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Hunks? Who needs
them, says Charlotte
At least he takes up less room on the sunlounger: Charlotte Church with new boyfriend Jonathan Powell in the Caribbean
O N p r ev i o u s b e a c h h o l i d a y s , By Rachel Quigley
Charlotte Church was accompanied Showbusiness Reporter
by a permatanned hunk with waxed
chest and bulging biceps. appearing topless in many routines.
By comparison, her current squeeze is However his looks were not enough to
a bit of a weed with a pasty complexion, retain the soprano star’s affections.
lots of body hair and no discernible She recently admitted she was happy
six-pack. and content with her new man, who is
But does she care? Not judging by the the same age as her, and said they get
way she kisses and cuddles Jonathan on simply because they have a lot in
Powell as they relax on a Caribbean common.
sunshine break. ‘Jonathan and I hit it off straight away,’
Miss Church, 24, became close to song- she said. ‘It’s great because we like the
writer Powell following the break-up of same stuff. He’s very intelligent and he’s
her relationship with rugby star Gavin an amazing musician. That’s where most
Henson, father of her two children. of the bond lies. A lot of the time we’re
As Strictly Come Dancing fans know, together we write songs, talk about
28-year-old Henson never misses an music. We just like the same stuff, the same
As long as he kneads me: A massage from Powell opportunity to show off his torso, films – it’s nothing ground-breaking.’ Mr Six-Pack: Henson on holiday
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POLICE could not speak out about Asian By Jaya Narain of the issues was Asian men cruising
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sex gangs for fear of appearing ‘institu- around in BMWs and Mercs trying to pick
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yesterday. near Manchester. ‘The main pressure police have is being
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superintendent, said the targeting of home secretary Jack Straw prompted light a crime trend like this.
underage and vulnerable girls had been controversy when he described some of ‘There’s a fantastic reluctance to be
going on for decades.
He added: ‘You have girls being abused
the victims as ‘easy meat’ for gangs –
often made up of Pakistani men – who
absolutely straight because some people
may take such offence’.
and raped and yet the most senior offic- trawl the streets looking for sex. The comments come just days after a
ers are refusing to comment on it. On The vulnerable girls in Rochdale – some nationwide investigation was launched
what other subject would you get that? as young as 13 – say they were forced to following a string of disturbing cases.
...%""&%"&%- ‘How many young girls have been work the streets as prostitutes and hand The two sexual predators convicted
abused and raped because of the reluc- over money to the gang. in Derby, Saddique and Liaqat – both Brit-
tance of the authorities to say exactly The nine men, eight of them Asian, were ish-born fathers of Pakistani origin –
what is happening?’ questioned by detectives after officers cruised the streets in either a Range
Mr Gradwell spoke out following a trial swooped on a number of addresses. Rover or a BMW looking for vulnerable
in Derby which resulted in Abid Saddique, The arrests took place shortly before young girls.
27, and Mohammed Liaqat, 28, being Christmas and were the result of a major The victims were ‘chatted up’ at the
jailed for a total of 19 years last week inquiry into the sexual exploitation of roadside and invited to go for drives
after targeting underage girls. teenage girls by men since 2008. in the car where they were plied with
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nine Asian men over claims they plied 14 1979 one of my first tasks was to police hotel rooms, parks or houses to be sexu-
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curbs revamped
Curfews cut – and they can use their mobiles
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# By James Slack
and James Chapman THE NEW RULES
TERROR suspects will be placed ÷ Suspects will be forced to remain in
under ‘surveillance orders’ that their homes at night under strict
) % reduce the time they spend in curfew – although this will be reduced
&%#) their homes under curfew, it from the current 16-hour limit.
emerged last night. ÷ Electronic tags to check curfew is
'
The regime – a replacement for
working and monitor suspects.
controversial control orders – will
' also allow them to use computers ÷ Greater use of surveillance by
and mobile phones vetted by the security services during the hours the
security services.
It is weaker than the current control suspects are not under curfew.
order system, which critics have likened ÷ A ban on suspects from going to
to house arrest.
As a result, the security services will locations such as open parks and thick-
have to make greater use of surveillance, walled buildings where surveillance is
requiring large numbers of officers. hard, due to tracking equipment not
But Whitehall sources insist curfews,
which can currently last for 16 hours working at full capacity.
each day, will not be scrapped alto- ÷ Suspects allowed to use mobile
gether, but will merely be reduced.
The Lib Dems, who oppose the princi- phones and the internet but only if the
ple of overnight curfews, have a mani- numbers and details are given to the
festo commitment to ditch control security services in advance.
Theresa May: Insisted on restrictions
orders altogether.
But, amid warnings from the
security services that they are location or limit the visitors to student fees debacle – was positive review from the
crucial for public safety, Home their homes. still not entirely satisfied with former director of public pros-
Secretary Theresa May has However, officials want the every detail. ecutions, which would help
security services still to have Shadow Home Secretary Ed
insisted major restrictions him sell the results to his agi-
must remain in place. the power to tag suspects Balls said: ‘It is deeply regret- tated backbenchers.
According to Whitehall leaks, simply so they can keep tabs table that the future of control In a linked move, the Govern-
these will include a ban on on them. The retention of tag- orders has become first and ment is drawing up anti-terror
suspects travelling to loca- ging and curfews is certain to foremost about a political laws that could be rushed
tions such as open parks and infuriate civil liberties groups negotiation or a “deal” as Nick through Parliament after a
thick-walled buildings where
surveillance is hard. They will
be also banned from travelling
and backbench Liberal MPs.
Ministers
wrangling
have
over
spent
how to
months
replace
Clegg described it last week,
to keep the Coalition together
rather than exclusively about
major terrorist incident.
Whitehall sources said the
draft legislation would give
abroad. control orders, which are cur- what is in the national
rently imposed on eight terror interest.’ the police and the security
The alleged fanatics will be services effectively the same
*
allowed use mobile phones suspects, including one Al Downing Street said the
Qaeda operative. Cabinet had given its ‘broad powers they have under exist-
and the internet – but only if ing control orders.
## ') # '& the numbers and details are Last night, there remained agreement’ to the changes
huge tensions within the Coa- that will be made. The so-called Terrorism Pre-
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(% # One working title for the new lition after a Cabinet meeting But Lib Dem peer Lord Mac-
was yesterday unable to strike donald, who is required to before parliament if the heads
restrictions are ‘surveillance
orders’. a final deal. publish an assessment of the of the three intelligence agen-
The security services would Insiders said Deputy Prime proposals, is yet to pass his cies and the Home Secretary
lose the power to force sus- Minister Nick Clegg – under verdict on whether they are agreed there was a national
pects to live in a particular huge pressure to produce a ‘civil libertarian’ enough. emergency.
‘victory’ for his party after the Mr Clegg is desperate for a j.slack@dailymail.co.uk
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Bananaman
to sign for
Sunderland!
After his leadership defeat, a new
position for ex Foreign Secretary
EXCLUSIVE
By Miles Goslett and
Michael Seamark
SINCE his younger brother tram-
pled all over him to win the Labour
Party leadership, speculation has
been rife as to what David Miliband
would do next.
What no one could have predicted was
that a man seen as the ultimate politi-
cal geek would take up a job at a foot-
ball club.
But the Daily Mail can reveal that the
former Foreign Secretary is set to become
vice-chairman of Premier League side Sun-
derland, at a reputed salary of £50,000 a
year. The MP, who quit frontline politics
after losing the leadership election to his
brother Ed last year, is expected to take up
his boardroom seat shortly.
What the red and white-shirted Sunder-
land fans will think of the extraordinary
appointment of a man who famously waved
a banana in front of TV cameras during a
botched leadership coup in 2008 remains to
be seen.
Although Mr Miliband’s South Shields
constituency is home to many of the club’s
supporters, the 45-year-old MP is a lifelong
Arsenal fan, having been brought up in
North London apart from a brief family Safe hands: As a boy goalkeeper (circled) How ‘bananaman’ might look in a Sunderland shirt (thanks to computer trickery)
move to Leeds.
His new job may also come as a shock to limited company called The Office of David TV after approaching the BBC with
those who consider him more at home in Miliband Limited. several programme ideas. All would
the elegant surroundings of the Palace of Registered with Companies House shortly involve him taking a role on screen.
Westminster than among the rough and before Christmas, it lists Mr and Mrs Mili- News of the Sunderland job came
tumble of the football terraces. band as sole directors and mirrors similar after reports that he is about to become
Mr Miliband is expected to work at the moves by the MP’s mentor and former a volunteer politics teacher at his old
Stadium of Light, Sunderland’s home, ‘boss’ Tony Blair – who once referred to school in North London. He is likely to
alongside chairman Niall Quinn, who is David Miliband as the ‘Wayne Rooney’ of teach for about 12 hours a week at
understood to have approached him in the his Cabinet. Haverstock School, in Chalk Farm.
wake of his shock leadership defeat. The former Prime Minister, a supporter of Mr Miliband, who has turned out for
The high-profile appointment to the board the all-party parliamentary football
would see the two men working in tandem side, had an up-and-down earlier foot-
as the public voice of Sunderland, with the
club benefiting from Mr Miliband’s political
Considering a ball career. As a member of the under-
11 side at Horsforth Newlaithes Junior
status and experience in the UK and around role in TV School in Leeds, former team mates
the globe. described him as the ‘best goalie at
Mr Miliband’s salary will hardly make a the school’. But his football career
dent in the fortune of Sunderland’s owner, Sunderland’s rivals Newcastle United, has nosedived when he let in seven goals a
Texan billionaire and hedge fund tycoon made at least £20million since leaving year later for nearby Benton Park
Ellis Short. Downing Street. He set up a complex web comprehensive.
The politician met the Sunderland board of companies through which money from Mr Miliband’s move into football will
last week to finalise the deal, which is a fur- his controversial private work, including be a blow to his brother, who has
ther sign that the man once tipped for the six-figure speaking fees and pay from advis- repeatedly said he wants him to return
top in politics has turned his back on his ing Middle East and African regimes, is to Labour’s top team.
brother and is cashing in on his political believed to be channelled. But the Sunderland job signals that
name to supplement his £65,738-a-year Last month it emerged that Mr Miliband he has no intention of working for his
MP’s salary. was paid £25,000 to give a speech on rela- brother. And just to rub it in, Ed is a
The Sunderland appointment, which Mr tions between the West and the Muslim supporter of Leeds United, the team
Miliband has accepted in principle but world at a conference held at a ‘luxurious Sunderland beat against all odds at
needs to be cleared by parliamentary oasis’ resort in the Middle East. Wembley in 1973 to record their only
watchdogs, coincides with news that he He apparently rejected the chance to FA Cup win – indeed their only major
and his wife Louise, an American concert become British ambassador in Washington trophy – since the war.
violinist, have recently set up a private and last weekend was considering a role in Hunt for new left winger – Back page
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Camilla seething’
They were undercover investi-
gators engaged in a £4,000 initia-
tive by a group of cash-strapped
local organisations to check that
pubs were serving alcohol
responsibly.
Details emerged yesterday in
papers documenting the opera-
By Fay Schlesinger tion, which was organised by
Conwy and Denbighshire Com-
munity Safety Partnership.
PRINCE Charles flirted with an The three ‘professional wit-
exotic supermodel before asking her nesses’, two men and a woman,
to perform a ‘private catwalk show’ were hired from a private surveil-
lance company to play the fake
for him, she has claimed. drunks.
Mozambique-born Tasha de Vasconce- The trio worked for nine nights
los alleges that the Prince propositioned from 8pm to 3am over three
her under the nose of Camilla Parker weekends, costing a total of
Bowles at an exclusive party. £4,200, Roly Schwarz, the com-
In an autobiography to be published this munity safety enforcement man-
week, the 42-year-old model and actress ager for Conwy and Denbighshire,
claims to have shared a series of amorous confirmed last night.
exchanges with Charles, now 62. Their ‘tactics’ to maintain their
She said they began with a ‘clumsy’ chat- cover included ‘telling person
up line and ‘seductive smile’ from the heir to serving them they were drunk’,
the throne in 1999, but soon accelerated.
The model said he approached her again at
a soiree in Syon House, the Duke of North- ‘Dishevelled and
umberland’s West London home.
In claims that seem far-fetched, and stained clothing’
language reminiscent of a Mills and Boon
novel, Miss de Vasconcelos claims: ‘During Prince Charming: Charles was ‘seductive’
the evening, I saw his eyes ‘slurred speech’, ‘being dressed in
glance over my necklace, which that he was still interested in English starring Rowan Atkin- dishevelled and stained clothing’
lit up my face, and to the more what was inside it. Camilla son – was living in London. and ‘falling over’, the report
intimate attractions of the didn’t utter a single word to says.
Miss de Vasconcelos and
curves beneath my Versace me for the whole night.’ The Community Safety Partner-
dress. The Prince had become Charles met several times and
She met Charles for the first ship – which is comprised of
a man. “You are magnificent,” she was invited to Clarence Conwy Council, Denbighshire
time at a polo match in Chel- House and to a private palace
he dared to utter. “Would you tenham, Gloucestershire, in Council, the police, the police
ever consider a private catwalk lunch with Charles, she said in authority, the fire service and the
1999, after being introduced by her book, Beauty As A Weapon.
show... just for me?”’ publicist Aurelia Stephenson, health authority, and is funded by
The model said she turned She added: ‘Every time our the Government – said ‘Opera-
then Prince Andrew’s girlfriend. paths crossed, the Prince
down the request as she was tion Drunkenness’ was an impor-
Charles was said to be mesmer- always stepped away from the tant part of its battle against
‘disconcerted by all the other
ised by the half-Portuguese’s hangers-on around him to alcohol-related crime and anti-
diamond-encrusted women
listening in around us’ and come over and have a little chat social behaviour.
‘had read that the great love of ‘He was my with me. Discreet. Charming.
But always a charmer. I must
The councils are facing having
his life was called Camilla’. to make huge cuts on school
Camilla – who was to marry kind of man’ say he was my kind of man. budgets, rubbish collections and
the prince five years later, ‘A real gentleman, elegant lollipop ladies as they try to make
becoming the Duchess of and seductive. This man savings of up to £21million follow-
beauty, but managed only a pleased me, and his male ing the Government’s spending
Cornwall – is said to have seen ‘seductive smile’ as he told her
red over the pair’s rapport. instincts could detect that.’ review.
she reminded him of an Aus- During that time, she also Nobody was fined as a result of
When the Prince encountered
Miss de Vasconcelos at a Mac- tralian friend called Kanga. claims to have put the outspo- the operation, with those found
millan cancer charity dinner That friend was socialite ken Duke of York in his place serving drunks given the training
with Camilla, he made a point Lady Kanga Tryon – the after he rudely asked in front to improve their ways instead.
of praising her dress – made by Prince’s lover in the 1970s, who of other guests whether she M a r t i n C a f f r e y, o p e r a t i o n s
Princess Diana’s favourite died shortly after Princess was a virgin, replying: ‘A real
Series of director of the Federation of
designer Catherine Walker. Diana in 1997. gentleman never asks that encounters: Licensed Victuallers Associations,
The model said: ‘Charles came The exchanges allegedly kind of question.’ Tasha de which represents self-employed
up to me anyway to tell me how came in 1999 and 2000 when A Clarence House spokesman licensees, said the partnership
beautiful my dress was. A way the model – who appeared in said: ‘We never comment on
Vasconcelos was ‘using a sledgehammer to
of reminding me, I suppose, the spoof spy movie Johnny private conversations.’ crack a nut’.
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It’s time
for bonu
By Becky Barrow
and Tim Shipman
Quentin
from the Chancellor yesterday
after he said City fat cats
should stop apologising for
Letts
paying themselves multi-mil-
lion-pound bonuses.
Barclays boss Bob Diamond, who
is expected to receive an £8million
bonus this year, sparked fury in
Parliament by claiming that the on Barclays chief’s grilling
time for saying sorry about sky-
high payouts should end.
O
NLY two MPs caused
The American – once described by
Lord Mandelson as the ‘unacceptable
‘Bonus Bob’ much diffi-
face of banking’ – said: ‘There was a culty yesterday. David
period of remorse and apology for banks. Ruffley and John Mann
I think that period needs to be over.’ did it by staring at him
Following Mr Diamond’s appearance with insistent eyeballs,
before the Treasury Select Commit- burning into him with wild, theatri-
tee, George Osborne demanded that cal contempt.
he show some humility and reduce his In short, they circumvented nor-
payout. Challenged in the Commons mal codes of Western discourse. It’s
about how much the Barclays chief
executive should be paid in bonus for the only way.
2010, the Chancellor replied: ‘Less Big bankers such as Mr Diamond
than he was paid in 2009.’ know how to bat away formal ques-
That year, Mr Diamond received a tions from reasonable eggheads.
salary of about £8million but waived It’s what they do. They win discus-
any bonus. In 2010 his basic salary sions. Clinch deals. Bluff. But shouty
was just £250,000 and the rest of his loners, interrupters whose con-
income will be paid in bonus. City tempt drips from leering lips: such
sources say he is due between £8mil-
lion and £9million – meaning he could people they seldom encounter.
lose more than £1million if the Chan- They fuse the inner workings of a
cellor receives his wish. Bob Diamond brain. To drill into Dia-
Facing the committee, he appeared mond geezers you need to psych
oblivious to the growing public fury at yourself up and risk some anger.
the scale of bank bonuses, due to hit I was standing by the door when
£7billion this year. MPs repeatedly Mr Diamond, one of the highest-
warned Mr Diamond, who this year paid players in world banking,
enjoys a ‘basic’ salary of £1.35million,
arrived for his session with the
Treasury Select Committee. Short-
‘Tears down ish fellow, weak chin, poor com-
plexion. Wears his hair with maybe
my cheeks’ a hint of henna.
He gave my shoulder a comradely
that ordinary people are suffering, squeeze. Lord knows why. Never
particularly a public-sector workforce having met the man, I wondered if
which is facing job cuts. he was patting me in sympathy. Mrs
One member of the Treasury Select Letts has an account at Barclays,
Committee, Labour MP George you see. They send us statements
Mudie, warned: ‘There is going to be from time to time. Memsahib tends
hell on the streets.’ to eat them the moment they drop
Mr Diamond said the bank, which through the door.
will pay its bonuses in March, will Mr Diamond sat at the witness
show ‘as much restraint as is possi-
ble’, but refused to bow to pressure to table with only one sidekick. This
axe, or dramatically curb, bonus pay- chap was called Anthony and had a
ments. Last year, the bank paid wan, waxy manner. He said little.
£2.7billion in bonuses, mostly to its It was Bonus Bob the politicians
investment banking staff, with branch were after. Westminster is in full
staff receiving an average of only ‘bash the bankers’ mode. Dema-
£1,000 or so. goguery meets globalisation. First
Mr Diamond made a desperate to have a go yesterday was com-
attempt to persuade the MPs that he mittee chairman Andrew Tyrie
understands the plight of the ordinary
man. He described his modest
(Con, Chichester), who gave an
upbringing in ‘a small town in Massa- uncharacteristic smirk as he
chusetts’, the eldest son of nine chil- noticed the large number of spec-
dren. His great-great grandparents tators filing into the room. He noted
were Irish immigrants. that there were plenty of empty
His parents, who both taught at the seats at the witness table ‘but I
local school, were hard-up and Mr somehow think there won’t be
Diamond said he learned that he
would get nothing unless he paid for it
himself.
He told the committee: ‘I learned at waived his bonus in both 2008 and
a very early age, earlier than I would 2009, but said the decision about his
like to admit, that if I wanted a new 2010 bonus would be made with his
shirt or a football or a bicycle that I’m family, as it was last year. He is mar-
going to have to pay for it myself.’ ried with three children.
The comments from the banker, who Asked whether he had ever been
made £21million in 2007, including a asked by the Prime Minister or the
£6.5million cash bonus, provoked Chancellor to show ‘restraint’ about
laughter from MPs. Mr Mudie said his own personal bonus, he said he
jokingly that he had ‘tears coming had not.
down my cheeks’, and said he could Despite repeated attempts to make
hear ‘the bloody bagpipes going’. Mr Diamond express gratitude to
The banker said he is ‘sensitive’ to British taxpayers, he refused, saying
the mood about bonuses, adding: ‘We simply he is ‘thankful for everyone’
are listening’. The size of Barclays’s but named only central banks and the
‘bonus pool’ will be decided in the Government.
next few weeks, he said. Mr Diamond Comment – Page 14
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M
from TV’s The Waltons. The room of Barclays, are you?’ Very Ameri- negotiations with the banks right Mr Osborne sought to shift some
quickly made clear that such R DIAMOND kept cool, can. It won him a laugh. now. We are in negotiations with of the blame to Labour, revealing
schmaltz was de trop. tempted though he He and his image benders may them on their remuneration, par- that the deal it signed with state-
Mr Ruffley (Con, Bury St Edmunds) may have been to have left the meeting pleased. But ticularly the bosses of the state- owned bank RBS to waive bonuses
livened things up by rocking in his explode. The anger the greed of a few overpaid bank- owned banks.’ in 2009 allowed it to pay the mar-
Lord Oakeshott, a Liberal Dem- ket rate in 2010.
chair and becoming near-violent. management training paid off but ers will only increase the desire of In the Commons, Lib Dem MP
He demanded that Barclays lend it was a close-run thing. George Osborne (who later ocrat Treasury spokesman, said
there was ‘not much sign’ that Jo Swinson said: ‘The Chancellor
more to small business. He wanted Ditto when Mr Mann (Lab, Bas- appeared at the Commons des- must understand the level of pub-
Downing Street and the Treasury
to know if Mr Diamond was grate- setlaw) approached the oche and patch box) to increase competi- were mindful of clear commit- lic anger about huge bank bonuses
ful to British taxpayers for the started to recite alleged historic tion in high street banking. Bar- ments in the coalition agreement and recognise that obscene
advantages their support gives the misdemeanours by Barclays (eg its clays shareholders, watch out. on bankers’ bonuses. rewards for short-term gain with-
He insisted no bonuses at all out regard for the long-term con-
should be paid at the Royal Bank of sequences were part of the prob-
Scotland, which is 84 per cent lem that caused the banking
collapse in the first place.
TAXPAYER’S BANKS FINED FOR FAILING CUSTOMERS owned by the taxpayer. Its boss
Stephen Hester is in line for a bonus
of around £2million in shares.
‘Surely it’s to avoid a repeat of
that that bank bonuses must be
The Chancellor was summoned constrained.’
THE RBS and NatWest banking group, which was saved inquiry related to the way complaints were dealt Shadow Chancellor Alan John-
from oblivion by the taxpayer, has been fined £2.8mil- with in 2009, although its figures show problems con- to the Commons yesterday to
answer an urgent question on the son accused Mr Osborne of break-
lion for failing its customers. tinued last year. ing a promise in the first page of
Thousands of legitimate complaints were ignored NatWest generated 84,300 customer complaints in bonus crackdown.
He said the Government would last May’s coalition agreement to
or effectively treated with contempt, in some cases the first half of last year, which were subsequently be prepared to raise the levy on bring forward ‘robust’ legislation
creating real hardship. Some customers are thought referred to the Financial Ombudsman. Some 66 per banks – likely to cost them to tackle unacceptable bonuses.
to have suffered massive financial loss or even the cent of home loan complaints were upheld, along £1.25billion this year and £2.3bil- And he said it was wrong for stu-
threat of losing their home after being given bad with 46 per cent on insurance policies and 23 per lion next year – unless they agree dents and children to may more to
advice or sold rip-off products. cent on general banking. a plan to help taxpayers. plug the deficit than bankers.
The fine was imposed by the City watchdog, the Royal Bank of Scotland generated 38,100 customer Mr Osborne also mentioned a ‘The Chancellor who said we are
Financial Services Authority, which is investigating complaints in the same period. An overwhelming 71 possible financial transaction tax all in this together bows down to
on the banks if they do not sign the rich and powerful whilst bear-
other high street banks for similar offences. Its per cent of mortgage complaints were upheld. ing down on everyone else.’
the deal, although this would
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avoided every
claim.
In tests, experts discovered that
the animals tend to face north east
when jumping on prey, no matter
their location or the time of day.
Researchers believe the foxes
may use the magnetic fields as a
CCTV camera
‘range finder’, combined with their
acute hearing, to measure dis-
tance to the prey.
The discovery means foxes join
migratory animals such as pigeons,
turtles and whales in being able to
sense the points of the compass.
Professor Hynek Burda, of the
By Ryan Kisiel, Luke Salkeld University of Duisburg-Essen in
and Arthur Martin $
Germany, studied the behaviour of
84 wild red foxes at 65 locations
JOANNA Yeates’s killer could have across the Czech Republic.
driven from her flat to the roadside ! Over two years the researchers
where her body was found without recorded 592 hunting jumps at
being recorded on a single CCTV different times of day and in vary-
camera, it emerged yesterday. ing weather conditions.
Foxes preferred to face the
Police are understood to have concen- !
trated on more than 100 hours of foot- north-east before jumping and
age taken from the most direct route leaps in that direction tended to
between the landscape architect’s home be more successful, they report in
and the lane where she was dumped,
! the Royal Society journal Biology
which is over the Clifton Suspension !" " Letters.
Bridge. The study said it ‘cannot be
" explained by an effect of light cue...
But a second route between the two loca-
tions, which adds only a few minutes to the Victim: Joanna’s killer may have avoided Nor was this clustering a response
journey time, is almost free of cameras. CCTV cameras when dumping her body to wind direction’.
The alternative course, through Clifton
Village, Clifton Wood and Hotwells and
over the Avon Bridge towards the outskirts #
of Bristol, is used by residents
familiar with the winding streets of this
affluent part of the city.
It has the added bonus of avoiding the
50p toll on the suspension bridge, cameras on the Avon Bridge, but
A HIGH-LEVEL review of the
which is paid by motorists trav-
elling in both directions.
Surprisingly, any motorist or
÷ Jo Yeates murder inquiry
could be ordered within days.
there aren’t and some that cover
it are very poor quality.’
