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Temperatures in Centigrade

Today’s Sunshine summary:and Windy Today’s summary: showers. Windy North West: Sun and scattered blustery East Anglia: Sunny spells developing showers, wintry over high ground. Strong after a cloudy, in places damp start. westerly winds. High 10C (50F).

Strong westerly winds. High 10C (50F).

Northern Ireland: Windy with some London/South East: Cloudy and drizzly sunshine and few blustery showers. Near for a time, but more sunshine later. gale force westerly winds. High 8C (46F).

Moderate winds. High 12C (54F).

Wales: Some sunshine, but also a lot of South: Mainly dry with cloud breaking up cloud. A few showers possible. Fresh to give some sunshine. Moderate northwesterly winds. High 11C (52F). westerly winds. High 11C (52F).

Midlands: Mostly dry with some sunshine, South West: Mostly dry with variable but the odd shower too. Fresh to strong cloud cover. Just the odd shower. Strong westerly winds. High 12C (54F). north-westerly winds. High 12C (54F).

Channel Isles: Mainly cloudy, possibly North East/Yorks: Sunshine and a few blustery showers, wintry over the Pennines. with a few spots of rain or drizzle. Strong north-westerly winds. High 11C (52F).

Strong westerly winds. High 11C (52F).

Sea: North Sea: Rough. Irish Sea: Rough.

Scotland: Squally showers, most frequent in the west and falling as snow on the hills. Channel: Moderate.

Very windy. High 8C (46F).

UK OUTLOOK TOMORROW: Outbreaks of rain and possible hill snow for southern Britain. Sunny spells and wintry showers elsewhere with some snow to low levels. Cold.

SIX-DAY FORECAST Temperatures in Centigrade THU FRI SAT SUN MON London Belfast Birmingham Cardiff Glasgow Manchester Newcastle Norwich Plymouth Aberdeen Aberporth Alnwick Belfast Birmingham B’mouth Bristol Cardiff Durham Edinburgh

Britain Extremes: (24 hours to 2pm yesterday)

1.9 0.0 2.3 0.1 1.1 0.3 0.0 0.0 3.1 1.2

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Glasgow Hull Ipswich Leeds Lincoln London Manchester Oxford S’hampton St Andrews

MOON rises: 3.38pm, sets: 6.38am SUN rises London: 8.02am, sets: 4.15pm Manchester rises: 8.20am, sets: 4.14pm

0.7 3.5 1.7 2.3 0.5 1.3 0.0 1.4 2.8 1.7

0.31 0.01 0.04 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.04 0.01 0.00 0.01

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HIGH TIDE London B’ge Liverpool Greenock Dover

Lighting-up times Belfast Birmingham Bristol

4.23pm-8.39am 4.17pm-8.13am 4.25pm-8.11am

(12.12am), (12.36pm) (-), (-) (11.16am), (11.52pm) (9.53am), (10.21pm)

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Europe forecast

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Britain yesterday

Warmest: St. Mary’s 11C (52F) Coldest: Santon Downham 1C (34F) Wettest: Kinlochewe 1.24in.

Sunniest: Leuchars 3.6hr.

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4.09pm-8.40am 4.15pm-8.01am 4.14pm-8.19am 4.03pm-8.24am

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MASS murderer Anders Breivik gave a Nazi salute yesterday at a court hearing into whether his human rights were violated in prison.

The 37-year-old massacred 77 people during a killing spree in Oslo, Norway, in 2011, and is serving 21 years in jail with the possibility of an extension.

The state is now appealing a lower court ruling that his human rights have been violated by being kept in solitary confinement. Last year, a judge agreed that his near-isolation in jail violated a European Convention on Human Rights ban on “inhuman and degrading treatment”.

Breivik made the Nazi gesture as he entered the court in a converted gym at Skien prison, where he is incarcerated.

Launching the state’s appeal, Attorney General Fredrik Sejersted said: “There is no human rights violation.” l White supremacist Dylann Roof, 22, who murdered nine black churchgoers in a racist Temperatures in Centigrade attack on a bible study meeting in Charleston, South Carolina, in 2015, was sentenced to death yesterday.

Today’s summary: Variable cloud. A few showers East Coast: A mostly dry day with some North West Coast: It looks set to be sunny intervals likely, but there is the mostly cloudy with the chance of a few chance of the odd shower. A moderate showers, but some brighter spells too. A westerly breeze. High 8C (46F). fresh westerly wind. High 8C (46F).

South West Coast: It is expected to be North Central Ireland: A rather cloudy mainly cloudy and windy with the chance day with one or two showers possible. A of one or two showers. A strong northfew brighter spells too though. A moderate westerly wind. High 10C (50F). westerly wind. High 9C (48F).

Northern Ireland: It will be windy with South Central Ireland: It will be mostly spells of sunshine and a few blustery dry with sunny intervals and variable showers, wintry over the hills. A near gale cloud, but the odd shower is possible. A force westerly wind. High 8C (46F). moderate westerly wind. High 9C (48F).

Temperatures in Centigrade

Today’s forecast: Spain, Portugal and the Balearic and Canary Islands

Smugglers offer £100 UK ‘deal’ to migrants Northern and eastern Spain will be mostly cloudy with patchy rain or drizzle, but the Mediterranean coast should see some sunshine. Mainly sunny elsewhere across Spain. High

Outlook: Some sunshine for most And back in Britain today

London/South East: Cloudy and drizzly for a time, but more sunshine later.

Moderate winds. High 12C (54F).

Outlook tomorrow:

Warmest: Sherkin Island 12C (54F) Ireland Extremes: Coldest: Killylane 3C (37F) Tomorrow looks set to be a cold and breezy Wettest: Giant’s Causeway 0.50in.

(24 hours day with spells of sunshine and a scattering to 2pm yesterday) reigate of wintry showers. These are likely to give Picture: steve Full Moon some snow to low levels at times.

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20C (68F). Portugal will be fine and dry with plenty of sunshine. High 19C (66F). The Canaries can expect sunn intervals, but a lot of cloud with the odd spot of rain too. High 22C (72F).

North: Windy with sunny spells and a fe showers, wintry on hills. Near gale force westerly winds. High 11C (52F).

Midlands: Mostly dry with some Scotland: Squally showers, most freque sunshine, but the odd shower too. Fresh in the west and falling as snow on the to strong westerly winds. High 12C (54F). hills. Very windy. High (46F). said they logged a 8C rise in Migrants numbers drifting back. but a lot of clou Wales: Some sunshine, but also a lot of Ireland: Sunny intervals, From Giles Sheldrick yesterday One officer said: “There cloud. A few showers possible. Fresh and a few showers. Fresh to strong in Calais SIX-DAY FORECAST in Temperatures Calais in Centigrade are more migrants walking westerly winds. High 11C (52F). westerly winds. High 10C (50F). whereSUN policeMON HUMAN traffickers offer SAT around this month than THU FRI TUE fear new crisis to smuggle migrants into Sun last. and wintry showers. Cold and windy UK outlook tomorrow: the London 1 5£100. 0 6 0 5 1 7 2 6 1 6 Britain for around “We don’t want another Belfastare now Gangs Jungle but we fear as the sun 1 3 touting 1 4 4 6 5 8 6 8 6 9 Temperatures in Centigrade SIX-DAY FORECASTcomes IN BRITAIN cut-price cross-Channel back more will return.

Birmingham 1 4 0 5 1 5 1 6 2 6 2 7 THU FRI It was SATa bigSUN deals to those still desperate problemMON for us.” TUE Cardiff 2 6 2 7 3 8 3 8 4 8 3 8 to reach the UK in winter.

Yesterday armed soldiers London 1 5 0 6 0 5 1 7 2 6 1 Glasgow 0 5 2 5 3 7 5 9 6 9 Tariffs from1 4 northern conducted vehicle checks Belfast 1 3 1 4at the 4 6 entrance 5 8 France vary, with to6 8the 6 Manchester 1 4an “unso0 5 1 5 2 6 2 6 3 7 phisticated” availaport Birmingham 1 4 0 5busy 1ferry 5 1 6 in a2 clear 6 2 Newcastle attempt 1 4 0 4 1 4 2 6 3 6 4 7 ble for just £112 (130euros) sign that security had been Cardiff 2 6 2 7 3 8 3 8 4 8 3 0 6 journey -1 4 0 4 1 4 0 6 -1 5 and aNorwich “guaranteed” beefed up.

Glasgow 1 4 0 5 2 5 3 7 5 9 6 Plymouth costing around £6,900.

3 7 3 7 5 8 6 9 6 10 6 9 Manchester The offers are being made 1 4 0 5 1 5 2 6 2 6 3 in response to the closure of Newcastle 1 4 0 4 1 4 2 6 3 6 4 Britain yesterday Moon, sun and tides the Jungle camp in Calais, Charlie Elphicke, Tory MP MOON rises: 3.55pm, sets: 7.10am Norwich 0 6 -1 4for Dover, 0 4 1 4 0 6 -1 Aberdeen 1.9people-smugglers 0.04 4 8 Glasgow 0.7 0.31 5 9 SUN rises Dublin: 8.35am, sets: 4.30pm when said: “Brazen Aberporthhawked 0.0 0.00their 6 9 trade.

Hull 3.5 0.01 4 9 Manchester rises: 8.20am, sets: 4.14pm Plymouth 3 7 3 7people-traffickers 5 8 6 9 6 10 6 openly offering Alnwick 2.3 0.00 5 10 Ipswich 1.7 0.04 1 8 HIGH TIDE Experts0.1 0.01 said6 10criminal cut-price winter deals to Belfast Leeds 2.3 0.00 6 8 (5.28am), (5.49pm) networks are 0.00 becoming more 0.5 0.00 3 9 Waterford break into Britain underlines Moon, sun and tides Britain yesterday Birmingham 1.1 3 8 Lincoln Limerick (-), (-) sophisticated, with business the 0.7 seriousness of the threat.

B’mouth 0.3 0.01 1 9 London 1.3 0.00 2 9 Aberdeen 1.9 0.04 4 8 Glasgow 0.31 5 9 MOON rises: 4.27pm, sets: 6.16am (-), (-) Bristol conducted 0.0 0.00 4 at 8 service Manchester 0.0 0.04 5 9 Galway SUN rises Madrid: and 7.36am, sets: 5.07p being “These are organised Aberporth 0.0 0.00 6 9 Hull 3.5 0.01 4 9 Cobh (-), (-) Manchester rises: 8.20am, sets: 4.14p Cardiff 0.0 lorry 0.04 7 parks 9 Oxford stations and close 1.4 0.01 2 8 Dublin criminals Alnwick 2.3 0.00 5 10 Ipswich violent 1.7 0.04 1 8 who will stop (-), (-) Durham 3.1 0.00 4 9 S’hampton 2.8 0.00 4 9 Full Moon Belfast 0.1 0.01 6 10 Leeds 2.3 0.00 6 8 toEdinburgh the port. at nothing to further their (9.54am), (10.23pm) 12 January 1.2 0.04 4 9 St Andrews 1.7 0.01 3 9 Belfast Birmingham 1.1 0.00 3 8 Lincoln evil0.5 0.00 of 3 modern 9 Tom Dowdall, deputy trade slavery.

London 4.15pm-8.01am Birmingham 4.17pm-8.13am Lighting-up of timesthe National B’mouth 0.3 0.01 1 at9 this London “This 1.3 0.00 2 9 it’s HIGHso TIDEimpordirector of the CalaisManchester migrant camp.” from northern France is why 4.14pm-8.19am Bristol 4.25pm-8.11am Bristol 0.0 0.00 4 8 Manchester 0.0 0.04 5 9 London B’ge (12.12am), (12.36p Crime Agency, “The 4.09pm-8.40am The NCA said lure of time ofCardiff year when heed (-),the Newcastlethe4.03pm-8.24am Belfast 4.23pm-8.39amsaid: Glasgow (-) 0.0 the 0.04 weather 7 9 Oxford tant 1.4 to 0.01carefully 2 8 Liverpool method of illegal entry most a new life in Britain had is usually poor.3.1 0.00 4 9 S’hampton warnings NCA (11.16am), and (11.52p Greenock Durham 2.8 0.00 of 4 9the frequently chosen continues seen migrants pay £4,300 Officials both work nations.”(9.53am), (10.21pm Edinburgh 1.2 sides 0.04 4 of9 the St Andrews 1.7 with 0.01 other 3 9 Dover Tomorrow Channel hoped the closure of Europe (5,000euros) forecast to Today be HGVs – primarily to travel As well as the main crossSt. Mary’s 11Cof (52F) Channel Lighting-up times the NCA Britain andWarmest: Glasgow said 4.09pm-8.40 through dispersal ports, AmsterdamChannel Rainports. 10C/50F overland Amsterdamfrom Iraq Sleet through 6C/43F the Jungle Coldest: Santon Downham 1C (34F) Belfast 4.23pm-8.39am London 4.15pm-8.01 Brussels 9C/48F Turkey Brusselsand Europe.

Sleet 5C/41F 10,000 Extremes: “As the NCARain and its partrefugeesWettest: in Kinlochewe October gangs were also targeting 1.24in.

Birmingham 4.17pm-8.13am Manchester 4.14pm-8.19 (24 hours Dublin Showers 8C/46F Dublin Snow 3C/37F ners respond to illegal immiThe bill for a stowaway would to 2pm signal the Leuchars end3.6hr.of smaller ports like Newcastle Tilbury,4.03pm-8.24 yesterday) Sunniest: Bristol 4.25pm-8.11am Frankfurt Sleet 5C/41F Frankfurt Rain 5C/41F gration in its various forms, varies depends on whether the crisis.

Purfleet and Newhaven.

Geneva Rain 4C/39F Geneva Rain 7C/45F organised crime groups seek journey is staggered and But migrants were spotted A spokesman said: “ThereTomorro Lisbon Sunny 16C/61F theLisbon Cloudy 15C/59F Today Europe forecast toMadrid adapt to our actions 15C/59F and theMadrid level of risk to are a significant number of Sunny Fair smugglers.

12C/54F walking the streets of Calais Paris Cloudy 11C/52F Paris Raindaily with 8C/46F yesterday, Amsterdam Sleet 6C/43F changing circumstances.

Tariffs change raising Rain fears that 10C/50F currentAmsterdam investigations.”

Rome Sunny 8C/46F traffickers Rome Rain deals12C/54F Brussels chaos was Rain about 9C/48F Brussels Sleet 5C/41F “We are particularly alive lowering to the border Dublin Showers 8C/46F Dublin Snow 3C/37F OPINION: PAGE 12 to this following the closure tempt migrants to set sail to return. Police in France

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Sunny 6 43 Moscow . . . .

Fair -10 14 Venice . . . . .

Fair Staff at Cumberland contacted the police on Gibraltar . . . . Sunny 16 61 Nairobi . . . . . Fair 24 75 Vienna . . . . . Fair Infirmary Carlisle 4 Warsaw January, Guernsey . . . in Cloudy 10 50 called New in Delhi. . . Wednesday, Sunny 16 61 . . . . Sunny

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By Geoff Maynard A HORROR-struck husband found himself faced with a real-life “needle in a haystack” situation – after losing his wedding ring in a barn full of straw.

The odds may have been stacked against him, but John Tressider, 68, eventually found the band after a two-week hunt.

The grandfather was helping out on a relative’s farm when he realised his gold Celtic ring had come off his finger.

After finding it with the help of a metal detector he quipped: “It was literally like looking for a needle in a haystack.”

The ring was actually a replacement for his original one, which was eaten 20 years ago by his dog Max. Mr Tressider, a retired RSPCA superintendent from East Budleigh, Devon, spent two hours sifting through straw bales on the day he lost the ring.

But it failed to turn up and, distraught, he was forced to head home to break the sad news to Sally, his wife of 33 years.

Resolute, he returned to the farm in St Mawes, Cornwall, a few days later for a second fruitless search before finally calling on his friend Tony Farrington, who lent him a metal detector.

Two weeks after first losing the ring, Mr Tressider searched the barn again, using the detector to comb the giant rows of haystacks.

The device finally went off after three hours of hunting, and he eventually spotted the ring camouflaged against the golden straw.

Mr Tressider explained: “I was helping out at my auntie’s farm and moving a stack of 200 or so straw bales from one barn to another.

“After moving about 100 of them I stopped for a rest and noticed, to my absolute horror, that I had lost my wedding ring.

“It was quite a loose fit anyway and the bale strings were tight and hard to grip, so it must have just pinged off.

“I didn’t know where to start looking.

“After a few hours I eventually went home and told Sally. She wasn’t thrilled, put it that way.

“I’d had this Celtic wedding ring for 20 years.

“It had been a replacement for the original one that I lost when a

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Forget a needle...husband finds his wedding ring in a haystack after 2-week hunt Pictures: PHIL YEOMANS / BNPS

Clockwise from above, John Tressider with Sally, his wife of 33 years, with the successful metal detector, the mass of hay he searched through, the prized ring, and dog Max, who ate John’s first wedding ring 20 years ago

rescue dog I was looking after ate it. I followed him about doing his business for ages but never saw that ring again.

“I was determined I wasn’t

going to lose a second one and was actually quite optimistic about finding it, because I knew it had to be in the barn somewhere.

“So when I went back to the

barn with the metal detector I was very methodical.

“I was searching the second to bottom layer when the detector made a very distinctive beeping

noise. I was very relieved and to say my wife was overjoyed is an understatement.”

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It’s no yolk, eggs are ‘good for the brain’

Eating eggs did not increase dementia risk

EATING an egg a day may boost brain functions – and does not increase the risk of dementia, a study suggests.

Previous research had identified health risks linked to eating eggs – including heart attacks, clogged arteries, high blood pressure and weight gain.

There remains strong evidence that such risks affect a person’s chances of developing Alzheimer’s disease – which causes dementia.

But the new study suggests eating eggs, which are a significant source of dietary cholesterol, may pose no extra risk – and could even help stave off dementia.

Researchers from the University of Eastern Finland concentrated

By Mark Reynolds on patients who carry a gene, APOE4, which is known to increase the risk of memory disorders.

They analysed the diets of 2,497 Finnish men aged 42 to 60 and with no diagnosis of a memory disorder at the start of the study.

The group was enrolled on a heart disease risk study between 1984 and 1989.

A follow-up 22 years later revealed 337 men were diagnosed with a memory disorder – 266 of them with Alzheimer’s disease. A third were carriers of APOE4.

Professor Jyrki Virtanen, leading the study, explained: “There is little information about the asso-

ciations of intakes of cholesterol and eggs, a major source of dietary cholesterol, with the risk of cognitive decline in general populations or in carriers of APOE4, a major risk factor for dementia.

“We investigated the association of cholesterol and egg intakes with incident dementia, Alzheimer’s disease and cognitive performance.

“Neither cholesterol nor egg intake was associated with a higher risk of incident dementia or Alzheimer’s disease.”

And in some cases, eating eggs improved mental performance.

Prof Virtanen explained: “Egg intake was associated with better performance on neuropsychological tests of the frontal lobe and

executive functioning. The findings suggest that a high-cholesterol diet or frequent consumption of eggs do not increase the risk of memory disorders.”

Currently there is no cure for Alzheimer’s, which causes nerve cell death and tissue loss throughout the brain leading to dementia.

Last night UK research bodies cautiously welcomed the findings, published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition.

Dr Rosa Sancho, of Alzheimer’s Research UK, said: “While this study found that those eating more eggs performed better on some thinking tests, it’s not clear what factors may be behind these benefits.”

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Daily Express Wednesday January 11 2017

By David Maddox

Political Correspondent JEREMY Corbyn was forced into a humiliating climbdown last night after saying he would like to see a cap on maximum pay.

The Labour leader said salaries paid to some company bosses and top ­footballers were “utterly ridiculous”.

He insisted he would like to see a cap to counter income inequality, an idea described by his former financial adviser as “idiotic”.

But after former advisers warned the proposal was a “non-starter”, a ­spokesman for Mr Corbyn claimed he “misspoke” on the subject.

Mr Corbyn also seemed confused about the free movement of workers in the EU, admitting that it has allowed employers to undercut UK wages, but then saying he would not rule out keeping it.

The hapless Labour leader initially raised the idea of a pay cap during a series of broadcast interviews ahead of his first major speech of the year focusing on ­Britain’s future after Brexit.

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‘THIS SHIRT IS THE CLOSEST YOU WILL GET TO NUMBER 10, JEREMY’

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Derision He said: “If we want to live in a more egalitarian society...we cannot go on creating worse levels of inequality.

“I would like to see a maximum earnings limit, quite honestly, because I think that would be a fairer thing to do. We cannot set ourselves up as being a sort of grossly unequal, ­bargain-basement economy on the shores of Europe.”

But Mr Corbyn’s former ­economic adviser, Danny Blanchflower, a former Bank of England monetary policy committee member, said the scheme was “totally unworkable”.

He tweeted: ­“Corbyn max wage lunatic idea would generate a huge brain drain as smart people move abroad shows how out of touch he is.

“If I was still an adviser I would have told him it’s a totally ­idiotic unwork-

Comrade Corbyn leaves BBC yesterday able idea.” Richard Murphy, an academic who advised Mr Corbyn during his leadership bid, said: “It doesn’t make any economic sense at all. You cannot impose such a cap.

“Jeremy needs to sit down and get some proper advice.”

Mr Corbyn refused to say at what level the cap should be set, although he claimed it would be “somewhat higher” than the £138,000 he earns.

He also said Labour does not rule out backing continued freedom of movement when Britain quits the EU, just hours after he appeared to say the opposite. Speaking in Peterborough, Mr ­Corbyn said: “Labour is not ­wedded

to freedom of movement for EU ­citizens as a point of principle, but I don’t want that to be misinterpreted, nor do we rule it out.”

Mr Corbyn’s intervention appeared to catch colleagues by surprise, with one shadow cabinet minister ­saying he had been expressing a ­“personal view”.

Mr Corbyn also said he would be prepared to join striking Southern Rail drivers on the picket line.

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Jeremy Corbyn is handed an Arsenal football shirt yesterday by Piers Morgan, who joked that it may be the nearest he gets to number 10.

The Labour leader was being interviewed on ITV’s Good Morning Britain.

Presenter Morgan, an Arsenal fan, gave him the number 10 shirt with his name on it and said: “You may never get there.”

In the interview, Mr Corbyn denied a suggestion he was a “Left -wing Donald Trump”.

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EU ‘trying to scare City firms’

By Alison Little and Greg Heffer

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Amber Rudd comes unstuck outside No 10 yesterday before an aide rescues her

Amber digs her heel in at No 10 HOME Secretary Amber Rudd puts her foot in it on the way to Number 10 yesterday as her stiletto heel gets caught between paving slabs.

Ms Rudd had to lean on the Downing Street railings to balance herself before an aide came to help her free the shoe.

The Cabinet minister exclaimed “ooops!” as her heel caught, then

By Geoff Maynard joked: “All going so well”, as she continued on her way to a Downing Street meeting.

A helpful policemen asked her “are you OK, ma’am?” as she entered Number 10, to which Ms Rudd replied: “Yes, thank you.” No doubt she was thinking ‘just my Ruddy luck!’

Brexit given small firms a big boost for confidence TRUMP ‘WANTS SPEEDY DEAL WITH UK’

By Macer Hall Political Editor CONFIDENCE among businesses in the strength of the British economy has bounced back to it highest level since the Brexit vote last summer.

A survey of over 1,000 members of the Federation of Small Businesses revealed more felt confident than pessimistic about the future.

The results were announced last night after the FTSE 100 share index closed at a record high for the ninth day running, breaking a figure which has stood for nearly 20 years.

Brexit supporters said it showed the legacy of the Remain campaign’s scaremongering about the potential threat to the economy from voting to leave the EU was wearing off.

Former Tory Cabinet minister John Redwood said: “It’s great news that businesses are now responding to the confidence of the consumer and strength in the UK economy.

“All we have to fear is fear itself, and there is no need to be afraid.”

In the latest quarterly index, the Federation of Small Businesses’ measure of confidence stood at +8.5, up from -2.9 in the previous three month period. The measure had reached +8.6 last year before the referendum was held in June.

FSB chairman Mike Cherry said: “We are delighted to see confidence

Urgent… Boris Johnson

PRESIDENT-elect Donald Trump is “enthusiastic” to do a speedy trade deal with Britain, Boris Johnson declared yesterday after talks in the US with key figures.

The Foreign Secretary told the House of Commons: “They want to do it. They want to do it fast and that understanding was most vivid and most urgent on the part of the incoming administration.”

He had just returned from talks in New York with Jared Kushner, Trump’s son-in-law who is set for a top White

bounce back at the end of 2016, effectively wiping out the fall we saw over the course of the year in the run-up to the EU referendum and its immediate fallout.

“The current economic outlook seems brighter, and UK small businesses are ambitious and want to make the most of it.”

And he urged the Chancellor to make a “pro-business Budget” in March that includes an increase in the Employment Allowance “to help small firms boost job creation”.

Small business minister Margot James said last night: “It’s great

By Alison Little House advisor’s job and chief strategist Steve Bannon, influential members of the new President’s team.

Mr Johnson also held meetings in Washington DC with Congressional leaders. New York-born Mr Johnson told MPs: “It was clear there is a wide measure of agreement between us over the challenges that we face.

There’s a huge fund of goodwill for the UK on Capitol Hill.”

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news as we start 2017 that Britain’s small firms are feeling more confident, growing their operations and making new hires. This Government will continue to give them an environment to thrive in, where they can meet the challenges and make a success of leaving the EU.” The FTSE-100 index finished up 0.53 per cent yesterday at a new peak of 7275.47, bettering the eightday winning streak recorded in May 1997 as Labour won the general election.

Joshua Mahony, of City analyst firm IG, said: “The FTSE 100 has

again had an outstanding day, with the index gaining from the first minute to the last as it reached new all-time highs once more.

“The fact that we are seeing the index hit these new highs in such a fearless manner says a lot about the potential for further gains.”

Chloe Westley, a spokeswoman for the Brexit-backing pressure group Change Britain, said: “There are a host of opportunities for businesses large and small in leaving the EU, from better regulation to striking trade deals with the fast-growing economies of the 21st century.

EU FINANCE watchdogs are trying to spook firms into quitting the City of London after Brexit, MPs were told yesterday.

London Stock Exchange chief executive Xavier Rolet said regulators have been cold-calling finance firms.

He said they were warned Britain’s financial services sector could be stripped of its right to process complex currency trades in euros.

The business is worth more than £280trillion a year to the City and brings huge tax revenues.

Mr Rolet told the Treasury Select Committee that the implication was that the regulators’ contacts were designed to nudge Londonbased firms into shifting operations to the Continent.

But the MPs heard that the scare tactic could backfire. Mr Rolet stressed it was to Europe’s advantage as well as the UK’s to be able to continue relying on London as a financial services powerhouse.

And he told the committee that meddling by Brussels risked pushing business to New York rather than to EU financial centres.

Meanwhile Elizabeth Corley of finance giant Allianz, predicted the City would keep expanding after Brexit.

“We happen to be a German company but we have a significant and growing business here because we can find talent and the right environment,” she said, adding that the UK is “a very, very attractive place to do business”.

London hub for Snapchat

By John Fitzpatrick BREXIT Britain was given another boost yesterday after a social media giant said it will move its international headquarters here.

Snapchat, a messaging app with 150 million users worldwide, joins Facebook, Google and IBM in committing to the UK after the vote to leave the EU. The Los Angeles-based firm will conduct all non-US business at a new site in London.

The group said the UK is “a great place to build a global business”.

Spokeswoman Claire Valoti added: “We believe in UK creative industries. The UK is where our advertising clients are, and where we’ve already begun to hire talent.” lPremier Foods, owners of the Mr Kipling and Bisto brands, was yesterday accused of blaming potential price hikes on Brexit.

The company said “midsingle digit” price rises could be on the way, blaming the low pound.

Ukip’s Brexit spokesman Gerard Batten said: “This looks like an opportunist move to cash in, raise prices and blame it on Brexit.”

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Style icon Kate is on list of top 150 fashionable women

Style conscious Kate leads fashion

THE Duchess of Cambridge has joined A-list stars in being named among the 150 most fashionable women in the world.

The exclusive list, compiled to mark the 150th year of Harper’s Bazaar magazine, includes highprofile British names like supermodel Naomi Campbell, singer Adele and lawyer Amal Clooney.

The cover girl for the 150th edition is music star Madonna, 58.

Singers Rihanna and Taylor Swift and supermodel Cindy Crawford are also among the featured stars of Hollywood, the music industry, fashion designers and celebrity stylists.

Harper’s Bazaar Editor-in-Chief Glenda Bailey said editors of the

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Emily has a golden glow after Bafta nod

By Mark Reynolds magazine’s 32 editions worldwide had voted for their favourite fashion icons.

She added: “Our lists were all more or less the same.

“These women are renowned for their style around the world.”

Last September the Duchess of Cambridge, 35, was voted the UK’s most influential style icon in a marketing poll.

And in 2012 magazine Marie Claire devoted a feature to listing 50 reasons why Kate was seen as a leader of fashion.

The new edition of Harper’s Bazaar is out on January 17.

By Mark Reynolds

Emily Blunt has been nominated for best actress for her role in The Girl On The Train

ENGLISH rose Emily Blunt looked on track for Bafta success yesterday.

The Girl On The Train star was celebrating after her best actress nomination for the British Academy Film Awards.

More homegrown talent – Andrew Garfield – is in the running for the leading actor award for his role as a combat medic in Mel Gibson’s Second World War film Hacksaw Ridge.

British drama I, Daniel Blake will take on Hollywood musical La La Land for best film. Ken Loach’s controversial picture of life in the benefits system will compete against the starry love letter to Los Angeles, which won a record seven Golden Globes this week.

Blunt, 33, will be competing with Meryl Streep who played singer Florence Foster Jenkins, Amy Adams for her role in Arrival, Emma Stone for La La Land and Natalie Portman for her portrayal of Jacqueline Kennedy in Jackie.

Garfield faces competition from Casey Affleck for Manchester By The Sea, La La Land’s Ryan Gosling, Jake Gyllenhaal for Nocturnal Animals and Viggo Mortensen for Captain Fantastic.

Hugh Grant could land a supporting role award as the husband of Streep’s character in Florence Foster Jenkins.

The awards will be handed out at a ceremony at the Royal Albert Hall in London on February 12.

M1 dead man ‘may have been thrown from a car’ DETECTIVES are investigating the death of a man whose body was found on the M1 early yesterday.

Officers have not ruled out murder, with the victim suffering “catastrophic” injuries after being run over by several vehicles on a 50mph stretch. The body was found shortly after 2am by a lorry driver.

Unconfirmed reports said the man could have been thrown from a moving car near Northampton.

Police closed the M1 between junctions 16 and 18 until lunchtime.

Det Sgt Tony Hopkins of

By Cyril Dixon Northamptonshire Police stressed that investigators were keeping an open mind about the case.

“We believe the body may have come into contact with several vehicles. There is no nearby bridge or obvious footpath that would indicate where he may have come from.”

One passer-by wrote on Twitter: “I just overheard the roadside maintenance guys saying it’s a murder and body was dumped out of a moving vehicle.”

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By Paul Jeeves AN “ANGELIC” seven-year-old girl died after having her throat slashed on her way home from school.

Katie Rough was stabbed near a playing field close to her home in York.

The primary schoolgirl’s parents – Alison, 38, and Paul, 34 – raced to the scene, where her mother dropped to her knees screaming hysterically: “No no, it’s my little girl.”

A 15-year-old girl has been arrested in connection with the death and was last night being quizzed by murder squad detectives.

Katie, a pupil at Woodthorpe Primary School, died less than two weeks after being a bridesmaid at her parents’ wedding.

Last night the grief-stricken couple, who tied the knot after a decade together, were being consoled by relatives at their home less than a mile from where the attack took place on Monday afternoon.

Paul is a father-of-two, while divorced Alison has three other children from a previous relationship.

Katie’s grandparents, Steven and Sharon Rough, laid flowers at the scene of the attack yesterday morning.

A note attached said: “Night night my darling princess Katie. Love Nana and Grandad. xx xx.”

Yesterday a distraught relative said: “Katie was a lovely bonny little girl. The family is all together.

We just can’t believe what has ­happened.”

Sweet and smiley...the little princess, 7, stabbed to death

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One neighbour, who did not want to be named, said: “Katie was a pretty, lively, angelic-looking little girl. She was a lovely, sweet, smiley little girl and the thought that this happened to her is heartbreaking, it’s hard to believe.”

The child’s brutal death occurred a 10-minute walk from her home with her parents on York’s Foxwood council estate.

Katie was stabbed while on a playing field next to the more affluent neighbouring Woodthorpe area.

The field remained cordoned off yesterday as forensic officers worked inside a tent.

Rob McCartney, 50, a consultant engineer, told how he heard Katie’s mother yelling “get an ambulance” shortly after 4.30pm, before spotting the stricken youngster on the field behind his home.

He said: “She was lying on the ground and at that point there were already two police officers attending to her.

“I turned around and saw the mother was in a state of great distress, crying and shouting out for her daughter.

“It was very upsetting. She was moving back and forth between the playing field and the street and was

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Bridesmaid Katie, left, at the family wedding, scene of the attack, above, parents Alison and Paul, right, and Sharon and Steven, Katie’s grandparents

crying out, ‘She’s killed her, she’s killed her.’ Her husband then arrived and put his arms around her, trying to pacify her, but their distress was obvious.

“A few minutes later the girl was wheeled down the alleyway on a gurney trolley with an oxygen mask over her face to an ambulance.”

Despite paramedics’ efforts, Katie

was pronounced dead shortly after arriving at York Hospital.

Alison’s ex-husband Craig Smith, of Scarborough, said: “She is an absolutely brilliant mother.

“She must be heartbroken. She doted on her kids. They came first regardless.

“She had a big family but there was plenty of love to go around.”

DCI Dave Ellis of North Yorkshire Police confirmed officers went to the playing field at 4.30pm when they found Katie with life-threatening injuries.

He said: “She was taken to York Hospital but sadly died a short time later.

“A 15-year-old girl arrested in connection with the incident remains

in police custody.” North Yorkshire Police have appealed for witnesses who may have seen a seven-year-old and 15-year-old girl together between 3pm and 5pm on Monday.

The 15-year-old also lives locally.

Last night, the victim’s aunt, Sarah Nockels, 37, said: “We are all just absolutely devastated. We just need to be given time to grieve.”

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Helen Bailey with Stewart – said to have killed her for her fortune

Millionaire author ‘was drugged by fiance and dumped in a septic tank’ CHILDREN’S author Helen Bailey was drugged and suffocated by her fiance before being dumped in a cesspit, a court heard yesterday.

Ian Stewart pretended she had gone missing so he could get hold of her £4 million fortune, it was alleged.

To make the lie more convincing,

By John Twomey Stewart killed her beloved miniature dachshund Boris and threw his body in the pit beside her, jurors were told.

He kept up a charade for three months that the author of the Electra Brown and Daisy Davenport stories had simply vanished, St Albans Crown Court in Hertfordshire heard.

He claimed Ms Bailey had been involved in a road incident and wrote a note saying she needed “space and time alone” at her seaside home in Broadstairs, Kent, jurors were told.

No such note was ever found and there was no evidence of a road incident, the court heard.

During the hunt for Ms Bailey, Stewart paid for posters and flyers and went on a dog walk with a group called “Where Is Helen Bailey?”

Stewart, 56, “casually obstructed” the police investigation and even went on holiday to Spain, it was claimed.

Insomnia Widowed Ms Bailey’s remains were found in a septic tank at their £1.5million home in Royston, Hertfordshire.

The tank was below a garage and Stewart had parked a car over the access point, the court heard.

Traces of Zopiclone, a sleeping drug prescribed for Stewart’s insomnia, were found in her body, prosecutor Stuart Trimmer said. Stewart had been secretly giving her increasing amounts of the drug, it was alleged.

In the weeks leading up to her death, she had been concerned she could not stop falling asleep. On April 11 last year, Ms Bailey was “incessantly” on the internet – but abruptly stopped just before 11am.

Mr Trimmer said: “By the early afternoon, the only other person in that house, Ian Stewart, killed her, probably by suffocation while she was sedated by the drugs he had administered.”

On the day she died, a standing order for £600 from her account to former computer software engineer Stewart’s was raised to £4,000. He denied making the change.

Stewart was also said to be in line for about £1.8million plus the value of the two properties she owned, on her death.

Stewart denies murder, perverting the course of justice, preventing a lawful burial and fraud.

