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ADHD 标签恐给青少年带来“终身损害”

诊断病例增加，自闭症病例增长 40 倍

埃莉诺·海沃德 (Eleanor Hayward) 健康编辑 本·克拉特沃西 (Ben Clatworthy) 怀特霍尔编辑

一项政府审查得出的结论是，自闭症和 ADHD（注意力缺陷多动障碍）病例的激增正达到过度诊断的“临界点”，这可能会给儿童带来终身损害。

专家表示，从小就拥有一个诊断标签可能会“关闭机会之门”，并产生“意外损害”，包括导致求职困难或难以维持人际关系。

这份涵盖英格兰地区的报告指出，自闭症和 在历史上一直被低估，但目前的趋势正转向误诊和过度诊断的风险增加。

自 2000 年以来，被诊断为自闭症的青少年比例增长了 40 倍，而同期 的诊断病例增长了 15 倍。

报告作者表示，过度诊断 或自闭症的潜在危害包括，这可能“成为孩子的身份标签”，并使其被定义为“由困难而非优势、环境和潜力决定”。他们建议将“诊断优先”的方法转变为专注于实际支持的方法，例如在学校为任何感到不知所措的孩子提供“安静室”，即使他们没有正式的诊断结果。

怀特霍尔内部日益担心，诊断病例的增加正在推高福利申请数量，并加剧青年失业危机。报告发现，被诊断为 的儿童最终成为尼特族（Neet，即未在学、未就业、未接受培训的人群）的可能性是其他儿童的四倍。

此次审查由前卫生大臣、现任国防大臣韦斯·斯特里廷（Wes Streeting）委托，并由伦敦大学学院的心理学家彼得·福纳吉教授（Professor Peter Fonagy）领导。审查研究了对心理健康、 和自闭症服务需求的激增，包括关于这些病症是否被过度诊断的争论。

作者表示，目前的数据过于不确定，无法“确定目前正发生大规模的过度诊断”，但年轻人的“趋势正朝着那个方向发展”。他们发现，此前对人群中自闭症和 “真实患病率”的估计与实际被诊断的人数之间存在不匹配。

例如，目前 6% 的 6 至 11 岁男孩被诊断为自闭症。然而，之前的研究表明，预计人口中只有 1.2% 患有这种发育障碍，且这一比例一直保持“大致稳定”。

审查委员会副主席西蒙·韦塞利爵士（Sir Simon Wessely）表示，年轻人的高诊断率可能“比看起来更糟糕”，因为官方数据不包括近一百万名在候诊名单上的人或通过私人渠道获得诊断的人。“我认为，我们正在远离 []

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安德鲁·蒙巴顿-温莎（Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor）在 2 月因涉嫌职务不端被捕后离开羁押地

警方对安德鲁住所的搜查被判定为非法

菲奥娜·汉密尔顿 (Fiona Hamilton) 首席记者 凯特·曼西 (Kate Mansey) 副编辑

泰晤士河谷警方在承认其对安德鲁·蒙巴顿-温莎 (Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor) 住所进行的高调搜查属非法后，陷入了一场令人尴尬的失误中心。

高等法院昨日撤销了用于搜查安德鲁住所的搜查令，这引发了人们对该警队执行如此重大且敏感调查能力的质疑。

关于警方是否可以使用扣押的材料来调查蒙巴顿-温莎与恋童癖金融家杰弗里·爱泼斯坦 (Jeffrey Epstein) 之间联系的法律斗争将持续到明年。

希利亚德法官 (Mr Justice Hilliard) 发现该警队在申请搜查令以及旧贝利法院 (Old Bailey) 法官批准搜查令的过程中存在“重大错误”。泰晤士河谷警方承认搜查令是在错误的条款下授予的，目前已发起法院挑战，试图通过另一种法律机制保留扣押的材料。

然而，法律专家表示，虽然这对警方来说很尴尬，但这属于技术性错误，并不意味着扣押的物品在刑事起诉中将不可被接纳。

泰晤士河谷警方表示，侦查员将继续对蒙巴顿-温莎进行刑事调查。他于今年 2 月 66 岁生日当天被捕，涉嫌在公职中存在不当行为。在被释放接受调查前，他接受了警方 12 小时的审讯。侦查员还花费数日搜查了他位于桑德灵厄姆庄园 (Sandringham estate) 的住所以及他此前在温莎的住所皇家小屋 (Royal Lodge)。他们扣押了包括文件和电子设备在内的证据。

此次调查始于美国司法部 (DOJ) 公布的数百万份文件。爱泼斯坦文件显示，蒙巴顿-温莎在 2001 年至 2011 年担任英国国际贸易与投资特使期间，曾与该金融家分享敏感信息。

法官详细阐述了搜查令是如何根据《警察与刑事证据法》第 8 条授予的，但 续见第 9 页

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保守党遗产税计划“将耗资超过 100亿英镑”

奥利弗·赖特 (Oliver Wright) 政策编辑

税务专家警告称，凯米·巴德诺克 (Kemi Badenoch) 关于免除家庭住宅遗产税的承诺将扭曲住房市场，并可能导致财政部损失的收入高达保守党所声称金额的两倍。

这位保守党领袖在周三的会议演讲中宣布，计划允许子女免税继承父母的住宅，无论其价值如何。保守党表示，该政策每年将使财政部损失约 60亿英镑，并能防止数千人因支付遗产税而被迫出售家庭住宅。

一些税务专家和经济学家对这些提案提出了批评，称这将降低老年人缩减住房规模（downsizing）的动力，并使资金从股票和股份等资产中流出。

税务律师丹·奈德尔 (Dan Neidle) 的一项分析表明，由于老年人为了降低遗产税账单而坚持持有较大的房屋，该政策每年可能导致财政部损失高达 109亿英镑 的收入。他表示，有些人甚至可能会通过升级住房（upsize）来充分利用这一漏洞。

华威大学经济学教授兼智库 CenTax 主任阿伦·阿德瓦尼 (Arun Advani) 表示，这一变化将使年轻的工薪家庭升级住房变得更加困难且昂贵。

“显然，一旦主要住宅获得免税，人们不仅会有动力保留自己的住房，还会有动力升级到更昂贵的住宅以便传给后代，”他说。“很多人现在就已经不想[缩减住房规模]，部分原因是目前主要住宅享有遗产税减免。这项改革将进一步阻碍缩减住房规模，尤其是对于居住在房价昂贵地区的人来说。”

他补充说，受益者将主要来自伦敦和东南部地区的家庭，因为这些地区的主要住宅目前更有可能被征收遗产税，而想要搬到这些地区的人将因房屋出售数量减少而蒙受损失。

保守党利用牛津经济研究院 (Oxford Economics) 来计算该政策对公共财政的影响。该咨询公司得出结论，预计每年将耗资约 60亿英镑。

然而，奈德尔表示，行为影响可能会使财政部的收入损失增加 100 万英镑.70亿美元 至 49亿英镑 之间。“如今，卖掉一套 100万英镑 的房子并搬进一套 100 万英镑 flat，不会改变你孩子的遗产税账单，”奈德尔说。“在保守党的提案下，100万英镑 的房子免征遗产税，£400k 的公寓继续免税，但你释放出的 £600k 则完全需要缴纳遗产税。”

不过，保守党表示，过去 30 年的房价增长使遗产税变成了一场“邮政编码彩票”，其中“几十年前购买的完全正常的房子，现在的价值足以让家庭陷入税网”。他们否认其计划会扭曲住房市场，并指出夫妇双方还将能够免税向子女传递高达 100万英镑 的现金。

政治对手对该计划提出了批评。养老金大臣托斯滕·贝尔 (Torsten Bell) 称其为“针对最富裕人群的无资金支持的减税”，并表示保守党“严重低估了其政策的成本”。改革英国党（Reform UK）的丹尼·克鲁格 (Danny Kruger) 表示，该政策证明保守党已经放弃了北部贫困工业城镇的“红墙”。巴德诺克放弃了保守党的红墙之梦，见第 21 页，帕特里克·马奎尔 (Patrick Maguire) 报道。

央行行长敦促采取可靠的财政政策以稳定市场

亚历克斯·拉尔夫 (Alex Ralph) 首席商业记者

在全球债券市场大跌之际，英格兰银行行长敦促各国政府加大修复公共财政的力度，以帮助抵御冲击。

安德鲁·贝利 (Andrew Bailey) 在由土耳其央行组织的一场伊斯坦布尔论坛上表示，财政政策必须“导向稳定性，并被市场视为可靠”。他表示：“包括财政规则在内的清晰框架，有助于在冲击发生时控制风险溢价。”

