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贝利警告鲁莽的税收与支出计划将损害英国信誉

作者：蒂姆·华莱士 (Tim Wallace)

英格兰银行行长警告称，支出增加可能进一步损害英国的信誉，并可能引发类似利兹·特拉斯（Liz Truss）时期的危机重演。

在约翰·希利（John Healey）首次提交预算案的三周前，安德鲁·贝利（Andrew Bailey）在一次演讲中主张，在国家债务沉重且市场紧张的背景下，必须寻求增长。在昨日与同行央行行长的交流中，他并未直接讨论预算案，但描述了一个脆弱的世界，在这个世界中，鲁莽的税收和支出计划可能会破坏稳定性。

他表示，2022年特拉斯女士的“迷你预算案”之后引发的危机导致英国借贷成本极速攀升，“这说明了在如今这些大幅变化的环境下可能会发生什么”。

贝利先生的言论很可能被视为对安迪·伯纳姆（Andy Burnham）和希利先生的警告，即支撑英国3万亿英镑债务规模的国际投资者，将惩罚他们在财政首秀中表现出的任何鲁莽迹象。

长期债务成本达到了1998年以来的最高水平，给财政大臣带来了进一步压力。专家估计，伊朗战争使希利先生的支出缓冲空间（即 headroom）减半，仅剩120亿英镑。

他的前任蕾切尔·里夫斯（Rachel Reeves）此前一直试图在公共财政中维持220亿英镑的缓冲空间。然而，她采取了税收突袭手段，经济学家认为这导致了英国增长乏力。

贝利先生表示，在经历了新冠疫情以及由入侵乌克兰引发的能源危机等冲击后，支出计划必须“导向稳定性，并被市场视为可信”。

他补充道：“如果市场开始怀疑财政轨迹，债券收益率可能会进一步上升。政府通常可以使用其资产负债表来缓冲严重的经济衰退，并在情况改善时重建财政空间。”

“但当冲击变得更加频繁，潜在增长更加疲软，且连续的冲击导致政府债务水平更高时，这种情况就变得难以维持。”

金边债券收益率（投资者持有债务所获得的回报率）在最近几周有所攀升，这是由迫在眉睫的通货膨胀、失控的国家支出以及AI热潮带来的贷款竞争所驱动的全球趋势的一部分。

影子财政大臣安德鲁·格里菲斯（Andrew Griffith）表示：“读懂其潜台词，行长显然在警告希利，需要更好的经济增长，且不要削减本就微薄的预算缓冲空间。”

首相抱怨说，英国不应该“受制于债券市场”。但随着支出缓冲空间的缩小，伯纳姆先生将面临挫折，因为他面临着支持那些在燃料价格和能源账单上涨中苦苦挣扎的家庭的压力。首相承诺在达成借贷目标并为国防提供更多资金的同时，给家庭提供“更多喘息空间”。

贝利先生表示，控制通货膨胀已变得更具挑战性。他说：“当冲击接踵而至时，难度会更大。近期高通胀的历史会导致人们预期进一步的通胀。新冠疫情与入侵乌克兰的先后顺序使这一风险尤为剧烈。”

他补充说，此类冲击还使得央行难以将抑制通胀的计划与政府的税收和支出政策相统一。他说：“即使在经济活动减弱时，利率可能仍需上升。”

“就在家庭收入和企业盈利承压之时，债务偿还成本却在增加。资产价格可能会下跌，从而降低抵押品价值并限制信贷供应。这就是为什么在冲击发生前的韧性如此重要。”

财政部发言人表示，财政纪律是“经济稳定的基石”，伯纳姆先生和希利先生“步调一致，政府将遵守财政规则，并设置应对不确定性的缓冲空间——这包括降低债务”。

理查德·E·格兰特在昨晚播出的节目中被踢出《名人叛徒》（The Celebrity Traitors）后，心情出奇地愉快。自从在新系列开始时向其他明星透露自己是一名“叛徒”以来，这位演员一直处于岌岌可危的状态。评论见第 3 页

巴登诺克出现在维德科姆谋杀案嫌疑人家中的名单上

作者：Gordon Rayner 副主编

《每日电讯报》获悉，凯米·巴登诺克（Kemi Badenoch）的名字出现在一份包含 100 多位知名人士的名单上，据称该名单在被指控谋杀安·维德科姆（Ann Widdecombe）的男子家中被发现。

据了解，与这位保守党党魁一同出现在该涉嫌名单上的还有影子外交大臣汤姆·图根哈特（Tom Tugendhat）、罗伯特·詹里克（Robert Jenrick）、改革英国党（Reform UK）的李·安德森（Lee Anderson）和理查德·泰斯（Richard Tice），以及独立议员罗茜·达菲尔德（Rosie Duffield）。

其中几位被点名的人指责警方和内政大臣沙巴娜·马哈茂德（Shabana Mahmood）让他们失望，因为对方在数月内都没有告知他们其名字出现在该涉嫌名单上。

今年 7 月，28 岁的约书亚·克里（Joshua Kerry）被指控谋杀前议员、改革英国党发言人维德科姆女士。本月，他被指控准备恐怖主义行为，目标包括改革英国党领导人奈杰尔·法拉奇（Nigel Farage）。

本周早些时候，法院获悉，克里先生对包括法拉奇先生在内的多位知名人士进行了调查，而法拉奇先生的住所去年曾遭到企图闯入。

尽管克里先生位于南约克郡罗瑟勒姆（Rotherham）的住所在他 7 月被捕时就经过了搜查，但议员和其他人员直到本周才被告知

“我们本应立即被告知此事。他们应该派遣警察到我们家中”

他们的名字出现在该房产中被发现的一份涉嫌名单上。目前尚不清楚警方具体是在何时发现该涉嫌名单的。

改革英国党主席、阿什菲尔德（Ashfield）议员安德森先生表示：“我们本应立即被告知此事。他们应该派遣警察到我们家中，给我们建议，与我们的家人沟通，但相反，我本周接到了诺丁汉郡警方的电话告知我此事。”

“（负责领导此次调查的）伦敦警察厅甚至无法亲自告诉我。相反，他们让地方警力来执行——这意味着当我提出问题时，诺丁汉郡警方必须向伦敦警察厅询问答案然后再回复我。这就像是在玩‘传话游戏’。在安去世后，我询问内政大臣改革英国党的议员是否面临额外风险，而她拒绝回答。”

马哈茂德女士当时仅表示“反恐警察拥有所需的资源”。

安德森先生说：“我认为这真的很令人震惊。警方让我们失望了，内政大臣也让我们失望了。我们生活在一个情况在恶化而非好转的时代，议员们感到没有安全感。”

“在安去世后，议长确保我们获得了额外的安保，但内政大臣没有，所以奈杰尔（法拉奇）不得不为我们支付了一段时间的额外安保费用。”

朋友称，安德鲁的反击现在开始

作者：马丁·埃文斯（Martin Evans）和维多利亚·沃德（Victoria Ward）

朋友们表示，安德鲁·蒙巴顿-温莎（Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor）在针对警方的法律诉讼中获胜，是他“迟到已久的反击”的第一阶段。

在发现允许警员搜查其住所的搜查令是非法签发后，这位前约克公爵被描述为感到“得到了证明”。

他目前正采取进一步法律行动，以追回泰晤士河谷警方（Thames Valley Police）从桑德林厄姆庄园（Sandringham Estate）的马什农场（Marsh Farm）及其在温莎的前住所皇家小屋（Royal Lodge）没收的物品。

这位国王的弟弟于2月19日被逮捕，涉嫌在担任英国贸易特使期间，与被定罪的儿童色情狂杰弗里·爱泼斯坦（Jeffrey Epstein）分享敏感信息，涉嫌渎职。

在他于诺福克郡艾尔舍姆（Aylsham）警察局接受12小时审讯期间，泰晤士河谷警方的侦探搜查了他的两处房产以寻找证据。然而，在被释放并接受调查后不久，这位前王子提交了司法复核，认为警方的行动过火且非法。在昨天的高等法院（High Court）听证会上，法院确认实际上签发了错误的搜查令。

希利亚德法官（Mr Justice Hilliard）表示，在申请和授予搜查令的过程中出现了“重大错误”，而这“足以使搜查令、搜查行为以及没收的材料变得非法”。

明年的听证会将决定泰晤士河谷警方是否必须归还相关材料，但蒙巴顿-温莎先生的朋友表示，他决心捍卫自己的权益。这位前公爵的一位朋友说：“无论如何，它……”（续见第5页）

福利制度推高 ADHD 申领量

作者：劳拉·唐纳利（Laura Donnelly）和迈克尔·西尔斯（Michael Searles）

一项具有里程碑意义的审查警告称，对 ADHD（注意缺陷多动障碍）和自闭症诊断需求的激增正受到英国福利制度的推动。

一份由政府委托的报告称，医疗标签已成为获取福利、学校支持和其他帮助的门槛，从而产生了财务激励，这可能导致过度诊断。

这份长达607页的审查报告确实发现了心理困扰大幅增加的证据，估计约有400万名儿童和青少年（五分之一）正经历高度的心理困扰。然而，报告警告称，不必要的诊断可能会通过“关闭大门”、降低志向以及用“不能做什么”来定义孩子，从而损害一代人。

报告还呼吁打击蓬勃发展的私人评估行业，并对诊断质量以及推动其扩张的财务激励表示“强烈担忧”。

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该报告质疑，将诊断设为“获取支持的唯一可靠钥匙”在多大程度上产生了诊断需求。报告指出：“系统不仅是在吸收需求，而是在塑造需求。”

“为什么诊断变得如此重要？”审查报告问道。“因为它验证了自我认知和经历，并且它提供了获得治疗、教育支持、职场调整、福利补贴、社会护理和专业服务的途径。”

政府数据显示，2026年7月，以自闭症为主要残疾状况申领残疾福利的人数为268,965人，而2019年1月为79,395人。以 ADHD 或 ADD 为主要状况的人数增长了四倍多，从23,741人增加到106,087人。

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两名拉脱维亚人被指侵入被誉为“北约情报皇冠上的明珠”的英国皇家空军基地

警方发现围栏被破坏后，两名男子在莫尔斯沃思（Molesworth）设施周界内被捕

作者：Richard Holmes 法医调查编辑

两名拉脱维亚男子因涉嫌擅闯位于剑桥郡的一处英国皇家空军（RAF）基地而被捕，该基地被认为是北约军事情报的“皇冠上的明珠”。

反恐警察表示，一名32岁男子和一名36岁男子在莫尔斯沃思皇家空军基地内被捕。

英国国防部（MoD）警察发现基地周界围栏被破坏后，于周三晚上10点左右实施了逮捕。

莫尔斯沃思皇家空军基地是美国负责欧洲和非洲的情报行动中心以及北约情报枢纽的所在地。该基地在周二和周三举办了一场关于俄罗斯的会议。

该基地设有北约情报融合中心，并作为危机预警和信息收集的枢纽。它分析电子信号和通信，为联盟内部的决策提供信息。

2024, 美国国防情报局在该基地开工建设一座耗资4.21 亿英镑m的新设施，完工后将容纳1,000名情报人员。

国防部警察最初以涉嫌擅闯禁区和刑事损坏为由逮捕了这两名拉脱维亚男子，并将他们带到剑桥郡的一个警察局。随后，这两名男子又因涉嫌为了损害英国利益的目的进入禁区，违反《National Security Act 2023.》而被捕。这两名男子均居住在英国，目前仍被警方拘留。

反恐警察表示，在发现并逮捕这两名男子之前，国防部警察发现了一辆被遗弃的车辆。警方目前正针对调查在剑桥郡彼得伯勒（Peterborough）地区的两个地址进行搜查。

被遗弃的车辆被扣押至附近地点以进行搜查。由于对该车辆存在顾虑，国防部官员要求专业的爆炸物处理小组进行额外检查。

警方表示，现场曾设立警戒线并关闭了当地道路，但在未发现异常情况后已撤销。

根据公开文件，该基地雇佣了约230名员工，并定期举办吸引北约联盟各方情报人员参加的会议。

本周的俄罗斯会议聚集了来自整个联盟的北约情报专家。演讲者包括英国前驻莫斯科国防武官约翰·福尔曼（John Foreman），他谈到了俄罗斯如何利用破坏活动和间谍活动对西方发动混合战争。

福尔曼先生告诉《每日电讯报》：“安保非常严密。一名官员说最近几周安保措施有所升级。我会将这种安保描述为增强状态。”

“在基地内外都能明显感觉到，这是英美两国数十年来合作的良好典范，旨在确保在那里工作的人员安全。

莫尔斯沃思皇家空军基地的周界围栏（左图）被发现被破坏，随后导致了逮捕行动。

当地地区自战争以来就是许多来自莫尔斯沃思、莱肯希斯（Lakenheath）和米尔登霍尔（Mildenhall）的美国人的家园。他们是非常受欢迎的社区成员。”

曾任北约军事委员会主席的空军上将斯图尔特·皮奇爵士（Sir Stuart Peach）将该设施描述为“北约情报事业的皇冠上的明珠”。

在两名拉脱维亚国民被捕的两周前，位于格洛斯特郡的费尔菲尔德（Fairfield）皇家空军基地曾成为一起疑似恐怖袭击阴谋的目标。

国防部发言人表示：“我们对国防设施面临的潜在威胁保持高度警惕，并与警方及盟友密切合作以确保其安全。”

海军水兵被指控密谋向俄罗斯泄露秘密

作者：Tom McArdle 和 Tom Cotterill

一名英国皇家海军水兵被指控密谋向俄罗斯泄露秘密信息。

24岁的泰迪·杨（Teddy Young）被指在被部署到一艘海军舰艇后，滥用其高级安全许可访问机密国防和情报数据。

据称，他起草了一封包含机密信息的俄语邮件，并涉嫌采取措施联系俄罗斯当局。

杨先生居住在贝德福德（Bedford）郊区克拉珀姆（Clapham）村的一栋半独立式房屋中，他昨日在威斯敏斯特治安法院出庭面对指控。

英国皇家检察署（CPS）告诉法院：“指控称，泰迪·斯坦利·格里尼奇·杨（Teddy Stanley Greenidge Young）在担任拥有高级安全许可和情报系统访问权限的皇家海军作战情报兵期间，访问并保留了英国敏感的国防和情报资料，并从事了与准备将受保护信息传递给外国势力一致的活动。”

杨先生于2024年4月加入海军，涉嫌在2024年11月4日开始的首次部署期间实施了上述犯罪行为。

他被指控利用暗网尝试与俄罗斯当局取得联系，起草了一封“试图与潜在威胁行为者建立联系”的邮件，并违反海军规定将信息复制到私人电子邮箱账户中。

杨先生在安娜贝尔·皮林（Annabel Pilling）法官面前出庭时，穿着一件灰色卫衣和慢跑裤。

他于周二在贝德福德郡的家中被反恐警察逮捕，此前他曾在去年于汉普郡被逮捕。

他被指控根据《2023年国家安全法》从事准备实施犯罪的行为，以及第二项关于从指定机构获取、接受或保留物质利益的指控。

根据指控，在2024年11月26日至2025年5月21日期间，杨先生“为了其已知，或考虑到已知其他事项而理应知道会对英国的安全或利益造成损害的目的，披露了受保护的信息，意图使该行为有利于外国势力，并从事了为实施此类行为而进行的准备工作”。

据称，在同一个六个月的期间内，杨先生“获取、复制、记录或保留了受保护的信息，意图使该行为有利于外国势力”。

在昨日时长四分钟的庭审中，法院并未要求杨先生进行任何答辩。

法官告诉他：“如你所知，你被指控的事项过于严重，无法在本法院处理，需要在刑事法院（Crown Court）处理。”

皮林法官将此案移交给中央刑事法院（Old Bailey），杨先生预计将于10月16, 出庭，目前被还押候审。

在宣布指控时，警方强调此次调查与正在进行的皇家空军费尔福德（RAF Fairford）调查之间没有联系。

一名皇家海军发言人表示：“在伦敦反恐警察局（Counter Terrorism Policing London）的调查后，一名皇家海军成员被指控违反《国家安全法》。”

“由于法律程序正在进行，现阶段进一步评论是不恰当的。”

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警方抓获伯克希尔“香肠走私者”

一名涉嫌将 M&S 猪肉香肠塞进紧身牛仔裤的盗窃嫌疑人已被指控犯有盗窃罪。

被戏称为“香肠走私者”的海登·卢卡斯（Haydon Lucas）被指控从伯克希尔郡纽伯里的一家 BP 分店盗窃了价值 £600 的高端肉制品。警方指控卢卡斯犯有四项商店行窃罪。泰晤士河谷警察局的一位发言人表示：“‘香肠走私者’已被抓获。有些罪犯思维开阔，而这位则想到了裤子里。”

“监控录像显示香肠被藏在衣服里。事实证明，想要登上警方社交媒体页面的方法有很多，而这并非最简单的一种。”

首相：我希望英国能找到阿尔茨海默症的治愈方法

安迪·伯纳姆承诺投入数百万英镑用于痴呆症研究，以帮助英国成为世界上第一个找到治愈方法的国家。

首相的父亲罗伊（Roy）上个月在患阿尔茨海默症后去世，他表示希望英国能“成为取得突破的国家”。政府将通过投资 3300 万英镑 以及来自私营部门的 1500 万英镑，将痴呆症研究列为“国家优先事项”，以帮助招募更多人员参与临床研究。这项投资将支持“芭芭拉联盟”（The Barbara Alliance），该联盟是为了纪念已故的《Carry On》系列电影及《东区东区》（EastEnders）女演员芭芭拉·温莎爵士（Dame Barbara Windsor）而成立的。

疫情以来最严重流感季出现“早期迹象”

英国国家医疗服务体系（NHS）正准备迎接新冠疫情以来最严重的流感季。

卫生官员表示，流感导致住院率处于 2022 年以来该时间段的最高水平。英国健康安全局的数据显示，在截至 10 月 4 日的一周内，每 100,000 人中有 1.97 人因流感入院。

虽然目前仍被认为处于较低水平，但这是疫情以来该时间段的最高值。

NHS 医学总监弗兰基·索兹（Frankie Swords）教授表示：“这发生在我们的急诊部门经历有史以来最繁忙的夏天之后。我们的医院现在非常、非常繁忙，因此这些早期迹象略显不祥。”

班克斯的墙面艺术被移至新展览

两面带有班克斯（Banksy）原作的混凝土墙将被起重机吊入一个画廊花园，以迎接该艺术家新作品的世界首秀。

这两面重达数吨的墙上绘有班克斯的《呼啦圈女孩》和《沙堡男孩》，今天将被安装在埃塞克斯郡科尔切斯特的米诺里斯画廊（The Minories Gallery）花园中，作为新展览《出格：班克斯与异议艺术》（Out of Line: Banksy and the Art of Dissent）的一部分。

此次安装是在一件名为《带钻头的老鼠》（Rat with Drill）的全新班克斯作品盛大揭幕之前进行的。

该作品将与 28 件班克斯作品一起于明天起展出，同时还将展出法国涂鸦艺术家 Blek le Rat 以及美国艺术家兼设计师 KAWS 的作品。

展览将持续至 2 月 28 日。

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理查德·“伊克”·格兰特出局，史上最糟糕的“背叛者”

—BBC / STUDIO LAMBERT / EUAN CHERRY—

迈克尔·霍根 (Michael Hogan)

演员承认自己“愚蠢至极”，在被踢出局后，Myha'la 在对他眨眼之后成为了下一个离开的人。

现在，他那抢尽风头的统治期已经结束，真正的游戏可以开始了。理查德·E·格兰特（Richard E Grant）承认自己“愚蠢得灾难性”，并在昨晚的《名人背叛者》（The Celebrity Traitors）节目中作为该节目历史上最糟糕的“背叛者”离场。

“我把自己给将死了，”这位所谓的“混乱之主”说道，“据我所知，这种情况从未发生过。”

主持人克劳迪娅·温克尔曼（Claudia Winkleman）表示赞同，并告诉欢呼的“忠诚者”们：“玩家们，这种情况以前从未发生过。你们第一次尝试就抓到了一个。”这难道是新手的运气？

在等待六天后，我们终于得到了第二集圆桌会议悬念的结局。这几乎没有什么反转。他一直是在勉强支撑，理查德·“伊克”·格兰特在 20 票中获得了压倒性的 16 票，随即被放逐。

“承认我是个‘背叛者’是一件愚蠢得灾难性的事情！”格兰特说，“我能想象制片人们面面相觑，口型在说‘他说什么？！’我看了所有能看到的这个游戏的版本，我一直在祈祷、渴望能被邀请成为‘背叛者’，所以当收到那个拍肩信号时……好吧，我失去了所有的自控力。”

那么，向其他人正式宣布自己是“背叛者”的感觉如何？“我说成为‘背叛者’一直是我的梦想。生活中，有时梦想会成真，有时则不会。我的脸色沉了下来，面前的所有玩家看起来都像是做错了决定。天呐，他终究是个‘忠诚者’！然后我说，‘我是一个不忠的背叛者’，瞬间引发了全场一致的起立鼓掌。”

“这就像一把双刃剑，既有被释放的喜悦，也有他们因为在游戏早期就抓到一个而如此欣喜若狂带来的羞辱感。我把胜利直接端到他们面前。”

汉娜·弗莱（Hannah Fry）教授被“背叛者”招募的时机很糟糕。由于挖掘坟墓的任务， “背叛者”唯一的谋杀选项就是汉娜和杰里·“哈吉斯”·霍尔（Jerry "Haggis" Hall）。这让“候选名单”变得极短。他们明智地选择增加成员而非杀人，很快将潜在招募对象缩小到汉娜、贝拉·拉姆齐（Bella Ramsey）和米兰达·哈特（Miranda Hart）。你可以看出他们诱导这位数学专家的逻辑——她拥有电子表格和艾伦·图灵的解码技术，因此构成了威胁，但这是否是一个错误？汉娜已经引起了关注，贝拉则没那么明显，米兰达完全没有，尽管她可能会拒绝邀请。

在早餐时间，这位红发天才只能希望自己不像杰里那样显眼，而杰里迅速将话题转向理查德被驱逐一事，这对自己毫无帮助。

正如詹姆斯在谈到秘密会议时所说：“阵容变化很大，就像 Sugababes 组合一样。”我们可以预见会有更多的人员更替。剧集前的传闻暗示总共会有七名“背叛者”。四个已出局，还剩三个。他们可能需要在塔楼上装一个旋转门。

当第二次圆桌会议到来时，放逐 Myha'la 的势头已经形成。她的罪名？为理查德辩护并对他眨眼，还带有一点掩护行为的阴暗面。不幸地，她获得了 13 票，于是出局了。至少每个人在写字板上都正确拼写了她的名字——除了杰里·霍尔，她写成了 "Mahala"。很接近，但没中。

Myha'la 离场前的最后一击是说，“以防我离开”，她怀疑贝拉、杰里

以及朱莉·赫斯蒙德豪（Julie Hesmondhalgh）。这三人身上随即都开始产生嫌疑。朱莉因为急于连续抓到两名“背叛者”，过于强力地推举迈哈拉（Myha'la）的名字，坚称她投票给理查德是“背叛者投背叛者”。一旦迈哈拉被证明清白，朱莉自己就开始显得十分可疑。

男性成员们也没能全身而退。有人暗示罗斯·肯普（Ross Kemp）已被招募，而詹姆斯则开始散布关于迈克尔的怀疑，这与乔·马勒（Joe Marler）的“大狗理论”有几分相似。背叛者们则能悠闲地坐视忠诚者们内斗。

当背叛者们聚集在一起挑选下一个谋杀目标时，弗莱（Fry）被她第一天的诡计搞得心力交瘁。幸运的是，詹姆斯和玛雅（Maya）保持了冷静。阿卡斯特（Acaster）建议谋杀詹姆斯·布朗特（James Blunt）以制造混乱。其他候选人包括被视为潜在威胁的贝拉（Bella），以及绰号为“Bash”的塞巴斯蒂安·克罗夫特（Sebastian Croft）。

幸好无需久候，因为第四集将于今晚8点播出。

背叛者杀手时尚：专题

苏格兰、爱尔兰和威尔士在威士忌战争攻击中反戈英格兰

作者：Harry Brennan 消费者事务编辑

在不断升级的威士忌战争中，苏格兰人发起了一场攻势，旨在阻止英格兰单一麦芽威士忌获得受保护地位。

苏格兰威士忌协会（SWA）已提交正式上诉，以防止英格兰威士忌被授予“受保护地理标志”（GI）地位。该地位将使英格兰麦芽威士忌成为一个独特的类别，并使其获得与苏格兰、威尔士威士忌以及爱尔兰威士忌相同的认可。

上个月宣布的受保护地位申请已获通过。这引发了边境以北地区的不安，愤怒的苏格兰生产商现在与爱尔兰和威尔士的制造商联合起来。

他们的主要主张是，英格兰威士忌是在与苏格兰不同的规则下被授予受保护地位的。苏格兰单一麦芽威士忌必须在苏格兰的一家单一蒸馏厂内完成糖化、发酵和蒸馏。然而，对于英格兰单一麦芽威士忌，生产过程中的某些步骤可以在主场地之外进行。

领导此次针对英格兰竞争对手申诉的 SWA 昨天表示，已提交正式上诉以阻止英格兰麦芽威士忌获得认可。

“苏格兰的反对令人费解——其强度似乎既不恰当又过于激进”

在与爱尔兰和威尔士协会发表的联合声明中，该协会表示：“我们希望能够找到一个互利共赢的解决方案，既能保护单一麦芽类别的完整性，又能允许英格兰地理标志（GI）的推进。”

“尽管我们努力寻求协议，包括向英格兰威士忌协会（English Whisky Guild）提供妥协方案，但我们的协会仍然对批准英格兰威士忌 GI 的一致性感到担忧，无论是在流程还是未来的实践方面。”

英格兰拥有 70 多家威士忌蒸馏厂，高于 2023. 年的 46 家。它们向 30 多个国家出口，据估计，英格兰威士忌的库存价值已达约 10亿英镑。它的崛起对苏格兰威士忌构成了威胁，SWA 表示，苏格兰威士忌每年直接为苏格兰经济贡献超过 50亿英镑。

英格兰威士忌协会的一位发言人表示，苏格兰的反对令人“费解”。他们补充道：“这种反对的强度似乎既不恰当，又有些过于激进。”

SWA 的一名发言人表示：“我们决定对该决定提出上诉，以保护苏格兰威士忌产业在单一麦芽威士忌类别的优质品质和声誉方面所投入的巨额投资。”

该上诉现在将由法庭审理。

最佳奥斯卡理论奖授予认为雕像基于神祇的专家

作者：埃里克·威廉姆斯 (Eric Williams)

奥斯卡奖的起源长期以来一直是个谜，即使是对那些屡获殊荣的好莱坞获奖者来说也是如此。

现在有证据表明，这座由青铜铸造并镀有 24 克拉黄金的学院奖小雕像，其灵感源自一位埃及神祇，而非此前认为的十字军骑士。

一位古董专家认为，奥斯卡奖的设计灵感来自一座古埃及神祇普塔（Ptah）的雕塑，该雕塑曾由阿默斯特勋爵（Lord Amherst）所有，后者是 19 世纪 80 年代代表西诺福克（West Norfolk）选区的前保守党议员。

据《泰晤士报》报道，伦敦艺术交易商鲁珀特·韦斯（Rupert Wace）在伦敦 Frieze 艺术博览会上表示，有“令人信服的论据”证明该雕塑启发了奥斯卡小雕像的设计师。

阿默斯特勋爵是一位狂热的收藏家，建立了一个规模庞大的埃及文物收藏集，但由于其庄园土地代理人的欺诈行为，他的财产遭受了毁灭性打击。韦斯先生的研究指出，这座青铜雕塑随后在 20 世纪 20 年代被阿默斯特家族出售给了兰道夫·赫斯特（Randolph Hearst），这位美国媒体大亨因与约瑟夫·普利策（Joseph Pulitzer）之间的报纸发行量之战而闻名。

艺术专家鲁珀特·韦斯声称，左图的埃及神祇普塔启发了金色奥斯卡奖杯。

韦斯先生正以“六位数金额”出售这座青铜雕塑，他表示该雕塑是由赫斯特的艺术采购基金——国际工作室艺术公司（International Studio Art Corporation）购买的。

赫斯特将他的埃及收藏品保存在纽约的公寓以及他位于加利福尼亚州的圣西蒙（San Simeon）城堡中，据信这座青铜雕塑曾在那里展出。

在那段时间里，设计奥斯卡奖杯的 MGM 艺术总监塞德里克·吉本斯（Cedric Gibbons）经常造访。吉本斯最初像普塔雕塑一样将奥斯卡设计铸造成青铜，随后将其镀金，并在 1929 年的首届学院奖颁奖礼上授予包括查理·卓别林（Charlie Chaplin）在内的获奖者。

韦斯先生在 Frieze 博览会上表示：“从视觉上看，这是一个非常有说服力的论点。我们不能绝对地断言，但除非我们对此有信心，否则我们不会将其作为此类卖点进行销售。”

学院方面则声称，这座雕像描绘的是一个“手持十字军之剑的程式化骑士形象”。

侏罗纪之吠：最早的宠物犬遗骸在斯凯格内斯被发现

作者：Dalya Alberge

罗马人为我们带来了什么？一个答案可能是引入了携带小型宠物犬的潮流。

考古学家发现了英国首批宠物犬之一的遗骸，并表示这是一种小型犬种，其年代可追溯至铁器时代末期以及罗马人抵达之时。

这具近乎完整的骨架是英国已知最早的将狗纯粹作为宠物饲养的证据。虽然发现了年代更早的狗骨，但据信它们全部都是工作犬。

这具骨架的大小与马尔济斯犬或博美犬相当，是由 Wessex Archaeology 的一个团队在林肯郡斯凯格内斯附近的帕特尼村（Partney）的一片田野挖掘过程中发现的。

这只幼犬被认为是一只宠物犬，而非铁器时代英国常用于狩猎的矮猎犬品种。分析动物遗骸的动物考古学家洛林·希格比（Lorrain Higbee）表示：“尽管它只有五到八个月大，但从骨骼的大小可以清楚地看出，这是一只体型非常小且纤细的动物，如果没有人类的照顾，它不太可能生存下来。”

她估计，如果这只幼犬能活到成年，其身高将达到 8 英寸左右。

研究人员使用放射性碳定年法对骨骼进行了分析以估算其年代，据信该动物生活在公元前 40 年至公元 60 年之间。罗马人在公元 43 年征服了英格兰，且已知他们培育并饲养宠物犬。

希格比女士说：“这是一个过渡时期，一旦罗马人到来，你就会开始看到狗的体型出现更多差异。”

“它提供了一个罕见且年代确定的案例，证明在农村背景的过渡时期，人们将极小型宠物犬作为家庭宠物饲养，并揭示了这一时期人类与狗之间关系的改变。”

她补充道：“长骨呈直线形，壁薄且纤细，加上独特的头骨形状，表明这是一只宠物犬，而非在英国铁器时代晚期和罗马遗址中更常见的‘矮猎犬’类型。”

希格比女士表示，无法通过骨骼确定具体品种，但分析表明它并非起源于英国。

这些发现尚未经过同行评审或在期刊上发表，但独立专家告诉《每日电讯报》，这只动物很可能是英国发现的最早的已知宠物犬。

东英吉利大学生物科学学院副教授安德斯·贝格斯特伦（Anders Bergström）博士认为，其体型之小反映出它不可能是一只工作犬。他说：“这类狗除了陪伴之外，确实没有任何其他用途。”

未参与该项目的英格兰历史机构（Historic England）高级动物考古学家费伊·沃利（Fay Worley）表示：“作为英国此类动物极早期的案例，这令人兴奋。很高兴看到考古发现能让我们洞察数千年来动物在人类生活中扮演的角色。”

“只有通过对骨骼的直接研究，我们才能了解到诸如铁器时代晚期或罗马早期林肯郡生活着什么样的狗等细节。我期待对该骨架进行进一步研究及其揭示的结果。”

该遗址的大部分考古工作是在 2020 年和 2021 年进行的，地点位于将用于建设 Viking Link 的土地上，这是一条连接英国和丹麦、全长 475 英里的电力互联线路。

生活艰辛：大狗受“跳跃基因”影响

由于“跳跃基因”的影响，大型犬的寿命比小型犬短。

研究人员表示，大型犬的遗传密码中包含一些流氓 DNA 序列，它们会在不同位置之间移动，随机插入重要基因中，从而阻碍重要功能的发挥并加速衰老。

马尔济斯犬或博美犬。她表示：“这些都是相当古老的品种。马尔济斯犬在希腊和罗马文学中被多次提及，一些墓碑上似乎也刻有外观相似的狗。”

然而，专家认为这只狗可能并不属于地位显赫的希腊人或罗马人，因为它生活在“地位较低的农村农业环境”中。

她补充道：“这具骨架提供了一个不同寻常且年代明确的样本，证明在铁器时代向罗马时期过渡期间，农村地区也将其作为宠物饲养小型膝上犬。”

“这让我们得以窥见一些我们通常无法获得信息的方面。”

这些遗骸目前保存在林肯郡档案馆（Lincolnshire Archives）。

林肯郡郡议会的高级馆藏发展官员道恩·海伍德（Dawn Heywood）表示：“看到林肯郡各地的考古调查中出现这样的发现，真是令人无比兴奋。”

首相曾监督向阿联酋公司提供 5500 万英镑 公共贷款

伯纳姆在担任市长期间主持会议，批准将纳税人的资金用于谢赫的房地产开发项目

调查团队 报道

《每日电讯报》披露，安迪·伯纳姆在担任大曼彻斯特市长期间，监督了一笔向阿拉伯联合酋长国（UAE）所有企业提供的 5500 万英镑 纳税人贷款。

这笔资金被授予了三家总部位于泽西岛的房地产公司，这些公司最终由曼彻斯特城足球俱乐部的所有者谢赫·曼苏尔·本·扎耶德·阿勒纳哈扬控制。谢赫·曼苏尔同时也是阿布扎比王室成员，以及阿联酋的副总统兼副总理。

发放贷款的决定是在 2017, 的两次会议中做出的，这两次会议均由伯纳姆先生以大曼彻斯特联合当局（GMCA）市长的身份主持。

这是首批证明首相直接参与有利于阿布扎比决策的证据。上个月，在英超联赛判定曼城足球俱乐部存在财务违规行为后，伯纳姆先生陷入了一场关于该俱乐部的争论。

首相最初表示，如果阿联酋决定出售曼城，他将“非常担心”，但随后撤回了这一言论，唐宁街坚称没有人能凌驾于规则之上。

阿联酋正对该决定提出上诉，并威胁作为对英超联赛裁决的报复，将退出在英国的投资项目。

这些房地产公司的资金来自大曼彻斯特住房投资贷款基金（GMHILF），这是一笔由中央政府贷给该地区的纳税人资金，前提是该资金将用于解决住房危机。

根据一份引用了伯纳姆先生话语的 GMCA 新闻稿，这笔 3 亿英镑 基金旨在贷款给私人开发商，以“启动那些否则难以从其他渠道获得资金的住房项目”。

首相可能会面临质疑，即 GMCA 在授权将公共资金贷款给全球最富有的人之一所控制的公司时，在多大程度上遵循了这一职责。

影子体育大臣路易·法伦奇表示：“我们需要知道，为什么这些公司能从一个旨在支持‘否则无法可行’的住房项目的基金中获得贷款。他们完全可以在私人市场上获得价格具有竞争力的贷款，那么为什么在伯纳姆担任市长期间主持的会议批准下，必须由纳税人来为他们提供资金？”

自由民主党籍的 GMCA 监督与

“伯纳姆在曼城案件中的干预极其反常……现在看来开始合理了”

审查委员会表示：“显然，在谢赫·曼苏尔的案例中，没有任何迹象表明资金不能来自其他地方。”

利奇先生补充说，这些贷款似乎与基金的“既定目标”不符，委员会将调查“大曼彻斯特地区住房计划中使用公共贷款的问题”。

这些披露引发了关于阿布扎比与曼彻斯特之间关系的进一步质疑。

伯纳姆先生多次赞扬阿联酋的投资帮助改变了这座城市，但直到现在才清楚，谢赫的贡献部分是由纳税人的贷款资金资助的。

谢赫·曼苏尔的投资机构阿布扎比联合集团（ADUG）已偿还了贷款及利息。利息率尚不明确。

伯纳姆先生因曼彻斯特市议会（MCC）开展的有利于阿布扎比的房地产交易而面临日益严峻的审查。

《每日电讯报》上周披露，MCC 使用公共资金购买一座破旧的零售园区，其支付金额比最接近的竞争对手高出数百万英镑，而该园区原计划预留给阿布扎比进行开发。

弗伦奇先生表示：“安迪·伯纳姆在曼城案件中的干预极其反常，且完全脱离实际。但现在看来，这开始合理了。”

“首相需要坦白：他为什么允许这些贷款通过？”

接近伯纳姆先生的消息人士此前淡化了他的参与程度，但大曼彻斯特联合当局（GMCA）的会议记录显示，时任曼彻斯特市长的他主持了批准贷款的会议。批准资金的决定是由 GMCA 成员共同做出的。

首相办公室和 GMCA 拒绝置评。

2024年，政府阻止了由阿布扎比支持的财团 RedBird IMI 试图收购《每日电讯报》的尝试。

伯纳姆邀请梅尔茨加入战斗机计划

詹姆斯·罗斯韦尔（James Rothwell） 柏林特派记者

首相在誓言让英国与欧洲更加接近之际，邀请德国加入一项由英国主导的战斗机项目。

在昨日于柏林与德国总理弗里德里希·梅尔茨的会晤中，首相对德国加入全球作战航空计划（GCAP）表示“持开放态度”。

“我已经向总理表示……我们对德国加入 GCAP 持开放态度。这是我们在接下来的时期里，在与另外两个合作伙伴意大利和日本协作时，寻求推进的事项，”伯纳姆先生在与梅尔茨先生共同批准双边国防协议《肯辛顿条约》时表示。

这项由英、意、日共同开展的项目（也被称为“Tempest”）旨在到 2035 年制造一架价值 500亿英镑 的远程隐形战斗机。在德国 6 月退出与法国共同开展的类似战斗机项目“未来作战航空系统”（FCAS）后，英国官员一直渴望将德国拉入 GCAP。

然而，德国官员并未确认他们是否寻求加入 GCAP，且梅尔茨先生在与伯纳姆先生的联合声明中未提及此事。

相反，梅尔茨先生谈到《肯辛顿条约》开启了“英德之间合作的新机遇”。

梅尔茨先生补充道：“在英国不幸退出欧盟之后，我们现在至少达成了一项双边协议。”

据 Politico Europe（与《每日电讯报》一样由 Axel Springer 所有）报道，德国官员近期就参与 GCAP 举行了“探索性会谈”。

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昨日，总理弗里德里希·梅尔茨在柏林欢迎安迪·伯纳姆。在 6 月退出与法国类似的战斗机计划后，英国渴望德国加入 GCAP 项目。

瑞安航空首席执行官警告英国：不要重新加入欧盟的“心理剧”

作者：Christopher Jasper 和 Pui-Guan Man

瑞安航空（Ryanair）负责人迈克尔·奥利利（Michael O’Leary）表示，不应允许英国重新加入欧盟，以免因其成员身份而面临数十年的“心理剧”风险。

这位爱尔兰高管表示，任何允许英国回归该集团的步骤都将导致数年的不确定性，并扩大现有的分歧。

在安迪·伯纳姆（Andy Burnham）暗示工党在恢复关系方面可能会“走得更远”之后，当被问及是否应欢迎英国重返欧盟时，奥利利先生回答道：“不。”他补充说：“我不确定欧洲是否有人希望英国作为正式成员重新加入。我们已经受够了英国、欧洲以及脱欧带来的心理剧。脱欧对英国来说是一场经济灾难，但我认为英国不应该作为正式成员重新加入欧盟。”

伯纳姆先生上周表示，英国在欧洲的地位“不够好”，他将考虑未来与该集团关系的“一系列选项”。

这些选项包括重新加入欧盟、回归关税同盟以及加拿大式的“准成员国”身份。然而，长期以来一直批评脱欧的奥利利先生表示：“我不确定欧洲是否能承受另外 10 或 20 年关于英国是否为正式成员的心理剧。”

他的这番言论是在法国财政部长罗兰·莱斯库尔（Roland Lescure）表示英国随时欢迎“回来”加入欧盟之后发表的。

莱斯库尔先生说：“英国人民做出了决定，这显然是他们 100% 的权利。”

不过，他同时告诉 BBC：“但我可以告诉他们：随时回来。”

上周，在伯纳姆先生提出重新加入欧盟的可能性后，法国总统埃马纽埃尔·马克龙（Emmanuel Macron）表示“欢迎回来”。

马克龙先生的国家正遭受日益加深的债务危机，他表示：“如果英国人想要回来，且首相正朝着那个方向行动，我认为这对他的国家和欧洲人都非常好的消息。”

然而，奥利利先生表示，没有保证全民公投能够通过，“特别是如果新条款比英国脱欧时的条款糟糕得多”。

“问题在于，如果要达成一个像挪威或瑞士那样紧密的协议，英国必须开始向欧盟金库缴费，”他说。

他补充说，协商一个更紧密的贸易伙伴关系可能也会很困难。

伯纳姆先生对布鲁塞尔计划实施的“欧洲制造”（Made In Europe）方案的影响表示担忧，该方案威胁到英国制造商和供应链。

该倡议将使欧盟公司在公共合同和补贴方面获得优先权，此举旨在保护该集团的工业免受中国竞争对手的影响。

当被问及英国是否会被排除在该方案之外时，法国财政部长莱斯库尔先生说：“回来吧，你就能参与讨论，我们会一起讨论所有这些事情。”

那些弊大于利的 ADHD 和自闭症诊断

作者：Michael Searles 和 Laura Donnelly

一份里程碑式报告的作者警告称，ADHD（注意缺陷多动障碍）和自闭症正面临被过度诊断的“严重风险”。

在儿童和青少年经历日益增加的“痛苦”以及焦虑等心理健康状况的复杂背景下，神经发育状况的表观病例也出现了激增。

现在，一项由专家领导的政府委托审查，对其中部分人员是否被正确诊断提出了质疑。

目前等待 NHS（英国国家医疗服务体系）进行 ADHD 或自闭症评估的人数，分别比疫情前高出 13 倍和 17 倍。此前有观点认为这是由于意识提高和历史性的诊断不足所致，但该报告现在警告称，这不能是唯一因素。

事实上，被诊断出的人数比例现在已开始超过预期的患病率。

研究人员写道，如果这仅仅是因为诊断不足，“预计比率会逐渐稳定”。“相反，记录在案的诊断数和评估需求仍在迅速增加。”

作者表示，需要对 2017 年的一项关于患病率的研究进行更新，但警告称，如果目前的趋势继续下去，风险平衡将会发生变化。

“基于我们目前掌握的证据，我们不能得出过度诊断正在大规模发生的结论……然而，如果目前的趋势继续，我们显然正进入一个风险平衡发生变化的阶段，即从此前对识别不足和诊断不足的合理担忧，转向误诊和过度诊断风险的增加。”

特别是那些不在就业、教育或培训中的人员（NEETs）。

这不仅意味着他们更有可能领取救济金，而且还可能对他们的健康产生不利影响，从而加剧问题。

2024 年，约 400 万名儿童和青少年经历了高度的“心理痛苦”——即五分之一的人——其中约一半的人存在自残行为。

这与 1993 年至 2024 年间，16 至 24 岁人群中常见心理健康障碍增加 50% 的情况相吻合。

在 12 至 17 岁的男孩中，记录在案的 ADHD 患病率在 2025, 达到了 5.1%，高于 2000, 的 0.4%，而在更年幼的男孩中，这一比例从 0.7 增加到 3.8。

在青少年女孩中，这一比例从约 0.1 增加到 2.7。

国际研究表明，ADHD 影响约 3 到 4 的青少年。

劳工党执政以来，ADHD福利申请量增长40%

增长更为剧烈，青少年男孩的患病率增长了23倍以上，从0.2%增加到4.7%。在6至11, 岁的较小男孩中，自闭症患病率增长了近16倍，从0.4%增加到6.3%。

尽管人口研究估计儿童自闭症的患病率约为1%至1.2%。

在被问及最新数据是否表明较小男孩中存在过度诊断时，该报告的副主席西蒙·韦塞利爵士（Sir Simon Wessely）表示：“看起来确实如此。”

16-24岁人群中处于NEET状态（不就学、不就业、不参加培训）的人数在增加——从2015年该年龄段的26%上升到去年的44%。

心理健康状况和自闭症约占这些年轻人无法工作的病例的68%。

在17岁之前被诊断出患有ADHD或自闭症的儿童，成为NEET人群的可能性比未被诊断者低约四倍，这显著高于任何其他长期健康状况的人群。

该报告在很大程度上避免直接回答现在是否真的有更多人患有ADHD或自闭症。

伦敦大学学院（University College London）的乌塔·弗里思女爵士（Dame Uta Frith）参与开发了自闭症谱系的概念，她将这些发现描述为“坚决地在中间摇摆”。

作者确实指出，“人们正在为非常真实的问题寻求答案和支持”，并将此归咎于一个“过于依赖诊断作为获得帮助途径的系统”。

该报告建议将目前的依赖诊断的系统替换为根据个人需求提供支持的系统。报告认为，衡量成功的标准应该是人们是否能够参与教育、工作和社交关系。

报告还呼吁打击私人诊所。目前，仅提供诊断服务的机构无需接受护理质量委员会（Care Quality Commission）的监管——报告称这种情况必须改变。

作为回应，政府承诺对心理健康支持进行重大改革，并制定一项侧重于早期干预的新战略。

部长们还在等待前劳工党卫生大臣艾伦·米尔本（Alan Milburn）关于不就学、不就业或不参加培训的年轻人数量增加的报告。

哈里：离开英国前往加拿大时，我陷入了两周的抑郁

萨塞克斯公爵透露，在带家人离开英国时他受到了多么沉重的打击，并公开谈论其母亲的去世

作者：Patrick Sawer 资深新闻记者

萨塞克斯公爵透露，在离开英国前往加拿大的过程中，他经历了为期两周的抑郁期。

在与神经科学家玛丽-弗朗西丝·奥康诺（Mary-Frances O'Connor）博士的一次对话中，哈里王子首次讲述了他如何应对退出王室高级成员身份这一转变。

在名为“重新定义悲伤：通过失去建立韧性”的环节中，他表示：“在加拿大，远离那个压力巨大的环境——在那儿我的身体大概一直充斥着肾上腺素——在两三天之内，我经历了肾上腺素崩溃，这是我以前从未经历过的事情。就好像我需要压力

萨塞克斯公爵与公爵夫人于2019年离开英国

来获取肾上腺素以维持大脑运转，因为我在家里变得毫无用处。”

“实际上我陷入了大约两周的抑郁，我觉得如果没有肾上腺素我就无法正常生活。”

公爵还谈到了对母亲戴安娜王妃的哀悼，称多年来他觉得必须保持悲伤才能证明自己想念她。

他补充说，他现在遵循一项“10天原则”，即离开妻子萨塞克斯公爵夫人以及他们的孩子阿奇王子和莉莉贝特公主的时间绝不超过10天。

在昨天公布的私人交流中，哈里表示，他于2019年与梅根以及婴儿阿奇离开英国搬到加拿大，是为了“远离一切，获得一些空间”。萨塞克斯夫妇当时住在温哥华岛，

“因为我觉得如果没有她而感到快乐，就是一种不忠，所以我长期处于情感麻木状态”

随后哈里和梅根在2020年初退出王室工作，并最终移居美国。在美生活六年之后，萨塞克斯夫妇于上个月返回英国居住。

哈里王子发表上述言论是作为一项关于应对悲伤的付费在线大师课（masterclass）的一部分。《人物》（People）杂志报道称，MasterClass公司去年联系他，希望开发一个关于悲伤的章节，他于夏季在加利福尼亚州完成了拍摄，但并非在他位于蒙特西托的家中拍摄。

关于戴安娜的去世，哈里说：“你可能会认为我拥有世界上最好的帮助。天哪，我可是个王子，但我依然在承受悲痛，而且没有地方可以倾诉这些感受。”

在发布于Instagram的一段预告视频中，哈里王子——他在1997年8月母亲戴安娜王妃在巴黎车祸去世时年仅12岁——继续说道：“我认为自己是一名研究悲伤的学生。在很大程度上，我长期处于情感麻木状态，因为我觉得如果没有她而感到快乐和喜悦，会让我感到不忠和愧疚。”

“我觉得我必须悲伤，必须在情感上保持麻木，才能向她证明我想念她。”

公爵解释说，他曾忘记了母亲的笑声，而一名治疗师建议他喷洒她的香水，这帮助他“解锁了一切”。他说：“事实是，我发现她其实只是希望我能快乐。”

MasterClass表示，公爵在这一主题上具有独特的资格，因为他“在青少年时期和20岁出头时一直压抑着悲伤”。

MasterClass的年度会员费用在每年£120至£228之间。在课程中，哈里王子将分享他对失去的思考，以及总部位于旧金山的MasterClass所描述的“他发现自己人生目标的路径”。

周三，萨塞克斯公爵夫人被发现正在梅费尔区的克拉丽奇酒店（Claridge's）与诺贝尔和平奖得主马拉拉·优素福扎（Malala Yousafza）共进下午茶。两人首次见面是在2020年一次旨在纪念国际女孩日的虚拟讨论中，期间她们探讨了阻碍数百万女孩接受教育的系统性障碍。

《每日电讯报》上月披露，哈里王子正在洽谈拍摄一部关于其母亲的纪录片。《每日电讯报》获悉，公爵希望在明年 8 月 31 日其母亲逝世 30 周年之际，以“最有意义的方式”纪念她的遗产。

追求金奖：电影《Wicker》的主演亚历山大·斯卡斯加德和奥利维亚·科尔曼出席了在英国电影协会（BFI）举行的伦敦电影节放映会。该片讲述了一名女渔民爱上一个由柳条制成的人的故事。

法官裁定搜查令非法，安德鲁获“平反”

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在目前提交的证据面前，这一裁决标志着泰晤士河谷警察局的调查出现了显著的倒退。

“法官明确指出，警队和一名旧贝利法院（Old Bailey）的法官在行动中都犯了‘重大错误’。他们不应该被允许保留以这种方式扣押的证据。”

这位朋友继续说道：“我们很多人很高兴他终于决定为自己而战。他已经承受了长达十五年的攻击，但从未被起诉，更不用说被定罪了。”

“这与英国的司法公正背道而驰——‘在证明无罪前先被视为有罪’不应该是这个国家的运作方式。希望这是这场迟到已久的还击的第一阶段，而不是最后阶段。”蒙巴顿-温莎先生昨日未出席高等法院第67号法庭的听证会，其大律师也未提交陈述。

泰晤士河谷警察局的高级警官于2月18日向一名旧贝利法院法官申请，根据《警察与刑事证据法》（PACE）的两项条款申请搜查令。

法官决定他们只需要其中一份搜查令，但签发的该令并不允许警方扣押受法律特权保护的项目，包括商业记录和机密新闻材料。

在希利亚德法官（Mr Justice Hilliard）下达的裁决中，他表示蒙巴顿-温莎先生与泰晤士河谷警察局之间已达成一项协议，认定签发的搜查令是非法的。但警方已根据另一项条款提出法律申请，以保留这些材料。

希利亚德法官表示：“我将决定是否批准这项新申请。搜查令被撤销的事实并不会使调查结束，也不意味着整个调查是非法的。”

“在证明无罪前先被视为有罪，不应该是这个国家的运作方式”

该警队的发言人表示：“初审法院根据所使用的特定立法签发搜查令的决定是不正确的，因此这些搜查令必须在法律上被撤销。”

“目前法律程序正在进行中，以决定在搜查期间扣押的材料将如何管理，以及我们是否可以合法地保留这些材料以支持我们正在进行的调查。”

“我们对一名来自诺福克郡、年龄在60多岁的男子涉嫌滥用公职的调查仍在继续，我们将继续追求所有合理的调查方向，以有效且公正地推进此次调查。”

尽管如此，这一裁决仍将被视为对警方调查的沉重打击。此前已有传闻称，由于美国当局不愿移交未经删减版本的爱泼斯坦文件，该调查已陷入困境。蒙巴顿-温莎先生在去年秋天因其与爱泼斯坦关系的公开丑闻而被剥夺头衔，并被驱逐出其位于温莎的住所皇家小屋（Royal Lodge）。

“搜查令被撤销的事实并不会使调查结束”

他在66岁生日当天的早晨被捕，这代表了现代以来首次有王室高级成员被警方拘留。但他一直坚称自己清白，且鉴于“滥用公职”是一项极其难以指控的罪名，他有信心洗清自己的名声。

据认为，他针对警方和法院提出的法律诉讼，是自1649年查理一世受审以来，王室成员首次挑战针对其刑事诉讼的合法性。

小公主 一对俄亥俄州夫妇拍摄的女儿照片在网上疯传，照片中的女孩穿着受已故戴安娜王妃启发而设计的服装。来自辛辛那提的大卫和梅西·怀松（David and Macey Wysong）在女儿迪安娜（Dianna）出生后的前12个月里，每月都让她穿上戴安娜王妃最令人难忘的造型之一，并在周二婴儿满1岁时达到高潮。

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扎拉：我的母亲比较随和，而我的父亲则是那个“严厉的教练”

作者：Joanna Marchong

扎拉·廷达尔（ZARA TINDALL）透露，在她的成长过程中，安妮公主是那个比较随和的家长。

这位三个孩子的母亲透露，她的父亲马克·菲利普斯上尉（Capt Mark Phillips）是一位“相当严厉”的马术教练，很少表扬她做得好。

廷达尔夫人本周在 Talk Horse 播客中表示：“妈妈非常随和。她会说，‘就这样，按照你的方式去做就好’。而我的父亲则会说，‘这里多做一点，那里多做一点’。”

她补充道：“我的父亲相当严厉……你极少能从他口中听到一句‘是的，做得不错’。”

她说，这种经历让她“总是努力争取得到那样的评价”，并形容她的父亲是一位“强硬的教练”，而且“说话直截了当”。

廷达尔夫人与前英格兰橄榄球运动员迈克·廷达尔（Mike Tindall）结婚，她表示自己正尝试对他们的三个孩子——12岁的米娅（Mia）、8岁的莱娜（Lena）和5岁的卢卡斯（Lucas）采取更温和的方式。

女儿米娅和莱娜已经开始学习骑马，廷达尔夫人带着她们以及她的侄女萨凡纳·菲利普斯（Savannah Phillips）和艾斯拉·菲利普斯（Isla Phillips）练习跳跃。在反思成为孩子们的教练时，她承认

位于格洛斯特郡的安妮公主的庄园盖特科姆公园（Gatcombe Park）。

她的长女米娅不像她的表姐妹那样容易接受她的建议。她说：“[爸爸]是一个强硬的教练，但我尽量不对自己的孩子那么严厉。”

现年76岁的安妮公主与78岁的菲利普斯上尉结婚19年，随后于1992年离婚。

两人都曾在最高水平的赛事中竞争，安妮公主在1971年欧洲锦标赛中获得个人金牌，并参加了1976年蒙特利尔奥运会；而菲利普斯上尉在1972年慕尼黑奥运会获得团体金牌，并在1988年首尔奥运会获得银牌。

廷达尔夫人和她的哥哥彼得在盖特科姆公园被马匹环绕着长大。

扎拉·廷达尔及其父亲马克·菲利普斯上尉

她透露，当时马厩里的领头马倌“像一只罗威纳犬”，要求他们必须刻苦工作。

她说：“我们必须和他们一起做所有事情。我们得清理马具，还得清理马厩。”

在以扎拉·菲利普斯（Zara Phillips）之名参赛期间，她在2005年获得了欧洲个人金牌，并在次年骑着 Toytown 在亚琛赢得了世界冠军，随后在2012年伦敦奥运会上为英国队赢得了团体银牌。

她尚未退役，并将参加12月18日的伦敦国际马展。

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英国就领事馆争端向以色列发出外交官最后通牒

外交部要求 利库德集团撤回 关闭耶路撒冷使馆的决定 起因于对约旦河西岸的制裁

作者：Henry Bodkin 和 Amy Gibbons

英国已警告以色列，除非允许其重新开放耶路撒冷领事馆，否则将驱逐在伦敦的以色列外交官。

上个月，以色列下令关闭耶路撒冷驻地，以报复英国对在被占领的约旦河西岸定居点经营的以色列企业实施贸易制裁。以色列要求相关人员在 30 天内离境。

周三晚上，白厅在最后一刻达成协议，决定保持该建筑开放，将其更名为“英国代表团”（British Mission），并保留 7 名外交官，人数从之前的约 27 名减少。

该协议让以色列得以保住面子，因为从技术上讲，它履行了关闭领事馆的承诺。

然而，《每日电讯报》获悉，周三的协议仅是谈判中的一次暂停，如果英国外交官不被允许返回耶路撒冷，外交部将重启驱逐以色列外交官的威胁。

耶路撒冷英国领事馆的大门标志已被移除

英国已同意与以色列政府进行持续讨论，如果谈判“被证明不可信”，驱逐威胁将再次出现。

英国官员希望将耶路撒冷驻地恢复到完整的外交规模。实质性谈判预计在 10 月 27 日的以色列大选之后才会重启。

这项在最后一刻达成的保留英国领事馆建筑的协议，保证了在圣城拥有不间断的正式存在，并确保英国政府能够维持与巴勒斯坦人民的实体接触。

然而，仅保留少数外交官引发了人们的质疑：在处理与巴勒斯坦权力机构的关系（这是耶路撒冷领事馆的主要目的）方面，他们能取得多少实质性成果。

领事馆的另一个职能是将援助资金引导至巴勒斯坦领土的项目。

昨天，以色列政府消息人士透露，在实际操作中，这些工作人员将几乎没有能力继续开展工作。消息人士称，留任人员将保留完整的外交身份，但不确定他们能否接触到约旦河西岸的巴勒斯坦权力机构人物。

然而，白厅消息人士表示，他们将保留完整的外交特权，并能像以前一样进出约旦河西岸。

外交部尚未明确说明留任的 7 名外交官将承担的具体职责。被驱逐的外交官将通过英国在中东的其他外交驻地或从伦敦继续履行领事馆的职能。

据信，以色列向伦敦施加了巨大压力，要求将耶路撒冷的剩余人员并入英国驻特拉维夫大使馆。

然而，白厅认为，将耶路撒冷领事馆（现为代表团）作为一个拥有独立凭证的独立实体至关重要。

据了解，以色列希望英国撤回米利班德先生在 9 月 8, 日宣布的制裁方案，但英国政府予以拒绝。

国家安全顾问乔纳森·鲍威尔（Jonathan Powell）上周飞往以色列促成该协议，并帮助维护情报共享伙伴关系。

英国与以色列的情报共享关系主要通过位于特拉维夫的英国大使馆开展，其运作不受此次争端影响。

绿党议员 Baggy Khan（左）支持 Ismail Ibrahim 在 10 月 7 日的议会会议上提出的悬挂巴勒斯坦国旗的提案

绿党于10月7日请求悬挂巴勒斯坦国旗

作者：卡梅隆·亨德森 (Cameron Henderson)

据披露，绿党议员因选择在10月7日请求准许悬挂巴勒斯坦国旗而受到批评。

周三，由工党领导的博尔顿 (Bolton) 市议会会议因一项请求而陷入混乱，该请求要求在11月15日（周日）的巴勒斯坦独立日期间，在镇中心图书馆悬挂该国旗。

绿党议员伊斯梅尔·易卜拉欣 (Ismail Ibrahim) 提出了这一想法，并得到了其同事巴吉·汗 (Baggy Khan) 议员的支持。

这次关于“悬挂巴勒斯坦国旗以表达与巴勒斯坦人民团结”的请求讨论，恰逢10月7日哈马斯恐怖分子袭击以色列三周年，当时该袭击造成1,200人死亡，251人被劫持。工党市议会领袖阿赫塔尔·扎曼 (Akhtar Zaman) 反对该请求，称其时机“不恰当”。

据《博尔顿新闻》(The Bolton News) 报道，公众旁听席上的起哄者大喊：“这座建筑不能挂巴勒斯坦国旗”。

在易卜拉欣先生提出请求后，扎曼先生表示：“你们今晚就一个许多人认为具有争议的问题提出了质询。”

“今晚的市议会会议，遗憾地标志着10月7日哈马斯袭击的周年纪念日。”

“我并不是说这是你们刻意选择的时机，但你们应该非常清楚，许多人会将这个时机视为不恰当。”

扎曼先生表示，关于在博尔顿市政建筑上悬挂国旗的政策，将在不久的将来提交给一个跨党派讨论小组。

易卜拉欣先生多次打断扎曼先生，导致另一位议员指责该绿党成员“行为混乱且不尊重市长”。

随后，绿党议员们抗议并走出了议事厅，之后发表了一份

“我并不是说这是刻意的，但许多人会将这个时机视为不恰当”

声明，指责扎曼先生“片面”。

自2022年2月俄罗斯入侵以来，博尔顿中心图书馆一直悬挂着一面乌克兰国旗。

绿党的声明写道：“对于巴勒斯坦家庭以及数千名被杀害的无辜妇女和儿童，同样的同情心在哪里？”

“我们可以谴责杀害以色列无辜平民的行为，并毫不含糊地谴责针对巴勒斯坦人的种族灭绝。”

约50名抗议者聚集在市政厅外，反对绿党的提议。

在一段发布在TikTok上的视频中，易卜拉欣先生表示：“乌克兰国旗在过去四年里一直高高飘扬，而我们现在请求巴勒斯坦国旗也能高高飘扬。”

汗先生补充道：“每个人都有权拥有自己的观点……但我们将与巴勒斯坦站在一起。”

自2023年10月与以色列爆发战争以来，博尔顿已举行了多次支持巴勒斯坦的示威活动。

犹太人遭受仇恨犯罪的可能性是穆斯林的九倍

作者：查尔斯·海马斯（Charles Hymas）内政编辑 与 本·布彻（Ben Butcher）数据编辑

内政部的数据显示，犹太人成为仇恨犯罪受害者的可能性是穆斯林的九倍。

数据显示，去年犹太人遭受仇恨犯罪的比例为每 10,000 人 116.5 起，而穆斯林为每 10,000 人 13.3 起。

官方数据还显示，警方记录的基于种族和宗教动机的仇恨犯罪达到了历史最高水平。

针对犹太人的宗教仇恨犯罪比前一年增长了 10%，达到 3,162 起；而针对穆斯林的犯罪增长了 15%，达到 5,132 起。

这些数据出台之际，正值美国与伊朗在中东爆发战争，且以色列与加沙之间紧张局势持续的一年。反犹仇恨在 2025 年 10 月达到顶峰，仅该月就发生了 274 起事件。这些事件与哈马斯对以色列发动 10 月 7 日恐怖袭击的两周年，以及导致两名犹太人死亡的曼彻斯特犹太会堂恐怖袭击同步发生。

去年 10 月 2 日，35 岁的吉哈德·阿尔-沙米（Jihad Al-Shamie）驾车冲进曼彻斯特希顿公园犹太会堂（Heaton Park Synagogue）的大门，并在佩戴假自杀腰带的同时开始用刀袭击，导致梅尔文·克拉维茨（Melvin Cravitz）和亚德里安·道尔比（Adrian Daulby）被杀。

随后的几个月里发生了一系列反犹袭击，包括今年 3 月在伦敦北部的戈尔德斯格林（Golders Green）有四辆犹太社区救护车被纵火焚毁。

8 月，四名男子承认在伦敦西北部的一次纵火袭击中摧毁了这四辆犹太社区救护车，造成 100 万英镑 的损失。

20 岁的哈姆扎·伊克巴尔（Hamza Iqbal）、19 岁的雷汉·汗（Rehan Khan）、以及均为 18 岁的朱德克斯·阿特沙奇（Judex Atshatshi）和赛义夫·阿里（Saif Ali），在中央刑事法院（Old Bailey）承认了

犹太人最容易成为仇恨犯罪的受害者

一项关于摧毁或损坏财产且不顾是否危及生命的鲁莽指控。

此次袭击发生在 3 月 23 日凌晨，由慈善机构 Hatzola 运营的四辆车辆在戈尔德斯格林被点燃。检察官表示，他们认为此次事件是对犹太社区的有针对性袭击。

来源：内政部

官方数据显示，45% 的反犹袭击是为了造成“公众恐惧、惊恐或不安”，17% 与刑事损坏有关，11% 与恶意通信有关，9% 为肢体袭击。

监测反犹主义并发布自身袭击数据的社区安全信托基金（Community Security Trust）表示，最新数据“显示反犹仇恨犯罪仍处于不可接受的高水平”。

该信托基金（CST）表示，目前“迫切需要减少与海外冲突相关的煽动行为”，并补充说“整个社会需要采取更多措施来解决这个问题”。

最新的政府官方数据在伦敦 10 月 7 日袭击周年纪念日的抗议和示威活动导致多人被捕的一天后发布。

这些被捕人员包括因煽动种族仇恨而被捕的人，涉嫌在卡姆登（Camden）的代表院（Board of Deputies）外大声喊叫或唱诵呼吁“起义”（intifada）的口号，伦敦警察厅将其描述为一场“自发抗议”。这些事件并未反映在最新的数据中，因为该数据仅涵盖截至 3 月的 12 个月。

在 2025 年 3 月至 2026 年 3 月期间，英格兰和威尔士警方共记录了 146,825 起仇恨犯罪。

宗教仇恨犯罪比之前的 12 个月增长了 13%。

种族仇恨犯罪约占三分之二，比前一年增长了 9%。

针对穆斯林的犯罪在 2025 年 9 月出现大幅增长，内政部表示这与抗议活动和公共骚乱同步；随后在 3 月美国与伊朗开战后再次增长。

由政府资助的英国穆斯林信托基金（British Muslim Trust）表示，在截至 7 月的 12 个月里，该基金追踪并核实了 78 起发生在穆斯林礼拜场所的袭击和事件，包括蓄意破坏和恐吓。

前工党议员利用虚假新冠检测洗钱

作者：Fiona Parker

一名工党前议员在疫情期间经营一家虚假的新冠病毒检测实验室，现被裁定洗钱罪名成立。

法伊萨尔·肖卡特（Faisal Shoukat）在犯罪期间曾任卡尔德代尔（Calderdale）议会议员，后因面临法律诉讼于2023年辞职。

来自哈利法克斯（Halifax）的药剂师肖卡特与前司法大臣沙希德·马利克（Shahid Malik）一同受审，后者被判定所有指控不成立。

在布拉德福德刑事法院（Bradford Crown Court）的审理过程中，检察官表示，RT Diagnostics公司是一个“摇钱树”，旨在利用政府在2021年3月扩大的检测与追踪系统获利。

陪审团获悉，在2021, 3月第三次全国封锁结束之际，政府正寻求通过增加提供PCR检测的实验室数量来扩大其检测与追踪系统。

法庭获悉，马利克先生与药剂师兼工党前议员、现年39.岁的肖卡特共同创办了这家公司。该公司随后被列入政府的PCR供应商名单，但该实验室未能正确处理其接收的大量检测样本。

检察官表示，RT Diagnostics在三周内赚了667 万英镑，

“部分消费者寄回实验室的检测样本未经过检测”

该公司设立在西约克郡哈利法克斯一个“简陋且不合格的场所”内，并向客户提供虚假的阴性结果。

陪审团在审理早期获悉，该公司雇佣了“大量在处理新冠肺炎样本方面几乎没有或完全没有经过培训的年轻人”，并让他们在没有社交距离且没有个人防护装备的情况下工作。检察官表示，有证据表明该公司提供了虚假的阴性结果，且“产生的阳性结果数量低得令人怀疑”。

法庭获悉，在2021年5月至7月期间提交给国家数据库的超过123,000份检测结果中，仅有45份被报告为阳性。

检察官乔纳森·桑迪福德（Jonathan Sandiford）KC表示，RT Diagnostics未能正确处理检测样本，且向消费者销售的PCR样本采集套件数量远超其处理能力。

他告诉陪审团：“正因如此，部分消费者寄回实验室的检测样本并未经过检测，而是被简单地丢弃在场所内的一个房间里。”

“那些投诉足够强烈的人被告知结果为阴性，而实际上他们的样本根本没有经过检测。”

辩护律师乔纳森·莱德劳（Jonathan Laidlaw）KC表示，马利克先生在公司中的角色“确实非常有限”，他仅充当“促进者——出资并介绍关系”。

曼达尼在10月7日周年纪念日前往巴勒斯坦餐厅用餐

作者：Iona Cleave 和 Emily Smith。注意力应当集中在“加沙正在发生的、毁灭性的种族灭绝”上。

佐兰·曼达尼（ZOHRAN MAMDANI）在10月7日针对以色列恐怖袭击的三周年纪念日当天，前往一家巴勒斯坦餐厅用餐。

这位纽约市市长通过在曼哈顿上西区的 Hinds Hall（一家巴勒斯坦餐厅）用餐，来纪念哈马斯在2023年发起的屠杀。

Hinds Hall 是知名巴勒斯坦餐厅 Ayat 的分店，是以 欣德·拉贾布（Hind Rajab）命名的。欣德·拉贾布是一名五岁的巴勒斯坦儿童，于 2024 在 1 月在逃离加沙城时被以色列国防军（IDF）杀害。

作为该市首位穆斯林市长，曼达尼先生在周三晚上于联合广场举行的 7 烛光守夜活动中也遭到了起哄。他被亲巴勒斯坦的抗议者嘘声淹没，其中一些人挥舞着哈马斯和真主党的旗帜，并指责他“背叛了自己所谓的价值观”。

抗议者向曼达尼先生大喊“胆小鬼”和“叛徒”等词汇。当时曼达尼先生手持蜡烛，从市政厅静默行进，以纪念 10月7日遇害的犹太受害者。

纽约市市长佐兰·曼达尼在曼哈顿的 Hinds Hall 餐厅

曼达尼先生还被指责通过发布一份指责以色列政府犯有“战争罪”的声明，将这个周年纪念日“武器化”。

市长指出，这一天对于“许多纽约人来说都极其痛苦”，但他强调：

他补充道：“随着每一枚以色列炸弹落在医院外等待的救护车上，每一次针对住宅楼或记者的无人机袭击，以及每一批在边境口岸被拒之门外的粮食援助，这种痛苦都在加剧。”

反诽谤联盟（Anti-Defamation League）国家主任乔纳森·格林布拉特（Jonathan Greenblatt）表示：“你正在将一个旨在哀悼大屠杀以来最严重犹太人屠杀的日子武器化，用来重复你惯用的反犹太复国主义论调。”

“在以色列之外拥有最大犹太人口的城市，理应拥有一位能够在不利用死者的情况下纪念死者的市长。”

7 2023 年 10 月 7 日的袭击成为了以色列历史上最血腥的一天。哈马斯恐怖分子在一次跨境入侵中杀害了 1,200 人，并劫持了 251 名人质。

以色列随后对加沙进行的轰炸和地面入侵已导致超过 74,000 人死亡。

皇家全科医生“在孩子们熟睡时被斧头砍击”

马克·凯恩被指控在五个孩子在楼上参加睡衣派对时杀害妻子，法庭获悉

作者：电讯报记者

法庭获悉，一名为英国王室服务的全科医生的丈夫在孩子们在楼上睡觉时杀害了他的妻子。

据指控，Mark Cain, 45, 于周六晚上在诺福克郡德辛厄姆（Dersingham）费恩希尔（Fern Hill）的家中杀害了 45 岁的汉娜·特里博士（Dr Hannah Terry）。

在昨天于金林刑事法院（King's Lynn Crown Court）举行的一场听证会上，法庭获悉特里博士“头部被斧头砍击并被勒死”。

公诉人史蒂文·鲍尔（Steven Ball）表示，这对夫妇三个分别为 8 岁、11 岁和 13, 岁的孩子当时与另外两个分别为 8 岁和 10 岁的孩子一起在楼上。

他还告诉法庭，凯恩先生亲自拨打了报警电话，报告一起“疑似入室盗窃案”。

他说：“警方在凌晨接到凯恩先生关于疑似入室盗窃的报告后赶到现场。人们看到凯恩先生身上有轻微的割伤。”

“再也没有人能取代像您这样美丽且优秀的全科医生。高飞吧，特里医生，安息吧”

他表示，应急服务部门已赶赴现场，而特里医生（以其婚后姓名汉娜·凯恩被提及）被发现时处于“昏迷且无反应”状态。

鲍尔先生补充道，尸检记录显示，她头部遭受了“钝器伤”，且“颈部伤势与颈部受压情况一致”。

此前在诺里奇治安法院的一次听证会上获悉，特里医生被发现是在家中一间卧室里被殴打并勒死，该住宅毗邻桑德灵厄姆庄园。

凯恩先生在通过视频方式出席诺里奇监狱（HMP Norwich）的庭审时未进行答辩。

他被还押候审，以便在12月3日的答辩及潜在的审判准备听证会之前完成医疗报告。

利克利法官告诉在一家能源效率公司工作的凯恩先生，在下次出庭前，他将接受医疗报告评估。

位于 Fern Hill 的住址距离桑德灵厄姆府（国王与王后的皇家住所之一）仅一英里多。

特里医生被列为格里姆斯顿医疗中心（Grimston Medical Centre）诊疗团队的一员。她曾担任为王室成员提供定期值班服务的医生组员。根据她经营的一家名为 Norfolk Sky Aesthetics 的公司网站显示，特里医生执业医生资格已超过15年，并自2018年起成为一名全科医生（GP）。

特里医生将自己描述为一名“细心且专业的医生”，在经营美容业务的同时继续从事全科医生工作。

上方照片为马克·凯恩与汉娜·特里及他们的两个孩子；左侧为昨日凯恩先生在法庭上的艺术模拟像。

在周三通过警方分享的一篇悼词中，她的家人表示：“我们因失去美丽的汉娜而心碎。她善良、慷慨且充满爱心；是一位深受爱戴的母亲、女儿、姐妹、姑姑 / 姨妈、儿媳和朋友。”

“我们为她曾成为那样一个女性感到无比自豪，也为她对所有将其视为特里医生的患者所付出的极尽照顾而感到自豪。”

“我们请求人们在这个困难时期尊重我们的隐私。”

患者们也在格里姆斯顿医疗诊所外摆放鲜花并留下信息，以悼念特里医生。

一张附在长椅上泰迪熊上的卡片写道：“听到如此悲剧性的消息，我们感到非常震惊和悲痛。”

“汉娜·特里医生，我们的全科医生。我们在想念您，想念您的家人、您的孩子、您的朋友，更想念格里姆斯顿医疗诊所的所有员工和同事。”

“您从未催促过我们，而且倾听了我们双方的话。再也没有人能取代像您这样美丽且优秀的全科医生。高飞吧，特里医生，安息吧。天堂确实迎来了一位天使。”

另一条留在树下鲜花上的信息写道：“无法用言语表达我的悲伤。想念您和孩子们。感谢在我需要帮助时您的陪伴，安息吧，汉娜。”

尼基·坎贝尔称 20 世纪 70 年代曾被教师“殴打”，法庭获悉

电讯报记者报道

BBC 广播员尼基·坎贝尔（Nicky Campbell）告诉法庭，一名私立学校教师在 20 世纪 70 年代期间在“完全疯狂的状态下”袭击了他。

这位 65 岁的男子声称，他在就读于爱丁堡学院（Edinburgh Academy）期间遭到一名教师袭击。

现年 92 岁的科林·特纳（Colin Turner）和 72 岁的大卫·伯恩（David Bourne）均为该校前教师，两人被指控在 20 世纪 70 年代前后袭击学生，但他们已被判定为身体状况不适合出庭受审。

本周在爱丁堡治安法院（Edinburgh Sheriff Court）举行的事实审查听证会将决定是否有定罪依据。

BBC Radio 5 Live 主持人坎贝尔昨天告诉法庭，特纳在他就读该校期间对他进行了暴力袭击，并且“完全失控了”。

他告诉法庭：“那完全是一场疯狂。我当时极其恐惧。”

法庭获悉，据称特纳在坎贝尔与另一名学生一起看公告栏时，从背后靠近了他。

坎贝尔表示，他对特纳扇他耳光、击打、拖拽以及“猛烈摇晃他”有“清晰的记忆”，随后该教师据称用脚将他推倒在地。

他补充说，他被该教师像“布娃娃一样随意摆弄”。他说：“那是超过 10 秒的恐怖经历。”

这位广播员将该事件描述为“创伤性的”，并且是“发生在我身上最糟糕的事情之一”。

坎贝尔说：“我当时是个瘦小的孩子，而他是个大块头。最清晰的部分是那种猛拽、拉扯的感觉，击打的感觉，耳光的触感，以及他用脚把我推到地上的感觉，（当时）想着‘噢，该死，我做了什么？’”

在特纳的辩护律师伊恩·史密斯（Iain Smith）的质询下，坎贝尔表示当时站在他身边的学生不记得这件事了。

坎贝尔说，那名学生“当时在哭”，但他将对方现在的记忆缺失归咎于“解离性失忆”。坎贝尔说：“我没有编造，这是发生在我身上最恐怖的事情之一。”

当被问及为什么在事件发生时他及其母亲没有报警时，坎贝尔声称在 20 世纪 70 年代举报该事件将是“核弹级”的极端选择。

爱丁堡学院于 1824 年作为一所私立男子日校开办。现在该校已完全实行男女同校。

2023 年，苏格兰儿童虐待调查组（Scottish Child Abuse Inquiry）调查了大量关于 20 世纪末据称发生的虐待报告。该校随后发表了道歉声明。

案件仍在审理中。

BBC 就虚假性行为不端指控向 PinkNews 主管道歉

电讯报记者报道

BBC 已就对 PinkNews 主管做出诽谤且虚假的指控表示“毫无保留”的道歉。

该机构还同意向 LGBTQ+ 新闻网站创始人本杰明·科恩（Benjamin Cohen）及其丈夫、公司首席运营官安东尼·詹姆斯博士（Dr Anthony James）支付赔偿金。此次争议源于 2024 年 12 月播出的一档名为《PinkNews：闭门之后》（PinkNews: Behind Closed Doors）的节目内容。

在昨天的最高法院审理中， 在就这对夫妇提出的诽谤诉讼达成和解时承认，相关指控（包括对初级员工实施性行为不端的指控）是“严重的、虚假的且具有诽谤性的”。

该广播公司还就一篇报道道歉，该报道指称这对夫妇曾向“年轻的女性员工施加不当压力，要求其为他们担任代孕母亲”。

的法律顾问简·菲利普斯（Jane Phillips）表示：“ 对节目和文章中做出的诽谤性指控撤回并表示毫无保留的道歉。”这对夫妇的律师洛娜·斯金纳（Lorna Skinner）KC 表示：“这些指控是虚假的，且对原告的声誉造成了极大损害。”

她表示，在节目播出后，这对夫妇在关于其代孕儿子的父母令（parental order）听证会之前，还受到了额外的调查。

她表示，科恩先生觉得他需要辞去一家残疾人慈善机构信托人的职务，而曾任全科医生的詹姆斯博士，

“ 强化了最具破坏性的恐同刻板印象之一：即男同性恋者是性掠夺者”

则因该节目辞去了贝德福德郡医院 NHS 信托基金（Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Trust）非执行董事的职务。

在听证会后的一份联合声明中，这对夫妇表示：“ 忽视了关于这些指控真实性的警告，并选择向数百万人播报虚假主张。”

“当这一切开始时，我们是新手爸爸，我们的儿子才六个月大。本应是我们人生中最幸福的时光之一，却被抛入了混乱之中。”

“通过将我们虚构为从事性行为不端以及在代孕问题上向女性员工施压， 强化了最具破坏性的恐同刻板印象之一：即男同性恋者是会对他人构成威胁的性掠夺者。”

“这些虚假指控在几分钟内就传遍了全世界，但 却用了近两年时间才公开承认它们是虚假的。”

“ 现在欠电视执照费缴纳者一个解释，说明如此严重的失误是如何发生的，以及它打算采取什么措施来证明自己依然胜任其职责。”

他们补充道：“没有什么能给我们找回失去的时间，也无法消除这对我们家庭造成的影响。但现在事实已经真相大白。”

“指控是虚假的。 已全部撤回并表示毫无保留的道歉。今天，我们终于可以开始向前看了。”

斯金纳女士表示，用于解决法律诉讼的赔偿金将捐赠给多发性硬化症协会（Multiple Sclerosis Society）和贝德福德郡医院 NHS 慈善机构（Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Charity）。

房产中介在邻居树篱纠纷中败诉，面临£200k账单

电讯报记者报道

一名房产中介在与身为百万富翁的前拉力赛车手邻居就其“田园诗般”海滨住宅之间的树篱展开的一场“悲剧性”法庭斗争中败诉，目前面临超过£200k的法院账单。

57, 岁的房产中介公司老板莎拉·道格拉斯（Sarah Douglas）于 2017 年搬入了位于德文郡托基（Torquay）附近的一栋山顶住宅。

但在 2018 年，在当时的邻居拔除两家物业之间的树篱后，她陷入了一场“不幸的边界纠纷”。

该邻居随后搬走，但纠纷仍在继续。 2021, 年6月，富有的退休人员、前拉力赛车手兼保险公司老板， 87, 岁的罗纳德·钱农（Ronald Channon）以 140 万英镑 买下了道格拉斯女士隔壁的房子，并在她坚称是“她的土地”的地方竖起了一道新围栏。两人都被法官形容为“性格强势”，这场争斗最终在 2025, 年闹到了法庭，多年的争执最终聚焦于这两栋高端物业之间的边界线究竟在哪里。

钱农先生主张边界应沿原先被拔除的树篱茎干线运行，这意味着围栏位于他的土地上；而道格拉斯女士则认为边界应遵循树篱“最南端的叶片”线——这意味着围栏被错误地建在了她的花园里。

道格拉斯女士最终败诉，法官裁定，如果边界遵循树篱的外缘，将毫无意义，因为边界会随着树篱在不同时间的茂密程度而改变。

现在，她针对一项要求其支付大部分诉讼费用的命令向高等法院提出的挑战也失败了，这意味着除了她自己的费用外，她还面临着支付超过 £200 的邻居律师费。

右图：莎拉·道格拉斯与罗纳德·钱农因两家房屋之间的围栏问题对簿公堂

普利茅斯郡法院的保罗·米切尔（Paul Mitchell）法官在去年的审理后，将这场争端称为一场“悲剧”，并补充道：“这是一场完全不幸的纠纷，从任何客观角度来看，显然不应该发展到这个地步……显然，它造成了巨大的压力和不安，更不用说金钱损失了。

“双方各自居住的物业处于一个可以说极其理想的位置，拥有绝佳的海景，双方本应最大限度地享受其中。

“这场纠纷在很大程度上影响了双方在原本近乎田园诗般的生活环境中能够获得的乐趣。”

斯特里廷加入海军搜寻普京间谍潜艇行动

罗齐娜·萨布尔（Rozina Sabur） 国家安全编辑 发自冰岛

照片：罗里·阿诺德 / 国防部

国防大臣登上“圣奥尔本斯号”驱逐舰，船员在北大西洋模拟打击俄罗斯舰艇

在英国军舰的甲板深处，皇家海军的声呐探测屏幕正飞速运转：这是俄罗斯潜艇潜伏在冰冷深海中的典型迹象。

很快，潜艇似乎反过来察觉到了“圣奥尔本斯号”（HMS St Albans）的存在，此时该舰正静静地在水面漂移，潜艇可能正准备发起攻击。

驱逐舰的船员立即戴上白色防闪光面罩——旨在防止在遭遇敌方火力时面部被灼伤——水兵们互相大声下令，语气愈发急促。

几分钟后，随着对英国军舰的威胁日益增加，下达了攻击逼近潜艇的命令。船员们屏息以待，一枚“刺射线”（Sting Ray）鱼雷被发射出去。

在极短的时间内，他们击中了目标。用海军的术语来说，这艘潜艇已被“中和”。

这是一场在“圣奥尔本斯号”上进行的模拟演习，该舰是一艘 23 型护卫舰，《电讯报》在一次在冰岛的例行停靠期间获准登舰。

但这为人们提供了一个窗口，得以窥见该舰船员在应对北大西洋中日益增加的俄罗斯潜艇活动时的日常现实。

海军表示，与 2025 年同期相比，过去八个月中，其对疑似俄罗斯活动的响应率增加了四分之一。

这些频繁的“激活”通常是因为俄罗斯潜艇潜伏在深海电缆上方，而这些电缆是维持英国电力供应及与世界连接的关键基础设施。

“圣奥尔本斯号”配备有一架“梅林”Mk2 直升机，处于海军对抗莫斯科侵略行动的最前线。

国防大臣韦斯·斯特里廷（Wes Streeting）在最近前往冰岛参加联合远征部队（Joint Expeditionary Force）峰会期间，会见了“圣奥尔本斯号”上 178 名船员。

斯特里廷先生称，在英国面临的“威胁形势”上升之际，他们的行动“绝对至关重要”。他告诉他们：“你们所做的工作有助于我们威慑俄罗斯。”

最令人担忧的领域之一是所谓的格陵兰-冰岛-英国（GIUK）缺口，这是一个连接北大西洋和北极与欧洲及北美周边海域的战略重要海上走廊。

对于俄罗斯来说，该区域是进入北大西洋的通道。对于北约来说，这是一个关键通道，在重大冲突中，增援部队和物资必须经此运输。

23 型“圣奥尔本斯号”是一艘为多功能而设计的舰艇；速度快、噪音低，且

（图注：韦斯·斯特里廷在冰岛联合远征部队峰会期间，在“圣奥尔本斯号”上与贝斯特飞行指挥官交谈）

配备了五套雷达系统、六套声呐系统和八套武器系统。

其大部分重点在于使用拖曳阵列和拖曳体声呐对潜艇进行被动跟踪——本质上是从护卫舰拖出的一根长长的水听器电缆，可以探测潜艇发出的声音。“梅林”Mk2 直升机也可以投放声呐浮标来捕捉噪音。

然而，正如海军中许多人坦率承认的那样，其老旧的战舰舰队与克里姆林宫在开发速度更快、更安静的核动力潜艇方面投入的巨额资金之间存在对比，这使得他们的工作变得更加困难。

“圣奥尔本斯号”正处于一项为期四个月行动的中期，目前在北大西洋监测接近英国的俄罗斯潜艇。到行动结束时，它在 12 个月中将被部署 8.5 个月，这对船员和设备都提出了很高要求。

“我深知我们要求你们远离家乡的时间大大延长了，”斯特里廷先生告诉“圣奥尔本斯号”的船员，并指出他们的家人也在为此做出牺牲。

为了应对俄罗斯持续存在的威胁，在恶劣环境下进行的长时部署也给这些老旧舰艇带来了巨大的压力。

23型护卫舰将由26型护卫舰取代，后者配备了更现代的软件和监视雷达能力。然而，预计整个舰队要到2035年才能全部投入使用。

在向船员发表讲话时，斯特里廷先生开玩笑说，由于他担任国防大臣的时间相对较短，处于“新上任”阶段，因此在听取关于“我们在[国防部]总部大楼内所做选择的建议”时，“绝对容易受影响，而且有点容易上当”。

他说，请求配备新装备和增加人员是军队中的一个“反复出现的主题”，并补充道：“我清楚地听到了这一点。”

“我的责任是为你们所需的更多资源而战并赢得这场争论，”他说，并补充道：“其中很大一部分是确保我们在公众面前赢得这场争论。”

“如果我们认真对待在2030年之前做好战争准备——这也是北约的要求——那么我们在行动中必须表现出紧迫感。”

反潜战（ASW）有时被从事该工作的人员戏称为“极其缓慢的战争”（awfully slow warfare）。

在“圣奥尔本斯号”上进行的模拟演习是对一个艰苦过程的加速版本，而在现实中，这个过程可能需要数天甚至数周。搜寻潜艇就像是在大海捞针。

尽管如此，这场猫鼠游戏前线的参与者表示，探测率很高。这得益于被动监视和其他情报收集手段的结合。几乎每一架被派遣去寻找潜艇的“美林”Mk2直升机都能达成目标：这一成就既令人安心，又同样令人不安。

在访问结束后接受《每日电讯报》采访时，斯特里廷先生表示：“这些人长期服役，在极北地区为我们履行职责，虽然这些工作往往不被看见，也不被传颂，但对于英国的安全、我们的核威慑以及盟友的集体安全至关重要。”

他补充道：“我们看到俄罗斯在北极、极北地区和波罗的海的活动日益增加，这要求我们所有人都要加强力度。英国皇家海军在其中发挥着主导作用。”

但他表示，重要的是要继续将“增加国防开支”的理由置于聚光灯下，“以确保我们能继续获得公众的支持”。

本月每六分钟就有一名移民跨越英吉利海峡

作者：查尔斯·海马斯 (Charles Hymas) 内政编辑

内政部的数据显示，在10月的第一周，平均每六分钟就有一名移民跨越英吉利海峡。

在10月1日至7日期间，约有1,739名移民乘坐23艘船抵达英国，平均每小时超过10人，每天近250人。

这是自2018年首批小船开始跨海以来，10月第一周跨海人数最多的一次，超过了此前在2024年10月第一周创下的1,368人的周最高纪录。上周的1,739人跨海使2026年的总人数达到20,935人，比去年同期人数低约41%。

偷渡组织利用了10月份异常平静的海况和良好的天气。一艘载有114人的巨型充气艇成为了第三艘直接从诺曼底跨海抵达英国的移民船。

这些移民抵达了汉普郡的戈斯波特，在那里，约350名反移民抗议者举行了一场暴力示威，导致12人被捕。周一是本周最繁忙的一天，共有609名移民乘坐八艘船完成跨海。

第一周平均每艘船载有75名移民，这反映出偷渡团伙越来越多地使用巨型充气艇，在单艘船只中运输100至260人。

偷渡组织已开始在更少数量的更大船只上装载更多移民，部分原因是执法部门在破坏其船只和设备供应链方面取得了成功。

这些团伙还开始将他们的“出租船”向西移至法国海岸的诺曼底地区，以避开海滩上增加的警察和宪兵，并试图避免被一个新的海上警察单位在水面上拦截。

1,739

10月1日至7日期间，乘坐23艘船抵达英国的移民人数，平均每小时超过10人

改革英国党（Reform UK）指出，安迪·伯纳姆在任的80天内，有8,466名移民跨海进入英国，平均每天105.8人；相比之下，基尔·斯塔默爵士今年在任的200天内，平均每天为62.2人。改革英国党党魁奈杰尔·法拉奇表示：

“这是一场失控的灾难，对我们的国家安全构成了巨大威胁。在‘开放边境’的伯纳姆领导下，情况只会变得更糟。改革英国党将驱逐我们海岸上的每一个非法移民，并阻止这些船只。”

影子内政大臣克里斯·菲尔普表示：“这些非法移民大多是年轻男性，其中许多人随后犯下了包括谋杀和强奸在内的恐怖罪行。”

“工党没有摧毁这些团伙，他们与法国的协议也刚刚崩溃。他们允许95%的非法小船移民留下来，并让他们住在酒店和公寓里。”

“难怪他们源源不断地到来。”内政部一名发言人表示：“我们在应对小船问题上取得了进展。跨海人数显著下降，我们刚刚记录了自2020年以来夏季抵达人数的最低值。”

“我们正在采取行动，通过共同努力，自选举以来已阻止了超过48,000次跨海尝试，并没收了1,100艘船只和发动机。”

“但我们必须进一步采取行动，这就是为什么我们要增加在法国实地部署的警员数量，并消除通过非法且危险路线吸引人们来到这里的诱因。”

古老风景区清理出40,000吨非法废弃物

电讯报记者报道

一片古老的林地已被清理出2,500车非法废弃物。

环境署表示，在为期15个月的行动后，肯特郡 Hoad's Wood 林地中堆积高达15ft（15）高、近40,000吨的倾倒垃圾已被清理。据官员称，预计费用约为 1550 万英镑。

这片位于阿什福德（Ashford）附近的林地被指定为“具有特殊科学价值的地点”，是稀有植物和野生动物的栖息地，并以蓝铃花而闻名。Acumen Waste Services 以及50多名专业工作人员参与了这次由环境署领导的清理工作。该工作始于2025, 6月，而犯罪分子开始在此倾倒废弃物是在两年前。

监管机构表示，该地点的公众进入权限将继续受限，以给自然环境留出恢复的空间和时间。

该机构的区域环境经理马修·希金森（Matthew Higginson）表示，Hoad's Wood 的这个地点“可以说是我见过的最糟糕的垃圾倾倒场。这太可怕了。当我们第一次到达现场时，所有被倾倒废弃物的地方都是灰色的”。

他补充说，气味“相当令人作呕”，树木已经死亡，腐烂废弃物产生的黑色液体正流入环境中。“视觉上的冲击已经很糟糕了，但其气味和环境影响的规模简直令人震惊。”

希金森先生表示，由于该地是保护区，清理工作非常复杂，且是在一个“动态环境”中进行的，需要不同的组织、当局、项目经理、废弃物专业人员、考古学家和自然专家共同协作。

这包括清理天然排水沟以使水流重新流回该区域，并创建互连的池塘（挖掘机必须清除其中埋藏的废弃物口袋），这两项工作都有助于湿地林环境的繁荣。

“在开始时，由于现场的状态，很难想象最后会是什么样子，”希金森先生说。“所以我们现在达到的状态真的令人满意，”他补充道，本周访问该地点的居民和活动团体对这项工作表示赞赏。

环境署于2023, 开始进行刑事调查，与废弃物犯罪联合小组及肯特郡警方合作追踪嫌疑人，去年已有三名男子被捕。

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大卫·罗斯（DAVID ROSE）为电讯报供稿

昨日 加雷斯·富勒（GARETH FULLER） / PAWIRE

肯特郡 Hoad's Wood 为期两年的清理工作据报道耗资 1550 万英镑

数百万电动汽车车主错失家庭充电折扣

monument, within the curtilage of a listed building, or within a conservation area".

