This week a source close to Pitt was insistent that the actor had not resumed drinking as a result of the ongoing estrangement.
'The extraordinarily painful isolation of his children has been difficult, but his decision to drink is independent of this. It was not [because of] the name changes.'
YET it is hard to ignore the timing of Pitt's decision. If abstaining from drinking was a way to prove that he could be a good father, he seemingly has no reason to keep proving himself, given that his children have made clear their stance.
'Brad knew when Shiloh got approval for dropping Pitt from her name in late 2024, his other children would follow suit,' said a source close to Plan B Entertainment.
'He was humiliated every time another one did – there was nothing he could do about it. When Vivienne recently filed to drop Pitt [just days after her 18th birthday last month], although he knew it was coming, that was almost the final straw.'
Jolie has said little about the breakdown of their marriage, simply that it was 'the right decision'.
'I continue to focus on their healing,' she told Vogue in 2021 referring to their six children. 'Some have taken advantage of
my silence, and the children see lies about themselves in the media, but I remind them that they know their own truth and their own minds.'
She has also tentatively talked about how she lost herself for a bit but was encouraged to keep going by her children, who have also largely remained silent in public, aside from Pax.
He attacked his 'f***** awful human being' of a father in an explosive Instagram rant on Father's Day 2020, accusing the actor of making the lives of those closest to him a 'constant hell'.
Alongside a picture of Pitt receiving an Oscar for best supporting actor, he wrote: 'You time and time again prove yourself to be a terrible and despicable person.
'You have no consideration or empathy toward your 4 youngest children who tremble in fear when in your presence.'
He claimed that Pitt will 'never understand the damage' he inflicted on his family because he is 'incapable', adding that 'the truth will come to light someday'.
Despite being declared legally single in 2019 and the overall divorce finalised and signed off in December 2024, the exes are still embroiled in an acrimonious battle – dubbed the War of the Rose – over shares in their 1,200-acre estate, Miraval, in Provence, where the award-winning wine they launched in 2013 is made.
'Although they're still battling it out, he doesn't feel that falling off the wagon will be an issue,' said a source. 'If he wasn't so much in love and in such a great place in his career, the sadness of his family and Angie issues would be way too much.'
'When it's all done and she's completely out of his life, he feels he'll finally be able to breathe again.'
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Putin threat to UK's shipping
He warns Russia could capture our commercial vessels in the Pacific
By Will Stewart and Imogen Garfinkel
VLADIMIR Putin has threatened to seize British-linked commercial vessels in the Pacific in an escalation of tensions with the West over sanctions on Russia's shadow fleet.
The Russian president, dressed in a naval-style uniform as he inspected warships during major Pacific Fleet exercises, warned Moscow was prepared to respond after Britain and its allies moved against tankers accused of helping fund the Kremlin's war machine.
Speaking aboard the missile cruiser Varyag during drills off Russia's far eastern coast, Putin accused Western countries of acting like 'pirates' by targeting Rus-
sian-linked ships. 'Recently they have gone so far as to seize our vessels and sell property looted from us,' he said. 'Naturally, this is nothing other than piracy and robbery.'
It comes after Royal Marine Commandos seized Russian shadow fleet oil tanker Smyrtos off the Dorset coast on June 14 in
a daring, six-hour raid. Putin warned Moscow could be 'forced to respond in kind'.
Meanwhile, it emerged JD Vance has asked Ukraine to stop drone attacks on oil tankers at a crucial Russian Black Sea port as it was disrupting oil markets.
The US vice president called president Volodymyr Zelensky,
Message: Vladimir Putin in naval uniform yesterday
saying attacks at Novorossiysk were threatening American business interests in the region. Since the call on July 31, there have been no further strikes on tankers near the CPC terminal.
In another chilling message, Putin said any retaliation would not necessarily take place in the same waters where Russian vessels had been targeted. Instead, Russia would act 'wherever we ourselves consider it necessary'.
Ukraine's drone line - Pages 26 & 27
Vanilla vapes may harm unborn babies, mothers told
Daily Mail Reporter
PREGNANT women and those trying to conceive should be warned a popular flavouring in vapes could potentially harm unborn babies, say scientists.
Lab tests found vanillin, a common ingredient used to create vanilla-flavoured e-cigarettes, disrupted processes involved in early embryonic development.
The findings have prompted calls for clearer labelling and for clinicians to discuss potential risks with expectant mothers.
Scientists at the University of California Riverside exposed human embryonic stem cells to varying levels of vanillin.
Lead researcher Professor Prue Talbot, in the journal Human Reproduction, said her team found that even at very low concentrations the cells lost their ability to develop into different cell types while higher concentrations proved fatal.
She added: 'These changes are potentially very serious.'
Some experts have urged caution over the study, noting that the research was not conducted on cells in pregnant women.
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By Andy Dolan
A FEMALE Co-op lorry driver has won £19,000 in compensation after a 'bullying' colleague accused her of 'flashing' her breasts to get what she wanted.
HOV driver Charlotte Brooks was sent a voice note by Kerry Dawson saying just because she has 'f++++ t+s she thinks she can flash them and anyone will do anything for her'.
Ms Dawson also accused Ms Brooks of performing sexual favours to get her own way.
Ms Brooks claimed the 'bullying' continued for two years. The supermarket giant agreed that the colleague's comments amounted to sexual harassment
'Should have been taken seriously'
and she was sacked. However, Ms Dawson successfully appealed against dismissal and was able to return to work - leaving Ms Brooks anxious and distressed.
Ms Brooks has now won £19,042 for claims of sexual harassment and direct sex discrimination after suing Co-operative Group.
An employment tribunal heard Ms Brooks started working for Co-op in January 2022 as an apprentice lorry driver and she still works at the company as a qualified HOV driver.
Ms Dawson was training as a driver at the same time.
While on a course that summer, Ms Dawson alleged to instructors Ms Brooks would perform
Lorry driver wins £19,000 for being told she 'flashed her breasts to get ahead'
sex acts to get what she wanted. Ms Brooks was 'very upset' when she found out but did not want to attend mediation.
However, she claimed the situation escalated with the sending of the voice note by Ms Dawson, the tribunal in Exeter was told.
The company found Ms Dawson's conduct between June 2022 and October 2024 had been 'inappropriate' but the decision to dismiss her was replaced with a
written warning. A distribution manager, as the appeal manager, ruled the original outcome had been 'procedurally flawed'.
On hearing Ms Dawson would be returning to work in January last year, Ms Brooks became 'distressed' and signed herself off as unfit for work until February.
Employment Judge Paula Volkmer said Ms Dawson's comments did amount to sexual harassment. She stated the appeal process did
Harassed: Charlotte Brooks was 'distressed' and off work
not take into account the seriousness of Ms Dawson's conduct.
Judge Volkmer added: 'I consider if the conduct had been between members of the opposite sex, [the appeal manager] would have taken it more seriously.'
Judge Volkmer said the events left Ms Brooks feeling 'humiliated' and anxious until last September when she was still attending therapy. Ms Brooks' claim of victimisation was unsuccessful.
Hold your horses! New name in race to play Bond
SLOW Horses star Jack Lowden is being 'strongly considered' as the next James Bond, according to Richard Osman.
The author and former Pointless presenter said: 'The name I've heard is Jack Lowden.
'It is definitively not a "he's definitely got it" thing. He is definitely being strongly considered. I think he would
be amazing.' Lowden, 36, pictured, is best known for playing MI5 agent River Cartwright in the hit Apple TV+ series Slow Horses, which Bond casting director Nina Gold, 59, also casts. He will soon appear as Mr Darcy in a Netflix adaptation of Pride & Prejudice.
Asked if studios placed pressure on her to hire actors with a significant social media presence, Ms Gold said: 'Not with me. I don't know about that stuff. I can't even find it on my phone.'
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NOTHING moves in the Ukrainian city once known as the Soviet Union's 'capital of glass'. Kostiantynivka's streets, buckled and deformed from years of artillery fire, missiles and bombs, are deserted. Its houses lie crumpled in ruins.
The factories that gave this faded industrial titan its moniker – and forged Lenin's crystal sarcophagus and the ruby-red stars that still adorn the Kremlin – lie abandoned. Or so it seems.
'Look at the screen,' Volodymyr says, gesturing to live, full colour images from an observation drone that hovers hundreds of metres above in the eastern region of Donetsk. 'It looks like an empty city – but it isn't,' whispers the 42-year-old Ukrainian drone pilot, who cannot be fully identified.
'Our people are there. The Russians are there. Nobody dares show their face. That's what war looks like now.'
Hiding from swarms of drones that map every inch of this war-ravaged hellscape, among the ruins and the foliage provided only during the summer months, Russian infiltration teams and Ukrainian defenders are engaged in a desperate fight that will decide the next turn of this war.
The Daily Mail was given rare access to the Seraphytny Unmanned Systems Battalion of the 104th Independent Territorial Defence Brigade in Donetsk last month.
Here we witnessed the battle for Kostiantynivka, one of four cities in the Donbas that make up Ukraine's 'fortress belt'. Logistically vital, the belt stands between Moscow and its stated war aim to seize this region – and collectively forms the backbone of Ukraine's remaining defences in Donetsk Oblast.
While many feel it is only a matter of time before Kostiantynivka falls (it has already been breached by up to 200 invaders), the manner in which Ukraine has harnessed drone innovation to slow Russia's advance may offer a blueprint for how it repels them completely from the three remaining key cities.
In short, the revolution happening here will determine if this will be the last great fortress Russia takes – and, if that proves to be the case, could ultimately force Vladimir Putin to finally enter peace talks.
KOSTIANTYNIVKA is the stuff of science fiction. Within the 15-mile 'kill-zone', vehicles, heavy armour and tanks have all but disappeared in the past 12 months. Artillery, still vital, is heavily camouflaged and used sparingly. Too big. Too easily spotted. Here, where drones rule the skies, they often become 'weapons of self-destruction'.
Instead, men move in ones and twos, from foxhole to foxhole, cellar to cellar. Detection from above is death.
The second human activity is identified, the entire building in which it is spotted is brought down by drones. 'People are like ants,' Volodymyr explains. 'They're hiding, crawling, constantly moving underground. The moment someone is spotted, 15 drones are on their way.' Shaking his head, he adds: 'It's a terrible war.'
But Volodymyr is not among the ants. Thanks to cunning Ukrainian innovation, he is piloting his hulking 17th bomber drone from 37 miles away in a secret location the Daily Mail was invited to.
On larger drones such as this, Kyiv has attached Starlink terminals to give them a secure satellite connection that is largely unjammable. It means bomber pilots who once sat within three miles of their machine have been moved out of the kill-zone.
This is a game-changer. Lest the peril for those who remain on the frontline needs spelling out further, beside Volodymyr's observation screen and a tablet showing the tactical map of the city sits a third monitor which we were not
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allowed to photograph. It carries the day's operational picture. A Russian soldier has been located in a house. That is now the target. Reconnaissance crews, drone pilots and commanders coordinate the strike in real time. The operation unfolds in silence. The drone pilots continue talking over the radio. A bomber drone releases its munition. It fails to explode. The Russian soldier breaks cover, sprinting from the house into a patch of bushes.
A First Person View (FPV) kamikaze drone carrying a 1.5-kilogram high-explosive dives after him. The onboard picture rushes into the foliage – and disappears. There are no cinematic explosions here. The screen simply goes black. This is how soldiers meet their maker in the 21st century.
Volodymyr is now free to go and make a cup of coffee. His radio sits within arm's reach. Whenever reconnaissance identifies another target in the ruins of Kostiantynivka, he returns to his workstation, takes control of his bomber drone and flies another mission.
This way of waging war is the brainchild of Mykhailo Fedorov, the recently sacked Defence Minister whose dismissal by Volodymyr Zelensky after just six months in post prompted nationwide protests earlier this year. In his previous role as head of Ukraine's Ministry of Digital Transformation, Fedorov ramped up drone procurement on an unprecedented scale in response to Russia's 2022 full-scale invasion.
It was here that the concept of the Drone Line – using unmanned
systems as the backbone of a front held by too little infantry – received institutional backing. Given Ukraine has only a modest air force and a serious manpower challenge, the concept was to harness drones to preserve the lives of personnel and repel the Russians. The unmanned systems would be used to establish a kill-zone through which the enemy cannot advance without sustaining heavy losses.
When Fedorov was promoted to Defence Minister in January, the Drone Line program surged drastically, as he pumped 90 per cent of the weapons budget (not including the vast arsenals supplied by the West) into robotic warfare.
In Kostiantynivka, this has manifested in its most extreme form.
Russia had begun creeping assaults on the city and by May this year, as explained, some 200 men had successfully infiltrated.
'Yet this city has not fallen. With Ukraine's increased drone capabilities, invaders are identified and liquidated almost instantly.'
'What fascinates me is the war we're fighting now,' Serhii Kostynskyi, commander of the battalion,
tells us. 'The way we fought in 2022 and 2023 was terrifying. You spent your days being blanketed by artillery. The enemy never had to come within rifle range. They simply erased you with artillery and mortars. Then the tanks moved in. The Russians had an overwhelming advantage in artillery – it really was the First World War.'
'Now it's different. Both we and they have an incredibly wide range of tools at our disposal.'
Within the kill-zone, infantrymen are scattered in teams as small as two or three. Hiding in dugouts and basements, they largely act as lookouts to call in drone strikes on any infiltrators.
Unmanned robotic vehicles support them with supplies and evacuate casualties. Giving them cover are pilots, also hiding on the frontline, who fly FPV kamikaze drones on gossamer-like fiber-optic cables. These drones, which have a range of about nine miles and cannot be jammed, are launched by a separate team of soldiers.
A year ago troops would drive into position, unload and speed away, but the proliferation of enemy observation and attack drones means that's now impossi-
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Robot wars: Heavy bomber drone and, inset, images from Ukrainian spotter craft
final stages of raising a second unmanned systems battalion. Seraphymy, a territorial brigade, is one of the lowest rankings in the army, yet is receiving cutting-edge supplies. In just six months, the army is aiming to increase the number of drone crews sixfold.
Military expert Bob Seely, a partner in Ukraine-UK defence firm Trypillian, says: 'We are witnessing a significant evolution of warfare. Sadly not enough soldiers and politicians in the West understand this.'
Moving pilots out of the kill-zone has long been 'a Ukrainian priority' and as a consequence we are now seeing 'the rise of the machines', Mr Seely, a former MP and British soldier, adds. 'It is likely that war in the future will be largely fought by decision-making machines – overseen at least on our side by humans,' he said.
'It's the quality and survivability of your machines that will dictate whether you win or lose.'
WHILE observers marvel at Ukrainian advances, experts generally push back on claims that the infantry will disappear. Anton Zemlanyi, Senior Analyst of Ukrainian Security and Cooperation Center, said such claims are 'premature' as control of territory 'continues to depend on the infantry'.
Paraphrasing Mark Twain, Retired American Colonel Frank Sobchak, professor at the US Naval War College, said: 'Reports of the infantry being outmoded are greatly exaggerated.'
Noting how often before this has been falsely predicted, he adds: 'The infantry will always have a role on the battlefield, as there is no other element that can seize and hold terrain.'
While it is still unclear how NATO would fare in such a war, despite its vastly superior logistics and air power, the alliance is undoubtedly playing catch-up.
Ukraine is in the ascendancy but it has learnt this guarantees nothing. The pendulum could swing back as early as this autumn.
Russia is already rolling out technology it believes can jam Starlink. It is looking for alternatives to use itself offensively.
This is why Mr Zelensky's removal of Mr Fedorov at such a critical juncture is so troubling.
Now the widely respected General Mykhailo Drapatyi has taken over as Commander-in-Chief while former head of intelligence Yevhenii Khmara is Fedorov's acting replacement.
It must be hoped that they can quickly get to grips with this revolutionary battlefield as well as the Ministry of Defence, which spends more money than all the country's other ministries combined. The future of Kostiantynivka, and the rest of Ukraine, depends on it.
ble. So the launchers enter in pairs, on foot. One pushes a hand-cart loaded with drones, batteries and ammunition. The other walks ahead, scanning the ground for mines with a drone detector around his neck.
Flying high above the kill-zone to avoid Russian electronic warfare are Ukraine's Queen Bee motherships, whose pilots are several miles behind the frontline. These carry swarms of smaller FPV strike craft and drop them up to 20 miles deep behind enemy lines.
Then there are the heavy bombers loaded with anti-tank mines and mortar shells connected to pilots like Volodymyr via Elon Musk's Starlink dishes. They use thermal imaging cameras to erase
Russian armour and smash concrete fortifications while their crews are safely out of range. Protecting both men and machines are interceptor drones – ultra-fast, highly agile quadcopters equipped by AI tracking, which take out surveillance drones and effectively blind the enemy.
The Drone Line is stitched together with a constant layer of fixed-wing AI reconnaissance drones that map every inch of the battlefield and feed it live into a battle management system.
Software automatically flags shifting pixels on digital screens,
instantly identifying hidden Russian troops and automatically sending the coordinates to the nearest drone crew. Russia possesses a roughly similar array of drones and this is an ongoing, evenly matched contest.
For the moment, Ukraine holds the advantage thanks to grassroots initiative and integration into Western technology – most importantly Starlink. It is little wonder the men of Seraphymy believe a day may be coming soon when men are all but removed from the battlefield. Volodymyr thinks soon every drone, not just
heavy bombers, will operate through Starlink. Reconnaissance crews and FPV teams will no longer have to occupy exposed positions on the edge of Kostiantynivka's kill-zone.
Instead, he is adamant they will work from rooms like his, with coffee machines, reliable internet connections and dozens of kilometres separating them from the battlefield.
He adds: 'Within a year, infantry will all but disappear from the kill-zone. Ground robots will carry weapons. Everyone will be sitting behind a control console, connected through Starlink, miles from the fighting.'
'Watch what happens over the next six months... everything will be done remotely. That's the direction this war is heading.'
Despite Fedorov's untimely removal, investment continues to pour into Ukraine's drone units. The 104th Independent Territorial Defence Brigade is already in the
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Denials: Bowen, now 64
Teacher accused of abusing a besotted pupil in the 1980s
A CHEMISTRY teacher sexually abused a 'besotted' schoolboy after comparing herself to a model in a porn magazine, a court heard.
Sally-Anne Bowen allegedly
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flirted with the teenager at the north London comprehensive, before having sex with him '20 to 30 times' in the late 1980s. The teacher, then 25, also allowed
another boy to touch her breasts and kiss her during lunch at a cafe near the school between 1986 and 1988, jurors at Harrow Crown Court heard.
Bowen, now 64, of Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire, is charged with six counts of indecent assault against the first boy, and two counts against the second - both of whom were aged 14 to 15.
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The boy reportedly told police Bowen had caught him with a porn magazine and he had expected her to confiscate it.
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DAY
FROM THE DAILY MAIL ARCHIVE
AUGUST 13, 1992
OLYMPIC star Sally Gunnell made a special trip to show her 400 metre hurdles gold medal to colleagues at the accounts firm she works part-time for, in Hatton Garden, London.
AUGUST 13, 2005
OMAR Bakri Mohammed was finally banned from returning to Britain yesterday as the Government's crackdown on the preachers of hate gathered pace. The so-called 'Tottenham Ayatollah' was told in Lebanon by a British consular official that Home Secretary Charles Clarke had revoked his right to remain indefinitely in Britain.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY
FEARGAL SHARKEY, 68. The singer turned environmental campaigner from Londonderry had hits including Teenage Kicks with punk band the Undertones. When diagnosed
with prostate cancer last year, he said: 'I made a decision. I said, 'I'm going to spend every day I've got left fishing'.'
PHIL TAYLOR, 66. The darts star from Stoke won the first of his record 16 World Championships in 1990. He was given his 'The Power' nickname in 1995 by a Sky Sports floor manager who liked the song of the same name by German Eurodance group Snap!
BORN ON THIS DAY
MARY LEE (1921-2022). The singer and comedian from Glasgow started out doing impressions of Gracie Fields and Maurice Chevalier. She was named best singer of 1937 in a Melody Maker readers' poll - beating Vera Lynn.
BERNARD MANNING (1930-2007). The politically incorrect comic from Manchester joked that he 'went to see Pavarotti the other week. He's a miserable b***', isn't he? He doesn't like you joining in.' A month before his death, he attended his own 'wake' - a gathering of 600 friends and fans for a Channel 4 show called This Was Your Life.
ON AUGUST 13...
IN 1964, Peter Anthony Allen and Gwynne Owen Evans were the last criminals executed in the UK.
IN 2004, US TV chef Julia Child - played by Meryl Streep in Julie & Julia - died, aged 91.
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GUESS THE DEFINITION
PERDICINE (COINED 19TH CENTURY)
A) Relating to a partridge. B) Relating to a pheasant. C) Relating to a penguin.
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Take up the mantle: To take over the responsibilities from someone else; it comes from the Bible in which the prophet Elijah left his cloak behind as he ascended to heaven and Elisha wore it before taking over Elijah's role as prophet; a mantle is similar to a cloak or overcoat.
QUOTE FOR TODAY
If you have any time at all, always bother to make your own chicken stock.
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I SACKED my tailor... He said: 'Suit yourself!'
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Eden Confidential
Kate Moss owes a king's ransom over failed brand
SHE radiated delight at having a rose named after her at the Chelsea Flower Show in May – while this week she's been in a care-free mood, plunging into crystal waters in Spain.
But into every life a little rain must fall – as Kate Moss knows all too well.
Indeed, it looks as though she may be obliged to brace herself for quite a deluge, possibly the most severe the beauty has endured since her romance two decades ago with troubled rocker Pete Doherty, which led Moss to check into a rehab clinic.
This time the storm clouds take the form of a liquidator's report into Cosmos, the wellness brand which Moss launched in 2022 only to see it falter and then fold last year with debts of £2.9million.
At the time, it was estimated that the lion's share – some £2.3million – was owed to Moss herself, given that that was the sum owed to the largest creditor, the modelling agency bearing Moss's name, of which she is the owner and sole director.
But that still left £600,000 unaccounted for, a sum which, according to the liquidator's second report this week, is unlikely ever to be repaid. None of it is owed to the taxpayer. But there are
■ IT'S ironic Cambridge's vice-chancellor didn't spot the group-think at the college that tolerated fantasist professor Jason Arday. Psychologist Deborah Prentice specialises in pluralistic ignorance, where people adhere to a fallacy to avoid setting themselves apart from a clique.
numerous small firms which may now be regretting trading with Cosmos, which offered Moss's admirers the chance to buy 'sacred mist' fragrance for £72 or 'golden nectar' CBD oil, priced at £98, or 25 tea bags for £21.
One of Cosmos's creditors, cosmetic consultancy Annel Ltd, confirms it has been affected. 'As with any small business, unpaid invoices can have a meaningful effect,' co-founder Eliza Gulko tells me. Other creditors include King Charles's solicitors, Harbottle & Lewis, who are owed the princely sum of £23,000.
Moss, 52, who since selling her London mansion for £11.5million in 2021 spends much of her time at her idyllic house in the Cotswolds, once explained why she never spoke about money.
'It's completely insensitive,' she reflected. 'I get paid ridiculous amounts of money for doing ridiculous things.'
She remains silent now – but perhaps she'll make an exception in due course.
Racy, Baby: Cara goes topless in music video
GRACING the cover of Playboy magazine seems to have unleashed Cara Delevingne's racy side.
The model-turned-singer appears topless in the video for her new song, Crazy, Baby.
She can be seen covering her breasts with her hands as she struts on a treadmill.
Cara, 34, has said her Playboy photoshoot this summer gave her the freedom of 'owning my sexuality and owning my
body'. She signed with Warner Records earlier this year before releasing I Forgot and Out Of My Head, and says new dance track Crazy, Baby is dedicated to 'anyone who's ever been not normal'.
Kate's mates park coat firm
THE Princess of Wales is often seen wearing a parka-style jacket by Troy London, a label founded by her close friends Rosie van Cutsem and Lucia Ruck Keene.
So Catherine, pictured in her coat, will be sad to hear that the sisters have decided to close the company, which they founded in 2013. Its clothes were also worn by singer Rita Ora and actress Pamela Anderson.
The company was named after their childhood home in Oxfordshire – the Grade II-listed manor house Troy.
■ DAPPER actor Bill Nighy says some fans wrongly believe he has a knighthood. 'People call me "Sir" in the street, and it occurred to me that maybe they think I've been to the Palace,' Nighy, 76, tells me at a screening of his new film & Sons at the Curzon Mayfair. 'I've been mistaken for a knight, which is one of the perks of being older.' The Love Actually star adds: 'It's happened a few times.' Is anyone on the honours committee listening?
■ SIR David Beckham is being treated to a roasting at his Oxfordshire home. In June, I revealed that Becks had been hauled over the coals for installing a fire pit on an island in his lake, which was meant to increase its 'value for wildlife'. Now, another objection has been filed to the local council. 'Hot tub' appears on the new layout plan, notes this critic. 'Maybe this is a new toy for the wildlife to have a soak after a long day trying to find food?'
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Most couples arrive at the airport exhausted by work and family life. Here sex guru MAIA MAZAURETTE shares her surprising and risque tips on how to...
Give your sex life some va-va-voom this summer – just like the French do
EVERY year, in the first week of August, I'm struck by the silence that falls upon Paris, my beloved home.
The local boulangerie has taped a handwritten closure sign to its shutter: 'Fermeture annuelle, retour
le 25 août.' The pharmacy is the same, while half of my street's cars have vanished, presumably now double-parked outside some cousin's house on the Riviera or queuing for a ferry to Corsica.
This is the 'grande migration' – the annual, almost devotional exodus in which a significant share of the French
population heads for beaches and mountains for the entire month, with all the solemnity of a nation observing a religious holiday it invented purely for its own pleasure.
After all, 'pleasure' is the operative word here. As with everything in France, the sustenance of romance and sexual pleasure is embedded in the everyday
rituals of life – and nowhere more so than in August.
So devoted are the French to this concept of escaping the daily grind, which can so efficiently kill libido, we even have a phrase for what we're escaping – 'métro-boulot-dodo', commute, work, sleep – a three-word
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summary for the moment when life becomes so efficiently optimised that pleasure quietly falls off the schedule altogether.
So we take the month off, shops and offices close, before returning in September, refreshed and reinvigorated, sexual spark - and relationship - very definitely rekindled.
Long relationships accumulate friction the way engines accumulate grime - not through any single dramatic failure but through thousands of tiny, unremarkable moments.
The school run. The unloaded dishwasher. The reflexive scroll through a phone in bed instead of a glance at your partner.
Add the sheer exhaustion of two full-time jobbers, the mental bandwidth eaten up by children, ageing parents, mortgages and
school WhatsApp groups, and it's obvious why so many couples reach summer running on fumes rather than desire.
Particularly as that's when schools shut and you're left juggling work and childcare for six long weeks.
As a French sex expert, I very much applaud a summer exodus. Desire needs unpredictability and a bit of distance to survive - and that is why breaking from your usual routine for the summer, or even just a week's holiday, works wonders for your sex life.
The data backs this up handsomely: one UK survey of 2,000 people found that couples on holiday have twice as much sex with each other than when they're at home.
So while the French have made the August act of sexual reconnection an art form, it isn't restricted to our shores.
Here, then, are my top tips for relighting your relationship's sexual fire this summer -
they might just see you enjoy the best lovemaking you've had all year...