The trial continues.

An artist’s sketch of murder suspect Ian Stewart in court yesterday, Ms Bailey’s dog Boris, left, and below the house at Royston, Herts, where her body was found in a septic tank last year

SCOOP OF THE CENTURY REPORTER DIES AGED 105

Legend...Hollingworth

THE British journalist who broke the news of the Nazi invasion of Poland which triggered the outbreak of the Second World War has died at the age of 105.

War correspondent Clare Hollingworth died in Hong Kong, where she had lived for 40 years, on Tuesday, the Foreign Correspondents’ Club of Hong Kong said. It said: “Clare had a remarkable career as a foreign correspondent, beginning with the scoop of the century.”

Tara Joseph, the club’s president, added: “She was a tremendous inspiration to us all.” ***

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by Polar weather. Drivers were told to expect hazardous road conditions.

The North will bear the brunt of the snow but rain could turn to sleet or snow across the South tomorrow.

Blizzards are forecast in exposed regions as freezing gales heading from Arctic Canada hammer swathes of Britain.

Milder weather today will be pushed away by a bitter northerly blast which will stay into the weekend.

The Ministry of Defence confirmed last night that troops are ready to support communities hit by bad weather.

A spokesman said: “Our Armed Forces are committed and professional and are ready should they be needed to support local authorities in responding to adverse weather in our communities.”

Scotland and the far north could see lows of -10C (14F) at night but temperatures will struggle to get much above freezing even by day across the UK. A Met Office and Public Health England level-2 cold weather alert warning of severe cold, heavy snow and icy conditions is in place and will stay until Sunday.

Experts urged people to watch out for elderly friends and relatives.

Malcolm Booth, chief executive of the National Federation of Occupational Pensioners, said: “Be extra careful when going out as pavements may not have been treated.

“Check on neighbours and relatives

Blizzards and freezing Arctic gales to sweep UK

‘Pineapple express’ causes havoc

‘This could be the start of prolonged wintry weather’ regularly and keep warm and well fed.” The Met Office issued severe weather warnings for wind and snow across much of England and Scotland during the coming days.

It said up to 8in of snow could fall over very high ground, with around 2in likely at lower levels.

Spokesman Grahame Madge said heavy rain in the South tomorrow could turn wintry in places.

He added: “Rainfall over southern counties on Thursday is likely to be heavy and where it bumps into the colder air mass we could see snow.

“There could be disruption for a while as this system moves through.”

Chief forecaster Dan Suri said strong winds, blizzards and lying snow threaten travel and power supplies.

He said: “Snow showers are expected to develop from Wednesday evening lasting into Thursday.

“These, combined with strong winds, could lead to locally very poor travel conditions. Be aware of the potential for disruption to transport due to snow lying and blowing.

“Wind gusts up to 55mph are expected in exposed coastal areas and on hills in association with snow showers, leading to temporary bliz-

The thousand-year-old Californian tree and, above, after it was toppled by high winds

zard conditions. Lightning may accompany the heaviest showers, with potential disruption to power supplies as a consequence.”

WeatherOnline forecaster Garry Nicholson warned: “A dramatic drop in temperature will take place by Thursday as cold Arctic air spreads from the northwest. Bands of snow may spread into central areas and travel disruption is likely.”

The RAC warned motorists to prepare for long delays on roads.

Exacta Weather forecaster James Madden said: “Anywhere in the country could see snow. This could be the start of prolonged cold and widespread wintry weather.”

12-hour waits in A&E double for the elderly SOARING numbers of elderly patients are having to wait at least 12 hours stuck on trolleys in Accident & Emergency departments.

British Medical Council chairman Dr Mark Porter said that the “system is at breaking point”.

Chris Moulton, vice-president of the Royal College of Emergency Medicine, said: “We don’t have enough acute hospital beds or enough social care for a growing and ageing population.”

Data from the NHS revealed that 185,017 patients waited at least 12 hours on trolleys and chairs last year, up from 87,213 cases in the previous 12 months.

The figures come as a leaked memo showed that NHS England was warned patients were at risk of being harmed at Worcestershire

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Social Affairs Correspondent Royal Hospital, where two patients died on trolleys.

A “patient risk” summit was held 10 days before the deaths, due to concerns raised by the Care Quality Commission about the hospital.

The memo to staff said: “Despite our best efforts, patients are waiting too long in corridors putting them at risk of harm and we know this is of real concern to our staff.”

NHS England said: “Hospitals are coming under increasing pressure but in the main are coping.”

It added that other figures in the NHS Digital report showed “the fantastic job staff are doing in ensuring patients get the urgent care they need”.

THOUSANDS of people were evacuated yesterday as California and Nevada were battered by rain and high winds from a “Pineapple express”.

The weather system is named because the water-bearing winds originate near Hawaii – famous for pineapple growing – and power their way to the US west coast.

Hundreds of homes, roads and vineyards were flooded after waterways, such as California’s Russian River and Nevada’s Truckee River, burst their banks.

By Cyril Dixon Blizzard warnings closed ski resorts while mudslides threatened areas near to Los Angeles.

California’s giant sequoia pine forests were hit, including the 1,000-year-old Pioneer Cabin tree – famous for the tunnel carved through its trunk – which fell.

US Weather Service’s Steve Anderson said: “It’s 10 years since we’ve had this kind of rainfall, with another storm arriving tomorrow.”

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A RECORD 40,000 children had rotting teeth removed in hospital operations in Britain last year, figures revealed yesterday.

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The level of decay is so severe that treatment must be done in a hospital under general anaesthetic, rather than at a dentist.

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Sort it out! Boy, 9, blasts train chiefs for failing to solve strike A BOY aged nine has pleaded with rail chiefs and striking unions to “sort out your differences” so his parents can “get back to normal life again”.

Frankie Cottrell wrote an email to Southern Rail bosses as commuters faced the first of three more days of industrial action.

He said: “My mum and dad both work in London. I am tired of them coming home late every night because of the rail strikes.

“Surely there must be a way to solve these problems. At school we are taught to negotiate with each other to sort out our differences and clearly you have not learned to do this.”

The schoolboy from Hove, Sussex, added: “Please could you sort this out as soon as possible so my mum, dad and other commuters can get back to normal life again.”

Frankie’s father Clive, 45, yesterday shared the “spontaneous email” on Twitter. The marketing executive who works in Victoria, central London, said: “We were surprised when he told us what he had done.

“The strikes are clearly having an impression on him.”

Mr Cottrell, whose wife Catherine, 45, is a fundraising director at a children’s charity in the capital, added: “In the last few months it has become

such an effort to get to or from work.

You expect your train to be cancelled.

If it isn’t, commuters are getting angry with each other as there is no room.

“It’s affecting families throughout.

Kids not seeing parents as much as they should, people losing their jobs, people not getting to work when they should, people having to make other arrangements.

“It’s unacceptable they are taking this action – I can’t understand why there’s no progress.”

Frankie’s email drew instant support on Twitter as Clive battled to get to work during yesterday’s strike.

Commuter David Davis said “a 9 year old like Frankie could probably run the franchise better”.

Last night, a Southern spokesman confirmed that the firm was aware of Frankie’s letter, saying: “We sympathise with all our passengers whose lives are being disrupted so badly. We want nothing more than an end to this dispute as quickly as possible.”

He added that “lines of communication are open” and invited unions Aslef and the RMT to settle the longrunning dispute over the role of conductors on trains. Further strikes are planned for today and Friday.

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EREMY Corbyn has been branded “totally idiotic” for his latest idea: a maximum wage. The bumbling Labour leader seems honestly to believe that preventing people from earning a large FINAL salary isARTWORK the antidote to this country’s woes.

Of course the wealthy need to pay their taxes and contribute to society but a spite-filled war on the rich will do nothing to meet that aim.

Corbyn’s daft plan would see big businesses flee Britain. Those ✥✸✰✲✥✳✳ ✭❈❅❁❄✎❅❐▲ companies that ✤✡✩✬✹ stayed would be able to attract only second-rate leaders. Poor subsequent performance would affect jobs, wages and savings – not to mention leaving the Treasury with a huge black hole to fill as the tax take crumbled.

And it comes as no great surprise that this cap would kick in above Corbyn’s own £138,000-a-year taxpayer-funded salary. He is just another champagne socialist happy to take aim at others but never willing to put his own money where his mouth is.

On Good Morning Britain yesterday the Labour leader was given an Arsenal football shirt as presenter Piers Morgan quipped: “Corbyn, number 10 on the back. I mean, you may never get there but at least you can have the shirt.”

Piers was too kind. Corbyn is more likely to captain Arsenal at Wembley than he is to make it into Downing Street.

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UMAN traffickers are still in business over in Calais. Now they are even offering cut-price deals because treacherous weather has rendered the journey across the Channel a dangerous one. In fact there is a full menu of options available to migrants with journeys on offer for as little as £112.

The continued existence of these smuggling gangs is evidence of the failure to tackle the root causes of the problems on our doorstep. They are operating brazenly in a wealthy country with a large police force. Yet still they have not been shut down.

This newspaper rejoiced when the French government destroyed the Jungle migrant camp. However it was blindingly obvious that such a step would not be sufficient to deal with the problem. The authorities failed to follow up on this success and now things are returning to business as usual.

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T took him a while and required the use of a metal detector but John Tressider eventually managed to find the wedding ring he lost in a giant haystack after it fell off while he was doing farm work. A wedding ring sounds easier to find than a needle but well done nevertheless.

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feel genuinely sorry for ✡❐❒❉● ✐✐ the Remoaners. ✑✒▼❈ It must be a thoroughly miserable experience. First you lose a referendum that your Remain mates told you was in the bag. Then you spend months living in even greater misery: refusing to accept the result, droning on about the idiocy of your countrymen.

There are five stages of grief: denial, anger, bargaining, depression and acceptance.

Most Remoaners are stuck at denial. But while they refuse to accept that the world is ­changing the rest of us are ­getting on with shaping the future. That future will revolve around trade – specifically the deals that we will be free to negotiate when we leave the EU. One of the foundations of Project Fear was the idea that TALKS: Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson meets House Speaker Paul Ryan in the US Brexit would leave us at “the Picture: REUTERS back of the queue” for trade deals, as President Obama ­infamously put it when he came page free trade agreement with here last year to campaign for Australia?” the Remainers. Like everything Mr Abbott’s suggestion came else about Project Fear that in a report written by Tory was pure nonsense.

MP James Cleverly for the This week Boris Johnson Free Enterprise Group of MPs, has been in New York and which points out the huge posWashington DC to hold talks sibilities of trade deals with with important congressmen other Commonwealth nations and advisers to President-elect agreement. But nothing better year – enough to lift 128 million such as Canada, Singapore Donald Trump, including illustrates why we will be so people out of poverty. In the and New Zealand.

House Speaker Paul Ryan. And much better off outside the EU intervening years there has the main message to emerge than TTIP. Because despite been progress but no thanks to from those talks is that the years of talks the idea of a the EU, whose trade barriers exact opposite of President trade agreement between the have been directly responsible Obama’s threat is true.

EU and US died last August for keeping so many in the r Cleverly points out when Angela Merkel’s deputy Third World in poverty. that our top 10 ComSigmar Gabriel (the German Now that we are about to be monwealth export Vice ­Chancellor) said: “The free of the EU’s protectionist destinations already account talks with the US have de mindset, however, we will be for eight per cent of our goods s the Foreign Secre- facto failed.” able to return to the traditional and services trade. So there is tary put it on Monday: French President François British outlook as a nation that huge potential for growth if “We hear that we are Hollande had earlier said that builds its prosperity on global we target countries such as first in line to do a great free he would block TTIP if it trade – and does the same for India, Australia, Canada, Sintrade deal with the United ­endangered French agriculture. our trading partners. gapore and South Africa, which States. So it’s going to be a very And other backward-looking Yesterday former Australian are the top five. exciting year for both our EU members also made clear PM Tony Abbott said how And that’s just looking at it ­countries.” how much they loathed the important it is that our two through our end of the teleThis wasn’t some hopelessly idea of genuine free trade. countries reach a free trade scope as markets for exports. optimistic spin by Mr Johnson.

The single market might agreement once we are released Because from the other perBob Corker, the highly influ- have meant free trade within from the “statism and bureauc- spective we are also the largest ential chairman of the Senate the EU but for its entire racy of Brussels”. As he put it: importer of goods within the foreign relations committee, ­existence the EU has been a “Brexit means that Britain is EU for Commonwealth counconfirmed that it is “our prior- protectionist bloc against out- back.” tries such as Australia, Canada, ity to make sure that we deal siders – ruinously so for the Rightly he said that no two India, New Zealand, South with [the UK] on a trade agree- prosperity of much of Africa countries are more like-minded Africa, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and ment… there is no way the and the Third World. than Britain and Australia: “If Jamaica. It is in all our interUnited Kingdom is going to In 2003 I co-authored a report Britain is determined to make ests to negotiate trade deals. take a back seat”. which found that if Africa could the most of Brexit – and every- It’s clear from the trade patContrast these positive increase its share of world trade thing about Prime Minister terns we already have, even as noises with the fate of TTIP by just one per cent it would May shows this steely determi- an EU member. (the Transatlantic Trade and earn an additional £49billion a nation – why not strive for a one Once again Project Fear has Investment Partnership) which been exposed as nonsense and has been the focus of years of the vision of the Leave camtalks between the US and the paign can be seen as grounded, EU. Free trade is the engine of realistic and sensible. It makes economic growth and it was you wonder how anyone could absolutely right for the EU and ever have thought our future US to work towards a free trade lay within the EU.

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It’s men who suffer from injustice now When will women accept that we have won the equality battle and indeed that all the inequality now lies with the men (think all-women shortlists, rights to custody of children in divorce, etc)?

We can be prime minister and captains of industry.

However there is one advantage we have always had: we do better educationally than boys and these days girls are more likely to go to university than boys. Yet Shami Chakrabarti launches a half-million pound bursary at Essex University to help end “gender injustice”. So that’s for the men, then? Nope, it is for women and of course for women only.

Shami’s problem is that she doesn’t know when she has already won. There is a point at which a real cause becomes a manufactured grievance. Women’s rights reached that point long ago.

Once we fought for equality but now we campaign against “mansplaining”. So has the campaign for gay rights: once legality itself was the issue but now the cause has degenerated to forcing bakers to put slogans on cakes.

So, Shami, what about the gender injustice of poor white males being the least likely to do well in education? Or, to misquote Orwell, are all men equal but women more equal than them?

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Students today will have to toughen up

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heology students at the University of Glasgow are to be given trigger warnings in case they are distressed by images of Christ’s crucifixion. The poor little dears can leave the room, while at Stirling University students are urged to look after themselves during a gender studies course and if they see fit to leave the lecture they should “check in later that day to let the authorities know how they are”.

If a theology student cannot cope with the crucifixion then he or she is doing the wrong course. Lots of things are upsetting in this life: pictures of famine victims, encountering severely disabled or very sick children, film from war

zones, descriptions of historical punishments and documentaries about the Holocaust. It is odd that it is considered acceptable to have extreme violence in films such as Saving Private Ryan or The Passion Of The Christ in the name of reality but then try to airbrush that same reality from university courses.

Too many millennials seem to believe that they are entitled to be shielded from anything that upsets them or invades their “safe space”.

One wonders how on earth these sensitive wimps would cope with what our parents and grandparents had to face: how they would deal with air-raid warnings and conscription, with rationing and ruined homes, with fear and the

dreaded telegram, all of which were daily reality, not just images in textbooks or films.

Now insults have become not manifestations of ignorance but actual criminal acts. Lifeless statues are threats, disagreeable views are banned not debated, hurt feelings are causes for compensation, politically incorrect jokes can lead to the sack and no one, nowhere must ever be offended.

I would normally walk barefoot through the snow to see Derek Jacobi acting in a major classic role and I have box sets of both Cadfael and I, Claudius. Yet I would not go to see him playing King Lear and nor would I go to see Glenda Jackson doing likewise because

I cannot bear the scene in which the Duke of Gloucester loses his eyes.

However when I was studying the play for A-level I forced myself to go to the Old Vic and watch it, closing my eyes and covering my ears during said scene. It was part of my course. I did it and did not feel mistreated or traumatised.

Students choose courses.

Someone who is afraid of blood will not sign up to be a doctor or a nurse and someone who is terrified of heights will not enrol as a pilot. So a historian or theologian must expect that not all will be nice and cosy and if they really need warnings to that effect then they should wrap themselves up in cotton wool and go home to mummy.

GRUELLING: Glenda Jackson as King Lear in a recent production

We are bumbling towards Brexit Oh, do calm down dear! That was my reaction upon receiving an email informing me that bees will be at risk if we leave the EU. I say if rather than when because although the nation voted out there seems to be a strange reluctance to do much about it. Rather the attitude seems to be that we must drag our feet for sufficiently long to ensure the courts overrule the result. Article 50 could have been implemented immediately and then the real talks would have started.

I’ll believe “Brexit means Brexit” when those responsible actually do something concrete rather than utter platitudes.

However, back to the bees.

EU law prohibits certain pesticides which are harmful to them so some over-wrought campaigners believe that if we leave the EU such pesticides will become rife across the land.

EU law is incorporated in our own law and regulations.

If it were to be repealed in totality overnight the statute book would collapse. That which has merit will be retained while the nonsense will be rooted out but it will be a long haul and somehow I think the recognition that some pesticides are harmful to humans or to wildlife will persist beyond 2017.

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My old maths teacher has just died. Miss MacMillan began working in the days when teachers often left the profession when they married.

So she stayed single, devoting herself to generations of pupils, like a latter-day Miss Chips, and stayed lucid and cheerful till the end. I still haven’t unravelled the mysteries of geometry but I will never forget that single-minded dedication.

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Why won’t the home office let Tyler ViVier stay in Britain?

Tyler Vivier is a young South African girl whose mother, father and stepmother live in Britain. Her only relative in South Africa is a single grandparent who is unable to support her. Her father and his wife are UK citizens who have worked, paid taxes and asked the government for nothing. Now Tyler, a young white female, is vulnerable because she has been made homeless in Cape Town and her parents want her to join the rest of

the family here. Yes, you guessed it: the Home Office has said no because she has a granny in South Africa.

Rapists, terrorists and murderers are allowed to stay here because they have a “right to a family life” but the daughter of a hardworking British family has no rights at all. I wonder how those pathetic, rule-bound, target-driven officials would feel if it was their daughters who were homeless in Cape Town?

Tyler, who is currently here on a

visitor’s visa, has been told she will be deported. Shouldn’t we deport all the foreign criminals clogging up our jails first? And follow that by apprehending all illegal immigrants who disappear rather than keep the Home Office informed of their movements? And next those who come here to sponge off you and me?

Oh, silly me! That isn’t as easy as grabbing a young woman when she dutifully reports, is it?

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HAT price a good night out? For those with deep enough pockets the answer can be astronomical.

Take the best seats in the house at the Royal Albert Hall. A 12-seat Grand Tier box has just gone on sale for a cool £2.5million. The exceptional views and the chance to sit yards from Her Majesty the Queen are well worth paying for. And it will be yours until the hall’s original leasehold, granted by Queen Victoria, expires in 2866. Make full use of it over the next seven-and-a-half centuries and it starts to look like a good deal.

However potential bidders should be warned that the owner gets to go to only two-thirds of the 390 annual events (the hall retains the right to use it for the remaining “exclusive” events although it will pay you an annual rebate to make up for it). Nor is food and drink included, that’ll cost you extra.

A wealthy patron of the arts could seek refreshment elsewhere of course.

Having stumped up more than 10 times the average value of a home for 12 seats in a concert house there’s nowhere better for a pre-dinner drink than the Ritz.

The hotel’s Rivoli bar will take your money.

There’s nothing like champagne (up to £1,340 a bottle) or a cocktail (the El Presidente, £350) to get the party started.

And a snack? For the sophisticated there’s Beluga caviar (30 grams for £432) or if that’s too fancy a £24 ham and cheese sandwich (and there was me thinking the ones at motorway service stations were expensive).

For a true gastronome such piffling morsels will not do. That’s where Heston Blumenthal’s Fat Duck restaurant in Bray, Oxfordshire, comes in. One of champagne reception, lunch, afteronly two restaurants in the UK to be noon tea and a complimentary bar. awarded three Michelin stars the Sadly every day of this year’s regatta tasting menu of 17 courses starts at is all booked up. If you’re planning a £255 and takes four hours. The cost 2018 trip, reckon on paying around doesn’t include wine or the service £600 plus VAT per person. charge. You are also at the mercy of Football fans can bag a debenture Heston and at Wembley his team with for £1,751 no menu per seat per options availp e r s o n able. Fortucomplete nately the with entry UK’s other to all the three MicheEngland lin starred internarestaurant is tionals, the in the same semi-finals village and and final of The Waterthe FA Cup, side Inn does the League have an a la Cup final, carte menu. the Comm u n i t y SIT PRETTY: Royal box at the Royal Albert Hall Shield and a host of perks including a special train servnstead of eating like a king ice and the right to buy tickets (for perhaps one would prefer the around £80) for the other events. A sport of kings at Royal Ascot. debenture at Twickenham is £8,500 Spending ladies’ day in the Ascot for 10 years.

Pavilion this year will set you back There is something that unites £389 a head. With a prosecco recepthese events: they entail rather a lot tion, three-course lunch, afternoon of alcohol. It would be irresponsible tea and a complimentary bar it’s difto go anywhere near the steering ficult to see where one would find wheel of a car – which is why it’s the time to study the form. But even worth having someone else do it. For that mighty outlay won’t get you into £1,250 a day the “Chauffeurs of disthe Royal Enclosure – that’s strictly tinction” at Royal Silver Service will for members only. lay on a Rolls-Royce Phantom – If Royal Ascot has whetted the which promises to make you “feel appetite for planet posh then Henley like royalty”. Compared to what you Royal Regatta, held a week later, spend once you get there it seems provides ample opportunity. Book like small beer.

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By Jan Disley BESSIE Horne has celebrated her 100th birthday on the Isle of Man – without ever having set foot beyond its shores.

Her late husband, Bernard, travelled the world serving in the Royal Navy and Merchant Navy.

But the great-great-grandmother has never even been to the British mainland, just 86 miles away across the Irish Sea. Bessie’s son Mike, 64, one of her six children now aged between 62 and 74, said: “She would say ‘What’s over there that I want? Everything I want is here’.

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“It’s nice that she could reach that level of contentment.

“The grass was never greener anywhere else for my mum. She loves it here.”

Mike, who works in adult education, said that his father, who died when he was 83 in the mid-1990s, could have taken Bessie with him on some of his travels.

“He was quartermaster on a boat that used to travel to West Africa,” he said.

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Bessie Horne with members of her family at the care home celebration to mark her 100th birthday never leave now.” He added: “To be honest most of the rest of the family clearly feel the same way.

“Only one grandchild has left the island – the rest of us are still here too.”

Bessie, who was born in Greeba in the centre of the 32-mile long island, has moved in her time... to Peel a few miles away on its west coast.

She and Bernard set up home there after their wedding in

February 1940. And it was in Peel that five generations of the family joined Bessie to celebrate her 100th birthday at the care home where she has lived for the past three years.

She now has 14 grandchildren, 12 great grandchildren and one great-great grandchild.

Lieutenant Governor Sir Richard Gozney, Buckingham Palace’s representative on the island, presented her with a gift and birthday card from the

Queen. Care home manager John Adair said: “It was wonderful to see so many different generations all come together.

“Bessie was full of smiles at having her whole family around her and they all thoroughly enjoyed the party.”

While Bernard’s duties took him around the globe Bessie worked as a waitress during the island tourist season. But her life has been mostly spent bringing up her large family.

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ALESHA DIXON has offered a rather different opinion as to who should replace departing head judge Len Goodman on Strictly… nobody at all!

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Currently sitting alongside Simon Cowell, Amanda Holden and David Walliams on the panel of Britain’s Got Talent, Alesha says she never dances to her own music: “Whenever one of my songs comes on, I’m like ‘I’m just going to the bar’. Is there anything more embarrassing than dancing to your own song?” We can think of one or two things.

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After years of shunning the limelight actress Claire Foy, who won a Golden Globe this week for her role as Queen Elizabeth II, is now the toast of Hollywood

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OR someone who’s never happier than when she’s vegging out in pyjamas, Hollywood awards ceremonies must be a bit of a nightmare for Claire Foy. But the British actress took to the red carpet as if to the manner born in Beverly Hills at the weekend when she picked up a Golden Globe for her portrayal of the Queen in Netflix’s £100million blockbuster The Crown.

Foy, 32, looked every bit the Tinseltown A-lister as she posed for photographers in a pastelsequined creation from top designer Erdem complete with what her stylist called “crystal feather appliqué and a dusty blue satin ribbon waist detail”.

It’s hard to believe it was only a few years ago that Foy, who got her big break as Amy Dorrit in the 2008 BBC miniseries of Charles Dickens’s Little Dorrit, was proclaiming she had no desire to be a star. “I find fame a very abstract thing to think about,” she told one interviewer. “I don’t think that will happen to me. I would hate to be hounded. I think it would be terrible to be Sienna Miller or Keira Knightley and be turned into this paparazzi person. I’d love to have their careers but not what goes with it.”

Given that she has now picked up one of the top acting awards and is shortlisted for another – the Screen Actors’ Guild (SAG) award for best female actor in a drama series – she is now on the radar of every director and the quiet life is no longer an option.

And yet the part that has brought her such fame could so easily have slipped through her fingers. She was five months pregnant with her first child when she auditioned for The Crown and was given the part despite the fact that she was due to give birth just four months before filming began.

“I managed to carry on breastfeeding, which I’m really proud of,” she says. “My daughter came with me everywhere and the production company were incredibly supportive but I was existing on very little sleep and still full of hormones.”

Things weren’t helped when Foy broke her elbow after tripping over at a friend’s wedding three months into the eightmonth shoot. “I wasn’t even drunk!” she says, head in hands.

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HICKEY DONALD TRUMP’s description of Oscar-winner Meryl Streep as “one of the most overrated actresses in Hollywood” predictably angers her fans.

The President-elect has made a number of screen cameos over the years, including in hit films Zoolander and Home Alone 2, as well as TV series Sex And The City.

His own acting abilities have been a cause for mockery – not least his cringeworthy appearance opposite actress Bo Derek, pictured, in 1989 movie Ghosts Can’t Do It. During a meeting with Trump, who plays himself, Derek purrs: “You’re too pretty to be bad.” Trump responds in trademark modest fashion: “You noticed?”

VIEWERS saw Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt doggedly pursued around the streets by Sky News correspondent Beth Rigby after his press conference in central London yesterday, as she complained he had failed to clarify his stance on A&E waiting lists.

While Hunt refused to respond, events took a farcical turn when it became clear he had lost his ministerial car while trying to escape the media on foot.

Eventually forced to turn round and retrace his steps, the embarrassed politician was belatedly rescued by his elusive government driver.

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AFTER Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn called for his proposed “wages cap” to include football stars on Sky News yesterday, it was pointed out that the Left-winger is a keen Arsenal fan.

Corbyn replied: “[Long-time Arsenal manager] Arsène Wenger is a man who’s an accountant at heart and I think he’d probably like it very much indeed.”

Plenty of Arsenal fans would suggest the financially cautious Wenger’s reluctance to sign expensive players in recent seasons is a major reason for the team’s failure to win a Premiership title in 13 years.

ELIZABETH HURLEY highlights the fact that her famous ex Hugh Grant was nominated – albeit unsuccessfully – for a Golden Globe, hailing him her “best friend for 29 years”.

One of the nation’s most high-profile couples, their romantic relationship ended in 2000. Liz also had to contend with the humiliation caused by Hugh being caught in his car with Los Angeles sex worker Divine Brown in 1995.

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nation. I was in a lot of pain until I went to see this amazing doctor who syringed all the blood off my elbow and reduced the swelling. But getting into the costumes was tricky.”

Her role as the young Queen Elizabeth has turned out to be a defining one for the girl from Stockport who admits she was an attention-seeker as a child and used to rope in cousins to put on shows at home.

Her parents divorced when she was eight but she remains close to them both. She, her older sister Gemma and brother Robert were educated at Aylesbury High School in Buckinghamshire and, after giving up an ambition to be a ballet dancer after a bout of juvenile arthritis, Foy did screen studies and drama at university before spending

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T ABOUT the same time she met Stephen Campbell Moore, 39, an actor who had made his name in the West End hit The History Boys, on the set of her first feature film Season Of The Witch.

They married in 2014.

Foy went on to appear in TV series such as The Promise, a revival of Upstairs Downstairs and Wolf Hall – playing another queen, the ill-fated Anne Boleyn – as well as TV movies Going Postal and The Nightwatch.

Some roles have involved nudity, something she’s not keen on. “If I never had to do a sex scene again that would be the best thing in the world because no one in their right mind would enjoy that,” she once said. “You’re worried about what the crew are thinking, whether they’re really uncomfortable, whether you’re uncomfortable. You’re just thinking, God, let this be over.”

Foy’s obligation to The Crown ends with the second series as an older actress will be hired to play the older Queen. This is good news for Hollywood directors and Martin Scorsese in particular – Foy has expressed a desire to work with him.

Her next date with the red carpet is January 29 at the SAG awards. She is surely a hot favourite to win that second gong.

GLASGOW-BORN star James McAvoy, pictured, offers some practical advice to those in his profession who are unhappy that “posh” English actors are in the ascendancy.

“All I’d say to workingclass actors that want to make it is, ‘Brush up on your posh,’” the 37-year-old tells Total Film magazine. “I’m from a council estate… I made my career out of pretending to be posh English – and it worked for me. Get good at pretending to be posh.”

FORMER James Bond actor Sir Roger Moore, currently urging Theresa May to ban wildanimal circuses in Britain, often enjoys recalling the famous crocodile scene from his 1973 film Live And Let Die. Bond survives by running across the backs of three of the creatures in a swamp. Moore has remarked: “I wore alligator-skin shoes and had to stand with the creatures approaching from all angles. That was quite scary… I was wearing one of their cousins on my feet.”

The actual stunt – with real snapping predators – was carried out by crocodile farm owner Ross Kananga. He only succeeded after six attempts, requiring “193 stitches” on his legs and face.

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Daily Express Wednesday January 11 2017

Letters Send illegals packing and stop more following them THERE is a solution to more camps springing up in Calais.

Over the Christmas period I watched a programme filmed at Dublin docks in Southern Ireland.

A ferry arrived from Rotterdam with five illegal migrants on board.

The five were arrested on board and kept in secure accommodation overnight. When the ferry departed for Rotterdam the next morning, the five illegals were put on board and returned to the port.

No ifs or buts. No claiming asylum. The border force officer explained that they were sending out a message that no way were any illegal migrants going to get in through that port.

Why can’t the UK Border Agency and police do the same here in the UK? Dennis O’Connor, Swindon, Wilts

Tariff figures are a great bargaining chip with EU I WAS very impressed by Ross Clark’s article regarding our exit from Europe (“Brexit means we leave the EU and the single market”, January 10).

It is very interesting that the think tank Civitas has calculated that if we leave and revert to the World Trade Organisation’s standard rules, it would mean UK exporters to the EU paying £5.2billion in tariffs and EU exporters to the UK paying £12.9billion.

This seems to be an excellent deal for the UK. We could pay off our exporters tariffs and put the £7.7billion excess into the NHS. We should therefore trigger Article 50 and begin to repeal the European Communities Act 1972 before the end of March.

We could then think of negotiating tariff-free barriers with the EU from a position of great strength, if we wanted to.

Richard Knott, Newnham on Severn, Gloucs

Meryl and Co should keep their noses out of politics OH dear, yet another performer that’s been given an over-inflated ego (“Angry Trump in amazing bust-up with Meryl Streep”, January 10).

Being fawned over makes them think they have a licence to lecture us plebs on anything from how to dress and have children to how we should vote.

Another great performance from Meryl Streep at the Golden Globe Awards, even the waterworks added in for good measure.

She should keep it for the stage, she’s not the conscience for the world, a mouthpiece for our opinions, or some God-given saviour, she’s simply an overpaid actress.

Phil Granger, W Malling, Kent

Concentrate on the acting and stay out of politics IT is the time of year when we read of endless glittering occasions when the “luvvies” all turn up and pat each other on the back.

The Golden Globes, Oscars, Emmys and Baftas are showbusiness events and if that is what they want to do then so be it.

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New camps were inevitable as the problems remain

100 years old and STILL travelling hopefully...

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IT’S no surprise that migrants are returning to Calais and setting up settlements (“New border threat as migrants sneak back to Jungle-style camps”, January 10)) This suggests, as we have known all along, that many of these mainly young, fit men are economic migrants and not genuine asylum seekers.

If they are genuine why have they not claimed asylum in France, which is a perfectly safe and prosperous country which has offered them settlement?

They are returning for one reason. They wish to target Britain and its welfare system in most cases.

If the problem is not confronted then by summer we will have a new Jungle as the numbers swell.

The political will in the EU does not exist to deal with the problem and our own Home Office is not up to the task as it doesn’t deport those found to be bogus. Why? We simply cannot keep ignoring the problems. We are already giving away billions in foreign aid as it is.

Dave Naylor, Birmingham TARGET: British benefits attract the migrants

What they should not be doing is using the occasion to make political points and Meryl Streep was way out of order in her blistering attack on Donald Trump, whatever one might think of him.

Her abilities to rehearse her speech were well to the fore as she almost squeezed out a tear and had a break in her voice while delivering her lines.

After all she’s just an actress and she, and others with a similar inclination, should avoid getting involved in political matters.

Geoff Manning, Lower Kingswood, Surrey

Time for the English to see sense over Scotland

Afford your children some attention, not a tablet

I MUST agree with David Jones (Letters, January 10) regarding Nicola Sturgeon pontificating about independence again.

As far as I’m concerned if two parties split both (ie, the rest of the UK) have a say on the outcome.

We are having less money spent per head in England on lots of services. When is common sense going to prevail in England?

Andrew McPherson, Derby

I SHARE Vanessa Feltz’s dismay at the number of children handed an electronic device to presumably keep them quiet (“Give your child a screen break”, January 10).

I witnessed a similar situation in reverse a few weeks ago when I took my granddaughter to see a puppet show for tiny tots.

I was amazed to see how many adults were ignoring the puppetry and concentrating on their phones.

I don’t think we spend enough time enjoying being with our children. It’s almost as if we prefer the virtual world to reality.

Lynne English, Wickford, Essex

IS wayne rooney a premier league great?

Yes

WAYNE Rooney is a Manchester United record holder but he is so much more than that.

His goalscoring, his willingness to fulfil any role for the benefit of the team and his ability to lead by example on the field make him a Manchester United and Premier League great.

Add to that the massive haul of trophies he has collected over the years and Wayne is right up there as one of the best and most successful players of the modern era in this country.

It is time people praised him for that instead of being so critical.

Robert Anderson, Salford

No

NO doubt Wayne Rooney should be congratulated upon his achievements but there are many TV pundits and those within the sporting media who are proclaiming him to be the greatest player the Premier League has seen.

No, he’s not, nor is he a world class player either. He has been a very good player for a short time within his career thus far. Very few pundits, reporters or supporters would pick him within their Manchester United all-time greatest team, let alone a world eleven. Bobby Charlton would appear in many.

William Smith, Carlisle

Ten things you never knew about... one Today is the 11th day of the 1st month, so with all those ones in the date, let’s have a few facts about “one”.

1. Only one British Prime Minister has ever been assassinated: Spencer Perceval in 1812.

2. Macbeth is the only one of Shakespeare’s plays to include the word rhinoceros. David Copperfield is Charles Dickens’ only novel to mention a kangaroo.

3. The words girl and girls only occur once each in the King James Bible.

4. It Happened One Night (1934) and One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest (1975) are the only films with “one” in the title to win Best Film Oscars.

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Loneliness of the elderly a sad indictment of society READING about the elderly woman shoplifter I was both saddened and sickened (“Bored great-gran, 79, went on 5-year shoplifting spree”, January 9).

None of us can step back from this sad tale, because what isn’t mentioned, but it is a prevalent disease, is loneliness.

This tale does not bode well for anyone’s old age and is a sad indictment of where we are.

Jill Baxter, Abergynolwyn, Gwynedd

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5. Each month, a human hair grows just more than one centimetre.

6. One year’s marriage is celebrated as a paper anniversary.

7. In 1994, there was only one reported accident in a UK home involving a whistle. In 2002 there was only one reported accident involving floor polish.