作者：Joe Wright

由于工党在最后时刻修改规则，居住在保护区内的数百万驾驶员在为电动汽车充电时，可能面临支付双倍费用的局面。

将于10月21日生效的新法律将允许没有私人车道的居民在无需规划许可的情况下，在人行道上铺设隐蔽的充电电缆。但居住在英格兰10,000个保护区内的电动汽车车主将被排除在这些改革之外。

居住在保护区内的约340 万人没有私人车道，其中估计有100,000人拥有电动汽车（EV）。

由于被排除在“允许开发权”（permitted development rights）的优惠之外，这意味着他们要么必须为铺设人行道电缆获得规划许可，要么必须使用价格更昂贵的公共电动汽车充电桩。

在家里为汽车充电的成本通常为每英里7便士，而依赖公共网络的人员平均支付15便士。

在政府最初关于电动汽车电缆铺设的计划中，允许开发权法律的地理适用范围预计将不受限制。

但在9月25,，工党规定，“在被指定为法定纪念建筑（scheduled monument）、位于法定建筑附属地（curtilage of a listed building）或位于保护区（conservation area）内的区域内，不允许进行开发”。

这将自动排除在伦敦大部分地区安装隐蔽电缆的可能性，因为这座首都拥有超过1,000个保护区。

对于保护区内的车主而言，这些繁琐的行政手续将成为另一个障碍，挫伤没有私人车道的家庭转向

“驾驶员仅仅因为没有私人车道而被迫支付更高价格，这是一种惩罚”

电动汽车的积极性。electrifying.com网站的金妮·巴克利（Ginny Buckley）表示：“政府在推动电动化转型时，一只脚踩在油门上，另一只脚却踩在刹车上。数百万驾驶员仅仅因为没有私人车道而被迫支付更高价格，这是一种惩罚。”

一名政府发言人表示：“我们希望支持没有路外停车位的家庭获得家庭电动汽车充电服务，但继续保护我们保护区的特殊特质至关重要。”

谁该为澳大利亚山火负责……？库克船长

作者：莎拉·克纳普顿（Sarah Knapton），科学编辑

研究人员指出，200多年前库克船长以及英国对澳大利亚的“入侵”应对现代丛林火灾负责。

墨尔本大学的一个团队认为，原住民的文化焚烧实践使林地保持在足够稀疏的状态，从而避免了近年来袭击该国的重大火灾。

然而，200多年前，当原住民社区被“屠杀”并被驱逐出土地后，茂密的森林生长起来，为山火提供了易燃的火药桶。

该大学的生物地理学教授迈克尔-肖恩·弗莱彻（Michael-Shawn Fletcher）表示：“随着英国入侵以及随之而来的边境暴力，以及原住民的被驱逐，火灾机制发生了变化。”

“火势变得更猛烈，灌木增加，而这些更高温的火灾触发了桉树（树木和灌木）的更新，我们现在的森林陷入了这种循环。”

“这不是为了指责，而是为了说明我们面临着一个问题。我们拥有大量森林，但采取鸵鸟政策（将头埋在沙子里）是没有用的，假装气候是唯一驱动因素也是没有用的。”

在过去的十年中，澳大利亚东南部遭受了一系列灾难性的山火，包括2019-2020年的“黑色夏季”丛林大火，此次火灾摧毁了2400万公顷土地，其中包括1700万公顷森林。

这些火灾被广泛归咎于气候变化，但发表在《自然》（Nature）杂志上的这项研究认为，如果原住民的实践得以维持，这些地区不会如此脆弱。

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四人同行 《理智与情感》（Sense & Sensibility）的共同主演斯泰西·马丁（Stacy Martin）、凯特琳娜·巴尔夫（Caitriona Balfe）、埃斯梅·克里德-迈尔斯（Esmé Creed-Miles）和黛西·埃德加-琼斯（Daisy Edgar-Jones）在洛杉矶首映礼后的派对上亮相。

50年后，《You and Yours》正式落幕

BBC Radio 4 消费者节目被弃用，取而代之的是“更新版”节目，管理层旨在节省 5 亿英镑 开支

作者：Anita Singh 艺术与娱乐编辑

BBC 将在播出 50 多年后取消 Radio 4 的消费者节目《You and Yours》。于 1970, 年推出的《You and Yours》将被一个“更新的”消费者节目所取代。 拒绝透露 Winifred Robinson 是否将回归担任主持人。

作为成本削减计划的一部分，Radio 4 的艺术节目《Free Thinking》以及乡村杂志节目《Open Country》也将被砍掉。

一名 发言人表示，听众希望内容既能在广播中播出，也能作为播客使用，因此公司必须“在受众所在的地方触达他们”。 Sounds 总监 Jonathan Wall 表示：“我们正在重塑 的语音音频，旨在为值得信赖的新闻报道、独特的叙事以及能够将人们聚集在一起的节目构建一个强大的未来。”

“通过减少整体委约节目的数量，我们可以集中投资，使我们最优秀的节目在广播、点播和不同格式之间发挥作用。这意味着在保持 Radio 4 和 5 Live 优势的同时，加速数字化平台的增长，触达 之外的更多人群。”

Wall 先生补充道：“这些都是艰难的决定，且并非仅基于成本。我们需要在为未来投资的同时实现大幅削减开支。我非常感谢受影响节目的幕后团队，我们将支持同事，并在整个磋商过程中与工会密切合作。”

取代《You and Yours》的节目将“旨在同时适用于广播和点播”。它将包括原创报道、实用建议以及追究机构责任——这些都是《You and Yours》目前正在做的事情。《Free Thinking》、《Thinking Allowed》和《The Artificial Human》将结束，取而代之的是两个每周播出的节目，全年播出。其中一个将探讨塑造我们生活和更广阔世界的理念，另一个将研究技术和 AI 的影响。

Sounds 上的播客数量将减少，以“为新格式腾出空间”，同时 5 Live 的定时节目和体育播客预算将被削减。一些现有节目的时长将增加。《Start The Week》和《In our Time》将延长至一小时，《Farming Today》的周末版也将扩容。

在 6 月宣布了新闻、国家和内容部门的削减计划，旨在实现到 2028-29. 年所需的 5 亿英镑 削减目标中的 1.6 亿英镑。预计将削减约 2,000 个工作岗位。

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提前释放的囚犯再次陷入犯罪狂潮

一名拥有16次定罪记录的惯偷在出狱当晚从特易购（Tesco）盗窃洗衣液

作者：查尔斯·海马斯（Charles Hymas）和菲奥娜·帕克（Fiona Parker）

《每日电讯报》披露，一名根据提前释放计划出狱的商店窃贼在获释数小时后再次实施了商店窃盗罪。

38, 岁的迈克尔·博格尔（Michael Bogle）是上周四获释的700名罪犯之一，现因在出狱当天实施的商店窃盗罪被重新关押。

博格尔，38, 岁，是一名登记在册的性犯罪者，他在获释当晚从温布利的一家特易购商店盗窃了价值£43.50的洗衣液。在接下来的三天里，他又从特易购盗窃了价值£98.85的洗衣液。

博格尔于周一被捕，并于周二认罪。他被判处八个月监禁。

他在10月1日上午11点左右获释后告诉《每日电讯报》，他将投票给工党，并且认为提前释放制度“很好”。

博格尔拥有16次定罪记录，涉及100多项指控，包括盗窃、刑事损坏和露体癖。他此前因违反一项为期32周的商店窃盗缓刑而被判刑，在服刑78天后被提前释放。这是他的第五次监禁。

获释后在监狱外接受记者采访时，这位前巴士司机表示他将通过购买“一些烤肉（kebabs）”来庆祝。

然而，博格尔在当晚从特易购盗窃。他还被监控摄像头拍到三次进入一家森比斯（Sainsbury's）商店进行盗窃，尽管根据一项刑事行为令，他被禁止靠近该店。违反此类命令最高可被判处五年监禁。在对四项商店窃盗罪认罪后，他现在已重新入狱。

伦敦警察厅助理专员马特·特威斯特（Matt Twist）对博格尔再次犯罪的速度感到震惊。

他说：“虽然一个有这种前科的人再次犯罪并不令人惊讶，但他再次犯罪的速度以及对一线警务工作的影响令人震惊。就在获释仅1天后，他就被监控拍到在伦敦西北部的两家超市盗窃。当当地社区警员走访这些商店时，店员报告称他在整个周末期间一直在进行商店窃盗。”

特威斯特先生表示，博格尔的提前释放给警员带来了巨大的压力，使他们无法专注于打击其他犯罪。执法官员此前已表达担忧，认为提前释放计划将增加警员的工作量，并在处理获释罪犯时导致警力被过度分散。

监狱首席监察官查理·泰勒（Charlie Taylor）和缓刑首席监察官马丁·琼斯（Martin Jones）此前告诉《每日电讯报》，过度拥挤的监狱未能使罪犯重新社会化，且社区对获释罪犯缺乏支持，这增加了获释囚犯违反许可条件或再次犯罪的可能性。

泰勒先生预测，这意味着创纪录的监狱召回率可能会持续下去，从而削弱提前释放计划所创造的空间优势。英国最高级别警官马克·罗利（Sir Mark Rowley）爵士昨天警告称，警员每周都在逮捕两到三名根据提前释放计划出狱的罪犯。

伦敦警察厅局长告诉LBC电台：“在过去的几天里，我们逮捕了一名在获释后几天内再次犯罪的人，因为他是一名惯犯，多次实施商店窃盗和其他违规行为。”

“他们被提前释放后，直接前往伦敦西北部的一个市中心，实施了多次犯罪。他们现在又回到了监狱里。”

影子内政大臣克里斯·菲尔普（Chris Philp）表示：“工党在上周四提前释放了这名惯犯——而他已经开始了犯罪狂潮，通过盗窃制造痛苦。”

三姐妹在布赖顿海滩溺亡，死因被裁定为自杀协议

作者：Jaya Narain

一名验尸官裁定，在布赖顿海滩溺亡的三姐妹死于一项自杀协议。

简·阿德托罗（Jane Adetoro，36岁）、克里斯蒂娜·沃尔特斯（Christina Walters，32岁）和31岁的丽贝卡·沃尔特斯（Rebecca Walters）的尸体于5月13日在东萨塞克斯郡的这座度假胜地海域被发现。

伍德韦尔（Woodvale）验尸法庭的调查听证会获悉，在去世前不到48小时，这三姐妹从她们位于伦敦西部厄克斯布里奇（Uxbridge）的共同住所前往伯明翰。她们的母亲曾于2010年在该市的一座湖中自杀。

在伯明翰停留90分钟后，她们于5月12日凌晨乘坐出租车返回伦敦，随后于当天晚上前往布赖顿。

她们于晚上10.21pm抵达该市，闭路电视（CCTV）显示她们在海滩相邻的道路上行走了一个多小时。

随后，监控录像显示警方认为的三名女性于2.42am走向海滩。

听证会获悉，5月13日早晨，英国皇家国家救生艇协会（RNLI）的救援人员将阿德托罗女士带回岸边，并在现场宣布其死亡。

克里斯蒂娜·沃尔特斯由RNLI救生艇从海中救起，丽贝卡·沃尔特斯的尸体则被冲上海滩。她们在当天早晨被急救人员宣布死亡。

西萨塞克斯、布赖顿和霍夫的验尸官佩内洛普·斯科菲尔德（Penelope Schofield）在昨日结束听证会时表示：“5月13日，在黑暗的时段，她们进入了布赖顿的海域。”

“她们不会游泳，且海况恶劣。”

“我必须考虑她们在不会游泳的情况下，为何在黑暗的时段进入水中。我认为她们是故意进入水中，意图结束自己的生命。显然，这三名女性的医学死因均为溺水。”

听证会获悉，这三姐妹的母亲珍妮丝（Janice）于2010年在靠近家中的一座湖中溺水自杀。

据透露，在自杀之前，三姐妹通过整理和清理公寓内的财物为死亡做准备。她们还结清了债务并注销了银行账户。

自母亲去世后一直患有抑郁症的克里斯蒂娜，还曾在电脑上对自杀进行过深入研究，并在网上搜索水域。

听证会被告知，这三姐妹均为单身，与布赖顿没有联系，也不熟悉那里。

悲剧中的三姐妹（从左起）：简·阿德托罗，以及克里斯蒂娜和丽贝卡·沃尔特斯与父亲约瑟夫（Joseph）的合影。左图为回收的尸体。

侦查总督马克·库利莫尔（Mark Cullimore）在听证会上表示，当天风很大，且“海面异常汹涌”。

在致辞中，她们的父亲约瑟夫·雅各布森（Joseph Jacobsen）说：“没有任何词语能充分表达失去孩子的痛苦。”

“这是一种超出我所有想象的心碎。她们每个人在我心中都有特殊的位置。作为姐妹，她们之间有着特殊的纽带。”

“我在我的基督教信仰中找到了一些慰藉。她们是我的女儿。她们被爱着，她们很重要。我将带着这些记忆度过余生。”

他表示，最近刚从布鲁内尔大学（Brunel University）毕业的简和克里斯蒂娜从事会计职业，而被描述为调皮活泼的“小女儿”丽贝卡则从事人力资源工作。

他说：“简，我永远不会忘记你的坚强。”

“蒂娜，你的善良触动了许多人的生活。”

“贝基，你的温暖和快乐的精神无论走到哪里都能带来幸福。”

33岁的表妹娜塔莉·沃尔特斯-丹尼尔（Natalie Walters-Daniel）此前告诉《泰晤士报》，她认为这三姐妹——在母亲去世时分别只有20, 16和15岁——从未从那场悲剧中走出来。

她说：“在她们那个年龄失去母亲，那是成长为年轻女性的关键阶段。”

青少年在学校行刺前写道对“暴力有吸引力”

电讯报记者报道

法庭获悉，一名青少年男孩在学校从背后用刀刺伤一名女孩之前，曾写道自己对“暴力有吸引力”。

该男孩事发时年仅15岁，目前正在金林刑事法院（King's Lynn Crown Court）受审，被指控于3月11日在诺里奇附近的索普圣安德鲁学校（Thorpe St Andrew School）企图谋杀。

在昨日开启的控方陈述中，国王大律师克里斯托弗·帕克斯顿（Christopher Paxton KC）表示，被告写过一些笔记，其中包括关于他“对女性的仇恨”，并且对杀手感兴趣。

他表示，其中一张钉在男孩卧室里的笔记写道：“我贫瘠的世界……如果你在读这段话，那么我要么已经死了，要么在羁押中。

“我想警察会是第一个读到这段话并将其作为证据没收的人，所以我要把一件事情说清楚。

“这个决定是我独立做出的。没有人告诉我要这么做。只有我。没有人知道我想这么做。没有任何一个人知道。”

帕克斯顿先生表示，在另一篇笔记中，这名现年16岁且因法律原因不能公开身份的男孩写道：“我一生都感到对暴力有一种吸引力。

“我不知道原因。想到混乱、鲜血和谋杀，我的大脑就会产生反应。”

该女孩事发时同样年仅15岁。在向陪审团播放的一段录像采访中，她告诉警方，她看到一个戴着面具的人“全身穿着黑色衣服，完全没有穿校服”。她说她转身离开，然后“感觉他碰了我的肩膀，接着感觉他打了我一拳”。

她说她“在那一刻不知道自己被刺了”，但她“开始奔跑”。她说那个男孩没有对她说话，她也没有认出他。她走进一间教室并说：“老师，我被刺伤了。”这名青少年表示，随后学校的封锁警铃响起，工作人员提供了急救。关于事件本身，她说一旦她打开门，“我感觉到一阵剧痛贯穿我的背部，我那样地反应，然后双手沾满了血”。

辩方律师斯蒂芬·罗斯（Stephen Rose）询问出庭作证的女孩是否与该男孩有过任何矛盾，她表示没有。

她在作证期间擦掉眼泪并请求休息。该校另一名目击袭击事件的女学生在录像采访中表示，该男孩“从（女孩）身后走上来，直接刺向她肩膀附近的背部”。检察官帕克斯顿先生告诉陪审团：“我们认为，他的意图不仅体现在行刺的那一刻，更体现在他的笔记以及他对杀戮的痴迷和由仇恨驱动的心理中。”

该男孩否认企图谋杀，审判仍在继续。

网球网红被告知：小心温网的海军陆战队

作者：Sonia Twigg

温布尔登网球赛的主管们并不担心那些抢风头的网红，因为他们受过军事训练的安保人员“最想做的就是收拾他们”。

上个月美国网球公开赛期间，最大的讨论点之一是由社交媒体名人涌入所造成的混乱，其中许多人无视了网球运动的传统礼仪。

全英俱乐部临时首席执行官理查德·阿特金森（Richard Atkinson）在领导者周会议上发言时，开始讨论温网的肃静与美网的张扬之间的文化差异。

“如果你去过美网，你会发现那里非常有纽约市的风格，对吧？那里很疯狂，很嘈杂，各种事情都在发生，”他说。“对于一个刚买票的人来说，带着环形补光灯出现在那里，并在比赛中途直接开始直播，简直太容易了。”

“如果你尝试在温网这样做，我想你可能会被一些皇家海军陆战队突击队员[拦下来]。我们那里有军方人员，我怀疑他们最想做的就是收拾一些网红。”

在今年的美网期间，开赛首周最令人心酸的讨论点，大概莫过于一个奇怪的场景：在大坂直美的第一轮比赛期间，有十几个左右的人在进行 TikTok 舞蹈表演。

主裁判卡德尔·努尼（Kader Nouni）不得不要求该群体坐下，而大坂直美本人在赛后表示，“了解这项运动，尤其是礼仪，是基本的礼貌”。

在法拉盛草原公园的赛事中，近 100 名网红获得了活动凭证，科科·高夫（Coco Gauff）对此补充了一句俏皮话，称“你不会在红毯上穿牛仔裤”。

温网禁止球迷将许多物品带入 SW19 的场馆——包括环形补光灯——并且不计划向网红或内容创作者提供凭证。

MAURICIO BERNAL / 皇家植物园，邱园 / IPA WIRE

然而，许多人是由其合作伙伴品牌邀请的，社交媒体上充斥着在 SW19 拍摄的内容，而这些内容通常关注的重点除了网球以外的任何事情。

邱园（Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew）的“植物弥赛亚”卡洛斯·马格达莱纳（Carlos Magdalena）与哥伦比亚巨型睡莲在一起，这是一个他通过一张 Instagram 照片追踪到的新物种。

提前释放导致警方每天面临100起电子脚镣违规事件

作者：查尔斯·海马斯 (Charles Hymas) 内政编辑

伦敦警察局局长透露，伦敦的警员每天不得不处理超过100起违反电子脚镣指令的事件。

英国最高级别警官马克·罗利爵士（Sir Mark Rowley）表示，警员每周还不得不逮捕两到三名根据提前释放计划出狱的罪犯。

他披露，一名惯犯在提前释放后立即实施了多次盗窃罪行。他警告称，尽管警方逮捕了这些罪犯，但在大多数情况下，法院仍以相同的条件将他们保释回社区。

“我们收到的需要执行的脚镣违规案件数量在增加，这些是由缓刑监督部门发送给我们的。现在伦敦每天有超过100起脚镣违规事件，”马克爵士告诉LBC电台。

“因此，落在我们身上的工作量增加了，而且必须要有威慑力。如果你得到了这个机会，然后违反了所有条件，你就应该重新入狱。所以我们将他们移交给法院。我们发现，在被逮捕的脚镣违规者中，有95%以上的人被简单地以相同的条件保释回社区。这意味着完全没有制裁。”

伦敦警察局局长以及英格兰和威尔士43个警队的警察首脑要求政府额外提供5 亿英镑，因为警员在应对提前释放且佩戴脚镣的罪犯所实施的犯罪和违规行为时产生了额外成本。

上周，包括家庭暴力者、跟踪者和暴力罪犯在内的700名囚犯被提前释放。

据估计，在接下来的10个月里，将有约4,500名刑期逐渐增加的罪犯（包括一些已服刑超过12年的人员）被提前释放回社区。

政府已引入一项推定原则，即所有出狱的囚犯都应佩戴电子脚镣，以便缓刑监督人员跟踪其行踪，确保他们不违反宵禁，或不进入根据其假释条款被禁止进入的区域。

特朗普寻求在战争结束后与普京达成北溪天然气协议

美国总统特使“推动恢复俄罗斯管道贸易，将其作为恢复和平的策略”

作者：艾米莉·史密斯（Emily Smith）

唐纳德·特朗普正考虑与弗拉基米尔·普京达成一项协议，以重新开放北溪（Nord Stream）天然气管道。

据报道，特朗普的特使贾里德·库什纳（Jared Kushner）与俄罗斯官员举行了会谈，讨论美国对该管道的投资，以便在战争结束后从向欧洲输送能源的流量中获利。在俄罗斯入侵乌克兰之前，这些管道将天然气从俄罗斯输送到德国。

据路透社消息人士透露，库什纳先生近几周在纽约和莫斯科会见了俄罗斯总统的亲密顾问基里尔·德米特里耶夫（Kirill Dmitriev）。

作为特朗普的女婿，库什纳先生认为恢复与莫斯科的贸易是恢复俄罗斯与乌克兰之间和平的核心。在被问及管道讨论时，一名白宫官员表示：“任何协议都必须由俄罗斯与DFC（美国国际发展金融公司）及（美国）财政部协商，且必须使美国纳税人和公司受益。”

该官员补充说，近期“没有进行北溪相关的讨论”。

这一消息传出的同一天，俄罗斯对乌克兰克拉马托尔斯克市的两辆巴士发动滑翔炸弹袭击，造成33人死亡。

北溪管道是一组从俄罗斯延伸至德国、穿过波罗的海底的离岸天然气管道。在2022年2月俄罗斯入侵乌克兰之前，柏林通过这两条管道从俄罗斯购买了其一半以上的天然气。在莫斯科削减对欧洲的供应后，这些管道被封存，并在2022年9月的一系列水下爆炸中被炸毁。

一直主张恢复俄罗斯向德国销售天然气的德米特里耶夫先生上个月会见了美国能源部和财政部的代表，讨论潜在的美俄能源倡议。德米特里耶夫的一名代表拒绝置评。

目前尚不清楚华盛顿在推动恢复俄罗斯向德国（欧洲最大的能源消费国）输送天然气方面有多大兴趣。一名美国官员表示，考虑到重重障碍，中期内达成协议的可能性不大。美国和欧盟对北溪天然气管道实施制裁，使得任何重启行为均属非法。

特朗普先生可能会豁免或放宽美国制裁，但如果民主党在下个月的中期选举中赢得国会控制权，这将变得更加困难。

德国和其他欧洲国家目前正花费数十亿欧元重建军队以防御俄罗斯，它们将强烈抵制重新开放北溪管道。

德国经济与能源部的一位发言人表示，德国已经找到了北溪和俄罗斯天然气的替代方案。她表示，任何重启管道的行为都需要政府批准。

俄罗斯与德国（乌克兰最大的军事支持提供国之一）的关系已跌至低谷，柏林官员指责俄罗斯发起了一场混合攻击行动。

“这有可能成为一项肮脏的交易，将让欧洲付出沉重代价，”曾在乌克兰入侵后负责德国能源政策的政治人物迈克尔·凯尔纳（Michael Kellner）表示，“美国人和俄罗斯人将瓜分利润。”

虽然德国的联合政府反对重启管道，但德国选择党（AfD）希望这样做。德米特里耶夫先生将于明年年初会见该右翼政党的领导层，讨论再次销售俄罗斯天然气的问题。

今年7月，一名乌克兰前陆军军官在德国被指控犯有战争罪，涉嫌破坏北溪管道。谢尔希·库兹涅佐夫（Serhii Kuznietsov）被指对破坏管道的水下爆炸负责。

德国检察官称，该嫌疑人是代表乌克兰政府行动，目前已被指控为战争罪的共犯、破坏公共服务、引发爆炸以及摧毁建筑物。

外交大臣埃德·米利班德（Ed Miliband）在访问乌克兰北部普里卢基（Pryluky）一座遭受俄罗斯导弹袭击的现场时，拥抱了一名幸存者。周二的这次袭击造成 22 人死亡，其中包括五名儿童。

胡塞武装巡航导弹在利雅得机场摧毁沙特客机

胡塞武装同时使用巡航导弹和弹道导弹袭击沙特机场

作者：Akhtar Makoi

也门胡塞武装在一次袭击利雅得主机场的行动中，摧毁了一架隶属于沙特阿拉伯国家航空公司的飞机。

昨日来自哈立德国王国际机场的画面显示，一架沙特客机陷入火海，消防员正在全力灭火。

该组织军事发言人亚希亚·萨里（Yahya Saree）准将表示，胡塞武装在一次同步行动中，使用两枚巡航导弹击中了哈立德国王机场，并使用弹道导弹袭击了纳季兰机场和哈米什穆谢特空军基地。

沙特领导的联军对反政府武装的说法提出了异议。图尔基·马利基（Turki al-Maliki）上校表示，防空系统拦截了两枚瞄准利雅得的胡塞弹道导弹和一枚瞄准哈米什穆谢特的导弹。

印度航空取消了往返利雅得的航班直至周六，汉莎航空集团也暂停了其旗下航空公司飞往沙特首都的航班。

在美伊冲突导致 2022 年的一场脆弱停火协议崩溃后，也门战争于 7 月重新爆发，使沙特阿拉伯和胡塞武装再次就红海沿岸及全球航运重要咽喉点曼德海峡展开公开战斗。

美国敦促其在沙特阿拉伯的公民“提高警惕”。

美国国务院表示：“美国使团已知悉截至 10 月 8 日发生在利雅得哈立德国王国际机场的袭击事件，并提醒所有美国公民提高警惕。”

该部门补充称，“在沙特阿拉伯工作的美国政府雇员现在需要‘特别授权’才能使用该机场”。

昨日的机场袭击发生在周初的一系列致命袭击之后。

沙特民航局表示，阿布哈和哈立德国王国际机场在周二和周三遭到袭击，袭击导致 3 人死亡（其中 2 名外国居民在阿布哈死亡，1 人在利雅得死亡），并导致至少 36 名公民和外国居民受伤，其中多人伤势严重。

在地面上，战斗在也门第三大省塔伊兹省激烈展开，前线已演变为一场艰苦的消耗战。

胡塞武装正向沙马亚泰因（al-Shamayatayn）、马费尔（al-Maafer）以及南部和西部农村地区推进，试图开辟一条补给线，因为他们通往连接亚丁、拉希杰和塔伊兹的卡达哈（al-Kadaha）和瓦齐亚（al-Waziya）的战线即将被推进的政府军切断。

在沙特领导的联军支持下，这些政府军于昨日傍晚向瓦齐亚（al-Waziiya）和俯瞰曼德海峡的卡布布山（Kahboub Mountains）推进。

在国防部长誓言将很快夺回胡塞武装控制区后，指挥官警告未来 48 小时内可能会出现危险的升级。

在西部战线，胡塞武装正试图向祖巴布（Dhubab）推进，该地俯瞰着平民、贸易商和援助车队使用的亚丁-塔伊兹主干道。

胡塞武装发言人萨里准将在另一份声明中表示，其部队击退了沙特向也门东部贾乌夫省（al-Jawf）胡塞阵地发起的进攻，使用弹道导弹和无人机袭击了部队，造成数十人伤亡，沙特方面未取得任何进展。

他表示，自最新升级以来，沙特及联军的袭击已达到 1,642 次空中和导弹攻击。

由于地面情况变化迅速，《电讯报》无法独立核实双方关于战场的说法。

重新爆发的战争正在加深全球最严重的几场人道主义危机之一。

红十字国际委员会（ICRC）表示，自 7 月以来，已收到 1,800 份寻找也门失踪亲属的家庭请求。

红十字国际委员会也门代表团负责人克里斯蒂娜·西波拉（Christine Cipolla）表示：“失踪者的家属有权知道其亲人的命运和下落。”

她补充道：“每一位失踪者的背后，都是一个生活在痛苦中的家庭。他们的痛苦不容忽视，他们的等待绝不能被延长。”

梅洛尼在有利于自己的秘密投票中修改选举规则

作者：Nick Squires 罗马特派记者

意大利议会通过了一项选举法，反对派人士称，这可能会让乔治亚·梅洛尼在下次选举中获得更大的获胜机会。

在一次秘密投票中，议会下议院投票通过了这项选举改革，该改革规定，任何获得至少 42% 选票的联盟将获得额外的奖励席位。

该法案此前被设定为对梅洛尼女士的一次信任投票，最终以 227 票赞成、164 票反对获得通过。

四年前当选的这位总理曾威胁称，如果议会未能通过该法律，她将辞职；但政治分析人士表示，大多数议员并不希望触发提前选举。梅洛尼女士主张，新法将提供更大的稳定性，因为它将避免过去一直困扰意大利的那种碎片化的选举结果和不稳定的执政联盟。

批评者认为，这将有利于执政联盟，该联盟由梅洛尼女士领导的意大利兄弟党、联盟党以及由已故的西尔维奥·贝卢斯科尼创立的中右翼政党意大利前进党（Forza Italia）组成。

Shivio Berluscom. 来自主要反对力量民主党的基亚拉·布拉加（Chiara Braga）告诉法新社，这次选举改革“扭曲了

乔治亚·梅洛尼曾威胁称，如果意大利议会不通过该法律，她将辞职

民主规则，以服务于掌权者的利益”。

这项被戏称为“梅洛尼法”（Melonellum）的法律取消了领先者当选制（first-past-the-post）选区，取而代之的是完全比例代表制，这种安排往往有利于中右翼。

然而，随着梅洛尼女士准备迎接必须在明年秋季前举行的下次选举，这次改革可能会给她带来严重的反噬。

自从改革方案起草以来，她的联盟一直向一个新兴的极右翼政党流失支持，该党由罗伯托·万纳奇（Roberto Vannacci）领导，他曾是一名伞兵和特种部队指挥官，曾在全球冲突地区服役。

他的政党“国家未来党”（Futuro Nazionale）目前的得票率在 8% 左右，超过了执政联盟中三个政党中的两个——联盟党和意大利前进党。

如果梅洛尼女士在下次选举中选择不与他结盟，她可能会被中左翼击败，因为中左翼如果能达到 42% 的得票率，也将从奖励席位中获益。

意大利议会

她可能会发现自己被迫与万纳奇先生达成协议，尽管他在 LGBTQ 权利等问题上持有极端观点，并且强烈反对支持乌克兰对抗俄罗斯。

中左翼联盟中最大的两个政党是由埃莉·施莱因（Elly Schlein）领导的民主党，以及由前总理朱塞佩·孔特（Giuseppe Conte）领导的五星运动。他们在政治上也存在严重分歧，尤其是在意大利是否应继续向基辅提供资金和武器的问题上。

他们还无法决定谁应该在明年的选举中领导中左翼联盟。

这是一个问题，因为新的选举法要求联盟在选举前提名其领导人。

世界新闻

装有陷阱的毒品潜艇将向欧洲倾销可卡因

Max Stephens 国际犯罪记者

哥伦比亚贩毒集团正在制造能够携带 1,500 吨毒品跨越大西洋的自动导航船只

《每日电讯报》获悉，贩毒集团计划部署装有陷阱的潜艇舰队，将可卡因走私到欧洲。

军事情报警告称，这些无人船将安装爆炸装置，如果警方或武装部队试图登船，装置将触发爆炸。

预计拉丁美洲帮派将使用这些自制的“毒品潜艇”作为主要手段，每年向大西洋对面走私高达 1,500 吨的可卡因。

分析人士告诉《每日电讯报》，美国军方对涉嫌走私毒品的渔船进行打击，被认为是贩毒集团转向使用自动化潜艇作为低风险替代方案的原因。

这些轻型潜艇在哥伦比亚海岸线沿岸的秘密造船厂建造，并经过伪装以避免被发现，由于它们在水面下方航行，因此更容易隐藏。在单次航行中，它们的船体可携带高达 9 吨的可卡因，价值 7 亿英镑。一旦毒品潜艇抵达西班牙海岸附近，快艇将被部署以收集可卡因包裹并将其运往岸上。

埃隆·马斯克的 Starlink 卫星系统已被贩毒集团采用并安装在毒品潜艇上，使船只能够按照计划路线行驶，并在无需船员的情况下应对出现的障碍物。哥伦比亚帮派正寻求培养能够进一步扩展该技术的劳动力。

警方情报显示，他们计划从黑市招募专业工程师，为船只安装来自阿拉伯联合酋长国的自动导航技术。

去年 7 月 2 日，哥伦比亚警方在圣玛尔塔海岸附近发现了一艘毒品潜艇，该潜艇配备了 GPS、两个 Starlink 天线、一套卫星系统和两个监控摄像头。这艘船上没有携带毒品，被认为是的一次“试运行”，它能够在无需加油的情况下携带 1.5 吨可卡因航行 800 多海里。

一份来自哥伦比亚海军的情报报告警告称，毒品潜艇可能安装有爆炸装置以实现自毁，或通过远程控制被炸毁。

这将使贩毒集团能够销毁关键证据，并阻止警方将船只追溯到制造地。这也会威慑警员尝试拦截这些船只。

英国国防与安全智库英国皇家联合服务研究所（RUSI）有组织犯罪与警务团队的研究员詹妮弗·斯科特（Jennifer Scotland）表示，无人毒品潜艇的另一个优势是降低了信息泄露给当局的风险。

“人员的移除意味着这些船上没有可以被抓获并审讯的人，”斯科特女士说道。

船上没有船员且不需要食物或水供应，也意味着船只可以装载更多的可卡因。警方担心这些“自主水下航行器”（AUVs）将变得无处不在，使得贩毒集团每年能向欧洲倾销高达 1,500 吨的可卡因。

这些警告在一份关于秘密半潜水艇的 30 页报告中被概述，该报告由哥伦比亚海军领导的情报中心——国际打击海上毒品走私研究与分析中心（CMCON）发布。

CMCON 表示，贩毒集团使用装有陷阱的潜艇的风险需要各国及其军队进行“永久监测”。其评估基于犯罪趋势、技术进步和专家分析。

根据 CMCON 的情报，拉丁美洲最危险的贩毒集团已组成一个松散的联盟，共同组织从哥伦比亚到欧洲的毒品潜艇的融资、建造和运输。

海湾克兰（EGC）是哥伦比亚最大的贩毒帮派，负责采购可卡因并在该国的河口和河流上建立造船厂网络。这些地点被茂密的丛林和红树林植被掩盖，从上方的卫星几乎无法发现。

在过去的七年里，安全部队在从哥伦比亚与厄瓜多尔南部边境向北延伸至巴拿马的 560 英里路段沿线，共发现了 31 个造船厂。

与 EGC 结盟的极左翼准军事组织 FARC 的战士被部署在这些造船厂，以防止被窥视或被竞争帮派发现。工人使用玻璃纤维、木材和碳纤维等轻质材料建造长度在 40 到 100 英尺之间的毒品潜艇，且这些潜艇通常经过伪装。

伸出水面的排气管涂有石棉，以防止安全飞机和船只使用热成像摄像机追踪潜艇的动向。

警方情报显示，在阿联酋购买的自动导航技术（在那里可以毫无痕迹地购买）将被安装在潜艇上。CMCON 的报告预测，如果美国科技公司通过监管此类技术的销售做出反应，贩毒集团将转而使用中国的卫星系统。

德国海军无人机制造商 EuroAtlas 的水下防御专家 Verineia Codrean 表示，贩毒集团为潜艇安装 AI 技术的成本正变得越来越低。

Codrean 女士表示：“犯罪组织正从为完全合法市场开发的技术中获益。”

“用于商业航运、离岸作业、休闲船只和机器人技术的海洋自动驾驶仪、卫星通信、导航电子设备、电池、推进系统和复合材料都在市场上销售。”

“贩毒集团不需要发明这些技术。它需要能够采购、整合并将这些技术适配到秘密船只的人员。这就是更广泛的双用途问题。”

“随着商业自主能力的提高，曾经需要昂贵专业系统才能实现的功能，现在通过商业市场变得更便宜且更容易获得。”

哥伦比亚的无人毒品走私潜艇

美国海军在圭亚那海岸拦截了一艘载有可卡因的毒品潜艇；在哥伦比亚的丛林中，Farc 游击队（见下图）看守着建造潜艇的造船厂。

Codrean 女士补充说，由于走私的可卡因数量巨大，这意味着贩毒集团即使在货物被拦截的情况下，其运营也不会受到重大干扰。

她补充道：“一艘毒品船最多可运载 4 吨可卡因，街头价值约为 2.5亿欧元 [2.12 亿英镑]，这大致相当于西班牙政府在南部地区十年打击毒品的支出。”

技术进步使得自主水下航行器（AUV）能够在无需停下来加油的情况下，远行至澳大拉西亚地区，那里的可卡因价格约为欧洲的 3.7 倍。

墨西哥的锡那罗亚贩毒集团控制着从哥伦比亚到澳大利亚和新西兰的路线，而长期竞争对手——哈利斯科新世代贩毒集团（其领导人 El Mencho 已于 2 月被安全部队枪杀）则经营从拉丁美洲进入欧洲的走私路线。

长度范围从 40 英尺到 100 英尺

西非国家几内亚比绍、塞拉利昂和毛里塔尼亚是沿大西洋航线船只的中转点。

在这里，可卡因要么被加工，要么被转移到其他船只进行后续运输，因为与直接从哥伦比亚抵达相比，这些货物较少引起欧洲海关官员的怀疑。

一旦可卡因抵达欧洲最大的港口鹿特丹或第二大港口安特卫普，就会通过意大利和巴尔干黑手党分发到欧洲大陆的其他地区。

整个跨大西洋走私行动由拉丁美洲最大的毒品帮派——第一首都指令（PCC）监管，该组织为建造更大规模的毒品潜艇提供资金。

他们与意大利卡拉布里亚黑手党（'Ndrangheta）以及阿尔巴尼亚帮派合作，管理并强制执行在欧洲的可卡因销售；据估计，'Ndrangheta 的年收入在 800亿欧元-1000亿欧元 (680亿英镑-850亿英镑) 之间。

英国国家犯罪调查局曾协助截获了一艘载有创纪录 9 吨可卡因的毒品潜艇。

斯科特兰女士表示，很难量化自主水下航行器（AUV）的普及程度，但她警告称：“目前从事毒品走私的数量可能比我们意识到的要多得多。”

“一艘毒品船最多可运送 4 吨可卡因，价值 2.12 亿英镑，相当于西班牙十年禁毒支出的总额。”该机构在 1 月份于亚速尔群岛附近表示，已意识到这一威胁并正在“密切监测”。

自 1993, 年在加勒比海哥伦比亚岛屿普罗维登西亚附近发现第一艘非法半潜水艇以来，警方和安全部队仅拦截了 351 艘毒品潜艇。

英国皇家联合服务研究所（RUSI）和海洋犯罪会议（CMCON）均警告称，实际运行的数量可能要高得多。

将可卡因隐藏在海运货物中仍然是贩毒集团将可卡因走私出南美洲最常用的方式。

虽然毒品潜艇为利用渔船走私可卡因提供了一种“积极的替代方案”，但除非渔港的安全监管被大幅加强，否则它们不会取代通过集装箱进行的走私。

以色列国防军资深将领推翻内塔尼亚胡的希望开始破灭

加迪·艾森科特（右）坚称“即使是一个谦逊的人也能取得成功”

亨利·博德金（Henry Bodkin） 耶路撒冷特派记者 发自基里亚特加特（Kiryat Gat）

身着一身黑衣，加迪·艾森科特（Gadi Eisenkot）在以色列选举集会开始前，暂时离开随行的助手团队，静心沉思了几秒钟。

艾森科特先生出身于工人阶级家庭，是一名职业军人。他摆出一副公事公办的神情，走上讲台开始演讲。

在10月27日选举前不到一个月，这位被视为推翻本雅明·内塔尼亚胡（Benjamin Netanyahu）热门人选在面对人群时深知，他在整个夏天精心维护的民调领先优势几乎已经消失殆尽。

他刻意淡化与这位资深现任者的政策分歧，转而以其作为公职人员的履历、能力和诚实作为竞选主张。从纸面上看，他拥有强有力的竞争优势。

艾森科特先生曾升任以色列国防军（IDF）总参谋长，而在以色列，选民历来青睐由将军转型的政治人物。2023年，他的儿子加尔（Gal）在加沙与以色列国防军作战时牺牲。除了赢得同情，这还赋予了艾森科特先生一种内塔尼亚胡先生所缺乏的资格，去谈论以色列的创伤——内塔尼亚胡的两个儿子在战争期间都没有履行预备役职责。

在6月份启动竞选活动时，他问道：“我们是要接受社会分裂的延续……还是选择治愈与重建？”他很快在民调中获得了领先。

在以色列的比例代表制下，没有任何单一政党能希望在议会（Knesset）中赢得多数席位。但在竞选初期，艾森科特先生看起来接近能够组建一个可以获胜的反内塔尼亚胡联盟。

然而，随着九月转入十月，领先优势似乎蒸发了。部分原因是选举的“稳定化”结果，即随着各候选人的退出或确认参选，计算结果发生了变化。尽管如此，这仍引发了反内塔尼亚胡选民对又一次“比比（Bibi）反弹”的担忧。

在基里亚特加特的集会上——这是一个位于以色列南部、此前强烈支持内塔尼亚胡领导的利库德党（Likud Party）的工人阶级城镇——现场气氛是恭敬而非兴奋。艾森科特先生长篇累牍地讲述，对于一个身材魁梧的人来说，他的手势相当细小且精准，且大部分被讲台遮挡。在被问到问题时，他勤勉地将其记录下来。事实上，整个活动弥漫着一种深刻的秩序感，仿佛这是一个管理良好的军事总部，而非一场竞选集会。

71岁的退休警察蕾切尔（Rachael）认为候选人的风格没有问题。她说：“我们不需要个人魅力。看看比比，他有很多魅力。但安全呢？零。想想10月7日。我们必须做出改变。”

75岁的农民约亚夫·科恩（Yoav Cohen）表示赞同。他说：“唯一重要的事情就是除掉比比。”

艾森科特先生的策略依赖于不冒犯任何人，提出一个令中间派和中左翼可以接受，但又足够模糊以吸引右翼选票的政纲。

相比之下，内塔尼亚胡先生可以通过其关于善与恶、安全与死亡、右翼与左翼的叙事来激励他的基本盘。在最近一段典型的挑衅性竞选视频中，他问艾森科特先生：“你想要一个犹太国家，还是想要一个巴勒斯坦国家？”

在其他视频中，利库德党利用AI将66岁的艾森科特先生描绘成与阿拉伯裔以色列政治家进行交易的形象，利用选民的心理，即他们意识到如果没有这些人的支持，“变革”多数席位将越来越难以实现。

有迹象表明，艾森科特竞选团队已开始意识到，需要为以色列提供一个积极的愿景，而不是仅仅站在一个“只要不是比比就行”的平台上。

即便如此，超过三分之一的宣传信息仍在提及10月7日——这是内塔尼亚胡先生涉嫌失职的代名词。

在基里亚特加特（Kiryat Gat），艾森科特先生的许多支持者表示，他们此前支持本尼·甘茨（Benny Gantz）。甘茨是另一位前以色列国防军总参谋长，在一段时间内，他是“只要不是比比（Bibi）”的中间派阵营的巨大希望，直到他被其宿敌在策略上击败并被对方熬赢。

如今，甘茨先生的政治生涯已处于维持生命状态。

然而，对于犹太人民政策研究所（Jewish People Policy Institute）的研究员诺亚·斯莱普科夫（Noah Slepkov）而言，强调领导素质对艾森科特先生来说是明智的政治策略。

……关于加沙的未来，他们已经不再纠结，但关于约旦河西岸则不然。他们真正厌倦的是作为领导人的内塔尼亚胡。现在想要找到还在内塔尼亚胡问题上犹豫不决的人，祝你好运。那些此前投票给利库德党（Likud）但现在将投票给艾森科特的人数将非常有限。

换句话说，那些将在10月27日背弃内塔尼亚胡先生的利库德党选民，可能在一段时间前就做出了决定，而不是因为他们听到了正义党（Yashar）领导人的任何言论。

艾森科特先生的首要任务是成为最大的政党，根据目前的趋势，正义党有望实现这一目标。

如果整体而言，反对派联盟能够勉强领先于内塔尼亚胡先生目前的执政联盟，且艾森科特先生能够说服阿拉伯政党在关于谁应担任总理的投票中保持中立，从而使他在议会（Knesset）中获得实际上的多数席位，那么他在理论上可以组建政府。

“前景不可限量，”这位前将军说道，“我已经证明，在以色列，即使是一个谦逊的人也能获得成功。”

他正追随许多其他新晋政治人物（包括一些曾被寄予极高期望的杰出军人）那充满不确定性的脚步。

“叛国”间谍首脑曾向朔尔茨寻求财务援助

作者：艾米莉·史密斯（Emily Smith）

因涉嫌从事间谍活动和叛国行为而被捕的前德国情报首脑，曾向奥拉夫·朔尔茨寻求解决其财务困难的帮助。

前联邦情报局（BND）局长奥古斯特·汉宁（August Hanning）于周二被捕，涉嫌非法向外国势力出售机密信息。汉宁被指控从前 BND 参谋长曼弗雷德·丹克斯赖特（Manfred Dankesreiter）处获取秘密文件，后者在汉宁退休后仍在该机构工作。

据披露，汉宁一直面临严重的财务困难，并向时任德国总理的朔尔茨请求援助。他的财务危机源于 PNB Banka 的破产，汉宁曾在该拉脱维亚银行的监事会任职。

汉宁以及同样担任董事的前北约秘书长安德斯·福格·拉斯穆森（Anders Fogh Rasmussen）被追究责任，被指控玩忽职守。

据《图片报》（Bild）报道——该报与《电讯报》一样，均为 Axel Springer 集团成员——2021年，该银行的破产管理人表示，正寻求向汉宁及其他八方索赔近 3200万欧元 (2700 万英镑)。

他的养老金被没收了三分之二，汉宁于 2022 年 2 月 6 日联系朔尔茨，请求其帮助解决财务状况。在一封四页长的信函中，他请求朔尔茨在访问拉脱维亚期间，就 PNB Banka 的破产问题与时任拉脱维亚总理克里什亚尼斯·卡林什（Krišjānis Kariņš）进行交涉。汉宁指责拉脱维亚当局腐败，声称该银行的前管理层在崩溃前挪用了巨额资金。他还指责当局阻挠调查。

他请求卡林什“同意对相关事件进行独立调查”，但据了解，并未开展任何调查。

在银行监事会中，汉宁负责合规事务，该职位的月薪为 €12,000。

现年 80 岁的汉宁于周二上午在靠近荷兰边境的施泰因富特县（Steinfurt county）家中被捕，并被拘留。

冲浪者称鲨鱼在咬掉其腿之前对他“眨了眨眼”

一名澳大利亚人在幸存于袭击后向女友开玩笑说：“现在我得变成个身体冲浪板玩家了”

作者：Nick Squires 罗马特派记者

一名澳大利亚冲浪者表示，一只巨大的鲨鱼在撕掉他的腿时对他“眨了眨眼”。

上个月，梅尔·伊斯梅尔（Mel Ismail）在西澳大利亚州杰拉尔顿（Geraldton）附近冲浪时与这只鲨鱼正面相遇。

他当时正在等待捕捉海浪，刚看到一群海豚，鲨鱼便突然出现并将他撞离冲浪板。

56岁的消防员伊斯梅尔先生告诉澳大利亚广播公司（ABC）：“起初，我以为是被海豚撞到了。突然间，砰的一声——有什么东西抓住了我并将我拖入水中。我知道那是只鲨鱼。”

“我看到了它的眼睛……一只巨大的黑眼睛。但它在对我眨眼——我当时正试图将手指插进它的眼睛里，在被拖走时一直顶着它的眼睛。我个人认为它对我眨了眨眼，然后咬掉了我的腿，我知道它把我的腿咬掉了。”

“当时只是一种麻木感，一种‘嘿，有什么东西不见了’的感觉。我想，‘它要回来继续咬了；我得赶紧离开这里’。”

鲨鱼不像人类那样眨眼，但某些物种可以通过一种类似于眼睑的保护膜产生类似眨眼的视觉效果。

在大量出血的情况下，伊斯梅尔先生设法抓住了他的冲浪板，并借着一个海浪向海滩靠近了约18米。

冲浪者香南·邓恩（Shannan Dunn）看到了伊斯梅尔先生，于是下水救他。他成功地将伊斯梅尔先生安全地带回岸边。邓恩先生说：“他的冲浪板在约五米远的地方，他举起了一只手臂。然后仅仅过了几秒钟，我就看到他周围全是血。他的脚从脚踝上方一点的位置丢失了。他……看起来随时可能会昏迷。”

另一名路人利用冲浪板的脚绳为伊斯梅尔先生制作了一个临时止血带。随后，路人们开车将伊斯梅尔先生沿着海滩送往救护车处。

伊斯梅尔先生的伴侣凯莉·弗利（Kylie Fleay）在杰拉尔顿当地医院工作，袭击发生时她正在接线台值班。医生告诉她，被袭击的人正是伊斯梅尔先生。

弗利女士起初认为这次袭击可能并不严重。她说：“我想，你知道，鲨鱼袭击，可能只是轻轻啃了他一口。”

然而，当她见到他时，他因失血过多而面色灰白。她说：“他说的第一句话是，‘我现在得变成个身体冲浪板玩家了’。”

“他所经历的一切并能幸存下来，这让我感到惊讶。那个混蛋没能把他吃掉。”

官员们正在分析伊斯梅尔先生冲浪板和潜水服上的DNA，以确定该鲨鱼的物种。

袭击发生仅几天后，一名男子在珀斯附近的索伦托（Sorrento）海滩游泳时被鲨鱼杀害，该地位于杰拉尔顿以南250英里处。

今年8月，一名在被鲨鱼咬伤后失去手臂的澳大利亚母亲表示，她能记得袭击中的每一秒。教师利亚·斯图尔特（Leah Stewart）在6月于悉尼晨泳时，被一只疑似12英尺长的大白鲨袭击。

这位单亲母亲受了重伤，手臂和腿部遭受了危及生命的撕咬。她被诱导进入医学昏迷状态近两周，经历了多次手术并截肢了一只手臂。

这位35岁的女性告诉《60 Minutes Australia》（60分钟澳大利亚），她记得整个痛苦的过程，在想到女儿奥古斯特（August）后，她鼓励自己努力生存。

斯图尔特女士说：“它的脸太恐怖了——我永远不会忘记它的脸。它是个怪物。它死死地咬住我的腿。”

她说，在想到年幼的女儿后，她告诉自己“我必须与它搏斗，尽一切努力活下来”。“我当时唯一想到的就是奥古斯特，我想，‘她不能没有妈妈’。I couldn’t handle that. 我不希望她没有妈妈。”

今年6月，一名35岁的男子在西澳大利亚海岸潜水捕鱼时被鲨鱼杀死；5月，一名38岁的两个孩子的父亲在珀斯附近被杀。

在柏林马拉松赛中的抄近路行为被曝光后，孙远远失去了与鞋类公司 Brooks China 的合作协议。

中国健身达人在马拉松赛中作弊被公开谴责

作者：亚历山德拉·斯诺（Alexandra Snow）

一名健身网红因在柏林马拉松赛中搭乘自行车而被取消参赛资格。

30岁的孙圆圆（Yuanyuan Sun）在这次德国赛事中的成绩为4:53:46，她声称这是她的个人最好成绩，并在终点线发布了与奖牌的合影。

然而，网上出现了一张照片，显示她在9月这场赛事的最后几公里中坐在自行车的后座上。

周三，孙女士被正式取消资格，其成绩从名单中被删除。

这位拥有超过50万社交媒体粉丝的中国网红表达了歉意，并承认自己在比赛期间“故意隐瞒”了她的“捷径”。

在中文社交媒体平台小红书（Red Note）上发布的一份声明中，孙女士写道：“在柏林马拉松期间骑自行车确实违反了比赛规则。”

“即使我在赛道上感到不适，这也不应成为我违反规则的理由。”

这位在社交媒体上以“Abeeeer”为人知的网红补充道：“这是一个极其不诚实的行为。对此我感到深深的愧疚。”

官方马拉松时间诚信部门（Official Marathon Time Integrity Unit）公布了孙女士的分段数据，数据显示她在比赛的35公里到40公里之间跑出了最快的5公里，该路段比前一个路段快了6分钟。

孙女士失去了与Brooks中国（Brooks China）的赞助协议，她在马拉松结束时穿着该品牌的跑鞋进行模特展示。

一名品牌发言人告诉《竞技》（The Athletic）：“在核实事实后，Brooks中国立即终止了与该网红的合作关系，并公开重申了品牌对诚信、公平和跑步精神的承诺。”

加拿大将排除精神疾病患者在辅助自杀范围之外

作者：本报外派记者

加拿大将不允许仅因精神健康状况而选择辅助自杀的人员实施该行为。

安大略省于2016年将临终辅助死亡合法化，2021年这一权利被扩大到患有严重且不可治愈疾病的加拿大人，即使死亡并非“可以合理预见”。最初，加拿大计划在2024年之前允许精神健康状况不佳者实施辅助死亡，但该日期被推迟了三年，政府表示希望确保已经不堪重负的精神健康体系已做好准备。

如果没有政府采取行动，仅患有精神疾病的人员本可以在3月份获得辅助自杀的机会，因为届时的排除条款将到期。

但司法部长肖恩·弗雷泽（Sean Fraser）周三告诉记者，加拿大的自由党政府计划通过一项立法，禁止仅患有精神疾病且无其他潜在医疗状况的人员进行辅助自杀。弗雷泽先生表示：“加拿大已决定不对[辅助自杀]进行扩大。”

“虽然在这个问题上还没有达成完美的共识，但我们认为这是正确的方法。”

弗雷泽先生的宣布是在一个咨询小组提出建议之后做出的，该小组在6月份敦促政府不要扩大辅助自杀的权利。

该小组对全国各社区缺乏精神健康支持表示担忧，并指出那些遭受痛苦的患者可能会因为无法获得护理而选择死亡。

该委员会还强调了精神健康专家之间关于精神疾病是否能被视为“不可治愈”的争论。

大多数加拿大人支持辅助自杀的权利，但在最近几个月，一些医疗专业人士呼吁对该政策进行审查，包括患者如何获得结束生命的批准。

在英国，一项旨在为生存期不足六个月的人员将辅助死亡合法化的辅助死亡法案，在上个月因安迪·伯纳姆（Andy Burnham）的关键盟友在投票中弃权而未能通过下议院。

首相表示，他对该问题有“自己的个人看法”，但这应该是“由议会决定的事项”。

绝望的特朗普正全力防止其德克萨斯堡垒崩塌

康纳·斯特林格 (Connor Stringer) 首席华盛顿特派员

有几件事会让唐纳德·特朗普感到担忧。但失去作为共和党无可争议的“造王者”地位的前景，无疑是其中之一。

这种恐惧在德克萨斯州表现得最为明显。

在过去的四周里，这位美国总统先后三次前往该州，全力支持他亲手挑选的美国参议院候选人肯·帕克斯顿 (Ken Paxton)。

这场竞选曾是共和党几乎无需担心会输的比赛。但由于伊朗持续的战争导致柴油价格飙升，引发了如此强烈的政治逆风，以至于在今年的中期选举中，德克萨斯州出乎意料地成为了共和党的战场。政府内部的恐慌情绪正在上升。

民调显示，这种担忧是有理由的。

在最新的福克斯新闻 (Fox News) 民调中，获得总统背书的该州现任总检察长帕克斯顿先生，落后于其民主党对手詹姆斯·塔拉里科 (James Talarico) 两个百分点。

失去这个州曾经是不可想象的。自1988年民主党人劳埃德·本森 (Lloyd Bentsen) 赢得连任以来，共和党在德克萨斯州的美国参议院选举中从未失利。

在随后的几十年里，德克萨斯州一直是共和党权力的支柱之一，为该党提供了总统候选人、巨额资金支持以及可靠的选举人票来源。

这本该是一场共和党无需犹豫就能获胜的比赛。

然而，距离11月3日选民投票仅剩25天，而“塔拉怪胎” (TalaFREAKo) 已经失踪了12天！12天的时间足以摆脱所谓的流感病毒了。

特朗普发现自己不得不一次次回到该州以集结支持。

即使是极少承认政治脆弱性的他，也承认德克萨斯州让他感到担忧。

他在10月1日的一次集会上告诉支持者：“我们担心密歇根州，我们担心德克萨斯州，我们担心几个州，但这涉及到大约35场不同的竞争。不是州，而是竞争。”

赌注之高无法估量。失去德克萨斯州不仅会让共和党陷入政治尴尬，而且在他在该州总统选举中以近14个百分点的优势大获全胜两年后，这将使美国民众对特朗普先生的认可度受到质疑。

特朗普先生决心在今年秋天维持共和党在国会中微弱的多数席位，以避免重复他第一任总统期的经历——当时民主党在中期选举中赢得了众议院的控制权，并随后两次弹劾他。

目前，共和党持有53个席位，民主党持有47个席位。

民主党需要净增加四个席位才能控制参议院，这将使特朗普先生在任期的最后两年陷入困境，并使其在国会几乎失去权力。

这种焦虑在总统的 Truth Social 帖子中显而易见。本周，他呼吁帕克斯顿先生与塔拉里科先生进行一场辩论——而这正是后者一直试图避免的——希望能以此影响选民。昨天，在塔拉里科先生的流感检测呈阳性后，特朗普先生质疑其胜任该职位的能力。

他在 Truth Social 上写道：“塔拉怪胎 (TalaFREAKo) 已经失踪12天了！现在，在搜遍了整个德克萨斯州及其以外地区，甚至在一些人们认为不可能的更奇怪的地方寻找他之后，他发表了一份声明说他得了‘流感’。12天的时间足以摆脱所谓的流感病毒了。”

“怎么回事？我们需要一位经过验证的冠军参议员，就像那位毫无疑问是德克萨斯州历史上最伟大的总检察长，也是美国最伟大的总检察长之一的人。他的名字叫肯·帕克斯顿，他绝不会让你失望！”

其他共和党人的攻击点则在声称塔拉里科先生是纯素食主义者——事实并非如此——并称他为“豆腐塔拉里科”。同时，他们还指出帕克斯顿先生食用肉类的数量之多。

很明显，总统正花费宝贵的时间试图阻止德克萨斯堡垒的崩溃。

如果他失败了，这将成为共和党历史上最大的政治挫败之一。而他只能责怪他自己。

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猫并不能让你快乐，它们天生就是为了让你受苦

汉娜·贝茨 (HANNAH BETTS)

人们常根据一个人的外貌地构思出无数种理论。作为一个带有“女巫气质”的棕发女性，人们假设我出身于一对闹得不可开交的离婚父母，滥用药物且极其放荡——但遗憾的是，我其实乏味得令人惋惜。

另一个经常被人们得出的结论是我是个“猫奴”。这同样是一个误解：因为我骨子里是个“狗派”。我不仅对猫过敏，而且我也不是个受虐狂。

因为猫并不能让你快乐，它们只会让你受苦——在漫长的岁月中，以一种轻盈且漫不经心的专业手段让你受苦。

因此，一项针对 93 个国家的研究将较高的猫群数量与人类更高的幸福感联系起来，这简直不可思议。这一定是相关性而非因果关系。事实上，该研究的作者们——显然是养猫人士——也提出，这种关系可能反映了更高的可支配收入导致了宠物的购买，而非源于对猫的喜爱所带来的任何快乐。

只有最愚蠢的人才会想象，一只小猫能产生快感。

我的父母不仅生了五个孩子，还建立了一个由五只猫、狗、兔子、豚鼠、沙鼠组成的家庭——你懂我的意思。贾斯珀 (Jasper)、哥布林-赫敏 (Goblin-Hermione)、斯诺伊 (Snowy)、托皮·布兰福德 (Toppy Blandford)、尼科迪姆斯 (Nicodemus)，还有——等等！——还有另一只，它如此行踪诡秘，以至于人们只能偶尔瞥见一条尾巴的残影。在核心五人组中，我最喜欢哥布林，因为她是个异常 affectionate（亲人）的小家伙，因此被她的同类所排斥。

其他的猫仅仅是容忍我们的存在，有些比其他的更不情愿。贾斯珀会利用外貌来诱骗人类，然后将爪子深深地刺入肉中。托皮·B 保持着一种傲慢的距离感。即使是美丽的斯诺伊——习惯于睡在我的胸口，在发出剧烈的呼噜声（让我的肋骨都随之共振）的同时有节奏地踩我的脸——也会消失很长一段时间，

返回之时，通常是因为 Whiskas 猫粮的诱惑。

猫并不恨我们；恨我们意味着它们愿意屈尊地思考关于我们的事情，而它们的态度其实是高高在上的冷漠。

狗则以一种绝望且热烈的需求来崇拜我们。人类与犬类共同进化，我们的物种共享了大约 41,000 年的深厚历史。

狗保护我们，解读我们的语言并洞察我们的每一种情绪，而我们则共同提升彼此的催产素（ bonding-hormone，社交激素）水平。当我生病时，我的惠比特犬像格雷弗赖尔斯的波比 (Greyfriars Bobby) 一样热切地守护在我身边，沿着我的身体伸展以温暖我。

——而猫在氛围上则完全相反：它们是独行猎手，在短暂的 10,000 年前为了自身利益而驯化，但并未因此在基因上被重塑，也没有以任何方式适应。生物学家将这种关系称为“共生”关系：一个生物获益，而另一个生物不受伤害。

考虑到捕鼠猫喜欢戏弄、折磨且通常会抓出血的倾向，我不认同这种分类。在各种形状和大小的野兽陪伴下长大，我身上引以为傲的伤疤全部来自猫。与此同时，我们曾给我们的牛头梗画上条纹，并要求它跳过火焰环。

我对朋友养的一只虎斑猫娜米 (Nami) 抱有极大的尊重。然而，她对待我的态度涉及某种心理折磨——如果这种折磨是由另一个人类施加的——那么大赦国际 (Amnesty International) 早就介入了。生活要求人们选择一边，而我坚定地支持犬类。

成为我那些母狗的“奴仆”，不仅能带来快乐，而且在生命、肢体和精神健康方面都更安全。

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你不能在赞美杰弗里·阿彻的同时，挑战改革英国党的投机行为

巴德诺克表示保守党内没有骗子的位置，但随后却赞扬了这位名声扫地的贵族

多米尼克·劳森

杰弗里·阿彻（Jeffrey Archer）真的离开我们了吗？我不禁在想，这位惯于策划阴谋的人是否甚至伪造了自己的死亡，以便能够阅读自己的讣告。他会对近日发表的许多赞美之词感到欣喜。卡米拉王后对他表达了个人致敬，称其“通过作品的篇章，给我以及数百万读者带来了快乐”。

确实如此。女王陛下谨慎地指出，“他并非没有缺陷”。在许多领先的保守党政治人物的致敬词中，并没有出现这样（温和的）平衡措辞，而我一直很尊重这些人的品格，例如杰里米·亨特爵士（Sir Jeremy Hunt）和罗伯特·巴克兰爵士（Sir Robert Buckland）——后者甚至曾任司法大臣。

我感到震惊，但本不该如此。阿彻拥有交友的天赋——结合上魅力，这是所有政治武器中最致命的一种。幸运的是，我的父亲早早地警告过我。

当我进入新闻业时，他告诉我小心阿彻，并使用了一个如今看来遗憾地过时的词汇：“他不是一个绅士。”

这发生在1987年关于他向妓女莫妮卡·科格伦（Monica Coghlan）支付款项的诽谤诉讼之前数年。在那场诉讼中，阿彻通过一场令人震惊的伪证和虚假证据阴谋，赢得了针对《每日之星》（Daily Star）和《世界新闻》（News of the World）的官司。而真相的揭露导致阿彻在2001年被判处四年监禁。然而，任何读过迈克尔·克里克（Michael Crick）1995年传记《比小说更离奇》（Stranger than Fiction）的人，都会好奇他的传主为何没有更早地遭遇这种命运。

这不仅仅是因为他对学术简历进行了离奇的造假，使得一个仅有三个O-level成绩的年轻人竟然能通过欺骗进入牛津大学。

几乎在进入大学后，他就开始为乐施会（Oxfam）筹款；随后他购置了两处房产，一处在牛津，另一处在他的家乡韦斯顿-超级马尔（Weston-super-Mare）。

正如克里克报道的那样：“人们自然会对一个学生如何能负担得起这些感到困惑。阿彻告诉一位朋友，这是他为乐施会筹款而获得的佣金，但前乐施会官员坚称该慈善机构从未向人员支付过佣金。”然而，他们对一个事实感到莫名其妙：该机构在市内的2,000个募捐箱神秘失踪了。

几年后，当阿彻被选为劳斯（Louth）选区的保守党议员候选人时，部分原因是他帮助另一个慈善机构——联合国协会（United Nations Association）筹集了巨额资金。与此同时，该协会主席、前保守党议员汉弗莱·伯克利（Humphry Berkeley）发现阿彻通过虚构费用报销从该机构贪污了数千英镑，并警告党内，其拟定的候选人是个骗子。

阿彻通过起诉伯克利诽谤来化解此事。而且与乐施会一样，联合国协会不想让公众关注其筹款运作中的丑闻。随后，29岁的阿彻平安进入威斯敏斯特，悄悄撤回了诽谤诉讼，并支付了自己和伯克利的诉讼费用，金额高达他议员薪水的10倍。

我重复这些内容，部分是为了反驳那种认为阿彻的慈善筹款在某种程度上能洗清其品格低劣指控的说法，部分是为了证明他根本不应该被允许成为保守党议员，更不用说成为其副主席（这是玛格丽特·撒切尔在真正的绅士威利·怀特劳（Willie Whitelaw）强烈反对的情况下做出的决定），或者成为伦敦市长候选人。

那场竞选在其中一名被阿彻收买的人揭露真相后彻底崩溃，此前阿彻为了在针对莫妮卡·科格伦事件的诽谤诉讼中获得虚假不在场证明，曾向多人支付费用。尽管阿彻在2001年被定罪，波茨大法官称其行为是“在我经历过的所有伪证行为中最严重的一次”，但这同时也是一场诈骗：阿彻从报道了真相的报社那里获得了相当于如今180 万英镑m的诽谤赔偿金。

在阿彻被判刑的那一周，我派遣了《星期日电讯报》最优秀的记者——已故的奥尔加·克雷格去采访吉尔·特纳。吉尔是《每日之星》前编辑劳埃德·特纳的遗孀；劳埃德在阿彻的伪证得逞后被解雇，并在九年后以57岁之龄去世。

她告诉奥尔加：“在劳埃德和他创办的报纸输掉诽谤诉讼并被解雇后，他的职业生涯再也没能真正恢复。阿彻从高等法院跳了出来，看似洗清了嫌疑。而我的丈夫，一个深知阿彻所有谎言的人，却成了一个心碎的人，名誉扫地。”

阿彻从未表现出丝毫的悔意。这一点从他的《监狱日记》中可见一斑，尽管该日记以其独特的方式吸引读者，但同时也传达出

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阿彻从未表现出丝毫的悔意。这一点从他的《监狱日记》中可见一斑

阿彻认为整件事是对他的一种深重不公。2014, 在推广他的最新小说时，阿彻将波茨法官的量刑评语描述为“荒谬的。在每个法院里，每天都有人在伪证”。我当时写道，他竟然无法区分自己的所作所为与那些在审判中申辩清白的普通罪犯之间的区别，这真是奇怪。

自从1992年约翰·梅杰无视良好建议并封他为保守党贵族以来，他一直被称为韦斯顿-超级马尔的阿彻勋爵。他在议院的处女演说以罗比·伯恩斯的诗句结尾：“王子与勋爵不过是君王的呼吸。诚实之人才是上帝最崇高的杰作。”没错，他真的这么说了。

出狱后，一如既往厚颜无耻的阿彻回到了议院，这令上议院的许多人（尤其是我的父亲）感到惊愕。此后直到阿彻在2024, 7月自愿辞去议员职务，每一任保守党党魁都拒绝恢复他的党鞭资格。正因如此，凯米·巴德诺克在周三备受赞誉的保守党会议演讲中，对阿彻发表毫无保留的赞美（称其为“保守党以及我的挚友”），就显得更加古怪了。

在随后的段落中，她猛烈抨击了改革英国党（Reform UK）的投机行径：“警方不仅在调查罗伯特·詹里克的捐款，还在调查理查德·泰斯的公司……就在你认为改革英国党不可能更离谱的时候，出现了一个自称‘时髦乔治’并管奈杰尔·法拉奇叫‘爸爸’的被定罪诈骗犯……人们理应得到更好的对待，而我们将给他们更好的对待。人格、行为和标准至关重要。”

说得太对了，凯米。但请不要随后要求党内为杰弗里·阿彻的记忆鼓掌。

凯米让我为身为英国人而感到自豪

谢瑞尔·雅各布斯 (SHERELLE JACOBS)

“闭嘴。你是英国人。就这么简单。”我的母亲苏珊不是那种会被时事搞得心烦意乱的人。自特蕾莎·梅时代以来，她已将那种冷漠的厌烦感提升到了一种艺术高度。自从保守党浪费了脱欧机会以来，我就没见她对着报纸发过火。

但当出生在哈罗的苏埃拉·布拉弗曼在《质疑时间》（Question Time）节目中宣称“当然，我不是英国人”时，我母亲气炸了。上周末，当我们沮丧地在她的厨房桌旁讨论最新的文化战争纷争时，我的母亲——一位拥有可追溯至至少 1722 年的黑乡（Black Country）血统的白人英国女性——一边拍着橱柜，一边摔着餐具。

当她看到我哥哥露出不确定的眼神时，她的眼睛眯了起来。

“你觉得自己是英国人吗？”他沉思道。一阵沉默。我母亲不买账。“你当然是英国人。”

“爸爸来自尼日利亚。”妈妈嗤之以鼻。“他在这里住了 50 年。而且你和尼日利亚到底有什么具体联系？你从未在那里生活过。我们为什么还要讨论这个？就好像这个国家没有更严肃的事情需要处理一样。”在雅各布斯家中，此案结案。当然，我的兄弟姐妹和我都是英国人。

当凯米·巴德诺克在演讲中说，她不想生活在一个由那些争论她的混血孩子是否是英国人的人们所治理的国家时，我起了一身鸡皮疙瘩。

右翼的一些人称这是有史以来从政党领袖那里看到的最高效的反种族主义干预。另一些人则指责巴德诺克是对 Reform 进行 DEI 风格的攻击。作为一个混血儿，我确实感到敬畏。打动我的是她那种绝对的确定感。那种决绝。那种纯粹的母亲般的愤怒。我看到了一个领导者。但我也看到了我的母亲。

另一种奇怪的感觉在心中翻涌。那是宽慰，甚至是感激。巴德诺克，这位文化战争女王，承担起了划定底线的责任。因为事实上，直到现在，我一直犹豫是否称自己为英国人。英国公民（British）？当然。半个英国人？表面上准确。英国人（English）？嗯……

我一直认为，你必须是白人才能成为英国人。当操场上的白人孩子睿智地宣布我是“混血儿”（half-caste）时，我顺从地接受了这个称呼。回想起来，最愚蠢的事情触发了我对自己英国身份的怀疑。比如青少年时期在 Boots 药店买不到合适的粉底液。我对理发店座椅的恐惧超过了对牙医椅的恐惧。有些人梦见老鼠；而我则反复做噩梦，梦见长着獠牙、挥舞着刷子的理发师。

这些年来，“感觉不完全像英国人”并没有占据我太多的心思。我耸耸肩，像穿着一件不太合身的制服一样，带着这个“半个英国人”的标签。但自从巴德诺克和布拉弗曼的干预之后，我觉得必须对此进行更多思考。

我能理解争论的双方。布拉弗曼不愿称自己为英国人并非没有根据。族群意义上的英国身份（Ethnic Englishness）并非种族主义的虚构，而是一个真实的、官方认可的分类。历史学家将英国族群身份追溯到盎格鲁-撒克逊时期。官方统计数据将英国身份视为具有族群维度。在个人层面上，我可以理解她对身份认同的犹豫。

但综合来看，在这件事上，我支持巴德诺克——以及我的母亲。

我已经决定了：够了。我是英国人。我出生在英格兰。我热爱英格兰。在某些人看来我可能不像英国人，但我每天都在践行英国人的生活方式。当我闭上眼睛想到我们的国家时，脑海中浮现的是那些细小且转瞬即逝的事物。冰淇淋车的叮当声，购物袋区域传来的“检测到意外物品”提示音，浸满醋的炸薯条，以及那些以冷淡观察形式表达的毁灭性侮辱（比如“你可一点也不害羞”）。

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对于那些坚持认为我不是英国人的人，我最强有力的回应是基于逻辑而非情感。指出存在一个英格兰族群是一回事，但声称必须拥有英格兰血统才能成为英国人则是另一回事。族群与国家是两回事，前者并不自动拥有后者的排他性权利。

诚然，许多人担心大规模移民会威胁到。2024年出生的婴儿中，有40%的父母中至少有一方出生在英国境外。但深陷于探讨血统纯洁性的死胡同究竟有什么帮助？那些自称对当前趋势感到焦虑的政治家，理应将他们的智力精力集中在能够真正影响移民流向的政策上。

争论是否需要四代或五代的祖先才能达标，纯粹是在浪费时间。

对于右翼人士来说，纠结于家谱是愚蠢且适得其反的。如果移民或其后代觉得他们永远无法获得归属感，那么他们融入社会的动力可能会降低。

我们正面临失去某种基本共识的危险。有时，理智的做法是停止纠缠于一场争论，直接将其搁置。或者更直白地说：我就是。接受吧。然后让我们继续前行。

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与衰落的欧洲结盟并非万灵药

自由是英国脱欧后最伟大的资产。在一个分裂为竞争阵营、且在未来产业中争夺霸权的世界里，快速行动和独立思考的能力至关重要。而欧盟僵化的官僚体制恰恰与之背道而驰。

安迪·伯纳姆似乎对此毫无察觉。在伯纳姆先生看来，似乎几乎所有问题的答案都是“更多地依赖欧洲”。

昨天，首相在德国会见了总理弗里德里希·梅尔茨，为11月的英欧峰会做准备。据报道，他们讨论了让英国与欧盟针对中国电动汽车采取的高关税制度保持一致，作为回报，英国工业或许能获得更多进入欧盟国防贷款和工业补贴的机会。伯纳姆先生可能认为这是一笔好交易。但事实并非如此。

中国的工业剧本现在已为人所知。北京确定一个战略部门，然后投入国家资金，其规模之大，几乎没有哪个市场主导的经济体能够企及。在建立起巨大的产能后，它随后以当地工业无法企及的价格，向竞争市场倾销极具吸引力的商品。从太阳能电池板到稀土磁铁，这种模式一次又一次地出现。

鉴于中国电动汽车在欧洲和英国的销量激增，一些人得出结论，认为北京正试图在该领域采取同样的操作。这将摧毁欧洲的汽车工业。但将英国与欧盟绑定，对柏林的益处远大于伦敦。

德国的逻辑很明显：它希望通过高关税来保护其备受推崇的制造商。然而，汽车工业的危机在很大程度上是自找的。它曾重注柴油车，随后又因排放丑闻使错误加剧。它在拥抱电动化方面反应迟缓，而繁琐的欧洲监管和高昂的劳动力成本使情况进一步恶化。

英国驾驶员将为这种结盟买单。对于许多原本被排除在市场之外的人来说，廉价的中国汽车是负担得起的。而且可以说，这些汽车的环境成本更低。提高关税以保护欧洲工厂将增加英国的出行成本。而我们自身利益不同的工业界几乎无法从中获益。伯纳姆先生真的准备让英国家庭支付更多费用，以保护德国的就业岗位吗？

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福利制度的目的应该是帮助人们重返工作岗位。然而，我们的制度往往适得其反。它将人们定性为病患，支付报酬让他们留在家里，并花费巨额资金，却几乎没有采取任何措施帮助他们重返工作。如今，在既不在教育、培训也不在就业状态的年轻人中，几乎有一半的人报告被诊断出患有心理健康或神经发育疾病。

在多动症（ADHD）和自闭症诊断数量的惊人增长中，我们制度的反向激励机制表现得最为明显。目前，近 270,000 人以自闭症为主要病情申请残疾福利，这一数字是 2019 年的三倍多。而以 ADHD 为由申请的人数增长了四倍多。年轻人中的增长情况尤为显著。

由彼得·福纳吉（Peter Fonagy）教授领导、政府委托并于今日发布的里程碑式审查报告，对原因进行了异常坦诚的分析。福纳吉教授指出，我们的福利制度通过将评估与“教育支持、职场调整、福利补贴、社会护理和专业服务”挂钩，鼓励人们“强调缺陷”。

新冠疫情期间的封锁给英国青年带来了沉重打击。但目前的应对方式是建立一个鼓励他们自我病理化的福利制度，而不是鼓励他们通过努力工作获得良好回报。正如报告所指出的，让人们进入工作状态“可以帮助人们康复”。然而，我们的制度太经常将诊断视为进入不活跃生活的入口，而非康复的第一步。

其影响远超个体案例。劳动年龄人口的疾病和残疾福利总支出目前为 580亿英镑，预计到 2030. 年将上升到令人瞠目的 780亿英镑。正如福纳吉教授所言，“维持现状是不可持续的”。

抛弃文化

刚刚在肯特郡清理的一个非法垃圾填埋场的规模令人震惊。在阿什福德西部的霍兹伍德（Hoad's Wood），清理 40,000 吨废弃物的费用超过了 1500 万英镑。灰色碎屑散发出的气味令人作呕，其渗出液威胁到了博尔特河（River Beult）。这一切都是由犯罪倾倒者在 2023. 年堆积而成的。就像淘金者一样，他们快速赚钱后便消失不见，留下了巨大的废料堆。自 20 世纪初上埃及的奥克休林库斯（Oxyrhynchus） 2,000 年前的垃圾堆开始被挖掘以来，人们在那里发现了大量的商业文档，以及早已失传的剧本和诗歌片段。但未来的英国乡村考古学家们将发现一种显然建立在饮料容器、石膏板和湿纸巾之上的文化。

凯米·巴德诺克对改革英国党的态度恐进一步疏远前保守党支持者

先生——正如您所指出的（10月8日社论），凯米·巴德诺克的民调支持率上升速度快于她的政党。然而，前保守党选民心中的不信任感和被背叛感需要更长的时间才能愈合。

我建议巴德诺克女士停止对奈杰尔·法拉奇和改革英国党（Reform UK）的贬低。我喜欢法拉奇先生，并认为他一直是这个国家的积极力量。巴德诺克女士将他及其政党称为“那个”组织，这侮辱了像我这样的潜在选民。

这还让我想起在火车上与一位资深保守党议员的一次对话。当时对方流露出一种傲慢的特权感。为了这个国家的利益，右翼需要团结起来。 霍华德·M·托尔曼 萨福克郡，格雷特科纳德

先生——在凯米·巴德诺克发表关于改革英国党的言论后，她应当明智地记住大卫·卡梅伦最终的结局，他曾轻蔑地将英国独立党（Ukip）的支持者称为“疯子”和“精神病”。 苏·皮尔特 伦敦 SW18

先生——随着政党会议季的结束，未来大选的战线已变得更加清晰。安迪·伯纳姆比他的前任更擅长沟通，但他避开了英国面临的主要问题：移民、高昂的能源成本、武装部队的糟糕状态、失控的福利支出以及令人瞠目的税收水平。

伯纳姆先生更倾向于追忆20世纪70年代，并通过希望重新加入欧盟和改变选举制度来无视两次全民公投的结果。他的计划缺乏细节。

小册子《正确之路》为伯纳姆先生的国家主义方法提供了一个清晰的替代方案。下一次选举将是50年来首次在社会主义教条与对私营企业价值、爱国主义和勤奋工作的信念之间提供真正的选择。 艾伦·劳 伯克希尔郡，斯特雷特利

与此同时，凯米·巴德诺克和保守党正在做工党在反对党时期未能做到的事情：回归基本原则，分析国家的弊端并研究如何解决。巴德诺克的

先生——作为一个不情愿的保守党成员（我忘了取消订阅），我开始考虑投票给改革英国党。幸运的是，我们现在有了一位像我一样相信奖励勤奋并拒绝嫉妒政治的领导人。我没有很多钱，但我为我拥有的一切（包括我的房子）付出了艰苦的努力。我有几个非常富有的朋友。我嫉妒他们吗？不：我对自己的现状相当满意。我现在只需要凯米·巴德诺克成为首相并整顿国民医疗服务体系（NHS）。 珍妮特·米利肯 肯特郡，费拉斯泰纳

遗产税的影响

先生——关于遗产税（IHT）经常被引用的一项统计数据是，只有约4%的死亡案例会导致缴纳该税款。但这并未反映全貌（见10月8日报道《巴德诺克承诺减税，称勤奋工作者必须获得回报》）。

我和妻子年事已高，预计根据现行规则，我们的遗产很快将在某个时间点被征收遗产税。但我们不会支付一分钱。我们的两个孩子、他们的妻子以及我们的4个孙辈实际上将为此买单。

受遗产税影响的人数几乎总是被低估。 约翰·西蒙兹

国防优先级

先生——关于导弹和无人机防御需求的讨论中存在大量谬论（见10月6日报道）。

赫钦，赫特福德郡

英国处于欧洲北约的最西端，任何来自俄罗斯或伊朗的弹道导弹都必须先飞越其他成员国。

至于无人机，新的威胁似乎是由代表国家行事的实体发射的短程弹出式无人机。一个统筹的防御系统并非答案。

这两类威胁都不需要对反导弹能力进行巨额投资。

结节话题：冰岛雷克雅未克一家男装店侧墙上的壁画

如果俄罗斯或伊朗开始向我们发射弹道导弹，我们将处于战争状态，并承担随之而来的一切。针对此类导弹的城市防御极其困难，且会对核威慑产生影响。

有更重要的领域需要优先增加国防支出。两大政党在这一问题上都陷入了混乱。 斯皮特黑德的西斯特勋爵海军上将（工党） 伦敦 SW1

喜爱领带的聪明年轻人

对农民的欠债

先生——对于我们经常认为理所当然的事情，英国欠农业社区太多。

其中之一就是乡村本身。这些工人帮助维持乡村现状，他们经常在自杀率较高的行业中孤立地工作。这是一个存在许多健康与安全风险、没有假期且仅能维持生计的行业。

在10月12日，全国农民日，让我们一起向这些卓越的人们表示感谢。

先生——我可以确认，领带在年轻人中正在回归（“衣领下的热潮：领带重回时尚”，新闻，10月6日）。

大多数毕业生的学校舞会都要求男性必须佩戴领带，这让他们开始思考。我的青少年朋友们总是来我这里挑选领带（我有98条），其中一些人在那之后继续佩戴领带。

一位年轻朋友接手了一些我打算丢弃的领带，并说服他的朋友在舞会后的几周内在大学里佩戴它们。他们现在已经上了大学：我对他们的“领带传教”寄予厚望。 麦克·肖 西萨塞克斯郡，戈灵-拜-希

先生——你们的报道称领带重回时尚。真的吗？我目前在摩洛哥附近的一艘 Saga 邮轮上，船上有近 1,000 名乘客。每晚在主餐厅里，我都自豪地佩戴领带。但我几乎是唯一一个这么做的人。

菲利普·莫格 西萨塞克斯郡，东普雷斯顿

无论如何，请限制或废除该税项，但不要以一种会产生巨大负面后果的方式进行微调。 奈杰尔·考恩 西萨塞克斯郡，塞克姆

先生——英国房地产市场面临的一个问题是，由于涉及的成本，老年人不愿缩小住房规模（downsize）。如果保守党废除家庭住宅的遗产税（见10月7日报道），缩小住房规模的动力将几乎消失，因为释放的任何资金都可能产生额外的税收责任。

连贯的护理

先生 —— 7月4日深夜，我出现了一些症状，虽然可能是消化不良引起的，但感觉更为严重。我联系了111服务，一名临床医生说服我前往伯顿女王医院（Queen's Hospital Burton）的急诊科（A&E）。我的妻子苏开车送我，我们加入了排队队列。我很快得到了评估，进行了心电图检查，并被移至一台推车上，以便接受观察并连接到监护仪。

随后我们被救护车送往德比皇家医院（Royal Derby Hospital），我在那里植入了两个支架。我想这项手术在凌晨3点前就完成了，距离我们从家中出发仅过了五个小时。接下来的三天里，我接受了各项检查和监测，直到7月7日出院，并获得了关于康复方案的详细信息。

在几分钟之内，我发生了心脏骤停。我被抢救了回来，并意识到周围发生了混乱。为了给工作人员留出操作空间，苏被迅速带离，但全程都有人陪同。工作人员明白这件事对她来说是多么沉重的打击，并做出了完美的应对。

此后我有两次出现令我担忧的症状。我的全科医生诊所处理了一次，女王医院处理了另一次（发生在夜间）。目前，我正在女王医院进行心脏康复健身课程，进度已过半。这些课程非常有用，让我知道在康复过程中可以将自己推向怎样的极限。工作人员如此开朗且热情，以至于我每次离开时心态都非常积极。

在极化的时代，BBC 是一股向善的力量

白金汉郡，艾尔斯伯里

季节的迹象

先生——我通过我的四只陆龟来追踪季节的变化。

当秋天临近时（Letters, October 7），它们的食量会减少，并开始进入室内，在 Aga 炉旁过夜。

那时我就知道，该把娇嫩的植物移进室内并点燃壁炉了。 亚历山德拉·埃莱特森 (Alexandra Elletson) 威尔特郡，马尔堡

先生——秋天的一个家庭迷信是尝试在落叶触地之前将其接住；成功则保证来年好运。

今年我也尝试这样做，尽管引起了同行遛狗者的担忧目光，但我尚未成功。 加里·里德 (Gary Read) 格拉摩根，布兰莱肖

先生——亨利·贝特森 (Henry Bateson)（Letters, October 5）在回复我时声称 BBC 已经过时。我认为其存在的理由比以往任何时候都更充分。

我们的算法时代正让我们变得原子化和极化。BBC 强化了共同的文化认同，并为真相提供了平台。我看向美国那个高度党派化、碎片化且由广告驱动的媒体生态系统，我不确定那是我想选择的替代方案。

改革电视执照费模式是受欢迎的；但彻底取消这个机构则过于极端。 哈里·罗杰斯 (Harry Rogers) 伦敦 SW11

先生——由于曾在非洲生活，我对由大卫·奥卢索加 (David Olusoga) 主持的 BBC 2 节目《寻找英国的奴隶贸易商》很感兴趣。遗憾的是，我觉得该节目太令人痛苦且荒谬，以至于无法看完。我发现伊丽莎白一世女王曾投资于奴隶贸易，而且从 1600. 年起大约 200 年间，国内几乎每个人都参与其中。奥卢索加先生的“专家”们挖掘出了数百名参与这项可怕贸易的商人之名，虽然节目中也提到了其他欧洲国家，但重点却放在了邪恶的英国人身上。

这根本不是历史课，而是一篇带有偏见的政论。是否会有另一个节目讲述我们在全球范围内反对奴隶制的立场？讲述为了终结这项贸易，我国付出了多少金钱和生命的代价？

BBC 已经从自由、教育和公正的声音，变成了左翼人士和那些仇视我们文化之人的传声筒。我想申请退还执照费。 布莱恩·法默 (Brian Farmer) 卡马森

我很感激能在一个拥有连贯计划且由敬业且训练有素的人员组成的系统中接受照顾。在每一步，我都对自己的情况、正在进行的治疗和测试及其结果得到了充分的告知。

我觉得我正处于康复之路上。感谢迄今为止帮助过我的每一个人。我非常幸运。

奥利弗·泰森 (Oliver Tyson) 莱斯特郡，阿什比-德-拉-祖什

豌豆采摘专家

先生——我们已故的黑色拉布拉多犬杰西 (Jessie) 曾是一位豌豆采摘专家（Letters, October 7）。她会悄悄地在行间穿行，避开我父亲的视线，用牙齿偷偷地将作物从植株上摘下，身后留下一串空豆荚。 萨姆·肯德尔-马斯登 (Sam Kendall-Marsden) 亨廷顿