贝利发表上述言论的时间，距离约翰·希利 (John Healey) 作为财政大臣首次提交预算案仅剩几周，而债券收益率的上升正推高借贷成本并挤压公共财政。

安永 (EY) 本周的一份报告预测，政府的财政空间已从 3 月的 236亿英镑 缩小至 113亿英镑；如果中东冲突继续限制能源供应、推高通胀并拖累增长，该数字可能会进一步下降至 70亿英镑 的赤字。

由于油价上涨引发全球债券再次抛售，长期借贷成本在昨日触及数十年来的最高点。布伦特原油上涨 5% 至每桶 \$105，为 9 月下旬以来的最高水平。十年期英国国债收益率升至 5.53%，为 2007 年 7 月以来最高。

贝利表示，经济增长放缓和接连不断的供应冲击削弱了公共财政，增加了政府介入的压力。他表示：“政府可以……利用其资产负债表来缓冲严重的经济衰退。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，情况就不同了。”

这位行长表示，目前“没有快速解决方案”，但需要提高可持续增长、建立可靠的政策框架，并确保金融市场能够吸收冲击。

希利和安迪·伯纳姆 (Andy Burnham) 在预算案出台前试图安抚市场。希利在劳工党党代会上表示，他与首相“步调一致，我们将遵守财政规则”。

在安永的预测中，财政空间缩小至 113亿英镑 是基于霍尔木兹海峡在今年年底前重新开放的假设。而在其“不利情景”中，即该海峡关闭至 2027 年中期且通胀在今年年底前攀升至 6%，这将导致约 70亿英镑 的赤字。

延迟提交的避难申请将面临更严格审查

艾玛·约曼斯 (Emma Yeomans)

根据一项拟议法律，那些在最后时刻提交申请以阻挠被遣返的移民将面临更严格的审查。

《移民与避难法案》的一项修正案将意味着，在没有正当理由的情况下提出的避难和保护申请可能会损害移民的可信度，并降低其申请成功的可能性。法官和移民决策者在做出裁决时，将考虑申请提交的时间。

这进一步加强了法案中旨在加快处理面临强制执行移民之延迟避难申请的措施。

根据该修正案，将被英国遣返的移民将被送达一份申请通知，且必须在设定的截止日期前提交任何留英理由。在截止日期之后，或在收到遣返通知之后提出的上诉，将被视为延迟申请。

边境安全与避难大臣安娜·特利 (Anna Turley) 表示：“通过堵住这一滥用途径，我们将防止不必要的延误，加快遣返速度，并恢复移民系统的秩序与控制。”

新的 Ofsted 制度“依然在伤害教师”

乔治亚·兰伯特 (Georgia Lambert)

乔治亚·兰伯特 教育记者

根据学校监管机构委托的一项研究，近半数学校领导者表示，其员工的心理健康受到了近期 Ofsted 检查的负面影响。

IFF 的研究发现，48% 的领导者表示，在 Ofsted 新框架下进行的检查对员工心理健康产生了“相当大”或“很大”的影响。这一结果出炉时，Ofsted 在英格兰引入其报告卡系统（取代单一词汇评级）尚不足一年。

这些变革是由雷丁市卡弗舍姆小学 (Caversham Primary School) 校长露丝·佩里 (Ruth Perry) 的自杀事件促成的。一项死因研讯发现，一次检查是导致该事件的促成因素。

在基尔·斯塔默爵士 (Sir Keir Starmer) 政府领导下引入的新框架，遭到了学校领导者、教师和工会的批评。据报道，教育大臣露西·鲍威尔 (Lucy Powell) 上周在担心新框架产生问题的情况下，告诉 Ofsted “重新审视方案”。虽然她不想废除将学校在六个关键领域评为从“卓越”到需要“紧急改进”的评分制度，但她希望检查员能更多地考虑每所学校的社会和经济背景。

她的这些言论是在 NAHT 学校领导者工会呼吁停止检查之后发表的，该工会表示担心这些检查依然对生命构成风险。

IFF 对近 700 名来自学校、早期教育、进一步教育和技能培训机构的领导者进行了调查。

Ofsted 首席检查员马丁·奥利弗爵士 (Sir Martyn Oliver) 表示：“当我加入 Ofsted 时，显然需要改变我们的检查方式，以减轻教育领导者的压力。”

被忽视的 DNA 科学家的故事迎来新转折

卡雅·伯吉斯（Kaya Burgess）撰文：罗莎琳德·富兰克林（Rosalind Franklin）的一份遗失笔记，为这位错失诺贝尔奖的女性带来了“公正”。

弗朗西斯·克里克（Francis Crick）和詹姆斯·沃森（James Watson）这两个名字已成为发现 DNA 结构的代名词。但通过揭示第三个人在这一突破中所扮演的完整角色，终于可以实现“公正”；几十年来，此人在该发现中的重要性一直深陷于性别歧视的指控之中。

74 年来，一直有说法称，英国化学家罗莎琳德·富兰克林在沃森或克里克之前就已经掌握了 DNA 螺旋结构的证据，但她“未能意识到其重要性”并将其搁置一旁。故事是这样讲述的：这就是为什么富兰克林没能抢在克里克和沃森之前完成发现，也没能分享最初的功劳，而这项发现最终让这两名男子以及第三人莫里斯·威尔金斯（Maurice Wilkins）获得了诺贝尔奖。

分析发现，几十年来，这个故事引发了关于厌女症的指责，助长了“关于女性在科学领域作用的长期刻板印象”。

这场风波的核心是一张著名的图像，被称为“照片 51”（Photo 51），这是一张 1952 年 5 月拍摄的从 DNA 溶液中提取的纤维的 X 射线图像。它显示了一个由点或短线组成的 X 形“衍射”图案。

这张照片由富兰克林和她的研究生雷蒙德·戈斯林（Raymond Gosling）拍摄，并在九个月后，在未经他们许可或不知情的情况下被展示给沃森。这位美国生物学家表示，他立即意识到了该图像在展示螺旋结构方面的重要性。

他在 1968 年的回忆录中写道：“在我看到这张照片的一瞬间，我惊讶得张开了嘴，心跳开始加速。”

发表在《生物学历史杂志》（Journal of the History of Biology）上的一篇新论文在提到沃森时指出：“他一生都在坚持认为，富兰克林不够优秀，无法在‘照片 51’中看到他瞬间就认出的真相。”

关于富兰克林为何没有立即发表这张图像，以及为什么她的记录中似乎没有在图像旁做任何笔记，一直笼罩在谜团之中。富兰克林当时工作的伦敦国王学院（King's College London）以及费城的分析人员现在重新查阅了她的笔记，并找到了答案。他们发现，在 1952 年 5 月同一天的早些时候，富兰克林和戈斯林拍摄了“照片 49”。这张照片显示了相同的图案，但由于一个瑕疵（可能是设备打滑造成的）而发生了扭曲。

在图像旁边，她记录了这张照片可能显示了“每圈螺旋”有多少个“碱基”（DNA 的构建模块）。同一天晚些时候，她再次对同一样本进行了 X 射线拍摄，以获得更清晰的图像。由于她已经在之前的照片旁做了记录，因此这次拍摄不需要进一步的笔记。分析指出：“她已经明白 X 射线图案可以揭示关于 DNA 螺旋结构的重要信息，并计划拍摄一张新照片以获得更清晰的……证据。”

罗莎琳德·富兰克林（此处在托斯卡纳度假）拍摄了左上角的“照片 51”。下方是詹姆斯·沃森和弗朗西斯·克里克 1953 年在卡文迪什实验室（Cavendish Laboratory）与他们的 DNA 模型合影。左下方是妮可·基德曼（Nicole Kidman）在 2015 年的戏剧《照片 51》中饰演的富兰克林。

该杂志的共同编辑瓦西莉基·贝蒂·斯莫科维蒂斯（Vassiliki Betty Smocovitis）告诉科学新闻网站，这一发现“增加了公正，这就是它带来的意义”。