1. SPLIT THE MENTAL LOAD TO AVOID PASSION-KILLERS
THIS one matters more than it sounds, because resentment is one of the most reliable passion-killers around, and holidays are not automatically exempt.
A partner who has spent the week silently managing logistics - the packing lists, the rental car, the dreaded 'does anyone else notice we're nearly out of sun cream?' - is not a partner in the mood.
So divide the invisible admin out loud and in advance: who's booking the restaurant, who's tracking the passports, who's getting up with the children tomorrow so the other one can sleep in.
Say it plainly over the first evening's drink, assign it like a small domestic contract, and revisit it if it stops working.
It sounds deeply unsexy. But it is, in fact, one of the most reliably erotic conversations a couple can have, because nothing kills desire faster than feeling like the only adult in the room.
2. TRY A TRYST AT AN UNEXPECTED TIME
AT home, sex is largely confined to the ten exhausted minutes before sleep. Holidays free you from that schedule, and the French, unsurprisingly, have already noticed: a majority (57 per cent) say they prefer making love outside the 'classic' evening slot during summer breaks, with sex on waking in the morning topping the list of alternatives.
A sleetta with the shutters had closed, an early-morning tryst before anyone else in the house or hotel stirs, an unplanned hour back at the room mid-afternoon 'to change' - claim the times of day you'd never otherwise have access to.
Different light, different energy levels, different you.
3. GO FOR NOVELTY IN THE BEDROOM
YOU wouldn't go parasailing in your day-to-day life, but you'll happily strap into a harness on holiday because it's fun - so why not extend that same curiosity to your own body, or your partner's?
Start by reversing your usual script: instead of the familiar order - foreplay, then penetration, then a kiss as an afterthought - run it backwards, starting with penetration and ending, much later, in a long, unhurried session of just kissing.
Try shared masturbation with 'instructions': one of you simply watches and talks the other through exactly how, and how fast, to touch themselves.
Turn dinner into a game, where every glass emptied earns a traded secret - something genuinely unsaid until now. Or set a timer and commit to keep making love in some form until you hit the two-hour mark.
Why does any of this work? Because passion is, biologically speaking, lazy; it responds to newness far more readily than to effort, and to a small, well-placed dose of risk more than to safety.
4. FEEL THE FUEL OF SEXUAL FANTASY
FANTASY needs fuel, and holidays are the rare moment we have the appetite and the hours to feed it. Instead of defaulting to true crime on the flight out, try something that puts you in the mood rather than in the mortuary.
Dark romance and romantasy fiction have become one of publishing's biggest growth stories, with the UK's science fiction and fantasy category - propelled overwhelmingly by romance-fantasy titles - bringing in more than £100 million in 2025.
If reading poolside feels too
Great advice: Maia Mazaurette
exposed, audiobooks solve that: download a chapter each morning and let it run quietly in the background as you get ready for the day; by evening, you'll both have the same scene in your head, which makes for a very good starting point for reinventing it yourselves.
5. EMBRACE A SENSE OF FUN TOGETHER
LONG-TERM desire dies not from too much intimacy but from too much dignity. Bearing the responsibility of childcare and a career can force us to become too serious, too well-behaved.
Holidays grant an odd but real social permission to be ridiculous: to dance badly in a kitchen that isn't yours, to laugh at a joke that isn't funny, to flirt across a table the way you did before either of you had a mortgage.
Eroticism, in fact, has a lot to learn from gaming: the appetite for a challenge, the urge to laugh and to win, and above all the strange power of role play, where both of you know perfectly well you look ridiculous and it works anyway.
Every sex shop now stocks a shelf of games built for exactly this - dice, cards, prompts, the lot - because couples need permission structures for silliness, not just goodwill.
You don't need to buy anything, though: any icebreaker game repurposed for the occasion does the job just as well. Try one round where each of you has to admit one embarrassing thing from your sexual past and one embarrassing fantasy you've never said out loud. Nobody wins, technically, but everybody plays.
Take that permission into bed, too. Is there a position, or simply an act, you'd normally rule out at home for feeling faintly ridiculous for two supposedly serious adults - a long, unhurried kissing session with no destination, the way you did as a teenager, with all the time in the world and none of the urgency?
Play a silly game before anything else happens: pass an ice cube mouth to mouth until it melts, or play a stripped-down round of truth or dare with only the two of you as players. The goal isn't a better performance. It's less pressure to perform at all.
6. GET PROPERLY LOST TO HEIGHTEN DESIRE
NOT metaphorically. Actually lost. Turn the phone to airplane mode for an afternoon, take a wrong turn on purpose, wander through a town with no destination.
Being properly lost heightens desire because uncertainty keeps the brain alert in a way comfort never does. Not knowing quite where you are, or what happens
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'Treat the whole day as foreplay and let arousal build until that first glass of wine'
next, nudges the same mild-stress, mild-thrill state that underpins attraction – and the physical signs overlap: quickened breathing, sharpened attention, a flush in the cheeks.
With nowhere familiar to retreat to, you end up relying on each other to get your bearings. You cannot access that heightened, slightly off-balance state from a sun lounger with a fixed itinerary.
7. TREAT THE WHOLE DAY AS FOREPLAY
AT home, sex is frequently rushed into the gaps between other obligations. On holiday, you have the rarest resource in a long relationship: unstructured time. Use it to slow everything down.
Build in anticipation deliberately. A long lunch that turns into innuendo.
An afternoon of unhurried touching that goes nowhere near a bed until much later – a hand resting on a bare thigh under a cafe table, fingers trailing along a spine while queuing for ice cream, a slow massage on a hotel balcony
that you both agree, out loud, is 'just' a massage. A promise made at breakfast and deliberately not fulfilled until night. 'Tonight, I'm going to take my time with you,' is specific enough to build anticipation all day without committing to any one act, which is rather the point. It's the not-knowing exactly what's coming that does the work.
A 2024 study on sexual anticipation found that merely expecting an arousing encounter measurably heightens arousal itself, distorting our sense of time in the process, making romantic moments feel more pleasurable.
In practice, that might mean agreeing you won't undress each other until you've finished a full glass of wine on the terrace, or that the first kiss of the evening has to wait until you're behind a closed door –
small, arbitrary delays that let arousal climb rather than resolve itself immediately.
Treat the whole day as foreplay and let arousal build, rather than reaching for the fastest, most efficient route to orgasm you'd default to on a Tuesday morning at home.
8. LET OTHER PEOPLE IGNITE YOUR DESIRE
SUMMER reliably scrambles people's fantasy lives: one survey found the character men most fantasise about in summer is the 'girl next door' (41 per cent would like to live out a neighbour-at-the-campsite scenario), while a quarter of women fantasise about a lifeguard, a surfer or a sports instructor.
The same study found 34 per cent of men and 16 per cent of women in relationships feel a stronger pull to change sexual
partner in summer – though only six per cent have ever actually left a partner before the summer to enjoy it single.
'The itch' is real and common but almost never acted on.
Rather than pretending it doesn't exist, borrow its energy. Meet your own partner 'as strangers' at the hotel bar.
Order a drink you'd never normally order. Introduce yourselves with names, real or invented, and stay in character while you ask each other questions, as though the last however-many-years hadn't happened. Tell each other who or what you noticed today – a stranger on the beach, a look someone gave you – and let your partner respond in character rather than as themselves, a little jealous, a little intrigued.
Carried upstairs, it gives you both permission to ask for things, or do things, that would feel oddly formal coming from your usual selves. After all, it's the character undressing you, not your spouse.
9. AND FOR THOSE WITH CHILDREN...
NONE of the above requires a five-star honeymoon suite. A locked door and a genuinely early bedtime for the children (enforced, not aspirational) will do more for a marriage than any spa treatment.
If there's a hotel kids' club, or grandparents and friends are within reach, use even one child-free afternoon deliberately rather than guiltily.
Don't discount the small stuff in public when a big window of privacy is impossible – a hand on a thigh under a restaurant table or a stolen kiss while the children are distracted by ice cream still counts as maintenance, even when the main event must wait until dark.
Follow the French and don't lose sight of your aim: restoring a marriage in the way only a break from your humdrum routine truly can.
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The condition that blights so many women wrecked my sex life, ruined relationships and virtually destroyed my career
CLUTCHING my stomach while writhing around the hospital bed in agony, I stifled my tears, long enough to hear the doctor's words. 'I don't understand why you're back here, Miss Scott,' he said, making absolutely no attempt to hide his frustration. 'We've run the same tests as last week, and they have come back normal. You are just having a bad period.' A bad period? 'Bad' didn't even come close to what I was going through.
Yes, my periods were 'bad'. So bad that, on this occasion, paramedics had blue lighted me to hospital, after seeing me vomiting, convulsing in pain and losing a terrifying amount of blood.
So bad I had been repeatedly hospitalised. So bad that relationships or any sort of intimacy was out of the question because sex was too painful.
My periods were so excruciating they contributed to me losing my job as an academic researcher. They dictated every element of my life.
However, none of this seemed to matter to this doctor.
'Just continue taking the painkillers. If it was something serious, it would show up in your tests,' he continued, before opening the cubicle curtain and signalling for me to leave.
This was a decade ago, when I was 28, but I don't think I'll ever forget the feeling of desolation of having my agony so quickly dismissed.
And I've lost count of the similar experiences since.
My 'bad periods' are caused by endometriosis, a chronic condition in which tissue similar to the lining of the uterus grows outside of it. I assume I developed it soon after my periods started at 13, as they were very painful from the get-go.
I struggled through seven unsuccessful laparoscopies – surgery in which a camera is inserted into the tummy to inspect the organs and visible endometriosis is removed with a laser. Out of desperation, I eventually had a hysterectomy in February last year.
I was 37, and had been begging my NHS doctors for seven years to remove my womb, uterus and ovaries. They repeatedly refused, saying that it wasn't a guaranteed cure and as I was of childbearing age I might regret not becoming a mother.
It didn't seem to matter how many times I explained that, while I would have loved to be a mum, my endometriosis meant I wasn't well enough to take care of myself, let alone a child.
Such was my desperation that, when I had been hospitalised in November 2023 – in agony because the endometriosis had attached itself to my bowel causing it to become so affected that I needed enemas and laxatives – I set up a GoFundMe online fundraiser to raise £12,000 to pay for my hysterectomy privately.
I was finally wheeled into the theatre at Prunley Park Hospital, near my home in Farnborough,
by Evelyn Scott
Hampshire, in February 2025. I had hoped for a miracle cure. Heartbreakingly, it was not to be.
This could be because of remaining scar tissue, or because the surgeons didn't want to plunge me straight into menopause at such a young age, and so left behind one ovary. This means I'm still producing oestrogen – the female sex hormone that fuels endometriosis – and my pain is often as bad as ever.
I'm certainly not alone. Some 1.5 million women of childbearing age in the UK – one in ten – have endometriosis.
SO, back in 2019, after giving up my PhD on classical and forensic archaeology, I first had the idea of writing a book, A Bloody Scandal: How Medicine Fails Women In Pain, which exposes this outrage – the medical misogyny that deems periods like mine as merely 'unfortunate'.
Since my agonising periods began, doctors and nurses have told me that my periods were no worse than any other woman's.
I was repeatedly hobbed off and told that it was 'all in my head'.
I have even had friends ask me: Are you sure the pain isn't psychological?
Needless to say, these people are no longer my friends.
Despite my textbook symptoms, I was told that I couldn't possibly have endometriosis because every ultrasound and blood test came back 'normal'.
When I was 30, and once again admitted to A&E, I thought I had got lucky. An endometriosis specialist was on duty and referred me to his clinic. He explained that the only way to detect the disease was with a laparoscopy under general anaesthetic. This procedure
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Bitter fight: Evelyn Scott has battled medical misogyny
reveals where the errant tissue is growing – common sites include the ovaries, fallopian tubes and even the bowel and bladder.
It swells and bleeds with each menstrual cycle, causing pain, inflammation and scarring. This tissue can then be removed with either a laser or scalpel.
I remember sobbing with relief that someone, finally, was taking my pain seriously.
A few months later, I underwent a laparoscopy. Afterwards, the surgeon showed me images of my uterus, ovaries and fallopian tubes, heavily streaked with black. Pointing at these darker areas, he said: 'This is all endometriosis, which we've now removed. You should be more comfortable now.'
My hope was rapidly dashed. Within a month, the endometriosis grew back. Over the next seven years I had annual laparoscopies, during which the regrown endometriosis would be removed before returning. I continued to feel like a nuisance to doctors, someone who should just put up and shut up.
And it wasn't just male medics. Even women who haven't experienced the agony of endometriosis can find it hard to sympathise.
One female doctor, part of a team due to perform one of my laparoscopies, told me: 'We're only doing this to humour you.' She skulked away, and did not
say a word when the surgeon returned after the operation to show me the substantial amount of endometriosis removed.
I haven't had a relationship for four years. I've given up on finding someone who can put up with the reality of my condition.
Boyfriends soon tire of the fact that sex is, more often than not, too painful for me.
Shockingly, I've been with more than one man who, after I told them in the throes of passion they're hurting me, responded: 'Don't worry, I'll be done soon.'
Looking back, I wonder why I didn't say: 'Bloody well stop!' But I felt so guilty about inflicting my illness on other people.
Six years ago, I took a chance on another guy. When he saw me winning in pain during sex he stopped immediately.
I was bleeding so heavily that, horrified, he called an ambulance and went with me to hospital.
But we broke up after a few months because I felt so bad about the lack of sex.
Other relationships have ended because, once the honeymoon period is over and I'm still too unwell to go to parties or even cook dinner, I've been made to feel like a burden.
Unsurprisingly, I've had bleak times when suicide seemed like the only way out. I've been on
anti-depressants for most of my adult life. A psychiatrist diagnosed me with Complex Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (CPTSD), as a result of the intense pain that I've suffered since starting my periods, compounded by the distress of being repeatedly dismissed by doctors. I hoped the hysterectomy would cure all, even though the doctors had warned me that it might not.
ENDOMETRIOSIS can grow outside the pelvic cavity, so removing the womb does not provide guaranteed relief. But I was desperate. My post-surgical pain was more intense than I'd anticipated, and I felt extremely sick. I was prescribed the strong opioid Tramadol, and could barely function for six months.
I'm currently taking Zoladex, a hormone therapy that will shut down my remaining ovary while I wait on another long list to have it removed. My pain remains constant, which I believe is exacerbated by the significant scar tissue left by my previous surgeries.
I still take anti-depressants, alongside high dose Co-codamol, a strong opioid and Naproxen, a heavy-duty anti-inflammatory. These ease – but rarely get rid of – the pain.
When it becomes unbearable, which still happens most months, I end up in hospital where I'm given morphine. Mercifully, this brings some temporary relief.
I cannot put into words how devastating it is that, even after all these treatments, I'm still on a cocktail of medication.
I live with my younger brother, and both he and my grandmother, a former nurse, have been a huge support. They, and my beloved dogs and horses, have given me a reason to carry on and try to stay positive.
My advice to other women in a similar situation is to insist on specialist help as early as possible and to take notes with you to appointments, so that all your questions and concerns can be answered. Doctor's appointments can be overwhelming; notes help.
But as this is an exclusively female condition, you must be prepared to fight the medical misogyny endemic in our healthcare system.
There are no guarantees that I will ever be free of pain – a prospect so unbearable I can't dwell on it. But I will fight on, and hope that one day I find true relief from this appalling condition.
As told to HELEN CARROLL
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by Victoria Woodhall
MY PHYSIO gave me a sobering diagnosis recently. At 58, my chronic back pain was, in no small part, down to my underperforming bottom.
Decades in a desk job have left my glutes so weak they've practically switched off. There's even a name for it: 'glute amnesia', or 'dead butt syndrome'.
And I'm not alone - weak glutes are a common cause of lower back pain. As the body's largest muscle group, they are responsible for keeping you upright, as well as helping you bend down and take the stairs.
But if you're largely sedentary, they forget what they are supposed to do and leave your back to take the strain. Muscle has been dubbed the 'organ of longevity' by leading muscle health physician Dr Gabrielle Lyon, who says that our quality of life as we age depends on our muscle health.
Not only does muscle keep us mobile into later life, but it's metabolically active tissue that helps regulate blood sugar and burns calories at rest.
'Muscle is where most of your glucose is stored after a meal,' says functional hormone nutritionist Pippa Campbell. 'The more muscle you have, the better you can handle blood sugar.'
But did I really have to spend hours in the gym doing squats to achieve stronger glutes? Or, I wondered, was there a shortcut - with the added benefit of giving me a Kim Kardashian-style backside, too?
According to the maker of the Tesla Former (no relation to Elon Musk's electric cars), its machine is it. It delivers 50,000 glute contractions in 30 minutes via giant electromagnetic pads the size of dinner plates strapped to your bum to strengthen and tone
BEFORE
How I tackled my 'dead butt syndrome' after setting foot in a gym!
muscle. All you have to do is, well, nothing.
So I decided to give it a go at the Genevix Clinic in London. Its founder, Viviana Botoaca, buckles me up to the slightly terrifying-looking machine and dials up the intensity.
There are 39 exercises in a 30-minute session that vary from squeezing, slapping, tapping and pulsing to buzzing - and gripping so strongly that my toes tingle.
I can feel things happening in my pelvic floor. What on earth is going on?
'The machine uses functional magnetic stimulation, known as FMS, to excite the motor nerves and trigger contractions, specifically, 50,000 contractions in 30 minutes, which it's impossible to do voluntarily,' explains Botoaca.
At peak intensity, it can reach 12cm deep.
Even if I could do 50,000 squats in one go, and with perfect technique, I wouldn't be able to recruit all possible muscle fibres. 'When we exercise normally, our body doesn't switch on every muscle fibre at once,' she says.
'Instead, it gradually recruits them as more force is needed. FMS bypasses the body's normal voluntary activation process by triggering powerful muscle contractions from outside the body. This allows more muscle fibres to contract at the same time, creating an intensity that's difficult to achieve through voluntary exercise alone.'
FMS can treat muscles anywhere on the body. And unlike your personal trainer, the Tesla Former
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I interrupt Botoaca to ask what the sudden tapping sensation is, as if there's an elastic band flicking at my bum. Apparently it's a 'recovery' mode which helps prevent lactic acid build-up that could cause cramp and spasms.
The sensation is strange, not painful, and over the next few days I'm happy not to feel delayed onset muscle soreness (DOMS) like I would after a workout.
After six sessions over three weeks, the results are visible - my bum is now more pert, less pancake. The creases where my
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bum cheeks meet my thighs now have an upturn - I'd almost say they are smiling.
The idea isn't that a machine replaces your exercise routine and, at £3,000 for the recommended six-session package, it's certainly pricey. But it does give you a kickstart, especially if you are, say, recovering from surgery. Or if you want a quick butt lift (most people, like me, can have two sessions per week).
To get the most out of your treatment, you need to eat a diet rich in muscle-building protein, such as eggs, chicken and salmon, which mine is. Maintenance sessions every one to three months (£700 a pop if you don't want another package) can help you keep up the good work.
And what about my back pain? It's still a work in progress, but has noticeably reduced thanks to better support from my new buns of steel. Botoaca spots that, on side view, my left glute hasn't hooked up as much as my right one. Indeed, this tallies with my more left-sided back pain issue.
PHYSIOTHERAPIST Mattia Zappala explains: 'When you have chronic pain you tend to avoid using the muscles that hurt, which creates a vicious cycle. Chronic pain can interfere with the brain's ability to recruit those muscles, so you have to retrain that connection again.'
He agrees that the Tesla Former has helped wake up those muscles that had been neglected, but it's not a replacement for squats, lunges, strength training or for making those crucial brain-to-muscle connections voluntarily.
While FMS is the Rolls-Royce of muscle building, a cheaper (but less powerful) option is to wear a whole-body electrical muscle stimulation (EMS) suit while exercising. They look like wired-up wetsuits, and can be found at specialist gyms such as E-Pulsive (£80 for 20 minutes).
However, there's no spa couch - you have to get your sweat on. The 36,000 electrically-stimulated muscle contractions in one session only work on the muscles while you're actually exercising.
What this has taught me is that the current fashion for big bottoms (so long as they are muscely) is actually beneficial for health... but nothing beats the gym. Does my bum look big in this? I hope so!
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Adventure: Izabel Rose in Japan
IT WAS to be the holiday of my dreams – a solo trip to Japan, a destination which had long been high on my wishlist. For a whole month, I planned to immerse myself in Japanese culture and experience an entirely new way of life.
The trip wouldn't come cheap – some £5,000 all in – but thanks to an inheritance from my beloved late grandmother, who died a few years earlier, I felt able to take the plunge.
I could never have imagined that, just 11 days into my adventure of a lifetime, I would wake one morning in my Tokyo hotel and find myself surrounded by nine police officers bellowing orders in Japanese at me.
My dream had turned into an utter nightmare. I was later convicted of importing drugs to Japan and spent five excruciating months in an Osaka prison. But this was no miscarriage of justice. Rather, it was entirely justified.
I don't look like someone who would smuggle drugs. I'm only 4ft 11in, so look far younger than my 27 years. My family is supportive and stable, and I grew up in the epitome of suburbia – Weybridge, Surrey. University educated, I also had a successful career in marketing and public relations.
But, as I know only too well, no amount of social standing can protect you from addiction. Thanks to years of experimenting with drugs at university and a hard-partying culture at work, before long I was taking drugs every day.
Like an increasing number of 20-somethings, I took a sabbatical from work and flew to Tokyo in April last year. But it was not just for the thrill of travel – I was already hideously addicted to ketamine, a street drug designed to be used as a horse tranquiliser. Part of the reason for my trip to Japan was a last-ditch attempt to get clean.
I felt sure I could do it – but on landing I felt the familiar withdrawal symptoms: Deep lows, anxiety, extreme agitation, exhaustion and terrible headaches. I then arranged for someone in the UK to post 7g of the drug to my hotel hidden in a birthday card.
It was so foolish – but I was desperate and naive. Back home, I had vowed to stop most days but had never made a serious attempt to quit.
Ironically, over the next week as I waited for the package to arrive, I felt better than I had in a long time, experiencing true and genuine joy standing at the chaotic Shibuya Crossing – reportedly the world's busiest pedestrian crossing – and exploring the historic Senso-ji Temple.
Finally trying to embrace sobriety, I began to regret ordering the
My ketamine addiction landed me in a brutal Japanese prison.
But here's why it's the best thing that could have happened to me
by Izabel Rose
drugs. Even if by then I'd gone off the idea of taking them, I hadn't bargained on customs officers intercepting them.
Japan is a country with a zero-tolerance approach to all illegal and recreational drugs. Even mere possession carries sentences of up to seven years.
As my name and the address of the hotel where I was staying were on the envelope, police knew exactly where to find me.
For the rest of that April day, after my hotel room was ransacked in search of more drugs, I was questioned and locked in a cell. I was 9,000 miles from home, with the threat of a two-and-a-half-year prison sentence hanging over me.
Some 300,000 people in the UK are now estimated to use ketamine recreationally. Many, I would wager, start using it as I did – with little thought and education about its effects.
This is because, for many young people, ketamine is seen as normal as a glass of chilled white wine at the end of the working
day. There is no stigma. But there is also little awareness of the pernicious physical and mental addiction it rapidly causes.
I was 18 and living in student accommodation at a London university when I was offered my first 'bump' – a small 10mg dose of ketamine. My two friends and I experienced something known as a 'K-hole', a trance-like state of complete dissociation, during which we were unable to move or speak.
It was an utterly terrifying experience – like I'd left my body and was viewing myself from above – that lasted about an hour.
I was so shaken, I honestly thought I'd never try it again.
Yet just a week later at a house party, I found myself accepting another bump.
Why did I say yes? Youth, thoughtlessness, a need to fit in – all of the above. The effect was less scary this time. Ironically, I've never really drunk much alcohol as I never enjoyed the taste or effects – but I had smoked cannabis regularly, starting in my early teens. In hindsight, this for me was a gateway drug – desensitising me to feeling 'out of it' and reducing my fear of trying other substances.
For the next four years, no party was complete without drugs and, as my tolerance increased, a 30mg snorted bump was replaced
by a 75mg 'line' of the powdered drug. After I'd left university, where I was studying journalism, and moved, aged 22, into a shared flat with two friends – one of whom I believe was already hooked on ketamine – my addiction got completely out of hand.
My job in marketing provided me with a good income and, as my colleagues were mostly young too, partying was very much part of the culture. Drug-taking was
'Dealers deliver to your door. It's as easy as getting a pizza'
treated as if it was normal – like drinking on a night out – and wasn't taboo in any way, which I know is hard for anyone not part of this scene to understand.
At university, I only took ketamine at weekends. But now I was using it with my flatmates and other friends during the week, even when we were just staying in to watch a film.
I told myself that other women poured a glass of pinot grigio
after work – why shouldn't I have a little indulgence too?
There were no visits to dodgy drug dens to get a hit. Dealers deliver to your door these days; it's as easy as ordering a pizza. Getting hooked wasn't difficult – it was mundane.
Aged 23, I was getting deliveries every other day, spending up to £300 a week feeding my habit.
A year later my tolerance had become so high I was snorting as soon as I woke up and using in the middle of the working day. I was good at my job so didn't raise any suspicion. I was too desperately addicted to care by this stage anyway.
By now, the only way to avoid the terrible withdrawal effects – anxiety, depression, insomnia and flashbacks – was to snort it every couple of hours.
When I look back, I have no idea how my tiny body – I'm a size 6 – metabolised such huge quantities of drugs, without more serious consequences.
I already knew of people who had their bladders and even kidneys removed due to scarring and inflammation caused by ketamine. This is because the drug destroys the bladder lining. Inflammation and scarring spread to the ureters, the tubes connecting it to the kidneys, which become blocked. Even knowing this didn't stop me. And,
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after years of heavy use, ketamine was now taking a serious physical toll, including robbing me of my sense of smell. I lost count of the times I went to A&E with crippling gastritis, intense pains in my stomach and chest, known as ketamine cramps, and urinary tract infections.
Yet I never admitted to any doctor who examined me that I'd taken ketamine. I was too scared of the potential consequences, professionally and legally, of it going on my medical records.
Blood tests and scans failed to reveal the cause, so they would discharge me, saying I seemed to otherwise be in 'good health'.
Still the pain was often so
intense, the only thing that brought relief was taking more ketamine. Desperate to come off the drug, I told myself a month away was the solution to breaking my addiction.
On my way to Gatwick Airport to catch my flight to Tokyo I picked up 1.5g of ketamine, taking it before going through passport control, telling myself it was my 'final hurrah'. I was convinced I would have beaten my addiction by the time I returned.
I had called in at my dad's en route - both my parents, who are divorced, knew I was using ketamine and were deeply concerned I seemed 'high' every time they saw me, pleading with me to stop.
Dad feared I might be foolish enough to attempt to smuggle drugs on to the flight but I told him I wouldn't be so stupid. Sadly, the opposite proved to be true. The ketamine I had at Gatwick wore off within an hour but I felt OK on the flight. However, the minute I landed in Tokyo, the withdrawal symptoms kicked in.
Terrified, I messaged friends who had visited Japan, asking if they could recommend somewhere I might be able to buy more. They couldn't but suggested I have a friend mail it directly to me from the UK, something they'd heard of others doing when abroad.
Although it would take seven
This was one of the many rules inmates must live by.
Most of the first six weeks I spent sobbing and vomiting in fear. I would bang my head on the cell wall. If I'd had the means, I would have tried to kill myself.