8. Last year, it was reported that there is only one domestic pig in Afghanistan. His name is Khanzir.

9. The only known brown-and-white panda in the world lives in China and his name is Qizai.

10. There is only one par-7 golf hole in the world. It is the third hole at Gunsan Country Club in South Korea and is 1,100 yards (1,006 metres) long.

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N ORDER to understand the current dispute on Southern rail, I have been trying to put the chaos into a historical perspective by browsing Brighton And Its Coaches: A History of the London and Brighton Road by William C A Blew, published in 1894.

The earliest confirmed reference to a regular coach service between London and Brighthelmstone (as Brighton was then called) was, Blew tells us, in 1732 when according to a compilation by the Company of Parish Clerks, a coach (for passengers) left Southwark in London every Thursday and a van (for goods) left every Tuesday. “Possibly this coach and van took three days to compass the distance,” Blew reports.

So from the accounts I have been reading over the past months, not much has changed in that respect. But what about industrial relations? Sadly, Blew does not go into great detail on such matters, but we should remember that the 1730s was the era of Dick Turpin and other highwaymen, so I imagine a report on the disputes at Southern Coach UK (SCUK) might have gone something like this: Commuters between Brighton and London have had to endure yet more strike action in the long-running dispute between SCUK and the Coach Operatives and Ancillary Trades union COAT. The coach operators have argued that all a coach needs is a driver, while the union insists that for passenger safety, at least three of their members should travel on each coach.

First, they say, it is essential to have a man riding shotgun, next to the driver, in order to deter highwaymen.

“Experience has shown that there is no better way to deter them than by shooting them dead or hanging them, and shooting’s quicker,” said Mick Lynchmob whose RMT (Really Miserable Transport) union is the umbrella organisation representing COAT members and other transport workers.

COAT is also insisting that a further staff member is necessary to close the doors of the coach to prevent passengers falling out. The directors of SCUK have replied by pointing out that there is no evidence of any passenger ever falling out of a coach door and in any case the driver could easily open and close the doors himself, because the coach is always stationary when passengers get on and off and he doesn’t have to do any driving if the coach is not moving.

Furthermore, they insist, the driver can easily be supplied with a shotgun, for use against any highwaymen or similar miscreants.

Commenting on the cancellation of last Thursday’s coach from Brighton, Nathaniel Grope, a winkle purveyor, said, “It was bad enough having to spend six days in the coach getting there and back for one day’s work a week without these additional indignities being heaped on us.

“It’s high time the government stepped in and built a railway between Brighton and London. Personally, I can’t wait for George Stephenson and Isambard Kingdom Brunel to bring some sense to this business.”

Only 93 years later, the Stockton and Darlington railway opened but the manning dispute still goes on.

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Psychic warned that my husband would cheat on me, confesses Anthea Turner

Cameron Diaz was famously photographed visiting renowned Los Angeles psychic Mrs Grace in 2011. According to reports she HE WAS once the highesthad psychic tea leaf readings for paid female presenter on guidance on her love life, which British TV but in recent then involved British model Paul years Anthea Turner has Sculfor. It was claimed the star was suffered her fair share of told that marriage and children setbacks.

The former were on the horizon. That may GMTV star has been through a well happen but just not with Sculpainful divorce and seen her career for as they’ve since gone their septake a dip. arate ways.

Now she reveals that psychics Another believer was actor are helping to guide her through Patrick Swayze, who died from life. The 56-year-old claims she has cancer in 2009. In his memoirs he communicated with her sister, who revealed how visiting a psychic passed away when Anthea was in helped save his marriage to wife her teens. And she has confessed Lisa after the spiritualist convincthat mediums also told her that ed them their relationship had a her ex-husband Grant Bovey was future. “Out of the blue I felt a destined to cheat on her. surge of love for Lisa I hadn’t felt “There are things that psychics for years,” said Swayze. “We cried, have shared with me that they our tears washing away the pain wouldn’t have known about any that had been keeping us so far other way,” says Anthea in an interapart. We started talking, really view with the magazine Spirit and talking.”

Destiny.

Actresses Sarah Jessica Parker, Among them are personal details of Sex And The City fame, Jennifer about her sister Ruth who suffered Aniston and Hilary Duff are also from spina bifida and died aged 15. said to be devotees when it comes Anthea, who says she was “natuto matters of the heart. However, rally suspicious” of consulting a 29-year-old Duff’s recent divorce medium, insists she has never from former ice hockey player talked fully about Ruth so it’s Mike Comrie is hardly a ringing impossible for the information to endorsement. have come from other sources.

In Hollywood, it seems, having “She told me that Ruth was with a personal psychic is almost comme all the time,” adds Anthea, pulsory. The most well-known is whose marriage to property Thomas John, who claims Julianne developer Bovey broke up in 2013 Moore, Goldie Hawn and Jennifer after 13 years. It emerged that he’d Lopez among his star-studded been unfaithful with a 27-year-old model but Anthea client list.

When it claims psychics knew that her comes to comrelationship municating would not last. with the dead he also aims “Three people can’t be wrong,” high, claiming says Anthea of the that he has predictions about made contact the split with with Whitney Bovey.

“Many Houston and things worked out Anna Nicole just as I was told Smith on the they would.” other side. Why Former Blue bother with Peter star Anthea, ordinary folk who has most when you can recently been seen reach out to presenting the d e c e a s e d Health Lottery A-listers?

“I have condraw, was also married to DJ Peter tacted certain PET PAL: George Clooney HELP: Jennifer Aniston Powell. celebrities but Despite wideyou can’t just spread scepticism, dial a dead person,” explains John, who also has a Anthea isn’t the only public figure sideline in predicting Oscar winners or celebrity to place her faith in (with mixed results). It was John psychics and risk ridicule from who also saw a bright future for non-believers. It’s known that Prince Harry and his ex Cressida Diana, Princess of Wales, had Bonas – weeks before they split. regular sessions with spiritualist Undaunted he has predicted that Rita Rogers, who is said to have Harry and Meghan Markle will predicted that Diana would die break up in 2017, along with Katy young.

Perry and Orlando Bloom and The Princess is said to have Beyoncé and Jay Z. sought guidance on whether she Brad Pitt is said to have been and Prince Charles would ever recwarned accurately by psychic Ron oncile. She is also reported to have Bard that neither of his marriages, received messages from her father to Jennifer Aniston and Angelina Earl Spencer after his death. In Jolie would stand the test of time. later life Diana is claimed to have Jolie is said to have hated the influbecome obsessed with spiritual ence that the spiritualist, who died advisers, spending thousands of last year, exerted over Pitt. It was pounds on consultations.

Aniston who introduced Pitt to the Among those she visited was spiritualist in 2005.

Sally Morgan, who was Diana’s Singer Lady Gaga has claimed personal psychic for four years and that she is haunted by a male ghost also included George Michael called Ryan who travels the world among her clients. The singer once with her and she has sought help invited her to do a reading for from spiritualists to ward him off. friends at a birthday party. Morgan “She’s a very spiritual person and claims: “There’s no mysticism in tune with the spiritual world,” about it – I talk to dead people.” says a friend.

Hollywood star George Clooney However reaching out to the revealed a few years ago that he dearly departed doesn’t always go resorted to visiting a medium so to plan. When Tori Spelling, the that he could connect with a daughter of famed producer Aaron departed pet. The 55-year-old star Spelling, tried to use a medium to was devastated when his potDESTINY: The public thought Anthea and Grant’s marriage was happy but a psychic predicted it wouldn’t last contact her late father she was left bellied pig Max died at the ripe old disappointed. age of 18.

The spiritualist told the actress, “The psychic told me Max had a who made her name in Beverly great life with me,” the actor Hills 90210, that Aaron was too reportedly told a friend. “He is very busy to communicate but someone happy in spirit and still hangs out else was willing to speak to her. It with me sometimes. I am not sure just happened to be Farah Fawcett, she was telling the truth but I do the star of one of her father’s most want to believe her.” famous shows – Charlie’s Angels.

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guide to unlocking the cash in your home

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THE dreaded Friday the 13th is almost here, but it could actually bring financial good luck for some brave Britons.

According to travel search engine Kayak.co.uk, airlines have seats to fill as superstitious travellers avoid flying on that day and can slash their prices by up to 44 per cent. For example, a flight to Gran Canaria costs an average £63 in January, but just £36 this Friday, even though Friday flights are usually pricey. Similarly, a flight to Dubai falls from £270 to £196, while flights to Tenerife, Madrid and New York are also cheaper.

Kayak director Suzanne Perry said: “You can score a good deal on a last-minute trip this Friday, unless you are superstitious, of course.”

FRIGHT OR FLIGHT: You may get more room and a cheaper deal if you fly this Friday 13, which some travellers think is unlucky

Don’t delay, act now to slash your tax bill TIME is running out if you need to complete a self-assessment tax return, as the deadline for online submissions expires on January 31.

You will pay a £100 fine if you miss the deadline, with further penalties the longer you delay.

Last year around 385,000 people submitted their tax return shortly before the midnight cut-off, according to HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC).

More than 10 million Britons complete a self-assessment form each year and the deadline for 2016/17 paper returns passed on October 31, 2016.

Not everybody needs to act and, if you have not submitted a return in previous years, you can probably relax.

Happy returns Anita Monteith, technical tax manager at the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England & Wales (ICAEW), warned that delaying your tax return until the last minute can lead to mistakes and a possible fine, if HMRC deems you have not taken enough care.

“Gather all your important

By Harvey Jones documents before you start, together with a copy of your previous year’s return and always check for errors before submitting,” she said.

Monteith warned against failing to declare taxable earnings or profits: “There are severe penalties for failing to declare all taxable income and capital gains. Gather details of any assets you have sold in the year, such as shares, and do not forget to declare your dividend receipts.”

You also need to declare any taxable receipts from renting out or selling a second property, but not any investments held inside a tax-free Isa. Even if you have submitted your return, you should take this opportunity to cut your future tax bills.

Danny Cox, chartered financial planner at Hargreaves Lansdown, said couples should make full use of their personal allowance, which lets everyone earn up to £11,000 in 2016/17 without paying any tax: “If you are married and your spouse

pays less tax, then consider moving income yielding savings into their name.”

Under the personal savings allowance the first £1,000 of savings income will be tax free for basic rate taxpayers, falling to £500 for higher rate 40 per cent taxpayers. “Bank and building society accounts now pay interest without any tax deducted. Use your tax-free Isa allowance if income from other sources, such as corporate bond funds or peer-to-peer (P2P) lending, takes you over the limit,” Cox said.

DIVIDEND BREAK You can now take the first £5,000 of any dividend income tax free. “A couple could receive £10,000 dividend income a year with no tax to pay, equivalent to a £285,000 portfolio yielding around 3.5 per cent,” he said.

Dividend income above that is taxed at 7.5 per cent for basic rate taxpayers, rising to 32.5 per cent for higher rate taxpayers and 38.1 per cent for 45 per cent taxpayers.

“Married couples should manage their income yielding

shares and funds to make full use of the dividend allowances and tax bands,” Cox added.

You can also claim tax relief on pension contributions at either 20, 40 or 45 per cent, depending on your tax bracket.

From age 55 you can take 25 per cent of any pension withdrawal free of income tax, although the remainder is subject to income tax if above your personal allowance, Cox said.

Rachael Griffin, financial planning expert at Old Mutual Wealth, said parents and grandparents can cut their liability by making gifts to children or grandchildren.

She said: “You can make tax-free contributions of up to £4,080 into a Junior Isa in the current tax year, or up to £3,600 into a pension on their behalf.”

You can cut your inheritance tax exposure by making gifts of up to £3,000 to a child or grandchild, plus another £3,000 if you did not do this last year.

“You can give as many gifts of up to £250 as long as you have not used another exemption to the same person,” she added.

Look close to home for big savings IF YOU are looking to save money this year start close to home by seeing if you can get a cheaper mortgage.

January is peak time for remortgaging and with rates at a record low you have more incentive than ever to do so.

A third of homeowners who define themselves as “just about managing” are looking to remortgage this year, either to free up some monthly income, protect themselves by locking into a fixed rate or

simply to grab a cheap deal while they last.

Homeowners expect to save around £49 a month from remortgaging, but in fact they will save £96 on average.

This could save them £2,300 across the life of a two-year fixed-rate mortgage for £100,000, according to new research from TSB. Director of mortgages Ian Ramsden said mortgage payments are the biggest monthly outgoing for many

households: “Saving almost £100 a month could make a huge difference to your family finances.

“It could mean being able to afford a holiday, carry out those home renovations or simply ease pressure on your household finances.”

Despite these potential savings, many homeowners do not remortgage because it is too much effort or has not crossed their mind.

Ramsden added: “It is well

worth investigating and can make your finances go further in 2017.”

Broker at London & Country Mortgages David Hollingworth said you must first check whether you will pay early redemption charges on your existing mortgage, as this could wipe out any benefits.

“Watch out for arrangement fees on your new deal, too, as this can also eat into the savings from a cheaper interest rate,” he added.

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Sellers, do your homework

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at Harrison Murray, says your first step is to set the right asking price without setting your sights too high or too low: “Set a realistic price based on the valuation given by your agent. It is tempting to ask for as much as you think you can get, but if your price is too high then potential buyers will not come and view it.”

Compare prices for similar properties in your area and take note of how well the local market is performing. For example, prices are slipping in prime London, so vendors should not get too greedy.

Snaith says you should keep your home and garden clean and clutterfree and make small repairs to, say, broken door handles. “It may seem like a bit of a chore, but a tidy

The start of the year is peak time for homeowners putting their property on the market, as buyers are out in force.

It is particularly tempting this year as prices are booming in ­Britain, up 6.5 per cent over the last 12 months according to the latest ­Halifax House Price Index.

If you put in a little extra effort before marketing your property, you can secure a faster sale at the best possible price. So whether you are looking to downsize, move house or sell a second home, the following tips could help add thousands to the sale price.

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miss any opportunity,” she adds.

You should also decide how much you need to generate from your sale, for example, to fund your retirement or buy another property. “If buying a new home, check what is on the market and stick to something in your price range,” Snaith says.

CLEANING UP: Keep property tidy home makes a good impression.”

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Make sure that your agent is prominently marketing your property online, as this is where the vast majority of buyers now begin their search. “Your agent must list their stock on both RightMove.com, Zoopla.co.uk and others,” he says.

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Tackling problem plastic

It needs a titan to turn back the tide of plastic rubbish engulfing the globe and now it has arrived, says the British maker of a new machine that converts it into fuel.

Recycling Technologies’ RT7000 plant is a genuine breakthrough on two fronts.

The mini-refinery packs into five 20ft shipping containers that can be transported and easily set up anywhere, so its chemical processes can gobble up the problem plastics.

These are the sort, from laminates and composites to the multitude of mucky household debris, that make up 80 per cent of what we discard, often in the belief it will be recycled. Current systems, though, have limited reclamation capabilities, so most of the waste ends up in landfill or as litter, or leaks into the oceans where by 2050 it is predicted there will be more plastic items than fish.

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Inside each machine, plastics are converted into a new fuel called Plaxx. The energy needed

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Virgin Money

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28/02/19

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£1,320

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4.54%

01/04/19

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30/04/19

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£1,230

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Flirty MP’s heart of gold Matt Baylis on last night’s TV remarkable qualities to someone who could be raised by a cobbler in a Welsh village and make his way to Downing Street in an era when no one had heard of social mobility. As a natural outsider, the eloquent and charismatic Liberal politician was able to appeal to everyone who felt similarly out in the cold.

His speeches were, as we learned last night, pretty masterful affairs, direct and matter-of-fact, at the

same time as soaring and rousing and full of self-deprecating humour.

Lloyd George believed he could sense what his audiences were thinking, and give them back exactly what they wanted to hear.

If that sounds like a dangerous kind of narcissism, that’s because it was. The man whose budget reforms in 1909 laid the ground for the welfare state was also capable of extreme arrogance and hypocrisy.

After eloquently pleading to Britain’s families, to let their sons go off and join in the fantastic “opportunity” of the First World War, he went home and told his wife that their sons must never join up.

The man who ordered beer to be watered down for the good of British industry was also capable of flogging shares in a gold mine that he knew contained no gold.

Picks of the day Drama: No Offence, 9pm, C4 The Royal Television Society Award-winning show has already settled into the second episode of its second series, and it appears gang warfare is sweeping the streets of Manchester. Joy (Alexandra Roach, left) is thrown into freefall after making a shocking discovery and as the team quell the riots that have exploded throughout the city, Dinah uncovers a group of young casualties in a gang-owned property which sends the investigation in an unexpected direction. Joanna Scanlan (DI Viv Deering) and Will Mellor (DC Spike Tanner) also star in this pacy drama which follows a group of police officers on the frontline, wondering how they have ended up where they are now.

Disgraced in a cash-for-honours scandal, the man who had steered Britain through the Great War never won the cherished status of a Churchill or a Gladstone.

I’m not sure the family connections, the solid research or the illuminating interviews with Lord (Roy) Hattersley brought Dan Snow any closer to cracking the enigma of his great-great-grandad David. Then again, history that claims to do that is peddling its own kind of non-existent gold.

MARTIN CLUNES: ISLANDS OF AUSTRALIA (ITV) hit us at the start with some statistics. If Martin Clunes were to visit one of the 8,220 islands dotted around the perimeter of Australia, every day, he wouldn’t return for 22 years.

I was tempted to make a cheap joke about that being perfectly all

right by me but, as this new series proves in spades, Mr Clunes makes a thoroughly lovely presenter.

Happy to humiliate himself by trying to shin up vast palm trees, weeping as some Norfolk Island girls sang a Tahitian song, he’s the very opposite of slick and, you sense, they appreciate that Down Under as much as we do Up Here.

On the islands, so rarely featured in most travel shows, he found a treasure trove of history, from the descendants of mutineers to hermit-stockbrokers, an island (Lord Howe) kept alive by the world’s fondness for indoor potted palm trees to the world’s last pearl diver.

‘Far-flung’, we realised during last night’s journeys, is a meaningless term, when every tiny outcrop is connected by human history.

DID YOU KNOW? Alexandra Roach has had a number of high profile television roles, including stints on The Suspicions of Mr Whicher and Being Human, and starred as the younger Margaret Thatcher in biopic The Iron Lady with Meryl Streep.

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HERE’S a second verse to that dirge-like marching song, Lloyd George Knew My Father. In it, perhaps, the whole point of the song is revealed, because the word father is exchanged for mother. As we learned from Dan Snow On Lloyd George: My Great-great-grandfather (BBC4) the legendary politician was as famous for his philandering as his statesmanship.

Many of his dalliances, in fact, were with the wives of his parliamentary colleagues; men he knew in one way, women he knew in quite another. Although he made no secret of the ancestral connection, Dan Snow’s portrait of Lloyd George maintained his historianlike balance throughout.

There were, obviously, some

Crime: Midsomer Murders, 8pm, ITV Winter and Barnaby investigate when Lower Pampling’s star cricketer Leo Henderson is found dead after a match, pummelled to death by cricket balls. Barnaby is surprised to see DI Jones working undercover as one of Leo’s team-mates and his former colleague reveals he is working on suspected match-fixing cases in the area. Things take a more sinister turn when captain Fitz Theara (Parth Thakerar, left) is stabbed through the heart with a cricket stump.

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Medical: GPs: Behind Closed Doors, 8pm, Channel 5

Soap: Emmerdale, 7pm, ITV When Chrissie (Louise Marwood, above) learns Lachlan has been attacked again she is devastated and gives Cain (Jeff Hordley, above) all he wants but later she learns things may not be as imagined. Ronnie’s shocked and angry to find Lawrence was involved framing Andy from the beginning and Lachlan is offered a chance to escape. Tracy tries to take Finn’s mind of heartbreak, while Frank hopes to make peace with Vanessa. /lmx

Dr Amit Bajwala meets Gary, a man with a dependance on alcohol which has cost him his job, his health and his marriage. He is desperate to change his ways – unlike the patient seeing Dr Ranj Kochhar (right).

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6.00 Breakfast Latest headlines. (S) 9.15 Rip Off Britain: Holidays Stories of unexpected disasters. (W) 10.00 Homes Under The Hammer Exploring properties in Hertfordshire, Wales and Derbyshire. (R) (W) (S) 11.00 Wanted Down Under A family trial living in New Zealand for a week to test out the lifestyle. (W) (S) 11.45 Caught Red Handed (AD) (W) 12.15 Bargain Hunt Philip Serrell and Anita Manning head to West Yorkshire to help two teams search for items at Wetherby Racecourse. (R) (W) (S) 1.00 BBC News At One, Weather 1.30 Local News, Weather (S) v 1.45 Father Brown Father Brown discovers a shocking secret lurking among the bookshelves. (AD) (W) (S) 2.30 !mpossible Rick Edwards hosts a gameshow in which 30 recurring players compete to win £10,000. (S) 3.15 Escape To The Country Nicki Chapman helps a woman to search for a home in Devon where she can nourish her creative spirit. (R) 3.45 The Hairy Bikers’ Comfort Food Si King and Dave Myers share their favourite home-cooked food. (S) 4.30 Antiques Road Trip The next stop for Christina Trevanion and Mark Stacey is Cheshire. (W) (S) 5.15 Pointless Quiz show, presented

by Alexander Armstrong. (W) (S) 6.00 BBC News, Weather (W) (S) 6.30 Local News, Weather (S) v 6.55 Party Political Broadcast

6.00 Rip Off Britain: Holidays Couples left out of pocket because of cancellations due to the Zika virus. (R) 6.45 Wanted Down Under A man hopes he and his fiancee can start a new life in Australia. (R) (W) (S) 7.30 Caught Red Handed (AD) (R) 8.00 Sign Zone: Great British Menu The North East region’s two highest-scoring chefs compete. (R) 8.30 Sign Zone: Great British Menu The first of the Northern Ireland heats. (R) (SL) (W) (S) 9.00 Victoria Derbyshire (W) (S) 11.00 BBC Newsroom Live (W) (S) 11.30 Daily Politics (W) (S) 1.00 The Link Three teams battle it out to spot connections between an increasing number of clues. (R) (W) 1.45 Chefs: Put Your Menu Where Your Mouth Is John Burton Race and Richard Phillips go head to head at a restaurant. (R) v 2.30 Supersized Earth (AD) (R) v 3.30 Land Of The Lost Wolves The team discover the animals have been killed by locals. (AD) (R) (S) v 4.30 A Place To Call Home (R) 5.15 Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is David Harper and Paul Hayes go head to head at Wotton Auction Rooms in Gloucestershire. (R) 6.00 Eggheads Jeremy Vine hosts the general knowledge quiz. (W) (S) 6.30 Great British Railway Journeys Michael starts his journey in Chapeltown, Sheffield. (AD) (W) (S)

6.00 Good Morning Britain Sanjeev Bhaskar discusses the latest series of detective drama Unforgotten.

8.30 Lorraine Entertainment and fashion news, as well as showbiz stories, cooking and celebrity gossip.

9.25 The Jeremy Kyle Show Guests air their differences. (W) (S) 10.30 This Morning Phillip Schofield and Holly Willoughby present celebrity chat and lifestyle features, including a look at the newspaper headlines. (W) 12.30 Loose Women Another helping of chat from a female perspective, featuring celebrity interviews. (W) (S) 1.30 ITV News, Weather 1.55 Local News, Weather v 2.00 Judge Rinder Cameras follow Robert Rinder as he takes on real-life cases in a studio courtroom. (W) (S) 3.00 Dickinson’s Real Deal David Dickinson and the dealers visit the racecourse at Wolverhampton, where a painting and some jewellery are among the items of interest. (W) 3.59 ITV Local Weather (S) v 4.00 Tipping Point Ben Shephard hosts the arcade-themed quiz show, in which contestants drop tokens down a choice of four chutes. (S) 5.00 The Chase Bradley Walsh presents as contestants Becca, Don, Janet and Ronnie answer general knowledge questions. (W) (S) 6.00 Local News, Weather v 6.25 Party Political Broadcast 6.30 ITV News, Weather

6.15 3rd Rock From The Sun (R) 6.40 3rd Rock From The Sun (R) 7.05 The King Of Queens (R,S) 7.30 The King Of Queens (R,S) 7.55 Everybody Loves Raymond Debra is jealous of a waitress. (R,S) 8.25 Everybody Loves Raymond Comedy, starring Peter Boyle. (R,S) 9.00 Frasier Frederick asks Frasier to take part in a softball game. (R,S) 9.30 Frasier Roz auditions for a position as the host of a show. (R,S) 10.00 Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares USA The chef meets a stubborn owner in Hanson. (R) 11.00 Find It, Fix It, Flog It Henry Cole and Simon O’Brien come across a water trough. (R,S) 12.00 Channel 4 News Headlines.

12.05 Darts: BDO Lakeside World Professional Championships The fifth day of the BDO World Championships, staged at the Lakeside Country Club at Frimley Green, where the second-round matches get under way. Rob Walker presents, with commentary by John Rawling, Jim Proudfoot and Vassos Alexander and reports from Seema Jaswal and Danny Crates. (S) 5.00 Come Dine With Me Four contestants compete for a £1,000 prize in Crewe and Stoke. (S) 6.00 The Simpsons Marge is reunited with three old friends. (R,S) 6.30 Hollyoaks Nathan plans a treat for Cleo in the Love Boat. (AD) (S)

6.00 Milkshake! Fun for youngsters.

9.15 The Wright Stuff Matthew Wright and his guests talk about the issues of the day.

11.15 The Hotel Inspector Alex Polizzi visits the First in Last Out, a 17th Century B&B with a pub in Winchester, Hampshire. (R,S) 12.10 5 News Lunchtime (S) 12.15 Celebrity Big Brother A chance to catch up with the latest action as the contestants continue to get to know each other. (R,S) 1.15 Home And Away (AD) (S) 1.45 Neighbours (AD) (W) (S) 2.15 NCIS Hetty confronts Alexa Comescu and tells her Callen is dead, but the crime boss knows she is lying.

Real-time episode, with LL Cool J. (R) 3.15 Kidnapped: The Search For Tommy 2015 (PG) After her brother is abducted and the police fail to get a lead, a 16-year-old conducts her own investigation using geo-tracking to identify the kidnapper. In a virtual game of cat and mouse, can she find the toddler before he is lost to them forever? Thriller, with Brooke Butler.

5.00 5 News At 5 Latest headlines.

5.30 Neighbours Piper and Tyler return home, but the confrontation leads them to make a decision. (R,S) 6.00 Home And Away Tori questions Nate over a call she got from the hospital. (AD) (R,S) 6.30 5 News Tonight A round-up of the evening’s main headlines. (S)

A question of sport: Olympic sailor Hannah Mills is among the contestants in the lighthearted quiz, 10.45pm

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THE GREAT INTERIOR DESIGN CHALLENGE: Tom Dyckhoff lends his expertise in tonight’s show, 8pm

7.00 The One Show Matt Baker presents the live magazine show, with a team of roving reporters presenting stories of interest from around the UK, plus big-name studio guests. (W) (S) Followed by BBC News, Local News. (W) (S)

7.00 Rick Stein’s Long Weekends The chef embarks on another round of extended culinary breaks, beginning with Portuguese capital Lisbon. Rick is inspired to cook an almond tart, before heading for the St Anthony’s Day Parade. (AD) (R)

8.00 The Sheriffs Are Coming Sheriffs Lawrence and Kev plan to remove a valuable Bentley unless a debt is paid in full, but will the owner raise the money in time? Elsewhere, the sheriffs are called on to repossess a property occupied by squatters. (AD) (W)

8.00 The Great Interior Design Challenge In the second quarter-final from Aberaeron in Wales, two designers have 48 hours to transform two rooms whilst incorporating rope into their overall scheme. (AD) (W) (S)

9.00 Italy’s Invisible Cities 9.00 Hospital New series.

Alexander Armstrong and Dr A series capturing the day-to-day Michael Scott explore the city of realities that face the NHS in Venice using the latest 3D unprecedented times. With an technology and discover how a ever-increasing demand on its city built in a swamp came to be various services, the programme one of the most powerful locations shows the real-life dilemmas that in Medieval Europe. (AD) (W) (S) staff and patients have to endure.

10.00 BBC News At Ten (W) (S)

10.30 Local News, Weather v 10.45 A Question Of Sport With Chris Kirkland, Hannah Miley, Robbie Hunter-Paul and Hannah Mills. (W) (S) v 11.15 Parkinson’s: The Funny Side Paul Mayhew-Archer looks for a cure for Parkinson’s. (R) v 11.45 The Other Man 2008 (15) After his wife’s death, a man learns she was having an affair when he discovers provocative photos of her with another man.

Drama, starring Liam Neeson.

(W) (S) v Followed by Weather For The Week Ahead. (W) (S) v

THE CHASE: Bradley Walsh encourages members of the public to beat the Chaser, 5pm

7.00 Emmerdale Ronnie is

to discover that H disgusted was involved in framing H Lawrence Andy. See Pick Of The Day. (AD)

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and Barnaby investigate H Winter Lower Pampling’s star H when cricketer Leo Henderson is

found dead after a match in the grounds, pummelled to death by cricket balls. Barnaby is surprised to see DI Jones undercover as one of Leo’s team-mates and his former colleague reveals he is working on suspected cases of match-fixing in the area, but things take an even more sinister turn when captain Fitz Theara is stabbed with a cricket stump.

See Pick Of The Day. (AD) (W)

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10.30 Newsnight Analysis of the day’s events, presented by Emily Maitlis. (W) (S) Followed by Weather. (W) (S)

10.30 Local News, Weather v

11.15 Our Dancing Town Yorkshire towns, with the help of choreographer Steve Elias, celebrate their history in local dance spectaculars, beginning in Barnsley. (AD) (R) (W) (S) 12.15 Alan Bennett’s Diaries A profile of the writer following him in his home village in Yorkshire.

(AD) (R) (W) (S) 1.15 Sign Zone: Muslims Like Us (AD) (R) (W) (S) 2.15 Sign Zone: Italy’s Invisible Cities (AD) (R) (SL) (W) (S) 3.15 Sign Zone: The Big Food Rescue (R) (SL) (W) 4.00-6.00 This Is BBC Two (S)

7.00 Channel 4 News Including sport and weather. (S)

7.30 Coronation Street Steve and Michelle’s world crumbles, while the bailiffs start removing the gym equipment. (S)

10.00 Common Sense

H New series. Comedy news series a cast of real British H featuring people. See Pick Of The Day. (W)

HOLLYOAKS: Liam tells Adam what he knows about Darcy, 6.30pm

10.40 Unbelievable Moments Caught On Camera Alastair Stewart presents a selection of extraordinary footage filmed by members of the public, featuring a wedding that was ruined by a sandstorm. (R) (W) 11.40 It’s Not Rocket Science Science show, with Ben Miller, Rachel Riley and Romesh Ranganathan. Adam Gemili races against a Red Arrow and Rachel travels through a wall of fire. (R)

CELEBRITY BIG BROTHER’S BIT ON THE SIDE: Rylan Clark-Neal has all the gossip, 10pm

7.00 Bloody Tales Of The Tower Suzannah Lipscomb and Joe Crowley investigate the contrasting fates of three people imprisoned in the Tower of London for treason, including Gunpowder Plot conspirator Guy Fawkes. (R) Followed by 5 News.

8.00 Location, Location, 8.00 GPs: Behind Closed Location Kirstie Allsopp goes Doors Two patients with different H property hunting in the trendy towards alcohol come H attitudes suburb of Heaton in Newcastle to into the surgery, with one help a pair who are tired of renting desperate to overcome his and Phil Spencer is in the Tyne addiction and another adamant Valley searching for a family home that alcohol improves his health. for couple Michael and Sorrel. (S) See Pick Of The Day. (AD) (S) 9.00 No Offence Joy is thrown

H into a freefall after making a discovery and, as the H shocking team quell the riots that have

exploded throughout Manchester, Dinah uncovers a group of young casualties in a gang-owned property. See Pick Of The Day.

10.00 19 Kids And Counting Cameras return to the Radfords family home as Lancashire pie-maker Noel, Sue and the children prepare to welcome a new baby to their brood and only weeks later set off on their most ambitious family holiday. (R,S) 11.05 Finding My Twin Stranger Documentary offering an insight into the phenomenon of people seeking to find their twin stranger. In an experiment, seven pairs agree to undergo a series of tests to uncover the science behind twin-like similarities. (R,S) 12.10 Music on 4: Live From Abbey Road Classics (S) 12.40 Walking The Americas (AD) (R,S) 1.35 FILM: Beasts Of The Southern Wild 2012 (12) Fantasy.

(SL) 3.05 The Secret Life Of 4 Year Olds (R,S) 4.00 Hoarder SOS (R,S) 4.55 Location, Location, Location (R)

9.00 Celebrity Big Brother Highlights of the past 24 hours under the eye of Big Brother as the celebrities cope with living under surveillance, with all the arguments and alliances, as well as the revelations. (S) Followed

by The Health Lottery draw.

10.00 Celebrity Big Brother’s Bit On The Side Rylan Clark-Neal presents the CBB companion show, featuring gossip and chat from the house.

10.45 Football On 5: The EFL Cup Highlights of the semi-final first-leg matches, featuring Manchester United v Hull City at Old Trafford and Southampton v Liverpool at St Mary’s Stadium.

The Tigers reached this stage for the first time in their history and were aiming to cause an upset against Jose Mourinho’s United.

12.00 Bellator MMA’s Greatest Hits: Volume 1 Action from the British-based mixed martial arts organisation. (S) 12.50 SuperCasino 3.10 Bargain-Loving Brits In The Sun (R,S) 4.00 Now That’s Funny! (R) (SL) (S) 4.45 Great Artists (R) (SL) (S) 5.10 House Doctor (R) (SL) (S) 5.35-6.00 House Doctor (R) (SL) (S)

12.30 Jackpot247 Viewers are offered the chance to participate in live interactive gaming. (W) 3.00 1000 Heartbeats (R) (W) (S) 3.50 1.15-6.00 BBC News Latest national ITV Nightscreen (W) 5.05-6.00 The and international headlines. (S) v Jeremy Kyle Show (R) (SL) (W) (S) (S) SUBTITLES (R) REPEAT (AD) AUDIO DESCRIPTION (SL) SIGN LANGUAGE (W) WIDESCREEN v Regional variations opposite H Recommended H H Outstanding

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televisionexpress 5STAR 6.00 Teleshopping Home shopping.

8.00 8 Simple Rules Paul sets the family a challenge. (S) 8.25 Dance Moms The girls prepare for a Broadway casting director’s visit.

9.10 Dance Moms Christi is faced with a difficult decision. (S) 10.05 Benefits: Through A Child’s Eyes Children living in families dependent on employment benefits.

11.10 Can’t Pay? We’ll Take It Away A tenant in rent arrears barricades her front door. (S) 12.10 8 Simple Rules Paul puts his foot down with the girls. (S) 12.40 8 Simple Rules Paul tries to give the children a nice Christmas. (S) 1.05 Dance Moms The Abby Lee Dance Company arrives in LA. (S) 2.00 Celebrity Big Brother (S) 3.00 Neighbours (AD) (S) 3.30 Home And Away (AD) (S) 4.00 8 Simple Rules Paul allows Rory to go on his first date – much to the dismay of Bridget and Kerry.

4.30 8 Simple Rules Bridget skips classes to concentrate on becoming a beautician and Kerry plays a practical joke on the head teacher.

5.00 My Wife And Kids Jay annoys Michael by attending the poker game he had arranged for men only. (S) 5.30 My Wife And Kids Junior is ready to propose to Vanessa. (S) 6.00 Neighbours Piper and Tyler return home to face the music. (R,S) 6.30 Home And Away Hunter misses an English exam and pleads with Olivia to lie to Zac for him.

7.00 Dance Moms Holly has her biggest ever fight with Abby. (S) 8.00 Celebrity 100 Per Cent Hotter Spin-off show. (S) 9.00 Botched Up Bodies A woman left with terrible scarring. (S) 10.00 Celeb Trolls: We’re Coming To Get You Saturdays singer Frankie Bridge confronts internet trolls.

11.00 Can’t Pay? We’ll Take It Away Agents try to evict a woman who owes £6,000 in unpaid rent. (S) 12.00 Sex Pod (S) 1.00 Wentworth Prison 2.00 GPs: Behind Closed Doors (AD) (S) 3.00 Falling Skies (S)

5USA 6.00 Teleshopping Home shopping.