在确定晶体形式可能是一个双链分子后，富兰克林重新审视了“照片 51”以记录其证据，包括她怀疑该图像显示了一个“双链螺旋”。

到 1953 年她重新审视该图像时，克里克和沃森距离在剑桥利用该图像宣布他们的突破性发现仅剩几天时间。

伦敦国王学院表示：“[这些]发现并没有削弱沃森和克里克在开发双螺旋模型工作中的重要性。”

“然而，这些资料更全面地展现了富兰克林自身的实验工作如何助力于对 DNA 结构的理解，并表明她充分意识到自己工作的重要性，尤其是 51 号照片。”

富兰克林于 1958 年因卵巢癌去世，享年 37 岁。克里克、沃森和威尔金斯于 1962 年被授予诺贝尔奖。该奖项不授予逝者。

这只 194 岁的陆龟可能掌握长寿之钥

里斯·布莱克利 (Rhys Blakely) 科学编辑

当巨龟乔纳森 (Jonathan) 从蛋中孵化时，查尔斯·达尔文还是个年轻人，维多利亚女王还是个青少年。当时的医学界尚未确定病原菌导致疾病，而 DNA 结构的发现则在一百多年之后。

但在 194, 岁的高龄，乔纳森依然在缓慢前行——研究人员现在认为，这只世界上最长寿的陆地动物可以帮助人类生活得更长久、更健康。

这只见证了八任英国君主统治时期的阿尔达布拉巨龟，其漫长生命的大部分时间都在南大西洋偏远的圣赫勒拿岛（St Helena）总督府的院子里度过。科学家们现在在他的 DNA 编码中发现了 287 个特征，这些特征似乎保护他免受时间的侵蚀。

这些发现可能会带来新的治疗方法，用于保护人类免受癌症等疾病的侵害，甚至可能出现减缓衰老过程本身的疗法。

该研究的高级作者斯蒂芬·克拉克 (Stephen Clark) 博士表示：“我们的目标是将这些进化层面的见解立即转化为普通大众能够负担得起的实用治疗方案。”

“衰老是我们面临的几乎每一种慢性疾病的最大风险因素。大自然已经以卓越的方式解决了衰老的难题，而乔纳森的基因组为细胞韧性提供了一份蓝图。”

乔纳森的秘密不仅在于他的基因，还在于他的身体能够让这些基因正常运作的能力。随着年龄增长，我们的 会积累损伤。虽然我们的身体拥有修复系统，但随着时间的推移，这些系统的效率会降低。

相比之下，乔纳森似乎擅长将基因编码中的重要区域保持在良好状态。研究人员发现，他的 包含与修复受损 相关的特定基因版本，

乔纳森在圣赫勒拿岛度过的漫长岁月中，一直控制着炎症，调节血糖并防御癌症。他们还发现，某些——

控制其基因活动水平的开关几乎没有变化。

这些统称为表观基因组 (epigenome) 的开关是由附着在 上的小分子组成的。它们帮助决定我们的细胞遵循哪些遗传指令。在人类身上，这些开关随着年龄增长而逐渐改变，导致身体机能下降。但乔纳森的表观遗传开关，尤其是那些管理 修复以及细胞产生和使用能量的开关，往往显得异常年轻。

剑桥大学彼得学院 (Peterhouse, Cambridge) 的动物学家贾斯汀·格拉利奇 (Justin Gerlach) 博士表示：“我们发现，在近两个世纪的时间里，乔纳森体内涉及能量产生和 修复的基因调节因子一直保持着惊人的稳定性。”

现在的问题是，那些让乔纳森的 保持年轻状态的生物机制，是否可以被模拟或针对性地利用，以增强人类的健康。

这项发表在《科学进展》(Science Advances) 杂志上的研究由 Kallel 领导，Kallel 是一家研究长寿疗法的美国非营利组织。

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治疗方案延长了无法治愈的前列腺癌患者的寿命

埃莉诺·海沃德 (Eleanor Hayward) 健康编辑

一项研究发现，由于治疗方法的重大进展，被诊断为无法治愈的前列腺癌患者的生存时间有所延长。

来自国家前列腺癌审计 (NPCA) 的数据显示，在 2015 年至 2022 年之间，患者在诊断后三年内死亡的比例有所下降。生存率的提高是在英国国家医疗服务体系 (NHS) 为晚期前列腺癌（即癌症已扩散至全身）引入了几种治疗方案之后实现的。

前列腺癌是英格兰最常见的癌症，去年有 60,800 名男性被诊断出患病。其中，6,300 人被诊断为晚期前列腺癌。

来自伦敦卫生与热带医学学院的研究人员分析了 45,000 名被诊断为无法治愈的晚期前列腺癌男性的 NPCA 数据。他们发现，被诊断为晚期前列腺癌的男性在三年内死亡的比例已从 2015 年的 56% 下降到 2022 年的 47%。

新型且更有效的治疗方法包括多西他赛（docetaxel），它目前是晚期前列腺癌男性最常用的化疗药物，以及诸如恩扎卢胺（enzalutamide）和阿比特龙（abiraterone）等新型激素治疗，以及前列腺放射治疗。

英国前列腺癌协会 (Prostate Cancer UK) 的数据与证据负责人纳塔利娅·诺罗里 (Natalia Norori) 表示：“在这些数据背后，是更多父亲、丈夫、兄弟和朋友在研究突破的帮助下生活得更久、质量更高的故事。目前，仍有太多男性在较晚阶段才被诊断出来，此时治疗选择更为有限，而近一半的男性仍在三年内死亡，这依然是一个悲剧。”

“患有前列腺癌的男性人数也在持续增加，因此，加大对前列腺癌护理的投资至关重要，以确保男性能够获得最佳治疗，从而提高他们的生活质量，减少副作用，并让他们与伴侣、家人和朋友共同度过更长久、更快乐的岁月。”

报告还发现，去年英格兰被诊断出患有前列腺癌的男性人数增加了 7%，达到 60,827 人。这与人们对症状意识的增强，以及更多男性寻求可以提示风险的 PSA 血液检测有关。包括克里斯·霍伊爵士 (Sir Chris Hoy) 和杰里米·克拉克森 (Jeremy Clarkson) 在内的名人均被诊断出患有此病，并敦促他人留意症状并接受检测。

专家表示，由于采用了更具针对性的个性化治疗，前列腺癌患者目前的状况比以往任何时候都更加乐观。

凯文·莫蒂默 (Kevin Mortimer) 就是受益者之一。来自利物浦的 51 岁莫蒂默在女儿 11 岁生日那天被诊断出患有晚期前列腺癌。他被告知癌症已扩散到骨骼和肺部，且他的情况是“末期”。但三年后，在接受了三联疗法（一种同时使用三种不同治疗方案治疗前列腺癌的新方法）后，他的癌症已检测不到。

“坐在 11 岁的女儿身边，看着她从小就有的那只玩具象，告诉她我患有末期癌症，是我这辈子做过最困难的事情之一，”莫蒂默说。“现在，我能够陪她庆祝两次生日，我们也在期待圣诞节，这一切都归功于我接受的创新治疗。”

“虽然我知道自己是一个‘超级响应者’，并非所有处于我这种情况的男性都能获得同样的结果，但我就是活生生的证明，证明在投资、创新和前沿科学的推动下，前列腺癌的治疗在过去几年中取得了多么巨大的进步。”

NHS 警告冬季前流感病例出现“不祥”增长

马克·卢德洛 (Mark Ludlow)

上个月的流感病例达到了 4 年来的最高水平，NHS 警告称，医院在迎接严冬之前出现了“不祥的早期迹象”。

尽管流感感染人数目前较低，但 国家医学总监警告说，该病毒导致的住院人数是她记忆中该时间段内的最高水平。

弗兰基·索兹 (Frankie Swords) 教授表示，在经历了一个繁忙的夏天后， 正在为比预期更早到来的流感季做准备。

她说：“从 的角度来看，现在还处于季节初期，但流感住院人数是我记忆中该时间段内的最高值，而且这恰好与我们医院中新冠病例预期增加的开始时间重合。”

“但这是在我们急诊部门经历有史以来最繁忙的夏天之后发生的，我们的医院现在非常、非常繁忙。因此，冬季压力出现了略显不祥的早期迹象。”

英国健康安全局 (UKHSA) 的数据显示，截至 10 月 4 日的一周内，流感住院率为每 100,000 人中 1.97 例。

索兹表示，自上个月初以来，已有 390 万 人接种了流感疫苗。 从 9 月 1, 起开始为孕妇、幼儿和学龄儿童接种疫苗，而 65 岁以上人群及其他符合条件的成年人则从 10 月 1 起可接种疫苗。