鲁比奥揭露了欧盟是多么不严肃

美国国务卿向这个摇摇欲坠的欧洲集团发出警示，完全正确

大卫·弗罗斯特 (DAVID FROST)

对比本周的两起事件。美国国务卿马可·鲁比奥在卫城前发表讲话，呼吁“重新发现”西方精神，并敦促欧洲“从长久的沉睡中觉醒，重新点燃数千年前在这里点燃的火焰”。

同一天，一座8英尺高、全身赤裸、覆盖金箔、名为“橙色瘟疫”的唐纳德·特朗普雕像在斯特拉斯堡的欧洲议会大厦展出。

这在某种程度上概括了美国与欧洲大部分地区的差异。一方至少在修辞上理解是什么让我们的文明获得成功，并希望使其复兴。而另一方则更倾向于玩游戏，而非面对现实。

这就是为什么欧盟发现自己很难应对目前面临的政治陷阱。其选民正在向右转，但其领导层和机构却决心不承认这一点。如果他们继续将新右翼排除在权力之外，欧洲的治理将变得更加遥远，民主程度更低。然而，反其道而行之则会让系统承受压力。本周的情况说明了这些困难。在法国，抗议活动已演变为暴力冲突。债券市场已将准星对准巴黎，借贷成本激增，且与德国的利差达到了欧元区危机以来的最大水平。考虑到玛丽娜·勒庞与让-吕克·梅朗雄之间可能进行第二轮投票，这并不令人惊讶，后者对法国债务大山的回答是：“拿走它，然后烧掉”。在德国，所谓的针对 AfD 的“防火墙”开始出现裂痕。本周在萨克森-安哈尔特州，AfD 赢得了州议会议长的职位，或许很快也将在那里执政。在西班牙，我们看到了来自一群在经济上毫无常识且文盲的左翼的大规模示威。首相桑切斯对提前大选的赌注可能最终会产生反作用。

意大利和波兰已经由右翼执政。虽然像匈牙利这样有例外，但发展方向是不言而喻的。欧洲正在向右转。

新欧洲右翼所主张的许多观点在 70 和 80 年代并不会显得突兀：相对倾向于国家主义、支持民族企业、社会保守。新颖之处在于它在当今新议题上态度更强硬：移民、欧洲身份和文明——正是鲁比奥所谈论的主题——这基于一种真实的担忧，即欧洲社会正在被侵蚀。

欧洲的反应不是参与这些论点的讨论，而是试图将其扼杀。德国的“防火墙”揭示了问题所在。它一直向外界传递出德国精英不信任其选民的信号。现在，这完全产生了反作用。通过强迫主流右翼无休止地与左翼组成联盟，它让那些想要右翼政府的选民几乎别无选择，只能投票给 AfD。布鲁塞尔在整个欧洲大陆规模上也在做同样的事情。它在欧洲议会中排挤右翼。它像 40 年前那样讨论预算。它在监管改革方面没有取得实质性进展。它不面对能源成本问题。相反，它痴迷于“虚假信息”和“俄罗斯恶意行为者”。真实的威胁确实存在，但已成为它为每一个不喜欢的选举结果寻找的便捷解释。其结果是将真实的公众舆论排除在核心圈之外。这一切都没有让系统变得更稳定，反而使其变得更加脆弱。

欧洲庞大且不满的选民群体与精英阶层之间的这种冲突，将定义未来一代的欧洲。如果布鲁塞尔坚持立场，选民将变得更加脱节。他们将被提供布鲁塞尔的标准方案：更多的联邦主义、更集中的预算以及赋予机构更多的权力。如果最终需要对法国进行救助，只有欧盟拥有实现这一目标的财务实力，而代价将是经济权力进一步从欧洲各国转移。

另一方面，如果右翼在主要成员国取得突破，欧盟本身将承受另一种压力，这种压力甚至可能超过大多数选民的预期。一个建立在“日益紧密融合”假设之上的联盟，并非为了应对拒绝该假设的政府而设计。

勒庞和德国选择党（AfD）的政策与目前的欧盟并不兼容。要么他们会摧毁欧盟，要么他们会被欧盟摧毁。

没有人能确定欧洲将走哪条路。无论如何，未来十年的欧盟将比我们离开时的那个欧盟更加集权，或者更不稳定，而且很有可能两者兼而有之。这两者都不是英国应该让自己与之捆绑的东西。

我并不是在声称我们做得好得多。毕竟，我们刚刚经历了一场某种形式的社会主义政变，而且英国显然也正承受着在欧洲大陆上如此明显的相同力量的压力。但我们有一个巨大的优势：能够做出自己的选择，并让自己从衰落中重新振作。

鲁比奥先生描述了一个西方文明的故事：它诞生于雅典，由那些“天赋异禀、具有英国自由天才”的人将其带到了美国。他是正确的。我们需要对这种天才充满信心。那么，为什么我们要通过“重启”和接轨，将自己绑定在欧盟法律上，从而让自己处于更危险的境地？更糟糕的是，为什么要在布鲁塞尔机构面临进一步集权或分崩离析的选择之际，再次让自己处于其权威之下？

我们必须保持行动的自由。为什么要现在放弃它，去扮演一个规则接受者的角色，被绑在别人的船桅上？

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数独 (SUDOKU)

普通难度 第 7468 号

要解开这个谜题，每个 $3 \times 3$ 的方格、每一行以及每一列都必须包含 1 到 9 的所有数字。有许多策略可以帮助您解决数独。普通难度答案将于明天公布。困难难度答案将于周日公布。

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第 4948 号

心智健身房 (MIND GYM)

困难难度 第 7468 号

从左侧给出的数字开始，按照每个单元格中的指令向右推进。目标时间：30 秒。答案见下方。

4< / td><>< / ><>< / ><>1< / ><>< / ><>5< / >< / tr><><>1< / ><>2< / ><>< / ><>9< / ><>< / ><>7< / ><>< / >< / ><><>< / ><>< / ><>5< / ><>< / ><>4< / ><>< / ><>7< / ><>< / >< / ><><>< / ><>< / ><>2< / ><>< / >< / ><><>< / ><>9< / ><>< / ><>6< / ><>< / ><>5< / ><>< / ><>4< / ><>8< / >< / ><><>< / ><>< / ><>6< / ><>< / >< / ><><>< / ><>< / ><>4< / ><>< / ><>7< / ><>< / ><>5< / ><>< / >< / ><><>< / ><>< / ><>4< / ><>< / ><>2< / ><>7< / >< / ><><>2< / ><>< / ><>8< / ><>< / ><>9< / >< / table>

<>< colspan="2">初级< / >< rowspan="2">自乘 (X BY ITSELF)< / >< rowspan="2">x2.25< / >< ="2">三倍 (TRIPLE IT)< / >< ="2">-31< / >< ="2">此数的 6 / 7< / >< ="2">两倍 (DOUBLE IT)< / >< ="2">-64< / >< ="2">此数的 3 / 4< / ><>答案< / >< / ><><>24< / ><>÷6< / ><>< / >< / ><>< colspan="2">中级< / >< ="2">xl.4< / >< ="2">-63< / >< ="2">÷6< / >< ="2">自乘 (X BY ITSELF)< / >< ="2">两倍 (DOUBLE IT)< / >< ="2">-54< / >< ="2">减半 (HALVE IT)< / >< ="2">√< / ><>答案< / >< / ><><>165< / ><>此数的 7 / 11< / ><>< / >< / ><>< colspan="2">高级< / >< ="2">三倍 (TRIPLE IT)< / >< ="2">此数的 7 / 8< / >< ="2">-283< / >< ="2">÷13< / >< ="2">自乘 (X BY ITSELF)< / >< ="2">+89< / >< ="2">减半 (HALVE IT)< / >< ="2">÷9< / ><>答案< / >< / ><><>16< / ><>xl2< / ><>< / >< / table>

全字母词 (PANAGRAM)

创建四个或更多字母的单词，且必须包含中心字母。不允许使用专有名词和复数形式，且每个字母在每个单词中只能使用一次。您能找到那个九字母的全字母词吗？答案必须出自《牛津英语词典》。答案将于周一公布。

最多 6 个单词 - 单词寻找者 (Word Finder)，7 个 - 词艺家 (Wordsmith)，15 个 - 单词向导 (Word Wizard)，22 个 - 单词大师 ( Master)，30 个 - 单词天才 ( Genius)，38 个 - 单词完美 ( Perfect)

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第 3772 号 SPARKS

横向

1 团队分小组跳舞，好几英里，看似在行走或奔跑 (8,7) 9 在国外的角色正在工作，微小的钻头 (7) 10 关键的“名字”拒绝覆盖高尔夫 (7) 11 女性将享受的器官 (5-4) 12 也许是尚未揭晓的过去数字 (5) 13 丢失的船，被中国捕获的一艘 (7) 15 拿走吨位，被向后拖拽 (7) 17 欺诈避开查理，围绕大型监狱 (7) 19 强力镇压傻瓜的人 (7) 21 提醒，比如说，马要撤回 (5) 23 应该牢牢固定砍伐者和种马的东西 (5,4) 25 有效的德国，给没有心的轰炸提供了燃料 (7) 26 在没有领导者的混战中提高税收 (7) 27 空洞的学生被接受在繁琐程序中，被大学判定学位不及格？ (8,7)

高难度谜题 第 3771 号

向下

1 碎片的一半被注意到包含大量（7） 2 肉类和鱼类的复合来源（5） 3 关于贫穷的 Reilly 的错误（9） 4 飞行的一部分？是且否（7） 5 油源填充在肯特地区周围（7） 6 在黄金地段，管理体育焦虑（5） 7 CIA 上的标准伪造垃圾（5,4） 8 也许被任命保护 FBI 特工的猪（7） 14 同样穿着小格子裤，其中有很多洞（2,7） 16 支持工会收集开端的艺术家（9） 17 波兰专家识别鱼类（4,3） 18 波浪滑行（7） 19 安静地摇摆然后打破（7） 20 作曲家理查德·施特劳斯，最后在新秩序下，持有良好（7） 22 自我放纵的小元素（5） 24 间歇性地在主张上不足的印度餐（5）

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火车轨道

铺设轨道以允许火车从 A 点行驶到 B 点。仅使用直线和曲线轨道，且轨道不能交叉。数字表示每列和每行中有多少段轨道。答案将于周一公布。

5 5 5 3 3 3 4 4

微型数独

填充网格，使每行、每列以及每个 $2 \times 3$ 宫格都包含数字 1-6。答案将于周一公布。

困难难度 NO 4717

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加法字谜 (PLUSWORD)

NO 1601

解开填字游戏，然后使用阴影方格中的字母来完成额外的加法字谜。绿色方格中的字母在加法字谜中出现在与填字游戏中相同的列；黄色方格中的字母出现在加法字谜中，但与填字游戏中的列不同。加法字谜只有一个可能的答案；加法字谜中可能包含填字游戏中未出现的字母，但始终可以通过逻辑推导得出而无需猜测。答案将于周一公布。

横向

1 完成 6 希腊字母的最后一个字母 7 光滑且苍白，例如像蜡烛一样 8 愚蠢的 9 颜色的深浅

纵向

1 也就是说 2 来自马斯喀特（Muscat）等地的人 3 来自奥斯汀（Austin）等地的人 4 间谍 5 镜头（字母异位词）

单词阶梯 (WORD LADDER)

只需更改一个字母，即可将顶部的单词变为底部的单词。每一步必须是一个有效的单词，且不能改变字母的顺序。下方提供了每个阶梯的线索，但顺序不一定一致。答案将于周一公布。

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数独 普通与困难 No 7467

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电讯报谜题 (The Telegraph PUZZLES)

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火车轨道 (Train Tracks)

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杀手数独 (Killer Sudoku)

迷你数独 No 4716

密码词 (Codewords) 1 和 2

1 W 2℃ 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 L 15 Q I 16 Y R G V K B U J T P 1 Y E L S F G I J D N K Z H 14 X V M B T O R W A C U Q P

数和谜题 (Kakuro) No 5897

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英国面临冬季结束前天然气耗尽风险

若未来几个月严寒天气席卷全国，燃料储备不足恐引发能源危机

作者：Jonathan Leake

英国面临在冬季结束前天然气储备耗尽的风险，这引发了能源危机可能导致国家陷入瘫痪的担忧。

欧洲天然气传输运营商的一份新报告称，如果未来几个月严寒天气席卷全国，英国的储气设施可能会被完全耗尽。英国在储备耗尽时依赖的欧盟后备天然气储气设施同样处于低水平。

这意味着英国可能被迫寻求昂贵的美国液化天然气（LNG）进口以维持运转，从而推高家庭账单。

这份由欧洲天然气传输系统运营商网络（ENTSOG）发布的报告指出，英国是最容易受到天然气危机影响的国家之一，其预测显示，一场寒潮将使储备量降至零。

欧盟同样面临威胁，预计其容量将下降至11%，远低于被视为安全线 30% 的最低水平。

报告称：“在整个冬季维持强有力的液化天然气交付，对于支持欧洲天然气平衡和维持储气水平至关重要。如果液化天然气的可用性仍然有限，到冬季结束时，储气水平可能会降至 30% 以下，从而在季节后期出现潜在寒潮时增加影响。”

这些警告出现之际，要求首相安迪·伯纳姆批准 Jackdaw 北海气田的压力也在增加，该气田可将英国的天然气供应量提高 3%。

在 Cornwall Insight 的分析师预测 1 月起账单将上涨 16% 后，伯纳姆先生已经警告称英国正面临一场“能源危机”，并表示这个冬天将“极具挑战性”。进入冬季时，欧盟的天然气储备目前仅填充了 72%，远低于被视为最低需求水平的 88%。伊朗冲突意味着液化天然气进口将主要来自美国——这意味着英国和欧盟也将日益容易受到唐纳德·特朗普政府的政治干预。

影子能源大臣安德鲁·鲍伊表示：“英国的天然气供应受制于外国油轮和天气。工党禁止了新钻探，对我们剩下的生产商征税，并让 Jackdaw 气田在尘埃中被遗忘，因此我们国内不生产的每一立方米天然气都必须从国外购买。”

由于能源巨头 Centrica 关闭了 Rough 天然气储气设施（该设施有能力支持英国数周），英国的困境进一步恶化。Centrica 的一名发言人表示，由于政府在延长其使用寿命方面存在延迟，该设施原定于 4 月退役。他们补充说，Rough 目前仅含有两天的天然气量——仅为其容量的一小部分。

政府多次推迟批准北海的 Jackdaw 气田，该气田估计含有 150 亿加元 立方米（bcm）的天然气。

如果投入使用，它每年可生产 1.4bcm——约占英国总需求的 2.5%。然而，由于环保团体和工党后座议员的反对，该决定被多次推迟。Energy Flux 的分析师塞布·肯尼迪表示：“即使在满载时，英国的储气量也不足冬季平均需求的 8 天；而今天则不足 4 天。德国的储量大约可维持 6 周，意大利和法国则超过 10. 周。批准 Jackdaw 对这个冬天没有帮助。即使快速批准，也需要时间来逐步增加产量，且它仅能供应英国需求的一小部分。”

该分析师补充道：“英国的天然气价格由其必须吸引的最后一船液化天然气决定。Jackdaw 的价值在于长期：在北海产量下降时，减缓对进口依赖程度的上升。”

一名政府发言人淡化了这一风险。“我们拥有多样化的能源组合，并对供应安全充满信心。

天然气在国际市场上销售，其价格与我们的储气能力无关——去年冬天我们的储气量仅占供应量的 5%。”

老板监控员工车辆以防止浪费燃料

作者：Pui-Guan Man

老板们正在公司轿车和面包车车队中安装追踪设备和摄像头，以监控司机的燃料使用情况。

包括英国电信（BT）旗下的 Openreach、房地产公司仲量联行（JLL）以及建筑巨头 Kier 在内的公司已经安装了升级后的远程信息处理设备，这些设备可以通过 AI 行车记录仪和追踪器记录车速、制动和怠速时间。

仲量联行表示，其已在英国商业车队中部署了“全摄像头远程信息处理系统”，旨在“通过监控驾驶员行为和优化路线来降低燃料消耗”。

该公司雇佣了约 3,000 名员工，运营着一支面包车车队，为商业房东提供建筑维护服务。仲量联行表示，去年其燃料支出降低了 7%。

拥有名为 RAC Connected 自有车队技术的英国皇家汽车俱乐部（RAC）表示，使用远程信息处理技术可以鼓励司机减少“过度发动机怠速、猛加速、突然制动以及低效的路线规划等行为”。

该机构表示，此类设备可将车队的燃料使用量降低 15%。

英国电信的网络部门 Openreach 本周早些时候与远程信息处理供应商 Geotab 签署了一项新协议，以帮助其“更好地了解”其 23,000 辆面包车车队的燃料消耗情况。

Geotab 表示，数据将通过智能手机应用程序直接与面包车司机共享，帮助他们“在需要时进行自我纠正，并不断提高驾驶技能”。

然而，Unite 工会去年在关于司机数据追踪的争议中，试图对爱丁堡市议会的员工进行投票。Openreach 表示，它已获得了其工会——通信工人联盟和 Prospect 工会的认可。

Kier 在 6 月与供应商 Samsara 达成了一项新的远程信息处理协议，声称这将有助于将车辆停机时间减少 25%。该公司还提到燃料大幅节省的前景。

仲量联行拒绝进一步评论，Kier 亦拒绝评论。

敲响变革之钟：Skydance 主席大卫·埃利森（中）在纽约证券交易所敲响开盘钟，标志着其公司正式上市。这家娱乐巨头是在派拉蒙完成对华纳兄弟探索 1110亿美元 (840亿英镑) 的收购后创建的。该股价格为 $9.47, 上涨 6.5%。

BT高管被指在TalkTalk救援案中获利，交易或触发奖金

作者：Tom Saunders

一家竞标TalkTalk的竞争对手指责英国电信（BT）的高管在对这家陷入困境的宽带供应商进行救援交易时从中获利。

Opus Broadband此前一直试图争取TalkTalk的150 万零售客户，该公司暗示，在达成一项戏剧性的最后时刻协议并从破产管理中收购该公司后，BT的高管们可能会获得更高的奖金。

BT今年引入了一项新的激励机制，将董事的奖金与这家电信巨头在英国移动和宽带零售市场的份额挂钩。

在给文化大臣丽莎·南迪（Lisa Nandy）的一封信中，Opus表示，BT对TalkTalk的收购将其宽带市场份额将从目前的30.8%提高到约36%。

Opus董事长迈克·埃尔伍德（Mike Ellwood）写道：“从今年起，BT的董事将因英国零售市场份额的增长而获得奖励。这次交易通过收购实现了这一增长，同时也除掉了一个低成本的竞争对手。”

BT的一位发言人表示，TalkTalk的收购将不会计入本财年的奖金计算。然而，目前尚不清楚该交易是否会在未来几年产生回报。据了解，BT将于2027年6月公布下一财年的奖金衡量指标。

目前，零售市场份额在决定高管奖金水平中的权重为5%，财务指标占据大部分权重。BT在周一迅速采取行动，以4 亿英镑m的价格将TalkTalk从破产管理中买下，使这家债务沉重的宽带供应商免于立即崩溃。

在正常情况下，由于对市场支配力的担忧，这家前国家垄断企业可能会被禁止收购其竞争对手（TalkTalk是英国第四大宽带公司）。文化大臣将此次情况描述为“前所未有”，并指出TalkTalk的崩溃将给数万名弱势客户以及支撑国家安全的网络带来风险。

南迪女士已指示竞争与市场管理局（CMA）在Oct 19前就BT的救援交易提交报告，随后她将做出最终决定。

特朗普禁止微软参与美国签证计划 / 历史悠久的马斯顿酿酒厂被宣布关闭

作者：James Titcomb

特朗普政府已禁止微软参与一项针对外国员工的移民计划，指责该公司用海外员工取代美国员工。

白宫表示，微软、Adobe 以及其他几家大型 IT 公司将被禁止为申请永久居留权的员工担保工作签证。

美国副总统 JD Vance 指责这家科技巨头用“外国契约劳工”取代美国本土员工，并实施了“欺诈”。他表示：“不幸的是，在美国没有任何一家公司比微软更滥用这一制度。”

Vance 先生称，微软在解雇 6,000 名美国员工的同时，雇用了 6,300 名持有 H1-B 签证（科技从业者中最受欢迎的类别）的员工，并担保了 3,000 张绿卡。

如果美国公司能够证明无法雇佣美国人从事同一工作，则可以使用一项名为 Perm 的计划为外国员工担保绿卡，使其能够永久居住在美国。

Vance 先生表示：“这种签证欺诈是对‘你理应继承自己国家的工作和职位’这一理念的正面攻击。”

“我们不能允许那些旨在确保美国公司能够接触到最优秀、最聪明人才的签证计划，被用来削减美国工人的工资。”

该禁令还适用于 Cognizant、Infosys, Tata, Wipro, Capgemini 和 HCL。微软未对此发表评论。

作者：Tom Haynes

由于饮酒者不再青睐传统的桶装艾尔啤酒（cask ale），嘉士伯（CARLSBERG）将关闭位于特伦特河畔伯顿（Burton upon Trent）的历史悠久的马斯顿酿酒厂（Marston's Brewery）。

随着这家丹麦酿酒巨头削减传统英国啤酒的产量，该酿酒厂及其主要物流运营预计将于明年夏天关闭，约 310 个工作岗位面临风险。

此次关闭将结束马斯顿在伯顿近 200 年的酿酒历史，而伯顿是英国酿酒史上最重要的城镇之一。约翰·马斯顿（John Marston）于 1834 年在这个斯塔福德郡的城镇创立了该酿酒厂，随后在 1898 年将生产线迁至目前位于肖本诺路（Shobnall Road）的场地。

伯顿之所以以啤酒闻名，部分原因在于其富含矿物质的水质，这有助于使其淡艾尔啤酒具有独特的口感。在鼎盛时期，该镇拥有 30 多家酿酒厂。

马斯顿随后成为英国最著名的酿酒商之一，生产包括 Pedigree 和 Bass 在内的艾尔啤酒。

全英国的桶装艾尔啤酒在不到十年的时间里减少了一半以上，使得维持这家历史悠久的酿酒厂运行变得越来越难以证明其合理性。

真实艾尔运动（Campaign for Real Ale）的 Ash Corbett-Collins 称这一公告是“绝对的耻辱，也是一系列行动中的最新一项，表明他们多么不在意我们的酿酒遗产或国家的饮酒者”。

在伯顿长大的 Corbett-Collins 先生呼吁由独立运营商进行救援。马斯顿的酒吧业务不受影响。

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向AI助手透露一切以摆脱生活中的琐碎杂事

这些小工具正变得流行，但代价可能是误发邮件和隐私丧失。作者：James Titcomb

当 Meta 的 AI 助手 Muse 主动提出帮他管理 Facebook Marketplace 账户时，马特·罗布（Matt Robb）感到很乐观。

这个二手交易服务是一个出了名的“雷区”，充斥着挑剔的买家：他们出价极低、放鸽子，或者提出苛刻的要求。在应用程序上卖东西正是那种数百万人渴望交给机器人处理的乏味工作。

但罗布的 AI 采取行动时过于热情了。在出售一个高端电脑键盘时，它不仅接受了一个低于预期价格的报价，还安排在深夜于罗布的公寓进行交接，并在罗布不知情的情况下将家庭住址告知了买家。

当兴奋的买家驱车 30 分钟到达该房产时，家里没有人。买家留下了一连串愤怒的消息和一个负面评分，而这一切罗布都毫不知情。“幸运的是，我住在有安保的公寓里，”身为 YouTuber 的罗布说道。

“ 代理（ agents）令人印象深刻，直到它们自信地把你的地址交给陌生人为止。请小心。”

随着科技公司竞相推出旨在处理数字化生活方方面面的个人 代理，像罗布这样的案例可能会变得更加普遍。

Meta、苹果和 OpenAI 等科技巨头以及一批初创公司都希望成为数字私人助理（PA）。但在这一过程中，它们冒着捅开隐私和法律问题“马蜂窝”的风险。像 ChatGPT 这样能回答问题和起草邮件的聊天机器人已经流行了数年，而能编写计算机代码的 则颠覆了软件开发领域。

但所谓的能够代表用户采取行动的“代理”是一个更新的现象。这些机器人的出现得益于相关技术的发展，使得 系统能够浏览网站和应用程序，

控制虚拟鼠标和键盘，并获得电子邮件账户和银行应用程序等系统的访问权限，以进行支付和阅读信件。

对于消费者和提供这些机器人的获胜公司来说，这一前景都极具吸引力。用户可以通过 WhatsApp 消息或应用程序控制代理，指示它们订外卖、追讨退款和支付账单。

与此同时，在代理竞赛中获胜的机器人将在用户中建立起一种不可动摇且潜在利润丰厚的依赖关系。一个处理用户数字化生活的 Siri 机器人可能意味着人们将终身使用 iPhone，或者一个代表你购物的代理可能会从所有购买额中抽取佣金。

个人代理在短短几个月内就从一个新鲜事物变成了广泛应用。今年早些时候，奥地利开发人员皮特·斯坦伯格（Pete Steinberger）推出了一款名为 OpenClaw 的早期机器人，它在硅谷走红，但设置时需要相当高的技术知识。

“现在有很多代理。[但]没有多少是我愿意给我母亲使用的，”马克·扎克伯格（Mark Zuckerberg）当时表示。上个月，Meta 推出了 Muse，并称其为首个“为所有人打造”的代理。

来自美国的早期报告显示其评价极高。一名用户表示，它帮他在汽车保险上节省了数千美元，而其他人则利用它协商了航班赔偿或找到了稀有产品。该应用程序能够模拟人类声音，在漫长的电话排队中等待并跳过自动菜单。

Muse 尚未在英国和欧洲发布，因为在这些地区它面临更严格的数据保护法。

英国隐私监管机构——信息专员办公室（ICO）的一位发言人表示：“我们定期与包括 Meta 在内的主要 开发商和部署商接触，以了解个人信息是如何被使用的，并确保英国用户的信息权利得到保护。”

OpenAI 推出了自己的助手，名为 Dots，该公司表示它将代表用户执行工作

Meta 首席执行官马克·扎克伯格上个月展示了一款小型设备，可用于访问该公司的 Muse AI 软件。

代表用户执行工作，并随着时间的推移学习用户的偏好。埃隆·马斯克的 xAI 公司推出了自己的“Grok Bot”，该机器人会主动提供执行任务。

值得注意的是，这三者都采用了可爱、俏皮的虚拟形象。Meta 的形象像一个可爱的毛绒玩具，而 OpenAI 的 Dots 则是带有眼睛和领结或太阳镜的柔软 3D 形状。

这代表了与此前频繁发出的“AI 可能导致人类灭绝”警告的彻底背离。

但这些毫无攻击性的图标是有原因的。为了运作，AI 智能体需要广泛访问人们的计算机系统，通常包括密码、信用卡和私人消息。

例如，Meta 的 Muse 要求访问 Mac 用户硬盘的全部内容，导致苹果公司上周对此类行为采取了打击措施。

活动团体“隐私国际”（Privacy International）的汤姆·韦斯特（Tom West）表示：“智能体需要访问大量、甚至是你全部的数据和数字生活。”

“移交这些数据的访问权限、这些账户和应用程序的访问权限，必然存在风险，因为这直接提供了进入你生活中非常私密部分的权限，而这些是你通常不会分享的。”

如果 AI 系统运行完美，移交这些权限或许可以接受，但事实并非如此。

用户报告称重要邮件被删除。美国初创公司 Spear Street 开发的热门个人智能体 Instinct 的一名用户表示，该智能体取消了一次航班。

夏季披露的一系列“失控 AI”事件——其中智能体入侵网站并似乎在掩盖其行踪——对于与银行账户绑定的系统来说并非好兆头。

昨天，英国的隐私监管机构表示，它对智能体有一系列担忧。英国信息专员办公室（ICO）表示：“随着这些系统变得更加自主，数据保护风险也在演变。”

“如果这意味着再也不用在电话中等待接通或为账单讨价还价，数百万人将愿意交出自己的生活。”

负责向英格兰和威尔士法律变更提供建议的官方机构——法律委员会（Law Commission）昨天也表示，当 AI 公司删除文档或照片时，消费者可能能够起诉这些公司。

私人消息应用 Signal 的总裁梅雷迪思·惠特克（Meredith Whittaker）警告称，能够访问人们手机和计算机内容的智能体会破坏保护对话的加密技术，因为智能体可以直接读取设备上的所有消息。

然而，科技公司长期以来深知，便利胜过隐私。

对于数百万人来说，再也不用在电话中等待或为公用事业账单讨价还价的前景，意味着他们将欣然交出自己的生活。

Meta 的 Muse 在发布后不久便攀升至苹果公司美国下载排行榜之首，并一直占据该位置。

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特易购： “不公平”的仓库税将损害零售业

这家超市的首席执行官表示，该行业在商业税（business rates）方面支付的费用已经远超其应承担的份额

作者：Jonathan Prynn

特易购（Tesco）的负责人敦促约翰·希利在预算案中将零售商排除在针对大型仓库征税的“根本不公平”计划之外。

特易购首席执行官肯·墨菲（Ken Murphy）表示，考虑到零售业在整体经济中的规模，目前的商业税制度已导致该行业支付的税款是其应付金额的四倍。

在被问及仓库税率可能提高的前景时，墨菲先生表示：“商业税制度根本不公平。零售商支付的税款是其公平份额的四倍，我敦促政府实施更公平的税率。”

他还呼吁“所有零售企业均可免于新的应课税价值阈值”。

墨菲先生表示，对于应课税价值超过 50 万英镑 的大型仓库，高街零售商不应支付更高的商业税乘数。

瑞秋·里夫斯在去年的预算案中对大型商业地产引入了更高的税率附加费。该政策于4月生效。安迪·伯纳姆此后暗示，在即将出台的预算案中，这项所谓的“亚马逊税”可能会在仓库方面进一步提高。

这将有助于资助一项已宣布的计划，即从明年4月起，为酒吧和现场音乐场馆等“带来社会效益”的小型企业降低20%的税率。

然而，零售业高管警告称，由于高街超市而非在线零售商占据了大部分仓库空间，新税率可能会以价格上涨的形式转嫁给消费者。

墨菲先生表示：“我们由衷认为税率需要改革，我们敦促政府免除零售商去年设定的阈值。”

这位特易购负责人不愿就税率增加是否会转嫁给购物者发表评论。

不过，上个月，英国食品与饮料批发业（Food and Drink Wholesale UK）首席执行官詹姆斯·比尔比（James Bielby）告诉《电讯报》：“很简单。如果他们征税，这将被转嫁。”

咨询公司 Ryan 的分析显示，全国商业税账单最高的10个仓库由 Lidl、特易购、约翰刘易斯合伙公司、赛恩斯伯里（Sainsbury's）和马莎（Marks & Spencer）所有。墨菲先生发表上述言论之际，特易购昨日上调了利润指引，该零售商告诉投资者，预计在截至2月的年度内将获得 31.5亿英镑 和 33亿英镑 之间的利润。在4月份，其预测范围为 30亿英镑 到 33亿英镑。

“商业税系统根本上是不公平的。零售商支付的费用是其应承担份额的四倍”

在截至8月的本财年前六个月中，英国同店销售额增长了1.5%，而公司的整体销售额增长了1%。

营业利润增长6.6%，达到17亿英镑。墨菲先生还表示，他预计今年的圣诞节将不像往年那样酗酒，低酒精或无酒精饮料的销量增加，反映了人们趋向于更健康饮食和饮酒的趋势。他表示，这种趋向于健康饮食的“普遍趋势”可以追溯到疫情期间。

购物者还在寻找纤维和蛋白质含量更高、分量更小的餐食。这家特易购（Tesco）首席执行官还表示，在对约280,000名员工进行试点后，公司正开始推出一款旨在帮助客户规划餐食的AI助手。

这家英国最大的超市在4月份开始试用该助手（该助手与通过该零售商Clubcard会员卡购物所收集的信息相挂钩），并于上个月开始向客户推广。

墨菲先生表示：“我们在AI赋能的个性化服务方面也取得了强劲进展，扩展了‘您的Clubcard价格’（Your Clubcard Prices），并开始向客户推广我们的餐食规划助手，帮助客户管理他们繁忙的生活。”

特易购在4月份表示，该助手最初将通过提供“自然的双向对话，以个性化食谱创意形式提供灵感”，并考虑饮食偏好，从而帮助客户规划餐食。

客户能够根据成本或菜系类型（或两者兼顾）搜索餐食，并通过列出家中已有且希望用掉的食材来创建一道菜肴。

特易购表示，该助手对Clubcard信息的使用意味着它能够就客户橱柜或冰箱中可能已有的物品提供建议。

该功能将作为一项长期计划被内置到特易购应用程序中，以扩展其功能，“从而能够帮助客户处理日常生活的更多部分，并为他们提供真正智能且有帮助的购物体验”。

燃料成本飙升，EasyJet削减数千个冬季航班

作者：Joe Sledge

由于这家低成本航空公司正与不断上涨的燃料成本作斗争，EasyJet将削减其冬季航班计划中的数千个航班。

该航空公司的首席执行官肯顿·贾维斯（Kenton Jarvis）表示，在淡季期间，其总运力将减少700,000个座位。此次削减约相当于两天的飞行运力，或在该期间平均削减3,500个独立航班。

伊朗战争爆发后，霍尔木兹海峡的供应链中断导致燃料成本飙升，航空煤油价格几乎翻倍。尽管价格已开始回落，但仍显著高于航空公司的预期。

贾维斯先生表示，“人们正在削减运力，我们在所有竞争对手中都看到了这一点”，并补充说，鉴于燃料价格一直维持在出乎意料的高位，这些举措“并不令人惊讶”。

他补充道，虽然欧洲航空公司对其部分燃料需求进行了套期保值，但其余部分仍面临高昂现货价格的风险。

EasyJet已同意由美国私募股权巨头阿波罗（Apollo）以£5.7bn的价格收购，该公司希望通过削减航班计划来减少对高成本燃料的依赖。EasyJet的一位发言人表示：“与所有航空公司一样，我们会持续审查我们的航班计划，有时会做出一些调整。冬季飞行计划的变动仅占我们整体飞行计划的极小比例。”

此前，竞争对手瑞安航空（Ryanair）也采取了类似的削减措施，将其冬季航班计划削减了高达4%。

瑞安航空负责人迈克尔·奥利利（Michael O'Leary）警告称，高燃料成本可能会持续另外18个月，并补充道：“明年我们都将面临巨大的成本挑战。”

根据行业机构国际航空运输协会（Iata）的数据，航空煤油成本上涨预计将在今年给航空业带来1000亿美元 (757亿英镑)的打击。这种压力对某些公司来说已是致命的，自伊朗冲突开始以来，已有几家航空公司进入破产程序，包括美国运营商Spirit Airlines和拉脱维亚国家航空公司airBaltic。

东方之光：一只名为“咚咚”的巨型机器人虎在中国东北沈阳的“虎啸街”文化商业旅游综合体中揭幕，成为新的地标。这个能够移动并带有闪光灯的机械巨兽由机器人艺术家Master X打造。

Asos 表示威胁泄露客户数据的黑客欺骗了其员工

作者：Chris Price

ASOS 已承认，向客户发送通知并威胁泄露其数据的黑客欺骗了一名员工，使其分享了登录详情。

这家在线零售商表示，一名员工允许黑客访问由第三方存储的客户信息，据了解该第三方是美国数据处理公司 Snowflake。

昨天发送给客户的一封电子邮件中写道：“我们发现，一个未经授权的第三方通过冒充信任联系人获取登录凭据，从而获得了 员工账户的访问权限。这些凭据随后被用于访问 使用的某些第三方平台上的信息。”

表示，受影响的数据库已“立即”被锁定。

这家在线零售商的客户在周二收到了来自 应用程序的一条消息，内容为：“亲爱的 数据保护官（DPO）和 IT 部门，我们已完全攻破 Snowflake 实例。请与我们接触，否则我们将泄露它。”

Snowflake 表示，尚未发现其系统被入侵的证据。

这些自称“Xuanye 组织”的黑客给 设定了两周的期限，要求其支付赎金，否则将泄露客户数据。

黑客在 Telegram 社交软件上告诉《每日电讯报》：“该组织必须联系我们，否则我们将泄露它，这就是我们的意思。两周的时间是为了让他们建立联系。”

在向客户解释此次事件后， 的股价昨日上涨了 5.7pc（5.）。

该公司确认，黑客获取了姓名和联系方式，但未获取支付卡信息或账户密码。

利率操纵定罪被撤销后，前交易员将起诉巴克莱银行

作者：Joe Sledge

一名巴克莱银行的前交易员计划在其 Libor 利率操纵定罪被撤销后起诉该银行。

55, 岁的杰伊·默钱特（Jay Merchant）于 2016 年因涉嫌操纵现已失效的基准利率而触犯共谋欺诈罪被判入狱。在最初 6 年半的刑期中，他服刑两年多，但周三，他与其他五名前巴克莱员工的定罪被上诉法院推翻。

默钱特先生现在打算对巴克莱银行提起民事诉讼，指控该行牺牲基层员工以保护自身。“巴克莱银行负有责任，我希望让他们承担责任……是我们付出了代价，”他说道。

Libor 争议爆发于 2012, 年，引发了公众的愤怒。

默钱特先生声称，巴克莱银行通过将责任推给个体员工，从而获得了监管机构较低的财务处罚。此前，最高法院去年针对前花旗集团和瑞银交易员汤姆·海耶斯（Tom Hayes）以及前巴克莱员工卡洛·帕隆博（Carlo Palombo）做出裁决。法院裁定，海耶斯先生审判中的法官向陪审团给出的指示在“法律上是不准确且不公平的”，并指出随后审判中的指示也采用了类似的错误推理。

在服刑五年半后，海耶斯先生目前正起诉其前雇主瑞银（UBS），索赔至少 4亿美元，指控其恶意起诉。

不过，法院指出，仍有“充足的证据”，如果陪审团得到正确的指示，仍可能判定他与帕隆博先生犯有共谋欺诈罪。巴克莱银行的一位发言人拒绝置评。

过分谨慎的监管者可能使英国失去在AI前沿领域的地位

肯尼斯·马尔瓦尼 (KENNETH MULVANY)

问题在于，他们缺乏竞争所需的智能资源。

更多针对该技术的保障措施可能会导致企业所拥有的工具能力低于国际竞争对手。

英国面临着成为一个进口智能，并因监管而失去从中创造价值机会的国家之风险。

本周在阿姆斯特丹举行的世界人工智能峰会上，来自技术、商业和政府部门的15,000多人齐聚一堂，我注意到对话多次转向英国在AI竞赛中的地位。

我们拥有卓越的研究人员、科学机构和企业。

这里存在两场竞争：构建能力最强的模型，以及利用这些模型创造价值。英国应当两者兼顾。但在我们构建自身能力的同时，我们的企业和研究人员将严重依赖国外开发的前沿模型。获取这些模型对国家安全至关重要。

竞争所需的规模极其庞大。上个月，法国的Mistral宣布了一轮估值为£18bn的融资。英国的Ineffable Intelligence在4月份筹集了8.3 亿英镑，政府与私人投资者共同为其提供支持。

除了为开发商本身提供资金外，基础设施支出更是惊人。摩根士丹利估计，到2026.年，五家美国主要科技公司的资本支出将超过6000亿英镑。在中国，仅阿里巴巴就宣布在三年内为云端和AI基础设施投入至少

“议员们不能假设前沿开发商会为了满足他们的条件而修改模型”

400亿英镑。这些计划涵盖了这场竞赛所依赖的计算基础设施。

使用外国模型使英国组织能够获得他们无法独立承担开发成本的能力。但这也产生了一种依赖，其后果正变得清晰。

今年6月，美国的出口管制促使Anthropic暂停了其两款最先进模型的访问权限，其中包括英国用户。虽然限制随后被解除，但这一事件表明，国外做出的决定能如此迅速地中断此地的访问。

英国无法独立扭转这类决定。在增加我们自己的条件之前，我们应该评估这些条件能提供的保护以及对英国访问权限产生的影响。

部长们讨论了部署前的强制性测试。下议院科学委员会主席奇·翁武拉女爵士 (Dame Chi Onwurah) 建议，对于那些前沿模型绕过英国AI安全研究所（AISI）的开发商，应禁止其进入商业市场。AI部长卡尼什卡·纳拉扬 (Kanishka Narayan) 则保留了进一步监管的可能性。

进行审查有其严肃的理由。Hugging Face事件中，AI代理突破了约束并访问了外部系统，这值得调查并采取有效行动。独立测试可以揭露开发商遗漏的缺陷。英国应当具备开展此类测试的专业知识和访问权限。

“在适用之处使用现有法律，并谨慎处理特定的空白”

威斯敏斯特可以设定进入英国市场的条件。但它不能假设前沿开发商会为了满足这些条件而修改其模型。

英国通过其市场、研究专业知识和国际关系拥有影响力。我们应当谨慎使用这种影响力。一项能确保更好保障措施的要求可能是值得的；但一项主要导致访问延迟的要求，可能会让英国企业在竞争中使用能力较低的工具。

在海外操作的网络攻击者不需要许可就能针对英国组织发起攻击。限制国内的合法访问可能会在削弱防御者工具的同时，让威胁依然存在。任何安全评估都必须考虑到这种可能性。

人们使用的产品中也存在保护空间。用户应当知道他们是在与人工智能对话。医疗主张应当要求提供证据。一个负责花钱的智能体应当在用户明确授予且可撤销的权限范围内运行。在适用现有法律的地方使用现有法律，并适度地填补特定的空白。

我曾亲眼目睹机器智能所能实现的可能。在2020年初，由我创立的公司 BenevolentAI 利用 AI 在 48 小时内将巴瑞替尼（baricitinib）确定为一种新冠治疗药物。该药物随后帮助了数百万人。

这段经历影响了我的立场：给研究人员提供强大的工具，然后要求他们提供与这些工具所促成的决策相匹配的证据。英国的每一项限制都应当证明，其提供的保护相对于其剥夺的能力而言是合理的。

英国应当在构建更多自身前沿能力的同时，成为应用现有最佳智能的卓越之地。我们对外国开发者的依赖已经限制了我们。如果再增加一个由我们自己造成的劣势，那将是一种选择。

肯·马尔瓦尼（Ken Mulvany）是 BenevolentAI 的执行主席

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微型纵横字谜

微型游戏时间

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希利若榨取金融城，将不利于增长

金融部门为财政部创造巨额收入

杰里米·沃纳（JEREMY WARNER）

财政大臣似乎打算提高银行附加税。但这样做无法解决我们的问题

来源：财政研究所（INSTITUTE FOR FISCAL STUDIES）

瑞秋·里夫斯，回来吧，一切都原谅了。在即将出台的预算案中，银行高管们对于将被征收更高额的银行附加税（banking surcharge）正产生一种日益增长的无奈感。

他们原以为在说服前财政大臣里夫斯——认为此举会损害增长，因此是修补公共财政的一种适得其反的方式——之后，已经避开了这颗特定的子弹。

但在她的继任者约翰·希利这里，并没有这样的保证。在本周与顶尖银行家的会议上，他的态度难以捉摸，导致其中一人得出结论：“这基本上已经是定局了。我想我们只能默默承受。”

根据工会的分析，仅仅将附加税恢复到之前 8% 的水平，就能在四年内增加 90亿英镑 的收入；而将其提高到 16%，则可能在同一时间框架内带来高达 200亿英镑 的巨额资金。

天哪。我知道财政大臣正渴望寻找任何能够缓解利率上升给财政算术带来压力的手段，但我真的希望人们停止对伦敦金融城所谓的“奶牛”属性做出如此公式化的假设。

这就好像金融业唯一的目的就是支撑劳工党庞大的福利国家利维坦一样。不，银行业的社会目的是通过支持更广泛经济的增长来使存款人的资金得到良好利用，而不是为公共支出提供资金。

更糟糕的是，首相安迪·伯纳姆似乎认为 20 世纪 80 年代的“大爆炸”改革——正是这次改革为今天的金融城创造了巨大的财富创造动力——是英国一切出错的根源。

在 1997, 年新劳工党赢得压倒性选举胜利之前的一段时间，我与时任劳工党金融城发言人、后来的财政大臣阿里斯泰尔·达林（Alistair Darling）进行了一次令人大开眼界的午餐会。

他告诉我，金融城不应该是被妖魔化的对象（这是传统的左翼观点），而是一项宝贵的国家资源，需要被培育成为未来的经济引擎。

他的话让我有些吃惊，因为这显然背离了劳工党的旧观点，而这些话帮助我确信，该党确实已经发生了足够的改变，使其再次具备可选举性。

事后看来，劳工党对金融业的放任或许走得太远，最终导致了金融危机这一经济灾难。

从那时起，银行业就一直处于“受罚”状态。在某种程度上，政府寻求通过比广泛征收的企业利润税更高的税率，来回收其在救助银行系统时花费的数百亿英镑中的至少一部分，这确实是完全合理的。

“说银行负担得起是很简单。但更多的税意味着更少的信贷”

此外，得益于大幅提高的利率，银行再次产生了令人贪婪的利润水平，这得益于净利息收益率（即贷款赚取的利息与支付给存款人的利息之差）的扩大。

更重要的是，这种利润盛宴的至少一部分直接来自纳税人，因为十多年量化宽松政策所创造的央行准备金产生了利息。

财政部必须补偿英格兰银行在这一货币巫术中遭受的任何损失。近年来，这些损失非常巨大，导致了从纳税人向商业银行部门价值数百亿英镑的转移。

希利一直在考虑将改革作为提高银行利润附加税的替代方案，但如果他真的这么做，我会感到惊讶。尤其是因为这是奈杰尔·法拉奇的改革英国党（Reform UK）的政策。劳工党不会想给他任何机会。

无论如何，银行危机已是很久以前的事了，惩罚性打击的时代已经结束。今天的经济挑战与银行及更广泛的金融城毫无关系。

相反，这归咎于政府无法控制其支出。将财政视为存钱罐或许有助于填补缺口，但这与增长议程背道而驰。

在政客们像悠悠球一样不断改变政策之时，金融业已成为稳定之石，是少数可靠的增长引擎之一。

在不被关注的情况下，银行一直在稳步扩大对更广泛经济领域的贷款，为家庭以及中小企业提供政府未能提供的支撑。通过提高税收来干预这一点，将是一项极其反增长的举措。

说银行负担得起，说对他们而言涉及的金额不过是四舍五入的误差，这听起来很好，但在现实世界中并非如此运作。

向银行征收更多税款绝非劳工党部长们深信的那样是没有风险的举措。从算术上讲，更多的税收意味着更少的信贷。就这么简单。

强大的经济需要强大的银行，而强大的银行反过来需要监管、税收和政府的可预测性。遗憾的是，我们在这些方面都没有看到。

总部位于美国的银行已经从特朗普政府对其施加的较低资本和监管要求中获得了巨大的竞争红利。

税收方面也是如此。根据普华永道（PwC）的分析，总部位于伦敦的银行目前支付的边际税率已达 46.4%，其中包括标准公司税、征费、附加税、不可回收的增值税以及无上限的雇主国民保险缴款。相比之下，总部位于纽约的银行仅为 27.9%，阿姆斯特丹为 42.2%，法兰克福为 38.9%，都柏林为 28.9%。

恢复 8% 的附加税将使伦敦利润的边际税率远超 50%。

而且，预防性的、安全至上的监管负担也在不断增加。当所有这些担忧汇聚在一起，会导致竞争力的突然丧失，从而掩盖伦敦本应具备的所有其他所谓优势，这时就会出现一个临界点。

发出警告最激烈的是摩根大通（JP Morgan Chase）首席执行官杰米·戴蒙（Jamie Dimon）。如果希利采取行动，他大概不得不履行其威胁。对于摩根大通来说，将更多业务转移到欧洲其他地方轻而易举。

作为一名商业记者，我见证了金融业惊人的变化。英国成功地利用了这场繁荣。这种奖赏是其他司法管辖区几乎愿意不惜一切代价去争夺的。

然而，我们现在的政府虽然说着增长的语言，但似乎对增长根本一窍不通。

像伯纳姆想要的那样，将时钟拨回到繁荣开始之前，无法解决英国的任何问题。

巨蛋拍卖 杰夫·昆斯（Jeff Koons）的《带蝴蝶结的巴洛克蛋（蓝色 / 绿松石色）》在伦敦佳士得拍卖行上拍前被移至展位。预计在本月的 20 世纪和 21 世纪艺术品拍卖会上，该作品将拍得 150 万英镑 和 200 万英镑 之间。这件昆斯的作品来自 Monsoon 创始人彼得·西蒙（Peter Simon）收藏的 200 件作品之一。

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亿万富翁新东家将如何复兴 Boots 这头沉睡的巨头

本 ·马洛（BEN MARLOW）

药店不仅仅是另一家零售商，它是国家基础设施的关键组成部分

近二十年前将 Boots 从股市退市的决定已被证明是一场灾难。

在远离公众持股的监督之下，在接连几任私人所有者的掌控中，这个英国最重要的商业街品牌之一遭到了极度的忽视。

你只需走进分布在英国和爱尔兰各地的数百家 Boots 门店中的任何一家，就能看到加拿大的富豪韦斯顿（Weston）家族在斥资 68亿英镑 强势收购后，在振兴这家企业方面面临的巨大挑战。

我当地的 分店提供的购物体验几乎是能想象到的最平庸的。在某些日子里，除了那个可怜的、过度劳累的药剂师（在极少数状态良好的日子里会有好几个）在向一长排同样面色疲惫的顾客发放药丸和处方药之外，很难找到一名工作人员。

货架看起来只摆了一半的货，收银台像是另一个时代的产物，而且如果墙壁自世纪之交以来就没刷过漆，我会感到很惊讶。那种被遗弃的感觉令人窒息。

在连续交易专家斯特凡诺·佩西纳（Stefano Pessina）的主导下， 长期处于一种“炼狱”状态。首先是在私募股权领域最初的“门口的野蛮人”KKR 的所有权下，随后成为了美国药店巨头 Walgreens 一个被遗忘的海外前哨。

去年当它移交给华尔街投资巨头 Sycamore Partners 时，很明显 很快将被抛弃，因为 Sycamore 开始拆分佩西纳所创建的庞大 Walgreens 帝国。

所有这些所谓的资深投资者似乎从未理解的是， 不仅仅是另一家普通的零售商，它是英国国家基础设施的关键组成部分。如果想要有机会复兴，韦斯顿家族必须意识到， 不仅仅是口红、牙膏和大桶口香糖的供应商。它是国民医疗服务体系（NHS）不可或缺的一部分，而且它所做的事情远不止为老年人分发每日药物。这就是为什么尽管多年来商业街经历了如此剧烈的萎缩， 在英国和爱尔兰仍拥有惊人的 1,800 家门店，雇佣了一支超过 50,000 人的大军。

然而，多年来有限的投资——“韦斯顿家族必须意识到 不仅仅是口红、牙膏和口香糖的供应商”——

却不成比例地集中在极少数门店上，理由是翻新其他门店的回报微乎其微。

一位前高管曾向我将 描述为一家“双速”公司。大约有 500, 家较大的店铺被指定为“业务的核心动力”，并得到了程度不一的翻新。其余的店铺规模要小得多，尽管它们对周围社区同样至关重要，但许多店铺几乎是被刻意忽视的。

据估计，每家店的翻新成本大约在 5 万英镑 到 10 万英镑 之间。然而，此类改造带来的营业额提升通常可以忽略不计，这使得管理层难以证明这项支出的合理性。然而，针对这种短视做法的反论无疑是：那些被允许陷入破败状态的门店，最终会变成购物者尽可能避之不及的地方。

有时， 的所有者不仅在投资不足方面负有责任，而且还优先采取了剧烈的成本削减措施。在最近一轮门店关闭期间，随附的一份声明解释称，在所有情况下，三英里以内都有另一家替代门店，但这对于身体不适的人来说显然太远了，更不用说那些患有严重疣的人。

由于卫生与社会关怀部决定连续第二年冻结 NHS 处方药费用，政府给药店带来了压力，这使得 的前景不容乐观。

尽管如此，通过其他服务赚钱的机会一直在增加。由于国民医疗服务体系（NHS）陷入了似乎永无止境的混乱与管理不善状态，且越来越多的人无法预约全科医生（GP），Boots 正成为在线咨询、疫苗接种和血压检查日益重要的提供者。

在部分门店，你可以获得针对皮肤和脱发的专业治疗，以及所谓的针对高胆固醇和其他健康问题的“居家”检测套件。这些都是不堪重负的 NHS 乐于进一步外包的服务，这意味着你当地的 Boots 对许多当地社区而言正变得更加至关重要，而非相反。

此外还存在其他明显的缺陷。在世界其他主要零售商中，所谓的“排队消除”（line-busting）已十分普遍——员工拿着手持支付设备在店内走动，使顾客无需在自动结账机前排队。

英国的一些药店连锁店提供 24 小时的储物柜处方药领取服务。最近一次与妻子和朋友前往瓦伦西亚旅行时，我被当地药店附带的自动售货机所吸引，这些机器可以售出验孕试纸、基础急救用品和其他标准的非处方药。Boots 两者都没有提供，然而它曾是行业的先驱。

Boots 在英国和爱尔兰的 1,800 家商店中雇佣了超过 50,000 名员工。

它在利用美容产品热潮方面也表现得极其迟缓，简直到了不可原谅的地步。2023 年在巴特西（Battersea）大张旗鼓地开设了一家巨大的独立美容店，但今年早些时候在布里斯托尔仅又开设了一家。这种缓慢的步伐表明，该集团要么缺乏竞争所需的资金，要么不愿投入资金。

如果 Boots 要从长期的沉睡中苏醒，这一切都需要改变。最初在没有任何反抗的情况下就任由它落入错误的人之手是一个错误。那些维护英国利益以及维护众多依赖当地 Boots 提供许多关键服务（且通常是唯一提供者）的人们的部长们在哪里？这种自满令人震惊。

政府中没有人对此给予关注，这表明了一种更深层的国民习惯，即允许国家最重要的资产落入那些痴迷于利润、冷漠且不考虑更广泛后果的所有者之手。英国在允许这种情况在整个经济领域发生方面几乎是独一无二的。

在亚历克斯·鲍尔多克（Alex Baldock）身上，Boots 拥有一个能力出众的首席执行官，他曾扭转了 Currys 的局面，后者是另一家英国高街大品牌，一度看起来注定会被时代淘汰。

为了让他重复这一壮举，韦斯顿家族必须证明其关于“在药店主导的零售卓越领域拥有深厚专业知识”的吹嘘并非毫无意义的口号。

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<><>1376 ${1}{2}$ < / ><>953 ${3}{4}$ < / ><>Burberry< / ><>1007< / ><>-9< / ><>—< / >< / ><><>214 ${1}{4}$ < / ><>107 ${1}{4}$ < / ><>McBride< / ><>174< / ><>-1 ${1}{4}$ < / ><>1.8< / ><>9.8< / >< / ><><>114< / ><>65 ${1}{4}$ < / ><>PZ Cussons< / ><>95 ${3}{4}$ *< / ><>- ${1}{4}$ < / ><>3.9< / ><>20.3< / >< / ><><>6522 ${1}{4}$ < / ><>3664< / ><>Reckitt Benck< / ><>5072< / ><>-34< / ><>4.3< / ><>10.8< / >< / table>

食品生产商 +0.13%

<><>98%< / ><>73%< / ><>Coats Group •< / ><>81%< / ><>+3⁄4< / ><>3.1< / ><>18.3< / >< / ><><>710< / ><>250< / ><>Cropper J< / ><>670< / ><>-15< / ><>—< / ><>21.8< / >< / ><><>28500< / ><>10820< / ><>Goodwin •< / ><>14140< / ><>-60< / ><>2.3< / ><>19.1< / >< / ><><>3202< / ><>2244< / ><>IMI< / ><>3032< / ><>-20< / ><>1.2< / ><>24.4< / >< / ><><>981%< / ><>660< / ><>Mondi •< / ><>765< / ><>-111⁄4< / ><>1.6< / ><>24.1< / >< / ><><>40< / ><>211⁄4< / ><>Severfield< / ><>371⁄4< / ><>-1⁄4< / ><>—< / ><>-3.1< / >< / ><><>2885< / ><>2088< / ><>Smiths Gp< / ><>2710< / ><>-52< / ><>1.8< / ><>4.3< / >< / ><><>8050< / ><>5950< / ><>Spirax Gp< / ><>7015< / ><>-125< / ><>2.4< / ><>31.6< / >< / ><><>3580< / ><>2254< / ><>Weir< / ><>2538< / ><>-22< / ><>1.7< / ><>26.5< / >< / table>

<><>307< / ><>195< / ><>Aptitude Sftwre< / ><>250*< / ><>-< / ><>2.2< / ><>34.2< / >< / ><><>1181< / ><>771%< / ><>The Sage Grp< / ><>1027 ${1}{2}$ < / ><>+5 ${1}{2}$ < / ><>2.2< / ><>27.2< / >< / ><>< colspan="7">保险 -0.55%< / >< / table>

<><>2359< / ><>1729 ${1}{2}$ < / ><>Ass Brit Fds< / ><>1834< / ><> $\bullet 7$ < / ><>3.4< / ><>13.0< / >< / ><><>5195< / ><>3326< / ><>Coca-Cola HBC< / ><>4254< / ><> $\bullet 6$ < / ><>2.4< / ><>19.4< / >< / ><><>5810< / ><>4775< / ><>Cranswick $\$ < / ><>5030< / ><> $\ 60$ < / ><>2.2< / ><>17.0< / >< / ><><>738< / ><>447 ${1}{2}$ < / ><>Hilton Food $\$ < / ><>715< / ><> $\ 7$ < / ><>4.9< / ><>8.1< / >< / ><><>138< / ><>92< / ><>REA Hldgs< / ><>109< / ><> $\ 1$ < / ><>—< / ><>-206.0< / >< / ><><>5542 ${1}{2}$ < / ><>3644< / ><>Unilever< / ><>4626< / ><> $\ 3$ < / ><>3.6< / ><>12.6< / >< / table>

<>< colspan="7">燃气与水务 +1.25%< / >< / ><><>220%< / ><>144< / ><>Centrica< / ><>147< / ><>+1%< / ><>3.9< / ><>-98.0< / >< / ><><>606< / ><>340< / ><>Pennon Gp •< / ><>371< / ><>+9%< / ><>7.9< / ><>19.1< / >< / ><><>3335< / ><>2381< / ><>Severn Trent< / ><>3096< / ><>+38< / ><>4.1< / ><>25.1< / >< / ><><>1497< / ><>1119< / ><>Utd Utilities< / ><>1416< / ><>+18< / ><>3.8< / ><>16.4< / >< / table>

综合金融 +0.99%< / td>< / tr><><>276%< / ><>151< / ><>Ashmore •< / ><>216%< / ><>-5< / ><>7.8< / ><>13.8< / >< / ><><>397%< / ><>212< / ><>Bridgepoint Grp •< / ><>382%< / ><>+17%< / ><>2.6< / ><>76.5< / >< / ><><>1800< / ><>1240< / ><>BrooksMacdonald< / ><>1480< / ><>-10< / ><>5.6< / ><>95.5< / >< / ><><>1956< / ><>930%< / ><>IG Group< / ><>963< / ><>+13< / ><>4.4< / ><>6.6< / >< / ><><>2276< / ><>1424%< / ><>ICG< / ><>1735< / ><>-29< / ><>5.0< / ><>10.4< / >< / table>

<><>265< / ><>179%< / ><>Aberdeen Group< / ><>237< / ><>-2%< / ><>6.2< / ><>11.0< / >< / ><><>4128< / ><>2624< / ><>Admiral< / ><>3624< / ><>-10< / ><>4.0< / ><>14.7< / >< / ><><>740%< / ><>590%< / ><>Aviva< / ><>672%< / ><>-4%< / ><>6.0< / ><>25.0< / >< / ><><>1952< / ><>1288< / ><>Hiscox< / ><>1822< / ><>-12< / ><>2.1< / ><>13.3< / >< / ><><>700< / ><>549< / ><>Lancashire Hldg •< / ><>635< / ><>-6%< / ><>2.6< / ><>6.9< / >< / ><><>318%< / ><>217%< / ><>Legal & General< / ><>285%< / ><>-2%< / ><>7.7< / ><>28.6< / >< / ><><>1238< / ><>867%< / ><>Prudential< / ><>887%< / ><>+6%< / ><>2.4< / ><>7.6< / >< / ><><>960< / ><>633%< / ><>Standard Life< / ><>838%*< / ><>-33< / ><>6.7< / ><>-178.0< / >< / ><><>1575%< / ><>1011%< / ><>St James's Place< / ><>1020< / ><>-7< / ><>1.8< / ><>10.2< / >< / table>

富时100指数 (FTSE 100) 主要价格变动

<>< colspan="7">投资信托 -0.85%< / >< / ><>< colspan="7">52周< / >< / ><><>最高< / ><>最低 (p)< / ><>股票< / ><>价格 (p)< / ><>+ / -< / ><>收益率< / ><>资产净值 (NAV)< / >< / ><><>4497< / ><>1825< / ><>3i< / ><>2352< / ><>-39< / ><>3.6< / ><>3107< / >< / ><><>399 $\frac{1}{2}$ < / ><>325< / ><>3i Infrastructure●< / ><>385< / ><>+1< / ><>3.5< / ><>406< / >< / ><><>820< / ><>606< / ><>Aberdeen New India< / ><>688< / ><>-8< / ><>—< / ><>774< / >< / ><><>1409< / ><>1178< / ><>Alliance Witan< / ><>1397< / ><>-5< / ><>2.1< / ><>1475< / >< / ><><>789< / ><>480 $\frac{1}{2}$ < / ><>Allianz Tech Trust●< / ><>774< / ><>-2< / ><>—< / ><>846< / >< / ><><>331< / ><>283< / ><>Baillie Gliff China< / ><>283< / ><>-3< / ><>0.9< / ><>300< / >< / ><><>133< / ><>91 ${1}{2}$ < / ><>Baillie Gliff Euro Gwth< / ><>121< / ><>+2 ${1}{2}$ < / ><>0.6< / ><>130< / >< / ><><>157 ${1}{2}$ < / ><>125 ${1}{2}$ < / ><>Bankers Invstmt Tst●< / ><>154 ${1}{2}$ < / ><>-1< / ><>1.8< / ><>170< / >< / ><><>1786< / ><>1020< / ><>Biotech Growth< / ><>1364< / ><>-66< / ><>—< / ><>1524< / >< / ><><>289 ${1}{2}$ < / ><>208 ${1}{2}$ < / ><>BlckRockAmlnc< / ><>281< / ><>—< / ><>5.3< / ><>278< / >< / ><><>205< / ><>135 ${1}{2}$ < / ><>BlackRockEnergy&Res< / ><>174*< / ><>—< / ><>3.6< / ><>183< / >< / ><><>208< / ><>164 ${1}{2}$ < / ><>BlckRock Frolnv< / ><>187< / ><>- ${1}{2}$ < / ><>4.1< / ><>190< / >< / ><><>625< / ><>507< / ><>BlckRock Grt Euro●< / ><>569< / ><>-8< / ><>1.3< / ><>622< / >< / ><><>240< / ><>208< / ><>BlckRock Inc&Grth< / ><>238< / ><>+3< / ><>3.2< / ><>252< / >< / ><><>288 ${1}{2}$ < / ><>230 ${1}{2}$ < / ><>BlackRock Small●< / ><>262 ${1}{2}$ < / ><>- ${1}{2}$ < / ><>3.0< / ><>307< / >< / table>

上涨股 41< / td><>成交量< / ><>收盘价< / ><>涨跌幅< / >< / tr><><>特易购 (Tesco)< / ><>30.09m< / ><>500 $\frac{1}{2}$ < / ><>5.17pc< / >< / ><><>帝国品牌 (Imp Brands)< / ><>4.68m< / ><>2614< / ><>5.06pc< / >< / ><><>英国石油 (BP)< / ><>35.38m< / ><>584 $\frac{1}{2}$ < / ><>4.06pc< / >< / ><><>壳牌 (Shell)< / ><>7.56m< / ><>3780 $\frac{1}{2}$ < / ><>3.63pc< / >< / ><><>AutoTrader 集团 (Autotrader Grp)< / ><>4.33m< / ><>485 $\frac{1}{2}$ < / ><>3.21pc< / >< / ><><>Informa< / ><>7.16m< / ><>891< / ><>2.82pc< / >< / ><><>Bunzl< / ><>1.42m< / ><>2710< / ><>2.26pc< / >< / ><><>培生 (Pearson)< / ><>1.94m< / ><>1266 $\frac{1}{2}$ < / ><>1.89pc< / >< / ><><>英美烟草 (Brit Amer Tob)< / ><>5.98m< / ><>4161< / ><>1.89pc< / >< / ><><>伦敦证券交易所 (Lon Stock Ex)< / ><>0.75m< / ><>8470< / ><>1.85pc< / >< / ><><>伊萨卡能源 (Ithaca Energy)< / ><>2.42m< / ><>279 $\frac{1}{2}$ < / ><>1.82pc< / >< / ><><>巴布考克国际 (Babcock Intl)< / ><>1.64m< / ><>904 $\frac{1}{2}$ < / ><>1.53pc< / >< / ><><>赛恩斯伯里 (Sainsbury)< / ><>16.26m< / ><>332 $\frac{1}{2}$ < / ><>1.47pc< / >< / ><><>IG 集团 (IG Group)< / ><>3.36m< / ><>963< / ><>1.37pc< / >< / ><><>联合公用事业 (Utd. Utilities)< / ><>1.57m< / ><>1416< / ><>1.29pc< / >< / ><><>塞文特伦特 (Severn Trent)< / ><>1.29m< / ><>3096< / ><>1.24pc< / >< / ><><>益博睿 (Experian)< / ><>3.55m< / ><>2574< / ><>1.22pc< / >< / ><><>Rentokil Initial< / ><>7.07m< / ><>301 $\frac{1}{2}$ < / ><>1.17pc< / >< / ><><>亚伯丁集团 (Aberdeen Group)< / ><>2.69m< / ><>237< / ><>1.11pc< / >< / ><><>可口可乐欧洲 (Coca-Cola Euro)< / ><>0.11m< / ><>7785< / ><>1.10pc< / >< / ><><>中心能源 (Centrica)< / ><>10.39m< / ><>147< / ><>0.82pc< / >< / ><><>康帕斯 (Compass)< / ><>2.11m< / ><>2324 $\frac{1}{2}$ < / ><>0.76pc< / >< / table>

<><>下跌股 58< / ><>成交量< / ><>收盘价< / ><>涨跌幅< / >< / ><><>标准生活 (Standard Life)< / ><>10.50m< / ><>838 $\frac{1}{2}$ < / ><>-3.79pc< / >< / ><><>狮子金融 (Lion Finance)< / ><>0.07m< / ><>12370< / ><>-3.59pc< / >< / ><><>WPP< / ><>3.57m< / ><>372 $\frac{1}{4}$ < / ><>-3.30pc< / >< / ><><>葛兰素史克 (GSK)< / ><>16.33m< / ><>1735 $\frac{1}{2}$ < / ><>-3.07pc< / >< / ><><>国际航空租赁 (Intl Cons Air)< / ><>11.77m< / ><>420< / ><>-2.96pc< / >< / ><><>巴拉特-雷德罗 (Barratt Redrow)< / ><>5.18m< / ><>291 $\frac{1}{4}$ < / ><>-2.90pc< / >< / ><><>罗尔斯-罗伊斯 (Rolls-Royce)< / ><>19.71m< / ><>1367< / ><>-2.66pc< / >< / ><><>沃达丰 (Vodafone)< / ><>45.97m< / ><>124 $\frac{1}{4}$ < / ><>-2.62pc< / >< / ><><>梅尔罗斯工业 (Melrose Ind)< / ><>5.72m< / ><>438 $\frac{1}{4}$ < / ><>-2.60pc< / >< / ><><>Metlen Energy< / ><>0.14m< / ><>4048 $\frac{1}{4}$ < / ><>-2.54pc< / >< / ><><>阿斯利康 (AstraZeneca)< / ><>2.28m< / ><>11892< / ><>-2.36pc< / >< / ><><>安托法加斯塔 (Antofagasta)< / ><>1.03m< / ><>3605< / ><>-2.36pc< / >< / ><><>金英才 (Kingfisher)< / ><>6.35m< / ><>322 $\frac{1}{4}$ < / ><>-2.04pc< / >< / ><><>渣打银行 (Standard Chart)< / ><>5.02m< / ><>2108< / ><>-2.00pc< / >< / ><><>汇丰银行 (HSBC)< / ><>24.50m< / ><>1380 $\frac{1}{4}$ < / ><>-1.95pc< / >< / ><><>Tritax Big Box< / ><>7.56m< / ><>138 $\frac{1}{4}$ < / ><>-1.91pc< / >< / ><><>史密斯集团 (Smiths Gp)< / ><>1.45m< / ><>2710< / ><>-1.88pc< / >< / ><><>Land Secs< / ><>6.27m< / ><>601< / ><>-1.88pc< / >< / ><><>康华泰 (Convatec)< / ><>7.28m< / ><>213< / ><>-1.75pc< / >< / ><><>Spirax Group< / ><>0.15m< / ><>7015< / ><>-1.75pc< / >< / ><><>洲际酒店 (IntContl Hotels)< / ><>0.17m< / ><>11907 $\frac{1}{4}$ < / ><>-1.71pc< / >< / ><><>劳埃德银行集团 (Lloyds Bk Gp)< / ><>234.13m< / ><>100 $\frac{1}{4}$ < / ><>-1.66pc< / >< / table>

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公司< / td><>营业额(£)< / ><>税前利润(£)< / ><>每股收益(p)< / ><>股息(p)< / ><>派息日< / ><>除权日< / >< / tr><><>Ashoka India Equity Inv Trust< / ><>Fin - (-)< / ><>1.7m (1.0m)< / ><>0.750 (0.410)< / ><>0.600 (0.500)< / ><>10月30日< / ><>10月08日< / >< / ><><>Ensilica< / ><>Fin 27.8m (18.2m)< / ><>2.3m (-3.5m)< / ><>1.230 (-3.260)< / ><>n / a (n / a)< / ><>-< / >< / ><><>Fidelity Emerging Markets $< / ><>Fin - (-)< / ><>18.5m (24.2m)< / ><>32.000 (31.000)< / ><>33.000 (26.000)< / ><>12月08日< / ><>11月12日< / >< / ><><>Maven Renovar VCT< / ><>Int - (-)< / ><>214k (-591k)< / ><>0.160 (-0.410)< / ><>3.500 (2.500)< / ><>11月13日< / ><>10月15日< / >< / ><><>Netcall< / ><>Fin 57.7m (48.0m)< / ><>3.5m (5.1m)< / ><>0.930 (2.450)< / ><>1.100 (0.940)< / ><>2月08日< / ><>12月24日< / >< / ><><>Next 15 Group< / ><>Int 299.4m (316.1m)< / ><>-1.5m (15.8m)< / ><>-3.400 (10.700)< / ><>4.750 (4.750)< / ><>11月20日< / ><>10月15日< / >< / ><><>PXN Growth< / ><>Int - (-)< / ><>-119k (-110k)< / ><>-1.200 (-1.710)< / ><>n / a (n / a)< / ><>-< / >< / ><><>Schroder Japan Trust*< / ><>Fin - (-)< / ><>8.7m (8.9m)< / ><>6.790 (6.910)< / ><>4.070 (2.850)< / ><>10月30日< / ><>10月01日< / >< / ><><>Tesco< / ><>Int 374亿 (360亿)< / ><>15亿 (13亿)< / ><>16.900 (14.400)< / ><>5.050 (4.800)< / ><>11月20日< / ><>10月15日< / >< / ><><>Volution Grp< / ><>Fin 484.8m (419.1m)< / ><>82.1m (54.5m)< / ><>31.500 (21.000)< / ><>8.800 (7.400)< / ><>12月15日< / ><>11月19日< / >< / table>

<>< colspan="7">媒体 +2.16% 52周< / ><>< / >< / ><><>< / ><>最高< / ><>最低 (p)< / ><>股票< / >< colspan="3">价格 (p) + / - 收益率< / ><>市盈率< / >< / ><><>828%< / ><>418%< / >< colspan="2">Autotrader< / ><>485%< / ><>+15%< / ><>2.4< / ><>14.2< / >< / ><><>690< / ><>435< / >< colspan="2">Bloomsbury●< / ><>669< / ><>+22< / ><>2.4< / ><>20.2< / >< / ><><>1000< / ><>719< / >< colspan="2">Informa< / ><>891< / ><>+24%< / ><>2.5< / ><>-< / >< / ><><>87%< / ><>65%< / >< colspan="2">ITV●< / ><>66%< / ><>+7%< / ><>7.5< / ><>11.3< / >< / ><><>1337< / ><>874%< / >< colspan="2">Pearson< / ><>1266%< / ><>+23%< / ><>2.0< / ><>24.6< / >< / ><><>73%< / ><>39< / >< colspan="2">Reach< / ><>47%< / ><>...< / ><>12.5< / ><>-1.1< / >< / ><><>3539< / ><>1991< / >< colspan="2">RELX< / ><>2595< / ><>-4< / ><>2.7< / ><>23.0< / >< / ><><>700%< / ><>391%< / >< colspan="2">Rightmove●< / ><>502%< / ><>+41%< / ><>2.1< / ><>17.9< / >< / ><><>412%< / ><>218%< / >< colspan="2">WPP< / ><>372%< / ><>-12%< / ><>4.0< / ><>7.4< / >< / table>

矿业 -0.60%

<><>4348< / ><>2639< / ><>Anglo Amer< / ><>4040< / ><>-19< / ><>0.7< / ><>-16.2< / >< / ><><>4475< / ><>2496< / ><>Antofagasta< / ><>3605< / ><>-87< / ><>1.6< / ><>35.4< / >< / ><><>3592< / ><>1971< / ><>BHP Group< / ><>3187< / ><>-28< / ><>4.0< / ><>21.8< / >< / ><><>81< / ><>81< / ><>Evraz #< / ><>81< / ><>—< / ><>0.5< / >< / ><><>4472< / ><>2000< / ><>Fresnillo< / ><>2689< / ><>+1< / ><>4.2< / ><>18.9< / >< / ><><>707 $\frac{1}{4}$ < / ><>332 $\frac{1}{4}$ < / ><>Glencore< / ><>568 ${1}{4}$ < / ><>- ${1}{4}$ < / ><>2.3< / ><>—< / >< / ><><>858< / ><>309 ${1}{4}$ < / ><>Hochschild Mng •< / ><>510 ${1}{4}$ < / ><>- $9{1}{2}$ < / ><>1.3< / ><>17.3< / >< / ><><>319 ${1}{2}$ < / ><>171 ${1}{2}$ < / ><>Kenmare Res< / ><>238< / ><>+ $10{1}{2}$ < / ><>—< / ><>-0.9< / >< / ><><>9117< / ><>4955 ${1}{2}$ < / ><>Rio Tinto< / ><>7022< / ><>—< / ><>5.0< / ><>15.1< / >< / table>

52周< / td>< rowspan="2">价格 (p)< / >< rowspan="2">+ / -< / >< rowspan="2">收益率< / >< rowspan="2">市盈率< / >< / tr><><>最高< / ><>最低 (p)< / ><>股票< / >< / ><><>2103< / ><>1407 $\frac{1}{4}$ < / ><>Greggs ●< / ><>2094< / ><>+16< / ><>3.3< / ><>17.4< / >< / ><><>276 $\frac{1}{4}$ < / ><>123 ${1}{4}$ < / ><>Halfords ●< / ><>258 ${1}{2}$ < / ><>-1 ${1}{2}$ < / ><>3.5< / ><>17.0< / >< / ><><>981< / ><>713< / ><>Howden Joinery< / ><>748< / ><>-6 ${1}{2}$ < / ><>2.9< / ><>15.2< / >< / ><><>104 ${1}{4}$ < / ><>64< / ><>JD Sports Fash< / ><>84< / ><>+ ${1}{2}$ < / ><>1.5< / ><>9.7< / >< / ><><>372 ${1}{4}$ < / ><>266 ${1}{4}$ < / ><>Kingfisher< / ><>322 ${1}{4}$ < / ><>-6 ${1}{4}$ < / ><>3.8< / ><>23.0< / >< / ><><>418 ${1}{4}$ < / ><>301 ${1}{4}$ < / ><>Marks & Spen< / ><>396 ${1}{2}$ < / ><>+2 ${1}{4}$ < / ><>1.1< / ><>31.2< / >< / ><><>3 ${1}{2}$ < / ><>0< / ><>Mothercare< / ><> ${1}{4}$ < / ><>...< / ><>—< / ><>-0.3< / >< / ><><>15900< / ><>11695< / ><>Next< / ><>14455< / ><>-120< / ><>1.9< / ><>19.0< / >< / ><><>299 ${1}{4}$ < / ><>140 ${1}{4}$ < / ><>Ocado ●< / ><>283 ${1}{4}$ < / ><>-2 ${1}{4}$ < / ><>—< / ><>6.0< / >< / ><><>495< / ><>200< / ><>Pinewood Tech ●< / ><>448 ${1}{2}$ < / ><>+ ${1}{2}$ < / ><>—< / ><>93.4< / >< / ><><>799< / ><>234 ${1}{2}$ < / ><>Saga ●< / ><>755< / ><>-6< / ><>—< / >< / ><><>380 ${1}{4}$ < / ><>293 ${1}{2}$ < / ><>Sainsbury J< / ><>332 ${1}{2}$ < / ><>+4 ${1}{4}$ < / ><>4.1< / ><>19.2< / >< / ><><>712< / ><>345 ${1}{2}$ < / ><>Smith WH ●< / ><>369 ${1}{2}$ < / ><>—< / ><>-3.3< / >< / ><><>512 ${1}{2}$ < / ><>411 ${1}{2}$ < / ><>Tesco< / ><>500 ${1}{2}$ < / ><>+24 ${1}{2}$ < / ><>2.9< / ><>18.2< / >< / table>

<><>609%< / ><>399%< / ><>BP< / ><>584%< / ><>+22%< / ><>4.3< / ><>-< / >< / ><><>28%< / ><>9%< / ><>EnQuest< / ><>281⁄2< / ><>+1%< / ><>2.8< / ><>-< / >< / ><><>553< / ><>300< / ><>Hunting●< / ><>3841⁄2*< / ><>+7< / ><>2.7< / ><>19.4< / >< / ><><>3784< / ><>2553%< / ><>Shell< / ><>37801⁄2< / ><>+1321⁄2< / ><>3.0< / ><>16.5< / >< / table>

制药 -2.55%

<><>15732< / ><>9892< / ><>AstraZeneca< / ><>11892< / ><>-288< / ><>2.0< / ><>23.8< / >< / ><><>3220< / ><>1943< / ><>Genus •< / ><>2222< / ><>+14< / ><>1.6< / ><>5.1< / >< / ><><>2282< / ><>1592< / ><>GSK< / ><> $1735{1}{2}$ *< / ><>-55< / ><>4.0< / ><>12.3< / >< / ><><>1865< / ><>1187< / ><>Hikma •< / ><>1607< / ><>-39< / ><>4.0< / ><>11.7< / >< / table>

<><>2898< / ><>1981< / ><>Bunzl< / ><>2710< / ><>+60< / ><>2.8< / ><>19.2< / >< / ><><>416< / ><>196%< / ><>Capita< / ><>215%< / ><>+9%< / ><>-< / ><>-1.5< / >< / ><><>6740< / ><>4188< / ><>DCC Energy< / ><>6445< / ><>+5< / ><>3.4< / ><>-< / >< / ><><>115%< / ><>78%< / ><>Essentra< / ><>111%< / ><>-3%< / ><>1.9< / ><>-< / >< / ><><>3707< / ><>2203< / ><>Experian< / ><>2574< / ><>+31< / ><>2.0< / ><>20.7< / >< / ><><>5900< / ><>3519%< / ><>Intertek Group< / ><>5890< / ><>-10< / ><>2.8< / ><>27.0< / >< / ><><>250%< / ><>163%< / ><>Int'l Workplace●< / ><>178%< / ><>+3%< / ><>0.6< / ><>-< / >< / ><><>172%< / ><>123%< / ><>Johnson Serv●< / ><>135%*< / ><>-1%< / ><>3.7< / ><>14.6< / >< / ><><>214< / ><>134%< / ><>MITIE

Gp●< / td><>210%< / ><>-3%< / ><>2.1< / ><>31.8< / >< / tr><><>507< / ><>293%< / ><>Rentokil< / ><>301%< / ><>+3%< / ><>3.1< / ><>21.4< / >< / ><><>325%< / ><>218%< / ><>Serco Group●< / ><>251%< / ><>+3< / ><>1.8< / ><>17.5< / >< / ><><>11< / ><>6%< / ><>SIG< / ><>8%< / ><>-%< / ><>-< / ><>-1.6< / >< / ><><>723%< / ><>493%< / ><>Travis P●< / ><>549%*< / ><>-14< / ><>2.1< / ><>-6.6< / >< / table>

<><>16< / ><>7%< / ><>Alina Hldgs< / ><>91⁄2< / ><>+1⁄2< / ><>-< / ><>15< / >< / ><><>1208< / ><>7901⁄2< / ><>Big Yellow Gp •< / ><>7951⁄2< / ><>-211⁄2< / ><>5.9< / ><>-< / >< / ><><>451%< / ><>335%< / ><>Brit Land< / ><>3841⁄4< / ><>-61⁄2< / ><>6.0< / ><>-< / >< / ><><>2196< / ><>1469%< / ><>Derwent Ldn •< / ><>1749< / ><>-37< / ><>4.7< / ><>-< / >< / ><><>377< / ><>270< / ><>Gt Portland Est •< / ><>3001⁄4< / ><>-31⁄2< / ><>2.7< / ><>-< / >< / ><><>202%< / ><>1491⁄2< / ><>Grainger •< / ><>1591⁄2< / ><>-4< / ><>5.3< / ><>-< / >< / ><><>391%< / ><>280%< / ><>Hammerson •< / ><>3211⁄4< / ><>-51⁄2< / ><>5.7< / ><>-< / >< / ><><>997%< / ><>632%< / ><>Segro< / ><>908< / ><>-51⁄2< / ><>3.5< / ><>-< / >< / ><><>155%< / ><>124%< / ><>Shaftesbury Capital •< / ><>1341⁄2< / ><>-2< / ><>3.2< / ><>7.2< / >< / ><><>139< / ><>104< / ><>Town Centre< / ><>1191⁄2< / ><>-< / ><>4.2< / ><>-< / >< / ><><>175< / ><>138%< / ><>Tritax Big Box< / ><>1381⁄2< / ><>-21⁄2< / ><>5.9< / ><>184< / >< / table>

电信 -1.77%

<><>242%< / ><>173< / ><>BT Group< / ><>197%< / ><>-1< / ><>4.2< / ><>17.9< / >< / ><><>1896< / ><>638< / ><>Telecom Plus •< / ><>839< / ><>-11< / ><>6.0< / ><>8.3< / >< / ><><>132%< / ><>83%< / ><>Vodafone< / ><>124%< / ><>-3%< / ><>3.2< / ><>-89.0< / >< / ><>< colspan="7">烟草 +2.43%< / >< / table>

<><>5326< / ><>3677< / ><>Brit Am Tob< / ><>4161*< / ><>+77< / ><>5.9< / ><>11.9< / >< / ><><>3632< / ><>2408< / ><>Imp Brands< / ><>2614< / ><>+126< / ><>6.4< / ><>10.4< / >< / ><>< colspan="7">交通 -1.14%< / >< / table>

<><>169 $\frac{1}{2}$ < / ><>116 $\frac{3}{4}$ < / ><>Currys $\bullet$ < / ><>147 $\frac{3}{4}$ < / ><>+1 $\frac{1}{2}$ < / ><>2.0< / ><>9.5< / >< / ><><>1174< / ><>707< / ><>Dunelm $\bullet$ < / ><>788< / ><>-< / ><>8.9< / ><>10.2< / >< / ><><>849< / ><>598< / ><>Frasers Group $\bullet$ < / ><>835< / ><>-14< / ><>-< / ><>9.6< / >< / table>

<><>490< / ><>310 $\frac{1}{2}$ ZIGUP •< / ><>432< / ><>-5< / ><>6.2< / ><>12.8< / >< / table>

<><>683%< / ><>332%< / ><>easyJet< / ><>681< / ><>+1%< / ><>1.9< / ><>10.3< / >< / ><><>878%< / ><>405%< / ><>Entain●< / ><>423%< / ><>+10%< / ><>4.7< / ><>-4.1< / >< / ><><>222%< / ><>152%< / ><>FirstGroup●< / ><>187< / ><>+3⁄4< / ><>3.9< / ><>8.7< / >< / ><><>780< / ><>570< / ><>Fullers 'A'< / ><>708< / ><>+6< / ><>3.0< / ><>18.1< / >< / ><><>492%< / ><>332%< / ><>IAG Intl Cons Air< / ><>420< / ><>-12%< / ><>1.6< / ><>7.0< / >< / ><><>13305< / ><>8762< / ><>Intercont Hotels< / ><>11907%< / ><>-207%< / ><>1.2< / ><>32.1< / >< / ><><>302< / ><>223%< / ><>Mitchells&But●< / ><>285< / ><>-2%< / ><>—< / ><>9.6< / >< / ><><>32%< / ><>17< / ><>Mobico Group< / ><>21%< / ><>-1< / ><>—< / ><>-1.0< / >< / ><><>456< / ><>210< / ><>Playtech●< / ><>360< / ><>+1%< / ><>—< / ><>0.9< / >< / table>

世界市场指数

52周< / td><>< / >< / tr><><>最高< / ><>最低 (p)< / ><>股票< / ><>< / ><>价格 (p)< / ><>+ / -< / ><>收益率< / ><>市盈率< / >< / ><><>135< / ><>68%< / ><>Rank Group •< / ><>71 $\frac{1}{4}$ *< / ><>+1 $\frac{1}{4}$ < / ><>4.9< / ><>11.1< / ><>< / >< / ><><>1002%< / ><>530 $\frac{1}{2}$ < / ><>Wetherspoon •< / ><>1002< / ><>+12 $\frac{1}{2}$ < / ><>1.2< / ><>16.8< / ><>< / >< / ><><>3278< / ><>2098< / ><>Whitbread< / ><>2445< / ><>-27< / ><>4.0< / ><>19.8< / ><>< / >< / table>

<><>89%< / ><>36%< / ><>Alentra< / ><>72%< / ><>+1%< / ><>—< / ><>-68.7< / >< / ><><>955< / ><>755< / ><>Arbuthnot< / ><>790< / ><>-5< / ><>7.0< / ><>7.2< / >< / ><><>244< / ><>125%< / ><>Central Asia Met< / ><>151%*< / ><>+1%< / ><>10.3< / ><>-4.7< / >< / ><><>872 $\frac{1}{2}$ < / ><>192%< / ><>Ceres Power ●< / ><>369< / ><>-15< / ><>—< / ><>-15.0< / >< / ><><>460< / ><>271< / ><>Churchill China< / ><>355°< / ><>+4< / ><>5.9< / ><>8.9< / >< / ><><>380< / ><>194< / ><>CML Micro< / ><>320< / ><>-5< / ><>3.4< / ><>-969.7< / >< / ><><>1538< / ><>881%< / ><>Cohort< / ><>1192< / ><>+10< / ><>1.5< / ><>22.8< / >< / ><><>231< / ><>101< / ><>Eleco< / ><>230< / ><>—< / >< / ><><>3%< / ><> $\frac{1}{4}$ < / ><>Futura Medical< / ><>$\frac{1}{4}$ < / ><>—< / ><>-0.1< / >< / ><><>148 $\frac{1}{2}$ < / ><>112< / ><>James Halstead< / ><>125%< / ><>+1< / ><>7.1< / ><>12.9< / >< / ><><>405< / ><>200< / ><>Mpac Group< / ><>337 $\frac{1}{2}$ < / ><>—< / ><>-10.6< / >< / ><><>1800< / ><>1120< / ><>MS Intl< / ><>1565< / ><>+30< / ><>1.7< / ><>23.2< / >< / ><><>64< / ><>34 $\frac{1}{2}$ < / ><>Premier Miton< / ><>34%< / ><>—< / ><>8.6< / ><>44.6< / >< / ><><>104< / ><>46< / ><>Tribal Gp< / ><>103< / ><>+2< / ><>—< / ><>24.5< / >< / ><><>1 $\frac{1}{2}$ < / ><> $\frac{1}{2}$ < / ><>Xtract Resources< / ><> $\frac{1}{2}$ < / ><>...< / ><>—< / ><>-4.0< / >< / table>

替代投资市场（Alternative Investment Market）面向年轻且成长中的公司。其股票可能比全额报价股票具有更高的风险，且可能难以出售。

<>< colspan="2">< / ><>指数< / >< colspan="2">涨跌< / >< / ><><>澳大利亚< / ><>All Ordinaries< / ><>8823.20< / ><>-71.40< / ><>-0.80%< / >< / ><><>巴西< / ><>Bovespa< / ><>206220.24< / ><>+1917.91< / ><>+0.94%< / >< / ><><>中国< / ><>上海综合指数< / ><>3811.90< / ><>-30.29< / ><>-0.79%< / >< / ><><>法国< / ><>CAC General< / ><>7729.69< / ><>-39.52< / ><>-0.51%< / >< / ><><>德国< / ><>DAX< / ><>24806.97< / ><>-297.39< / ><>-1.18%< / >< / ><><>香港< / ><>恒生指数< / ><>23785.79< / ><>-344.71< / ><>-1.43%< / >< / ><><>印度< / ><>BSE S&P SENSEX< / ><>71593.24< / ><>-1045.46< / ><>-1.44%< / >< / ><><>日本< / ><>日经指数< / ><>69042.11< / ><>-993.60< / ><>-1.42%< / >< / ><><>新加坡< / ><>海峡时报指数< / ><>5412.96< / ><>-195.48< / ><>-3.49%< / >< / ><><>西班牙< / ><>马德里证券交易所< / ><>1889.40< / ><>-18.60< / ><>-0.97%< / >< / ><><>瑞士< / ><>SMI 指数< / ><>13637.00< / ><>-171.42< / ><>-1.24%< / >< / ><><>美国< / ><>道琼斯指数< / ><>51231.64< / ><>+51.77< / ><>+0.10%< / >< / ><><>美国< / ><>纳斯达克指数< / ><>27193.34< / ><>-345.35< / ><>-1.25%< / >< / table>