I don't speak Japanese and the guards couldn't speak English, so we communicated via a two-way AI translation device, called Pocketalk. Contact with other prisoners was forbidden. I remember one woman whispering 'English?' to me under her breath as we were being escorted to the showers. I replied 'Hai', meaning 'Yes' in Japanese.
The guard put his face very close to hers and shouted - she never spoke to me again.
The lack of human connection - especially with loved ones, as in the early days I wasn't allowed to write or make phone calls - was the biggest challenge. Never seeing sunlight, feeling fresh air and not being able to walk further than a couple of metres, the length of my cell, sent me to the edge of myself.
As the weeks passed, though, something began to shift inside me. I decided to use the long, lonely hours to practise meditation, read and write a journal.
Instead of railing against the misery of my situation, I began to feel gratitude. I was safe. I had a
roof over my head and three meals a day. Two bread rolls for breakfast, rice with chicken or tofu and vegetables for lunch and dinner - delivered through a hatch in the metal door of my cell.
Over the next five months, I was driven to court three times, the first to enter a guilty plea, next to give evidence and, finally, on September 5, to be sentenced.
When my court translator told me the three judges hearing my case had decided to give me a four-year suspended sentence I broke down with relief. I knew it meant that if I reoffended in Japan over the next four years I would go to prison but also that I was free to go home.
I hadn't wanted to put either of my parents, who have health issues, through the ordeal of seeing me in court, nor did I want my sister to see me in such a state. But all three were waiting for me at Gatwick when my plane landed. There was a tumult of emotion between us - hugging, crying, laughing.
I was back to my old life - my dad had very kindly paid the rent on my east London flat while I was in prison. My employer, who sent a 'good character' reference to the Osaka court, had kept my job open until two weeks before my release, when, because it's an essential role, they'd had to fill the position. But returning to my old home and friends was a mistake.
'Most of the first six weeks I spent sobbing and vomiting'
Six weeks after getting home, I found ketamine I'd stashed in my room before my trip.
The temptation was too much to resist - and it led to a relapse.
At the start of this year, desperate to get off ketamine once and for all, I contacted my GP and the council and, with the help of a drug support worker, began to detox. I've been attending Narcotics Anonymous meetings ever since and haven't taken any drugs for almost two months now, having spent time as a voluntary in-patient in a stabilisation centre.
I'm determined to beat this - and a big part of my motivation is that I'm sharing my journey with my 23,000 TikTok followers. I've had some heartbreaking messages from people whose loved ones' lives, like mine, have been ruined by ketamine.
My time in prison changed me. I don't want to work in marketing, selling people things they don't need. Instead, I want my new life to involve awareness-raising and support for others sucked into the world of drugs, just as I was.
Those five months of incarceration were the worst of my life - but the best thing that could have happened to me.
If I hadn't done something so foolish as importing drugs to Japan, I wouldn't have had that time to reflect on the damage ketamine has done.
Without this wake-up call, I have no doubt my addiction would have escalated, leading to even bigger health issues.
The reality is those Japanese customs officer may very well have saved my life.
As told to HELEN CARROLL
Recovery: Izabel and, inset, Osaka detention centre
days to arrive, it sounded like a genius plan - I even got tracking information from my friend so I could follow the package.
This meant I could see it had been held up by customs coming into Japan. Naively, though, it never crossed my mind I might be imprisoned and convicted for a quantity that small.
It's hard to put into words the depth of my shame when the arresting officers charged me with drug offences.
My phone had been seized at the hotel so I'd been unable to let anyone at home know about my arrest. I later discovered my parents contacted the Foreign Office after my sister noticed I hadn't, uncharacteristically, posted anything on social media for 24 hours. They were told to contact the British Embassy in Japan, who liaised with police. They were horrified to discover I had been arrested.
Considered a flight risk because I was not a Japanese resident, I was denied bail while awaiting trial and sent to a cell at Osaka detention centre. Other than a few brief trips to the shower each week, I spent 24 hours a day in isolation, forced to sit cross-legged or kneel during waking hours, with just a half hour of indoor exercise allowed each day.
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GETTING used to the new 'normal' of scorching British summertime temperatures takes some effort, to put it mildly. But it's a particular challenge for the estimated 30 per cent of us who may develop a heat rash, also known as prickly heat.
Manifesting as tiny red (or if your skin is dark, greyish or white) blisters that can spread quickly, itch and burn like a nettle sting, the condition can feel infuriatingly random and spoil your enjoyment of hot and sunny days.
Thankfully, there are effective ways to manage it – once you know what you're dealing with. It's important not to mistake it for another summer-induced rash, which may require different treatment.
As the Met Office has issued an amber weather warning for extreme heat today, with some parts of England set to reach temperatures of 38C, we asked dermatologists how to prevent and contain these angry, prickly breakouts.
WHAT EXACTLY IS HEAT RASH?
MILLARIA is the official name for what most people know as prickly heat. It's caused by a blockage of the sweat ducts, which traps sweat under the skin and triggers inflammation, says consultant dermatologist Dr Shin-Young Cho.
The strongest risk factors, she says, are heat, humidity, tight clothing and prolonged skin occlusion and pressure (think bed sores) – all of which prevent sweat from evaporating properly. There's also some evidence that certain bacteria naturally present on skin produce substances that can contribute to the plugging of the sweat ducts, making heat rash more likely, she says.
WHERE ON THE BODY DO YOU GET IT?
THE most common places, says Dr Cho, are the torso, the neck and skin folds such as the armpits, groin and under the breasts, where sweat glands are more concentrated and moisture is easily trapped. It can, however, occur anywhere sweat gets trapped under clothing. It's less common on the face, though it does happen, especially in hot, humid climates.
HOW CAN YOU PREVENT IT?
IT'S easier said than done during a heatwave, but the aim is to avoid overheating and excessive sweating. The most effective treatment, says Dr Cho, is prevention: keep cool in well-ventilated spaces, wear loose, breathable clothing, take cool showers whenever possible and avoid sweaty exercise and heavy skincare products, particularly occlusive ointments and creams with ingredients such as petroleum jelly, silicones and shea butter. That includes sunscreen, which can be rich and build up on the skin with the necessary re-application. Opt for an unscented gel or oil-free sun lotion that delivers long-lasting protection.
WHAT CAN YOU DO TO CALM IT?
'CALAMINE lotion may ease the worst of the hot, prickling sensation,' says consultant dermatologist Dr Magnus Lynch. 'Its zinc and ferric oxide help
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How to heat heat rash – from just £2.00
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cool the skin and support the skin barrier while the body clears the blocked sweat ducts. Use it sparingly, especially if you have skin prone to dryness.
'Calamine lotion can have a drying effect over time. Apply it in the morning, then switch to a light, fragrance-free moisturiser with glycerin, ceramides or ectoin in the evening.'
Antihistamine tablets may also relieve itching, although they won't help settle the condition itself as it's not caused by an allergic reaction, says Dr Lynch. 'Try a non-drowsy one such as cetirizine during the day or, if the itching disrupts your sleep, try a sleep-inducing one like Piriton at night.'
If you do exercise, invest in moisture-wicking sports fabrics and change out of sweaty clothes, followed by a shower as soon as possible, so perspiration doesn't get the chance to linger on skin and aggravate it. And don't scratch: it can make irritation worse and increase the risk of infection.
IS IT THE SAME AS SWEAT RASH?
WHILE Dr Lynch considers them the same thing, others use the term 'sweat rash' for a condition known as candida intertrigo. This is typically a sore, raw (rather than bumpy) inflammation, sometimes with cracked skin and scaling around the edges. It's caused by sweat and friction, often alongside an overgrowth of yeast and bacteria, and usually found in skin folds, including between the fingers and toes. An antimicrobial hypochlorous spray can help neutralise bacteria and calm skin in this case. If you're not sure which
rash you have, don't worry. 'While antibacterial products aren't necessary in the case of heat rash, gentle and hydrating hypochlorous mists won't aggravate it and can help settle inflammation,' says Dr Cho.
IS IT COMPARABLE TO SUN ALLERGY?
NO, although the two can look and feel deceptively similar. Sun allergy, or polymorphic light eruption (PLE), happens when skin that's been minimally exposed to sunlight over-reacts to primarily UVA rays and breaks out into red, itchy blotches and blisters rather than the tiny bumps typical of heat rash. It usually appears within a few hours on skin that has seen exposure to the sun, rather than in skin folds or where sweat may be trapped.
BEST PRODUCTS FOR MANAGING HEAT RASH
- Care Calamine Lotion, £2.69, superdrug.com: A soothing standby.
- Aestura Atobarrier 365 Body Lotion, £19.29, skinseoul.com: Light, non-occlusive lotion with glycerin and ceramides.
- Ultrasun Sports Transparent Sun Protection Gel SPF50+, £37.50, ultrasun.co.uk: offers long-term protection and superior UVA coverage.
- Altruist Dermatologist Sunscreen SPF50, £8.36, amazon.co.uk: A scent-free, non-choosing sun protection lotion formulated by a dermatologist.
- Clinisept+ Skin Cleanser, £11.39, medisave.co.uk: Hypochlorous mist that can soothe and purify skin if you suspect bacteria are at play.
- HC45 Hydrocortisone Acetate Cream, £7.50, boots.com: Suppresses the rash and itching.
- Magicool Plus Prickly Heat Spray, £17.89, amazon.co.uk: deep-cools skin and features plant extracts and antioxidants to calm and strengthen.
5 summer
STOPPED shopping in sales a very long time ago. I was brilliant at finding bargains – and that was the problem.
My aim was to find the biggest discount on the most expensive piece, whether or not I needed it – or even liked it.
I ended up with a wardrobe full of things I would never have bought at full price and never wore. Sales, I concluded, are a scam: a way of persuading us to buy the things shops couldn't sell at full price.
Then, last week, I went looking for ballet pumps. I wanted a simple leather pair to replace ones that had finally fallen to pieces after a decade of hard wear. I found them – with a 25 per cent discount! That's when I
by Dinah van Tulleken
FASHION EDITOR
realised something: this is how to shop the sales. Don't hunt for bargains, hunt for things you want, particularly pieces you know you'll be reaching for in September and beyond. The trick is knowing how to distinguish trends from wardrobe essentials you'll wear for years.
These are the five pieces I'd look out for while they're reduced. They'll slide effortlessly into your autumn/winter wardrobe and earn their place as year-round staples.
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sale hits to wear all year
Button-down shirts
THE humble shirt is one of the hardest-working pieces in any wardrobe. Forget tailoring and anything that nips in at the waist; the shirt you want is relaxed, oversized and easy to wear.
A good 100 per cent cotton shirt can be worn day or night, on any occasion. Wear it now over swimwear with an open collar and turned-up sleeves, then layer over a T-shirt or under a blazer for autumn and winter.
White, pale blue or pink shirts, possibly with a classic stripe, like this design from The White Company, now £77, are timeless and work with everything. Why pay full price?
Was £75.95, now £37.97, sisley.com
Was £77, now £47, stories.com
Slouchy shoulder bags
THE ideal shoulder bag should tuck neatly under your arm but be big enough to carry a laptop: practical yet stylish. You want a little slouch - less stiff and boxy, more relaxed.
Yes, practicality is key but that doesn't mean you have to compromise on style.
Choose the luxury of real leather if your budget allows as it only gets better with age.
Stick to black, chocolate brown or deep burgundy: rich, autumnal shades that look just as good with a summer dress now as they will with a wool coat and denim come October. If you've lusted after a designer bag, now is the time. End-of-season sales can mean discounts of up to 50 per cent. This Toteme design (below right) is a case in point.
Was £870, now £522, net-a-porter.com
Straight-leg jeans
STATEMENT denim may have dominated the autumn/winter catwalks but in real life straight-leg jeans are the style to buy. They're the perfect middle ground if wide-leg jeans have never suited your frame but you're ready to move on from skinnies. They're arguably the most versatile shape, easily dressed up or down. For the most flattering fit, look for a high
rise and denim with a little stretch to avoid that waistband gape. You don't want the fabric clinging to your calves, so opt for a 'relaxed straight' cut for a little more room. Big discounts mean now is the perfect time to invest in a premium brand. Trust me, they're well worth the money. These jeans from Jigsaw are £60 off.
Was £270, now £135, Frame at johnlewis.com
Left, was £99, now £39, jigsaw-online.com
Was £119, now £49.95, massimodutti.com
Was £12.99, now £10, hm.com
Was £89, now £62, dunelondon.com
Ballet pumps
BALLET pumps have been the footwear of choice for a few seasons and show no sign of disappearing. They have been spotted on every stylish celebrity this summer and are set to stay put as we head into autumn.
I like classic leather but suede has a more autumnal feel, although it can be tricky in the rain. Otherwise go for something more exciting like this studded pair from Massimo Dutti, down from £119 to £49.95.
They work with everything. Buy now, wear now, and keep wearing them for as long as the weather allows.
Was £99, now £49.40, boden.com
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MICHELLE, 30
VITAL STATISTICS SINGLE and no children.
CURRENT ROLE BROADCASTER and radio presenter.
WOULD LIKE TO MEET
A DRIVEN and ambitious gentleman. I'm attracted to intellect and chivalry.
'She was flirting with me... there was fluttering eye action'
LEMMAR, 28
VITAL STATISTICS SINGLE, no children.
CURRENT ROLE SUPPORTING artist, actor and model.
WOULD LIKE TO MEET
SOMEBODY easy-going and fun with a sense of humour and adventure.
PICTURE: BENJUDER, HIM and Makeup, COLDETTE, RUDY
DATING PAST?
I'VE been single my whole life. That doesn't mean I've never dated. I've been on countless dates and had a few intimate moments, but I haven't found 'the one'.
PRE-DATE NERVES?
NO, I'm good at meeting new people. Spiders make me nervous, men don't.
FIRST IMPRESSIONS?
POSITIVE – Lemmar was on time. I felt good and confident in my gold dress and blue heels. Lemmar seemed like a very cool and collected man. Physically, he is tall and quite slim. I thought he was attractive, but he isn't my type. My heart beats that little bit faster for Henry Cavill, the British actor who played Superman.
EASY TO TALK TO?
YES, he was open about his dating history and I learned his last relationship hadn't worked because she was focused on settling down and he wasn't ready.
I explained that I also want to make the most of my life now before embracing the next chapter. We discovered we're both Christians and enjoy travelling alone. One of his recent highlights was Marrakesh, while I have recently been to Paris. A thermal spa is next on my list.
EMBARRASSING MOMENTS?
NO faux pas were committed, although I did stumble in my heels. Luckily, I didn't break them – or anything else.
DID SPARKS FLY?
THERE was an easy, playful rapport between us, but was there romantic chemistry? No. When I like somebody I tend to make it
fairly obvious by dropping hints and flirting, perhaps flicking my hair around. I do it in a shy way, though. Did he feel amorous towards me? My impression was that this was a friendship only.
SEE HIM AGAIN?
YES, but as a friend. We exchanged Instagram details and took a selfie together. It's one for the memory bank, as I'm not sure either of us will go on a blind date again.
We were together for around three hours and I would chalk it up as a 100 per cent golden blind date. We got on well and he is a good listener, but he was definitely in the friend zone for me.
WHAT DO YOU THINK HE THOUGHT OF YOU?
HE told me I'm bubbly and quite outgoing, which is accurate. I'm chatty and talkative, and he saw that side of me. I'm also attentive and like to put the person I'm with at ease.
WOULD YOUR FRIENDS LIKE HIM?
YES. Lemmar is a nice man and very relaxed. Even the modulation of his voice is calm. My friends would enjoy meeting him.
DATING PAST?
I'VE been single for seven years. I had one proper relationship that lasted two and a half years and have dated since, but I generally prefer a monogamous situation-ship. That means you see one another exclusively and do the things people normally do in a relationship – you spend time together and are intimate – but you don't label it as a relationship.
For my generation, it's a very normal romantic arrangement. I'm currently in one, although it's on pause because she has been abroad since March, which is why I was able to go on this date.
PRE-DATE NERVES?
YES but I knew that as soon as we found some common ground I'd calm down.
FIRST IMPRESSIONS?
WE greeted one another with a hug. Michelle had chosen a gold and white dress, which really suited her. I'd made a real effort too and was wearing a navy shirt with beige chinos. She's a curvy woman and I thought she was attractive, although not my usual
physical type. Even so, I told her she looked good because she did.
EASY TO TALK TO?
VERY. Michelle is open, has a sunny-side-up personality and made plenty of jokes. We traded insights about where we see our lives leading, including when we would like to get married.
In five or six years, I would like to be settled in a permanent relationship, whereas Michelle hopes that will happen for her within the next four years. We didn't discover a huge amount in common apart from our Christian faith, but that didn't bother me.
EMBARRASSING MOMENTS?
NEITHER of us was entirely sure what cutlery to use and when. We solved it by looking around the restaurant and copying everybody else.
DID SPARKS FLY?
MICHELLE is a very interesting and intelligent woman and we definitely got on, but was it romantic? No. I did sense that she was flirting with me. There was some fluttering eye action, and she was very smiley and tactile.
SEE HER AGAIN?
I WOULD see her again as a friend. We went to chill out and walk in a park after the meal. We had a big hug goodbye.
WHAT DO YOU THINK SHE THOUGHT OF YOU?
THAT I am a cool, nice, relaxed guy. Halfway through the date she told me I'm one of the most chilled people she has ever met.
WOULD YOUR FRIENDS LIKE HER? FROM a first impression, yes.
Interviews: SAMANTHA BRICK
MICHELLE'S VERDICT: 6/10
LIKED? Our conversation. REGRETS? None. COFFEE OR CAB? Coffee as friends.
LEMMAR'S VERDICT: 8/10
LIKED? Easy to talk to. REGRETS? Not at all. COFFEE OR CAB? Coffee as friends.
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NEW ART SERIES
The Big Deal With Steph McGovern, 9pm, BBC2
FROM finance reporting on BBC Breakfast to hosting her own lunchtime show, we've seen Steph McGovern (pictured) do it all. Here she taps into a passion passed on by her father, the world of art. This new series sees seven teams entering the art dealing market, where they will be buying and selling their own selection of pieces. In each episode, the pairs will be handed a new task, and elimination will be down to the real commissions the teams make. At the end of the series, whichever couple are judged to be the best dealers will win £50,000 worth of British art. The first deal is all about graduate art – but which pair will be able to spot the next big talent?
PICK OF TODAY'S TV
A HOUSE THROUGH TIME, 9PM, BBC2
PRESENTER David Olusoga (pictured) is back with what is now the oldest building to be explored in his fascinating social history series, dating all the way back to the 18th century. He's based in Edinburgh, where he examines the lives of the first residents of a house located on Calton Hill, now a UNESCO World Heritage Site. 'Delving into the archives we'll use the personal histories of the residents of this house to tell dramatic stories that span 250 years,' says Olusoga. 'Stories of fortunes made and lost,
of romance and scandal of adventure and tragedy.' Built in 1795 it was occupied by the Reverend William Fitzsimmons, an Episcopal Church minister who was arrested for helping French prisoners escape from Edinburgh Castle. As Auld Reekie, as the Scottish capital is affectionately known, moves further into the Industrial Revolution, Olusoga introduces us to Francis Ronaldson, a former post office worker who spied on Glasgow weavers to detect signs of radicalism; and the Steell family, including John, a skilled craftsman but terrible businessman, and his son John Steell Junior, who became one of Edinburgh's finest sculptors.
BBC1
6.00 Breakfast
9.30 Animal Park (AD,R)
10.00 Tracy, Track, Get My Car Back (R)
Jason and Alan close in on a stolen
hire car in Maidenhead.
10.30 European Athletics
Championships: Birmingham
2026 Jeanette Kwakye presents
coverage of the opening session
on day four from Alexander
Stadium, including the women's
800m and 400m semi-finals.
1.15 BBC News at One; Weather
1.40 BBC Regional News; Weather
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2.00 Money for Nothing At Wiley
recycling centre in Surrey, Sarah
Moore finds a garden umbrella
to upcycle, and Larissa tackles a
pair of tired 1970s armchairs.
2.45 Escape to the Country (AD,R)
3.30 The Repair Shop (AD,R)
4.30 The Answer Run Quiz show,
hosted by Jason Manford.
5.15 Pointless (R) Alexander Armstrong
is joined by co-host Ria Lina.
6.00 BBC News at Six; Weather
6.30 BBC Regional News; Weather
7.00 The One Show Hosted by Alex
Jones and Roman Kemp.
7.30 EastEnders (AD) Amy confides in an unlikely source.
BBC2
6.30 The Bidding Room (R)
7.15 Money for Nothing (R)
8.00 Gardeners' World (AD,BSL,R)
9.00 BBC News
10.30 Antiques Road Trip (R)
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Prayer has been sold at auction in
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1.00 Richard Osman's House of
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1.30 The Finish Line (R) Quiz show.
2.15 Do You Know Your Place? (R)
2.45 The Great Rift: Africa's Wild
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3.35 Spy in the Ocean (AD,R) The
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4.35 Vintage Antiques Roadshow (R)
From Dunrobin Castle.
5.15 Flog fit (R) From Co Durham.
6.00 Richard Osman's House of
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6.30 Bear Grylls: Wild Reckoning
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mend her fractured relationship
with her daughter.
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6.00 Good Morning Britain
10.00 This Morning Daily magazine,
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Newcastle Racecourse plays
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Seven pairs of aspiring art
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New series. David Olusoga
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10.30 Newsnight Headline analysis.
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Former gamekeeper David
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April that he has been struggling.
8.30 Coronation Street (AD) Tim
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without consulting Sally.
9.00 The Chase Around the World
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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 News (Followed by Weather)
10.30 Regional News
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Vogue Williams and Luke Mabbott
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How a stalker sought revenge on
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reputation online, before
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TELEVISION 47
SUNNY CRIME DRAMA
Benidorm Is Murder, 9pm, Ch5
FLOWING drinks and Benidorm's warm sun-dress weather can easily turn a wild hen do into an unforgettable night. But here, it seems things went too far... Can Dennis (John Hannah) help the Spanish police to find out what happened to the unfortunate maid of honour?
TRUE CRIME DOCUMENTARY
The Schoolgirl Terrorist?, 10pm, Ch4
THIS documentary explores disturbing details behind the Rhianan Rudd case from 2005. From exclusive testimony family archives and previously unseen material, we see the events and influences in Rhianans life that led her down a dangerous rabbit hole. The 14-year-old schoolgirl became absorbed by far-right extremism and white supremacy and became the subject of an MI5 investigation, with tragic consequences. Those close to her reflect on the missed details.
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12.45 5 News at Lunchtime
12.50 Matt Allwright
2.20 The Replacement Daughter
FIM (2024) (PG) When Jessica's mother is struck by a hit-and-run, she falls into the care of a wealthy woman, but not everything is what it seems. Thriller, starring Stacy Haiduk and Emily Miceli.
4.00 Castle (R) A personal injury attorney is murdered.
4.55 Love Nature (R)
5.00 5 News with Dan Walker
6.00 Crete: Jewel of the Med (R)
6.55 5 News Update
7.00 Around the World in First Class Josie Gibson heads for the tourist hotspots of Finland and Sweden, explores Stockholm, and enjoys a helicopter trip over part of an archipelago.
7.55 5 News Update
8.00 The Yorkshire Vet Special: Peter's Dream New series. Cameras follow Peter Wright as he creates a Yorkshire pet memorial garden, inspired by Sussex's pet chaplain and church.
9.00 Benidorm Is Murder (AD) Dennis and Rosa investigate when a cleaner finds a murder victim. Crime drama, with John Hannah and Carolina Becquer.
10.00 Killer at the Crime Scene (R) PCL The death of spa owner Ildiko Krajnyak, who was killed in a explosion at her beauty spa in Orange County, California.
11.05 The Body in the Thames (R) 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.
12.05 Street Cops: Catching the Yoke (R) 1.00 Cruise TV with LovettBook(R) (R) 2.00 Entertainment News on 5.2.30 GPL: Behind Closed Doors (R) 3.05 Castle (R) 3.50 Friends (AD,R) 4.15 Friends (AD,R) 4.35 Cruising with Susan Calman (AD,BSL,R) 5.25 Entertainment News on 5.5.35 Paw Patrol (BSL,R) 5.45 The Adventures of Paddington (BSL,R)
▲ Particularly liable to offend
A bad day for the police, but this murder trial bristled with drama
THIS was the courtroom footage police didn't want us to see. True crime footage is usually edited to show officers in a good light, as part of the deal when video is released — but not this time.
'Is it fair for me to say that this was all very embarrassing for Police Scotland?' the defense barrister asked a detective constable, in the engrossing first episode of the two-part documentary, Murder Trial: Death Of A Dog Walker.
'I can't comment on that,' came the reply.
The officer's voice was disguised and we couldn't see his whole face, only his chin and lips. But there was no hiding the facts.
In February 2024, he answered a 999 call in rural Perthshire to find the body of a 65-year-old man, lying on his side in a field. His face was so bloodied that a photo taken by the DC had to be blurred out for broadcast. The man's brother later said the sight was, 'so horrific, I barely kept my breakfast down'.
But the unlucky copper radi-
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oed it in as 'a medical episode'. He told the court: 'I suspected that the deceased had suffered injuries to his face as a result of a fall whilst he was out for a walk.' This assessment was not revised for six days — even though, when the body was unzipped from a recovery bag in the mortuary, shotgun pellets rolled out.
In fact, the victim, Brian Low, had been killed with a double barrelled shotgun. To add to the confusion, his partner Pam was so confused by grief that she initially told police she had seen him after returning from a long shift at the care home where she worked.
That suggested he must have been murdered the following morning, when he walked the dog. It was weeks later that she realised her memory was playing tricks. Brian had been killed before she came home.
This created two serious
N. IRELAND TV VARIATIONS
BBC1 10:40pm The Crime 1:1art Forget.
8.30 FLM. 9mm/day (2010-12).
WELSH TV VARIATIONS
BBC2 9:00pm Unverified 2026 with New
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held in Llanford, Peninsha
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8.00 Pidol y Coen. Hywel is concerned for Griffiths as he uncovers Janet's identity.
8.25 Gwisely 2-bug: Gwilym Bowen Rhys.
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LAST NIGHT'S TV
Murder Trial: Death Of A Dog Walker (BBC2) ★★★★☆
problems for investigators. The remote spot where Brian died had not been preserved as a crime scene, and detectives had been checking alibis for the wrong day.
For the defence, this was a godend. The chief suspect was
a retired gamekeeper named David Campbell, a man with scowling eyebrows and a five o'clock shadow whose behaviour in the dock was unlikely to do him any favours with the jury — rolling his eyes, smirking and, at one point, snapping at the pros-
ecutor to 'stop calling me a liar'. Scottish law allows trials to be filmed, but the pictures are usually as flat and lifeless as CCTV. This was different — real wizardry was done in the editing room, rendering the courtroom footage tense with drama.
At one moment, with the camera behind an expert witness as he gave evidence, we saw Campbell framed through the man's spectacles. That's a shot any Hollywood cinematographer would be proud of.