在其他方面，UKHSA 的数据显示，新冠肺炎 (Covid-19) 的活动也在增加，但仍处于较低水平。这包括所谓的“美国株”或 XFG，它与在英国出现 19 年多的毒株密切相关。

UKHSA 顾问流行病学家亚历克斯·艾伦 (Alex Allen) 博士表示：“目前没有任何……迹象表明 XFG 更加严重或更容易导致重症。”

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一名曾任《Vogue》杂志的模特因虐待 2 名女性被判处七年半监禁，其中一名女性在被强迫脱衣后被他泼了沸水。30, 岁的阿奇·索姆斯 (Archie Soames) 在 6 月被判定包括强制控制在内的多项罪名后，在艾尔沃思 (Isleworth) 刑事法院被判刑。克里斯托弗·赫希 (Christopher Hehir) 法官表示，他对女性持有“深刻的蔑视”。

识别劣质 AI 的代码

根据发表在《Patterns》杂志上的一项新研究，AI 聊天机器人何时会“失控”可以通过一个公式来预测。乔治华盛顿大学的科学家表示，他们可以计算出 AI 模型从提供有用回复转变为提供潜在危险回复的“临界点”，以及在对话中这种情况发生的速度。

骑行者冲向婴儿车

一名骑行者在逃避警方追捕时，“愤怒地”冲向一个带着婴儿车的家庭，被处以 £120. 罚款。警方发现来自利物浦的 43, 岁男子丹尼尔·肯尼迪 (Daniel Kennedy) 在使用手机的同时在人行道上骑行。他冲入迎面而来的车流，随后迫使该家庭跳开以避让。他在威勒尔 (Wirral) 地方法院承认危险骑行罪。

一次“爆炸性”捐赠

在德文郡佩恩顿 (Paignton) 的一家英国心脏基金会 (British Heart Foundation) 慈善商店中，捐赠物品中发现了一枚 3 英寸的高爆迫击炮弹，英国皇家海军的炸弹处理专家随即被召集前往。在判定该弹药安全后，来自 Bravo 中队的专业爆炸物处理操作员将其带到附近的海滩将其炸毁。

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英国皇家海军水兵因涉嫌为俄罗斯从事间谍活动出庭

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一名在海军情报部门工作的英国水兵因被指控为外国势力（据信为俄罗斯）从事间谍活动而出庭。

24 岁的泰迪·杨（Teddy Young）在其贝德福德郡的家中被捕，并被指控触犯《国家安全法》下的两项罪名。

法庭获悉，杨是一名水手（Able Seaman），是海军中最基层职级。他于 2024 年 4 月以拥有高级安全许可的作战情报兵身份入伍。

伦敦警察厅表示，据指控，在 2024 年 11 月至去年 5 月期间，杨涉嫌“获取、复制、记录或保留受保护信息”，意图使一个未具名的外国势力获益。

根据指控，这些是敏感信息，且他“理应知道这些信息会对英国的安全或利益产生不利影响”，并且他“从事了准备披露受保护信息的犯罪行为”。

《泰晤士报》获悉，相关指控包括将一条信息翻译成俄语、研究暗网，以及寻找一个邀请人们向俄罗斯提交信息的网络门户。

杨被指控触犯《国家安全法》第 1 条和第 18 条。他昨天在威斯敏斯特治安法院出庭，仅在发言中确认了个人详细信息。在这次简短的听证会上，他未被要求进行任何答辩。

安娜贝尔·皮林（Annabel Pilling）法官将其还押候审，下次将于下周五在中央刑事法院（Old Bailey）出庭。

反恐警察周二在杨的家中将其逮捕，并将其押往伦敦羁押。

在贝德福德郊区克拉珀姆（Clapham）村杨家附近的邻居将其描述为一名“非常友善且有礼貌的年轻人”，热爱健身和电子游戏。他们表示他与母亲同住。

该死胡同的一位邻居说：“他一直是个安静、温顺的孩子。他去健身房，喜欢保持健康。他对每个人都很礼貌，是那种会随手帮任何人的家伙。我对发生这件事感到非常震惊。他原本有着很好的职业前景。”

居民告诉《泰晤士报》，警方在获准进入家中后，于周二上午逮捕了杨。

伦敦警察厅确认，此次逮捕与上个月针对费尔福德皇家空军基地事件的调查无关。

伦敦反恐警察局负责人海伦·弗拉纳根（Helen Flanagan）指挥官表示：“这些是对一名现役武装部队成员非常严重的指控。随着调查的深入，我们与国防部相关的行动同事紧密合作，以确保采取适当措施减轻与此事相关的任何潜在风险。”

“现在重要的是避免对本案进行进一步推测，以便案件能够通过法院审理，且司法程序不受到任何干扰。”

英国皇家海军表示：“一名皇家海军成员在伦敦反恐警察局的调查后，被指控触犯《国家安全法》罪名。”

“由于法律程序正在进行中，现阶段进一步评论是不恰当的。”

莫斯科间谍“钓鱼”行动的肥沃水域

24 岁的泰迪·杨（Teddy Young）与母亲住在贝德福德附近的克拉珀姆。邻居将上述法庭速写中的杨描述为一名热爱健身和玩电子游戏的“有礼貌”的人。

故事背后

莫斯科在招募英国军方间谍方面最成功的一些行动涉及到了英国皇家海军（汤姆·帕菲特撰文）。

其中最著名的或许是波特兰间谍环，该组织在 1953 年至 1961 年间在英国活跃。一个由两名英国人、一名伪装成加拿大商人居住在英国的克格勃（KGB）潜伏特工以及两名美国共产主义者组成的团体，共谋从位于多塞特郡波特兰岛的海军部水下武器研究机构（AUWE）获取机密研究文件，并将其传递给苏联。

为莫斯科工作的首席特工是哈里·霍顿，他曾是一名海军军官，在 20 世纪 50 年代初在英国驻华沙大使馆海军武官办公室工作期间被波兰情报部门招募。

当霍顿回到英国后，他在 AUWE 找到了一份工作，克格勃为他提供了一台 Minox 微型间谍相机，他用它拍摄了数千份秘密文件——包括英国第一艘核潜艇“无畏号”（HMS Dreadnought）的细节。一名名为埃塞尔·吉的文件员协助了他。

一名在波兰情报部门工作的中情局（CIA）特工在 1960 年向其上级汇报了霍顿的情况，随后波特兰间谍环被军情五处（MI5）监视了数月，最终所有五名成员被逮捕并被判定从事间谍活动。伪装成加拿大人的克格勃上线科农·莫洛迪在 1964 年的一次间谍交换中被释放。

同一时期的另一个臭名昭著的案例涉及约翰·瓦萨尔，他是负责指挥海军的海军部的职员。

在莫斯科担任英国海军武官期间，身为同性恋者的瓦萨尔成为了“美人计”的受害者，并被拍到与几名男子处于暧昧状态的照片。

当时同性恋在英国仍是非法的，克格勃在瓦萨尔回到海军部后以此威胁他交出机密文件，包括关于雷达、鱼雷和反潜设备的信息。

瓦萨尔在 1961 年被克格勃叛逃者安纳托利·戈利岑揭发。他奢靡的生活方式也引起了怀疑，他经常出国进行昂贵的度假，据称还购买了 36 套萨维尔街（Savile Row）的西装。他在 1962 年被捕并认罪。他被判处 18 年监禁，实际服刑十年。

当然，莫斯科也将目光投向了与军方有关的政治人物。

约翰·普罗富莫在 1963 年被强制辞去战争大臣一职，当时披露他与模特克里斯汀·基勒有过一段情，而基勒同时也与苏联驻伦敦大使馆的高级海军武官叶夫根尼·伊万诺夫保持关系。