大宗商品摘要

52周< / td>< / tr><><>最高< / ><>最低< / ><>股票< / ><>价格< / ><>+ / -< / ><>总收益率< / ><>覆盖率< / >< / ><><>84%< / ><>35< / ><>Alcoa $< / ><>42%< / ><>-1⁄4< / ><>0.9< / ><>9.8< / >< / ><><>387%< / ><>291< / ><>Amer Express $< / ><>302%< / ><>-21⁄4< / ><>1.3< / ><>4.1< / >< / ><><>65%< / ><>46%< / ><>BankAmerica $< / ><>52%< / ><>-1< / ><>2.4< / ><>3.4< / >< / ><><>254%< / ><>176%< / ><>Boeing $< / ><>186%< / ><>-21⁄4< / ><>—< / >< / ><><>1073%< / ><>489%< / ><>Caterpillar $< / ><>809< / ><>-41⁄4< / ><>0.8< / ><>3.6< / >< / ><><>217%< / ><>146%< / ><>Chevron $< / ><>210%< / ><>-51⁄4< / ><>3.4< / ><>1.5< / >< / ><><>113%< / ><>84%< / ><>Coca-Cola Euro $< / ><>102%< / ><>+11⁄4< / ><>2.3< / ><>0.8< / >< / ><><>99%< / ><>74%< / ><>Colgate Palm $< / ><>87%< / ><>+3⁄4< / ><>2.4< / ><>1.2< / >< / ><><>169%< / ><>136< / ><>ExxonMobil Hldgs $< / ><>167%< / ><>+31⁄4< / ><>2.5< / ><>1.9< / >< / ><><>388%< / ><>268%< / ><>Gen Electric $< / ><>304< / ><>+1⁄2< / ><>0.6< / ><>4.5< / >< / ><><>397%< / ><>277%< / ><>Home Depot $< / ><>290%< / ><>+41⁄4< / ><>3.2< / ><>1.5< / >< / ><><>268< / ><>180< / ><>Honeywell $< / ><>205%< / ><>-21⁄4< / ><>1.4< / ><>5.0< / >< / ><><>36%< / ><>17%< / ><>HP $< / ><>32%< / ><>—< / ><>3.7< / ><>2.2< / >< / ><><>332%< / ><>199%< / ><>IBM $< / ><>220%< / ><>...< / ><>3.1< / ><>1.7< / >< / ><><>142%< / ><>32%< / ><>Intel $< / ><>109%< / ><>-31⁄4< / ><>—< / >< / ><><>50%< / ><>29%< / ><>Intl Paper $< / ><>31%< / ><>-3⁄4< / ><>5.9< / ><>2.9< / >< / ><><>366%< / ><>279%< / ><>JP Morgan Ch $< / ><>327%< / ><>-2< / ><>2.0< / ><>3.5< / >< / ><><>281%< / ><>184%< / ><>Johnson&John $< / ><>252%< / ><>-51⁄4< / ><>2.1< / ><>1.6< / >< / ><><>33%< / ><>24%< / ><>Keurig Dr Pep $< / ><>30%< / ><>+1⁄4< / ><>3.0< / ><>1.7< / >< / ><><>63%< / ><>25%< / ><>Manpower $< / ><>53< / ><>+1⁄4< / ><>2.7< / ><>1.5< / >< / ><><>341%< / ><>229%< / ><>McDonalds $< / ><>234%< / ><>-31⁄4< / ><>3.3< / ><>1.6< / >< / ><><>156%< / ><>82< / ><>Merck $< / ><>139%< / ><>-31⁄4< / ><>2.4< / ><>0.4< / >< / ><><>553%< / ><>349%< / ><>Microsoft $< / ><>531%< / ><>+11⁄4< / ><>0.7< / ><>4.6< / >< / ><><>29%< / ><>23%< / ><>Pfizer $< / ><>27%< / ><>-1⁄2< / ><>6.2< / ><>0.4< / >< / ><><>167%< / ><>137%< / ><>Procter & Gamble $< / ><>148%< / ><>+1< / ><>2.9< / ><>1.6< / >< / ><><>226%< / ><>155%< / ><>Raytheon Tech $< / ><>182%< / ><>+11⁄4< / ><>1.6< / ><>2.0< / >< / ><><>497%< / ><>332%< / ><>Rockwell $< / ><>431%< / ><>-101⁄4< / ><>1.3< / ><>1.9< / >< / table>

美国人 +0.06% 汇率

<>< colspan="2">52周< / >< rowspan="2">股票< / >< rowspan="2">价格< / >< colspan="3">+ / - 总收益率 覆盖率< / >< / ><><>最高< / ><>最低< / ><>< / >< / ><><>505%< / ><>348< / ><>Trane Tech $< / ><>473%< / ><>+61⁄4< / ><>0.9< / ><>3.1< / >< / ><><>135%< / ><>98%< / ><>Wal Mart Strs $< / ><>110%< / ><>+21⁄4< / ><>0.9< / ><>2.8< / >< / ><><>117%< / ><>92%< / ><>Walt Disney $< / ><>105%< / ><>+11⁄4< / ><>1.4< / ><>3.2< / >< / ><><>3%< / ><>1%< / ><>Xerox Hldgs $< / ><>3< / ><>-1⁄4< / ><>3.4< / ><>74.0< / >< / table>

67%< / td><>46%< / ><>阿克苏诺贝尔 (AkzoNobel) €< / ><>57%< / ><>-1⁄2< / ><>3.5< / ><>2.3< / >< / tr><><>97%< / ><>52%< / ><>宝马 (BMW) €< / ><>52%< / ><>-11⁄2< / ><>8.4< / ><>2.7< / >< / ><><>171⁄2< / ><>12%< / ><>家乐福 (Carrefour) €< / ><>161⁄4< / ><>+1⁄4< / ><>7.3< / ><>1.6< / >< / ><><>771⁄2< / ><>53%< / ><>大陆集团 (Continental AG) €< / ><>681⁄2< / ><>-21⁄4< / ><>4.0< / ><>0.3< / >< / ><><>62%< / ><>38%< / ><>戴姆勒 (Daimler) €< / ><>39< / ><>-3⁄4< / ><>9.0< / ><>2.9< / >< / ><><>801⁄2< / ><>57%< / ><>达能 (Danone) €< / ><>591⁄4< / ><>+1⁄2< / ><>3.8< / ><>1.2< / >< / ><><>581⁄2< / ><>38%< / ><>德国邮政 (Deutsche Post) €< / ><>55< / ><>-3⁄4< / ><>3.5< / ><>1.6< / >< / ><><>34%< / ><>23%< / ><>德国电信 (Deutsche Tele) €< / ><>261⁄4< / ><>-1⁄4< / ><>3.7< / ><>2.0< / >< / ><><>801⁄2< / ><>63%< / ><>喜力 (Heineken) €< / ><>701⁄4< / ><>+1⁄2< / ><>2.7< / ><>2.4< / >< / ><><>6541⁄4< / ><>376< / ><>LVMH €< / ><>3801⁄4< / ><>-71⁄2< / ><>3.4< / ><>1.7< / >< / ><><>821⁄2< / ><>60%< / ><>拉法基荷cim (LafargeHolcim) SFr< / ><>621⁄4< / ><>-1⁄4< / ><>2.7< / ><>1.9< / >< / ><><>10%< / ><>6%< / ><>汉莎航空 (Lufthansa) €< / ><>71⁄4< / ><>-1⁄4< / ><>4.5< / ><>9.0< / >< / ><><>15< / ><>4%< / ><>诺基亚 (Nokia OYJ) €< / ><>91⁄4< / ><>-1⁄2< / ><>1.5< / ><>0.9< / >< / ><><>35%< / ><>25%< / ><>米其林 (Michelin) €< / ><>331⁄4< / ><>-1⁄2< / ><>4.2< / ><>1.7< / >< / ><><>90%< / ><>57%< / ><>保乐力加 (Pernod Ricard) €< / ><>611⁄4< / ><>+1⁄4< / ><>7.7< / ><>1.4< / >< / ><><>27%< / ><>20%< / ><>飞利浦 (Philips (Kon)) €< / ><>211⁄2< / ><>...< / ><>4.0< / ><>0.6< / >< / ><><>291%< / ><>198< / ><>西门子 (Siemens) €< / ><>2641⁄4< / ><>-7< / ><>2.0< / >< / ><><>84%< / ><>52< / ><>法国兴业银行 (Societe Gen) €< / ><>621⁄2< / ><>-11⁄2< / ><>2.8< / ><>3.9< / >< / ><><>101⁄2< / ><>3%< / ><>斯特兰蒂斯 (Stellantis) €< / ><>4< / ><>-1⁄2< / ><>17.0< / ><>1.1< / >< / ><><>274%< / ><>212%< / ><>泰雷兹 (Thales) €< / ><>2151⁄4< / ><>-3⁄4< / ><>1.9< / ><>2.0< / >< / ><><>81%< / ><>49%< / ><>道达尔 (Total) €< / ><>771⁄4< / ><>+21⁄4< / ><>4.5< / ><>2.0< / >< / ><><>45< / ><>28%< / ><>瑞银集团 (UBS AG) SFr< / ><>381⁄4< / ><>-1⁄2< / ><>2.2< / ><>2.3< / >< / ><><>37%< / ><>27%< / ><>威立雅环境 (Veolia Environ) €< / ><>301⁄4< / ><>...< / ><>4.9< / ><>0.3< / >< / ><><>110%< / ><>67%< / ><>大众 (Volkswagen) €< / ><>661⁄4< / ><>-31⁄4< / ><>7.8< / ><>2.6< / >< / table>

<>< colspan="7">近期发行< / >< / ><>< colspan="7">52周< / >< / ><><>最高< / ><>最低 (p)< / ><>股票< / ><>价格 (p)< / ><>+ / -< / ><>收益率< / ><>市盈率< / >< / ><><>141 $\frac{1}{4}$ < / ><>141 $\frac{1}{4}$ < / ><>Aimia< / ><>141< / ><>—< / ><>-186.5< / >< / ><><>190< / ><>140< / ><>Bravura Solutions< / ><>164 $\frac{1}{2}$ < / ><>—< / ><>8.1< / ><>12.5< / >< / ><><>73< / ><>55< / ><>Chaleit Holdings< / ><>69< / ><>+11 $\frac{1}{2}$ < / ><>—< / >< / table>

<>< colspan="2">粗体为富时100指数 (FTSE100) 股票< / ><>• 为富时250指数 (FTSE250) 股票< / >< / ><><>* 除息< / ><>† 除权< / ><>‡ 除息除权< / >< / ><><>§ 除认股权< / ><># 暂停交易< / ><>< / >< / ><>< colspan="3">覆盖率与上一年度股息相关。< / >< / ><>< colspan="3">收益率为扣除基本税率后的净值。< / >< / ><>< colspan="3">数据仅供参考，不旨在用于交易目的。在利用任何数据进行交易前，请咨询财务顾问。< / >< / table>

< / td>< colspan="4">旅游汇率仅供参考。www.travelex.co.uk< / >< / tr><>< colspan="4">英镑 > 欧元 汇率 1.1801 变动 -0.08¢ 英镑 > 美元 汇率 1.3227 变动 +0.07¢< / >< / ><><>旅游英镑 £1 =< / ><>英镑 Sterling £1 =< / ><>1 欧元 =< / ><>1 美元 =< / >< / ><><>澳大利亚< / ><>澳元 Aus $< / ><>1.8447< / ><>1.8997< / ><>1.6098< / ><>1.4363< / >< / ><><>加拿大< / ><>加元 Can $< / ><>1.8212< / ><>1.8820< / ><>1.5947< / ><>1.4228< / >< / ><><>丹麦< / ><>克朗 Krone< / ><>8.3637< / ><>8.8211< / ><>7.4749< / ><>6.6692< / >< / ><><>欧元区< / ><>€< / ><>1.1496< / ><>1.1801< / ><>...< / ><>0.8922< / >< / ><><>香港< / ><>港元 HK $< / ><>9.8180< / ><>10.3806< / ><>8.7965< / ><>7.8483< / >< / ><><>印度< / ><>卢比 Rupee< / ><>97.41< / ><>128.0144< / ><>108.4780< / ><>96.7862< / >< / ><><>以色列< / ><>谢克尔 Shekels< / ><>3.7764< / ><>4.0521< / ><>3.4337< / ><>3.0636< / >< / ><><>日本< / ><>日元 Yen< / ><>201.7871< / ><>209.2631< / ><>177.3273< / ><>158.2150< / >< / ><><>科威特< / ><>第纳尔 Dinar< / ><>...< / ><>0.4113< / ><>0.3486< / ><>0.3110< / >< / ><><>新西兰< / ><>新西兰元 NZ $< / ><>2.2666< / ><>2.3606< / ><>2.0004< / ><>1.7848< / >< / ><><>挪威< / ><>克朗 Krone< / ><>12.0854< / ><>12.6483< / ><>10.7180< / ><>9.5628< / >< / ><><>巴基斯坦< / ><>卢比 Rupee< / ><>340.39< / ><>366.2749< / ><>310.3775< / ><>276.9250< / >< / ><><>沙特阿拉伯< / ><>里亚尔 Riyal< / ><>4.7019< / ><>4.9657< / ><>4.2079< / ><>3.7544< / >< / ><><>新加坡< / ><>$< / ><>1.6017< / ><>1.6943< / ><>1.4358< / ><>1.2810< / >< / ><><>南非< / ><>兰特 Rand< / ><>21.0110< / ><>21.9912< / ><>18.6351< / ><>16.6266< / >< / ><><>瑞典< / ><>克朗 Krona< / ><>12.5684< / ><>13.2071< / ><>11.1915< / ><>9.9853< / >< / ><><>瑞士< / ><>法郎 Franc< / ><>1.0598< / ><>1.1016< / ><>0.9335< / ><>0.8328< / >< / ><><>泰国< / ><>泰铢 Baht< / ><>42.6345< / ><>44.5534< / ><>37.7542< / ><>33.6850< / >< / ><><>阿联酋< / ><>迪拉姆 Dirham< / ><>4.6726< / ><>4.8578< / ><>4.1165< / ><>3.6728< / >< / ><><>英国< / ><>£< / ><>...< / ><>0.8474< / ><>0.7561< / >< / ><><>美国< / ><>$< / ><>1.2881< / ><>1.3227< / ><>1.1208< / ><>...< / >< / table>

<>< colspan="2">< / ><>价格< / >< colspan="2">变动< / >< / ><><>黄金< / ><>每金衡盎司< / ><>$4135.51< / ><>+24.91< / ><>+0.61pc< / >< / ><><>白银< / ><>每金衡盎司< / ><>£44.73< / ><>-0.53< / ><>-1.17pc< / >< / ><><>克鲁格金币< / ><>< / ><>£3076.22< / ><>-9.25< / ><>-0.30pc< / >< / ><><>新主权金币< / ><>< / ><>£719.74< / ><>+3.56< / ><>+0.50pc< / >< / ><><>枫叶金币< / ><>< / ><>£3108.88< / ><>+3.96< / ><>+0.13pc< / >< / ><><>铂金< / ><>每盎司< / ><>£1241.32< / ><>+3.23< / ><>+0.26pc< / >< / ><><>钯金< / ><>每盎司< / ><>£853.63< / ><>+5.29< / ><>+0.62pc< / >< / ><><>铜†< / ><>A级< / ><>£10807.06< / ><>-133.59< / ><>-1.22pc< / >< / ><><>锡†< / ><>高级< / ><>£38931.73< / ><>-2153.89< / ><>-5.24pc< / >< / ><><>铅†< / ><>< / ><>£1408.86< / ><>-23.12< / ><>-1.61pc< / >< / ><><>锌†< / ><>特级< / ><>£2804.87< / ><>-46.22< / ><>-1.62pc< / >< / ><><>铝†< / ><>高级< / ><>£2299.84< / ><>-65.97< / ><>-2.79pc< / >< / ><><>镍†< / ><>< / ><>£11756.26< / ><>-152.29< / ><>-1.28pc< / >< / ><><>波罗的海干散货指数*< / ><>< / ><>2973.00< / ><>-21.00< / ><>-0.70pc< / >< / ><><>小麦< / ><>每吨< / ><>£206.25< / ><>-2.25< / ><>-1.08pc< / >< / ><><>布伦特原油< / ><>12月结算价< / ><>$104.28< / ><>+4.08< / ><>+4.07pc< / >< / table>

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货币与利率 *版权所有：波罗的海交易所信息服务有限公司。†数据由伦敦金属交易所提供。

货币与利率< / td>< / tr><><>RPI (1987=100)< / ><>8月 421.60< / ><>+0.6pc< / ><>+3.4pc< / >< / ><><>RPIX (目标 2.5pc)< / ><>8月 414.60< / ><>+2.4< / ><>+3.3pc< / >< / ><><>CPI (2015=100 目标 2pc)< / ><>8月 143.60< / ><>+0.5pc< / ><>+3.1pc< / >< / ><><>劳埃德银行房价指数< / ><>9月 514.60< / ><>0.0pc< / >< / ><><>银行利率< / ><>< / ><>3.75pc< / >< / ><><>Nationwide 基础抵押贷款利率< / ><>< / ><>5.75pc< / >< / ><><>美国联邦基金利率< / ><>< / ><>3.75-4.00pc< / >< / ><><>美国长期债券收益率< / ><>< / ><>5.66pc< / >< / ><><>欧洲基准利率< / ><>< / ><>2.65pc< / >< / table>

<><>名称< / ><>初始变动< / ><>卖出价< / ><>中间买入价< / ><>当日变动< / >< / table>

AYA Investment Managers

AXA Ppl & Planet Eqty R GBP< / td><>-< / ><>308.6< / ><>-4.10< / >< / tr><><>Amer Gwth Acc< / ><>-< / ><>1850< / ><>-7.00< / >< / ><><>Biotech Acc< / ><>-< / ><>309.4< / ><>+0.90< / >< / ><><>Global Sust Mngd R < / ><>-< / ><>616.9< / ><>-4.60< / >< / ><><>Global Tech< / ><>-< / ><>451.2< / ><>-3.10< / >< / ><><>Global Thematics R GBP < / ><>-< / ><>2797< / ><>-15.00< / >< / ><><>Health < / ><>-< / ><>3372< / ><>-21.00< / >< / ><><>Japan R GBP < / ><>-< / ><>993.7< / ><>-15.30< / >< / ><><>Managed Income R Gross < / ><>-< / ><>220.9< / ><>-0.70< / >< / ><><>Managed Income R Gross Dis< / ><>-< / ><>91.64< / ><>-0.31< / >< / ><><>UK Select Opps R < / ><>-< / ><>4105< / ><>-21.00< / >< / ><><>UK Select Opps R Inc< / ><>-< / ><>2041< / ><>-11.00< / >< / ><><> Smir Cos < / ><>-< / ><>347.8< / ><>-3.80< / >< / ><><> Sust Equity R < / ><>-< / ><>365.8< / ><>-2.30< / >< / ><>< colspan="4">AXA IM Funds www.axa-im.co.< / >< / table>

BLUE WHALE GROWTH FUND

Blue Whale Capital 0345 307 3439 www.bluewhale.co.

纽约梅隆银行 (BNY MELLON)

纽约梅隆银行基金管理公司 (BNY Mellon Fund Managers) 投资者电话：0800 614330 经纪人电话：08085 660000 www.bnymellonim.co.uk, clientservices@bnymellon.com 纽约梅隆投资资金 (ICVC) 英镑收益份额

全球收益 (Global Income)< / td><>0%< / ><>315.69< / ><>-0.82< / >< / tr><><>公司债券 (Corporate Bond)< / ><>0%< / ><>79.54< / ><>-0.3< / >< / ><><>股票收益 (Equity Inc)< / ><>0%< / ><>142.69< / ><>...< / >< / ><><>股票收益增强 (Equity Inc Booster)< / ><>0%< / ><>90.37< / ><>...< / >< / ><><>全球绝对回报‡ (Glob Abs Ret‡)< / ><>0%< / ><>109.35< / ><>...< / >< / ><><>全球多策略 (Glob Multi-Strat)< / ><>0%< / ><>138.6< / ><>-0.53< / >< / ><><>通胀挂钩公司债券 (Inflation-Linked Corp Bd)< / ><>0%< / ><>116.31< / ><>-0.12< / >< / ><><>长期全球股票 (Long-Term Global Equity)< / ><>0%< / ><>512.57< / ><>-0.43< / >< / ><><>亚洲收益 (Asian Income)< / ><>0%< / ><>314.78< / ><>-1.39< / >< / ><><>欧洲机遇 (European Opps)< / ><>0%< / ><>454.43< / ><>-1.27< / >< / ><><>全球动态债券 (Global Dynamic Bd)< / ><>0%< / ><>83.58< / ><>-0.05< / >< / ><><>全球高收益债券 (Global High Yield Bd)< / ><>0%< / ><>45.93< / ><>-0.28< / >< / ><><>国际债券 (International Bd)< / ><>0%< / ><>188.94< / ><>-0.03< / >< / ><><>多资产平衡 (Multi-Asset Bal)< / ><>0%< / ><>308.23< / ><>-0.43< / >< / ><><>多资产多元回报 (Mult-Asset Div Return)< / ><>0%< / ><>198.46< / ><>-0.35< / >< / ><><>多资产增长 (Mult-Asset Growth)< / ><>0%< / ><>1656.33< / ><>-0.34< / >< / ><><>东方 (Oriental)< / ><>0%< / ><>1260.68< / ><>-0.92< / >< / ><><>实际回报 A (Real Return A)< / ><>0%< / ><>137.15< / ><>-0.4< / >< / ><><>英国股票基金 (UK Equity Fund)< / ><>0%< / ><>1174.64< / ><>-1.16< / >< / ><><>英国收益 (UK Income)< / ><>0%< / ><>98.5< / ><>-1.37< / >< / ><><>英国机遇 B 份额 (UK Opportunities B Shares)< / ><>0%< / ><>439.5< / ><>-1.4< / >< / ><><>全球收益 (Global Income)< / ><>0%< / ><>262.54< / ><>-0.82< / >< / ><><>公司债券 (Corporate Bond)< / ><>0%< / ><>96.32< / ><>-0.29< / >< / ><><>股票收益 (Equity Inc)< / ><>0%< / ><>107.1< / ><>...< / >< / ><><>股票收益增强 (Equity Inc Booster)< / ><>0%< / ><>71.26< / ><>...< / >< / ><><>全球绝对回报 (Glob Abs Ret)< / ><>0%< / ><>117.85< / ><>-0.5< / >< / table>

<><>名称< / ><>初始变动< / ><>中间卖出价< / ><>买入价< / ><>当日变动< / >< / ><><>全球多策略 (Glob Multi-Strat)< / ><>0%< / ><>139.3< / ><>< / ><>-0.53< / >< / ><><>通胀挂钩公司债券 (Inflation-Linked Corp Bd)< / ><>0%< / ><>116.49< / ><>< / ><>-0.11< / >< / ><><>长期全球股票 (Long-Term Global Equity)< / ><>0%< / ><>394.58< / ><>< / ><>-0.42< / >< / ><><>亚洲收益 (Asian Income)< / ><>0%< / ><>198.07< / ><>< / ><>-1.39< / >< / ><><>欧陆 (Continental European)< / ><>0%< / ><>300.46< / ><>< / ><>-1.27< / >< / ><><>全球动态债券 (Global Dynamic Bd)< / ><>0%< / ><>81.86< / ><>< / ><>-0.05< / >< / ><><>全球高收益债券 (Global High Yield Bd)< / ><>0%< / ><>73.88< / ><>< / ><>-0.28< / >< / ><><>国际债券 (International Bd)< / ><>0%< / ><>86.71< / ><>< / ><>+0.03< / >< / ><><>多资产平衡 (Multi-Asset Bal)< / ><>0%< / ><>208.25< / ><>< / ><>-0.43< / >< / ><><>多资产多元回报 (Multi-Asset Div Return)< / ><>0%< / ><>153.79< / ><>< / ><>-0.35< / >< / ><><>多资产增长 (Multi-Asset Growth)< / ><>0%< / ><>332.27< / ><>< / ><>-0.34< / >< / ><><>东方 (Oriental)< / ><>0%< / ><>256.69< / ><>< / ><>-0.92< / >< / ><><>实际回报 A (Real Return A)< / ><>0%< / ><>124.23< / ><>< / ><>-0.4< / >< / ><><>英国股票基金 (UK Equity Fund)< / ><>0%< / ><>202.76< / ><>< / ><>-1.16< / >< / ><><>英国收益 (UK Income)< / ><>0%< / ><>200.86< / ><>< / ><>-1.37< / >< / ><><>英国机遇 (UK Opportunities)< / ><>0%< / ><>219.27< / ><>< / ><>-1.4< / >< / ><><>新兴收益 (Emerging Income)< / ><>0%< / ><>140.75< / ><>< / ><>-0.77< / >< / ><><>全球新兴市场 (Global Emerging Mkts)< / ><>0%< / ><>294.02< / ><>< / ><>-1.26< / >< / ><><>全球股票基金 (Global Equity Fund)< / ><>0%< / ><>408.65< / ><>< / ><>-0.55< / >< / ><><>多资产收益 (Multi Asset Inc)< / ><>0%< / ><>141.4< / ><>< / ><>-0.44< / >< / table>

Fundsmith LLP PO Box 10846, Chelmsford, Essex, CM99 2BW. 0330 123 1815 www.fundsmith.co.uk enquiries@fundsmith.co.uk

Fundsmith Equity T Acc< / td><>-< / ><>710.66< / ><>-3.61< / >< / tr><><>Fundsmith Equity T Inc< / ><>-< / ><>641.41< / ><>-3.26< / >< / table>

<><>名称< / ><>初始变动< / ><>卖出价< / ><>中间买入价< / ><>当日变动< / >< / table>

GUINNESS GLOBAL INVESTORS

Guinness Global Investors 18 Smith Square, London, SW1P 3HZ

+44(0)20 7222 5703

Sustainable Energy Acc< / td><>-< / ><>24.7356< / ><>...< / >< / tr><><> Innovators Acc< / ><>-< / ><>49.413< / ><>...< / >< / ><><> Equity Income Inc< / ><>-< / ><>24.7006< / ><>...< / >< / ><>< colspan="4">可作为个人储蓄账户 (ISA) 办理< / >< / table>

Janus Henderson

Janus Henderson Investors PO Box 9023 Chelmsford, CM99 2WB 查询电话：0800 832 832 网站：www.janushenderson.com

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如何在“三重锁”机制终结时拯救您的退休金

国家养老金的增长速度预计将放缓，但仍有方法可以增加您的领取额度。作者：罗布·怀特 (Rob White)

自 2012 年以来，“三重锁”（triple lock）机制保护了数百万英国养老金领取者免于贫困，该机制保证其每年的养老金增幅将取工资增长率、通货膨胀率或 2.5% 三者中的最高值。

但上个月安迪·伯纳姆（Andy Burnham）宣布“三重锁”将在下次大选后终止，使其前景变得前所未有的不稳定。

从 2030 年起，养老金发放额仍将按通货膨胀率或 2.5% 中的最高值增长，但工资增长率将不再被纳入考虑。政府随后澄清，养老金金额将不允许低于全国平均工资的 30%。但请不要误会——您的国家养老金增长速度将会放缓。以下是您可以采取的措施，以增加您的领取额度并保障您的退休生活。

考虑延迟领取 一旦您达到国家养老金领取年龄，您必须提出申请才能开始领取。如果您没有申请，或者决定暂时不领取，每延迟九周，领取金额将增加 1%。

延迟领取没有最高时间限制。对于那些继续工作的人来说，延迟领取可以节省大量税款——特别是如果领取养老金会使您进入更高的税率档位。

然而，一旦首相的改革方案生效，这个想法可能会变得更具吸引力。国家养老金中延迟领取的部分仅随通货膨胀率增长，而不适用“三重锁”机制，这意味着它可能会显著落后于国家养老金的其他部分——尤其是考虑到在过去八年中有五年是由工资增长率决定“三重锁”增幅的。

根据这一规则，在 2019 年申请的养老金中，延迟领取的部分其价值已经比适用“三重锁”时低了约 10%。

然而，如果这些变更在 2030 年引入，工资增长率将不再是计算的一部分，

这意味着延迟领取部分的增长率可能与国家养老金的其他部分非常接近。对于某些人来说，这可能会成为决定是否延迟领取的关键因素。

不过，这仍然是一场赌博，因为要通过延迟领取来“回本”可能需要 15 年或更长时间，因此如果您早逝，可能会遭受损失——尤其是对于低收入者而言。

补缴缺失的国民保险（National Insurance）缴费年限 虽然领取全额国家养老金需要 35 年的缴费记录，但不足一年的缴费年限是不计入在内的。不过，好消息是您可以追溯并补缴过去六年中的任何缺失年限。

您还可能为某些未工作年份申请抵免，例如您当时正在寻找工作，或者作为父母或祖父母在照顾年幼的孩子。

检查您的国家养老金预测报告是一个很好的开始。

重返职场

要领取全额国家养老金，通常需要缴纳 35 年的国家保险（National Insurance）。然而，即使达到了这一目标，你最终领到的金额仍可能较低。

在 2016 年之前，部分人员被“合同排除”（contracted out）在额外国家养老金之外。这允许他们及其雇主缴纳较少的国家保险，但他们最终的国家养老金数额将会减少。

为了补偿这一点，雇主必须在员工退休后为其支付更多的私人养老金，从而至少与该员工损失的金额相当。

在计算国家养老金金额时，会适用一项“合同排除扣除额”，导致许多人领到的金额低于全额。

不过，在 2016 年之后直到达到国家养老金领取年龄之前工作的任何年份，都可以“抵消”或替换那些受影响的年份，从而使每周的领取额增加 £6.89。

因此，如果有人在今年达到国家养老金领取年龄，但他们在 2016 年之前被大规模地“合同排除”，他们每周最多将领取 £184.90。然而，如果他们在 2016 年之后工作了大约九年，

三重锁增长历史

自 2012 年以来，三重锁已耗资近 1000亿英镑

领取额将增加至全额的 £241.30。对于一些在 2016 年后缴费不足九年的人来说，重返职场可能是值得的。

进行自愿缴费 你也可以通过进行自愿补缴来实现同样的目标。只需支付 £956.80，你就可以购买一年的国家保险缴费，从而提高你的国家养老金。

养老金咨询公司 LCP 的合伙人、前养老金大臣史蒂夫·韦伯爵士（Sir Steve Webb）表示：“大多数在 2016 年后有九年或更多缴费记录的人，如果在 2016 年规则变更前已经在系统中缴费 30 年，那么他们将获得全额的新养老金。”

“但如果他们的国家养老金预测额低于全额，那么额外工作一两年或进行自愿国家保险缴费，可能就足以产生影响，使养老金从略有减少变为全额。”

移居海外

居住在海外的国家养老金领取者选择搬迁，是为了享受英国无法提供的更好天气和更低的生活成本——但其中一个缺点是需要面对被“冻结”的国家养老金。

只有居住在欧洲经济区、直布罗陀、瑞士或大多数与英国签署了社会保障协议的国家，退休人员才能从三重锁的增长中获益。

然而，当人们居住在其他地方时，该增长并不适用，包括澳大利亚、新西兰和加拿大等其他热门退休目的地。

现在，一旦国家养老金的增长速度放缓，决定搬迁可能变得更有意义，因为这些外籍人士将错过的增长幅度会更小。如果有人在 2020 年离开英国并移居泰国，他们的国家养老金将冻结在每年 9,110 英镑 —— 比留在英国低了 3,400 英镑 多一点。然而，如果伯纳姆（Burnham）的变更在那个时期适用，他们错过的金额将仅约为 2,835 英镑，这在权衡海外生活的利弊时可能是一个考虑因素。

最大化你的私人养老金 提高国家养老金领取额的方法有限。一旦你用尽了这些选项，就可能是时候审视你的私人储蓄，以及如何利用它们来资助你理想的退休生活。

你储蓄的钱越多，从养老金税收减免中获益就越多——同时还能降低你的应纳税收入——但如果你参加了职场养老金计划，你还可以获得额外福利。许多雇主会匹配你投入的金额（最高至一定限额），因此确认你是否获得了最高可能的匹配金额至关重要。

商业快讯

生活成本危机导致信用卡违约率上升

根据英格兰银行对贷款机构的一项调查，截至8月底的三个月内，信用卡违约率有所增加。

预计在截至11月底的三个月内，信用卡违约率将继续上升。

抵押贷款的违约率在截至8月的三个月内略有下降，预计在未来三个月内将保持不变。

慈善机构 StepChange 的亚当·巴特勒（Adam Butler）表示：“由于人们在支付账单的同时难以维持常规还款，无担保信贷的违约率正在上升。”

富裕阶层缺乏晚年护理规划

一项调查发现，约 40% 的富裕家庭担心晚年护理问题，但仅有 12% 的人为此制定了计划。

在财富管理公司 Rathbones 对 2,036 名拥有至少 25 万英镑 可投资资产的成年人进行的调查中，45% 的受访者承认在退休规划中完全没有考虑护理因素。

Rathbones 的斯蒂芬·菲尔德（Stephen Field）表示：“人们的寿命在延长，但生活质量未必更健康。如果没有计划，原本用于旅行、生活目标和家庭的资金可能会被用于支付护理费用。”

德勤因 Go-Ahead 审计问题被罚款 600 万英镑

会计监管机构因德勤（Deloitte）对巴士运营商 Go-Ahead 的审计问题，对其处以超过 600 万英镑 的罚款。

财务报告理事会（FRC）表示，在为期五年的审计中发现了“令人深感忧虑的失败模式”。

三年前，Go-Ahead 与法国公司 Keolis 成立的 Govia 合资企业因“严重违背信任”而被政府剥夺了东南部铁路特许经营权。

德勤英国公司的一位发言人表示：“我们很遗憾审计工作的某些方面未能达到预期标准。”

Just Eat Takeaway.com 订单量恢复增长

Just Eat Takeaway.com 的所有者称，随着转型努力取得成效，订单量在近五年内首次恢复增长。

由南非 Naspers 控股的全球技术投资者 Prosus 表示，9 月份的全球订单量同比增长 0.1pc，这与去年 12 月其以 36亿英镑 收购该公司时 9pc 的跌幅形成了鲜明对比。

Prosus 首席执行官法布里齐奥·布洛伊西（Fabricio Bloisi）表示：“恢复增长标志着一个重要的里程碑，这是团队努力的结果。”

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10月3日 威尔士亲王（威尔士亲王与王妃皇家基金会共同赞助人）今晨在温莎城堡主持了一场关于“Homewards”计划的会议。

随后，殿下在温莎城堡接见了阁下安吉拉·伊格尔（Rt Hon Dame Angela Eagle MP，环境、食品与农村事务大臣）。

威尔士亲王（Earthshot Prize 创始人兼主席）今后通过视频会议参加了 Earthshot Prize 评议委员会的评审工作。

威尔士王妃（威尔士亲王与王妃皇家基金会共同赞助人）今晨在伦敦的 Pivotal 办公室与 Melinda French Gates 女士（Pivotal 创始人）举行了会谈。

圣詹姆斯宫 10月8日

安妮公主（英国质量基金会赞助人）今晚出席了在米德尔塞克斯郡温布利球场举行的英国颁奖典礼，并由贾斯汀·帕克肖先生（Justin Packshaw，大伦敦副副代表）接待。

肯辛顿宫

格洛斯特公爵与公爵夫人，在英国驻博茨瓦纳共和国高级专员（吉尔斯·恩蒂克纳阁下）的陪同下，今晨在加博罗内官邸种下一棵纪念树，以纪念博茨瓦纳独立六十周年。

两位殿下今后从塞雷特·卡马国际机场出发，经由南非返回英国。

格洛斯特公爵（耶路撒冷圣约翰最尊贵医院骑士团大院长）今后在南非奥尔坦博机场的洲际酒店参加了一场会议。

今日生日

肯特公爵 91 岁。摄影记者唐·麦卡林爵士 91 岁；演员、作家兼登山家布莱恩·布莱斯特先生 90 岁；伦敦大学学院现代英语文学诺斯克利夫教授约翰·萨瑟兰教授（1992-2004 年在任，现为名誉教授） 88 岁；前上诉法院法官斯蒂芬·塞德利爵士 87 岁；信号主管塞缪尔·考恩将军爵士（2003-08 年在任） 85 岁；曼彻斯特科学技术大学（UMIST）校长兼副校长约翰·加赛德教授（2000-04 年在任） 85 岁；ACAS 主席多纳希男爵夫人（2000-07 年在任） 82 岁；雕塑家约翰·杜布尔戴先生 79 岁；作家兼园艺家罗迪·刘易林爵士 78 岁；2016 年诺贝尔经济学奖共同获得者奥利弗·哈特爵士 78 岁；音乐经理兼电视名人莎伦·奥斯本女士 74 岁；罗尔斯-罗伊斯首席执行官约翰·罗斯爵士（1996-2011 年在任） 74 岁；女中音及歌剧导演萨莉·伯吉斯小姐 73 岁；威斯敏斯特学校校长斯蒂芬·斯普尔博士（2005-14 年在任） 73 岁；前高等法院法官斯蒂芬·斯图尔特爵士 73 岁；前中距离跑运动员、1980 年莫斯科奥运会 800 米金牌得主史蒂夫·欧维特先生 71 岁；疫苗学家、詹纳研究所所长兼牛津大学疫苗学拉克希米·米塔尔及家族教授亚德里安·希尔爵士教授 68 岁；伯明翰机场主席及英国奥林匹克协会主席（2016-25 年在任）、前保守党体育及外交部大臣休·罗伯逊爵士 64 岁；前英国及英格兰橄榄球联盟国际球员安迪·普拉特先生 63 岁；前首相（2010-16 年在任）奇平诺顿的卡梅伦勋爵 60 岁；英格兰橄榄球队主教练（2011-15 年在任）斯图尔特·兰开斯特先生 57 岁；前高尔夫球手安妮卡·索伦斯坦女士 56 岁；以及劳工党议员兼边境安全与庇护大臣安娜·特利女士 48 岁。

今天是 1970 年亚历山大·索尔仁尼琴获得诺贝尔文学奖的周年纪念日。

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周年纪念

金婚

LAKE - DAVIS —— 1976 年 10 月 9 日，由菲利普·赖特牧师在罗克斯韦尔的圣迈克尔与所有天使教堂主持，尼格尔与珍妮妮结为夫妻。至今依然恩爱。在线参考号：W0053211

讣告

BRANDRAM.—Nicholas George，于9月15日逝世。他是尽职的父亲，深受疼爱的儿子，以及备受爱戴的兄弟和叔伯。私人追思礼将于稍后日期举行。有意出席者请联系其家属。 在线参考号：W0053365

CAMPBELL.—John Andrew。Andrew在与运动神经元病（MND）英勇抗争后，于2026年9月16日（星期三）逝世。他是Annie深爱的丈夫，也是令人生自豪的父亲和祖父。感恩礼将于10月21日（星期三）下午2点在Mells的圣安德鲁教堂（St Andrew's）举行。在线参考号：W0053383

CARR.—Mary Kathleen，于

9月21日逝世，享年94岁。她是已故John Carr的妻子，Pippa、KJ、Philip和Louise的母亲，也是祖母和曾祖母。葬礼将于10月19日（星期一）下午2:30在Wessex Vale火葬场（邮编SO30 2HL）举行。无需献花。在线参考号：W0053228

EASTON.—Susan Mary Waddelow（原姓Martin）于2026年9月30日在家人的陪伴下安详离世，享年85岁。她是深受爱戴的母亲、祖母和姐妹。所有人将深切怀念她。在线参考号：W0053369

MORRISON.—Joceline（原姓Saint）于10月3日安详离世。她是Kate深爱的母亲，也是Nicholas和Philip深爱的祖母，人们将深切怀念她。 在线参考号：W0053338

法律新闻

以下人员在本学期被召入律师团（延期）：

中殿 (Middle Temple)

Marilyn Beth Grasheim Richter, Musa Nela, Nurfikriyah Binti Haji Ishak, Yanesh Puryag, Benedict Luke Chapman, Isabella Rose Hibbert-Robinson, Erina Gjeraj, Vasundhra Vigneswaran, Ethan Jun Hung Lai, Qian Sze Kang, Kow Mei Ee, Viran Kishor Solanki, Ruby Scarlet Firth, Shafiqah Aiman Mohammad Shah, Vaishnavi Vigneswaran, Jessica Wong Sheau Wei, Clare Catherine Tweedie, Dong Xuan Cheng, Lily Seabrook, Lim Yu Ting, Carla Saw Jia Ying, Sabrina Cui Tong Chang, Phoebe Louise Rockett, Sum Chuen Li, Angelina Grace Freeman, Jesleen Kaur Sohanpal, Federico II Paraiso Sadie, Lucy Charlotte Kitty Shinn, Kelvin Ching Kong Lin, Alexander Bruce Hatton, Tajudeen Abiodun Ganikale, Greg Stephen Flaxen, Timothy Chichester Williams, Rudra Veer Khanna, Sazzadur Rahman Kiyash, Sharmila Vani Maga Nadan, Lennis Nastase Pinder, Gregor Donaldson, Anuraag Awootar, George Sommerlechner, Xin Yin Lim, Benedict James Gordon Bayley, Pius Ho Chieng, Isaac Charles Grand, Kairavee Hungszraz, Rachel Clair Griffiths, Rochelle Rose Satkin, Henry John William Mould, Chirantana Jayshree Foolchund, Dominique Alice Goddard, Asala Alkassem, Samantha Nancy Akua Quagraine, Sally Elizabeth Seymour, Ved Ram Shewraj, Ismahan Mohamud Mohamed, Ruaridh Campbell Owens, Zara Hannah Wakelam, Ning Chan, Ying Thai Wong, Alysa Goh Jing Ann, Raul Rajendra Kumar, Chloe Abigail Jones, Christina Maria Fleischer, Rhea Kaur Jasminder Singh, Lenashree Kumari Selveswaran, Jeremy Wiremu Alexander Johnson, Clarke Sheldon Martin, Tineka Jayne O'Mara, John Michell

圣职新闻

任命

任命情况： Judith Wilkinson，Jarvis Brook（奇切斯特）负责牧师，将任Rotherfield（奇切斯特）助理牧师兼负责牧师；Daniel Vickerstaff，Leamington St John the Baptist（考文垂）牧师，将任Tile Hill（同教区）牧师；Linda MacDermott，Hampton Lucy with Charlecote and Loxley 以及 Alveston（考文垂）负责牧师，将任负责牧师。

桥牌新闻

桥牌通讯员Julian Pottage报道，英格兰西部大会已在布里奇沃特（Bridgwater）的Canalside举行。萨默塞特合约桥牌协会组织了为期两天的比赛。获胜者如下：

瑞士双人赛： 1. Stefan Lindfors 和 Alex Maddocks (108 VPs) 2. Jack Terry 和 Ian Walsh (102 VPs) 3. Michael Wigmore 和 Mike Tracy (101 VPs)

瑞士团体赛： 1. Rob Lawy, Gillian Fawcett, Joe Fawcett 和 Roger Gibbons (112 VPs) 2. Ian Walsh, Miles Cowling, Tim Rees 和 Alastair Catchpole (110 VPs) 3. James Clark, Owen Leigh, James Bond 和 Colin D Jones (89 VPs)

一百年前

每日电讯报 (The Daily Telegraph)

伦敦，1926年10月9日，星期六

国王会见皇家列车司机，感谢资深员工。

九位足板（footplate）资深员工，即原伦敦西北铁路（London and North-Western Railway）快车机车司机的元老们，在昨天度过了他们人生中最难忘的一天。大约一年前，国王接受了他们的照片，因为他们每一个人都曾在不同时期负责过国王本人、爱德华七世国王或维多利亚女王的安全。昨天，国王在王后的陪同下与他们亲身会面，并与他们握手交谈，感谢他们为王室提供的服务。

这一新颖的活动于早上八点在尤斯顿（Euston）车站举行，就在陛下夫妇从北方抵达之后。在铺有红地毯的站台上，这九个人排成一行，与铁轨呈直角。在他们的整个职业生涯中，绝对的准时就是他们的“第十一诫”。他们的继任者是否也能如此？在等待皇家抵达时，人们几乎能从他们的脸上读出这个未说出口的疑问，而当答案被证明是一个非常肯定的肯定时，他们的脸上显现出明显的宽慰。由59岁的“年轻人”H. Kirkham驾驶的双发动机列车，在八点整准时停在红色地毯旁。一项卓越服务的传统得到了妥善传承。

接待国王的是L.M.S.铁路公司董事长W. Guy Granet爵士、执行总裁Josiah Stamp爵士以及总经理H. G. Burgess阁下。国王和王后与这九位资深员工握手，在询问他们服务细节的同时愉快地聊天，并祝贺他们身体健康。正如其中一人所评论的那样，这对铁路界意义重大；他说，国王通过他们，赞扬了全国每一位机车司机。

陛下夫妇在苏格兰逗留后精神状态良好，随行人员包括Elizabeth Hesketh-Prichard夫人（王后女官）、海军上尉Charles Cust爵士（国王侍从）以及Derek Keppel爵士（王室管家）。当他们离开车站时，得到了观光客们的热烈欢呼，同样的场面在白金汉宫外再次上演。

一项惊人的记录。

在他们的铁路生涯中，这九位司机共驾驶了20,460,000英里——且没有任何形式的事故。他们的总服务年限共计$487\frac{1}{2}$年，总年龄共计663岁，且没有一个人的同一公司服务年限低于50年。以下是个人记录：

年龄，铁路服务年限。驾驶皇家列车的里程。

ALFRED EACHUS 74 58 5,100 WILLIAM JEFFERIES 72 51 3,380 WILLIAM HUGHES 77 56 3,268 SAMUEL GALLEY 71 $56 \frac{1}{2}$ $ 1,200 J. TANSLEY HOLLINS 72 55 $ 1,200 JOHN FORD 76 52 $ 1,200

JOHN JONES 72 50 $ 1,200

ALFRED ELSON 73 54 600

桥牌局

这九个人全部来自克鲁（Crewe），因为他们熟悉该镇南北两端的线路，因此这条线上的大多数皇家列车司机都选自那里。他们于周四前往伦敦；与他们同行是一次极佳的体验。人们常谈论旧时代的邮车司机、他们的共济会成员身份以及对职业的自豪感！但在上述两方面，这些“铁道老兵”都能给他们上上一课。

“不知道驾驶室里是谁，但跑得不错，”其中一人说道。“他快了半分钟，”另一人反驳道。“现在他时速 57 英里，”第三个人说。“他的蒸汽不足，”第四个人说。但当他们接近鲁格比（Rugby）时，他们的关注程度简直到了滑稽的地步。九块怀表被同时拿了出来。“他慢了一分半钟！”他们焦虑地记录着列车的后续进展；而且他们能准确地告诉你丢失的时间是在哪里补回来的。就像他们能准确地知道飞驰的火车从水槽中取了多少加仑水一样。最终一切顺利，当火车滑入尤斯顿站（Euston）时，他们彼此交谈，表情中奇妙地融合了宽慰与自豪——“他准时到了。”

在爱德华国王的列车上

这些人的自豪之处在于他们没有什么特别刺激的话题可聊；事实上，他们共同驾驶超过 20,000,000 英里的里程且未发生一起事故，这本身就足以说明问题。但拥有 58 年服务资历的阿尔弗雷德·伊查斯（Alfred Eachus）先生永远不会忘记大约二十年前的一次经历。

当时我正驾驶着将爱德华国王从曼彻斯特接回的皇家列车（他说他去主持了曼彻斯特医院的开幕式），当我们经过布利斯沃思（Blisworth）时，蒸汽加热器突然发出一声巨响，像枪击一样爆炸了。蒸汽喷涌而出，但没有人受伤，我想把问题解决掉。但当时在驾驶室里的机车主管告诉我“继续行驶”。车厢内暖气充足，所以影响不大，最终很少有人知道这件事。如今，皇家列车很少尝试打破记录。“他们有时以每小时 55 或 60 英里的速度行驶，”J. T. 霍林斯（J. T. Hollins）先生说，“但平均时速大约是 50 英里。”曾驾驶过伟大女王列车的资深司机伊查斯先生插话道：“维多利亚女王从来不追求速度。”

“在她那时，时速 45 英里是常规，”他评论道，“但当爱德华国王旅行时——嗯，情况就不同了。我曾用 3 小时 30 分将他从伦敦送往曼彻斯特。”伊查斯先生很自豪地认为，他与约翰·福特（John Ford）先生在第一款现代 4—6—0 克劳顿（Claughton）型机车投入通用使用前 12 个月就操作过该机车。与他的八位同僚一样，他在过去 50 年里驾驶过伦敦西北铁路（L. and N. W. Railway）采用的每一种客运机车，你无论如何也无法让他或他的同事们对其中任何一台说出贬低的话。因为这些人的生命简直就是奉献给了他们的机车。“我是从旧的‘Jumbo’开始的，”福特先生说，“那是一款六轮联动、轮径 5 英尺 6 英寸的机车，与今天的克劳顿型大不相同。但它的时速能达到 60 英里。后来的型号或许更好，但它们都是好机车——即使是那种不能为司机遮风挡雨的型号。”

个人动态

内特尔顿大获全胜

国际象棋

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作者：汤姆·汤森德 (Tom Townsend)

西< / td><>北< / ><>东< / ><>南< / >< / tr><><>过< / ><>1♣< / ><>过< / ><>1♥< / >< / ><><>1♠< / ><>2♠(1)< / ><>< / ><>2NT< / >< / ><><>< / ><>3♥(2)< / ><>< / ><>3♠(3)< / >< / ><><>< / ><>4♥< / ><>< / >< / table>

♠ AK103 ♥ AJ72 ♦ 865 ♣ 92

♠ J7642 ♥ 5 ♦ J1094 ♣ AJ4

摘自在索利哈尔（Solihull）举行的 Crockfords 杯决赛，该赛事由 Nettleton 队（戴安娜·内特尔顿与安德鲁·麦金托什，大卫·戈尔德与托马斯·帕斯克）主导。他们最终领先亚军 Allfrey 队 25 个 VP。Wightwick 队排名第三，是唯一另一支高于平均水平的队伍。Denning 队赢得了安慰赛（Plate）。Hornung 队的南北方向由迈克尔·霍努格和本专栏作者担任。东西方向由戈尔德和帕斯克担任。这是他们唯一一场失利，且仅输了 9 个 IMP。

个人

帕斯克领出显而易见的 ♦J 面对 4♥。戈尔德用 ♦K 压住 ♦Q，并兑现了 ♦A。在第三轮出 ♦3 到 ♦8 时，西家出了一张狡猾的 ♦10（伪装成仅持有 ♦J104）。这对防守方来说是一个良好的开局。随后的打法虽有瑕疵，但导致了一个有趣的结局。

南家用 ♥9 将牌，兑现 ♥K，并出 ♥6 到 ♥4（当然，东家没有分牌），然后出他的 ♥J。

愿主耶稣基督的恩惠，神的慈爱，圣灵的感动，常与你们众人同在。阿门。这封写给哥林多人的第二封信是由提多和路加在马其顿的腓立比城写就的。 哥林多后书 13.14 (AV)

正如一些人在赛后分析中所认为的，在俱乐部花色连续出牌时出黑桃对东家并没有帮助。南家最后三张牌是 $\spadesuit$ AK 和 ♥A。他兑现 $\spadesuit$ A，然后对最后两张牌进行交叉将牌。

南家 4♥ 合约，首攻 ♦J

在向假人出俱乐部花色时，帕斯克用 ♣A 截击。他可能认为我只有单张俱乐部。他用 ♦9 出牌，在南家手中将牌。这是最终局面：

南家在第四轮出 ♣K 会更好，从边色开始（这是一个良好的通用原则）。这样他可以通过强制手段完成 4♥ —— 但前提是他能读准西家的分布。细节留给热心的扶手椅分析师。

南家出到 ♣K，打算通过东家连续出俱乐部。戈尔德耸耸肩，用 ♥8 将了 ♣Q。他需要西家持有 ♠K。宣告者过将，出到 ♠Q，并用 ♥Q 抽将。假人牌高。

个人通用

(1) 限制性 2♥ 或 3♥ 已足够 (2) 强制性红心加注 (3) 叫口令 (Cue-bid)

最终结果 4♥ 成，N / S +620 平局结果相同

正如周三报道的，在女子奥林匹克赛中作为头号种子的印度队，最终在中国队和哈萨克斯坦队之后获得铜牌。印度队的一号选手 Koneru Humpy 在今年早些时候决定退出在塞浦路斯举行的候选人赛，原因是中东局势，她在本次赛事中表现出色。她取得了 7 / 10 的成绩且未尝败绩，确保了她获得一号位的个人铜牌。在五号位上，印度的初次参赛者 Shri B Savitha 同样取得了成功，得分 9 / 10，赢得了替补位的个人金牌。

法律公告

K Humpy - N Dzagnidze 印度 vs 格鲁吉亚 半塔拉什开局 (Semi Tarrasch)

Humpy 出击迅速

给人的印象是黑方无法变得更糟。例如，如果白方走 Ne4-d6，黑方可以用车吃掉，并将主教机动到 d5) 16.Ng5 h6 17.Ne4 Qd5 18.Rh3! Rfd8??（在这种双刃剑的局面中，失误的代价很高。18...Qc4，通过攻击 e2 来控制白方的后，或者预防性的 18...Kh8，这三种结果都有可能发生）

1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nf3 d5 4.Nc3℃5 5.cxd5 Nxd5 6.e4 Nxc3 7.bxc3 cxd4 8.cxd4 Bb4+ 9.Bd2 Bxd2+ 10.Qxd2 0-0 1L.h4（1L.Bc4 仍然是计算机的首选，在过去几十年里被认为是必须的。这给黑方带来了完全不同的问题） 1L...b6 12.Rd1 Bb7 13.Bd3 Nc6 14.Bb1 Ba6（试图通过剥夺白方王车易位的能力来反驳白方的想法。在 14...Qe7 15.0-0 Rad8 16.Rfe1 之后，白方占优） 15.e5!（对此的回应是：“面对危险我嗤之以鼻”。威胁是 Qd2-c2 获胜，因为 c6 和 h7 受到攻击） 15...Rc8?!（15...Qd5 16.Ng5 h6 17.Bh7+ Kh8 18.Be4 Qb5 19.f3 Rac8 或 19...Rad8 20.Bxc6 Qxc6 21.Ne4 结果都不明确，但我的总体

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在最后一轮中，正如在奥林匹克比赛中一贯的那样，赌注极高。科内鲁·汉皮（Koneru Humpy）在前方领跑并迅速获胜，尽管印度队被女子国际象棋的长期强队格鲁吉亚队逼成了 2-2 平局。

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吉姆·巴克 (Jim Bakker)

这位电视传道师在因性丑闻垮台前，曾通过宣扬“成功神学”赚得数百万加元

吉姆·巴克去世，享年 86 岁。在成为美国最令人意外的“浪子回头”之前，他曾是世界上最著名的堕落电视传道师。

长相稚嫩的巴克在鼎盛时期看起来像《雷鸟》(Thunderbirds) 里的角色。1972 年，他与妻子塔米·费伊 (Tammy Faye) 共同创立了“赞美主”事工 (PTL)。塔米·费伊·巴克看起来像是佩内洛普夫人 (Lady Penelope) 与多莉·帕顿 (Dolly Parton) 的基因实验产物，她习惯在节目中使用手套偶来帮助解释主的话语——有时人们很难分辨两者之间有什么区别。

巴克轻快地撇开关于骆驼和针眼的圣经经文，专门从事“成功神学”的传道，其核心信息是：物质财富是上帝恩典的标志——越多越好。以此为衡量标准，巴克夫妇试图证明他们得到了上帝的眷顾，其厚颜无耻之程度纯粹到几乎可以被视为一种神圣的纯真。

在众多资产中，他们拥有 47 个银行账户、六栋豪华别墅、三辆凯迪拉克以及一对男女款的劳斯莱斯，更不用说为他们的爱犬准备的空调犬舍、浴室里价值 $60,000 的镀金装饰，以及他脸部和她胸部的整形手术。

在 1984 年至 1987 年中期之间，巴克夫妇每人每年领取 $200,000 的薪水，而吉姆·巴克给自己发放了超过 400万美元 的奖金。有一次，PTL 花费超过 $100,000 租用私人飞机将他们的衣橱运往全国各地。PTL 还花费超过 $100 购买肉桂卷，因为巴克夫妇希望在酒店房间里闻到那种香味。

凭借每天来自电视信徒的 100万美元 捐款，巴克夫妇的事工变成了大生意。在巅峰时期，PTL 的广播覆盖了 1350 万 个美国庭院。巴克夫妇的影响力之大，以至于能与总统和大亨们交往。照片显示巴克曾与吉米·卡特、理查德·尼克松、罗纳德·里根和老乔治·布什合影。1980 年，卡特总统邀请巴克登上“空军一号”，帮助他为在伊朗的美国人质祈祷。

这对夫妇最雄心勃勃的冒险项目是位于南卡罗来纳州的 Heritage USA，这是一个迪士尼化的基督教主题公园，信徒们可以在这里玩水滑梯、大快朵颐“遗产天堂软糖”、打高尔夫球和开派对——这一切都以主之名义进行。到 20 世纪 80 年代中期，Heritage USA 成为美国第三受欢迎的度假胜地，每年吸引 600 万名游客。

巴克夫妇最宏大的计划是一个 30,000 个座位的礼堂和一个 5,000 个座位的电视演播室，旨在将其安置在一个钢结构玻璃材质（且带空调）的等比例水晶宫复制品内部。为了维持这个成本极高的冒险项目，巴克夫妇每天出现在 PTL 节目中，以日益绝望的语气恳求更多的资金。她会唱一首赞美诗，祈求上帝保佑 Heritage USA，然后看向镜头，迸发出如洪水般的泪水，使她的脸颊变成了睫毛膏的河流。

资金源源不断地流入；随后局面陷入混乱。1987 年中期，吉姆·巴克被竞争对手传道师杰里·法尔韦尔 (Jerry Falwell) 指控利用 PTL 的数十万加元掩盖其与一名 24 岁的教会秘书杰西卡·汉恩 (Jessica Hahn) 的私情。

根据汉恩女士的描述，1980 年在一家汽车旅馆的房间里，巴克和另一名传道师在她的饮料中下药后，对其进行了“异常性行为”：“我试图让他离开我，”她声称，“他贪得无厌。他必须寻找新花样。他对一个女人能做的所有事情都做了。”（巴克曾告诉她：“当你帮助牧羊人时，你就是在帮助羊群”）。在经历这场折磨后，汉恩女士接受了 $265,000 以保持沉默——她确实做到了，直到《花花公子》(Playboy) 杂志给了她一个更好的报价。

这些揭露引发了一场真正的丑闻风暴。电视传道师约翰·安克伯格（John Ankerberg）指控巴克与妓女及同性恋者发生关系，随后《Penthouse》杂志发表了一篇题为《吉姆·巴克体内的魔鬼：他的同性恋情人兼皮条客揭秘》的文章，其中巴克的前亲信约翰·卫斯理·弗莱彻（John Wesley Fletcher）详细描述了与巴克的同性欢愉，并声称他还为老板物色过其他年轻男子。

巴克被其所属的教派——上帝之会（Assemblies of God）除名，他的电视传道同僚们也对他口诛笔伐。法尔韦尔（Falwell）宣称巴克是“在2,000年教会历史上，基督教之面上最大的疥疮和毒瘤”。吉米·斯瓦加特（Jimmy Swaggart，不久后他也被抓到在汽车旅馆与一名妓女苟且）在CNN接受拉里·金（Larry King）采访时称巴克是“基督身体里的毒瘤”。

这场丑闻震惊了美国的基督徒群体，导致巴克的传教事业崩溃。1989, 一位被称为“最高限额鲍勃”（Maximum Bob）的铁面地方法院法官，在巴克被裁定24项欺诈和共谋罪名成立，因从其信徒手中窃取$3700万而被判处45年监禁。

他最主要的罪行是成功说服观众捐赠$1,000

（上图为2005, 出狱后再次“重生”的吉姆·巴克；右图为1987, 他与妻子塔米·费伊·巴克）

或更多资金，以购买在“美国遗产”（Heritage USA）酒店综合体的“终身合作伙伴”资格。尽管巴克声称这一想法是由于“半夜在异象中受到上帝的启发”，但实际上根本没有这样一个综合体。数以千计的美国人（大多是退休人员）损失了巨额资金。

巴克的刑期在上诉后被减轻，最终仅服刑四年半。到1994, 他获释时，塔米·费伊已与他离婚。

被揭露的罪孽本应让他在电视传道行业中再无翻身之日，但那些认为巴克会销声匿迹、自食其果的人们失望了。2003, 巴克（当时仍因欠税$3 million而被追讨）与新妻洛里·格雷厄姆（Lori Graham）在密苏里州布兰森建立新基地，凭借《吉姆·巴克秀》（The Jim Bakker Show）重返荧屏。这是一档时长一小时的节目，包含音乐、虔诚的闲谈和老派的布道。

巴克声称自己在监狱中再次“重生”，重新开始了传教事业，该节目被美国及全球各地的电视台播出。在后来的几年里，为了迎合那个era, 的氛围，他更紧迫地关注于末日预备，在自己的网站上销售冻干

“生存食品”桶，以便追随者能为末世的食物短缺做好准备。

随着唐纳德·特朗普争取五旬节派媒体大亨的支持，巴克通过更露骨的政治言论吸引他的新观众，将希拉里·克林顿描述为“撒旦的新娘”，并坚称总统特朗普是“上帝的召唤”。

吉姆·巴克原名詹姆斯·奥森·巴克（James Orsen Bakker），2 1940出生于密歇根州马斯基根。关于他的早年生活知之甚少，但据他自己描述，他年轻时生活相当放荡。在某个时间点，他决定改变并成为一名牧师。1960, 在学习神学期间，他参加了由传道师欧拉尔·罗伯茨（Oral Roberts）主持的复兴集会，并意识到宗教作为一种表演艺术的潜力。1961, 他娶了18岁的塔米·费伊。

在1964, 获得“授职”后，巴克与塔米·费伊开始在基督教广播网络（CBN）与帕特·罗伯逊（Pat Robertson）共事。他们开发了自己的每日儿童节目《过来吧》（Come On Over），该节目立即走红；几年之内，他们成为了美国最受欢迎的宗教广播员。但他们的成功以及与罗伯逊的亲近引发了嫉妒，1972 the Bakkers决定建立自己的传教机构。作为一份“离职礼物”，CBN的一些员工决定砸毁他们的布景，并销毁他们在节目中使用的木偶。

巴克夫妇的基督教信仰尽管将财富神圣化，但在许多方面并不像那些更原教旨主义的电视传道师那样令人不安。尤其是塔米·费伊，在其他传道师将艾滋病患者攻击为上帝之怒的迹象时，她利用PTL的广播节目为他们辩护。

但当巴克最终入狱后，他发现那里是一个“充满抽烟、咒骂和低俗词汇的污水池”，在那里“有一个男人两次试图强奸我，但上帝保护了我”。那里的其他神职人员包括“一个狂暴的酗酒者和一个可卡因成瘾者”。

巴克声称，在监狱中的岁月成了他的救赎。他重新阅读经文，并得出了一个惊人的结论：追求财宝并不一定是通往救赎的途径。他承认，上帝同样关怀穷人。

出狱后，巴克发现自己并非他想象中的被排斥者。1995年，在出狱仅几个月后，他在一次基督教领导力会议上发表讲话，10,000名神职人员向他起立鼓掌15分钟。他的自传《我错了》（I Was Wrong，1996年）在忏悔文学中达到了新的深度，但被许多人视为悔改的确凿证据。

巴克搬到了洛杉矶，在市中心贫民窟的一个事工机构工作。在那里，他遇到了他的新妻子洛里·格雷厄姆。两人于1998年结婚。随后，这对夫妇搬到了佛罗里达州，在那里为市中心青少年创办了一个名为“新约团契”（New Covenant Fellowship）的基督教营地。

据他所述，是“上帝超自然的举动”让巴克重新回到了镜头前。但真正的功劳应归于一位名叫杰里·克劳福德的布兰森商人，他对巴克的坚定信念源于一次对“美国遗产”（Heritage USA）的访问，他声称这次经历挽救了他的婚姻。克劳福德在布兰森拥有Studio City Cafe，并说服巴克这里是电视复出的完美场所。令人惊讶的是，在他的常驻观众中，有些人曾参与他的酒店计划并失去了投入的所有资金。

巴克留下了他的妻子，第一段婚姻中的两个孩子，以及他与洛里领养的五个孩子。

吉姆·巴克，出生于21940年1月，逝世于2026年10月5日。

莉娜·马特尔：曾与弗兰克·辛纳屈同台演出的灵动格拉斯哥歌手

莉娜·马特尔（LENA MARTELL）去世，享年 86 岁。1979 年 10 月，她翻唱的克里斯·克里斯托弗森（Kris Kristofferson）乡村西部风格基督教歌曲《一天一次，甜美的耶稣》（One Day at a Time, Sweet Jesus）获得冠军；该唱片在榜首停留了三周，在排行榜上共停留 36 周，使她被载入吉尼斯世界纪录。

凭借甜美的嗓音、灵动的小巧身材和开朗的个性，莉娜·马特尔在大西洋两岸以及往返于其间的邮轮上都大受欢迎。1964 年，她在百老汇的《搞笑女孩》（Funny Girl）中担任芭芭拉·史翠珊（Barbra Streisand）的替补演员；而在西区，她于 1978 年在伦敦帕拉第姆剧院（London Palladium）举办了自己的演出，由迈克尔·本廷（Michael Bentine）担任开场嘉宾。

此外，她还曾在纽约和拉斯维加斯与弗兰克·辛纳屈（Frank Sinatra）及萨米·戴维斯二世（Sammy Davis Jr）同台演出。她还曾在 BBC 电视台主持过一个受欢迎的音乐节目，在伦敦的 Talk of the Town 卡巴莱俱乐部拥有固定演出时段，并发行了 30 张专辑，其中四张进入了前 20 名。

她的魅力部分源于她不搞噱头且质朴的方式。她自我介绍时常说：“我叫莉娜·马特尔，我唱歌。”

她原名海伦·汤姆森（Helen Thomson），1940 年 5 月 15 日出生于格拉斯哥的汉密尔顿希尔区，由身为长号手的父亲给她起绰号叫莉娜。后来父亲离开了家庭，她的母亲在抚养三个孩子的同时还要兼职三份工作，莉娜是三个孩子中的二女儿。小时候她经常在家里唱歌，尽管她的哥哥艾伦（Allan）和比利（Billy）对此并不感冒。

她的第一次专业演出是在一个万圣节的电影院外，在朋友们用口琴伴奏的情况下演唱阿尔·乔尔森（Al Jolson）的曲目。由于她拥有深沉的女低音，在学校和教会合唱团的表现简直是一场灾难，但 14 岁时，她加入了哥哥艾伦的迪克西兰风格乐队。1959 年，她在 ITV 的才艺节目《寻找歌手》（Find the Singer）中获得第四名。

在艺术学院短暂就读后，她成功通过面试，加入了比利·麦格雷戈（Billy MacGregor）乐队在巴罗兰舞厅（Barrowland ballroom）的演出。“你打算什么时候停止这种唱歌的胡闹？你迟早会落得个糟糕的下场，”她的母亲曾这样警告她。然而，她被伦敦的霓虹灯所吸引，曾担任电影院检票员，在国家鸡蛋周期间装扮成一只鸡，并在一家脱衣舞俱乐部全衣穿着唱歌。

她凭借《一天一次，甜美的耶稣》打破纪录

当主唱脚踝骨折时，她顶替了位置。在登台前，司仪询问她希望如何被介绍。她注意到一瓶马爹利（Martell）白兰地，于是回答道：“莉娜·马特尔。”这个名字从此沿用，并很快被点亮在霓虹灯牌上。她的第一支单曲是抒情曲《爱可以是》（Love Can Be，1961 年）。

到 1961 年底，莉娜·马特尔已经有了自己的电视系列剧，但随后她回到了苏格兰，因为她的哥哥艾伦在车祸中去世，而她 26 岁的男友戈登·卡梅伦（Gordon Cameron）死于脑出血，两人相继离世。1963 年 5 月，萨米·戴维斯二世邀请她为他的首次英国巡演担任开场嘉宾，这使她进入了国际卡巴莱演出圈。

生活并非总是温柔。一次失败的房地产投资使她在 1992 年破产。她还遭受了声带问题，接受过乳腺癌治疗，并在 2008 年进行了三根血管心脏搭桥手术。与此同时，她还在照顾患有认知障碍症的母亲。她说，这一切让她像她曾经唱过的那样，过着“一天一次”的生活。

2003 年，她凭借双专辑《一天一次：歌曲选集》（One Day at a Time: An Anthology of Song）重新回到公众视野。两年后，她再次开始巡演，直到 2014 年，在从布莱克本到佩斯利的各大俱乐部演出场场爆满。

晚年，莉娜·马特尔与伴侣大卫（David）住在格拉斯哥附近的毕晓普布里格斯（Bishopbriggs）。

莉娜·马特尔，出生于 1940 年 5 月 15 日，死讯于 2026 年 10 月 5 日公布。

路易丝·博廷（Louise Botting）

Radio 4《Money Box》节目创始主持人，其财务才干深受听众推崇

她以权威的语调——“高贵却又不失甜美”——揭开了个人理财的神秘面纱

路易丝·博廷（LOUISE BOTTING）逝世，享年 87, 岁。在担任 Radio 4 长寿系列节目《Money Box》共同主持人的 15 年间，她成为了 BBC 最具辨识度的声音之一。

该周播节目由文森特·达格尔比（Vincent Duggleby）设计，于 1977, 年 10 月首次播出，由前城市投资分析师路易丝·博廷和彼得·霍布戴（Peter Hobday）担任首任主持人。平克·弗洛伊德（Pink Floyd）的歌曲《Money》及其标志性的“叮当”收银机音效被用作主题曲。

《Money Box》大获成功，每周吸引超过 100 万名忠实听众，并获得了众多奖项，还衍生出了一系列相关节目。

每周六正午，路易丝·博廷用清晰且权威的语调——一位评论员称之为“高贵却又不失甜美”——将复杂的财务信息讲解得如同“二加二”一样简单，帮助听众拨开与 TESSA 和 PEPS 等缩写词相关的认知迷雾。

“我们要做的，”她解释道，“就是教会人们如何照顾好自己。”因此，在 1992 年的一次采访中，她坦承虽然自己没有透支，但其个人财务状况并非像人们预期的那样“完美无瑕”，这令采访者感到惊讶。

“但是，”她继续说道，“我唯一知道的一件事是，能让我免于进入救贫院的只有我自己。我绝不想听到我的女儿们问：‘妈妈的情况我们该怎么办？’”

她是罗伯特·杨（Robert Young）及其妻子伊迪丝（Edith，原姓 Roberts）三个孩子中的一个。她于 19 1939, 年 9 月出生在利物浦，名为伊丽莎白·路易丝·杨（Elizabeth Louise Young），当时正值第二次世界大战爆发两周后。

她的父母都成长于贫困环境，但她的父亲在服兵役后通过保险经纪业务致富，随后全家搬到了萨顿科尔德菲尔德（Sutton Coldfield），路易丝在那里就读于女子高中。

16 岁的路易丝热爱数学——“我热爱代数”——正当她开始对父亲的商业谈话产生兴趣时，父亲突然去世，导致在财务方面缺乏经验的遗孀容易受到不良建议的影响。

“到我 20, 岁时，她的钱已经花光了，”路易丝回忆道，“我意识到，如果我这辈子要做什么，我想接替我父亲未竟的事业。”

在伦敦政治经济学院（LSE）获得经济学学位后，她加入商人银行克莱因沃特-本森（Kleinwort Benson）担任投资分析师。当时投资分析师办公区没有其他女性，因此银行不得不专门为她建造了一间洗手间。

她在那里工作了三年，随后于 1964. 年与旅游、传记及历史作家道格拉斯·博廷（Douglas Botting）结婚。他们一起周游世界——“我们住在南美，乘船沿亚马逊河而上，游历摩洛哥”——并育有两个女儿。

但全职母亲的快乐很快变得乏味。在 20 世纪 60 年代后期，公众对保护投资免受通货膨胀影响的兴趣日益浓厚，路易丝·博廷开始研究债券和单位信托领域：“我已经不再适应金融城的生活，这让我思考像我这样的年轻主妇能做什么。我问了朋友，他们都建议做市场研究。”

1970 年，她受邀担任《每日邮报》（Daily Mail）的个人理财编辑。她的信箱很快增加到每周 600-700 封信，正如她回忆的那样，“很多人说‘如果我能顺便去拜访你就好了’，我想，‘为什么不呢？’”于是，她在 1974 年创立了私人财富管理公司 Douglas Deakin Young，担任其总经理，后来担任董事长，直到该公司于 2005 年被出售。

她的广播生涯始于英国军队广播电台（British Forces），开局并不顺利

她的广播生涯起步并不顺利，在英国军队广播电台（BFBS）的第一次试播中，一名面试官宣称她的声音听起来像计算器和湿抹布的结合体，并告诉她不要使用 Botting 这个名字，因为人们会笑话她。

尽管如此，她一直在 BFBS 主持节目直到 1981 年，那时她已经获得了在《Money Box》节目中担任主持人的席位。

1984 年，她与文森特·达格尔比（Vincent Duggleby）共同出版了《充分利用你的资金》（Making the Most of Your Money）。1987 年，她被任命为最高薪酬审查委员会成员，次年受邀接替瓦莱丽·辛格顿（Valerie Singleton）主持 BBC Two 的《金钱计划》（The Money Programme）。她拒绝了，因为她不希望人们“在电视上看着我变老”。

并非她所有的投资建议都获得了回报。1991 年，她鼓励她所谓的“金主”（包括她的上司，BBC 主席马马杜克·哈西）投资一家后来倒闭的艺术画廊。她对此并不后悔：“他们都是成熟的大人物，知道自己在做什么。我们在画廊里举办过一些极棒的派对，没人在意。我从未为此失眠。”

财政大臣的年度预算案是《Money Box》年度日程中最重大的事件，而路易丝·博廷（Louise Botting）在解释这些内容对个人财务意味着什么时，展现出了她的天赋。然而，在 1992 年预算日的一周前，她与 BBC 分道扬镳，原因是她的上司反对她在竞争对手伦敦周末电视台（London Weekend Television）的董事会任职。

除了 LWT 之外，在离开《Money Box》后，她积累了大量的任职经历，包括在通用事故保险公司（General Accident）、三一镜像（Trinity Mirror）和卡米洛特（Camelot）的董事会任职。她于 1993 年被授予大英帝国司令勋章（CBE）。

在与道格拉斯·博廷离婚后，她于 1989 年与里德国际（Reed International）前主席莱斯利·卡彭特（Leslie Carpenter）结婚。他于 2020 年去世，她留下了两个女儿，其中一位是天空新闻（Sky News）的主持人安娜·博廷（Anna Botting）。

路易丝·博廷，出生于 1939 年 9 月 19 日，逝世于 2026 年 9 月 22 日。

War（战争）

Sky Atlantic, 凌晨2点 / 晚上9点 上周精彩的首播拉开了科技大亨摩根（Dominic West 饰）与电影明星卡拉（Sienna Miller 饰）之间爆炸性离婚的序幕。今晚，这对敌对的夫妇在进行一场形式主义的调解，而这主要是为了让双方的法律团队互相试探。

阴招层出不穷，尤其是潜伏在卡拉阵营中的间谍。

Play for Today: Closing Time Channel 5, 9.05pm Channel 5 复兴系列中又一部令人赞赏的剧作。才华横溢的厨师 Mo（Antonio Aakeel 饰）在订婚的 Laila（Ellora Torchia 饰）误入他叔叔的烤肉店后爱上了她。接下来的故事是一段扣人心弦的浪漫情缘，背景是英国的移民政策，而 Mo 因为签证即将到期而处于时间紧迫的境地。SK

FILM

Longlegs (2024)

Longlegs (2024) BBC Two, 10pm ★★★★ 像《Longlegs》这样出色的恐怖惊悚片每几年才会出现一部。其中隐藏着尼古拉斯·凯奇职业生涯中或许是最恐怖的一次表演——同时也是最幽默的表演之一。但你几乎不会注意到他。

Maika Monroe 饰演 Lee Harker，一名联邦调查局（FBI）的新手特工

The FBI investigates a series of family murders in Oregon

被指派处理一起令当局困惑的俄勒冈州案件。有十几户家庭被其父亲杀害，而神秘的信息指向一个名为 Longlegs 的人物。

Golden Eye (1995)

Golden Eye (1995) ITVI, 10.45pm ★★★★ 皮尔斯·布罗南首次饰演 007 的表现经受住了时间的考验；作为该系列的第17部，它依然是最流畅、最惊险的邦德电影之一。从开场的蹦极跳到古巴的爆炸性结局，剧情节奏飞快，邦德与 IT 专家 Natalya（Izabella Scorupco 饰）试图阻止前 MI6 特工 Alec Trevelyan（Sean Bean 饰）洗劫英格兰银行。

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6.00 am Breakfast (S) 9.30 Morning Live (S) 10.45 Crimewatch Live (S) 11.30 Homes Under the Hammer (AD) (R) (S)

12.15 pm Bargain Hunt (AD) (S) 1.00 BBC News at One; Weather (S) 1.35 Regional News; Weather (S) 1.45 BBC at One; (S) 2.00 Sister Boniface Mysteries (AD) (S) 2.45 Escape to the Country (R) (S) 3.45 Garden Rescue (S)

4.30 Celebrity Bridge of Lies (R) (S) 5.15 Pointless (R) (S)

6.00 BBC at Six; (S) 6.30 Regional ; (S)

The Graham Norton Show Landward

7.00 The One Show 由 Alex Jones 和 Lauren Laverne 主持 (S)

7.30 Would I Lie to You? 嘉宾包括 Alex Jones, Chris McCausland, Su Pollard 和 Rav Wilding (R) (S)

8.00 The Celebrity Traitors 新的一天给忠诚者们带来了新的怀疑 (AD) (S)

9.05 The Celebrity Traitors: Uncloaked Ed Gamble 及嘉宾分析城堡中的最新进展 (AD) (S)

9.30 Have I Got for You (S)

10.00 BBC at Ten (S)

10.00 BBC at Ten (S) 10.30 Regional ; (S) 10.40 The Graham Norton Show 嘉宾包括 John Malkovich, Olivia Colman 和 Alexander Skarsgård (S)

11.30 RuPaul's Drag Race UK 12.40 - 6.00am

BBC Two

6.40 am 《逃离乡村》(Escape to the Country) (R) (S) 7.25 《花园救援》(Garden Rescue) (R) (S) 8.10 手语区：《大宅复兴》(The Great House Revival) (R) (S) (SL) 9.00 新闻 (S)

因为点滴之助，皆有大用。

12.20 pm 《政治思考》(Political Thinking) 主持人：尼克·罗宾逊 (Nick Robinson)；嘉宾：汤姆·沃森 (Tom Watson) (S) 12.50 《生命线》(Lifeline) (AD) (R) (S) 1.00 《不可能》(Impossible) (R) (S) 1.45 《无敌》(Unbeatable) (R) (S) 2.30 《老板》(The Boss) (R) (S) 3.15 《动物之奇》(The Wonder of Animals) (AD) (R) (S) 3.45 《大宅复兴》(The Great House Revival) (R) (S) 4.35 《古董路演经典版》(Vintage Antiques Roadshow) (R) (S) 5.15 《把它卖掉！》(Flog It!) (R) (S) 6.00 《游戏之屋》(House of Games) (S) 6.30 《舞动奇迹：两人行》(Strictly: It Takes Two) (S)

《加冕街》(Coronation Street)

7.00 《新闻之夜》(Newsnight) (S)

7.30 《向陆地》(Landward) 瑞秋·贝尔 (Rachel Bell) 学习制作渔网 (S)

8.00 《园艺世界》(Gardeners' World) 蒙蒂·唐 (Monty Don) 修剪玫瑰、储存苹果并种植春季卷心菜 (S)

9.00 《六位妻子》(Six Wives) 主持人：露西·沃斯利 (Lucy Worsley) 记录亨利八世妻子生活的纪录片剧集 (AD) (R) (S)

6.00 am 《英国早安》(Good Morning Britain) (S) 9.30 《洛林》(Lorraine) (S) 10.00 《今晨》(This Morning) (S) 12.30 pm 新闻 (S)

ITVI

10.00 电影：《长腿》(Longlegs) (2024) 首播。由麦卡·门罗 (Maika Monroe) 主演的心理恐怖片 (S)

12.50 ITV 伦敦新闻；天气 (S) 1.00 ITV 赛马：纽马克特现场 纽马克特、约克和切普斯托的赛事报道 (S)

11.35 电影：《觉醒》(The Awakening) (2011) 由丽贝卡·霍尔 (Rebecca Hall) 主演的恐怖片 1.20am 手语区：《全景》(Panorama)：50岁之前的癌症：为何在增加？ 1.50 手语区：《拜约挂毯之谜：博物馆内部》(Secrets of the Bayeux Tapestry: Inside the Museum) 2.50 - 6.05am BBC Two 频道

5.00 欧洲女子足球预选赛 希腊 对 英国 (开球时间 5.30pm) (S)

7.50 新闻 (S) 7.55 ITV 伦敦新闻；天气 (S)

8.00 《艾默代尔》(Emmerdale) 罗伯特想要坦白 (AD) (S)

8.30 《加冕街》(Coronation Street) 丽莎就枪击事件询问大卫 (AD) (S)

10.00 新闻 (S)

9.00 《击败追击者》(Beat the Chasers) 杰西卡、利亚卡特、斯蒂芬妮、杰米和乔安挑战追击者 (R) (S)

10.30 ITV 伦敦新闻；天气 (S) 10.45 电影：《黄金眼》(GoldenEye) (1995) 由皮尔斯·布鲁南 (Pierce Brosnan) 主演的詹姆斯·邦德间谍冒险片 (AD) (S)

1.15 am 电视购物 3.00 《失散多年的家人》(Long Lost Family) 3.50 ITV 舒缓时光 5.05 - 6.00am 《交易或不交易》(Deal or No Deal)

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6.58am Newsbeat 7.00 1 与格雷格·詹姆斯 (Greg James) 共进早餐 10.00 1 与格雷格·詹姆斯 (Greg James) 共赏赞歌 10.30 Newsbeat 10.33 1 赞歌 11.00 查理和杰里 (Charlie and Jerry) 12.00 1 现场休息室 (Live Lounge) 12.45pm Newsbeat 1.00 萨姆和丹妮 (Sam and Danni) 3.00 1 与萨姆和丹妮 (Sam and Danni) 共舞派对启动 4.00 杰克·桑德斯 (Jack Saunders) 主持的 1 官方排行榜 5.45 Newsbeat 6.00 1 与丹尼·霍华德 (Danny Howard) 共舞派对 8.00 1 与莎拉·斯托里 (Sarah Story) 共赏未来舞曲 10.00 皮特·汤 (Pete Tong) 12.00 1 核心混音 (Essential Mix) 2.00am 丹尼·霍华德 (Danny Howard) 的俱乐部混音 3.00 1 与查理·海吉斯 (Charlie Hedges) 共赏舞曲赞歌 4.00 1 舞曲派对启动 5.00 - 6.00am 1 的快乐赞歌

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6.30am 萨拉·考克斯 (Sara Cox) 早餐秀 9.30 弗农·凯 (Vernon Kay) 12.00 杰里米·Vine (Jeremy Vine)。时事聊天 2.00pm 克拉拉·阿姆福 (Clara Amfo)。跨越数十年的最佳音乐 4.00 驾车时间 (Drivetime) 7.00 米歇尔·维萨奇 (Michelle Visage) 8.30 米歇尔·维萨奇的“手袋金曲”。令人愉悦的派对经典 9.00 索菲·艾利斯-贝克斯托 (Sophie Ellis-Bextor) 的厨房迪斯科 11.00 肖恩·基文尼 (Shaun Keaveny) 的摇滚秀 12.00 罗梅什·兰加纳森 (Romesh Ranganathan)：热爱嘻哈 1.00am 托尼·布莱克本 (Tony Blackburn) 的灵魂之声 2.00 2 在公园 2.30 2 在公园 3.00 2 在公园 4.15 2 与安吉拉·格里芬 (Angela Griffin) 共度舒缓时光 5.00 - 6.00am 我年岁之迹 (Tracks of My Years)

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6.30am Breakfast 9.30 Essential Classics 1.00pm Classical Live 4.00 Composer of the Week: The Venetian School 5.00 In Tune 7.00 Classical Mixtape。一段音乐序列 7.30 逃离县级毒品帮派的成员，一名找到了新型兄弟情谊的离养青年——如果不是因为

Friday Night Is Music Night。

庆祝约翰·鲁特（John Rutter）和鲍勃·奇尔科特（Bob Chilcott） 9.45 The Essay: Towards Evensong。由丹尼尔·海德（Daniel Hyde）主持 10.00 Late Junction。维里蒂·夏普（Verity Sharp）介绍巴恩斯利“放弃常规设备”（Abandon Normal Devices）艺术节的亮点 11.30 'Round Midnight 12.30 - 6.30am Through the Night

RADIO 4 FM 92.4-94.6MHZ; LW 198KHZ

6.00am Today 9.00 Desert Island Discs 10.00 Woman's Hour 11.00 The Food Programme 11.45 To Go or Not to Go 12.00 News 12.04pm AntiSocial。由亚当·弗莱明（Adam Fleming）主持的当日议题 12.57 Weather 1.00 The World at One。由乔尼·戴蒙德（Jonny Dymond）主持 1.45 The Turning Point。雅各布·邓恩（Jacob Dunne）探讨减少青少年暴力的不同方法 2.00 The Archers。安娜偶然发现了一些令人震惊的信息 2.15 Drama: Underground。由克洛伊·迈尔森（Chloe Myerson）创作 2.45 When Banksy Comes to Town。在马盖特（Margate）的萨姆和在洛伊斯托夫特（Lowestoft）的罗德试图为他们的班克斯作品寻找买家。本系列最后一集 3.00 Gardeners' Question Time。来自邱园（Kew）皇家植物园 3.45 Short Works。由谢莉·罗什-雅各布斯（Shelley Roche-Jacques）创作的《One Bear from Happiness》 4.00 Last Word。讣告选集 4.30 More or Less。日常生活中的数字与统计数据 5.00 PM。由凯蒂·拉扎尔（Katie Razzall）主持 5.57 Weather 6.00 Six O'Clock News 6.30 The News

Quiz。由克洛伊·佩茨（Chloe Petts）、可可·汗（Coco Khan）和芬利·克里斯蒂（Finlay Christie）主持 7.00 The Archers。安布里奇（Ambridge）告别一位朋友 7.15 Screenshot 8.00 Any Questions? 8.55 This Week in History 9.00 Free Thinking 9.59 Weather 10.00 The World Tonight 10.45 Book at Bedtime: Stations 11.00 Americast 11.30 Mr and Mrs Angadi 12.00 News and Weather 12.30am To Go or Not to Go 12.48 Shipping Forecast 1.00 As World Service 5.30 News Summary 5.34 Shipping Forecast 5.43 个人、慈善机构或救助团体的祈祷干预。

在结束节目中，他审视了另外两起被从绝境中救回的年轻男性的案例，一名在曼彻斯特

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8.00am 新闻 8.06 访谈 8.30 每日商业 8.50 见证历史 9.00 新闻室 9.30 BBC 内部科学 10.00 新闻 10.06 意外元素 11.00 新闻室 11.30 全球故事 12.00 新闻 12.06pm 展望 12.50 见证历史 1.00 新闻室 1.30 心灵与灵魂 2.00 新闻小时 3.00 新闻 3.06 访谈 3.30 每日商业 3.50 世界商业快讯 4.00 BBC OS 6.00 新闻 6.06 展望 6.50 见证历史 7.00 新闻室 7.30 今日体育 8.00 新闻 8.06 BBC OS 对话 8.30 群体科学 9.00 新闻小时 10.00 新闻 10.06 访谈 10.30 心灵与灵魂 11.00 新闻室 11.30 世界商业报告 12.00 新闻 12.06am 意外元素 1.00 新闻室 1.30 全球故事 2.00 新闻室 2.30 僵局 3.00 新闻 3.06 展望 3.50 见证历史 4.00 新闻 4.06 意外元素 5.00 新闻室 5.30 惊人体育故事 5.50 - 6.00am 更多或更少

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6.00am 亚当·达尔格利什：遮住她的脸 6.30 深海六号 7.00 演员的生活属于我 7.30 超出我们的认知 8.00 自然桌 8.30 活着，活着哦！以及其他重要之事 8.45 特里斯特拉姆·香第 9.00 你的母亲 9.30 骨骼故事 9.45 每日礼拜 10.00 灵魂音乐 10.30 幸福会写白色吗？ 11.00 亚当·达尔格利什：遮住她的脸 11.30 深海六号 12.00 演员的生活属于我 12.30pm 超出我们的认知 1.00 自然桌 1.30 活着，活着哦！以及其他重要之事 1.45 特里斯特拉姆·香第 2.00 已预订 2.30 爆款薇薇安 4.00 灵魂音乐 4.30 幸福会写白色吗？ 5.00 亚当·达尔格利什：遮住她的脸 5.30 深海六号 6.00 演员的生活属于我 6.30 超出我们的认知 7.00 自然桌 7.30 活着，活着哦！以及其他重要之事 7.45 特里斯特拉姆·香第 8.00 已预订 8.30 爆款薇薇安 10.00 你的母亲 10.30 Masala FM 11.00 一个可怕的瞬间 11.15 全部变更 11.30 边缘坠落

12.00 灵魂音乐 12.30am 幸福会写白色吗？ 1.00 亚当·达尔格利什：遮住她的脸 1.30 深海六号 2.00 演员的生活属于我 2.30 超出我们的认知 3.00 自然桌 3.30 活着，活着哦！以及其他重要之事 3.45 特里斯特拉姆·香第 4.00 已预订 4.30 - 6.00am 爆款薇薇安

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Channel 4

6.30 am 皇后之王 (AD) (R) (S) 6.55 皇后之王 () (R) (S) 7.20 皇后之王 () (R) (S) 7.45 大家都爱雷蒙 () (R) (S) 8.10 大家都爱雷蒙 () (R) (S) 8.40 大家都爱雷蒙 () (R) (S) 9.10 弗雷泽 () (R) (S) 9.40 弗雷泽 () (R) (S) 10.10 弗雷泽 () (R) (S) 10.40 弗雷泽 () (R) (S) 11.10 美国拾荒者 () (R) (S)

12.05 pm Channel 4 新闻 (S)

12.10 翻新国家 () (R) (S) 1.10 豪宅赠送 (R) (S) 2.10 倒计时 (S)

3.00 阳光之所 (R) (S)

4.00 救命！我们买了一个村庄 (S)

5.00 四人同床 (S)

5.30 来和我共进晚餐 (R) (S)

6.00 阳光之所 (R) (S)

6.30 F1 新加坡大奖赛冲刺赛资格赛集锦 (S)

Live from the Lycett Arms

7.00 Channel 4 新闻 (S)

8.00 乔治·克拉克的神奇空间：第一套房 乔治发现了一座独特的漂浮住宅。本系列最后一集 () (S)

9.05 Gogglebox 各家庭对近期电视节目的看法 () (S)

11.10 电影：《美国派：婚礼》(2003) 由杰森·比格斯主演的喜剧续集 1.00am 终止条款 1.30 终止条款 1.55 拉姆齐的酒店地狱 2.45 电影：《佐拉》(2021) 由泰勒·佩奇主演的犯罪喜剧剧集 4.15 克斯蒂的手工艺之家 4.30 情侣来和我共进晚餐 5.20 - 6.15am 宏伟设计