The revelation of a camera-free
pedestrian making the four-mile Avon and Somerset Police route between Canynge Road
have arrested only one man, and Longwood Lane in Failand,
‘There are routes whom they later released on comes after police played down
bail, leading to some question- reports that the lights on the
with no CCTV’ ing their progress in the high- suspension bridge blurred some
profile case. of its CCTV footage at night.
downhill journey past rows of And if the situation continues Around 20 per cent of its cam-
Georgian townhouses would f o r a n o t h e r 1 1 d ays , a eras are unable to clearly read
encounter only a single camera ‘28-day review’ will be held by licence plate numbers, but there
positioned high on a lamp post – a senior investigating officer are traffic-light CCTV stands at
which does not even record either from within the force, or the Ashton Court and Beggar
footage and is simply used to from outside it. Bush Lane junctions across the
monitor traffic flow. bridge that the killer or killers
It has also been suggested that must have driven past if they
because of the side of the road the 25-year-old’s killer on film. A crossed the bridge.
on which Miss Yeates’s body was police source said yesterday: ‘We Yesterday the building where
found on Longwood Lane, the believe that the killer would have Miss Yeates lived with her boy-
killer is likely to have arrived most likely gone over the friend Greg Reardon in Canynge
from the southerly direction of suspension bridge where there Road was again the subject of
the second route. are lots of cameras. intense forensic examination.
There are fears that detectives ‘However, if they didn’t, there The visit by six forensic officers
searching through CCTV footage are routes through Clifton Wood followed reports of a piece of
from the suspension bridge, a that are residential and don’t crucial new evidence handed to
notorious suicide spot with many h a v e a n y C C T V. E v e r y o n e police.
cameras on it, might never find thought there would be traffic r.kisiel@dailymail.co.uk
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but Obama is
Whitehall by suggest-
BOB Diamond, the chief executive of
Barclays, may not be a bad man, but he is
ing that France, not
the embodiment of everything that the Britain, is the United States’
rest of the world finds infuriating about most important ally. ‘We don’t
bankers. He is extremely rich and have a stronger friend and
becoming richer; untroubled by self doubt, stronger ally than Nicolas
Sarkozy and the French
right. There
and unapologetic about banking pay.
Mr Diamond’s appearance before MPs people,’ he told the French
yesterday was a reminder that in the President on Monday.
battle between banks and the government Not America’s best buddy? The best
over bonuses, greed has triumphed. brains in the Foreign Office will be
There will be no further controls on trying to persuade themselves Mr
Obama did not really mean it. They
banking bonuses, because, as Mr Diamond will say he was only trying to be nice
explained, he has to pay the market rate.
is no special
to Mr Sarkozy during the French
Ignoring those who argue that many President’s visit to Washington.
bankers are able to make these huge sums But what if he really meant what he
only because their businesses are said? During visits to the U.S. by
underwritten by the state, Mr Diamond Gordon Brown and David Cameron,
refused to thank taxpayers. He told MPs Mr Obama has had every opportu-
nity to say Britain was America’s
that the time for apologies was over. For strongest ally, but did not take it.
most bankers, of course, it never began. Indeed, he seemed to go out of his
relationship,
In fairness, Barclays, unlike the hapless way to snub Mr Brown by refusing to
RBS and Lloyds, didn’t have to be directly meet him.
bailed out by the government. And, There are other bits of evidence that
together with the other big banks, from this Mr Obama does not cherish the
year Barclays will pay a levy that will raise ‘special relationship’ so dear to the
hearts of policymakers in Whitehall.
an extra £2.5billion annually in taxation. As soon as he entered the Oval Office,
But that doesn’t amount to much when he removed the bust of Winston
we accept it
reckless risk-taking by bank employees of of Mexico oil spill last year, the Ameri-
the kind that led directly to the recession. can President was keen to emphasise
All these dodgy compromises have left the British provenance of BP, the chief
the Coalition in disarray. The Liberals are perpetrator, and to make it pay.
Despite what the Foreign Office
furious that Downing Street has ‘waved Johnnies may argue to themselves,
the white flag’, and Nick Clegg is worried there is enough evidence to suggest
that the row will further depress his party’s that Britain is not greatly valued by
vote in Thursday’s crucial by-election.
the better
Mr Obama. And although there might
George Osborne has been stung into be personal reasons for this — the
promising that if lending targets aren’t American President claims his grand-
met, then ‘nothing is off the table’. father was tortured by the British
during the Mau Mau rebellion in
But for the moment, the only certainty Kenya — I would suggest his stand-
is that unless the world restrains Mr point is shared by more American
Diamond’s bonus culture, another politicians than we might care to
catastrophic banking crisis is inevitable. admit.
For most of the time we are
Stable door left open regarded with indifference: an
ally at once so loyal, depend-
able and uncritical that we can
the former British Ambassador
to the United States, Sir
WHEN David Cameron entered Downing
Street, many believed it heralded a more
realistic relationship with Brussels.
be taken for granted. The
special relationship, about
which our politicians obsess, is
scarcely ever mentioned even
by Stephen Glover Christopher Meyer, during
talks before the Iraq War Mr
Blair was so awestruck by the
power of President Bush that
So far, they have been disappointed. he underestimated the lever-
But yesterday the government introduced by Britain’s friends in the U.S.
age he had over him.
a bill that it claimed would prevent any I can’t imagine President de
further transfer of power to the EU. Debacle fervently pro-American Tony Taliban and so offers the bare Gaulle demeaning his country.
Sadly, although it does prevent block B l a i r, c o m m i t t e d 4 0 , 0 0 0 minimum of troops. Almost Or Winston Churchill. Or
If France is more important servicemen, even though Presi- certainly it does not feel it M a r g a r e t T h a t c h e r. P r o -
surrender to Brussels without a than Britain to Washington, dent Bush and his Defence necessary to prove its impor- American though she
referendum, it cannot stop a future might this be because French Secretary Donald Rumsfeld tance to America in the way undoubtedly was, she was
government repealing or rewriting that policymakers have robustly had made it perfectly clear that the British Government does. perfectly capable of criticising
ban. It makes another Lisbon surrender pursued a line independent of they could happily do without Most of us learn when we are her friend Ronald Reagan, as
less likely, but not impossible. the U.S. and the British have them. The French might have young that the child who she did in 1983 after America
not? After the Suez debacle of been denigrated as ‘cheese- attaches himself unreservedly had invaded the Caribbean
What it fails to do is to repatriate a single 1956 — when America pulled
power from Brussels. Nor does it stop the eating surrender monkeys’ in to the strongest boy in the island of Grenada without
the plug on the militarily suc- the U.S., but who remembers class ends up being taken for bothering to notice that the
daily surrenders – a hike in the EU budget, cessful Anglo-French invasion that now? granted by him, even treated Queen was its head of state.
the creation of an EU diplomatic service, of Egypt — the two European In Afghanistan, France has with contempt. The boy who
countries responded in
and four new agencies to interfere in the
City of London. diametrically different ways.
committed only 3,850 troops
and suffered 52 deaths, whereas
stands apart, and judges case
by case whether or not to side
Fawning
There’s nothing wrong with the While Britain grew ever closer Britain has 10,000 troops there with the class bully, generally America is the world’s sole
to America, relying on Ameri- (second only to America) and earns more respect from the superpower, and for much of
Coalition’s legislation, but it doesn’t even can technology to produce its has lost 349 soldiers. Yet bully and the rest of the class. the past century it has been a
succeed in closing the stable door after supposedly independent Britain’s greater sacrifice in Look how desperately craven force for good in the world. To
the bolting horse. nuclear deterrent, France blood and money does not our leaders have become. When be a close ally of such a country
increasingly went its own prevent the American Presi- Gordon Brown was snubbed is both sensible and necessary,
Dishonourable exit
HAD Eric Illsley wished to retain a shred
separate way. It developed its
own nuclear arsenal — admit-
tedly never proven — called the
dent from thinking France the
more important ally.
by President Obama in
September 2009, he really was
like a small boy who had been
as France has understood. To
be an overdependent, some-
times fawning friend is neither
of credibility, he would have resigned his force de frappe, because it did
not believe it could always rely
Disgraceful excluded by the class leader,
and his advisers virtually
sensible nor necessary.
Will our attitude of sub -
Commons seat at the same time as on America to defend it from We could, and should, get jolly pleaded for a ‘face-to-face’ with servience ever change? Our
pleading guilty to false accounting over the Soviet threat. upset about this disgraceful the American President. After military and intelligence
his Parliamentary expenses. In 1966, President Charles lack of gratitude — and then five rebuffs, a hasty meeting services are locked in with their
His failure to do so suggests, amazingly, de Gaulle withdrew France stop and think. We should not was finally arranged. counterparts in the United
that he may hope to cling on at f r o m N AT O ’ s s o - c a l l e d be in Afghanistan to please the When he became Prime States. Our political leaders
Westminster, as he would be automatically ‘integrated command struc- Americans, though I fear we Minister, David Cameron lost have mortgaged much of our
ture’, which meant that largely are. (Remember how, little time in jumping on a independence.
disqualified only by a sentence of more French soldiers were no longer after the attack on the World plane to pay court to the The only way to free ourselves
than 12 months. subject to NATO (which often Trade Centre, Tony Blair wildly American President. He was is by seeing ourselves as the
MPs could still choose to expel him, or meant American) control, and asserted: ‘We are all Americans so keen to abase himself that Americans see us. That is why
Mr Illsley himself could stand down. senior French military per- now.’) We should be there he claimed that ‘Britain was we should welcome President
But isn’t it time the Coalition made sonnel left NATO’s headquar- to defend our national the junior partner in 1940 Obama’s statement, graceless
good on its promise to introduce a right ters. France became a full self-interest. when we were fighting against and ungrateful though it was.
of recall? Then, if no one does it for them, member of the organisation And maybe the French gov- Hitler’. America did not This country is only one among
the voters of his Barnsley constituency again only in 2009. ernment has a beadier eye on declare war on Germany until several important friends his
France opposed the invasion its national interest than we December 1941. country has, and should stop
could rid themselves of their of Iraq in 2003, whereas Brit- do. Maybe it is sceptical about Tony Blair was the most eager seeing itself as an appendage
dishonourable member. ain, under the direction of the NATO’s ability to defeat the to bend the knee. According to of the United States.
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s.parsons@dailymail.co.uk
Picture: EROTEME.CO.UK
back on the box
just make
FIFTY is not a good landmark in most
women’s careers. The fact you’ve sur-
vived this long means you’re probably
talented and experienced — but men
will feel threatened by you now they
can no longer flirt with you. It’s no
coincidence that this then tends to be
the age at which women start being
their cubs
forced out of their jobs.
So three cheers for the tribunal
which has ruled that the BBC was guilty
of age discrimination when it dropped
53-year-old Countryfile presenter
Miriam O’Reilly — who even on her
dullest day was a million miles better
than her replacement Matt Baker, 20
miserable
years her junior and quite possibly the
most boring presenter ever.
CALL me a cynic,
but I’d be very
surprised indeed if
Kylie Minogue’s
much-vaunted
T
‘fresh faced,
HERE’S a new book just THE Prime Minister, when natural beauty’
out that at first glance asked how friendly he and Nick didn’t turn out, in
is guaranteed to make Clegg are, replied: ‘Well, we fact, to be a
every mother feel more wouldn’t go to the cinema together, flawless testament
quite, but we’ve had him and to the enduring
inadequate than she value of an eyelash
Miriam round for supper.’ This just
does already. goes to prove that rumours of their tint, mineral
The author, a mother of two, lists on ‘bromance’ have been greatly powder foundation
the first page some of the things her exaggerated. Agony aunts often and nude lipstick.
daughters were never allowed to do: advise couples on a first date to go
attend a sleepover, have a playdate, to the cinema. Only when Dave and
S
our front path exclaiming ‘Oh my
If, on the other hand, you would prefer
to raise a child who chooses their own DIVORCEE Trinny Woodall no doubt hopes her newly God!’ as he confronted our
MALL wonder that, according plumped-up lips are more kissable. Let’s hope so, teetering pile of bin bags and
path, pursues their own dreams and
to a report last week from the because I imagine they make any other activity, overloaded recycling boxes.
finds their own passion, then I suggest
Children’s Commissioner, half of At least they can rest assured
y o u f o r g e t a l l a b o u t s e l f- s e r v i n g from eating to talking to brushing your teeth, next that their jobs are safe with me.
Britain’s eight to 17-year-olds Chinese tigers and try a little unselfish to impossible.
are stressed about their academic mothering instead.
performances, citing ambitious parents
as a key source of their anxiety.
Yes, with enough drilling, children may THE Government wants us
indeed achieve A-grade results, but I
firmly believe that there is more to
childhood — and happiness — than being
top of the class.
Mary’s shopping mission gets my vote to give 10 per cent of our
income to charity. Dream on.
Leaving aside the nerve of it
— and the fact that you can’t
It’s a lesson we parents need to learn, walk down any High Street
too — and it’s why I recommend Profes- MARY PORTAS, who has made a TV career out of exceptions to this. Portas (left) cites John Lewis as a without being approached by
sor Amy Chua’s book, as I doubt you’ll telling shops what they’re doing wrong, speaks place where the staff are unfailingly helpful, but my someone rattling a collecting
find a more powerful account of what it is for all of us, I suspect, when she describes own favourite is Robert Dyas. I’ve yet to go into a tin — everyone I know has
to be an utterly controlling, selfish mother spent the first days of 2011
her rage at going into a Tesco Metro and branch where the service hasn’t been first rate: doing anguished sums trying
who is happiest when basking in the finding foreign shop assistants who couldn’t nothing seems too much trouble and the staff
reflected glory of her children’s to work out how to save
achievements. tell her where to find the Yorkshire puddings seem to know the answer to every query, whether money. Two friends have
One of its chapters describes the time — because they had no idea what a Yorkshire it’s about a new iron or what sort of garden wire is vowed to buy nothing other
her younger daughter, then aged seven, pudding was. best for a trellis. than food and essential items
said she couldn’t perfect a certain piano In my experience, however, it’s non- Now that John Lewis are teaching our police (wine is included in the
piece. Her mother insisted she could. One British shop assistants who really to be courteous, might I suggest that Robert definition of essential); many
evening she made her continue to prac- want to serve customers rather than Dyas be co-opted to give lessons in more are giving up their coffee
tise it throughout dinner and into the ignoring them or intimidating them, unhurried, expert service to the NHS, local shop habit or bringing their
night, refusing to let her get up from the own lunch to work. I hate to
two common flaws in many of their councils and call centres? Actually, come to break it to the Coalition, but
piano, not even to have a glass of water or British-born counterparts. think of it, why stop there? Let’s just have
go to the loo. And, in the end, her daugh- I’m afraid that, at the moment,
ter cracked the piece, playing it perfectly. Of course, there are honourable them run the country. Vote Dyas! for most people charity begins
A triumph for the Chinese mother? Well, — and ends — at home.
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Andrew
Alexander
www.dailymail.co.uk/andrewalexander
r°
Paranoia at
° the heart of
U.S. politics
¨
T
HE killing spree in particular seats held by Democrats
Tucson has set off a — inspired the Tucson killer.
And there is one advantage in the
fierce debate about violent language used by some
the harsh language eager supporters of the Republican
of U.S. politics. Does cause. It warns us that paranoia
it promote violence? It is remains alive and well in the U.S.
easy to connect the two. But OWHAT is it about Saddleworth
this has to be seen against that makes it an epicentre for con-
voluted by-elections? Tomorrow
two facts. the electors of Oldham East and
One is that violence has long been Saddleworth will be voting after a
a part of the American way of life. contest where the Tory leadership
We see it today in gang wars, the has played a very soft role. It is seen
worship of guns and the appetite
locally as an invitation to Conserva-
for brutality on the screen. The tives to vote for the Lib-Dem, a very
American folk hero was long the good second in the general
tough gunslinger. His more modern election.
counterpart is the bold cop whose Some may remember the key by-
role reaches a climax in a hail of election of 1963, where Saddleworth
gunfire and corpses. was a prominent part of the old
-/
The second unpalatable fact is seat. The Tory Government hoped
that a strong vein of paranoia runs — no, prayed! — that Conservatives
through American life. Conspiracy would vote Labour. This was to
theories run riot there — as they keep out the Liberal who was within
always have. In the 1930s the racist range of defeating Labour.
Catholic priest, Father Coughlin, It was tricky for the local Tory
could attract radio audiences of candidate who, as it happens, was
Ш 30 million for his weekly attacks,
especially on Jews and Freemasons.
me. The party bigwigs were scared
stiff because the Liberals had just
|ï°
His bishop refused to stop him won a series of sensational by-
until World War II. elections in normally safe
Before him, the Ku Klux Klan Conservative seats.
could claim a membership as high
as six million. In the 1950s the rabid
N
Senator McCarthy’s witch hunt for
|ïï Communists in the most unlikely OW the appalling prospect
places made him a national hero. arose that the Liberals, a
Unfortunately paranoia has also good second last time,
been at the heart of American would show that their
foreign policy which bore fruit in party could also win a Labour seat.
Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan. If They would then become unstop-
the North won in Vietnam, ran pable. It was a hard message to
Washington’s claim, all South East convey, especially canvassing
Asia would ‘go Communist’. It did normally Tory voters who thought
win and South East Asia remained I might be quite pleased to know
intact. The prolonged invasion of they were switching to Liberal . . .
Iraq was inspired by Saddam’s anything to keep Labour out.
i m a g i n e d We a p o n s o f M a s s Well, it’s not quite that straight-
Destruction. forward, I would explain, or try to.
Against this sort of background we Of course, one could praise the
r° need to ponder whether the Tucson
slaughter is all that much out of the
Labour candidate’s character —
and be accused of having too much
°
ordinary. The language of political generosity of spirit. And one could
debate may be fierce, as it has often marvel at the foolishness of Liberal
been in the past, but we have to Party policies. But it was a
wonder whether it was enough to tip complicated business.
a mentally unstable man over the We just won, i.e., Labour got in.
edge and into massacre. The Tory leadership heaved a huge
sigh of relief. I came bottom, as
W
¨ expected, and even required.
The Tory candidate in tomorrow’s
E SHOULD be fair. contest, third last time (I know how
If our weapons laws he must feel), will have a difficult
were as casual as result. His life is made more
those in the U.S., complicated by Lord Tebbit’s
various loonies here might well suggestion that Tories should
match the Tucson outrage. Even consider voting UKIP.
our much stricter rules about gun There is also a BNP candidate,
ownership did not prevent the likely to attract at least as many
ÚÅÅéx :m ÈÑ¡YÈ AÈÑ` ¡zzmÅÈ mc 0ÚcAé Hungerford massacre of 1987, Labour as Tory voters in an area
which left 16 people dead. much divided on immigration.
A further question is whether the However, (with some help from
ferocity of political debate in the greedy bankers) a hefty Labour win
U.S. spurs on violence or whether it seems likely with or without a
acts as a safety valve for dangerous slump in the Lib-Dem vote.
¨ïïïÈ ¡z °ÅYmÈ YÅÚYmc ¡ extremists. What would go on in the
mind of a potential assassin if he
The Tory party should not get too
worried about it. An Opposition
Ñm ÑÈ é¡Ú mmc Ñm ¡ÈÑ thought that his instinctive views
were never voiced by anyone else?
win in a by- election would be
normal in an economy undergoing
Would he become more or less major surgery.
AÑ zÅmȵ -Aé mÈÈ dangerous ? In the nature of things, And if the Lib-Dems are routed,
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Ephraim
Hardcastle
MIRIAM O’Reilly’s
successful case against
the BBC over ageism
isn’t welcomed by
ex-Crimewatch presenter Nick Ross, 63,
who says on BBC News 24: ‘The tribu-
nal took a very legalistic view. We’re
freelancers, and just because you’re a
presenter of a show doesn’t mean you
have the job for life. Producers have to
be able to change things around – the
set, the furniture, sometimes the pre-
senter. That’s the way things are.’
Plucky Ross better steer clear of femi-
nist colleagues for a while lest he
become a crime victim.
And energy bills could DOUBLE every five years leader, Len McCluskey. ‘It’s better for
both if they’re on with John Humphrys
and not each other,’ I am advised.
MILLIONS of hard- By Sean Poulter far outpace rises in earnings, and they are simply passing on
pressed families are being Consumer Affairs Editor they warned, meaning many increases in wholesale prices.
more households would suffer However, figures from TheEn- STRICTLY Come Dancing’s Pamela Stephen-
further squeezed by pun- so-called fuel poverty. ergyShop.com suggest the mar-
ishing rises in fuel bills ing come as the country strug- son, 61, says her husband, comedian Billy
gles to emerge from recession. This is where more than 10 per gin between what they pay for
and food prices. cent of disposable income is gas against the price charged to Connolly, thinks the TV contest has
Petrol prices are also running changed the shape of her legs, adding:
Energy giant E.ON yester- spent on heat and light. customers has risen by more
around 20 per cent higher than
day announced a price a year ago, while rail fares leapt E.ON is the latest of the ‘big than 200 per cent since 2008. ‘And, yes, our sex life has improved. I feel
increase as experts warned six’ suppliers to impose infla- Increases in grocery bills would sexier – of course I do – and Billy is thrilled
this month. have been even bigger but for
that bills are set to double The pain is further com- tion-busting price rises. with the new me. He loves it! He definitely
However, unlike rivals such as price cut promotions by super-
every five years. pounded by the Government’s
British Gas, Scottish & Southern markets, according to the BRC. fancies me more, and says it’s like being
The German-owned supplier VAT increase to 20 per cent. Director general Stephen with a new woman!’ They’ll need armed
Energy and Scottish Power, it did
will put up electricity tariffs by Consumers have been warned Robertson said: ‘Retailers know police to keep our grand dames off this
9 per cent and gas by 3 per cent by City analysts that the energy customers are worried about year’s show.
– adding an average of £62 to price increases are just a taste
of things to come.
‘Financially jobs and personal finances.
annual dual fuel bills for 4.3mil- ‘The competitive retail envi-
lion customers. Experts at the Unicredit bank- limping into 2011’ ronment will mean stores go on
At the same time, figures from ing group said the switch to doing all they can to limit price
the British Retail Consortium green energy – including the THE Rev Roderick Leece, rector of St
offer to delay the rise until after rises. But a string of costs are George’s church, Mayfair, has criticised
show that food prices are con- building of wind farms and higher than a year ago.
tinuing to rise at double the nuclear power stations, as well the recent big freeze. The rise rich, local property moguls for not
comes into effect on February 4. ‘Extreme weather and poor contributing to the restoration of his
pace of wages. as the installation of smart harvests have driven coffee up
Annual food inflation in meters in every home – will send Ann Robinson, of price com- 18th century church. His remarks are
52 per cent, wheat 45 per cent
December was 4 per cent com- bills rocketing. parison website uSwitch.com, and soya beans 38 per cent yet taken to be an attack on the billionaire
pared with a rise of 2 per cent in They concluded: ‘A typical UK described it as ‘another blow to the shop price of food is up only Duke of Westminster, owner of the Gros-
incomes last year. energy bill could rise from the households financially limping 4 per cent.’ venor Estate. How unfair. The sixth duke,
This means a family spending current level of £1,000 per year into 2011’. He warned of further price Gerald Grosvenor, has given donations to
£100 a week on food a year ago to over £2,000 per year by 2015. uSwitch said that E.ON’s aver- rises, adding: ‘Next month’s fig- many less fortunate than himself.
will have to find an extra £208 a ‘As investment occurs, bills age annual dual fuel bill will rise ures will show the initial impact
year to put meals on the table. could double every five years from £1,187 to £1,249. Energy of the latest VAT increase.’
The increases in the cost of liv- until 2020.’ The increases would firms say they have no choice s.poulter@dailymail.co.uk
THE Gentlemen Ranters website – home of
seasoned Fleet Street soaks – mentions
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Tuition fees
rioter jailed
for 2½ years
Judge praises mother for handing
in son who threw fire extinguisher
By Charlotte Gill
Crime Correspondent
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Obama must
take some
blame for BP
Gulf disaster
The flood’s coming
Mail Foreign Service
FOR months Barack Obama singled
out BP for blame over the Gulf of
From Richard Shears
in Sydney 40,000 homes in danger as deadly surge
Mexico disaster that saw millions TENS of thousands of
of gallons of oil leak into the sea.
But a report from his own presi-
dential commission last night
people have been told to flee
Australia’s third largest city
as catastrophic floods loom.
heads towards the centre of Brisbane
claimed the U.S. government At least 40,000 homes are at
should share responsibility. risk from the waters expected
Calling for wide-ranging reforms to hit the centre of Brisbane
of the oil industry, the White House today and tomorrow.
panel said government regulators Floods raging down from the
failed woefully to keep up with the north combined with water
pace of technological advances in released from a dam to prevent it
bursting created a huge wave that
offshore drilling. was surging towards the city of two
BP did not escape censure in the million people under sheets of
report, which said the Deepwater drenching rain. Six inches fell in
Horizon rig explosion that killed 11 one half-hour period.
workers last April and caused the The swollen Brisbane River which
three-month leak was ‘preventable’. runs through Queensland’s state
The commission said Transocean, capital had begun to overflow its
the owners of the rig, and Hallibur- banks last night and was still
ton, which installed a cement cas- rising.
ing for the well, were all partly to The order to ‘get out while you
can’ came from mayor Campbell
blame for sacrificing safety for big- Newman who said: ‘I don’t want
ger profits. anyone to die in Brisbane. Tomor-
The seven-member commission, row is going to be bad but Thurs-
which reported yesterday, was day is going to be devastating.’
created by Mr Obama last May to Power will be cut off in the city
look into the causes of the worst centre for safety reasons and thou-
offshore oil spill in U.S. history. sands of office and hotel workers
The disaster ‘was almost the inev- have been told not to risk their
itable result of years of industry lives by trying to return to work
over the next few days.
and government complacency and The death toll in the floods which Safe: A man is winched aloft Perilous position: A family take to the roof of their car in Toowoomba
lack of attention to safety’, said have devastated Queensland
William Reilly, the commission’s reached ten after a four-year-old damage and is likely to be worse ground, taking birth and marriage In unprecedented scenes, roads
co-chairman. boy fell out of a rescue boat and than the floods that hit Brisbane certificates and precious family were clogged and supermarket
The Obama administration last drowned in Marburg, 40 miles west in 1974, killing 14. photographs with them. shelves were stripped bare.
month launched civil suits against of Brisbane. Seventy-eight people In Brisbane, residents preparing Terrified by the horrific events 65 Australia’s prime minister Julia
BP and other companies involved were unaccounted for. for the worst were told not to miles away in Toowoomba where a Gillard and Anna Bligh, the pre-
in the spill, claiming they broke Some 200,000 people have been panic but to equip themselves flash flood caused death and mier of Queensland, appeared on
environmental laws. A criminal affected by the disaster which with torches, matches, radios and destruction on Monday, they were TV to express their sorrow to fami-
has caused billions of pounds of medication and move to high only too ready to take the advice. lies who have lost loved ones and
probe is continuing.