伊万诺夫可能曾暗示基勒向普罗富莫询问核武器部署到西德的情况，但没有证据表明她确实这么做了。

在后苏联时代，已知俄罗斯情报部门针对英国人员的案例寥寥无几。

拉脱维亚人可能在被发现前已在基地停留数小时

……合众国”，但强调美国空军仍具备在“任何时间、任何地点”发起打击的能力。

此次重新部署是在周末出现更多关于基地威胁的细节后下令执行的。特朗普总统周一告诉记者，他不希望通过将轰炸机留在基地来诱惑“敌人”。

奈顿爵士否认了有关费尔福德皇家空军基地疑似恐怖袭击阴谋可能会损害美英长期关系的说法。

在昨天凌晨，两名拉脱维亚男子在剑桥郡的莫尔斯沃思皇家空军基地（RAF Molesworth）内被捕，英国反恐警察目前正在对此进行调查。这两名拉脱维亚人可能在被发现前已在基地内停留长达四小时。这两名男子年龄分别为32岁和36岁，国防部警察在一次安全巡逻中发现了一辆被遗弃的车辆并发出警报，随后于凌晨2点左右发现了他们。

莫尔斯沃思皇家空军基地由美国人员使用，承载情报分析和指挥行动，以及一个北约情报中心。该基地不用于飞行行动。

警方表示，目前没有证据表明莫尔斯沃思皇家空军基地的事件与针对费尔福德皇家空军基地的疑似阴谋有关，后者曾被美军用于发起针对伊朗的任务。

随着第七名嫌疑人被保释，伦敦警察厅局长马克·罗利爵士敦促公众“信任”针对费尔福德皇家空军基地潜在恐怖阴谋的调查。在一次 LBC 电话访谈中，当被问及为何释放嫌疑人时，他表示：“我知道在这样一个一切都如此公开透明的世界里，这是一件非常困难的事情，但请给警方时间并信任我们。”

《泰晤士报》获悉，莫尔斯沃思皇家空军基地的安保级别已经提高，一名近期到访者表示，他们看到了针对汽车炸弹的“严密”防御措施。

位于剑桥郡的莫尔斯沃思皇家空军基地

伦敦警察厅反恐部门负责人海伦·弗拉纳根指挥官表示：“我们对此次事件的调查处于非常早期的阶段。其中很大一部分工作是研究这些人出现在该地点的潜在动机……目前我们保持开放心态，调查仍在进行中。”

美国欧洲司令部的一位发言人表示，美军仍处于“最高戒备状态”。他表示：“讨论情报事项是不恰当的，我们不会讨论具体的部队保护措施。我们将继续评估我们设施周围的威胁环境，并采取适当行动来保护我们的人员、平台以及我们的部队运行的基地。”

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社交媒体与等待如何……

埃莉诺·海沃德 健康编辑 本·克拉特沃西 怀特霍尔编辑

一项具有里程碑意义的审查报告研究了自闭症和 ADHD 诊断率的剧增，并警告了错误标签的风险，同时呼吁将重心转向基于需求的支持。

精神健康、ADHD 和自闭症审查委员会主席彼得·福纳吉教授警告称，社会必须面对一个“转折点”，因为越来越多的年轻人觉得“他们的未来将不如父母那样充满希望”。

以下是其关键发现。

青少年自闭症诊断人数增加 40 倍

这份长达 607 页的报告中穿插了大量图表，阐明了在过去 25 年中，自闭症和 ADHD（注意力缺陷多动障碍）的诊断人数急剧增加，且这种增长在年轻人中最为显著。

被诊断为自闭症的青少年比例增加了 40 倍，从 2000 年的 0.1% 增加到去年的 4%。目前，6 至 11 岁男孩中被诊断为自闭症的比例已超过 6%。相比之下，25 岁以上成年人中被诊断出该病症的比例低于 1%，而 65 岁以上人群中仅有 0.07% 拥有相关诊断。

在 ADHD 方面，青少年的诊断人数增加了 15 倍，目前有 5% 的青春期男孩被诊断出患病。从历史上看，自闭症和 ADHD 的诊断主要集中在男孩身上，但这一性别差距已经缩小，以解决“历史上对女性和女孩的认知不足”问题。

焦虑、抑郁和饮食失调的情况也大幅增加。16 至 24 岁的人群中，每五人就有一人曾有过自残行为。报告称，这种心理痛苦的增加是“真实的，不能仅用意识提高来解释”。

至关重要的是，严重精神疾病并未出现类似的增长，“例如，精神分裂症和双相情感障碍的人群发病率大致保持稳定”。

人们是否被过度诊断？

报告承认，关于自闭症和 ADHD 是否被过度诊断存在着“激烈且两极分化”的争论。报告指出，从历史上看，这两种病症都被低估了，但我们正处于一个“临界点”，过度诊断可能会带来更大的风险。

过度诊断是指人们“被贴上了某种病症的标签，而他们要么根本没有这种病症，要么即使不被发现，这种病症也不会给他们带来伤害或重大困难”。

作者表示，目前的数据过于不确定，无法“确定过度诊断目前正在大规模发生”，但在像小男孩这样的年龄组中，“趋势正朝着那个方向发展”。

报告称，对于许多人来说，诊断是“临床必需的，在个人层面具有意义，且对治疗至关重要”，但“当诊断不准确或被错误使用时，也可能造成伤害”。

转向需求优先

福纳吉教授发现的核心观点是，需要从“诊断优先”的方法转向一种“能更早识别需求并更迅速做出响应”的方法。正式诊断将优先提供给最需要的人，从而有助于缩短由系统中已有的 560,000 多例 ADHD 转诊和 254,000 例自闭症转诊所导致的候诊名单。

报告称：“应当实现一个根本性的转变，从依赖诊断的系统转向一个‘需求主导加诊断’的系统。”报告补充道，部长们必须同时解决两个“失败”：人们等待支持、诊断和治疗的时间过长，以及“诊断已成为获取支持的主要入口，而这些支持本可以且应当更早地提供”。

智能手机加剧孤独感

社交媒体和智能手机导致了诊断人数的激增。报告称：“人们在网络上花费的日常生活时间增加，而进行体育活动、亲近自然、玩耍以及不被打扰的睡眠机会则减少了。”

青少年们“连续数小时刷负面消息（doomscrolling）”且睡眠质量差，这加剧了心理痛苦并损害了他们的注意力时长。

报告还强调，Instagram 和 TikTok 等社交媒体平台可能会呈现误导性的 ADHD 和自闭症症状，导致人们对这些病症进行“自我认定”。为此次审查委托进行的民意调查发现，约 18% 的 16 至 29 岁人群自我认定为自闭症患者。

禁止广告宣传 ADHD 评估

报告得出结论，应禁止私人诊所宣传 ADHD（注意力缺陷多动障碍）和自闭症评估。报告重点指出了在巴士和地铁上的广告牌案例，这些广告鼓励人们“明天就去看 专家”。

报告强调，“对于独立服务提供商开展的 和自闭症评估的一致性和质量存在严重担忧”。报告称，所有 和自闭症评估都应由护理质量委员会（Care Quality Commission）监管。

与成为尼特族的风险 报告指出，这些病症与青年失业危机之间存在强关联，目前有近 100 万名 16 至 24 岁的青少年处于未在学、未就业、未接受培训（Neet，即尼特族）状态。报告警告称，在过去十年中，报告患有“限制工作健康状况”的尼特族比例已从 26% 增加到 44%。在这些人中，68% 将心理健康或自闭症视为其主要限制工作的状况。最令人震惊的统计数据是，被诊断为 的儿童成为尼特族的可能性是其他人的四倍。报告称，这种“风险与自闭症相似，且高于许多其他长期病症相关的风险”。

全校统一的学校支持计划并未奏效

学校应被告知放弃那些“不能改善结果，且某些计划可能会在无意中造成伤害”的全校统一心理健康计划。一项涉及 85 所中学的试点研究发现，正念训练“没有产生整体益处”，实际上反而导致那些心理健康问题风险较高的学生结果略微恶化。报告称：“这在一定程度上归因于一种可能性，即在没有个体支持的情况下，要求已经在经历困难的青少年在课堂环境下密切关注自己的情绪，可能会加剧而非缓解痛苦。”

报告更倾向于心理健康支持团队，该团队于 2017 年在学校启动，为经历轻至中度焦虑、情绪低落和行为困难的儿童及青少年提供“简短的、基于证据的干预措施”。目前，这些团队已覆盖 60% 的学生。

特殊教育需求的增加 接受特殊教育需求（Send）支持的儿童约占学生的 15%，但却占到了永久开除人数的近一半；同时，其中 22% 最终成为了尼特族，而其同龄人中这一比例仅为 7%。审查发现，与自闭症相关的 Send 案例从 2016 年学生的 1.5% 上升至 2024 年的 3.3%。