9.00 Access Latest showbiz gossip.

9.10 Rookie Blue Andy and Gail work undercover in a nightclub.

10.00 Law & Order The team investigates an old murder. (S) 11.00 Law & Order A disabled boy dies following a fire. (S) 12.00 CSI: NY A ballerina is strangled with a piece of rope. (S) 1.00 NCIS The agents reluctantly team up with the coast guard to investigate the apparent murder of a Navy diver who was trying to recover a sunken ship and its treasure. (S) 2.00 Person Of Interest A series of flashbacks reveal Finch’s first employee and introduces Reese’s predecessor Rick Dillinger. (AD) (S) 3.00 Rookie Blue Andy questions her professionalism when a woman is attacked under her watch.

4.00 Law & Order Animal rights activists are implicated in the death of an Aids researcher killed by a bite from an infected monkey. (S) 5.00 Law & Order A woman’s body is found in a Central Park lake. (S) 6.00 CSI: NY The detectives are called in to investigate the case of a man who fell to his death. (S) 7.00 NCIS The team tries to locate a kidnapped girl but has to contend with her grandfather. (AD) (S) 8.00 NCIS The team investigates what at first appears to be a straightforward robbery, until Tony discovers a homeowner lied to police. (AD) (S) 9.00 Castle A Japanese ballerina is killed and during the investigation Castle and Beckett find the murder weapon alongside a shrine. (S) 10.00 Law & Order: Special Victims Unit Stabler and Tutuola investigate an eight-year-old boy’s claims that he has been abused. (S) 11.00 Law & Order: Special Victims Unit A woman stops taking her medication and kills ten people with her car – but the blame for the offence falls on a former rock star waging a campaign against drugs. (S) 12.00 Chicago Fire (S) 1.00 CSI: Miami (AD) (S) 2.00 CSI: Miami 3.00 Chicago Fire (S) 4.00 Teleshopping

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10.00 Clara Amfo. 12.45 Newsbeat. 1.00 Scott Mills. 4.00 Greg James: With Matt Edmondson. 5.45 Newsbeat. 6.00 Greg James. 7.00 MistaJam. 9.00 The Surgery With Gemma & Dr Radha. 10.02 Huw Stephens. 1.00 Benji B. 4.00-6.33 Adele Roberts.

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FM: 88-90.2 MHz 5.00 Vanessa Feltz. 6.30 Chris Evans. 9.30 Ken Bruce. 12.00 Jeremy Vine. 2.00 Steve Wright In The Afternoon. 5.00 Simon Mayo. 7.00 The Folk Show With Mark Radcliffe. 8.00 Jo Whiley. 10.00 Suzi Quatro – Quatrophonic. 11.00 The People’s Songs.

12.00 After Midnight. 3.00-5.00 Pick Of The Pops.

Radio 3

FM: 90.2-92.4 MHz 6.30 Breakfast. 9.00 Essential Classics. 12.00 Composer Of The Week: Sibelius The Finn. 1.00 News.

1.02 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert. 2.00 Afternoon On 3: Katie Derham introduces a week of performances by the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, including pieces by Gerhard, Beach and Elgar. 3.30 Choral Evensong: From the Chapel of Merton College, Oxford, featuring director of music Benjamin Nicholas and organ scholars Alexander Little and Thomas Fetherstonhaugh. 4.30 In Tune: Music and news from the arts world. 6.30 Composer Of The Week: Sibelius The Finn: Donald Macleod explores composer Sibelius’s key musical works that helped to articulate the idea and essence of Finnish identity in the turn of the 20th century. 7.30 Radio 3 In Concert: Bach’s B minor Mass sung by the choir of Trinity College, Cambridge, conducted by Stephen Layton. 10.00 Free Thinking: New Generation Thinkers Shahidha Bari and Laurence Scott debate the art and rhythms of running with Kai Syng Tan, Angus Farquhar, Hayden Lorimer and Vybarr Cregan-Reid. 10.45 The Essay: Cornerstones: Writer Paul Evans traces a family line back through Shropshire’s seams of coal.

Chawtermaster Peake is the ancestor who hewed coal from Coalbrookdale, birthplace of industry. 11.00 Late Junction. 12.30-6.30 Through The Night.

Radio 4

FM: 92.4-94.6 MHz LW: 198 kHz 5.30 News Briefing. 5.43 Prayer For The Day. 5.45 Farming Today. 5.58 Tweet Of The Day. 6.00 Today.

8.31 (LW) Yesterday In Parliament. 9.00 Midweek.

9.45 (LW) Daily Service. 9.45 (FM) Book of the Week: The Reformation. 10.00 Woman’s Hour. 10.56 The Listening Project. 11.00 On A Knife Edge. 11.30 The Write Stuff. 12.00 News. 12.01 (LW) Shipping Forecast. 12.04 Home Front. 12.15 You And Yours.

12.57 Weather. 1.00 The World At One. 1.45 All In A Chord. 2.00 The Archers: Justin’s diary needs attention. 2.15 Drama: GF Newman’s The Corrupted: Criminal family saga, based on GF Newman’s novel.

3.00 Money Box Live: With Paul Lewis. 3.30 Inside Health: Dr Mark Porter separates medical fact from fiction. 4.00 Thinking Allowed: Thought-provoking issues. 4.30 The Media Show: Stories from the fastchanging media industry. 5.00 PM: With Carolyn Quinn. 5.54 (LW) Shipping Forecast. 6.00 Six O’Clock News. 6.30 State Of The Nations: Comedian Elis James continues his tour with a visit to The Empire in Belfast. 7.00 The Archers: David tries to make amends.

7.15 Front Row: Arts programme. 7.45 On Kosovo Field. See Radio Choice. 8.00 FutureProofing: Examining the social, cultural, economic and political implications of modern scientific advances. 8.45 Four Thought: A thought-provoking talk. 9.00 Science Stories. 9.30 Midweek: Lively conversation with Libby Purves. 9.59 Weather. 10.00 The World Tonight: With Ritula Shah. 10.45 Book at Bedtime: Reading Europe – Norway: A Death In The Family: By Karl Ove Knausgaard. Abridged by Isobel Creed and Jill Waters.

11.00 Sam Simmons Is Not A People Person. 11.15 15 Minute Musical 2016. 11.30 Today In Parliament.

12.00 News, Weather. 12.30 Book of the Week: The Reformation. 12.48 Shipping Forecast. 1.00 As BBC World Service. 5.20-5.30 Shipping Forecast.

Radio 5 Live

MW: 909, 693 kHz 5.00 Morning Reports. 5.15 Wake Up To Money.

6.00 5 Live Breakfast. 10.00 5 Live Daily With Emma Barnett. 1.00 Afternoon Edition. 4.00 5 Live Drive.

7.00 5 Live Sport: Mark Chapman presents the day’s sports news and build-up to Southampton v Liverpool in the EFL Cup semi-final, first leg. 7.45 5 Live Sport: EFL Cup Football 2016-17: Southampton v Liverpool (Kick-off 7.45pm). Commentary on the semi-final match from St Mary’s. The Reds fell at the final hurdle last

REGIONAL VARIATIONS BBC1 Variations Wales: 10.40 Hayley: Bikinis, Bars And Benidorm 11.10 A Question Of Sport 11.40 Parkinson’s: The Funny Side 12.10 Film: The Other Man 1.35 Weather For The Week Ahead 1.40 BBC News BBC2 Variations Wales: 1.45 Supersized Earth 2.45 Land Of The Lost Wolves 3.45 A Place To Call Home S4C 7.00 Cyw: Antur Natur Cyw 7.15 Cyw: Patrôl Pawennau 7.25 Cyw: Blero Yn Mynd I Ocido 7.35 Cyw: ASRA 7.50 Cyw: Sam Tân 8.05 Cyw: Igam Ogam 8.15 Cyw: Sara A Cwac 8.25 Cyw: Boj 8.40 Cyw: Sbridiri 9.00 Cyw: Tili A’i Ffrindiau 9.15 Cyw: Ty Cyw 9.30 Cyw: Cwpwrdd Cadi 9.40 Cyw: Bach A Mawr 9.55 Cyw: Popi’r Gath 10.05 Cyw: Oli Dan Y Don 10.15 Cyw: Wmff 10.20 Cyw: Y Brodyr Coala 10.35 Cyw: Holi Hana 10.45 Cyw: Tecwyn Y Tractor 11.00 Cyw: Antur Natur Cyw 11.15 Cyw: Patrôl Pawennau 11.25 Cyw: Blero Yn Mynd I Ocido 11.35 Cyw: ASRA 11.50 Cyw: Sam Tân 12.00 Dysgu Gyda Cyw: Fflic A Fflac 12.10 Dysgu Gyda Cyw: Jen A Jim Pob Dim 12.25 Dysgu Gyda Cyw: Rapsgaliwn 12.40 Dysgu Gyda Cyw: Heini 12.55 Dysgu Gyda Cyw: Ti Fi A Cyw 1.00 Newyddion S4C A’r Tywydd 1.05 Heno 1.30 Dechrau Canu Dechrau Canmol 2.00 Prynhawn Da 2.55 Newyddion S4C A’r Tywydd 3.00 Aled Jones: Dychwelyd Adre 4.00 Awr Fawr 5.00 Stwnsh: Pigo Dy Drwyn 5.30 Stwnsh: Angelo Am Byth 5.40 Stwnsh: £FI 5.55 Stwnsh: Ffeil 6.00 Pobol Y Cwm 6.25 Newyddion S4C A’r Tywydd 6.30 Darren Drws Nesa 7.00 Heno 7.30 Llys Nini 8.00 Pobol Y Cwm 8.25 Gwaith/Cartref 8.55 Darllediad Gwleidyddol Gan Y Ceidwadwyr Cymreig 9.00 Newyddion 9 A’r Tywydd 9.30 Parti Bwyd Beca 10.00 Cyngerdd Y 10 Difa

Radio Choice On Kosovo Field, Radio 4, 7.45pm

Following last night’s edition of Fin Kennedy’s drama in which Rebeka and Dardan set off in search for information about their parents, the siblings return to their native village with the set of keys given to them by a neighbour before they left, offering season, losing on penalties in the final to Manchester City and they will be looking to book another trip to Wembley this time around.

10.00 5 Live Sport: 5 Live Football Social.

10.30 Phil Williams. 1.00 Up All Night.

talkSPORT

MW: 1053, 1089, 1071, 1107 kHz 5.00 Geoff Peters. 6.00 The Alan Brazil Sports Breakfast With Ray Parlour: The Arsenal legend drops into the studio. 10.00 Jim White. 1.00 Hawksbee And Jacobs: Sporting news, exclusive interviews, transfer rumours and various features. 4.00 Adrian Durham And Darren Gough: Scintillating debate, views and exclusive interviews. 7.00 Kick-off: With Mark Saggers. 10.00 Sports Bar. 1.00 The Two Mikes. 4.00-5.00 My Sporting Life.

the chance to unlock their home and, with it, their memories.

Nico Mirallegro and Michelle Keegan star in the tale inspired by PJ Harvey’s notebooks, poetry and lyrics from her travels in the Balkan republic, with unreleased demo songs woven through the dialogue. chris mchugh

BBC World Service on digital only

5.00 Newsday. 5.30 The Documentary. 6.00 Newsday. 8.30 Business Daily. 8.50 Witness.

9.00 News. 9.06 World Book Club. 10.00 World Update. 11.00 Outside Source. 12.00 News. 12.06 Outlook. 1.00 The Newsroom.

1.30 The Documentary. 2.00 Newshour.

3.00 News. 3.06 HARDtalk. 3.30 Sport Today. 4.00 News. 4.06 World Have Your Say. 5.00 News. 5.06 Outlook. 6.00 The Newsroom. 6.30 World Business Report.

7.00 The Newsroom. 7.30 The Documentary.

8.00 News. 8.06 HARDtalk. 8.30 Healthcheck. 9.00 Newshour. 10.00 News.

10.06 The Newsroom. 10.30 World Business Report. 11.06 World Book Club. 12.00

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News. 12.06 The Newsroom. 12.20 Sports News. 12.30 Assignment. 1.00 News. 1.06 Business Matters. 2.00 News. 2.06 Outlook.

3.00 News. 3.06 The Compass. 3.30 Healthcheck. 4.00-5.00 Newsday.

Classic FM

FM: 100-102 MHz 6.00 More Music Breakfast. 9.00 John Suchet. 1.00 Anne-Marie Minhall. 5.00 Classic FM Drive. 7.00 Smooth Classics At Seven. 8.00 The Full Works Concert. 10.00 Smooth Classics. 1.00-6.00 Jane Jones.

Absolute Radio

MW: 1215, 1197, 1242 kHz 6.00 Christian O’Connell’s Breakfast Show.

10.00 Leona Graham. 1.00 Andy Bush.

4.00 Sarah Champion. 6.00 Geoff Lloyd.

9.00 Pete Donaldson. 1.00 Chris Martin.

Radio Wales

MW: 882, 657 kHz FM: 93.9-95.9, 103.7-103.9 MHz 5.00 Mal Pope. 6.30 Good Morning Wales.

9.00 Jason Mohammad: Music, news and chat. 11.00 Wynne Evans. 1.00 Radio Local News At One. 1.15 Eleri Siôn. 4.00 Good Evening Wales. 6.30 The Radio Wales Arts Show. 7.00 Radio Wales Sport. 9.00 Chris Needs. 12.30 The Secret Life Of Welsh Food.

1.00-5.00 As BBC World Service.

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films

today’s choice

Sky Cinema Premiere

Sky 301

6.00am The Witch (2015) (15) Period horror, starring Anya Taylor-Joy. 7.50 Star Wars: Rogue One Special The making of the new sci-fi movie. 8.20 Me Him Her (2015) (15) Comedy, starring Luke Bracey. 10.05 Our Brand Is Crisis (2015) (15) Comedy drama, starring Sandra Bullock. 12.05pm The Colony (2015) (15) Drama, starring Emma Watson. 2.05 10 Cloverfield Lane (2016) (12) Thriller, starring Mary Elizabeth Winstead. 4.05 All Roads Lead To Rome (2015) (12) Romantic comedy, starring Sarah Jessica Parker. 5.50 The 33 (2015) (12) Fact-based drama, starring Antonio Banderas. 8.00 10 Cloverfield Lane (2016) (12) Thriller, with Mary Elizabeth Winstead and John Goodman.

10.00 A Tale Of Love And Darkness (2015) (12) Premiere. Historical drama, starring Natalie Portman. 11.45 The Witch (2015) (15) Period horror, starring Anya TaylorJoy. 1.30am Our Brand Is Crisis (2015) (15) Comedy drama, starring Sandra Bullock. 3.30 The Colony (2015) (15) Drama, starring Emma Watson. 5.30 Star Wars: Rogue One Special The making of the new sci-fi movie.

Sky Cinema Comedy

Sky 308

• Times quoted are GMT Tobey Maguire. 11.00 Batman V Superman: Dawn Of Justice (2016) (12) Superhero adventure, starring Ben Affleck. 1.35pm X-Men Origins: Wolverine (2009) (12) With Hugh Jackman. 3.30 Batman Begins (2005) (12) Comic-book adventure, starring Christian Bale.

5.55 Spider-Man (2002) (12) Comic-book adventure, starring Tobey Maguire. 8.00 Batman V Superman: Dawn Of Justice (2016) (12) Action adventure, starring Ben Affleck and Henry Cavill. 10.35 X-Men Origins: Wolverine (2009) (12) Superhero adventure prequel, starring Hugh Jackman. 12.25am Blade (1998) (18) Action thriller, starring Wesley Snipes. 2.35 Catwoman (2004) (12) Superhero adventure, starring Halle Berry.

4.30 Superman II (1980) (PG) Comic-strip adventure sequel, starring Christopher Reeve and Gene Hackman.

PAPER TOWNS HHH

Sky Cinema Drama & Romance, 6pm A loved-up teenager, fascinated by a girl who seems out of his league, finally gets the chance to enjoy some quality time with her, in this engaging romantic mystery.

Only trouble is, the kooky femme fatale disappears next day without trace. But she’s left him a series of clues, which he can follow in the hope of finding her.

Not to be perturbed by this setback, he enlists his pals to lend a hand as he tries to track her down.

Based on the novel by John Green, this delightful tale features Nat Wollf and the multi-talented Cara Delevingne – the supermodel proving she’s more than just a pretty face.

MIKE smith

6.25am Son Of The Pink Panther (1993) (PG) With Roberto Benigni. 8.05 Spud 2: The Madness Continues (2013) (15) With John Cleese. 9.45 Idiocracy (2006) (15) With Luke Wilson. 11.15 The Top Ten Show Box office hits. 11.35 Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story (2007) (15) With John C Reilly.

1.20pm The Benchwarmers (2006) (12) With Rob Schneider. 2.50 Dad’s Army (2016) (PG) With Toby Jones. 4.40 Hot Shots! Part Deux (1993) (PG) With Charlie Sheen. 6.20 Unfinished Business (2015) (15) With Vince Vaughn. 8.00 Dad’s Army (2016) (PG) Comedy, starring Toby Jones. 9.45 Get Hard (2015) (15) Comedy, starring Will Ferrell. 11.35 Crocodile Dundee (1986) (15) With Paul Hogan. 1.20am Crocodile Dundee II (1988) (PG) With Paul Hogan. 3.20 Down Dog (2014) (15) With Jason Durr. 5.05 The Pink Panther (1963) (PG) Starring Peter Sellers.

Sky Cinema Action & Adventure Sky 307

6.30am Assassin (2014) (15) With Danny Dyer.

8.00 The Patriot (2000) (15) With Mel Gibson.

10.50 Jurassic Park III (2001) (PG) With Sam Neill.

12.30pm Jurassic World (2015) (12) With Chris Pratt.

2.45 Hitman: Agent 47 (2015) (15) With Rupert Friend.

4.30 Tracers (2015) (12) With Taylor Lautner. 6.15

Jurassic Park III (2001) (PG) With Sam Neill. 8.00 Jurassic World (2015) (12) Action adventure sequel, with Chris Pratt. 10.15 Hitman: Agent 47 (2015) (15) With Rupert Friend. 12.05am Rocky III (1982) (PG) With Sylvester Stallone. 2.00 Rocky IV (1985) (PG) With Sylvester Stallone. 3.45 Lost & Found (2016) (15) With Jason Patric. 5.30 Everest: Sky Movies Special An interview with the all-star cast of disaster epic Everest.

Sky Cinema Family

Sky 306

6.25am The Muppets (2011) (U) Comedy, starring Jason Segel. 8.10 Step Dogs (2013) (U) Family comedy, starring Joris Jarsky. 9.40 Capture The Flag (2015) (PG) Animated sci-fi adventure. 11.20 The Secret Of Moonacre (2008) (U) Fantasy adventure, starring Dakota Blue Richards. 1.10pm Home (2015) (U) Animated adventure. 2.45 The Muppets (2011) (U) Comedy, starring Jason Segel. 4.30 Capture The Flag (2015) (PG) Animated sci-fi adventure. 6.10 The Secret Of Moonacre (2008) (U) Fantasy adventure, starring Dakota Blue Richards. 8.00 Home (2015) (U) Animated comedy.

9.35 Nutty Professor II: The Klumps (2000) (12) Comedy sequel, with Eddie Murphy. 11.25 Bicentennial Man (1999) (PG) Sci-fi drama, starring Robin Williams.

1.40am Step Dogs (2013) (U) Family comedy, starring

TCM

Joris Jarsky. 3.10 Nutty Professor II: The Klumps (2000) (12) Comedy sequel, starring Eddie Murphy. 5.00 The Ant Bully (2006) (U) Animated adventure.

Sky Cinema Drama & Romance

Sky 310

6.20am Dirty Dancing 2: Havana Nights (2004) (PG) With Romola Garai. 7.50 The Squeeze (2015) (12) With Jeremy Sumpter. 9.35 An Affair To Remember (1957) (U) With Cary Grant. 11.35 Woman In Gold (2015) (12) With Helen Mirren. 1.35pm As Good As It Gets (1997) (15) With Jack Nicholson. 3.55 Children Of A Lesser God (1986) (15) With William Hurt. 6.00 Paper Towns (2015) (12) With Nat Wolff. See Today’s Choice. 8.00 Notting Hill (1999) (15) Romantic comedy, with Hugh Grant. 10.10 Fifty Shades Of Grey (2015) (18) With Jamie Dornan. 12.20am Monster’s Ball (2001) (15) Starring Halle Berry. 2.20 Hyena Road (2015) (15) Starring Rossif Sutherland. 4.25 The Grapes Of Wrath (1940) (PG) Starring Henry Fonda.

Sky Cinema Superheroes

Sky 304

6.00am Ant-Man: Behind The Scenes The making of the Marvel movie. 6.30 Batman Begins (2005) (12) Comic-book adventure, starring Christian Bale. 8.55 Spider-Man (2002) (12) Comic-book adventure, starring

Sky 317

6.00am Hollywood’s Best Film Directors 6.35 Rawhide 7.40 Rawhide 8.45 The Man Who Came To Dinner (1941) (U) Comedy blessed, with Monty Woolley. 10.55 To Have And Have Not (1944) (U) Thriller, with Humphrey Bogart. 12.55pm Rawhide 1.55 Rawhide 3.00 Fort Utah (1967) (U) Western, with John Ireland. 4.35 Man From God’s Country (1958) (U) Western, with George Montgomery. 6.00 Where Eagles Dare (1968) (PG) Second World War adventure, with Richard Burton. 9.00 Invasion USA (1985) (18) Action adventure, with Chuck Norris. 11.25 Three Kings (1999) (15) Adventure, with George Clooney. 1.45am Conspiracy Theory With Jesse Ventura 2.40 Conspiracy Theory With Jesse Ventura 3.30 Hollywood’s Best Film Directors 4.00 Hollywood’s Best Film Directors 4.30 Hollywood’s Best Film Directors 5.00 Hollywood’s Best Film Directors 5.30 Hollywood’s Best Film Directors

Film4

Freeview 15 - Sky 315

11.00am The Mouse That Roared (1959) (U) Comedy, with Peter Sellers and Jean Seberg. 12.45pm Mary, Queen Of Scots (1971) (PG) Historical biopic, with Vanessa Redgrave. 3.20 River Of No Return (1954) (PG) Western, with Robert Mitchum. 5.10 The Black Shield Of Falworth (1954) (U) Swashbuckling adventure, with Tony Curtis. 7.10 The Two Faces Of January (2014) (12) Thriller, with Viggo Mortensen.

9.00 The Wolf Of Wall Street (2013) (18) Fact-based drama, with Leonardo DiCaprio. 12.30am Wrong Turn At Tahoe (2009) (18) Thriller, with Cuba Gooding Jr. 2.15 The Man Whose Mind Exploded (2012) (15)

entertainment satellite, cable and digital ITV2

Freeview 6 - Sky 118

6.00am Planet’s Funniest Animals 6.20 Who’s Doing The Dishes? Former athlete and strongman Geoff Capes hosts a dinner party for four guests. 7.15 The Ellen DeGeneres Show 8.00 Emmerdale 8.30 The Cube 9.35 Psych 10.25 Scorpion 11.25 Who’s Doing The Dishes? 12.25pm Emmerdale 12.55 You’ve Been Framed! A To Z Of Animals 2.00 The Ellen DeGeneres Show 2.50 The Jeremy Kyle Show 5.00 Judge Rinder 6.00 You’ve Been Framed! Gold Yearbook 7.00 You’ve Been Framed! 8.00 Two And A Half Men 9.00 Through The Keyhole 10.00 Plebs 11.00 Family Guy Midnight American Dad! 12.55 Two And A Half Men 1.25 Bordertown 2.20 Teleshopping 5.50 ITV2 Nightscreen

ITV3

Freeview 10 - Sky 119

6.00am Doctor In The House. Vintage medical comedy, starring Barry Evans. 6.25 Heartbeat 7.25 Where The Heart Is 8.30 The Royal 9.30 Judge Judy 10.55 A Touch Of Frost 1.05pm Heartbeat 2.05 The Royal 3.10 Where The Heart Is 4.15 Doctor In The House 4.50 You’re Only Young Twice 5.20 George And Mildred 5.55 Heartbeat 7.00 Murder, She Wrote 8.00 Paul O’Grady: For The Love Of Dogs 9.00 Life Of Crime Midnight Wycliffe 1.05 The Knock 2.00 ITV3 Nightscreen 2.30 Teleshopping

ITV4

Freeview 24 - Sky 120

6.00am Gunsmoke 6.55 Minder 7.50 Quincy ME 8.50 The Professionals 9.55 Ironside. Drama, starring Raymond Burr 11.00 Gunsmoke Noon Storage Wars: New York 1.00 Pawn Stars 1.55 Quincy ME 3.00 Ironside 4.00 The Professionals 5.05 Minder 6.05 Storage Wars: New York 7.00 Pawn Stars 8.00 River Monsters 9.00 Car Crash Britain: Caught On Camera 10.00 Film: American Gangster (2007) (18) 11.05 FYI Daily 11.10 Film: American Gangster (2007) (18) 1.10am The Wine Show 2.10 The Professionals. With comedy actor John Junkin. 3.00 Teleshopping

Sky1

Sky 106

6.00am Hawaii Five-0 7.00 UK Border Force 8.00 Monkey Life 9.00 Police Force: Australia 10.00 Border Security: Canada’s Front Line 11.00 Forever Noon NCIS: Los Angeles 1.00 Hawaii Five-0 3.00 NCIS: Los Angeles 4.00 Modern Family 5.00 The Simpsons 5.30 Futurama 6.30 The Simpsons 8.00 A League Of Their Own 9.00 Don’t Tell The Bride 10.00 NCIS: Los Angeles 11.00 Ross Kemp On Gangs Midnight A League Of Their Own: Unseen 1.00 The Force: Manchester 2.00 Brit Cops: Rapid Response 3.00 Hawaii Five-0 4.00 Animal 999 5.00 Motorway Patrol

E4

Freeview 28 - Sky 136

6.00am Charmed 7.35 Hollyoaks 8.05 Rules Of Engagement 9.00 Baby Daddy. Comedy, starring Derek Theler. 10.00 Brooklyn NineNine 11.00 Charmed. Spell-binding drama, starring Shannen Doherty. 1.00pm How I Met Your Mother 2.00 The Big Bang Theory 3.00 Baby Daddy 4.00 How I Met Your Mother 5.00 Brooklyn Nine-Nine 6.00 The Big Bang Theory 7.00 Hollyoaks 7.30 The Goldbergs 8.00 The Big Bang Theory 9.00 Timeless 10.00 Supernatural 11.00 The Big Bang Theory Midnight Gogglebox 1.00 Tattoo Fixers 2.00 Hollyoaks 2.25 Timeless 3.10 Supernatural 3.55 Bad Robots 4.20 The Goldbergs 4.40 Rules Of Engagement. US hit comedy.

More4

Freeview 14 - Sky 138

8.55am Kirstie’s Vintage Gems 9.20 Come Dine With Me 11.15 Film: Stalag 17 (1953) (PG) 1.40pm Time Team 3.50 Car SOS 4.50 The Supervet 5.50 A Place In The Sun: Winter Sun 7.55 Grand Designs 9.00 Car SOS 10.00 8 Out Of 10 Cats 10.50 8 Out Of 10 Cats Does Countdown 11.55 Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares USA 12.50am Car SOS 1.50 8 Out Of 10 Cats Does Countdown 2.50 Bodyshockers: Nips, Tucks And Tattoos

GOLD

Sky 110

7.00am Cheers 8.00 ’Allo ’Allo! 8.35 As Time Goes By 10.00 The Thin Blue Line 10.40 Last Of The Summer Wine Noon My Family 1.20 Lovejoy 2.35 As Time Goes By 4.00 Last Of The Summer Wine 5.20 My Family 6.40 Only Fools And Horses 8.00 We Have Been Watching 9.00 The Royle Family 9.40 Mrs Brown’s Boys 10.20 Men Behaving Badly 11.00 Only Fools And Horses 12.05am Peep Show 1.15 The Royle Family 1.50 Men Behaving Badly 3.00 I Dream Of Jeannie

Sky Living

Sky 107

6.00am Border Security: Canada’s Front Line 7.00 Million Dollar Listing: NYC 8.00 Nothing To Declare 9.00 Monkey Life 10.00 Elementary 11.00 Cold Case Noon CSI: Crime Scene Investigation 2.00 Elementary 3.00 UK Border Force 4.00 Million Dollar Listing: NYC 5.00 Nothing To Declare 6.00 Monkey Life 7.00 UK Border Force 8.00 Criminal Minds 9.00 Conviction 10.00 Bones Midnight Cold Case 1.00 Elementary 2.00 Bones 4.00 Nothing To Declare 5.00 Monkey Life. Charlie needs emergency dental surgery.

CBS Action

Freeview 64 - Sky 148

6.00am Teleshopping. A chance to buy bargains galore. 9.00 NCIS 11.00 Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Noon Bonanza 2.00 NCIS 3.00 NCIS: Los Angeles 4.00 Walker, Texas Ranger 5.00 JAG 6.00 NCIS 7.00 MacGyver 8.00 Star Trek: Deep Space Nine 9.00 NCIS: Los Angeles 10.00 NCIS: Silent Night, Deadly Night 11.00 Walker, Texas Ranger Midnight NCIS 2.40 Bonanza 3.35 Walker, Texas Ranger 4.25 The Streets Of San Francisco

CBS Reality

Freeview 66 - Sky 146

6.00am Teleshopping 9.00 Judge Judy 10.00 Hoarders 11.00 Unsolved Mysteries Noon 48 Hours: Mystery 1.00 Judge Judy 3.00 Hoarders 4.00 Unsolved Mysteries 5.00 Judge Judy 7.00 Medical Detectives 8.00 Troubled Teens: Jail Shock 9.00 Sins And Secrets 10.00 It Takes A Killer 11.00 Medical Detectives Midnight I Survived 1.00 Sins And Secrets 2.00 It Takes A Killer 3.00 Teleshopping 4.00 Cops: Reloaded

BBC Four

Freeview 9 - Sky 116

7.00pm World News Today. Headlines. 7.30 Grand Tours Of Scotland 8.00 10 Things You Didn’t Know About Earthquakes 9.00 James May: The Reassembler 9.30 The Joy Of Train Sets – The Model Railway Story 10.30 Egypt’s Lost Cities. Dallas Campbell and Liz Bonnin join Dr Sarah Parcak. Midnight Horizon: The Trouble With Space Junk 1.00 10 Things You Didn’t Know About Earthquakes 2.00 Knights Of Classic Drama At The BBC. Narrated by David Tennant. 3.00 The Joy Of Train Sets – The Model Railway Story. Documentary exploring the popularity of train replicas.

Comedy Central

Sky 112

FOX

Sky 124

Discovery

Sky 520

8.00am The Middle 9.00 Friends 1.00pm Impractical Jokers 3.00 Friends 7.00 Impractical Jokers 8.00 Friends 9.00 Impractical Jokers: British Invasion 10.00 The Chris Ramsey Show 10.30 Jason Manford Live: First World Problems 11.30 Impractical Jokers 1.00am The Daily Show 1.30 Impractical Jokers 5.00 Teleshopping 8.00am Law & Order: Criminal Intent 9.00 The Mentalist 11.00 The Closer 1.00pm NCIS 3.00 The Mentalist 5.00 The Closer 7.00 NCIS 10.00 American Dad! 11.00 Family Guy Midnight American Dad! 1.00 Family Guy 2.00 American Dad! 3.00 Family Guy 4.00 American Dad! 5.00 Teleshopping 6.00am Misfit Garage 7.00 Alaskan Bush People 8.00 Manhunt 9.00 Mythbusters 10.00 Fast N’ Loud: Revved Up Noon Overhaulin’ 1.00 Street Outlaws 2.00 Alaskan Bush People 3.00 Alaska: The Last Frontier 4.00 Gold Divers 5.00 Mythbusters 6.00 Wheeler Dealers 7.00 Fast N’ Loud 8.00 Tanked 9.00 Street Outlaws 11.00 Nasa’s Unexplained Files Midnight Street Outlaws 3.50 Tanked.

Documentary about two brothers-in-law who run a large aquarium-manufacturing company.

4.40 How It’s Made 5.05 How It’s Made

History

Sky 529

6.00am Teleshopping 6.30 Teleshopping 8.00 Flipping Boston 9.00 Custom Built 10.00 Forged In Fire 11.00 Storage Wars Noon American Pickers 1.00 Custom Built

sport Sky Sports 1

Sky 401

6.00am Football Gold 7.00 WWE: Experience 8.00 EFL Cup Highlights 8.30 Premier League Legends 9.00 Premier League 100 Club 9.30 EFL Cup Highlights 10.00 Premier League Daily 11.00 Transfer Centre 11.30 Premier League Legends Noon Premier League Legends 12.30 Premier League Legends 1.00 EFL Cup Highlights 1.30 Great Sporting Moments 1.45 Great Sporting Moments 2.00 Premier League Legends 2.30 Premier League Legends 3.00 Premier League 100 Club 3.30 Premier League 100 Club 4.00 EFL Cup Highlights 4.30 Sporting Triumphs 4.45 Sporting Triumphs 5.00 Premier League 100 Club 5.30 EFL Cup Highlights 6.00 Premier League World 6.30 Football Gold 6.45 DeGale: Greatest Hits 7.00 Transfer Centre 7.30 Live EFL Cup. Southampton v Liverpool (Kick-off 7.45pm). 10.15 James DeGale: Road Warrior 10.30 DeGale: Greatest Hits 10.45 Premier League World 11.15 Football Gold 11.30 Premier League Legends Midnight EFL Cup Highlights 12.30 Premier League World 1.00 Premier League 100 Club 1.30 EFL Cup Highlights 2.00 Premier League Years 4.00 Sporting Heroes: Gary Newbon Interviews Mary Rand 5.00 EFL Cup Highlights 5.30 Spanish Football Gold 5.45 Spanish Football Gold

Sky Sports 2

Sky 402

6.00am Cricket Classics 7.00 Time Of Our Lives 8.00 The Sky Sports Years 9.00 Top 14 Round-Up Show 9.30 Cricket’s Greatest 10.00

Great Sporting Moments 10.30 Great Sporting Moments 11.00 Sporting Heroes: Gary Newbon Interviews Stirling Moss Noon Cricket Classics 12.30 Top 14 Round-Up Show 1.00 Time Of Our Lives 2.00 The Sky Sports Years 3.00 Cricket’s Greatest 4.00 World Cup Cricket Classics 5.00 Sporting Greats 6.00 Cricket Classics 7.00 Live Greyhound Racing 9.30 Top 14 Round-Up Show 10.00 The Mavericks 10.30 More Than A Game 11.00 Cricket’s Greatest Midnight Sporting Rivalries 1.00 Cricket Classics 2.00 Sporting Greats 3.00 World Cup Cricket Classics 4.00 Sporting Rivalries 5.00 Sporting Triumphs 5.45 Sporting Triumphs

Sky Sports 3

Sky 403

6.00am Darts Gold 6.30 Speedway Gold 7.00 Sporting Records 8.00 Time Of Our Lives 9.00 The Sky Sports Years 10.00 Racing News 10.30 Sporting Triumphs 11.00 Sporting Rivalries Noon Sporting Records 12.30 Sporting Greats 1.00 Legends Of Darts 1.30 Sky Sports Boxing Gold 2.00 Premier Badminton League 2.30 Darts Gold 3.00 The Sky Sports Years 4.00 Sky Sports Boxing Gold 4.30 Darts Gold 5.00 Sporting Triumphs 5.30 Great Sporting Moments 6.00 Time Of Our Lives 7.00 Premier Badminton League 7.30 Sky Sports Boxing Gold 8.00 Fight Night 10.00 Sky Sports Boxing Gold 10.15 Sky Sports Boxing Gold 10.30 WWE From The Vault 10.45 WWE From The Vault 11.00 More Than A Game 11.30 The Mavericks Midnight Darts Gold 12.30 Speedway Gold 1.00 Sporting

Rivalries 2.00 Time Of Our Lives 3.00 Sporting Rivalries 4.00 The Sky Sports Years 5.00 Great Sporting Moments 5.15 Great Sporting Moments 5.30 Great Sporting Moments

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9.30am Sochaux V Monaco. French League Cup. 11.00 Hyundai A-League Highlights 11.30 Serie A Review Noon Aviva Premiership Rugby Highlights 2.30 NBA Inside Stuff 3.00 NBA: Celtics @ Raptors 5.00 Premier League Reload 5.15 BT Sport Reload 5.45 Cricket: Big Bash League 6.45 Live BDO World Championships 10.45 Premier League World 11.15 BT Sport Reload 11.30 Fishing: On The Bank. Angling magazine show. 12.30am Cricket: Big Bash League 1.30 Cape To Cape MTB 2.30 Hyundai A-League Highlights 3.00 Vanarama National League Highlights 3.30 Bundesliga: Goals Of The Season 4.00 Serie A Review

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7.00am Australian Open Tennis 9.30 Live ATP Tennis 11.30 Dakar Rally Noon Alpine Skiing 12.45 Biathlon 1.15 Live Biathlon 3.00 FISU Athlete Story 3.15 ATP Tennis 4.30 Australian Open Tennis 6.00 World Tennis Challenge 6.30 Biathlon 7.30 Snowboarding 8.30 Eurosport News 8.35 Africa Cup Of Nations 9.35 The Commissioner Of Football 9.40 The EuroLeague Basketball Show 9.55 Eurosport News 10.00 Dakar Rally 10.30 Biathlon 11.30 Snowboarding 12.30am Dakar Rally 1.00 Live ATP Tennis 5.00 Australian Open Tennis

2.00 Flipping Boston 3.00 Mountain Men 5.00 Forged In Fire 6.00 American Pickers 7.00 Mountain Men 8.00 The Curse Of Oak Island 10.00 Missing In Alaska 11.00 Hunting Hitler Midnight The Curse Of Oak Island 1.00 Missing In Alaska 2.00 Forged In Fire 3.00 American Pickers 4.00 Storage Wars 5.00 Teleshopping 5.30 Teleshopping

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6.00am Secret Knowledge: Bolsover Castle With Lucy Worsley 6.25 Alexander’s Lost World 7.10 Antiques Roadshow 8.00 Time Team 9.00 Hitler’s Champions 10.00 WW2 Air Crash Detectives 11.00 Coast Noon Alexander’s Lost World 1.00 Hitler’s Champions 2.00 Raiders Of The Lost Art 3.00 The Two Ronnies 3.50 The Best Of Tommy Cooper 4.20 ’Allo ’Allo! 5.00 Time Team 6.00 Auschwitz: The Nazis And The Final Solution 7.00 Coast 8.00 Impossible Engineering 9.00 The Two Ronnies 9.50 The Best Of Tommy Cooper.