10.05 Live from the Lycett Arms 乔·莱塞特主持喜剧、名人访谈与混乱现场 (S)

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Channel 5

6.00 am Milkshake! 9.15 Jeremy Vine (S) 11.30 Storm & Alexis (S) 12.45 pm 5 News at Lunchtime (S) 12.50 Matt Allwright (S) 2.20 电影：《No Safe Haven》（2023, TVM） 由 Natalie Brown 主演的惊悚片 (S) 4.00 Bargain-Loving Brits in the Sun (R) (S) 5.00 5 News with Dan Walker (S) 6.00 Cornwall: A Year by the Sea (R) (S) 6.55 5 News Update (S)

Angela Rippon's River Cruises

7.00 Angela Rippon's River Cruises Angela 结束了她的湄公河之旅。本系列最后一集 (R) (S)

7.55 5 News Update (S)

8.00 Our Great Yorkshire Life Peter Wright 加入了 Aire 和 Calder 运河上的利兹赛艇俱乐部 (AD) (S)

9.05 Play for Today: Closing Time 一名才华横溢的移民与一名已订婚的律师开始了热烈的恋情 (AD) (S)

10.05 Piers Morgan Uncensored: Terror Hijack Horror (S)

12.05 am Traffic Cops: Elite Squad One 1.00 Cruise TV with LoveitBookit 2.00 Cornwall: A Year by the Sea 2.50 Bargain-Loving Brits in the Sun 3.40 The Cruise: Fun-Loving Brits at Sea 4.25 The Wonderful World of Chocolate 4.50 The Wonderful World of Chocolate 5.15 Entertainment News on 5 5.25 Ben and Holly's Little Kingdom 5.35 Ben and Holly's Little Kingdom 5.45 - 6.00am Ben and Holly's Little Kingdom

Sky Arts

FV 36 FS 143 SKY 822 VIRGIN 123

6.00 am Classic FM Live: Greatest Hits of Opera (S) 8.10 Artist of the Year: Masterclass () (S) 8.35 Artist of the Year: Masterclass () (S) 9.00 Tales of the Unexpected () (S) 9.30 Tales of the Unexpected () (S) 10.00 Alfred Hitchcock Presents (S) 10.30 Alfred Hitchcock Presents (S) 11.00 Discovering: Dennis Hopper () (S)

12.00 Classic Albums (S) 1.00 pm Tales of the Unexpected () 1.30 Tales of the Unexpected () (S) 2.00 Alfred Hitchcock Presents (S) 2.30 Alfred Hitchcock Presents (S) 3.00 Bill Bailey's Master Crafters: The Next Generation () (S) 4.00 Discovering: Sissy Spacek () (S) 5.00 Landscape Artist of the Year 2015 (S)

6.00 Tales of the Unexpected () (S) 6.30 Tales of the Unexpected () (S)

Bruce Springsteen: Live in Dublin

7.00 The Alfred Hitchcock Hour 五个人目击了一起肇事逃逸事件 (S)

8.00 Genesis: When in Rome 这支摇滚乐队于 2007 年在 Circus Maximus 演出 (S)

9.50 Elton John: Million Dollar Piano 这位音乐家在拉斯维加斯的凯撒皇宫演出 (S)

12.15 am Bruce Springsteen: Live in Dublin 3.00 Discovering: John Lennon 4.00 Art Traffickers: Treasures Stolen from the Tombs 5.00 - 6.00am Bill Bailey's Master Crafters: The Next Generation

U&Drama

FV 20 FS 158 SKY 143 VIRGIN 116

6.00 am Teleshopping 7.35 The Bill (S) 8.30 Doctors (S) 9.10 Doctors (S) 9.50 Classic Holby City (S) 10.55 Casualty () (S) 11.55 The Bill (S) 12.55 pm Classic EastEnders (S) 1.35 Classic EastEnders (S) 2.15 Classic Neighbours (S) 2.50 Neighbours (S) 3.20 Sister Boniface Mysteries () (S) 4.20 Father Brown () (S) 5.20 As Time Goes By (S) 6.00 Last of the Summer Wine () (S) 6.40 Last of the Summer Wine () (S)

Miss Marple: The Murder at the Vicarage

7.20 Last of the Summer Wine Compo 改变了自己的形象 () (S)

8.00 Miss Marple: The Murder at the Vicarage 一名不受欢迎的上校被发现死在圣玛丽米德的牧师住宅中 () (S)

10.00 New Tricks 在墓地施工期间发现了一个沾血的半身像 () (S)

11.20 Judge John Deed 1.20am Sister Boniface Mysteries 2.25 As Time Goes By 2.55 Anna Pigeon Mysteries 4.00 - 6.00am Teleshopping

Talking Pictures TV

FV 82 FS 306 SKY 324 VIRGIN 445

6.00 am 《夏洛克·福尔摩斯》(S) 6.30 电影：《Once A Sinner》(1950, 黑白) 剧情片，由 Pat Kirkwood 主演 (S) 8.10 电影：《The Greed of William Hart》(1948, 黑白) 恐怖片，由 Tod Slaughter 主演 (S) 9.40 电影：《Where There's a Will》(1955, 黑白) 喜剧片，由 George Cole 主演 (S) 11.10 电影：《The Glass Mountain》(1949, 黑白) 剧情片，由 Michael Denison 主演 (S)

1.05 pm 《埃德加·华莱士神秘剧场》(S)

2.15 《罗宾汉历险记》(S) 2.45 电影：《Nurse on Wheels》(1963, 黑白) 喜剧片，由 Juliet Mills 主演 (S)

5.00 《A Family at War》(S)

6.30 《Rooms》(S)

《换灵》(The Changeling) 《绿里》(The Green Mile)

7.00 《Z Cars》罗宾担心一名获释的囚犯正寻求报复 (S)

8.00 《Public Eye》弗兰克向他的前房东提供帮助 (S)

9.00 《Cellar Club》，主持人 Caroline Munro (S)

9.05 电影：《The Changeling》(1979) 惊悚恐怖片，由 George C Scott 主演 (S)

11.20 《Cellar Club》，主持人 Caroline Munro 11.25 电影：《Children Shouldn't Play with Dead Things》(1973) 恐怖片，由 Alan Ormsby 主演 1.00am 电影：《Blood Thirst》(1971, 黑白) 惊悚片，由 Robert Winston 主演 2.35 电影：《Captive》(1980) 科幻冒险片，由 David Ladd 主演 4.20 《Look at Life》 4.30 《The Vise》 5.00 - 6.00am 《情报员》(The Man from UNCLE)

Film4

11.00 am 电影：《D-Day: The Sixth of June》(1956) 第二次世界大战剧情片，由 Robert Taylor 和 Richard Todd 主演 (S)

1.10 pm 电影：《The Yellow Mountain》(1954) 西部片，由 Howard Duff 主演 (S)

2.45 电影：《Forty Guns》(1957, 黑白) 西部片，由 Barbara Stanwyck 主演 (S)

4.25 《Living》访谈特辑 4.30 电影：《The Sheriff of Fractured Jaw》(1958) 西部喜剧片，由 Kenneth More 主演 (AD) (S)

6.35 电影：《Earthquake》(1974) 洛杉矶居民在城市遭受毁灭性地震袭击后展开生存之战。灾难片，由 Charlton Heston, Ava Gardner 和 Genevieve Bujold 主演 (S)

9.00 电影：《The Green Mile》(1999) 一名监狱看守对一名死刑犯的治愈能力和温柔天性感到惊讶，从而开始怀疑其是否有罪。超自然剧情片，由 Tom Hanks 和 Michael Clarke Duncan 主演 (AD) (S)

12.45 - 3.25am 电影：《Glass》(2019) 惊悚片，由 James McAvoy, Bruce Willis 和 Samuel L Jackson 主演

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BBC Four

FV 9 FS 173 SKY 116 VIRGIN 108

7.00 pm TOTP: 2000 7.30 TOTP: 2000 8.00 : 1977 8.30 : 1984 9.10 《The Genius of Funk》 10.10 Cymande 在 2025 年格拉斯顿伯里音乐节的演出 10.40 《Getting It Back: The Story of Cymande》 12.10 am 《Black British Music at the BBC: Volume 1》 2.35 : 1977 3.10 - 3.45am : 1984

U&Dave

正午 《Hairy Bikers' Best of British》 1.00pm 《Canal Boat Diaries》 2.00 《Top Gear》 3.00 《Our Guy in Japan》 4.00 《Rick Stein's Cornwall》 6.00 《Hairy Bikers' Best of British》 7.00 《Mortimer & Whitehouse: Gone Fishing》 7.40 《I'll Get This》 8.20 《Would I Lie to You?》 9.00 《QI XL》 10.00 《Have I Got a Bit More News for You》 11.00 《8 Out of 10 Cats: Best Bits》 11.50 《Mock the Week》 12.30am 《Would I Lie to You?》 1.50 《Live at the Apollo》 2.45 《House of Games》 3.30-4.00am 《Judge Romesh》

ITV2

11.10am 《Charmed》 12.05pm 《Deal or No Deal》 1.05 《Supermarket Sweep》 2.05 《Ant & Dec's Limitless Win》 3.10 《The Only Way Is Essex》 4.10 《The Real Housewives of Potomac》 5.00 《The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills》 6.00 《Celebrity Catchphrase》 7.00 《Ant & Dec's Limitless Win》 8.00 《The 1% Club》 9.00 《Big Brother: Live Eviction》 10.35 《Family Guy》 11.35 《American Dad!》 12.35am 《Bob's Burgers》 1.30 《Next Level Chef USA》 2.20 《Unwind with ITV》 3.00-6.00am 电视购物

Challenge

11.00am 名人古董路演 (Celebrity Antiques Road Trip) 12.15pm 家庭财富 (Family Fortunes) 1.00 现金陷阱 (Cash Trapped) 2.00 名人谎言之桥 (Celebrity Bridge of Lies)

ITV3

FV 10 FS 115 SKY 119 VIRGIN 117

11.30 am 心跳 (Heartbeat) 12.35 pm 心跳 (Heartbeat) 1.35 皇家 (The Royal) 2.40 狂野之心 (Wild at Heart) 3.40 经典艾默代尔 (Classic Emmerdale) 4.40 经典街道冠冕 (Classic Coronation Street) 5.15 经典街道冠冕 (Classic Coronation Street) 5.50 心跳 (Heartbeat) 6.55 心跳 (Heartbeat) 8.00 马丁医生 (Doc Martin) 9.00 马丁医生 (Doc Martin) 10.00 唐顿庄园 (Downton Abbey) 11.55 班克斯督察 (DCI Banks) 12.55 am 班克斯督察 (DCI Banks) 1.55 乔治与米尔德里德 (George and Mildred) 2.20 Unwind with ITV 2.30 - 6.00am 电视购物 (Teleshopping)

3.00 追逐 (The Chase) 4.00 出价室 (The Bidding Room) 5.00 可胜任 (Tenable) 6.00 现金陷阱 (Cash Trapped) 7.00 追逐：名人特辑 (The Chase Special) 8.00 The 10.00 名人特辑 (The Special) 11.00 牛眼 (Bullseye) 12.00 名人谎言之桥 ( Bridge of Lies) 1.00am The 2.00 The : 名人特辑 (I'm a Special) 3.00-4.00am The

Quest

Noon 澳洲卡车司机 (Outback Truckers) 1.00pm 修理铺 (The Repair Shop) 2.00 掩埋之棚 (Shed and Buried) 4.00 寻找、修理、出售 (Find It, Fix It, Flog It) 5.00 名人约克郡拍卖行 ( Yorkshire Auction House) 6.00 约克郡拍卖行 (The Yorkshire Auction House) 7.00 古董路演 (Antiques Road Trip) 8.00 约克郡拍卖行 (The Yorkshire Auction House)。两姐妹希望为她们已故父亲令人惊叹的马戏团纪念品收藏寻找新家 9.00 修理铺 (The Repair Shop) 11.00 他们是怎么做到的？ (How Do They Do It?) 1.00am 抢救猎人 (Salvage Hunters) 3.00-4.00am 抢救猎人：修复者 (Salvage Hunters: The Restorers)

Discovery

Noon 离网建筑 (Building Off the Grid) 1.00pm 休斯顿动物警察 (Animal Cops Houston) 3.00 他们是怎么做到的？ (How Do They Do It?) 5.00 卧底亿万富翁 (Undercover Billionaire) 7.00 淘金热 (Gold Rush) 9.00 未知远征 (Expedition Unknown) 11.00 风暴之眼：追风者 (In the Eye of the Storm: Chasers) 12.00 最致命的渔获 (Deadliest Catch) 1.00am 未知远征 (Expedition Unknown) 3.00-5.00am 阿拉斯加：家园救援 (Alaska: Homestead Rescue)

ITV4

FV 26 FS 117 SKY 120 VIRGIN 118

11.40 am 专业人士 (The Professionals) 12.45 pm 冠军 (The Champions) 1.50 美国拾荒者 (American Pickers) 2.50 美国拾荒者 (American Pickers) 3.50 冰路卡车司机 (Ice Road Truckers) 4.50 冰路卡车司机 (Ice Road Truckers) 5.45 护卫 (Minder) 6.50 霍恩布洛尔 (Hornblower) 9.00 电影：《失败者》(The Losers, 2010) 由杰弗里·迪恩·摩根主演的动作冒险片 11.05 全精英摔角：Dynamite Grand Slam (All Elite Wrestling: Dynamite Grand Slam) 1.05 am 护卫 (Minder) 2.05 两个半男人 (Two and a Half Men) 2.30 两个半男人 (Two and a Half Men) 2.50 Unwind with ITV 3.00 - 6.00am 电视购物 (Teleshopping)

PBS America

11.50am 铁锈地带的兴衰 (The Rise and Fall of the Rust Belt) 1.00pm 苏格兰群岛大巡游 (Grand Tours of the Scottish Islands) 1.40 被围困的堡垒，传奇之战 (Besieged Fortresses, Legendary Battles) 2.50 列宁格勒围城战 (The Siege of Leningrad) 3.55 彩色二战：胜利之路 (WWII in Colour: Road to Victory) 5.00 铁锈地带的兴衰 (The Rise and Fall of the Rust Belt) 6.15 被围困的堡垒，传奇之战 (Besieged Fortresses, Legendary Battles) 7.25 列宁格勒围城战 (The Siege of Leningrad) 8.35 彩色二战：胜利之路 (WWII in Colour: Road to Victory) 9.40 铁锈地带的兴衰 (The Rise and Fall of the Rust Belt) 10.55 列宁格勒围城战 (The Siege of Leningrad) 12.00 彩色二战：胜利之路 (WWII in Colour: Road to Victory) 1.10am 苏格兰群岛大巡游 (Grand Tours of the Scottish Islands) 2.00-6.00am 电视购物 (Teleshopping)

Sky History

Noon 英国伟大城堡之谜 (Secrets of Great British Castles) 2.00pm 典当之星 (Pawn Stars) 6.00 美国拾荒者 (American Pickers) 7.00 火中锻造 (Forged in Fire) 8.00 英国最具历史感的城镇 (Britain's Most Historic Towns) 9.00 彩色二战之战 (WWII Battles in Colour) 11.00 走私品：海上截获 (Contraband: Seized at Sea) 12.55am 英国最具历史感的城镇 (Britain's Most Historic Towns) 1.50 彩色二战之战 (WWII Battles in Colour) 3.40-4.25am 美国拾荒者 (American Pickers)

Sky Documentaries

Noon 电影：《天堂之门》(Gates of Heaven, 1978) 埃罗尔·莫里斯执导的纪录片 1.45pm 我的偶像：埃博尼·雷恩福德-布伦特 (My Icon: Ebony Rainford-Brent) 2.00 在线：理查德·威廉姆斯的故事 (On the Line: The Richard Williams Story) 3.50 我的偶像：里昂·普赖斯 (My Icon: Leon Pryce) 4.00

More4

FV 18 FS 124 SKY 136 VIRGIN 147

11.35 am 来我家吃饭 (Come Dine Me) 12.05 pm 来我家吃饭 (Come Dine Me) 12.35 来我家吃饭 ( ) 1.05 来我家吃饭 ( ) 1.40 来我家吃饭 ( ) 2.15 四人一床 (Four in a Bed) 2.50 四人一床 (Four in a Bed) 4.50 汽车 S.O.S (Car S.O.S) 5.50 汽车 S.O.S (Car S.O.S) 6.50 狗屋 (The Dog House) 7.55 狗屋 (The Dog House) 9.00 沿海单位 (Coastal Unit) 10.15 24 急诊室 24 小时 (24 Hours in A&E) 11.20 24 急诊室 24 小时 (24 Hours in A&E) 12.20 am 999：前线 (999: On the Front Line) 1.25 24 急诊室 24 小时 (24 Hours in A&E) 2.30 24 急诊室 24 小时 (24 Hours in A&E) 3.30 - 4.00am 阳光之所 (A Place in the Sun)

导演们 (The Directors) 5.00 发现：詹姆斯·科本 (Discovering: James Coburn) 6.00 电影：《鲍比·罗布森：不仅仅是教练》(Bobby Robson: More Than a Manager, 2018) 探索这位深受喜爱的前足球教练的职业生涯 8.00 电影：《兰开斯特》(Lancaster, 2022) 关于与“水坝破坏者”同义的轰炸机的故事 10.00 电影：《加斯科因》(Gascoigne, 2015) 关于保罗·加斯科因的纪录片 11.50 电影：《伦诺克斯：未讲述的故事》(Lennox: The Untold Story, 2020) 前重量级拳击手伦诺克斯·刘易斯的生平故事 1.50am QPR：四年计划 (QPR: The Four Year Plan) 3.40-5.00am Daniel

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Sky One

正午 Aussie Snake Wranglers: Deadly Pursuit 1.00pm Hawaii Five-0 3.00 S.W.A.T. 5.00 Formula 16.00 Superstore 7.00 The Simpsons 8.00 Shark with Steve Backshall 9.00 The Walking Dead: Dead City 10.00 Romesh: Can't Knock the Hustle 11.30 Grimsburg 12.00 Grimm 12.50am Evil 1.45 Road Wars 3.05-4.00am Hawaii Five-0

Great! Mystery

11.05am Murder, She Wrote 12.05pm Unforgettable 1.00 In Plain Sight 2.00 Castle 3.00 Diagnosis Murder 5.00 Murder, She Wrote 7.00 Castle 8.00 Unforgettable 9.00 Reef Break 11.00 In Plain Sight 12.00 电影：An Aurora Teagarden Mystery: A

U&Gold

SKY 110 VIRGIN 124

11.50 am The Good Life 12.25 pm Only Fools and Horses 1.05 Only Fools and Horses 1.45 Keeping Up Appearances 2.25 Dad's Army 3.00 The Green Green Grass 3.40 Are You Being Served? 4.20 The Good Life 5.00 Dad's Army 5.40 Last of the Summer Wine 7.00 Only Fools and Horses 9.40 The Fast Show 10.20 Only Fools and Horses 12.20 am The Fast Show 1.00 Mrs Brown's Boys 1.40 Keeping Up Appearances 2.25 dinnerladies 3.00 The Good Life 3.30 - 4.00am The Fast Show

电影：《奥罗拉·蒂加登谜案：骨之争》(An Aurora Teagarden Mystery: A Bone to Pick (2015)) 12.56am Good News on GREAT! 1.01 电影：《奥罗拉·蒂加登谜案：骨之争》(An Aurora Teagarden Mystery: A Bone to Pick (2015)) 1.55 电影：《脱轨》(Off the Rails (2017)) 3.25-4.50am 电影：《隐藏的罪行》(Hidden Crimes (2009))

Sky Cinema Premiere

11.55am The Deb (2024) 喜剧片，主演 Natalie Abbott 2.05pm One Last Shot (2026) 惊悚片，主演 Scott Adkins 3.45 Cold Storage (2026) 喜剧惊悚片，主演 Joe Keery 5.30 Better Man (2024) Robbie Williams 传记片，主演 Jonno Davies 8.00 Mother's Pride (2026) 喜剧片，主演 Martin Clunes 和 James Buckley 9.45 The Deb (2024) 喜剧音乐片，主演 Natalie Abbott 11.50 Cold Storage (2026) 喜剧惊悚片，主演 Joe Keery 1.35am 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple (2026) 恐怖续集，主演 Ralph Fiennes 3.35-5.35am Hamlet (2025) 剧情片，主演 Riz Ahmed

Sky Sports Main Event

U&Yesterday

FV 27 FS 159 SKY 155 VIRGIN 129

正午 Antiques Roadshow 1.00 pm Antiques Roadshow 2.00 Bangers & Cash 3.00 Bangers & Cash 4.00 The Buildings That Fought Hitler 5.00 Rise of the Nazis: Dictators at War 6.00 Antiques Roadshow 7.00 Cornwall with Simon Reeve 8.00 Canal Boat Diaries 9.00 Canal Boat Diaries 10.00 & 11.00 & 12.00 & 1.00 am Find It, Fix It, Flog It 2.00 Great Continental Railway Journeys 3.00 - 6.10am Teleshopping

Sky Sports Premier League

正午 Total Football 5.00pm The Show 7.00 Preview 7.30 The Big Interview 8.00 Fantasy Show 8.30 Stories 9.00 Preview 9.30 The Big Interview 10.00 Fantasy Show 10.30 Stories 11.00 Years 1.00am PL Retro 3.00-4.00am PL Greatest Games

SKY 108

正午 Total Football 1.00pm 现场 Formula 1。新加坡大奖赛冲刺资格赛（开始时间 1.30pm） 3.00 现场 DP World Tour Golf。由马德里呈献的 Acciona Open De España 6.00 The Premier League Show 7.00 Sports Centre 7.30 现场 EFL。西汉姆联 v Queens (开球时间 8.00pm) 10.30 Paper Talk 11.00 Sky Sports News 2.00-5.30am 现场 WNBA。拉斯维加斯王牌 v 金州女武神 (开球时间 2.30am)

Sky Atlantic

11.20 am Deadwood 12.25 pm Gomorrah 1.30 Homicide: Life on the Street 2.30 Homicide: Life on the Street 3.30 Billions 4.35 Billions 5.45 House of the Dragon 6.45 House of the Dragon 8.00 Fargo 9.00 War 10.05 Under Salt Marsh 11.10 Euphoria 12.20 am Euphoria 1.30 House of the Dragon 2.55 - 4.00am Gomorrah

TNT Sports 1

11.15am 男子自行车职业系列赛 12.15pm TNT Sports Reload 12.30 TNT Sports Cricket Reload 1.15 国际 T20 板球集锦 2.15 国际 T20 板球直播：印度 v 西印度群岛 6.15 The Breakdown 6.30 英超前瞻 7.00 直播：The Gallagher PREM. 莱斯特虎 v 格洛斯特橄榄球 (开球时间 7.45pm) 10.00 原创纪录片 11.30 The Fantasy Show 12.00 英超前瞻 12.30am Uefa Champions League Magazine 1.00 Ultimate Pool 2.30 MLB 集锦 3.00-5.00am

直播：AFLW. 圣基尔达圣徒女队 v 考林伍德喜鹊女队 (开球时间 3.05am)

BBC News

Noon BBC News Now 2.00pm Now 2.30 今日商业 2.45 Now 3.00 Verified Live 5.30 6.30 今日世界 8.00 The Context USA 9.00 The Context 10.00 at Ten 10.30 Newsnight 11.00 世界美国 11.30 总统之路 11.45 12.30am 商业对话 1.00 1.30 Tech Now 2.00 2.30 克莱夫·迈里非洲冒险记 3.00 3.30-4.00am 英超

GB

Noon Good Afternoon Britain 3.00pm Martin Daubney 6.00 Dewbs & Co 7.00 Lee Anderson's Real World 8.00 Friday Night with Matt Goodwin 9.00 Patrick Christys Tonight 11.00 Patrick Christys Tonight Late Edition 12.00 The Late Show Live 3.00-5.00am Patrick Christys Tonight 重播

Sky

Noon Sky 1.00pm Today 5.00 10.00 The Wrap with Gillian Joseph 12.00-6.00am

YouTube

Telegraph app

Spotify

Podcasts

Variations

北爱尔兰

One: 7.30 - 8.00pm The Chronicles of Foyle Two: 无变动 UTV: 无变动

苏格兰

One: 2.45pm Clean It, Fix It 3.15 - 3.45 Shift the Thrift 11.30 A View from the Terrace 12.15am RuPaul's Drag Race UK 1.10 - 6.00am Scotland: 7.00pm Reporting Scotland: at Seven 7.30 One Team in Tallinn 8.00 Paramedics on Scene 9.00 The Four Rules of the Poker Kings 10.00 Still Game 10.30 A View from the Terrace 11.00 Breaking the 11.30 Two Doors Down midnight Close STV: 1.00 - 3.59pm STV Racing: Live from Newmarket 3.50 - 5.05am Unwind with STV

威尔士

One: 7.30 - 8.00pm Back in the Day 11.30 The Golden Cobra 11.45 The Golden Cobra 12.00 The Golden Cobra 12.15am RuPaul's Drag Race UK 1.20 - 6.00am Two: 3.15pm Vintage Antiques Roadshow 4.00 Flog It! 4.45 Match of the Day Wales Live 7.15 House of Games 7.45 Strictly: It Takes Two 8.15 Gardeners' World 9.15 Beechgrove Repotted 9.30 - 10.00pm Mortimer & Whitehouse: Gone Fishing ITV1 Wales: 无变动

ITV1 各地区

无变动

S4℃

6.00am Cyw 12.00 Newyddion S4℃ a'r Tywydd 12.05pm Dau Gi Bach 12.30 Heno 1.00 Y Sin 1.30 Trysorau Cymru: Tir, Tai a Chyfrinachau 2.00 Newyddion S4℃ a'r Tywydd 2.05 Pryhnawn Da 3.00 Newyddion S4℃ a'r Tywydd 3.05 Hanner Marathon Caerdydd 2026 4.00 Awr Fawr: Yr Whhs 4.10 Awr Fawr: Og y Draenog Hapus 4.20 : Kim a Cai a Cranc 4.35 : Sam Tan 4.45 : Deian a Loli 5.00 Stwnsh 6.00 Cegin Clwyd Bryn Williams 6.30 Heno 7.00 Newyddion S4℃ a'r Tywydd 7.30 Clwb Rygbi 9.50 Pél-Droed Rhyngwladol 10.50 Gwalia Aleighcia 11.20 - 11.55pm 3℃ân

海上预报

Forecast

概况

今日英国全境多风。威尔士和英格兰早晨有云并有雨，随后会出现晴间多云及局部阵雨。苏格兰和北爱尔兰有阵雨及晴间多云。

伦敦、英格兰中部南部、海峡群岛、西南、东 西南、东 东南、 东英吉利、中地： 早晨有云并有雨， 随后今日晚些时候 将出现晴间多云及 阵风阵雨。最高气温 58-70°F (15-21℃)。西风轻至清爽。 今晚晴间多云。最低气温 45-52°F (7-11℃)。

◆ 西北、湖区、马恩岛、北中部、东北：今日有阵风阵雨。最高气温 52-65°F (11-18℃)。西风轻至中等。今晚局部有云，偶有阵雨。最低气温 34-50°F (1-10℃)。 ◆ 威尔士：

中等西风。最低气温 36-52°F (2-11℃)。 ◆ 北爱尔兰：今日有阵风阵雨。最高气温 50-57°F (10-14℃)。中等西风。今晚局部有云。最低气温 34-48°F (1-9℃)。 ◆ 苏格兰西南部、苏格兰西北部、格拉斯哥、高地中部、阿盖尔、西群岛、苏格兰东南部、苏格兰东北部、爱丁堡、邓迪、阿伯丁、莫雷湾、奥克尼、设得兰：

今日及今晚早晨有雨，随后晴间多云。最高气温 50-62°F (10-17℃)。轻至

今日及今晚晴间多云且多风，伴有阵雨。最高气温 42-60°F (6-16℃)。中等至清爽的西风或西南风。最低气温 32-50°F (0-10℃)。

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英国气象读数 昨晚报告（截至下午6点的24小时内） - *预估读数

0.03< / td><>15< / ><>11< / ><>多云< / >< / tr> <>卡迪夫< / ><>7.5< / ><>0.00< / ><>14< / ><>8< / ><>部分多云< / >< / ><><>卡莱尔< / ><>6.2< / ><>0.15< / ><>13< / ><>2< / ><>阵雨< / >< / ><><>卡特里克< / ><>7.7< / ><>0.01< / ><>14< / ><>5< / ><>阵雨< / >< / ><><>切尔滕纳姆< / ><>6.3< / ><>0.00< / ><>16< / ><>4< / ><>部分多云< / >< / table>

<>11< / ><>多云< / >< / ><><>法恩伯勒< / ><>6.2< / ><>0.00< / ><>14< / ><>7< / ><>部分多云< / >< / ><><>威廉堡< / ><>6.1< / ><>0.47< / ><>12< / ><>4< / ><>雨< / >< / ><><>格拉斯哥< / ><>9.0< / ><>0.02< / ><>12< / ><>2< / ><>阵雨< / >< / ><><>大马尔文< / ><>5.5< / ><>0.03< / ><>14< / ><>6< / ><>阵雨< / >< / ><><>格里姆斯比< / ><>5.3< / ><>0.00< / ><>13< / ><>7< / ><>部分多云< / >< / ><><>根西岛< / ><>5.6< / ><>0.00< / ><>15< / ><>12< / ><>部分多云< / >< / ><><>赫里福德< / ><>6.1< / ><>0.00< / ><>14< / ><>6< / ><>部分多云< / >< / ><><>高 威科姆< / ><>6.0< / ><>0.00< / ><>14< / ><>6< / ><>部分多云< / >< / ><><>霍利黑德< / ><>5.0< / ><>0.23< / ><>13< / ><>9< / ><>阵雨< / >< / ><><>哈德斯菲尔德< / ><>7.6< / ><>0.00< / ><>12< / ><>5< / ><>部分多云< / >< / ><><>伊普斯威奇< / ><>9.1< / ><>0.04< / ><>13< / ><>6< / ><>部分多云< / >< / ><><>马恩岛< / ><>4.7< / ><>0.14< / ><>13< / ><>10< / ><>阵雨< / >< / ><><>斯凯岛< / ><>4.4< / ><>0.53< / ><>10< / ><>7< / ><>雨< / >< / ><><>怀特岛< / ><>6.3< / ><>0.00< / ><>15< / ><>7*< / ><>部分多云< / >< / table>

大西洋锋面

<><>< / ><>日照时长< / ><>降雨量< / >< colspan="2">最高 / 最低 °C< / ><>白天天气< / >< / ><><>锡利群岛< / ><>6.0< / ><>0.00< / ><>14< / ><>6< / ><>部分多云< / >< / ><><>泽西岛< / ><>3.9< / ><>0.09< / ><>16< / ><>12< / ><>阵雨< / >< / ><><>凯斯威克< / ><>7.3< / ><>0.28< / ><>13< / ><>2< / ><>阵雨< / >< / ><><>邱园< / ><>5.2< / ><>0.00< / ><>15< / ><>8< / ><>部分多云< / >< / ><><>国王 d>< / ><><>纽基< / ><>3.4< / ><>0.05< / ><>15< / ><>12< / ><>阵雨< / >< / ><><>诺丁汉< / ><>7.6< / ><>0.00< / ><>13< / ><>4< / ><>部分多云< / >< / ><><>奥克尼群岛< / ><>4.4< / ><>0.08< / ><>11< / ><>4< / ><>阵雨< / >< / ><><>牛津< / ><>6.0< / ><>0.00< / ><>14< / ><>6< / ><>部分多云< / >< / ><><>珀斯< / ><>7.3< / ><>0.13< / ><>12< / ><>3< / ><>阵雨< / >< / ><><>彼得伯勒< / ><>9.1< / ><>0.00< / ><>14< / ><>6< / ><>部分多云< / >< / ><><>普利茅斯< / ><>4.9< / ><>0.04< / ><>16< / ><>11< / ><>多云< / >< / ><><>朴次茅斯< / ><>6.2< / ><>0.00< / ><>16< / ><>7< / ><>部分多云< / >< / ><><>普雷斯特威克< / ><>5.8< / ><>0.06< / ><>12< / ><>4*< / ><>阵雨< / >< / table>

今日正午：意大利和巴尔干地区有雨，部分地区有雷阵雨。锋面将给英国、挪威南部和德国北部带来阵雨。

太阳与月亮（格林威治）

<><>日出< / ><>0715< / >< / ><><>日落< / ><>1821< / >< / ><><>月出< / ><>0546< / >< / ><><>月落< / ><>1736< / >< / ><><>新月< / ><>10月10日< / >< / table>

高潮位 昨日

灯光亮起

最高温< / td><>波特兰 17℃ (63F)< / >< / tr><><>最低温< / ><>阿伯丁 6℃ (F)< / >< / ><><>最湿润< / ><>斯凯岛 0.53 英寸< / >< / ><><>最晴朗< / ><>南安普顿 9.2 小时< / >< / table>

<><>阿伯丁< / ><>1822 至 0731< / >< / ><><>贝尔法斯特< / ><>1841 至 0744< / >< / ><><>伯明翰< / ><>1826 至 0724< / >< / ><><>伦敦< / ><>1821 至 0717< / >< / ><><>曼彻斯特< / ><>1827 至 0727< / >< / ><><>彭赞斯< / ><>1843 至 0736< / >< / table>

<><>12< / ><>7< / ><>阵雨< / >< / ><><>温德米尔< / ><>7.6< / ><>0.09< / ><>13< / ><>6< / ><>阵雨< / >< / ><><>伍斯特< / ><>5.5< / ><>0.04< / ><>15< / ><>6< / ><>阵雨< / >< / ><><>叶维尔< / ><>6.8< / ><>0.00< / ><>16< / ><>6< / ><>局部多云< / >< / ><><>约克< / ><>7.5< / ><>0.00< / ><>13< / ><>5< / ><>局部多云< / >< / table>

<><>< / ><>1528< / ><>1. m< / >< / table>

北海南部：今日西西南风，fresh to near gale。海况轻微。能见度差。

多佛海峡、英吉利海峡：今日西西南风，strong to gale。东部海况轻微，西部海况平静。能见度差。

圣乔治海峡：今日西风，fresh to near gale。海况轻微。能见度差。爱尔兰海：今日西风，fresh to near gale。海况轻微。能见度尚可。

欧洲气象读数 昨晚报告（截至下午 6 点的 24 小时数据）

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全球野生动物数量下降 75%

环保人士表示，全球自然环境正处于“自由落体”状态，但从老虎到金枪鱼等物种的恢复为未来带来了希望。

环保慈善机构世界自然基金会（WWF）公布了最新的《地球生命报告》，报告显示，自 1970 年以来，全球野生动物种群数量下降了近四分之三。

报告中也提到了一些“亮点”，包括在英国，水獭、海狸、白尾海雕和蓝鳍金枪鱼已经实现了回归；而人工繁育和重新引入计划则帮助欧洲野牛在短短 50 年多一点的时间里，从野外灭绝状态恢复到了 10 个国家。

WWF 表示，需要对导致数量下降的系统进行重大变革。其首席科学顾问迈克·巴雷特（Mike Barrett）博士表示：“有例子证明，当我们采取正确行动时，物种是可以恢复的。但这些亮点在整体依然处于下降趋势的大背景下显得十分有限。”

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Treacherous turn of events

Bank chief: Don't risk repeat of Truss chaos

Bailey warns of damage to Britain's credibility from imprudent tax and spending plans

By Tim Wallace

THE Governor of the Bank of England has warned that further damage to Britain's credibility from rising spending could trigger a repeat of the Liz Truss crisis.

Andrew Bailey used a speech less than three weeks before John Healey's maiden budget to argue that growth must be pursued against a backdrop of heavy national debt and nervous markets. Speaking to fellow central bankers yesterday, he did not discuss the Budget directly but described a fragile world in which imprudent tax and spending plans could undermine stability.

He said the crisis after Ms Truss's mini-Budget in 2022, which prompted extremely sharp rises in Britain's borrowing costs, "was an illustration of what can happen in these much-changed conditions".

Mr Bailey's remarks are likely to be received as a warning to Andy Burnham and Mr Healey that the international investors behind Britain's £3trn debt pile will punish any signs of recklessness on their fiscal debut.

The cost of long-term debt hit its highest level since 1998, piling further pressure on the Chancellor. Experts estimate that the Iran war has halved Mr Healey's spending buffer, known as headroom, to just £12bn.

His predecessor, Rachel Reeves, had been seeking to maintain breathing space of £22bn in the public finances. However, she mounted tax raids which economists believe have contributed to Britain's weak growth.

Mr Bailey said spending plans must “be directed towards stability and be seen by markets as credible” after absorbing shocks including Covid and the energy crisis caused by the invasion of Ukraine.

He added: "If markets begin to doubt the fiscal trajectory, bond yields can rise further. Governments can ordinarily use their balance sheets to cushion a severe downturn and rebuild fiscal space when conditions improve.

"But when shocks become more frequent, underlying growth is weaker, and the succession of shocks leads to a higher level of government debt, this becomes much harder to sustain."

Gilt yields, the rate of return investors receive for holding debt, have climbed in recent weeks as part of a global shift driven by looming inflation, runaway state spending and competition for lending from the AI boom.

Andrew Griffith, the shadow chancellor, said: "Reading between the lines, the Governor is clearly warning Healey about the need for better economic growth and not to reduce the already slender budget headroom."

The Prime Minister has complained that Britain should not be “in hock to the bond markets”. But a shrinking spending buffer will be a setback for Mr Burnham as he faces pressure to support households as they struggle with rising fuel prices and energy bills. The Prime Minister has promised to give families “more breathing room”, while meeting the borrowing targets and providing more funding for defence.

Mr Bailey said that controlling inflation had become more challenging. He said: "The difficulty becomes greater when shocks arrive in quick succession. A recent history of higher inflation can cause people to expect further inflation. The sequencing of Covid and the invasion of Ukraine have made this risk particularly acute."

He added that such shocks also made it harder for central banks to align plans to tame inflation with governments' tax and spending policies. He said: "Interest rates may need to rise even as economic activity weakens.

"Debt-servicing costs increase just as household incomes and corporate earnings come under pressure. Asset prices can fall, reducing the value of collateral and restricting the supply of credit. This is why resilience before a shock is so important."

A Treasury spokesman said that fiscal discipline was “the bedrock of economic stability” and that Mr Burnham and Mr Healey were “in lockstep that the Government will meet the fiscal rules, with a buffer against uncertainty – and that includes getting debt down”.

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Badenoch ‘on list at home of Widdecombe murder suspect’

By Gordon Rayner ASSOCIATE EDITOR

KEMI BADENOCH'S name appeared on a list of more than 100 prominent people that was allegedly found at the home of the man accused of murdering Ann Widdecombe, The Telegraph has learnt.

Others alongside the Tory leader on the alleged list were Tom Tugendhat, the shadow foreign secretary, Robert Jenrick, Lee Anderson and Richard Tice of Reform UK, and Rosie Duffield, an independent MP, it is understood.

Several of those named have accused the police and Shabana Mahmood, the Home Secretary, of letting them down by failing to tell them for months that they were on the alleged list.

In July, Joshua Kerry, 28, was charged with murdering Miss Widdecombe, a former MP and Reform spokesman. This month, he was charged with preparing acts of terrorism, including against Nigel Farage, the Reform leader.

Earlier this week, a court was told that Mr Kerry had carried out research into a number of prominent people including Mr Farage, whose home was the subject of an attempted break-in last year.

Although Mr Kerry's home in Rotherham, South Yorkshire, was searched at the time of his arrest in July, MPs and others were only told this week that

‘We should have been told about this straight away. They should have sent the police to our homes’

their names had appeared on a list allegedly found in the property. It is unclear exactly when police found the alleged list.

Mr Anderson, the Reform chairman and MP for Ashfield, said: "We should have been told about this straight away. They should have sent the police to our homes, given us advice, spoken to our families, but instead I got a phone call from Nottinghamshire Police this week informing me about it.

"The Metropolitan Police [which is leading the investigation] couldn't even tell me themselves. Instead, they got the local force to do it – which meant that when I asked questions, Notts Police had to ask the Met for the answers and get back to me. It was like Chinese whispers. I asked the Home Secretary after Ann's death whether Reform MPs were at any extra risk, and she wouldn't answer."

Ms Mahmood would only say at the time that “counter-terrorism policing has the resources it needs”.

Mr Anderson said: "I think it's shocking, really. The police have let us down, and the Home Secretary has let us down. We live in an age when it is getting worse, not better, and MPs are not feeling safe.

"The Speaker made sure we got extra security after Ann's death, but the Home Secretary didn't, so Nigel [Farage] had to pay for the extra security for us for a while."

Andrew's fightback starts now, friends say

By Martin Evans and Victoria Ward

ANDREW MOUNTBATTEN-WINDSOR'S legal victory against the police is the first stage in his "long overdue fightback", friends have said.

The former Duke of York was described as feeling "vindicated" after discovering that search warrants permitting officers to raid his homes had been issued unlawfully.

He is now taking further legal action to recover items seized by Thames Valley Police from Marsh Farm on the Sandringham Estate and his former residence Royal Lodge in Windsor.

The King's younger brother was arrested on Feb 19 on suspicion of misconduct in public office following allegations he had shared sensitive information with Jeffrey Epstein, the convicted paedophile, while working as the UK's trade envoy.

While he underwent 12 hours of questioning at Aylsham police station in Norfolk, detectives from Thames Valley Police searched his two properties for evidence. However, shortly after being released under investigation, the former prince lodged a judicial review arguing that the police action had overstepped the mark and was unlawful. During a hearing in the High Court yesterday it was confirmed that the wrong search warrants had in fact been issued.

Mr Justice Hilliard said a “significant error was made in the application for and grant of the search warrants,” and that was “enough to render the warrants, the searches and the material seized unlawful.

A hearing next year will decide whether Thames Valley Police have to hand back the material, but friends of Mr Mountbatten-Windsor said he was determined to fight his corner. A friend of the former duke said: "However it is Continued on Page 5

ADHD claims fuelled by welfare system

By Laura Donnelly and Michael Searles

SOARING demand for ADHD and autism diagnoses is being fuelled by Britain's welfare system, a landmark review has warned.

A Government-commissioned report says medical labels have become a gateway to benefits, school support and other help, creating financial incentives that risk driving overdiagnosis.

The 607-page review does find evidence of a substantial rise in mental distress, estimating that around four million children and young people – one in five – are experiencing high levels of psychological distress. However, it warns that unnecessary diagnoses could harm a generation by “closing doors”, lowering ambitions and defining children by what they cannot do.

It also calls for a crackdown on the booming private assessment industry, raising “strong concerns” about the quality of diagnoses and the financial incentives driving its expansion.

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“Why has diagnosis become so important?” the review asks. “Because it validates self-recognition and experiences and because it gives access to treatment, educational support, workplace adjustments, welfare benefits, social care and specialist services.”

Government figures show 268,965 people claiming disability benefits with autism as their main disabling condition in July 2026, compared with 79,395 in January 2019. The number whose main condition was ADHD or ADD rose more than fourfold, from 23,741 to 106,087.

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Two Latvians accused of breaching ‘crown jewel of Nato intel’ RAF base

Men arrested inside the perimeter of Molesworth facility after police find fence was compromised

By Richard Holmes

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TWO Latvian men have been arrested on suspicion of trespassing at an RAF base in Cambridgeshire considered to be the “crown jewel” of Nato military intelligence.

A 32-year-old and a 36-year-old were arrested inside RAF Molesworth, counter-terror police said.

The arrests were made at around 10pm on Wednesday after Ministry of Defence (MoD) police discovered that the base's perimeter fence had been breached.

RAF Molesworth is home to US intelligence operations centres for Europe and Africa, as well as a Nato intelligence hub. It had been hosting a Russia conference on Tuesday and Wednesday.

The base hosts the Nato Intelligence Fusion Centre and acts as a hub for crisis warning and information gathering. It analyses electronic signals and communications that informs decision making within the alliance.

In 2024, the US Defence Intelligence Agency broke ground on a new £421m facility at the base that will be home to 1,000 intelligence personnel when complete.

Ministry of Defence Police initially arrested the two Latvian men on suspicion of trespass on a prohibited site and criminal damage, taking them to a Cambridgeshire police station. The two men were later also arrested on suspicion of entering a prohibited place for a purpose prejudicial to the UK, contrary to the National Security Act 2023. The men, both of whom reside in the UK, remain in police custody.

Ministry of Defence police found an abandoned vehicle before the men were located and arrested, counter-terror police said. Searches at two addresses in the Peterborough area of Cambridgeshire are being carried out in connection with the investigation.

The abandoned vehicle was impounded to a nearby location for searches. Concerns over the vehicle had led MoD officers to order in a specialist Explosive Ordnance Disposal team to carry out additional checks.

Police said a cordon was put in place, with local roads closed, but was lifted after nothing of concern was found.

The base employs around 230 staff, according to public documents, and regularly hosts conferences which attract intelligence staff from across the Nato alliance.

This week's Russia conference brought together Nato intelligence experts from across the alliance. Speakers included John Foreman, the UK's former defence attaché to Moscow, who spoke about Russia's use of sabotage and espionage to wage hybrid warfare on the West.

Mr Foreman told The Telegraph: "Security was tight. One of the officers said things had been stepped up over recent weeks. I would describe the security as enhanced.

"It was evident outside and inside the base, a good example of UK and US co-operation, built over decades, to keep those who work there safe. The

A breach in the perimeter fence, left, of RAF Molesworth was discovered, leading to the arrests

local region is home to many Americans from Molesworth, Lakenheath and Mildenhall, and has been since the war. They're very much a welcome part of the community."

Air Chief Marshal Sir Stuart Peach, who previously served as the chairman of Nato's military committee, has described the facility as "the crown jewel of the Nato intelligence enterprise".

The arrest of the two Latvian nationals comes two weeks after RAF Fairfield, in Gloucestershire, was targeted in a suspected terror plot.

A Ministry of Defence spokesman said: “We remain highly vigilant to potential threats against defence sites and work closely with the police and our allies to keep them secure.”

Navy sailor accused of plotting to leak secrets to Russia

By Tom McArdle and Tom Cotterill

A ROYAL NAVY sailor has been accused of plotting to leak secret information to Russia.

Teddy Young, 24, is alleged to have abused his high-level security clearance to access confidential defence and intelligence data after being deployed on a Navy vessel.

It is said he drafted a message in Russian containing classified information and allegedly took steps to contact Russian authorities.

Mr Young, who lives in a semi-detached house in the village of Clapham, on the outskirts of Bedford, appeared at Westminster magistrates' court yesterday to face the charges.

The Crown Prosecution Service told the court: "The allegation is that while serving as a Royal Navy warfare intelligence rating with high-level security clearance and intelligence-system access, Teddy Stanley Greenidge Young accessed and retained sensitive UK defence and intelligence material and engaged in activity consistent with preparing to pass protected information to a foreign power."

Mr Young, who joined the Navy in April 2024, allegedly committed the offences on his first deployment, which began on Nov 4, 2024.

He is accused of using the dark web to try to make contact with Russian authorities by drafting a message that "sought to make contact with a potential threat actor", and breaking Navy rules by copying information to a private email account.

Mr Young wore a grey sweatshirt and joggers as he appeared in the dock in front of Judge Annabel Pilling.

He was arrested by counter-terrorism police at his home in Bedfordshire on Tuesday, having previously been arrested in Hampshire last year.

He is charged with engaging in conduct preparatory to the commission of an offence under the National

Teddy Young, 24, is alleged to have abused his high-level security clearance

Security Act 2023 and a second allegation of obtaining, accepting or retaining material benefit from a designated body.

According to the charges, between Nov 26, 2024 and May 21, 2025 Mr Young “disclosed protected information for a purpose which he knew, or having regard to other matters known

'The matters that you have been charged with are too serious to be dealt with at this court'

to him ought reasonably to have known, was prejudicial to the safety or interests of the UK intending the conduct to benefit a foreign power, engaged in conduct in preparation for the commission of such an act".

During the same six-month period, Mr Young is said to have "obtained, copied, recorded or retained protected information, intending the conduct to benefit a foreign power".

Mr Young was not asked to enter any pleas during the four-minute court hearing yesterday.

The judge told him: "As you know the matters that you have been charged with are too serious to be dealt with at this court and need to be dealt with at a Crown Court."

Judge Pilling sent the case to the Old Bailey, where Mr Young is due to appear on Oct 16, and remanded him in custody.

When announcing the charge, police stressed that there was no link between this investigation and the ongoing RAF Fairford investigation.

A Royal Navy spokesman said: "A member of the Royal Navy has been charged with National Security Act offences following an investigation by Counter Terrorism Policing London.

"As legal proceedings are ongoing, it would be inappropriate to comment further at this stage."

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Police catch the sausage smuggler of Berkshire

A suspected thief who allegedly stuffed packs of M&S pork sausages down his skinny jeans has been charged with theft.

Haydon Lucas, dubbed the “sausage smuggler”, is accused of stealing £600 of the upmarket meat products from a branch of BP in Newbury, Berks. Police charged Lucas with four counts of shoplifting. A spokesman for Thames Valley Police said: “The sausage smuggler has been caught. Some criminals think outside the box. This one thought inside the trousers.

“CCTV showed sausages being concealed down clothing. Turns out there are easier ways to get on a police social media page.”

PM: I want UK to find cure for Alzheimer's

Andy Burnham has pledged millions for dementia research to help Britain become the first in the world to find a cure.

The Prime Minister, whose father Roy died last month after suffering from Alzheimer's, said he wanted the UK "to be the country that makes the breakthrough". The Government will make dementia research a "national priority" by investing £33m alongside £15m from the private sector to help recruit more people for clinical studies. The investment will support The Barbara Alliance, which was launched in memory of the late Carry On and EastEnders actress Dame Barbara Windsor.

'Early signs' of worst flu season since pandemic

The NHS is braced for the worst flu season since the Covid pandemic.

Hospital admission rates from flu are at the highest level for this time of the year since 2022, health chiefs have said. Some 1.97 people per 100,000 were admitted to hospital for flu in the week to Oct 4, figures from the UK Health Security Agency show.

While still considered to be low, it is the highest for the time of year since the pandemic.

Prof Frankie Swords, NHS medical director, said: "This is coming on the back of the busiest summer we've ever had in our emergency departments. We have got very, very busy hospitals, so slightly ominous early signs."

Banksy's wall art given a lift for new exhibiton

Two concrete walls with the original Banksy artwork are to be craned into a gallery garden ahead of the world debut of a new piece by the artist.

The multi-ton walls feature Banksy's Hula Hoop Girl and Sandcastle Boy, and will be installed into The Minories Gallery garden, in Colchester, Essex, today as part of a new exhibition, Out of Line: Banksy and the Art of Dissent.

The installation comes ahead of the grand unveiling of a brand new Banksy piece titled, Rat with Drill.

It will be among 28 Banksy pieces that will go on display from tomorrow along with work from French graffiti artist Blek le Rat and US artist and designer KAWS.

The exhibition runs until Feb 28.

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Exit Richard ‘Eek’ Grant, the worst Traitor ever

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Actor admits he's 'idiotic' as he gets kicked out and Myha'la is next to leave after giving him a wink

NOW that his limelight-hogging reign is over, the game proper can begin. Richard E Grant admitted he was “catastrophically idiotic” and departed last night’s The Celebrity Traitors as the worst Traitor in the show’s history.

"I checkmated myself," said the so-called lord of chaos. "Which, as far as I'm aware, has never been done."

Host Claudia Winkleman agreed, telling the jubilant Faithful: "Players, this has never happened before. Your first try and you got one." Would it be beginner's luck?

After a six-day wait, we finally got the resolution to that Round Table cliffhanger from episode two. It was hardly a shock twist. He'd been living on borrowed turret time and Richard "Eek" Grant was duly banished with an overwhelming 16 votes out of 20.

"Admitting I was a Traitor was a catastrophically idiotic thing to do!" said Grant. "I can only imagine the faces of the producers looking at each other and mouthing 'He said WHAT?!' I'd watched every iteration that I could of this game and I was manifesting, willing myself to get invited to be a Traitor so receiving that tap on the shoulder...well, I lost all sense of self control."

So how did it feel announcing to the rest that he was a Traitor, and properly this time? "I said it's been my dream to be chosen as a Traitor. Sometimes in life, your dreams come true, sometimes they don't. My face dropped, and all the players in front of me looked as if they had made the wrong decision. Oh my God, he is Faithful after all! And then I said, 'I am an unfaithful Traitor', to an instant unanimous standing ovation.

"It was a double-edged sword of the joy of being released and the humiliation of them being so glee-filled that they got one so early in the game. I gave it to them on a platter."

Professor Hannah Fry's recruitment by the Traitors was poorly timed. Due to the grave-digging mission, the Traitors' only options for murder were Hannah and Jerry "Haggis" Hall. It put the "short" into shortlist. Rather than killing, they wisely opted to swell their ranks and soon whittled down the potential recruits to Hannah, Bella Ramsey and Miranda Hart. You could see their logic for seducing the maths boffin - she's armed with a spreadsheet and Alan Turing's

The celebrities attempt to win cash for their chosen charities in the show's latest mission. Myha'la, left, became the second person to be banished

code-breaking techniques, so represents a threat, but was it an error? Hannah already had heat on her. Bella less so. Miranda not at all, although she might have declined the invitation.

Arriving at breakfast, the red-headed brainiac had to hope she was less conspicuous than Jerry, who did herself no favours by swiftly changing the subject to Richard's expulsion.

As James said of the conclave: "The line-up is changing a lot, like the Sugababes." We can expect more turnover. Pre-series rumours suggested there would be seven

Traitors in total. Four down, three to go. They might need to fit a revolving door on the turret.

By the time the second Round Table rolled around, momentum was gathering to banish Myha'la. Her crimes? Defending and winking at Richard, with a spot of shield shadiness thrown in. An unlucky 13 votes and she was toast. At least everyone spelt her name correctly on their slates - except Jerry Hall, who went for "Mahala". Close but no cigar.

Myha'la's parting shot, "In case I go", was to say she suspected Bella, Jerry

and Julie Hesmondhalgh. Heat duly began building up on all three. Desperate to catch two Traitors in a row, Julie had pushed Myha'la's name too hard, insistent that her voting for Richard had been "Traitor on Traitor". Once her innocence was proved, Julie started to look distinctly dodgy herself.

The males didn't get away scot-free. There were suggestions that Ross Kemp had been recruited, while James began to sow seeds about Michael, with shades of Joe Marler's "Big dog theory". The Traitors were able to sit back and savour the Faithful turning on each other.

When the Traitors convened to pick their next murder victim, Fry was frazzled by her first day of skulduggery. Luckily, James and Maya had cool heads. Acaster suggested murdering James Blunt to cause confusion. The other candidates were Bella, perceived as a potential threat, or Sebastian Croft, AKA "Bash".

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Scots, Irish and Welsh turn on England in whisky war attack

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THE Scots have launched an offensive to stop English single malts being granted protected status as part of an escalating whisky war.

The Scotch Whisky Association (SWA) has lodged a formal appeal to prevent English whisky being granted “protected geographical indication” (GI) status, which would distinguish English malts as a distinctive category and give them the same recognition as whisky from Scotland and Wales, and whiskey from Ireland.

The application for protected status, announced last month, was successful. It triggered consternation north of the border, with enraged Scotch producers now joined by makers in Ireland and Wales.

Their main contention is that English whisky was awarded protected status under different rules to those in Scotland. Scotch single malt whisky must be mashed, fermented and distilled at a single distillery in Scotland. However, for English single malt, some steps may happen away from the primary site in the production process.

The SWA, which is leading the claim against its English rivals, said yesterday that it had lodged a formal appeal to stop English malts being recognised.

'Scotland's opposition is bewildering – the strength of it seems both misplaced and over the top'

In a joint statement with the Irish and Welsh associations, it said: "We hoped that a mutually beneficial resolution could be found to both protect the integrity of the single malt category and allow the English GI to proceed.

“Despite efforts to find an agreement, including offering compromises to the English Whisky Guild, our associations remain concerned about inconsistencies in approving the English whisky GI, both in terms of process and future practice."

England is home to more than 70 whisky distilleries, up from 46 in 2023. They export to more than 30 countries and English whisky stocks are already estimated to be worth about £1bn. Its rise poses a threat to Scotch whisky, which the SWA said directly contributes more than £5bn a year to the Scottish economy.

A spokesman for the English Whisky Guild said Scotland's objection was "bewildering". They added: "The strength of the opposition seems both misplaced and somewhat over the top."

An SWA spokesman said: "We have decided to appeal the decision to protect the Scotch whisky industry's huge investment in the high quality and reputation of the single malt whisky category."

The appeal will now be considered by a tribunal.

Award for best Oscar theory goes to expert who says statue based on god

By Eric Williams

THE origins of the Oscar award have long remained a mystery, even for its decorated Hollywood winners.

It has now emerged that the Academy statuette, cast in bronze and plated in 24-carat gold, was inspired by an Egyptian god, and not a crusading knight, as previously thought.

An antiquities expert has argued that the Oscar award's design was inspired by a sculpture of the ancient Egyptian god Ptah once owned by Lord Amherst, the former Tory MP who held the seat for West Norfolk in the 1880s.

Speaking at the Frieze London art fair, Rupert Wace, a London-based art dealer, said there was a “compelling argument” that the sculpture inspired the designer who created the Oscar statuette, The Times reported.

Lord Amherst was an avid collector and built a significant collection of Egyptian pieces, but his fortune was devastated after a fraud by the land agent of his estate. Mr Wace's research stated that the bronze sculpture was then sold by the Amherst family in the 1920s to Randolph Hearst, an American media tycoon known for his newspaper circulation wars with Joseph Pulitzer.

Art expert Rupert Wace claims Egyptian god Ptah, left, inspired golden Oscar

Mr Wace, who is selling the bronze sculpture for a “six-figure sum”, said that it had been bought by Hearst’s art-buying fund, the International Studio Art Corporation.

Hearst kept his Egyptian collection in his New York flat and at his Californian castle San Simeon, where the bronze sculpture is believed to have been put on display.

During that period, Cedric Gibbons, the MGM art director who designed the Oscar award, was a regular visitor. Gibbons first cast the Oscar design in bronze, like the Ptah sculpture, before it was plated in gold and presented at the first Academy Awards in 1929 to winners, including Charlie Chaplin.

Speaking at the Frieze fair, Mr Wace said: "Visually it is such a compelling argument. We can't be categorical but we would not be selling it as such unless we were confident."

The Academy claims the statue depicts the “stylised figure of a knight holding a crusader’s sword”.

Jurassic bark: Remains of earliest lapdog found... in Skegness

By Dalya Alberge

WHAT did the Romans do for us? Well, one answer might be introducing the trend for carrying around tiny lapdogs.

Archaeologists have discovered the remains of one of Britain's first pet dogs, and say it was a miniature breed dating back to the end of the Iron Age and the arrival of the Romans.

The near-complete skeleton is the earliest known evidence in the UK of a dog being kept solely as a pet. Dogs pre-dating the bones have been found, but all are believed to have been working animals.

The skeleton, about the size of a Maltese or Pomeranian, was discovered by a team from Wessex Archaeology during excavations in a field near the village of Partney near Skegness, Lincolnshire.

The puppy is thought to be a lapdog rather than the dwarf hound breed commonly used for hunting in Iron Age Britain. Lorrain Higbee, a zooarchaeologist, who analysed the animal remains, said: "Although it was only five to eight months old, it is clear from the size of the bones that these are the remains of a very small, slender animal, which would have been unlikely to survive without human care."

She estimated that if the puppy had survived to adulthood, it would have grown to around 8in tall.

The bones were analysed using radiocarbon dating to estimate the age of the skeleton, and the animal is believed to have lived between 40 BC and AD 60. The Romans conquered England in AD 43 and are known to have bred and kept lapdogs.

Ms Higbee said: "This was a transition period, where you start to see more size variation in dogs once the Romans arrive.

"It provides an unusual and securely dated example of a very small lapdog kept as a house pet from a rural con-

The remains of the dog were of a similar size to the Maltese, which were often mentioned in Roman literature

text during that transition, and points to the changing relationship between people and dogs during this period."

She added: “The long bones, which are straight, thin-walled and slender, and the distinct shape of the skull, indicate that this was a lapdog rather than the ‘dwarf hound’ types more commonly found on Late Iron Age and Roman sites in Britain.”

The exact breed cannot be deter-

mined from the bones, Ms Higbee said, but analysis suggested it did not originate in Britain.

The findings have not yet been peer-reviewed or published in a journal, but independent experts have told The Telegraph the animal is likely the earliest known pet dog found in Britain.

Dr Anders Bergström, associate professor in the School of Biological Sciences at the University of East Anglia, believes its small size reflects that it could not have been a working dog. He said: "Those kinds of dogs didn't really serve any other purpose than companionship."

Fay Worley, senior zooarchaeologist at Historic England, who was not involved with the project, said: "This is exciting as a particularly early example of its type in Britain. It's great to see archaeological finds providing insights into how animals have played a part in human life over thousands of years.

"It's only by direct study of the bones that we can learn details such as the types of dogs living in late Iron Age or early Roman Lincolnshire. I look forward to further research into the skeleton and what it uncovers."

The majority of the archaeological work on the site was carried out in 2020 and 2021 on land to be used for Viking Link, a 475-mile electricity interconnector between Britain and Denmark.

Life's ruff Big dogs hit by jumping genes

Large dogs have shorter lives than smaller breeds because of "jumping genes".

Researchers say the genetic code of large dogs contains sequences of rogue DNA that move from one location to another, inserting themselves into important genes at random, preventing important functions and speeding up ageing.

Maltese or Pomeranian. She said: "These are quite old breeds. The Maltese is mentioned a lot in Greek and Roman literature, and some tombstones seem to represent a similar-looking dog."

However, the experts believe the dog was probably not owned by a high-ranking Greek or Roman, because it lived in “a low status rural agricultural setting”.

She added: "The skeleton provides an unusual and securely dated example of a very small lapdog kept as a house pet from a rural context during the transition between the Iron Age and Roman periods.

"It's a small insight into something we don't often get information from."

The remains are now with the Lincolnshire Archives.

Dawn Heywood, senior collections development officer at Lincolnshire county council, said: "It's incredibly exciting to see discoveries like this emerging from archaeological investigations across Lincolnshire."

PM oversaw £55m public loan to UAE firms

Burnham chaired meetings that approved taxpayer cash for sheikh's property developments when mayor

By Investigations Team

ANDY BURNHAM oversaw a £55m taxpayer loan to United Arab Emirates-owned businesses while he was the mayor of Greater Manchester, The Telegraph can disclose.

The money was awarded to three Jersey-based property companies ultimately controlled by Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed al Nahyan, the owner of Manchester City football club, who is also a member of the Abu Dhabi royal family and the vice-president and deputy prime minister of the UAE.

The decisions to issue the loans were taken in two meetings in 2017, both of which Mr Burnham chaired as mayor of the Greater Manchester Combined Authority (GMCA).

They are the first pieces of evidence that the Prime Minister was directly involved in decisions that favoured Abu Dhabi. Last month Mr Burnham became embroiled in a row over Manchester City after the Premier League found the club guilty of financial irregularities.

The Prime Minister initially said he would be “really concerned” if the UAE decided to sell Manchester City, before rowing back on the comments, with Downing Street insisting that no one is above the rules.

The UAE is appealing against the decision and has threatened to pull out of UK investment projects in retaliation at the Premier League's verdict.

The financing for the property companies came from the Greater Manchester Housing Investment Loan Fund (GMHILF), a pot of taxpayers' money lent to the region by central government on the basis that it would be used to tackle the housing crisis.

The £300m fund was supposed to be lent to private developers to “kick-start housing projects that would otherwise be difficult to fund from elsewhere”, according to a GMCA press release in which Mr Burnham was quoted.

The Prime Minister is likely to face questions over how well GMCA adhered to this brief by authorising the loan of public money to companies controlled by one of the world's wealthiest men.

Louie French, the shadow sports minister, said: "We need to know why these firms got loans from a fund intended for housing projects that would not otherwise be viable. They could easily have got competitively priced loans on the private market, so why did the taxpayer have to finance them instead, thanks to approval at meetings chaired by Burnham when he was mayor?"

John Leech, the Liberal Democrat chairman of the GMCA overview and

'Burnham's intervention in the Man City case was extraordinary... now it is beginning to make sense'

scrutiny committee, said: "Clearly there would be no suggestion that the money couldn't come from somewhere else in the case of Sheikh Mansour."

Mr Leech added that the loans appeared out of kilter with the “stated aim” of the funds, and that the committee would look into “this issue of public loans for housing schemes in Greater Manchester".

The disclosures raise fresh questions about the links between Abu Dhabi and Manchester.

Mr Burnham has repeatedly praised the UAE for investment that helped to transform the city, but it has not been clear until now that the Sheikh's contribution was partly financed by loans from taxpayers' money.

Sheikh Mansour's investment vehicle, Abu Dhabi United Group (ADUG), has repaid the loans with interest. The rate of interest is not known.

Mr Burnham has come under mounting scrutiny over property deals that favoured Abu Dhabi, carried out by Manchester city council (MCC).

The Telegraph revealed last week that MCC used public money to pay millions of pounds more than its nearest competitor for a dilapidated retail park that it intended to reserve for development by Abu Dhabi.

Mr French said: "Andy Burnham's intervention in the Man City case was extraordinary and totally out of touch. But now it is beginning to make sense.

"The Prime Minister needs to come clean: why did he let these loans proceed?"

Sources close to Mr Burnham have previously played down his involvement, but GMCA minutes show that the then Manchester mayor chaired the meetings where the loans were approved. The decisions to approve the money were taken collectively by GMCA members.

The Prime Minister's office and GMCA declined to comment.

In 2024, the Government blocked an attempted takeover of The Telegraph by RedBird IMI, an Abu Dhabi-backed consortium.

Burnham invites Merz to come aboard fighter jet programme

By James Rothwell BERLIN CORRESPONDENT

THE Prime Minister has invited Germany to join a British-led fighter jet project as he vowed to bring the UK closer to Europe.

At a meeting with Friedrich Merz, the German chancellor, in Berlin yesterday, the Prime Minister expressed his “openness” to Germany joining the Global Combat Air Programme (GCAP).

"I've indicated to the Chancellor... our openness to Germany joining GCAP. That is something that we seek to progress in the coming period, working with our other partners, Italy and Japan," Mr Burnham said alongside Mr Merz as they ratified the Kensington Treaty, a bilateral defence deal.

The British-Italian-Japanese project, also known as Tempest, aims to build a

'After Britain's unfortunate departure from the EU, we are now at least concluding a bilateral agreement'

£50bn long-range stealth jet by 2035. UK officials have been eager to bring Germany into GCAP after it withdrew from Future Combat Air System, a similar fighter jet project, with France in June.

German officials, however, did not confirm if they were seeking to join GCAP, and Mr Merz made no reference to it during his joint statement with Mr Burnham.

Instead, Mr Merz spoke of the Kensington Treaty opening up “new opportunities for co-operation between Britain and Germany”.

Mr Merz added: "After Great Britain's unfortunate departure from the European Union, we are now at least concluding a bilateral agreement."

According to Politico Europe – which, like The Telegraph, is owned by Axel Springer – German officials recently held “exploratory talks” on taking part in GCAP.

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Chancellor Friedrich Merz welcomes Andy Burnham in Berlin yesterday. Britain is eager for Germany to join the GCAP project after withdrawing from a similar fighter jet scheme with France in June

Don’t rejoin EU ‘psychodrama’, Ryanair chief warns Britain

By Christopher Jasper and Pui-Guan Man

BRITAIN should not be permitted to rejoin the EU and risk decades of “psychodrama” because of its membership, Michael O’Leary, the boss of Ryanair, has said.

Any steps towards allowing the UK to return to the bloc would result in years of uncertainty and widen existing rifts, the Irish executive said.

Asked whether Britain should be welcomed back to the EU after Andy Burnham suggested Labour could “go all the way” in restoring ties, Mr O’Leary said: “No.” He added: “I’m not sure anybody in Europe wants the UK to rejoin as full members. We've had enough of the psychodrama of the UK and Europe and Brexit. Brexit has been an economic disaster for the UK, but I do not believe the UK should rejoin the EU as a full member."

Mr Burnham said last week that the UK's position in Europe "isn't good enough" and that he would consider a "whole range of options" for future ties with the bloc.

These included rejoining the EU, returning to the customs union and a Canada-style "associate membership". However, Mr O'Leary, a long-

Michael O'Leary, the chief executive of Ryanair

time Brexit critic, said: “I’m not sure Europe can handle another 10 or 20 years of psychodrama over whether the UK is a full member or not.”

His remarks came after Roland Lescure, France's finance minister, said Britain would be welcome to "come back any time" to the EU.

Mr Lescure said: "British people decided, and that's obviously their 100 per cent right."

However, he also told the BBC: "But what I can tell them is: come back, any time."

Last week, Emmanuel Macron, the French president, said "welcome back" after Mr

Burnham floated the prospect of rejoining the EU.

Mr Macron, whose country is suffering from a deepening debt crisis, said: "If the British want to come back and if the Prime Minister is moving in that direction, I think that is very good news both for his country and for Europeans."

However, Mr O'Leary said there was no guarantee that a referendum would pass, "particularly if the new terms will be so much worse than the terms on which the UK left".

'The

He added that it could also be difficult to negotiate a closer trade partnership.

"The problem will be for a very close

The problem is, for a close deal, à la Norway, the UK has to start paying into the EU coffers'

deal, à la Norway or Switzerland, the UK has to start paying into the EU coffers," he said.

Mr Burnham has expressed concerns over the impact of Brussels's planned Made In Europe scheme, which threatens to hit British manufacturers and supply chains.

The initiative would hand EU companies priority for public contracts and subsidies, a move designed to protect the bloc's industry from Chinese rivals.

Asked whether the UK would be shut out of the scheme, Mr Lescure, the French finance minister, said: "Come back and you'll be at the table, and we discuss all these things together."

The ADHD and autism diagnoses that only do more harm than good

By Michael Searles and Laura Donnelly

ADHD and autism are at "serious risk" of being overdiagnosed, the authors of a landmark report have warned.

Against a complex backdrop of children and young people experiencing increasing levels of "distress" and mental health conditions such as anxiety, there has also been a surge in apparent cases of neurodevelopmental conditions.

Now, a government-commissioned review led by experts, has cast doubt on whether some of these people are being diagnosed correctly.

The number of people waiting for an NHS assessment for either ADHD or autism is 13 and 17 times higher respectively than it was before the pandemic. It had been suggested this was a response to increasing awareness and historic underdiagnosis, but the report now warns this cannot be the only factor.

In fact, the proportion of people being diagnosed has now begun to surpass expected prevalence rates.

If it was just about underdiagnosis the “rates would be expected gradually to stabilise”, the researchers write. “Instead, both recorded diagnoses and demand for assessment continue to increase rapidly.”

The authors say an update to a 2017 study on prevalence is needed, but warn that if the current trend continues, the balance of risks will change.

"On the basis of evidence available to us we cannot conclude that overdiagnosis is occurring at scale... However, if present trends continue we are clearly entering a phase in which the balance of risks is changing, from previous merited concerns with under-recognition and underdiagnosis towards an increased risk of misdiagnosis and overdiagnosis "

particular who are not in employment, education, or training (NEETs).

Not only does this mean they are more likely to be on benefits, but this can also be detrimental to their health, reinforcing the problem.

Some four million children and young people were experiencing high levels of “psychological distress” in 2024 – one in five – with about half of these self-harming.

It coincides with a 50 per cent increase in common mental health disorders among 16 to 24 years between 1993 and 2024.

Recorded ADHD prevalence among boys aged 12 to 17 reached 5.1 per cent in 2025, up from 0.4 per cent in 2000, while among younger boys it increased from 0.7 to 3.8 per cent.

Among teenage girls, it increased from about 0.1 per cent to 2.7 per cent.

International studies suggest ADHD affects around 3 to 4 per cent of adolescents.

ADHD benefits claims are up by 40% since Labour took power

even steeper, with prevalence among teenage boys increasing more than 23-fold, from 0.2 to 4.7 per cent. Among younger boys, aged six to 11, autism prevalence rose almost 16-fold, from 0.4 to 6.3 per cent.

This is despite population studies estimating autism prevalence among children at around one to 1.2 per cent.

Asked whether the latest figures suggested overdiagnosis among younger boys, Sir Simon Wessely, a vice-chair of the report, said: "It's looking that way."

16-24-year-olds are NEETs - rising from 26 per cent of the age group in 2015 to 44 per cent last year.

Mental health conditions and autism accounted for around 68 per cent of cases that these young people could not work.

Children diagnosed with ADHD or autism before the age of 17 are about four times as unlikely to be a NEET than those not diagnosed, significantly more than people with any other long-term health condition.

The report largely avoids directly answering whether more people

legitimately have ADHD or autism now.

Dame Uta Frith, of University College London, who helped to develop the concept of autism being a spectrum, described the findings as a “determined sitting on the fence”.

The authors do state that “people are seeking answers and support for very real problems”, and blame a “system that leans too heavily on diagnosis as the route to help”.

The report proposes replacing the current diagnosis-dependent system with one that provides support according to individual needs. It argues that success should be measured by whether people can participate in education, work and relationships.

It also calls for a crackdown on private clinics. Currently services which only offer diagnosis do not have to be regulated by the Care Quality Commission regulation – the report says this must change.

In response, the Government pledged a major overhaul of mental health support, with a new strategy focused on earlier intervention.

Ministers are also awaiting a report from former Labour health secretary Alan Milburn into the rising number of young people not in education, employment or training.

Harry: I was depressed for two weeks when we left for Canada

Duke reveals how hard he was hit when he took family out of the UK and opens up about his mother's death

By Patrick Sawer SENIOR NEWS REPORTER

THE DUKE OF SUSSEX has revealed he experienced a two-week period of depression leaving the UK for Canada.

Prince Harry told for the first time how he coped with stepping down as a senior member of the Royal family in a conversation with neuroscientist Dr Mary-Frances O'Connor.

In the session, called Redefining Grief: Building Resilience Through Loss, he said: "Being in Canada, away from the stressful environment where presumably my body was just pumped full of adrenaline, within two or three days, I experienced this adrenaline crash, something that I'd never experienced before. It was as if I needed stress

The Duke and Duchess of Sussex left the UK in 2019

in order to get the adrenaline to make my brain function because I became useless around the house.

"I actually slipped into depression for about two weeks and I felt like I couldn't function without adrenaline."

The Duke also spoke about grieving for his mother Diana, Princess of Wales, saying for many years he felt like he had to be sad to prove he missed her.

He added that he now follows a 10 day-rule of never being away from his wife, the Duchess of Sussex, and their children, Prince Archie and Princess Lilibet, for longer than 10 days.

In the personal exchange released yesterday, Harry said he left the UK and moved to Canada with Meghan and baby Archie in 2019 to “get some space away from everything”. The Sussexes stayed on Vancouver Island,

'I'd spent so long emotionally numb because I felt disloyal for the possibility of being happy without her'

before Harry and Meghan quit the working monarchy early in 2020 and eventually moved to the US. The Sussexes returned to live in the UK last month after six years in America.

Prince Harry made the latest comments as part of a paid-for online masterclass on dealing with grief. People magazine reported that MasterClass approached him last year about developing a segment on grief, and he filmed it in California in the summer, though not at his house in Montecito.

About the death of Diana, Harry said: "You would think I had the best help in the world. I'm a prince for God's sake, but I was still grieving and didn't have any place to put those feelings."

In a video trailer posted on Instagram, Prince Harry – who was aged 12 when his mother, Diana, Princess of Wales, was killed in a car crash in Paris in August 1997 – goes on to say: "I consider myself a student of grief. I'd spent so long emotionally numb, to a large extent, because I felt disloyal and guilty for the possibility of being happy and joyful without her.

"I felt like I had to be sad and I had to be emotionally numb in order to prove to her that I missed her."

The Duke explained he had forgotten his mother's laugh, and that a therapist suggested spraying her perfume, which helped him to "unlock everything". "The reality is, what I discovered was actually she just wanted me to be happy," he said.

MasterClass says that the Duke is uniquely qualified to speak on the subject, having “spent his teenage years and early 20s suppressing grief”.

The cost of an annual MasterClass membership ranges from £120 to £228 a year. During the classes Prince Harry will share his reflections on loss and what San Francisco-based MasterClass describes as “the path he took to discovering his purpose”.

The Duchess of Sussex was spotted enjoying afternoon tea with Malala Yousafza, the Nobel Peace Prize winner, at Claridge's in Mayfair on Wednesday. The pair first met during a virtual discussion in 2020, to mark the International Day of the Girl, during which they spoke about the systemic barriers that prevent millions of girls from accessing education.

The Telegraph revealed last month that Prince Harry is in talks to make a documentary about his mother. The Telegraph understands that the Duke wants to mark the 30th anniversary of her death, on Aug 31 next year, by honouring her legacy “in the most meaningful way”.

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Going for gold Alexander Skarsgard and Olivia Colman, the stars of Wicker, attend the London Film Festival screening at the BFI. The film is about a fisherwoman who falls in love with a man made of wicker.

Andrew ‘vindicated’ after judge rules search warrants were unlawful

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presented, this ruling marks a notable backward step for the Thames Valley Police investigation.

"The judge made clear that both the police force and an Old Bailey judge made a 'significant error' in their actions. They should not be able to keep evidence seized in this way."

The friend went on: "Many of us are delighted that he has finally decided to fight his corner. He's been under fire for fifteen long years and yet has never been charged, let alone convicted.

"It's the opposite of British justice – guilty until proven innocent is not how things should work in this country. Let's hope this is the first stage of a long overdue fight back and not the last." Mr Mountbatten-Windsor did not attend the hearing in Court 67 of the High Court yesterday and his barrister made no submissions.

Senior officers from Thames Valley Police went to an Old Bailey judge on Feb 18 and applied for search warrants under two sections of the Police and Criminal Evidence (PACE) Act.

The judge decided they only required one of the warrants but the one issued did not allow the police to seize items covered by legal privilege including business records and confidential journalistic material.

In a ruling handed down by Mr Justice Hilliard, he said an agreement

'Guilty until proven innocent is not how things should work in this country'

had been reached between Mr Mount-batten-Windsor and Thames Valley Police that the search warrant issued was unlawful. But the police have made a legal application to hang on to the material under a different provision.

Mr Justice Hilliard said: “I will have to decide whether the new application is granted or not. The fact the search warrants have been quashed does not bring the investigation to the end or mean the whole investigation is unlawful.”

A spokesman for the force said: "The initial court's decision to issue warrants under the specific piece of legislation used was incorrect, and therefore these must be legally quashed.

“Legal proceedings are currently ongoing to decide how material seized during the searches will be managed and whether we can lawfully retain it in support of our ongoing investigation.

"Our investigation into alleged misconduct in public office by a man in his 60s from Norfolk remains ongoing, and we continue to pursue all reasonable lines of enquiry to effectively and fairly progress this investigation."

Despite this the ruling will be seen as a significant blow to the police investigation, which was already rumoured to be in trouble due to the reluctance of the US authorities to hand over the unredacted versions of the Epstein files. Mr Mountbatten-Windsor was

'The fact the search warrants have been quashed does not bring the investigation to the end'

stripped of his titles and evicted from his home, Royal Lodge in Windsor, last autumn amid a public scandal over his relationship with Epstein.

His arrest on the morning of his 66th birthday represented the first time a senior member of the royal family had been held by police in modern times. But he has always maintained his innocence and with misconduct in public office a notoriously difficult charge to bring, is confident of clearing his name.

His legal claim against the police and courts is thought to be the first time a member of the Royal family has challenged the lawfulness of criminal proceedings against them since the trial of Charles I in 1649.

Little princess Photographs taken by an Ohio couple of their daughter in outfits inspired by the late Diana, Princess of Wales have gone viral. David and Macey Wysong, from Cincinnati, dressed Dianna in some of the princess's most memorable looks for each of the first 12 months of her life, culminating on Tuesday, when the infant turned one.

Zara: My mother was the relaxed one, not my ‘critical coach’ father

By Joanna Marchong

ZARA TINDALL has revealed that Princess Anne was the relaxed parent growing up.

The mother-of-three revealed her father, Capt Mark Phillips, was a ‘quite critical’ equestrian coach who rarely told her she had done well.

Mrs Tindall told the Talk Horse podcast this week: “Mum’s very relaxed. She’s like, ‘Just, you know, just do what you do’. Whereas my father’s like, ‘More of this, more of that’.”

She added: "My father was quite critical... very rarely you would get a, 'Yeah, that was good', out of him."

She said her experience had left her "always striving to try to get that comment", describing her father as a "tough coach" who "doesn't beat around the bush".

Mrs Tindall, who is married to Mike Tindall, the former England rugby player, said she was trying to take a gentler approach with their three children, Mia, 12, Lena, eight, and Lucas, five.

Daughters, Mia and Lena, have taken up riding, with Mrs Tindall taking them jumping with her nieces, Savannah and Isla Phillips. Reflecting on becoming a coach to her children, she conceded

Park, the Princess Royal's Gloucestershire estate.

that her oldest daughter, Mia, was less receptive to her advice than her cousins were. "[Dad] was a tough coach, but I'm trying not to be quite that bad with my own kids," she said.

The Princess Royal, 76, and Capt Phillips, 78, were married for 19 years before divorcing in 1992.

Both competed at the highest level, the Princess won individual gold at the 1971 European Championships and rode at the 1976 Montreal Olympics, while Capt Phillips won team gold at Munich in 1972 and silver at Seoul in 1988.

Mrs Tindall and her brother Peter were raised surrounded by horses at Gatcombe

Zara Tindall and her father, Capt Mark Phillips

She revealed her parent's head girl on the yard at the time was "like a Rottweiler" who expected them to work hard.

"We had to do everything with them. We had to clean our tack. We had to muck them out," she said.

Riding as Zara Phillips, she took individual European gold in 2005 and the world title at Aachen the following

following year on Toytown, before winning team silver with Great Britain at the London 2012 Olympics.

She has not rei- tred and will com- pete in the London International Horse Show on Dec 18.

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UK ultimatum to Israel over diplomats in consulate row

Foreign Office demands Likud reverses its decision to shut Jerusalem embassy over West Bank sanctions

By Henry Bodkin and Amy Gibbons

BRITAIN has warned Israel it will expel diplomats from London unless it is allowed to reopen its Jerusalem consulate.

Israel ordered the Jerusalem post to be closed last month in retaliation for UK trade sanctions on Israeli businesses operating in settlements in the occupied West Bank. It gave the staff 30 days to leave the country.

On Wednesday night, Whitehall reached an 11th-hour deal to keep the building open, renaming it the British Mission and retaining seven diplomats, down from about 27.

The deal allowed Israel to save face, as technically it had followed through on its promise to close the consulate.

However, The Telegraph understands Wednesday's deal is a pause in the negotiations and that the Foreign Office will revive its threat to expel Israeli diplomats if their British counterparts are not allowed to return to Jerusalem.

The door of the British consulate in Jerusalem has had its signage removed

The UK has agreed to ongoing discussions with the Israeli government, and the expulsion threat will return if the talks “do not prove credible”.

British officials want to return the Jerusalem post to full diplomatic strength. Substantive talks are not expected to resume until after the Israeli general election on Oct 27.

The last-minute deal to keep the British consulate building open guarantees an unbroken formal presence in the Holy City and ensures that the UK Government maintains physical outreach to the Palestinian people.

However, the small number of diplomats being retained raises questions about what they could meaningfully achieve in terms of relations with the Palestinian Authority, the main purpose of the Jerusalem consulate.

Another function of the consulate is to channel aid funding to projects in the Palestinian territories.

Yesterday, Israeli government sources briefed that, in practice, the staff would have little ability to continue their work. The sources said the remaining staff would retain full diplomatic status, but it was uncertain what access they would have to Palestinian Authority figures in the West Bank.

However, Whitehall sources said they would retain full diplomatic privileges and the ability to move in and out of the West Bank as before.

The Foreign Office has not said precisely what roles the remaining seven diplomats would fulfil. Expelled diplomats will continue the consulate's function from other British diplomatic posts in the Middle East, or from London.

Israel is believed to have put London under significant pressure to fold the remaining staff in Jerusalem into the main UK embassy in Tel Aviv.

However, Whitehall considered it crucial to keep the Jerusalem consulate, now mission, as a separate entity with independent credentials.

It is understood Israel wanted the UK to roll back the package of sanctions announced by Mr Miliband on Sept 8, but that the UK Government refused.

Jonathan Powell, the national security adviser, flew to Israel last week to broker the deal and help safeguard the intelligence-sharing partnership.

Britain's intelligence-sharing relationship with Israel runs mainly out of the official UK embassy, which is located in Tel Aviv, and whose operations are unaffected by the row.

Baggy Khan, the Green councillor, left, supported Ismail Ibrahim's proposal to fly a Palestinian flag that was made at the council meeting on October 7

Greens asked on Oct 7 to fly Palestine flag

By Cameron Henderson

GREEN PARTY councillors have been criticised for choosing Oct 7 to ask for permission to raise the Palestinian flag, it has emerged.

Labour-led Bolton council's meeting descended into chaos on Wednesday over the request to fly the flag over the town's central library for Palestinian independence day on Sunday Nov 15.

Ismail Ibrahim, a Green councillor, proposed the idea with the support of Baggy Khan, his fellow councillor.

The meeting over the request to “fly the flag of Palestine in solidarity with the Palestinian people” took place on the third anniversary of the October 7 attacks on Israel, when Hamas terrorists killed 1,200 people and took 251 hostages. Akhtar Zaman, the Labour council leader, opposed the request, calling the timing “inappropriate”.

Hecklers in the public gallery shouted "No Palestine flag on this building", according to The Bolton News.

After Mr Ibrahim put forward the request, Mr Zaman said: "You have tabled a question tonight on an issue that many people feel is contentious.

"The council meeting tonight, sadly marks the anniversary of the Hamas attack on Oct 7.

"I do not say that this was deliberate timing on your part, but you will be very much aware that this timing will be seen by many as inappropriate."

Mr Zaman said the policy on flying flags on civic buildings in Bolton would be taken to an all-party discussion group in the near future.

Mr Ibrahim repeatedly interrupted

Mr Zaman, prompting another councillor to accuse the Green Party member of "disorderly conduct and disrespect to the mayor".

Green councillors then walked out of the chamber in protest, later issuing a

'I do not say this was deliberate, but this timing will be seen by many as inappropriate'

statement accusing Mr Zaman of being "one-sided".

A Ukrainian flag has been flown from Bolton central library since Russia's invasion in February 2022.

"Where was the same compassion for Palestinian families and the thousands of innocent women and children killed," the Green statement read.

"We can condemn the killing of innocent Israeli civilians and unequivocally condemn the genocide against Palestinians."

About 50 protesters gathered outside the town hall in opposition to the Green proposal.

In a video posted on TikTok, Mr Ibrahim said: "We've got the Ukrainian flag been flying high for the last four years and we're asking for the Palestinian flag to be flown high."

Mr Khan added: "Everyone's got a right to their own opinion ... but we will be standing with Palestine."

Several pro-Palestinian demonstrations have been staged in Bolton since the outbreak of war with Israel in October 2023.

Jews nine times more likely to suffer hate crimes than Muslims

By Charles Hymas HOME AFFAIRS EDITOR and Ben Butcher DATA EDITOR

JEWS are nine times more likely to be victims of hate crime than Muslims, Home Office data shows.

The figures reveal that Jews faced hate crimes at a rate of 116.5 offences per 10,000 people last year compared with 13.3 per 10,000 for Muslims.

Official data also show that racially and religiously motivated hate crime recorded by police hit record highs.

Religious hate crimes targeting Jews were up by 10 per cent from the year before, to 3,162 while crimes against Muslims rose by 15 per cent to 5,132.

The figures come in a year when war flared in the Middle East between the US and Iran and there were continuing tensions between Israel and Gaza. Anti-Semitic hate peaked in October 2025, with 274 incidents in that month alone. They coincided with the second anniversary of the October 7 terror attacks on Israel by Hamas and the Manchester synagogue terror attack in which two jews were killed.

Melvin Cravitz and Adrian Daulby were killed when Jihad Al-Shamie, 35, drove into the gates of the Heaton Park Synagogue in Manchester on October 2 last year, and began attacking with a knife while wearing a fake suicide belt.

A series of anti-Semitic attacks followed in the months after, including in March this year when four Jewish community ambulances were torched in Golders Green, north London.

In August, four men pleaded guilty to destroying the four Jewish community ambulances in an arson attack causing £1m of damage in north-west London.

Hamza Iqbal, 20, Rehan Khan, 19, Judex Atshatshi, and Saif Ali, both aged 18, pleaded guilty at the Old Bailey to a

Jews are most likely to be victims of hate crime

charge of destroying or damaging property being reckless whether life would be endangered.

The attack, which took place in the early hours of 23 March, saw four vehicles operated by the charity Hatzola set

SOURCE: HOME OFFICE

alight in Golders Green. Prosecutors had said they believed the incident was a targeted attack against the Jewish community.

The official figures show that 45 per cent of anti-Semitic attacks were for "public fear, alarm or distress", while 17 per cent related to criminal damage, 11 per cent to malicious communications and 9 per cent to physical assault.

The Community Security Trust, which monitors anti-Semitism and publishes its own data on attacks, said latest figures “show anti-Semitic hate crime remains at an unacceptably high level”.

There is an “an urgent need to reduce the amount of incitement connected to conflict overseas”, the CST said, adding that “much more needs to be done across society to tackle this problem”.

The latest official Government data was published a day after a number of arrests were made at protests and demonstrations in London on the anniversary of the October 7 attacks.

These included arrests for inciting racial hatred, involving allegedly shouting or chanting slogans calling for intifada in what the Met described as a “spontaneous protest” outside the

Board of Deputies in Camden. These are not reflected in the latest data which covers only the 12 months to March.

There were a total of 146,825 hate crimes recorded by police in England and Wales between March 2025 and March 2026.

Religious hate crime rose by 13 per cent from the previous 12 months.

Race hate crimes account for around two-thirds and saw a 9 per cent increase from the previous year.

Sharp jumps in offences against Muslims occurred in September 2025, which the Home Office said coincided with protests and public disorder, and then in March following the US going to war with Iran.

The government-funded British Muslim Trust said it has tracked and verified 78 attacks and incidents at Muslim places of worship in the 12 months to July, including vandalism and intimidation.

Ex-Labour councillor laundered money with bogus Covid tests

By Fiona Parker

A FORMER Labour councillor has been found guilty of money laundering after running a bogus coronavirus testing laboratory during the pandemic.

Faisal Shoukat, who served on Calderdale council at a time when his offences took place, stood down in 2023 due to legal proceedings against him.

Shoukat, a pharmacist from Halifax, stood trial alongside Shahid Malik, a former justice minister, who was cleared of all charges against him.

During the trial at Bradford Crown Court, prosecutors said the company, RT Diagnostics, was a “cash cow”, set up to take advantage of the Government’s expanding test and trace system in March 2021.