安迪·伯纳姆在柏林会见了德国总理弗里德里希·梅尔茨。埃德·米利班德

诊断正“达到临界点”

（）他表示，诊断不足正演变为一种“临界点”。

“如果目前的趋势继续下去，特别是日益增长的将诊断作为获取一切资源的‘敲门砖’的倾向……那么未来出现过度诊断、过度医疗化的风险将极高。”

该审查强调，对于许多人来说，诊断在“临床上是必要的，在个人层面是有意义的，且对治疗至关重要”。但“当诊断不准确或使用不当时，也可能造成伤害”，包括将“普通的、健康的生命体验”过度医疗化，并使人们觉得自己在学校无法取得成就或无法维持一份工作。

福纳吉建议将“诊断优先”的方法转变为一种“能更早识别需求并更迅速做出响应”的方法。

正式诊断将优先提供给最需要的人，例如有自残行为的儿童，但每个人都应有资格根据自身需求获得支持。

该审查强调了导致诊断激增的因素，包括智能手机、社交媒体和新冠疫情期间的封锁。

报告呼吁打击私人诊所，这些诊所承担了所有 ADHD 评估的一半，但因评估质量低劣而受到批评。报告建议禁止这些诊所为其服务打广告，并建议在护理质量委员会（CQC）的监督下，对评估诊所实施更严格的监管。

福纳吉还指出，太多的人被那些对患者工作场所没有“详细了解”、且在 10 分钟的就诊时间内没有时间讨论调整方案的全科医生（GP）开具病假单。

去年，全科医生开具了 1120 万 份病假证明（fit notes），但其中仅有 269 万 份记录了诊断结果。在这些记录中，36% 与精神和行为障碍相关。

该报告的调查结果预计将影响艾伦·米尔本关于近 100万 名 16 至 24 岁尼特族（Neet）人群报告的建议。他的最终报告原定于下周发布，但已推迟至预算案之后。

卫生大臣伊薇特·库珀表示：“很明显，心理健康服务需要改变，以更多地关注年轻人为了留在学校、维持工作或让生活重回正轨而需要的早期支持。”

“基于审查结果，我们还将采取行动加强对心理健康和神经发育服务的监督，并使所有 ADHD 和自闭症的诊断评估都纳入护理质量委员会（CQC）的监管，以便人们能够确信评估是高质量的，且国民医疗服务体系（NHS）没有被独立或私人供应商过度收费。”

年轻人必须获得及时的治疗，而非终身标签，社论，第 25 页

首相在关键峰会前誓言深化与欧盟关系

奥利弗·赖特 (Oliver Wright)

安迪·伯纳姆 (Andy Burnham) 告诉欧洲领导人，他致力于在下个月底的峰会之前，确保英国与欧盟之间实现“更深层的合作”。

在就任首相后首次访问欧盟国家期间，伯纳姆昨日在柏林与德国总理弗里德里希·梅尔茨 (Friedrich Merz) 举行了会谈。

双方达成了一系列举措，包括德国加入一个构建下一代战斗机的国际联盟的前景。

在与梅尔茨共同发表讲话时，伯纳姆表示他“致力于确保”与欧盟实现“更深层的合作”，并表示希望 11 月的峰会能取得切实成果。

他说：“我们今天进行了非常出色的讨论，我们将努力看看能否将这次峰会转化为一个对欧盟以及对英国都有利的结果。”

伯纳姆的发言人补充道：“首相表示，英国致力于与欧盟建立一个更强大、更具雄心的伙伴关系，重点是为国内以及欧洲其他地区的公民和企业带来实际利益。”

伯纳姆的这些言论是在他在工党大会上承诺将制定一条进一步与欧盟整合的路径之后发表的。他尚未排除在下次大选中承诺举行第二次脱欧公投的可能性。

在柏林，伯纳姆宣布与德国建立一项共同安全伙伴关系，以应对来自俄罗斯的破坏活动、网络攻击和混合威胁。该伙伴关系将涉及共享信息并协调行动，以监测、威慑和瓦解威胁。

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绿党因犹太复国主义政策被举报至平等监管机构

黛西·伊斯特莱克 (Daisy Eastlake) 政治记者

绿党在通过一项声明“犹太复国主义即种族主义”的政策后，正面临英国平等监管机构的调查。

反反犹主义运动（CAA）曾在 2018 年成功举报了杰里米·科尔宾领导下的工党涉嫌反犹主义。该组织表示，已就该政策“极有可能助长反犹主义言论”向平等与人权委员会致函。

这项在绿党会议上通过的动议宣布，犹太复国主义（即促成以色列作为犹太国家建立的运动）将被绿党“视为任何其他形式的种族主义”。

昨日，首相安迪·伯纳姆呼吁该党党魁扎克·波兰斯基撤销该政策。他在访问柏林时表示：“我认为（通过该动议）是一个完全错误的决定，是绿党的一次糟糕判断。”

“实际上，这排除了以色列和巴勒斯坦之间‘两国方案’的可能性，因此无论在任何方面、任何形式上都不应获得支持。”

他补充道：“在我看来，英国的所有政党都应尽一切努力支持以色列和巴勒斯坦之间的两国方案，这当然也将继续作为政府的立场。”

反反犹主义运动首席执行官吉迪恩·法尔特表示，该运动“不会坐视极端分子劫持一个政党，并将反犹主义作为其公开声明的政策”。他补充道：“绿党决定通过‘犹太复国主义即种族主义’动议的行为是种族主义且违法的，因为它歧视犹太人。无论该党认为自己凌驾于法律之上，还是因为令人震惊的无能而未曾核实法律立场，我们都将确保其为自己的行为承担后果。”

“绿党已经并且将继续成为一个歧视犹太成员及其关联者的政党，无论是以其犹太人身份，还是作为与犹太复国主义及以色列国家有关联或被认为有关联的人员。”

绿党发言人表示，波兰斯基“已明确表示，没有人会因为其背景、信仰或礼拜场所而受到排斥。我们仍致力于维护自身的行为准则以及在《平等法》下的职责，并确保绿党继续成为所有成员的安全之地。”

针对伯纳姆的评论，该党表示：“这个问题……理所当然地引起了广泛讨论，且需要结合以色列的行为背景来看待。以色列对种族灭绝、种族清洗和杀害儿童负有责任，而我们的政治建制派不仅对此视而不见，反而提供了支持。”

波兰斯基未对该动议进行投票。绿党发言人表示，这是因为他当时正在为自己参选的霍尔本和圣潘克拉斯补选进行竞选活动。

绿党成员还否决了一项修正案，该修正案旨在保护那些出入被定义为“犹太复国主义”场所（如犹太会堂或社区中心）的犹太绿党成员，使其免于被举报为种族主义。

平等与人权委员会的一位发言人表示：“我们会仔细考虑每一项投诉，并在适当的情况下采取行动。”

他们补充道：“我们承认言论自由权是基本的……即使在处理复杂且敏感的问题时也必须得到保护。同样，每个人都有权不被歧视，包括基于种族、宗教或信仰的歧视。”

“作为我们促进不同群体之间良好关系的职责的一部分，我们敦促处于权威地位的人员恰当地且尊重地平衡这些权利。”

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英国在妥协协议中从以色列撤回20名外交官

奥利弗·赖特 (Oliver Wright) 政策编辑 加布里埃尔·韦尼格 (Gabrielle Weiniger) 特拉维夫报道

为了防止因英国禁止与定居点贸易而与以色列的关系陷入升级螺旋，部长们已同意从英国驻耶路撒冷领事馆撤走20名外交官。

在经过两周谈判达成的一项妥协协议中，英国同意将其领事馆更名为“代表团”（mission），但坚持保留完整的外交特权。七名工作人员将继续在该建筑内工作，并享有适用于外交官的完整“特权与豁免”。

然而，一名以色列消息人士表示，不允许在原领事馆内开展与巴勒斯坦人的领事工作。

外交消息人士坚称，英国决心恢复领事馆之前的地位，但在本月晚些时候的以色列选举之前，决定不再进一步升级冲突。

他们补充说，如果在“未来几个月”内没有取得进展，那么采取进一步行动仍然是“极有可能的选项”。

一名以色列消息人士表示，以色列从未要求英国外交官离开，也没有驱逐他们。相反，该人士称这是英国决定撤走他们的。他们表示，欢迎这些外交官留下并使用特拉维夫大使馆。

以色列上个月宣布将强制关闭该领事馆，以报复埃德·米利班德（Ed Miliband）决定对被占领土上的以色列定居点实施制裁。该领事馆在东耶路撒冷为巴勒斯坦人提供服务，并处理英国与该市、约旦河西岸及加沙地带巴勒斯坦人的关系。