Comedy highlights. 10.20 ’Allo ’Allo! 11.00 Raiders Of The Lost Art Midnight Impossible Engineering 1.00 Auschwitz: The Nazis And The Final Solution 2.05 Antiques Roadshow 7.00am Homes Under The Hammer. With Lucy Alexander and Martin Roberts. 8.00 Flog It! 9.00 DIY SOS: The Big Build 10.00 Escape To The Country 11.00 Fantasy Homes By The Sea Noon Homes Under The Hammer 1.00 Flog It! 2.00 DIY SOS: The Big Build 3.00 My Dream Derelict Home 4.00 Escape To The Country 5.00 Homes Under The Hammer 6.00 Flog It! 7.00 MasterChef Australia 8.00 DIY SOS: The Big Build 9.00 My Dream Derelict Home 10.00 Escape To The Country 11.00 Homes Under The Hammer Midnight DIY SOS: The Big Build 1.00 Flog It! 2.00 Fantasy Homes By The Sea 3.00 Escape To The Country. Denise Nurse visits Suffolk.

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8.00am Air Crash Investigation 9.00 Car SOS 10.00 Supercar Megabuild 11.00 Banged Up Abroad Noon Air Crash Investigation 1.00 Ultimate Airport Dubai 2.00 Extreme Mechanics Alaska 3.00 Alaska’s Toughest Pilots 4.00 Ghost Town Gold 5.00 Strippers: Cars For Cash 6.00 Car SOS 7.00 Air Crash Investigation 8.00 Terror In The Skies 9.00 To Catch A Smuggler: JFK Airport 10.00 Ultimate Airport Dubai 11.00 Air Crash Investigation Midnight Science Of Stupid 1.00 Brain Games 2.00 Yukon Gold 3.00 Ice Road Rescue 4.00 Wicked Tuna: North V South

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6.00am Major Crimes 7.00 Teleshopping 8.00 Major Crimes. American police drama, starring Mary McDonnell. 10.00 Law & Order.

Legal drama, starring Jerry Orbach. 2.00pm NCIS 8.00 CSI: Miami 9.00 Pure Genius 10.00 Law & Order: Special Victims Unit 2.00am Law & Order 4.00 Numb3rs

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8.00am Sheena Douglass 9.00 Soft Craft One Day Special 10.00 Folk Art with Folk It! 11.00 Sheena Douglass Noon Soft Craft One Day Special 1.00 Folk Art with Folk It! 2.00 Let Leonie Loose 3.00 Let Leonie Loose 4.00 Soft Craft One Day Special. Arts and crafts creations.

5.00 The Art of Marquetry 6.00 Sheena Douglass 7.00 Soft Craft One Day Special 8.00 Sheena Douglass One Day Special

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Daily Express Wednesday January 11 2017 To order Complete Calvin and Hobbes at £70 (published by Andrews McNeel) call 01872 562310; visit www.expressbookshop.com; or send a cheque to Express Bookshop, PO Box 200 Falmouth TR11 4WJ. UK Delivery is free.

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Call me to hear why it’s time to put duty first.

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Home and family come under favourable trends today. Business-wise follow your intuition. Changes you make, items you purchase or agreements you forge will stand the test of time. Call me to hear why it’s time to get down to business.

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PSYCHICS RUPERT AND THE IGLOO No 4

“A snowman now?” says Mr Bear.

“Then use these tools,” he tells the pair.

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When they report to Mr Bear that the path is clear he thanks them then adds, “Why don’t you hang on to the spade and the shovel to build your snowman? They’re much better than toy ones for the job.” The chums think this is a great idea and off they go making plans for their snowman. “We’ll be able to build a jolly big one with these tools,” Rupert says. “Where shall we build it?” “I know, let’s search around for some really Now with their grown-up tools they plan deep snow,” suggests Bill. © Express Newspapers 2017 To build a really big snowman.

Chow mein The fresh flavours in this dish makes it seem special and yet it is ready in less than 30 minutes. A large frying pan or wok is ideal for cooking this one-pan dish. Serves 2 INGREDIENTS

METHOD

1 tablespoon fresh root ginger

1) Prepare the sauce. Remove the skin from the ginger using a potato peeler and grate 1 tablespoon from the root. Mix in a bowl with the crushed garlic, ketchup, soy sauce and oyster sauce. Add 3 tablespoons of water and stir thoroughly to combine.

2) Deseed and slice the pepper, remove the ends from the spring onions and slice into strips.

3) Immerse the noodles in a pan of boiling water, then remove from the heat and let soak for 4 minutes before draining.

4) Heat the wok until it starts to smoke, then add the oil and chicken strips. Keep them moving with a wooden spoon, cook until lightly sealed.

Add the pepper, and stir fry for another minute.

5) Add the sauce to the wok and stir with the chicken until bubbling.

6) Remove the drained noodles from the colander and add to the wok. Add the beansprouts and spring onions and mix thoroughly, stirring until the beansprouts begin to soften. Serve immediately.

2 cloves of garlic, crushed 3 tablespoon tomato ketchup 2 tablespoon soy sauce 2 tablespoon oyster sauce 1 red pepper 5 spring onions 3 nests of egg noodles 1 tablespoon sunflower oil 2 chicken breasts, cut into strips 200g beansprouts

ALAN’S TIP OF THE DAY: Make a seed organiser. Take an old shoe box and cut dividers to fit, one for each month of the year, like a card index file. Sort out your seeds into order of sowing and then slot them into the correct months. This will save time during the season.

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Make it a restful evening and an early night.

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MONDAY’S SOLUTION

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ACROSS: 1 Salute, 4 Pendulum, 10 Organic, 11 Larceny, 12 Satin, 13 Repudiate, 14 First reserve, 18 Tranquillise, 23 Qualifier, 24 Debit, 25 Ironing, 26 Station, 27 Trending, 28 Tackle. DOWN: 1 Shows off, 2 Ligature, 3 Tenon, 5 Eclipse, 6 Daredevil, 7 Leeway, 8 Mayhem, 9 Scarce, 15 Terrified, 16 Airbrick, 17 Sentence, 19 Nail gun, 20 Unrest, 21 Squirt, 22 Salome, 24 Drama. Prizeword: Shack

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TODAY’S ANSWERS: BEGINNER = 9; INTERMEDIATE = 122; ADVANCED = 205.

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Can you make two common five-letter words from the nine letters given, using each letter only once? You can – but only if one letter features in both words in the squares on the right.

There’s at least one way to do it, and you have to have the right letter at the crossover – but which one is it?

See if you can find the answer within our target time. If you need help, ring our clue-line below to find out the crossover letter. Solution tomorrow.

Target times: Average: 16 mins Good: 12 mins Excellent: 8 mins Yesterday’s solution: QUERY (across) FRAUD (down)

I N O P L R F I G

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What number should appear next in this sequence?

10 130 220 280 ?

A B F I I K L L Y SOLUTION

0901 322 5601 0901 322 5607 Halve your Target Time!

HOW many words of four letters or more can you make from the letters shown here? In making a word, each letter may be used once only. Each must contain the centre letter and there must be at least one nine-letter word. No plurals or verb forms ending in “s”.

TODAY’S TARGET Good 15; very good 22; excellent 29 (or more). Solution tomorrow.

YESTERDAY’S SOLUTION cede ceded deceive deceived decide deed denied device dice diced died diene dine dined dive dived ended endive envied evened evidence EVIDENCED evinced iced indeed need needed veined vend vended vendee vide vied

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Alphapuzzle® tests your logic and word power. Each grid number represents a letter. Every letter of the alphabet is used. Use the given letter or letters — below the main grid — to start. Solution tomorrow.

DIFFICULTY: 8/10; TARGET: 27 mins; CLUE: The tops illuminated in the East End. YESTERDAY’S SOLUTION: Across: Pyramid, Forum, Amiss, Zealous, Sanguine, Bevy, Debate, Played, Fall, Rampages, Context, House, Slept, Redhead. Down: Praised, Focus, Reign, Balance, Mosquito, Jest, Dozens, Waiter, Foal, Slipshod, Rookery, Gauge (clue), Messy, Descend.

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Across: Crown, O Imperial, Pink, Sketched, Creep, Ugly, P Brazier, Save, Edits, Q Buzzards, Jinx, R Superbly, Jeans.

S Down: Cows, Bush, Riper, Wan, Embezzled, T Wager, Amok, Dull, U Equip, Fractured, Ire, Toxin, Fled, Yaps.

V Extra letter clues W 0907 181 2560 X Y (Deduct three minutes for each extra clue letter heard) Z Full solution

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YESTERDAY’S SOLUTION ACROSS 2 Labourer, 9 Europe, 10 Rims, 11 Otis, 13 Ovate, 14 Under foot, 16 Facet, 19 Frau, 20 Goal, 21 Sneeze, 22 Espresso.

DOWN 1 Kerfuffle, 3 Armed, 4 Boss, 5 Opportune, 6 Rota, 7 Editor, 8 Resettles, 12 Snares, 15 Oboes, 17 Camp, 18 Ages.

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SUDOKU

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AT A GLANCE STOCK MARKET BATS 100 BATS 250 FTSE 100 FTSE 250 FTSE ALL SHARE Shares Traded

12303.4 16760.8 7275.5 18413.3 3945.3 5241.3 million

+69.2 +38.4 +37.7 +33.6 +17.6

POPULAR SHARES ON THE RISE AstraZeneca Aviva BAE Systems Barclays BT Group HSBC Holdings Int Consolidated Airlines Lloyds Banking Group Marks & Spencer Group Rolls-Royce Holdings Sainsbury (J) Standard Life Tesco Vodafone Group

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Morrisons’ Christmas sales hit a 7-year high

By David Shand MORRISONS’ shares hit a three-year high as the supermarket’s best Christmas for seven years set it on course for higher annual profits.

A revamped premium range, opening more tills and keeping shelves well stocked paid off as the UK’s fourth biggest supermarket grew same-store sales by 2.9 per cent in the nine weeks to January 1.

Total takings were up 2 per cent despite an ongoing store closure programme.

Chief executive David Potts, who has led Morrisons’ turnaround since joining from Tesco nearly two years ago, said it had improved “across the board”.

He said its Nutmeg clothing range had performed well, along with fresh fruit and vegetables, wines and spirits and its new upmarket Best range, which he described as “a game changer for us this Christmas”.

Top sellers included 2.4 million bottles of prosecco, a rise of about 250,000 on last year, party food, flowers and a Christmas tree-shaped gateau.

Potts also talked up the benefits of a new automated ordering system.

He said: “We are becoming more relevant to more people.

“This Christmas we made further improvements to the customer shopping trip. We stocked more of what our

TURNAROUND SUPREMO: Potts has lifted store’s fortunes since joining from Tesco customers wanted to buy, more tills were open more often, and product availability improved as more than half of sales went through our new ordering system.

Both like-for-like and total sales grew, which was very encouraging.

“Our improving performance is entirely due to the continuing hard work of the team of food makers and shopkeepers.”

Morrisons expects annual underlying pre-tax profit of £330-340 million, ahead

of City forecasts of £326 million. Its shares rose 8mp to 246p.

Phil Dorrell, partner at consultants Retail Remedy, said: “Morrisons’ likefor-like sales growth over Christmas is quite remarkable and all the more noteworthy coming on top of last year’s.

“Potts has turned this ship around and while navigating a big tanker like this takes time, his grip on the tiller is both clear and strong.”

GoCompare is on song Yabba, dabba Boohoo!

GOCOMPARE, the price comparison website whose commercials are fronted by opera singer “Gio Compario”, hit the right note with investors after an impressive maiden solo performance.

The company, which was demerged from insurer Esure last year, said adjusted annual

operating profit would be up 30 per cent at £30 million, slightly higher than City forecasts. Revenue was up 19 per cent to £142 million.

Chief executive Matthew Crummack said: “We continue to deliver good trading results.”

Shares rose 8¼p to 76p.

ONLINE retailer Boohoo. com’s efforts to crack the US market have paid off as it hiked its annual sales forecast.

The firm, which has expanded its product range and recently launched clothing for children, said revenue in the last four months of 2016

jumped 52 per cent at constant exchange rates, with US sales up 188 per cent.

It has raised its guidance for sales growth in the year to February 28 to between 43-45 per cent from 38-42 per cent.

The outfi t h ighl ig hted strong US trading across the Black Friday weekend.

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RSA Insurance has been fined £150,000 for losing the personal data of nearly 60,000 customers.

The Information Commissioner’s Office acted after the theft at RSA’s offices in West Sussex of a hard drive with customers’ names, addresses and bank details including account numbers and sort codes.

It was stolen by a member of staff or a contractor, was not encrypted and has not been recovered.

It also held credit card details of 20,000 customers.

ICO said: “It simply didn’t take adequate precautions to protect customer information.”

Majestic’s gin tonic MAJESTIC Wine toasted its biggest ever Christmas after bumper sales of sparkling wines and gin.

It uncorked a 15.3 per cent rise in sales for the 10 weeks to January 2.

The festive period accounts for about 30 per cent of its annual turnover, with a record 7.5 per cent growth in same-store sales.

Sparkling wine sales were up 12 per cent against a 3 per cent increase in champagne.

Gin sales grew by 55 per cent with Warner Edwards rhubarb gin and Sipsmith sloe gin standout performers.

Shares rose 25½p to 349½p.

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TP Icap fell 10p to 456¼p after former Tory party treasurer Michael Spencer offloaded most of his 9 per cent stake, worth more than £200 million, in the interdealer broker.

Positive Kantar grocery market share figures boosted Tesco 12p to 213p.

Investors lost their appetite for takeaway ordering website Just Eat, 40p leaner at 543p, despite like-for-like order growth of 36 per cent, while Vimto soft drinks maker Nichols fell flat, down 12p to 1580p, despite a 7.3 per cent rise in revenue to £117.3 million.

Sports nutrition brand, Science in Sport, climbed 1p to 79½p after a four-year deal to be the official sports nutrition supplier to British Cycling, the UK’s internationally recognised body.

North American laser-guided equipment assembler Somero Enterprises advanced 18p to 235½p after flagging annual pre-tax earnings significantly ahead of market expectations.

Investment company Prospex Oil & Gas leaked 1.58p to 0.85p after a disappointing drilling update on a well in Poland, which will be plugged and abandoned.

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Equity Investment Instruments Aberdeen All Asia. . . . . . . . . . 556 Aberdeen Asian Sml . . . . . .974¾ -4¼ Aberforth Smll.Co. . . . . . . . . 1103 -4 Acencia Debt . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121 -¼ Acorn Income . . . . . . . . . . . .371½ +¾ Advance Devlpg Fund . . . . . . 530 +2 Albion Tech.& Gen. VCT . . . . 65¼ Albion VCT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67 Alliance Trust . . . . . . . . . . . .657½ Artemis Alpha . . . . . . . . . . . . 261# Aurora Inv.Tst. . . . . . . . . . . .178½ +1½ Baillie Gifford Japan . . . . . . .594¼ -¾ Baillie Gifford Shin Nip . . . . .611¼ +8¼ Bankers Inv.Tst . . . . . . . . . . . 714 +5 Baronsmead VCT.2 . . . . . . . . . 84 BH Global GBP . . . . . . . . .1299½ +5½ BH Global USD . . . . . . . . .1067¼ -8¼ BH Macro GBP. . . . . . . . . . . 2111 Biotech Growth Trust . . . . . .748½ +9 BlackRock Mining. . . . . . . . .361¾ +13¾ Blue Planet Intl Tst . . . . . . . . . . 43 BlueCrest AllBlue . . . . . . . . . 198 -1 Bluehone AiM VCT2 . . . . . . . 36½ +¼ British Assets Tst . . . . . . . .107¾# +¼ British Empire Tst . . . . . . . . . . 654 +2 Brunner Inv.Tst . . . . . . . . . . .629¼ +¾ Caledonia Inv.. . . . . . . . . . . . 2679 +38 City Natural Res.Yld. . . . . . .132¾ +1¼ City Of London . . . . . . . . . . .414½ +3¼ Dunedin Ent.IT. . . . . . . . . . . . 303 Dunedin Income . . . . . . . . . .251¾ -1¼ Dunedin Small. . . . . . . . . . . .211¼ -3¾ Eastern Euro Tst . . . . . . . . .306¼ +1¼ Edin Wwide Inv. . . . . . . . . . .503½ +1 Edin.Drgn.Tst.. . . . . . . . . . . .316¼ +2¾ Edin.Inv.Tst. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 725 +3½ Edin.UK Tracker . . . . . . . . . .338¼ +1¼ Edin.US Tracker . . . . . . . . . . 1264 -5 Elderstreet VCT . . . . . . . . . . . 61½ Electra Private Eq. . . . . . . . 4810# +2 F&C Cap&Inc . . . . . . . . . . . .291½ -1½ F&C Smaller Cos . . . . . . .1254½# -8½ F&C US Smaller Companies 918 -7 Fidelity Asian . . . . . . . . . . . .364½ +1 Fidelity European . . . . . . . . .190½ +3 Fidelity Japanese . . . . . . . . .106¼ -1 Fidelity Special . . . . . . . . . . .230¾ +¾ Finsbury Gwth&In. . . . . . . . .661½ +1½ For.&Col.Inv.Tst . . . . . . . . . . 554# +1 Foresight 3 VCT . . . . . . . . . . . 50¾ Foresight Tech.VCT . . . . . . . . . 75 Gartmore Euro.. . . . . . . . .1127½# +3½

556¼ 1010 1156 121½ 390 549¾ 73½ 67 658¾ 262 178½ 695½ 616 719 96½ 1311 1089 2134 755 363 43¾ 200 38½ 129½ 655 637 2720 133½ 415½ 355 253¾ 215 307 504½ 322 739½ 338¼ 1274 64 4852 296¼ 1263 925 366 191¼ 107¼ 233 676 559 52 78½ 1130

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Genesis E.M.F.. . . . . . . . . . .615½ +2 Graphite Ent . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 687 -6 Hansa Tst ‘A’ . . . . . . . . . . . . . 848 +16¾ Hansa Tst Plc . . . . . . . . . . . .860¾ +4¼ Henderson Euro.Tst . . . . . . .983½ +3½ Henderson Far Est . . . . . . . . . 353 Henderson High Inc . . . . . .186¼# -2 Henderson Opp Tst . . . . . . .849½ +2½ Herald Inv.Tst. . . . . . . . . . . .905½ -4½ HGCapital Tst. . . . . . . . . . . . 1533 -12 HSBC Infrastructure . . . . . . . . 163 Impax Env.Mkt . . . . . . . . . . .218¼ -1¼ Int.Biotech.Tst. . . . . . . . . . .574½# +12 International Public . . . . . . . .153¼ Invesco Asia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235 +1¼ Invesco Inc Gth Tst . . . . . . . . 283 +1 Invesco Perp UK . . . . . . . . . . 421 -4 JPM American . . . . . . . . . . .374½ +¼ JPM Asian . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 283 +1 JPM Claverhouse. . . . . . . . .628½ +3½ JPM Elect Man Gwth . . . . . . . 704 +1 JPM Emerg Mkt . . . . . . . . . .705½ +4½ JPM Euro Sml Co . . . . . . . . . 302 +1 JPM Global Emerging . . . .120¼# JPM Indian . . . . . . . . . . . . . .617½ +7½ JPM Japanese . . . . . . . . . . . . 341 +1½ JPM Mid Cap . . . . . . . . . . . . . 936 +2 JPM Overseas IT . . . . . . . . .283½ -½ JPM Smaller Co . . . . . . . . . .830¼ -6¾ JPM US Sml Co . . . . . . . . . . . 281 Jupiter Euro. . . . . . . . . . . . . .567½ +3½ Jupiter Primdna . . . . . . . . . . . 313 +¼ JZ Capital Partners . . . . . . . . 510 +2½ Keystone Inv.Tst. . . . . . . . . . 1672 +5 Law Debenture . . . . . . . . . . . . 543 +1½ London & St Law.. . . . . . . . . . 376 -5 Lowland Invest Co . . . . . . . 1380# -19 M&G High . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121 Majedie Inv. . . . . . . . . . . . . .305¾ +1 Manchester&Lon. . . . . . . . . .279¼ +½ Martin Currie Pac. . . . . . . . .333¼ +3¼ Martin Currie Prtflo Tst . . . .228¾# +¼ Matrix Inc & Gwth 4 . . . . . . . . . 97 Maven Income And Growth VCT 62½ Mercantile Inv Tst . . . . . . . . 1729# +5 Merchants Tst. . . . . . . . . . . . . 472 -1¼ Mid Wynd Int. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 426 +3½ Midas Inc&Gwth Tst. . . . . . .158¾ Mithras Inv.Tst . . . . . . . . . . . . 185 Monks Inv.Tst. . . . . . . . . . . .590½ +12½ Montanaro Euro Tst . . . . . . .630¼ -4¾ Montanaro Uk . . . . . . . . . . . . . 466 +4 Murray Inc.Tst. . . . . . . . . . . . 755# -4 Murray Int.Tst . . . . . . . . . . . 1173# -3 New India . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 382 +5¼ New Star Inv.Tst. . . . . . . . . . . 94½ North Atl.Smlr.Tst . . . . . . . . . 2550 -29 Northern 2 VCT . . . . . . . . . .73½# Northern Investors . . . . . . . .932½ Northern Venture . . . . . . . . . . . 76 Oxford Tech 2 VCT . . . . . . . . . 20 Oxford Tech VCT . . . . . . . . . . . 38 Pacific Assets . . . . . . . . . . . .246½ +1½ Pacific Horizon . . . . . . . . . . .215½ +½ Pantheon Int. . . . . . . . . . . . . 1737 +17 Perpetual In.&Gwth . . . . . . .372½ +1¼ Polar Cap.Tech . . . . . . . . . .877½ +10½ RCM Technology Trust . . . .843½ +1½ RIT Capital Partners. . . . . . . 1867 -2 Ruffer Investment . . . . . . . . . . 236 -1¾ Schroder Asia . . . . . . . . . . .350¾# +2¾ Schroder Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . 281# -½ Schroder Japan . . . . . . . . . .196¼ -1¾ Schroder UK . . . . . . . . . . . .170¼# +1 Schroder UK M&S . . . . . . . . 444# -2¾ Scottish American . . . . . . . . . 332 +1 Scottish Inv.Tst . . . . . . . . . . . . 803 Scottish Mortgage . . . . . . . . . 340 +5½ Shires Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 228# +1 Shires Smlr.Co . . . . . . . . . .204½# +1¼ Small Comp Div.Tst . . . . . . .213½ SPARK VCT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19½ Standard Life Equity. . . . . . .402½ -1 Standard Life UK Sml . . . . .369½ -3 SVM Global . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 280 -3 SVM UK Emerging. . . . . . . . . 62½ +¼ Talisman VCT. . . . . . . . . . . . . 54½ Temple Bar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1262 +6 Templeton Emrg. . . . . . . . . .616½ +5 The European Inv.Tst . . . .794¾# +¾ Throgmorton Tst. . . . . . . . . . . 356 TR Euro.Growth . . . . . . . . . .801¼ +6¾ TR Prop. IT . . . . . . . . . . . . . .298¾ +¾ Troy Inc & Growth Trust . . .76¾# -¾ UK Select Tst . . . . . . . . . . . .182½ +½ Value & Income . . . . . . . . .258½# -5½ Witan Inv Trust . . . . . . . . . . .913½ +2 Witan Pacific . . . . . . . . . . . . .285¼ -1¾ Wwide Healthcare . . . . . . . . 2277 +42

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644 695 860 916½ 985 360 195¼ 855 910 1557 185 219½ 581 162½ 250 292½ 425 376½ 295 631 704 765 313¾ 127¼ 690 354½ 1048 284¾ 895 284½ 582½ 315 514 1767 543 381 1440 121 308 301¾ 346 229¼ 106½ 67½ 1775 473¼ 428 159¾ 186 875½ 657 522 762½ 1188 413 98 2601 80 965 83½ 23 42½ 258 240 1750 407 880 845 1885 237¾ 368 283 198 170¾ 476½ 333¼ 807 341½ 236¼ 212 217 20 448½ 380 283 69½ 54½ 1270 624½ 810 356 804 321 78¾ 182½ 268¾ 920¼ 297 2280

408½ 507 691 692 775 252 159½ 676½ 617 982 150½ 141 380 139 158 246¼ 332 246 183 524 540 483 245 73 434¾ 243 765 170½ 685 150½ 463 250 385 1540 433 322 1095 116¼ 237 227 238 162½ 95½ 61½ 1375 376 313½ 137¾ 145½ 361 489 393 602½ 742½ 276 68 2040 66½ 515 69½ 19 37 177 151 1175 332 503½ 515¾ 1512 193¾ 237 223½ 128¼ 137½ 360¼ 230 544½ 220½ 183¼ 177½ 177 18 361½ 294½ 202 57 50½ 940 371½ 594½ 266½ 563 241¾ 66¼ 152 219 683 206 1596

-9½ 725½ 200 +2 348½ -2 375½ -1¼ 313¾ 330 -5 327½ -1 1477 -½ 56 +2 1389 -2½ 286 +1½ 186½ -1 959½ -3 719½ +½ 341¼ +4 547½ +4¾ 200 -6¼ 454 +9 402 +27 2960 46 -1½ 163 +6 417 -6 3328 +20 2359 -32 2610 +5 3046 +1 2289

389¾ 166½ 209¼ 196½ 210¼ 239 221 989½ 21¼ 1056 195 144 450¾ 454¼ 160½ 402¾ 120½ 329 235 2123 34 107¼ 227½ 2164 1590 1992½ 2049 1558

Financial Services 3i Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 716 3i Infrastructure. . . . . . . . . . .186½ Aberdeen Asset.Man. . . . . . 271# Ashmore Group . . . . . . . . . .283½ Brewin Dolphin . . . . . . . . . . .307½ Charles Stanley . . . . . . . . . . 299# Charles Taylor . . . . . . . . . . . . 230 Close Brothers . . . . . . . . . . . 1457 Guinness Peat Group . . . . . . 51½ Hargreaves Lansdown. . . . . 1292 Henderson Group. . . . . . . . . . 242 IFG Group. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150 IG Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 529 Intermediate Cap.Grp . . . . .711½ International Pers Fin . . . . . .164¾ Investec. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .546½ IP Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .188¾ Jupiter Fund Man. . . . . . . . . . 446 Liontrust Asset Man . . . . . . . . 389 London Stock Ex. . . . . . . . . . 2953 Lonfin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42¾ Man Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121 Paragon Group. . . . . . . . . .409½# Provident Financial. . . . . . . . 2887 Rathbone Brothers . . . . . . . . 2031 S & U. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2193 Schroders . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3037 Schroders NV . . . . . . . . . . . . 2260

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Shore Capital . . . . . . . . . . . . . 225 SVG Capital . . . . . . . . . . . . .710½ +½ Tullett Prebon . . . . . . . . . . .456¼# -10 Walker Crips Group . . . . . . . . . 39 -1¼

425 217½ 720 446¼ 471 275 49½ 38¾

Fixed Line Telecommunications BT Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . .387¾# +1¾ 496 346¾ KCOM Group . . . . . . . . . . . .89½# -½ 121 88¼ TalkTalk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169 -3¾ 272¾ 152½ Telecom Plus . . . . . . . . . . . . 1212 +6 1251 815½

Food & Drug Retailers Booker Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183 Greggs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 971 Morrison (Wm) . . . . . . . . . . . . 246 Ocado . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 264 Sainsbury (J) . . . . . . . . . . . .258¾ Tesco . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213 United Drug . . . . . . . . . . . . .654½

+3 -14 +8½ +2½ +4 +12 -4½

186½ 1225 249½ 349 292½ 218¾ 689½

149½ 884 152¼ 208 214½ 145½ 500½

Food Producers A.B. Foods . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2664# -4 3458 2350 Anglo-Eastern . . . . . . . . . . . . . 711 +25 726 390 Carr’s Milling . . . . . . . . . . . .145½# -4¾ 167¼ 135¾ Cranswick . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2354# -1 2538 1890 Dairy Crest . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 632# +6½ 690 504½ Devro. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 190 +2½ 317 140 Glanbia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1421 +14 1637¼ 1229 Greencore Group . . . . . . . . . 239# -1¼ 322¾ 219 Kerry Grp ‘A’ Shs . . . . . . . .5992¼ +12¼ 7271¾ 5374 Premier Foods . . . . . . . . . . . . 45¼ 59½ 30¼ REA Holdings . . . . . . . . . . . . . 365 370¼ 218¼

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Redrow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .451¾ +4 462 275½ Taylor Wimpey . . . . . . . . . . . . 175 +5½ 210¼ 115¾

Industrial Engineering Bodycote . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 644 C.H. Bailey . . . . . . . . . . . . . .147½ Castings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 438 Fenner. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .270½ Goodwin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1800 Hill & Smith . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1187 IMI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1068 Melrose . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .201¼ Renold. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48¾ Rotork . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .264½ Severfield-Rowen . . . . . . . . .77½# Slingsby H.C . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75 Spirax-Sarco . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4282 Tex Holdings. . . . . . . . . . . . .128½ Trifast . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 214 Vitec Group. . . . . . . . . . . . . .653¾ Weir Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1995

-1 659½ 150 514½ 275¼ 2315 1253 1129 202½ 55¾ 265½ 79 212½ +35 4669 +2 130 -2 216 +2¼ 655 +26 2024 +1 +1¾ -25 +6 +3 +3 +½ +3¼ +1¾

499 105 407¼ 98½ 1435 734 742 51½ 32½ 152¾ 43¾ 75 2725 100½ 105 485½ 787½

Industrial Metals & Mining Evraz . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .208½ +1¾ Ferrexpo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138 +6 Interntl Ferro Metals . . . . . . . . . . 1

273 151

56¼ 15¾

Industrial Transportation BBA Aviation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 286 +¼ 287¼ 150¼ Braemar Shipping Serv . . . .288¾ -1¼ 469 273 Clarkson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2229 +51 2499 1691 Fisher (J) & Sons . . . . . . . . . 1619 +8 1679 942

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Mobile Telecommunications Inmarsat . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 767 -25½ 1116 680 Vodafone Group . . . . . . . . .210¼# +2¼ 239¾ 190½

Nonequity Investment Instruments European Ass Tst. . . . . . . .1067½ +10 1112½ 934 Invesco Lev. . . . . . . . . . . . . .78¼# 79½ 63½ M&G High Cap . . . . . . . . . . . . . +¼ 1½ M&G High Inc . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49½ +¼ 52¼ 41 Oryx Int.Gwth.. . . . . . . . . . . .652½ 680 572½ Rights &Iss.Inc . . . . . . . . . . . 1765 1785 1025

Nonlife Insurance Admiral Group . . . . . . . . . . . 1780 Beazley Group . . . . . . . . . . .384¾ Direct Line Insurance . . . . . . . 357 Esure. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .195¼ Hiscox . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1020 Jardine Lloyd . . . . . . . . . . . . 1006 Lancashire . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 695 Novae Group . . . . . . . . . . . .663½ RSA Insurance Grp . . . . . . . . 569

-48 2260 1611 -6¾ 405 320 -11 409½ 333¼ -1¾ 304½ 189 -8 1097 900½ -4 1048 778 758 518½ -9½ 900 631 -5½ 586 373¼

Oil & Gas Producers BP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .511¾ Cairn Energy. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 239 Enquest. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52¼ Exillon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148 Gulf Keystone Pet. . . . . . . . . . 139 JKX Oil & Gas . . . . . . . . . . . . 30½ Ophir Energy . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95¼ Premier Oil . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90 Regal Petroleum. . . . . . . . . . . . 3¼ Ryl Dutch Shell ‘A’ . . . . . . . . 2249 Ryl Dutch Shell ‘B’ . . . . . . .2338½ Salamander Energy . . . . . . 79½ Soco International . . . . . . . . . 155 Tullow Oil . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .322¾

-1¾ 519¼ 310¼ -2 242½ 127¼ -1 55 11 +6 148 62 +1 707½ 115 +½ 31¾ 16 -¼ 99¾ 65 -5½ 99½ 19 +¼ 4¼ 1¾ -6 2275 1266 -5½ 2375 1277½ -3¼ 175 116 -11 333½ 118¼

Oil Equipment, Services & Distribution Amec . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 501 +13½ 619½ 327½ Hunting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 635 -5 640 239¾ John Wood Group . . . . . . . . . 874 -20½ 894½ 541½ Lamprell . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99 -4 106¼ 56 Petrofac. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .928½ +1 982 663

Personal Goods

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Travel & Leisure

Tate & Lyle . . . . . . . . . . . . . .688½ -12 807 535½ Unilever . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3335 -9½ 3763½ 2763 Mondi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1664 +16

1692

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Gas, Water & Multiutilities Centrica. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .226¾ -3½ 242 183½ Dee Valley Group. . . . . . . .1812½ 1825 1192½ National Grid. . . . . . . . . . . .934½# -16 1130½ 891½ Pennon Group . . . . . . . . . . .814½ -6½ 945½ 768 Severn Trent. . . . . . . . . . . . . 2196 -18 2509 2024 United Utilities. . . . . . . . . . .890½# -7½ 1039 854½

General Industrials DS Smith. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 421 +3½ 427¾ 331¼ RPC Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1066# -5 1079 653 Smiths Group . . . . . . . . . . . . 1483 +33 1528 863½ Vesuvius . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .401½ +1½ 402¾ 270½

General Retailers Ashley (Laura) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 Brown (N.) Group . . . . . . . .209¾# Caffyns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 525 Carpetright . . . . . . . . . . . . . .160¾ Debenhams . . . . . . . . . . . . .52¾# Dignity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2509 Dixons Carphone . . . . . . . .344½# Dunelm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 808 Findel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185 Flying Brands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 French Connection. . . . . . . . . . 34 Halfords Group . . . . . . . . . .353¼# Inchcape . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 726 John David Group . . . . . . . . . 326 Kingfisher . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .345¼ Lookers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .119¼ Marks & Spencer . . . . . . . .339¾# Moss Bros. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98¼ Mothercare . . . . . . . . . . . . . .113½ Next . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4152 Pendragon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 Pets At Home . . . . . . . . . . . . . 238 Saga . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .197½ Sports Direct . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 285 Ted Baker . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2649 Topps Tiles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84# WH Smith . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1599

-1 +¼ -3¾ -2 +4 +5½ -9½

26½ 18½ 362 160½ 595 510 470 150 81½ 51½ 2871 2227 476½ 281½ 1018 733 224¾ 130

-¼ +6½ +7 -2¾ -2¼ +2¾ +2 +¼ +½ +115 +¼ -¼ -1½ +2½

50¼ 449 754 337½ 386¼ 172 446 110 224½ 7020 48¼ 285 226 427¾ 3092 -2 153 +3 1878

31¼ 305½ 581 202½ 306¾ 92½ 285¼ 90 106¼ 4037 26¾ 211½ 174 252¼ 2124 80¼ 1447

Health Care Equipment & Services Bioquell . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137 Consort Medical . . . . . . . . . . 1013 Mediclinic Intnl . . . . . . . . . . .786½ Smith & Nephew . . . . . . . . . 1226

-14 +5 +6

174½ 1169 1168 1310

126 941 685 1051

Household Goods & Home Construction Abbey . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1152½ Barratt Development . . . . . . . 507 +11½ Bellway . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2612# +53 Berkeley Grp Hldgs . . . . . . . 2949 +79 Bovis Homes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 850 +32 Colefax Group . . . . . . . . . . . . 510 Headlam Group . . . . . . . . . .480¼ -1¾ Mcbride . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .180¾ -1½ Persimmon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1989 +50 Reckitt Benckiser . . . . . . . . . 6783 -20

1267 933 613 332½ 2810 1689 3700 2270 1024 627 520 445 517½ 418 198 136¾ 2219 1289 7692 5847

The service is provided for general information only and is not intended to address individual requirements. Appropriate independent advice should be obtained before making investment decisions. Reasonable care will be taken in ensuring the accuracy of the information provided but it may include errors, omissions or inaccuracies.