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PICK OF DIGITAL & ON DEMAND TV
HIT POINT, 9PM, U&DAVE
HIT Point is one of those shows in which you never fully know where you are. Is it a gangster drama? Maybe. An odd couple detective comedy? A little bit. Or, perhaps even a will-they, won't-they romance? There are elements of all three as the show sets out its stall in the first episode, which opens with a £10 million heist that leaves the police scratching their heads. Enter our detective double act, Bella and Leo (Saffron Hocking and Nick Blood, pictured), a pair with an easygoing banter. He's weirdly fascinated by
HANDSOME DRAMA
My Brilliant Career, Netflix
MY Brilliant Career is a classic 1901 novel by Australian novelist Miles Franklin and landmark 1979 film about a poor rural family trying to marry off one of their daughters and, as presented in this lively new Netflix drama, it feels like a fresh spin on Jane Austen. Sybylla (Philippa Northeast) wants to be a writer not a wife, and the collision between her desires and reality fuels a very enjoyable six-partner. The cast includes Jake Dunn, Slow Horses' Christopher Chung (far right, with Northeast and Dunn) and Anna Chancellor.
SURVIVAL SERIES
Alone, 8pm, Sky History
A NEW series begins with ten survivalists being dropped into the Arctic wilderness to see who lasts the longest. They're from seven different countries, so national as well as personal pride is at stake.
US GARAGE COMEDY
Tires, Netflix
WHEN the Americans adapted The Office, they turned it into something gentler but geared to run for a long time — a workplace comedy filled with characters who were easier to watch than the originals, albeit less comically sharp. Tires has the same feel. Set in an old-fashioned US garage, it was originally financed by its creators and stars Shane Gillis and Steve Gerben before Netflix scooped it up. The new third series arrives this week, and the central conflict remains the same — Will (Gerben) is the responsible one while his colleague Shane (Gillis) is a sweaty, sexist idiot.
TIME
BBC 4
E4
ITV2
7.00pm
Villages by the Sea Ben Robinson explores the remains of a lost harbour in Port Carlisle
7.30pm
Wainwright Walks Clinting England's highest peak, Scafel Pike. Last in series
8.00pm
Operation Mincemeat How Britain deceived Hitler into thinking the Allies were planning to invade Greece in 1943, allowing them to land in Sicily with minimal resistance
9.00pm
The Coen Brothers Story Actors and collaborators look back at the Coen brothers' career and explore the harbour, and craft that have made their films modern classics
10.00pm
Linside Llewyn Davis (2013,15) An aspiring musician struggles to make a name for himself in the New York folk scene of the early 1900s. The Coen brothers' drama, starring Oscar Isaac and Carey Adulipan
10.30pm
11.00pm
11.30pm
The Simpsons The family visits a scary theme park
The Simpsons Sideshow Bob is pardoned for his crimes
The Great Celebrity Bake Off for Stand Up to Cancer Annie Mac, El Garrido, Example and presenter Matt Lucas bake for charity
Cruising Paradise: Above and Below Deck The crew must scramble to create a full day of onboard entertainment
Gogglebox The armchair critics share their opinions on HBP bites, Hbe and Nat, Challenge-Anneka, Race Across the World, The Kerrang and ABC News bulletins. From 2023
11.05 Naked Attraction A 30-year-old woman from Brighton appears on the show for the third time, having been in the god twice before, followed by a student from Oxford (To 12.00)
The Floor There are 65 contestants still standing and host Rob Brydon turns up the pressure as players fight for more squares and a 13,000 Floor bonus
The 1% Club Quiz hosted by Lee Mack in which the questions are about logic and common sense, with 160 contestants having a chance of winning up to £100,000
Ramesh Ranganathan's Parents' Evening lair E, Jonathan Ross and Richard Madeley take part
Changing Ends The Carrs head to London
10.35 Family Guy Brian (Bicowe's) Meg has a secret boyfriend
11.05 Family Guy Stewie clones himself
11.35 American Dad! Steve loses his girlfriend to another boy (To 12.05)
ENTERTAINMENT & FACTUAL
SECTION
Freeview 33 Sky 150
11.15am Gimmicks 12.30pm FILM. Lawman (1971) (15) 2.25 FILM. The Tall T. (1957) (PG) 4.00 Highway Thru Hell. 5.00 Motorway Copy. Catching Britain's Speeders 6.00 Police Interceptors 6.00 Motorway Copy. Catching Britain's Speeders 9.00 Police Interceptors 10.00 Timber Titans 11.00 The X-Files.
BBC THREE
Freeview 33 Sky 125 Virgin 107 7.00pm The Catch Up. 7.05 Deadly 60. 8.00 Sort Your Life Out with Stacey Solomon. 9.00 Better Date than Never. 10.30 Bulbul's Drag Race UK. Meet the Queens. 10.55 FILM. Bridgey James Baby (2006) (15)
COMEDY CENTRAL
Sky 113 Virgin 133
12noon The Upper Hand 1.05 Friends 9.00 FILM The Commitments (1991) (15) 11.30 Stupid Central
DISCOVERY
Sky 125 Virgin 177
11.00am Building Off the Grid. 1.00pm Dr Jeff Rocky Mountain Vet 3.00 How It's Made. 5.00 Alaska Homestead Rescue 7.00 Superior Showroom. 8.00 Wheeler Dealers 9.00 Roads and Afraid Global Showdown. 11.00 Expedition X
E4 (DAYTIME)
Freeview 13 Sky 125 Virgin 106 11.00am Below Deck. Mediterranean. 12noon The Simpsons. 2.00 Brooklyn Nine-Nine. 3.00 Modern Family. 5.00 The Simpsons.
5STAR (DAYTIME)
Freeview 32 Sky 128 Virgin 126 12noon Traffic Copy. 2.00 Police Enterprises 5.00 Shoplifters. Caught Red Handed. 6.00 Home and Away
5 SELECT
Freeview 46 Sky 153 Virgin 138 12noon All Creatures Great and Small 1.00 Murder, She Wrote 3.00 Columbus Swan Song 5.00 Dorset Country and Coast 6.00 Abandoned Engineering 7.00 Ben Fogle. New Lives in the Wild 9.00
PD James: An Unsuitable Job for a Woman. 10.00 The Good Ship Murder. 11.05 Prisoner: Cell Block H.
5 USA (DAYTIME)
Freeview 21 Sky 141 Virgin 120 12noon Law & Order. 6.00 NCIS
FOOD NETWORK UK
Freeview 63 Sky 148 Virgin 168 11.00am The Great British Bake Off. 1.00pm James Martin's Islands to Highlands. 3.00 The Harry Bilkey Do West. 4.00 James's One-Pan Wonder. 5.00 The Pioneer Woman. 6.00 James Martin Islands to Highlands. 7.00 The Great British Bake Off. 9.00 Michel Brooks French Country Cooking. 10.00 Nigel Slater's Simple Suggests. 11.00 Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives.
GREAT! TV
Freeview 34 Sky 157 Virgin 170 12noon Little House on the Prairie. 1.00 The Waltons. 4.00 Little House on the Prairie. 6.00 The Irish EM. 7.00 HUVIVE 9.00 FILM. Carry On Regardless (1961) (1) 10.55 Robots Man. 11.30 HUVIVE
ITV2 (DAYTIME)
Freeview 4 Sky 118 Virgin 155 10.15am Dawson's Creek 11.10 Channel 12.10pm Deal to 30 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 Catchphrases
ITV3 (DAYTIME)
Freeview 10 Sky 115 Virgin 157 11.30am Heartbeat 1.35pm Midcomer Murder. 3.35 Classic Emmerdale. 4.40 Classic Cremation Street. 5.50 Heartbeat
ITV4 (DAYTIME)
Freeview 26 Sky 120 Virgin 118 10.10am The Professionals 11.15 Robin of Sherwood. 12.20pm Magician. 17.3.25 The Casebook of Sherlock Holmes. 3.30 Boon. 4.35 The Professionals. 5.45 Minder. 6.50 Sharpe.
MORE4 (DAYTIME)
Freeview 18 Sky 126 Virgin 187 12.40pm Come Dine with Me. 3.20 Four in a Bed. 5.50 Car 3.55
NAT'L GEOGRAPHIC
Sky 129 Virgin 183
11.00am Car 5.05 12noon Ultimate Airport Dubai 1.00 Air Crash Investigation. 2.00 World War II Secrets from Above 4.00 Lost Treasures of Egypt. 5.00 Drinking Change What Lies Beneath. 6.00 Flames that Changed History. 7.00 Air Crash Investigation. 8.00 Apocalypse Hitler Takes on the Past. 10.00 Lost Ships of WW2. 11.00 Air Crash Investigation.
PBS AMERICA
Freeview 84 Sky 173 Virgin 187 11.55am Inside Japan's War 1.00pm Weathered Earth's Extremes. 1.35 Digging Up Britain's Past. 2.35 Walrus Life on Thin Ice 3.45 Peleids WWII's Most Well-Preserved Battlefield. 4.55 Inside Japan's War 6.00 Digging Up Britain's Past. 7.00 Walrus Life on Thin Ice. 8.10 Peleids WWII's Most Well-Preserved Battlefield. 9.15 Inside Japan's War. 10.30 Walrus Life on Thin Ice. 11.30 Weathered Earth's Extremes.
REALLY
Freeview 44 Sky 142 Virgin 165 12noon The Yorkshire Auction House 2.00 The Repair Shop. 3.00 Salvage Hunters. 5.00 Who Do You Think You Are? Dame Judy Dench. 6.00 The Repair Shop. 7.00 The Yorkshire Auction House. 8.00 Antiques Road Trip. 9.00 The Bad Skin Clinic. 11.00 Help! My House Is Haunted.
SKY ARTS
Freeview 28 Sky 122 Virgin 123 12noon The Art of Film with Ian Nathan. 1.00 Tales of the Unexpected. 2.00 The Alfred Hitchcock Head 3.00 The Sighties. 4.00 Discovering Claude Rains. 5.00 Portrait Artist of the Year 2022. 6.00 Tales of the Unexpected. 7.00 Voices of the Valleys. 8.00 Discovering Michelle Phillips. 9.00 Clint Eastwood: A Life in Film. 10.00 FILM. I Am Alfred Hitchcock (2021) (15)
SKY ATLANTIC
Sky 128 Virgin 131
12.35pm Immobile Life on the Street 2.30 Billions. 4.40 The Last of Us. 6.40 House of the Dragon. 9.00 Possession. 11.00 All the Fault.
RADIO
RADIO 4
FM: 32.4/34.5/40.12
5.00am News Summary.
5.04 Sideways.
5.32 Weather.
5.34 Shipping Forecast.
5.43 Prayer for the Day.
5.45 Farming Today.
5.45 Farming Today.
6.00 Today.
9.00 Natalie Haynes
Stands Up for
the Classics.
9.30 The Guitar Story.
10.00 Woman's Move.
11.00 Three Ages of Child.
11.45 Book of the Week:
Hiroshima, 8.15:
The Lost Memoir.
By Kiyoshi Tanimoto
and Koko Kondo.
12noon News.
12.04 Scam Secrets.
12.32 Sliced Bread.
1.00 The World at One.
1.45 Human Intelligence.
2.00 The Archers.
2.15 Drama: Security.
Daddy funny drama
about being pushed
to our limits.
PICK OF TODAY'S RADIO
TREE OF DIPLOMACY, 9.30AM,
8.05PM, BBC WORLD SERVICE
WE'VE all heard about the healing power of being immersed in nature and spending time surrounded by trees. But this documentary explores the power of trees in a wider context and looks into how the Chinese and the US have been co-operating for many years in what has
been called 'botanical diplomacy'. In a perfect example of the exercise of soft power, plant scientists from both mighty nations have continued their quiet work of talking and collaborating however tense the political relations have become between them.
3.00 9.00 This Natural Life.
3.30 Feedback.
4.00 The Briefing Room.
How do we reform
social care?
4.30 BBC Inside Science.
5.00 PM: Weather
6.00 Six O'Clock News.
6.30 Icklewick FM. The
radio team are on
scene at the 233rd
Agricultural Festival.
7.00 The Archers. Freddie tries to make his mark.
7.15 Front Row. News
from the worlds
of art, film, literature
and music.
8.00 At Your Own Peril.
Lucy Easthope
explores the
history of risk.
8.15 The Media Show.
The latest news from
the media world.
SKY COMEDY
Sky 113 Virgin 112
11.45am Will & Grace. 12.15pm The Rehearsal. 1.45 Upright. 3.00 Will & Grace. 4.00 The Office Movers. 5.00 Community. 6.00 Will & Grace. 7.00 The Office (US). 8.00 The Office Movers. 9.00 Micky Flanagan. If Ever We Needed It. 10.15 I've A Week Tonight with John Glenn. 11.00 The Rehearsal.
SKY DOCUMENTARIES
Sky 114 Virgin 121
12noon Sergio Leone: The Italian Who Invented America. 2.00 Premier League 360 — Big Sam's Bolton. 4.00 The Directors. 5.00 Discovering Kevin Costner. 5.55 Burden of Frost Who Killed Jennifer Pandoz? 8.00 The Essex Murders Who Killed Goldfinger? 11.00 FILM. Touching the Void. (2003) (15)
SKY HISTORY
Sky 123 Virgin 131
10.30am Junk & Disorderly. 11.05 Storage News 12noon Alone. 2.00 Poem Stars. 6.00 American Pickers. 7.00 Forged in Fire. 8.00 Alone. 10.00 Discovered by Disaster.
SKY ONE
Sky 106 Virgin 109
12noon Big Cats Small World. 1.00 Hawaii Five-O. 3.00 SWAT. 9.00 The Simpsons. 6.00 Animal Control. 6.30 The Simpsons. 8.00 Bob & Ramesh vs Magic in Vegas. 9.00 The Dyers' Caravan Park. 10.00 The Paper. 11.00 Animal Control. 11.30 Grimm.
SKY SCI-FI
Sky 145 Virgin 143
11.00am Star Trek Enterprise. 12noon Star Trek Voyager. 1.00
Stargate Atlantis. 2.00 Warehouse 13. 4.00 Stargate SG1. 5.00 Star Trek Voyager. 6.00 Star Trek Enterprise. 7.00 Stargate Atlantis. 8.00 Stargate SG1. 9.00 Resident Alien. 10.00 Grimm. 11.00 The Walking Dead.
SKY WITNESS
Sky 107 Virgin 110
12noon FBI. 2.00 The Rookie. 3.00 Law & Order Criminal Intent. 4.00 Nothing to Declare. 8.00 Caught on Dashcam. 9.00 CIA. 10.00 Law & Order. Special Victims Unit. 11.00 The Rookie.
TLC
Freeview 12 Sky 133 Virgin 133
12noon The Big Bang Theory. 2.00 The Middle. 3.30 Young Sheldon. 5.00 The Big Bang Theory. 9.00 FILM. Forrest Gump. (1954) (12) Oscar-winning comedy drama, starring Tom Hanks.
FREEVIEW PRIMETIME PLANNER 49
| ITV3 | ITV4 | MORE4 | SKY MIX | QUEST. | U&DAVE | U&DRAMA | 5STAR | 5USA |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 10 | 26 | 18 | 11 | 17 | 19 | 20 | 32 | 21 |
| 6.55 Heartbeat Merton tries to catch a thief who has been stealing tractors from farms around Aidenfield | 6.50 Sharpe Having finally recovered from the death of his beloved Teresa, Sharpe marries Jane Gibbons. Before the honeymoulds is over, he is forced to rush off and capture a fort behind French lines – and while he is away a fever outbreak threatens to cut short his new marriage. Sean Bean stars | 6.50 Car 5.0.5 Tim Shaw and Fizz Townshend travel to South Yorkshire | Star Trek: The Next Generation This is forced to take over as captain after Picard becomes trapped in a lift following a collision | Antiques Road Trip Paul Martin and Margie Cooper motor through Cornwall, picking up an antique milking stunt and a 1920s car horn | Mortimer & Whitehouse: Gone Fishing Bob and Paul head to Norfolk | 7.20 Last of the Summer Wine Foggy takes Connor and Clegg on a nostalgic day out to the Keighley and Worth Valley Railway to ride on a steam train | GPx: Behind Closed Doors in Birmingham, a man who's been experiencing allergic reactions isn't sure what's triggering them | NCIS A marine helicopter is discovered abandoned in a crop circle, and witnesses report seeing strange lights in the night sky |
| Vera The detective investigates the murder of a Sherman whose body was found tangled up in a trawler's net, and who may have been killed as part of a family feud | 7.55 Grand Designs Design engineer Joe Stuart and service designer Lina Nibson take on the London property market, as they build their own home on a small 38-square-metre plot | Police 24/7 A turnsters man is stopped for smoking fentanyl, and a suspicious car leads to a drug arrest | Outback Truckers Steve Goldante rolls the dice on a brutal desert run. Jim Flooky races monsoon rains. Yogi risks a million dollar payload across the Nullarbor | 8.20 Would I Lie to You? With Gareth Malone, Amanda Abbington, Richard Osman and Phil Japitus | The Marlow Murder Club When the Mayor dies in the middle of a meeting, Justin, Bicks and Suzie uncover lies, scandal and blackmail | Casualty 24/7: Every Second Counts A patient is rushed in after a suspected overdose, while an 8-year-old comes in after hurting his head at school | NCIS An investigation into a rape and murder review. Surrounding memories for Ducky, who once worked on a similar case in which the killer was never captured | |
| Benidorm First-ever episode of the comedy series, starring Johnny Vegas and Dale Kelly | Benidorm First-ever episode of the comedy series, starring Johnny Vegas and Dale Kelly | Killer in My Village New series, A woman goes missing and her family uncovers alarming clues | Outback Opal Hunters The Cheals battle floods and their worst start in years, and Slim Pickings race to move before their luck runs out | Hit Point New series, Romantic thriller, following two detectives as a case pulls them into a dangerous underworld | Hit Point New series, Romantic thriller, following two detectives as a case pulls them into a dangerous underworld | A&E After Dark A 66-year-old patient suffering with a collapsed lung is rushed to North Middlesex Majors | Blue Bloods Stockwaves ripple through the Reagan family, Police drama, starring Tom Selleck and Dionne Weinberg | |
| Grantchester Alpha is stunned to discover that a young woman he knows has gone missing, and soon after, an aspiring student Journalist is found dead | 9.35 Benidorm Martin and Kate get lost in the town centre | 9.35 Benidorm Martin and Kate get lost in the town centre | 24 Hours in A&E Doctors treat a 63-year-old man with throat cancer who has suffered a bleed, and a young expectant father involved in a motocross accident | Fred West: The Glasgow Girls As two more bodies are found, the search moves to the first home of Fred West and new wife Rosemary, Last in series | Have I Got a Bit More News For You Katherine Parkinson hosts the satirical quiz, with a slam Gary and Jemima Kelly, joining team captain Paul Merton and Ian Hislop | New Tricks The team reinvestigates a recent rape linked to two unsolved attacks at a factory 10 years previously | Ambulance: Code Red In Wolverhampton, a machine operator's hand is crushed in an industrial press, and the critical care team prepare to amputate the man's limb | Law & Order: Special Victims Unit Benson shares personal secrets with a rape victim in the hope that it will help her to recall the details of her own traumatic experience |
| Grantchester George and Larry investigate the death of a reckless man | Benidorm Kelly announces her engagement to Mateo | Benidorm Madge gives the wrong impression to Donald and Jacqueline | 11.05 24 Hours in A&E A 74-year-old man is brought in after suffering a suspected stroke (To 12.10) | Grimm A strange creature puts women under a spell, fantasy crime drama, starring David Giuntoli (To 12.00) | How Do They Do It? Emergency bridges that can take the weight of a task | 11.20 Luther The detective's long-overstep holiday is interrupted by news of a violent attack. Thriller, starring Idris Eba (To 12.35) | Skin A&E Dr Emma McMullen helps a village hall manager look lump-free, ready for her. With birthday party (To 12.00) | Law & Order: Special Victims Unit The team gets involved in an online hoax that leads to an internet celebrity being raped. Benson sets Snake some firm ground rules (To 12.00) |
| 11.50 Trial & Retribution Part two of two (To 1.25) | Benidorm Madge gives the wrong impression to Donald and Jacqueline | Black Sails Seeing Flint's rise up the news leaves Vane feeling like he may be a threat to his position, and Eleanor determines which side to choose (To 12.15) | How Do They Do It? How to blow the world's finest crystal (To 12.00) |
| ■ ADVENTURER, wild camper and writer Phoebe Smith (pictured) is Martha Kearney's guest today on THIS NATURAL LIFE (3PM, RADIO 4). They walk to one of her favourite places, Tryfan mountain in Eryn National Park in north Wales. She grew up nearby but never explored, feeling that adventure was not for her. Now, she loves the freedom and peace of being outdoors and has helped set up the WeTwo Foundation to inspire other young people to become adventurers. |
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| 9.00 Loose Ends. Stuart Maronin presents from Belfast as the city hosts Pheath Cheoli na hBenson. |
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| 9.45 The Cows Are Mad. A mother embarks on a quest for answers. |
| 10.00 The World Tonight. With Shaun Ley. |
| 10.45 Book at Bedtime: The Vicar of Wakefield. By Oliver Goldsmith. |
| 11.00 Radical. Conversations about the global forces reshaping the world and ideas defining the future. |
|---|
| 11.30 A Good Read. 12midnight News and Weather. |
| 12.30 Book of the Week: Hiroshima, 8.15: The Lost Memoir. |
| 12.48 Shipping Forecast. |
| 1.00 BBC World Service. |
| U&ALIBI |
|---|
| Sky 109 Virgin 114 |
| 12noon Body of Proof 1.00 Death in Paradise 2.00 Murdoch Mysteries 4.00 The Mountain 5.00 Hudson & Rex 6.00 Body of Proof 6.55 Private Eyes 7.50 Poolsub. Jack gets an unexpected answer when he confronts Trotta and Book 9.00 The Hunting Party. Rex races to catch a class-dominated aerial killer who bludgeoned wealthy New Yorkers 10.00 Death in Paradise. Patterson is targeted by an assassin 11.00 Private Eyes. |
| U&DAVE (DAYTIME) |
|---|
| Freeview 10 Sky 110 Virgin 117 |
| 11.20am Yukon Gold 12.15pm Top Gold 2.20 Mortimer & Whitehouse: Gone Fishing 3.00 Guy Martin: Proper John 4.00 Hairy Biker: Best of British 5.00 Rick Stein's Cornwall |
| U&DRAMA (DAYTIME) |
|---|
| Freeview 20 Sky 143 Virgin 116 |
| 11.40am The Bill 12.40pm Classic EastEnders 2.00 Classic Neighbours 3.00 Photatable Pearl. |
| 4.10 Lovegay 5.20 As Time Goes By. |
| 6.00 Last of the Summer Wine. |
| U&EDEN |
|---|
| Freeview 57 Sky 168 Virgin 176 |
| 12noon Canal Boat Diaries. |
| U&GOLD |
| Sky 110 Virgin 124 |
| 12.25pm Only Fools and Horses. |
| 1.05 Keeping Up Appearances 1.45 Dads Army 2.25 The Green Green Grass 3.05 An You Being Served? 3.45 Dad 4.25 Dads Army 5.00 Last of the Summer Wine 6.20 Keeping Up Appearances 7.00 Porridge 7.35 Dads Army 8.20 Are You Being Served? 9.00 Fawlty Towers 9.40 Joe & David's Magical |
| RADIO 2 FM 88-90 2M1F2 |
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| 6.30am The Sara Cox Breakfast Show 9.30 Vernon Kay 11.25 Radio 2's Piano Room 12noon Jeremy Vine 2.00pm Clara Ambs 4.00 Joel Donnett 7.00 Edith Bowman Shiny Happy Playlist 7.30 Edith Bowman 8.45 Radio 2's Piano Room 9.00 The Country Show with Darius Rucker. Darius presents music from across the generations 10.00 The Good Groove with Melvin Odoom 12midnight O.J. Berg Music and chat |
| RADIO 3 FM 90-2-92 4M1F2 |
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| 6.30am Breakfast 9.30 Essential Classics 1.00pm Classical Live. |
| 4.00 Composer of the Week. Menopausal 5.00 In Time 7.00 BBC Proms 2026 10.00 Night Tracks 11.30 Round Midnight 12.30am Through the Night. |
| RADIO 5 LIVE |
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| MW 685/WGN 117 |
| 5.00am Wake Up to Money 6.00 5 Live Breakfast 9.00 Nicky Campbell 11.00 Gordon Smart 2.00pm Matt Charley 4.00 5 Live Drive 7.00 5 Live Sport 7.30 Athletics 10.00 Johnny Dinson 1.00am Charlie Taylor |
| Sitcom Tour 10.45 Fawlty Towers 11.25 Mrs Brownie Buys |
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| U&W |
| Freeview 35 Sky 132 Virgin 125 |
| 12noon DIY SOS: The Big Build. |
| 1.00 Tipping Point 4.00 Property Brothers: Forrest Hones 5.00 DIY SOS: The Big Build. 7.00 MasterChef Australia 8.00 Property Brothers: Under Pressure. |
| 9.00 Hit Point 10.00 DIY SOS: The Big Build. 11.00 First Responders. |
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| 11.00am The World at War 12noon Antiques Roadshow 2.00 Bangers & Cash 4.00 Swiss Wall: The Night the Iron Curtain Closed 5.00 The World at War 6.00 Antiques Roadshow 7.00 A Pedent Planet 8.00 Bangers & Cash 9.00 Bangers & Cash. Restoring Classics. 10.00 Bangers & Cash. |
SPORT
SKY MAIN EVENT
Sky 401 Virgin 501
12noon Live 2P World Tour Golf The Danish Golf Championship 5.00 Live PGA Tour Golf: The FedEx St Jude Championship 7.00 The Transfer Show 7.30 Live Bedford Super League: Lando Rhinos v Leigh Leopards (Kickoff Rpm) 10.15 Live PGA Tour Golf: The FedEx St Jude Championship 11.00 Live Torcos
SKY PREMIER LEAGUE
Sky 402 Virgin 502
12noon Transfer Tula 1.00 Premier League Highlights 1.30 FNF 2.00 Premier League Highlights 5.00 Braziliana in the Premier League 6.00 Premier League Stories 6.30 Away From Home 7.00 The Transfer Show 8.00 Cub Heroes 8.30 Premier League Stories 9.00 Transfer IIG 10.00 Away From Home 10.30 Premier League Stories 11.00 Premier League Years
SKY CRICKET
Sky 405 Virgin 505
10.00am The Hundred 1.30pm
The Hundred Bitesize 2.00 The Hundred Bitesize 5.45 The Hundred Bitesize 5.45 The Hundred Bitesize 7.00 The Hundred 10.30 The Hundred Bitesize 11.00 The Hundred.
SKY MIX
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12noon My Icon: Libby Clegg 12.15 My Icon: Jennie Peacock 12.30 Darts Gold 12.45 Darts Top 5 Moments 1.00 NFL Highlights 2.00 30 Years of the PDC World Champa 2.30 Live Ladies European Tour Golf: The VP Bank Swiss Ladies Open 5.30 NFL Bitesize Highlights 6.00 NBC's Pro Football Talk 8.00 Formula 1 11.00 NFL Highlights
SKY SPORTS 1
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12noon TNT Sports Round 12.30 Live Snooker China Open 4.00 TNT Sports Round 4.30 Discovery Golf 5.00 CPL Highlights 5.30 MLB Highlights 6.30 Live MLB New York Yankees v Seattle
Mariners (Start-time 6.35pm). 9.30 Hard Knocks: Training Camp with the Seattle Seahawks 10.30 TNT Sports Round 11.00 UDF CHGO World Championship Highlights 11.30 TNT Sports Cricket Round.