作为回应，英国警告以色列，将通过驱逐英国驻伦敦大使馆的以色列外交官来进行报复。

在一项临时妥协协议中，英国同意将20名工作人员重新部署到该地区的其他大使馆，并将领事馆名称改为英国代表团（UK Mission）。

部长们坚称，该前哨站的法律地位没有改变，英国保留了其在耶路撒冷的历史存在。

一名怀特霍尔消息人士表示：“我们仍然以运营能力留在那里。”然而，以色列外交部长吉迪昂·萨尔（Gideon Saar）声称，留在该建筑内的外交官将被允许在“非常有限的活动范围”内运作。他表示，包括总领事在内的20名外交官“将结束其职责并离开以色列”。萨尔补充道：“我们并不希望走到这一步，但工党政府的行为将我们推向了这里。”

一支在约旦河西岸培训巴勒斯坦警察的英国安全团队也已离开该国。

外交部大臣斯蒂芬·多蒂（Stephen Doughty）表示，英国将通过英国代表团保留外交存在。

他告诉《泰晤士报》广播电台：“建筑依然开放，我们像200年来一直那样在耶路撒冷保持存在。我们的外交官将继续开展他们重要的工作。”

多蒂表示，这一决定是在与以色列达成“协议”后做出的，但他补充说，“我们显然对他们所设定的决定深表遗憾”，且讨论仍在继续。

多蒂淡化了地位变更的重要性，告诉LBC电台这相当于“更换一个门牌”。他随后向ITV坚称：“当然，以色列仍然是一个朋友。”

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曾感谢首相的惯偷数日内重返监狱

艾玛·约曼斯 (Emma Yeomans) 奥利·科尔 (Ollie Cole)，《泰晤士报》广播记者

一名在政府提前释放计划下出狱并赞扬安迪·伯纳姆（Andy Burnham）的“惯犯”商店窃贼，在进行一系列犯罪活动后被重新送回监狱。

在上周四获释仅 24 小时后，迈克尔·博格尔（Michael Bogle）便开始疯狂盗窃商店财物，导致警方整整一天的时间都被牵制其中。

在给北伦敦当地合作伙伴的一封信中，布伦特（Brent）、巴内特（Barnet）和哈罗（Harrow）地区的当地指挥官、首席警司卢克·威廉姆斯（Luke Williams）表示，他的警员逮捕了一名男子，该男子上周刚从旺兹沃思（Wandsworth）监狱获释，此前有 16 项定罪记录，涉及 100 多起盗窃案和一起露体癖案件。

据《泰晤士报》了解，该男子是来自伦敦西北部布伦特的 38 岁男子博格尔。他在旺兹沃思监狱（HMP Wandsworth）外告诉记者，在违反了 32 周的商店窃盗缓刑后，他在监狱中服刑 78 天。当被问及想对伯纳姆说什么时，他告诉《泰晤士报》广播：“让提前释放计划继续下去。这很好。”这位前巴士司机还补充说，监狱内部的条件“糟糕透顶”。

伦敦警察厅局长马克·罗利爵士（Sir Mark Rowley）警告称，仅在伦敦，提前获释的罪犯每天就有 100 次违反电子脚镣监管令的情况。罗利表示，许多罪犯在违反指令后，竟然能以相同的条件被保释回社区，且面临“零处罚”。他补充说，自上周第一波最新释放行动开始以来，警队每周都要逮捕“两到三名提前获释的罪犯”。

随着《2026年量刑法》（Sentencing Act 2026）的生效，为了解决监狱过度拥挤的问题，近 5,000 名囚犯将在未来一年分阶段提前获释。

博格尔在服完第五次商店窃盗刑期后于上周获释。他告诉记者，他存在再次盗窃的风险，“但希望不会”，并补充说他有一个经批准的住所，并计划前往就业中心。然而，在两天之内，他就被监控摄像头拍到在伦敦西北部的超市行窃。

威廉姆斯写道：“随后，一组警员花了一整天的时间定位该男子并将其重新拘留，他被指控四项商店窃盗罪、违反法院指令罪和商业盗窃罪。”

他承认了罪行并已被召回监狱。威廉姆斯继续写道：“在本案中，提前释放计划令人担忧之处在于，一名已知的惯犯被放回社区，结果立即再次犯罪。这不仅使社区处于风险之中，而且直接增加了警方的压力，因为警方必须逮捕、调查并将该个体重新拘留。在本案中，共耗费了 27 个警员工时，导致成本为 1,887 英镑。”

“撇开警务成本不谈，人们有理由询问这些警员本可以做些什么。他们本可以在社区中推进其他调查，或针对高危害罪犯。”

影子内政大臣克里斯·菲尔普（Chris Philp）表示：“这是一封来自高级警官的极其罕见且不同寻常的信函。工党在上周四提前释放了这名惯犯——而他已经开始了犯罪 spree，偷窃并制造痛苦。政-

（图注：迈克尔·博格尔在从旺兹沃思监狱获释后开始疯狂盗窃商店财物）

-府甚至没有像他们承诺的那样，给所有获释罪犯佩戴电子脚镣，让罪犯可以自由地实施犯罪。工党鲁莽且拙劣的释放计划已经在引发犯罪浪潮。”

“他们没有必要这样做。只要稍微努力，现在就有可用的监狱名额。这表明保守党建设 50,000 个更多监狱名额的计划是多么重要。”

罗利在昨天接受 LBC 采访时表示，他担心大量罪犯被释放回社区后再次犯罪的情况。他说道：“目前，我们每周逮捕两到三名被提前释放的罪犯，这些人要么被重新召回监狱，要么在继续犯罪。这是我们自 8 月初开始记录数据以来的情况。”

“我们收到来自缓刑部门要求执行的电子脚镣（tag）违规案件数量在不断增加——目前伦敦每天有超过 100 起电子脚镣违规事件……而且还在上升。”

罗利表示，犯罪行为存在一种“旋转门”现象，并补充道：“如果你得到了这个机会，却违反了所有条件，你就应该回到监狱里。”

“我们发现，在被逮捕的电子脚镣违规者中，有 95% 以上的人在相同的条件下被保释回社区，这意味着完全没有制裁。”

罗利的这些言论发表在司法大臣亚历克斯·诺里斯（Alex Norris）周日承认无法说明有多少被提前释放的囚犯佩戴了电子脚镣之后。

官员们此前表示，原则上所有提前释放的罪犯都将佩戴 GPS 电子脚镣，但诺里斯表示现在获得具体数字还“为时过早”。

一名政府发言人表示：“我们接手的是一个处于崩溃边缘的监狱系统。如果我们不采取行动，警方将被迫停止逮捕，这将使社区面临无法估量的风险。”

“为了管理处于假释期的罪犯，我们正在部署史上最严厉的管控措施，包括全球首创的限制区域、最大规模的电子脚镣推广，以及让受害者在假释条件中拥有发言权。”

洗衣液窃贼揭示失败的恶性循环

监狱与缓刑专家表示，系统正处于崩溃边缘，重新犯罪率激增，艾米莉·杜根（Emily Dugan）报道

当迈克尔·博格尔（Michael Bogle）走出旺兹沃思监狱（HMP Wandsworth）时，他告诉记者：“我不会再回到监狱里。”38岁的博格尔是英格兰和威尔士境内 700 名于 10 月 1 日被提前释放以缓解过度拥挤的囚犯之一。

博格尔曾是一名巴士司机，后来成了惯偷。因多次盗窃洗衣液而违反了 32 周的缓刑规定，他在监狱中度过了 11 周。在正午前离开时，他说自己存在再次偷窃的风险，“但希望不会”。

当天下午 6.08 点，博格尔就在布伦特（Brent）的一家赛恩斯伯里（Sainsbury's）超市盗窃了首批价值 £22 的洗衣产品。在当晚入睡前，他已经实施了四起涉及洗衣用品的犯罪。到周一，这一数字已达到 11 起，而周二他便回到了监狱。