Ocean Wilsons . . . . . . . . . . . . 995 1022½ 705 Royal Mail . . . . . . . . . . . . .450¼# -4 541 413¼ Stobart Group . . . . . . . . . . .178¾# +4½ 179¾ 96¼ Wincanton. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 238# -2 247 148½

Leisure Goods Games Workshop . . . . . . . .763½ +16 805 423¼ Photo-Me Intl. . . . . . . . . . . . .169½ -¼ 182½ 129

Life Insurance Aviva . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .486¾ +¼ 495½ Chesnara . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .354½ +6 365¼ Legal & General . . . . . . . . . .248½ -½ 252¼ Old Mutual . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 209 +1 225½ Phoenix Group . . . . . . . . . . .758½ +5½ 802½ Prudential . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1580 -20 1649 St James’s Place . . . . . . . . . 1064 +7 1065 Standard Life . . . . . . . . . . . .361½ +1 378¾

346¼ 254¾ 165 149½ 611½ 1087 716 262

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Electrocomponents . . . . . .494¾# Essentra . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 455 Experian Group . . . . . . . . . 1579# G4S . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 241 Harvey Nash Group . . . . . . . . . 63 Hays . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .154½ Homeserve . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 624 Howden Joinery . . . . . . . . . .387½ IEnergizer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81 Interserve . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 318 Intertek Group. . . . . . . . . . . . 3467 John Menzies . . . . . . . . . . . .596½ Lavendon Group . . . . . . . . . . 265 London Security . . . . . . . . . . 2000 Macfarlane Group . . . . . . . . . 60½ Mangmnt Consulting . . . . . . . . 5¾ Mears Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . 452 Michael Page . . . . . . . . . . . . . 393 Mitie Group . . . . . . . . . . . . .214¾# Norish . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43½ Northgate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 527# Paypoint . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 970# Rentokil Initial . . . . . . . . . . . .223½ Ricardo Group . . . . . . . . . . .950½ Robert Walters . . . . . . . . . . .362¼ RPS Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . .236½ Serco Group . . . . . . . . . . . . .147¼ Shanks Group . . . . . . . . . . . . 96½ SIG . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .100½ Smiths News . . . . . . . . . . . .158¼ Speedy Hire . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52# St.Ives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .126¾ SThree . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .321¼ Travis Perkins . . . . . . . . . . . . 1451 Waterman Group . . . . . . . . . . 80½ Wolseley . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5025 Worldpay. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .284¼

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164 329 2957 70¼ 1088 285¼ 873½ 72¾ 80¾ 930 1790 663½ 421½ 392½ 2192¾ 344 352¼ 106 129¾ 379¾ 366½ 217½ 275½ 7895 86¾ 186¾ 257 914½ 50 196 54¾ 844½ 609 3391 247

AIM 600 Group. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9¾ 13¼ 7½ Arbuthnot Banking . . . . . . .1449½ +4½ 1717 1265 ASOS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5327 +12 5416 2595 Boohoo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145 +1½ 149 36 Camellia . . . . . . . . . . . . . .10503½ +203½10800½ 7510 Churchill China . . . . . . . . . . . . 905 -10 924 692½ City Of London . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 28 3 CPP Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16¼ +1¾ 16½ 5¼ Cropper (James) . . . . . . . . 1340# +45 1370 570 Dewhurst . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 625 710 550 Falkland Islands . . . . . . . . . . . 250 +3½ 250 179 Filtronic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13¾ +¼ 14 5 Finsbury Food Group . . . . . .122½ -1 136½ 102½ Flowgroup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7½ -¼ 25¼ 7 Gemfields . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49¾ +¼ 56 31½ Goals Soccer . . . . . . . . . . . .106½ 148 87 Gresham House . . . . . . . . . .302½ 335 287½ Hornby . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30¾ 88¼ 22½ James Halstead . . . . . . . . . .491½ -3¼ 505 379 Johnson Service. . . . . . . . . . . 106 -1 114¾ 85 Majestic Wine . . . . . . . . . . . .349½ +25½ 477¾ 277½ Molins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60 +3 81½ 48 Monitise. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2¾ 3¾ 1¾ Nichols . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1580 -12 1665 1119 Numis Corporation . . . . . . .242¾# -2¾ 246½ 180½ Ovoca Gold. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 +¾ 16½ 4¼ Patagonia Gold. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 3¼ 1½ Portmeirion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 940 -12½ 1267½ 749 Rockhopper Exploratn . . . . . 29¼ +4¼ 39 19¼ Sirius Minerals . . . . . . . . . . . . 18¾ 45½ 10¾ Ten Alps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1¾ 2 +½ Trans-Siberian Gold . . . . . . . . . 41 55½ 17¼ UBC Media Group . . . . . . . . . . 6½ -¾ 16½ 5¼ Victoria Oil & Gas . . . . . . . . . . . 35 53 24½ Young & Co Brewery A . . .1335½ -4 1350½ 1075

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THE Scout 2.00 Genres 2.30 Vantage Point 3.00 Spirit Of The Vale

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1 (1) 354- TEMASEK STAR (26) (D) Anthony McCann (IRE) 6 11 0

Mr J C Barry 2 (4) 25-1 JAN SMUTS (8) (C,F) W Storey 9 10 12(6ex)

Miss S M Doolan(3) 3 (11) 439- SHERMAN MCCOY (44) (D) Mrs M Fife 11 10 11

Miss Becky Smith(3) 4 (6) 704- l GENRES (12) G Swinbank 5 10 11......................Mr S Walker 5 (9) L99- RALPHY LAD (22) (D) G Swinbank 6 10 9

Miss R McDonald(3) 6 (8) 780- DEVIOUS SPIRIT (12) I Jardine 5 10 7...............Mr B Lynn(5) 7 (5) 662- SURROUND SOUND (214) (D) T Easterby 7 10 5

Mr W Easterby 8 (10) 754- SENNOCKIAN SONG (32) M Johnston 4 10 4

Miss E Bedford(5) 9 (3) 31L- GLASGON (55) (C&D) R Craggs 7 10 2

Miss A McCain(5) 10 (2) 59-5 MISS TREE (6) (D) J J Quinn 6 10 2.................. Mr H Hunt(3) 11 (7) L39- SWISS LAIT (12) P Holmes 6 10 0...............Miss A Waugh(3) TONGUE STRAP: Nos. 2, 7 CHEEK PIECES: Nos. 1, 3 EYE COVERS: No. 7.

W-Factor: Genres (99); Devious Spirit (98); Ralphy Lad (97).

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Hollie Doyle(5) CHEEK PIECES: Nos. 7, 9.

W-Factor: Vantage Point (99); Doctor Bartolo (95); Bowban (94).

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CROWDED OUT: Thistlecrack thrilled a huge crowd on Boxing Day but other fixtures at Kempton were poorly attended

1 (2) 29-1 OUTLAW TORN (4) (D) R C Guest 8 9 13(6ex).L Edmunds(7) 2 (13) 65L- THE BIG DAY (12) N Tinkler 4 9 5...............................A Mullen 3 (7) 258- THATSTHEWAYTODOIT (22) D Loughnane 4 9 5.....D Swift 4 (9) 748- HIGHWAY ROBBER (27) (D) W Storey 4 9 4.Hollie Doyle(5) 5 (4) 00/8-SOUTHVIEW LADY (68) S Regan 5 9 3.... Rachel Richardson(3) 6 (1) 076/ TENHOO (435) (D) R Ford 11 9 3.....................C Rodriguez(7) 7 (8) L45- FIRST OF NEVER (J40) Miss L Siddall 11 9 2............P Aspell 8 (5) 709- MOCCASIN (20) (D) G Harker 8 9 2............................ S James 9 (10) 745- LORD ROB (68) D Thompson 6 9 2............Nathan Evans(3) 10 (3) 980- PATRON OF EXPLORES (32) P Holmes 6 9 2... J P Sullivan 11 (6) 595- STANLOW (12) (D) M Mullineaux 7 9 2.........................T Eaves 12 (12) 593- TROY BOY (90) Rebecca Bastiman 7 9 2..............R Scott(5) 13 (14) L4-6 l SPIRIT OF THE VALE (4) Oliver Greenall 4 9 1.... K Stott 14 (11) 806- DON’T TELL NIK (224) Roger Fell 4 9 0.....B Sanderson(7) BLINKERS: No. 12 VISOR: Nos. 8, 11 TONGUE STRAP: Nos. 10, 13 EYE COVERS: No. 1 HOOD: No. 13.

W-F: Spirit Of The Vale (99); Highway Robber (96); Outlaw Torn (94).

SP FORECAST: 9-2 Outlaw Torn, 5 Troy Boy, 7 Stanlow, Lord Rob, 8 Moccasin, 10 First Of Never, Thatsthewaytodoit, 12 Don’t Tell Nik, 14 Others.

STAKES (PLUS 10 RACE) 3YO 3.30 CONDITIONS £7,763 (3) 1m 5yds (5) 1 (4) 1- AY AY (14)(T) D Elsworth 9 2............................Martin Harley 2 (1) 1- BRITTANIC (27) (C,T) D M Simcock 9 2......................T Eaves 3 (2) 552- MAILSHOT (16) M Johnston 9 2................................ J Fanning 4 (5) 501- l MR SCARAMANGA (25) (D,T) S Dow 9 2............J F Egan 5 (3) 262- MUMS THE WORD (26) R Fahey 8 11......................T Hamilton W-Factor: Mr Scaramanga (99); Mailshot (94); Mums The Word (92).

SP FORECAST: 2 Mr Scaramanga, 3 Mailshot, 7-2 Ay Ay, 4 Brittanic, 8 Mums The Word.

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(2) 294- MARQUEE CLUB (23) (D,T) J Osborne 9 12....... T J Murphy (3) 61L- l KILLERMONT STREET (12) (C,F) M Johnston 9 7.... J Fanning (5) 342- GOLDEN OPPORTUNITY (13) J Tate 9 6........Martin Harley (4) 267- NINETY YEARS YOUNG (14) (D,T) D Elsworth 9 2....Hollie Doyle(5) (6) 454- SKELLIG MICHAEL (77) B Haslam 8 8................ J P Sullivan (1) 50-L ELEMENTS LEGACY (6) K Burke 8 7................J Vaughan(3) BLINKERS: No. 4 CHEEK PIECES: No. 6.

W-F: Killermont Street (99); Golden Opportunity (95); Ninety Years Young (91).

SP FORECAST: 9-4 Golden Opportunity, 3 Killermont Street, Marquee Club, 5 Ninety Years Young, 8 Skellig Michael, 20 Elements Legacy.

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(2) 543- l SNUGGY (22) (D) (S) T D Barron 9 9........ L Edmunds(7) (1) 820- LOCAL ARTIST (95) J J Quinn 9 7.................................. J Hart (3) L74- AFFORDABILITY (15) D Loughnane 9 5.................. J Fanning (8) 979- LITTLE KINGDOM (47) Miss T Waggott 9 1..................D Swift (6) 679- KING OF CASTILLA (33) (D) John Murray 9 1........A Mullen (7) 53-4 ROYAL CELEBRATION (7) (F) B Smart 9 0....Nathan Evans(3) (5) 059- COOL RUN GIRL (79) I Jardine 9 0.......................P McDonald (4) 004- FLYING HOPE (119) N Tinkler 8 12.................................T Eaves TONGUE STRAP: No. 5.

W-Factor: Snuggy (99); Cool Run Girl (93); Local Artist (92).

SP FORECAST: 13-8 Snuggy, 3 Royal Celebration, 6 Affordability, 8 Cool Run Girl, 10 Local Artist, 12 Little Kingdom, 14 Flying Hope, 20 King Of Castilla.

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newcastle TRACK FACTS: GOING: Standard.

Left Handed. TOP TRACK JOCKEY (2012-17): P McDonald 10% Strike rate. TOP TRACK TRAINER (2012-17): R Fahey 13% Strike rate. FIRST TIME: 2.30 Vantage Point (cheek pieces), 4.00 Elements Legacy (cheek pieces). BEATEN FAVOURITES: 2.30 Doctor Bartolo, Vantage Point. 3.30 Mums The Word. 4.00 Golden Opportunity. DRAW: No data availiable for the All-Weather track LONGEST TRAVELLER: Temasek Star (2.00) Ireland; Mr Scaramanga (3.30) 311 miles. STABLE SWITCH: 2.30 Sugarloaf Mountain from A P O’Brien in Ireland to B Ellison. 3.00 Don’t Tell Nik from David Loughnane to Roger Fell, Tenhoo from A Berry to R Ford.

Vital statistics IN-FORM TRAINERS (last 10 days) H Palmer 80% (2 wins and 2 places from 5 runners), Kerry Lee 67% (2/4/9), R Walford 57% (2/2/7), R Fahey 55% (4/12/29), J Gask 54% (5/2/13), A King 53% (3/6/17), C Tizzard 50% (4/10/28), D McCain 50% (4/9/26), G Swinbank 50% (1/2/6), J J Quinn 50% (2/3/10), Miss R Curtis 50% (3/2/10), S Kirk 50% (1/2/6), W Haggas 50% (2/0/4).

IN-FORM JOCKEYS W Hutchinson 85% (5 wins and 6 places from 13 runners), J Sherwood 67% (3/1/6), M Godwin 67% (1/3/6), Mr James King 67% (2/2/6), D Jacob 62% (4/4/13), L Edmunds 62% (3/2/8), Mr J C Barry 60% (1/5/10), A Kirby 53% (9/10/36), J Hart 53% (3/5/15), M Harley 53% (3/6/17), G Baker 50% (6/8/28), Mr Z Baker 50% (1/1/4).

gossip from The gallopS Cotswolds: BUCKLE STREET (1.50 Hereford) Newmarket: DREAMING OF PARIS (5.15 Kempton) West: BAGS GROOVE (1.35 Taunton) North: SNUGGY (4.30 Newcastle)

hoof prints TRAINER Bryan Smart is looking forward to saddling progressive sprinter Mythmaker in the £19,000 Betway Conditions Stakes at Newcastle tomorrow.

Smart, who is based at Hambleton in North Yorkshire, said: “Mythmaker is fine. It is his first time over five furlongs, but it is a stiff five at Newcastle and it will be interesting to see how he gets on.

“I have been very pleased with his last couple of starts. He seems to be progressing and looks really well at the moment.”

Connor Beasley, on board Mythmaker for the last two starts, takes the ride again.

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favourite for the Cheltenham Gold Cup. But the King George will not be lost from the calendar.

It will be transferred to Sandown, where it was run in 1996 and 2005.

Racing is expected to continue at Kempton until at least 2021.

The sale of Kempton will fund the all-weather track on Jockey Clubowned land at The Links in Newmarket. The Jockey Club insist the course will only be redeveloped if the move will generate in excess of £100million and the proposed Newmarket course is given the green light.

Folkestone, which closed in 2012, has been developed for housing, but Hereford, which closed at the same time, is back in business.

Roger Weatherby, senior steward of the Jockey Club, said: “The Jockey Club is governed by

Kempton

Developers to put house on Kempton Royal Charter to act for the long-term good of British racing.

“One of the ways we want to live up to that is through a series of projects that offer benefits all around the country and collectively add up to us contributing more than half a billion pounds to the sport over the next decade from its grass roots to top level.”

Racing was first staged at Kempton in 1878 and has witnessed some historic moments – Arkle ran his last race there and Kauto Star notched a record five King George victories.

Clive Smith, owner of Kauto Star, said: “I never

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1 (7) L9L- ALL OR NOTHIN (237) (D) P Butler 8 9 7.. C Shepherd(3) 2 (14) 650- l LITTLE INDIAN (34) (C,D) J R Jenkins 7 9 6.....A Kirby 3 (1) 0/45-TWILIGHT ANGEL (20) Emma Owen 9 9 6.....S Donohoe 4 (3) 4-05 ERSHAAD (7) S A Harris 5 9 6......Josephine Gordon 5 (10) 880- DALNESS EXPRESS (49) J G O’Shea 4 9 6.... C McKee(5) 6 (2) 590- CUBAN QUEEN (13) (F) Miss J Feilden 4 9 5...A Beschizza 7 (11) 6LL- CAPTAIN KENDALL (62) (C,D) H Chisman 8 9 5.. S Drowne 8 (5) 8L0- LOVE IN THE DARK (113) Mrs N Evans 4 9 4..... M Godwin(5) 9 (8) 046- CLAUDE GREENWOOD (22) (D) A Carroll 7 9 4

Aled Beech(7) 10 (6) 6/L0- GYPSY RIDER (90) (D) H Tett 8 9 3.....E J Walsh(3) 11 (4) 94L- WELSH INLET (71) (C&D) J Bridger 9 9 3..W Carson 12 (13) 800- CHANDRAYAAN (34) (C&D) J Long 10 9 3..R Powell 13 (9) L80- CHESTER DEELYTE (34) (F) Mrs L Williamson 9 9 2

T Marquand 14 (12) 9/95- SIR JAMIE (90) A Carroll 4 9 2..................... J Haynes BLINKERS: No. 9 VISOR: Nos. 4, 12, 13 TONGUE STRAP: No. 4 CHEEK PIECES: Nos. 3, 7 HOOD: Nos. 3, 8.

W-Factor: Little Indian (99); Captain Kendall (93); Claude Greenwood (92).

SP FORECAST: 3 Ershaad, 6 Claude Greenwood, Little Indian, 8 Cuban Queen, Sir Jamie, 12 Dalness Express, 14 Chester Deelyte, Gypsy Rider, 16 Others.

FILLIES’ STAKES 5.15 MAIDEN £2,911 (5) 7f

thought something like this would happen but you just never know.”

Smith, who had Kauto’s ashes buried under a statue of the horse by the Kempton paddock, added: “I know housing is a big thing at the moment, as is green space and rising birth rates, and things like that.”

Apart from the King George, Kempton attracts a dismal audience for its all-weather and jumping fixtures and to keep a racecourse open for one event does not make economic sense.

Mark Tompkins, chairman of the Newmarket Trainers Federation, described the

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1 (6) 422- ALMONER (40) Tracey Collins (IRE) 5 10 0.... R P Whelan 2 (11) 8- LONDON REBEL (20) Richard Spencer 4 10 0.....A Kirby 3 (7) 4- TIBIBIT (47) H Tett 4 10 0........................E J Walsh(3) 4 (3) 936- ANGEL OF DARKNESS (48) C Hills 3 8 10

C Shepherd(3) 5 (10) 6- ARYEH (189) H Palmer 3 8 10.......Josephine Gordon 6 (2) 3- l DREAMING OF PARIS (24) (S) W Haggas 3 8 10

W Carson 7 (8) FAIENCE W Haggas 3 8 10....................Georgia Cox(5) 8 (4) FINALE H Morrison 3 8 10...................................L Keniry 9 (1) L- GIRL SQUAD (24) W Jarvis 3 8 10................D Probert 10 (5) NAMIRAH M Bell 3 8 10................................... S Donohoe 11 (9) 272- PEPITA (210) R Hannon 3 8 10..................T Marquand W-Factor: Dreaming Of Paris (99); Faience (97); Pepita (97).

SP FORECAST: 7-4 Pepita, 7-2 Almoner, 4 Dreaming Of Paris, 10 Aryeh, Namirah, 12 Angel Of Darkness, Faience, 25 Finale, 33 Others.

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1 (1) 638- RAHMAH (62) G Deacon 5 9 6.....Josephine Gordon 2 (7) 244- TEMPURAN (J98) (C) D Bridgwater 8 9 5....Rob Hornby(3) 3 (3) 700- MELABI (20)(T) R Ford 4 9 4............................G Baker 4 (13) 2LL- SPECULATOR (34) J Butler 5 9 3.....................A Kirby 5 (2) 148/ VALANTINO OYSTER (J453) A Stronge 10 9 2

Joshua Bryan(7) 6 (10) 3- WAHIBA (14) (F) M Botti 4 9 2.....................D Muscutt 7 (14) 933- l THAHAB IFRAJ (22) I Mohammed 4 9 2.... L Morris 8 (6) 644- CAMAKASI (28) A Stronge 6 9 2..............T Marquand 9 (11) 515- JERSEY BULL (24) (C) M Madgwick 5 9 1....L Keniry 10 (4) 83-L QORTAAJ (5) David Loughnane 4 9 1..........S W Kelly 11 (12) 740- TYRSAL (35) (C) C Lines 6 8 11................ A Beschizza 12 (5) 0L-8 THANE OF CAWDOR (7) (C&D) J Tuite 8 8 10...R Winston 13 (9) 07L- MARSHAL DAN TROOP (36) R Brisland 4 8 10

Georgia Cox(5) 14 (8) 091- MOOJANED (13) (D) P Evans 6 8 7.. Katherine Glenister(7) BLINKERS: No. 13 VISOR: No. 12 CHEEK PIECES: Nos. 4, 5 HOOD: No. 9.

W-Factor: Thahab Ifraj (99); Moojaned (96); Speculator (90).

SP FORECAST: 7-2 Wahiba, 4 Thahab Ifraj, 5 Moojaned, 8 Tempuran, Jersey Bull, 14 Camakasi, Speculator, Rahmah, 16 Others.

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(2) 23-L GENTLEMEN (8) (C&D) P McEntee 6 9 2.....Josephine Gordon (1) 275- l PRETEND (164) (C,D) C Appleby 6 9 2......A Kirby (5) 75L- RELATED (12) (C&D,T) P Midgley 7 9 2.Martin Lane (3) 021- SPRING LOADED (16) (C&D,F) P D’Arcy 5 9 2...S W Kelly (4) 235- GOLDEN AMBER (20) (D) D Ivory 6 8 11....R Winston VISOR: No. 3 HOOD: No. 1.

W-Factor: Pretend (99); Spring Loaded (96); Golden Amber (94).

SP FORECAST: 11-8 Pretend, 13-8 Spring Loaded, 6 Golden Amber, 10 Gentlemen, 14 Related.

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1 (9) 71-1 BORN TO FINISH (6) (D) J Gask 4 9 13(6ex).. D A Parkes(5) 2 (10) 841- MAJOR VALENTINE (32) (C&D) J G O’Shea 5 9 9

A Kirby 3 (1) 199- LAST STAR FALLING (28) (D) H Spiller 4 9 6

S Donohoe 4 (8) 320- ONLY TEN PER CENT (49) (C&D) J R Jenkins 9 9 5

A Rawlinson(3) 5 (2) 864- FLOWING CLARETS (28) (D) J Bridger 4 9 5...W Carson 6 (6) 873- NEW RICH (28) (C&D,F) Eve J-Houghton 7 9 5...J Fahy 7 (3) 887- l DIAMOND CHARLIE (15) (C,D) S Dow 9 9 4....H Crouch(3) 8 (7) 963- TRIPLE DREAM (11) (C&D) J Bradley 12 9 3.G Baker 9 (4) 678- VIRILE (14) (D) S Kirk 6 9 2..................... M Godwin(5) 10 (5) 654- OCEAN LEGEND (99) (C&D) A Carroll 12 9 0.... L Morris BLINKERS: Nos. 3, 6, 9 CHEEK PIECES: No. 1.

W-F: Diamond Charlie (99); Triple Dream (96); Born To Finish (92).

SP FORECAST: 11-4 Born To Finish, 9-2 Major Valentine, 6 Triple Dream, New Rich, 7 Ocean Legend, 10 Last Star Falling, 12 Diamond Charlie, 14 Virile, 16 Others.

introduction of a new all-weather track as “the best thing that has happened to Newmarket in a long time”.

The Jockey Club will request that the King George and a select number of Kempton’s jumps events be transferred to nearby Sandown, which will be given a major facelift.

Kempton’s other jumps fixtures could be allocated to courses around the country.

Jockey Club chief executive Simon Bazalgette said: “We know there will be some people not happy but we feel it is in the long-term interests of racing.”

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1 (1) 592- RIGOLLETO (57) (C&D) Mrs A Murphy 9 9 9.....G Baker 2 (6) LL1- l RED INVADER (149) (F) J Butler 7 9 7....L Keniry 3 (8) 5L8- JACK THE LAIRD (15) D Ivory 4 9 5............R Winston 4 (2) 01- MONSIEUR PADDY (33) A Carroll 4 9 5..... J Haynes 5 (5) 593- TANGO SKY (21) (D,T) P Midgley 8 9 5..........A Kirby 6 (10) 070- SEHAYLI (14) L Carter 4 9 4....................P Bradley(5) 7 (7) 526- COMPTON PRINCE (11) (D) J Bradley 8 9 3....L Morris 8 (4) 175- FIRESNAKE (28) (D,F) Mrs L Williamson 4 9 3

Jordan Uys(7) 9 (9) 448- FLEETING GLIMPSE (32) A Balding 4 9 1

Joshua Bryan(7) 10 (3) 8L-6 NASRI (5) (C&D) Emma Owen 11 8 8......... S Donohoe BLINKERS: Nos. 3, 7 VISOR: No. 10 TONGUE STRAP: Nos. 3, 9 CHEEK PIECES: Nos. 1, 8 HOOD: No. 9.

W-Factor: Red Invader (99); Rigolleto (96); Monsieur Paddy (96).

SP FORECAST: 7-2 Rigolleto, 5 Tango Sky, Monsieur Paddy, 6 Red Invader, 7 Fleeting Glimpse, 8 Firesnake, 10 Compton Prince, 12 Nasri, 14 Others.

1 (5) 746- HIGH BAROQUE (16)(T) R Fahey 5 11 0

Mr T Greatrex 2 (9) 254- SENNOCKIAN STAR (11) (C,F,T) M Johnston 7 10 13

Mr A R Ferguson 3 (7) 11L- ICKYMASHO (135) (C&D) J Portman 5 10 13

Mr J Harding(3) 4 (3) 13-6 l CAPE DISCOVERY (7) (D) R Hughes 5 10 13

Mr J E Perrett(5) 5 (4) 335- ALCATRAZ (35) G Baker 5 10 6

Mr M J P Kendrick(3) 6 (1) 240- GOLDEN JUBILEE (35) (C,D) N Twiston-Davies 8 10 6

Mr Z Baker 7 (6) 128- RIDE THE LIGHTNING (11) (C,D,F) Archie Watson 4 10 6

Miss Page Fuller(3) 8 (2) 656- SAFIRA MENINA (22) (C&D,F) Martin Smith 5 10 2

Mr B James(5) 9 (8) 023- TAKE TWO (42) A Hales 8 10 0............ Mr J Brace(7) TONGUE STRAP: No. 5 CHEEK PIECES: Nos. 5, 6.

W-Factor: Cape Discovery (99); Sennockian Star (95); Ride The Lightning (94).

SP FORECAST: 7-2 Take Two, 4 Sennockian Star, 5 High Baroque, 13-2 Cape Discovery, 8 Alcatraz, Safira Menina, Ickymasho, 10 Ride The Lightning, 20 Golden Jubilee.

TRACK FACTS: GOING: Standard. Right Handed. TOP TRACK JOCKEY (2012-17): A Kirby 14% Strike rate. TOP TRACK TRAINER (2012-17): C Appleby 26% Strike rate. FIRST TIME: 4.45 Twilight Angel (cheek pieces, hood), Ershaad (tongue strap), 5.45 Marshal Dan Troop (blinkers), Thane Of Cawdor (visor), 7.15 Jack The Laird (tongue strap), Fleeting Glimpse (hood, tongue strap). BEATEN FAVOURITES: 5.15 Pepita. 5.45 Tempuran(hcp hdl). 6.45 Last Star Falling(hcp). 7.15 Rigolleto(hcp). DRAW: No advantage LONGEST TRAVELLER: Almoner (5.15) Ireland; Sennockian Star (7.45) 245 miles. STABLE SWITCH: 7.15 Red Invader from P D’Arcy to J Butler.

RACING: CHELMSFORD PLAN A RACINO Hereford

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THE Scout 1.20 New Republic 1.50 Bishop Of Bling 2.20 Rayvin Black

2.50 Cadeau George 3.20 Tutchec 3.50 Lady Beaufort

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1 L8P WAZOWSKI (26) D McCain 8 12 0................ J Cowley(3) 2 2L0 COUGAR KID (12) J G O’Shea 6 11 12...... Brodie Hampson(3) 3 797 WAY OF THE WORLD (11) Sheila Lewis 6 11 11....Jordan Williams(5) 4 13P EDGAR (F10) D Bridgwater 7 11 8................J Hodson(3) 5 5P5 LITTLE ROCKY (12) M Sheppard 9 11 2.....Stan Sheppard 6 185 BRING BACK CHARLIE (33) N Twiston-Davies 7 11 2

J Bargary(3) 7 L-81 l NEW REPUBLIC (4) E Williams 6 11 2..........C Ring(3) 8 560 DAYTIME AHEAD (16) S Hodgson 6 11 1.... T Cheesman 9 PP-R PURSUITOFHAPPINESS (24) N Mulholland 9 10 10......S Corby(3) 10 P-2L JAWAHAL DU MATHAN (182) A Whitehead 9 10 1.. T Dowling(3) BLINKERS: No. 9 TONGUE STRAP: Nos. 5, 7, 9 CHEEK PIECES: Nos. 4, 5, 7.

SOFT/HEAVY WINNERS: Nos. 7.

W-Factor: New Republic (99); Wazowski (95); Pursuitofhappiness (95).

SP FORECAST: 2 New Republic, 4 Bring Back Charlie, 5 Pursuitofhappiness, 8 Edgar, Little Rocky, 12 Wazowski, 16 Way Of The World, Daytime Ahead, 20 Others.

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BANFF (F161) Mrs A Murphy 10 12.....................I Popham l BISHOP OF BLING (32) Dr R Newland 10 12....A Coleman BUCKLE STREET (22) (S) M Keighley 10 12.. A Tinkler HONGKONG ADVENTURE (11) Mrs A Murphy 10 12.....C Poste LONG CALL (31) A J Martin (IRE) 10 12.......D N Russell QUIDS IN (15) Oliver Greenall 10 12................J Greenall SILVER SEA (F80) J W Mullins 10 12....Kevin Jones(5) BOUTAN (30) B J Llewellyn 10 5..........Rob Williams(3) TONGUE STRAP: Nos. 3, 5.

W-Factor: Bishop Of Bling (99); Buckle Street (98); Quids In (93).

SP FORECAST: 5-2 Boutan, 11-4 Buckle Street, 10-3 Bishop Of Bling, 6 Quids In, Long Call, 25 Silver Sea, 33 Banff, Hongkong Adventure.

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THE Scout 1.05 Overland Flyer 1.35 Steely Addition 2.10 Red Devil Lads

2.40 SPACE ODDITY 3.10 Richmond 3.40 Tobacco Road

SCOTTISH EXPRESS: 2.40 RESOLUTION BAY (nap)

HURDLE 1.05 MAIDEN £3,249 (Class 5) 2m 7f 198yds (9 dec)

1 PP2- ALL KINGS (265) H Fry 8 11 0.............................. N Fehily 2 211- l OVERLAND FLYER (339) P Nicholls 6 11 0.S Twiston-Davies 3 436 SISSINGHURST (30) N Gifford 7 11 0............... T Cannon 4 232 STAY OUT OF COURT (21) D Pipe 6 11 0.T Scudamore 5 423 TOVIERE (43) (F) O Sherwood 6 11 0..................L Aspell 6 265 WATERLOO WARRIOR (29) C Tizzard 5 11 0....T J O’Brien 7 488 WOODFORT (21) N Twiston-Davies 5 11 0

T Humphries(7) 8 326 HOO BALLY DIVA (23) R Buckler 6 10 7............ L Heard 9 6/ WE’LL BE THERE (661) W Kittow 8 10 7...... D G Noonan(3) BLINKERS: No. 6 TONGUE STRAP: No. 2.

W-Factor: Overland Flyer (99); All Kings (96); Stay Out Of Court (95).

SP FORECAST: 5-2 Stay Out Of Court, 11-4 All Kings, 3 Overland Flyer, 5 Toviere, 14 Waterloo Warrior, 16 Others.

‘NATIONAL HUNT’ NOVICES’ HURDLE 1.35 £4,224 (4) 2m 3f 1yds (14)

1 1-14 AGAMEMMON (26) Tom Lacey 5 11 6.............R Johnson 2 2-22 BAGS GROOVE (28) (S) H Fry 6 11 6.................. N Fehily 3 313- CAPTAIN BUCK’S (279) P Nicholls 5 11 6...S Twiston-Davies 4 98F CHELTENAM DE VAIGE (10) G Smyly 5 11 6..D England 5 67-1 CHIEF BOTTLEWASHER (68) (D) A Sadik 6 11 6....Mr Alex Edwards(7) 6 0P4 CORONER’S REPORT (34) Miss R Curtis 6 11 6.... A Wedge 7 L/0-9 NORSE DA (48) Mrs H Nelmes 7 11 6... Paul O’Brien(5) 8 270 OUR MERLIN (29) R Walford 5 11 6..............James Best 9 7-F6 PRIMO BLUE (21) Noel Williams 7 11 6................J Banks 10 04-P STEALING MIX (34) N Mulholland 7 11 6.W Hutchinson 11 13 l STEELY ADDITION (29) Hugo Froud 5 11 6.D Jacob 12 05F TORHOUSEMUIR (16) Sam Thomas 6 11 6..R McLernon 13 060 TOUCH SCREEN (29) M Gillard 7 11 6....Mr T Gillard(7) 14 45L EARTH LADY (27) P Hobbs 5 10 13...............T J O’Brien TONGUE STRAP: Nos. 2, 3, 10 HOOD: Nos. 6, 12.

W-Factor: Steely Addition (99); Bags Groove (94); Earth Lady (91).

SP FORECAST: 8-13 Bags Groove, 5 Agamemmon, 11-2 Captain Buck’s, 8 Steely Addition, 20 Torhousemuir, Stealing Mix, 25 Earth Lady, 33 Chief Bottlewasher, 66 Others.

nCHELMSFORD have been granted planning permission for a casino to be included in the planned fivestorey grandstand which will create the first UK ‘Racino.’

Chelmsford City Council supported the company’s plans for the grandstand complex to include a casino.

The development will also include major new equine facilities and a new turf course on the inside of the existing all-weather surface. Work on the grandstand and turf track is expected to start in 2017.

Officials are hoping that the move to add a turf track will give Chelmsford City Racecourse a unique position in Europe, in being the first floodlit turf track.

In addition to the casino, the new facilities will include luxury accommodation, a conference centre, sports betting hall and a fitness centre.

Joe Scanlon, racecourse chairman, said: “This is fantastic news. Over the course of the last few years, the leading casinos across the world have been changing into multi-purpose complexes offering a full range of leisure facilities to complement their gambling options.” nOWNER Rich Ricci is “very hopeful” that Faugheen will make his seasonal reappearance in the BHP Insurance Irish Champion Hurdle on January 29.