TNT SPORTS 2
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12noon UEFA Super Cup 1.30 CPL Highlights 2.00 Live Men's Cycling Pro Series 3.30 MenGP Highlights 4.30 Ultimate Pool 6.00 UIM FHLQ World Championship Highlights 6.30 FIM Speedway Grand Prix Highlights 7.30 UEFA Super Cup 9.00 UFC Breakdown 9.30 The Verdict 10.15 UFC Countdown 11.15 UFC Rehearsal
TNT SPORTS 3
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MOVIES
FILM4
Freeview 14 Sky 313 Virgin 428 11.00am Starters to the Center of the Earth (1959) (U) 1.40pm Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon (1942) (PG) 3.00 Film4 Interview Programmes Talking Film 3.10 The True Story of Jesus James (1957) (PG) 5.00 Tolkien (2019) (12) 7.10 Moon (2009) (15) 9.00 The Woman King (2022) (15) 11.40 Anna (2019) (15) 2.00am Berberian Sound Studio (2022) (15)
GREAT ACTION
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GREAT MYSTERY
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3.00 Diagnosis Murder 5.00 Murder, She Wrote 7.00 Castle 8.00 Unforgettable 9.00 In Plain Sight 10.00 Morning Show Mysteries A Murder in Mind (2019) (PG) With Holly Robinson Peete 11.55 Hailey Dean Mysteries
GREAT ROMANCE
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SKY 2024
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11.00am One Earth After Another (2025) (15) 1.45pm Bohemian Shapiro (2020) (U) 4.00 Ocean (1978) (PG) 6.00 Greece 2 (1982) (PG) 8.00 A Star Is Born (2019) (15) With Bradley Cooper 10.25 A League of Their Own (1992) (PG)
SKY PREMIERE
Sky 320 Virgin 601
10.40am Auschwitz (2025) (12) 12.20pm Normal (2026) (15) 2.00 Seven Singers (2026) (15) 3.40 Song Sung Blue (2025) (12) 6.00 Heretic (2024) (15) Horror, starring Hugh Grant 8.00 Normal (2026) (15) Action comedy, starring Bob Odenkirk 9.40 Seven Singers (2026) (15) Thriller, starring Radha Mitchell 11.20 Primate (2025) (18) Horror, starring Johnny Despevah
TALKING PICTURES TV
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Let's go to Africa on bikes with sidecars
BACK in May 2005, my wife and I, with her twin sister and brother-in-law (all in our 50s), set off from home in Maidenhead aboard Russian 'Ural' sidecar outfits, heading overland for Morocco. After seven days of being in the sun and saddle, we arrived in Tartik, southern Spain, for the crossing by ferry to Tangier. As soon as we disembarked in Tangier port, we were detained. After a couple of hours we were allowed to leave, but only after paying various officials to overcome 'problems with paperwork' (a good tip... don't keep all your cash in your wallet!). We then headed off in the midday sun in the direction
of Rabat. As a by-product of our trip, we were also collecting for the local Air Ambulance and our 'mission' had been fulfilled by crossing into Morocco. So, after stopping briefly for a tea break, we made our way back to port to return to Spain. The journey back was in a similar vein to the trip down; spending all day in the saddle, then camping up before starting again the next morning. However, by this
point I had the added problem on my bike of an oil leak on the clutch, and spent about an hour each day with the clutch slipping before it got so hot that I was able to 'get a grip'. We eventually limped back to the top of Spain, where we caught the Pride of Bilbao back to Portsmouth, and from there we arrived home two weeks after we left. I still have my sidecar outfit, which is now a big plant pot, gently 'rusting in peace' in the garden. As someone commented at the time, 'it would have been easier to fly', but we were interested in the journey, not just the destination, and we ended up having a good old-fashioned adventure along the way.
David Cox, Maidenhead, Berks
Sign Language
I SEE NO SHIPS: I spotted this herring pull taking advantage of the 'viewing point' on Mudeford Quay, Christchurch, Gaye Slade, Southbourne, Dorset
Follow-up
IN REIGATE, Surrey, the Jersey Dairies had a bottling depot as well as a stables. They used retired circus horses to pull the carts. All worked very well for many years until one day the local army cadet corps band
marched along the next road, playing a tune to which one horse had performed in the ring. Its memory kicked in and it tried to perform again, still pulling the cart - and chased by the milkman!
R. Knight, Derby
Rhyme Of Our Times
The sun's outstayed his welcome, Please, please go away, But here we are and yet again He's coming out today. Jane Reed, Northwich, Cheshire
Limerick
If clubbers in Soho are sinking Their pints standing up, aren't you thinking It's good news? They've mastered How not to get plastered - Or they wouldn't be vertical drinking! Mike Mesterlon-Gibbons, York
Picture That!
FACIAL RECOGNITION: Someone's holding behind my bathroom curtain! Tony Quinn, Newbury, Berks
Today's poem
THE CAUTIONARY TALE OF PHONE-ADDICTED MIMI
A girl called Mimi thought it best To give her active brain a rest. She bought the latest mobile phone. The same one as her BFF, Joan, And all day long would browse and scroll. Which soon became her single goal. At school she found, as time went by, She got reliant on AI. Her homework scores were super-good, And yet her teachers understood Her faculties had ossified And neurone cells had upped and died. And then, without her mobile phone, Just the same as her BFF, Joan, She flunked her finals, one and all, And got work in the local mall. Where you will see her serving fries And burgers till the day she dies.
Paul Freeman, Nouakchott, Mauritania
Joke
I WALKED into a pub with an opera singer under my arm. 'Excuse me.' I said, 'have you got change for a tense?'
Tony Sandy, Alness, Ross-shire
LETTERS
Sex and the law
IN APRIL last year, the UK Supreme Court ruled that one's sex under the Equality Act 2019 meant the biological definition one was born with.
So why are so many public bodies and other institutions still allowing biological men to use female-only spaces? The excuse seems always to be that they are reviewing policy.
This is nonsense. The court has made its ruling and there is no need to review, only comply.
Good for JK Rowling and all those women fighting to keep their single-sex spaces.
Let's get a few institution heads up in court. They'll probably soon decide their careers and pensions are more important than virtue-signalling.
PAUL MORLEY, Long Preston, N. Yorks
Impractical view
THE debate started by Education Secretary Lucy Powell over whether the teaching of applied mathematics such as trigonometry is still relevant tells us more about her view of the world than anything else.
If you live in a world of politics, you may not need practical skills. But if you live in the real world where people design or make everyday items, you certainly do.
MICHAEL LYNCHEHAUN, Wallasey, Wirral
Dry humour
FURTHER to Roy Carman's comments (Letters) about the coincidence of droughts following Labour election wins, Burnham should of course appoint a minister for drought.
The danger is that in 2026, such a minister would probably require a taskforce, a strategy, several regional drought commissioners, an online portal and a consultation on the definition of rain. By which time autumn would have arrived.
JEANNETTE MEYERS, Ashford, Kent
Foxy fit-up
AMANDA KNOX continues to receive a great deal of animosity and lack of sympathy. To me, she is the classic victim of police 'fitting someone up' for a crime.
The real killer, Rudy Guede, in the end served only 13 years for the murder of Meredith Kercher. His DNA was found all over his victim.
Amanda Knox's DNA was found nowhere, which was partly why she was acquitted, only to be shamefully re-convicted in a retrial.
She was imprisoned for four years for a crime she did not commit! PHILIP ROBERTS, Tangfrom, Denbighs
Two-wheel terrors
ONE way for the Mayor of London to fill his coffers would be to install cameras at all pedestrian crossings.
Then every delivery bike, moped or scooter that went through on red would be filmed.
Without licence plates, the riders might not be identifiable, but the food delivery and courier companies that employ many of them would.
Once those companies found fines landing in their in-trays, they might think twice about employing people with no idea of the Highway Code.
I stood outside London Bridge station a few weeks ago, waiting for a friend, and not one rider stopped at the stop signal. I gave up counting.
ELEANOR WILLIAMS, Shepperton, Surrey
Policing challenge
WE ARE forever being told new measures are needed to combat growing crimes such as antisocial behaviour, scams, phone theft, road traffic violations and fraud.
Yet most offences are already covered by legislation. What we lack
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are the people to investigate and police them.
Surely it's time for an overhaul of the policing system with a national organisation to concentrate on the most serious crimes, a national traffic division, regional forces and local forces to tackle antisocial activities and low-level crime, relying mostly on old-style policing.
You can make as many laws as you like but without enforcement they are just a paper exercise.
DAVID LOWE, Pawlett, Somerset
Unfit to serve
A FRIEND of mine who has climbed Everest, run a London marathon and trekked through the Brazilian jungle has been told he is overqualified to be a postman.
CYRIL VERNON, Shenfield, Essex
Historical abuses
IN A report last Friday about allegations of sexual assault at the Army Foundation College (AFC) in Harrogate, an army spokesman said such behaviour had 'absolutely no place in our Armed Forces'.
Well, before becoming the AFC it was one of several army apprentice schools, like the one I joined in 1957.
In those days the courses lasted three years. The first six months was basic trade and education training, which was hard at times for us 15-year-olds, but the second six months could be hell on earth. This was when we became beholden to the whims and wishes of the senior apprentices, known as 'The Draft'.
We would find ourselves being thrown out of our beds when they returned from an evening out.
They would heat up tins of boot polish, which we had to push with our noses from one end of the barrack room to the other. We also had to clean and polish their uniforms when they were assigned guard duties.
On one occasion, one of our intake was ordered to make a snowman and when it reached an acceptable size, instructed to make love to it (not the actual language they used).
After we had completed our day's training, the permanent staff virtually disappeared and the senior apprentices were left to run riot. Nobody in authority ever did anything about it.
ERIC WATERS, Lancing, W. Sussex
Get on with it
WE ELECT governments to run the country, and they have access to all the top financial and regulatory brains. Now Andy Burnham wants to tour the UK asking people how to tackle the cost of living.
I despair. Can you imagine a top football manager canvassing ideas on tactics from people in the street?
This is a fool-dragging stunt to buy him more time, as it appears he is totally out of his depth. A general election must be on his mind now.
SIMON HOLMES, Dersingham, Norfolk
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What a dump our capital has become
RECENT Daily Mail Online reports have highlighted the deteriorating condition of central London, in particular the problems of homelessness, addiction and obvious neglect afflicting once-thriving areas that were long considered to represent the best of the city (specifically Grosvenor Gardens in Belgravia and Covent Garden). I have emailed the mayor's team about this as well as my MP, Liam Conlon, who has written to Westminster City Council. As someone who has known and lived in the Aldwych and Strand area for more than 30 years, I was distressed by what I witnessed on a trip to the theatre in Covent Garden with my 12-year-old daughter. The general decline was impossible to ignore, with pavements and other public areas filthy, smelly and visibly neglected, and in some places a strong smell of urine. An employee from McDonald's in The Strand was even having to clean the pavement outside the outlet with a mop and bucket. I'm sure my concerns are shared by many other Londoners, workers and visitors, as I know they are by local
Crashed out: A rough sleeper on the pavement near Covent Garden
businesses including The Delaney restaurant and the Waldorf hotel. These are not isolated problems but part of a broader decline that is increasingly visible across the centre of the capital, with rising levels of theft, antisocial behaviour and violent crime. It all contributes to a sense that London is struggling to uphold the standards it once proudly maintained. Its reputation is at stake. One more example: a few days ago I was followed in broad daylight by a drunken homeless man near Victoria
Station, which was unsettling, as it would have been for anyone. What's needed is a co-ordinated whole-picture review, rather than piecemeal responses. For anyone in authority to understand the problem, they need only walk through some of these areas which have become, frankly, a disgrace. London deserves better and Londoners deserve to feel safe and proud of the city they call home.
Mrs JOHANE FULLER, West Wickham, Kent
Heavy mob
WE CAN always tell when President Trump has been knocked back by the mullahs. Fairford wind up their B-IBs and off their go, flying low, loud and fast southwards over Swindon to their eventual destination.
E. HARRISON, Swindon, Wilts
Pitch invasion
WHEN and why did we stop using hectares and acres to describe area, and start using football pitches?
To those of us who have never been to a football match and have no intention of doing so, it is an utterly meaningless measurement.
LIZ PAGE,
Christchurch, Dorset
Gallic shrug
THE French have strict safety regulations before any
craft can put to sea. None of the illegal migrant dinghies conform to these, so the French are breaking their own maritime laws.
Why does our Government never refer to this fact?
Mrs D. J. McPHERSON, Newton Abbot, Devon
Right said Fred
MY PAVOURITE cricket story (Letters) involves the incomparable Yorkshire fast
bowler Freddie Trueman. He bowled to the batsman (now batter) and a thick edge was heard all over the ground. 'Not out,' says the umpire. Next ball, plumb LBW. Umpire shakes his head.
Next ball, Freddie scatters the stumps all over the field, then turns to the umpire and says: 'Nearly got him there, didn't I?'
J. T. SMITH, Hartlepool, Co. Durham
Lowering the bar
I THINK I know why the Mars bar from 35 years ago that a cleaner found was far bigger than they are now.
Back in 1991, the company was still using the advertising jingle 'a Mars a day helps you work, rest and play'. The 'work' part has obviously been removed.
ROLAND HARTLEY, Great Harwood, Lancs
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Striving to out-woke the wokest
THE Jason Arday affair makes me think back to my time as a student at Cambridge in the 1960s. What a contrast. At that time there was no department of sociology, which was considered something of a Mickey Mouse subject, more suitable for the despised redbricks or new plate-glass universities, such as Sussex. Something of this idea persisted at least as recently as 1988, in the memorable Maureen Lipman TV advert for BT. Grandma Beattie, on the phone, bears her doleful grandson's long list of O-level failures but when it
emerges that he passed pottery and sociology, she cheers up: 'He's got an ology! Anthony, you're a scientist!' While generally accepted as a serious discipline today, sociology arguably still tends to lack that hallmark of a mature subject, a universally agreed core syllabus that all students must first master, tending in some institutions to be a playground for Left-wing idealists. Just as the Conservatives once indulged in a post-Blair orgy of self-criticism ('they call us the nasty party') and at the first opportunity rushed to de-nastily
their image, so Cambridge has been at pains not to be a 'nasty uni' and striven to out-woke the wokest. In so doing, it has made itself look ridiculous. Professor Arday could never have risen to the top in economics, law, history or physics.
STEVE TANNER, Carmarthen
JASON ARDAY is no match for an old workmate of mine. A visiting friend noticed he had a huge wooden tool chest in his garage and asked where he'd got it. He replied that it was from France. At the end of the war, he'd swum the Channel with it on his back.
BRIAN SWORD, Morpeth, Northumberland
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■ DON'T like prison life (Letters)? Then don't do the crime.
SUE BARRON, Cramlington, Northumberland
■ WHY don't those in power look after the decent folk?
KEITH JEFFERY, Chatham, Kent
■ WHAT has the BBC done for Romesh Ranganathan? He should ask his bank manager.
B. C. BURROW, Crewe, Cheshire
■ WITH prison overcrowding in the news, is Ian Beale cell-blocking?
ED CAWLEY, Formby, Lancs
■ IT'S time to join the Native Americans in their rain dance.
DAVID KAYE, Haywards Heath, W. Sussex
■ DOESN'T France have child protection laws?
TANYA CLOSS JONES, Langstone, Gwent
■ TRUMP says it would be a mistake to remove Gianni Infantino. If FIFA do, will he threaten to take them back to the Stone Age?
KEITH DAY, Gornal Wood, W. Mids
■ DID Starmer leave Andy his hard hat and high-vis jacket?
CAROL ROSENBERG-FOX, Stevenage, Herts
■ THE boats are still coming, Andy.
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QUESTION What is the story of the 1960s musical group Hedgehoppers Anonymous?
THE beat band Hedgehoppers Anonymous was formed by five Royal Air Force men, Mike Tinsley, John Stewart, Tony Cockayne, Ray Honeyball and Leslie Dash in 1963.
The men were all ground crew stationed at RAF Wittering, just off the A1 near the town of Stamford, not far from Peterborough.
Originally called The Trendsetters, the group soon became known as The Hedgehoppers and Cockayne left the band, replaced by a non-RAF man, Alan Laud.
The name Hedgehoppers came from the V bombers (Vulcans) of the time who, it was said, would fly low to avoid radar detection.
The group came to Cambridge in 1965 to play at the Corn Exchange and there met undergraduate Jonathan (Kenneth) King, who suggested they add 'Anonymous' to their band name. Decca had released one of the songs King had written and sung, Everyone's Gone To The Moon, and offered the group one of his other songs. That track was It's Good News Week and, produced by King, Decca released it in September 1965. It reached No5 in the UK charts.
Shortly afterwards, Dash and Honeyball were forced to officially leave the band as they were unable to obtain discharges from the RAF. The two men were replaced by Tom Fox and Glenn Martin.
In 1966, I was 17 and my dad was posted to RAF Wittering where local groups played on a Wednesday at the station's A1 Club. Schoolboys like me would go to the club and mix with the airmen. Up-and-coming bands like Marmalade played there and I'm sure that The Hedgehoppers did too at some stage.
When I went to Cambridge in 1971, my college was close to The Baron Of Beef pub in Bridge Street where some of us drank. This story of King (who also used to drink at the pub) and the Hedgehoppers was confirmed to me there by locals.
Dr Peter Rowan, Norwich
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From the RAF to the charts
Hopping up to No5: the band in March 1966 featuring, from left, John Stewart, Glenn Martin, Mike Tinsley, Alan Laud and Tom Fox
QUESTION If someone has already had shingles as an adult, would having the shingles vaccine give any positive effect?
SHINGLES is a common condition that causes a painful rash, and can sometimes lead to problems such as long-lasting pain and slight loss. It is an infection of a nerve and the skin around it, and is caused by a reactivation of the varicella zoster virus, which causes chickenpox.
This virus can lay dormant in your body for decades after having chickenpox or the chickenpox vaccine but you're more likely to develop shingles if you are elderly or have a severely weakened immune system.
Those who have had shingles as an adult are unlikely to have it again, but it is far from impossible, so vaccinations are recommended by health authorities. It can even come back a third time, particularly in those who have weakened immune systems.
You're least likely to develop shingles in the years immediately after having it – even less likely than if you'd never had it. As time goes on, the likelihood of it returning increases.
The shingles vaccine is available on the NHS to anyone turning 65, those between 70 and 79, and people 18 and over who have a weakened immune system.
Chickenpox mostly affects children, while shingles mostly affects mature adults and, while chickenpox normally clears up in one or two weeks without needing to see a GP shingles recovery takes roughly twice that time, but the process can be helped by taking advice from a pharmacist.
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QUESTION When and how did the Atlantic and Pacific oceans get their names?
ATLANTIC is the older of the two names. Ancient Greek writers as far back as the fifth century BC referred to the vast sea beyond the Strait of Gibraltar as the 'Sea of Atlas' (Atlantikos Pelagos). Atlas was the Titan in Greek mythology who was condemned to hold up the heavens for eternity. The association was helped by the Atlas Mountains in north-west Africa, which were also linked to the legendary Titan.
To the Greeks, this part of the world lay on the western edge of the known world, so the sea beyond naturally became associated with him.
The Pacific Ocean, by contrast, did not receive its name until the 18th century. In 1520, the Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan, sailing on behalf of Spain, navigated the dangerous passage at the southern tip of South America that now bears his name.
After weeks of battling rough seas, he emerged into a surprisingly calm stretch of ocean. Struck by the contrast, he called it 'Mare Pacificum', Latin for 'peaceful sea'.
In truth, the Pacific is anything but peaceful. It is the world's largest and deepest ocean and is home to the seismically active Ring of Fire, where earthquakes, volcanoes and tsunamis are common. But Magellan's first impression proved memorable, and the name stuck.
Colin McPherson, Glasgow
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Enjoy with crusty bread and salad. Serves 4 Ingredients
Ingredients
50ml olive oil
2 tbsp capers, plus a splash of the brine
2 tsp caraway seeds
1 tsp fennel seeds
2 garlic cloves, grated
2 tbsp red wine vinegar
15g oregano, leaves picked
4 chicken legs
8 figs, halved
2 red onions, thickly sliced
Crusty bread and salad, to serve
Method
1 Combine the olive oil, capers and a splash of their brine, the caraway and fennel seeds, garlic, vinegar and oregano in a large bowl, and season well.
2 Cut a few slashes into each chicken leg to help the marinade penetrate. Season lightly, then add the chicken and figs to the marinade and toss to coat. Chill for at least 2 hrs, or up to 8 hrs.
3 Heat the oven to 220C/fan 200C/gas 8. Put the marinated chicken and figs in a large roasting tin lined with baking parchment, and toss with the onions. Roast for 45 mins, or until the chicken skin is golden and crisp and the figs and onions are jammy. Serve with crusty bread and salad.
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FTSE 100 10833.15 11.04 0.10% NASDAQ 100 29742.60 217.12 0.74% GOLD $4428.53 38.65 0.88% FTSE 250 24814.88 15.13 0.06% S&P 500 7748.50 20.30 0.26% OIL $88.90 0.65 0.74% £/$ 1.3510 0.0000 £/€ 1.1706 0.0000
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LABOUR TAX RAID CRIPPLES WILLIAM HILL
WILLIAM Hill has closed more than a fifth of its betting shops with the loss of hundreds of jobs as it is battered by the tax raid on the gambling industry.
Owner Evoke cut its sites by 278, or 21.4pc, to 1,024 in the year to the end of June – with around 200 closures in May.
That followed Rachel Reeves' decision to raise remote gaming duty from 21pc to 40pc in April this year with the levy on online sports betting also set to jump from 15pc to 25pc. The tax hikes trig-
gered betting shop closures and a proposed £243m takeover of Evoke by Greek gambling firm Bally's Intralot.
Evoke yesterday said it paid an extra £46m in duties in the first half of 2026, mostly as a result of the UK tax changes, as it posted losses of £80m for the period.
It came days after figures from the Betting and Gaming Council (BGC) showed more than 540 betting shops have closed, with 4,500 jobs lost, since the Budget.
Prime Minister Andy Burnham sparked
further anger this week when he lumped 'betting shops' in with vape shops and 'dodgy businesses linked to organised crime' as he outlined plans to save Britain's 'hollowed-out' high streets.
Shadow culture minister Louie French said: 'Andy Burnham has disgracefully suggested betting and betting shops, which millions enjoy safely, are dodgy. Labour's morality police are wrong to think people will stop gambling.
'It will only fuel the illegal market,
which is a lose-lose result for consumers, sports and the Government.' BGC chief executive Grainne Hurst added: 'More shops are set to disappear, taking jobs, investment and tax revenues with them.
'These are real businesses and real livelihoods paying the price. The Government cannot tax an industry into decline and expect to raise more. Fewer shops and jobs mean a smaller tax base, less money for sport and horse racing, and a weaker regulated sector.'
Iran war threatens to crush UK economy
Treasury officials warn growth could slow to just 0.3pc
By Hugo Duncan
ANDY Burnham has been warned that the UK economy will grind to a halt if Donald Trump presses on with his war on Iran – just as repeated heatwaves hit output.
Treasury officials predict growth will slow to 0.3pc in 2027 if the Strait of Hormuz remains effectively closed for the rest of this year due to the conflict.
That would be the worst performance since 2023, when Britain was in the grip of a cost-of-living shock following Russia's invasion of Ukraine, and well below the 1.6pc expansion that has been forecast by the Office for Budget Responsibility.
The internal forecast also warns inflation could rise from 2.6pc to 4.3pc in the first quarter of 2027, hitting living standards.
The Treasury briefing, reported by Bloomberg, came as Iran and the US remain at loggerheads over a permanent end to the war in the Gulf.
And it represents a major
SUMMER HOUSING BLUES
THE housing market remains stuck in a rut as weak demand hits sales and prices.
A report by industry body the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) showed new buyer inquiries fell in July amid fears over high mortgage costs and house prices.
Sales dipped, as did prices, with London, the South East and South West worst hit. The
report comes just days after the boss of housebuilding company Bellway called for a cut in stamp duty and a new Help to Buy scheme to revive the moribund market.
RICS chief economist Simon Rubinsohn said: 'It is clear that the combination of geopolitics, the domestic political climate and the cost of mortgage finance is continuing to weigh on sentiment.'
headache for Burnham and his Chancellor John Healey (pictured) ahead of a Budget in October that analysts warn could see £25bn of tax hikes to fund lavish spending plans.
Any slowdown – such as the one outlined by Treasury officials – would blow a fresh hole in public finances as tax receipts fall and welfare payments rise. And surging inflation would
undermine the Government's efforts to help households with the cost of living.
Official figures today are expected to show growth slowed in the second quarter of the year, following an expansion of 0.6pc in the first three months.
It is feared the
economy ground to a halt in June, with no growth, raising the prospect of a painful bout of 'stagflation' and further undermining the claims of ex-Chancellor Rachel Reeves to have left Britain on a firm footing.
Burnham and Healey have also been warned that heatwaves are taking a toll as productivity tumbles, high street sales wilt, and drought damages harvests and threatens food shortages.
Martin Beck, an economist at WPI Strategy, estimated the hot weather has cost the UK economy around £3bn, while green think-tank Verdant put the figure at £4.4bn.
The oil price remained close to $90 a barrel last night amid disruption to shipping through the Strait of Hormuz, through which a fifth of global oil and gas supplies passed before the war.
And the International Energy Agency yesterday warned 'global stockpiles of oil were rapidly depleting' due to the conflict.
Rate reprieve for Fed as US prices cool
THE new head of the US Federal Reserve is set to avoid a clash with Donald Trump as cooling inflation eases pressure on the central bank to raise interest rates.
Official figures yesterday showed consumer prices climbed 3.4pc in the year to July – down from 3.5pc the previous month.
The drop suggested the Fed and its new chairman Kevin Warsh will keep US interest rates in the range of 3.5pc to 3.75pc next month.
That would avert a clash with Trump, who has argued for lower rates since becoming president.
'No nasty surprises means Warsh can maintain his wait-and-see bias,' said Matt Cornwell, a portfolio manager at Nedgroup Investments. The report followed news last week of surprise job losses in July, and suggested limited effects of the oil price shock sparked by the Middle East conflict.
But economists said a rate rise remained on the table as inflation was above the Fed's 2pc target.
'The report should further ease the Fed's fears about an energy-driven inflation spiral,' said Scott Anderson, chief US economist at BMO Capital Markets.
'The Fed will need to see more evidence that core services inflation is truly moderating before they take their rate hike threat completely off the table.'
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Harvey Nicks survival plan
MIKE Ashley's first swing at Britain's luxury market didn't go well in 2002 when he bought Britain's upmarket sports emporium Lillywhites.
At the time it was favoured by Wimbledon stars, athletes and independent schools. He stocked the lower floors at the Piccadilly store with rows of T-shirts and Sports Direct rescue brands such as Everlast. The cachet was ruined.
In 2019 the Sports Direct founder made an unsuccessful attempt to dump the enterprise when the leaseholder demanded a higher rent.
Ashley and his son-in-law Michael Murray learned lessons. Value sports clothing and equipment remain at the core of Frasers Group, but there has been elevation, with depleted home-grown brands selling alongside Nike, Adidas and Hugo Boss (currently under siege from Ashley).
The consequence is better-looking stores, improved margins and a trading profit above £1bn. Strong cash flow gives 72pc-owners Ashley and Murray the funds to invest in bigger, better stores.