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life
Do I want to Google my
puzzle solutions? Here’s
a not-so-cryptic clue . . .
A
RE the days of puzzles, games
and quizzes numbered? That
is the question being asked
by Nigel Rees completed one that it
has found on its huge
web index. Hey presto, it sends you back the
solution. Nothing could be simpler. wrong advice. Meanwhile, organisers
now that technology is making A PANEL SHOW CREATOR The pain and puzzling of playing Sudoku is of pub quizzes have firm rules
it oh-so-easy for people to as Quote . . . Unquote, I find all this removed at a stroke. No more unsolved grids to against players using mobile phones
download the answers without having decidedly worrying. drive you mad. Another stride forward for the to help find the right answers.
to use their brains. The clever device works like this: you take a digital era — and particularly impressive con- In sport proper, the use of instant
Google has developed a phone camera picture of the puzzle that you are trying to solve sidering there are 6,670,903,752,021,072,936,960 TV replays of controversial incidents
application that enables you to solve a and then send it to Google using a Goggles possible combinations on a 9x9 grid. as well as the introduction of
Sudoku puzzle in less time than it takes to App. Through a fiendishly clever computer But hold on. Isn’t something missing? Isn’t electronic line judges in tennis may
blow your nose. process, it is able to match up your uncom- the whole point of such games and puzzles that have done something to help solve
As a pioneer of radio word games such pleted grid of numbers immediately with a test your skill, that they are fun to do and the more contentious decisions of
immensely rewarding when you umpires and referees.
solve them? In one way, of course, it Yet they have diminished good old-
is remarkable to see the huge strides fashioned sportsmanship and the
being made with digitalisation that unquestioning acceptance of a
can bring so many benefits to referee’s decision, however liable it
modern life. may be to human error.
For example, it is possible to have It is sad now to see these changes
an app on your phone which works (which may be justified in the
as a search engine to help you highly-charged field of professional
identify someone famous, some sport) filtering down into the world
object or some well-known place. All of the amateur and the not-to-be-
you have to do is send a picture of it taken-too-seriously fun world of
to the website and you are instantly games and puzzles.
sent back the identity. Indeed, I know of people who don’t
Similarly, an app called Shazam feel at all ashamed about going
allows you to play a few bars of online to untangle their crossword
music into your phone and have the clues — whether these are of the
audio search engine recognise its straightforward informational or the
title and composer from its vast bafflingly cryptic kind.
cyberspace storehouse of Instead, I have always admired
information. those who try to play it straight —
Of course, there is always a com-
mercial dimension to this. You will
then be taken to a website where
you can purchase the music online.
How very useful for contestants on
Mastermind or University Challenge
It takes all the
if they were allowed to have their
iPhones, or even laptops, to hand
when answering tough questions —
fun and skill
that’s if they could manipulate them
quickly enough.
out of games
The old TV quiz Name That Tune
would have been rendered pointless
if contestants had been able to use with ‘no-conferring’ (of any kind) as
these handy little programs. their golden rule.
Leaving aside the incredible But nowadays the temptation to
technology behind all this (as well as rely on every (digital) means availa-
the worry about how much of our ble to achieve their goal is all too
personal information we entrust to strong and so easy to give in to.
Google and similar companies), I gather there is an app that
there is an obvious objection to the enables you to come up with the
way this is heading. longest, high- scoring words in
Might these apps be not be a brain- Scrabble. By using such ‘cheating’
wave too far? If these shortcuts are tools, players might be able to avoid
used regularly, the point of playing anguished disputes over whether a
these games would disappear. word really exists or not, but at
Years ago, I remember John B. what cost?
Meade, the original producer of Ultimately, all this boils down to
Countdown, Channel 4’s ‘words and the fact that fun is being taken out
numbers game’, explaining to me of games. Not just the fun but the
why the programme refused to use a skill, the acquired knowledge, the
ability to summon up learned
information from your personal
memory bank.
Imagine if you were trying to run a
Gizmos would mile in under four minutes and
someone said: ‘My dear fellow, you
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life
As China loans Britain
by Jane Fryer a pair of pandas, will
they produce our
first ever cub —
A
T SOME stage this year,
two exceptionally important
Chinese diplomatic envoys
or have we been
will be transported with
great pomp and ceremony
through the gates of Edinburgh Zoo.
sold a pup?
Their arrival has been hoped for, discussed,
negotiated and argued over by scores of
very important people for more than five
years. A team of royals and top politicians
including Princess Anne, Prince Andrew,
Gordon Brown and (the then) Foreign Secre-
tary David Miliband worked tirelessly to
entice them here.
Their arrival, on an as yet unconfirmed date,
Pandas,
will be marked by national celebrations and
jubilation, commemorative mugs, a huge
security operation and blanket media cover-
age. Oh yes, and the delivery of many tons of
Chinese bamboo.
For these important visitors are neither
statesmen nor businessmen, but a pair of
seven-year-old giant pandas called Tian-Tian
and Yangguang.
passion and
The pair — whose names translate as ‘Sun-
shine’ and ‘Sweetie’ — will have been dosed
with travel sickness pills and sent thousands
of miles from the Wolong Panda Breeding Cen-
tre in the Sichuan Province of China. They will
then settle into the old gorilla enclosure at
Edinburgh Zoo for the next decade, making
them the first giant pandas to reside in Britain
for more than 17 years.
Ever since the purchase of Chi-Chi the giant
a matter of
panda in 1958 for £12,000, the British have
adored pandas.
Chi-Chi fast became a national heroine. She
provoked an explosion in zoo visitor numbers,
was constantly in the news, became the
symbol of the World Wildlife Fund and was
fed on bamboo from the garden of Daphne du
Maurier’s neighbour.
It is hoped that these latest panda imports
will bring a little of Chi-Chi’s magic with
very delicate
them — and not least to Edinburgh Zoo,
which has been struggling lately and has
been forced to close its exotic bird enclosure
after a drop in visitors.
Indeed, such is the draw of a pair of pandas
— the giant panda is one of the best-loved
symbols in the world, and used to sell every-
thing from electronic goods and fizzy drinks
to chocolate and cigarettes — that not only
diplomacy
are visitor numbers expected to double to
more than a million a year, but research, tour-
ism and sales of furry merchandise are all
predicted to shoot up, too.
And, after nearly 80 years of dismal and
embarrassing failure, every hope is pinned on
Tian-Tian (the female) and Yangguang mak-
ing history by producing Britain’s first ever
panda cub.
Which all sounds wonderfully exciting, and
doubtless the keepers (and accountants) at
Edinburgh Zoo will be high-fiving in
excitement.
But there is more to this than a From China for cash: Giant panda Yangguang. Inset, Chi-Chi arrives at London Zoo in 1958
cuddly animal kingdom love-in. For
these pandas were not a gift from dent Richard Nixon, after Nixon’s something in easy supply in 1970s methods were used to try (and other than on the fertile days.It’s
one nature conservation group to historic visit to China in 1972. London), and the zoo was soon invariably fail) to make them feel a not just when it comes to sex that
another, or even a straightforward (Nixon responded by sending back forced to launch a public appeal for bit more, er, revved up. They were pandas are contrary. While they
loan from one. a pair of musk oxen.) funds to provide for food and a new given Viagra (yes, the real thing), spend up to 14 hours a day eating
The pandas were hugely popular. shelter for them. put on special ‘aphrodisiac’ diets, bamboo, they’re actually carnivores
More than 20,000 people visited And breeding was a disaster — subjected to panda ‘sexercise’ who’ve lost their taste for meat.
them on their first day at the just as it had been with poor Chi- classes and even shown X-rated And while, on the face of it, their
E
National Zoo in Washington DC, Chi, who’d refused point blank to videos of other adult pandas. reproductive system seems utterly
DINBURGH Zoo will have and Mao’s gift was seen as an mate with Moscow Zoo’s An-An, hopeless, and their tiny, blind 3oz
the pair for ten years and enormous diplomatic success. So even though the public was gripped babies often too vulnerable to live,
much so, in fact, that two years by her sex life and constantly egged they’ve somehow survived for
T
will have to pay handsomely
— about £600,000 a year — later, British Prime Minister Ted her on. millions of years — although they
for the privilege. Heath, during his own visit to China, So, again, there were no cubs. HE ins and outs of panda do remain seriously endangered,
In actual fact, they form a key part asked for a pair of pandas to fill After 11 barren years, Ching-Ching copulation have always with fewer than 2,500 in the wild.
of a £2.6 billion trade deal signed the yawning gap left by Chi-Chi’s died in 1985 and Chia-Chia was been something of a mys- Which is perhaps why, in the 1980s,
this week by the UK and Chinese death in 1972. shipped off to Mexico Zoo to try tery, but what experts China stopped giving away its prize
governments, witnessed by Deputy A few weeks later, to enormous (and fail) to mate with the resident didn’t know until recently was that, pandas and came up with a new
Prime Minister Nick Clegg, Chinese excitement, Ching-Ching and Chia- panda there. rather than just not being very into scheme: lucrative ten-year loans to
Vice Premier Li Keqlang, and Chia arrived, rather jet-lagged and Meanwhile their replacements — sex, female pandas are fertile for foreign zoos. (In recent years, ‘loans’
including deals with Jaguar Land with their own temporary supply of Ming-Ming and Bao-Bao — fought just two or three days of the year, have been made to Taiwan and
Rover and Scotland’s biggest bamboo, at London Zoo. savagely, yet again produced no sometime between March and Japan.)
mainland oil refinery. Sadly, though, they never lived up cubs, and in 1994 were sent home in April. This scheme was partly to pro-
So it is that the ‘Panda Deal’ to Chi-Chi’s popularity. ‘disgrace’. The rest of the time, male and mote international relations, but
marks a return to the days of inter- For starters, keeping them was an It seemed none of them wanted to female giant pandas are far happier also to further the conservation of
national ‘Panda Diplomacy’ — an expensive business. Pandas eat have sex. Ever. pandas at home in the wild, and to
living in splendid isolation. Indeed,
age-old tactic whereby China gave 50kg of bamboo shoots a day (not For many years, all sorts of bizarre fund the extraordinarily high-tech
they fight if they’re housed together
pairs of pandas (the country’s Wolong Panda Breeding Centre.
unofficial national emblem) to That’s why today, nearly every zoo
outside China with a pair of pandas
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Planet could
A Nasa artist’s
impression of
Kepler 10b, left,
orbiting its star
be ‘missing
link’ to Earth
Alien world is made of rock, not gas
IT is more than 3,000 million By David Derbyshire was launched into Earth orbit in author of a paper on the discov- observatory discovered the most
million miles away and the March 2009. ery in the Astrophysical Journal, Earth-like planet ever found – a
comes from the fact that it orbits its It looks for planets in the con- said: ‘All of Kepler’s best capabili- world three times the size of
temperature is estimated at stellations Cygnus and Lyra. ties have converged to yield the our own.
star so closely, is too distant and small
2,400f, making it an unlikely to be seen directly. Instead, Nasa’s Dr Natalie Batalha, of Nasa’s first solid evidence of a rocky The planet – Gliese g – appears
home for alien life. equipment measures the tiny decrease Ames Research Centre in Moffett planet orbiting a star other than to have an atmosphere and grav-
Yet a rocky world named Kepler in a star’s brightness which occurs Field, California and primary our sun.’ Last year a European ity similar to that of Earth.
10b is being described by astrono- when a planet passes in front of it.
mers as one of the greatest discov- The size of the planet and its orbit
eries in history – a ‘missing link’ can be worked out by measuring the
between Earth and the giant plan- frequency and size of these ‘blinks’.
ets made of gas. Dr Geoffrey Marcy, from the Univer-
Nasa yesterday revealed details of sity of California Berkeley, said that
Kepler 10b, the smallest known Kepler 10b was ‘a bridge between the
planet outside our solar system and gas giant planets we’ve been finding
the first to be confirmed as ‘undoubt- and the Earth itself’.
edly rocky’. He added: ‘This will be marked as
It is 1.4 times the size of Earth and among the most profound scientific
orbits a star 560 light years away. discoveries in human history.’
The planet was pinpointed by Nasa’s ‘The discovery of Kepler 10b is a sig-
£380million Kepler telescope, which is nificant milestone in the search for
based on a satellite in space, after planets similar to our own,’ said a
more than eight months of observa- spokesman for Nasa headquarters in
tions. Kepler 10b, whose intense heat Washington. The space telescope
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China shows
off stealth
fighter jet
CHINA’S latest stealth
fighter made its first
k n ow n t e s t f l i g h t
yesterday.
The jet marks dramatic
progress in the c oun-
try’s efforts to develop
cutting-edge military
technologies.
The plane, dubbed the
J-20, is a potential rival
to the U.S. F-22 Raptor,
the only stealth fighter
currently in service.
Photos of the J-20 were
posted on unofficial mil-
itary websites.
China’s secretive mili-
tary made no attempt
to hide the photos, sug-
gesting Beijing could be
responding to calls to be
more transparent about
its defence policy.
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life
A VERY MODERN WAY
TO SAVE YOUR BACON
AS A nation, we throw away 8.3 million
tonnes of food every year — costing
the average family £680.
But researchers at Wolverhampton
University have come up with a very
modern way to reduce this waste.
It’s a phone app called Consume
Within, which tells you when the food
in your larder is set to go off.
Simply log your groceries into your
phone, tell it where each one will be
— fridge, cupboard or freezer — and
IS 12 REALLY
ACCORDING to a recent
survey, a Size 12 woman
JANET LUNN, 55, lives in South-East London and is married to
Raymond, 69. The couple run a company advising small
businesses and have no children. Janet is 5ft 10in, weighs 10st
10lb and has a 30in waist. She says:
choose the time you want to eat may be the envy of her
them by (according to the use-by friends, but the chances ALL THINGS are relative because I
date or at your discretion). Your are she still hates what used to be a size 16, weighing nearly
phone alerts you when an item is due 14st, so I’m absolutely thrilled to have
to expire and tells you where it is. she sees in the mirror.
You can even take photos of the Here, five women — all got down to a svelte size 12. I’d still like
food — in case you forget what to have a smaller bust, but otherwise
Size 12 — reveal their I’m very happy with what I see in the
bacon looks like.
Could this mean you’ll finally eat very different attitudes mirror.
those yoghurts lurking at the back to their figures . . . The last time I wore a size 12 was 20 years ago.
of fridge, before it’s too late? It’s so exciting to be able to get back into my
glamorous designer suits and dresses. I used to
work in the fashion industry, and I
have some beautiful classic pieces by
Yves St Laurent and Chanel.
The weight began to pile on after I
turned 40 and gave up the fashion
business to go and work for an aid pro-
gramme in Egypt. I am a vegetarian,
and I was finding it so hard to get fresh
vegetables and fruit out there that I
resorted to living on pizza.
Then, after I returned home, I
started my own Fair Trade business
and worked so hard I snacked on junk
food all the time because I didn’t have
time to cook.
My epiphany came when I was at a
trade event in Birmingham when I
was in my late 40s, and caught sight
of myself in a full-length mirror. Even
though I was wearing control knick-
ers, I looked so fat that I ran upstairs,
sat on my hotel bed and cried.
This experience shocked me into
joining Weight Watchers, and I haven’t
looked back.
I lost a stone quite quickly, and then
lost another two stone gradually over
the next year.
In total, I have lost 12 inches off my
bottom and hips. I feel absolutely
brilliant and I think my body is just
about perfect. At my age, I can’t
afford to become too skinny because
my face would look gaunt.
My husband — bless him! — says he
doesn’t mind what size I am and
genuinely could not see the difference
— which was a totally different reac-
tion from my girlfriends, who say I
look ten years younger.
LUCIE BICKERDIKE,
25, lives in North
Hertfordshire, is
single and works as a
marketing senior
account executive.
She is 5ft 4in, weighs
10st 3lb and has a
28in waist. She says:
I KNOW my figure
would be the envy of a
lot of women, but I hate being a size
12. After all, it is by no means ‘skinny’.
I’m only 5ft 4in and would love to be a
size 10. I don’t think any woman is to lose some weight because I have a
truly happy with her weight, and most small amount of cellulite on my
girls I know want to be slimmer.
Ð It’s not even as if I sit around eating
what I want. I work hard to maintain
thighs.
Ever since I was a teenager, I’ve
Ø
been a pear shape — something I
my weight — avoiding all junk food inherited from my mother. I’ve always
and going to the gym two or three
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Husband finds body in their Mauritius hotel
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Rock’s out!
Only three Nicole:
guitar songs
in top 100
REBELLING against the
I have
mainstream might well be
very rock’n’roll behaviour.
But it seems that, at least
where singles sales are con-
cerned, the mainstream has the
last laugh.
Figures released by trade
used
paper Music Week reveal that
just three songs in last year’s
100 best-sellers could be classi-
fied as rock.
The list is dominated by hip-
hop and R&B, accounting for 47
of the 100, with pop defining 40
Botox
By Ben Todd
of the songs and dance music
taking the remaining ten places. BOTOX? Not me! That, at least, used to
Music Week’s Ben Cardew said: be Nicole Kidman’s response to ques-
‘There’s not been a huge rock tions about how she kept her com-
act since the Arctic Monkeys plexion so porcelain perfect. Raising eyebrows: In 2002
and these figures lay that bare.’ Now, however, she has performed
The figures reflect an accelera- something of an about-face.
tion of rock’s decline in popular- The Oscar-winning actress has
ity with singles buyers.
In 2009, rock tracks took up 13 admitted to having Botox injections.
of the top 100, with Rage Against But she insisted she no longer uses it,
The Machine’s Killing In The because she did not like the results.
Name highest placed. She wasn’t the only one. In 2008,
Last year, the biggest-selling one cosmetic surgery expert told a
rock song was a 29-year-old re- medical conference that Miss Kidman
release by U.S. act Journey. was so ‘over-Botoxed’ she was giving
Don’t Stop Believin’ became a the industry a bad name.
hit after it featured on Channel
4 show Glee. It made number Miss Kidman, 43, made her confes-
25, with sales of 435,103. sion to a German magazine inter-
The other ‘rock’ tracks in the viewer who asked her about keeping
top 100 were Hey, Soul Sister by wrinkles at bay.
U.S. band Train, at number 84, ‘I’ve tried a lot of things but apart
and Dog Days Are Over by Flor- from working out and a good diet
ence and the Machine, at 93. most things don’t help,’ she replied.
Last year’s best-selling single ‘I even tried Botox but I didn’t like
was the hip-hop track Love The how my face looked afterwards. Now
Way You Lie by Eminem, which
sold 854,144 copies. I don’t use it anymore – and I can
However, there was one bright move my forehead again.’ Her previ-
ous declarations on the subject ‘I haven’t had Botox – I’ve
spot for rock – it accounted for
more than a quarter of album included: ‘I am completely natural. I been outside’
sales in 2010. Frozen in time: A strangely smooth complexion in 2009 have nothing in my face or anything.’
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THE
A
ALPHABET
C
A BRILLIANT new
book by the
acclaimed illus-
trator Matthew
Johnstone and his
... is for Adventure
ADVENTURE is the
opposite of television.
B
chronicled the caring for the sick —
and the healthy, too.
emotions that ... is for Balance It means being kind to
ruin lives. Today, the needy — and those
they present the AS HUMANS we understand things who need for nothing.
as opposites: Yin and Yang, good
ways to make and bad, up and down, day and
Compassion is an equal
your spirits soar. night. Balance is the tension opportunity emotion. To
between opposites: rest and activity, make others happy,
conversation and silence, sociability and treat them with
solitude, love for another and love for compassion. To make
oneself. Every moment your life is in the yourself happy, treat
G
balance. Weigh your options. others with compassion.
I J
... is for Gratitude
GRATITUDE grows wherever it is ... is for Imagination ... is for Joy
planted. Gratitude is more than IMAGINE what’s possible, then HAPPINESS is found deep
saying thank you for dinner, it’s saying within. It comes from our soul
thank you to life. When you give make it happen. A cake isn’t a
— not from external things. So
thanks, thanks gives back. So be grateful for cake until it’s cooked. look inside and feel the joy.
what you have, and you’ll have everything you Soon those around you will
need. The first sign of greatness is gratitude. feel it,too.
H
... is for Hope
THERE is one thing
sure in life: this too
will pass. No matter
your situation, it is
certain to change. However dire
things may seem, there is
always a new day, a new way.
Hope helps. Like a rope, it can
N
pull you out of a hole.
O P
... is for ... is for Optimism ... is for
Now Passion
OPTIMISM put man on the Moon
IT REALLY is and food on the table. Optimism PASSION has
now or never. looks for the best in every the power to
Life is fleeting. situation. The upside of every transform your life
Miss the moment and it’s — to reveal your purpose,
gone for ever. To make down side. The yes in every no.
Cultivate it. Optimism will bring you your reason for being, your
the most of life, make the life’s work. To find out what
most of every moment. friendship and success, health and wealth,
love and laughter. It’s that kind of word. your passion is, ask
Forget the past, ignore yourself: ‘What would I do if
the future, be present to money was no object?’
the present. Paint? Write? Teach?
Look around. Where are Dance? Open a vineyard,
you? How do you feel? start a charity, even found a
Notice your breathing. bank? The trick is to think
The sounds all around big, then begin by taking
you. Your thoughts as small, steady steps towards
they pass. your dream. Mark Twain
What can you see that said: ‘The secret of success
you’ve never seen before? is making your vocation
It doesn’t matter where your vacation.’ What would
you’ve been. It doesn’t you do if you could do
matter where you’re anything at all?
going. It only matters Passion makes anything
where you’re at. possible.
T U
... is for Universe
... is for Trust WHEN things are looking
TRUST is the bedrock of love, the mattress down, look up. Sometimes
of marriage, the cradle of childhood, the realising our cosmic
foundation of friendship. Trust in the truth insignificance can put our
and, the truth is, you’ll be trusted. troubles in perspective. Have faith,
trust in Fate, be free. The Universe is
there to support you. Climb on board.
V
... is for Vision
TO UNDERSTAND what your vision is, ask
the Big Questions. What am I? What are my
values? What do I want to teach, to pass on?
These are the beginnings of a vision. One day
you will ask yourself: ‘What kind of life have I
lived?’ What will your answer be?
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OF
D
JOY ... is for Daring
DARING is doing. It gets things done.
Every great achievement begins with it.
Every great person first dared to be
great. What will you dare to do today?
Emotions from a magical new illustrated book.
Now, discover how to be more positive every day
F
... is for Friendship
FRIENDSHIP is cheaper than therapy, often
deeper. Feed your friendships and they will
sustain you. Love your friends and you will
be loved. Watch their backs and they will
watch yours. If life’s a game, your friends are
your team. Choose them carefully.
E
... is for Enthusiasm
FOR enthusiasts, life is an adventure playground, a theatre,
a movie-set, a laboratory, a love story, a test track, a
roller-coaster, a dance, a gift, a blessing, a blast, a thrill . . .
Let enthusiasm lift you higher. Wherever it takes you, it
will be the right place.
K
... is for
L
... is for Love
IN LIFE, we lose our youth,
M
... is for
Knowledge our strength, our influence, Meditation
our memory, even our
Pass it on. bladder control. In the end, MEDITATION is a form of
all we have, and all we will medication. When your
be remembered for, is the soul aches, take a moment.
love that we give; not just The more you get into
to one person, but to meditation, the more you get
everyone we meet. out of it. So, be mindful — sit in
Remember this — and you stillness and silence, watch
will be remembered. those thoughts, empty your
What is there to say about
love that has not been said mind — and live a full and
before, except I love you. conscious life. Because now is
Love is a four-letter word. where it’s at. Learn to listen
Swear by it. and very soon the truth will
whisper in your ear.
S
... is for
Q
Smile
UNLEASH the
power of a smile.
Smile at
... is for Quiet
R
strangers. Smile
at trees. Smile at
... is for Reconciliation misfortune.
Smile at yourself
YOU cannot undo the past. But you can in the mirror in
change the future. To reconnect with
someone, first forgive yourself. You’re the morning.
human, you mess up. Smile just for the
Then forgive the other person. They’re human, too. If sake of it.
you do mess up, confess and apologise. Saying sorry Soon fortune
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Remember: the sooner you can laugh about it, the at you.
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W
... is for
Wisdom
Y
... is for You
TO LIVE a full and satisfying life, think
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your relationships, defy your fears,
pursue your passions, find your flow, express your
energy, enjoy the moment, contribute to your
Z
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YOU MAY recognise
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KNOWING isn’t wisdom. state of being. Of silence.
soul, leave a legacy and live with love. Peacefulness. Wakefulness.
Knowing yourself is. Be happy. Be honest. Be hopeful. Be yourself Mindfulness. Balance your
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There is more wisdom
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Lily Safra
FURTHER to an article about
the murder of Edmond Safra, we
wish to make it clear there was
no intention to suggest that
PUTTING a hand up is how schoolchildren respond be counted during stocktaking they obliged by among 200 species of animal being checked in Mr Safra’s widow Lily was
to their name during roll call. raising their trunks. the annual stocktake which began this week at involved in his death. We accept
And it seems things aren’t so different at Whip- With typical youthful enthusiasm, George also the zoo in Dunstable, Bedfordshire. that there is no basis for such a
snade Zoo. When Asian elephant Karishma, 12, appeared to make a grab for elephant keeper Other newcomers this year include two baby suggestion and apologise for any
and her eight-month-old calf George needed to Elizabeth Becker’s clipboard. The elephants are rhinos, five cheetahs, and 41 penguins. distress caused.