The brilliant nine-year-old has only been beaten once in 12 starts

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GROUP NOVICES’ CHASE KIDWELLS LAW HANDICAP CHASE 2.20 KIDWELLS £4,159 (4) 2m 8yds (6) 3.20 £2,989 (5) 3m 1f 44yds (15) 112 GINO TRAIL (11) (D) Kerry Lee 10 11 10.... Jamie Moore 9-12 ZAMDY MAN (21) (D) Miss V Williams 8 11 4....A Coleman 5/P4- MR JIM (353) A Carroll 8 10 12........................L Edwards 420 l RAYVIN BLACK (25) (F) O Sherwood 8 10 12... T Garner(3) 2-LL SAGE MONKEY (46) Kerry Lee 8 10 12.............D Crosse 3PP- SPOILT ROTTEN (392) M Pitman 8 10 12....... A Tinkler TONGUE STRAP: No. 5 CHEEK PIECES: No. 4 HOOD: No. 6.

SOFT/HEAVY WINNERS: Nos. 1, 2, 4.

W-Factor: Rayvin Black (99); Gino Trail (95); Zamdy Man (95).

SP FORECAST: 6-4 Gino Trail, 15-8 Zamdy Man, 9-4 Rayvin Black, 33 Mr Jim, 50 Sage Monkey, Spoilt Rotten.

1 2 3 4 5 6

HURDLE 2.50 HANDICAP £3,509 (4) 3m 1f 119yds (13)

1 331 BRYDEN BOY (26) Jennie Candlish 7 12 0.....C Ring(3) 2 22P JENNYS DAY (31) Katy Price 6 11 12..............B Poste(3) 3 P-4P COURTOWN OSCAR (25)(T) P Kirby 8 11 12.... D N Russell 4 7-PL CLANCY’S CROSS (47) Kevin Frost 8 11 11....J Bargary(3) 5 P2P- UNION JACK D’YCY (364) D Faulkner 9 11 11....Mr James King(7) 6 5-34 SIR WILL (78) Kerry Lee 6 11 10................. Jamie Moore 7 P/31 l CADEAU GEORGE (16) B Pauling 8 11 7.......... D Bass 8 55-P TIMON’S TARA (56) R Dickin 8 11 2................... Doubtful 9 774 SOCKSY (56) F O’Brien 6 11 2...........................P Brennan 10 1LP CRAIGANEE (34) C Down 10 10 11................... A Coleman 11 9-84 SHOOFLY MILLY (23) J Scott 8 10 9............M Griffiths 12 401 DECKERS DELIGHT (23) (C&D) N Hawke 6 10 9....C Gethings(5) 13 852 SAHARA HAZE (23) P C Dando 8 10 4........ Mr C Orr(7) VISOR: No. 11 TONGUE: No. 10 CHEEK: Nos. 4, 12 HOOD: No. 10.

SOFT/HEAVY WINNERS: Nos. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 11, 12.

W-F: Cadeau George (99); Deckers Delight (98); Bryden Boy (97).

SP FORECAST: 4 Bryden Boy, 6 Cadeau George, Sir Will, 8 Sahara Haze, 10 Others.

TRACK FACTS: GOING: Soft. Right Handed. TOP TRACK JOCKEY (201217): A Coleman 22% Strike rate. TOP TRACK TRAINER (2012-17): N Twiston-Davies 21% Strike rate. FIRST TIME: 2.20 Sage Monkey (tongue strap), Spoilt Rotten (hood), 2.50 Shoofly Milly (visor), Deckers Delight (cheek pieces), 3.20 Tutchec (cheek pieces). BEATEN FAVOURITES: 1.50 Banff(hcp). 2.50 Jennys Day(hcp hdl), Sir Will. 3.20 Gardiners Hill(hcp ch), Kapricorne(hcp ch), Monderon(hcp ch), You Too Pet(hcp ch). LONGEST TRAVELLER: Long Call (1.50) & Minmore Oscar (3.20) Ireland; Courtown Oscar (2.50) 210 miles. STABLE SWITCH: 1.50 Banff from John Murphy in Ireland to Mrs A Murphy, Silver Sea from P Schiergen in Germany to J W Mullins. 2.20 Mr Jim from G Slade-Jones to A Carroll. 2.50 Union Jack D’ycy from Miss V Williams to D Faulkner. 3.50 Flembrandt from Harriet Thomas to S Flook, River Arrow from Mrs S Johnson to T Symonds.

1 366 WHAT A JOKE (27) Oliver Greenall 10 11 12.J Greenall 2 2U-B MONDERON (22) F O’Brien 10 11 12.................P Brennan 3 422 MONEY MAID (15) G McPherson 9 11 12...Kielan Woods 4 3P2 WELLFORTH (20) (D) Clare Ellam 13 11 9........D Crosse 5 2P-P BUS NAMED DESIRE (22) M Sheppard 9 11 4

Stan Sheppard(5) 6 2-72 YOU TOO PET (48) Mrs J Mason 9 11 3..... N Scholfield 7 7F6 MINMORE OSCAR (27) W J Martin (IRE) 9 11 3

J J Slevin(5) 8 U7-P MAGICAL MAN (30) Mrs D Hamer 10 11 0........T Whelan 9 U65 l TUTCHEC (31) H Whittington 10 10 9............... D Bass 10 LP-2 GALE FORCE OSCAR (31) T Symonds 12 10 9

B Poste(3) 11 335 GARDINERS HILL (174) D Rees 7 10 7...........P Moloney 12 LL4 TRY IT SOMETIME (30) Sheila Lewis 9 10 6.....M Quinlan 13 UL2 KAPRICORNE (16) Mrs S Leech 10 10 2

Patrick Cowley(7) 14 P2-L MUSICAL WEDGE (31) (D) Miss C Dyson 13 10 0

I Popham 15 P/PL HERR LARRY HEWIS (33) S-J Davies 9 10 0

C Hammond(7) TONGUE STRAP: Nos. 5, 7, 10, 12, 13 CHEEK PIECES: Nos. 1, 4, 5, 8, 9, 12, 13.

SOFT/HEAVY WINNERS: Nos. 4, 6, 8, 9, 12, 13, 14.

W-Factor: Tutchec (99); Money Maid (96); Gale Force Oscar (96).

SP FORECAST: 4 Money Maid, 5 Monderon, 13-2 Gale Force Oscar, 8 You Too Pet, Kapricorne, 10 Gardiners Hill, 12 Tutchec, 14 Try It Sometime, Minmore Oscar, What A Joke, 16 Others.

NOVICES’ HURDLE 3.50 MARES’ £3,574 (4) 2m 5f 163yds

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381 LAMANVER ODYSSEY (27) H Fry 5 11 6....L A McKenna(7) 5-38 ARCTIC LADY (27) T R George 6 11 0............P Brennan 27-8 DUCLOYNE LADY (7) Henry Oliver 8 11 0......T Dowling(7) P4-P FLEMBRANDT (227) S Flook 7 11 0...........C Deutsch(3) 1-76 l LADY BEAUFORT (11) Kerry Lee 6 11 0...Jamie Moore 63 LADY KARINA (27) Miss V Williams 6 11 0.L Treadwell 0-LP PEARLITA (15) H Daly 5 11 0..............................J Greenall 42- RIVER ARROW (286) T Symonds 6 11 0.......B Poste(3) TONGUE STRAP: No. 2.

SOFT/HEAVY WINNERS: Nos. 5.

W-Factor: Lady Beaufort (99); Lady Karina (98); Lamanver Odyssey (97).

SP FORECAST: 11-8 Lamanver Odyssey, 6-4 Lady Karina, 8 Arctic Lady, 12 Lady Beaufort, River Arrow, 25 Ducloyne Lady, 33 Pearlita, 66 Flembrandt.

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8

TYRES HANDICAP CHASE HUNTERS’ CHASE £1,976 (6) 2m 7f 2.10 BATHWICK £8,229 (3) 2m 7f 3yds (7) 3.10 3yds (16) 1 0-3L QUALANDO (54) P Nicholls 6 11 12... S Twiston-Davies 2 F25 TEMPESTATEFLORESCO (15) C Tizzard 9 11 11.... T J O’Brien 3 L27 l RED DEVIL LADS (15) Miss R Curtis 8 11 11.........A Wedge 4 3-12 CALETT MAD (21) (D) N Twiston-Davies 5 11 9.......D Jacob 5 P-4L ROC D’APSIS (67) T R George 8 11 8..............R Johnson 6 1L4 TINDARO (F14) P Webber 10 11 7...................R McLernon 7 12P TROIKA STEPPES (39) (D) F O’Brien 9 11 5

C Shoemark BLINKERS: No. 1 TONGUE STRAP: Nos. 2, 4, 6 CHEEK PIECES: Nos. 5, 6 HOOD: No. 3.

W-Factor: Red Devil Lads (99); Tempestatefloresco (98); Qualando (97).

SP FORECAST: 2 Calett Mad, 10-3 Qualando, 6 Tempestatefloresco, Roc D’apsis, 7 Troika Steppes, 8 Red Devil Lads, 16 Tindaro.

TYRES HANDICAP HDL 2.40 BATHWICK £6,330 (3) 2m 3f 1yds (10)

1 215 MIDNIGHT TOUR (32) A King 7 11 12.......W Hutchinson 2 1-33 SLEEP EASY (46) N Mulholland 5 11 11............... N Fehily 3 9-13 RESOLUTION BAY (54) P Hobbs 5 11 7..........R Johnson 4 521 WINNING SPARK (34) (C&D) Miss J Du Plessis 10 11 6

James Best 5 441 l SPACE ODDITY (10) (C&D) H Fry 6 11 3(7ex)

K Edgar(3) 6 1-5P BINGO D’OLIVATE (30) Noel Williams 6 11 2....T Scudamore 7 142 FORECAST (34) M Keighley 5 10 12.............C Shoemark 8 PPP KUBLAI (33) A Dunn 7 10 8............................R McLernon 9 U47 GIVE HIM TIME (30) N Gifford 6 10 7.................L Aspell 10 21 VOLPONE JELOIS (22) (C) P Nicholls 4 10 1

S Twiston-Davies TONGUE STRAP: Nos. 7, 8 CHEEK PIECES: No. 2 HOOD: Nos. 5, 6, 7.

W-Factor: Space Oddity (99); Resolution Bay (93); Volpone Jelois (93).

SP FORECAST: 3 Midnight Tour, 4 Space Oddity, 9-2 Resolution Bay, 6 Sleep Easy, 7 Volpone Jelois, 10 Winning Spark, 12 Forecast, Bingo D’olivate, 20 Others.

TRACK FACTS: GOING: Good. Right Handed. TOP TRACK JOCKEY (2012-17): S Twiston-Davies 24% Strike rate. TOP TRACK TRAINER (2012-17): P Nicholls 31% Strike rate. FIRST TIME: 1.05 Overland Flyer (tongue strap), 2.40 Kublai (tongue strap), Sleep Easy (cheek pieces), 3.10 Foynes Island (blinkers), Bound For Glory (blinkers).

BEATEN FAVOURITES: 1.35 Bags Groove, Captain Buck’s. 2.10 Calett Mad(hcp ch). 2.40 Midnight Tour(hcp hdl). 3.10 Lilbitluso, Our Chief.

LONGEST TRAVELLER: Lilbitluso (3.10) 183 miles. STABLE SWITCH: 1.05 Overland Flyer from Jack Barber to P Nicholls, We’ll Be There from Stuart Sampson to W Kittow. 1.35 Chief Bottlewasher from C Mann to A Sadik. 3.10 Ambitious Pursuit from R D L Glanville to Mrs L Glanville, Colbert Station from T M Walsh in Ireland to Jonjo O’Neill, Real Milan from Mrs Nicholas Jones to Nick J Jones, Victor Leudorum from C Mann to S Flook.

1 311 GRANDIOSO (244) S Flook 10 12 6......Mr Ed Bailey(7) 2 3L2- MON PARRAIN (283) P Nicholls 11 12 6.....Mr D Maxwell(5) 3 17-P TUGBOAT (38) (D) G Slade-Jones 9 12 6

Mr J Smith-Maxwell(7) 4 211 VICTOR LEUDORUM (146) (D) S Flook 10 12 6.....Mr Jack Andrews(7) 5 12F LILBITLUSO (31) J J O’Shea 9 12 2... Mr S Davies-Thomas(7) 6 11P OUR CHIEF (38) (D) Mrs Teresa Clark 8 12 2....Mr M McIntyre(3) 7 511 BOUND FOR GLORY (45) D Fitch-Peyton 11 12 0....Miss H Lewis(5) 8 722 AMBITIOUS PURSUIT (31) Mrs L Glanville 9 11 12

Miss P Glanville(7) 9 F-22 BAREL OF LAUGHS (31) Philip Rowley 11 11 12

Mr Alex Edwards(3) 10 637 COLBERT STATION (109) Jonjo O’Neill 13 11 12......Mr C H Davies(7) 11 2L2 FOYNES ISLAND (15) Miss L Cabble 11 11 12.....Mr D Andrews(7) 12 23-4 HAZY TOM (11) Karen Phillips-Hill 11 11 12..... Mr J Sole(3) 13 440 LORD BEN (74) D L Williams 12 11 12....Mr R Patrick(5) 14 111 REAL MILAN (31) Nick J Jones 12 11 12.....Mr J H Jones(7) 15 0U-7 l RICHMOND (259) (D) P P Turner 12 11 12...Miss L M Turner(7) 16 2-12 POPAWAY (236) Mrs P Harkin 12 11 9.....Miss Immy Robinson(7) BLINKERS: Nos. 2, 7, 11 TONGUE STRAP: Nos. 1, 2, 4, 6, 10, 16 CHEEK PIECES: Nos. 8, 9, 14.

W-Factor: Richmond (99); Barel Of Laughs (98); Foynes Island (98).

SP FORECAST: 9-4 Mon Parrain, 6 Lord Ben, 7 Colbert Station, 8 Tugboat, 10 Grandioso, Victor Leudorum, 12 Barel Of Laughs, 14 Hazy Tom, 16 Others.

HURDLE 3.40 HANDICAP £3,249 (5) 2m 104yds

RESULTS under Rules, but hasn’t been seen on a racecourse since winning last season’s renewal of the Irish Champion Hurdle.

Trainer Willie Mullins has had several small setbacks with Faugheen who has been forced to miss several engagements as a result.

However Ricci, issued a more positive bulletin in his blog for BetBright. He said: “I am very hopeful we will see Faugheen in the BHP Insurance Irish Champion Hurdle on January 29th.”

LINGFIELD: Heavy-soft in places

1.00—MISSED APPROACH (L Aspell, 13‑8 2nd fav) 1; Label Des Obeaux (10‑11 fav) 2; Have A Go Hero (20‑1) 3. 9 ran. 6l, 32l. (W Greatrex). Tote: £2.60; pl £1.10, £1.10, £3.20. exacta: £3.90. trifecta: £26.20. CSF: £4.00.

1.30—THE NIPPER (R Johnson, 8‑13 fav) 1; Phoeniciana (7‑1) 2; Naranja (4‑1 2nd fav) 3. 6 ran. 1l, 21/4l. (W Greatrex). Tote: £1.40; pl £1.40, £1.80. exacta: £5.10. trifecta: £9.60. CSF: £5.19.

Non-runners: Peggies Venture, Spanish Queen, The Golden Hour.

2.00—COOLKING (T Cannon, 13‑2) 1; Themanfrom Minella (8‑1) 2; Lord Heathfield (7‑1) 3. H’cap 8 ran. 6l, 33/4l. (C Gordon; 5-2 fav Song Saa). Tote: £7.80; pl £2.30, £2.40, £1.90. exacta: £67.10. tricast: £370.26. trifecta: £362.80. CSF: £53.20.

2.30—CRIEVEHILL (S Twiston-Davies, 6‑1) 1; Darwins Theory (14‑1) 2; Druid’s Folly (7‑4 fav) 3.

H’cap 8 ran. 21/2l, 4l. (N Twiston-Davies). Tote: £7.30; pl £2.00, £4.30, £1.20. exacta: £87.70. tricast: £205.00. trifecta: £309.00. CSF: £76.56.

3.00—ON THE ROAD (P Moloney, 9‑2) 1; Petite Power (5‑4 fav) 2; Bladoun (20‑1) 3. H’cap 10 ran. 3/4l, 29l. (E Williams). Tote: £5.40; pl £1.60, £1.10, £5.00. exacta: £13.00. tricast: £98.23. trifecta: £112.50. CSF: £10.51. Non-runners: Spartilla, Top And Drop.

3.30—BURGESS DREAM (C Deutsch, 8‑1) 1; Flugzeug (25‑1) 2; Arden Denis (2‑1 fav) 3. H’cap 14 ran. 6l, 23/4l. (Miss A N-Smith). Tote: £10.50; pl

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1 32U l TOBACCO ROAD (16) D Pipe 7 12 0..... T Scudamore 2 6L-2 CHIEF BRODY (12) Grace Harris 6 11 12..........D England 3 LP3 WALDEN PRINCE (14) (D) Mrs S Leech 10 11 12.... James Best 4 499 SHADOW BLUE (22) S D Dixon 8 11 11..... Mr B Paris-Crofts(7) 5 378 INNOKO (24) (D) A Carroll 7 11 11................N Slatter(5) 6 336 MAGNUS ROMEO (30) J Farrelly 6 11 11........B J Powell 7 074 KNOW YOUR NAME (16) (F) D McCain 6 11 10......A P Lane 8 461 GOAL (21) (D) Miss T Watkins 9 11 10...Miss Natalie Parker(7) 9 7L0 CARQALIN (12) D Pipe 5 11 8....................D G Noonan(3) 10 87L DALTON GLANCE (30) M Keighley 7 11 7....K Moore(3) 11 P-LP ALL BUT GREY (55) (C) C J Gray 11 11 2....... M G Nolan 12 5-LP SPARKLING ICE (26) Mrs L Young 6 11 1....Robert Hawker(7) 13 P1-8 PASS ON THE MANTLE (235) J S Smith 9 10 10..... M Grant 14 9/PF HOT PEPPER (23) (C) C Down 9 10 7.........C Shoemark 15 2-3L GALACTIC POWER (23) (D) R Dickin 7 10 6......C Ward(5) 16 L26 NORPHIN (16) S Hodgson 7 10 5.............J Sherwood(3) 17 L54 NO NO CARDINAL (29) M Gillard 8 10 0..........J Banks BLINKERS: No. 6 TONGUE STRAP: Nos. 3, 6, 8, 11 CHEEK PIECES: Nos. 3, 8 HOOD: Nos. 1, 5, 17.

W-F: Tobacco Road (99); Magnus Romeo (98); Walden Prince (97).

SP FORECAST: 4 Tobacco Road, 6 Goal, 7 Chief Brody, 8 Magnus Romeo, Know Your Name, 10 Galactic Power, 12 Innoko, Norphin, 14 Others.

£3.10, £4.80, £1.50. exacta: £255.50. tricast: £558.57. trifecta: £1063.60. CSF: £189.07. Nonrunners: Brown Bear, El Indio.

4.00—UP FOUR IT (Mr T Greatrex, 7‑2 2nd fav) 1; Barney From Tyanee (2‑1 fav) 2; Quarry Wizard (16‑1) 3. H’cap 11 ran. 11/2l, 3l. (M Hoad).

Tote: £4.70; pl £1.60, £1.40, £5.50. exacta: £15.30. tricast: £98.76. trifecta: £217.00. CSF: £11.15.

Non-runners: Daizy, Hit The Headlines.

Placepot: £27.20 (Race 1) 6, 4, 3; (2) 8, 5; (3) 8, 1, 2; (4) 1, 7, 4; (5) 6, 5, 2; (6) 13, 9, 11; Quadpot: £20.40

SOUTHWELL: Standard

12.15—ENGLISHWOMAN (J F Egan, 9‑4 fav) 1; Sarabi (14‑1) 2; Vroom (10‑3 2nd fav) 3. H’cap 10 ran. 21/4l, hd. (P Evans). Tote: £2.70; pl £1.70, £4.00, £1.10. exacta: £31.70. tricast: £102.94. trifecta: £130.10. CSF: £34.65.

12.45—PANCAKE DAY (Finley Marsh, 4‑1 fav) 1; Very First Blade (8‑1) 2; Kodimoor (8‑1) 3.

H’cap 14 ran. nk, 21/4l. (D C Griffiths). Tote: £4.60; pl £1.90, £2.80, £2.70. exacta: £36.10. tricast: £255.41. trifecta: £392.80. CSF: £34.18.

1.15—L’INGANNO FELICE (P McDonald, 11‑4 2nd fav) 1; Come Back King (11‑10 fav) 2; Glorious Asset (25‑1) 3. H’cap 8 ran. 7l, 8l. (I Jardine).

Tote: £3.60; pl £1.10, £1.10, £4.80. exacta: £6.50. tricast: £52.53. trifecta: £56.30. CSF: £5.98.

1.45—GRACIOUS TOM (S Donohoe, 7‑2 2nd fav) 1; Major Jumbo (8‑1) 2; Wick Powell (11‑10 fav) 3. H’cap 5 ran. 11/2l, 11/4l. (P Evans). Tote: £4.80; pl £1.90, £4.10. exacta: £30.80. trifecta: £73.60. CSF: £27.95.

2.20—MITHQAAL (A Mullen, 4‑6 fav) 1; Showboating (20‑1) 2; Vivat Rex (10‑1) 3. H’cap 8 ran. 13/4l, 23/4l. (M Appleby). Tote: £1.50; pl £1.10, £5.20, £2.30. exacta: £17.60. tricast: £82.96. trifecta: £129.90. CSF: £19.60.

2.50—WESTERN PRESENCE (T Hamilton, 3‑1 2nd fav) 1; Pulsating (13‑8 fav) 2; Jet Setter (7‑2) 3. 6 ran. 1/2l, 2l. (R Fahey). Tote: £3.30; pl £1.90, £1.10. exacta: £7.90. trifecta: £18.60. CSF: £8.36. Non-runner: Copa Beech.

3.20—BIG AMIGO (E J Walsh, 9‑4 fav) 1; Treaty Of Rome (3‑1 2nd fav) 2; Mustn’t Grumble (7‑2) 3. H’cap 12 ran. nk, nk. (D Loughnane). Tote: £3.30; pl £1.30, £1.50, £1.60. exacta: £11.50. tricast: £23.34. trifecta: £34.70. CSF: £8.43. Nonrunner: Wimboldsley.

3.50—CALL OUT LOUD (T Marquand, 10‑1) 1;

Among Angels (7‑2 fav) 2; Hold On Magnolia (12‑1) 3. H’cap 9 ran. hd, shd. (M Appleby). Tote: £13.90; pl £3.60, £1.80, £2.80. exacta: £63.00. tricast: £429.15. trifecta: £538.70. CSF: £44.03.

Jackpot: £5,000.00 Placepot: £25.20 (Race 1) 5, 9, 3; (2) 7, 11, 3; (3) 1, 3, 8; (4) 3, 5; (5) 1, 5, 3; (6) 6, 1; Quadpot: £7.80

WOLVERHAMPTON: Standard

2.10—SKY BALLERINA (R Havlin, 8‑1) 1; Seaview (5‑2 fav) 2; Geraldine (7‑1) 3. H’cap 8 ran. 11/4l, shd. (S Crisford). Tote: £10.50; pl £2.70, £1.10, £2.50. exacta: £31.50. tricast: £141.48. trifecta: £344.40. CSF: £26.56.

2.40—BEAU MISTRAL (W Carson, 16‑1) 1; Doeadeer (40‑1) 2; Coquine (13‑8 fav) 3. H’cap 8 ran. 11/2l, hd. (A Carroll). Tote: £19.40; pl £3.80, £6.30, £1.10. exacta: £451.50. tricast: £1596.72. trifecta: £2149.70. CSF: £439.04.

3.10—START SEVEN (A Kirby, 8‑1) 1; Eurato (7‑1) 2; Blue Top (33‑1) 3. H’cap 8 ran. 1/2l, 3/4l. (J Osborne; 11-4 fav Ominotago). Tote: £9.00; pl £2.70, £1.90, £5.00. exacta: £60.80. tricast: £1700.57. trifecta: £458.00. CSF: £59.04.

3.40—RIDE THE LIGHTNING (L Morris, 5‑1 jt 2nd fav) 1; Hermann (5‑1 jt 2nd fav) 2; Ravens Quest (66‑1) 3. H’cap 9 ran. nk, hd. (Archie Watson; 15-8 fav Ardamir). Tote: £4.30; pl £1.20, £2.20, £11.30. exacta: £32.30. tricast: £1446.95. trifecta: £1794.90. CSF: £29.70.

4.10—TRENDING (D A Parkes, 14‑1) 1; Captain Courageous (4‑6 fav) 2; Pour L’amour (66‑1) 3.

H’cap 8 ran. hd, 41/2l. (J Gask). Tote: £18.30; pl £2.70, £1.30, £8.00. exacta: £36.60. tricast: £675.05. trifecta: £1324.30. CSF: £24.45. Nonrunner: Heads You Win. 4.40—SHAH OF ARMAAN (T Eaves, 3‑1 2nd fav) 1; Revolutionary War (4‑11 fav) 2; Belabour (14‑1) 3. 5 ran. 21/4l, 31/4l. (K Ryan). Tote: £3.40; pl £1.50, £1.10. exacta: £6.40. trifecta: £13.50. CSF: £4.56.

5.10—GOSSIPING (S W Kelly, 5‑2 2nd fav) 1; What Usain (12‑1) 2; Scribner Creek (11‑2) 3.

H’cap 11 ran. 33/4l, 11/4l. (G L Moore; 9-4 fav Rebel State). Tote: £4.70; pl £1.80, £3.90, £2.10. exacta: £55.80. tricast: £164.82. trifecta: £251.20. CSF: £34.04. Non-runner: Leonard Thomas.

Placepot: £84.00 (Race 1) 3, 8, 6; (2) 8, 7, 5; (3) 3, 2, 6; (4) 5, 6, 8; (5) 9, 6, 5; (6) 4, 3; Quadpot: £37.10

H - Hereford K - Kempton N - Newcastle T - Taunton Affordability..................N 4.30 Agamemmon..................T 1.35 Alcatraz........................K 7.45 All But Grey...................T 3.40 All Kings........................T 1.05 All Or Nothin.................K 4.45 Almoner........................K 5.15 Ambitious Pursuit.........T 3.10 Angel Of Darkness.........K 5.15 Archibelle......................N 2.30 Arctic Lady....................H 3.50 Aryeh............................K 5.15 Ay Ay............................N 3.30 Bags Groove..................T 1.35 Banff.............................H 1.50 Barel Of Laughs.............T 3.10 Bingo D’olivate..............T 2.40 Bishop Of Bling..............H 1.50 Born To Finish...............K 6.45 Bound For Glory............T 3.10 Boutan..........................H 1.50 Bowban..........................N 2.30 Bring Back Charlie.........H 1.20 Brittanic........................N 3.30 Bryden Boy....................H 2.50 Buckle Street................H 1.50 Bus Named Desire.........H 3.20 Cadeau George..............H 2.50 Calett Mad.....................T 2.10 Camakasi.......................K 5.45 Cape Discovery.............K 7.45 Captain Buck’s..............T 1.35 Captain Kendall.............K 4.45 Carqalin.........................T 3.40 Chandrayaan.................K 4.45 Cheltenam De Vaige......T 1.35 Chester Deelyte............K 4.45 Chief Bottlewasher........T 1.35 Chief Brody...................T 3.40 Clancy’s Cross...............H 2.50 Claude Greenwood.........K 4.45 Colbert Station.............T 3.10 Compton Prince.............K 7.15 Cool Run Girl.................N 4.30 Coroner’s Report...........T 1.35 Cougar Kid.....................H 1.20 Courtown Oscar.............H 2.50 Craiganee......................H 2.50 Cuban Queen.................K 4.45 Dalness Express............K 4.45 Dalton Glance................T 3.40 Daytime Ahead..............H 1.20 Deckers Delight.............H 2.50 Devious Spirit................N 2.00 Diamond Charlie............K 6.45 Doctor Bartolo..............N 2.30 Don’t Tell Nik................N 3.00 Dreaming Of Paris.........K 5.15 Ducloyne Lady...............H 3.50 Earth Lady.....................T 1.35 Edgar.............................H 1.20 Elements Legacy...........N 4.00 Ershaad.........................K 4.45 Faience..........................K 5.15

Daily Express Wednesday January 11 2017 Silver Sea......................H 1.50 Sir Jamie.......................K 4.45 Sir Will...........................H 2.50 Sissinghurst..................T 1.05 Skellig Michael..............N 4.00 Sleep Easy.....................T 2.40 Snuggy..........................N 4.30 Socksy...........................H 2.50 Southview Lady.............N 3.00 Space Oddity.................T 2.40 Sparkling Ice.................T 3.40 Speculator.....................K 5.45 Spirit Of The Vale..........N 3.00 Spoilt Rotten.................H 2.20 Spring Loaded...............K 6.15 Stanlow.........................N 3.00 Stay Out Of Court..........T 1.05 Stealing Mix..................T 1.35 Steely Addition.............T 1.35 Sugarloaf Mountain.......N 2.30 Surround Sound.............N 2.00 Swiss Lait......................N 2.00 Take Two.......................K 7.45 Tango Sky......................K 7.15 Temasek Star................N 2.00 Tempestatefloresco......T 2.10 Tempuran......................K 5.45 Tenhoo..........................N 3.00 Thahab Ifraj...................K 5.45 Thane Of Cawdor...........K 5.45 Thatsthewaytodoit........N 3.00 The Big Day...................N 3.00 Tibibit...........................K 5.15 Timon’s Tara.................H 2.50 Tindaro..........................T 2.10 Tobacco Road................T 3.40 Torhousemuir................T 1.35 Touch Screen................ T 1.35 Toviere..........................T 1.05 Triple Dream.................K 6.45 Troika Steppes..............T 2.10 Troy Boy........................N 3.00 Try It Sometime............H 3.20 Tugboat.........................T 3.10 Tutchec.........................H 3.20 Twilight Angel...............K 4.45 Tyrsal............................K 5.45 Union Jack D’ycy...........H 2.50 Valantino Oyster...........K 5.45 Vantage Point...............N 2.30 Victor Leudorum...........T 3.10 Virile.............................K 6.45 Volpone Jelois...............T 2.40 Wahiba..........................K 5.45 Walden Prince...............T 3.40 Waterloo Warrior...........T 1.05 Way Of The World..........H 1.20 Wazowski.......................H 1.20 We’ll Be There...............T 1.05 Wellforth.......................H 3.20 Welsh Inlet....................K 4.45 What A Joke..................H 3.20 Winning Spark...............T 2.40 Woodfort.......................T 1.05 You Too Pet..................H 3.20 Zamdy Man....................H 2.20

INDEX Finale............................K 5.15 Firesnake......................K 7.15 First Of Never...............N 3.00 Fleeting Glimpse...........K 7.15 Flembrandt....................H 3.50 Flowing Clarets.............K 6.45 Flying Hope...................N 4.30 Forecast........................T 2.40 Foynes Island................T 3.10 Galactic Power..............T 3.40 Gale Force Oscar...........H 3.20 Gardiners Hill................H 3.20 Genres...........................N 2.00 Gentlemen.....................K 6.15 Gino Trail......................H 2.20 Girl Squad......................K 5.15 Give Him Time...............T 2.40 Glasgon.........................N 2.00 Goal...............................T 3.40 Golden Amber................K 6.15 Golden Jubilee..............K 7.45 Golden Opportunity.......N 4.00 Grandioso......................T 3.10 Gypsy Rider...................K 4.45 Hazy Tom......................T 3.10 Herr Larry Hewis...........H 3.20 High Baroque.................K 7.45 Highway Robber............N 3.00 Hongkong Adventure.....H 1.50 Hoo Bally Diva...............T 1.05 Hot Pepper....................T 3.40 Ickymasho.....................K 7.45 Innoko...........................T 3.40 Jack The Laird...............K 7.15 Jan Smuts.....................N 2.00 Jawahal Du Mathan.......H 1.20 Jennys Day....................H 2.50 Jersey Bull....................K 5.45 Kapricorne....................H 3.20 Killermont Street..........N 4.00 King Of Castilla.............N 4.30 Know Your Name...........T 3.40 Kublai............................T 2.40 Lady Beaufort...............H 3.50 Lady Karina...................H 3.50 Lamanver Odyssey........H 3.50 Last Star Falling............K 6.45 Lilbitluso.......................T 3.10 Little Indian..................K 4.45 Little Kingdom..............N 4.30 Little Rocky...................H 1.20 Local Artist...................N 4.30 London Rebel.................K 5.15 Long Call.......................H 1.50 Lord Ben........................T 3.10 Lord Rob........................N 3.00 Love In The Dark...........K 4.45 Magical Man..................H 3.20 Magnus Romeo..............T 3.40 Mailshot........................N 3.30 Major Valentine.............K 6.45 Marquee Club................N 4.00 Marshal Dan Troop........K 5.45 Medici Moon..................N 2.30 Melabi...........................K 5.45

Mesophere.....................N 2.30 Midnight Tour................T 2.40 Minmore Oscar..............H 3.20 Miss Tree......................N 2.00 Moccasin.......................N 3.00 Mon Parrain...................T 3.10 Monderon......................H 3.20 Money Maid...................H 3.20 Monsieur Paddy.............K 7.15 Moojaned.......................K 5.45 Mr Jim...........................H 2.20 Mr Scaramanga.............N 3.30 Mums The Word.............N 3.30 Musical Wedge...............H 3.20 Mystic Maeve................N 2.30 Namirah.........................K 5.15 Nasri.............................K 7.15 New Republic.................H 1.20 New Rich.......................K 6.45 Ninety Years Young.......N 4.00 No No Cardinal..............T 3.40 Norphin.........................T 3.40 Norse Da.......................T 1.35 Ocean Legend................K 6.45 Only Ten Per Cent.........K 6.45 Our Chief.......................T 3.10 Our Merlin.....................T 1.35 Outlaw Torn...................N 3.00 Overland Flyer...............T 1.05 Pass On The Mantle.......T 3.40 Patron of Explores........N 3.00 Pearlita.........................H 3.50 Pepita...........................K 5.15 Popaway........................T 3.10 Pretend.........................K 6.15 Primo Blue.....................T 1.35 Psychology....................N 2.30 Pursuitofhappiness.......H 1.20 Qortaaj..........................K 5.45 Qualando.......................T 2.10 Quids In.........................H 1.50 Rahmah.........................K 5.45 Rainbow Chimes............N 2.30 Ralphy Lad.....................N 2.00 Rayvin Black..................H 2.20 Real Milan......................T 3.10 Red Devil Lads...............T 2.10 Red Invader...................K 7.15 Related..........................K 6.15 Resolution Bay..............T 2.40 Richmond......................T 3.10 Ride The Lightning........K 7.45 Rigolleto.......................K 7.15 River Arrow...................H 3.50 Roc D’apsis....................T 2.10 Royal Celebration..........N 4.30 Safira Menina................K 7.45 Sage Monkey.................H 2.20 Sahara Haze..................H 2.50 Sehayli..........................K 7.15 Sennockian Song...........N 2.00 Sennockian Star............K 7.45 Shadow Blue..................T 3.40 Sherman McCoy.............N 2.00 Shoofly Milly.................H 2.50

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RUGBY UNION: ENGLAND SQUAD PROPPED UP

Marler’s ready to give Eddie a lift BRAILSFORD: Looking to future

Brailsford furious at drug chief comments CYCLING

By Christian Miles EMBATTLED Team Sky principal Sir Dave Brailsford has claimed the chairman of UK Anti-Doping (UKAD) has undermined the investigation into allegations of wrongdoing in cycling.

Brailsford was commenting publicly for the first time since being called before the parliamentary Culture, Media and Sport select committee last month.

The evidence provided by Brailsford and other leading figures in British cycling was described as “extraordinary” and “very disappointing” by UKAD chairman David Kenworthy.

“The only extraordinary thing, I think, was the chairman of UKAD’s comments when he commented about an ongoing investigation,” Brailsford said.

“For the chair to say it is an extraordinary thing – that’s the extraordinary thing in itself.

“To try to dive in halfway through and undermine that process…I don’t think most people would think that was the best way of doing it.

“I will continue to contribute into that. I’m just going to respect that process, do the right thing and then when that’s concluded we can move on.”

There have been calls for former British Cycling performance director Brailsford to step down from his role with Team Sky. But he insisted he is planning for the future. “I’ve been doing this a long time and I’ve been focusing about getting through the winter and getting to this point,” he said.