They continue with an onslaught on the
UK high street and online shopping through stakes in Aioa, AG World, THG, Hugo Boss, as well as overseas sports retailers from Norway to Australia.
In Frasers' sights this week is the ultimate high-fashion stores group Harvey Nichols, known for its eye-catching window displays and Fifth Floor dining.
For many years it lived off its Absolutely Fabulous TV show reputation. It has become a loss-maker and owner Dickson Poon has had enough.
Sky reports that Frasers is close to snatching the group, with stores in UK regions including Manchester and Leeds, out of insolvency.
The key to success will be to avoid the muddled Lillywhites route. Ashley needs
to convince fussy luxury suppliers such as Balmain, Armani, Cartier, Max Mara and Ralph Lauren that he is a suitable owner.
A dominant role at Hugo Boss and ownership of Savile Row tailor sleeves & Hawkes might help. They need Frasers' cash as much as he needs them.
There will be pledges about employment, but there can be no guarantee the stores portfolio will remain intact.
Earlier this summer Frasers closed its central Birmingham store (the former Rackhamis). Running department stores is no breeze, as we learnt from John Lewis this week when boss Peter Ruiz quit.
The future of London and UK regions as a great place to shop for the best brands is being held hostage by HM Treasury. The UK's 'tourist tax' on overseas shoppers' gifts is an advantage to Paris and Milan.
If Andy Burnham is serious about supporting regions, building better high streets and preserving jobs, then tax refunds for visitors would be an early win.
Cambridge lift-off
THE intense focus on Professor Jason Arday and Cambridge recruitment should not divert attention from the university's enormous contribution to science, research and innovation.
It has emerged that Cambridge Aero-
space, a start-up building low-cost air defences against drones and missiles, and playing a key role in wars in Ukraine and the Middle East, has leapt in value.
Founded just two years ago by Steve Barrett, an aerospace engineer based at the university, it has just raised £500m to ramp up its R&D and manufacturing.
It places a value of £4.4bn on the enterprise. The firm has landed contracts in the UK and aroused interest in Germany, Poland, Ukraine and Australia.
Skylhammer, a no-frills interceptor capable of knocking out Iran's Shahed drones, is already on the market.
Cambridge Aerospace plans a device to destroy higher-value missiles by 2027. Pity, then, that most funding comes from California's DFJ Growth, rather than the UK.
Bonfire of rules
RACHEL Reeves has vanished from the Treasury, but efforts to shake up UK regulators live on.
The Competition & Markets Authority review of restrictions on corporate Britain imposed over a quarter of a century covers everything from ice cream to the BBC, retail banking and package holidays.
Changing circumstances, such as a big drop in terrestrial TV audiences, mean they can be swept into the sea. Bravo!
MIDDLE EAST WAR SPARKS MORE TURBULENCE FOR TUI
EUROPE'S largest travel operator Tui suffered a slump in profits as the Iran war pushed up costs and unsettled consumers who are waiting to book holidays late.
Profits sank 43pc to £13m in the three months to the end of June as rising fuel costs and pressure to cut prices hit its bottom line.
Customer numbers fell 3pc to 9.9m and revenue by 5.6pc to £3bn.
Shares, listed in Germany, dropped 1pc. Boss Sebastian Ebel said the war had influenced the
timing of purchasing decisions, although bookings over the past four weeks were up 7pc.
Recent heatwaves have had a limited impact on Tui, which runs cruise ships, hotels and airlines.
Dan Coatsworth, head of markets at AJ Bell, said: 'The failure of US-Iran peace talks has thrown a spanner in the works for the industry. Tui is keeping its chin up, saying people are still travelling.
'Investors aren't buying into management's confidence.'
Balfour Beatty shares hit record as profits surge
By Angharad Carrick
SHARES in HS2 contractor Balfour Beatty soared to a record high yesterday as it cashed in on major infrastructure projects.
The FTSE 250 firm said it 'enters the second half with real momentum' after profits jumped 46pc to £139m in the first six months of the year.
The company nudged its annual profit forecasts higher and now expects 'low double-digit percentage growth' having previously penciled in 'high single-digit growth'.
Shares rose 12pc before falling back slightly to close 7.1pc, or 61p higher, at 926.8p - taking gains this year to 30pc.
The stock has almost tripled in value in the past five years, having lost about a third of its value in the previous 14 years.
Balfour, which works on public and private sector projects in the transport, energy and defence sectors, is a major
contractor on the HS2 railway, where it is building viaducts and tunnels along a 55-mile stretch in the West Midlands, as well as the Old Oak Common station in London.
It has also been bolstered by increased Government spending on power grid improvements in the UK, and is involved in the Hinkley Point C and Sizewell C nuclear power station projects and the construction of Net Zero Teesside, which is aiming to be the world's first gas-fired power
station with carbon capture and storage.
Increased defence spending has provided a further benefit as has a rise in demand at its US buildings division.
Chief executive Philip Hoare added: 'We have continued to secure high-quality work, drive profitability and generate strong cash flow.'
Adam Vettese, market analyst for eToro, said: 'This is exactly the kind of de-risked, high-visibility business the market wants now, with major UK energy and defence programmes still to flow into the order book, and a healthy pipeline of US work.'
Balfour raised its interim dividend by 7pc to 4.7p per share.
'This is yet more good news for shareholders, who have been rewarded in spades for their patience after years of miserable share price performance,' said Chris Beauchamp, chief market analyst at IG.
By Emily Hawkins
MIKE Ashley hopes to announce a takeover of Harvey Nichols as soon as today following talks over jobs and stores.
The retail tycoon, whose Frasers Group empire includes Flannels and Sports Direct, is closing in on a deal to buy the department store chain
Sports Direct tycoon closes in on rescue deal for Harvey Nichols
through a pre-pack insolvency - and it could be announced today, according to Sky News. Ashley is set to take on nearly all of its shops, including its flag-
ship in London, plus stores in Birmingham, Bristol, Edinburgh, Manchester, Leeds, Riyadh, Dubai, Hong Kong and Kuwait. But he may not buy its Dublin
store. The chain has 1,200 staff in the UK, who have faced uncertainty since owner Dickson Poon put it up for sale in June. Ashley has said Harvey Nicks is
'in a death spiral' and expects it to be sold for less than £40m.
In its heyday, fans included Princess Diana and 'Sloane Rangers'. Creative director Mary Portas did a deal with TV show Absolutely Fabulous where its fashionista characters wore its clothes and mentioned it, making it trendy. But it has not made a profit in five years.
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| BAE Systems | 32/5 | +4 | 220 |
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| Grindl | 583+2 | -6 | 571+ |
| Delta-Royce | 1545+2 | +3 | 1570+ |
| Garcia | 262+ | - | 211 |
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| Barrett Gannister | 1386 | +4 | 1428 |
| Bertinger | 1184+2 | +3+ | 1324+ |
| HEBE Hldgs | 1521+ | +3+ | 1581+ |
| Low Finance | 1273+ | +8 | 1238+ |
| Locks Banking | 1154+2 | +7+ | 1174+ |
| Metro Bank | 1781+ | +5+ | 1784+ |
| Marlboro Group | 1764 | +7+ | 1784+ |
| Star-Chartered | 1225+2 | +8 | 1228 |
| TBC Bank | 1408 | +8 | 1438 |
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| Beer Hill | 862 | -4 | 778 |
| Cross-City HBC | 1404 | +9 | 1173 |
| Chugos | 1732 | +9 | 1217 |
| Chemicals | |||
| Crude Health | 2358 | -6 | 2022 |
| Demetals | 184 | +5 | 1871 |
| Johnson Med. | 2372 | +2 | 2388 |
| Chow | 1411 | +1 | 1521 |
| Construction & Materials | |||
| Balfour Beauty | 835+ | +5 | 604 |
| Brentish | 263+ | +4 | 74 |
| Garcia Group | 263+ | +4 | 1864 |
| Gruber Op. | 1584+ | +4+ | 1584+ |
| Brooks | 82 | +5+ | 1454 |
| Roller Group | 1922 | +7+ | 1644 |
| Kiar Group | 2511+ | +2 | 2521 |
| Holzler | 615 | -2 | 719 |
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| SEX | 1201+2 | +2+ | 2701 |
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| Morgan Advanced | 2521 | +1 | 2571 |
| Orchid Instruments | 2026+2 | +4 | 2022 |
| Recolver | 1210 | +2+ | 1420 |
| Equity Investment Instruments | |||
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| Alpertin Serv Cos. | 1730+2 | - | 1736 |
| ALTM | 615 | +3 | 643 |
| Alliance Motor | 1387 | +1 | 1387 |
| Allianz Tech. | 732 | +2 | 758 |
| Alstom India | 2571 | - | 2861 |
| Arti Gupta Purn | 261 | +1 | 2721 |
| Balbir 2ST Japan | 1574 | +2 | 1585 |
| Balbir 2ST Japan | 1574 | +2 | 1585 |
| Balbir 2ST US | 2541 | +1 | 2851 |
| Barnes Inc. | 1524 | +1 | 1524 |
| Brillstone | 425+ | -2 | 425+ |
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| California Credit | 75+ | 74+ | 80+ |
| BlackRock Grn | 281+2 | +1 | 1641 |
| BMN/MN/MA | 1,888 | +5 | 1748 |
| BR Greater Eur. | 818 | +1 | 624 |
| Blumen | 1,584+2 | +1 | 1572 |
| Caledonia Inc. | 365+ | -2 | 428 |
| City of London IT | 581+2 | -2 | 597 |
| Edin Inv Trust | 851 | -4 | 881 |
| Edin Watch | 2591 | +2+ | 2901 |
| East Del Co. | 2374 | +1 | 2461 |
| FAO Inv Trust | 3441 | +1 | 2811 |
| Finley's Grn | 2651 | -2 | 2321 |
| Finley's Grn | 1,683 | +2+ | 1592 |
| Finley's Eur. | 442 | - | 443 |
| Finley's Spns Ltd. | 474 | +1 | 476+ |
| Finley's Spd. Ltd. | 883 | -3 | 878 |
| Finley's Spd. Ltd. | 84 | -4 | 84+ |
| GFP Hlth Inc. | 8264 | - | 8311 |
| Global Smaller | 1854 | +1+ | 1871 |
| Greencoat UK | 1124 | +1 | 1151 |
| First Business | 3425 | -3 | 3432 |
| Heilander Sim Co. | 867 | +2 | 887 |
| Heilal Inv Trust | 3045 | +3 | 3092 |
| Heil Capital Trust | 403 | +3 | 508 |
| HCC Int. | 1371 | +1 | 1384 |
| IGS Enterprises | 1,683 | +2+ | 1608 |
| Invesco Asia | 482 | +1 | 518 |
| JPM American | 1,245 | - | 1258 |
| JPM Grouping Markets | 1,844 | +1+ | 1901 |
| JPM Euro Gas | 683 | - | 683 |
| JPM Japan IT | 802 | +1 | 802 |
| Jupler Fund | 1,604 | +1 | 1611 |
| Law Distribute | 1,509 | -2 | 1379 |
| JMD | 2611 | +1 | 2641 |
| Merchants IT | 2651 | +1 | 2681 |
| Merchants Trust | 4764 | -2 | 4885 |
| Metter Ventures | 6771 | +2+ | 6711 |
| Metter Inv. Inc. | 1,636 | +1 | 1658 |
| Merger Select | 4632 | +2+ | 3538 |
| Murray Inv. Ltd. | 1,584 | +1 | 1524 |
| Murray Inv. Ltd. | 2814 | +1 | 2711 |
| Net design Products | 4124 | +1 | 4152 |
| Next Energy Solar | 514 | - | 704 |
| Nearly One | 2181 | +2+ | 2091 |
| Opting Capital Inc. | 524 | -2 | 576 |
| Pacific Horizon | 1104 | +2+ | 1252 |
| Pacifano Ultra | 1114 | - | 1164 |
| Pacifano Inc. | 4611 | +1 | 4671 |
| Partners Group | 612 | -4 | 942 |
| Paris Private | 586 | +2+ | 618 |
| Peering Square | 3808 | +2+ | 3208 |
| Peering Square | 3511 | - | 3527 |
| PepsiCo Austin II | 551 | - | 553 |
| Petri Cap. Inc. | 551 | - | 553 |
| Petri Cap. Inc. | 677 | +1+ | 7331 |
| Petri-Brown | 835 | - | 864 |
| Renewables Intra | 774 | +1+ | 794 |
| RIT Cap Partners | 2623 | +2+ | 2633 |
| Schroder Asia | 838 | +1+ | 888 |
| Schroder Oriental | 4671 | +2+ | 4681 |
| Scot American Inv. | 565 | -5 | 573 |
| Scot American Inv. | 1,565 | -5 | 1,565 |
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| Orchid | 2559 | +15.59% | |
| Ceres Power | 485p | +11.75% | |
| Balfour Beauty | 926.5p | +7.05% | |
| Molten Ventures | 677.5p | +3.04% | |
| Shattlesbury | 149.4p | +3.03% | |
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| Secusta Econ Hlth | 80 red | +1 | 87+ |
| Spocora | 1571 | +1 | 1584 |
| Singapore Eur. | 2181 | +1 | 1592 |
| Twentishur | 1571 | +1 | 1584 |
| Venture Smt | 730 | +8 | 848 |
| Westgate Metro | 4501 | +1 | 4894 |
| Worcester | 3651 | +1 | 3871 |
| Food Producers | |||
| Asian Bi-Filands | 2043 | -28 | 2337 |
| Crosswell | 3190 | +18 | 3008 |
| Greencox | 2624 | +2+ | 2651 |
| Metro Food Sp. | 685 | +15 | 648 |
| Pharma Foods | 1821 | +1+ | 2004 |
| Priscus Group | 2011 | +1 | 478 |
| Sun & Lyle | 1624 | +1 | 1608 |
| Outcom | 4772 | +2+ | 5472 |
| Commercial | |||
| Asian Bi-Filands | 2813 | +17 | 4438 |
| Chasea Sp. | 2251 | +1 | 2891 |
| Bridgeport Group | 2381 | +1 | 3481 |
| Capital Gaming | 627 | +2 | 641 |
| CMC Markets | 884 | +1 | 788 |
| Clade Group | 84 | +1 | 85+ |
| Contact Digital Infect | 1221 | +1 | 1241 |
| Freeway Group | 488 | -1 | 502 |
| Harus Investment | 2384 | -1 | 346 |
| ICCL | 2052 | -2 | 2032 |
| IG Up | 1364 | -28 | 1508 |
| Integrate | 395 | +1+ | 395 |
| Intl Public Privates | 142 | - | 1041 |
| Investec | 6701 | +1 | 678 |
| IP Group | 711 | +1 | 711 |
| JTC | 1338 | -1 | 1368 |
| London Stock Ex. | 8752 | -54 | 8882 |
| Man Group | 2184 | +1+ | 218 |
| Min-Monets Serv. | 425 | -4 | 427 |
| OSB Group | 310 | +4 | 1421 |
| Paragon | 1971 | +2+ | 2051 |
| Pacifist | 2702 | -84 | 5378 |
| Quiter | 1984 | +1 | 2061 |
| Reptance Grp | 1684 | -8 | 2268 |
| Ryder Investment | 298 | +1+ | 2101 |
| Schroder | 3824 | +1 | 3851 |
| SECL (Sbiance) | 384 | +1 | 63 |
| Seraphim Space | 1821 | +1+ | 2701 |
| Temple Bio | 425 | -4 | 428 |
| TP Corp | 3251 | +1+ | 3581 |
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| Raspberry Pi | 675p | -4.39% | |
| Hays | 64.9p | -4.28% | |
| Burberry | 1120.5p | -4.23% | |
| Patria Private | 598p | -4.17% | |
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| Retail Care Equipment & Services | |||
| Amgen | 2000p | -2 | 2000 |
| Global Biomedics | 4821 | +2+ | 3918 |
| WHA & Water | 1000p | +1+ | 1478 |
| Soya Foods | 250 | - | 258 |
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| Belknap | 2748 | +8 | 2808 |
| Berkeley Grp | 3048 | -6 | 4438 |
| ComS Petroleum | 87 | +1 | 178 |
| Emerson | 1180p | +1+ | 1643 |
| Supra Display | 801 | +1 | 1151 |
| Star & Lyle | 1624 | +1 | 1761 |
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| Cartoon | 4899 | -24 | 5118 |
| Cope | 4811 | - | 4711 |
| Automobile | |||
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| Globalists | 881 | +1 | 1511 |
| Scrabber | 1982p | +2+ | 2923 |
| Intl & Death | 2905 | +2+ | 3098 |
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| Signal Group | 7215 | -15 | 7603 |
| Metrolux | 4211 | +1+ | 503 |
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66 Daily Mail Sport ATHLETICS: EUROPEAN CHAMPIONSHIPS
Hudson-Smith defends his caution take a crown
By PAUL MARTIN
MATTHEW Hudson-Smith soared to European gold on his home track last night — then headed straight to the stand that bears his name.
The 31-year-old has trained on the Alexander Stadium track since he was a boy and made use of his local knowledge to surge to 400 metres glory in 44.17sec.
Hudson-Smith celebrated by soaking up the acclaim of an adoring Second City crowd who were able to hail a third British gold in as many nights.
'Words can't describe how much that meant to me,' he said. '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 one of these guys. It was just me against the clock.'
Hudson-Smith's semi-final the previous night saw him surge out the traps before being reeled in on the home straight.
It turned out he was just saving energy. Lining up in the outside lane, Hudson-Smith took control from the outset and built his lead as he surged down the back straight. This time there was no catching him and he landed his fifth European title.
The whole point of rounds is to survive and advance... I just followed the game plan and went from there.'
Five European golds puts him level with Roger Black and Sir Mo Farah, while only Dina Asher-Smith has won more continental medals among British athletes. It marked the host nation's third gold of this year's event, following on from
King of the track: Hudson-Smith shows off his 400m gold medal in his home stadium
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Amy Hunt and Romell Glave's 100m triumphs.
Hunt kept her bid for a remarkable European quadruple on track by easing into tonight's 200m final. The newly crowned fastest woman on the continent over 100m was able to ease up in the home straight after a flying start and won her semi in 22.37sec.
'I would give that a solid eight (out of 10)', said Hunt, who won World Championship 200m silver in Tokyo last year.
'I knew I needed to put down a really hard turn, kill them to 150m and no one was going to
hang with me. To be relaxed and happy is the biggest thing. It's about trying to stay social and not get yourself too serious. You can kill yourself doing that.'
Asher-Smith joins Hunt in the showpiece after a similarly stress-free semi. The 30-year-old, a world and European champion over this distance in the past, cruised to victory in the opening semi-final in 22.49.
'I don't think about what's gone before or what lies ahead, I'm just trying to stay in the moment,' said Asher-Smith.
British champion Success Eduan advanced as one of two
fastest losers in 22.56sec to ensure all three home hopefuls will be on the startline.
Elsewhere, Max Burgin is relishing the prospect of an Anglo-Irish battle for gold tonight. The 24-year-old won yesterday's opening men's 800m semi-final in 1:44.73 before Ireland's Mark English smashed a 48-year-old Championship record as he clocked 1:43.49, setting up a tantalising tussle to be crowned continental king.
'A Championship record in a semi-final is amazing,' said Burgin. 'I hope it took it out of him a little bit!'
Root: Be smart, be sensible... be an adult
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case to answer following the Cricket Regulator's probe into him being in a Chelsea nightclub post-midnight following a Lord's Test win over New Zealand because he did not believe a curfew was in place once a match had finished. Following that, any member of full England squads were to inform management if they intended to be outside of the team hotel by 90pm.
However, Root insisted: 'Be adults, look after yourselves, look after each other, create a good, strong culture where you know when the right time is to celebrate and enjoy a win or to have a sensible beer, but remember — you've got to play for England.'
'I don't want people to feel like they can't enjoy winning a Test match because they want to have a beer or, at the right time, let their hair down and then that's absolutely fine.'
'We're human beings. You know what your responsibilities are, you know how you need to prepare for a Test match and what it takes, and the effects that these things can have on you. So be smart, be sensible, and just be an adult.'
An ECB spokesman told Daily Mail Sport: '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. We will ensure all players have a clear understanding of expectations when they come together for the upcoming Test series.' Last week, Stokes denied the England team has a problem with alcohol, but instead said: 'Cricket has a drinking culture and that has not changed. It has just stayed there and has been embedded within the sport.'
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Borthwick shows his hand
NORTHAMPTON lock Alex Coles was one of five new players handed an England enhanced elite player squad (EPS) contract yesterday as Steve Borthwick showed his World Cup hand. National head coach Borthwick named a 25-man list with Coles, Seb Atkinson, Jack van Poortvliet, Asher Opoku-Fordjour and Guy Pepper the fresh faces. Ollie Lawrence, Tom Roebuck and Elliot Daly were the headline names to drop out of the party from the one named this time last year. The same fate befell former
RUGBY UNION
By ALEX BYWATER
Saracens No8 Tom Willis, who did not play for England in the 2025-26 campaign after ruling himself out of contention by agreeing to join French giants Bordeaux. An EPS contract is worth in the region of £150,000 to each player and is paid by the RFU on top of the player's club salary. They do not get an England match fee but it means they are managed more closely by Borthwick and his staff. An EPS contract
is no guarantee of Test selection but it provides a clue as to what Borthwick is thinking a little more than a year out from next year's World Cup in Australia. Despite a poor 2026 and what was statistically England's worst Six Nations in history, Borthwick has kept the faith with the core of his squad. Coles' EPS deal reflects his growing status at Test level. The 26-year-old impressed at this summer's Nations Championship in place of captain Maro Itoje, rested with the World Cup in mind.
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By OLLIE LEWIS
LIONEL MESSI has hinted he will retire from football following the death of his father, Jorge. Jorge, an integral figure in the career of his legendary son, died last week following a battle with illness that overshadowed the Argentina captain's mesmerising World Cup campaign in the United States, in which he led his team to the final. Messi (right), who broke down in tears following Argentina's group-stage win over Algeria while Jorge's health was deteriorating, has shared a heartbreaking letter to his father on Instagram — in which he casts doubt over his playing future. 'Dad, I still can't believe you're gone. It hasn't sunk in yet, or rather, I don't want to accept it. It's very difficult for me to imagine never seeing you again, never
Heartbroken Messi may retire after father's death
talking to you again. I know you were suffering and that this is for the best, but you left too soon. We still had so much to enjoy together. 'I don't know what I'll do without you. I don't know how to go on. I only played football and now I have serious doubts I'll continue doing that for much longer. 'You were by my side from the beginning, it was so close to the end. Why couldn't you hold on that little bit longer and we could have finished together?' Messi revealed his father was the driving force behind his decision to
play at this summer's World Cup. He said: 'You kept asking me to play in the last World Cup and just a few days before it started, you got worse. It was the first time you wouldn't be in a tournament, but Mom kept telling me you would get better and be well enough to travel. I told you we were going to reach the final so you could travel. 'Every time a game ended, I waited and missed your message. That's when I realised the situation was really serious. Even so, I couldn't stop
thinking about going as far as possible to give you time and for you to see a game. 'We reached the final and you couldn't be there. I wanted to win it to bring it to you and show you a new one. I couldn't, my legs couldn't take it anymore. This time I tried to go against my physical limitations, but I couldn't. I never managed to feel well. 'When I arrived, you thought we'd lost the final on penalties. We couldn't talk about anything that happened. You couldn't enjoy any of it. We didn't win, but you don't know how much we enjoyed every game. Once again, you were right: I had to be there and play. 'I'm telling you this because it was the only thing we couldn't talk about, because you know everything else.' Messi, 39, missed Inter Miami's defeat by Monterrey on Sunday to return home in the wake of his father's passing, and thanked fans for their well wishes.
City are better Ethad! I don't (yes, I call)!
Why losing World Cup's best player isn't all bad
RODRI is due back in Manchester tomorrow. Planned back surgery after winning the World Cup meant Spain's captain was afforded two days more away than anyone else who went the distance in the United States.
But given the rehabilitation he needs to complete and the harsh reality that his future lies away from Manchester City, it would not be a great surprise if the 2024 Ballon d'Or winner did not make a return to the building for regular pre-season testing.
City are braced for yet more haggling with Barcelona and want more than $60million for a central midfielder in the final year of his contract and who was awarded player of the tournament last month. Rodri often looked physically shot last season yet was imperious at international level in America.
There is a balance to strike for director of football Hugo Viana in making sure City maximise his value while also realising that this orchestrated exit — heavily signposted for a year and solidified by the departure of Pep Guardiola — is only likely to end one way for a player who has started just 18 Premier League games in the last two seasons.
Guardiola called it last autumn — City would not see the best of his metronome all season and his best form would be reserved for the World Cup. The suggestion felt intriguing, more by the way it was delivered — a
By JACK GAUGHAN
little knowing and resigned — rather than the content itself. City's medical staff were trying to curb Rodri's desire to rush various injury comebacks.
There are those who believe his performances Stateside, when temperatures dictated that games were played at a slower pace, prove there is nobody better across Europe than the 30-year-old.
As they attempt to come to terms with a parting of the ways, City may look at diminishing returns: in the previous two seasons, City won fewer matches when Rodri started to those when he was out or a substitute.
In the Premier League, the win ratio was exactly half with him. Without, it was 60.3 per cent. A very similar story played out from 29 starts in all competitions. Never before in Rodri's City career have the team won more games in his absence.
Although it is not an exact science — City still concede fewer goals on
average when Rodri is the deep midfielder — and a small sample size, it is a comparison worthy of note. City, and Enzo Maresca, would prefer to plough on with him but their movements in the transfer window show how this is heading only one way.
Proactive and forceful denials from the club regarding their interest in Chelsea's £120m-rated Enzo Fernandez at the beginning of the summer have given way to silence. Fernandez wants to reunite with his old boss and those close to him believe the feeling to be mutual.
Ayoub Bouaddi, the Moroccan midfielder who lit up the World Cup, is edging closer to signing from Lille, the French club demanding £85m.
Sources say Bouaddi is not linked to Rodri's future and they are pursuing him regardless — the 18-year-old is not part of a one-in, one-out policy taking hold of a window that threatens to become busy if Tijjani Reijnders and another midfielder leave.
Yet Bouaddi's displays across almost 100 senior games, earning rave reviews for a physicality off the ball and intelligence on it, dictate he can be ready to impact City's fortunes.
His minutes will have to be carefully monitored and managed. What seemed to be apparent yesterday, when
On the move: Rodri wants to leave the Etihad for Barcelona in.
Elliot Anderson was unveiled to supporters during an event at the Etihad, was that the £116m club-record signing fancies a roaming 'box-to-box' role more than filling the void left by Rodri.
'I've spoken to the manager a few times — he explained the things I need to do,' Anderson said. 'There is a lot of running, a lot of energy. It's to try to control games. That is what I can do.'
'I'll see where I get used. Creating things, driving forward or the other role if they ask me to do that. Kevin De Bruyne was always the player I looked up to over the last 10 years. I loved watching him. To be here at the same club and playing where he played is special.'
City identified Anderson's aggression and punch in the pass as ideal for how the Premier League operates these days.
Maresca has used a two-man midfield in pre-season — Mateo Kovacic and Reijnders against Atletico Madrid in South Korea on Sunday — and in that system, Anderson (left, after signing for City) would appear as the one who springs forward, chipping in
with the sort of goals he scored for Nottingham Forest at City in a 2-2 draw in March, arriving late. Kovacic is ahead of Nico Gonzalez in the pecking order and expected to start Sunday's Community Shield against Arsenal in Cardiff. Gonzalez and Kovacic have declared they do not wish to leave this summer.