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Richard Kay
diary@dailymail.co.uk www.dailymail.co.uk/richardkay
‘Malvinas’
his eye when, scantily and actress Claire
clad for an episode of Goose to 007 producer
Big Brother, she sat on Barbara Broccoli —
a contestant’s knee made his first public
and planted red-lipstick appearance with his
kisses on his cheek. latest squeeze at a
Or perhaps, with his performance by Cirque
penchant for beautiful du Soleil at the Royal
women, television chef Albert Hall.
gaffe on BBC
James Martin, 38, was Louise works behind
simply ready to cast his the scenes of Celebrity
net once again. Who Wants To Be A
For I learn the hand- Millionaire — on which
some Saturday Kitchen Martin was a guest at
host, who only last Christmas — having
year seemed happily previously worked on
entwined with Dubai- Big Brother. She and
based interior designer James only recently
Julia Dempster, is now became close.
HE lives of 257
T FRIENDS were puzzled when stepping out with They spent New Year
servicemen were lost shapely TV producer together at James’s
to ensure that the Falk- former Tory MP Richard
Spring — newly elevated to the Louise Davies. Hampshire home, and
land Islands remain Lords — chose the title Baron Martin — who, aptly Louise was in the
a British dependency. Risby of Haverhill. He told chums for a cook, has enjoyed passenger seat of his
But perhaps someone he wanted to avoid being Lord romances with a string silver Ferrari at Brook-
should remind the BBC. Spring because it sounds too much Hat’s off: Saturday Kitchen star James Martin of women with culinary lands race track on
For, to the astonishment of the like a brand for bottled water. with Louise Davies at the Royal Albert Hall names, from ex-Miss New Year’s Day.
Falklands’ hardy residents and Yet cynics suggest it has more to do
soldiers who fought to liberate with disassociating himself from a
them almost 30 years ago, the three-in-a-bed romp which brought Major-General Julian Thompson,
islands were re-christened ‘the about his resignation in 1995 as who led the commando land force
Malvinas’ — the contentious name parliamentary private secretary to for the first phase of the war, says:
for the islands used by Argentina the then Ulster Secretary, Sir
$ # ! "'
‘It is perverse. The Falkland
— by the writers of children’s TV Patrick Mayhew. ‘Anything to islanders would feel highly upset if
show The Sarah Jane Adventures. avoid that unfortunate moniker of they saw that programme. Only
No less a figure than Major- “bed Spring”, with which he was the Argentinians call the islands
General Sir Jeremy Moore, who saddled at the time,’ says a friend. by that name, so it would only
accepted the Argentinian
surrender, refused to allow the use
of ‘Islas Malvinas’ in the documents
signed in 1982, dismissing it as a
islands has resurfaced in the wake
of the defence cuts here. (And just
make any sense if it were an Argen-
tinian programme, not British.’
Lord Tebbit, who was in the
C a b i n e t d u r i n g t h e w a r, i s
$& & &#
&
propaganda term. as Brazil’s new Left-wing president forthright. ‘There is no such place
Yet, in an episode entitled Death refuses the Falklands protection as Las Malvinas, whether the BBC
Of The Doctor, the BBC’s Sarah ship, HMS Clyde, permission to likes it or not,’ he says. ‘The
Jane series did just that when dock in Rio de Janeiro.) Falkland islanders chose their
describing how a character travelled At worst, it is something future and the Thatcher govern-
more sinister.
from South America to Britain,
saying he went ‘via Las Malvinas’.
The programme has been
Welsh Guardsman Simon Weston,
who was severely burned in the
ment backed them. That’s the end
of the matter.’
A BBC spokesman says: ‘He [the
! #
#!
#!
screened twice, including on conflict, tells me: ‘I can’t under- character in the show] uses the
Christmas morning. stand why the British Broadcasting Spanish word to describe the
At best, the reference was Corporation allows something so islands in context, as he was living
unfortunate at a time when talk of crassly inaccurate to just fly past
on a children’s programme.’
in Argentina prior to travelling
over to the UK.’
the Argentinian claim on the
THERE’S still
more than three
months to go until
the wedding, but
Model Alice to marry £644m man
already charities SHE once posed with Alice, 25, who is
Picture: DOMINIC O’NEILL
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nightmare
The phone and internet company
received 28 pc of all your votes, narrowly
beating Spanish-owned bank
Santander. In third place was bungling
tax collector HM Revenue & Customs.
Thousands of you voted by post and
in our online poll at thisismoney.co.uk.
The Wooden Spoon is the award that By James Coney
no organisation wants to win because
it spotlights the huge flaws in their A QUARTER of a million pensioners
customer service. will have their tax bills written off
We gave you a shortlist of ten after Money Mail highlighted a
organisations which had generated crucial loophole.
large numbers of complaints in our
mailbag over the past year. Yesterday, the Exchequer Secretary
But your anger was focused on to the Treasury David Gauke revealed
TalkTalk, which with four million phone that 250,000 people who paid too
and broadband customers, is the UK’s
second-largest telecoms company.
TalkTalk is so ashamed it has issued
an apology to Money Mail readers. Dido
No phone or internet for two months little tax on their state pensions will
not have to pay it back.
The bills dated from the 2008-09 and
2009-10 tax years. But the Government
Harding, chief executive of TalkTalk, ALICE and Tim Lamb had a nightmare with TalkTalk TalkTalk informing them they had been upgraded has decided to apply a previously
who personally received the award, when they moved house last year and were left to the ‘Essentials’ package for an additional £6.99
says: ‘I absolutely recognise that we little-known rule called A19
without phone or broadband for two months. per month — something they had never agreed. Extra-Statutory Concession to them
have not provided a good service to Mrs Lamb, 44, who works as an NHS administra- ‘I will question TalkTalk about the additional
15,914
some of our customers this year, for automatically.
which I apologise.’ tor, says: ‘Trying to report the lack of connection charge, but it is difficult and costly to get through This conces-
You have presented a dirty dozen list was hopeless because TalkTalk failed to recognise to anyone,’ says Mrs Lamb. sion can be used
of problems: the new telephone number or the old one. A spokesman for TalkTalk says: ‘Mrs Lamb when taxpayers
O CALLS not returned, emails unan- ‘Eventually we got it sorted out, but they still requested a home move in October 2009 which went The page have provided
swered and no explanations provided;
O RUDE, insensitive and, worst of all,
billed us for the two months. We never received a live at the beginning of December 2009. At that time,
refund, apology or notification when the problem home moves could take up to six weeks. Now it can
where HM Revenue &
Customs with
dishonest staff — you claim they have was finally fixed.’ take as little as seven days. the A19 all the informa-
lied abo u t w h e n p r o b l e m s w o u l d The Lambs, pictured at their home in Devon with ‘Mrs Lamb also received a letter in error regarding
be fixed; children William, 13, and Anna, 11, already pay £40 a change to her service and tariff. We apologise for rule is tion it needs to
get their tax
O BEING charged for services you have
not asked for or received;
per month for their phone and broadband. However, these issues and have compensated Mrs Lamb for buried in right, but it still
they were surprised to receive a letter from her time offline.’ gets it wrong.
O DEBT collectors being sent in when
you have cancelled your con-
the tax Normally, tax-
tract or paid up; customers for services not rulebook payers have to
O BEING put on hold for hours
on end, being sent round in
PROBLEM WITH
TALKTALK?
provided and wrongly chasing
them for payment. Its boss Ms
apply for this
special concession — which allows
circles and hung up on; Harding says: ‘I want to focus the taxman to write off under-paid
O WEEKS and sometimes Call this free number more on providing a better tax in special circumstances.
months to resolve issues; service for existing customers The Mail revealed this concession
O SHODDY technical support;
TalkTalk has set up for than acquiring new ones.’
last year after HMRC admitted some
O D I F F I C U LT I E S u n d e r- readers: 0800 542 8080 Runners-up Santander
5.7 million people had paid too much,
standing staff at the overseas received 24 pc of the vote.
The error-prone bank had a or too little tax. Of these, 1.4 million
call centres; about its services. She told the
call centre she opted for BT in disastrous year after it botched were faced with bills totalling
O BEING left with no phone or thousands of Isa transfers and £3.8 billion.
internet service; the end. She has not been able
suffered a mountain of Many readers have since been in
O PROBLEMS setting up a to find out from TalkTalk what
complaints from former
touch to report how they used the
connection for new the £116 bill is for.
Bradford & Bingley and Alliance sample letter we printed to fight a
customers; A n o t h e r r e a d e r, A l e x & Leicester customers as they
O C A N C E L L AT I O N f e e s Turkeltob, from Coventry, were moved to Santander. shock bill.
charged to fed-up customers; moved his business line from And third placed HMRC Yesterday, the Treasury said it
and BT to TalkTalk, but his will suffered a terrible year after it believed pensioners who had
O BOTCHED service and writing business was left unable introduced a new computer
underpaid because their tax code
billing for former Tiscali to receive incoming calls. system. Thousands of taxpayers had not been altered to reflect their
customers. Despite visits from two received incorrect tax coding state pension had a strong case. As a
engineers, the problem was
Money Mail has sent a notices — some received several result, they would not have to apply
dossier of your complaints to not fixed, so in exasperation within the space of a few days. individually and their bills would
Ms Harding. the 68-year-old cancelled his The taxman’s customer just be written off.
They include one from Ann contract and monthly direct s ervices staff were besieged. Mike Warburton, from accountants
Larner, from Essex, who is being debit. TalkTalk is pursuing him Things got worse when HMRC 5IPNBT Grant Thornton, says: ‘It always
pursued by TalkTalk’s debt col- for a £200 cancellation fee. was forced to admit 5.7 million $PPL seemed likely that pensioners would
lectors for £116 — despite never The Wooden Spoon award people had paid the wrong tax
being a TalkTalk customer. comes as TalkTalk faces a since 2008. For their reaction be caught out in the tax confusion.
Mrs Larner was shopping £150 million fine from regulator and more on our Wooden Spoon Now, it seems that instead of wading
around for the best deal and Ofcom. It missed an end-of- awards, turn to pages 38-43. through a quarter of a million cases,
approached TalkTalk to inquire year deadline to stop charging j.coney@dailymail.co.uk it has taken the sensible approach.’
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voicemail and caller ID from TalkTalk, but
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received the service.
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to 15 minutes and am simply told it is a
“technical problem” that will be sorted in a
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HE EVIDENCE
hree of Britain’s biggest organisations,
SUE ANDERSON, 67, a retired book-
keeper from Glasgow, says: ‘My sister
and I have a joint account with
Santander and we asked them to
change the address on the account.
‘This took three branch visits and
three letters — I tried calling, but was
always put on hold. Six months later, I
finally got the matter resolved.’
er contempt — as your stories prove have not met with their or our
expectations.
‘Santander has been integrating
three banks over the past two years
and we acknowledge that high
demand for our products during
this time has meant our service
has been stretched.
‘We know we have more to do, but
we are taking important steps to
improve, including creating 1,000
new jobs in branches and call
centres. Our satisfaction survey
suggests progress is being made.’
THIRD PLACE
HM REVENUE
& CUSTOMS
HMRC’s customer services staff were
placed under enormous strain last
year by a series of disastrous events
linked to a new computer system
for pay-as-you-earn that HMRC
introduced in 2009.
Taxpayers were bombarded with
multiple tax codes, billing errors
and demands for payment out of
the blue.
customer Santander put £5,100 HMRC’s blunders left but they still weren’t right.’
Nurse MARY STEPHEN felt ‘physi-
cally sick’ when she opened a letter
us cold in our bank account me with a £3,200 bill from the taxman telling her she owed
£3,207 in underpaid tax. Mrs Stephen,
52, works at a hospital in Glasgow
and occasionally does extra shifts to
e agreed to sign up. VAL GOLDTHORPE was Santander a £25 STAN BRADBURN, 67, was I had got such a large bill help out local hospitals.
After about two months astonished to discover administration fee!’ told he owed £3,200 to due to HMRC’s But she was astonished to discover
f this chaos, I said I no £5,100 in her current Ms Goldthorpe has now HMRC after underpaying deficiencies,’ he says. that HMRC thought she had another
onger wanted the service account that Santander switched her current tax for the past two years. Mr Bradburn earns £600 job at the Royal College of Physicians
— but TalkTalk said my had put there by mistake. account to Barclays. The former publican per month, of which £120 and Surgeons of Glasgow —
ooling off period had It took the bungling bank ‘I asked Santander to works at Asda for 25 hours goes on tax. But from next somewhere she has never worked.
‘I will contest these sums. It’s all
nished, so I had to go more than two months to provide me with a letter a week and receives a April the tax will increase very muddled, but I believe they think
head with the contract.’ remove the money. explaining what had private and state pension. to £265, so he will be left I’m earning far more than I am.’
Mr Watts, pictured with The 48-year-old, pictured happened, in case I But these three sources of with £335 for 100 hours DAVID BETSON , a retired shop
is wife Joy at their home at her home in Worthing, needed it for the taxman. income confused HMRC, worked — that is £3.35 per manager from Hartlepool, says
n Newton Abbot, Devon, Sussex, with her ‘Three months later, I still which issued him an hour after tax. problems occur with his tax codes with
nally did terminate his husband Reuben and hadn’t received it. In the incorrect tax code. ‘I have no savings and if I ‘monotonous regularity’ as every year
ontract and is now with their son Timothy, 5, says: end I went to my local Mr Bradburn was told he did not work I’d be able to he receives several incorrect codes.
T. A spokesman for ‘I felt sorry for the person branch.’ owes £1,709 for 2008-09 claim housing and council ‘I am 79 and have to get someone to
alkTalk says: ‘Due to a whose money was A spokesman for and £1,491 for 2009-10. tax benefits, which total type letters for me — I find the whole
echnical issue, Mr Watts’ missing. Santander says: ‘We Furthermore, his wife more than I earn at Asda.’ situation stressful and annoying.’
ransfer was unsuccessful ‘I spent ages on the would like to apologise. Majorie, who works part- A HMRC spokesperson GEORGE STEWART , 80, has been
nd we were unable to time at a bakery, has been says: ‘We are looking into trying for 18 months to get back two
phone to their call We have sent Ms tax rebates from HMRC after tax was
rovide the service. We centres — if only I had Goldthorpe £25 to cover told she owes £700 for this case as a matter or incorrectly taken from his savings
pologise to Mr Watts.’ the power to charge the cost of her calls to us.’ 2009-10. ‘I couldn’t believe urgency.’ accounts in 2008-09 and 2009-10.
Mr Stewart, who lives in
Nottingham, made a formal
complaint and was promised a
atherine, to himself. ‘I have Santander took over my account,’ he response by September 2010.
lephoned so many times I lost
unt,’ he says. ‘The account is paid
RUNNER-UP says. The retired postmaster, who
lives in Hampshire, suddenly had
WILLIAM HARRIS , 75, describes
telephone banking with Santander as
‘a joke’. The retired civil servant, who
‘I still haven’t heard anything back
from them,’ he says.
m a standing order on my bank SANTANDER two account numbers and sort codes lives in Essex, says: ‘When I was with
count, yet TalkTalk insist on
MONEY Mail began highlighting
for the same account and demands Alliance & Leicester it was quick, WHAT HMRC SAYS:
dressing all communications to for council tax and internet pay- simple and efficient. Now it is slow, LESLEY STRATHIE, chief executive
atherine.’ issues with customer service at ments, after Santander failed to pay difficult and inefficient.’
Santander early last year. Problems and Permanent Secretary at HMRC,
ARAH PORTER , from Northern most of his direct debits. Mr Harris says he was recently says: ‘We do many things well, but we
eland, says TalkTalk staff have first began with its transfer of Isas. ‘Santander doesn’t need a wooden passed from pillar to post and
Then service in other areas of the are acutely aware that when we get
en ‘arrogant and rude’ when spoon — it needs a wooden shovel,’ eventually cut off when he tried to things wrong people can be seriously
aling with her request to cancel business collapsed. Last June, we he says. transfer some money over the phone. adversely affected.
launched our Not Good Enough, JOHN GORROD, 79, sent Santander a
r contract.
Señor campaign.
STEVE BOYLE , 63, a retired local ‘We are sorry for the problems your
Mrs Porter has been locked in a cheque for £5,100 to open an Isa — government officer from Dumfries, readers have experienced and we are
spute after it tried to charge her but the bank lost his application. says: ‘If I was entitled to 100 votes, determined to improve those areas
5.99 for a month when she had no WHAT YOU TOLD US: He says: ‘I couldn’t believe I had they would all go to Santander.’ of our business that are currently not
oadband. NORMAN PAYNE, 80, had his current sent them so much money and it When his Alliance & Leicester delivering the quality of service to
’ve requested an itemised bill and account with Girobank when it was just became lost in the abyss.’ account was switched to Santander which we aspire.’
d them I will pay what I owe when taken over by Alliance & Leicester, The delays meant he missed his he applied for a credit card but was SEE our past winners in the Wooden
ave checked it,’ she says. ‘Instead, which he says was a smooth transi- chance to invest his Isa allowance rejected because the bank had Spoon Hall Of Shame at www.thisis
ey passed me to a debt collector.’ tion. ‘What a difference when for the tax year 2009-10. incorrect details on file. money.co.uk/wooden-spoon.
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shared
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this month. The time to transfer funds ING Direct (b) 0800 376 8877 Direct Savings (T) for 12 months Dutch 1 2.70 2.16 1.62
from one account to another has been Sainsbury’s Bank 0500 405 060 Easy Saver (T) no own 1 2.30 1.84 1.20
cut from 30 to 15 working days.
Once you put in your request to your Skipton BS 0845 850 1722 Telephone Saver no shared 10,000 2.00 1.60 1.20
new bank or building society: NS&I 0500 007 007 Direct Saver (T) no govt 1 1.75 1.40 1.05
THEY have five business days to send INTERNET ACCOUNTS
instructions to your old manager; ING Direct (b) ingdirect.co.uk Direct Savings for 12 months Dutch 1 2.70 2.16 1.62
YOUR old manager has another five
business days to send the cash; Skipton BS skipton.co.uk My Saving to Jan 2012 shared 1 2.50 2.00 1.50
YOUR new manager has three Northern Rock northernrock.co.uk E-Saver 3 no own 250 2.50 2.00 1.50
business days to credit the cash to your Barnsley BS barnsley-bs.co.uk Online Saver no shared 1 2.50 2.00 1.50
new Isa account; Intelligent Finance if.com iSaver no shared 1 2.49 1.99 1.49
THE other two days allow for first-
class postage between managers. CASH ISAS: Branch (B), telephone (T), Postal (P) and Internet (Int)
Three large Isa providers have pledged Santander (a) 0800 234 6065 Flexible Isa 3 (B/T/Int) one year shared 1 2.85 2.85 2.85
to give savers a better deal on transfers. Halifax 0845 726 3646 Isa Direct Reward (T/Int/B) no shared 1 2.80 2.80 2.80
Nationwide, Halifax and Bank of Scotland
now pay the rate of offer when you apply NS&I (a) 0500 007 007 Direct Isa (Int/T) no govt 100 2.50 2.50 2.50
to switch your existing Isas. Northern Rock 0845 600 4466 Easy ISA (B) no own 1 2.50 2.50 2.50
Before, you would not benefit from this Intelligent Finance 0845 609 4343 Cash Isa (T/Int) no shared 1 2.50 2.50 2.50
higher rate until your money turned up FOR PENSIONERS IN THE HIGH STREET
with your new provider. How much you
benefit depends on the amount you Leeds BS 0845 050 5075 Flexible Freedom to Sept 2010 own 500 2.00 1.60 1.20
have in your account. An annual rate of Skipton BS 0845 850 1722 Pension Plus no shared 500 1.45 1.16 0.87
2.5 pc paid for 15 days on £1,000 works Norwich & Peterborough BS 0845 300 2511 50-Plus Savings no own 5,000 1.00 0.80 0.60
out at £1. On £50,000, it’s a more
significant £50. BONUS ACCOUNTS BONUS
Bank of Scotland and Halifax (both part Post Office postoffice.co.uk Online Saver 1.25% pt for 1 yr own 1 2.90 2.32 1.74
of Lloyds Banking Group) pay a tax-free Principality BS principality.co.uk e-ISA 1% pt for 1 yr own 1 2.80 2.80 2.80
2.8 pc on cash Isa money through Halifax BM Savings 0845 602 2828 ISA Extra (T/Int) 1% pt for 15mths shared 1 2.70 2.70 2.70
Isa Direct Reward. After a year, the rate
drops to the standard rate of 0.5 pc. C&G 0845 602 0022 Cash Isa (B/T) 1.7% pt for 1yr shared 1 2.70 2.70 2.70
Savers opening a Nationwide E-Isa Northern Rock (c) 0845 600 4466 Save Up (P) 1.5% pt for 1 yr own 1 2.60 2.08 1.56
from December ten also earn 2.8 pc, AA Savings theaa.com Internet Extra 4 (Int) 2.1% pt for 1yr shared 1 2.60 2.08 1.56
including a 1.05 percentage point bonus BM Savings 0845 602 2828 Telephone Extra 3 (T) 2.1% pt for 1 yr shared 1 2.60 2.08 1.56
paid until December 31, 2011. To open its
Isa, you need a card-based account. Santander 0800 389 9875 Instant Access 3 (B/T) 1.5% pt for 1 yr shared 1,000 2.50 2.00 1.50
If you opened an account before then, KEY: (a) No transfers from other providers. (b) New savers only. (c) Maximum one withdrawal a month.
you earn 2.75 pc — including a bonus, TABLE COMPILED BY SYLVIA MORRIS. See www.thisismoney.co.uk for savings updates.
which expires on June 30. To find out which banks and building societies share a licence, go to www.fsa.gov.uk or call 0845 606 12340.
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savings. You can put in £5,100 this Flexible Saver, Instant Access Cash Isa (taken out before
tax year, which ends on April 5. March 8, 2010).
Savings, Premier Savings.
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90-Day Notice, Easy Saver,
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The best deals that take new Savings, Reward Saver. Postal Isa 1 and 2, Remote Isa.
money or transfers are:
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Office’s internet-based Online dreds of pounds a year to their
Defaqto. There were also 50-plus ;./- / / 5.$/.. $,
Saver at 2.32 pc (2.9 pc). Those savings by moving their money.’
who have been in the account new variable -rate taxable Kevin Mountford, head of $ ;&7. /8 $/ &$" $ 620 &. ; (&$ $ #!
more than a year can earn 1.32 pc accounts. They pay for these savings at Moneysupermarket. (&/ 5/ $ .$,
(1.6 pc). launches by giving derisory rates com, adds: ‘When the rates drop
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HSBC has scrapped fees on its tracker Skipton BS 0845 717 1777 4.08 to 31/12/15 75 995 799 48,961
mortgages as banks slash costs in new Barnsley BS 0845 120 0100 5.29 to 31/1/16 85 199 903 55,215
year sales. It is offering a best-buy life-
time tracker at 1.79 percentage points BASE-RATE TRACKERS
above base — giving a current rate of First Direct 0845 610 0100 2.19 Base + 1.69% for 2 years 65 99 650 15,693
2.29 pc — for those with 40 pc deposit Chelsea BS 0800 169 0033 2.59 Base + 2.09% to 28/2/13 75 495 680 16,809
or equity.
On a typical £150,000 mortgage, this Nottingham BS 0115 956 4704 3.79 Base + 3.29% for 2 years 85 995 775 19,583
would mean current monthly CREDIT CARDS
repayments of £657. All trackers are Introductory Introductory balance Standard
arrangement fee-free until February 6.
However, not all new year offers from Contact purchase rate % Until transfer rate % pa Until Transfer fee purchase % APR
banks are worth snapping up. Halifax Tesco Bank Clubcard MasterCard 0800 406050 0 1st 13 mths 0 1st 9 mths 2.9% 16.9 (a)
has launched a fee-free new first-time Sainsbury’s MasterCard for Nectar Card 0800 032 1365 0 1st 12 mths 0 1st 12 mths 3% 15.9 (a)
buyer mortgage — a two-year fixed rate
at 5.79 pc — for those with a 10 pc Barclaycard Platinum with Purchase Visa 0844 811 9151 0 1st 12 mths 0 1st 12 mths 2.9% 18.9
deposit. Borrowers must have a current Barclaycard Platinum Balance Transfer Visa 0844 811 9151 0 1st 3 mths 0 1st 17 mths 2.9% 16.9
account to qualify for the rate. MBNA Platinum 16 Month Visa 0800 068 8788 - 1st 3 mths 0 1st 16 mths 2.88% 16.7
But a better deal can be found with Barclaycard Platinum Simplicity Visa 0844 811 9151 - - - - 0% 6.8
HSBC, which offers 4.99 pc for two
years with a £99 fee. Monthly The Co-operative Bank Platinum Tracker Visa 0845 600 6000 0.5% 1st 6 mths 0.5 1st 6 mths 0% 7.7
repayments would be £876, compared Source: Moneyfacts.co.uk (11.1.11) a = rate is typical and dependent on credit scoring * True cost of £150,000 repayment remortgage over offer period including product fees, valuation fee and £500 legal fees. Mortgage
with £947 with Halifax. products shown include a range of maximum loan to value (LTV) limits; other products with similar true costs may be available at the same or different maximum LTVs
Why half of
us won’t get
the cheapest
card deals
NEARLY half of all borrowers who
apply for credit cards and loans from
By Liz Phillips
next month could be charged more
than the advertised interest rate. this and other changes in the code
Britain has been forced to bring in will benefit consumers to the tune
new consumer protection rules laid of £533 million. Britain’s 30 million
down by the EU, which actually make credit card users will also see other
life tougher for borrowers. changes. Credit limits cannot be
Currently, card companies and increased without warning, as
lenders must make the rate they customers will be given a new 30-day
advertise available to at least two- notice period and easy opt-out.
thirds of applicants. But from And those struggling to pay their
February 1, when the Consumer bills will not be offered unsolicited
Credit Directive is implemented, it limit increases.
has to apply to only 51 pc. Higher To ward off calls for an increase in
rates are given to borrowers that minimum payments, the card com-
lenders consider to be higher risk. panies have promised to contact
Vera Cottrell, policy adviser at those who repeatedly pay the mini-
consumer group Which?, says: ‘This mum to explain how expensive it is.
is a backward step. Fewer consum- Issuers must also give 60 days’ notice
ers will be guaranteed to get the rate before increasing interest rates.
advertised. But there’s nothing we A n d u n d e r t h e n e w E U l a w,
could do about it because it was borrowers will have a 14-day
agreed at EU level.’ cooling-off period to can-
With only a one in two
chance of getting the rate Cash cel store cards, credit
cards and other loans if
applied for, there will be
more disgruntled
cardholders.
stash they were taken out in
a shop, bank or lend-
er’s premises.