UKAD are investigating a package delivered to Team Sky and Bradley Wiggins almost six years ago. The British squad’s use of therapeutic use exemptions for Wiggins has also attracted criticism. Team Sky have denied wrongdoing and insist no antidoping violation has taken place.

MP Damian Collins, the select committee chairman, says questions remain and witnesses may be recalled. Further evidence is now likely to wait until the conclusion of the UKAD probe.

Asked about the impact on Team Sky’s integrity, Brailsford predicted that future success will show “we always have done things the right way”.

ENGLAND have been cut a break in the injury stakes at last with Joe Marler expected to be fit to face France when the Six Nations begins.

Marler pulled out of Harlequins’ game against Sale last Saturday seven minutes before kick-off with a calf problem.

But it is understood that while the colourful prop is unlikely to be involved for his club in Saturday’s Challenge Cup pool match with Edinburgh, he will be ready for the February 4 showdown at Twickenham.

If so, it will be a relief for Eddie Jones, who has lost Billy Vunipola and Chris Robshaw from his pack and will be without his firstchoice loosehead Mako Vunipola until the latter stages of the championship because of a knee injury.

Marler, who made himself unavailable for last summer’s tour to Australia, has been forced to play a waiting game from the bench behind Vunipola since his return to the squad.

But barring further complications, he should be clear to start his first Test for England since last March’s controversial appearance against Wales after which he was banned for two matches for his “gypsy boy” jibes at Samson Lee.

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SQUIRES REPORTS While Marler is a nailed-on choice to face France if fit, the battle to be his back-up is more competitive.

Wasps’ Matt Mullan and Bath’s Nathan Catt were both involved in the Brighton training camp earlier this month but there must be a temptation for Jones to reinstate Leicester tearaway Ellis Genge as an explosive bench option when he names his Six Nations squad a week on Friday.

Genge was left out of the seaside trip but the door has been left ajar for his return.

The aggressive 21-year-old, who was raised on a

tough Bristol estate, was outstanding in the Tigers’ narrow defeat by Wasps on Sunday and another big performance against Racing 92 in Paris in the Champions Cup on Saturday could force the England coach’s hand.

“I speak to Eddie quite regularly. We’ve got a weird relationship!” said Genge.

“He’s a good bloke. He gives me a bit of craic. Obviously he’s an Aussie and they’ve got a bit of chat.

He’s good and he feeds back

to me, telling me what I need to do to be in the squad.

“I’ve got a lot to work on and there are other guys around – Nathan Catt, Matt Mullan – who are in the squad ahead of me so in some sense, I suppose there is a point to prove. If I do get the opportunity, great, but Leicester is my first priority. That is what I get paid for.”

Tigers caretaker coach Aaron Mauger believes Genge is benefiting from an extended starting run with Marcos Ayerza sidelined. “Ellis has grown each week. Every game he plays, he gets better.

He’s really maturing and starting to understand his role within

the team framework,” said Mauger. “He is a very physical, powerful beast.”

Gloucester, who are chasing the signature of Leicester stand-off Owen Williams, have confirmed the recruitment of Genge’s front-row team-mate Fraser Balmain and Worcester prop Val Rapava Ruskin for next season.

Ruskin, who has represented Georgia at Under-19 level, wants to pursue his England ambitions at Kingsholm.

Yorkshire Carnegie director of rugby Bryan Redpath, 45, is to leave his job – and the sport – at the end of the season.

The former Scotland scrum-half, whose charges are on course for the Championship play-offs, will take up a post in financial services after being overlooked for a contract extension at Headingley. “This new challenge has been a massive decision 29 years on from starting my career in the Melrose first team,” he said.

“I look forward to finishing my time in the game on a high this season.”

Attack coach James Lowes will be promoted to head coach alongside a new director of rugby.

We have done everything right

POWER GAME: Leicester’s explosive Ellis Genge could be the ideal back-up to Joe Marler, inset, in the Six Nations Picture: DAVID ROGERS

Not over till race is run, Ellen tells Thomson

DAME ELLEN MacARTHUR has urged Alex Thomson to stay positive as he hunts down Vendee Globe leader Armel Le Cleac’h in the final dash to the finish line.

After more than 20,000 miles of the single-handed round-the-world race, about 100 miles separate the British skipper from his French rival having slashed his lead since rounding Cape Horn.

Both men have crossed the Equator back into the northern hemisphere

SAILING

By Tim Gow

EXCLUSIVE and have about nine days’ sailing ahead. MacArthur, left, found herself in a similar position in the 2001 edition, when she caught Michel Desjoyeaux in the Doldrums having trailed by more than 600 miles. Then disaster struck.

“I hit a container and broke my daggerboard and had 24 hours of absolute hell to get the broken one

out. I had a broken rudder as well. It was full on and I was so knackered approaching the final stages,” she said.

“Then I broke my forestay just off the north-west coast of Spain – I could have lost my mast and then it would have all been over. I couldn’t sleep because if we’d broached I would have lost the mast.

But I managed to get to the finish, 24 hours behind.

“And don’t forget Mike Golding, who lost his keel

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IN FORM: Billings reverse-sweeps on his way to a match-winning 93 as MS Dhoni looks on

The Silencer has Wolfie in sights DARTS

SAM BILLINGS steered England to victory in their one-day warm-up match against India A, then admitted he may have to step aside when the series gets under way.

Billings, fresh from a stint in the Big Bash with Sydney Sixers, showed a cool head and solid technique as he made 93 in 85 balls to guide the tourists past a challenging target of 305.

The Kent batsman was filling in at No 3, the position usually occupied by Joe Root, who has delayed his arrival after becoming a father for the first time at the weekend.

Root will be back by the time Sunday’s first one-day international takes place in Pune, star all-rounder Ben Stokes must be accommodated after being rested yesterday, and Jason Roy (62) and Alex Hales (40) made valuable scores alongside Billings. All of which leaves the 25-year-old vulnerable despite his latest eye-catching contribution.

He scored 62 as a makeshift opener in his previous ODI in Bangladesh, deputising on that occasion for the absent Hales, but appears to accept there is a pecking order to climb.

Asked if he needed a score to press his claims, Billings said: “It feels like that every time I bat.

“It’s a great thing for English cricket to have Joe Root coming back into the side and Ben Stokes – they’re two of the best in the world. It’s a strong squad and they make the team even stronger.

“You can’t really afford to be disappointed or feel sorry for yourself, it’s professional sport.

Joe Root is one of the best batsmen in the world, top three

just before the finish and he was lucky to make it back.

“So Alex must remember: it’s not over till it’s over.

Anything can happen.”

Thomson has already had his fair share of bad luck – a collision with an unknown object early in the race tore off his starboard foil, one of two which lift the hull out of the water to increase speeds – while Le Cleac’h appears to have had few technical problems.

But the weather patterns from their current position

Stand-in Sam tops the bill Sharapova eyes for England Stuttgart return FORMULA ONE

TECHNICAL head Paddy Lowe is leaving world champions Mercedes and has started a period of ‘gardening leave’.

He is set to join rivals Williams in a deal likely to ease a move the other way for Valtteri Bottas as replacement for retired world champion Nico Rosberg. Lowe, 54, who has helped Mercedes win three successive constructors’ titles, started his F1 career at former champions Williams in 1987.

He spent six years there before moving to McLaren, and joined Mercedes in 2013.

TENNIS

without a doubt. On a long tour or in tournament play, the bigger the squad the better. Every time I go out to bat I try to do the best I can and try to show people what I can do.”

Billings is certainly doing that at present, underlining his toporder potential having originally been selected as a lower-order power hitter. He also keeps wicket and is willing to do whatever it takes to play a part in England’s development in the white-ball game. “Today I was in a different role to what I’m normally accustomed to, but I just try to offer as many options as I can,” he said.

“I’m going to work as hard as I can in all aspects of my game.

If something happens to Jos Buttler I want to be the back-up keeper and I want to be the best fielder I can be

too. In Bangladesh I had the opportunity to open so I don’t really know. The great thing is it’s a really strong side from one to 11.”

England last tasted victory of any kind back in October, in the first Test against Bangladesh.

They lost the subsequent clash in Dhaka and then suffered four defeats and a draw in the Test leg of the India tour.

The local fans had crammed into the historic Brabourne Stadium to watch another home success and cheer on Mahendra Singh Dhoni, captaining an India side for probably the final time having just resigned the ODI job.

Well over 20,000 were in the stands to watch Dhoni hit 68 not out – upstaging centurion Ambati Rayudu in the process – with one enthusiastic member

New dad Root will be back for the first ODI

to the finish off Les Sables the fastest female sailor to D’Olonne on the French circle the world, knows the coast suggest Thomson will battle ahead is as much in be mostly on a starboard the mind as it is with the tack, which will limit the machine. “You pace effect of the damage. yourself,” she said. “You And when conditions have favoured him, the Hugo Boss skipper has been the fastest in the fleet with his foil tuned to provide lift in lower winds.

BRINGING IT But MacArthur, who HOME: Alex at 24 was the youngest Thomson can competitor to finish still catch the Vendee Globe and Le Cleac’h

of the crowd racing to the middle to pay homage at the veteran’s feet.

If that was a slightly surreal spectacle, it certainly made for a better atmosphere than the usual drudgery associated with warm-ups.

“It was great to have such a great crowd in for a warm-up game. As players it makes it far more realistic, far more competitive,” said Billings.

“MS Dhoni is a hero around India and a hero for world cricket. Credit to him for what a great career he has had as a captain. There’s plenty of cricket left in him as he showed here.

“But it was good to get over the line. Every game we look to win and it was against a very strong side.

“As a team it was a shame someone didn’t go on and get a big score and see it home but everybody chipped in today and we’re looking good going into the series.”

know how many miles you have got left, how much energy you’ve got left, and you take it down to the wire.

And if something goes wrong at that stage, that’s critical, because you’re already running on empty.

You are living on adrenaline. There’s nothing else left.

“You don’t want to sleep in case you miss that one opportunity, but you’ve got to sleep or you’ll fall over. You

have to take five minutes here, 10 minutes there.

It’s brutal.”

Stuart Hosford, the chief executive of Alex Thomson Racing, said: “The two of them are going to have a ding-dong to the end and it will be game on right to the finish.” ● THE Ellen MacArthur Cancer Trust helps young people between the ages of eight and 24 in their recovery from cancer. For details go to www.ellen macarthurcancertrust.org

MARIA SHARAPOVA will return to competitive action beat Argentina’s world following a 15-month No 55 Facundo Bagnis doping ban at the 6-1, 6-7, 7-6 to reach Stuttgart Grand Prix the second round of in April. the ASB Classic in The five-times Grand Auckland.

Slam champion Nick Kyrgios’s was banned controversial after testing career took positive for another turn meldonium at when he wore a ‘**** Donald last year’s Trump’ T-shirt Australian at a press Open. conference in Johanna SHARAPOVA Sydney after Konta is the beating Rafael Nadal in only seed left in the top an exhibition match. half of the Sydney The top also International draw displayed a picture of after battling to a 6-1, the US president-elect 6-3 victory over complete with devil Australian Daria horns. “It’s pretty Gavrilova. British explanatory,” he said. qualifier Brydan Klein

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1. Which West Brom player scored the goal that ended Leicester City’s 20-game, 14-month unbeaten home record in the top flight?

2. Which British cyclist won the women’s omnium at the Track World Cup in Glasgow last year?

3. Which Newcastle player scored an equaliser for Serbia in their World Cup qualifier against Wales at Cardiff City Stadium?

4. Whose drop-goal gave New Zealand a 17-16 victory over England in rugby league’s Four Nations finals?

5. Which boxer was ‘The Dark Destroyer’?

6. In cricket, is the third man on the on or the off side?

7. Which German scored the first Golden Goal RATINGS 0-3 Oh dear in a major football championship in 1996?

4-6 Small beer 8. What is former American basketball 7-9 So near player Magic Johnson’s real first name?

10 Sporting seer 9. Which US tennis player won back-to-back Australian Open men’s titles in the Nineties?

10. How many ends are usually played in a Winter Olympics curling match?

ANSWERS: 1 Matt Phillips. 2 Emily Kay. 3 Aleksandar Mitrovic. 4 Shaun Johnson. 5 Nigel Benn. 6 The off side. 7 Oliver Bierhoff. 8 Earvin.

9 Jim Courier. 10 Ten.

From Hugh Walker in Mumbai

JEFF SMITH is hoping to live up to his

By Richard Lewis nickname today and ‘silence’ Martin Adams could buy the car body for the second year in a shop repair business row at the BDO World where he worked, and Championship in a enjoy the luxury of sport which has playing darts at the changed his life. same time by being Canadian his own boss.

Smith meets Smith, 41, ‘Wolfie’ in the said: “My uncle second round owned it, I 12 months worked for him after knocking for 15 years, he was on the verge him out 3-0 in of retiring and the first round SMITH he said this is and then the perfect opportunity reaching the final, for me .” where he lost 7-1 to Smith, known at The Scott Waites.

Silencer, faces arguably But the £35,000 he the most popular man won then and £15,000 in the tournament in from making the semis three-times world the year before on his debut ensured Smith champion Adams, 60.

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The dream comes true for Cohen COHEN BRAMALL says going from non-League football and redundancy to joining Arsenal left him “gobsmacked”.

The Gunners officially announced his signing yesterday having paid a nominal fee to recruit the 20-year-old left-back – and former factory worker – from Northern Premier League club Hednesford Town after a successful trial.

Bramall, above, had failed to secure a deal following trials at both Crystal Palace and Sheffield Wednesday – and he will initially link-up with Arsenal’s under-23 squad playing in Premier League Two. Wenger said last week that Bramall, who was made redundant from his job in a Bentley car factory in Crewe a day before he learnt of the Gunners’ interest, has “similarities to a young Ashley Cole”.

Whether he can go on to emulate the sort of trophy-laden career the former England left-back enjoyed remains to be seen, but for now Bramall will be adjusting

By Graham Read to his new life as a professional footballer.

Asked how it felt to be an Arsenal player, he said: “Incredible. It’s a dream come true. I can’t believe that I’m here already.

“I went on trial at Sheffield Wednesday. I played a game at Birmingham City on a Monday, then on the Tuesday I was made redundant from Bentley Motors and on the Wednesday, Arsenal came in. I was gobsmacked and took the chance with both hands.

“I drove down on the Wednesday and trained with the first team on Thursday and Friday.

Then they offered me a deal. It still hasn’t hit me now and I don’t know when it will hit me.”

Wenger has Nacho Monreal and Kieran Gibbs as left-back options in his senior squad and the Gunners have been linked with a move for Valencia’s Jose Gaya, so Bramall may have to wait to break into the first-team picture at the Emirates.

FOOTBALL: LEAGUE CUP SEMI-FINALS

Adam better SAINTS ALIVE: Lallana strikes again for Liverpool

JURGEN KLOPP has risked antagonising Southampton fans by questioning whether Adam Lallana would have become a top player had he stayed at St Mary’s.

Lallana switched from the south coast to the Reds in a £25 million move in the summer of 2014 and has subsequently blossomed into an England regular and one of the key components of Klopp’s title-chasing side.

But the Liverpool boss suggested ahead of tonight’s EFL Cup semi-final first-leg clash between the sides that it took the move away from his comfort zone and into the increased competitive atmosphere at Anfield to realise that potential.

“I can imagine everybody at Southampton thought Adam could be the player for the next 10-15 years to build a team around,” said Klopp.

“That is often how it is but I’m really happy he decided differently, that he wanted to see something else and wanted another challenge and experience. In the first

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off in Red zone Gideon

BROOKS REPORTS year here [under Brendan Rogers] I heard that nobody was really happy about his performances and no one more than himself, from what I know of him.

“Since then he has made outstanding big steps from an already high level. That is not always expected. You cannot be sure he would have done the same at Southampton.

“Adam left the comfort zone and sometimes different circumstances help you.”

For Southampton fans – who have put up with the steady exodus of their top talent during the past decade and have been forced to accept their club never pull down the ‘for sale’ signs – Klopp’s comments could prove difficult to stomach.

Particularly given Liverpool have been one of the biggest poachers – or best repeat customers depending on your point of view – shelling out more than £90m for Dejan Lovren, Lallana, Sadio Mane

and Nathaniel Clyne in the past two summers.

Yet Klopp suggested Southampton’s supporters should still be proud of Lallana, and refrain from giving him a hard time when he steps out for his current club tonight.

“I’ve not been here long enough to know why Southampton fans react as they do but he is a boy from the region and that’s how it is,” said Klopp, when asked whether booing was a sign of respect.

“But I would hope that at some point they can be proud

again that a boy from their region is rated so highly in English football.

“Probably one day when they sit at home and think back, they will think it’s nice that he made this development.”

Lallana was spared any sort of reaction when the two sides played out a goalless draw at St Mary’s in the Premier League because he was missing from the Liverpool side.

His presence could prove key tonight, however, given Klopp is without another former Saint in Mane, who is away with Senegal on African Nations Cup duty, and Philippe Coutinho, who is likely to be on the bench following six weeks out with ankle ligament damage.

Mamadou Sakho looks set to decide his future away from Anfield in the next 48 hours, with Southampton understood to be weighing up whether to make a

firm offer for the France defender.

Sakho’s wages of £80,000 a week and a transfer valuation of £20m have put Bournemouth off but Galatasaray and Sevilla are two European clubs thought

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to still be interested. And defensive midfielder Lucas yesterday signalled his own Anfield career may be about to come to an end as he seeks more opportunity for first-team action.

The Brazilian, 30, is the longest-serving member of Liverpool’s squad but he said: “I’m not close to retiring and have many years ahead of me. You just want to play – we get paid to play – but I just try to be professional.

“At this moment I have to deal with this and try to find a solution when I have the chance.

“The best place for me to be now is Liverpool. I cannot say where it will be in one week’s time, one month’s time or four months’ time.

“I have to judge when something comes up if it is better.”

STRONG BOND: Adam Lallana and manager Jurgen Klopp

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Puel defensive over Saints tactics CLAUDE PUEL has hit back at Southampton fans who have labelled his style of play boring.

Despite leading Saints to their first League Cup semi-final in 30 years against Liverpool tonight, Puel, left, has come under fire from supporters over his negative tactics.

After scoring only 10 home Premier League goals, the south coast club are struggling to sell out the first leg at

By Alex Crook St Mary’s. Puel said: “I don’t know the reason [people say we are boring].

Since the beginning of the season we have been playing strong games.

“It is difficult to keep up performance levels when you are playing every three days, and we know we have to improve and be more clinical. We can have a lot of opportunities

and it is important to continue this work.”

Puel knows his side are underdogs tonight.

“For the moment it is difficult to speak about the final. We are playing against a strong team so it is important to consider just this game,” he said.

“It is an exciting challenge but we know we are not favourites for this game, especially as the second leg is away.

But we have nothing to

lose and just have to play at a good level, to take pleasure and to get a result.”

Saints have already frustrated Liverpool once at home this season, holding them to a 0-0 draw in November.

Puel wants his players to show more ambition this time, knowing the importance of taking a lead into the second leg at Anfield. “Last time we played a strong game against them and

had a good defensive organisation,” he said.

“It is important for this game to have a little more of the ball and to try to control the game. That is difficult against this team because of their ability to recover the ball and their strong pressing.”

Saints expect to be without Sofiane Boufal for three weeks after a knee injury ruled him out of Morocco’s African Nations Cup squad.

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Women’s Rnd 2: D Kasatkina (Rus) bt (1) A Kerber (Ger) 7-6 (7-5) 6-2, (6) J Konta (Gbr) bt D Gavrilova (Aus) 6-1 6-3, E Bouchard (Can) bt (3) D Cibulkova (Svk) 6-4 6-3, A Pavlyuchenkova (Rus) bt (5) S Kuznetsova (Rus) 7-5 6-2, (10) C Wozniacki (Den) bt Y Putintseva (Kaz) 6-0 7-5, B Zahlavova Strycova (Cze) bt (9) R Vinci (Ita) 6-2 6-3, Y Duan (Chn) bt C Vandeweghe (USA) 6-3 6-2, (2) A Radwanska (Pol) bt C McHale (USA) 7-6 (7-1) 6-1.

ATP ASB CLASSIC (Auckland, New Zealand)—Rnd 1: B Klein (Gbr) bt F Bagnis (Arg) 6-1 6-7 (6-8) 7-6 (7-3).

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Howe targets veteran Terry FROM BACK PAGE in the summer. The move would effectively end captain Terry’s trophy-laden Stamford Bridge career as he is out of contract at the end of the season.

Terry has been part of the Kings Road furniture since making his Blues debut as a 17-year-old and has gone on to win every major club honour.

But the HOWE centre-back, who has made more than 700 Chelsea appearances, has struggled for game time since manager Antonio Conte moved to a 3-5-2 formation.

Terry has played only five Premier League matches this season

FOOTBALL: LEAGUE CUP SEMI-FINALS WEMBLEY WAY: Mata nudges the ball home after 56 minutes at Old Trafford last night to break Hull’s stubborn resistance and put United firmly on the right road to yet another cup final appearance

and was sent off in Chelsea’s 4-1 win at home to Peterborough in the third round of the FA Cup on Sunday.

Terry said last season when he thought that he would not be offered a new deal that it was “not going to be a fairy tale” – and that he would play for another club instead of retiring at Chelsea.

Howe is desperate to bolster his defensive options after Chelsea terminated Ake’s loan spell six months early.

Howe said: “Losing Nathan is a big blow.”

Terry could be tempted by the way Wilshere has reinvented himself under Howe.

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STOKE chairman Peter Coates has ruled out “panic buying” as he ponders a new bid for West Brom exile Saido Berahino.

Coates says he will only be signing players who can make a long-term impact.

Former England U21 star Berahino, 23, right, has refused to sign a new contract at Albion and has not played since September.

Sagna charged for referee post BACARY SAGNA has been charged with misconduct for his “10 against 12” comment posted on social media after Manchester City’s 2-1 win over Burnley.

City were reduced to 10 men in the 32nd minute of the match on January 2 when referee Lee Mason sent off Fernandinho for a tackle on Johann Berg Gudmundsson.

The decision angered City SAGNA manager Pep Guardiola, who also felt goalkeeper Claudio Bravo had been fouled before Burnley’s goal scored

by Ben Mee. After the match, full-back Sagna

By Richard Tanner posted a remark on his Instagram account, implying Mason was biased against City.

The FA have acted because they allege it “questioned the integrity of the match official”.

Sagna has until 6pm on Friday to respond to the charge but if he pleads guilty is likely to escape with a warning and a fine.

Forward Gabriel Jesus, 19, could feature at Everton on Sunday, with paperwork issues that held up his £27m transfer from Palmeiras set to be resolved.

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CRYSTAL PALACE have named Sammy Lee as their new assistant manager.

The 57-year-old, left, is reunited with Palace boss Sam Allardyce, having worked with the former England manager at Bolton from 2005 until 2007.

Lee, who has had coaching spells with England, Liverpool and Southampton, said: “I didn’t need to take any time to think about it.”

● MIDDLESBROUGH defender Daniel Ayala will serve a three-match ban after failing in a bid to have his red card against Sheffield Wednesday overturned.

Mata fires a MARCO Silva’s efforts to upstage his more famous compatriot suffered a late blow as Hull subjected Manchester United to a night of frustration.

The Premier League’s newest managerial recruit has been described as the ‘new Jose Mourinho’ and the way he enticed a battling performance out of a depleted team bodes well for the Yorkshire club.

But Mourinho’s hopes of steering United to a ninth League Cup final were boosted late on when Marouane Fellaini headed home a scruffy second goal to give United breathing space ahead of the second leg of this semi-final.

Juan Mata earlier made the breakthrough after 55 frustrated minutes for the home side and the anticipated floodgates never opened against the top flight’s basement club. But they now go to the KCOM Stadium later this month defending a two-goal

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lead and will still start clear favourites to finish the job.

Mourinho, though, did not look happy that a ninth successive win was not more emphatic, with his team wasting a number of chances.

And Wayne Rooney will have to wait until the visit of old foes Liverpool on Sunday for the goal he needs to claim United’s scoring record to himself.

If Silva’s task is not daunting enough, he has been dealt a cruel hand when it comes to injuries.

Hull’s new boss went into the game without three injured centre-backs – Curtis Davies,

Michael Dawson and Alex Bruce – and with midfielders Tom Huddlestone and David Meyler pressed into emergency action in the back four.

To add to his problems, Ahmed Elmohamady and Dieumerci Mbokani are away preparing for the African Nations Cup while Jake Livermore was ruled out by illness. With United having most of their big guns back – apart from Zlatan Ibrahimovic, who was ill – it looked a mismatch on paper at least.

And Hull fans were clearly not in the mood to disagree. They could have had an allocation of 9,000 but brought only 1,400 over the Pennines for the club’s first appearance in the League Cup semi-finals.

When their team reached the break all-square, those who stayed away might have been having second thoughts. Only a fine second-minute save by Eldin

Jakupovic had prevented United taking an early lead. He dived to his right to keep out Mata’s shot with a strong right arm. But despite that early scare and their makeshift side, Hull pinged the ball about with some assurance in the opening stages.

That was underlined when centre-half Harry Maguire strode forward from the half-way line past several challenges to fire in a shot that forced David De Gea to save.

Hull’s injury woes increased after 19 minutes when Markus Henriksen came off worse in a shoulder-toshoulder challenge with Paul Pogba and had to be replaced by Abel Hernandez.

United gradually began to turn the screw as the half wore on. Rooney was only inches away from turning in Marcus Rashford’s scuffed shot while Henrikh Mkhitaryan and Antonio Valencia were off target ***

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NICE ONE, FELLA: Fellaini, right, celebrates with Mourinho after heading United’s second goal

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‘Money and power grab’ FROM BACK PAGE 2026 event onwards.

But the European Club Association (ECA), which represents clubs such as Manchester United, Chelsea, Bayern Munich, Barcelona and Real Madrid, has blasted the move, saying it is motivated by political not sporting intentions.

They said: “The European Club Association reiterates that it is in principle not in favour of an expanded World Cup. “We fail to see the merits to changing the current format of 32 that has proven the perfect formula from all perspectives. Also

questionable is the urgency in reaching such an important decision, with nine years to go until it becomes applicable, without the proper involvement of stakeholders.

“We understand that this decision has been taken based on political reasons rather than sporting ones and under considerable political pressure, something ECA believes is regrettable.”

New FIFA Now, a campaign group seeking change in the way the governing body operates, have claimed the plans are “a money and power grab”.

INFANTINO’S VISION FOR 48-TEAM WORLD CUP

‘No reason to celebrate’ FROM BACK PAGE

I had to do better and the fans also had to do better.

The second half there was a little improvement.”

He was also dismayed at the low-key atmosphere in the stadium and wants the fans to increase the volume against Liverpool on Sunday.

He said: “Now I think about Sunday. On Sunday I need to be better, the players have to be better and the stadium has to be better.

“There is no reason for celebrating the first goal.

We are playing a cup tie and

every goal can be crucial.

Why celebrate when you have half an hour to play?”

United will still be clear favourites but did not get the big win that would have made the second leg a formality.

And Mourinho admits the job is far from done. “I was expecting a difficult match, I was not expecting a 4-0 or 5-0 win. We are not at Wembley but the second is maybe an important goal.

“They were well-organised defensively, like I expected, but we were a bit sloppy. We complicated things.” Fellaini

ran over to hug Mourinho after his goal – his first of the season.

It was redemption for giving away the late penalty at Everton that cost United two vital Premier League points last month and prompted hostility from United fans towards him.

Mourinho said: “I think he wanted to show he knows how much I supported him in a couple of difficult moments for him. It was nice for him to score. I think he hugged me because I told him he was going to score.”

Silva bullet with efforts. It became almost shoot on sight as Pogba had a dipping 30-yard shot pushed over

by Jakupovic before Rashford sent a similar effort over the bar.

Hull came close to taking an unlikely lead after half an hour.

Robert Snodgrass’s free-kick was flicked on to the back post where Adama Diomande’s header beat De Gea but hit the post and bounced out.

Pogba had a shot saved by Jakupovic while Meyler made a vital interception to deny Rashford as United struggled to make the expected breakthrough. And Mourinho showed his dismay by trudging down the touchline back to the dressing room several minutes before the half-time whistle.

No doubt fired up by some choice words from their manager, United stepped on the gas in the second half and the Stretford End responded by improving what had been a low-key atmosphere. Rooney squandered a great chance to

score five minutes after the break when he fired wide of the far post after Pogba’s superb pass had sent him clear.

But United finally broke the stalemate when Mata scored with a close-range volley at the far post after Mkhitaryan had climbed above Meyler to head Valencia’s pass across goal.

The crowd had been chanting for Anthony Martial to come on since the start of the second half and they got their wish on the hour when he replaced Rooney and played a part in the second goal, working the ball to Matteo Darmian, who crossed for Fellaini to finish at the far post.

MAN UTD (4-2-3-1): De Gea; Valencia, Jones, Smalling, Darmian; Herrera, Pogba; Mata (Fellaini 79), Rooney (Martial 59), Mkhitaryan (Lingard 71); Rashford. Goals: Mata 56, Fellaini 87. NEXT UP: Liverpool (h), Sun PL. HULL (4-4-2): Jakupovic; Meyler, Maguire, Huddlestone, Robertson; Henriksen (Hernandez 19), Clucas, Mason, Tymon (Weir 90); Snodgrass, Diomande (Maloney 74. Booked: Maguire. NEXT UP: Bournemouth (h), Sat PL. Referee: K Friend (Leicestershire).

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Morgan rejoins Ron MORGAN SCHNEIDERLIN is to be reunited with his former manager Ronald Koeman after Everton and Manchester United agreed a £22million transfer yesterday.

The France international, right, played under the Toffees boss at Southampton but has found his first-team opportunities limited under Jose Mourinho.

Everton’s initial bid of £19m was rejected last week but they returned with extra cash after their FA Cup exit.

The deal, set to be confirmed after the midfielder has completed a medical expected today, is the second piece of business done by Koeman in the transfer

window following the £11m acquisition of teenager Ademola Lookman from Charlton.

Schneiderlin represents ready-made experience, which Everton badly need. Koeman is not finished yet and is still keen to bring in a centre half and possibly Memphis Depay from United.

Schneiderlin’s arrival could hasten the departure of Tom Cleverley, who is wanted on loan by Newcastle.

Oumar Niasse is also on his way out of Goodison after Hull agreed a loan until the end of the season with an option to make it permanent for £10m.

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HOW WILL IT WORK? The 48 teams will be divided into 16 groups of three.

From there, the top two countries will progress to a round of 32 knockout stage.

Infantino accentuated the positives, pointing out that the event will still last 32 days and the eventual winners will play a maximum of seven games, as they do now. The only difference is that one more of those matches will now be in a knockout situation.

WHERE WILL THE EXTRA COUNTRIES COME FROM? Where the 16 extra slots will be assigned was not determined, though Infantino said it will be “looked at speedily”. For the 2018 tournament in Russia, European nations will account for 13 of the 32 spots, five will come from Africa, four or five from South America and Asia, three or four from North America, while Oceania has only one place if a country from their federation wins a play-off, while one is reserved for the hosts. Infantino hinted African countries will be big benefactors. Nations in Oceania can also expect to be guaranteed a berth.

HOW WILL TEAMS PROGRESS? One of the biggest question marks surrounds how the qualification process of those slimmeddown groups will work. As Infantino admitted, in groups of three, there is a greater chance of teams finishing level on points, level on goal difference and level on goals scored.

Collusion may be an issue too, with teams possibly knowing

scenarios which could see them both progress before their final group match. Therefore a number of tie-breaking scenarios are under consideration, including nation’s world rankings, something which would be decided prior to the tournament, and the possibility of penalty shoot-outs being introduced in the group stages.

WHEN WAS THE LAST TIME THE WORLD CUP WAS REVAMPED? The World Cup has been steadily expanding since its inception in 1930 when 13 countries participated across 18 games. Only 16 qualified for the finals up until the 1982 edition in Spain, where 24 teams competed in a tournament which featured two group stages before the semi-finals.

The current format of 32 teams has been used since the 1998 tournament in France, with eight groups of four and 16 teams heading through to the knockout rounds.

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COE: I WON’T BE BACK TO TESTIFY SEBASTIAN COE has refused a summons to face the Culture, Media and Sport Select Committee again after doubt was cast over his original evidence in the Russian doping scandal.

David Bedford, left, the former race director of the London Marathon, admitted yesterday that he was “surprised and

By Christian Miles

disappointed” when Lord Coe did not read an email he sent warning of the scandal.

Bedford told the parliamentary select committee that he thought it strange that Lord Coe, now the president of the IAAF, instead forwarded the 2014

MAN UTD 2 Jose in no mood to celebrate

email and unread attachments directly to the IAAF’s Ethics Commission.

“I didn’t ask him to do that.

And I guess, like you, I find it strange that he did that,” said Bedford, 67, at a hearing into combating doping in sport.

“When I heard that he hadn’t opened them [the email’s

attachments], it’s fair to say I was very surprised and quite disappointed.”

The committee then announced that it had recalled Lord Coe to appear again before the end of the month – but he will not attend because he has “no new information”. The IAAF said: “Coe has no further

0 HULL CITY THISTLECRACK: Thrilling victory

Houses to be built on Kempton

By Richard Tanner JOSE MOURINHO blasted his lacklustre stars and a quiet Old Trafford crowd after Manchester United endured a night of League Cup frustration.

United needed a late goal from sub Marouane Fellaini to spare their blushes and give them a two-goal cushion for the second leg of their semifinal against injury-hit Hull.

Mourinho was unhappy with United’s first-half display and his players’ lengthy celebrations after Juan Mata broke the stalemate in the 55th minute – because he wanted them to get on with it.

He said: “I’m a little disappointed. In the first half the players had to do better, TURN TO PAGE 63, COLUMN 3

information he can provide to the inquiry.”

Bedford, the former 10,000m world record holder, sent Lord Coe details of how Russian marathon runner Liliya Shobukhova, who won in London in 2010, sent hundreds of thousands of dollars to senior officials at the IAAF to cover up positive doping tests.

By Chris Goulding

PUMPED: Juan Mata celebrates his opener for United in the semi-final last night

KEMPTON PARK, historic home of the King George VI Chase, is to close after 140 years of racing.

The shock announcement came from the Jockey Club yesterday. The course is being sold for a housing development.

However Newmarket, which already has two courses, is set to open a new all-weather floodlit Flat track.

The King George, traditionally the big Boxing Day race, has been staged at Kempton since 1937 and last month it was won

by Thistlecrack, now short-priced

Picture: MATTHEW ASHTON

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CHERRIES GO FOR TERRY

By Alex Crook

JOHN TERRY was last night being lined up for a move to Bournemouth that could end his 22-year stint at Chelsea.

Cherries boss Eddie Howe is considering signing Terry on loan after Chelsea recalled fellow defender Nathan Ake from his spell on the South Coast – and his ambitious bid has the backing of Bournemouth’s mega-rich Russian owner Maxim Demin.

Recruiting the former England captain, 36, would be as big a coup for Bournemouth as persuading Jack Wilshere to swap Arsenal for the Vitality Stadium TURN TO PAGE 62, COLUMN 1

Bournemouth eye loan move for veteran

BRIDGE FAREWELL? John Terry’s days look numbered at Chelsea and Eddie Howe could take advantage

FIFA flak

By Harry Talbot

FIFA are under fire yet again after their backing for an expanded 48-team World Cup sparked worldwide criticism.

It was confirmed yesterday that FIFA president Gianni Infantino’s idea to increase the number of participating nations at the finals from 32 to 48 had been approved by delegates in Zurich, with the plans set to be enforced from the TURN TO PAGE 63, COLUMN 4

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THE EXPRESS 11 JAN 2017. No 36801

NEWSPAPERS SUPPORT RECYCLING The recycled content of UK Newspapers in 2009 was 76.2%

Austria 3.50, Belgium 3, Bulgaria BGN 4.60, Canary Islands 2.40, Cyprus 2.50, Denmark 24 DKr, Finland 5.80, France 2.70, Germany 2.50, Gibraltar Gib £0.80, Greece 2.50, Italy 2.50, Luxembourg 3.00, Malta 2.20, Netherlands 3, Norway 32 Nkr, Portugal [Cont] 2.40, Spain 2.40, Switzerland SF 4.50, Turkey TL 7.50, USA $2.00 A B C D E F G H I J K L P Q R S *T U W 1 2 3 4 W B D S

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