Jurors heard that as the third national lockdown was ending in March 2021, the government was looking to expand its test and trace system by increasing the number of laboratories offering PCR testing.

The court heard Mr Malik started the business with pharmacist and former Labour councillor Shoukat, 39. It went on to be listed on the government's list of PCR suppliers, but the laboratory failed to process many of the vast number of tests it received properly.

Prosecutors said RT Diagnostics, which made £6.67m in three weeks,

‘Some of the test samples that were returned by consumers to the laboratory were not tested’

was set up in “shoddy and inadequate premises” in Halifax, West Yorkshire, and gave out false negative results to customers.

Jurors heard earlier in the trial that the company employed “numerous young people who had little or no training in the handling of Covid-19 samples” and set them to work with no social distancing and no personal protective equipment. The prosecutor said there was evidence of the company providing false negative results and that it “generated a suspiciously low number of positive results”.

Just 45 out of more than 123,000 test results submitted to the national database between May and July 2021 were reported to be positive, the court heard.

Prosecutor Jonathan Sandiford KC said RT Diagnostics failed to properly handle test samples and sold far more PCR sample collection kits to consumers than it was able to process.

“Because of that, some of the test samples that were returned by consumers to the laboratory were not tested but simply dumped in a room on the premises,” he told jurors.

"People who complained enough got told their result was negative, when in fact their sample had not been tested."

Defence barrister Jonathan Laidlaw KC said that Mr Malik's role in the business had been "very limited indeed" and that he had acted as "a facilitator - putting the money up and making introductions".

Mamdani dines at Palestinian restaurant on Oct 7 anniversary

By Iona Cleave and Emily Smith attention should remain on the “devas-tating, ongoing genocide in Gaza”.

ZOHRAN MAMDANI dined at a Palestinian restaurant on the third anniversary of the Oct 7 terror attacks against Israel.

The New York City mayor marked Hamas's 2023 massacre by eating at Hinds Hall, a Palestinian restaurant on Manhattan's Upper West Side.

Hinds Hall is a branch of the popular Palestinian restaurant Ayat, and is named after Hind Rajab, a five-year-old Palestinian child who was killed by the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) while fleeing Gaza City in January 2024.

Mr Mamdani, the city's first Muslim mayor, was also heckled at an Oct 7 candlelight vigil in Union Square on Wednesday night. He was booed by pro-Palestinian protesters, some of whom waved Hamas and Hezbollah flags, and was accused of having "betrayed his own alleged values".

Protesters shouted phrases including "you coward" and "traitor" at Mr Mamdani, who held a candle and marched silently from City Hall to honour the Jewish victims killed on Oct 7.

New York mayor Zohran Mamdani at the Hinds Hall restaurant in Manhattan

Mr Mamdani was also accused of "weaponising" the anniversary by releasing a statement accusing the Israeli government of "war crimes".

The mayor noted that the day had been “profoundly painful for so many New Yorkers”, but emphasised that

“That suffering has intensified with every Israeli bomb dropped on ambulances waiting outside hospitals, every drone strike targeting a residential building or journalist, and every shipment of food aid turned away at a border crossing,” he added.

Jonathan Greenblatt, the national director of the Anti-Defamation League, said: "You are weaponising a day meant for mourning the worst massacre of Jews since the Holocaust to recycle your usual anti-Zionist talking points.

"The city with the largest Jewish population outside Israel deserves a mayor who can honour the dead without exploiting them."

The attacks on Oct 7 2023 made for the deadliest day in Israel's history. Hamas terrorists killed 1,200 people and took 251 hostages in a cross-border incursion.

Israel's subsequent bombardment and ground invasion of Gaza have killed more than 74,000 people.

Royal GP ‘struck with axe as children slept’

Mark Cain accused of killing wife while five children were upstairs on sleepover, court told

By Telegraph Reporter

THE husband of a GP for the Royal family killed his wife while his children slept upstairs, a court has been told.

Mark Cain, 45, is alleged to have murdered Dr Hannah Terry, 45, at their family home in Fern Hill, Dersingham, Norfolk, on Saturday night.

During a hearing at King's Lynn Crown Court yesterday, it was heard that Dr Terry was "struck in the head with an axe and strangled".

Steven Ball, prosecuting, said the couple's three children, aged eight, 11 and 13, had been upstairs with two other children, aged eight and 10.

He also told the court that Mr Cain had called the police himself to report a "suspected burglary".

"Police attended the house in the early hours to a report made by Mr Cain of a suspected burglary," he said. "Mr Cain was seen to have superficial cuts."

'Nobody else will ever replace a beautiful person and GP like you. Fly high, Dr Terry, sleep well'

He said that the emergency services had attended and that Dr Terry, referred to by her married name Hannah Cain, had been found “unconscious and unresponsive”.

Mr Ball added that a post mortem had recorded that she had sustained "blunt force injuries to the head" and "neck injuries consistent with compression to the neck".

A previous hearing at Norwich magistrates' court heard that Dr Terry had been found bludgeoned and strangled to death in a bedroom at the home, which borders the Sandringham estate.

Mr Cain did not enter a plea when he appeared via video from HMP Norwich.

He was remanded into custody for medical reports to be carried out before a plea and a potential trial preparation hearing on Dec 3.

Mr Justice Lickley told Mr Cain, who works for an energy efficiency company, that he would be assessed for medical reports before his next appearance.

The Fern Hill address is just over a mile from Sandringham House, one of the royal residences of the King and Queen.

Dr Terry was listed as a member of the practice team at Grimston Medical Centre. She served in a pool of doctors who were regularly on call for members of the Royal family. According to the website of a business she ran called Norfolk Sky Aesthetics, Dr Terry had been a qualified doctor for more than 15 years and a GP since 2018.

Dr Terry describe d herself as a “caring and professional doctor” who continued her work as a GP alongside her cosmetics business.

Mark Cain and Hannah Terry with two of their children, above; left, an artist's impression of Mr Cain in court yesterday

In a tribute shared via the police on Wednesday, her family said: "We are devastated by the loss of our beautiful Hannah. She was kind, generous and loving; a beloved mother, daughter, sister, auntie, daughter-in-law and friend.

"We are incredibly proud of the woman she was and of the great care she took of all her patients who knew her as Dr Terry.

"We would ask people to respect our privacy at this difficult time."

Patients also left flowers and messages in tribute to Dr Terry outside the Grimston Medical Practice.

One card attached to a teddy bear on a bench read: "We are so shocked and saddened to hear such tragic news.

"Dr Hannah Terry, our GP. We are thinking of you, your family, your children, your friends and even more for all staff and colleagues at Grimston Medical Practice.

"You never rushed us and you listened to both of us. Nobody else will ever be able to replace a beautiful person and GP like you. Fly high, Dr Terry, sleep well. Heaven has certainly gained an angel."

Another message on flowers under a tree, said: "There are no words to express my sadness. Thinking of you and the boys. Thank you for being there when I needed help, RIP Hannah."

Nicky Campbell 'beaten up' by teacher in 1970s, court told

By Telegraph Reporter

BBC broadcaster Nicky Campbell has told a court a private school teacher attacked him in a “complete frenzy” during the 1970s.

The 65-year-old claimed he was attacked by a teacher while attending the Edinburgh Academy.

Colin Turner, 92, and David Bourne, 72, both former teachers at the school, are accused of attacking pupils around the 1970s but they have been deemed medically unfit to stand trial.

An examination of facts hearing at Edinburgh Sheriff Court this week will determine whether there are grounds for conviction.

Campbell, a BBC Radio 5 Live presenter, told the court yesterday that Turner had violently attacked him while he was a pupil at the school and "completely lost it".

He told the court: "It was a complete frenzy. I was absolutely terrified."

The court heard Turner allegedly came up behind Campbell while he was looking at a noticeboard with another pupil.

Campbell said he has a "vivid memory" of Turner slapping, hitting, dragging and "shaking him about", before the teacher allegedly pushed him to the floor with his foot.

He added that he was "rag-dolled" by the teacher. "It was more than 10 seconds of terror," he said.

The broadcaster described the incident as “traumatic” and as “one of the worst things that ever happened to me”.

Campbell said: "I was a skinny wee thing and he was a big man. The most vivid part is the yanking, the pulling, the feeling.

ing, the pulling, the feel of the hits, the feeling of the slaps, him pushing me on the ground with his foot and thinking 'oh f---, what have I done?"

Under questioning from Turner's defence lawyer Iain Smith, Campbell said the pupil standing beside him at the time does not remember the incident.

Campbell said the pupil had been "crying at the time", but blamed "dissociative amnesia" for his lack of memory now. "I'm not making it up, it was one of the most terrifying things that ever happened to me," Campbell said.

When asked why he and his mother did not go to police when it happened, Campbell claimed reporting the incident in the 1970s would have been the "nuclear" option.

The Edinburgh Academy opened as a private boys' day school in 1824. It is now fully co-educational.

In 2023 the Scottish Child Abuse Inquiry investigated numerous reports of abuse which was alleged to have taken place in the late 20th century. The school has since issued an apology.

The case continues.

BBC apologises to PinkNews chiefs for false sexual misconduct claims

By Telegraph Reporter

THE BBC has apologised “unreservedly” for making defamatory and false allegations about the bosses of PinkNews.

The corporation has also agreed to pay damages to Benjamin Cohen, the founder of the LGBTQ+ news website, and his husband, Dr Anthony James, the firm's chief operating officer, over the content of a programme called PinkNews: Behind Closed Doors, which aired in December 2024.

At the High Court yesterday, the BBC accepted that the allegations, which included claims of sexual misconduct towards junior members of staff, were “serious, false and defamatory” as it settled a libel claim brought by the couple.

The broadcaster also apologised for an article which made an allegation that the couple had placed “inappropriate pressure on young, female members of staff to act as surrogates for them”.

Jane Phillips, counsel for the BBC, said: "The BBC retracts and apologises unreservedly for the defamatory allegations made in the programme and the article." Lorna Skinner KC, the couple's barrister, said: "These allegations were false and extremely harmful to the claimants' reputations."

She said that the couple were subject to additional investigations before a parental order hearing in respect of their son who was born by surrogacy after the programme aired.

She said that Mr Cohen had felt he needed to resign as trustee of a disability charity and Dr James, a former GP,

'BBC reinforced one of the most damaging homophobic tropes: that gay men are sex predators'

resigned as a non-executive director of Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Trust because of the show.

In a joint statement following the hearing, the couple said: "The BBC ignored warnings about the veracity of these allegations and chose to broadcast false claims to millions of people.

"When this began, we were new dads and our son was just six months old. What should have been one of the happiest periods of our lives was instead thrown into chaos.

“By falsely portraying us as engaging in sexual misconduct and pressuring female employees over surrogacy, the BBC reinforced one of the most damaging homophobic tropes: that gay men are sexual predators who pose a threat to others.

"It took minutes for these false allegations to spread around the world, but nearly two years for the BBC to publicly acknowledge that they were false.

"The BBC now owes licence fee payers an explanation of how such a serious failure could have occurred and what it intends to do to demonstrate that it remains fit for purpose."

They added: "Nothing can give us back the time we have lost, nor undo the impact this has had on our family. But the record has now been set straight.

"The allegations were false. The BBC has retracted them in full and apologised unreservedly. Today, we can finally begin to move forward."

Ms Skinner said compensation to settle the legal action will be donated to the Multiple Sclerosis Society and Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Charity.

Estate agent left with £200k bill after losing ‘tragic’ row over neighbour’s hedge

By Telegraph Reporter

AN ESTATE agent has been left with a £200,000-plus court bill after losing a “tragic” court fight with her millionaire ex-rally driver neighbour over a hedge between their “idyllic” seaside homes.

Sarah Douglas, 57, an estate agency boss, moved into her £700,000 hilltop house near Torquay, Devon, in 2017.

But in 2018 she became embroiled in “an unfortunate boundary dispute” with her then next door neighbour after he ripped out a hedge between their properties.

The neighbour later moved out, but the row continued after wealthy pensioner Ronald Channon, 87, a former rally driver turned insurance boss, paid £1.4m for the house next door to Ms Douglas in June 2021, and erected a new fence on what she insisted was “her land”. The fight between the pair, who were both labelled “strong characters” by a judge, ended up in court in 2025, with years of scrapping coming down to a disagreement over where the boundary lay between the two high-end properties.

Mr Channon claimed it should run along the line of the stems of the original torn out hedge, meaning the fence would stand on his land, while Ms Douglas said it should follow the line of the hedge's "southernmost leaf" – meaning it would have been wrongly built in her garden.

Ms Douglas lost the fight, after a judge ruled that a boundary following the outside of the hedge would make no sense, as it would change according to how bushy the hedge was at any given time.

Now she has also lost a High Court challenge to an order that she pay most of the costs of the case, leaving her facing having to pay more than £200,000 of her neighbours' lawyers' fees, on top of her own costs.

Sarah Douglas and Ronald Channon went to court over a fence between their houses, right

Judge Paul Mitchell, at Plymouth County Court, after the trial of the case last year, labelled the row a “tragedy”, adding: “This is a wholly unfortunate dispute which, from any objective viewpoint, should plainly not have got to this point... clearly it has caused a significant amount of stress and upset, let alone cost.

"The properties which the parties respectively occupy are in what might be called an idyllic position, commanding fabulous sea views and should be enjoyed by each party to the maximum.

"This dispute has substantially impacted upon the pleasure that each has been able to derive from living in what otherwise should have been something bordering idyllic circumstances."

Streeting joins Navy's hunt for Putin's spy subs

Rozina Sabur NATIONAL SECURITY EDITOR in Iceland

PO PHOT RORY ARNOLD/MINISTRY OF DEFENCE-

Defence Secretary boards HMS St Albans as crew simulate strikes on Russian vessels in North Atlantic

DEEP below deck on a British warship, the Royal Navy's sonar detection screens are whirring: the tell-tale sign of a Russian submarine lurking deep in the icy waters.

Soon, it appears the submarine has in turn picked up the presence of HMS St Albans as it quietly drifts along on the water's surface, and it may be preparing to strike.

The frigate's crew immediately don white anti-flash masks - designed to prevent burns to the face in the event of enemy fire - and the sailors' voices grow louder and more urgent as they bark orders to each other.

Minutes later, with the threat to the British warship growing, the order is given to attack the approaching submarine. The crew waits with bated breath as one of the frigate's Sting Ray torpedoes is engaged.

In a frighteningly short time, they have hit their target. In Navy jargon, the submarine has been “neutralised”.

This was a simulation exercise taking place on board St Albans, a Type 23 frigate to which The Telegraph was granted access during a routine stop in Iceland.

But it offers a window into the daily reality of the warship's crew as they respond to an ever-increasing presence of Russian submarines in the North Atlantic.

The Navy says its rate of response to suspected Russian activity has increased by a quarter in the past eight months compared with the same period in 2025.

These frequent “activations” are often because of Russian submarines lurking over deep-sea cables, the critical infrastructure that keeps Britain powered and connected to the world.

St Albans, which comes equipped with a Merlin Mk2 helicopter, is at the forefront of the Navy's efforts to counter Moscow's aggression.

Wes Streeting, the Defence Secretary, met the 178-strong crew aboard St Albans during a recent trip to Iceland for a Joint Expeditionary Force summit.

Mr Streeting described their operations as “absolutely critical at a time when the threat picture” to Britain was rising. He told them: “The work you do helps us to deter Russia.”

One of the biggest areas of concern is the so-called Greenland–Iceland–United Kingdom (GIUK) Gap, a strategically important maritime corridor linking the North Atlantic and Arctic to the waters around Europe and North America.

For Russia, the area is a route into the North Atlantic. For Nato, it is a critical passage through which reinforcements and supplies would have to travel in a major conflict.

The Type 23 St Albans is a vessel built for versatility; fast, quiet and

Wes Streeting talks to Flight Commander Best on board HMS St Albans during Iceland's Joint Expeditionary Force summit

equipped with five radar systems, six sonar systems and eight weapons systems.

The majority of its focus is on the passive tracking of submarines with a towed array and tow body sonar - essentially a long cable of hydrophones trailed form the frigate that can detect sounds from submarines. The Merlin Mk2 helicopters can also drop sonar buoys to pick up noise.

And yet, as many in the Navy will freely admit, the contrast between its ageing fleet of warships and the Kremlin's substantial investment in developing faster, quieter nuclear-powered submarines is making their jobs harder.

St Albans is halfway into a four-month operation and is in the North Atlantic to monitor for Russian submarines approaching the UK. By the end, it will have been deployed for 8.5 months out of 12, demanding a lot of both its crew and equipment.

"I'm really conscious that we are asking you to be away from home for a lot longer," Mr Streeting told the crew of the St Albans, noting it was a sacrifice that their families were also making.

The lengthy deployments in harsh environments in response to the persistent Russian presence are also placing significant demands on these ageing vessels.

The Type 23 frigate is set to be replaced by the Type 26, which is fitted with more modern software and surveillance radar capabilities. However, the full fleet is not expected to enter service until 2035.

As he addressed the crew, Mr Streeting joked that as he was relatively “new in the role” as Defence Secretary, he was “definitely impressionable and a bit gullible” when it comes to getting “some advice about the choices we make back home in [the MoD’s] main building”.

The request for new kit and more people was a “recurring theme” among the forces, he said, adding: "I hear that loud and clear."

"The responsibility I have is to fight and win the argument for more resources that you need," he said, adding: "A big part of that is making sure we win the argument with the public."

"If we're serious about being warfighting-ready by 2030, which is what Nato requires, we need to show urgency in what we do."

Anti-submarine warfare, or ASW, is sometimes jokingly renamed “awfully slow warfare” by those engaged in it.

The simulation exercise on board St Albans is a sped-up version of a painstaking process that in reality can take days or possibly weeks. Hunting for submarines is like trying to find the proverbial needle in a haystack.

Nevertheless, those on the front lines of this cat-and-mouse game say the detection rates are high. That is thanks to a combination of passive 'If we're serious about being warfighting ready by 2030, which is what Nato requires, we must show urgency in what we do' surveillance and other intelligence-gathering means. Almost every Merlin Mk2 dispatched to find a submarine achieves its aim: a feat that is both reassuring and disconcerting in equal measure.

Speaking to The Telegraph after the visit, Mr Streeting said: “These are people who are serving for significant periods and performing a role for us in the High North which often goes unseen and unsung, but is absolutely vital for the security of the UK, our nuclear deterrent, and the collective security of our allies.”

He added: "We are seeing increasing Russian activity in the Arctic, the High North, and the Baltics, and that requires all of us to step up. The Royal Navy's playing a leading role in that."

But he said it was important to keep putting the case “for greater defence spending in the spotlight to make sure we continue to carry public support with us”.

One migrant crosses the Channel every six minutes this month

By Charles Hymas HOME AFFAIRS EDITOR

ONE migrant crossed the Channel every six minutes during the first week of October, Home Office figures show.

Some 1,739 migrants reached the UK in 23 boats between Oct 1 and 7, an average of more than 10 every hour or nearly 250 a day.

It is the most migrants to have crossed in the first week of October since the first small boats started crossing in 2018, ahead of the previous weekly high of 1,368 in the first week of October in 2024. The 1,739 crossings in the last week bring the total for 2026 to 20,935, some 41 per cent below the number at the same point last year.

People smugglers took advantage of unusually calm seas for October and good weather. One mega-dinghy packed with 114 people became the third migrant boat to cross to the UK directly from Normandy.

The migrants reached Gosport in Hampshire, where some 350 anti-migrant protesters staged a violent demonstration, resulting in 12 people being arrested. Monday was the busiest day of the week, with 609 migrants making the crossing in eight boats.

They averaged 75 migrants per boat in the first week, reflecting the smuggling gangs' growing use of mega-dinghies to transport between 100 and 260 people in a single vessel.

People smugglers have started loading more migrants on to fewer, larger vessels, partly because of the success of law enforcement in disrupting their boat and equipment supply chains.

The gangs have also started launching their taxi boats further west along the French coast into Normandy to avoid the increased number of police and gendarmes on the beaches and in an attempt to avoid interception on the

1,739

Number of migrants who arrived in Britain in 23 boats between Oct 1 and 7, an average of more than 10 every hour

water by a new seaborne police unit. Reform noted that Andy Burnham had seen 8,466 migrants cross to the UK in his 80 days, a rate of 105.8 a day, compared with Sir Keir Starmer's 62.2 a day during his 200 days in office this year. Nigel Farage, Reform UK's leader, said:

"This is an out-of-control disaster that poses a massive threat to our national security. It's only getting worse under Open Borders Burnham. Reform will deport every single illegal migrant on our shores and stop the boats."

Chris Philp, the shadow home secretary, said: "Many of these illegal migrants, who are mostly young men, go on to commit horrific crimes, including murder and rape.

“Labour has not smashed the gangs and their deal with France has just collapsed. They have allowed 95 per cent of illegal small boat migrants to stay, putting them up in hotels and flats.

No wonder they keep on coming." A Home Office spokesman said: "We have made progress tackling the small boats. Crossings are down significantly, and we have just recorded the lowest number of summer arrivals since 2020.

"We are taking action, with joint efforts preventing over 48,000 crossing attempts and seizing 1,100 boats and engines since the election.

"But we must go further, which is why we are boosting the number of officers on the ground in France and removing the pull factors drawing people here through illegal and dangerous routes."

Ancient beauty spot cleared of 40,000 tons of illegal waste

By Telegraph Reporter

AN ANCIENT woodland has been cleared of 2,500 lorry-loads of illegal waste.

Almost 40,000 tons of dumped refuse that piled up 15ft high were cleared from Hoad's Wood in Kent after a 15-month operation, the Environment Agency said. It is expected to cost about £15.5m, according to officials.

Designated a “site of special scientific interest”, the woodland near Ashford is home to rare plants and wildlife and is renowned for its bluebells. Acumen Waste Services and more than 50 specialist workers took part in the Environment Agency-led clean-up, which began in June 2025, two years after criminals began dumping waste there.

The regulator said public access to the site would remain restricted to give nature space and time to recover.

Matthew Higginson, the agency's area environmental manager, said the site at Hoad's Wood was "arguably the worst waste dump I've seen. This was appalling. When we first got to the site, everything was grey where the waste had been dumped".

The smell was "quite revolting", trees had died and black liquid from rotting waste was running into the environment, he added. "The look of it was bad, but the smell and the scale of environmental impact was quite staggering."

As a protected area, Mr Higginson said the clean-up was complex and took place in a “dynamic environment” that required different organisations, authorities, project managers, waste professionals, archaeologists and nature experts to work together.

This included clearing out natural ditches to allow water to flow back through the area and create interconnected ponds where diggers had to remove pockets of buried waste, both of which encourage a wet woodland environment to flourish.

"At the start, it was very hard to envisage what the site was going to look like at the end because of the state that it was in," Mr Higginson said. "So the position that we got it to is really satisfying," he said, adding that residents and campaign groups, who visited the site this week, praised the work.

The Environment Agency began a criminal investigation in 2023, working with the Joint Unit for Waste Crime and Kent Police to track down suspects, with three men arrested last year.

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Millions miss out on electric car home-charging discount

monument, within the curtilage of a listed building, or within a conservation area".

By Joe Wright

MILLIONS of drivers living in conservation areas face paying twice as much to charge their electric vehicles following a last-minute Labour rule change.

New laws taking effect on Oct 21 will allow residents without driveways to run concealed charging cables across pavements without planning permission. But electric car owners living in England's 10,000 conservation areas will be excluded from the reforms.

About 3.4 million people living in conservation areas do not have a driveway, of which an estimated 100,000 own an electric vehicle (EV).

Their exclusion from the permitted development rights perk means they must either secure planning permission for a pavement cable or use more expensive public EV chargers.

Charging a car at home typically costs 7p per mile, while those reliant on the public network pay an average of 15p.

Under the Government's original plans for EV cabling, the geography for permitted development rights laws was expected to be unrestricted.

But on Sept 25, Labour stipulated that “development is not permitted within a site designated as a scheduled

This will automatically rule out installing concealed cabling in large areas of London as the capital is home to more than 1,000 conservation areas.

The red tape for car owners in conservation areas is poised to become another barrier disincentivising households without a driveway to switch to

'Drivers are being punished with higher prices simply because they don't have a driveway'

an electric vehicle. Ginny Buckley, of website electrifying.com, said: "The Government is driving the transition to electric with one foot on the accelerator and the other on the brake. Millions of drivers are being punished with higher prices simply because they don't have a driveway."

A Government spokesman said: "We want to support households without off-street parking to access domestic electric vehicle charging, but it's vital that we continue to protect the special character of our conservation areas."

Who's to blame for Australian wildfires...? Captain Cook

By Sarah Knapton SCIENCE EDITOR

CAPTAIN COOK and the British “invasion” of Australia more than 200 years ago are to blame for modern-day bushfires, researchers have suggested.

A University of Melbourne team argued that Aboriginal cultural burning practices kept woodland sparse enough to avoid the major conflagrations that have hit the country in recent years.

However, when native communities were “massacred” and driven off the land more than 200 years ago, dense forests grew up, providing a tinderbox for wildfires.

Michael-Shawn Fletcher, a professor of biogeography at the university, said: "With this destruction from the British invasion and the frontier violence that followed and the removal of Aboriginal people, you have a change in fire regime.

"You have hotter fires, the shrubs increase, those hotter fires trigger eucalypt [trees and shrubs] recruitment, and we now have forests stuck in this loop.

"It's not about finger-pointing, it's saying we have a problem. We have a lot of forests, and sticking our heads in the sand is not working, and pretending climate is the only driver is not working."

In the past decade, south-east Australia has suffered a string of catastrophic wildfires, including the Black Summer Bushfire of 2019-2020, which destroyed 24m hectares, including 17m hectares of forest.

The fires have been widely blamed on climate change but the research, published in the journal Nature, argued that the areas would not have been so vulnerable had Aboriginal practices been maintained.

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After 50 years, it's all over for You and Yours

BBC Radio 4 programme ditched in favour of ‘refreshed’ show as bosses look for £500m savings

By Anita Singh ARTS AND ENTERTAINMENT EDITOR

THE BBC is scrapping Radio 4's consumer programme You and Yours after more than 50 years. You and Yours, which launched in 1970, will be replaced by a “refreshed” consumer programme. The BBC declined to say whether Winifred Robinson would return as presenter.

The Radio 4 arts programme Free Thinking will also be cut as part of a cost-saving exercise, as will the countryside magazine show Open Country.

A BBC spokesman said listeners wanted content that worked as a podcast as well as on radio, and the corporation must “reach audiences where they are". Jonathan Wall, director of BBC Sounds, said: "We are reshaping BBC speech audio to build a strong future for trusted journalism, distinctive storytelling and programmes that bring people together.

“By commissioning fewer programmes overall, we can focus our investment and make our best shows work across broadcast, on demand and different formats. That means accelerating growth on our digital platforms and reaching more people, beyond the BBC, while maintaining the strength of Radio 4 and 5 Live."

Mr Wall added: “These are difficult decisions and they are not based on cost alone. We need to make significant savings while investing for the future. I am extremely grateful to the teams behind the programmes affected and we will support colleagues and work closely with unions throughout consultation.”

The replacement for You and Yours will be “designed to work both on air and on demand”. It will include original reporting, practical advice and holding organisations to account – all of which You and Yours does now. Free Thinking, Thinking Allowed and The Artificial Human will end and be replaced by two weekly programmes, to be broadcast all year round. One will explore the ideas shaping our lives and the wider world, and the other will examine the impact of technology and AI.

The number of podcasts on BBC Sounds will be reduced “to make space for new formats”, while 5 Live’s budget for scheduled programmes and sports podcasts will be cut. Some existing programmes will be given longer running times. Start The Week and In our Time will be extended to an hour, and Farming Today's weekend edition will expand.

The BBC announced plans in June for savings across the news, nations and content divisions, which are set to deliver £160m of £500m in savings needed by 2028-29. About 2,000 jobs are expected to be cut.

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Early release prisoner on fresh crime spree

Prolific thief who has 16 convictions stole laundry detergent from Tesco on evening he left jail

By Charles Hymas and Fiona Parker

A SHOPLIFTER who was freed from jail under the early release scheme went on to commit further shoplifting offences hours after being let out, The Telegraph can reveal.

Michael Bogle, 38, was among 700 criminals released from prison last Thursday and has now been returned to jail for a shoplifting offence committed the same day.

Bogle, 38, a registered sex offender, stole £43.50 of laundry detergent from a Tesco in Wembley on the evening of his release. He went on to steal another £98.85 of laundry detergent from Tesco in the next three days.

Bogle was arrested on Monday and pleaded guilty on Tuesday. He has been sentenced to eight months in prison.

He told The Telegraph after being released at around 11am on Oct 1 that he would vote for Labour and that the early release system “is good”.

Bogle, who has 16 convictions linked to more than 100 alleged offences including theft, criminal damage and indecent exposure, was freed early having served 78 days for breaching a 32-week suspended sentence for shop-lifting. It was his fifth prison sentence.

Speaking to reporters outside prison after his release, the former bus driver said he would celebrate by buying "some kebabs".

However, Bogle stole from Tesco that evening. He was also caught on CCTV entering a Sainsbury's store three times to steal, even though he was banned from going near it under a criminal behaviour order. Breaches of such orders carry jail sentences of up to five years. He is now back in prison having pleaded guilty to four shoplifting offences.

Matt Twist, the Metropolitan Police's assistant commissioner, was amazed at how soon Bogle had reoffended.

"While it is not surprising that someone with this history went on to reoffend, the speed with which he did so, and the impact on frontline policing, is astonishing," he said. "Just one day after his release, he was captured on CCTV stealing from two supermarkets in north-west London. When local neighbourhood officers visited the stores,

Shoplifter Michael Bogle told The Telegraph he would vote Labour after being released early from prison last week

staff reported that he had continued shoplifting throughout the weekend."

Mr Twist said Bogle's early release had created significant demands on police officers, diverting them away from tackling other crime. Law enforcement officials have voiced concerns that the early release scheme would demand more of officers and spread forces thinner as they dealt with the freed criminals.

Charlie Taylor, the chief inspector of prisons, and Martin Jones, the chief inspector of probation, previously told The Telegraph that the failure of overcrowded jails to rehabilitate criminals and the lack of support for released offenders in the community increased the chances of freed prisoners breaching their licences or reoffending.

Mr Taylor predicted that this meant the record rates of prison recalls were likely to continue, undermining the benefits of increased space created by the early release scheme. Sir Mark

Rowley, Britain's most senior police officer, warned yesterday that officers were arresting two or three offenders a week who had been freed from prison under the early release scheme.

"In the last few days, we've arrested somebody within a couple of days of them being early released because they were a prolific offender, multiple shoplifting and other breaches," the Met commissioner told LBC.

"They were released early and went straight into a town centre in northwest London, committing multiple offences. They're back inside now."

Chris Philp, the shadow home secretary, said: "Labour let out this prolific offender early last Thursday – and he has already embarked on a crime spree, stealing and creating misery."

Three sisters who drowned off Brighton beach died in suicide pact

By Jaya Narain

THREE sisters who drowned off Brighton beach died in a suicide pact, a coroner has ruled.

The bodies of Jane Adetoro, 36, Christina Walters, 32, and 31-year-old Rebecca Walters were pulled from the sea at the East Sussex resort on May 13.

An inquest at Woodvale coroner's court heard that less than 48 hours before they died the sisters had travelled from their shared home in Uxbridge, west London, to Birmingham. Their mother had killed herself in a lake in the city in 2010.

After spending 90 minutes in Birmingham, they took a taxi back to London in the early hours of May 12 and then went on to Brighton that evening.

They arrived in the city at 10.21pm and were seen on CCTV walking along the road adjacent to the beach for more than an hour.

The footage then showed what police believed was the same three women making their way on to the beach at 2.42am.

Ms Adetoro was brought to shore by an RNLI crew and declared dead at the scene on the morning of May 13, the inquest heard.

Christina Walters was recovered from the sea by an RNLI lifeboat, and the body of Rebecca Walters was washed on to the beach. They were pronounced dead that morning by paramedics.

Concluding the inquest yesterday, Penelope Schofield, the coroner for West Sussex, Brighton and Hove, said: "On May 13, in hours of darkness, they entered the sea at Brighton.

"They could not swim, and sea conditions were adverse.

"I have to consider why they entered the water in the hours of darkness when they couldn't swim. I find they deliberately entered the water with the intention to end their lives. It is clear that the medical cause of death for each of these three women is drowning."

The inquest heard that the sisters' mother Janice had taken her own life by drowning herself in a lake close to her home in 2010.

It was revealed that before they took their own lives, the sisters had prepared for their deaths by tidying and cleaning their flat of possessions. They also settled their debts and closed their bank accounts.

Christina, who had suffered from depression since her mother's death, had also carried out intensive research into suicide on her computer and had looked online for bodies of water.

The sisters, who were all single, had no connection to Brighton and were not familiar with it, the hearing was told.

Tragic sisters, from left, Jane Adetoro, and Christina and Rebecca Walters with their father, Joseph. Left, a body is recovered

Det Ch Insp Mark Cullimore told the inquest that it was windy and “the sea was particularly rough” that day.

Paying tribute, their father, Joseph Jacobsen, said: "There are no words that can adequately express the loss of a child.

"It's a heartbreak beyond anything I could imagine. Each had their own special place in my heart. They shared a special bond as sisters.

"I find some comfort in my Christian faith. They were my daughters. They were loved, and they mattered. I'm left with memories that I will have for the rest of my life."

He said Jane and Christina, who had recently graduated from Brunel University, had pursued careers in accountancy while Rebecca, described as the “baby” who was mischievous and lively, had worked in human resources.

He said: "Jane, I will never forget your strength.

"Tina, your kindness touched so many lives.

"Becky, your warmth and joyful spirit brought happiness wherever you went."

Natalie Walters-Daniel, 33, a cousin, previously told The Times she believed that the sisters – who were 20, 16 and 15 at the time of their mother's death – never got over the tragedy.

She said: "To lose their mum at the ages that they were, it was the crucial stages of growing up and becoming young women."

Teenager wrote of ‘attraction to violence’ before school stabbing

By Telegraph Reporter

A TEENAGE boy wrote of his “attraction to violence” before he knifed a girl in the back at school, a court heard.

The boy, who was aged 15 at the time, is on trial at King's Lynn Crown Court accused of attempted murder at Thorpe St Andrew School near Norwich on March 11.

Opening the prosecution case yesterday, Christopher Paxton KC said the defendant had written notes including about his “hatred for women” and had an interest in killers.

He said one note, pinned up in the boy's bedroom, said: "My barren world... If you're reading this, I am either dead or in custody.

"I imagine the police will be the first to read this and seize it as evidence, so I will make something very clear.

"I made this decision to do so on my own. Nobody told me to. Just me. Nobody knew I wanted to do this. Not a single soul."

In another note, Mr Paxton said the boy, who is now 16 and cannot be identified for legal reasons, wrote: "My whole life I've felt an attraction to violence.

"I don't know the reason. My brain clicks at the thought of chaos. Of blood. Of murder."

The girl, also aged 15 at the time, told police in a video-recorded interview played to jurors that she had seen a masked person dressed "head to toe in black, no school uniform on whatsoever". She said she turned away and it "felt like he touched me on the shoulder, then it felt like he punched me".

She said she “didn’t know I was stabbed at this point” but she “started running”. She said the boy did not say anything to her and she did not recognise him. She went into a classroom and “I went ‘Sir, I’ve been stabbed’.” The teenager said the school lockdown bell went off and staff gave first aid. Of the incident itself, she said that once she had opened the door, "I felt sharp pain shooting through my back, I went like that and it was blood all over my hands".

Stephen Rose, defending, asked the girl, who came to court to give evidence, whether she had had any issues with the boy and she said she had not.

She wiped tears from her eyes and asked for a break during her evidence. Another female pupil at the school, who witnessed the attack, said in a video-recorded police interview that the boy "came up behind (the girl) and just stabbed her in the back near her shoulder". Prosecutor Mr Paxton told jurors: "We say his intention is made plain not just by those moments of the stabbing, but made plain by his notes and his obsession with killing and being fuelled by hatred."

The boy denies attempted murder and the trial continues.

Tennis influencers told: Beware Wimbledon Marines

By Sonia Twigg

WIMBLEDON tennis chiefs are not concerned with influencers claiming the spotlight because their military-trained security would like “nothing more than to sort them out”.

One of the biggest talking points during last month's US Open was the disruption caused by the influx of social media personalities, many of whom ignored tennis's traditional etiquette.

Richard Atkinson, the interim chief executive of the All England Club was speaking at the leaders' week conference when he began discussing the cultural difference between the hushed silence of Wimbledon and the brazen US Open.

"If you've ever been to the US Open, it's very New York City, right? It is mad, it is noisy, there's all sorts of stuff going on," he said. "It's dead easy for someone who just bought a ticket to show up there with ring lights and start broadcasting literally in the middle of the match.

"If you try to do that at Wimbledon, I think you'd probably have some Royal

Marine Commando [stopping you]. We do have military there and they would like nothing more, I suspect, than to sort out some influencers."

During the US Open this year, arguably the most poignant talking point from the opening week was the bizarre scenario where a dozen or so people did a TikTok routine during Naomi Osaka's first-round match.

The chair umpire Kader Nouni had to ask the group to sit down, and Osaka herself said afterwards that it is “common courtesy to read up on the sport, especially the etiquette”.

Coco Gauff added another quip, that "you wouldn't wear jeans on the red carpet", after almost 100 influencers were handed accreditation to the event in Flushing Meadows.

Wimbledon has a ban on fans bringing many items into the grounds of SW19 - including ring lights - and does not plan to offer influencers or content creators accreditation.

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However, many are invited by one of its partner brands, and social media is awash with content shot at SW19, often focusing on anything but the tennis.

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Police face 100 tag breaches a day over early release

By Charles Hymas HOME AFFAIRS EDITOR

OFFICERS in London are having to deal with more than 100 breaches of electronic tagging orders a day, the Metropolitan Police commissioner has revealed

Sir Mark Rowley, Britain's most senior police officer, said officers were also having to arrest two or three offenders a week who had been freed from prison under the early release scheme.

One prolific shoplifter committed multiple offences as soon as they had been released early, he disclosed. He warned that despite police arresting the offenders, courts were releasing them back into the community on bail under the same conditions in most cases.

“We're getting increasing numbers of tag breaches to enforce that probation is sending to us. It's now over 100 tag breaches a day in London,” Sir Mark told LBC.

“So there’s more work landing on us, and also there needs to be jeopardy. So if you give them that chance and then you breach all your conditions, you should be back inside. So we take them to court. We're seeing 95 per cent plus of the tagging breaches that we arrest are simply being bailed back into the community on the same conditions. So there is zero sanction."

The Met commissioner and police chiefs from the 43 forces in England and Wales are demanding that the Government provide an extra £500m because of the extra costs of officers having to tackle crime and rule-breaking by offenders freed early on tags.

Last week, 700 prisoners, including domestic abusers, stalkers and violent offenders, were freed early from prison.

An estimated 4,500 criminals with progressively longer sentences, including some who have served more than 12 years, are to be released early into communities over the next 10 months.

The Government has introduced a presumption that all prisoners freed from jail should be tagged, enabling probation officers to track their movements to ensure they do not breach curfews or enter areas from which they have been excluded under the terms of their licence.

Trump seeking Nord Stream gas deal with Putin once war ends

US president's envoy 'pushes to resume Russian pipeline trade as strategy to restore peace'

By Emily Smith

DONALD TRUMP is eyeing a deal with Vladimir Putin to reopen the Nord Stream gas pipelines.

Jared Kushner, Mr Trump's special envoy, reportedly held talks with Russian officials to discuss American investment in the pipeline to profit from energy flows to Europe once the war ends. The pipelines delivered gas to Germany from Russia before it invaded Ukraine.

According to Reuters sources, Mr Kushner met Kirill Dmitriev, a close adviser to the Russian president, in New York and Moscow in recent weeks.

Mr Kushner, who is Mr Trump's son-in-law, views the resumption of trade with Moscow as central to restoring

Nord Stream pipelines from Russia to Germany

peace between Russia and Ukraine. "Any deals will have to be negotiated by Russia with DFC [US International Development Finance Corporation] and [US] treasury and must benefit United States taxpayers and companies," a White House official said when asked about the pipeline discussions.

There had been “no Nord Stream discussions recently”, the official added.

The news came on the same day a Russian glide-bomb attack on two buses killed 33 people in the Ukrainian city of Kramatorsk.

The Nord Stream pipelines are a set of offshore natural gas pipelines that run under the Baltic Sea from Russia to Germany. Before Russia's invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, Berlin bought more than half of its gas from Russia through the two pipelines. They

'This threatens to be a dirty deal that will cost Europe dearly'

were mothballed after Moscow throttled supply to Europe, and were blown up in a series of underwater explosions in September 2022.

Mr Dmitriev, who has campaigned for resuming Russian gas sales to Germany, met US energy department and treasury representatives last month to discuss potential US-Russia energy initiatives. A representative for Mr Dmitriev declined to comment.

It remains unclear how interested Washington is in pursuing the restarting of Russian gas flows to Germany, which is Europe's biggest energy consumer. A US official said that given the obstacles, a deal is unlikely in the medium term. The US and the EU sanction Nord Stream gas pipelines, making any restart illegal.

Mr Trump could waive or soften US sanctions, but if Democrats win control of Congress in next month's midterm elections, this would become harder.

Germany and other European countries, which are spending billions of euros rebuilding their military to defend themselves from Russia, would strongly resist reopening Nord Stream.

A spokesman for Germany's economy and energy ministry said Germany had found alternatives to Nord Stream and Russian gas. She said any reopening of the pipelines required government approval.

Relations between Russia and Germany, which is among the biggest providers of military support to Ukraine, have reached a low point, as officials in Berlin have accused Russia of mounting a campaign of hybrid attacks.

“This threatens to be a dirty deal that will cost Europe dearly,” said Michael Kellner, a politician who was in charge of German energy policy in the aftermath of the Ukraine invasion. “Americans and Russians will share the profits.”

While Germany's coalition government is opposed to restarting the pipeline, Alternative for Germany (AfD) wants to do so. Mr Dmitriev will meet the Right-wing political party's leadership early next year to discuss selling Russian gas again.

In July, a former Ukrainian army officer was charged with war crimes in Germany for the sabotage of Nord Stream. Serhii Kuznietsov is alleged to have been responsible for undersea explosions that damaged the pipelines.

The suspect, whom German prosecutors claim was acting on behalf of the Ukrainian government, has been charged with being an accomplice to a war crime, disruption of public services, causing an explosion and destroying structures.

Ed and heart Ed Miliband, the Foreign Secretary, embraces a survivor on a visit to the site of a Russian missile strike that hit Pryluky, northern Ukraine, killing 22 people including five children on Tuesday.

Houthi cruise missiles destroy Saudi passenger jet at Riyadh airport

Houthi forces targeted Saudi airports with cruise and ballistic missiles simultaneously

By Akhtar Makoi

YEMEN'S Houthi rebels destroyed an aircraft belonging to Saudi Arabia's national carrier in a strike on Riyadh's main airport.

Footage from King Khalid International Airport yesterday showed a Saudi passenger jet ablaze as firefighters doused the flames.

The group's military spokesman, Brig Gen Yahya Saree, said Houthi forces hit King Khalid airport with two cruise missiles, and struck Najran airport and the Khamis Mushait air base with ballistic missiles in a simultaneous operation.

The Saudi-led coalition disputed the rebels' account. Col Turki al-Maliki said air defences had intercepted two Houthi ballistic missiles aimed at Riyadh and one targeting Khamis Mushait.

Air India cancelled flights to and from Riyadh until Saturday and the Lufthansa Group suspended its airlines' flights to the Saudi capital.

Yemen's war reignited in July after a fragile 2022 truce collapsed amid the US-Iran conflict, drawing Saudi Arabia and the Houthis back into open battle over the Red Sea coast and the Bab el-Mandeb strait, an important choke point for global shipping.

The US urged its citizens in Saudi Arabia to “exercise heightened vigilance”.

"The US Mission is aware of attacks on King Khalid International Airport in Riyadh as of October 8 and reminds all US citizens to exercise heightened vigilance," the state department said.

It added that “US government employees working in Saudi Arabia now require special authorisation” to use the airport.

Yesterday's airport attacks followed fatal strikes earlier in the week.

Saudi Arabia's civil aviation authority said Abha and King Khalid international airports were targeted on Tuesday and

Wednesday, in attacks that killed three people – two foreign residents in Abha and one in Riyadh – and wounding at least 36 citizens and foreign residents, several of them seriously.

On the ground, fighting raged across Taiz governorate, Yemen's third-largest province, where the front has descended into a grinding contest.

The Houthis were pushing into the rural districts of al-Shamayatayn, al-Maafer and the southern and western countryside in an effort to open a supply route, as their own lines towards al-Kadaha and al-Waziya, which connect Aden, Lahij and Taiz, came close to being severed by advancing government forces.

Those government forces, backed by the Saudi-led coalition, were pressing towards al-Waziiya and the Kahboub Mountains overlooking the Bab el-Mandeb strait yesterday evening.

Commanders warned of a dangerous escalation over the next 48 hours after the defence minister vowed that Houthi-held areas would soon be retaken.

On the western front, the Houthis were trying to advance towards Dhubab, which overlooks the main Aden-Taiz road used by civilians, traders and aid convoys.

Brig Gen Saree, the Houthi spokesman, said separately that his forces had repelled a Saudi push towards Houthi positions in eastern al-Jawf province, striking troops with ballistic missiles and drones and killing or wounding dozens, with no Saudi advance achieved.

He said Saudi and coalition strikes since the latest escalation had reached 1,642 air and missile attacks.

The Telegraph could not independently verify the battlefield claims of each side as the situation on the ground was rapidly changing.

The renewed war is deepening one of the world's gravest humanitarian crises.

The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) said it had received 1,800 requests from families searching for missing relatives in Yemen since July.

"Families of the missing have the right to know the fate and whereabouts of their loved ones," said Christine Cipolla, head of the ICRC delegation in Yemen.

She added: "Behind every missing person is a family living in anguish. Their pain cannot be ignored, and their wait must not be prolonged."

Meloni overhauls election rules in secret ballot that favours her

By Nick Squires ROME CORRESPONDENT

THE Italian parliament has approved an electoral law which opposition figures say may give Giorgia Meloni a stronger chance of winning the next election.

In a secret ballot, the lower house of parliament voted to approve the electoral reform, which gives a bonus number of extra seats to any alliance that wins at least 42 per cent of the vote.

The bill, which had been cast as a confidence vote on Ms Meloni, was approved by 227 votes to 164.

The prime minister, who was elected four years ago, had threatened to resign if parliament failed to pass the law, but political analysts said that the majority of MPs had no interest in triggering an early election. Ms Meloni has argued that the new law will provide greater stability because it will avoid the sort of fractured electoral results and shaky coalitions that have dogged Italy in the past.

Critics say that it will favour the governing coalition, which consists of Ms Meloni's Brothers of Italy party, The League and Forza Italia (Forward Italy), a centre-Right party that was founded by the late Silvio Berlyseconi.

Shivio Berluscom. Chiara Braga, from the main opposition force, the Democratic Party, told AFP that the electoral reform “bends

Giorgia Meloni had threatened to resign if the Italian parliament did not pass the law

democratic rules to serve the interests of those in power".

The law, which has been dubbed the Melonellum, eliminates first-past-the-post constituencies and replaces them with a system of fully proportional representation, an arrangement which tends to favour the centre-Right.

The reform could, however, badly backfire on Ms Meloni as she prepares for the next election, which must be held by next autumn.

Since the reform was drawn up her coalition has been losing support to an upstart new hard-Right party led by Roberto Vannacci, a former paratrooper and special forces commander who has served in conflict zones around the world.

His party, Futuro Nazionale (National Future), is now on around 8 per cent of the vote, eclipsing two of the three parties in the governing coalition - The

League and Forza Italia.

If Ms Meloni chooses not to forge an alliance with him at the next election, she may be beaten by the centre-Left which, if it reaches 42 per

Italy's parliament

cent, would stand to benefit from the bonus seats.

She may find herself compelled to do a deal with Mr Vannacci, despite his extreme views on issues such as LGBTQ rights and his trenchant opposition to supporting Ukraine in its fight against Russia.

The two largest parties in the centre-Left alliance are the Democratic Party, led by Elly Schlein, and the Five Star Movement, led by Giuseppe

‘This bends democratic rules to serve the interests of those in power’

Conte, the former prime minister. They, too, are sharply divided politically, notably over whether Italy should continue to funnel money and weapons to Kyiv.

They have also been unable to decide who should lead the centre-Left coalition at next year's election.

That is a problem because the new electoral law requires coalitions to nominate their leader before the election.

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Booby-trapped narco-subs will flood Europe with cocaine

Max Stephens INTERNATIONAL CRIME CORRESPONDENT

Colombian cartels making self-navigating vessels that can carry 1,500 tons of the drug across the Atlantic

DRUG cartels plan to deploy fleets of booby-trapped submarines to smuggle cocaine into Europe, The Telegraph has learned.

The unmanned vessels will be rigged with explosives that detonate if police or the armed forces attempt to board them, military intelligence has warned.

Latin American gangs are expected to use the homemade “narco-subs” as their main method for trafficking up to 1,500 tons of cocaine across the Atlantic a year.

US military strikes on fishing vessels allegedly trafficking drugs are understood to be behind the cartels' move towards the automated submarines as a lower-risk alternative, analysts told The Telegraph.

The lightweight subs, built in clandestine shipyards along the Colombian coastline and camouflaged to avoid detection, are easier to conceal as they sail just below the water's surface. They can carry up to nine tons of cocaine, worth £700m, in their hulls during a single voyage. Once the narco-subs arrive near the coast of Spain, speedboats are deployed to collect the cocaine packages and bring them onshore.

Elon Musk's Starlink satellite system has been adopted by cartels for use on narco-subs, allowing the vessels to follow a planned route, and respond to incoming obstacles without the need for a crew. Colombian gangs are looking to cultivate a workforce that can expand the technology further.

They are planning to recruit specialist engineers from the black market to fit the vessels with self-navigating technology from the United Arab Emirates, police intelligence suggests.

Colombian police discovered a narco-sub off the coast of Santa Marta, equipped with a GPS, two Starlink antennas, a satellite system and two surveillance cameras, on July 2 last year. The vessel, which had no drugs on board, was believed to be a “test run”, and was capable of carrying 1.5 tons of cocaine more than 800 nautical miles without refuelling.

An intelligence report from the Colombian navy warns that the narco-subs could be rigged with explosives to self-detonate, or be blown up via remote control.

This would allow cartels to destroy vital evidence, and stop police from tracing the vessel back to where it was manufactured. Officers would also be deterred from attempting to intercept the vessels.

Another advantage of the uncrewed narco-subs is the reduced risk of information being leaked to the authorities, said Jennifer Scotland, a research fellow in the organised crime and policing team at the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI), a UK defence and security think tank.

"The removal of personnel means that there's no one on these vessels who can be captured and interrogated," Ms Scotland said.

Having no crew on board and no need for food or water supplies also means the vessels can be packed with even more cocaine. Police fear that these “autonomous underwater vehicles” (AUVs) will become ubiquitous, allowing cartels to flood Europe with up to 1,500 tons of cocaine a year.

The warnings have been outlined in a 30-page report on clandestine semi-submersibles by the International Centre for Research and Analysis against Maritime Drug Trafficking (CMCON), an intelligence hub led by the Colombian navy.

CMCON said the risk of booby-trapped submarines being used by cartels needed “permanent monitoring” by countries and militaries. Its assessment is based on criminal trends, technological advancements and expert analysis.

Latin America's most dangerous cartels have banded together in a loose alliance to organise the financing, construction and transport of narco-subs from Colombia to Europe, according to CMCON intelligence.

The Gulf Clan (EGC), Colombia's largest drugs gang, is responsible for sourcing the cocaine and building a network of shipyards on the country's estuaries and rivers. Concealed by thick jungle and mangrove vegetation, the sites are nearly impossible to spot from satellites overhead.

Over the past seven years, security forces have identified 31 shipyards along a 560-mile stretch extending from Colombia's southern border with Ecuador and north to Panama.

Fighters from FARC, the far-left paramilitary group, which has allied with the EGC, are deployed to protect the shipyards from prying eyes or rival gangs. Labourers build the narco-subs, which range from 40 to 100ft in length, out of lightweight materials such as fibreglass, wood and carbon fibre, and they are often camouflaged.

Exhaust pipes which poke out above the water's surface are coated with asbestos to stop security planes and ships from tracking the vessel's movements with thermal imaging cameras.

Police intelligence suggested that the self-navigating technology bought in the UAE, where it can be purchased without a trace, will be fitted to the subs. The CMCON report predicted that if US tech companies react by regulating the sale of such technology, cartels will turn to Chinese satellite systems instead.

Verineia Codrean, an undersea defence expert at EuroAtlas, a German manufacturer of naval drones, said that it was becoming increasingly cheaper for cartels to fit their submarines with AI technology.

Ms Codrean said: "Criminal groups are benefiting from technology developed for completely legitimate markets.

"Marine autopilots, satellite communications, navigation electronics, batteries, propulsion systems and composite materials are sold for commercial shipping, offshore work, leisure craft and robotics.

"A cartel does not need to invent those technologies. It needs people who can source them, integrate them and adapt them to a clandestine vessel. That is the wider dual-use problem.

"As commercial autonomy improves, capabilities that once required expensive specialist systems are becoming cheaper and more accessible through the commercial

Colombia's unmanned drug-smuggling submarine

The US navy intercepts a narco-sub carrying cocaine off the coast of Guyana; in the jungles of Colombia, Farc guerillas, below, guard the yards building the subs

market." The sheer volume of cocaine being trafficked means cartels can write off intercepted shipments without any major disruption to their operations, Ms Codrean added.

"A single narco boat can move up to four tons of cocaine with a street value of around €250m [£212m], which is roughly comparable to a decade of Spanish government spending on counter-narcotics in the south of the country," she added.

Technological advances have allowed AUVs to travel as far as Australasia, where cocaine fetches about 3.7 times the price it does in Europe, without stopping to refuel.

Mexico's Sinaloa cartel controls the route from Colombia to Australia and New Zealand, while long-term rivals

the Jalisco New Generation

whose leader, known as El Mencho, was shot dead by security forces in February – run the trafficking routes from Latin America into Europe.

Length ranges from 40ft to 100ft

The West African countries of Guinea-Bissau, Sierra Leone, and Mauritania serve as stop-off points for vessels along the Atlantic route.

Here, the cocaine is either processed or transferred to other

vessels for onward transport as the shipments will attract less suspicion from European customs officers than if they arrive directly from Colombia.

Once the cocaine has arrived at Rotterdam, Europe's biggest port, or Antwerp, the second largest, it is distributed to the rest of the continent through Italian and Balkan mafias.

The entire transatlantic smuggling operation is overseen by the Primeiro Comando da Capital (PCC), Latin America's biggest drugs gang, which finances the building of larger narco-subs.

They collaborate with Italy's Calabrian mafia, the 'Ndrangheta, whose yearly income is estimated at €80bn-€100bn (£68bn-£85bn), and Albanian gangs to manage and enforce the sale of cocaine in Europe.

Britain's National Crime Agency, which helped seize a narco-sub carrying a record nine tons of cocaine

Ms Scotland said it was difficult to quantify how prevalent AUVs were but warned: "It's possible that there are many more currently trafficking drugs than we're aware of."

'A single narco boat can move up to four tons of cocaine, with a value of £212m, comparable to a decade of Spanish counter-narcotic spending' near the Azores in January, said it was aware of the threat and “monitoring it closely”.

Since 1993, when the first illegal semi-submersible was discovered near Providencia, a Colombian island in the Caribbean, police and security forces have intercepted only 351 narco-subs.

RUSI and CMCON both warned that the true number operating is likely to be far higher.

Concealing cocaine inside maritime shipping remains the most common way for cartels to smuggle cocaine out of South America.

While narco-subs offer a “positive alternative” to smuggling cocaine on fishing vessels, they will not overtake trafficking by shipping containers unless the security at fishing ports is tightened severely.

Hopes of toppling Netanyahu begin to fade for IDF veteran

Gadi Eisenkot, right, maintains that 'even a modest person can succeed'

Henry Bodkin JERUSALEM CORRESPONDENT in Kiryat Gat

DRESSED all in black, Gadi Eisenkot slips away from his posse of aides for a few seconds' quiet reflection before the Israeli election rally begins.

Mr Eisenkot - a career soldier from a working-class family - sets his face in a businesslike look and marches on stage to begin his speech.

Less than a month before the Oct 27 election, the favourite to oust Benjamin Netanyahu addresses the crowd knowing the poll lead he has nurtured most of the summer has all but vanished.

He goes out of his way to downplay policy differences with the veteran incumbent, campaigning instead on his record as a public servant, his competence and his honesty. On paper, he has a strong case.

Mr Eisenkot rose to become Israel Defense Forces (IDF) chief of staff in a country whose voters have historically favoured a general-turned-politician. In 2023, he lost his son Gal, killed fighting with the IDF in Gaza. As well as sympathy, it earned Mr Eisenkot the right to speak of Israel's trauma in a way lacked by Mr Netanyahu, neither of whose sons had undertaken reserve duty during the war.

At the launch of his campaign in June, he asked: "Will we accept the continuation of social divisions... or will we heal and rebuild?" He was soon rewarded with a lead in the polls.

Under Israel's proportional representation system, no single party can hope to win a majority in the Knesset. But in those early days of his campaign, Mr Eisenkot looked close to being able to form an anti-Netanyahu coalition that could.

However, as September turned to October, the lead appeared to evaporate. Partly, this was a result of election “stabilisation”, the arithmetic altering as various candidates pulled out or confirmed their intention to run. Nevertheless, it has prompted fears among anti-Netanyahu voters of yet another “Bibi bounceback”.

At the rally in Kiryat Gat, a working-class town in southern Israel that has previously sided heavily with Mr Netanyahu's Likud Party, the atmosphere was respectful rather than excited. Mr Eisenkot talked at length, and, for a man of imposing stature, made rather small, precise hand

gestures that were mostly obscured by the lectern. When asked questions, he wrote them down diligently. In fact, the whole event was pervaded by a profound sense of order, as if it were a well-run military headquarters, rather than a campaign rally.

Rachael, 71, a retired police officer, saw no problem with the candidate's style. She said: "We don't need charisma. Look at Bibi. He's got lots of charisma. But security? Zero. Think of Oct 7. We have to have a change."

Yoav Cohen, 75, a farmer, agreed. He said: "The only thing that matters is to get rid of Bibi."

Mr Eisenkot's strategy relies on not offending anyone, presenting a platform palatable to the centre and the centre-Left, but sufficiently vague to also attract Right-wing votes.

Mr Netanyahu, by contrast, can energise his base with his narrative of good versus evil, security versus death, Right versus Left. "Do you want a Jewish state or do you want a

Palestinian state?" he asked Mr Eisenkot in a typically provocative recent campaign video.

In other videos, Likud uses AI to portray Mr Eisenkot, 66, deal-making with Arab-Israeli politicians, playing on the electorate's awareness that a "change" majority is increasingly out of reach without them.

There are signs the Eisenkot campaign has begun to realise the need to offer a positive vision for Israel, rather than standing on a “anyone but Bibi” platform.

That said, more than a third of the messaging continued to mention Oct 7 – a shorthand for Mr Netanyahu's alleged failings.

In Kiryat Gat, many of Mr Eisenkot's supporters said they had previously supported Benny Gantz, another former IDF chief of staff, who – for a while – was the great hope of the anyone-but-Bibi centrist camp, until he was outmanoeuvred and outlasted by his nemesis.

Now, Mr Gantz's political career is on life support.

However, for Noah Slepkov, a fellow at the Jewish People Policy Institute, focusing on qualities of leadership is smart politics for Mr Eisenkot.

over the future of Gaza, they are not over the West Bank. They are really over Netanyahu as a leader. Anyone who is still on the fence about Netanyahu, good luck finding them. The number of people who [previously] voted for Likud who are going to vote for Eisenkot will be marginal."

In other words, Likud voters who will desert Mr Netanyahu on Oct 27 probably decided to do so some time ago, and not because of anything they have heard from the Yashar leader.

Mr Eisenkot's first task is to emerge as the largest party, which, on current trends, Yashar is on course to do.

If, overall, the opposition coalition squeaks ahead of Mr Netanyahu's current governing coalition, and Mr Eisenkot can persuade the Arab parties to stay out of any vote on who should be prime minister, thus granting him an effective majority in the Knesset, he could theoretically form a government.

"The sky's the limit," the ex-general said. "I've shown that, in Israel, even a modest person can succeed."

He follows in the uncertain footsteps of many other new politicians, including distinguished military men, for whom there were once extremely high hopes.

'Treasonous' spy chief approached Scholz for financial help

By Emily Smith

THE former German spy chief arrested for espionage and treason approached Olaf Scholz for help with his financial difficulties.

August Hanning, the former head of the federal intelligence service (BND), was arrested on Tuesday on suspicion of illegally selling classified information to a foreign power. Mr Hanning is accused of obtaining secret documents from Manfred Dankesreiter, a former BND chief of staff, who still worked there after Hanning had retired.

It has been revealed that Mr Hanning had been experiencing significant financial difficulties and asked Mr Scholz, the then German chancellor, for assistance. His financial troubles came after the insolvency of PNB Banka, the Latvian bank where Mr Hanning served on the supervisory board.

Mr Hanning, alongside Anders Fogh Rasmussen, the former Nato secretary-general who also sat on the board, were held accountable, accused of neglecting their supervisory duties.

In 2021, the bank's insolvency administrator said it was seeking nearly €32m (£27m) in damages from Mr Hanning and eight other parties, reported Bild – which, like The Telegraph, is a member of the Axel Springer group.

Two-thirds of his pension was seized and Mr Hanning contacted Mr Scholz on Feb 6, 2022, to ask for help with his financial situation. In a four-page letter, he asked Mr Scholz to address Krišjānis Kariņš, the then Latvian prime minister, about the insolvency of PNB Banka during a visit to Latvia. Mr Hanning accused Latvian authorities of corruption, alleging that the bank's former management siphoned off considerable sums of money before its collapse. He also accused the authorities of obstructing an investigation.

He asked that Mr Kariņš “agree to an independent investigation into the events", but no investigation was understood to have taken place.

On the bank's supervisory board, Mr Hanning was responsible for compliance issues and received €12,000 per month for the position.

Mr Hanning, 80, was arrested at his home on Tuesday morning in Steinfurt county, near the Dutch border, and taken into custody.

Shark winked at me before biting off my leg, says surfer

Australian survived attack and then joked to his girlfriend: 'Now I'm going to have to be a bodyboarder'

By Nick Squires ROME CORRESPONDENT

AN Australian surfer said a large shark "winked" at him while tearing his leg off.

Mel Ismail came face to face with the shark while surfing near Geraldton, Western Australia, last month.

He had been waiting to catch a wave and had just seen a pod of dolphins when the shark came from nowhere and knocked him off his surfboard.

Mr Ismail, 56, a firefighter, told the Australian Broadcasting Corporation: "I thought I got hit by a dolphin, initially. And suddenly, bang - something grabbed me and dragged me down into the water. And I knew it was a shark.

"I saw its eye... a big black eye. But it's winking back at me - I was trying to get

Mel Ismail was knocked off his surfboard by a shark, which then attacked him

my fingers in its eye and just pushing its eye as I was being dragged. I personally reckon it gave me the wink, and then shut my leg off, and I knew it had taken my leg.

"It was just a numbness, a sensation like, 'Hey, something's missing'. I thought, 'He's coming back for more; I need to get out of here.'"

Sharks do not blink like humans but some species can appear to do so through a protective membrane that looks similar to an eyelid.

While bleeding profusely, Mr Ismail managed to grab his surfboard and catch a wave that took him about 18 metres closer to the beach.

Shannan Dunn, a surfer, saw Mr Ismail and went into the water to help him. He managed to get Mr Ismail safely ashore. Mr Dunn said: "His board was about five metres away, and he had his arm up. Then it only took a couple of seconds and I saw the blood all around him. He had lost his foot from just above his ankle. He... looked like he could fade out at any moment."

Another passerby made a makeshift tourniquet for Mr Ismail using a surfboard leg cord. The passersby then drove Mr Ismail down the beach to an ambulance.

Mr Ismail's partner, Kylie Fleay, who works at the local hospital in Geraldton, was manning the switchboard at the time of the attack. Doctors told her that it was Mr Ismail who had been attacked.

Ms Fleay initially assumed the attack might not have been serious. She said: "I thought, you know, shark attack, it's just had a little nibble of him."

However, when she saw him he was grey from blood loss. She said: "First thing he says, he goes, 'I'm going to have to be a bodyboarder now'.

"It just amazes me what he went through and survived. That sucker wasn't going to take him."

Officials are analysing DNA from Mr Ismail's surfboard and his wetsuit to establish what species the shark was.

Just a few days after the attack, a man was killed by a shark while swimming at Sorrento beach near Perth, 250 miles south of Geraldton.

In August, an Australian mother who lost her arm after being bitten by a shark said she could remember every second of the attack. Leah Stewart, a schoolteacher, was mauled by a suspected 12ft great white shark in June while taking a morning swim in Sydney.

The mother of one was critically injured, suffering life-threatening bites to her arms and legs. She was placed into a medically induced coma for nearly a fortnight, had multiple surgeries and her arm amputated.

The 35-year-old told 60 Minutes Australia she remembered the entire ordeal and that she encouraged herself to try to survive after thinking of her daughter, August.

Ms Stewart said: "Its face was horrific - I will never forget its face. It was a monster. It was holding on to my leg."

She said she told herself “I’ve got to fight it and do everything I can to be here” after thinking of her baby daughter. “All I was thinking of was August and I thought, ‘She’s not going to have a mum’. I couldn’t handle that. I did not want her not to have a mum.”

In June, a 35-year-old man was killed by a shark while spearfishing off Western Australia and in May a 38-year-old father of two was killed near Perth.

After her short cut in the Berlin Marathon came to light, Yuanyuan Sun lost her deal with footwear company Brooks China

Chinese fitness guru shamed after cheating in marathon

By Alexandra Snow

A FITNESS influencer has been disqualified from the Berlin Marathon after hitching a ride on the back of a bicycle.

Yuanyuan Sun, 30, ran the German race in 4:53:46, which she claimed was a personal best, and posted pictures with her medal at the finish line.

However, an image was posted online of her sitting on the back of a bicycle in the final kilometres of the September race.

On Wednesday, Ms Sun was officially disqualified, with her time struck off the list.

The Chinese influencer, who has more than half a million social media followers, apologised and said she had “intentionally concealed” her “shortcut” during the race.

In a statement posted on the Chinese

Yuanyuan Sun is photographed during the marathon hitching a ride on a bicycle

social media site Red Note, Ms Sun wrote: "Riding a bicycle during the Berlin Marathon did indeed violate race rules.

“Even if I felt unwell on the course, it should never be a reason for me to break the rules.”

The influencer, known as Abeeeer on social media, added: "This was an extremely dishonest act. I feel deeply guilty about this."

The Official Marathon Time Integrity Unit posted Ms Sun's split data, which show that she ran her fastest 5km of the race between 35km and 40km, covering that segment six minutes quicker than the previous one.

Ms Sun lost her sponsorship deal with Brooks China, whose trainers she modelled at the end of the marathon.

A brand spokesman told The Athletic: "Upon verifying the facts, Brooks China immediately terminated its relationship with the influencer and publicly reaffirmed the brand's commitment to integrity, fairness and the spirit of running."

Mentally ill to be excluded from assisted suicide in Canada

By Our Foreign Staff

CANADA will not allow people with mental health conditions to die by assisted suicide if it is the sole reason for them choosing to do so.

Ontario legalised assisted dying for end-of-life in 2016 and the right was extended to Canadians suffering from serious and incurable illnesses in 2021, even if death was not “reasonably foreseeable”. Initially, Canada was to allow assisted death for those with mental health conditions by 2024, but that date was pushed back three years, with the government saying it wanted to make sure that the already overwhelmed mental health system was ready.

Without government action, people exclusively suffering from a mental illness would have had access to assisted suicide in March, when the exclusion was set to expire.

But Sean Fraser, the justice minister, ‘While there is not a perfect consensus on this issue, we believe this is the correct approach’

told reporters on Wednesday that Canada's Liberal government planned to pass legislation that would prohibit assisted suicide for people whose only underlying medical condition was mental illness. "Canada has made a decision not to move forward with the expansion [of assisted suicide]," Mr Fraser said.

"While there is not a perfect consensus on this issue, we believe this is the correct approach."

Mr Fraser's announcement follows recommendations from an advisory panel which in June urged the government not to expand assisted suicide rights.

That panel raised concern about the lack of mental health support in communities across the country, and the risk that suffering patients would choose death because they could not access care.

The committee also highlighted debate among mental health experts as to whether mental illness could ever be deemed incurable.

A majority of Canadians support the right to assisted suicide, but in recent months some medical professionals have called for a review of the policy, including how patients receive approval to end their lives.

In the UK, the assisted dying bill, which would have legalised assisted dying for those with less than six months to live, failed in the Commons last month after key allies of Andy Burnham abstained from the vote.

The Prime Minister said he had his "own personal views on the issue" but it was "a matter for Parliament to decide".

Desperate Trump is working flat out to prevent his Texan fortress from collapse

Connor Stringer CHIEF WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENT

THERE are a few things that worry Donald Trump. But the prospect of losing his crown as undisputed kingmaker of the Republican Party is certain to be one of them.

Nowhere is his fear more apparent than in Texas.

In the past four weeks, the US president has made no fewer than three trips to the state to throw his weight behind Ken Paxton, his handpicked candidate for the US Senate.

It was a race Republicans once had little reason to fear losing. But soaring diesel prices caused by the ongoing war in Iran have caused political headwinds so strong that it has unexpectedly become a battleground state for the GOP in this year's midterm election. Panic is rising within the administration.

The polls suggest there is good reason to be worried.

Mr Paxton, the state's current attorney general, who is endorsed by the president, trails his Democrat opponent James Talarico by two points in the latest Fox News poll.

Losing the state was once unfathomable. Republicans have not lost a US Senate election in Texas since 1988, when Democrat Lloyd Bentsen won re-election.

In the decades since, Texas has been one of the pillars of Republican power and has supplied the party with presidential candidates, enormous financial backing and a dependable source of electoral votes.

It should be a race the Republicans don't think twice about.

Yet with just 25 days to go before voters head to the polls on Nov 3, Mr 'TalaFREAKo has been missing for 12 days! 12 days is a long time to rid yourself of so-called flu bug'

Trump finds himself repeatedly returning to the state to rally support.

Even he, who rarely admits political vulnerability, has conceded that Texas is causing him concern.

“We’re worried about Michigan, we’re worried about Texas, we’re worried about a few states, but it’s all about 35 different contests. Not states, contests,” he told supporters during a rally on Oct 1.

The stakes could not be higher. Losing Texas would not just hand Republicans a political embarrassment, but it would call into question America's appetite for Mr Trump, two years after romping to victory in the state's presidential election by nearly 14 percentage points.

Mr Trump is determined to maintain Republicans' threadbare majority in Congress this autumn and avoid a repeat of his first presidency, when Democrats won control of the

House in midterm elections – and went on to impeach him twice.

Republicans currently hold 53 seats to the Democrats' 47.

Democrats need a net gain of four seats to take control of the Senate, complicating Mr Trump's remaining two years in office and rendering him almost powerless on the Hill.

The anxiety is evident in the president's Truth Social posts. This week, he called for a debate between Mr Paxton and Mr Talarico - something he has tried to avoid - in

President Donald Trump works the room following a midterm campaign event in San Antonio, Texas, on Wednesday

the hopes of swaying voters. And yesterday, Mr Trump questioned Mr Talarico's ability for the job after he tested positive for influenza.

“TalaFREAKo has been missing for 12 days! Now, after looking for him throughout all of Texas, and beyond, probably even weirder places than anyone would think possible, he put out a statement that he has the ‘flu’. 12 days is a long time to rid yourself of the so-called flu bug,” he wrote on Truth Social.

“What’s going on? We need a Senator that’s a proven Champion like one that has been, without question, the Greatest Attorney General in the History of Texas, and one of the Greatest in the USA. His name is Ken Paxton, and he will never let you down!”

Other Republican attack points are claiming Mr Talarico is vegan - he is not - and calling him Tofu-Talarico. And pointing out how much meat Mr Paxton eats.

It is clear that the president is spending valuable time trying to stop the Texas fortress from collapsing.

If he fails, it will be one of the biggest political defeats in Republican history. And he will only have himself to blame.

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Cats don't make you happy, they are made to make you suffer

HANNAH BETTS

People come up with myriad theories based on one's appearance. As a witchy brunette, I am assumed to issue from colourfully divorced parents, be rampantly drug-taking and fabulously promiscuous, when, alas, I am lamentably dull.

The other supposition forever being reached is that I am a cat woman. This is also a misconception: for I am team dog to my bones. Not only am I allergic to mogs, I am not a masochist.

For cats don't make you happy, they make you suffer – across years, with slinky, insouciant expertise.

Improbable, then, that a study of 93 nations has linked higher cat populations to greater human happiness. This must be correlation not causation. Indeed, the study's very authors – clearly cat owners - propose that the relationship may reflect greater disposable income resulting in pet purchase, rather than any joy attendant on feline fancying.

Only the most foolish would imagine that pleasure can be generated by a puss.

My parents not only spawned five children, but established a household of five cats, five dogs, five bunnies, five cavies, five gerbils – you get the idea. Jasper, Goblin-Hermione, Snowy, Toppy Blandford, Nicodemus and – wait! – there was another, so elusive one only ever saw a streak of tail. Of the core quintet, I favoured Goblin because she was a freakishly affectionate little thing, and thus shunned by her breed.

The others merely tolerated our presence, some more reluctantly than others. Jasper would use his looks to beguile humans, then sink his claws deep into flesh. Toppy B maintained an imperious distance. Even the beauteous Snowy - wont to sleep on my chest, rhythmically padding my face while purring so fiercely my ribcage thrummed - would vanish for great stretches,

returning once Whiskas appealed.

Cats don't hate us; to hate us would imply that they deign to think about us, when their attitude is one of lofty indifference.

Dogs adore us with a desperate, impassioned need. Humans and hounds co-evolved, our species sharing a profound history of perhaps 41,000 years.

Dogs protect us, interpret our language and read our every mood, while we boost each other's oxytocin (bonding-hormone) levels. When I'm ill, my whippets guard over me as ardently as Greyfriars Bobby, stretching along my body to warm me.

– and the opposite in terms of vibe: solo hunters, domesticating themselves for their own advantage a brief 10,000 years ago, failing to be genetically rewired by this, or adapting in any way. Biologists refer to this as a “commensal” relationship: one organism benefits while leaving the other unharmed.

I'm not convinced by this categorisation given mousers' propensity to tease, torment and generally draw blood. Having grown up with beasts of all shapes and sizes, the scars I boast are feline. Meanwhile, we used to paint our Bull Terrier with stripes and require he jump through flaming hoops.

I hold the greatest respect for Nami, the friends' tabby I have contact with. However, her attitude to me involves psychological torture of a sort that – were it inflicted by another human – would cause Amnesty International to get involved. Life requires one to pick a side, and I am firmly pro-hound.

Being my bitches' bitch is not merely happiness inducing, but safer by way of life, limb and sanity.

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You can't challenge Reform spivvery while celebrating Jeffrey Archer

Badenoch said there was no place for crooks in the Tory party but then praised the disgraced peer

DOMINIC LAWSON

H as Jeffrey Archer really left us? I can't help wondering whether the inveterate plot-maker has even faked his own death, so he could read his obituaries. He would be delighted by many of the encomia published in recent days. Queen Camilla paid a personal tribute to the "pleasure Jeffrey brought to me and to so many millions of readers through the pages of his works".

Indeed, he did. Her Majesty was careful enough to note that “he was not without flaw”. Such a (mild) balancing phrase was not present in the tributes from many leading Conservative politicians whose own character I’ve always respected, such as Sir Jeremy Hunt and Sir Robert Buckland – a former justice secretary, no less.

I was shocked, but should not have been. Archer had a gift for friendship - combined with charm, the most lethal of all political weapons. Fortunately, I was warned off early by my father.

When I entered newspaper journalism, he told me to beware of Archer, using a term now sadly old-fashioned: "He is not a gentleman."

This was years before the 1987 libel suits over his payment to a prostitute, Monica Coghlan, which Archer won against the Daily Star and the News of the World via an astounding conspiracy of perjury and false evidence. Its uncovering was what sent Archer to prison with a four-year sentence in 2001. Yet anyone who read Michael Crick's 1995 biography – Stranger than Fiction – would have wondered how his subject had escaped such a fate much earlier.

It was not just the fantastical falsification of his academic CV, which somehow enabled a young man with just three O-levels to blag his way into Oxford University.

Almost straight away, there he began fundraising for Oxfam; then he acquired two properties, one in Oxford and another in his home town of Weston-super-Mare.

As Crick reported: “People were naturally puzzled as to how, as a student, he could afford to do this. Archer told a friend that it was from commission he’d been paid on the fundraising he’d done for Oxfam, but former Oxfam officials are adamant that the charity never paid people commission.” They were, however, perplexed by the fact that 2,000 of their collecting tins in the city had mysteriously gone astray.

When Archer, a few years later, was selected as Conservative parliamentary candidate for Louth, it was partly on the strength of his having helped raise very substantial sums for another charity, the United Nations Association. Its chairman, a former Conservative MP, Humphry Berkeley, meanwhile discovered Archer had embezzled thousands of pounds from the charity via fictitious expenses claims, and warned the party that its putative candidate was a crook.

Archer fended this off by suing Berkeley for libel. And like Oxfam, the UNA did not want to draw public attention to the scandal in their fundraising operations. Then Archer, safely in Westminster at the age of 29, quietly abandoned the libel suit, paying both his own and Berkeley's costs, amounting to 10 times his MP's salary.

I repeat this partly as a counter to the claim that Archer's charitable fundraising somehow absolves him of the charge of bad character, and partly to demonstrate he should never have been permitted to become a Conservative MP, let alone its deputy chairman (Margaret Thatcher's decision, over the strenuous objections of that true gentleman, Willie Whitelaw), or indeed its candidate for Mayor of London.

That campaign imploded when one of those several people Archer had paid to give him false alibis for his libel suit over the Monica Coghlan business, revealed the truth. Although Archer was convicted in 2001 of what Lord Justice Potts called “as serious an act of perjury as I have had experience of”, this was also fraud: Archer took a sum worth £1.8m in today’s money in libel damages from newspapers which had printed the truth.

The week Archer was sentenced, I sent the Sunday Telegraph's best reporter, the late Olga Craig, to interview Jill Turner. This was the widow of the former editor of the Daily Star, Lloyd Turner, given the boot after Archer's perjury paid off, who died nine years later at 57.

She told Olga: "Lloyd's career never really recovered after he and his newspaper lost their libel case and he was sacked. Archer bounded out of the High Court, seemingly vindicated. And my husband, who knew all about Archer's lies, was left a broken man, with his reputation in tatters."

Archer never showed the slightest sign of penitence. This was clear from his Prison Diaries, which though riveting in their way, also conveyed that

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Archer never showed the slightest sign of penitence. This was clear from his Prison Diaries

Archer felt the whole business was a deep injustice - to him. In 2014, promoting his latest novel, Archer described Judge Potts's sentencing remarks as "ridiculous. They perjure every single day in every court". I wrote then how odd it was he failed to see the difference between what he had done, and the everyday criminal protesting his innocence at trial.

He had, since in 1992 John Major ignored good advice and made him a Conservative peer, been Lord Archer of Weston-super-Mare. His maiden speech to the chamber ended with the words of Robbie Burns: "Princes and Lords are but the breath of kings. An honest man is the noblest work of God." No, really.

After he left prison, the reliably shameless Archer returned to the chamber, to the consternation of many in the Lords (not least my father). Every subsequent Conservative leader, up to Archer's voluntary resignation from the House in July 2024, refused to restore the party whip to him. Which made it all the odder that Kemi Badenoch delivered an unqualified eulogy to Archer ("a dear friend to the Conservative Party and to me") in her acclaimed speech to the Conservative Party conference on Wednesday.

In a later passage she laid in to the spivvery of Reform UK: "The police are investigating not just Robert Jenrick's donations, but Richard Tice's company as well... just when you think Reform couldn't get any weirder, there's a convicted fraudster who calls himself Posh George and calls Nigel Farage Daddy... People deserve better than that, and we are going to give them better than that. Character, conduct, and standards matter."

Bang on, Kemi. But don't then ask the party to applaud the memory of Jeffrey Archer.

Kemi has made me happy to be English

SHERELLE JACOBS

“Shut up. You’re English. End of story.” My mother, Susan, is not the

Type to get rattled by current affairs. Since the Theresa May era she has elevated withering exasperation into an art form. I've not seen her get angry at her paper since the Tories squandered Brexit.

But when Suella Braverman, born in Harrow, declared on Question Time "of course, I'm not English", my mother flipped her lid. As we despondently picked over the latest culture war kerfuffle at her kitchen table last weekend, my mother - a white English woman of Black Country stock traceable to at least 1722 - banged cupboards and slammed cutlery.

Her eyes narrowed as she saw my brother exchange an uncertain look.

"Do you feel English?" he pondered. A pause. My mother wasn't having it. "Of course you are English."

"Dad's from Nigeria." Mum scoffed. "He's lived here 50 years. And what precisely is your connection to Nigeria? You've never lived there. Why are we even having this conversation? As if we haven't got more serious matters to attend to in this country." Case closed in the Jacobs household. Of course my siblings and I are English.

When Kemi Badenoch said in her speech that she doesn't want to live in a country run by people who debate whether her mixed-race children are English, it gave me goosebumps.

Some on the Right have called it the most powerful anti-racist intervention ever seen from a party leader. Others have accused Badenoch of a DEI-style attack on Reform. As a mixed-race person, I did feel in awe. It was her supreme certainty that got me. The finality. The unalloyed maternal wrath. I saw a leader. But I also saw my mother.

Another odd feeling stirred. Pangs of reassurance, even gratitude. Badenoch, the culture warrior queen, has taken it upon herself to draw a line in the sand. Because in truth, up until now I have hesitated to call myself English. British? Certainly. Half-English? Superficially accurate. English? Hmmm...

I have always assumed that you have to be white to be English. When the white children in the playground sagaciously pronounced that I was "half-caste", I dutifully accepted the appellation. Looking back, the silliest things triggered doubts about my Englishness. Not being able to buy foundation in Boots as a teenager. I dreaded the hairdresser's stool more than the dentist's chair. Some dream of rats; I have recurring nightmares about brush-wielding coiffeurs with fangs.

Feeling not-quite English hasn't hugely preoccupied me over the years. I've shruggingly worn the halfie label, like a uniform that doesn't quite fit. But since the interventions from Badenoch and Braverman, I've felt compelled to give it more thought.

I can see both sides of the argument. Braverman's reluctance to call herself English is not without foundation. Ethnic Englishness is not a racist fiction, but a real, officially recognised classification. Historians trace an English ethnic identity back to the Anglo-Saxon period. Official statistics treat Englishness as having an ethnic dimension. On a personal level, I can relate to the hesitation over her identity.

But, on balance, I am with Badenoch – and my mother – on this one.

I have decided: enough is enough. I am English. I was born in England. I love England. I may not look English to some, but I live Englishness everyday. When I close my eyes and think of our country, it's the small, ephemeral things that come to mind. The ice cream van's tinkle, the "unexpected item in the bagging area", chips sodden with vinegar, devastating insults delivered as dry observation ("You're not shy").

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My strongest response to those who insist I am not English is logical rather than emotional. It's one thing to point out that an ethnically English group exists. It is quite another to claim you have to be ethnically English to be English. The English ethnicity and the English nation are two different things. The former doesn't automatically get exclusive rights to the latter.

True, many are worried that mass immigration threatens to erase the English. Forty per cent of babies born in 2024 had at least one parent born outside Britain. But how exactly does going down rabbit holes about ethnic purity help? Politicians who profess to be anxious about current trends should surely focus their intellectual energies on policies that can actually make an impact on immigration flows.

Debating whether you need four or five generations of English ancestry to make the cut is an absurd waste of time.

For the Right to get hung up about family trees is silly and self-defeating. Immigrants or their descendants may feel less motivated to integrate if they feel like they can never belong.

We are in danger of losing something basic here. At times the rational thing to do is stop picking over an argument and just leave it alone. Or to put it more bluntly: I am English. Deal with it. And let's move on.

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Aligning with failing Europe is no panacea

Freedom is Britain's great post-Brexit asset. In a world dividing into competing blocs and

I striving for supremacy in the industries of the future, the ability to move fast and think differently is essential. The EU's sclerotic bureaucracy is its very antithesis.

Andy Burnham seems oblivious to this. There appear few questions to which Mr Burnham does not think the answer is “more Europe”.

Yesterday, the Prime Minister was in Germany, meeting Chancellor Friedrich Merz ahead of a UK-EU summit in November. They reportedly discussed aligning the UK with the EU's high tariff regime on Chinese electric cars, perhaps in return for British industries gaining greater access to EU defence loans and industrial subsidies. Mr Burnham may think this is a good deal. It is not.

China's industrial playbook is well-known by now. Beijing identifies a strategic sector and proceeds to pump state money into it on a scale few if any market-led economies can match. Having built up enormous capacity, it then proceeds to flood rival markets with desirable goods at prices local industries cannot match. This pattern has been seen time and again, from solar panels to rare earth magnets.

Given the soaring sales of Chinese electric vehicles in both Europe and the UK, some conclude that Beijing is trying to do the same in this sector too. This would destroy Europe's car industry. But yoking Britain to the EU would serve Berlin far more than London.

The logic for Germany is plain: it wants high tariffs to protect its much vaunted manufacturers. Yet the car industry's crisis is largely self-inflicted. It bet heavily on diesel, then compounded the error with the emissions scandal. It was slow to embrace electrification, and a thicket of European regulation and high labour costs made matters worse.

The price of alignment would be paid by British drivers. Cheap Chinese cars are affordable to many who would otherwise be priced out of the market. They arguably do so at a lower environmental cost. Raising tariffs to shield European plants would make motoring more expensive in the UK. Our own industry, with different interests, would gain little. Is Mr Burnham really prepared to make British families pay more in order to protect German jobs?

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The purpose of welfare should be to help get people back into work. All too often our system does the exact opposite. It writes - “system does the exact opposite. It writes people off as sick, pays them to stay at home and spends vast sums while doing little to help them return to work. Today, almost half of young people who are neither in education, training or unemployment now report having a diagnosed mental health or neurodevelopmental condition.

Nowhere are the perverse incentives of our system more apparent than in the staggering rise of ADHD and autism diagnoses. Nearly 270,000 people now claim disability benefits with autism as their main condition, more than triple the 2019 figure. Those citing ADHD have risen more than fourfold. The rises among the young are particularly stark.

The landmark government-commissioned review led by Prof Peter Fonagy, published today, is unusually candid about the cause. Our benefit system encourages people to “emphasise deficits”, notes Prof Fonagy, by linking assessments to “educational support, workplace adjustments, welfare benefits, social care and specialist services”.

Covid lockdowns dealt Britain's youth a rough hand. But the response has been to build a welfare system that encourages them to self-pathologise, rather than work hard for good reward. As the report notes, getting people into work "can help people recover". Yet our system too often treats diagnosis as a gateway to a life of inactivity, rather than the first step to recovery.

The implications go well beyond individual cases. The total bill for working age sickness and disability benefits stands at £58bn, and is projected to rise to an eye-watering £78bn by 2030. As Prof Fonagy states, “continuing as we are is not sustainable”.

Throwaway culture

The scale of an illegal rubbish dump that has just been cleared up in Kent is astonishing. It cost more than £15m to remove 40,000 tons of waste at Hoad's Wood, west of Ashford. The smell of the grey detritus was appalling and its ooze threatened the River Beult. This had all been piled up by criminal dumpers in 2023. As with gold-miners, they made their money quickly and disappeared, leaving great piles of spoil. Since the 2,000-year-old Oxyrhynchus rubbish mounds in Upper Egypt began to be excavated at the beginning of the 20th century, an awful lot of commercial documentation has been discovered there, as well as fragments of long-lost plays and poems. But future archaeologists of the English countryside will find a culture apparently founded upon drink-containers, plasterboard and wet-wipes.

Kemi Badenoch's tone on Reform risks alienating former Tories further

SIR – As you point out (Leading Article, October 8), Kemi Badenoch's poll ratings have risen faster than those of her party. The level of distrust and sense of betrayal among former Conservative voters will take much longer to heal.

I would counsel Mrs Badenoch to cease her denigration of Nigel Farage and Reform UK. I like Mr Farage and think he has been a force for good in this country. Mrs Badenoch's reference to him and his party as "that" insulted potential voters like me.

It also reminded me of a conversation I had on a train with a long-serving Tory MP. What came across then was an arrogant sense of entitlement. The Right needs to unite for the sake of this country. Howard M Tolman Great Cornard, Suffolk

SIR – After Kemi Badenoch's words about Reform, she would be wise to remember what ultimately happened to David Cameron, who once

sneeringly referred to Ukip supporters as "fruitcakes" and "loonies". Sue Peart London SW18

SIR – Now that the party conference season has ended, the battle lines of a future general election are clearer. Andy Burnham is a better communicator than his predecessor, but he avoids the main problems facing Britain: immigration, the high cost of energy, the abysmal state of our Armed Forces, out-of-control welfare spending and eye-watering levels of taxation.

Mr Burnham is more comfortable harking back to the 1970s and ignoring two referendum results by wanting to rejoin the EU and change the electoral system. His plans lack detail.

pamphlet, The Right Way, offers a clear alternative to Mr Burnham's statist approach. The next election will offer, for the first time in 50 years, a real choice between socialist dogma and a belief in the value of private enterprise, patriotism and hard work. Alan Law

Streatley, Berkshire

Meanwhile, Kemi Badenoch and the Conservatives are doing what Labour failed to do in opposition: going back to first principles, analysing the country's ills and working out how to address them. Mrs Badenoch's

SIR - As a reluctant member of the Conservative Party (I forgot to cancel my subscription), I was beginning to think I would vote Reform. Fortunately, we now have a leader who, like me, believes in rewarding hard work and rejects the politics of envy. I don't have a lot of money but I have worked hard for what I have, including my house. I have several friends who are very wealthy. Do I envy them? No: I am reasonably happy with my lot. All I need now is for Kemi Badenoch to become prime minister and sort out the NHS. Janet Milliken Fellastena Kent

Inheritance tax impact

SIR – The statistic often quoted regarding inheritance tax (IHT) is that only about 4 per cent of deaths result in it being paid. Yet this doesn't capture the whole picture (“Hard workers must reap rewards, says Badenoch as she pledges tax cuts”, report, October 8).

My wife and I are getting on and expect that, under present rules, our estates will suffer IHT at some point soon. But we won't pay a penny. Our two children, their wives and our four grandchildren effectively will.