Alex Higgs, of Britons have When newlywed Han-
Confused.com, says: nah Maundrell, 26,
‘There’s going to be £7 billion in cash in applied for a credit
a lot more people wallets, purses and card to use on honey-
getting a nasty surprise. moon in Mauritius, she
And it’s not easy to go piggy banks in
was shocked to find she
elsewhere, as several their homes would be charged almost
searches showing on your double the advertised rate.
credit file will damage your Hannah, who married Andre
credit record.’ Hodges, 25, from Cirencester, in
Borrowers who make several appli- October, wanted the Halifax Clarity
cations — even if they do not take credit card because it doesn’t charge
the card or loan — are more likely to extra for use abroad and has no cash
be turned down or offered an even withdrawal fee.
higher interest rate. Best of all, it advertises a low typi-
Comparison websites have credit cal rate of just 12.9 pc.
checkers that give you an idea of But when it came through, she
your credit rating without it showing found her interest rate was 21.9 pc.
up on your credit record. Ha n n a h s a y s : ‘ I m a n a g e m y
However, it is not all bad news for finances very carefully and have no
borrowers. outstanding debts, so I’m a good
Under the new Lending Code, credit risk.
payments made on your credit card ‘I’ve never had any problems. I
bill now go towards reducing the can’t understand why I was given
highest-cost debt first. such a significantly higher rate than
In the past, most lenders reduced the one advertised.’
your cheapest debt first. So those A spokesman for Halifax says: ‘We
with an interest-free balance made the decision based on our
would see this paid off, while risk-based pricing process, which
purchases and cash withdrawals allows us to price accurately for
continued to be charged interest risk and a borrower’s individual
as high as 30 pc. circumstances.’
The UK Cards Association reckons l.phillips@dailymail.co.uk
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Exposed: How
into gambling
take are often deeply flawed and can
lead to cautious customers being
misled into taking huge gambles with
their money.
Any customer meeting a bank or
insurance company adviser faces a
standard series of questions put by the
salesmen. But these are so slanted and
misleading that many cautious savers
your savings
have their money gambled in high-risk
investments, which pay huge commission
and charges to the adviser.
In a damning paper, the Financial
Services Authority revealed that the
vast majority of questionnaires it
analysed had weaknesses which could
lead to unsuitable advice. The answers RETIRED couple John and Janet
customers give to these OFAIL to spot low-risk customers sold risky funds by Barclays McCartney were advised by
unsuitable because the investment
questions put by advisers are who should leave their money salesmen. Investors saw up to half Barclays in the summer of 2007
selection failed to match the
used to determine where their in cash. of their money wiped out. Many t o i nve s t £ 2 2 5,0 0 0 — t h e
customer’s risk profile.
money is invested and how much The FSA has refused to complained that the answers they proceeds from the sale of their
Justin Urquhart Stewart,
It’s a
risk they take. name and shame the gave to the bank’s salesmen were
The FSA says they often:
marketing director of house and business — into the
guilty firms, but a Seven Investment not reflected in the investments high-risk Aviva Global Balanced
ODON’T consider how much
fact
spokesman says: ‘The Management, says: they were recommended. Income fund. But 18 months later
customers can afford to lose; level of failure in this ‘These questionnaires A Barclays spokesman says:
OASK them to pick a number more than £120,000 had been
area is unacceptable. are face-saving ‘The FSA discussed risk-profiling
between one and ten to decide with us last year, but has made no wiped off their nest egg — they
The high number of More than half of exercises geared
how much risk they want to take; unsuitable investment direct comment on our process. got their money back via the
towards making
children aged five savers
OUSE poor, vague question and selections we see in take out stand- ‘Our profile tool is highly Financial Ombudsman.
answer options and interpret pensions and invest- to nine own a ard investment rigorous and the questions cannot Mr McCartney, 64, remembers
answers as they see fit; ment markets is still a mobile phone products rather than be manipulated provided the the questionnaire: ‘We made it
OFAIL to understand the risk of significant concern.’ determining their real customer answers them clear we could not afford to lose
the investment or choose The FSA’s investigation attitude to risk.’ honestly.’ our capital. It seemed to be an
unsuitable investments, even said that of 366 cases it found Two years ago, Money Mail Questions to ask before you exercise designed to make us
when they have got the risk right; to be unsuitable between March reported how thousands of cautious i n v e s t a t w w w. t h i s i s m o n e y. invest money rather than reflect
OGIVE too much weighting to cer- 2008 and September 2010, more savers — many of them pensioners co.uk/invest. our real attitude to risk.’
tain answers and ignore others; than half were deemed to be or approaching retirement — were j.salmon@dailymail.co.uk
Aviva
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pension
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pension income was
banned for ‘misleading’
savers.
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dian Paul Whitehouse,
claimed Aviva offered
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TalkTalk:
We need
more than
apologies
THE
LAST
WORD
By Tony Hazell
IT CAME as little customer service at the
surprise to us at bottom of its list of
priorities.
Money Mail that It has already pushed
TalkTalk won our the regulator to the limit
Wooden Spoon award of its patience and is
this year. facing the possibility of a
Complaints about its huge fine for harassing
shoddy customer service, customers with debt
its bullying attitude to collectors.
customers with whom it The obvious question is
has disputes and its awful why is it beyond the wit
call centres are a depress- of a telecoms firm to
ingly regular feature of communicate properly
our mailbag. with its customers? Is it
I personally experienced the will that is lacking —
its deceitful call centres or the technology?
when a sales person cold Part of the problem is
called in an attempt to that it has 20 different call
persuade me to swap to centres — many of them
another tariff. with employees lacking
He lied about my current the right levels of training
usage level in an attempt both in technical issues
to convince me that the and customer courtesy.
deal he was offering would Money Mail believes the
be cheaper. answer is simple. In the
When I asked for past, we have seen
written confirmation of Nationwide close its doors
what was on offer, he said to new cash Isa customers,
that was not possible as it knew it could not
and hung up! offer the right levels of
This is a minor niggle service.
compared with the horror And last year, British
stories which we receive Gas radically reformed its
on a daily basis. customer service after
We h e a r o f s e r v i c e s receiving our award.
promised but never Apologies are one thing,
delivered, phone or but now TalkTalk must
internet connections take action. This abject
being cut off for weeks on excuse for a telecoms
end and debt collectors company should not tout
set on people who have for new customers until it
never been customers or can deliver its current
who have merely tried to customers with the level
move to an alternative of service it has promised
phone supplier. and which they have a
TalkTalk has fallen into right to receive.
the trap of offering more And it must unilaterally
than it is able to deliver in call off debt collectors in
its headlong rush to every case until it has got
expand. its recovery process
It has been attempting working properly. It can
to run a phone company talk the TalkTalk, now it
on the cheap and putting must walk the WalkWalk.
Questionable motives
IT’S A technique well Services Authority appears
known to those who wish to be ready for a crackdown
to influence surveys: ask on these questionnaires,
the right questions and which are also used by
you will get the answers some independent financial
you want. advisers and insurance
This is what has been companies.
going on in banks for How many hundreds of
years. When they want to thousands — or possibly
flog something to their millions — of people have
customers, they take them been sold the wrong
through a questionnaire to investments on the back of
look at how much risk they them we may never know.
are prepared to take and Whatever the number, it
which investment would is vital that the FSA forces
be most appropriate. a change.
However, many of these But what many
questionnaires are so consumers should be ask-
skewed they will come up ing is why, with something
with the answer the bank so obvious, has it taken so
wants, rather than the one many years for the FSA to
that is right for their cus- investigate and act?
tomer. Now the Financial t.hazell@dailymail.co.uk
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FISHY Dawson (pictured), a chef who is passionate HARVEST TIME RETURN OF ZIVA
BUSINESS about ‘sustainable’ food and the Edwardian Farm, 9pm, BBC2 NCIS, 9pm, Ch5
Arthur’s Hell environment. He’s no fan of commercial IN THIS penultimate report from the AFTER last week’s high-impact seventh
On High Water, trawling, but here he goes to sea on a Edwardian farm, it’s July and time to season opener, things quieten down as
8pm, Ch4 trawler to find out about fishing from the harvest the cherries — if the rain ever stops Ziva rejoins the team. It’s a thoughtful
NO, IT’S not trawlermen’s point of view. Later, at 9pm, — and potatoes, with the help of the and emotionally charged reunion, with
Arthur Smith — Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall investigates wonderful Francis Mudge and keen local the case they are investigating (the murder
it’s Arthur Potts the problems with tinned tuna. children. There’s a charabanc outing, too. of a Marine at a bachelor party) rather
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CHOICE archaeologist, with his young
sidekick and a nightclub singer in
tow, is stranded in India, where he
takes on a mission to recover lost
sacred stones with magical powers
from the hands of an evil cult
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to become front-of-house experts.
See Pick of the Day. [3183]
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leads to murder after a stalwart in
the Midsomer Conservation Society
suspects her neighbours are
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See Critics’ Choice. [1725]
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8.55
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See Critics’ Choice. [3947] the problems with tinned tuna, and
Harrison Ford and Kate Capshaw. heads to the Maldives and Ghana in
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See Critics’ Choice. [65157763] current mass fishing techniques.
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evil, hoping his actions will earn him FILM Premiere. Documentary in which
featuring Ipswich Town v Arsenal at introduces action from the
a place in heaven. Supernatural
CHOICE actor Adrian Grenier follows 14-year-
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PETERBOROUGH LETTERS
B
ACK in the late Fifties, climbed out on to a precarious might drag off Nick into the night ing in of the New Year.
I shared a room in balcony — calling to a crowd (though that could be a good thing — No other song has endured such
Islington, North Lon- gathering in the street. she might persuade him to shave.) abuse, and I’d like to take the
don, with my best friend Among them was a chap who As for the ghastly Webster females opportunity before Burns Night on
lived in our basement. He told us — words fail me. It’s difficult to under- January 25 to explain the Scottish
Rachel. Both of us were to stay where we were while he stand what they’re saying, but it tradition of singing this song.
newly appointed teachers. came upstairs. When we opened doesn’t matter as it wouldn’t be of any
One Sunday night Rachel was Auld Lang Syne means ‘old long
the door he was the only man interest, anyway. And why are they ago’, an idiomatic form for ‘long time
in our room at the top of a four- there. always in their nighties?
storey house, while I was in the ago’. The most common use of the
‘Come downstairs,’ he said. Now I read we are to be treated to a song involves only the first and fourth
bath one floor down. The door- ‘It’s all right, honestly.’ connection between Sally and Tyrone. verses and chorus. The company form
bell rang and I heard Rachel go In his room a man sat at a That’s it: I can’t watch any more. a circle holding hands and sings the
down to answer it, before table. ‘This is Geoff,’ our neigh- The characters are increasingly first verse and chorus:
screaming and running back bour explained. ‘He’s deaf and unbelievable and ridiculous. When I Should auld acquaintance be forgot,
upstairs shouting: ‘Stay where dumb. He came to visit me and think back to the wonderful Reg And never bought to min’?
you are, a man grabbed me!’ when Rachel opened the door, Holdsworth, Derek and Mavis, Jack Should auld acquaintance be forgot,
But I followed her to our room he tried to grab hold of her to and Vera Duckworth and Stan and And auld lang syne
as the man ran upstairs, too. We make himself understood.’ Hilda Ogden, not forgetting Annie
locked our door and jammed a We shook hands and had a cup Walker, they were all totally believa- CHORUS:
chair under it. of tea together. But even all ble. Where are those marvellous For auld lang syne, my dear.
We kept calling: ‘What do you these years later, a doorbell characters now? For old lang syne,
want?’ But he didn’t answer. He ringing when I’m in the bath I knew a woman once just like Annie We’ll tak a cup of kindness yet,
began trying to open the door brings it all back. Walker, full of airs and graces and For auld lang syne.
and we were so terrified we Mrs Jill Bagnall, Newcastle, Staffs. aspiring to things she could never At the beginning of the fourth verse,
have. The writing in those days was so everyone crosses their arms on their
good, too, and Annie would come out breast, so that the right hand reaches
Picture that! Today’s poem with some priceless remarks that were
spot on.
out to their neighbour on the left and
vice versa. The fourth verse:
And who could forget Hilda Ogden’s And there’s a hand, my trusty
A WOMAN’S WORK malapropisms. And where has the fiere, (friend)
BLAST THOSE IS NEVER DONE northern humour gone? And gie’s a hand o’thine,
SNAPPERS! I wonder whether Roy Hattersley, a And we’ll tak a right guid-willie
The windows all have lost champion of Coronation Street in the waught (farewell drink)
These
Victorian blast their shine, past, still feels the same way. For auld land syne.
furnaces at The bathroom needs The real problem is that it is watched
by impressionable young people, who Followed by the chorus again.
Blists Hill my touch. The last line of the Anglicised version
Victorian Town The rabbit wants releasing think they should behave in the
same way. of the chorus tends to be rendered:
in Ironbridge, From inside his little hutch. For the sake of old lang zyne.
Shropshire, Most people, especially in hard times,
The oven looks disgusting, need some relaxing, gentle humour The song is in praise of friendship
look horrified There’s crumbs upon and old time’s sake so the inclusion of
at having their and something pleasant to look at, not
the floor, people constantly rowing and treating the word ‘sake’ is unnecessary and the
picture taken. word syne meaning ‘since’ should be
With pleading eyes, and each other with contempt.
Lewis Wright, wagging tail We’re told that during the war people pronounced with a soft ‘s’ not a ‘z’.
Codsall, lapped up Hollywood films because JOHN LOBB DOUGLAS,
Wolverhampton. The dog stands by the door. Northants, Corby.
they could enjoy something beautiful
The telephone and and entertaining that made them for-
doorbell ring;
Which one to answer first?
get their troubles. That’s precisely
what we need.
Horse sense, Wills
AS A carriage driver, I’m disappointed
Out of the mouths of babes The teenage son
emerges now
It would have been a kindness to
everyone if the gas leak and explosion
Miss Middleton and her father are
planning to travel to Westminster
With hunger and a thirst. had eradicated the whole street and Abbey by car instead of carriage.
MY SEVEN-YEAR-OLD a few seconds, she said: ‘Gran- everyone in it.
granddaughter Brooke was dad, if the sweets cost two The potted plants are My disappointment turned to bewil-
Mrs D. J. SLATER, Swindon, Wilts. derment when I read that all of them
going out with her mother so I pounds, that won’t be enough, looking sad
gave her £1 and said: ‘Take
that and get some sweets.’
will it?’
George Osborne, take note.
Do they all need a drink?
Too little or too often? Time of our lives will return to Buckingham Palace
by carriage.
Forgive me for stating the obvious,
‘Thank you, Grandad,’ she Roy Hobbs, I don’t know what to think. THAT couple still on summertime
said, then, after looking at it for Christchurch, Dorset. (Mail) are not alone. We tried leaving but in order for the carriages to be
The fridge and freezer our clocks on BST in the late Seven- waiting at the Abbey at the end of the
look bereft, ties, but when our two young children service, they have to be driven there
Joke One-line Who’s eating all the food? started school, we felt after two
winters that it wasn’t fair or practical,
in the first place.
The sequence of events seems to be
This means a visit to
MY WIFE has left me. She says
I love football more than I love
philosophers the shops
And I’m not in the mood.
because they were coming home,
having tea and going straight to bed.
that a fleet of royal cars will be cleaned
and polished to within an inch of
her. I’m gutted; we’ve been WHEN you dream in colour, it’s With our family grown up, our clocks their lives to drive everyone to the
together for ten seasons. a pigment of your imagination. The linen basket overflows, haven’t changed from BST for many Abbey — and then make the return
George Valentine Mrs M. Shrive, Mansfield, Notts. The Hoover beckons, too, years. As well as the extra afternoon journey empty.
Rotherham, S. Yorks. A woman’s work is daylight, the advantages of being an Meanwhile, the carriages and
DIVORCE has become so
common these days, my never done? hour ahead means when shopping in coaches — the staff of the royal mews
husband and I are staying Believe me, this is true. supermarkets or malls, we receive having been up long before dawn to
Sign Language together just to be different.
Mrs Valerie Ashton, London N14.
There’s dirty dishes in better service and avoid the crowds
without having to get up at an
ensure all the turnouts are immacu-
late — will drive empty to the Abbey
the sink, unsocial hour in the morning. to take everyone back to the Palace.
See how they’re piling up. In restaurants, we have our 1pm Doesn’t make a lot of sense, does it?
Wordy Wise If anyone should ask
for tea,
lunch at what they call noon, when
they start serving. TV isn’t a problem
I appreciate the symbolism of Miss
Middleton arriving as a commoner
POMELETTE — The Aussies There’s not a single cup. with modern recording technology and leaving as a member of the Royal
provide grub for us Brits. A hundred jobs, the same allowing us to view to suit us. Family, but in 1981 at the marriage of
Mrs Sylvia Dugard, Witney, Oxon. each day When family or friends visit, they’re the late Princess of Wales, the distinc-
expected to slot into our time, as they tion was easily made.
BUTOX — Injection to smooth For women through The outward journey in the royal
out wrinkles in your bottom. the ages, would when going abroad. As we’re
Mick Brookfield, not hugely social, the odd late night is coach carrying the bride and her
And rubbing salt into taken in its stride. father was accompanied by a police
Clowne, Derbyshire.
the wound; Like the Warrens, we live in the West escort, not the Household Cavalry.
BARK ROYAL — It’s those All this — and yet no wages. Country, but we know of a farmer and On the return journey with Prince
corgis again. his wife in West Wales who are also Charles, they were accorded the full
John Bristow, Bedford. Jean Spindler,
Swindon, Wilts. converts. After all, livestock can’t royal escort.
change its clocks twice a year. There A full horse-drawn procession looks
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Straight to the
You can’t ÷HAD Ronnie Barker been alive today, he could
POINT
blame
have made a film in Scotland about life in prison,
and called it not Porridge, but Open All Hours.
HARRY GRAY,
Livingston, West Lothian.
÷LET’S oblige the bankers to pay their bonuses
into National Savings and Investments and allow
withdrawal only when the national debt is paid off.
Jamie if
That should get them working for the country.
ANDY JARVIS, Stockport.
÷WE SHOULD flash all speeding drivers, regardless
of whether there are speed traps ahead.
KENNETH OSWALD JONES,
Rock Ferry, Wirral.
÷CONVERTING to Islam (Mail) may be all well
you make
and good, but try converting back again and see
what happens.
Prof A. MAJOR, Wormley, Herts.
÷IF THE Beckhams’ new baby is a girl, they could
name her Saffron — a posh spice.
LIBBY HARDING, Leeming, N. Yorks.
÷AT NIGEL’S funeral in The Archers, I wonder if
a meal
they’ll all sing Tommy Cooper’s Don’t Jump Off The
Roof, Dad.
DIANA HARVEY-WILLIAMS, Sleaford, Lincs.
÷JACK STRAW can’t be all that bad — he’s upset
Ayatollah Vaz (Mail)
of it all
THERE’S anger and frustration lately at
Jamie Oliver’s 30-Minute Meals book.
Recipe for success: Jonathan Leer is a fan of Oliver’s book
meal challenge took five minutes to
chop an onion. I don’t have the greatest
The issues do appear to have been all
about initial preparation and having the
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Some claim the meals are impossible to chef-like skills with a knife but even I right kitchen aids — something
prepare in less than 30 minutes (Mail). I can chop an onion far faster. Another mentioned by Jamie at the beginning of For permission to copy cuttings for internal management and information purposes, please
watched the TV programmes and tester wasted five minutes because he each programme. contact the Newspaper Licensing Agency (NLA), PO Box 101, Tunbridge Wells TN1 1WX.
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Jamie’s book is a guide to some great
I have to defend Jamie and his concept. — and during some of the testing meal ideas. I’m sure that after doing one
I have cooked several of the recipes and process, it seemed that the clock was of the meals a couple of times, the book
found that as long as I was properly started before the initial preparation could stay on the shelf and the dishes be
prepared and followed the method was completed. It is also apparent that ready and on the table in less than 30
given, each meal was ready on time. I the time testers took to read and follow minutes.
read that one tester of the 30-minute the recipes wasn’t taken into account. JONATHAN LEER, Darlington, Co Durham.
Cristianos market in Tenerife, sportsman, a fine ambassador due to the extreme weather. Knirps had been trained to
so I stopped to watch and who takes it on the chin when Well done, boys. raise his paw in salute on the
decided to buy one for 20 he loses, who trains meticu- NEIL S. ROY, Hull. command ‘Heil Hitler’.
euros. lously and whose recognition is WHY is snow falling in centi- If they’d heard about that, they’d
For the previous nine months, long overdue. metres instead of feet and have really thrown a wobbler.
I’d been experiencing MARK S. BRADSHAW, KEVIN HENEGHAN,
Billingham, Teesside. inches? Why are people
occasional bouts of dizziness stranded on the motorways for St Helens, Lancs.
that my doctor said was vertigo
and would probably go away —
but it hadn’t.
Lagging behind kilometres instead of miles?
Millions of my generation
WE HAD a miniature wire-
haired Daxi who learned to
THE truth is out: wind turbines don’t understand this system raise a front paw at the com-
Within less than a minute of don’t work in the bleak mid- and have to covert the figures mand ‘Sieg Heil!’
wearing the bracelet, I felt a winter when our houses need to get a proper picture. It required a modicum of dis-
marked improvement. Before most electricity (Mail). The worst culprit is the BBC: cretion before exhibiting his
long, the dizziness had gone. So why not create thousands
I’ve worn it for two weeks and is the Government telling it to skill (though it did not, I hope,
of worthwhile jobs lagging our brainwash the public into indicate his political affiliation)
the difference it has made is homes using a similar subsidy
amazing. accepting metric? This was, happily, long after
scheme to the Renewables N. E. HOLT, Trafford. the demise of the Third Reich.
The Australian Consumer Obligation? JEREMY PARKER,
Commission says the bracelet
‘may’ be no more beneficial
Done properly, this keeps in
the heat in during winter and
Hounding Hitler Henstridge, Somerset.
than a rubber band — but I’m
certainly not taking mine off.
DEREK A WOODLAND,
out in summer, saving the
waste of our stocks of precious
PAPERS just released by the
German Foreign Office reveal A Lib-Con swing?
fossil fuels. Adolf Hitler’s regime was IN THE latest poll about this
Midsomer Norton, Somerset. increasingly angry because
I used to campaign along with week’s by-election in Oldham
King of sport Greenpeace and Friends of the
Earth back in the days before
Finnish businessman Tord
Borg had taught his dog Jackie
East and Saddleworth, Labour
has 44 per cent, the Tories 28
DARTS is a competitive game they discovered they could to give the Hitler salute. per cent and the Lib-dems 17
between two teams — an raise more funds by frightening He was even called to the per cent.
individual or a group — and families with their carbon- German embassy for question- At first glance, that may seem
that for me is a definition of free jackboots. ing. Little did they know. bad for the two parties in govern-
sport (Letters). Dr DAVID BELLAMY, Antony Beevor’s book Stalin- ment — but what it means is that
It has gone beyond being an Bedburn, Co. Durham. grad records that General, later the Government has 45 per cent
inter club/pub league game, DURING the cold spell, the Field Marshal, Erich von Man- against Labour’s 44 per cent — in
reaching international levels local traffic wardens were out stein, a Prussian guards officer other words, the Government has
and attracting big audiences, in force, doing their duty. A admired by some as the most the majority. That is what should
live or on TV. couple of them put a ticket on brilliant strategist of World War be emphasised.
Phil Taylor is arguably the a car covered in six inches of II, could be scathing about Hit- PETER BREUER,
country’s most successful snow, obviously abandoned ler. As a joke, his dachshund Westcliff-on-Sea, Essex.
COT deaths are profound episodes WHAT a fuss just because EastEnders was famed for his wisdom, had no
and release deep emotions in the promotes a story about cot death. way of knowing which of two mothers
parents and their extended family, Yes, it’s a heart-breaking subject — was telling the truth when one of
and the ripple effect stretches to but it’s a soap opera. This ups the their newborn babies died.
complete strangers. All sympathy is viewing figures. Was there the same So he told a servant to cut the
heartfelt. However, when soaps and outcry when prostate cancer and surviving baby in two and give half to
TV programmes portray storylines of each woman.
death, murder, child abuse, violence, imminent death was mentioned on At this, one of the mothers cried for
paedophilia and abduction, cannot Casualty? Do we get a multitude of the baby to be given to the other
the same concerns be expressed complaints over gory murder scenes woman so that it would, at least, live.
about them? How many shows could in other programmes? People would Solomon then pronounced her to be
they make without these themes? turn off if only idyllic scenes and the real mother of the child because
As a soap, EastEnders portrays real happiness were shown. she was prepared to give her baby to
life instances as well as the Mrs EUNICE BIRCH, the other woman rather than see him
unbelievable. Distasteful though it Sutton-on-Forest, York. killed. I never watch soaps but I
may be, most people accept all the THE horrid storyline in EastEnders recognised the story as soon as I
foregoing as entertainment. concerning cot death is merely a new heard about it.
LORRAINE SEMPLE, take on a very old story from the Mrs BRONWEN SADLER,
Hythe, Kent. Bible in which King Solomon, who Headcorn, Kent.
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sadly died on
stage in 1984, during the TV
QUESTION Has anyone
won a national
upon’ by jazz musicians as using
only three chords.