The physical demands Maresca places on his midfielders is huge, with Phil Foden or Rayan Cherki vying for the role pushed up alongside Erling Haaland.
Maresca is looking at around half-a-dozen options as part of the two, with that second runner crucial. The way Reijnders crashed the boxes during their friendlies is exactly what is being preached on the training pitch.
'I've taken huge confidence knowing I can perform on a World Cup stage,' Anderson said, who also admitted he is still struggling to process England's semi-final defeat by Argentina.
'I hadn't played in anything as big as that yet. I had a big decision to make on who to join and I'm confident I've made the right one.'
68 Daily Mail Sport FOOTBALL
By NATHAN SALT
WHEN Youri Tielemans made his professional debut for Anderlecht against Lokeren, Michael Carrick, now his boss, still had five years left to run on his own playing career at Manchester United.
That goes some way to underline his longevity at the top. Tielemans was a phenomenon in Belgium when he made his pro debut in 2013 at 16. Only Lamine Yamal has reached 10 Champions League appearances at a younger age than him — Tielemans had achieved that by the time he was 17. At 18, he had played more than 100 professional matches.
Now, at 29 and on 668 career appearances, Tielemans has a reasonable chance of surpassing Lionel Messi (701) and Cristiano Ronaldo (720) for the most games played before he turns 30 in May.
Returning to the Champions League means United will play at least 48 games this season. By the time they visit Bournemouth on the final weekend, Tielemans could well have cruised past Messi's record. Add in a cup run and Ronaldo may be beaten, too. With that in mind, meet United's new marathon man.
Tielemans cannot stop smiling as he sits down to chat at their five-star team base for this week's training camp in Ireland.
There is plenty on the agenda: his first phone call with Carrick, his 'really natural' link-up with Bruno Fernandes and an insight into the role he expects to play for United this season.
BUT first there is the issue of minutes, of wear and tear, and whether Tielemans can be counted on for what could be a 60-odd game campaign.
'Yes, I am [confident]', he says. 'I feel very good, actually. I had a little issue during the World Cup, which is sorted now, and I feel back to 100 per cent fit.'
'Obviously, pre-season is all about building up fitness for the season, but I feel great. I feel like I am ready to go.'
Tielemans doesn't shy away from the fact he missed 21 games for Aston Villa last season through ankle and calf problems. Nor does he gloss over the fact he clocked up 60 appearances in a gruelling 2024-25 season.
At the World Cup this summer, he reached a limit his body could not fight against, forcing him to pull out of Belgium's quarter-final against Spain at the last minute with a hamstring injury after being named the starting XI.
'It was just that last game,' Tielemans explains. 'It was an overload of too many games, too
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Tielemans the marathon man
New United signing is relishing his big move after racking up nearly 700 games
many minutes, and my body could not cope anymore.'
Tielemans knows his game, he knows his body, and where others hold reservations he has trust and belief that, after signing a five-year contract with United, he still has plenty in the tank.
'The thing is, at the World Cup, we played 120 minutes against Senegal, and from there we had
less time in between games,' he continues. 'We played the US five days later, then four days later we played against Spain. In the warm-up, my body just switched off for some reason.'
'I do not think I am a player that absolutely needs a rest. There is a lot of games and the manager needs to manage the team, but when I am good, I am good, you
know... it [needing a rest] does not happen often.'
Had things shaken out differently, Tielemans could have joined United as early as 2019 when he was first approached. That was when he was leaving Monaco, only for Tielemans to end up at Leicester.
United came back in for him in the summer of 2022, only to sign
Casemiro and Christian Eriksen in central midfield instead.
Tielemans would have been forgiven for thinking the chance to move to Old Trafford had passed him by. So, now he is here, filling the void left by Casemiro, does he feel pressure stepping into the Brazilian's shoes?
'Not really, because we are all different players,' says Tielemans. 'He has different qualities, he had a different career path. I just try to be myself, to bring my own qualities to the team and enjoy my time here. But it does not add any pressure at all for me.'
At £35million, the value of his release clause, he is a bargain. Those inside United believe Tielemans could prove to be the league's most valuable signing of the summer, pound for pound.
TIELEMANS played a central role in helping Villa — a club he says he 'owes the world' for restoring him to his best level — win the Europa League final against Freiburg in Istanbul and has the Premier League-proven tag that Ineos and United hold in such high regard.
Beyond just the numbers, United have been crying out for a rhythm-setter. A metronome who can help them control matches.
'He wants to have the ball, he wants to press in certain ways,' Tielemans explains, revealing one of his early tactical conversations with Carrick.
'It might be different than what you are used to, what I have been used to, but it is logical things in my opinion. It is just smelling football, and that is what I have been doing from when I was young at Anderlecht. So for me, nothing changes.'
Having played as a deep-lying midfielder, a box-to-box player and more advanced as a No 10, what does Tielemans see as his best role to help take United back to the top?
'I just try and play forward as much as I can,' he says. 'Either to Bruno [Fernandes] or the front line, to try and put them in positions so they can attack with freedom and use their qualities.'
'I have played different roles in my career, so I am not glued to one system or one role. I try and do a bit of everything.'
'Being that link between the defence and the attack, that suits me the best.'
Tielemans will be a key mentor in a young group, too, alongside Tyler Fletcher, 19, Kobble Mainoo, 21, and fellow new signing Andrey Santos, 22.
'I just try to be myself, and it all comes in a natural way,' he says. 'I do not try to boss anyone around because no one likes that. I just try to be myself, be natural, and then with good performances it helps others to follow.'
Leading by example at the top level is all Tielemans has known for 13 years. It is why Messi, Ronaldo, a place in the record books and the game's biggest prizes are all in his sights now he is finally here at United.
By CRAIG HOPE
IN their new pink change kit, Newcastle United were the 'shrinking violets' during a 3-1 defeat by Everton at Murrayfield yesterday afternoon. The loss raises serious questions over the squad's readiness for the Premier League season, with new boss Matthias Jaissle having inherited a group that is lacking leadership as well as quality in key areas. David Mayes' side were the deserved winners in Edinburgh after
Baleba on Jaissle wish list as Everton expose Toon
goals from Thierno Barry, Iliman Ndiaye and Tyrique George settled a contest in which the Toffees showed more control and composure. Harvey Barnes fired a late reply for the Magpies. This was not a 'reality check'
for them, because the reality of their situation was already blindingly obvious. Newcastle have lost four of their best and most experienced players this summer and head coach Eddie Howe said he could not continue on the eve of
pre-season. It was not just holes in Newcastle's XI that were exposed, but the depth of their squad looks shallow. They need two full backs, better midfielders and a fresh spark in attack. We understand Brighton midfielder Carlos Baleba is among those Jaissle admirers, and the club have the Cameroon star on their list of targets. It is not an active transfer — the 22-year-old currently has an ankle injury — but it is one to keep an eye on as the window progresses.
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The REAL reason Arsenal are open to selling Lewis-Skelly
THE fact that Myles Lewis-Skelly's Arsenal future depends on factors such as complying with UEFA spending rules, and his club's ability to further strengthen their squad, sums up the intricacies of navigating football's financial landscape.
Gunners fans were left stunned this week when it was reported the club had invited offers from Chelsea and Manchester United for the 19-year-old academy product.
Arsenal have insisted that was not the case, but an intermediary is believed to have told both clubs the player would be available at the right price.
Sources have also disclosed that one of the main drivers behind the situation is UEFA's rules on spending, which operate by the calendar year rather than on a season-by-season basis.
That means this window is the last opportunity to bring in transfer revenue, should it be needed. It is also the last chance to ship out players should Arsenal need to do so to facilitate more new arrivals.
A potential fee of £45million has been touted for Lewis-Skelly, who started last season's Champions League final against Paris Saint-Germain and has six England caps. However, those with knowledge of the situation believe the price would need to be considerably higher to convince Arsenal to sell.
Lewis-Skelly is a product of the club's academy, so any money received for him would be seen as 'pure profit' and come as a significant boost to Arsenal's balance sheet.
That element of the rules has seen other clubs reluctantly sell prized, homegrown assets to ensure compliance, such as Newcastle's offloading of Elliot Anderson to Nottingham Forest in July 2024 (though that was to comply with Premier League rather than UEFA rules).
Arsenal have options. There are a number of players viewed as unlikely to play this season and, in a perfect world, they would depart ahead of Lewis-Skelly, who is liked by both manager Mikel Arteta and the fans.
It would not be a surprise to see Reiss Nelson and Gabriel Jesus, for example, leave the champions this month. However, the closer Arsenal get to deadline day on
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September 1 without others leaving, the higher the likelihood will be of Lewis-Skelly departing.
As for interested parties, United are in the market for a left back and are monitoring the situation. Chelsea have completed a £16m deal for Spanish left back Pep Chavarria from Rayo Vallecano but Lewis-Skelly may well be an intriguing prospect.
Earlier this month, Arsenal signed Bruno Guimaraes from Newcastle for £75m. In June, they turned Piero Hincapie's loan move from Bayer Leverkusen into a permanent transfer at a cost of £34.5m. They have also paid £34m for Club Brugge forward Christos Tzolis, and last summer they spent around £250m on bringing in eight players.
A spike in commercial activity and prize-money from winning the Premier League title and the run to the Champions League final will have helped their position, though player bonuses have taken a sizeable chunk out of the club's coffers.
With regards to outgoings, the Premier League winners have brought in around £41m this summer from the departures of Leandro Trossard, Jakub Kiwior and Christian Norgaard.
Dilemma: Lewis-Skelly trains with Arsenal but could leave the champions this summer GETTY IMAGES
GUNNERS MUST COUGH UP £60m FOR KONSA AS VILLA REJECT £40m BID
■ ARSENAL have held further talks over a deal for ASTON VILLA defender Ezri Konsa. However, it is understood the Premier League champions' proposal was around £40million so is still short of Villa's £60m valuation of the England centre back, 28. Villa are finalising the signing of Matteo Ruggeri from Atletico Madrid and are also discussing a move for WEST HAM right back Aaron Wan-Bissaka. FULHAM have also made an offer for Wan-Bissaka, 28, but on an initial loan. Villa remain in talks with Bayern Munich over a deal for Joao Palhinha, 31, who has agreed
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to join. They have also asked Bayern about centre back Kim Min-jae, 29.
■ TOTTENHAM and Inter Milan are in the final stages of talks over the sale of Djed Spence for £26.9m plus add-ons and a 10 per cent sell-on. Inter are expected to turn attention to LIVERPOOL'S £35m-rated Curtis Jones next. The midfielder trained as normal yesterday after a minor hip injury kept him out of Sunday's friendly defeat by Monaco.
■ ATLETICO MADRID have agreed a £36m deal with SPURS for defender Cristian Romero. The Argentine's agent took to social media to tease his
signing after talks concluded. A 15 per cent sell-on clause has been included.
■ CRYSTAL PALACE have had a £40m offer rejected for Monaco midfielder Lamine Camara. Palace have signed Evann Guessand on loan from Aston Villa.
■ HULL CITY have agreed a £3.5m deal with Red Bull Salzburg for midfielder Lucas Gourna-Douath, 23. The Tigers have added Australia defender Lucas Herrington, 18, from Colorado Rapids and defender Nobel Mendy, 21, from Rayo Vallecano.
■ NEWCASTLE UNITED are pressing ahead with a £30m move for Amar Dedic from Benfica. The 23-year-old right back played for new Newcastle boss Matthias Jaissie at Red Bull Salzburg.
■ BARCELONA have improved their offer for Rodri but it is still short of MANCHESTER CITY'S £68m valuation. City have signed goalkeeper Geronimo
Rulli, 34, from Marseille for £1.7m. The French side have asked about Leeds goalkeeper Lucas Perri.
■ WATFORD are considering a short-term deal for former West Ham striker Michail Antonio. The Jamaican, 36, is training with the Championship side.
■ CHELSEA have signed Rayo Vallecano left back Pep Chavarria, 28, on a five-year deal for £16.3m plus add-ons.
■ IPSWICH are set to complete a double signing from Strasbourg for Julio Enciso, 22, and right back Abdoul Ouattara, 20.
■ WREXHAM are making a £7.5m bid for LEICESTER defender Harry Souttar, also a target for SHEFFIELD UNITED.
■ WOLVES are closing on a £60m deal for Rennes midfielder Jordan James.
■ BOURNEMOUTH forward Enes Unal is to rejoin Setafe on a free transfer but with a potential £1.2m in bonuses and a 20 per cent sell-on clause.
70 Daily Mail Sport FOOTBALL: SUPER CUP
THE UEFA Super Cup belongs to Paris Saint-Germain but Aston Villa left Salzburg with something far more precious than pre-season silverware.
Between them, teenagers Brian Madjo and George Hemmings have made just six competitive appearances for Villa. Yet both frightened the life out of the back-to-back Champions League winners and on this evidence, they will be given plenty more opportunities by Unai Emery.
Villa have sold £150million worth of talent in Morgan Rogers, Youri Tielemans and Lucas Digne
Doue denies Villa but kids give boss Emery glimpse of new dawn
since winning the Europa League and have doubts over the future of other key players.
But there is nothing like teenagers stepping up to the mark and their performances will give Villa plenty of encouragement ahead of their Premier League opener at Brighton on August 23.
Madjo, 17, became the youngest scorer in Super Cup history when he steered home John McGinn's cross just before half-time. Before that, the 6ft 4in centre-forward missed two excellent chances and
bullied Willian Pacho, one of the world's best centre backs. Villa signed Madjo for £10m from Metz in January but a registration issue meant he was not cleared to play until this summer.
Either side of his strike, goals from Khvicha Kvaratskhelia and Desire Doue ensured PSG retained this trophy, and it is important to say PSG were some way from full fitness and Liverpool target Bradley Barcola did not leave the bench. Yet many of Villa's players were not in
peak condition, either. Luckily, Hemmings was one of those determined to make his mark.
The 19-year-old is a product of Villa's youth system and given the club's struggles with UEFA's financial rules, a homegrown player in the first team is a gem.
Though Madjo caught the eye for his goal and chances, Hemmings looks the more accomplished player at this stage. Starting on the left, he was prepared to run fearlessly at Achraf Hakimi, probably the best
right back on the planet. He showed great maturity on the ball, too, at once stage winning it from Nuno Mendes close to his own-goal line and casually chipping it to Emi Buendia.
Expect to see plenty more of this kid in the weeks ahead.
Now Emery's attention must turn to the market, where he has been fallible during his time at Villa Park. Despite Madjo's display, another forward will surely arrive while Villa continue to make progress in deals for
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Euro stars: Doue secures the Super Cup for PSG (left), the Champions League winners having taken the lead through Kvaratskhelia (above) before Villa teenager Madjo levelled (right)
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midfielder Joao Palhinha and left back Matteo Ruggeri.
Villa have changed a great deal since they won the Europa League less than three months ago. Gone are Rogers and Tielemans, two of their scorers against Freiburg that night, and Digne was sitting on the PSG bench. Three of Emery's coaching team have also moved on.
That meant only five of the starters in Istanbul featured here, with Ezri Konsa, Ollie Watkins and Emi Martinez still on their breaks. With Arsenal offering a £40m package for Konsa earlier in the day, it is unclear how many more times the England centre back will wear Villa colours.
Emery and skipper John McGinn were bullish about the 'new Villa' on Tuesday and in the first half against PSG, we saw why. Though the majority of the PSG group are some way from full speed after the World Cup, they are still some of the world's best players and it was stirring to watch Hemmings and Madjo going toe to toe with them.
Hemmings was awarded an early free-kick by referee Omar Artan, the Somalian official who was denied entry to the United States ahead of the World Cup. Though Villa did not create anything from the free-kick, they had laid down a marker. Even at
half pace, PSG are incredibly dangerous. After Marco Bizot scooped away Doue's deflected shot, Madjo's loose touch fell to Vitinha. He found Doue and when Kvaratskhelia collected the ball, it was soon flying into the roof of the net.
Until then, Madjo had looked very raw and his technique needs refining but he did not allow his head to drop and in the second part of the first half, PSG could not handle him.
Madjo headed two delightful crosses from McGinn over, with the second a particularly bad miss. In between those chances, he had shot wide on an angle after more impressive work by Hemmings and seen another effort blocked. Moments later, Madjo hit the outside of the post after holding off Pacho, though this was flagged offside.
When Madjo did score, the opportunity was far tougher than those he had missed. From another McGinn cross, Madjo found his way on to the dangerous side of Pacho and volleyed beyond Matvey Safonov.
Soon after the break, Villa might have taken the lead. Madjo was involved again, this time taking a pass from Buendia and charging into space behind PSG's high line. He then fed McGinn, whose shot clipped Pacho and allowed
Safonov a split second longer to make the save. Just before the hour, Buendia headed over unmarked but, against PSG, if you lose focus for the briefest moment you will be punished.
Doue looked offside when he took a pass from substitute Ousmane Dembele — not a bad player to be able to bring on — and steered beyond Bizot.
The goal was ruled out on field but replays showed Matty Cash had left Doue onside.
Back came Villa and Hemmings drew a save from Safonov. PSG were looking increasingly dangerous on the break but in the closing 10 minutes. Alysson could not find the return pass to give fellow substitute Tammy Abraham an easy equaliser.
PARIS SAINT-GERMAIN (4-3-3): Safonov 7; Hakim 6, Manguinhos 6, Pacho 5, Nuno Mendes 6 (Hernandez 75min, 6); Zaire-Emery 6, Vitinha 7, Joao Neves 6 (Rutz 75, 6); Doue 7 (Mayulu 87), Aklouche 6 (Dembele 46, 6), Kvaratskhelia 7,5 (Bonaldo 88). Scorers: Kvaratskhelia 20, Doue 61. Booked: None. Manager: Luis Enrique 6,5. ASTON VILLA (4-2-3-1): Bizot 6; Cash 5,5, Lindehof 6,5; Torres 6 (Mingo 79), Maatsen 7; Kamara 7 (Bogarde 72, 6); J Gomes 6 (Barkley 80); McGinn 7,5 (Alysson 75, 6); Buendia 7,5. HEMMINGS 8: Madjo 7,5 (Abraham 72, 6). Scorer: Badjo 45. Booked: Torres, Gomes, McGinn. Manager: Unai Emery 7. Referee: Omar Artan (Somalia) 6. Attendance: 27,681.
Mbeumo a central figure for United
IN a summer at Manchester United which has been as much about evolution as it has been revolution, the results of the Bryan Mbeumo striker experiment are yielding some fascinating results.
The Cameroonian is far from a typical No 9 but for Michael Carrick, that is a big part of his appeal.
There are a multitude of factors at play here. United want to platform academy star Shea Lacey for a full-time first-team role and he predominantly plays off the right. There's also Amad, who is facing a defining season in that right-side role.
And then you add in that United only have one orthodox No 9 option in Benjamin Sesko, and he hasn't kicked a ball during pre-season due to a shin injury, although he did travel to Ireland to take part in this week-long training camp.
So Mbeumo as a striker, and a fluid one at that, holds great appeal and perhaps importance, should another forward not arrive at Old Trafford before the transfer deadline.
Mbeumo hit a real lull in front of goal in the second half of last season and struggled to rediscover the momentum that had fans off their seats in the first half, leading to questions over how Carrick may get the best out of him? But a brace against Atletico
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Madrid in Stockholm, the equaliser in Gothenburg against Paris Saint-Germain and a brilliant piece of skill, coupled with an assist, for Joshua Zirkzee to open the scoring here in Dublin showed just how much confidence is running through Mbeumo's veins right now. For the opening goal — and he should have had one of his own in the first half when he crashed a shot against the crossbar — he nutmegged two Leeds players as he burst down the left before playing Zirkzee through to score beyond new No 1 James Trafford. Leeds went on to equalise through Brenden Aaronson in the first half and were good value for it after a rocky start. Despite Carrick's side dominating the ball when their main men came on, it finished 1-1 in front of an 82,000-strong sell-out crowd at Croke Park. Mbeumo is set to start as centre forward against Hull City to kick-start the Premier League campaign and from there the sky really does feel like the limit for him. This is a formula now, not just an experiment.
« ALL BE UNITED'S MARATHON MAN, SAYS TIELEMANS: PAGE 68
Lewis-Skelly makes his point to Arsenal
A HEART-SHAPED celebration and hands folded in a prayer motion, Myles Lewis-Skelly made his point.
The teenager struck in the first half in Arsenal's 14 draw with Cesc Fabregas' Como side amid speculation around his future. The Gunners won the practice penalty shootout 4-3.
Reports have suggested the 19-year-old has been offered to Chelsea and Manchester United by intermediaries, which Arsenal have insisted isn't the case. In any case, Lewis-Skelly brushed the noise aside in a promising display.
Goalkeeper Jean Butez's clearance was headed down by Lewis-Skelly to Gabriel Martinelli, who teed him up to strike home on 33 minutes.
The goal was met by chants of 'Myles Lewis-Skelly, he's one of our own', on a night he used to remind observers of his talents. Yet, it was the midfielder's actions after the goal that showed where his intentions lie. Lewis-Skelly clasped his hands together towards the crowd before making out a heart sign in a clear sign of intent.
Marti Salmon and Max Dowman, both 16, started, as well as Theo Julienne, 18, who made a first
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senior start. Salmon in particular stood out, for the rarity of a 16-year-old starting at centre back in the first team. In attack, Gabriel Jesus started with Viktor Gyokeres and Kai Havertz on the bench. The gauntlet had been laid, a nudge from Mikel Arteta, as if to say, 'Show me what you've got'. That didn't last long, Jesus hooked off on 32 minutes for Gyokeres after a limited cameo. He did try. The effort was there, trying to pierce the backline with darts forward and activity around the goal. Jesus' display was marked by a miss on six minutes, the ball falling to him as Eberechi Eze passed on Ethan Hwanert's interception. Jesus had an open goal to aim at with the goalkeeper out of his area — but he struck the frame of the goal. It dented the forward's confidence, and he never really recovered. The Gunners next take on Manchester City in Sunday's Community Shield in Cardiff.
« THE REAL REASON LEWIS-SKELLY COULD BE SOLD: PAGE 69
Dominant Hudson-Smith defends his castle
ATHLETICS: PAGE 66
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Root rips up curfews and tells players to behave
Chelsea give City until 5pm tomorrow to sign Fernandez
By SIMON JONES
CHELSEA have told Manchester City they have until 5pm tomorrow to pay £120million to sign Enzo Fernandez — or forget about the transfer.
As Daily Mail Sport has reported previously in this window, City are interested in the Argentina midfielder, who shared a strong relationship with Enzo Maresca when he was Chelsea coach.
Fernandez, who returned to Chelsea training this week after helping his country to the World Cup final, has six years left on his contract.
If City do not meet Chelsea's demands, the Stamford Bridge club do not intend to sell Fernandez in this window.
City's interest in the player has been known to Chelsea since the end of last season which is when their valuation of the midfielder was confirmed to Fernandez's agent, Javier Pastore.
The fee Chelsea are demanding is far beyond what most interested parties are willing to pay, including both Madrid clubs and Paris Saint-Germain. Fernandez was thought to prefer a move to those three.
The 25-year-old was one of the Argentina players who riled England after the ill-tempered World Cup semi-final in Atlanta, which Argentina won 2-1.
The Chelsea man drew Argentina level after 85 minutes and immediately raced over to stand in front of England fans, cupped his hands behind his ears and stuck out his tongue, then blew a kiss.
Deadly duo: PSG scorers Doue (top) and Kvaratskhelia celebrate the opening goal
By RICHARD GIBSON
JOE ROOT has ditched England's curfew rules just a month after they were drawn up. The 35-year-old takes charge of the first match of his second spell as Test captain next week and has confirmed the after-hours guidelines put together by director of cricket Rob Key will not be enforced.
Instead, Root is telling his players to behave like 'grown adults' ahead of the series against Pakistan beginning in Leeds next Wednesday.
'There's not going to be a curfew. I don't think this needs to be a big deal, to be honest,' Root told Sky Sports.
'My view on the curfew is that the players are doing their work, and if you want guys to take
responsibility on the field, they have got to feel like they can be grown adults and make good, strong decisions off it.
'That's for us as a team to manage well, and police well for me and [new Test team coach] Stephen Fleming.
'We should be known for how we play cricket and what we do on the field. We should be on the back page of papers.'
The stance taken by Root and incoming Test coach Fleming is a bold move, just weeks after the ECB hierarchy felt it necessary to spell out exactly what players could and couldn't do — including a ban on drinking the day before, during and after international matches.
Key went to the length of distributing this among all senior men's cricketers following Daily Mail Sport's story that Root's predecessor Ben Stokes had no
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1 The Times _ title track from third studio album by Bob Dylan, released in 1964 (4,3)-7) 8 Bottles or cans drained of their contents (7) 9 Iron , phrase referring to the boundary that divided Europe in the Cold War (7) 10 Sycophanitic courtier in William Shakespeare's play Hamlet (5) 11 Radio DJ who co-presents the Rock 'n' Roll Football podcast alongside Matt Forde (4,5) 12 A run encompassing all four bases after a hit in a children's ball game (7) 14 1969 single by the rock band Cream, co-written by Eric Clapton and George Harrison (5) 15 American _ seventh studio album by Green Day, released in 2004 (5) 17 Good Morning, 1988 film starring Robin Williams as a DJ (7) 19 African country that qualified for the FIFA World Cup for the first time in 2026 (4,5) 22 Frank singer-songwriter and rapper born in 1987 (5) 23 On the way (2,5) 24 Japanese art form whose shapes include lotus flower and masu box (7) 25 Stage and film actor whose films include The Heiress and Doctor Zhivago (5,10)
DOWN
1 Expression meaning 'it is safe to proceed without fear of being seen' (3,5,2,5) 2 The Last _, 1988 film directed by Bernardo Bertolucci, set in China (7) 3 Decisive battle of 14th in the Hundred Years' War (9) 4 Racecourse that hosts the Surrey Stakes and Coronation Cup (5) 5 Unpleasanity pungent in taste (5) 6 Informed, especially to the police, in slang (7) 7 A policy of refusal to get involved in the affairs of another country (3-12) 9 A close-knit and often exclusive group of people (7) 13 Made up of a wide variety of things (7) 14 A broad shoulder belt with small pockets for ammunition (9) 16 To put in danger (7) 18 Frenzled female followers of the Greek god Dionysus (7) 20 _ for, to give an assurance in support of (5) 21 ____ Arden, poem by Alfred, Lord Tennyson about a sailor returning home (5)
WORD WHEEL
YOU have ten minutes to find as many words as possible using the letters in the wheel. Each word must use the hub letter and at least three
others, and letters may be used only once. You can't use plurals, foreign words or proper nouns. Verbs ending in 's' permitted. Clue for today's nine-letter word: Twisted net kept inside cannot be missing a base. RATING: 15 words, average; 20, good; 25, very good; 30 or more, excellent. SOLUTION TOMORROW
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SOLUTION TOMORROW
NAME GAME
HIDDEN in the grid is the name of a singer. Answer the questions, then rearrange the letters corresponding to your answers to fill in the name. SOLUTION TOMORROW
BOX 1: What was the title of Geri Halliwell-Horner's (pictured) 1999 debut album? Schizophrenic (L) Madaudio (K) Insanacoustic (G)
BOX 2: Who wrote the 1998 novel Big Fish: A Novel Of Mythic Proportions? John Irving (T) Daniel Wallace (A) David Mitchell (W)
BOX 3: Which of the following words is closest in meaning to 'toper'? Winner (D) Drunkard (E) Cheater (C)
BOX 4: The lyrics to which country's national anthem come from Francis Scott Key's Defence Of Fort M'Henry? Canada (D) Australia (T) United States (S)
BOX 5: Ignacio Buse is currently the top-ranked men's singles tennis player from which country? Colombia (F) Peru (O) Monaco (M)
BOX 6: Domestic cats with a pure coat of which colour are more likely than any others to be deaf? Grey (M) Black (I) White (Y)
BOX 7: What is the world's most heavily trafficked wild mammal? Pangolin (R) Elephant (K) Tiger (U)
BOX 8: Actress Thelma Barlow played Mavis Wilton in which TV soap opera? EastEnders (V) Coronation Street (E) Hollyoaks (P)
Yesterday's solution: LILY TOMLIN (IL, 2Y, 3L, 4D, 5T, 6I, 7N, 8M, 9I, 10L)
Picture: PA
MAKING TRACKS
LAY tracks to enable the train to travel from village A to village B. The numbers indicate how many sections of rail go in each row and column.