The number of people affected by IHT is almost always underestimated. John Simmonds

Defence priorities

SIR – There is a great deal of nonsense being talked about the need for defence from missiles and drones (report, October 6).

Hitchin, Hertfordshire

Britain is at the very western edge of European Nato, and any ballistic missiles from Russia or Iran would have to overfly other members first.

As regards drones, the new threat seems to be short-range pop-ups launched by entities acting on behalf of states. An overarching defence system is not the answer.

Neither of these threats demands a huge investment in anti-missile capability.

Knot topic: a mural on the side of a menswear shop in Reykjavik, Iceland

Should Russia or Iran start launching ballistic missiles at us, we would be at war, with all that entails. Defence of our cities against such missiles is extremely difficult and has implications for nuclear deterrence.

There are more important areas to prioritise for enhanced defence spending. Both major parties are in a mess on this issue. Admiral Lord West of Spithead (Lab) London SW1

Smart young people with a taste for ties

A debt to farmers

SIR – Britain owes so much to the farming community for things we often take for granted.

One is the countryside itself. These workers help to keep it as it is, often operating in isolation in an industry with a high suicide rate. It is an industry with many health-and-safety risks, no holidays and subsistence salaries.

On October 12, National Farmers Day, let us all say thank you to these remarkable people.

SIR - I can confirm that ties are making a comeback among the young ("Hot under the collar: Ties back in fashion", News, October 6).

Most school proms for leavers have a requirement that ties must be worn by males, which sets them thinking. My teenage friends always come to me for a selection to choose from (I have 98), and some of them continue to wear ties thereafter.

prom. They have now gone on to university: I have high hopes for their tie evangelism. Mik Shaw

One young friend took charge of some I was discarding, and persuaded his friends to wear them to college for the few weeks after the

Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex

SIR - Your report claims that ties are back in fashion. Really? I am currently on a Saga ship off Morocco, with nearly 1,000 passengers. Every night in the main dining room, I proudly wear a tie. But I am virtually alone.

Philip Moger
East Preston, West Sussex

By all means limit or abolish the tax, but don't tinker in a way that would have huge negative consequences. Nigel Cowan Thakeham, West Sussex

SIR – A problem facing the UK property market is that older people are reluctant to downsize because of the costs involved. If the Conservatives abolish inheritance tax on family homes (report, October 7), the incentives to downsize will virtually disappear, as any capital released could create an additional tax liability.

Coherent care

SIR - Late on July 4, I had symptoms that could have been from indigestion, but felt more serious. I contacted III, and a clinician convinced me to attend A&E at Queen's Hospital Burton. My wife, Sue, drove me and we joined the queue. I was quickly assessed, given an electrocardiogram and moved to a trolley, where I could be observed and connected to monitors.

We were taken by ambulance to Royal Derby Hospital, where I had two stents fitted. I think that this procedure was completed by 3am, only five hours after we'd set off from home. Three days of tests and monitoring followed, before I was discharged on July 7, with detailed information about my rehabilitation regime.

Within minutes I had a cardiac arrest. I was resuscitated and became aware of commotion going on around me. Sue had been whisked away to allow staff to work, but she was accompanied all the time. The staff understood how traumatic this event was for her and responded perfectly.

On two occasions since, I have experienced symptoms that caused me concern. My GP surgery dealt with one and Queen's Hospital the other, which occurred at night. I am half way through a course of cardiac rehabilitation gym sessions at Queen's. These are very useful, and show me how much I can push myself as I recover. The staff are so cheerful and enthusiastic that I always leave in a really positive state of mind.

The BBC is a force for good in a polarised age

Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire

Seasonal signs

SIR – I track the seasons through my four tortoises.

When autumn is approaching (Letters, October 7), they eat less and start coming inside to spend the night by the Aga.

I then know that it's time to bring the tender plants in and light the fire. Alexandra Elletson Marlborough, Wiltshire

SIR – A family superstition in autumn was to try to catch a falling leaf before it touched the ground; success guaranteed good luck for the following year.

I have attempted to do it this year, in the face of worried looks from fellow dog walkers, but am yet to succeed. Gary Read

Blaenllechau, Glamorgan

SIR – Henry Bateson (Letters, October 5), responding to me, claims that the BBC is outdated. I'd argue that its raison d'être is stronger than ever.

finish. I discovered that Queen Elizabeth I had invested in slavery, as well as just about every other person in the country, for about 200 years from 1600. Mr Olusoga's "experts" unearthed the names of hundreds of businesspeople who were involved in the awful trade and, although other European nations were mentioned, the emphasis was on the evil English.

Our algorithmic age is leaving us atomised and polarised. The BBC reinforces a shared cultural identity and offers a platform for truth. I look at the hyper-partisan, fragmented, advertisement-driven media ecosystem in America, and am not sure that's an alternative I want.

Reforming the licence fee model is welcome; getting rid of the institution altogether would be extreme.
Harry Rogers
London SW11

SIR – Having lived in Africa, I was interested to see the BBC 2 programme Finding Britain's Slave Traders, presented by David Olusoga. Sadly, I found it too painful and ridiculous to

This wasn't a history lesson; it was a biased polemic. Is there going to be another programme on our stand against slavery worldwide? On how much it cost our country in money and lives to end the trade?

The BBC has gone from being a voice of freedom, education and impartiality to a mouthpiece for Left-wingers and those who hate our culture. I'd like a licence fee refund.
Brian Farmer
Carmarthen

I am grateful that I was cared for by a system that had a coherent plan and was staffed by dedicated and well-trained people. At every step, I was well informed about my situation, the treatments and the tests that were being conducted, and their outcomes.

I feel that I am well on the road to recovery. Thank you to everyone who has helped me so far. I have been very fortunate.

Oliver Tyson Ashby-de-la-Zouch, Leicestershire

Expert pea picker

SIR – Our late black lab, Jessie, was an expert pea picker (Letters, October 7). She would quietly make her way along the rows, out of my father's line of sight, surreptitiously plucking the produce from the plants with her teeth, leaving a trail of empty pods in her wake. Sam Kendall-Marsden Huntingdon

Rubio has exposed just how unserious the EU is

The US Secretary of State is perfectly right to issue a wake-up call to the creaking European bloc

DAVID FROST

Contrast two events this week. US Secretary of State Marco Rubio, speaking in front of the Acropolis, called for “a rediscovery” of the Western spirit and urged Europe to “awaken from its long slumber and rekindle the fire that was lit here millennia ago”.

On the same day an 8ft statue of Donald Trump, naked, covered in gold leaf, and called “The Orange Plague” was put on display in the European Parliament building in Strasbourg.

Somehow it sums up the difference between America and much of Europe. One, at least rhetorically, understands what made our civilisation successful and wants to renew it. The other prefers playing games to engaging with reality.

This is why the EU is finding it hard to deal with the political trap it is facing. Its voters are moving Right. But its leadership and institutions are determined not to acknowledge that. If they keep on shutting the new Right out of power, European governance will become still more remote and less democratic. Yet doing the opposite will put the system under strain. This week illustrates the difficulties. In France, protests have turned violent. The bond markets have swung their gunsights round to Paris, borrowing costs have surged and the gap with Germany is the widest since the eurozone crisis. Hardly surprising, given the prospect of a run-off between Marine Le Pen and Jean-Luc Mélenchon, whose answer to the Franch debt mountain is: "Take it and burn it". In Germany, the so-called firewall against the AfD is beginning to crack. In Saxony-Anhalt this week the AfD won the speakership of the state parliament, and perhaps will be in power there soon too. In Spain, we've seen mass demonstrations from a know-nothing economically illiterate left. Prime Minister Sanchez's gamble on a snap election may yet backfire.

Italy and Poland are already governed from the Right. There are exceptions, as in Hungary, but the direction of travel is unmistakable. Europe is moving rightwards.

Much of what the new European Right stands for would not have been out of place in the 70s and 80s: relatively statist, pro-national business, socially conservative. What is new is its harder edge on the new issues of the day: migration, European identity and civilisation, the very themes Rubio spoke of, based on a real concern that European societies are eroding.

Europe has responded not by engaging with these arguments but by trying to shut them down. The German firewall shows the problem. It always signalled that German elites didn't trust their voters. Now it is entirely counterproductive. By forcing the mainstream Right endlessly into coalition with the Left, it gives voters who want a Right-wing government little choice but to vote AfD. Brussels does the same on a continental scale. It squeezes out the Right in the European Parliament. It debates the budget as it has for 40 years. It makes no serious progress on regulatory reform. It doesn't confront energy costs. Instead it obsesses about “disinformation” and “malign Russian actors”. Real threats exist, but have become a convenient explanation for every election result it dislikes. The effect is to keep actual public opinion out of the magic circle. None of this makes the system more stable. Rather, it makes it more brittle.

This clash between a large and disaffected bloc of Europe's voters and its elites will define Europe for a generation. If Brussels holds the line, voters will be more disconnected. They will be offered the standard Brussels remedy: more federalism, a more centralised budget, and more power for the institutions. If it comes to a bail-out of France, only the EU has the financial firepower to make it happen, and the price will be another shift of economic power away from Europe's nations.

If on the other hand the Right makes a breakthrough in the big member states, the EU itself will come under a different kind of strain, maybe even more than most voters bargained for. A union built on the assumption of ever-closer integration is not designed to cope with governments that reject it.

The policies of Le Pen and the AfD are not compatible with the EU as it stands. Either they will break it, or they will themselves be broken by it.

No one can be sure which path Europe will take. Either way, the EU of the next decade will be more centralised or less stable than the one we left, and quite possibly both. Neither is something Britain should tie itself to.

I am not making a claim we are doing much better. After all we have just had a kind of socialist coup d'état and Britain is evidently under strain from the same forces so evident on the Continent. But we have one big advantage: the ability to make our own choices and to pull ourselves up out of decline.

Mr Rubio described a story of Western civilisation born in Athens and carried to America by people “endowed with the English genius for liberty”. He’s right. We need to have confidence in that genius. Why then would we make ourselves more exposed by binding ourselves to EU law through “resets” and alignment? Why, worse still, would we again place ourselves under the authority of the Brussels institutions just as they face a choice between centralising further and fracturing?

We must keep our freedom to act. Why surrender it now for a role as a rule-taker, strapped to the mast of someone else's ship?

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Puzzles, Mind Games & Telegraph Toughie

KAKURO

To solve kakuro you must enter a number between 1 and 9 in the empty squares without repeating a digit. The clues are the numbers on the black squares.

The clues are the numbers on the black squares and are the sum of the solution numbers. The clue pointers indicate the direction of the answers. A block of two squares with a clue of 3 will solve as 2,1 and a 5 will produce 4,1 or 2,3. A 4 can only be 1,3, never 2,2. Solution on Monday.

DIABOLICAL NO 5898

KILLER SUDOKU

Your clues are the caged numbers that represent the sum of the numbers within the cage. As in standard sudoku, each 3 x 3 box, each row and each column must contain all the numbers 1 to 9. Solution on Monday.

DIABOLICAL

Numbers are substituted for letters in this crossword grid. Use the letters already supplied in the key grid as clues, which will let you work out more letters. Solution for the first Codewords tomorrow and the second on Monday.

ANAGRAMS

Each of the anagrams below spells out a term relating to sport. Solution on Monday.

ROBOTIC NUTS - - - - - - - - - - - IRENIC ELVES - - - - - - - - - - - FUN HIP IDIOMS - - - - - - - - - -

CODEWORDS

1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13
14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	25	26

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19	11	18	18	15		6	4	25	26	17	21	19
11		4		11		4		3		14		7
22	17	23	17	13	11	9		9	17	11	22	19
19		11		16		9		16		12		19
17	17	9	22		12	3	21	1	17	19	19	4
13		23		6		10		4
22	24	17	10	17	13		11	22	9	17	17	6
				19		19		20		14		9
16	4	22	5	7	4	17	19		8	4	23	17
3		6		9		9		2		25		11
16	13	11	26	11		9	4	3	21	17	22	22
3		13		21		17		3		21		17
22	10	17	11	19	17	13		26	7	19	17	16

SUDOKU

REGULAR NO 7468

To solve this puzzle each $3 \times 3$ box, each row and also each column must contain all the numbers from 1 to 9. There are numerous strategies to help you solve sudoku. Regular solution tomorrow. Tough solution on Sunday.

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NO 4948

MIND GYM

TOUGH NO 7468

Start on the left with the given number and work your way across following the instructions in each cell. Target time: 30 seconds. Solution below.

4				1				5
1	2		9		7
		5		4		7
		2
	9		6		5		4	8
						6
		4		7		5
			4				2	7
2				8				9

BEGINNER		X BY ITSELF	x2.25	TRIPLE IT	-31	6/7 OF THIS	DOUBLE IT	-64	3/4 OF THIS	ANSWER
24	÷6
INTERMEDIATE		xl.4	-63	÷6	X BY ITSELF	DOUBLE IT	-54	HALVE IT	√	ANSWER
165	7/11 OF THIS
ADVANCED		TRIPLE IT	7/8 OF THIS	-283	÷13	X BY ITSELF	+89	HALVE IT	÷9	ANSWER
16	xl2

PANAGRAM

Create words of four letters or more, always using the centre letter. Proper nouns and plurals are not allowed, and you can only use each letter once per word. Can you find the nine-letter Panagram? Answers must be in the Oxford Dictionary of English. Solution on Monday.

Up to 6 words - Word Finder, 7 - Wordsmith, 15 - Word Wizard, 22 - Word Master, 30 - Word Genius, 38 - Word Perfect

—TELEGRAPH— —TOUGHIE—

NO 3772 SPARKS

Across

1 Teams in groups dance several miles, seemingly walking or running (8,7)
9 Character abroad working tiny drills (7)
10 Critical "name" declining to cover golf (7)
11 Organ female will enjoy (5-4)
12 Perhaps past numbers yet to be uncovered (5)
13 Lost ship, one captured by China (7)
15 Take away tons, lugged back (7)
17 Fraud avoiding Charlie around large prison (7)
19 One who forcefully puts down fool (7)
21 Remind, say, horse to withdraw (5)
23 What should hold fast hacks and stallion (5,4)
25 Efficacious Germany fuelled heartless bombing (7)
26 Raise tax in leaderless free-for-all (7)
27 Vacuous student accepted in rigmarole by university fails degree? (8,7)

Toughie No 3771

Down

1 Wreckage half noted to contain a large amount (7)
2 Compound source of meat and fish (5)
3 Be wrong about poor Reilly (9)
4 Part of flight? Yes and no (7)
5 Oil source filled around Kent area (7)
6 In prime spots, manage sports anxiety (5)
7 Standard fake junk on CIA (5,4)
8 Maybe pig appointed to protect FBI agents (7)
14 Also wearing small tartan trousers in which there are many holes (2,7)
16 Artist supporting onset of Trade Union collection (9)
17 Polish expert identifies fish (4,3)
18 Waves slipper about (7)
19 Wobble quietly then break (7)
20 Composer Richard Strauss, at last under new order, holds good (7)
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UK risks running out of gas by end of winter

Fears of energy crisis if harsh conditions sweep country in months ahead as fuel stocks run low

By Jonathan Leake

BRITAIN risks running out of gas stockpiles by the end of winter, raising fears of an energy crisis crippling the country.

A new report from Europe's gas transmission operators said that UK storage facilities could be completely depleted if harsh conditions sweep the country in the next few months. EU back-up gas storage facilities, which

Britain relies on to plug the gap when stocks run out, are also running low.

It means the UK could be forced to seek out costly imports of US liquefied natural gas (LNG) to stay afloat, driving up bills for households.

The report, from the European Network of Transmission System Operators for Gas (ENTSOG), says the UK is one of the most vulnerable countries to a gas crisis, with its forecasts showing a cold snap would send reserves to zero.

The EU is also under threat, with capacity expected to fall to 1lpc, far below the 30pc minimum seen as safe.

“Maintaining strong LNG deliveries throughout the winter remains important to support the European gas balance and preserve storage levels,” the report said. "If LNG availability remains limited, storage levels could fall well below 30pc by the end of the winter, increasing impact in the event of potential cold spells later in the season."

The warnings coincide with increased pressure for Andy Burnham, the Prime Minister, to approve the Jackdaw North Sea gas field, which could boost UK gas supplies by 3pc.

Mr Burnham has already warned that the UK is facing an “energy crisis”, saying the winter will be “very challenging” after analysts at Cornwall Insight predicted a 16pc rise in bills from January. EU gas reserves are currently just 72pc filled going into the winter, far below the 88pc level seen as the minimum needed. The Iran conflict means LNG imports will come mostly from the US – meaning the UK and EU will also be increasingly vulnerable to political interference from Donald Trump's administration.

Andrew Bowie, the shadow energy secretary, said: “Britain’s gas supplies are at the mercy of foreign tankers and the weather. Labour have banned new drilling, taxed the producers we have left and left Jackdaw gathering dust, so every cubic metre we do not produce at home must be bought from abroad.”

The UK's plight is worsened because energy giant Centrica has shut down the Rough gas storage facility, which has the capacity to support the UK for weeks. A Centrica spokesman said the facility was scheduled for decommissioning in April after government delays in prolonging its life. They added that Rough contains just two days' worth of gas - a fraction of its capacity.

The Government has repeatedly delayed approval for the Jackdaw gas field in the North Sea, which contains an estimated 15 billion cubic metres (bcm) of gas.

If switched on, it could produce 1.4bcm per year – about 2.5pc of total UK demand. However, the decision has been repeatedly delayed because of objections from green groups and Labour backbenchers. Seb Kennedy, an analyst at Energy Flux, said: "Even when full, UK storage holds less than eight days of average winter demand; today it holds under four. Germany has

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roughly six weeks in the tank, and Italy and France more than 10. Approving Jackdaw will not help this winter. Even with a quick approval it would take time to ramp up and it would supply a small share of UK demand."

The analyst added: “Britain’s gas price is set by the last LNG cargo it has to attract. Jackdaw’s value is longer term: slowing the rise in import dependence as North Sea output falls.”

A government spokesman downplayed the risk. "We have a diverse energy mix and are confident in our security of supply.

"Gas is sold on the international market and the price is not connected to our storage capacity – which was only 5pc of our supply last winter."

Bosses track staff cars to stop workers wasting fuel

By Pui-Guan Man

BOSSES are fitting tracking devices and cameras to company cars and van fleets to monitor the fuel drivers are using.

Companies including BT's Open-reach, property business JLL and construction giant Kier have installed upgraded telematics devices, which can record speed, braking and idling time through AI dashcams and trackers.

JLL has said it has deployed “full camera-enabled telematics” across its UK commercial fleet to “reduce fuel consumption through driver behaviour monitoring and route optimisation”.

The company, which employs about 3,000 staff, runs a fleet of vans to provide building maintenance for commercial landlords. JLL said it reduced the amount it spent on fuel by 7pc last year.

The RAC, which has its own fleet technology called RAC Connected, has said using telematics can encourage drivers to cut down on “behaviours like excessive engine idling, harsh accelerating and sudden braking and inefficient route planning”.

It said such devices could cut fleet fuel use by 15pc.

Openreach, BT's networks arm, signed a new deal with telematics provider Geotab earlier this week, to help it "better understand fuel consumption" in its fleet of 23,000 vans.

Geotab said data would be shared directly with van drivers via a smartphone app, helping them to "self-correct where needed and continuously improve their driving skills".

However, Unite sought to ballot staff at Edinburgh council last year in a dispute over data tracking its drivers. Openreach said it has secured a buy-in from its unions – the Communication Workers Union and Prospect.

Kier agreed a new telematics deal with supplier Samsara in June, claiming it would help cut vehicle downtime by 25pc. It also cited the prospect of significant fuel savings.

JLL declined to comment further, while Kier declined to comment.

Ring the changes Skydance chairman David Ellison (centre) rings the opening bell at the New York Stock Exchange as his company made its debut. The entertainment giant was created when Paramount completed its \$111bn (£84bn) acquisition of Warner Bros Discovery. The stock was at \$9.47, up 6.5%.

BT bosses accused of cashing in as TalkTalk rescue may trigger bonuses

By Tom Saunders

A RIVAL bidder for TalkTalk has accused BT executives of cashing in on a rescue deal for the ailing broadband provider.

Opus Broadband, which had been bidding for TalkTalk's 1.5 million retail customers, suggested that BT bosses could be in line to benefit from higher bonuses after securing a dramatic last-ditch deal to buy the company out of administration.

BT this year introduced a new incentive linking directors' bonuses to the telecoms giant's share of the UK retail market for both mobile and broadband.

In a letter to Lisa Nandy, the Culture Secretary, Opus said BT's TalkTalk takeover would increase its share of the broadband market to around 36pc from its current level of 30.8pc.

Mike Ellwood, the chairman of Opus, wrote: “From this year, BT’s directors are rewarded for growth in UK retail market share. This transaction delivers that growth by acquisition and removes a low-cost rival at the same time.”

A spokesman for BT said the TalkTalk acquisition would not be factored into bonus calculations for the current financial year. However, it is unclear whether the deal could pay off in future years. It is understood that BT will publish its bonus metrics for the next financial year in June 2027.

Currently, retail market share holds a 5pc weighting in determining the level of executive bonuses. Financial metrics account for the majority. BT swooped to buy TalkTalk out of administration on Monday in a £400m move that saved the debt-laden broadband provider from imminent collapse.

In normal circumstances, the former state monopoly would probably be blocked from buying up its rival, which is the UK's fourth largest broadband company, because of concerns about its market power. The Culture

Secretary described the situation as “unprecedented”, pointing to the risk a TalkTalk collapse would have posed to tens of thousands of vulnerable customers and networks underpinning national security.

Ms Nandy has directed the Competition and Markets Authority to report back on BT's rescue deal by Oct 19, after which she will make a final decision.

Trump bars Microsoft from US visa scheme | Time called on historic Marston's Brewery

By James Titcomb

THE Trump administration has banned Microsoft from an immigration programme for foreign workers, accusing the company of replacing American employees with staff from overseas.

The White House said Microsoft, Adobe and several other large IT firms would be blocked from sponsoring staff on work visas for permanent residency.

JD Vance, the US vice-president, accused the tech giant of replacing American-born employees with "foreign indentured servants" and of carrying out "fraud". He said: "There has been no company in the United States, unfortunately, that has abused the system more than Microsoft."

Mr Vance said Microsoft had laid off 6,000 US workers while hiring 6,300 workers on H1-B visas - the category most popular among tech workers - while sponsoring 3,000 green cards.

US companies can use a programme known as Perm to sponsor foreign workers for green cards, which allow them to permanently live in the US, if they can demonstrate that they cannot hire Americans to do the same job.

Mr Vance said: "This visa fraud is a frontal assault on the idea that you deserve to inherit the jobs and the positions in your own country.

"We cannot allow visa programmes that were designed to ensure that American corporations had access to the best and the brightest to undercut the wages of American workers."

The ban also applies to Cognizant, Infosys, Tata, Wipro, Capgemini and HCL. Microsoft did not comment.

By Tom Haynes

CARLSBERG is to close the historic Marston's Brewery in Burton upon Trent as drinkers turn away from traditional cask ale.

The brewery and its main logistics operation are expected to shut next summer as the Danish brewing giant cuts production of traditional British beers, putting around 310 jobs at risk.

The closure will bring an end to almost 200 years of Marston's brewing in Burton, which is one of the most important towns in British brewing history. John Marston founded the brewery in the Staffordshire town in 1834, before moving production to its current site on Shobnall Road in 1898.

Burton became famous for beer thanks partly to its mineral-rich water, which helped give its pale ales their distinctive taste. At its peak, the town was home to more than 30 breweries.

Marston's went on to become one of Britain's best-known brewers, producing ales including Pedigree and Bass.

of cask ale across Britain had more than halved in less than a decade, making it increasingly difficult to justify keeping the historic brewery open.

Ash Corbett-Collins, of the Campaign for Real Ale, called the announcement "an absolute disgrace, and the latest in a string of actions that show how little they care about our brewing heritage or the nation's drinkers".

Mr Corbett-Collins, who grew up in Burton, called far a rescue by an independent operator. Marston's pubs business is unaffected.

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Revealing all to an AI assistant to be rid of life's tedious chores

The gadgets are becoming popular but the cost can be rogue emails and a loss of privacy. By James Titcomb

MATT ROBB was optimistic when Meta's AI assistant, known as Muse, offered to handle his Facebook Marketplace account.

The second-hand listings service is a notorious minefield of picky buyers making lowball bids, failing to show up, and issuing demanding requests. Selling things on the app is the sort of tedious job that millions of people would love to offload to a bot.

But Robb's AI took matters into its own hands a little too enthusiastically. When selling a high-end computer keyboard, it not only accepted an offer below his asking price, but arranged a late-night handover at his flat, giving the buyer his home address without Robb's knowledge.

When the excited buyer turned up at the property after a 30-minute drive, there was nobody home. The buyer left a chain of grumpy messages and a negative rating, all without Robb's knowledge. "Luckily, I'm in an apartment with security," said Robb, who is a YouTuber.

"AI agents are impressive right up until they're confidently handing strangers your address. Be careful."

Cases like Robb's might become more common as tech companies battle to launch personal AI agents designed to handle every aspect of your digital life.

Tech giants like Meta, Apple and OpenAI as well as a cluster of start-ups are all hoping to become digital PAs. But in the process they risk opening up a hornet's nest of privacy and legal concerns. Chatbots such as ChatGPT that can answer questions and draft emails have been popular for several years, while AI that can write computer code has upended the world of software development.

But so-called agents that can act on a user's behalf is a newer phenomenon. These bots are the result of developments that allow AI systems to navigate websites and apps,

controlling a virtual mouse and keyboard, and gaining access to systems like email accounts and banking apps to make payments and read correspondence.

The prospect is an enticing one for both consumers and the victorious companies that provide the bots. Users can control agents through a WhatsApp message or app, directing them to order takeaways, chase refunds and pay bills.

Meanwhile, the bot that wins the agent race will establish an unshakeable and potentially lucrative dependence among users. A Siri bot that handles users' digital life might mean people become iPhone users for life, or an agent that shops on your behalf could take a cut of all purchases.

Personal agents have gone from a curiosity to widespread use in months. Earlier this year Pete Steinberger, an Austrian developer, unveiled an early bot called OpenClaw that went viral in Silicon Valley, but required significant technical know-how to set up.

"There's a lot of agents out there. [But] there aren't that many that I would want to give to my mother," Mark Zuckerberg said at the time. Last month, Meta launched Muse, which it said was the first agent "built for everyone".

Early reports from the US suggest rave reviews. One user said it had saved them thousands of dollars on car insurance, while others have negotiated flight compensation or found rare products. The app is able to simulate a human voice to wait in lengthy phone queues and get past automated menus.

Muse has not been released in the UK and Europe, where it faces tougher data protection laws.

A spokesman for Britain's privacy regulator, the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO), said: "We regularly engage with major AI developers and deployers, including Meta, to understand how personal information is being used and ensure the information rights of UK users are protected."

OpenAI has unveiled its own assistant, dubbed Dots, that it said would carry out work on a user's

Meta boss Mark Zuckerberg last month unveiling a small device giving access to the company's Muse AI software

behalf and learn preferences over time. Elon Musk's xAI company has launched its own "Grok Bot" that proactively offers to do tasks.

All three, noticeably, are represented by cute, playful avatars. Meta's resembles a cuddly soft toy, while OpenAI's dots are soft 3D shapes with eyes and bow ties or sunglasses.

It represents a radical departure from the frequent warnings that AI may lead to human extinction.

But the disarming icons are there for a reason. To work, AI agents require extensive access to people's computer systems, often including passwords, credit cards and private messages.

Meta's Muse, for example, asks for access to the entire contents of Mac users' hard disks, leading Apple to crack down on the practice last week.

"Agents need to have access to large amounts, if not all, of your data and your digital life," says Tom West, of campaign group Privacy International.

"Handing over access to that data, access to those accounts, those apps, is inevitably risky because it's giving direct access to very intimate aspects of your life, ones you don't normally share."

This would be a lot to hand over if the AI systems worked perfectly, but they do not.

Users have reported important emails being deleted. One user of Instinct, an in-demand personal agent built by US start-up Spear Street, said it had cancelled a flight.

The series of “rogue AI” incidents disclosed over the summer, in which agents hacked into websites and appeared to hide their tracks, does not bode well for systems tied to bank accounts.

Yesterday, Britain's privacy regulator said it had a series of concerns about agents. "As these systems become more autonomous, the data protection risks are evolving,"

'Millions will give their lives over if it means never being on hold again or haggling over a bill'

the ICO said. The Law Commission, the official body that recommends changes to laws in England and Wales, also said yesterday that consumers could be able to sue AI companies when they delete documents or photos.

Meredith Whittaker, the president of private messaging app Signal, has warned that agents with access to the contents of people's phones and computers undermine the encryption that protects conversations, since the agent can simply read all messages on the device itself.

However, tech companies have long known that convenience trumps privacy.

For millions of people, the prospect of never having to wait on hold or haggle over a utility bill means they will happily give their lives over.

Shortly after its release, Meta's Muse climbed to the top of Apple's US download charts. It has stayed there since.

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Tesco: ‘Unfair’ warehouse tax will hurt retail

Supermarket's chief says the sector is already paying far more than it should in business rates

By Jonathan Prynn

THE boss of Tesco has urged John Healey to exclude retailers from "fundamentally unfair" plans to mount a tax raid on large warehouses in the Budget.

Ken Murphy, the chief executive of Tesco, said the current business rate regime had already left the retail sector paying four times more than it should, given its size within the overall economy.

Asked about the prospect of higher rates on warehouses, Mr Murphy said: "The business rates system is fundamentally unfair. Retailers are paying four times more than their fair share of rates and I would urge the Government for more equitable rates."

He also called for an “exemption for all retail businesses from the new rateable value threshold”.

Mr Murphy said high street retailers should not have to pay a higher business rate multiplier on larger warehouses with a rateable value of more than £500,000.

Rachel Reeves introduced a higher rate surcharge for larger commercial properties in last year's Budget. It came into force in April. Andy Burnham has since signalled this so-called "Amazon tax" could be ramped up further on warehouses in the forthcoming Budget.

This would help fund an announced 20pc rate cut for smaller businesses that “bring social benefit”, such as pubs and live music venues from next April.

However, retail bosses have warned the new rates could be passed on to consumers in the form of higher prices as high street supermarkets, rather than online retailers, occupy the majority of warehouse space.

Mr Murphy said: “We genuinely believe rates need to be reformed and we urge the Government to exempt retailers from the threshold put in place last year.”

The Tesco chief would not be drawn on whether an increase in rates would be passed on to its shoppers.

However, last month, James Bielby, the chief executive of Food and Drink Wholesale UK, told The Telegraph: "It's very simple. If they put it on, it's going to be passed on."

Analysis by the consultancy firm Ryan showed that the 10 warehouses with the biggest business rates bills in the country were owned by Lidl, Tesco, John Lewis, Sainsbury's and Marks & Spencer. Mr Murphy's comments came as Tesco increased its profit guidance yesterday, with the retailer telling investors it expected to make between £3.15bn and £3.3bn in the year to February. In April it projected a range of £3bn to £3.3bn.

'The business rates system is fundamentally unfair. Retailers pay four times more than their fair share'

Like-for-like UK sales rose 1.5pc in the first six months of the financial year to the end of August, while for the company as a whole they were 1pc higher.

Operating profits climbed by 6.6pc to £1.7bn. Mr Murphy also said he expected a less boozy Christmas than in previous years, with more sales of “low and no” alcohol drinks reflecting a trend towards healthier eating and drinking. He said there has been a “general trend towards” healthier eating that dates back to the pandemic.

Shoppers are also looking for meals with higher levels of fibre and protein, and smaller portion sizes. The Tesco chief also said that it was starting to roll out an AI assistant designed to help customers plan meals following a trial with around 280,000 employees.

The UK's biggest supermarket began trialling the assistant, which is linked to information gathered through purchases made using the grocer's Clubcard, in April before starting to expand it out to customers last month.

Mr Murphy said: "We are also making strong progress on AI-enabled personalisation, extending Your Clubcard Prices and beginning the customer rollout of our meal planning assistant, helping customers manage their busy lives."

In April, Tesco said the assistant would initially help customers with meal planning by providing a “natural, two-way dialogue to offer inspiration in the form of personalised recipe ideas”, taking dietary preferences into account.

Customers are able to search for meals based around cost or type of cuisine, or both, and create a dish by listing items they already have at home that they would like to use up.

Tesco said the assistant's use of Clubcard information would mean it would be able to advise customers on what they may already have in their cupboard or fridge.

The feature would be built into the Tesco app as part of a long-term plan to expand its functionality “so it can help customers with more parts of their day-to-day lives and provide them with a genuinely intelligent, helpful shopping experience”.

EasyJet cuts thousands of winter flights as fuel costs soar

By Joe Sledge

EASYJET is to cut thousands of flights from its winter schedule as the low-cost airline battles rising fuel costs.

Kenton Jarvis, the airline's chief executive, said 700,000 seats will be removed from its total capacity during the quieter months. The cutbacks represent roughly two days' worth of flying capacity, or an average of 3,500 individual flights over this period.

Fuel costs skyrocketed after the outbreak of war in Iran triggered supply chain disruptions in the Strait of Hormuz, with jet fuel prices nearly doubling. Although prices have begun to ease, they remain significantly higher than airlines anticipated.

Mr Jarvis said “people are taking capacity out, we see that across all competitors,” adding that the moves were “no surprise” given that fuel prices have stayed unexpectedly high.

He added that while European airlines hedge a portion of their fuel needs, they remain exposed to elevated spot prices for the remainder.

EasyJet, which has agreed to a £5.7bn takeover by US private equity giant Apollo, is hoping that by cutting its schedule it will reduce its reliance on high-cost fuel. A spokesman for easyJet said: "Like all airlines, we review our schedule on an ongoing basis and sometimes make some changes. The changes to our winter flying represent a tiny proportion of our flying programme."

It follows similar cuts by rival Ryanair, which has reduced its winter flight schedule by as much as 4pc.

Michael O'Leary, the boss of Ryanair, warned that high fuel costs could persist for another 18 months, adding: "We are all facing an enormous cost challenge next year."

Rising jet fuel costs are expected to deal a \$100bn (£75.7bn) blow to the aviation sector this year, according to data from industry body Iata. The pressure has already proven fatal for some as several carriers have entered bankruptcy since the Iran conflict began, including Spirit Airlines, a US operator, and airBaltic, the Latvian flag carrier.

Burning bright in the Orient A giant robotic tiger named Dongdong is unveiled as a new landmark in The Tiger Roar Street cultural, commercial and tourism complex in Shenyang, north-east China. The mechanical behemoth, which can move and has flashing lights, was built by robotics artist Master X.

Asos says hackers who threatened to leak customers' data tricked staff member

By Chris Price

ASOS has admitted that hackers who sent a notification to customers threatening to leak their data had tricked an employee into sharing login details.

The online retailer said a staff member allowed hackers to access information about customers stored by a third party, understood to be US company Snowflake, a data handler.

An email to customers yesterday said: "We discovered that an unauthorised party gained access to an Asos employee account by impersonating a trusted contact to obtain login credentials. Those credentials were then used to access information on certain third-party platforms used by Asos."

Asos said the databases affected by were locked down "immediately".

Customers of the online retailer received a message from Asos's app on Tuesday that said: "Dear Asos DPO and IT, we have fully compromised the Snowflake instance. Engage with us, or we will leak it."

Snowflake has said it has found no evidence its systems were breached.

The hackers, who identified themselves as Xuanye group, gave Asos a two-week deadline to pay a ransom or they would leak the customer data.

The hackers told The Telegraph on the messaging app Telegram: "The organisation must contact us or we will leak it, that is what we said. The two-week period is intended for them to make contact."

Asos shares rose 5.7pc yesterday after it explained the incident to customers.

It confirmed that hackers gained access to names and contact details but not to payment card information or account passwords.

Barclays to be sued by former trader after conviction for rate rigging was quashed

By Joe Sledge

A FORMER Barclays trader plans to sue the bank after his conviction for Libor rigging was quashed.

Jay Merchant, 55, was jailed in 2016 for conspiracy to defraud in connection with the alleged manipulation of the now-defunct interest rate benchmark. He served more than two years of an initial six and a half year sentence, but on Wednesday his conviction was overturned by the Court of Appeal along with five other ex-Barclays employees.

Mr Merhcant now intends to bring a civil claim against Barclays, accusing it of sacrificing lower-level staff to protect itself. “Barclays has a responsibility, and I hope to hold them accountable...we paid the price,” he said.

The Libor controversy erupted in 2012, triggering public outrage.

Mr Merchant claims that Barclays benefited from lower financial penalties from regulators by casting blame on individual employees. This follows a Supreme Court ruling last year over Tom Hayes, a former Citigroup and UBS trader, and Carlo Palombo, a former Barclays employee. The court ruled that the judge in Mr Hayes's trial gave directions to the jury that were "legally inaccurate and unfair", and noted that directions in subsequent trials followed similar flawed reasoning.

Having served five and a half years in prison, Mr Hayes is now suing his former employer, UBS, for at least \$400m, alleging malicious prosecution.

The court though noted that there remained “ample evidence” upon which a properly directed jury could still have found him and Mr Palombo guilty of conspiracy to defraud. A Barclays spokesman declined to comment.

Cautious regulators risk taking away Britain's place at the cutting edge of AI

KENNETH MULVANY

The problem is that they lack access to the intelligence they need to compete.

More safeguards for the tech could leave businesses with less capable tools than international competitors

BRITAIN risks becoming a country that imports its intelligence and regulates away its opportunity to create value from it.

At the World Summit AI in Amsterdam this week, a gathering of more than 15,000 people from across technology, business and government, I noticed conversations repeatedly turning to Britain's place in the AI race.

We have exceptional researchers, scientific institutions and businesses.

There are two competitions here: building the most capable models and creating value with them. Britain should pursue both. But while we build more capability of our own, our businesses and researchers will depend heavily on frontier models developed abroad. Access to them is critical to national security.

The scale required to compete is enormous. Last month, France's Mistral announced a funding round at an £18bn valuation. Britain's Ineffable Intelligence raised £830m in April, with the Government backing it alongside private investors.

Beyond financing the developers themselves, the infrastructure spending is staggering. Morgan Stanley estimates more than £600bn in capital expenditure by five major US tech companies in 2026. In China, Alibaba alone announced at least

'MPs cannot assume that frontier developers will change their models to meet their conditions'

£40bn across three years for cloud and AI infrastructure. These are plans that cover the computing infrastructure on which the race depends.

Using foreign models gives British organisations access to capabilities they could not afford to develop independently. It also creates a dependence whose consequences are becoming clear.

In June, US export controls prompted Anthropic to suspend access to two of its most advanced models, including for British users. Restrictions were lifted but the episode demonstrated how quickly a decision taken abroad could interrupt access here.

Britain cannot reverse those sort of decisions on its own. Before adding our own conditions, we should assess both the protection they would deliver and consequences for British access.

Ministers have discussed compulsory testing before deployment. Dame Chi Onwurah, chairman of the Commons science committee, has proposed withholding commercial market access from developers whose frontier models bypass Britain's AI Security Institute. Kanishka Narayan, AI minister, has kept further regulation on the table.

There are serious reasons for scrutiny. The Hugging Face incident, in which AI agents escaped their constraints and accessed outside systems, warrants investigation and effective action. Independent testing can expose failures that developers miss. Britain should have the expertise and access to conduct it.

'Use existing laws where they fit, and address specific gaps carefully'

Westminster can set the conditions for access to the British market. It cannot assume that frontier developers will change their models to meet them.

Britain has influence through its market, research expertise and international relationships. We should use it carefully. A requirement that secures better safeguards may be worthwhile. One that mainly delays access could leave British businesses competing with less capable tools.

A cyber attacker operating overseas does not need permission to target a British organisation. Restricting legitimate domestic access could leave the threat intact while limiting

defenders' tools. Any safety assessment must account for that possibility.

There is also room for protection in the products people use. Users should know they are speaking to AI. Medical claims should require evidence. An agent spending money should operate within permissions the user has explicitly granted and can revoke. Use existing laws where they fit, and address specific gaps proportionately.

I have seen what access to machine intelligence makes possible. In early 2020, BenevolentAI, the company I founded, used AI to identify baricitinib as a Covid treatment within 48 hours. The drug went on to help millions.

That experience informs my position: give researchers powerful tools, then demand evidence appropriate to the decisions they enable. Every UK restriction should justify the protection it provides against the capability it takes away.

Britain should build more frontier capability of its own while becoming an exceptional place to apply the best intelligence available. Our dependence on foreign developers already constrains us. Adding a disadvantage of our own making would be a choice.

Ken Mulvany is executive chairman of BenevolentAI

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MINI CROSSWORD

Time for a mini

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Healey anti-growth if he milks the Square Mile

Financial sector create huge receipts for Treasury

JEREMY WARNER

The Chancellor looks likely to raise the bank supercharge. Doing so will not solve our problems

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COME back Rachel Reeves, all is forgiven. There is a growing sense of resignation among bank bosses to the imposition of a higher banking surcharge in the forthcoming Budget.

They thought they'd dodged that particular bullet after convincing Reeves, the former chancellor, that it would damage growth and therefore be a counterproductive way of patching up the public finances.

But there has been no such reassurance under John Healey, her successor. He was inscrutable at a meeting with leading bankers this week, leading one to conclude: "It's pretty much a done deal. I suppose we've just got to suck it up."

Merely returning the surcharge to its previous level of 8pc would raise £9bn across four years, according to trade-union analysis, while increasing it to 16pc might deliver a hefty £20bn over the same time frame.

Oh dear. I know the Chancellor is desperate for anything that might help relieve the pressure on the fiscal arithmetic from rising interest rates, but I really do wish people would stop making such formulaic assumptions about the supposed milch cow attributes of the City.

It is as if finance's only purpose is that of supporting the leviathan of Labour's welfare state. No, the social purpose of banking is not to fund public spending but to put depositors' money to good use by supporting growth in the wider economy.

Worse, Andy Burnham, the Prime Minister, seems to think that the “Big Bang” reforms of the 1980s – which gave us the great wealth-creating dynamo of today’s City – are where everything went wrong for the UK.

Some time before New Labour's landslide election victory of 1997, I had an eye-opening lunch with Alistair Darling, then Labour's City spokesman, later chancellor.

The City, he told me, was not something to be demonised, which was the traditional Left-of-centre view, but a precious national resource which needed to be nurtured as an economic powerhouse for the future.

I was somewhat taken aback by his remarks, which were a clear departure from the old Labour view, and they helped convince me that the party had indeed changed sufficiently to make it electable again.

In the event, Labour's free pass to finance arguably went too far, culminating in the economic catastrophe of the financial crisis.

Banking has been on the naughty step more or less ever since. On one level, it is indeed entirely reasonable that the Government should seek to recoup at least some of the tens of billions it spent bailing the banking system out with somewhat higher

rates of taxation than it imposes on corporate profits more widely.

'It's all very well saying that the banks can afford it. More tax equals less credit'

Besides, thanks to much higher interest rates, banks are again generating positively avaricious levels of profit, helped by a widening in the net interest margin – the difference between the interest earned on lending and that paid to depositors.

What's more, at least some part of this profits bonanza comes directly from the taxpayer as a result of the interest paid on the central bank reserves created by more than a decade of quantitative easing.

The Treasury must reimburse the Bank of England for any losses sustained on this monetary voodoo. In recent years, these have been substantial, resulting in a transfer from taxpayers to the commercial banking sector worth tens of billions.

Healey has been toying with reform as an alternative to raising the supercharge on banking profits, but I'd be surprised if he went that way. Not least because it's a policy of Nigel Farage's Reform UK. Labour won't want to give him any quarter.

In any event, the banking crisis is a long time ago, and the time for punishment beatings is over. Today's economic challenges are nothing to do with the banks and the wider City.

Rather they are down to the Government's inability to control its spending. Treating finance as a piggy bank may help plug a gap, but it is alien to the growth agenda.

While the politicians yo-yo, constantly changing policies, finance has become a rock of stability, one of the few dependable engines of growth.

Beneath the radar, banks have been steadily expanding their lending to the wider economy, providing both households and small and medium-sized businesses with the sustenance the Government has failed to provide. To interfere with this by whacking up their taxes would be a desperately anti-growth initiative.

It's all very well saying that the banks can afford it, that to them the sums involved are no more than a rounding error, but that's not the way it works in the real world.

Stinging the banks for more in taxes is far from being the risk-free move Labour ministers fondly believe. Arithmetically, more tax equals less credit. It's as simple as that.

A strong economy needs strong banks, and strong banks in turn need predictability in regulation, tax and government. Sadly, we are seeing it in none of these things.

Already, US-based banks are reaping 'There comes a tipping point where all of London's supposed advantages are eclipsed'

a substantial competitive dividend from the lower capital and regulatory requirements that the Trump administration imposes on them.

It's the same on tax. According to analysis by PwC, London-based banks already pay a marginal rate of 46.4pc, including standard corporation tax, levies, surcharges, irrecoverable VAT and uncapped employer National Insurance contributions. The read-across to a New York-based bank is just 27.9pc, 42.2pc in Amsterdam, 38.9pc in Frankfurt and 28.9pc in Dublin.

Restoring the 8pc surcharge would push the marginal rate on London profits to well in excess of 50pc.

And the burden of precautionary, safety-first regulation also keeps rising. There comes a tipping point where all these concerns converge into a sudden loss of competitiveness that eclipses all the other supposed advantages London is meant to have.

Most vocal in his warnings has been Jamie Dimon, the chief executive of JP Morgan Chase. He's presumably going to have to go through with his threats if Healey acts. For JP Morgan, banking more business elsewhere in Europe is easily done.

As a business journalist, I've seen astonishing change in finance. Britain has managed to ride this boom. It's the sort of prize that other jurisdictions would almost quite literally kill for.

Yet we have a Government that speaks the language of growth but doesn't seem to understand the first thing about it.

Turning the clock back to before the boom began, as Burnham wants, won't solve any of Britain's problems.

Monster egg sale Jeff Koons's Baroque Egg with Bow (Blue/ Turquoise) is manoeuvred ahead of it going under the hammer at Christie's in London. It is expected to fetch between £1.5m and £2m in this month's sale of 20th and 21st century art. The Koons work is among 200 pieces from the collection of Monsoon founder Peter Simon.

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Here's how the new billionaire owners of Boots can revive the slumbering giant

BEN MARLOW

The pharmacy is more than just another retailer, it is a critical piece of national infrastructure

THE decision to take Boots off the stock market almost two decades ago has proven to be disastrous.

Away from the glare of public ownership, in the hands of a series of private owners, one of this country's most important high street names has been subjected to extreme neglect.

You only have to pop into one of the many hundreds of Boots stores dotted across Britain and Ireland to see the massive challenge that Canada's wealthy Weston family faces to rejuvenate the business after their £6.8bn swoop.

My local Boots branch offers about as forgettable a shopping experience as there is to be had. On some days it's hard to find a member of staff, other than the poor, overworked pharmacist – plural on a rare good day – dishing out pills and prescriptions to a long line of equally weary-looking customers.

The shelves look half-stocked, the tills like something from another era and I'd be surprised if the walls have seen a paintbrush since the turn of the century. The sense of abandonment is overwhelming.

With Stefano Pessina, a serial dealmaker, leading the charge, Boots has long been locked in a state of purgatory. First under the ownership of private equity's original "Barbarians at the gate", KKR, then as a forgotten overseas outpost of American pharmacy giant Walgreens.

When it passed to the Wall Street investment giant Sycamore Partners last year, it was clear Boots would soon be jettisoned as Sycamore set about breaking up the sprawling Walgreens empire that Pessina had created.

What all these supposedly sophisticated investors never seemed to understand is that Boots is more than just another bog standard retailer, it's a critical piece of Britain's national infrastructure. For it to stand a chance of being revived, the Weston family must recognise that Boots isn't just a purveyor of lipstick, toothpaste, and industrial-sized tubs of chewing gum. It's an integral part of the NHS, and it does far more than just dish out old people's daily pills too. It's why, for all the retrenchment the high street has been subjected to over the years, Boots still has a staggering 1,800 stores in the UK and Ireland, employing an army of more than 50,000 people.

However, what limited investment there has been over the years has been 'The Weston family must recognise that Boots isn't just a purveyor of lipstick, toothpaste, and chewing gum'

disproportionately focused on a much smaller number of stores on the basis that the return from refitting the others would be paltry.

A former executive once described Boots to me as a “two-speed” company. There are about 500, larger shops that have been designated as “the powerhouse of the business” and have been revamped to a greater or lesser degree. The rest are much smaller, and despite being no less vital to their surrounding communities many have been almost deliberately neglected.

It is estimated each one would cost somewhere in the region of £50,000 to £100,000 to refurbish. However, the resulting boost to turnover from such makeovers is often negligible, making it difficult for management to justify the outlay. Yet, the counterargument to this short-sighted approach is surely that stores which are allowed to fall into disrepair end up becoming somewhere shoppers increasingly avoid where they can.

At times, Boots' owners have been guilty not just of under-investment, but of prioritising heavy cost-cutting instead. Its last round of store closures was accompanied by a statement explaining that in all cases there was an alternative store less than three miles away, which obviously risks being too far for someone who is under the weather, never mind sporting an angry verruca.

Boots' prospects aren't helped by the fact that the Government has put the squeeze on pharmacies after the Department of Health and Social Care's decision to freeze NHS prescription charges for the second year running.

Nevertheless, the opportunities to make money through other services are improving all the time. With the NHS stuck in a seemingly never-ending state of chaos and mismanagement, and growing numbers of people unable to secure a GP appointment, Boots is becoming an increasingly important provider of online consultations, vaccinations and blood pressure checks.

In some outlets you can get specialised treatments for skin and hair loss, as well as so-called “at-home” testing kits for high cholesterol and other health concerns. These are all things that an overwhelmed NHS would happily outsource more of, which means your local Boots is becoming more vital to many local communities, not less.

There are other glaring failings. It is commonplace in other major retailers around the world to come across so-called “line-busting” - staff walking around the store carrying handheld payment devices, removing the need for customers to queue at automated tills.

Some pharmacy chains the UK offer round-the-clock prescription collection from lockers. On a recent weekend trip to Valencia with my wife and friends, I was intrigued by the sight of vending machines attached to local pharmacies, dispensing pregnancy

tests, basic first-aid items and other standard over-the-counter items. Boots offers neither of these, yet it was once the industry trailblazer.

Boots employs more than 50,000 people in 1,800 shops across the UK and Ireland

It has also been extraordinarily, and almost unforgivably late to capitalise on the boom in beauty products. The opening of a huge standalone beauty store to much fanfare in Battersea in 2023, has been followed by just one more in Bristol earlier this year. The pedestrian pace is indicative of a group either lacking the capital to compete or a willingness to part with it.

All of this needs to change if Boots is to emerge from a prolonged slumber. It was a mistake to allow it to fall into the wrong hands without even a whimper in the first place. Where were the ministers standing up for Britain's interests and those of the many people for whom their local Boots is a provider – often uniquely so – of many vital services? The complacency is astonishing.

That nobody in government gave it a second thought is indicative of a deeper national habit of allowing the country's most important assets to fall into the hands of profit-obsessed, dispassionate owners without a thought for the wider consequences. Britain is almost unique in allowing this to happen right across the economy.

In Alex Baldock, Boots has a

ignly capable chief executive who turned around Currys, another UK big high street name that at one stage looked destined for irrelevance.

For him to repeat the feat, the Weston family must demonstrate that its boast of "deep expertise in pharmacy-led retail excellence" isn't a meaningless soundbite.

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High	Low (p)	Stock	Price (p)	+/-	Yld	P/E
1527	871 $\frac{1}{4}$	Babcock Intl	904 $\frac{3}{4}$	+13 $\frac{3}{4}$	0.8	21.5
2360	1529	BAE Systems	1836 $\frac{1}{2}$	+10 $\frac{1}{2}$	2.1	26.7
576 $\frac{1}{2}$	398 $\frac{3}{4}$	QinetiQ $\bullet$	454	+1	2.4	22.6
1586	990	Rolls-Royce	1367	-37 $\frac{3}{4}$	0.8	19.7
318 $\frac{1}{4}$	161	Senior $\bullet$ #	297 $\frac{1}{2}$	—	0.7	-291.7

554 $\frac{1}{4}$	353 $\frac{1}{2}$	Barclays	426 $\frac{1}{4}$	-5%	2.7	9.7
556 $\frac{1}{4}$	318 $\frac{1}{4}$	Close Bros •	384 $\frac{1}{4}$	-5%	—	-6.7
1610	959 $\frac{1}{4}$	HSBC	1380 $\frac{1}{4}$	-27 $\frac{1}{4}$	4.0	15.1
117 $\frac{1}{4}$	81 $\frac{1}{4}$	Lloyds Bk Gp	100 $\frac{1}{4}$	-1 $\frac{1}{4}$	4.0	14.4
726	504 $\frac{1}{4}$	NatWest Group	639 $\frac{1}{4}$	-10	5.5	12.0
1122	709	Santander	1012	-22	1.7	13.1
2364	1351 $\frac{1}{2}$	Standard Ch	2108	-43	2.4	14.3

3520 $\frac{1}{4}$	2488	Croda Intl	3344	+6	3.3	75.3
3245 $\frac{1}{4}$	2192	Johnson Mat •	2446	+34	4.2	-32.1
1024	515	Victrex •	924	-5	3.2	28.9

52 week			Price (p) +/- Yld NAV
High	Low (p)	Stock
1076	628	BlackRock Wld M •	923*	-3	2.6	956
1612	1336	Brunner •	1550	-6	1.7	1723
402	312	Caledonia •	382	-4	2.0	595
599	498	City of Lon •	565	-2	4.0	556
467	258	City Nat Res G&I	404	+3	7.0	385
330	280%	CT Glbl Mgd G	327	-1	—	339
135	115	CT Glbl Mgd I	131*	—	6.1	129
592	439%	CT Priv Eq Ord	454*	-5	6.2	689
373	320	CT UK Cap & Inc	336	-1	4.0	353
126	97	CT UKHighIncTst	106*	-1	5.6	113
480%	460	Dunedin Ent #	475	—	4.8	—
867	737%	Edinburgh Inv Tr •	819	—	3.9	890
294%	194%	Edin Worldwide •	277%	-4%	—	303
1332	325%	F&C Inv Trust	348%*	+%	1.2	383
672	546	Fidelity Asian V	606	-2	3.4	641
339	239%	Fidelity China Sp Sits •	243%	-3	3.7	265
447%	367%	Fidelity Euro Tst •	410%*	-4%	2.5	437
479%	384%	Fidelity Sp V •	459	-1	2.3	462
875	706%	Finsbury Gwth •	776*	-4	2.7	829
198%	162%	Glbl Small Co Trust •	189%	-%	1.7	200
214	173%	Hend High Inc	198*	-%	5.6	208
998	769	Hend Smaller Co •	945*	-7	3.1	1047
3290%	2285	Herald Inv •	2935	-35	—	3446
512	318%	HgCapital •	365%*	-7%	1.4	530
141	107%	HICL Infrastructure •	131	—	6.5	160
1611%	1288%	ICG Enterprise Tst •	1380	—	3.0	2089
986	800	JPM Claverh'se •	924	—	4.0	954
153	124%	JPM Eur G&I •	135%*	-2%	4.0	142
867	668	JPM Japanese •	830	-10	1.0	918
726	525	Land Secs	601	-11%	6.9	—
191%	148	Lowland Inv	182*	-2	3.8	200
290%	234%	Mercantile InvTr •	268*	-2	3.1	300
691	536%	Merchants Tst •	648*	-9	4.6	679
1687%	1366	Monks •	1674	+4	0.1	1764
1036	854%	Murray Income •	952	-2	4.3	1019
376	296%	Murray Intl •	353*	-4	3.6	354
56%	47	Northern 2 VCT	53	—	5.7	55
86%	79%	Northern 3 VCT	82	—	5.5	86
59%	53	Nthn Venture	56	—	5.5	59
409	339	Pantheon •	379%	-2	—	535
2645	1985%	RIT Cap Ptnrs •	2450*	-15	1.8	3199
319	281%	Ruffer Inv Pref •	291%*	-1%	2.1	302
746	530	Schroder Asian TR •	700	-13	1.6	744
572	480%	Scot American •	552	-1	3.0	597
1651%	1015%	Scot Mortgage	1623	-3	0.3	1787
247	212	STS Global Income	215*	-1	3.9	218
352	218%	Templetn Em Mt •	332	-4	1.6	360
364%	267%	TR Property •	268%	-2%	6.0	305
151	138%	UIL Fin ZDP 2026	150%	—	—	151
302	243	Utilico Emerg •	295	+2	3.3	324
401%	322%	Worldw HealthTr •	358	-13%	0.7	395

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4442	2796	Berkeley Grp •	3176	-16	—	9.6
230	133%	Boot H	147	-1%	3.1	8.4
265	136%	Costain •	240%*	-3	2.2	17.3
1063	788%	Grafton Gp •	921%*	-11%	4.1	13.1
5730	3938	Morgan Sindall •	4068*	-10	4.0	10.9
1552	947%	Persimmon •	1205%	-16%	5.0	13.5
116%	74%	Taylor Wimpey •	74%*	-2%	5.6	26.6

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626	235 $\frac{1}{4}$	Dialight	570	-6	—	—
900	505	discoverIE Grp •	848	-2	1.5	28.1
4902	3268	Halma	3500	+22	0.7	35.5
6030	3280	Renishaw •	5650	-115	1.5	34.6
2160	849 $\frac{1}{4}$	XP Power •	1946	-38	—	-46.3

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690	499%	Investec	588 $\frac{1}{2}$	-6 $\frac{1}{2}$	6.5	7.6
76 $\frac{1}{2}$	48	IP Group ●	69 $\frac{1}{2}$	- $\frac{1}{2}$	—	9.5
358	223	Liontrust	296 $\frac{1}{2}$	- $\frac{1}{2}$	6.4	19.3
10140	6684	Lon Stock Ex	8470	+154	1.9	35.5
367 $\frac{1}{2}$	251 $\frac{1}{2}$	M&G	304 $\frac{1}{2}$ *	-3 $\frac{1}{2}$	6.8	24.2
348 $\frac{1}{2}$	183 $\frac{1}{2}$	Man Group ●	330 $\frac{1}{2}$	+3 $\frac{1}{2}$	3.8	28.4
209	163 $\frac{1}{2}$	Quilter ●	174 $\frac{1}{2}$	- $\frac{1}{4}$	3.7	19.6
2458 $\frac{1}{2}$	1620	S & U	1850*	-50	6.3	9.5
132	67	Vanquis Banking Gp	68 $\frac{1}{2}$	+ $\frac{1}{4}$	—	21.5

416 $\frac{1}{8}$	317 $\frac{1}{8}$	Haleon	344 $\frac{1}{8}$	$+1\frac{1}{8}$	2.1	18.5
1426 $\frac{1}{8}$	980 $\frac{1}{8}$	Smith & Nep	1003 $\frac{1}{2}$ *	$-15\frac{1}{2}$	3.0	18.4
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937 $\frac{1}{2}$	695 $\frac{1}{2}$	Drax Group ●	780 $\frac{1}{2}$ *	+4 $\frac{1}{2}$	3.9	37.7
1428 $\frac{1}{2}$	1086 $\frac{1}{4}$	Nat Grid	1152 $\frac{1}{2}$	+2 $\frac{1}{2}$	4.2	17.6
2767 $\frac{1}{2}$	1760	SSE	2437	-22	2.8	23.1

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1376 $\frac{1}{2}$	953 $\frac{3}{4}$	Burberry	1007	-9	—	—
214 $\frac{1}{4}$	107 $\frac{1}{4}$	McBride	174	-1 $\frac{1}{4}$	1.8	9.8
114	65 $\frac{1}{4}$	PZ Cussons	95 $\frac{3}{4}$ *	- $\frac{1}{4}$	3.9	20.3
6522 $\frac{1}{4}$	3664	Reckitt Benck	5072	-34	4.3	10.8

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98%	73%	Coats Group •	81%	+3⁄4	3.1	18.3
710	250	Cropper J	670	-15	—	21.8
28500	10820	Goodwin •	14140*	-60	2.3	19.1
3202	2244	IMI	3032	-20	1.2	24.4
981%	660	Mondi •	765	-111⁄4	1.6	24.1
40	211⁄4	Severfield	371⁄4	-1⁄4	—	-3.1
2885	2088	Smiths Gp	2710	-52	1.8	4.3
8050	5950	Spirax Gp	7015	-125	2.4	31.6
3580	2254	Weir	2538*	-22	1.7	26.5

307	195	Aptitude Sftwre	250*	-	2.2	34.2
1181	771%	The Sage Grp	1027 $\frac{1}{2}$	+5 $\frac{1}{2}$	2.2	27.2
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2359	1729 $\frac{1}{2}$	Ass Brit Fds	1834	$\bullet 7$	3.4	13.0
5195	3326	Coca-Cola HBC	4254	$\bullet 6$	2.4	19.4
5810	4775	Cranswick $\bullet$	5030	$\bullet 60$	2.2	17.0
738	447 $\frac{1}{2}$	Hilton Food $\bullet$	715	$\bullet 7$	4.9	8.1
138	92	REA Hldgs	109	$\bullet 1$	—	-206.0
5542 $\frac{1}{2}$	3644	Unilever	4626	$\bullet 3$	3.6	12.6

Gas & Water +1.25%
220%	144	Centrica	147	+1%	3.9	-98.0
606	340	Pennon Gp •	371	+9%	7.9	19.1
3335	2381	Severn Trent	3096	+38	4.1	25.1
1497	1119	Utd Utilities	1416	+18	3.8	16.4

General financial +0.99%
276%	151	Ashmore •	216%	-5	7.8	13.8
397%	212	Bridgepoint Grp •	382%*	+17%	2.6	76.5
1800	1240	BrooksMacdonald	1480*	-10	5.6	95.5
1956	930%	IG Group	963	+13	4.4	6.6
2276	1424%	ICG	1735	-29	5.0	10.4

265	179%	Aberdeen Group	237	-2%	6.2	11.0
4128	2624	Admiral	3624	-10	4.0	14.7
740%	590%	Aviva	672%*	-4%	6.0	25.0
1952	1288	Hiscox	1822	-12	2.1	13.3
700	549	Lancashire Hldg •	635	-6%	2.6	6.9
318%	217%	Legal & General	285%	-2%	7.7	28.6
1238	867%	Prudential	887%*	+6%	2.4	7.6
960	633%	Standard Life	838%*	-33	6.7	-178.0
1575%	1011%	St James's Place	1020	-7	1.8	10.2

Major price changes FTSE 100

Investment trusts -0.85%
52 week
High	Low (p)	Stock	Price (p)	+/-	Yld	NAV
4497	1825	3i	2352	-39	3.6	3107
399 $\frac{1}{2}$	325	3i Infrastructure●	385	+1	3.5	406
820	606	Aberdeen New India	688	-8	—	774
1409	1178	Alliance Witan	1397	-5	2.1	1475
789	480 $\frac{1}{2}$	Allianz Tech Trust●	774	-2	—	846
331	283	Baillie Gliff China	283	-3	0.9	300
133	91 $\frac{1}{2}$	Baillie Gliff Euro Gwth	121	+2 $\frac{1}{2}$	0.6	130
157 $\frac{1}{2}$	125 $\frac{1}{2}$	Bankers Invstmt Tst●	154 $\frac{1}{2}$	-1	1.8	170
1786	1020	Biotech Growth	1364	-66	—	1524
289 $\frac{1}{2}$	208 $\frac{1}{2}$	BlckRockAmlnc	281	—	5.3	278
205	135 $\frac{1}{2}$	BlackRockEnergy&Res	174*	—	3.6	183
208	164 $\frac{1}{2}$	BlckRock Frolnv	187	- $\frac{1}{2}$	4.1	190
625	507	BlckRock Grt Euro●	569	-8	1.3	622
240	208	BlckRock Inc&Grth	238	+3	3.2	252
288 $\frac{1}{2}$	230 $\frac{1}{2}$	BlackRock Small●	262 $\frac{1}{2}$	- $\frac{1}{2}$	3.0	307

Risers 41	Volume	Close	Change
Tesco	30.09m	500 $\frac{1}{2}$	5.17pc
Imp Brands	4.68m	2614	5.06pc
BP	35.38m	584 $\frac{1}{2}$	4.06pc
Shell	7.56m	3780 $\frac{1}{2}$	3.63pc
Autotrader Grp	4.33m	485 $\frac{1}{2}$	3.21pc
Informa	7.16m	891	2.82pc
Bunzl	1.42m	2710	2.26pc
Pearson	1.94m	1266 $\frac{1}{2}$	1.89pc
Brit Amer Tob	5.98m	4161	1.89pc
Lon Stock Ex	0.75m	8470	1.85pc
Ithaca Energy	2.42m	279 $\frac{1}{2}$	1.82pc
Babcock Intl	1.64m	904 $\frac{1}{2}$	1.53pc
Sainsbury	16.26m	332 $\frac{1}{2}$	1.47pc
IG Group	3.36m	963	1.37pc
Utd. Utilities	1.57m	1416	1.29pc
Severn Trent	1.29m	3096	1.24pc
Experian	3.55m	2574	1.22pc
Rentokil Initial	7.07m	301 $\frac{1}{2}$	1.17pc
Aberdeen Group	2.69m	237	1.11pc
Coca-Cola Euro	0.11m	7785	1.10pc
Centrica	10.39m	147	0.82pc
Compass	2.11m	2324 $\frac{1}{2}$	0.76pc

Fallers 58	Volume	Close	Change
Standard Life	10.50m	838 $\frac{1}{2}$	-3.79pc
Lion Finance	0.07m	12370	-3.59pc
WPP	3.57m	372 $\frac{1}{4}$	-3.30pc
GSK	16.33m	1735 $\frac{1}{2}$	-3.07pc
Intl Cons Air	11.77m	420	-2.96pc
Barratt Redrow	5.18m	291 $\frac{1}{4}$	-2.90pc
Rolls-Royce	19.71m	1367	-2.66pc
Vodafone	45.97m	124 $\frac{1}{4}$	-2.62pc
Melrose Ind	5.72m	438 $\frac{1}{4}$	-2.60pc
Metlen Energy	0.14m	4048 $\frac{1}{4}$	-2.54pc
AstraZeneca	2.28m	11892	-2.36pc
Antofagasta	1.03m	3605	-2.36pc
Kingfisher	6.35m	322 $\frac{1}{4}$	-2.04pc
Standard Chart	5.02m	2108	-2.00pc
HSBC	24.50m	1380 $\frac{1}{4}$	-1.95pc
Tritax Big Box	7.56m	138 $\frac{1}{4}$	-1.91pc
Smiths Gp	1.45m	2710	-1.88pc
Land Secs	6.27m	601	-1.88pc
Convatec	7.28m	213	-1.75pc
Spirax Group	0.15m	7015	-1.75pc
IntContl Hotels	0.17m	11907 $\frac{1}{4}$	-1.71pc
Lloyds Bk Gp	234.13m	100 $\frac{1}{4}$	-1.66pc

Results Roundup Previously Published * (7)

Company	Turnover(£)	Pre-tax(£)	EPS(p)	DIV(p)	Pay Day	XD
Ashoka India Equity Inv Trust*	Fin - (-)	1.7m (1.0m)	0.750 (0.410)	0.600 (0.500)	Oct 30	Oct 08
Ensilica*	Fin 27.8m (18.2m)	2.3m (-3.5m)	1.230 (-3.260)	n/a (n/a)	-	-
Fidelity Emerging Markets $*	Fin - (-)	18.5m (24.2m)	32.000 (31.000)	33.000 (26.000)	Dec 08	Nov 12
Maven Renovar VCT*	Int - (-)	214k (-591k)	0.160 (-0.410)	3.500 (2.500)	Nov 13	Oct 15
Netcall*	Fin 57.7m (48.0m)	3.5m (5.1m)	0.930 (2.450)	1.100 (0.940)	Feb 08	Dec 24
Next 15 Group	Int 299.4m (316.1m)	-1.5m (15.8m)	-3.400 (10.700)	4.750 (4.750)	Nov 20	Oct 15
PXN Growth*	Int - (-)	-119k (-110k)	-1.200 (-1.710)	n/a (n/a)	-	-
Schroder Japan Trust*	Fin - (-)	8.7m (8.9m)	6.790 (6.910)	4.070 (2.850)	Oct 30	Oct 01
Tesco	Int 37.4bn (36.0bn)	1.5bn (1.3bn)	16.900 (14.400)	5.050 (4.800)	Nov 20	Oct 15
Volution Grp	Fin 484.8m (419.1m)	82.1m (54.5m)	31.500 (21.000)	8.800 (7.400)	Dec 15	Nov 19

Media +2.16%52 week
	High	Low (p)	Stock	Price (p) +/- Yld			P/E
828%	418%	Autotrader		485%	+15%	2.4	14.2
690	435	Bloomsbury●		669	+22	2.4	20.2
1000	719	Informa		891	+24%	2.5	-
87%	65%	ITV●		66%	+7%	7.5	11.3
1337	874%	Pearson		1266%	+23%	2.0	24.6
73%	39	Reach		47%	...	12.5	-1.1
3539	1991	RELX		2595	-4	2.7	23.0
700%	391%	Rightmove●		502%*	+41%	2.1	17.9
412%	218%	WPP		372%*	-12%	4.0	7.4

Mining -0.60%

4348	2639	Anglo Amer	4040	-19	0.7	-16.2
4475	2496	Antofagasta	3605	-87	1.6	35.4
3592	1971	BHP Group	3187	-28	4.0	21.8
81	81	Evraz #	81	—	—	0.5
4472	2000	Fresnillo	2689	+1	4.2	18.9
707 $\frac{1}{4}$	332 $\frac{1}{4}$	Glencore	568 $\frac{1}{4}$	- $\frac{1}{4}$	2.3	—
858	309 $\frac{1}{4}$	Hochschild Mng •	510 $\frac{1}{4}$	- $9\frac{1}{2}$	1.3	17.3
319 $\frac{1}{2}$	171 $\frac{1}{2}$	Kenmare Res	238	+ $10\frac{1}{2}$	—	-0.9
9117	4955 $\frac{1}{2}$	Rio Tinto	7022	—	5.0	15.1

52 week			Price (p)	+/-	Yld	P/E
High	Low (p)	Stock
2103	1407 $\frac{1}{4}$	Greggs ●	2094*	+16	3.3	17.4
276 $\frac{1}{4}$	123 $\frac{1}{4}$	Halfords ●	258 $\frac{1}{2}$	-1 $\frac{1}{2}$	3.5	17.0
981	713	Howden Joinery	748	-6 $\frac{1}{2}$	2.9	15.2
104 $\frac{1}{4}$	64	JD Sports Fash	84	+ $\frac{1}{2}$	1.5	9.7
372 $\frac{1}{4}$	266 $\frac{1}{4}$	Kingfisher	322 $\frac{1}{4}$ *	-6 $\frac{1}{4}$	3.8	23.0
418 $\frac{1}{4}$	301 $\frac{1}{4}$	Marks & Spen	396 $\frac{1}{2}$	+2 $\frac{1}{4}$	1.1	31.2
3 $\frac{1}{2}$	0	Mothercare	$\frac{1}{4}$	...	—	-0.3
15900	11695	Next	14455	-120	1.9	19.0
299 $\frac{1}{4}$	140 $\frac{1}{4}$	Ocado ●	283 $\frac{1}{4}$	-2 $\frac{1}{4}$	—	6.0
495	200	Pinewood Tech ●	448 $\frac{1}{2}$	+ $\frac{1}{2}$	—	93.4
799	234 $\frac{1}{2}$	Saga ●	755	-6	—	—
380 $\frac{1}{4}$	293 $\frac{1}{2}$	Sainsbury J	332 $\frac{1}{2}$	+4 $\frac{1}{4}$	4.1	19.2
712	345 $\frac{1}{2}$	Smith WH ●	369 $\frac{1}{2}$	—	—	-3.3
512 $\frac{1}{2}$	411 $\frac{1}{2}$	Tesco	500 $\frac{1}{2}$	+24 $\frac{1}{2}$	2.9	18.2

609%	399%	BP	584%	+22%	4.3	-
28%	9%	EnQuest	281⁄2	+1%	2.8	-
553	300	Hunting●	3841⁄2*	+7	2.7	19.4
3784	2553%	Shell	37801⁄2	+1321⁄2	3.0	16.5

Pharmaceuticals -2.55%

15732	9892	AstraZeneca	11892	-288	2.0	23.8
3220	1943	Genus •	2222	+14	1.6	5.1
2282	1592	GSK	$1735\frac{1}{2}$ *	-55	4.0	12.3
1865	1187	Hikma •	1607	-39	4.0	11.7

2898	1981	Bunzl	2710	+60	2.8	19.2
416	196%	Capita	215%	+9%	-	-1.5
6740	4188	DCC Energy	6445	+5	3.4	-
115%	78%	Essentra	111%*	-3%	1.9	-
3707	2203	Experian	2574	+31	2.0	20.7
5900	3519%	Intertek Group	5890	-10	2.8	27.0
250%	163%	Int'l Workplace●	178%*	+3%	0.6	-
172%	123%	Johnson Serv●	135%*	-1%	3.7	14.6
214	134%	MITIE Gp●	210%	-3%	2.1	31.8
507	293%	Rentokil	301%	+3%	3.1	21.4
325%	218%	Serco Group●	251%	+3	1.8	17.5
11	6%	SIG	8%	-%	-	-1.6
723%	493%	Travis P●	549%*	-14	2.1	-6.6

16	7%	Alina Hldgs	91⁄2	+1⁄2	-	15
1208	7901⁄2	Big Yellow Gp •	7951⁄2	-211⁄2	5.9	-
451%	335%	Brit Land	3841⁄4	-61⁄2	6.0	-
2196	1469%	Derwent Ldn •	1749*	-37	4.7	-
377	270	Gt Portland Est •	3001⁄4	-31⁄2	2.7	-
202%	1491⁄2	Grainger •	1591⁄2	-4	5.3	-
391%	280%	Hammerson •	3211⁄4*	-51⁄2	5.7	-
997%	632%	Segro	908	-51⁄2	3.5	-
155%	124%	Shaftesbury Capital •	1341⁄2	-2	3.2	7.2
139	104	Town Centre	1191⁄2	-	4.2	-
175	138%	Tritax Big Box	1381⁄2	-21⁄2	5.9	184

Telecommunications -1.77%

242%	173	BT Group	197%	-1	4.2	17.9
1896	638	Telecom Plus •	839	-11	6.0	8.3
132%	83%	Vodafone	124%	-3%	3.2	-89.0
Tobaccos +2.43%

5326	3677	Brit Am Tob	4161*	+77	5.9	11.9
3632	2408	Imp Brands	2614	+126	6.4	10.4
Transport -1.14%

169 $\frac{1}{2}$	116 $\frac{3}{4}$	Currys $\bullet$	147 $\frac{3}{4}$	+1 $\frac{1}{2}$	2.0	9.5
1174	707	Dunelm $\bullet$	788	-	8.9	10.2
849	598	Frasers Group $\bullet$	835	-14	-	9.6

490

310 $\frac{1}{2}$ ZIGUP •

432

-5

6.2

12.8

683%	332%	easyJet	681	+1%	1.9	10.3
878%	405%	Entain●	423%	+10%	4.7	-4.1
222%	152%	FirstGroup●	187	+3⁄4	3.9	8.7
780	570	Fullers 'A'	708	+6	3.0	18.1
492%	332%	IAG Intl Cons Air	420	-12%	1.6	7.0
13305	8762	Intercont Hotels	11907%	-207%	1.2	32.1
302	223%	Mitchells&But●	285	-2%	—	9.6
32%	17	Mobico Group	21%	-1	—	-1.0
456	210	Playtech●	360	+1%	—	0.9

World market indices

52 week
High	Low (p)	Stock		Price (p)	+/-	Yld	P/E
135	68%	Rank Group •	71 $\frac{1}{4}$ *	+1 $\frac{1}{4}$	4.9	11.1
1002%	530 $\frac{1}{2}$	Wetherspoon •	1002	+12 $\frac{1}{2}$	1.2	16.8
3278	2098	Whitbread	2445	-27	4.0	19.8

89%	36%	Alentra	72%	+1%	—	-68.7
955	755	Arbuthnot	790	-5	7.0	7.2
244	125%	Central Asia Met	151%*	+1%	10.3	-4.7
872 $\frac{1}{2}$	192%	Ceres Power ●	369	-15	—	-15.0
460	271	Churchill China	355°	+4	5.9	8.9
380	194	CML Micro	320	-5	3.4	-969.7
1538	881%	Cohort	1192	+10	1.5	22.8
231	101	Eleco	230	—	—	—
3%	$\frac{1}{4}$	Futura Medical	$\frac{1}{4}$	—	—	-0.1
148 $\frac{1}{2}$	112	James Halstead	125%	+1	7.1	12.9
405	200	Mpac Group	337 $\frac{1}{2}$	—	—	-10.6
1800	1120	MS Intl	1565	+30	1.7	23.2
64	34 $\frac{1}{2}$	Premier Miton	34%	—	8.6	44.6
104	46	Tribal Gp	103	+2	—	24.5
1 $\frac{1}{2}$	$\frac{1}{2}$	Xtract Resources	$\frac{1}{2}$	...	—	-4.0

The Alternative Investment Market is for young and growing companies. Shares may carry higher risks than those with a full quotation, and may be difficult to sell.

		Index	Change
Australia	All Ordinaries	8823.20	-71.40	-0.80pc
Brazil	Bovespa	206220.24	+1917.91	+0.94pc
China	Shanghai Composite	3811.90	-30.29	-0.79pc
France	CAC General	7729.69	-39.52	-0.51pc
Germany	DAX	24806.97	-297.39	-1.18pc
Hong Kong	Hang Seng	23785.79	-344.71	-1.43pc
India	BSE S&P SENSEX	71593.24	-1045.46	-1.44pc
Japan	Nikkei	69042.11	-993.60	-1.42pc
Singapore	Straits Times	5412.96	-195.48	-3.49pc
Spain	Madrid SE	1889.40	-18.60	-0.97pc
Switzerland	SMI Index	13637.00	-171.42	-1.24pc
USA	Dow Jones	51231.64	+51.77	+0.10pc
USA	Nasdaq	27193.34	-345.35	-1.25pc

Commodities summary

52 week
High	Low	Stock	Price	+/-	GrsYd	Cvr
84%	35	Alcoa $	42%	-1⁄4	0.9	9.8
387%	291	Amer Express $	302%	-21⁄4	1.3	4.1
65%	46%	BankAmerica $	52%	-1	2.4	3.4
254%	176%	Boeing $	186%	-21⁄4	—	—
1073%	489%	Caterpillar $	809	-41⁄4	0.8	3.6
217%	146%	Chevron $	210%	-51⁄4	3.4	1.5
113%	84%	Coca-Cola Euro $	102%	+11⁄4	2.3	0.8
99%	74%	Colgate Palm $	87%	+3⁄4	2.4	1.2
169%	136	ExxonMobil Hldgs $	167%	+31⁄4	2.5	1.9
388%	268%	Gen Electric $	304	+1⁄2	0.6	4.5
397%	277%	Home Depot $	290%	+41⁄4	3.2	1.5
268	180	Honeywell $	205%	-21⁄4	1.4	5.0
36%	17%	HP $	32%	—	3.7	2.2
332%	199%	IBM $	220%	...	3.1	1.7
142%	32%	Intel $	109%	-31⁄4	—	—
50%	29%	Intl Paper $	31%	-3⁄4	5.9	2.9
366%	279%	JP Morgan Ch $	327%	-2	2.0	3.5
281%	184%	Johnson&John $	252%	-51⁄4	2.1	1.6
33%	24%	Keurig Dr Pep $	30%	+1⁄4	3.0	1.7
63%	25%	Manpower $	53	+1⁄4	2.7	1.5
341%	229%	McDonalds $	234%	-31⁄4	3.3	1.6
156%	82	Merck $	139%	-31⁄4	2.4	0.4
553%	349%	Microsoft $	531%	+11⁄4	0.7	4.6
29%	23%	Pfizer $	27%	-1⁄2	6.2	0.4
167%	137%	Procter & Gamble $	148%	+1	2.9	1.6
226%	155%	Raytheon Tech $	182%	+11⁄4	1.6	2.0
497%	332%	Rockwell $	431%	-101⁄4	1.3	1.9

Americans +0.06%
Exchange rates

52 week		Stock	Price	+/- GrsYd Cvr
High	Low
505%	348	Trane Tech $	473%	+61⁄4	0.9	3.1
135%	98%	Wal Mart Strs $	110%	+21⁄4	0.9	2.8
117%	92%	Walt Disney $	105%	+11⁄4	1.4	3.2
3%	1%	Xerox Hldgs $	3	-1⁄4	3.4	74.0

67%	46%	AkzoNobel €	57%	-1⁄2	3.5	2.3
97%	52%	BMW €	52%	-11⁄2	8.4	2.7
171⁄2	12%	Carrefour €	161⁄4	+1⁄4	7.3	1.6
771⁄2	53%	Continental AG €	681⁄2	-21⁄4	4.0	0.3
62%	38%	Daimler €	39	-3⁄4	9.0	2.9
801⁄2	57%	Danone €	591⁄4	+1⁄2	3.8	1.2
581⁄2	38%	Deutsche Post €	55	-3⁄4	3.5	1.6
34%	23%	Deutsche Tele €	261⁄4	-1⁄4	3.7	2.0
801⁄2	63%	Heineken €	701⁄4	+1⁄2	2.7	2.4
6541⁄4	376	LVMH €	3801⁄4	-71⁄2	3.4	1.7
821⁄2	60%	LafargeHolcim SFr	621⁄4	-1⁄4	2.7	1.9
10%	6%	Lufthansa €	71⁄4	-1⁄4	4.5	9.0
15	4%	Nokia OYJ €	91⁄4	-1⁄2	1.5	0.9
35%	25%	Michelin €	331⁄4	-1⁄2	4.2	1.7
90%	57%	Pernod Ricard €	611⁄4	+1⁄4	7.7	1.4
27%	20%	Philips (Kon) €	211⁄2	...	4.0	0.6
291%	198	Siemens €	2641⁄4	-7	2.0	2.0
84%	52	Societe Gen €	621⁄2	-11⁄2	2.8	3.9
101⁄2	3%	Stellantis €	4	-1⁄2	17.0	1.1
274%	212%	Thales €	2151⁄4	-3⁄4	1.9	2.0
81%	49%	Total €	771⁄4	+21⁄4	4.5	2.0
45	28%	UBS AG SFr	381⁄4	-1⁄2	2.2	2.3
37%	27%	Veolia Environ €	301⁄4	...	4.9	0.3
110%	67%	Volkswagen €	661⁄4	-31⁄4	7.8	2.6

Recent issues
52 week
High	Low (p)	Stock	Price (p)	+/-	Yld	P/E
141 $\frac{1}{4}$	141 $\frac{1}{4}$	Aimia	141	—	—	-186.5
190	140	Bravura Solutions	164 $\frac{1}{2}$	—	8.1	12.5
73	55	Chaleit Holdings	69	+11 $\frac{1}{2}$	—	—

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Australia	Aus $	1.8447	1.8997	1.6098	1.4363
Canada	Can $	1.8212	1.8820	1.5947	1.4228
Denmark	Krone	8.3637	8.8211	7.4749	6.6692
Euro	€	1.1496	1.1801	...	0.8922
Hong Kong	HK $	9.8180	10.3806	8.7965	7.8483
India	Rupee	97.41	128.0144	108.4780	96.7862
Israel	Shekels	3.7764	4.0521	3.4337	3.0636
Japan	Yen	201.7871	209.2631	177.3273	158.2150
Kuwait	Dinar	...	0.4113	0.3486	0.3110
New Zealand	NZ $	2.2666	2.3606	2.0004	1.7848
Norway	Krone	12.0854	12.6483	10.7180	9.5628
Pakistan	Rupee	340.39	366.2749	310.3775	276.9250
Saudi Arabia	Riyal	4.7019	4.9657	4.2079	3.7544
Singapore	$	1.6017	1.6943	1.4358	1.2810
South Africa	Rand	21.0110	21.9912	18.6351	16.6266
Sweden	Krona	12.5684	13.2071	11.1915	9.9853
Switzerland	Franc	1.0598	1.1016	0.9335	0.8328
Thailand	Baht	42.6345	44.5534	37.7542	33.6850
UAE	Dirham	4.6726	4.8578	4.1165	3.6728
UK	£	...	...	0.8474	0.7561
USA	$	1.2881	1.3227	1.1208	...

		Price	Change
Gold	per troy oz	$4135.51	+24.91	+0.61pc
Silver	per troy oz	£44.73	-0.53	-1.17pc
Krugerrand		£3076.22	-9.25	-0.30pc
New Sovereign		£719.74	+3.56	+0.50pc
Maples		£3108.88	+3.96	+0.13pc
Platinum	per oz	£1241.32	+3.23	+0.26pc
Palladium	per oz	£853.63	+5.29	+0.62pc
Copper†	grade A	£10807.06	-133.59	-1.22pc
Tin†	high grade	£38931.73	-2153.89	-5.24pc
Lead†		£1408.86	-23.12	-1.61pc
Zinc†	special high grade	£2804.87	-46.22	-1.62pc
Aluminium†	high grade	£2299.84	-65.97	-2.79pc
Nickel†		£11756.26	-152.29	-1.28pc
Baltic Dry Index*		2973.00	-21.00	-0.70pc
Wheat	per tonne	£206.25	-2.25	-1.08pc
Brent Crude	Dec settlement	$104.28	+4.08	+4.07pc

Money & Rates
*Copyright Baltic Exchange Information Services Ltd. †Data provided by the London Metal Exchange.

Money & Rates
RPI (1987=100)	Aug 421.60	+0.6pc	+3.4pc
RPIX (Target 2.5pc)	Aug 414.60	+2.4	+3.3pc
CPI (2015=100 target 2pc)	Aug 143.60	+0.5pc	+3.1pc
Lloyds house price index	Sep 514.60	0.0pc	0.0pc
Bank Rate			3.75pc
Nationwide Base Mortgage Rate			5.75pc
US Fed Funds			3.75-4.00pc
US Long Bonds Yld			5.66pc
European base rate			2.65pc

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AYA Investment Managers

AXA Ppl & Planet Eqty R GBP	-	308.6	-4.10
Amer Gwth Acc	-	1850	-7.00
Biotech Acc	-	309.4	+0.90
Global Sust Mngd R Acc	-	616.9	-4.60
Global Tech	-	451.2	-3.10
Global Thematics R GBP Acc	-	2797	-15.00
Health Acc	-	3372	-21.00
Japan R GBP Acc	-	993.7	-15.30
Managed Income R Gross Acc	-	220.9	-0.70
Managed Income R Gross Dis	-	91.64	-0.31
UK Select Opps R Acc	-	4105	-21.00
UK Select Opps R Inc	-	2041	-11.00
UK Smir Cos Acc	-	347.8	-3.80
UK Sust Equity R Acc	-	365.8	-2.30
AXA IM Funds www.axa-im.co.uk

BLUE WHALE GROWTH FUND

Blue Whale Capital 0345 307 3439 www.bluewhale.co.uk

BNY MELLON

BNY Mellon Fund Managers Investors: 0800 614330 Brokers: 08085 660000 www.bnymellonim.co.uk, clientservices@bnymellon.com BNY Mellon Investment Funds (ICVC) Sterling Income Shares

Global Income	0%	315.69	-0.82
Corporate Bond	0%	79.54	-0.3
Equity Inc	0%	142.69	...
Equity Inc Booster	0%	90.37	...
Glob Abs Ret‡	0%	109.35	...
Glob Multi-Strat	0%	138.6	-0.53
Inflation-Linked Corp Bd	0%	116.31	-0.12
Long-Term Global Equity	0%	512.57	-0.43
Asian Income	0%	314.78	-1.39
European Opps	0%	454.43	-1.27
Global Dynamic Bd	0%	83.58	-0.05
Global High Yield Bd	0%	45.93	-0.28
International Bd	0%	188.94	-0.03
Multi-Asset Bal	0%	308.23	-0.43
Mult-Asset Div Return	0%	198.46	-0.35
Mult-Asset Growth	0%	1656.33	-0.34
Oriental	0%	1260.68	-0.92
Real Return A	0%	137.15	-0.4
UK Equity Fund	0%	1174.64	-1.16
UK Income	0%	98.5	-1.37
UK OpportunitiesB Shares	0%	439.5	-1.4
Global Income	0%	262.54	-0.82
Corporate Bond	0%	96.32	-0.29
Equity Inc	0%	107.1	...
Equity Inc Booster	0%	71.26	...
Glob Abs Ret	0%	117.85	-0.5

Name	Init chge	Mid Sell	Buy	Change on day
Glob Multi-Strat	0%	139.3		-0.53
Inflation-Linked Corp Bd	0%	116.49		-0.11
Long-Term Global Equity	0%	394.58		-0.42
Asian Income	0%	198.07		-1.39
Continental European	0%	300.46		-1.27
Global Dynamic Bd	0%	81.86		-0.05
Global High Yield Bd	0%	73.88		-0.28
International Bd	0%	86.71		+0.03
Multi-Asset Bal	0%	208.25		-0.43
Multi-Asset Div Return	0%	153.79		-0.35
Multi-Asset Growth	0%	332.27		-0.34
Oriental	0%	256.69		-0.92
Real Return A	0%	124.23		-0.4
UK Equity Fund	0%	202.76		-1.16
UK Income	0%	200.86		-1.37
UK Opportunities	0%	219.27		-1.4
Emerging Income	0%	140.75		-0.77
Global Emerging Mkts	0%	294.02		-1.26
Global Equity Fund	0%	408.65		-0.55
Multi Asset Inc	0%	141.4		-0.44

Fundsmith LLP PO Box 10846, Chelmsford, Essex, CM99 2BW. 0330 123 1815 www.fundsmith.co.uk enquiries@fundsmith.co.uk

Fundsmith Equity T Acc	-	710.66	-3.61
Fundsmith Equity T Inc	-	641.41	-3.26

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GUINNESS GLOBAL INVESTORS

Guinness Global Investors 18 Smith Square, London, SW1P 3HZ www.guinnessgi.com +44(0)20 7222 5703

Sustainable Energy Acc	-	24.7356	...
Global Innovators Acc	-	49.413	...
Global Equity Income Inc	-	24.7006	...
Available as an ISA

Janus Henderson

Janus Henderson Investors
PO Box 9023 Chelmsford, CM99 2WB
Enquiries: 0800 832 832
Website: www.janushenderson.com

Cautious Managed A Acc	5.00	345.1	...
Cautious Managed A Inc	5.00	148.1	...
China Opps A Acc	5.00	1255	...
Emerg Mkts Opps A Acc	5.00	304.8	...
European Sel Opps A Acc	5.00	3046	...
Fixed Int Mthly Inc A Inc	4.25	16.54	...
Global Care Growth A Inc	4.50	713.5	...
Global Equity Inc A Inc	5.25	85.91	...
Global Select Acc	4.25	6562	...
Global Strategic Cap Acc	5.00	449.3	...
Global Technology A Acc	5.00	7554	...
Inst UK IDX Opp Tr	-	174.8067	...
Janus Asian Dividend In Ut	5.00	102.2	...
Janus Emer Mkts Asia A Acc	5.00	1830	...
Janus Multi-Mgr Inc&Gwth A	5.25	160.2	...
Multi-Mgr Abs Ret A Acc	5.00	190	...
Multi-Mgr Active A Acc	5.00	337.3	-1.3
Multi-Mgr Distbn A Inc	5.25	135.9	...
Multi-Mgr Divrsfd A Acc	-	104.7	...