Any piece of music using these
lottery on two occasions?
programme Live At Her Majesty’s. chords and with a melody crafted
Has anyone else ever died during a A COUPLE from Gloucester won entirely from the C scale will sound
live TV broadcast? the Lottery twice on the same occa- pleasant.
sion in 2007. If you add a middle eight with
WHILE there are many examples Derek Ladner and his wife Dawn
of performers having died on stage different chords, say VI, II, III, IV
were quick to claim their £479,142 (Am, Dm, Em, F), and then maybe
or during the recording of a movie, share of the £2,395,710 jackpot split
there is just one example of a death a key change up a semi-tone for the
between five winners. last rousing chorus (known in many
on live TV. But, incredibly, a week later Mr
This was the on-air suicide of U.S. circles as the ‘Westlife key change’,
Ladner remembered he had bought because you’ll hear it in every one
TV presenter Christine Chubbuck another ticket with the same
(1944-1974). of that boy band’s songs), you’re on
numbers for the same draw. That to a winner.
She was a presenter on Suncoast gave him two of the five shares of
Digest, a Florida-based talkshow. This is a simple structure, but
the jackpot on July 11, doubling the some of the best songs — and
On July 15, 1974, she insisted on winnings to £958,284.
reading a news bulletin to open up almost all big ballads — are in a
In 2006, Toronto pensioner Mary similar vein.
her programme, something she had
Wollens brought two Canadian Matt Walker,
never done before.
National Lottery tickets after a vivid Birmingham.
The third item she covered was that
of a shooting in a local store from the dream about numbers, which she
previous day.
The film jammed during the item
wrote down when she woke up.
She held two of the three winning QUESTION Tunis cake was
a staple of my
tickets in a share of a $C24 million childhood Christmas, yet does not
and Chubbock stunned viewers by seem to be available today. Does
saying ‘In keeping with Channel 40’s prize pot, picking up the equivalent
of £10 million. anyone have a recipe?
policy of bringing you the latest in
blood and guts, and in living colour, Several people have won two or FURTHER to earlier answers,
you are going to see another first — more state lotteries in the U.S., when I was a milkman in the Sixties
attempted suicide’ at which she drew where the prizes are as large as we sold groceries at Christmas.
a revolver and shot herself behind those for our National Lottery. We had a competition as to who
her right ear — dying instantly. Evelyn Adams won the New could sell the most Tunis cakes.
It turned out Chubbock had Jersey lottery in 1985 and 1986, net- Most rounds sold at least 100 the
battled lifelong with depression and ting £3 million. She subsequently week before Christmas. All together
had been researching a news item lost the lot on slot machines in the depot sold 1,500.
on suicide when she got the idea of Atlantic City and now lives on a I took one home every year — they
staging her death live on TV. trailer park. were delicious.
Another famous televised suicide, Joan Ginther has won scratch- A. J. Cox,
which didn’t go out live, was that of card lottery prizes four times. Her Basildon, Essex.
Pennsylvania state treasurer R. Just like that: Comedian Tommy first multi-million payout came in
1993, when she won £8 million from
Budd Dwyer on January 22, 1987.
About to be sentenced on charges
Cooper died on stage and, inset,
TV presenter Christine Chubbuck a £20 scratchcard. QUESTIONS
of conspiracy, mail fraud, perjury, She won a further £1.4 million Q : Yorkshire Day is held on August 1
who shot herself on live TV in 2006, £1 million in 2008 and
and racketeering for taking a and Lincolnshire Day on October 1.
$300,000 kickback on a state £6.2 million in 2010.
Birmingham, Alabama. He is well- Incredibly, three of the tickets What other British counties
contract, Dwyer convened a press have ‘county days’ and what are
conference in his office. As the respected in the horror industry as were bought from the same small
the creator of the Horror Writers’ convenience store in the town of their origins?
cameras rolled, he proclaimed his Richard Appleyard, Saxilby, Lincs.
innocence, then shot himself. Association and as the best-selling Bishop, Texas.
Some other deaths recorded on author of 13 novels written between Doug Barnes, Q : What is known of Enoch Powell’s
film include that of Hollywood star 1978 and 1993. Chester, Cheshire. military service? Is there a good
Compiled by Charles Legge Among them are the excellent biography covering his early life?
Tyrone Power on November 15,
1958, while filming a fencing scene
for Solomon And Sheba. ance in Tewkesbury, Glos. In 1978,
Swan Song, Boy’s Life, Mine,
The Wolf ’s Hour, Stinger and QUESTION Has anyone
worked out a
G. Summers,
Ashington, Cumbria.
aged 73, Karl Wallenda, founder of Mystery Walk. scientific method for creating a hit
Vic Morrow died on July 23, 1982, pop song? Q : In the world of business, what
while filming Twilight Zone, The The Flying Wallendas daredevil In 1993, at the peak of his popular- are ‘cost centres’?
Movie, when he and two child co- circus act, fell to his death attempt- ity, he retired from writing, citing FURTHER to the earlier answer, Jim Mannering,
stars were struck by a helicopter ing to walk between the two towers depression, exhaustion from over- it’s not that difficult with sufficient Tonbridge, Kent.
during the late-night filming of a of the Condado Plaza Hotel in San work, a desire to spend more time musical theory to write a piece that
mock Vietnam battle scene. Juan, Puerto Rico, on a wire with his family, and frustration with sounds ‘good’, though the composer
stretched 121ft above the pave- publishers, who insisted he limit needs to have a sound knowledge O IS THERE a question to which you have
Brandon Lee, the son of Bruce always wanted to know the answer? Or do
Lee, died on March 31, 1993, when ment in winds exceeding 30mph. himself to writing horror genre of chords and scales.
A local film crew taped the fall, you know the answer to a question raised
a blank cartridge fired incorrectly fiction when he wanted to explore Scales and modes, and most here? Send your questions and answers to:
from a .44 magnum killed him on and reporter Guillermo Jose other literary forms. importantly chord progressions, Charles Legge, Answers To Correspondents,
the set of The Crow. Two other Torres’s anguished narration was Fortunately for his fans, he has underpin all music, and it is possible Daily Mail, 2 Derry Street, London, W8 5TT.
greats of British comedy suffered played all over the world. come out of retirement and has to play a piece while making it up as You can also fax them to 01952 780111 or you
lethal heart attacks on stage. Bill Gould, Leeds. published three novels, Speaks you go along (improvisation) simply can email them to charles.legge@
Carry On favourite Sid James col- The Nightbird (2002), The Queen by knowing certain chords sound dailymail.co.uk. A selection will be
lapsed on stage at the Sunderland
Empire during a performance of
QUESTION What has
become of the Of Bedlam (2007) and Mister
Slaughter (2009).
‘good’ together.
For instance, the chord progres-
published but we are not able to enter into
individual correspondence.
author Robert R. McCammon, whose
The Mating Game on April 26, 1976, thriller/horror novels I thought Though they retain the horror sion I, IV, V, IV is one of the most
Newspapers Support Recycling.
and died in hospital a short time were better than Stephen King’s? and fantasy elements of his earlier widely used in popular music (in The recycled paper content of
later. Eric Morecambe died on May work, they are essentially a series the key of C, the chords used would UK newspapers in 2009 was
29, 1984, the day after collapsing ROBERT R. McCAMMON was of historical whodunnits. be C, F, G, F), and is why popular 76.2 per cent.
during a curtain call of a perform- born in 1952 and is a native of Judy MacArthur, Tonbridge, Kent. music is sometimes ‘looked down
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Maritime magic:
Gothenburg’s big
by Lucy Gillmore A winter weekend in harbour canal, the
Stora Hamnkanalen
elegant Gothenburg
C
23rd floor of the Hotel Gothia Tow-
ers — and famous for its giant
shrimp sandwiches — is even more
HILLI and chocolate really
get the circulation going,
Jeanna Kanold, a glamorous
will leave you utterly impressive. From here we peered
down onto the twinkling lights of
Sweden’s most popular tourist
attraction, Liseberg Amusement
Swedish chocolatier, tells us
as our nervous nibbling turns refreshed. . . Park, which opened in 1923 and
attracts three million tourists
into surprised pleasure. every year.
And kick-starting your circulation with You can’t escape pickled herring
a burst of chocolatey fire is a must when in Sweden, even at breakfast,
it’s -9c outside. Jeanna owns two choco- though that’s not the quirkiest
late shops in Gothenburg, Sweden’s thing about our hotel, the Avalon.
‘second city’ and a more laid-back answer It’s funky, friendly — and feng-shui
to ritzier Stockholm. certified.
The first, Flickorna Kanold, opened in 1901 A smoking room at the front was
and has been in Jeanna’s family for five abandoned. Floor colours were
Picture: CORBIS
generations. Next month, she’s opening her changed, corners rounded and
third venture, a chocolate cafe. chimes to ward off bad spirits
She creates all the recipes herself, experi- added. The feng shui has done its
menting with different flavours. I pass on stuff — Avalon is a calm city bolt-
the blue cheese truffle. ‘Chocolate’s also hole. And Gothenburg itself will
good for your heart and was origi- leave you glowing with well-being.
nally sold in pharmacies,’ she says.
Her most popular creation? ‘The per person each year) but also a in town. Crossing the canal to mekko. Along the main street you
sea salt and caramel truffle — the result of the city’s large student Haga, the old quarter, we pass can stop off for a traditional fika TRAVEL FACTS
salt brings out the flavours in the population — of its half a million the fish market or Feskekorkan (coffee and cake) or kanelbulle
chocolate.’ Delicious. inhabitants, 60,000 are students. — the fish church, because it (giant cinnamon bun) at Cafe BA (0844 4930 787; ba.com) has
Gothenburg is an elegant mari- We turn into a quiet square for looks like a cathedral. Husaren, or Swedish tapas at twice daily flights to Gothenburg
time city with grand avenues, a coffee break at Da Matteo Torre- On the ground floor you can buy Hemma Hos. from Heathrow, from £105
historic buildings and, at this time fazione. The owner, Matts Johans- the freshest seafood, while the It’s easy to while away a couple of return. Hotel Avalon,
of year, a crunchy coating and fro- son, roasts the coffee himself and first-floor Restaurant Gabriel days wandering the alleyways, win-
zen canal — the perfect setting for delivers it by bicycle around the specialises in fish dishes. The dow shopping, jumping on and off Kungstorget 9, Gothenburg (00
a winter weekend. city. ‘Coffee first came here around chef-owner, Johan Malm, is also the clanging trams — or soaring 4631 751 02 00; avalonhotel.se),
It has galleries and museums, 500 years ago and now there are the national oyster- shucking 60m into the sky in Sweden’s version double rooms from £140,
boutique hotels, gourmet restau- a couple of hundred coffee houses,’ champion. of the London Eye. including breakfast
rants — five with Michelin stars he says. Haga is full of listed 19th- The Wheel of Gothenburg, on the For more information go to
and most featuring fresh seafood ‘Cafes are the fuel stations of the century buildings in a distinctive water’s edge next to the opera
— and a vibrant cafe culture. city. I’m not in the coffee industry, style: one storey stone and two house, opened last summer and its
westsweden.com, visitsweden.
The burgeoning cafe scene is I’m in the meeting business.’ storeys wood. There are vintage glass gondolas offer panoramic com and the Gothenburg
partly due to Sweden’s love of the Whatever business he’s in, boutiques, bric-a-brac shops and views across the city. The aspect official visitors guide
bean (they get through eight kilos he makes the best cappuccino the jaunty design shop, Mari- from Heaven 23, a restaurant on gothenburg.com
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City Editor Alex Brummer Telephone 0207 938 6000 Web www.thisismoney.co.uk
parade for
investors in a crunch week for Europe.
It is the first bond auction by any of the
‘good bank’ to come for the High Street eurozone’s most indebted countries this
year and could plunge the single currency
bloc into a fresh crisis.
Portuguese borrowing costs have soared
above 7pc in recent days – a level many
By Rupert Steiner believe is unsustainable and will force
By Ruth Sunderland Lisbon to follow Greece and Ireland in
MIDDLE England’s favourite
needing a bailout.
‘Even if we see a successful auction, it
NORTHERN Rock is expected to stage a O
retailer Marks & Spencer doesn’t mean anything, because at rates
beauty parade within the next few warned of ‘tough conditions above 7pc it’s not sustainable,’ said Ioannis
weeks for advisers to handle the sale ahead’ despite record food Sokos, an analyst at BNP Paribas in
of its ‘good bank’, which could raise O
sales boosting Christmas London. ‘It is inevitable that Portugal has
around £1.5bn. trading. to turn to the EU and IMF if they keep
Possible buyers include Sir Richard Britain’s biggest clothing O
borrowing at these levels.’
Branson’s Virgin Money, and NBNK, run by chain used yesterday’s festive Spain will also look to raise €3bn and Italy
City grandee Lord Levene, which recently update to sound a note of cau- O
€6bn tomorrow.
hired former Rock chief executive Gary tion about rising cotton prices
Hoffman. NBNK has agreed not to and the recent hike in VAT CITY FOCUS - PAGE 67
from 17.5pc to 20pc.
stage a bid for a year after Hoffman’s
appointment but this undertaking
could be waived by the government.
Chief executive Marc Bolland
said: ‘We have been consist-
ently reporting, in our outlook
gained market share as shop-
pers quaffed its half price
champagne and took up its
the timing of the winter sale
which was included in the
figures.
HERO . . . AND ZERO
The Rock’s ‘good bank’ holds savers’ for this year, that the govern- ‘deals of the week’ promotion. M&S was not the only
deposits while its toxic assets have ment spending cuts will not M&S expects food price retailer posting good news.
been parked in a ‘bad bank’. make the life of customers any inflation of around 1pc to 2pc Topps Tiles (up 1.25p to
Others likely to enter a bidding war easier. in the final quarter, and said it 79.5p) surprised with a 2.2pc
are Tesco, which is keen to expand its ‘We have highlighted the was focused on maintaining rise in underlying sales, in line
retail banking operations, and private fourth quarter will be difficult accessible entry prices for with forecasts, for the last 13
because of strong compara- most of its clothing ranges. weeks as it bucked the trend
equity group JC Flowers. The beauty tives, the impact of commodity Shivering shoppers snapped of retailers hit by the snow.
parade will be organised by UK pricing, and VAT.’ up jumpers, boots and ther- Chairman Barry Bester said:
Financial Investments, which manages The gloom sent shares slid- mal underwear driving under- ‘We experienced some disrup-
stakes in the state-controlled banks ing 3pc and overshadowed a lying sales growth of 3.8pc in tion during December from
on behalf of the taxpayer. A stock solid performance, which saw non-food. the extreme weather condi- CHIPMAKER CSR’s share price continues to
market flotation, with shares offered underlying sales rise 2.8pc for But the cold snap also had a tions and I feel the business go from strength to strength thanks to the
to small investors, is another option. the 13 weeks to January 1. negative effect as customers has responded well during a savvy decisions of Dutch boss Joep van
A sale of the Newcastle-based bank Food was a strong performer, struggled to make it to stores testing period.’ Beurden, left. The keen cyclist managed to
would be the first step towards returning up 1.8pc, as Bolland shook up despite M&S ordering double But it was a different story at end a long-running dispute with US rival
the shelves with 600 new lines the amount of grit and buying homewares chain Dunelm Broadcom, sending shares up 16pc.
the state-controlled banks into private and scored big hits with Christ- (down 30.5p to 498p) which
snow ploughs and bobcat
hands after taxpayers were forced to mas desserts and party food. snow moving machines. said sales fell 1.2pc in the 26 Royal Bank of Scotland’s UK retail banking
rescue them during the financial crisis. A television campaign featur- Bolland said this cost the weeks to January 1 blaming boss Brian Hartzer is smarting after the
Sales programmes for Lloyds ing Caroline Quentin hosting a group around £55m in lost ‘external factors’. bank got a slap on the wrists and a fine for
Banking Group and RBS are expected party helped drive sales, and sales. Analysts pointed out For more on Marks go to failing to handle complaints properly at its
to begin towards the end of this year. M&S (down 10.80p to 373.20p) the update was flattered by thisismoney.co.uk/mks RBS and NatWest units.
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Battle for
CSC over
HERON TAKES TO THE SKY OVER LONDON
Human error
as US rival
retreats ‘caused LSE
A BITTER takeover battle
for the country’s biggest
shopping centre owner is
over after US rival Simon
Group said it will not be
making a formal offer before
trading bug’
By Hugo Duncan
today’s 5pm deadline.
The company – which O
already has a 5pc stake in THE London Stock Exchange last
Capital Shopping Centres – night admitted that ‘human error’ O
!
said having been blocked and not sabotage was to blame for !
the embarrassing crash of its Euro-
from looking at the firm’s pean trading platform last year. O
books, it would not be Chief executive Xavier Rolet
bidding, sending shares
down 12.3p to 380.2p.
called in the police and the Finan- O
cial Services Authority after the
The Takeover Panel said company’s new turbo-charged
the strict disclosure rules Turquoise system went into melt-
enforced during the down on November 2. O
takeover period will be The LSE at the time cited ‘suspi-
extended until after CSC’s cious circumstances’ – raising the
Extraordinary General prospect of sabotage during a key
Meeting on January 26 technology upgrade to a new and O
faster platform. But after a two-
where shareholders will
month probe, an LSE spokesman !
vote on the deal to buy the yesterday said: ‘The incident was
Trafford Centre, which the result of human error and the
would see current owner incident has now been closed.’ over in October in what was meant
John Whittaker’s Peel Group The new improved system will to be a dry-run for the planned
take a 23pc stake in CSC. now go live on February 14 after migration of its larger trading plat-
Simon made its tentative THE transformation of the London skyline looks set to continue after another ‘dress rehearsals’ on January 29 form, Sets, on November 15.
425p-a-share offer in an skyscraper was given the go-ahead yesterday, writes Hugo Duncan. and February 5. The LSE planned But the two-hour outage early
attempt to derail the Heron International, the property group run by Gerald Ronson, pictured, to move its two main trading sys- that month postponed the move
acquisition, but analysts secured planning permission for a £500m 43-storey tower in the Square Mile. tems to a new and faster system and triggered fears of sabotage.
expect investors will The development, next to the almost completed Heron Tower, will include a developed by Millennium last year, The LSE (up 43.5p to 906p) finally
approve the deal. 190-room Four Seasons Hotel and 120 apartments as well as restaurants, having bought the Sri Lankan ruled that out yesterday – but it
conference facilities, a gym, a spa and a swimming pool. technology company in 2009. refused to say exactly what sort of
The shopping centre It was hoped the change would ‘human error’ left it so red faced.
operator had attempted to It is just the latest skyscraper planned for London as developers look to take
attract more business and help it However, the LSE came under
bat away Simon’s advantage of the recovery in the property market and wider economy. fight back against upstart rivals pressure to explain what hap-
approaches, claiming its Ronson, one of the so-called ‘Guinness Four’ in the 1980s share-trading such as Bats Europe and Chi-X pened. Ovum analyst Rik Turner
true value is 625p a share – scandal, said: ‘This will enable us to continue our transformation of the City of Europe having seen them steal a said: ‘If it (LSE) is in the business
a figure described as by London, providing much needed, unparalleled hotel and residential facilities sizeable chunk of share trading in of raising credibility, it needs to say
one analyst as ‘laughable’. which reflect London’s status as the financial capital of the world.’ London. Turquoise was transferred something about the problem.’
Rates pressure
THE Bank of England is under
mounting pressure to raise interest
rates amid concerns that it has lost
30 SECOND GUIDE TO ...
Second-hand plates? the setting sun, Britain has been
relatively slow to reciprocate.
CHINA TRADE
What now?
Hands’ EMI appeal
PRIVATE equity baron Guy Hands has
revived his legal battle with Wall
its grip on inflation. NOPE. We’re talking about Brit- China is only Britain’s ninth- Last November’s trade mission to Street giant Citigroup over his ill-
The nine-strong Monetary Policy ain’s trade relations with the largest export partner. Beijing ended in a £750m contract fated £4.2bn takeover of EMI in 2007.
Committee kicks off crunch talks country many experts think is for Rolls-Royce from China East- Last month a Manhattan jury took
today with inflation threatening to destined to overtake the US as ern Airlines. just four hours to throw out his claim
spiral out of control even as the the global economic powerhouse. So what? A visit to Britain by vice premier that Citigroup had tricked him into
recovery from recession weakens. Today, China is Britain’s third- Economic growth rates that Li Keqiang this week added overpaying for the record label. But
Inflation looks set to hit 4pc in the largest import partner, behind hover close to 10pc, a population £2.6bn worth of business deals yesterday his Terra Firma buyout fund
coming months – double the 2pc Germany and the US. of 1.3bn, a burgeoning middle between the two countries.
London-listed firms such as
launched an appeal against the ruling.
target – having spent all of 2010 at class, rapidly strengthening busi-
or above 3pc. InterContinental Hotels and Talks between Hands and Citigroup
ness ties across the world… who
But the Bank is expected to leave Good news wouldn’t want a piece of that pie? Whitbread are also stepping up continue over EMI’s debt pile. The
interest rates at 0.5pc when the Depends on your point of view. Failing to do business with China their efforts in China. group is likely to breach the terms
meeting ends tomorrow, raising While the Chinese ship tanker- is like standing by while someone This could be the start of a of its £2.6bn loan from Citigroup,
fresh questions about its ability to loads of goods every day towards throws £50 notes into the sea. beautiful friendship. which could force Hands to hand
tame inflation. control of EMI to the bank.
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Tourist rates
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Almighty Mears
THE former sexy support services sector was ter at 292p. The bank is SG Securities’ top
a graveyard in 2010. FTSE 250 stocks Con- sector pick for the year.
naught and Rok both ended the year in the Profit-taking in the absence of the widely-
knacker’s yard after getting into grave finan- rumoured bid from Johnson & Johnson
cial difficulties following public sector spend- dragged replacement hip and knee group
ing cuts. Their demise provided a major Smith & Nephew 42p lower to 670p.
boost to super-fit and now market leader A Bryan Garnier recommendation for cli-
mops up ruins
Mears which has fed off their rotting ents to buy ahead of the full-year results on
carcasses. February 1 helped Autonomy advance 14p to
Shares of the social housing and home help 1550p. Concerns over future growth, which
group advanced 6p to 312p after chief execu- impacted the share price in 2010, are over-
tive David Miles reported that the firm’s bid done. The group is well placed to accelerate
pipeline remains ‘robust’ at £3bn, while the growth going forwards.
order book has grown to £2.7bn, giving for- British property and casualty insurer Amlin
ward visibility of consensus forecast reve- lost 10.7p to 392.9p. Investors exited on hear-
nues for 2011 in excess of 90pc and almost ARM 32.5p to 497.4p. It was recently boosted ing that last year’s New Zealand earthquake
80pc for 2012.
Miles, who took over from Bob Holt, who MARKET REPORT by news that Microsoft intended to develop
Windows-based platforms running on ARM-
would cost the group £103m, more than dou-
ble the initial estimate of £48m. Catlin declined
remains as chairman, in November, called designed chips. 14.3p to 368.6p amid concern that the floods in
2010 a ‘watershed year’. Bluetooth chip specialist CSR soared 57p Australia could prove expensive.
He yesterday announced a new five-year
contract worth £60m with Tower Hamlets by Geoff to 413p after settling a legal battle over pat-
ents with US rival Broadcom. The settle-
African Eagle Resources firmed 1.25p to
13.5p after upgrading its resources at the
Homes to provide responsive repairs, gas Dutwa nickel project in Tanzania. Seymour
servicing and breakdown cover and a £67m
10-year partnership deal with Moat Homes in
Foster ment figure is $67.5m, which will be paid over
the next five years, and will be offset by a
reduction in legal costs of at least $50m.
Pierce says buy.
South-East England. Citigroup’s assertion that shares of the ÷ NEWS of a £24.5m bolt-on acquisition
Mears has taken over a number of contracts crown courts, also reported a strong second building materials giant could be trading at
from rival Connaught and recently paid half and said trading is in line with expecta- helped Ashtead rise 9.8p to 176.2p. Broker
£45 in three years time helped Wolseley soar
£1.5m for the social housing business assets tions. In recent months it has won a number 122p to 2179p. The stock was the best per- Oriel Securities gave the thumbs up to its
of the Bristol division of Rok. of contracts in the UK and across the Middle forming in the broker’s universe last year and purchase of a specialist provider of
Miles and Holt are on the acquisition trail East with a combined value of around it sees more outperformance to come, espe- scaffolding based in the southern states of
and want to broaden the diversity of the £500m. cially in North America. the US. The broker believes the group has
group’s home help offering. Miles adds that The Footsie climbed back above 6,000 with Greenland-focused explorer Cairn Energy further to go as the potential leverage of
Mears is well placed to lead and consolidate a gain of 57.73 points to 6014.03. Eurozone gushed 23.9p to 455.3p after Morgan Stanley the recovery in the US construction sector
the domiciliary care market place which is debt fears were allayed somewhat by Portu- said it was its top pick in the exploration and drives profits beyond that of the ongoing
some 10 years behind the more developed guese Finance Minister Fernando dos Santos production sector this year. The broker said
social housing market. saying there was no plans to seek a bailout Vedanta’s offer for 40pc-51pc of Cairn India, recovery in the equipment rental sector.
Analyst Guy Hewett at broker Investec
raised his target price to 365p from 332p and
said that the group is very well placed to
grow at above-average rates.
from the European Union and the Interna-
tional Monetary Fund. Dealers were also
pleased to see Wall Street climb 34.43 points
to 11,671.88 following impressive fourth-
coupled with the underlying strength of the
group’s asset base, underpins the valuation
and offers substantial downside protection.
The Treasury Select Committee’s grilling of
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Daily Mail, Wednesday, January 12, 2011 67
UK slips down
Goldman Sachs plans to reveal all
By Lucy Farndon its own investments and trading
global rankings
BRITAIN has fallen out of the top
separately to that undertaken on
GOLDMAN Sachs is promising
behalf of clients. It will also pub-
15 most economically free countries
in the world, according to a damn-
to lift the veil on its internal prac-
lish a simplified balance sheet to
make it easier for investors to
ing report today.