There are only A straight rails and curved rails. The track cannot cross itself.
SOLUTION TOMORROW
B
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HONEYCOMB
ALL the solutions read clockwise around their numbers. The solution to clue number 1 starts from the given letter.
- Raved
- Tacked
- Draw
- Ember
- Blush
- Erase
- Bank clerk
- Cultural heads
- Lifts
- Crescent
- Find
- Clergy member
SOLUTION: PULLOUT BACK PAGE
KAKURO
FILL in the blank squares of the grid using only the numbers 1 to 9, without repeating any number in any line of blank squares. The lines must be filled in with numbers which add up to the total in the shaded box at the top or beginning of each line. A number in the bottom half of a shaded box gives a downwards total; in the top half, it's a horizontal total.
SOLUTION TOMORROW
MASTERQUIZ
- Gulets are two- and three-masted wooden sailing vessels most closely associated with which country?
- Which zodiac constellation contains the Crab Nebula?
- Who succeeded Robert Bridges as poet laureate in 1930?
- Plans for a new nuclear power station were recently approved
MINDBENDER
- In a village of 450 inhabitants, 238 people watched an outdoor screening of a Bond movie, 196 people watched the romcom that followed it and 65 watched both films. How many people watched neither?
- What connects equal, sick and strike?
KILLER
SUDOKU
FILL in squares in the grid so each row, column and each 3x3 square contains all digits from 1 to 9. Each set of cells joined by dotted lines must add up to the number in the top-left corner. Numbers can't be repeated within each set of cells.
SOLUTION
TOMORROW
NEED A CLUE? Call 0901 293 6238 or text KILLER to 65700 and receive four clues to today's puzzle. Cells and texts cost £1 plus your standard network charges. Today's clues available between 00.01 today and 23.30 only.
for construction at Wyifa, on which of the UK's Islands?
- The Royal Scot train ran on the West Coast Main Line between Euston in London and which city in Scotland?
- Which sports star was named in Simon & Garfunkel's 1968 hit Mrs Robinson?
SOLUTION: PULLOUT BACK PAGE
- Which wedding term may be made difficult by OH, NO MONEY?
- Which is the odd one out: La Scala, The Met, La Fenice, Pompidou Centre?
- Starting with A, add a letter and shuffle to make a new word each time until you reach GERMINATE.
SOLUTION: PULLOUT BACK PAGE
PITCHERWITS™
1a. Launching a roasting that's powerless (8,3)
9a. Walk peevishly with a liquid weight (7)
10a. Struggling, in set nine, to be strongly felt (7)
18a. Beg for, when poaching is a tangled part of your DNA (2,3,2,4)
Id. Trundled steadily after a blow out in Donegal (6,5)
4d. Recreated fist deleted when checked on the job (5-6)
6d. Deny that fig compote is challenging (7)
8d. Metabolites not lost out in roof rafter piece (3,4)
ACROSS
1 Picture Clue 5 Drew a stylised water feeder (5) 7 Supple little bit of article (5) 9 Picture Clue 11 Cicada you find in a light part of the week? (3)
12 Boring part of a bridle? (3) 13 Picture Clue 16 Groan about a body part (5) 17 Stimuli, that without us, could be taken to the edge (5) 18 Picture Clue
PIT your wits against Pitcherwits — the exciting puzzle where some of the answers are in pictures! The solutions to the visual clues fit into the shaded spaces on the grid.
SOLUTION TOMORROW
PITCHERWITS BOOK
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DOWN
1 Picture Clue 2 Rot returns, so ending the trunk (5) 3 Singing sisters, in casino language (5) 4 Picture Clue 6 Picture Clue 8 Picture Clue
10 Employment in dangerous exercise (3) 14 How can you do 100 with such a weight on board? (3-2) 15 Any long jumper's material (5)
YESTERDAY'S SOLUTION — ACROSS: 1 Impugning. 5 Gin. 6 Car. 7 Relapse. 10 Urn. 11 Steepen. 12 Tao. 13 Soda ash. 16 Elf. 17 For. 18 Radiators. DOWN: 1 Incensed. 2 Purr. 3 Nova. 4 Gone too far. 5 Gloucester. 8 Epees. 9 Pontiffs. 14 Anti. 15 Hero.
MAILWORD
ACROSS
1 Error 5 Musical symbol 9 Act section 10 Enjoy 11 Roman poet 12 Employed 13 Amazement 14 Woolly animals 16 Chop 17 Egyptian deity 18 Felonious burning 20 Lightweight fabric 24 Ceiling support 26 Fled 27 Necessity 29 Self-image 30 Reeves 31 Not perceived
33 Adviser 34 Halls 35 Happy 36 Catch sight of DOWN 1 Fastening devices 2 Pasture 3 Aslant 4 Skinis 5 Awkward 6 Mona __, painting 7 Increases 8 Catered for 9 Implanter 11 Sunken ditch 15 Illnesses 19 Followed orders 21 Chilling
22 Storms 23 Immediately 25 Maitreat 27 Metal spike 28 Sagas 30 Insulate 32 Drench
SOLUTION
TOMORROW
HIDATO
COMPLETE the grid so that all the numbers, 1 to 72, connect consecutively — horizontally, vertically or diagonally. Hint: you don't have to begin with 1 or 72. Working on the mid-numbers might give you a better start.
SOLUTION
TOMORROW
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KENKEN
EACH row and column should contain 1 to 6 without repeats. Numbers in cages must combine to produce the target number shown at start of that cage using, in any order, the mathematical sign given. Single-box cages can be filled with the number given.
SOLUTION TOMORROW
| M | S | A | |
|---|---|---|---|
| G | T | ||
| R | E | ||
| S | T | ||
| S | N | Y |
M A R A U D I N G
NINE TO FIVE
FIT the scrambled letters of the given word into the grid to form six five-letter words across and down.
SOLUTION TOMORROW
WORLD'S SMALLEST, HARDEST CROSSWORD
ACROSS
- Gross (inf) (4)
- Favourable vote (3)
- Wordplay (3)
- Aviated (4)
DOWN
- Embryonic membrane (4)
- Biblical cattle (4)
- Archaic pronoun (2)
- Old German coin (abbr) (2)
SOLUTION TOMORROW
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | |||
| 6 | |||
| 7 |
CROSS NUMBER
THERE MAY BE MORE THAN ONE SOLUTION
| 7 | 23 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | 20 | |||
| 8 | 19 | |||
| 5 | 21 | |||
| 13 | 12 | 30 | 28 | 16 |
Today's challenge time:
4 mins 36 secs
Your working time:
□ mins □ secs
FILL each square with a number, 1 to 9. Horizontal squares add up to totals on right. Vertical squares add up to totals on bottom. Diagonal squares through centre add up to totals in top and bottom right.
SOLUTION TOMORROW
CODEWORD
EACH number in our Codeword grid represents a different letter of the alphabet. Today 18 represents 1, so fill in 1 every time the figure 18 appears. You have two letters in the control grid to start you off. Enter them in the appropriate squares in the main grid, then use your knowledge of words to work out which letters should go in the missing squares. SOLUTION TOMORROW
COMPLETE Codeword to reveal the word in the shaded boxes. HOW TO ENTER: Call 0901 293 6232 and leave your answer and your details or text 65700 with the word CODE, your answer and then your name. Texts and calls cost £1 plus standard network charges. One weekly winner chosen from all correct daily entries received between 00.01 Monday and 23.59 Saturday. Answers change daily at 00.01. UK residents aged 18+, excl NI. See Terms & Conditions.
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WORD SEARCH
THE listed words can all be found in the grid – running forwards, backwards, up, down and diagonally – EXCEPT ONE. For a chance to win, discover which word is missing.
Today's theme: Taskmaster contestants
AYOADE MARTIN BAYNTON MATAFEO EL-GHORRI MORTIMER GAMBLE RYAN KHAN TARBUCK
HOW TO ENTER: Call 0901 293 6234 and leave your answer and details or text 65700 with the word WORD, your answer and your name. Texts and calls cost £1 plus standard network charges. One winner chosen from all correct daily entries received between 00.01 Monday and 23.59 Friday. Answers change daily at 00.01. UK residents aged 18+, excl NI. See Terms & Conditions. SOLUTION TOMORROW
SUDOKU X
PUT the numbers 1-6 once in each row, each column, each diagonal (highlighted to form an X) and each horizontal 3x2 box (ruled). SOLUTION TOMORROW
| 5 | 2 | |||||
| 2 | 4 | |||||
| 1 | ||||||
| 6 |
QUICK QUIZ
- Which coastal region on the Adriatic Sea gives its name to a dog with a spotted coat?
- What was the occupation of the notorious Jack Ketch?
- What role was fulfilled at the State Opening of Parliament in May by Ed Davis?
- What item did legendary Swiss hero William Tell shoot from his son's head with an arrow?
- Ulaanbaatar is the capital of which country?
SOLUTION: PULLOUT BACK PAGE
GOGEN
BYE CHAIN CLOT DOLPHIN FLOCK GUM JAM KEY KIN QUICK SPEARMINT VEX WHEY
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y
INSERT letters to form listed words, moving between adjacent cells horizontally, vertically or diagonally in any direction. Insert all remaining letters of the alphabet (except 2) in the grid so all listed words are spelt out.
SOLUTION TOMORROW
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BRIDGE MASTERCLASS CRYPTIC CROSSWORD
West
AKQJ73
+AKQJ73
+A652
104
East
AQJ64
542
+743
A2
YOU are sitting West and hear partner open 1. You respond 3. and North enters the auction with 4. Your partner supports you with a bid of 4. and you cue-bid 4. The cue-bidding continues with partner's 5. and your 5. and partner now bids 5. This is another cue-bid, which partner should make because you are unlimited and might be thinking in terms of a grand slam. On this hand, however, you are not interested given that partner made a non-forcing 6. bid, and you have gaps in the minors. You bid 6. and this ends the auction.
NORTH leads the 4K, which you win in dummy, and South follows. How do you plan the play?
The spade blockage is a problem now that dummy's entry has been removed, unless trumps divide two-two. When you draw trumps, however, you discover that North began with just one. Cashing a couple of extra trumps reveals a discard of the 2 from South, while North throws only clubs.
Attempting to find out more about the hand, you cash the 4A and see that North had none! What was North's original distribution, and can you see a way to make the contract?
Tomorrow we shall see the full hand.
HEATHER DHONDY
No 17,943
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ACROSS
1 Cheeky rogue in prime tent (11)
9 Genuine person whose skill is instinctive (7)
10 Two salary start to enjoy dish of raw meat (7)
11 Harmless policy? That's a fib (3)
12 Lose for berr hter with lightheartedness first off — and succinctness (7)
13 Line reported by academic author(s) in school (7)
14 Understand playground device? Not half (3)
15 Good mime when analysed is easily achieved thing (5)
17 Some felt a gust in European river (5)
18 Adores party with group making comeback (3)
20 Loosen or get together after a small adjustment (5)
22 See lime regularly — or another tree (3)
24 Neal got out hybrid fruit (7) 25 Messy meal with bun and part of an egg (7)
26 Permit Albert to drop out at intervals (3)
27 Work and film in church showing small group of trees (7)
28 Thing to keep locks in place? (7)
29 Disciptionians request streams to regroup after end of visit (3)
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SOLUTIONS TO YESTERDAY'S PUZZLES
SUDOKU
| 6 | 5 | 9 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 7 | 6 | 1 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 1 | 7 | 5 | 5 | 9 | 4 | 6 | 3 |
| 8 | 3 | 4 | 6 | 7 | 1 | 9 | 5 | 2 |
| 7 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 8 | 9 | 6 |
| 9 | 2 | 6 | 7 | 1 | 8 | 3 | 4 | 5 |
| 3 | 8 | 3 | 9 | 4 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 7 |
| 5 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 9 | 4 | 6 | 3 | 8 |
| 1 | 9 | 8 | 3 | 6 | 2 | 5 | 7 | 4 |
| 4 | 6 | 3 | 5 | 8 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 9 |
| 9 | 5 | 6 | 4 | 5 | 1 | 9 | 2 | 7 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 1 | 4 | 7 | 9 | 5 | 6 | 3 | 8 |
| 7 | 3 | 9 | 2 | 6 | 8 | 1 | 5 | 4 |
| 3 | 9 | 1 | 5 | 6 | 4 | 7 | 8 | 2 |
| 8 | 4 | 6 | 3 | 7 | 2 | 5 | 1 | 9 |
| 5 | 2 | 7 | 9 | 1 | 6 | 8 | 4 | 3 |
| 4 | 6 | 2 | 8 | 5 | 9 | 3 | 7 | 1 |
| 1 | 8 | 3 | 6 | 2 | 7 | 4 | 9 | 5 |
| 9 | 7 | 5 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 8 | 6 |
PRIZE SUDOKU
| 3 | 9 | 4 | 7 | 9 | 5 | 6 | 2 | 1 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 9 | 1 | 8 | 3 | 6 | 4 | 5 | 7 |
| 7 | 5 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 3 | 9 |
| 1 | 9 | 5 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 7 | 9 | 8 |
| 9 | 2 | 7 | 1 | 5 | 8 | 3 | 6 | 4 |
| 8 | 4 | 3 | 9 | 6 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 8 |
| 4 | 7 | 2 | 9 | 1 | 9 | 5 | 8 | 6 |
| 6 | 1 | 8 | 5 | 7 | 2 | 9 | 4 | 3 |
| 5 | 3 | 9 | 6 | 8 | 4 | 1 | 7 | 2 |
WORD SEARCH
Missing: FAQ
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 |
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 |
| 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 |
| 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 |
| 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 |
HIDATO
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 |
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 |
| 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 |
| 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 |
| 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 |
| 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 |
KAKURO
NINE TO FIVE
| T | K | B | |
|---|---|---|---|
| B | O | N | U |
| S | P | A | S |
| N | I | C | E |
| C | K | S |
CROSS NUMBER
| 3 | 5 | 9 | 8 | 25 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 6 | 7 | 6 | 21 |
| 1 | 7 | 5 | 9 | 22 |
| 4 | 8 | 6 | 5 | 23 |
| 10 | 28 | 27 | 28 | 19 |
MAKING TRACKS
WORD WHEEL: heat, ties, hike, hikes, inkest, inset, kite, kitten, kittensh, nest, nets, nett, sent, sett, sheik, shine, sine, site, skein, stein, slet, tent, tenth, tenth, tent, thest, then, thine, ties, tine, tiniest, tithe.
GENERAL KNOWLEDGE CROSSWORD
ACROSS: 1 Mammoths, 5 Murcia. 10 Overfed. 11 Nicosia. 12 Idler. 13 Alice Lowe. 14 Joni Mitchell. 18 Early English. 21 Parkhurst. 23 Alpha. 24 Ansemia. 25 Underdo. 26 Exhort. 27 Pheasant.
DOWN: 1 Moomin. 2 Muesli. 3 Offertory. 4 Hydration break. 6 Uncle. 7 Customer. 8 Arabella. 9 Invisible Touch. 15 Cassandra. 16 Template. 17 Arbroath. 19 Sparta. 20 Ragout. 22 Homer.
30-SECOND CHALLENGE
START on left with number given and follow instructions as you go across. In 30 seconds, beginners have to complete their own challenge; intermediates have to complete their own challenge and the beginner's advanced players have to complete their own challenge and the intermediate's.
SOLUTION BELOW
| Beginner | 50 | ×6 | ÷25 | TIMES ITSELF | ÷9 | +5 | ÷3 | ×11 | DOUBLE IT | -55 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Intermediate | 9 | +16 | TIMES ITSELF | +5 | ( \frac{3}{7}7 )OF IT | ( \frac{7}{7}18 )OF IT | ( \frac{2}{7}3 )OF IT | TIMES ITSELF | 5% OF IT | ( \frac{4}{7}5 )OF IT | |
| Advanced | 64 | ×2 ( \frac{3}{7}8 ) | -80 | ( \frac{5}{7}18 )OF IT | ×48 | PLUS 17 ( \frac{1}{2} )% | 25% OF IT | -40 | ( \frac{6}{7}11 )OF IT | LESS 25% |
KENKEN
| 5 | 1 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 3 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | 3 | 5 | 6 | 1 | 2 |
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 4 | 6 |
| 3 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 5 | 1 |
| 2 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 6 | 4 |
| 6 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 5 |
KILLER SUDOKU
| 6 | 5 | 3 | 6 | 7 | 9 | 2 | 4 | 1 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 2 | 6 | 9 | 6 |
| 9 | 2 | 8 | 1 | 6 | 4 | 5 | 7 | 3 |
| 6 | 9 | 4 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 6 | 2 | 5 |
| 3 | 6 | 5 | 2 | 9 | 6 | 7 | 1 | 4 |
| 2 | 1 | 7 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 6 | 8 |
| 1 | 3 | 6 | 4 | 6 | 7 | 9 | 6 | 2 |
| 4 | 8 | 9 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 6 | 7 |
| 5 | 7 | 2 | 9 | 1 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 8 |
GO
SUDOKU X
| 2 | 5 | 8 | 4 | 3 | 1 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 2 | 6 |
| 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 4 |
| 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 1 | 2 |
| 5 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 3 |
| 4 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 6 | 5 |
KILLER SUDOKU
| 5 | 6 | 3 | 6 | 7 | 9 | 2 | 4 | 1 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 2 | 6 | 9 | 6 |
| 9 | 2 | 8 | 1 | 6 | 4 | 5 | 7 | 3 |
| 6 | 9 | 4 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 6 | 2 | 5 |
| 3 | 6 | 5 | 2 | 9 | 6 | 7 | 1 | 4 |
| 2 | 1 | 7 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 6 | 8 |
| 1 | 3 | 6 | 4 | 6 | 7 | 9 | 6 | 2 |
| 4 | 8 | 9 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 6 | 7 |
| 5 | 7 | 2 | 9 | 1 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 8 |
KILLER SUDOKU
DOWN:
Moomin. 2 Muesli. Ofertory. 4 Hydration break. Uncle. 7 Customer. 8 Arabella. Invisible Touch. 15 Cassandra. Template. 17 Arbroath. Sparta. 20 Ragout. 22 Homer.
CRYPTIC CROSSWORD No. 17,940
ACROSS: 1 Breeches busy, 8 Charlie. 9 Cardiac. 11 Dispatcher. 12 Lama. 14 Marbling. 16 Pariah. 17 Tub. 19 Captor. 21 Malaysia. 24 Lily. 25 Defacement. 27 Yachtle. 28 Chorale. 29 Standardised. DOWN: 1 Browser. 2 Extraction. 3 Crescent. 4 Enceed. 5 Bark. 6 Origami. 7 Academically. 10 Coach parties. 13 Calaverous. 15 Gum. 18 Balanced. 20 Polecat. 22 Steward. 23 Helena. 26 Shun.
MAILWORD
ACROSS: 1 Idle. 5 Medal. 10 Ailleu. 11 Akela. 12 Mame. 13 Set on. 14 Phi. 15 Out. 17 End. 18 Song. 20 Citres. 22 Gnocchi. 24 Athune. 26 Yobs. 29 Baa. 30 Try. 32 Rat. 33 Amble. 35 Orate. 37 Silas. 38 Luton. 39 Elect. 40 Keen. DOWN: 1 Idaho. 2 Dining table. 3 Leo. 4 Euro. 5 Mastic. 6 Ele. 7 Deteriorate. 8 Alone. 9 Lands. 10 Amps. 16 Ulcer. 19 Gnu. 21 Thy. 23 On tent. 24 Abase. 25 Tamil. 27 Baton. 28 Sten. 31 Volk. 34 Lac. 36 Rue.
WORLD'S SMALLEST, HARDEST CROSSWORD — ACROSS: 1 Eid. 4 Also. 5 Verb. 6 OCD. DOWN: 1 Elec. 2 Lord. 3 DOB. 4 Ave.
SOLUTIONS TO TODAY'S PUZZLES
QUICK QUIZ: 1 Dalmatia.
2 Executioner. 3 Black Rod.
4 An apple. 5 Mongolia.
MINDBENDER:
1 18 people. 2 They may all precede pay. 3 Honeymoon. 4 Pompidou Centre; the others are opera houses. 5 One way is a, an, man, mean, mange, German, mangler, emigrant, germinate.
MASTERQUIZ:
1 Turkey. 2 Taurus. 3 John Masefield. 4 Anglesey. 5 Glasgow. 6 Joe DiMaggio.
HONEYCOMB:
1 Barted. 2 Hailled. 3 Depict. 4 Under. 5 Redden. 6 Delete. 7 Seller. 8 Elders. 9 Raises. 10 Sickle. 11 Locate. 12 Deacon.
KUROSU
| 0 | X | X | O | X | O |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| X | X | O | X | O | O |
| O | O | X | O | X | X |
| O | X | O | O | O | O |
| X | O | O | X | O | X |
| X | O | O | X | O | X |
30-SECOND CHALLENGE:
Beginner: 99. Intermediate: 196. Advanced: 99.
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Non-model Checks
- WARNING: missing numeric tokens from source: 1004, 1008, 1012, 1021, 1022, 1025, 1026, 1027, 1028, 1029
- WARNING: Missing proper nouns in translation: Abdoul Ouattara, Accessed Top, Accompanying Nigel, Actress Thelma Barlow, Adriatic Sea, After Dark, After Marco Bizot, Agricultural Festival, Air Ambulance, Aladdin Int
- WARNING: source dates, money, or percentage tokens may be missing
Model QA
经过严格审核，以下为发现的问题及建议：
1. 幻觉核查
问题1：译文中提到的“红原 grouse”（red grouse）在原文中未找到对应描述。
- 核查步骤： 1. 标题索引中无匹配内容。 2. 抽样原文中搜索“grouse”或“red”关键词，仅发现“Gamekeepers and farmers traditionally carried out controlled burning of heather and grasses in cooler months — to encourage new shoots for red grouse and sheep to graze on.”（原文P2）。 3. 译文将“red grouse”直接音译为“红原 grouse”，但“grouse”在生物学上即为“松鸡”，无需音译。
- 问题：误译导致术语不准确。
- 级别：[WARNING]（专业术语错误，影响理解）
- 建议：改为“松鸡”。
问题2：译文中“160 万 英亩”在原文中为“more than trebled the area”。
- 核查步骤： 1. 原文P2：“the Government having recently more than trebled the area over which the controlled burning of vegetation is effectively banned in our uplands”。 2. 译文直接给出具体数字“160 万英亩”，但原文未提供基准面积，属于臆测。
- 问题：数字无依据，属于幻觉。
- 级别：[BLOCKING]（数字错误，严重影响可信度）
- 建议：改为“面积扩大了三倍以上”。
2. 数字准确性
问题3：日期格式不一致。
- 核查步骤： 1. 译文中“October 1.”与“November 14, 2050”混用。 2. 原文P4：“November 14, 2050”和“September 23, 2090”均使用“月 日, 年”格式。
- 问题：格式不统一，影响专业性。
- 级别：[WARNING]
- 建议：统一为“2050年11月14日”格式。
问题4：温度单位错误。
- 核查步骤： 1. 原文P2：“Temperatures rise to hot by midday”（未明确单位）。 2. 译文中“30℃”在原文中对应“30c”（摄氏度符号应为“°C”）。
- 问题：单位符号错误。
- 级别：[WARNING]
- 建议：改为“30°C”。
3. 完整性
问题5：低中文密度区域（广告/电视节目单）未翻译。
- 核查步骤： 1. 审核标注区域（如“SAVING YOU WITH PRICES TO KEEP YOU COOL”）完全未译。 2. 根据第三步要求，广告和电视节目单不属于必须翻译的内容，但需确认是否为有意过滤。
- 问题：若非有意过滤，则属于漏译。
- 级别：[FALSE_POSITIVE]（符合过滤规则，非漏译）
- 建议：无需修改，但建议在译文开头注明“广告及电视节目单已过滤”。
4. 残留英文
问题6：译文中保留英文术语未翻译。
- 示例： 1. “agriturismo”（农家乐）未译。 2. “AD”（Audio Description，语音描述）、“BSL”（British Sign Language，英国手语）未译。
- 级别：[WARNING]（影响阅读流畅性）
- 建议：
- “agriturismo”→“农家乐/乡村民宿”。
- “AD”→“语音描述”，“BSL”→“英国手语”。
5. 交付标签
问题7：译文中出现“（此处为...）”等内部标签。
- 核查步骤： 1. 译文P1：“...[MIDDLE PORTION OMITTED FOR QA]...”未删除。
- 级别：[BLOCKING]（严重影响交付质量）
- 建议：删除所有内部标签。
6. 其他问题
问题8：日期错误。
- 核查步骤： 1. 译文P1：“October 1. 开始”应为“10月1日”。 2. 原文P2：“The new burning season will start on October 1.”。
- 问题：格式错误。
- 级别：[WARNING]
- 建议：改为“10月1日”。
问题9：人名翻译不一致。
- 示例： 1. “Andy Burnham”在译文中出现“安迪·伯纳姆”和“安迪·伯纳姆”两种译法。
- 级别：[WARNING]
- 建议：统一为“安迪·伯纳姆”。
总结
- 阻塞性问题（Blocking）： - 数字幻觉（160万英亩）。 - 交付标签残留。
- 警告级问题（Warning）： - 术语误译（红原 grouse）、日期/单位格式、残留英文、人名不一致。
- 误判（False Positive）： - 广告/电视节目单过滤属于正常行为。
最终结论：存在 1个阻塞性问题，需立即修正；多个警告级问题影响质量，建议整体优化。
修正建议清单： | 问题编号 | 位置 | 原文错误示例 | 建议修正 | 级别 | |----------|--------------------|----------------------------|------------------------------|------------| | 1 | P1 | 红原 grouse | 松鸡 | WARNING | | 2 | P1 | 160 万 英亩 | 面积扩大了三倍以上 | BLOCKING | | 3 | P4 | October 1. | 10月1日 | WARNING | | 4 | P2 | 30℃ | 30°C | WARNING | | 5 | 全文 | [MIDDLE PORTION OMITTED...]| 删除 | BLOCKING | | 6 | P5 | agriturismo | 农家乐 | WARNING | | 7 | P1 | Andy Burnham 译名不一致 | 统一为“安迪·伯纳姆” | WARNING |