Name	Init chge	Mid Sell	Change Buy	on day
Multi-Mgr Inc&Gwth A Acc	5.00	230.8		...
Multi-Mgr Mangd A Acc	5.00	404.9		-1.5
Multi-Mgr Mangd A Inc	5.00	373.5		-1.4
Sterling Bond Acc	4.25	224.7		...
Sterling Bond Inc	4.25	54.28		...
Strategic Bond A Inc	4.00	92.08		...
UK Absolute Return A Acc	5.00	206.2		...
UK Alpha A Acc	5.25	192.9		...
UK Smaller Cos A ACC	5.00	933.3		...
UK Equity Income A Inc	5.00	673.3		...
UK Index Opps Tst A Acc	-	172.5428		...
US Growth A Acc	5.00	3148		...
Available as an ISA

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J.P. Morgan Asset Management
60 Victoria Embankment, London, EC4Y 0JP
Clients:0800 204020.Brokerline 0800 727770

JUPITER

JPM Ems C Net Dis	-	276.9000	-5.6000
JPM Japan C Net Acc	-	502.9000	-7.6000
JPM Natural Res C Net ACC	-	1775.0000	-17.0000
JPM UK Equity Core E Acc	-	686.0000	-3.3000
JPM UK Equity Core E Inc	-	89.9400	-0.4300
JPM US Eq Inc C Net	-	596.2000	-1.6000
JPM US Eq Inc C Net Dis	-	583.9000	-1.6000
JPM US Select C Net Acc	-	1294.0000	-4.0000
JPM US Sm Cos Gwth C Net Ac	-	1166	-17

Name	Init chge	Sell	Mid Buy	Change on day
Eqty Inv Chrties GBP Acc	-		45305.96	-315.95
Eqty Inv Chrties GBP Dis	-		1855.21	-12.94
CAR - Net Income reinvested.

Jupiter Unit Trust Managers Ltd
The Zig Zag Building, 70 Victoria Street, London, SW1E 6SQ
020 3817 1000

Jupiter Asian Inc L Acc	-	365.04	--
Jupiter Asian Inc L Inc	-	243.48	--
Jupiter China L Acc	-	112.31	--
Jupiter China L Inc	-	102.37	--
Jupiter Corp Bond L Inc	-	49.15	--
Jupiter Eco L Inc	-	678.26	--
Jupiter European L Inc	-	3773.72	--
Jupiter Euro Inc L Acc	-	85.01629	--
Jupiter Euro Inc L Inc	-	49.78698	--
Jupiter Euro Special Sits L Acc	-	567.19	--
Jupiter Fin Opp L Inc	-	1251.09	--
Jupiter Fund Of Inv Tsts L Inc	-	403.11	--
Jupiter Global Emg Mkts L Acc	-	110.88	--
Jupiter Global Finl Innov L Acc	-	217.04	--
Jupiter Income Trust L Inc	-	683.51	--
Jupiter India L Acc	-	201.06	--
Jupiter Japan Inc L Acc	-	231.11	--
Jupiter Japan Inc L Inc	-	148.97	--
Jupiter Merlin Bal Prtfo L Acc	-	345.5	--
Jupiter Merlin Bal Prtfo L Inc	-	198	--
Jupiter Merlin Grth Prtfo L Acc	-	831.79	--
Jupiter Merlin Grth Prtfo L Inc	-	802.33	--
Jupiter Merlin Inc Prtfo L Acc	-	467.6	--
Jupiter Merlin Inc Prtfo L Inc	-	164.64	--
Jupiter Merlin WW Prtfo L Inc	-	613.31	--
Jupiter Merlin WW Prtfo L Acc	-	614.05	--
Jupiter Monthly Alt Inc L Acc	-	136.98	--
Jupiter Monthly Alt Inc L Inc	-	22.47	--

Name	Init chge	Mid Sell	Buy	Change on day
Jupiter Merlin Select L Acc	-	125.03		...
Jupiter Merlin Select L Dis	-	54.85		...
Jupiter Responsible Inc L Acc	-	165.22		...
Jupiter Responsible Inc L Inc	-	75.17		...
Jupiter Global Strat Bond L Acc	-	108.28		...
Jupiter Global Strat Bond L Inc	-	52		...
Jupiter UK Growth L Inc	-	272.42		...
Jupiter UK Dynamic Eq L DIS	-	280.68		...
Jupiter Unitstd Van F	3.50	429.03		...
Jupiter US Sml Cos Inst I Acc	-	80.99		...
Jupiter US Sml Cos Ret Acc	-	74.46		...

Marks & Spencer Unit Trust Management Ltd
Kings Meadow, Chester, CH99 9UT0870 333 1835
High Income Inc	-	*85.69	85.69	...
High Income Acc	-	*292.4	292.4	...
UK Select Port Inc	-	472.8	472.8	...
UK Selection Port	-	1081.5	1081.5	...
UK 100 Co's Fund Inc	-	*314.4	314.4	...
UK 100 Co's Fund Acc	-	*711.6	711.6	...
W'wide Man Inc	-		751.24	-1.82
W'wide Man Acc	-		1349.78	-3.28

M&G Securities Ltd PO Box 9039, Chelmsford, CM99 2XG Enq: 0800 390 390. UT Deal: 0800 328 3196

Charity Multi Asset Acc	-	14926.01	-91.61
Charity Multi Asset Dis	-	106.6	-0.66

Generation Fd	5.00	1129.89	...
FENIX Balanced Fund Dis	5.00	* 220.76	...

How to rescue your retirement from death of the triple lock

State pension is poised to rise more slowly but there are ways to boost your entitlement. By Rob White

SINCE 2012, the triple lock has protected millions of British pensioners from poverty, guaranteeing that their payments increase every year by the highest of wage growth, inflation or 2.5pc.

But its future has never looked more precarious, after Andy Burnham announced last month that the triple lock would end after the next election.

From 2030, payouts will still rise by the highest of inflation or 2.5pc, but wage growth will no longer be considered. The Government later clarified that they would not be allowed to fall below 30pc of the national average wage. But make no mistake – your state pension is going to rise more slowly. Here's what you can do to boost your entitlement and protect your retirement.

Consider deferring your payment Once you reach state pension age, you have to make a claim for your payouts to start. If you don't, or if you decide not to take it yet, the payment will increase by 1pc for every nine weeks you wait.

There is no maximum time you can defer for and for those who continue working, delaying the payment can provide a substantial tax saving - especially if it would tip you into a higher tax band.

Once the Prime Minister's changes kick in, however, the idea could become even more attractive. The deferred element of a state pension only rises with inflation, not the triple lock, which means it can fall significantly behind the rest of the state pension – particularly as wage growth has dictated the triple lock increase for five of the past eight years.

Under this rule, the deferred element of a pension claimed in 2019 would already be worth around 10pc less than if the triple lock had applied.

Should the changes be introduced in 2030, however, wage growth will no longer be part of the calculation,

meaning the deferred element could rise at a very similar rate to the rest of the state pension. For some people, this could tip the balance in deciding to defer.

However, it remains a gamble because it can take 15 years or more to "break even" on the money you have delayed receiving, so you could lose out if you died early - particularly if you are on a low income.

Top up missed years of National Insurance contributions Although 35 years of contributions are required for a full state pension, partial years don't count. The good news, however, is you can go back and top up any of the previous six years.

You may also be able to claim credits for years where you weren't working, such as if you were looking for work or looking after a young child as a parent or grandparent.

Checking your state pension forecast is a good place to start.

Go back to work

To receive a full state pension, you will usually need 35 years of National Insurance contributions. However, even if you hit that target, you could still end up with less.

Before 2016, some people were “contracted out” of the additional state pension. This allowed them and their employer to pay less National Insurance but their eventual state pension would be reduced.

To compensate, the employer had to pay them more private pension in retirement, so it at least matched the amount the worker missed out on.

When their state pension amount is calculated, a “contracting out deduction” is applied, leaving many people with less than the full amount.

However, any years worked after 2016 until reaching the state pension age “burn off”, or replace, those affected years and boost their payout by £6.89 a week.

Consequently, if someone reached state pension age this year but they had been extensively contracted out before 2016, they would receive a maximum of £184.90 a week. However, if they had worked for around nine years after

History of triple lock increases

The triple lock has cost almost £100bn since 2012

2016, it would be boosted to the full amount of £241.30. For some people with fewer than nine years of contributions after 2016, returning to work could be worthwhile.

Make voluntary contributions You could also achieve the same thing by making voluntary top-ups. For £956.80, you can buy a year of National Insurance contributions to provide a boost to your state pension.

Sir Steve Webb, a partner at pension consultants LCP and a former pensions minister, says: "Most people with nine years or more of post-2016 contributions will have reached a full new pension if they already had 30 years in the system before the rules changed in 2016.

"But if their state pension forecast is short of the full rate, an extra year or two of work or of voluntary National Insurance contributions could be enough to make the difference

between a full pension and a slightly reduced one."

Move abroad

State pensioners who live abroad make the move to benefit from better weather and a cheaper cost of living that Britain can't offer – but one downside is dealing with a “frozen” state pension.

Retirees only benefit from the triple lock increases if they live in the European Economic Area, Gibraltar, Switzerland or most countries that have a social security agreement with Britain.

However, it is not applied when people live elsewhere, including other popular retirement destinations such as Australia, New Zealand and Canada.

It now potentially makes even more sense to up sticks once the state pension begins rising more slowly because those expats will be missing out on even slower increases. If someone had left the UK in 2020 and moved to Thailand, their state pension would be frozen at £9,110 a year – just over £3,400 lower than if they had stayed. However, had Burnham's changes applied over that time, they would only be missing out on around £2,835, which could be a consideration when weighing the pros and cons of living abroad.

Maximise your private pension There is only so much you can do to boost your state pension payments. Once you have exhausted those options, it may be time to look to your private savings and how they could be used to fund the retirement you want.

The more money you save, the more you will benefit from pension tax relief – as well as reducing your taxable income – but if you are in a workplace pension, you could get extra benefits, too. Many employers will match what you put in up to a certain amount, so checking whether you're getting the full possible figure matched is crucial.

BUSINESS BULLETIN

Credit card defaults rise amid cost of living battle

Credit card defaults increased in the three months to the end of August, according to a Bank of England survey of lenders.

Defaults on credit cards are also expected to increase in the three months to the end of November.

Default rates on mortgages slightly decreased in the three months to August and are expected to be unchanged in the three months ahead.

Adam Butler, at charity StepChange, said: "Defaults on unsecured credit are rising as people struggle to make their regular repayments alongside bills."

Affluent are failing to plan for care in later life

Some 40pc of affluent households are worried about later-life care but only 12pc have made plans for it, a survey has found.

Among 2,036 adults with at least £250,000 in investable assets polled by wealth manager Rathbones 45pc admit they have not factored care into their retirement planning at all.

Stephen Field, at Rathbones, said: "People are living longer but not necessarily healthier lives. Without a plan, money intended for travel, lifestyle goals and family could be used to fund care instead."

Deloitte fined £6m over Go-Ahead auditing

Deloitte has been fined more than £6m by the accounting watchdog over its audits of bus operator Go-Ahead.

The Financial Reporting Council (FRC) said it found a “highly concerning pattern of failure” in the audits over a five-year period.

Go-Ahead's Govia joint venture with French company Keolis was stripped of the Southeastern rail franchise by the Government three years ago for a "serious breach of trust".

A Deloitte UK spokesman said: "We regret that aspects of our audit work did not meet the standards expected."

Order growth returns at Just Eat Takeway.com

The owner of Just Eat Takeaway.com has hailed a return to order growth for the first time in nearly five years as its turnaround efforts pay off.

Prosus, a global technology investor majority-owned by South Africa's Naspers, said worldwide orders grew by 0.1pc year-on-year in September, a sharp reversal of the 9pc decline when it bought the firm in December for £3.6bn.

Fabricio Bloisi, chief executive of Prosus, said: "Getting back to growth marks an important milestone, and the team has earned it."

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KENSINGTON PALACE October 8th

October 3th The Prince of Wales, Joint Patron, the Royal Foundation of The Prince and Princess of Wales, this morning held a Meeting related to the "Homewards" programme at Windsor Castle.

His Royal Highness afterwards received the Rt Hon Dame Angela Eagle MP (Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs) at Windsor Castle.

The Prince of Wales, Founder and President, the Earthshot Prize, this afternoon participated in the Earthshot Prize Council Judging via video link.

The Princess of Wales, Joint Patron, the Royal Foundation of The Prince and Princess of Wales, this morning attended a Meeting with Ms Melinda French Gates (Founder, Pivotal) at the offices of

Pivotal in London. ST JAMES'S PALACE October 8th

The Princess Royal, Patron, British Quality Foundation, this evening attended the United Kingdom Awards Ceremony at Wembley Stadium, Middlesex, and was received by Mr Justin Packshaw (Deputy Lieutenant of Greater London).

KENSINGTON PALACE October 8th

October 8th The Duke and Duchess of Gloucester, accompanied by the British High Commissioner to the Republic of Botswana (His Excellency Mr Giles Enticknap), this morning planted a commemorative tree at the Residence in Gaborone to mark the Sixtieth Anniversary of Botswana's Independence.

Their Royal Highnesses this afternoon departed from Sir Seretse Khama International Airport for the United Kingdom, via South Africa.

The Duke of Gloucester, Grand Prior, the Most Venerable Order of the Hospital of St John of Jerusalem, this afternoon attended a Meeting at the InterContinental

Hotel, Johannesburg OR Tambo Airport, South Africa.

Today's birthdays

The Duke of Kent is 91. Sir Don McCullin,

photojournalist, 91; Mr Brian Blessed, actor, author and climber, 90; Prof John Sutherland, Lord Northcliffe Professor of Modern English Literature, University College London, 1992-2004, now Emeritus, 88; Sir Stephen Sedley, a former Lord Justice of Appeal, 87; Gen Sir Samuel Cowan, Master of Signals, 2003-08, 85; Prof John Garside, Principal and Vice-Chancellor, UMIST, 2000-04, 85; Baroness Donaghy, Chairman, ACAS, 2000-07, 82; Mr John Doubleday, sculptor, 79; Sir Roddy Llewellyn, author and horticulturalist, 78; Sir Oliver Hart, joint winner, Nobel Prize for Economics 2016, 78; Ms Sharon Osbourne, music manager and television personality, 74; Sir John Rose, Chief Executive, Rolls-Royce, 1996-2011, 74; Miss Sally Burgess, mezzo-soprano and opera

director, 73; Dr Stephen Spurr, Head Master, Westminster

Head Master, Westminster School, 2005-14, 73; Sir Stephen Stewart, a former High Court Judge, 73; Mr Steve Ovett, former middle distance runner; Olympic gold medallist, 800m, Moscow 1980, 71; Prof Sir Adrian Hill, vaccinologist; Director, The Jenner Institute, and Lakshmi Mittal and Family Professor of Vaccinology, University of Oxford, 68; Sir Hugh Robertson, Chairman, Birmingham Airport; and of the British Olympic Association, 2016-25; former Conservative sport and FCO minister, 64; Mr Andy Platt, former Great Britain and England rugby league international, 63; Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton, Prime Minister, 2010-16, 60; Mr Stuart Lancaster, head coach, England rugby team, 2011-15, 57; Ms Annika Sörenstam, former golfer, 56; and Ms Anna Turley, Labour MP and Border Security and Asylum Minister, 48.

Today is the anniversary of the awarding of the Nobel Prize in Literature to Alexander Solzhenitsyn in 1970.

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Anniversaries

Golden wedding

LAKE - DAVIS.—On 9th October 1976, Blessed at St Michael and All Angels Roxwell by Rev Phillip Wright, Nigel to Jeannene. Still pegging along nicely. Online Ref: W0053211

Deaths

BRANDRAM.—Nicholas George on 15th September. Devoted father, greatly cherished son and adored brother and uncle. A private memorial service will take place at a later date. Those wishing to attend should contact a member of the family. Online Ref: W0053365

CAMPBELL.—John Andrew. Andrew died on Wednesday 16th September 2026 after a brave fight with MND. Beloved husband of Annie and proud father and grandfather. A Service of Thanksgiving will be held at St Andrew's, Mells, on Wednesday 21st October at 2 p.m. Online Ref: W0053383

CARR.—Mary Kathleen, died on

21st September aged 94. Wife of the late John Carr, mother to Pippa, KJ, Philip and Louise, grandma and great grandma. Funeral will be held at Wessex Vale Crematorium (SO30 2HL) on Monday 19th October at 2.30 p.m. No flowers. Online Ref: W0053228

EASTON.—Susan Mary Waddelow (née Martin) passed away peacefully, surrounded by her family, on 30th September 2026 aged 85. A much loved mother, grandmother and sister. She will be greatly missed by all. Online Ref: W0053369

MORRISON.—Joceline (née Saint) passed away peacefully on 3rd October. Adored mother of Kate and beloved grandmother of Nicholas and Philip, she is deeply missed. Online Ref: W0053338

Legal news

The following have been called to the Bar this term (deferred):

Middle Temple

Marilyn Beth Grasheim Richter, Musa Nela, Nurfikriyah Binti Haji Ishak, Yanesh Puryag, Benedict Luke Chapman, Isabella Rose Hibbert-Robinson, Erina Gjeraj, Vasundhra Vigneswaran, Ethan Jun Hung Lai, Qian Sze Kang, Kow Mei Ee, Viran Kishor Solanki, Ruby Scarlet Firth, Shafiqah Aiman Mohammad Shah, Vaishnavi Vigneswaran, Jessica Wong Sheau Wei, Clare Catherine Tweedie, Dong Xuan Cheng, Lily Seabrook, Lim Yu Ting, Carla Saw Jia Ying, Sabrina Cui Tong Chang, Phoebe Louise Rockett, Sum Chuen Li, Angelina Grace Freeman, Jesleen Kaur Sohanpal, Federico II Paraiso Sadie, Lucy Charlotte Kitty Shinn, Kelvin Ching Kong Lin, Alexander Bruce Hatton, Tajudeen Abiodun Ganikale, Greg Stephen Flaxen, Timothy Chichester Williams, Rudra Veer Khanna, Sazzadur Rahman Kiyash, Sharmila Vani Maga Nadan, Lennis Nastase Pinder, Gregor Donaldson, Anuraag Awootar, George Sommerlechner, Xin Yin Lim, Benedict James Gordon Bayley, Pius Ho Chieng, Isaac Charles Grand, Kairavee Hungszraz, Rachel Clair Griffiths, Rochelle Rose Satkin, Henry John William Mould, Chirantana Jayshree Foolchund, Dominique Alice Goddard, Asala Alkassem, Samantha Nancy Akua Quagraine, Sally Elizabeth Seymour, Ved Ram Shewraj, Ismahan Mohamud Mohamed, Ruaridh Campbell Owens, Zara Hannah Wakelam, Ning Chan, Ying Thai Wong, Alysa Goh Jing Ann, Raul Rajendra Kumar, Chloe Abigail Jones, Christina Maria Fleischer, Rhea Kaur Jasminder Singh, Lenashree Kumari Selveswaran, Jeremy Wiremu Alexander Johnson, Clarke Sheldon Martin, Tineka Jayne O'Mara, John Michell

Clergy news

Appointments

Appointments Judith Wilkinson, p-in-c, Jarvis Brook (Chichester), to be rd and p-in-c, Rotherfield (Chichester); Daniel Vickerstaff, c, Leamington St John the Baptist (Coventry), to be c, Tile Hill (same dio); Linda MacDermott, p-in-c, Hampton Lucy with Charlecote and Loxley, and Alveston (Coventry), to be p-in-c.

Bridge news

The West of England Congress has taken place at the Canalside, Bridgwater, writes Julian Pottage, Bridge Correspondent. The Somerset Contract Bridge Association organised the two days of competitions. Winners are as follows: Swiss Pairs 1st Stefan Lindfors and Alex Maddocks 108 VPs 2nd Jack Terry and Ian Walsh 102 VPs 3rd Michael Wigmore and Mike Tracy 101 VPs Swiss Teams 1st Rob Lawy, Gillian Fawcett, Joe Fawcett and Roger Gibbons 112 VPs 2nd Ian Walsh, Miles Cowling, Tim Rees and Alastair Catchpole 110 VPs 3rd James Clark, Owen Leigh, James Bond and Colin D Jones 89 VPs

ONE HUNDRED YEARS AGO

The Daily Telegraph.

LONDON, SATURDAY OCTOBER 9, 1926

KING'S MEETING WITH ROYAL TRAIN DRIVERS THANKING THE VETERANS.

Nine veterans of the footplate, doyens of the old London and North-Western Railway express locomotive drivers, yesterday had the day of their lives. About a year ago the King accepted their photograph, for every one of them, at one time or another, had been responsible for the safety either of the King himself, King Edward VII., or Queen Victoria. Yesterday, accompanied by the Queen, his Majesty met them in person, shook hands and talked with them, and thanked them for the service rendered to the Royal House.

This novel event took place at Euston at eight o'clock in the morning, immediately after their Majesties' arrival from the North. Upon the red-carpeted platform the nine were drawn up in line, at right angles to the metals. With them, throughout their working lives, absolute punctuality had been the eleventh commandment. Could the same be said of their successors? As they awaited the Royal arrival one could almost read the unspoken query in their faces, which showed obvious relief when the answer proved to be a very definite affirmative. The double-engined train, driven by H. Kirkham, "a mere boy" of 59, came to rest by the scarlet carpet on the very stroke of eight o'clock. The traditions of a wonderful service were in safe custody.

The King was received by Sir W. Guy Granet, chairman of the L.M.S. Railway, Sir Josiah Stamp, president of the executive, and the general manager, the Right Hon. H. G. Burgess. Both his Majesty and the Queen shook hands with the nine veterans, chatting pleasantly as they asked details of the men's service, and congratulated them upon their good health. As one of the nine remarked, it meant a lot to the railway world; the King, through them, he said, had complimented every locomotive driver in the country. Their Majesties, who were looking well after their stay in Scotland, were attended by Lady Elizabeth Hesketh-Prichard (Lady in Waiting to the Queen), Captain the Hon. Sir Charles Cust, R.N. (Equerry to the King), and the Hon. Sir Derek Keppel, Master of their Majesties' Household. As they left the station their Majesties were cordially cheered by sightseers, and the demonstration was repeated outside Buckingham Palace,

A WONDERFUL RECORD.

During their railway careers the nine drivers drove 20,460,000 miles – without an accident of any description. Their combined service totals $487\frac{1}{2}$ years, their combined ages amount to 663 years, and not one has seen less than 50 years' service with the same company. Here are the individual records:

Age, Years of Railway Service. Mileage of Royal Trains Driven.

ALFRED EACHUS 74 58 5,100
WILLIAM JEFFERIES 72 51 3,380
WILLIAM HUGHES 77 56 3,268
SAMUEL GALLEY 71 $56 \frac{1}{2}$ 1,200
J. TANSLEY HOLLINS 72 55 1,200
JOHN FORD 76 52 1,200

JOHN JONES 72 50 1,200

ALFRED ELSON 73 54 600

Bridge Hand

All nine hail from Crewe, whence are drawn most of the Royal train drivers on this line because they are familiar with the road both north and south of that town. They travelled up to London on Thursday; and it was a treat to travel with them. Talk of the mail-coach drivers of the old days, their freemasonry, their pride in their profession! They could teach nothing in either respect to these veterans of the iron road.

"Don't know who's in the cab, but he's making a good run," said one of them. "He's dropped half a minute," retorted another. "Now he's doing 57," said a third. "He's short of steam," said a fourth. But at they neared Rugby their concern was almost comical. Out came nine watches. "He's lost a minute and a half!" Anxiously they marked the train's later progress; and they could tell you to a man where that lost time was made np. Just as surely as they knew to a gallon how much the flying engine took from the water trough. It was all right in the end, for as the train glided into Euston they remarked to each other with expressions that were quaintly compounded of relief and pride - "He's on time."

ON KING EDWARD'S TRAIN.

It is the pride of these men that they have nothing very exciting to talk about; the very fact that between them they have driven over 20,000,000 miles without an accident speaks for itself. But Mr. Alfred Eachus, who has fifty-eight years' service to his credit, will never forget one experience that came to him about twenty years ago.

I was driving the Royal train which brought King Edward from Manchester after he had opened the Manchester Infirmary (he said), when, as we passed Blisworth, the steam heater exploded with a bang like a gun. The steam shot out, but nobody was hurt, and I wanted to put the matter right. But the locomotive superintendent, who was in the cab, told me to "carry on." The train was well heated, so it didn't matter much, and in the end very few people knew anything about it. Nowadays Royal trains seldom attempt to break records. "They sometimes travel fifty-five or sixty miles per hour," said Mr. J. T. Hollins, "but the average is about fifty." "Queen Victoria never would go fast," chimed in Mr. Eachus, one of the veterans who had driven the great Queen's train.

“Forty-five miles an hour was the rule with her,” he remarked, “but when King Edward was travelling – well, it was different. I have taken him from London to Manchester in 3hr 30min.” Mr. Eachus is proud to think that, with Mr. John Ford, he worked the first modern 4—6—0 Claughton type of engine twelve months before the type came into general use. In common with his eight comrades he drove every kind of passenger engine that the L. and N. W. Railway has adopted during the last 50 years, and you can get neither him nor his fellow drivers to say a disparaging word about any one of them. For the lives of these men have literally been devoted to their engines. “I started with the old ‘Jumbo’” said Mr Ford, “a six-wheel coupled 5ft 6in engine rather different from the Claughton of to-day. But she could travel 60mph. The later types are better, perhaps, but they were all good engines – even the type that gave the driver no protection from the weather.”

Personal

Big win for Nettleton

Chess

By Tom Townsend

West	North	East	South
pass	1♣	pass	1♥
1♠	2♠(1)	pass	2NT
pass	3♥(2)	pass	3♠(3)
pass	4♥	pass	pass

♠ AK103
♥ AJ72
♦ 865
♣ 92

♠ J7642 ♥ 5 ♦ J1094 ♣ AJ4

FROM Crockfords Cup final in Solihull, dominated by the Nettleton team (Diana Nettleton and Andrew McIntosh, David Gold and Thomas Paske). They finished 25 VPs clear of runners-up Allfrey. In third place were Wightwick, the only other team above average. Denning won the Plate. North-South for Hornung were Michael Hornung and your columnist. East-West were Gold and Paske. This was their only losing match, and by only nine IMPs.

Personal

Paske led the obvious ♦J to 4♥. Gold topped the ♦Q with the ♦K, and cashed the ♦A. On the ♦3 to the ♦8 at trick three, West contributed a crafty ♦10 (feigning ♦J104 alone). This was a good start for the defence. The remaining

play was flawed, but did lead to an interesting ending.

South ruffed with the ♥9, cashed the ♥K, and played the ♥6 to the ♥4 (of course, East did not split) and his ♥J.

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It doesn't help East, as some thought in the post-mortem, to throw spades on the run of the clubs. South last three cards are $\spadesuit$ AK and the ♥A. He cashes the $\spadesuit$ A, and crossruffs the last two.

Contract 4♥ by South Opening Lead ♦J

On a club towards dummy, Paske rose with the ♣A. He may have read me for singleton club. He got out with the ♦9, ruffed in the South hand. This was the end position:

South does better to play the ♣K at trick four, starting on the side-suit (a good general principle). He can make 4♥ by force this way – but only if he reads West's distribution. Details left to the keen armchair analyst.

South crossed to the ♣K, intending to run clubs through East. Gold shrugged, and ruffed the ♣Q with the ♥8. He needed West to hold the ♠K. Declarer overruffed, crossed to the ♠Q, and drew trump with the ♥Q. Dummy was high.

General personal

(1) A limit 2♥ or 3♥ was enough
(2) Forcing heart raise (3) Cue-bid

Final Result 4♥ made, N/S +620 Par Result same

AS reported on Wednesday, India, the top seeds at the Women's Olympiad, had to settle for the bronze medals behind China and Kazakhstan. India's top board Koneru Humpy, who earlier this year decided to opt out of playing the Candidates in Cyprus because of the situation in the Middle East, had an excellent tournament. Her score of 7/10, unbeaten, secured her the individual bronze medal for board one. On board five, India's débutante Shri B Savitha also enjoyed success, scoring 9/10 and winning the individual gold on the reserve board.

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K Humpy - N Dzagnidze India vs Georgia Semi Tarrasch

Humpy quick off the mark

impression is that Black cannot be worse. For example, if White plays Ne4-d6, Black can capture with the rook and manoeuvre her bishop to d5) 16.Ng5 h6 17.Ne4 Qd5 18.Rh3! Rfd8?? (The costs of a mistake are high in such double-edged positions. 18...Qc4, controlling White's queen by attacking e2, or the prophylactic 18...Kh8, leave all three results possible)

1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nf3 d5 4.Nc3 c5 5.cxd5 Nxd5 6.e4 Nxc3 7.bxc3 cxd4 8.cxd4 Bb4+9.Bd2 Bxd2+10.Qxd2 0-0 1L.h4 (1L.Bc4, which is still the computer's first choice, was considered compulsory for decades. This sets completely different problems for Black) 1L...b6 12.Rd1 Bb7 13.Bd3 Nc6 14.Bb1 Ba6 (Trying to refute White's idea by depriving her of the ability to castle. White is better after 14...Qe7 15.0-0 Rad8 16.Rfel) 15.e5! (To which the response is: "I laugh in the face of danger". The threat is Qd2-c2 winning as c6 and h7 are attacked) 15...Rc8?! (15...Qd5 16.Ng5 h6 17.Bh7+Kh8 18.Be4 Qb5 19.f3 Rac8 or 19...Rad8 20.Bxc6 Qxc6 21.Ne4 are both unclear, but my general

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IN THE MATTER OF MORTGAGE SUPPORT SERVICES LTD (No 6055271) AND IN THE MATTER OF THE COMPANIES ACT 2006

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Order of the High Court of Justice (Chancery Division) dated 8 September 2026 confirming the reduction of the share capital of the above-named Company by cancelling and extinguishing a total of 9,340 shares of £0.01 each in the capital of the Company (comprising C Ordinary Shares, G Ordinary Shares, H Ordinary Shares, J Ordinary Shares and K Ordinary Shares) and the reduction of the amounts standing to the credit of the above-named Company's share premium account by £208,016, and the statement of capital approved by the Court showing with respect to the capital of the said company as altered the several particulars required by the Companies Act 2006, were registered by the Registrar of Companies on 23 September 2026.

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NAME CHANGE I Yogesh s/o Rammehar adopted the name Yogesh Khasa for all future purposes. Online Ref: W0053382

AMUNDI OBLIG

NOTICE OF MEETING

The Shareholders of AMUNDI OBLIG INTERNATIONALES FLEXIBLE are convened to the Ordinary General Meeting to be held at 15:00 on 29 October 2026 at the Company's registered office, 91–93 boulevard Pasteur 75015 PARIS, with the following agenda:

- Reading of the Board of Directors' reports for the financial year ended 30 June 2026; - Reading of the general report by the Statutory Auditor and the special report on agreements covered by Article L. 225-38 of the French Commercial Code;

• Approval of the financial statements for the financial year ended 30 June 2026;

• Allocation of the distributable sums for the year;

- Powers for formalities.

• Approval of the special report prepared by the Statutory Auditor;

- Renewal of a Director's term of office;

The annual financial statements, accompanying notes and breakdown of assets will be filed with the Clerk of the Commercial Court of Paris following the conclusion of the Ordinary General Meeting.

All documents that must be provided to shareholders prior to each General Meeting are made available to them at the Company's registered office or sent to them on request, in accordance with the applicable legal and regulatory provisions.

In accordance with the applicable legal and regulatory provisions, the right to participate in this General Meeting is subject to securities being registered in the name of the shareholder (or in the name of the intermediary acting on the shareholder's behalf if the latter resides abroad) by midnight (Paris time) on the fifth business day preceding the General Meeting, in either the nominal securities accounts or the bearer securities accounts held by the qualified intermediary.

This registration must be evidenced by a certificate of participation issued by the qualified intermediary and attached either to the postal vote or proxy vote form, or to the application for an attendance card, drawn up in the name of the shareholder.

All shareholders will be admitted to the General Meeting, regardless of the number of shares held, and may be represented by their spouse or a proxy who is also a shareholder.

Shareholders may request a postal or proxy voting form. This request must be received in writing no later than six days before the General Meeting, at the Company's registered office or by its representative (Uptevia – Service Assemblées Générales – 90–110 Esplanade du Général de Gaulle – 92931 Paris La Défense Cedex).

To be considered, the form must be duly completed and returned to the Company, or to its representative referred to above, at least three days before the General Meeting, either by post or email (corporatelife@amundi.com).

The Board of Directors

AMUNDI RESPONSIBLE INVESTING SOCIETE D'INVESTISSEMENT A CAPITAL VARIABLE – SICAV Registered office: 91-93, Boulevard Pasteur - 75015 PARIS, France PARIS TRADE AND COMPANIES REGISTER 834 854 838

NOTICE OF MEETING

The Shareholders of AMUNDI RESPONSIBLE INVESTING are convened to the Ordinary General Meeting to be held at 10:30 on 27 October 2026 at the Company's registered office, 91–93 boulevard Pasteur 75015 PARIS, with the following agenda:

- Reading of the Board of Directors' reports for the financial year ended 29 May 2026; - Reading of the general report by the Statutory Auditor and the special report on agreements covered by Article L. 225-38 of the French Commercial Code;

- Approval of the financial statements for the financial year ended 29 May 2026; Allocation of the net profit for the year

- Allocation of the net profit for the year;

- Approval of the special report prepared by the Statutory Auditor;

- Powers for formalities.

The annual financial statements, accompanying notes and breakdown of assets will be filed with the Clerk of the Commercial Court of Paris following the conclusion of the Ordinary General Meeting.

All documents that must be provided to shareholders prior to each General Meeting are made available to them at the Company's registered office or sent to them on request, in accordance with the applicable legal and regulatory provisions.

The Board of Directors

In accordance with the applicable legal and regulatory provisions, the right to participate in this General Meeting is subject to securities being registered in the name of the shareholder (or in the name of the intermediary acting on the shareholder's behalf if the latter resides abroad) by midnight (Paris time) on the fifth business day preceding the General Meeting, in either the nominal securities accounts or the bearer securities accounts held by the qualified intermediary.

This registration must be evidenced by a certificate of participation issued by the qualified intermediary and attached either to the postal vote or proxy vote form, or to the application for an attendance card, drawn up in the name of the shareholder.

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Shareholders may request a postal or proxy voting form. This request must be received in writing no later than six days before the General Meeting, at the Company's registered office or by its representative (Uptevia – Service Assemblées Générales – 90–110 Esplanade du Général de Gaulle – 92931 Paris La Défense Cedex).

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Jim Bakker

Televangelist who made millions proclaiming the prosperity Gospel before sex brought him down

JIM BAKKER, who has died aged 86, was the world's most famous fallen televangelist before becoming America's most unlikely prodigal son.

The baby-faced Bakker, who in his pomp resembled a character from Thunderbirds, founded his Praise the Lord ministry (PTL) with his wife Tammy Faye in 1972. Tammy Faye Bakker, who resembled a genetic experiment involving Lady Penelope and Dolly Parton, was given to using glove puppets to help explain the Word of the Lord on air – and it was sometimes hard to tell the difference.

Breezily brushing aside biblical texts about camels and needles, Bakker specialised in “prosperity preaching”, his key message being that material wealth was a sign of God’s grace – and the more of it the better. Using this yardstick, the Bakkers set out to prove that they had found favour in His sight with a shamelessness so pure as to almost amount to a kind of holy innocence.

Among other assets, they boasted 47 bank accounts, six luxury mansions, three Cadillacs and his'n'hers Rolls-Royces, not to mention an air-conditioned dog kennel for their pooch, \$60,000-worth of gold-plate in their bathrooms – and plastic surgery for his face and her breasts.

Between 1984 and mid-1987, the Bakkers received annual salaries of \$200,000 each and Jim Bakker awarded himself more than \$4 million in bonuses. On one occasion, PTL spent more than \$100,000 for a private jet to fly their wardrobes across the country. PTL also spent more than \$100 on a purchase of cinnamon rolls because the Bakkers wanted the smell of them in their hotel room.

With \$1 million a day in donations from the tele-faithful, the Bakkers' ministry became big business. At its peak, PTL broadcasts beamed into 13.5 million American homes. The Bakkers became so big that they hob-nobbed with presidents and tycoons. Photographs showed Bakker posing with Jimmy Carter, Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan and George Bush Sr. In 1980 President Carter invited Bakker aboard Air Force One to help him pray for the American hostages in Iran.

The couple's most ambitious venture was Heritage USA, a Disneyfied Christian theme park in South Carolina, where the faithful could water-slide, guzzle Heritage Heavenly Fudge, play golf and party - all in the name of the Lord. By the mid-1980s, Heritage USA was America's third-most popular resort, attracting six million visitors a year.

The Bakkers' most grandiose project was a 30,000-seat auditorium and a 5,000-seat television studio designed to fit inside a steel-and-glass (and air conditioned) full-sized replica of the Crystal Palace. To sustain this fabulously costly venture, the Bakkers appeared on PTL every day, pleading with increasing desperation for more and more money. She would sing a hymn, pray for God to bless Heritage USA, then look into the camera and unleash such a flood of tears that her cheeks became rivers of mascara.

The money flowed in; then all hell broke loose. In mid-1987, Jim Bakker was accused by rival evangelist Jerry Falwell of using several hundred thousand dollars of PTL money to cover up an affair with a 24-year-old church secretary named Jessica Hahn.

By Miss Hahn's account, Bakker and another preacher had subjected her to "abnormal sex" in a motel room in 1980 after spiking her drink: "I tried to get him off me," she claimed. "He couldn't get enough. He had to find new things to do. He did everything he could to a woman." ("When you help the shepherd, you're helping the sheep," Bakker told her). After her ordeal, Miss Hahn accepted \$265,000 to keep her mouth shut – which she did, until Playboy magazine made her a better offer.

The revelations unlocked a veritable floodgate of sleaze. The allegations of televangelist John Ankerberg that Bakker had engaged in sex with prostitutes and homosexuals was followed by an article in Penthouse headlined “The Devil in Jim Bakker: His Homosexual Lover and Pimp Tells All”, in which John Wesley Fletcher, a former Bakker crony, detailed homosexual romps with Bakker, claiming that he had also procured other young men for the boss.

Bakker was defrocked by his denomination, the Assemblies of God, and his fellow television evangelists denounced him. Falwell declared Bakker “the greatest scab and cancer on the face of Christianity in 2,000 years of church history”. Jimmy Swaggart (who was soon caught with his trousers down in a motel with a prostitute) told Larry King on CNN that Bakker was a “cancer in the body of Christ”.

The scandal shocked Christian America and caused Bakker's ministry to collapse. In 1989, a no-nonsense district judge known as "Maximum Bob" sentenced Bakker to 45 years after he was found guilty on 24 counts of fraud and conspiracy for stealing \$3.7 million from his flock.

Chief among his crimes was his success in persuading viewers to donate sums of \$1,000

Jim Bakker, above, in 2005, after being born again (again) in prison; with his wife, Tammy Faye Bakker, in 1987, right

or more to buy “lifetime partnerships” in a hotel complex at Heritage USA. Although Bakker had conceived the idea after being “inspired by God in a vision in the middle of the night”, there was no such complex. Thousands of Americans, mostly pensioners, lost substantial sums of money.

Bakker's sentence was reduced on appeal and he eventually served just four-and-a-half years. By the time he was released in 1994, Tammy Faye had divorced him.

The sins that were uncovered should have made any resurrection in the Televangelising business impossible, but those who assumed that Bakker would fade into well-deserved obscurity were to be disappointed. In 2003, from a new base in Branson, Missouri, Bakker (who was still being pursued for \$3 million in unpaid taxes) and his new wife, Lori Graham, returned to the airwaves with The Jim Bakker Show, an hour-long show of music, pious chat and old-fashioned preaching.

Claiming to have been born again (again) in prison, Bakker resumed his ministry and the show was carried by television stations across America and around the world. In later years, chiming with the mood of the era, he focused more urgently on preparing for the Apocalypse, selling freeze-dried

“Survival Food” buckets from his website so followers could prepare for End Time food shortages.

As Donald Trump courted Pentecostal media moguls, Bakker appealed to his new audience with more overtly political pronouncements, describing Hillary Clinton as “a bride of Satan”, and insisting that “God [had] called” President Trump.

Jim Bakker was born James Orsen Bakker on January 2 1940 in Muskegon, Michigan. Little is known about his early years but by his own account he lived a rather wild life as a youth. At some point he decided to change and become a minister. In 1960, while studying for the ministry, he attended a revival meeting conducted by the evangelist Oral Roberts and became aware of the potential of religion as showbusiness. In 1961, he married the 18-year-old Tammy Faye.

After being “ordained” in 1964, Bakker, with Tammy Faye, began working with Pat Robertson on the Christian Broadcasting Network. They developed their own daily children’s show, Come On Over, which was an immediate hit; within a few years they had become the most popular religious broadcasters in America. But their success and their closeness to Robertson aroused jealousies and in 1972 the Bakkers decided to found their own ministry. As a going-away present some staff at CBN decided to trash their sets and destroy the puppets they used in their show.

The Bakkers' brand of Christianity, despite its sanctification of riches, was less alarming in many ways than that of more fundamentalist televangelists. Tammy Faye, in particular, used PTL broadcasts to defend people with Aids when other evangelists were attacking them as signs of God's wrath.

But when Bakker ended up in jail, he found “a cesspool of smoking, cursing and poor vocabulary” where “a man twice tried to rape me, but God protected me.” The other men of the cloth there included “a raging alcoholic and a cocaine fiend”.

Bakker claimed his years in prison had been his salvation. He re-read the scriptures, and came to the startling conclusion that the pursuit of mammon was not necessarily the route to salvation. God, he conceded, also ministered to the poor.

On his release, Bakker found that he was not the pariah he had imagined. In 1995, when only a few months out of prison, he addressed a Christian leadership conference where 10,000 clergymen gave him a 15-minute standing ovation. His autobiography, I Was Wrong (1996), plumbed new depths in confessional literature, but was seen by many as sure evidence of repentance.

Bakker moved to Los Angeles where he worked for a ministry in an inner-city ghetto. It was there that he met his new wife, Lori Graham. They married in 1998. Later the couple moved to Florida where they founded a Christian camp for inner-city teens, called the New Covenant Fellowship.

It was by his account a “supernatural act of God” that got Bakker back in front of the cameras. But the credit was really due to a Branson businessman called Jerry Crawford whose unswerving belief in Bakker stemmed from a visit to Heritage USA, an experience which, he claimed, had saved his marriage. Crawford owned the Studio City Cafe in Branson and persuaded Bakker that it was the perfect venue for a television comeback. Extraordinarily, among his regular audience were some who had bought into his hotel scheme and lost everything they gave.

Bakker is survived by his wife, two children from his first marriage, and five children whom he and Lori adopted.

Jim Bakker, born January 21940, died October 5 2026

Lena Martell Elfin Glaswegian singer who appeared with Frank Sinatra

LENA MARTELL, who has died aged 86, had a No 1 hit in October 1979 with her cover version of Kris Kristofferson's country-and-western-style Christian song One Day at a Time, Sweet Jesus; the record spent three weeks in the top spot and 36 weeks in the charts, earning her a place in Guinness World Records.

With her melodious voice, elfin figure and cheerful personality, Lena Martell was a hit on both sides of the Atlantic – as well as on the cruise ships plying the waters in between. On Broadway she was Barbra Streisand's understudy in Funny Girl in 1964, while in the West End she had her own show at the London Palladium in 1978, supported by Michael Bentine.

Elsewhere, she appeared with Frank Sinatra and Sammy Davis Jr in New York and Las Vegas. She also presented a popular music programme on BBC Television, enjoyed a regular slot at the Talk of the Town cabaret club in London, and released 30 albums, four of which reached the Top 20.

Part of the appeal lay in her gimmick-free approach and unsophisticated manner. "My name is Lena Martell, and I sing songs," was how she introduced herself.

She was born Helen Thomson on May 15 1940 in the Hamiltonhill district of Glasgow, and was nicknamed Lena by her trombonist father. He left the family, leaving her mother to juggle three jobs while raising three children, of whom Lena was the middle one. As a child she sang around the house, though her brothers, Allan and Billy, were unimpressed.

Her first professional gig was outside a cinema one Halloween, singing Al Jolson numbers accompanied by friends on their mouth organs. Her deep contralto voice meant school and church choirs were a disaster, though at 14 she joined her older brother Allan's Dixieland-style band. In 1959 she came fourth on the ITV talent show Find the Singer.

After a brief spell at art college she successfully auditioned for the Barrowland ballroom with the Billy MacGregor band. "When are you going to stop this singing lark? You'll come to a sticky end," warned her mother. Instead, she was drawn to the bright lights of London, working as a cinema usherette, dressing as a chicken for National Egg Week and singing, fully clothed, at a strip club.

She broke records with One Day at a Time, Sweet Jesus

When the lead singer broke her ankle, she stepped up. As she was going on stage, the compere asked her how she wanted to be introduced. Spotting a bottle of Martell cognac she answered: "Lena Martell." The name stuck and was soon emblazoned in lights. Her first single was the ballad Love Can Be (1961).

By late 1961 Lena Martell had her own television series but returned to Scotland after the deaths in quick succession of her brother Allan in a car crash and her 26-year-old boyfriend, Gordon Cameron, from a brain haemorrhage. In May 1963 Sammy Davis Jr invited her to open for his first British tour, leading to her position on the international cabaret circuit.

Life was not always kind. A failed property investment left her bankrupt in 1992. She also suffered problems with her vocal cords, had treatment for breast cancer and in 2008 underwent triple heart bypass surgery. Meanwhile, she was caring for her mother, who had dementia. All of which, she said, left her living, as she had once sung, "one day at a time".

In 2003 she returned to the public eye with a double album: One Day at a Time: An Anthology of Song. Two years later she began touring again, selling out clubs from Blackburn to Paisley until 2014.

In later years Lena Martell lived at Bishopbriggs, near Glasgow, with her partner, David.

Lena Martell, born May 15 1940, death announced October 5 2026

Louise Botting

Founding presenter of Radio 4's Money Box whose financial nous was treasured by her listeners

In her authoritative tones – ‘superior, yet laced with honey’ – she demystified personal finance

LOUISE BOTTING, who has died aged 87, became one of the BBC's most recognisable voices during 15 years as co-presenter of Radio 4's long-running series Money Box.

Devised by Vincent Duggleby, the weekly programme made its debut in October 1977, with Louise Botting, a former City investment analyst, and Peter Hobday as its first presenters. Pink Floyd's Money, with its "ker-ching" cash-register sound effects, was its theme tune.

Money Box proved a hit, attracting a faithful weekly audience of more than a million listeners, picking up numerous awards and spawning a range of spin-offs.

At midday every Saturday, in crisp, authoritative tones – “superior, yet laced with honey”, according to one reviewer – Louise Botting delivered complicated financial information as if it were no more difficult than two plus two, helping listeners to dispel the brain fog associated with such acronyms as TESSA and PEPS.

“What we have to do”, she explained, “is teach people to look after themselves.” So in 1992 she surprised one interviewer when she admitted that while she was not overdrawn, her own finances were “not in as impeccable order”, as might be expected.

"But," she went on, "one thing I do know is that the only person who is going to keep me out of the workhouse is me. I don't ever want to hear my daughters say, 'What are we going to do about Mum?'"

One of three children of Robert Young and his wife Edith, née Roberts, she was born Elizabeth Louise Young in Liverpool on September 19 1939, two weeks after the outbreak of the Second World War.

Her parents had both been brought up in impecunious circumstances, but her father, after service in the Army, became prosperous through insurance broking, and the family moved to Sutton Coldfield, where Louise attended the High School for Girls.

Keen on maths - "I loved algebra" - 16-year-old Louise was just becoming interested in her father's business chat when he suddenly died, leaving his financially naive widow vulnerable to bad advice.

“By the time I was 20, she had run out of money,” Louise remembered, “and it struck me that if I was going to do anything in life, I’d like to pick up where my father left off.”

After graduating in Economics from LSE, she joined the merchant bank Kleinwort Benson as an investment analyst. There were no other women on the investment analysts' floor at the time, so the bank had to build a lavatory especially for her.

She worked there for three years before marrying the travel, biography and history writer Douglas Botting in 1964. They travelled the world together – “we lived in South America, we sailed up the Amazon, we travelled through Morocco” – and had two daughters.

But the joys of full-time motherhood soon palled and in the late 1960s, at a time when there was growing public interest in protecting investments from inflation, Louise Botting began to research the world of bonds and unit trusts: "I'd grown out of the City, which left me wondering what young matrons like me could do. I asked my friends and they all said market research."

In 1970 she was invited to become the Daily Mail's personal finance editor. Her postbag soon grew to 600-700 letters a week and, as she recalled, "Many of them said 'if only I could pop in and see you', and I thought, 'why not?'" So in 1974 she founded the private wealth management firm Douglas Deakin Young, serving as its managing director, and later chairman, until the firm was sold in 2005.

Her broadcasting career began inauspiciously with British Forces

Broadcasting (BFBS) when an interviewer at her first audition declared that she sounded like a cross between a calculator and a wet dishmop, and told her not to use the name Botting because people would laugh.

Nonetheless she presented programmes for BFBS until 1981, by which time she had landed her seat on Money Box.

In 1984, with Vincent Duggleby, she published Making the Most of Your Money. In 1987 she was appointed to the Top Salaries Review Body and the following year was invited to replace Valerie Singleton on BBC Two's The Money Programme. She refused, not wanting people "to see me grow old on television".

Not all her investment tips paid off. In 1991 she encouraged what she called “sugar daddies” (including her own boss, the BBC chairman Marmaduke Hussey) to invest in an art gallery that later folded. She had no regrets: “They were all big boys, they knew what they were doing. We had some smashing parties in the gallery and nobody cared. I never lost a night’s sleep over it.”

The Chancellor's annual budget was the biggest event in the Money Box calendar and Louise Botting was in her element explaining what it all meant for people's personal finances. However she and the BBC parted company a week before Budget Day 1992, when her bosses objected to her taking a position on the board of their rivals London Weekend Television.

In addition to LWT, after leaving Money Box she notched up a substantial portfolio of appointments, including on the boards of General Accident, Trinity Mirror and Camelot. She was appointed CBE in 1993.

Having divorced Douglas Botting, in 1989 she married Leslie Carpenter, the former chairman of Reed International. He died in 2020, and she is survived by her two daughters, one of whom is the Sky News presenter Anna Botting.

Louise Botting, born September 19 1939, died September 22 2026

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Sky Arts

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6.00 am Classic FM Live: Greatest Hits of Opera (S) 8.10 Artist of the Year: Masterclass (AD) (S) 8.35 Artist of the Year: Masterclass (AD) (S) 9.00 Tales of the Unexpected (AD) (S) 9.30 Tales of the Unexpected (AD) (S) 10.00 Alfred Hitchcock Presents (S) 10.30 Alfred Hitchcock Presents (S) 11.00 Discovering: Dennis Hopper (AD) (S)

12.00 Classic Albums (S)
1.00 pm Tales of the Unexpected (AD)
1.30 Tales of the Unexpected (AD) (S)
2.00 Alfred Hitchcock Presents (S)
2.30 Alfred Hitchcock Presents (S)
3.00 Bill Bailey's Master Crafters: The Next Generation (AD) (S)
4.00 Discovering: Sissy Spacek (AD) (S)
5.00 Landscape Artist of the Year 2015 (S)

6.00 Tales of the Unexpected (AD) (S)
6.30 Tales of the Unexpected (AD) (S)

Bruce Springsteen: Live in Dublin

7.00 The Alfred Hitchcock Hour Five people witness a hit-and-run incident (S)

8.00 Genesis: When in Rome The rock band perform at the Circus Maximus in 2007 (S)

9.50 Elton John: Million Dollar Piano The musician plays at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas (S)

12.15 am Bruce Springsteen: Live in Dublin 3.00 Discovering: John Lennon 4.00 Art Traffickers: Treasures Stolen from the Tombs 5.00 - 6.00am Bill Bailey's Master Crafters: The Next Generation

U&Drama

FV 20 FS 158 SKY 143 VIRGIN 116

6.00 am Teleshopping 7.35 The Bill (S)
8.30 Doctors (S) 9.10 Doctors (S)
9.50 Classic Holby City (S) 10.55 Casualty (AD) (S) 11.55 The Bill (S)
12.55 pm Classic EastEnders (S)
1.35 Classic EastEnders (S)
2.15 Classic Neighbours (S)
2.50 Neighbours (S)
3.20 Sister Boniface Mysteries (AD) (S)
4.20 Father Brown (AD) (S)
5.20 As Time Goes By (S)
6.00 Last of the Summer Wine (AD) (S)
6.40 Last of the Summer Wine (AD) (S)

Miss Marple: The Murder at the Vicarage

7.20 Last of the Summer Wine Compo changes his image (AD) (S)

8.00 Miss Marple: The Murder at the Vicarage An unpopular colonel is found dead in the vicarage of St Mary Mead (AD) (S)

10.00 New Tricks A bloodstained bust is uncovered during construction work in a cemetery (AD) (S)

11.20 Judge John Deed 1.20am Sister Boniface Mysteries 2.25 As Time Goes By 2.55 Anna Pigeon Mysteries 4.00 - 6.00am Teleshopping

Talking Pictures TV

FV 82 FS 306 SKY 324 VIRGIN 445

6.00 am Sherlock Holmes (S) 6.30 FILM: Once A Sinner (1950, b/w) Drama starring Pat Kirkwood (S) 8.10 FILM: The Greed of William Hart (1948, b/w) Horror starring Tod Slaughter (S) 9.40 FILM: Where There's a Will (1955, b/w) Comedy starring George Cole (S) 11.10 FILM: The Glass Mountain (1949, b/w) Drama starring Michael Denison (S)

1.05 pm The Edgar Wallace Mystery Theatre (S)

2.15 The Adventures of Robin Hood (S) 2.45 FILM: Nurse on Wheels (1963, b/w) Comedy starring Juliet Mills (S)

5.00 A Family at War (S)

6.30 Rooms (S)

The Changeling
The Green Mile

7.00 Z Cars Robins fears a released convict is out for revenge (S)

8.00 Public Eye Frank comes to the aid of his former landlady (S)

9.00 Cellar Club with Caroline Munro (S)

9.05 FILM: The Changeling (1979) Spooky horror with George C Scott (S)

11.20 Cellar Club with Caroline Munro 11.25 FILM: Children Shouldn't Play with Dead Things (1973) Horror starring Alan Ormsby 1.00am FILM: Blood Thirst (1971, b/w) Thriller starring Robert Winston 2.35 FILM: Captive (1980) Sci-fi adventure starring David Ladd 4.20 Look at Life 4.30 The Vise 5.00 - 6.00am The Man from UNCLE

Film4

11.00 am FILM: D-Day: The Sixth of June (1956) Second World War drama starring Robert Taylor and Richard Todd (S)

1.10 pm FILM: The Yellow Mountain (1954) Western starring Howard Duff (S)

2.45 FILM: Forty Guns (1957, b/w) Western starring Barbara Stanwyck (S)

4.25 Living Interview Special
4.30 FILM: The Sheriff of Fractured Jaw (1958) Comedy Western starring Kenneth More (AD) (S)

6.35 FILM: Earthquake (1974) Residents of Los Angeles face a fight for survival after the city is struck by a devastating earthquake. Disaster movie starring Charlton Heston, Ava Gardner and Genevieve Bujold (S)

9.00 FILM: The Green Mile (1999)
A prison guard amazed by the healing power and gentle nature of a man on death row comes to doubt his guilt. Supernatural drama starring Tom Hanks and Michael Clarke Duncan (AD) (S)

12.45 - 3.25am FILM: Glass (2019) Thriller starring James McAvoy, Bruce Willis and Samuel L Jackson

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FV Freeview FS Freesat (AD) Audio description (R) Repeat (S) Subtitles (SL) In-vision signing

BBC Four

FV 9 FS 173 SKY 116 VIRGIN 108

7.00 pm TOTP: 2000
7.30 TOTP: 2000
8.00 TOTP: 1977
8.30 TOTP: 1984
9.10 The Genius of Funk
10.10 Cymande at Glastonbury 2025
10.40 Getting It Back: The Story of Cymande
12.10 am Black British Music at the BBC: Volume 1
2.35 TOTP: 1977
3.10 - 3.45am TOTP: 1984

U&Dave

Noon Hairy Bikers' Best of British 1.00pm Canal Boat Diaries 2.00 Top Gear 3.00 Our Guy in Japan 4.00 Rick Stein's Cornwall 6.00 Hairy Bikers' Best of British 7.00 Mortimer & Whitehouse: Gone Fishing 7.40 I'll Get This 8.20 Would I Lie to You? 9.00 QI XL 10.00 Have I Got a Bit More News for You 11.00 8 Out of 10 Cats: Best Bits 11.50 Mock the Week 12.30am Would I Lie to You? 1.50 Live at the Apollo 2.45 House of Games 3.30-4.00am Judge Romesh

ITV2

11.10am Charmed 12.05pm Deal or No Deal 1.05 Supermarket Sweep 2.05 Ant & Dec's Limitless Win 3.10 The Only Way Is Essex 4.10 The Real Housewives of Potomac 5.00 The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills 6.00 Celebrity Catchphrase 7.00 Ant & Dec's Limitless Win 8.00 The 1% Club 9.00 Big Brother: Live Eviction 10.35 Family Guy 11.35 American Dad! 12.35am Bob's Burgers 1.30 Next Level Chef USA 2.20 Unwind with ITV 3.00-6.00am Teleshopping

Challenge

11.00am Celebrity Antiques Road Trip 12.15pm Family Fortunes 1.00 Cash Trapped 2.00 Celebrity Bridge of Lies

ITV3

FV 10 FS 115 SKY 119 VIRGIN 117

11.30 am Heartbeat
12.35 pm Heartbeat
1.35 The Royal
2.40 Wild at Heart
3.40 Classic Emmerdale
4.40 Classic Coronation Street
5.15 Classic Coronation Street
5.50 Heartbeat
6.55 Heartbeat
8.00 Doc Martin
9.00 Doc Martin
10.00 Downton Abbey
11.55 DCI Banks
12.55 am DCI Banks
1.55 George and Mildred
2.20 Unwind with ITV
2.30 - 6.00am Teleshopping

3.00 The Chase 4.00 The Bidding Room 5.00 Tenable 6.00 Cash Trapped 7.00 The Chase Celebrity Special 8.00 The Chase 10.00 The Chase Celebrity Special 11.00 Bullseye 12.00 Celebrity Bridge of Lies 1.00am The Chase 2.00 The Chase: I'm a Celebrity Special 3.00-4.00am The Chase

Quest

Noon Outback Truckers 1.00pm The Repair Shop 2.00 Shed and Buried 4.00 Find It, Fix It, Flog It 5.00 Celebrity Yorkshire Auction House 6.00 The Yorkshire Auction House 7.00 Antiques Road Trip 8.00 The Yorkshire Auction House. Two sisters want to find new homes for their late father's incredible collection of circus memorabilia 9.00 The Repair Shop 11.00 How Do They Do It? 1.00am Salvage Hunters 3.00-4.00am Salvage Hunters: The Restorers

Discovery

Noon Building Off the Grid 1.00pm Animal Cops Houston 3.00 How Do They Do It? 5.00 Undercover Billionaire 7.00 Gold Rush 9.00 Expedition Unknown 11.00 In the Eye of the Storm: Chasers 12.00 Deadliest Catch 1.00am Expedition Unknown 3.00-5.00am Alaska: Homestead Rescue

ITV4

FV 26 FS 117 SKY 120 VIRGIN 118

11.40 am The Professionals
12.45 pm The Champions
1.50 American Pickers
2.50 American Pickers
3.50 Ice Road Truckers
4.50 Ice Road Truckers
5.45 Minder
6.50 Hornblower
9.00 FILM: The Losers (2010)
Action adventure starring Jeffrey Dean Morgan
11.05 All Elite Wrestling: Dynamite Grand Slam
1.05 am Minder
2.05 Two and a Half Men
2.30 Two and a Half Men
2.50 Unwind with ITV
3.00 - 6.00am Teleshopping

PBS America

11.50am The Rise and Fall of the Rust Belt 1.00pm Grand Tours of the Scottish Islands 1.40 Besieged Fortresses, Legendary Battles 2.50 The Siege of Leningrad 3.55 WWII in Colour: Road to Victory 5.00 The Rise and Fall of the Rust Belt 6.15 Besieged Fortresses, Legendary Battles 7.25 The Siege of Leningrad 8.35 WWII in Colour: Road to Victory 9.40 The Rise and Fall of the Rust Belt 10.55 The Siege of Leningrad 12.00 WWII in Colour: Road to Victory 1.10am Grand Tours of the Scottish Islands 2.00-6.00am Teleshopping

Sky History

Noon Secrets of Great British Castles 2.00pm Pawn Stars 6.00 American Pickers 7.00 Forged in Fire 8.00 Britain's Most Historic Towns 9.00 WWII Battles in Colour 11.00 Contraband: Seized at Sea 12.55am Britain's Most Historic Towns 1.50 WWII Battles in Colour 3.40-4.25am American Pickers

Sky Documentaries

Noon FILM: Gates of Heaven (1978)
Documentary, by Errol Morris 1.45pm
My Icon: Ebony Rainford-Brent 2.00
On the Line: The Richard Williams
Story 3.50 My Icon: Leon Pryce 4.00

More4

FV 18 FS 124 SKY 136 VIRGIN 147

11.35 am Come Dine with Me
12.05 pm Come Dine with Me
12.35 Come Dine with Me
1.05 Come Dine with Me
1.40 Come Dine with Me
2.15 Four in a Bed
2.50 Four in a Bed
4.50 Car S.O.S
5.50 Car S.O.S
6.50 The Dog House
7.55 The Dog House
9.00 Coastal Unit
10.15 24 Hours in A&E
11.20 24 Hours in A&E
12.20 am 999: On the Front Line
1.25 24 Hours in A&E
2.30 24 Hours in A&E
3.30 - 4.00am A Place in the Sun

The Directors 5.00 Discovering: James Coburn 6.00 FILM: Bobby Robson: More Than a Manager (2018) Exploring the career of the much-loved former football manager 8.00 FILM: Lancaster (2022) The story of the bomber synonymous with the Dambusters 10.00 FILM: Gascoigne (2015) Documentary about Paul Gascoigne 11.50 FILM: Lennox: The Untold Story (2020) The life story of former heavyweight boxer Lennox Lewis 1.50am QPR: The Four Year Plan 3.40-5.00am Daniel

Sky One

Noon Aussie Snake Wranglers: Deadly Pursuit 1.00pm Hawaii Five-0 3.00 S.W.A.T. 5.00 Formula 16.00 Superstore 7.00 The Simpsons 8.00 Shark with Steve Backshall 9.00 The Walking Dead: Dead City 10.00 Romesh: Can't Knock the Hustle 11.30 Grimsburg 12.00 Grimm 12.50am Evil 1.45 Road Wars 3.05-4.00am Hawaii Five-0

Great! Mystery

11.05am Murder, She Wrote 12.05pm Unforgettable 1.00 In Plain Sight 2.00 Castle 3.00 Diagnosis Murder 5.00 Murder, She Wrote 7.00 Castle 8.00 Unforgettable 9.00 Reef Break 11.00 In Plain Sight 12.00 FILM: An Aurora Teagarden Mystery: A

U&Gold

SKY 110 VIRGIN 124

11.50 am The Good Life
12.25 pm Only Fools and Horses
1.05 Only Fools and Horses
1.45 Keeping Up Appearances
2.25 Dad's Army
3.00 The Green Green Grass
3.40 Are You Being Served?
4.20 The Good Life
5.00 Dad's Army
5.40 Last of the Summer Wine
7.00 Only Fools and Horses
9.40 The Fast Show
10.20 Only Fools and Horses
12.20 am The Fast Show
1.00 Mrs Brown's Boys
1.40 Keeping Up Appearances
2.25 dinnerladies
3.00 The Good Life
3.30 - 4.00am The Fast Show

Bone to Pick (2015) 12.56am Good News on GREAT! 1.01 FILM: An Aurora Teagarden Mystery: A Bone to Pick (2015) 1.55 FILM: Off the Rails (2017) 3.25-4.50am FILM: Hidden Crimes (2009)

11.55am The Deb (2024) Comedy starring Natalie Abbott 2.05pm One Last Shot (2026) Thriller starring Scott Adkins 3.45 Cold Storage (2026) Comedy thriller starring Joe Keery 5.30 Better Man (2024) Robbie Williams biopic starring Jonno Davies 8.00 Mother's Pride (2026) Comedy starring Martin Clunes and James Buckley 9.45 The Deb (2024) Comedy musical starring Natalie Abbott 11.50 Cold Storage (2026) Comedy thriller starring Joe Keery 1.35am 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple (2026) Horror sequel starring Ralph Fiennes 3.35-5.35am Hamlet (2025) Drama starring Riz Ahmed

Sky Cinema Premiere

Sky Sports Main Event

U&Yesterday

FV 27 FS 159 SKY 155 VIRGIN 129

Noon Total Football 1.00pm Live Formula 1. The Singapore Grand Prix sprint qualifying session (start-time 1.30pm) 3.00 Live DP World Tour Golf. The Acciona Open De España Presented By Madrid 6.00 The Premier League Show 7.00 Sports Centre 7.30 Live EFL. West Ham United v Queens

Noon Antiques Roadshow
1.00 pm Antiques Roadshow
2.00 Bangers & Cash
3.00 Bangers & Cash
4.00 The Buildings That Fought Hitler
5.00 Rise of the Nazis: Dictators at War
6.00 Antiques Roadshow
7.00 Cornwall with Simon Reeve
8.00 Canal Boat Diaries
9.00 Canal Boat Diaries
10.00 Bangers & Cash
11.00 Bangers & Cash
12.00 Bangers & Cash
1.00 am Find It, Fix It, Flog It
2.00 Great Continental Railway Journeys
3.00 - 6.10am Teleshopping

SKY 108

Sky Atlantic

Park Rangers (kick-off 8.00pm) 10.30 Paper Talk 11.00 Sky Sports News 2.00-5.30am Live WNBA. Las Vegas Aces v Golden State Valkyries (tip-off 2.30am)

11.20 am Deadwood
12.25 pm Gomorrah
1.30 Homicide: Life on the Street
2.30 Homicide: Life on the Street
3.30 Billions
4.35 Billions
5.45 House of the Dragon
6.45 House of the Dragon
8.00 Fargo
9.00 War
10.05 Under Salt Marsh
11.10 Euphoria
12.20 am Euphoria
1.30 House of the Dragon
2.55 - 4.00am Gomorrah

Sky Sports Premier League

Noon Total Football 5.00pm The Premier League Show 7.00 Premier League Preview 7.30 The Big Interview 8.00 Fantasy Show 8.30 Premier League Stories 9.00 Premier League Preview 9.30 The Big Interview 10.00 Fantasy Show 10.30 Premier League Stories 11.00 Premier League Years 1.00am PL Retro 3.00-4.00am PL Greatest Games

TNT Sports 1

11.15am Men's Cycling Pro Series 12.15pm TNT Sports Reload 12.30 TNT Sports Cricket Reload 1.15 International T20 Cricket Highlights 2.15 Live International T20 Cricket. India v West Indies 6.15 The Breakdown 6.30 Premier League Preview 7.00 Live: The Gallagher PREM. Leicester Tigers v Gloucester Rugby (kick-off 7.45pm) 10.00 Original Documentary 11.30 The Fantasy Show 12.00 Premier League Preview 12.30am Uefa Champions League Magazine 1.00 Ultimate Pool 2.30 MLB Highlights 3.00-5.00am

Live: AFLW. St Kilda Saints Women v Collingwood Magpies Women (bounce-up 3.05am)

BBC News

Noon BBC News Now 2.00pm BBC News Now 2.30 Business Today 2.45 BBC News Now 3.00 Verified Live 5.30 BBC News 6.30 The World Today 8.00 The Context USA 9.00 The Context 10.00 BBC News at Ten 10.30 Newsnight 11.00 BBC World News America 11.30 The President's Path 11.45 BBC News 12.30am Talking Business 1.00 BBC News 1.30 Tech Now 2.00 BBC News 2.30 Clive Myrie's African Adventure 3.00 BBC News 3.30-4.00am Premier League

GB News

Noon Good Afternoon Britain 3.00pm
Martin Daubney 6.00 Dewbs & Co
7.00 Lee Anderson's Real World 8.00
Friday Night with Matt Goodwin 9.00
Patrick Christys Tonight 11.00 Patrick
Christys Tonight Late Edition 12.00
The Late Show Live 3.00-5.00am
Patrick Christys Tonight Replay

Sky News

Noon Sky News 1.00pm Sky News Today 5.00 Sky News 10.00 The Wrap with Gillian Joseph 12.00-6.00am Sky News

YouTube

Telegraph app

Spotify

Podcasts

Variations

Northern Ireland

BBC One: 7.30 - 8.00pm The Chronicles of Foyle BBC Two: No variations UTV: No variations

Scotland

BBC One: 2.45pm Clean It, Fix It 3.15 - 3.45 Shift the Thrift 11.30 A View from the Terrace 12.15am RuPaul's Drag Race UK 1.10 - 6.00am BBC News BBC Scotland: 7.00pm Reporting Scotland: News at Seven 7.30 One Team in Tallinn 8.00 Paramedics on Scene 9.00 The Four Rules of the Poker Kings 10.00 Still Game 10.30 A View from the Terrace 11.00 Breaking the News 11.30 Two Doors Down midnight Close STV: 1.00 - 3.59pm STV Racing: Live from Newmarket 3.50 - 5.05am Unwind with STV

Wales

BBC One: 7.30 - 8.00pm Back in the Day 11.30 The Golden Cobra 11.45 The Golden Cobra 12.00 The Golden Cobra 12.15am RuPaul's Drag Race UK 1.20 - 6.00am BBC News
BBC Two: 3.15pm Vintage Antiques Roadshow 4.00 Flog It! 4.45 Match of the Day Wales Live 7.15 House of Games 7.45 Strictly: It Takes Two 8.15
Gardeners' World 9.15 Beechgrove Repotted 9.30 - 10.00pm Mortimer & Whitehouse: Gone Fishing
ITV1 Wales: No variations

ITV1 Regions

No variations

S4C

6.00am Cyw 12.00 Newyddion S4C a'r Tywydd 12.05pm Dau Gi Bach 12.30 Heno 1.00 Y Sin 1.30 Trysorau Cymru: Tir, Tai a Chyfrinachau 2.00 Newyddion S4C a'r Tywydd 2.05 Pryhnawn Da 3.00 Newyddion S4C a'r Tywydd 3.05 Hanner Marathon Caerdydd 2026 4.00 Awr Fawr: Yr Whhs 4.10 Awr Fawr: Og y Draenog Hapus 4.20 Awr Fawr: Kim a Cai a Cranc 4.35 Awr Fawr: Sam Tan 4.45 Awr Fawr: Deian a Loli 5.00 Stwnsh 6.00 Cegin Clwyd Bryn Williams 6.30 Heno 7.00 Newyddion S4C a'r Tywydd 7.30 Clwb Rygbi 9.50 Pél-Droed Rhyngwladol 10.50 Gwalia Aleighcia 11.20 - 11.55pm 3Cân

Sea forecast

Forecast

General situation

Windy across the United Kingdom today. Cloud and rain in Wales and England in the morning, then sunny breaks and isolated showers. Sunny spells and showers in Scotland and Northern Ireland.

London, Cent S England, Channel Is, SW England, E

SW England, E England, SE England, E Anglia, Midlands: Morning cloud and rain, then sunny breaks and blustery showers later today. Max 58-70F (15-21C). A gentle to fresh W wind. Clear spells tonight. Min 45-52F (7-11C).

◆ NW England, Lake Dist, IoM, Cent N England, NE England: Blustery showers today. Max 52-65F (11-18C). A gentle to moderate W wind. Patchy cloud and the odd shower tonight. Min 34-50F (1-10C). ◆ Wales:

moderate W wind. Min 36-52F (2-11C). ◆N Ireland: Blustery showers today. Max 50-57F (10-14C). A moderate W wind. Patchy cloud tonight. Min 34-48F (1-9C). ◆SW Scotland, NW Scotland, Glasgow, Cent Highlands, Argyll, W Isles, SE Scotland, NE Scotland, Edinburgh, Dundee, Aberdeen, Moray Firth, Orkney, Shetland:

Early rain, then clear spells today and tonight. Max 50-62F (10-17C). A gentle to

Clear spells and windy today and tonight with showers. Max 42-60F (6-16C). A moderate to fresh W to SW wind. Min 32-50F (0-10C).

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British readings Last night's report for 24 hours to 6pm - *estimated readings

	Sun hrs	Rain in	Max/Min °C		Daytime weather
Aberdeen	7.7*	0.00	12*	6*	p/cloudy
Aberystwyth	0.9*	0.15	14*	9*	cloudy
Antrim	2.7*	0.37	12*	3*	rain
Aviemore	5.2*	0.20	10*	4*	showers
Barnstaple	5.6*	0.06	16*	8*	p/cloudy
Barrow-in-Furns.	6.4*	0.15	13*	8*	showers
Basingstoke	8.4*	0.00	14*	6*	p/cloudy
Bedford	5.2*	0.00	14*	6*	p/cloudy
Belfast	5.6*	0.24	12*	6*	showers
Berwick	7.1*	0.05	12*	4*	showers
Birmingham	9.1*	0.00	14*	6*	p/cloudy
Bodmin	3.1*	0.04	14*	9*	cloudy
Bournemouth	7.7*	0.00	16*	7*	p/cloudy
Braintree	5.2*	0.00	14*	7*	p/cloudy
Brecon	4.5*	0.00	13*	6*	cloudy
Bridlington	4.4*	0.08	13*	7*	cloudy
Brighton	6.6*	0.00	15*	7*	p/cloudy
Bristol	6.4*	0.02	14*	7*	p/cloudy
Camborne	3.9*	0.03	15*	11*	cloudy
Cardiff	7.5*	0.00	14*	8*	p/cloudy
Carlisle	6.2*	0.15	13*	2*	showers
Catterick	7.7*	0.01	14*	5*	showers
Cheltenham	6.3*	0.00	16*	4*	p/cloudy

	Sun hrs	Rain in	Max/Min °C		Daytime weather
Chester	4.6*	0.20	13*	7*	showers
Coventry	7.2*	0.01	14*	6*	p/cloudy
Doncaster	5.6*	0.00	13*	6*	p/cloudy
Dover	5.0*	0.15	14*	9*	p/cloudy
Dundee	7.2*	0.08	13*	4*	showers
Eastbourne	6.5*	0.01	15*	8*	p/cloudy
Edinburgh	7.6*	0.00	12*	2*	p/cloudy
Epsom	5.5*	0.00	13*	7*	p/cloudy
Falmouth	3.8*	0.00	14*	11*	cloudy
Farnborough	6.2*	0.00	14*	7*	p/cloudy
Fort William	6.1*	0.47	12*	4*	rain
Glasgow	9.0*	0.02	12*	2*	showers
Great Malvern	5.5*	0.03	14*	6*	showers
Grimsby	5.3*	0.00	13*	7*	p/cloudy
Guernsey	5.6*	0.00	15*	12*	p/cloudy
Hereford	6.1*	0.00	14*	6*	p/cloudy
High Wycombe	6.0*	0.00	14*	6*	p/cloudy
Holyhead	5.0*	0.23	13*	9*	showers
Huddersfield	7.6*	0.00	12*	5*	p/cloudy
Ipswich	9.1*	0.04	13*	6*	p/cloudy
Isle of Man	4.7*	0.14	13*	10*	showers
Isle of Skye	4.4*	0.53	10*	7*	rain
Isle of Wight	6.3*	0.00	15*	7*	p/cloudy

Atlantic front

	Sun hrs	Rain in	Max/Min °C		Daytime weather
Isles of Scilly	6.0*	0.00	14*	6*	p/cloudy
Jersey	3.9*	0.09	16*	12*	showers
Keswick	7.3*	0.28	13*	2*	showers
Kew Gardens	5.2*	0.00	15*	8*	p/cloudy
King's Lynn	9.1*	0.00	14*	6*	p/cloudy
Leeds	7.7*	0.01	13*	5*	showers
Leek	7.3*	0.00	12*	5*	p/cloudy
Leominster	5.5*	0.04	14*	6*	p/cloudy
Lincoln	5.7*	0.00	13*	6*	p/cloudy
Liverpool	6.6*	0.07	14*	7*	showers
London	5.2*	0.00	15*	8*	p/cloudy
Manchester	9.1*	0.00	13*	3*	p/cloudy
Middlesbrough	6.8*	0.00	14*	3*	p/cloudy
Newcastle	8.8*	0.00	14*	3*	p/cloudy
Newquay	3.4*	0.05	15*	12*	showers
Nottingham	7.6*	0.00	13*	4*	p/cloudy
Orkney	4.4*	0.08	11*	4*	showers
Oxford	6.0*	0.00	14*	6*	p/cloudy
Perth	7.3*	0.13	12*	3*	showers
Peterborough	9.1*	0.00	14*	6*	p/cloudy
Plymouth	4.9*	0.04	16*	11*	cloudy
Portsmouth*	6.2*	0.00*	16*	7*	p/cloudy
Prestwick	5.8*	0.06	12*	4*	showers

Noon today: Rainy periods, some thundery, in Italy and the Balkans. A front will bring showers to the U.K., southern Norway and northern Germany.

Sun & moon (Greenwich)

Sun rises	0715
Sun sets	1821
Moon rises	0546
Moon sets	1736
New moon	Oct 10

High water
Yesterday

Lighting up

Warmest	Portland 17C (63F)
Coldest	Aberdeen 6°C (F)
Wettest	Isle of Skye 0.53 in.
Sunniest	Southampton 9.2 hr.

Aberdeen	1822 to 0731
Belfast	1841 to 0744
Birmingham	1826 to 0724
London	1821 to 0717
Manchester	1827 to 0727
Penzance	1843 to 0736

	Sun hrs	Rain in	Max/Min °C		Daytime weather
Ramsgate	5.0*	0.14	14*	9*	p/cloudy
Rhyl	4.1*	0.40	12*	8*	rain
Rugby	6.6*	0.00	14*	6*	p/cloudy
Salisbury	6.0*	0.00	16*	7*	p/cloudy
Scunthorpe	5.7*	0.00	13*	7*	p/cloudy
Sheffield	5.6	0.00	13	6	p/cloudy
Shetland	4.6*	0.04	11*	7*	cloudy
Shrewsbury	4.5*	0.19	15*	4*	showers
Skegness	5.6*	0.00	14*	7*	p/cloudy
Southampton	9.2*	0.00	16*	6*	p/cloudy
Southend-on-Sea	4.6*	0.02	14*	8*	cloudy
Stockport	7.5*	0.00	13*	5*	p/cloudy
Stornoway	4.8*	0.09	11*	4*	showers
Swansea	6.0*	0.02	14*	8*	showers
Swindon	6.4*	0.00	14*	6*	p/cloudy
Thirsk	8.7*	0.00	14*	4*	p/cloudy
Tiree	2.6*	0.42	11*	7*	rain
Weymouth	5.8*	0.01	16*	8*	p/cloudy
Whitehaven	6.4*	0.27	12*	7*	showers
Windermere	7.6*	0.09	13*	6*	showers
Worcester	5.5*	0.04	15*	6*	showers
Yeovil	6.8*	0.00	16*	6*	p/cloudy
York	7.5*	0.00	13*	5*	p/cloudy

Aberdeen	--	--	1229	4.2m
Belfast	1006	3.3m	2214	3.7m
Cardiff	0553	12.0m	1811	12.4m
Dover	1006	6.7m	2235	6.6m
Falmouth	0407	4.9m	1619	5.2m
Harwich	1026	4.0m	2256	4.2m
Holyhead	0917	5.4m	2126	5.8m
Hull	0448	7.4m	1730	7.4m
Liverpool	1006	9.2m	2218	9.5m
London	0029	6.9m	1251	6.8m
Portsmouth	1035	4.8m	2227	4.6m
Southampton	1023	4.6m	1528	1.0m

S North Sea: A fresh to near gale west-southwesterly wind today. Seas will be slight. Visibility will be poor.

Dover Strait, English Channel: A strong to gale west-southwesterly wind today. Seas will be slight on the east and will be smooth on the west. Visibility will be poor.

St. George's Channel: A fresh to near gale westerly wind today. Seas will be slight. Visibility will be poor. Irish Sea: A fresh to near gale westerly wind today. Seas will be slight. Visibility will be fair.

European readings Last night's report for 24 hours to 6pm

	Max°C	Min°C	Daytime weather
Akrotiri	27	18	sunny
Alicante	27	20	sunny
Amsterdam	15	12	rain
Athens	26	14	sunny
Barcelona	22	18	p/cldy
Bari	31	19	showers
Belgrade	28	9	p/cldy
Benidorm	26	18	windy
Bergen	11	5	p/cldy
Berlin	19	10	rain
Biarritz	18	15	p/cldy
Bodrum	24	13	sunny
Bordeaux	18	13	sunny
Brest	15	11	p/cldy
Brussels	15	12	showers
Bucharest	27	9	p/cldy
Budapest	25	11	sunny
Cagliari	25	20	showers
Chamonix	13	9	storms
Copenhagen	15	9	rain
Corfu	24	17	rain
Cork	14	7	rain
Corsica	26	18	showers
Crete	24	15	sunny
Dublin	13	5	rain
Dubrovnik	22	16	storms
Faro	26	19	sunny
Florence	24	19	showers

	Max°C	Min°C	Daytime weather
Frankfurt	18	14	rain
Funchal	23	19	rain
Gdansk	18	9	p/cldy
Geneva	15	12	showers
Gibraltar	25	20	sunny
Hamburg	14	11	rain
Helsinki	13	0	p/cldy
Innsbruck	17	11	rain
Istanbul	20	14	p/cldy
Kyiv	24	9	p/cldy
La Rochelle	17	12	p/cldy
Lisbon	28	16	sunny
Locarno	18	12	rain
Luxembourg	15	11	showers
Madrid	20	13	sunny
Majorca	24	16	p/cldy
Malaga	26	19	sunny
Malta	28	22	sunny
Marseille	20	15	windy
Menorca	27	19	showers
Milan	21	15	rain
Monaco	24	16	p/cldy
Moscow	14	4	p/cldy
Munich	20	11	showers
Naples	23	18	storms
Nice	25	17	windy
Nicosia	28	15	sunny
Oporto	23	13	p/cldy

World readings

	Max °C	Min °C	Daytime weather
Accra	31	24	p/cldy
Addis Ababa	24	11	haze
Adelaide	28	13	sunny
Alexandria	26	17	sunny
Algiers	27	18	showers
Amman	30	17	sunny
Anchorage	7	3	showers
Ankara	22	5	p/cldy
Ascension Is.	27	22	p/cldy
Auckland	20	11	sunny
Baghdad	36	26	p/cldy
Bahamas	31	25	storms
Bahrain	37	31	haze
Bamako	34	22	p/cldy
Bangkok	33	26	p/cldy
Beijing	27	9	haze
Beirut	31	19	sunny
Bermuda	28	24	showers
Bogota	19	11	rain
Bridgetown	30	25	rain
Brisbane	23	16	cloudy
Buenos Aires	18	16	rain
Cairo	29	20	sunny
Canberra	22	2	sunny
Cape Town	22	9	p/cldy
Casablanca	26	17	p/cldy
Chicago	21	12	p/cldy
Christchurch	16	8	cloudy
Colombo	32	24	rain

	Max °C	Min °C	Daytime weather
Damascus	29	15	sunny
Dar es Salaam	30	22	showers
Dhaka	33	24	storms
Dubai	42	32	sunny
Falkland Is.	13	3	sunny
Harare	29	14	storms
Havana	31	23	rain
Hong Kong	31	25	p/cldy
Honolulu	27	24	showers
Jakarta	36	25	p/cldy
Jeddah	35	30	haze
Jerusalem	26	17	sunny
Johannesburg	25	10	sunny
Kabul	26	14	haze
Karachi	34	26	sunny
Kolkata	33	24	showers
Kuala Lumpur	33	25	showers
La Paz	16	1	sunny
Lahore	33	25	haze
Lima	25	21	p/cldy
Los Angeles	29	21	sunny
Maldives	33	28	storms
Manila	31	26	p/cldy
Marrakesh	26	16	cloudy
Melbourne	26	4	sunny
Miami	32	25	storms
Montego Bay	30	26	rain
Mumbai	37	28	haze
Nairobi	28	16	cloudy

	Max °C	Min °C	Daytime weather
Oslo	8	4	rain
Palermo	32	23	p/cldy
Paris	17	11	p/cldy
Perpignan	19	16	windy
Prague	21	7	showers
Reykjavik	8	4	rain
Rhodes	24	19	sunny
Riga	18	5	p/cldy
Rome	24	18	showers
Saint Malo	16	12	cloudy
Salzburg	22	11	rain
Santander	19	13	showers
Santiago/Comp.	17	10	p/cldy
Sofia	25	2	sunny
St. Petersburg	14	6	p/cldy
Stockholm	13	5	rain
Strasbourg	16	14	rain
Tenerife	28	21	sunny
Tirana	26	14	cloudy
Toulouse	17	13	windy
Valencia	26	16	sunny
Venice	23	17	showers
Vienna	24	10	p/cldy
Vigo	21	12	windy
Vilnius	19	6	p/cldy
Warsaw	20	8	p/cldy
Zagreb	25	11	showers
Zurich	16	12	showers

	Max °C	Min °C	Daytime weather
New Orleans	28	24	p/cldy
New Delhi	35	24	p/cldy
New York	22	14	sunny
Ottawa	15	9	storms
Perth	19	14	showers
Port-of-Spain	32	26	p/cldy
Rio de Janeiro	25	21	sunny
Riyadh	40	24	haze
San Francisco	17	12	sunny
Santiago	17	11	rain
Seattle	12	11	showers
Seoul	25	9	haze
Seychelles	31	26	cloudy
Singapore	32	28	p/cldy
Sydney	23	11	p/cldy
Taipei City	28	21	windy
Tangier	25	17	p/cldy
Tel Aviv	29	19	sunny
Tokyo	23	17	sunny
Toronto	18	9	windy
Tunis	32	22	p/cldy
Vancouver	12	10	p/cldy
Washington	26	14	sunny
Wellington	16	10	cloudy
Winnipeg	13	2	p/cldy

Forecasts and graphics provided by AccuWeather.com ©2026

Nature Notes

Wildlife down by 75pc worldwide

NATURE is in “freefall” across the world, but recoveries in species from tigers to tuna provide hope for the future, conservationists have said.

Conservation charity WWF has unveiled its latest Living Planet report, which shows that wildlife populations have declined globally by nearly three-quarters since 1970.

There have also been “bright spots”, including in the UK where otters, beavers, white-tailed eagles and bluefin tuna have staged comebacks, while captive breeding and reintroductions have helped European bison return from extinction in the wild to 10 countries in just over 50 years.

Major shifts are needed in the systems that are driving declines, WWF said. "There are examples of species that can recover when we do the right thing," said Dr Mike Barrett, its chief scientific adviser. "But these are bright spots against an overall picture that is still one of decline."

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1 Something outstanding that nobody wants? (4)

3 Charles is not amused in transport hub (5,5) 10 27 Across changed system for the better (9) 11

11 Nonsense writer with new master (5)

12 Sweet young Henry seen with Virginia (5)

1 Flora (6)
2 Ape or parrot (7)
3 Nineties (anag.) (8)
4 Drag or tow (4)

13 Mortals corrupted around Oklahoma act quickly (4,5)
14 Hard to part dog and Siamese once here? (8)
16 Where you might see male team in green? (6)

19 Go to ground, literally or figuratively (3,3)

20 A titled woman covering bottom in novel (4,4)
22 Alert as 15 Down looking to pass or shoot (2,3,4)
24 Trader generating turnover? (5)

26 Country wife and son drinking beer (5)
27 Emerge carrying child close to natural philosopher (9)
28 Where Postcode Lottery winner may now live? (4,6)
29 Genuine regret shown after time (4)

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1 Day on long canal (5) 2 Formidable woman in latex beat Dicky (6-3)

5 What abstainers drink served up for Medusa? (6)
6 Place for spectacles with a classical design and oval shape? (9)

4 Unduly fresh in Hampshire strait (8)

7 Love meat rolls initially available in city (5)
8 Effect of excessive heat - Turk's nose damaged (9)
9 & 24 Down Minor skin lesion - some escape bandages (4-4)
14 Sad story, Spooner's plaintive Cry from Little Piggy (4.2.3)

15 Noiseless bats and other animals (9)

21 Barry Adair making odd appearances in market (6)
23 Bone set in hospital usually (5)

17 Curry perhaps cool served with fish and rook? (3-6) 18 City set down a Scottish river engulfs (8)

24 See 9 Down
25 Old magistrate once a Kent player? (5)

Across

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4 Ups (5)
8 Chinese, e.g. (5)
9 Fruity dessert (7)
10 Rat (7)
11 Greenish blue (4)
12 Musical gift (3)
14 Food shop (4)
15 Trojan War hero (4)
18 Enthusiast (3)
21 Enormous (4)
23 Sees gal (anag.) (7)
25 US port on Puget Sound (7)
26 Fragrance (5)
27 Exhaust (5)
28 Rise (6)

5 The BBC's Ms Logan (5)
6 Brown pigment (6)
7 Twenty (5)
13 Satirical French author (8)
16 Impressive (7)

17 Diverted (6)
19 Device that 24 Downs (5)
20 Lee Harvey ____ (6)
22 West African country (5)
24 Daze or shock (4)

Yesterday's Quick Crossword Solution

Across: 1 Gully, 4 Fussed, 9 Raffles, (Gulliver's Travels) 10 Spasm, 11 Lays, 12 Avarice, 13 Ray, 14 Fake, 16 Lump, 18 Tie, 20 Example, 21 Clue, 24 Laden, 25 Scandal, 26 Hunger, 27 Needy. Down: 1 Girdle, 2 Lofty, 3 Yule, 5 Unstable, 6 Stadium, 7 Damsel, 8 Essay, 13 Response, 15 Abandon, 17 Wealth, 18 Tease, 19 Medley, 22 Ledge, 23 Dawn.

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