The UK has slipped five places to
tices after a turbulent year in
understand its finances. 16th in the Index of Economic Free-
which the bank was accused of O O Staff will be subjected to a more
off-loading toxic investments dom published by The Wall Street
onto its unsuspecting clients.
intensive training programme Journal and the Institute of Eco-
when they join Goldman, and when nomic Affairs.
The Wall Street bank – which they get promoted up the ladder.
paid $550m to settle a Securities O
Unfortunately, the bank was
Hong Kong was top and Singa-
and Exchange Commission law- pore second followed by Australia,
unable to explain ‘in plain lan- New Zealand and Switzerland.
suit which accused it of selling O guage’ what this might involve,
investments that were designed Britain ranked a shocking 169th
O
though all of its partners and out of 179 for ‘fiscal freedom’ – the
to fail – said an eight-month managing directors will get
internal review has thrown up 39
tax burden – behind nations such as
involved in coaching more junior Zimbabwe, Eritrea and the Congo. It
recommendations about how the staff in the Goldman way of doing
bank can better serve customers. came 156th in ‘government spend-
things. ing’ as a result of the mammoth
High on its list is a promise to the reputational consequences of self-styled ‘Fabulous Fab’, had It will also be made clear to debts racked up by Labour.
talk to its clients in ‘plain lan- every action’ it takes. In particu- suggested that the bank was sell- employees that their massive pay
guage’ to explain any potential lar, employees must consider not ing inappropriate mortgage prod- packets will be determined by
conflicts of interest between the
products it is selling and any
trading or investment business
just ‘can we’, but ‘should we’.
Chief executive Lloyd Blankfein
(pictured) last year told the
ucts that it knew were destined
to fail.
Goldman said the aftermath of
their adherence to the company
‘values’ and ‘culture’ as well as
the profit they make.
British Gas helps
undertaken by the bank on its
own book.
Its Business Standards Com-
bank’s shareholders Goldman
would conduct an extensive
review of its standards and prac-
the financial crisis ‘has been a
time of reflection and reform’ for
financial firms. It promises to be
Shareholders might be pleased
to see UK banks adopt a similar to pay the bills
approach, however, Goldman is
mittee Report – itself a rather tices after the hugely embarrass- far more transparent. A key not quantifying what proportion BRITISH Gas is looking to head off
indigestible read – said the bank ing case of former employee Fab- change is that the bank will now of pay could be linked to such criticism over huge profits this
must have a ‘constant focus on rice Tourre. Emails sent by the split out the profit it makes from parameters. winter by giving a £50 discount to
each of its vulnerable customers.
The company said it would credit
city
almost 340,000 customers on its
cheapest Essentials tariff with £50,
to help them cover soaring heating
bills after the harsh weather.
I
weeks before the gas company is
expected to reveal record profits.
T hasn’t taken long for
the eurozone debt crisis
to erupt again with MySpace axes
half workforce
renewed intensity. Less
than six weeks after Ire-
land was forced into a
humiliating bailout, the vigi- MYSPACE is axing half of its global
lantes of the bond market are workforce as owner News Corp
back out in force and have dresses up the troubled social net-
begun turning their fire on
working website for a possible sale
next year.
other vulnerable members of As revealed by the Daily Mail ear-
the single currency.
lier this week, the latest cull will lead
In a worrying portent, debt-laden to heavy jobs cuts at its London out-
Portugal has this week endured a sav- post and other overseas offices.
A ‘dedicated core’ of international
age sell-off in its government debt
market ahead of a pivotal bond auc- staff will be all that remains as
tion today. MySpace strives to find a ‘clear path
For many economists, it is now a to sustained growth and profitability’,
matter of ‘when’ not ‘if ’ the Lisbon it said yesterday.
government will follow Dublin and The move is News Corp’s most
Athens into accessing the ¤750bn dramatic step yet to revive
(£625bn) joint EU and International MySpace, which it bought for £360m
Monetary Fund rescue programme.
in 2005 but has since lost its online
But with the storm clouds gathering crown to Facebook and Twitter.
over Spain and Belgium, the fate of
the 17-member eurozone is hanging in
the balance.
Unless the European authorities can
CSR pays £48m in
prevent the contagion that has Fallen star: The fate of the 17-member eurozone is now very much hanging in the balance
row with US rival
Another crisis
already claimed Dublin and Athens
from spreading to, say Madrid, the
post-War drive for ever greater CHIP designer CSR is paying out
European unity could itself £48m to settle a long-running
disintegrate. dispute with US rival Broadcom.
The warning signals have been The pay-out, which will be
flashing red for the Portuguese stretched out over five years,
government ever since investors draws a line under an acrimonious
threatens euro
emerged from their festive hiber-
nation last week.
battle over allegations that one of
Following a slew of credit rating CSR’s US subsidiaries infringed
downgrades, Switzerland’s central patents owned by Broadcom.
bank has stopped accepting Portu- CSR said the settlement would
guese government bonds as collat- save it more than £32m in legal
eral against short-term loans. costs between now and 2016.
And in ominous parallels with the Shares in the CSR soared 56.1p or
state of denial that gripped Dublin 15.8pc to 412.6p as the cessation
right up to the bitter end, Portu- running its public services this where in a highly unusual move weaker nations. Another would be of hostilities would ‘remove the
guese leaders have been saturating year. If its loan costs don’t start the King this week pleaded with to impose closer fiscal ties across
the airwaves with rose-tinted analy- falling soon, Lisbon may be left his caretaker government to accel- the union, allowing for direct trans- overhang of litigation’ from the stock.
Sainsbury has
ses of the country’s fiscal position. with little choice but to sign for erate a programme of draconian fers from rich nations to poor.
Yesterday Prime Minister Jose the cheaper rates on offer through spending cuts. Under both of these nuclear
Socrates categorically denied that the EU/IMF lifeboat. German chancellor Angela Merkel options, though, Germany would
best Christmas
his government had either asked ‘Unless longer-dated yields stabi- and other eurozone leaders hope effectively be on the hook for the
or needed financial assistance. lise (a bailout) might become a that by bouncing Portugal into a budgets of profligate governments.
In a bid to pacify nervy investors, self-fulfilling prophecy,’ said Gary swift and clean bailout, they can That could well break the patience
the European Central Bank earlier Jenkins at stock broker Evolution. draw a line under the debt crisis. But of German voters, who are already
this week moved to prop up the The turmoil engulfing Portugal few in the international money mar- unhappy about having to bail out SAINSBURY’S was the only big
Portuguese bond market and drive would not be so alarming for the kets share this Panglossian view. Ireland and Greece. four grocer to actually increase its
down Lisbon’s rocketing borrow- single currency were its financial Spain is currently paying around Otmar Issing, the ECB’s former market share over the festive
ing costs. plight not mirrored in a number of 5.5pc interest on 10-year loan – just chief economist, yesterday warned: period, according to research.
Yet despite the ECB’s dramatic other highly indebted eurozone short of the 5.8pc rate on Ireland’s ‘The seemingly unstoppable proc- Kantar Worldpanel said Sains-
intervention the yield on 10-year economies. emergency loans. This suggests a ess towards further financial trans- bury’s increased its share from
Portuguese sovereign debt – its There’s ammunition aplenty in large degree of scepticism over fers will generate tensions of an eco- 16.3pc to 16.6pc while Tesco held
costs of raising funds – remains the EU bailout package to cover Madrid’s ability to finance its nomic and especially political kind.’ firm at 30.5pc. Asda and Morrisons
stubbornly above the critical 7pc the estimated ¤60-80bn that Lis- yawning budget deficit without Unless addressed, these tensions slipped to 16.8pc and 12.2pc respec-
level. A borrowing rate exceeding bon needs to raise from bond mar- the assistance of the EU and IMF. would ‘endanger the existence’ of tively. A survey by the British Retail
this threshold is widely viewed as kets over the next three years. But If the Spanish finances do eventu- the monetary union, he added. Consortium showed overall shop
unsustainable for Portugal over the fund would quickly be over- ally come asunder, the EU would Popular support for the euro is price inflation increased to 2.1pc in
the long term, as it was for both whelmed were Spain, for example, be left with two equally unpalata- rapidly waning – and not just in its December from 2pc in November.
Greece and Ireland. dragged into the fray. ble choices. Under one mooted sce- most successful economy. But retailers are protecting con-
Portugal is likely to find buyers Madrid, though, is not alone in nario, the eurozone nations could As crisis once again stalks the sumers from the full-force of global
for its bond issue today. But the being pushed inexorably into the pool together their individual debt region will the political glue that commodity increases with unprece-
debt-laden nation needs to raise a eye of the storm. Fears are also programmes, which would in the- binds the European Union dented levels of discounting taking
hefty ¤20bn (£16.7bn) to continue building over Italy and Belgium, ory reduce borrowing costs for together finally crack? the sting out of the grocery shop.
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Daily Mail, Wednesday, January 12, 2011
back to Borthwick
Rugby
earn a call-up due to the
correspondent absence of Tom Croft for a fur-
E
ther five or six weeks, but it is
NGLAND were thought he won’t be included
option of bringing in a tempo- Robson has been effective for sees it as an opportunity to get
rary replacement. Harlequins. the rest of his body fit. It’s
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Daily Mail, Wednesday, January 12, 2011
THE MAGNIFICENT
After the Ashes triumph, meet the players chasing the
PAUL CHRIS WOAKES, 21,
Warwickshire, fast
virtually inked in for the
World Cup next month. The
MIKE YARDY, 30, Sussex,
slow left-arm bowling
NEWMAN bowling all-rounder Surrey man will have to
prove that his aggressive
all-rounder
Cricket Correspondent THE highly HUGELY important to
left-handed batting can
reports from Adelaide promising England’s World Twenty20
continue to be productive at
Woakes triumph in Barbados last
E
the top of the order and
NGLAND are the best (right) owes year and integral to their
that his glovework is of a
Twenty20 team in the his chance hopes of making an impact
high enough standard, with
here to the at the World Cup in the
Prior having had a successful
world and they will be injury suffered by subcontinent next month.
doing their utmost to prove Ashes series and now
Stuart Broad and looked Yardy is possibly the most
playing Twenty20 cricket for
it against Australia. nervous on his first senior aesthetically unappealing
Victoria with a view to
They will be aiming for their eighth appearance for England player in world cricket with
s u c c e s s i v e v i c t o r y i n Tw e n t y 2 0 winning back his England
international matches when they play a against the Prime Minister’s his dart-like left-arm
one-day place.
home side captained by Cameron White here XI in Canberra on Monday, ‘spinners’ and crabby
this morning — no team have had such an bowling eight wides and EOIN MORGAN, 24, batting but he is highly
extended run of wins in the short history of being expensive. Might have
Middlesex, batsman effective and has a great
short-form internationals — and England to wait for his chance in THE invisible man of temperament. The Sussex
will be confident of extending the sequence. these limited-overs matches, captain was England’s best
The stature of this side is, of course, another England’s Ashes tour who
and will join up with the played one scratchy innings bowler against the Prime
triumph for Andy Flower, who was the England Lions on their tour Minister’s XI and is a worthy
architect of the team, captained by Paul against Victoria but is now
Collingwood, that played superb cricket to
of the Caribbean at the end
as important as any member spin partner to Graeme
win the World Twenty20 last year. of the one-day series, but is
of the England squad. Swann.
However, there will be some important definitely one for the future.
Morgan has proved one of
players missing when England take to the LUKE WRIGHT, 25, Sussex,
Adelaide Oval at 8.35am British time today STEVE DAVIES, 24, Surrey, the most inventive and fast bowling all-rounder
destructive batsmen in
for the first match in a mini-series that wicketkeeper and world limited-overs cricket THIS is an
concludes in Melbourne on Friday ahead of opening batsman
seven one-day internationals in Australia. and will have to have a good important
Here’s my guide to the one-day players who DAVIES (right) series if England are to be series for
will take centre stage Down Under. has had to successful in two Twenty20 Wright (right)
AUSTRALIA (probable): Warner, Paine (wkt), play second and seven 50-over games who still
D Hussey, White (capt), Finch, Watson, Smith, fiddle to Matt against Australia. A needs to
Johnson, Lee, J Pattinson, Tait. Prior during successful series for Morgan convince that he
ENGLAND (probable): Bell, Davies (wkt), Pietersen, the Test series will also assist his claims on is good enough at both
Collingwood (capt), Morgan, Wright, Yardy, but gets his the Test batting slot vacated batting and bowling to be
Bresnan, Swann, Tremlett, Shahzad.
Demolition man: Morgan is chasing a Test spot TV: LIVE on Sky Sports 1, from 8am.
chance now and has been by Paul Collingwood. a genuine force at
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Cricket — Twenty20 Internationals 71
SEVEN
WORLD OF SPORT
ICC hold-up USAIN BOLT will run at the ExxonMobil
Bislett Games in Oslo in June, his first
as Pakistan
confirmed athletics meeting of the season.
The Olympic 100 and 200 metres champion, 24,
will run in the 200m at the event, one of 14
Diamond League meetings this year.
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72 Tennis — Australian Open Countdown 222
Daily Mail, Wednesday, January 12, 2011
MIKE
DICKSON
Tennis Correspondent
I’m human
...and I
reports from Melbourne
A
S ANDY Murray
returns here for his
latest attempt to
finally end Britain’s
cried
embarrassing 75-year
wait for a male Grand Slam
winner, it is instructive to
learn of his biggest single
memory from 12 months
ago.
It is not the two wondrous sets
because
that saw off world No 1 Rafael
Nadal in the Australian Open
quarter-final before the Spaniard
wrenched his knee, nor the
miracle shot that turned round his
semi-final against Marin Cilic.
It is the sheer, raw pain of losing
to Roger Federer in the final which,
losing
most unusually, led to him
shedding tears on the rostrum and
his celebrated quote: ‘I can cry like
Roger, it’s just a shame I can’t play
like him.’
Failing to achieve his lifetime’s
dream took him months to get
over. ‘After the final I was incredi-
really hurt
bly disappointed because I had put
so much effort in getting ready for
it,’ he said. ‘The way the third set
went made it a very difficult way to
finish because when I was back in
the locker room I still should have
been out on the court.
‘I’m not embarrassed by crying
at all. I said to Roger as we
were standing there before the
ceremony that I was
finding it tough and that I
didn’t feel like doing a
speech, but I know you
have to do one when you
lose as well as win and get
through it as best as
possible.
‘It shows that before
being athletes we are nor- Fighting back: Andy Murray is determined to put the tears of losing in
mal people first, we hurt the final of last year’s Australian Open (left) behind him as he prepares
just the same as in the Melbourne heat for this year’s event (above) GETTY IMAGES
everyone else.’
When we talk it is at the still seem, to this observer, rather semis of Slams 30 times so he is
end of another punishing ungenerous. going to deal with it better than
day when Murray has He consoles himself by returning someone who has been there four
deliberately put himself to the theme that everyone is human or five times.’
out to practise in the full underneath, even though the giant Murray admits he was near clue-
heat of an Australian duo have the priceless knack of less in his first major final, the 2008
lunchtime. The ferocity of stepping up their games as a fort- US Open, and that he has regrets
his practices when he pre- night’s tournament progresses. about how he started last year’s
pares in furnace-like heat ‘When you’ve won nine or 16 Australian final, when Federer
is something to behold. Slams like Rafa and Roger then caught him cold en route to a 6-3,
As ever, when removed everything is going to be easier,’ he 6-4, 7-6 defeat.
from the environs of a said. ‘But I still think they have
tennis court he is as ‘Looking back there are a few
doubts like everyone else, they still things I would have done differ-
genial and thoughtful as he get nervous, they worry just like
is surly and intense when ently, especially from the begin-
everyone else but because of the ning of the match and I will learn
competing. This split in the having people around who under- about his career when there are two experience of being in the situation
Murray personality is one reason stand me and who I can mess elephants in the locker room like from that next time,’ said Murray.
they know how to deal with it. ‘I’ll make sure I’m ready to take
why his team in Melbourne around with off the court, because Nadal and Federer. It is one reason ‘It’s hard going on the court
will include his old Barcelona when I’m on the court I take it all why he spent Christmas training in it to him, ready to play long points,
against them in a Slam because chase every single ball and make it
academy friend Dani Vallverdu, a very seriously. There are things Miami and Christmas morning itself you know they’ve been there so
Venezuelan who has become his that people won’t get about me pounding the soft sand of South incredibly difficult for him. Physi-
many times that they are going to cally over five sets you can take
near ever-present hitting partner. but if you spend a lot of time with Beach on a gruelling run before play great tennis, and that makes
‘Dani has never coached before me I’m easy to understand. I’m heading to Australia for the Open, something out of players, even
it difficult for you mentally. They guys like Roger and Rafa who are
but he knows me better than most, obviously quite shy in front of which begins on Monday. definitely raise their game, which incredibly fit. So there are things
he knows when to talk to me, what people I don’t know but away from Nadal and Federer remaining at everyone tries to do. Sometimes I next time I will do better.’
to say and what I like doing in that I’m completely different.’ their peak is why odds of 13-8 on think I’ve done it, sometimes I
practice,’ said Murray, 23. ‘I like Murray has to be ultra-intense Murray winning a Slam this year haven’t. Roger has been in the m.dickson@dailymail.co.uk
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RICH PICKINGS!
Torres and Crawley
FA Cup heroes are
worth every penny
F
EW fairytales are as
far-fetched as that of
non-League Crawley
Town’s match win-
by IVAN
ner against Derby SPECK
County, Sergio Torres. From
shelf stacker at Boots to FA
Cup hero. nings, but it’s all worth it when
The last Torres left in this sea- you score a goal like the one
son’s competition is on a wage against Derby which means that
which is less than a hundredth of much.’
what his World Cup -winning Torres moved on to Wycombe,
namesake earns at Liverpool. then Peterborough and last sea-
What Spaniard Fernando makes son to Lincoln on loan. He made
in a week at Anfield, £110,000, is no another difficult decision in the
more than Argentine Sergio can summer, dropping out of the Foot-
guarantee for the entirety of his ball League after battling so hard
two-year contract at Crawley. Yet to get into it, in order to join the
only one of them can still dream of Crawley revolution.
going to Wembley this season. Like others, he was lured not by
A winnable fourth-round tie at obscene wages, as is the popular
League Two Torquay is a reward misconception when Crawley and
for belief in himself from 27-year- their average crowd of 1,700 are
old Sergio and trust in the Crawley mentioned, but by Project Promo-
way: high on ambition and trans- tion — the vision of a journey from
the Blue Square Bet Premier into
FIVE WHO BOUGHT
INTO THE DREAM
fer fees, but modest in wages and
club costs to guarantee financial League One within five years, as
security. outlined by manager Steve Evans
(below). MATT TUBBS
Torres bought a ticket to Eng- Joint-top Conference scorer Red-letter day: Crawley hero Torres celebrates with the supporters
land in 2004 after saving up for two For the cost of Robbie Savage —
the one Derby player who could be last season for Salisbury with 19 after their giant-klling of Championship side Derby ACTION IMAGES
years by working in the brick fac-
tory his father co-owns in the proud of his performance during league goals this. Cost: £70,000 close the real figure, which is under- needed something a bit more
Argentine fishing port of Mar de the rain-swept 2-1 defeat on Mon- RICHARD BRODIE stood to be about £100,000 less. exciting. A lot of people think that
Plata. He was told by then day night — and the midfielder’s Mind you, their success on the what Crawley are doing is a bit of
reputed £18,000-a-week salary, The other joint leading scorer,
Brighton manager Mark McGhee bought from York. £175,000 pitch has earned them the right to a joke but it’s very real. And it’s
that he was neither strong nor fast Evans can field a starting XI and a buy. FA Cup prize-money has so still very much down to earth.’
enough for English football. full bench of substitutes. MICHEL KUIPERS far yielded £125,000 with another For right back Glenn Wilson, in
Afraid to return home a failure That is on a par with many clubs Dutch keeper, 36, who moved £216,000 coming from live televi- his fourth season at Crawley, the
after so much sacrifice, he perse- in League Two, yet below some of up the road from Brighton after sion revenue for the victories over challenge has been to keep his
vered, hawking his services around Crawley’s Conference rivals, almost 300 appearances. Free Swindon and Derby. place. Money has brought in bet-
non-League football and working among them Luton Town, Wrex- Yet while the myths fuel resent- ter players, but it hasn’t ruined
all hours to fund the journey ham and Cambridge United. SERGIO TORRES ment and jealousy in Conference the club.
towards Cup glory. Although substantial new Argentine who dropped down boardrooms as well as many Wilson said: ‘We used to have to
Torres said: ‘I had spent so investment has been brought out of the League. £50,000 League clubs, Evans’s team are make our own way to away games
much money on the ticket, into the Broadfield Sta- PABLO MILLS based on a collective spirit, which and get back what we could
£1,000, which back home is dium club by wealthy can only be helped by a strict through expenses. I remember
directors Bruce Winfield
Solid central defender, who
the equivalent of six times turned down higher wages wage-cap structure. going up to Southport and Staf-
as much, that I just stayed and Susan Carter, it has Captain Pablo Mills, once a Derby ford in successive weeks. We had
been used for transfer elsewhere. Free
and fought. trainee, was lured last summer some great journeys up there.
‘I played for Molesey, fees to fashion the most when his contract at Rotherham ‘My wages aren’t substantially
then Basingstoke. I talented squad in tions because that could lead to United ran out. He said: ‘I had a better now and I don’t think there
worked in the Boots store non-League. salaries exceeding income in the long, hard think, but I came down are many people at this club who
in Basingstoke for a year- Every fee is paid in full seasons to come. here solely on the challenge ahead are on great money for the level we
and-a-half. I used to wake within seven days, while The club disputes figures such as and trying to get promotion. are playing at.
up at 5.30 in the morning, Crawley refuse to deal the £275,000 which they supposedly ‘Money doesn’t replace that. I ‘It’s just that our gaffer has
cycle to work in the in add- on clauses paid for York striker Richard Bro- took quite a wage cut to come here always tried to get his hands on
rain and then based on die in August. York requested a but the project stood out for me. the best players he could whether
cycle to train- appearances confidentiality clause, which means Sometimes you need to step back it be through loans or whatever.’
ing in the eve- or promo - that Crawley are not able to dis- in your career to move forward. I i.speck@dailymail.co.uk
THE SCREAMER
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By IAN LADYMAN
Northern Football Correspondent
T
HE arrival of
Bosnian forward
Edin Dzeko at
Manchester City
yesterday was
overshadowed by news
that Mario Balotelli faces
S
at least a month on the
sidelines with an injured O WHEN did it happen? When did
knee. ‘What are you doing right now?’
Dzeko was finally introduced and ‘What’s happening?’ become
to the media at City’s training ‘Who’s a cheat?’, ‘Whose legs do
ground yesterday, signalling the
end of a six-month pursuit that you want broken?’ or ‘Please sub-
has involved £27million of the mit a gibberish list of people you hate’.
club’s money and a summer Ryan Babel, of Liverpool, has become the first
letter from the former Wolfsburg player to be charged by the Football Association
player imploring the Barclays for a statement made on his Twitter account, but
Premier League club to sign he surely will not be the last.
him. Quite plainly, Twitter will be a reflection of our
Within seconds of his introduc- society, and if it is now drowning in a sea of witless
tion, Dzeko made his mark with bile and poison, this says more about the users
a suggestion that Manchester is than the medium.
populated by City supporters Babel posted a doctored photograph of Howard
rather than those of rivals Webb, the referee, wearing a Manchester United
United. That remark will not go shirt, as a means of intimating he was crooked in
unnoticed across town at Old his handling of the game at Old Trafford on
Trafford. Sunday. Wherever you might stand on the issue of
‘I hear a lot about the fans and whether Dimitar Berbatov fairly won his penalty,
that most of the people from or whether Steven Gerrard deserved his sending-
Manchester are Manchester PICTURE: off, it is wrong to suggest Webb acted in anything
City fans,’ said Dzeko. IAN less than good faith.
Nor was it just a harmless gag, as Gordon Taylor,
However, it is the rather more
serious news that Balotelli faces
HODGSON chief of the Professional Footballers’ Association,
claimed yesterday. If Webb was wrong — and I
don’t think he was, but accept there are plenty
PLATINI THREAT At last: Dzeko poses with Mancini yesterday after completing his long-awaited move to City who do — it was not because he favoured Man-
‘One team in
chester United over Liverpool and he does not
TO EASTLANDS deserve Babel’s suggestion otherwise.
Yet the Liverpool man is a minor offender com-
MANCHESTER CITY have pared to some, not least those who have taken to
been warned they will have abusing various members of the Dalglish family
to ‘face the music’ if they via Twitter sites since Kenny took the Liverpool
do not comply with UEFA’s job (although his son, Paul, may not have helped
new financial fair play rules.
The threat came from UEFA
It is a world of
Manchester’
president Michel Platini,
who said yesterday that all
Europe’s biggest clubs face
bans from European
competition from the
unsmiling nastiness
2014-15 season if they spend
more than they earn in the
three years before.
and ill-humour
matters by writing how much he hated losing to
a further spell on the sidelines Manchester United and calling Webb the puppet
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75
Martin Samuel
Haye legacy
Will the risks being
swept away
witless AND so it begins. Ruslan Chagaev is already in
training for his WBA heavyweight title fight with
David Haye, we hear. Of course he is. This is, after
twits
all, the big one. And Chagaev is known as ‘the
White Tyson’. In Uzbekistan, admittedly, but let’s
not split hairs.
There will soon be a fight to sell, so expect
Chagaev to be reinvented as a contender of
substance and validity. He is neither. In any other
era, he would be a footnote and in this one he
has already been proved inferior to Wladimir
never
Klitschko.
Chagaev beat Nikolai Valuev, the man-mountain
David Haye defeated to capture the public
imagination, but only on a majority decision.
Haye versus Chagaev, therefore, is not the
heavyweight contest the world is waiting for, but
what is? The legacy of Haye, who arrived as the
learn?
new broom ready to sweep away the torpid
gigantism of the east Europeans, may be that he
has dulled interest in his sport in a manner that
may take years to overcome. This is not entirely
his fault. He made a number of concessions to
Wladimir Klitschko in the hope of a match,
offering equal share of the purse, surrendering
venue and the order in which the fighters enter
the ring, all to no avail. Yet, wherever the blame
lies, the damage to boxing is beyond doubt. Had
to abuse when deployed in a football yet depressingly familiar. Merson’s and what may be said with a smile Haye been another anonymous champion, his
Babbling underwhelming career path since beating
stadium? comments on Johnson’s form for Babel: the can come across as sour and
There are still funny interludes at Liverpool this season were made in a confrontational. Valuev would not have mattered. But he wasn’t.
football matches; there are still the professional context, as part of his Liverpool It takes a very clever man to make He was front-page,
wags in the crowd of popular cliche, work as a pundit for Sky. midfielder pithiness sing. David Lloyd, the cricket headline news like no
but increasingly they are drowned out Johnson’s riposte was irrational and has been commentator, was brilliant at it, until British fighter since Frank
by coarser emotions, and what passes unjustified. Yes, Merson admitted charged one swear word too many appeared at Bruno, and the letdown
for wit these days are songs about pae- alcoholism. He admitted drug use. He by the FA the bottom of his observations, and he that has followed merely
dophilia or inter-familial sodomy. And has battled to overcome both and for his closed his account. confirms the suspicions of
the players’ Twitter missives reflect has regained control of his life. These Some of the most entertaining
this febrile atmosphere. frailties have nothing to do with his tweet posters have already given up, leaving many about the sport. The
El Hadji Diouf of Blackburn Rovers is ability to accurately appraise John- about a surplus of dross, of people labouring fight with Audley Harrison,
plainly a nasty piece of work and his son’s form, which has certainly been Howard under the misconception they have in particular, set affection
comments towards the stricken Jamie inconsistent. Webb something to say. Much of football’s for boxing back years
Mackie of Queens Park Rangers as he The phrase Merson used was that ACTION IMAGES chatter falls into this category. It is the because enthusiasts and
lay on the ground during Saturday’s Johnson ‘couldn’t defend for toffee’. It work of men like Jose Enrique of New- casual supporters alike felt
FA Cup third-round tie are, if true, is a colourful expression, typical of his castle United, who revealed that he cheated to have paid for
indefensible. But for all the under- outspoken style, but he is hardly the would miss the Tottenham Hotspur wind, hot air and what
standable emotion surrounding a first to reach that conclusion. Either match with injury, much to the annoy- looked like conscientious
team-mate with a broken leg being way, Merson is entitled to his opinion, ance of Alan Pardew, his manager, who
objection. Haye: devalued
taunted by a callous opponent, for indeed he is paid to provide it. John- was hoping to conceal this information
QPR player Clint Hill to later announce son is entitled to disagree, too, but to from the opposition until the teams In the aftermath of the win over Valuev, Haye
‘That c*** will get what’s coming to do so in such an aggressive manner were announced. talked a good fight, as he always does. ‘You
him’ is hardly an edifying development does him little credit. Sadly, it is very Stupidity, though, we can handle. It judge the strength of any boxing era by how
for football. much a sign of the times. is the loss of humour and the eager good the heavyweights are,’ he said, rightly.
Yet this is the way the game is going. Managers are often in trouble for glo- embracing of some of football’s most ‘You have to put together a consistent body of
When Paul Merson made an honest rified sound bites in post-match inter- negative aspects that is most worry- work like Lennox Lewis did, so once we get those
criticism of England right back Glen views, uttered when emotions are at a ing. It used to be said there are no Klitschko guys out of the way, I hope there is
Johnson recently, Johnson replied that high, yet the Twitter debate is even characters left in football. Now we’ve someone coming through, young, fresh,
Merson was an ‘alcoholic drug user’. It less sophisticated. In 140 characters got 140 of them, but nobody’s
was a complete over-reaction, nasty all context and lightness is removed laughing. mid-20s, with a bit of hype, who can test me.’
What happened to that fighter? What happened
to the guy who was going to get the Klitschkos
AT IT... out of the way, like a man flicking a loose cotton
thread from the sleeve of his new jacket? Haye
claims they have avoided him and taken matches
with inferior fighters — Vitali announced
City can’t be champions — they’re too dull yesterday that his next opponent would be
Odlanier Solis, from Cuba — but the Harrison
debacle has left him with little sympathy.
THE strange thing is that centre forward, enjoy. They supporters in Jose Mourinho’s the champions should be the After defeating Valuev, Haye spoke proudly of
when Manchester City finally have worn enough jokes time, and Arsenal fans before team who play the best putting his sport on the map; of seeing his face
got their crack at the title, I through the years to be allowed the boldness of the Arsene football, and Manchester City on the front pages, rather than tucked away in
had always presumed I would some harmless fun of their own. Wenger (below) era erased the are the hardest in the top five the hinterland of the sports coverage. He may
be rooting for them. Yet now the moment is here, it memories of George Graham to watch. Tottenham are the
I am not among those who is strangely unmoving. In fact, and his all-encompassing most cavalier, Arsenal the wish to consider its status now: reduced to what
begrudge the club the money of the top five, City are the offside trap. most technically exciting, journalists call a NIB (short for news in brief). The
and ambition they have. team many would least like to If it were my team with the United are brave home and biggest boxing story this week centres on
UEFA make huge Champions see holding the trophy, and opportunity to get one over away, while even Chelsea take whether Harrison will be allowed to keep his
League payments — while purely for football reasons — on Manchester United for more risks than City — when purse from Manchester.
hypocritically advocating not out of jealousy. I do not the first time in almost they are in form. ‘History will show Wladimir Klitschko fought
financial fair play — that have expect their fans to half a century, I would I completely appreciate why Dereck Chisora, a novice, ahead of me,’ said
left clubs with no option but appreciate this, or even not care if it was recalled City manager Roberto Mancini Haye. It may also show Haye fought Chagaev but
to lay out equally significant care. The cry of ‘boring, as the most tedious title sees winning a trophy as more
wads of cash if they wish to boring City’ during win in history and half essential than pleasing the
could not get to either of the Klitschko brothers.
join the elite. Sunday’s excellent the stadium was asleep aesthetes, but the hottest The precise details of who is running from whom
If a very wealthy man wants to FA Cup tie with when the trophy was held ticket in town should be the has long been forgotten in the game of claim
spend his money so that we Leicester was the aloft. one that affords a view of the and counter-claim. To lose one Klitschko may be
can watch Kaka every week, same sarcastic But City are not my champions, and if City win this regarded as misfortune, to lose both looks like
good luck to him. If City get a riposte we team, so I can season, that will not be the carelessness, and no matter how much hype
little cheeky after buying heard from afford to take the case. I guess I like the idea of surrounds the White Tyson, Haye risks his legacy
Manchester United’s Chelsea high road. Ideally, them more than the reality. becoming as inconsequential as his sport.
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by MATT
LAWTON
A
S THE manager of West Ham,
Avram Grant exists from day
to day. He is aware that his
employers are courting other
managers behind his back, just
as he is aware that not everyone at
Upton Park is on his side.
But after less than 20 months as a manager in
English football, this likeable and yet widely
unloved Israeli is within touching distance of a
third cup final appearance at Wembley and a
fourth final in total if we throw in that extraordi-
nary Champions League night in Moscow. A
night when he came within a John Terry penalty
of lifting the European Cup.
Clearly, Grant has something. Clearly, he com-
mands the respect of his players, judging by the
way they seem to battle for him in the semi-finals
he has contested.
Only last weekend, former England goalkeeper
David James revealed how Grant is the only
manager he has played under in more than 20
years who has successfully ‘turned a dressing
room around’.
Chelsea’s Frank Lampard was gushing in his
praise for Grant at a Football Writers’ Associa-
tion tribute dinner in his honour last year and,
for all the difficulties this West Ham side are
experiencing in the Barclays Premier League,
there seem to be plenty of players here who have
not yet given up on him.
Exactly how West Ham’s directors feel about
Grant we should know later today. There is a
board meeting scheduled for this morning when
his future is sure to be a subject of discussion.
But it should be more difficult to sack him when
his side somehow emerged from an astonishing
Carling Cup semi-final first leg with an advan-
tage they can take to St Andrew’s in a fortnight.
After 45 minutes they really deserved more
than a single goal from Mark Noble, so impres-
sive were they in the way they terrorised
Birmingham with their fast, flowing football.
Noble was terrific, as was Scott Parker.
But a soft 56th-minute equaliser was followed,
three minutes later, by the dismissal of Victor
Obinna, and with it the likelihood of a second
goal for Alex McLeish’s side and the subsequent
dismissal of Grant.
That it was West Ham who scored was remark-
able, especially when Carlton Cole’s 78th-minute
winner owed so much to the blunder that was
committed by Ben Foster. Until he allowed Cole’s
shot to slip through his legs, he had been a
contender for man of the match.
Foster had been the main reason West Ham did
not score more in that one-sided first half. Now
he was faced with being haunted by another
potentially career-defining mistake.
For Grant, it amounted to a possible lifeline;
the chance to at least remain in position for
another two weeks, even if his position will con-
tinue to be the subject of fevered speculation.
Grant remains dignified in the way he conducts
himself, doing his best to look at everything in as
positive a light as possible. He points out that
West Ham are among seven clubs fighting to
climb away from the bottom of the table, just as
he pointed out in his programme notes that his
team are ‘just two points off 14th place’.
He will believe 11 men can secure West Ham’s
first appearance in a final at Wembley in 30 years,
especially if they perform as well as they
did before Ridgewell met a Sebastian Larsson
corner with a fine header and the foolish Obinna
IT WAS A GREAT
From Back Page
Alex McLeish’s side
after 56 minutes.
The Birmingham
manager said: ‘It was
definitely a missed
opportunity. The goal
was a little bit of a
monstrosity, when you
think about it.
‘He (Foster) is a big lad.
Goalies are always
vulnerable. When they
make a mistake it
normally results in a
goal.’
Substitute Cole, 27, said: ages and today’s a
‘I didn’t even strike the great day to do it.’
ball properly and I West Ham manager
think Ben Foster helped Avram Grant said with a
me by carrying it in a smile: ‘I must say, for
bit. me, it was a great goal.’
‘But every goal counts The win is a boost for
and we have all worked under-fire Grant
very hard today. I’ve (above), who is now
not scored a winner in one game away from a
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Carling Cup Semi-Final 77
Cole leave
Hammers
in sight of
Wembley
Hitman: Noble
thumps in the
opening goal
for West Ham
AVRAM ALIVE!
was sent off for kicking out at Birmingham’s
Swedish winger.
Until then they dominated the visitors, even
with Matthew Upson deployed as an emergency
MATCH ZONE WEST HAM BIRMINGHAM
8 ....... Shots on target .........3
5 ....... Shots off target .........5 Wenger rocked
left back. Upson was the first player to test Fos- ANORAK’S ESSENTIAL
by Vermaelen
ter after 13 minutes but the England goalkeeper 253 ........... Passes ............ 447
proved powerless to stop Grant’s men scoring. WEST HAM’S last appearance in a 69% ... Passing success .... 80%
Noble created the opportunity and then con- League Cup semi-final first leg saw 36% .......Possession ....... 64%
verted it, floating a cross to the far post for them lose 6-0 at Oldham on
Obinna. When his header was blocked, Jonathan
Spector drove the ball back into the path of
Valentine’s Day 1990. AND HERE’S WHAT THE
Noble and he responded with a stinging strike. MATCH FACTS FANS ARE SAYING... ARSENAL are in a defensive By LAURA WILLIAMSON
crisis after it emerged last
West Ham’s football was fluent and explosive.
Entertaining, too. Within seconds, Foster had to
STAR MAN: Mark Noble
WEST HAM UNITED (4-1-4-1): Green 6;
I WONDER what goes on in our night that Thomas Vermaelen and JOHN EDWARDS
save from Freddie Sears and James Tomkins. Faubert 6, Reid 6, Tomkins 7, Upson 7;
dressing room at half-time! We needs an operation on the
After spending the interval with McLeish, how- dominated the first half but Arsenal, in the MLS off-season,
Parker 7; Sears 7 (Hines 74min, 6), achilles injury that has kept
ever, who brought on David Murphy, Birmingham Spector 6, Noble 8 (Kovac 90), Obinna 5; struggled in the second. We until next Wednesday.
him out since August. Wenger said: ‘He is one of the
attacked with more purpose, first making it 1-1 Piquionne 5 (Cole 74). can’t rely on a Robert Green-
and then finding themselves with an extra man. Sportsmail can reveal that greatest players this club
Subs not used: Boffin, Boa Morte, Nouble, type howler. the 25-year-old faces up to
But Grant sent on Cole and it was the player Spence. — Ian Cole (West Ham) have ever had and the only
who has been scathing in his public criticism of Sent off: Obinna. another six weeks out after way we can pay him back is
his manager who swung this tie back in West WE looked a different side in the the surgery on his tendon. always to be welcoming.’
BIRMINGHAM CITY (4-5-1): Foster 6;
Ham’s favour — albeit after meeting Spector’s second half, but from one ‘There is some inflammation
cross with a shot that, while it took a slight
Carr 6, Johnson 6, Dann 6 (Murphy 46, 7), Meanwhile, Gareth McAuley
Ridgewell 7; Larsson 6 (Zigic 87), attacking move they got the that won’t go away,’ said a has rocked Ipswich on the
deflection off Roger Johnson, should have been Gardner 6, Ferguson 6, Fahey 6, Hleb 5 source. ‘A month is the most
dealt with by Foster. winner. It’s 2-1 at half-time, eve of their biggest match in
(Beausejour 83); Jerome 5. optimistic view of how much
Upton Park erupted for a second time. ‘We’re Subs not used: Taylor, Derbyshire, Mutch,
though, and I think we can win years by rejecting a new
going to Wembley,’ they cried. On this occasion, it overall. longer he will be out but it is deal.
Jiranek. likely to be nearer six weeks.’
Foster’s pain is Grant’s gain. For now, at least. Referee: Phil Dowd 7. — Kevin Ball (Birmingham) The defender is among 21
m.lawton@dailymail.co.uk It is a blow for Arsenal as players out of contract in the
they go to Ipswich tonight for summer and tonight could be
Ipswich Town
third domestic cup final in consider a rare sortie into
less than three years,
having taken Chelsea to
the transfer market, with v Arsenal
Bolton centre back Gary
the 2008 Carling Cup final Cahill and Werder Bremen’s
(4-4-2) Fulop
against Tottenham and Per Mertesacker thought to McAuley Delaney
Portsmouth to the FA Cup be his top targets.
final against Chelsea last Eastman Kennedy
Sebastien Squillaci will be out
May. for two to three weeks after Norris Healy
He said: ‘We (have) had to tearing hamstring in the 1-1
fight with other things Peters Edwards
FA Cup clash with Leeds.
that aren’t on the pitch Bacary Sagna is serving a Wickham Priskin
but I will take it as a three-match ban but Wenger Bendtner
challenge. has Laurent Koscielny and
‘You must give respect to Arshavin Rosicky Walcott
Johan Djourou available and
the players. Don’t worry Ignasi Miquel is likely to play. Denilson Song
about me, I will be fine. The Gunners have not won a
‘We have an advantage That’s nuts: Victor Obinna Gibbs Eboue
was thanking his lucky stars trophy since May 2005 when
but nothing’s finished yet.’ they beat Manchester United Koscielny Miquel
last night after the needless
Wayne Bridge was among in the FA Cup final.
red card which threatened Szczesny (4-2-3-1)
the crowd at Upton Park West Ham’s Wembley bid. He The Arsenal boss said: ‘Of
last night. The Manchester was sent off at 1-1 by referee course I want to end our run. Kick-off: 7.45pm, Portman
City left back, 30, will have Phil Dowd (right) for lashing Once you’re in the semi-final Road.
a medical at West Ham out with a boot at Sebastian of the Carling Cup you don’t TV: LIVE Sky Sports 1,
today, when he is Larsson just before the hour want to go out.’ 7.30pm. BBC1 11.35pm.
expected to finalising a (ringed above) New York Red Bulls striker Referee: Martin Atkinson.
six-month loan deal. Thierry Henry is training with
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by DOMINIC
KING
Dalglish: I can help
K Torres out of his rut
ENNY DALGLISH
will offer Fernando
Torres full access to
his wealth of
knowledge in an
attempt to revive the ailing
striker’s form.
When Liverpool supporters spend
idle hours choosing the club’s
definitive dream team, many select and I will try and help him in any and his poor body language ensured allayed such fears and was encour-
Dalglish as a partner for Torres in
the belief that an avalanche of
KENNY SPEAKS way, shape or form, but, as I say, it’s
the same for all the players. We’ve
press conferences rarely went by
without Roy Hodgson being asked
aged by the hard work Torres put in
at Old Trafford on Sunday.
opportunities would be created
and scored.
FROM EXPERIENCE got to try and help each other.
‘We’ve got to have respect and
what he felt was wrong with the
Spaniard.
‘If he bangs a couple in I’ll be look-
ing up to him,’ said Dalglish. ‘It’s all
Having struggled so badly during FOR FERNANDO TORRES there is believe in what we’re doing and After a run of one goal in eight about relationships between
Liverpool’s bleak midwinter, Torres perhaps no-one better to turn carry that on to the pitch. We have games many are now wondering players and staff, and what they
could do with some inspiration and to for advice about being a Kop got to continue working as hard as whether Dalglish called it right in can get out of each other. I’ve got
the return of Dalglish might just be idol out of form than Kenny we possibly can to turn it around.’ My Liverpool Home — is the fantastic respect for Fernando, not
a catalyst for an upturn in his Dalglish. The Scot’s longest run The irony is that Dalglish pre- 26-year-old burnt out? only as a footballer but also as a
fortunes. As Ian Rush would testify, without a goal came 26 years dicted something like this might But heading into tonight’s fixture person.’
Liverpool No 9s flourish in the happen. In a chapter from his at Bloomfield Road, Dalglish has Meanwhile, Blackpool boss Ian
presence of King Kenny.
ago when he went a marathon Holloway fears Dalglish’s return
22 matches without scoring. recently published memoirs, the Kop idols:
Few understand forward play bet- 59-year-old raised concerns about could end in failure and rejection.
ter than Liverpool’s greatest player After notching in a 3-3 draw Torres. ‘His summers have been Torres (far Citing the example of Newcastle
and he will leave no stone unturned with Luton on September 4, filled with Euro 2008, the Confeder- left) and favourite Alan Shearer, who was not
to ensure his striker can start pro- 1984, King Kenny had to wait ations Cup in 2009 and the World Dalglish offered the manager’s job on a
ducing the thrilling performances until January 19, 1985 before Cup in 2010,’ he wrote. ‘Those yesterday permanent basis after failing to save
which were once the norm. finding the back of the net again, demands have taken a toll. his hometown club from relegation,
Significantly, though, Dalglish — in the 4-0 trouncing of Norwich. Fernando is a thoroughbred Holloway said he hopes Dalglish
who takes his side to Blackpool for footballer and nobody would does not come to regret his
a re-arranged Barclays Premier exhaust a race horse like decision.
League clash tonight — can also is little wonder Dalglish sports a that.’ ‘To come back into it after 10
empathise with the problems telling smile when he is asked for If Dalglish is to achieve years is a big step,’ said Holloway. ‘I
Torres is having. his thoughts on where Torres has only one thing during his six- hope they get it right because
The Spaniard is obviously vexed been going wrong. month stint in charge at Kenny deserves to not ruin what
by his return of one goal against ‘Someone asked me if I had a Anfield, many fans would hap- he’s got with the fans — and foot-
Bolton since November 10 but it is magic wand for Fernando,’ said pily accept it to be coaxing ball fans can be fickle. He can’t
nothing compared with the 22 Dalglish. ‘I said I don’t need one, he Torres back to the form that, carry the can for all this. It will take
games without scoring that Dal- has got one himself. He might lack until recently, made him the time.
glish suffered during his playing a little bit of confidence but he is most feared striker in the ‘I don’t see him as being the great
days as part of a side that had only still a top goalscorer and someone Premier League. Apart from golden saviour. I just see him as
just won the European Cup. There everybody fears when he goes on to one sublime display against someone Liverpool fans trust at a
was also a 17-game drought at the the pitch. I went through a worse C h e l s e a i n N o v e m b e r, time when they’ve lost faith.’
start of the 1982-83 campaign, so it spell than that. I can pass on advice Torres has been struggling d.king@dailymail.co.uk
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Return of An Icon 79
TUSSLE HEATS UP
ment of discarded commentator Jonathan
Legard, it demonstrates how powerful Brundle
(right) has become within the BBC F1 set-up. It
also raises conflict-of-interest issues because
Brundle used to manage Coulthard, who is also
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offer of Champions League football, will be not be enough to cover Neville’s influence. transparency did not extend to revealing
impossible to turn down. But Redknapp remains a huge admirer of a the amount of money they have had to pay
Preliminary discussions have taken place at player who has won 59 caps. Publicly he has Vauxhall’s industry rivals Fiat to abort the
boardroom level between Tottenham acknowledged the complexities of any conflicting four-year official car supply deal
chairman Daniel Levy and his Everton potential transfer but privately he hopes that that was signed last February. Insiders put the
counterpart Bill Kenwright. persistence will pay off. He said: ‘We played pay-off figure at around £500,000.
Moyes confirmed Tottenham had enquired them twice recently and Phil is a real leader
about Neville’s availability last month — and for them but I’m sure David wouldn’t want to c.sale@dailymail.co.uk
again after the two sides met at Goodison lose him, so it will be a difficult one.’ ...and follow his updates at twitter.com/charliesale
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BEN BLUNDERS
Foster’s howler
gifts Hammers
Wembley hope
By LAURA WILLIAMSON
A BEN FOSTER howler gifted
West Ham a 2-1 victory after
they had been reduced to 10
men in a bizarre Carling Cup
semi-final first leg at Upton
Park last night.
The Birmingham goalkeeper let
Carlton Cole’s dribbling shot role
through his legs and into the net 12
minutes from time when the Hammers
were rocking.
Striker Victor Obinna had been sent
off for a senseless kick at Sebas-
tian Larsson as the pair waited
for a Matthew Upson throw-in.
Mark Noble put West Ham
ahead in the 13th minute
«
but Liam Ridgewell equalised for
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Put each of the
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The words or phrases on the three sides of (highlighted to
form an X) and Complete the grid so that all the numbers, 1 to 64,
each small triangle are related. Find the horizontal connect consecutively – horizontally, vertically Fit the scrambled letters of the
words for the missing side of each of the 3 x 2 box (ruled). or diagonally. Hint: you don’t have to begin with 1 given word into the grid to form
three outer triangles to discover the central Solution or 64. Working on the mid-numbers might give six five-letter words across and
triangle’s theme. Solution tomorrow. tomorrow. you a better start. Solution tomorrow. down. Solution tomorrow.
Hidden in the grid is the name of a celebrity chef. Answer the questions, then re-arrange the
NAME GAME letters corresponding to your answers to fill in the name. Solution tomorrow. GOGEN
Insert letters to form the listed words, moving
between adjacent cells horizontally, vertically
BOX 1: Which food or diagonally in any direction. Insert all the
provides the title of the remaining letters of the alphabet (except Z) in
autobiography by Nigel
Slater (pictured)?
the grid so all the listed words are spelt out in
Cheese (J) BOX 5: Which British TV soap Eldorado first air? this way. Solution tomorrow.
Toast (D) monarch does Colin Firth 1972 (C)
Ham (N) portray in the new film 1982 (I) CUP
BOX 2: What nationality is
The King’s Speech?
George V (U)
1992 (H) S G T B D DRIVE
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American (H) George VI (L) the Cotillion? FAX
Spanish (I)
Russian (R) BOX 6: What nationality
A French dance (I)
An British battleship (M)
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is the actress A German sausage and
BOX 3: Tampa is a city in Sophia Loren? cabbage dish (V) KEY
which U.S. state?
Maine (O)
Canadian (M)
Italian (S) BOX 10: What type of
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New York (K) Polish (R) creature is a John Dory? PONG
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1. Chiaroscuro, the artistic distribution of light and dark masses in a picture, originated during which artistic period? 2. By what
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mascot who was ‘sent off’ during a game against Derby for distracting their goalkeeper? 4. Which prehistoric period succeeded
ANSWERS ON PAGE 42 the Stone Age? 5. Which of the Spice Girls had the first solo No 1 of the group?
SOLUTIONS
SOLUTIONS TO YESTERDAY’S
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SUDOKU Fill in all the squares in the grid so that each row, column and each of KAKURO PITCHERWITS
the 3x3 squares contains all the digits from 1 to 9. Solutions tomorrow.
1a. They’re low in a 9a. For greatest speed –
drought (5,6) or it could be a hat! (3,4
13a. Set up in post (7) 18a. What to lie on, you
sleepy heads!? (11)
1d. Brief appearance (7-
4)
4d. Lovers (11)
Fill in the blank squares of the grid using only the numbers 1 to
9, without repeating any number in any line of blank squares.
Difficulty rating ))))* Difficulty rating ))))) The lines must be filled in with numbers which add up to the
total in the shaded box at the top or beginning of each line. A
CODEWORD number in the bottom half of a shaded box gives a downwards
total: in the top half, it’s a horizontal total. Solution tomorrow.
6d. Where you must
stand still to pass (7)
8d. Energy efficiency
that’s been told off? (7)
Each number in our Codeword grid represents a different letter of the alphabet,
For example, today 9 represents P, so fill in P every time the figure 9 appears,
You have one letter in the control grid to start you off. Enter it in the appropriate
Yesterday’s Sudoku and Kakuro solutions WORLD’S SMALLEST
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HARDEST CROSSWO
ACROSS
list of alphabetical letters as you identify them. Solution in tomorrow’s paper.
1. Nautical
measurement
(abbr) (3)
4. Joy, mirth (4)
5. Anniversary unit (4)
6. Scorecard figure (3)
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7 Bane. DOWN: 1 Slab, 2
1
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a huff until it’s sorted
out (10)
15 Help lop a tree
displaying pearlies (8)
11 Pick up a small
amount of
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1 2 3 4 ACROSS DOWN
1 Picture clue 1 Picture clue
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4) 5 6 7 8
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