随着政府准备在周二根据提前释放计划释放第二批 650 名囚犯，专家表示，博格尔的经历表明司法系统陷入了一个“可怕的”失败循环。负责与获释囚犯合作以防止重新犯罪的缓刑监督员在沉重的工作量下不堪重负，人员配备水平比目标低约 26%。

尽管内政大臣沙巴娜·马哈茂德（Shabana Mahmood）在政府 2024 年 7 月首次宣布提前释放计划时，强调了缓刑服务人员配备的关键重要性，但人数仅增加了 3%。

博格尔表示，他曾因 100 多项定罪被监禁五次，目前正在接受抗精神病药物治疗。他告诉记者，获释时他正前往伦敦西北部的一家保释旅馆。

在获得自由的每一天，博格尔都在伦敦西北部的赛恩斯伯里和特易购（Tesco）商店盗窃洗衣产品。他说，在成为无家可归者后，这些赃物是为了换钱买食物，但由于洗衣液价值高、保质期长且易于转售，它们被认为是毒品交易的“通用货币”。

上周一，他在温布利（Wembley）的一家特易购快捷店（Tesco Express）盗窃了价值 £18.24 的洗衣产品后被捕，身上被发现有吸毒用具。一天后，他回到了威尔斯登（Willesden）治安法院，因在自由的五天内实施了七起盗窃和四起违反刑事行为令的行为——其中包括一项禁止他进入英国境内所有赛恩斯伯里分店的禁令——被判处八个月监禁。

博格尔的故事反映了许多陷入司法系统“旋转门”的人的经历。他说他的家人“不想认识我”，并形容监狱“糟糕透顶”，内部“毒品太多”。

他补充道：“监狱已经满了。这很悲哀。本周 D 区有一名囚犯自杀了。”博格尔说，无论何时在监狱里，他看到的都是“同样的一批人”。在描述之前的一段犯罪经历时，他说：“去年 11 月我无家可归，对着人们大喊大叫，吸毒之类，所以被警察抓住了。我从沃姆伍德·斯克拉布斯监狱（Wormwood Scrubs）获释后又是无家可归，所以我必须偷东西来找钱吃饭。”

Cassia Rowland：“监狱无法应对”

缓刑监督员工会 Napo 的总书记伊恩·劳伦斯（Ian Lawrence）表示：“外面的情况相当糟糕。我们一直强调，这就是监狱系统过度拥挤和缓刑服务资金不足的代价，以及社区支持不足的事实，所以这是不可避免的。”

“[博格尔] 可能是成百上千个将发现自己处于同样境地的人之一。即使没有这个提前释放计划，工作量也已经爆表，士气低落到了极点。我们成员的病假率处于历史最高水平。在工作周内，他们面临的工作量已经超出了现实能应对的范围。”

Napo 的成员将于 10 月 19 日就是否举行罢工开始投票，原因是政府“未能”就其“工作量问题”提供“切实可行的解决方案”。

这个问题对于本届政府来说并非新鲜事。在里希·苏纳克担任首相期间，一项临时提前释放计划导致数千名囚犯被释放，且通常仅提前几小时通知。根据政府研究所（Institute for Government）的数据，在 2024 年 2 月至 8 月期间被释放的人员中，有 14% 处于无家可归状态。

该研究所副主任、周一发布的一份关于司法系统现状报告的作者卡西亚·罗兰（Cassia Rowland）表示：“监狱和缓刑服务机构根本无法应对它们所面临的需求，这正产生可怕的后果：康复效果差，重新入狱率极高，刑期被缩短，且监狱中充斥着毒品和暴力。”

“这名罪犯的案例遗憾地完全在预料之中。由于监狱中毒品泛滥，释放前的准备不足，且缺乏解决导致人们犯罪问题的支持，这种循环将只会继续，损害我们所有人。”

罗兰表示，在基尔·斯塔默爵士的政府领导下，这些问题取得了“进展，尽管并不完美”。她警告称，“政府应紧急优先考虑监狱内以及缓刑人员的重新安置和康复支持，以解决犯罪原因并腾出监狱空间”。

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哈里讲述悲伤与“十日原则”

凯特·曼西 (Kate Mansey) 助理编辑

萨塞克斯公爵与公爵夫人，以及七岁的阿奇和五岁的莉莉贝特。哈里录制了一系列关于解锁“我们每个人内心深处韧性”的视频。

萨塞克斯公爵在离开英国前往加拿大，并决定脱离王室职责之前，“陷入了大约两周的抑郁状态”。

42岁的哈里王子表示，他此前一直处于“压力巨大的环境”中，但当他抽出时间休息时，经历了一次“肾上腺素崩溃”，这让他感到自己“毫无用处”。

2019年底，萨塞克斯公爵夫妇暂时退出官方职责，与他们当时还是婴儿的儿子阿奇（现年七岁）在加拿大的温哥华岛进行长时间休整。

2020年1月，白金汉宫的一位发言人表示：“我们理解他们希望采取不同方式的愿望，但这些问题很复杂，需要时间来解决。”

几周之内，这对夫妇便永久地离开了他们的职责。

在谈到当时的心理健康状况时，哈里告诉神经科学家玛丽-弗朗西丝·奥康诺（Mary-Frances O'Connor）博士，他当时想要“远离一切，获得一些空间”。

他补充道：“在加拿大，远离那个压力巨大的环境——在那之前，我的身体大概一直充斥着肾上腺素——在两三天之内，我经历了这次肾上腺素崩溃，这是我以前从未经历过的事情。”

“就好像我需要压力来产生肾上腺素，才能让我的大脑运转起来，因为我在家里变得毫无用处。”

“我实际上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。”

这段对话出现在一个名为《重新定义悲伤：通过丧失建立韧性》（Redefining Grief: Building Resilience through Loss）的视频课程中。该课程是为 MasterClass 录制的，这是一个关于自我提升的在线课程系列。

订阅者可以观看哈里系列中的 20 节课程，该系列旨在“涵盖处理悲伤和丧失的新方法，以便你能找回自我”。

在预告片中，哈里谈到了他已故的母亲戴安娜王妃，并表示：“我认为自己是一名研究悲伤的学生。”

哈里穿着蓝色衬衫和西装坐在椅子上，说道：“我想不起我母亲的笑声。想不起她长什么样子。我觉得我必须保持悲伤，才能向她证明我想念她。”

“在我二十多岁的时候，我两次奔赴战场，以为我可以跑赢自己的情绪。但事实并非如此。”

今年 8 月，这对夫妇出人意料地返回英国，他们的两个孩子——阿奇王子和莉莉贝特公主已在当地入学。

据了解，哈里是在返回英国之前，在加利福尼亚州录制了这个关于悲伤的系列视频——尽管录制地点并非他在蒙特西托的家中。他谈到了童年失去母亲的悲伤，以及在加拿大休整期间最终导致他与梅根脱离王室的经历。

在谈到 12 岁时戴安娜去世的事情时，哈里说：“你可能会认为我得到了世界上最好的帮助——天哪，我可是个王子——但我依然在承受悲伤，而且没有地方可以倾诉这些感受。”

在视频系列的预告片中，奥康诺告诉哈里：“你没有疯。”

哈里对着镜头说：“没有人告诉我，快乐依然是被允许的。快乐并不是一种背叛。这门课程希望能给你这种许可。”

“你所经历的一切不仅仅是为了生存，它也是接下来的基础。”

公爵还表示，他遵循一条原则，即离开妻子和孩子的时间绝不超过十天。

MasterClass 课程承诺将“教授将丧失转化为成长的工具，并解锁我们每个人内心深处的韧性”。MasterClass 表示，公爵在这一主题上具有独特的资格，因为他“在青少年时期和二十岁出头时一直压抑悲伤”。

MasterClass 的年度会员费用在 £120 到 £228 之间。

昨天，45岁的公爵夫人罕见地在伦敦的克拉丽奇酒店（Claridge's hotel）公开露面，期间她与29岁的巴基斯坦博主马拉拉·优素福扎伊（Malala Yousafzai）一同出现。马拉拉在塔利班的枪击中幸存，并成为了诺贝尔和平奖最年轻的获得者。

公爵夫人与优素福扎伊首次会面是在2020年的一次Zoom视频通话中，旨在纪念国际女孩日。她们探讨了阻碍全球数百万年轻女性获得教育的障碍。

高等法院撤销针对安德鲁住所的搜查令

这意味着该搜查令不允许搜查受法律特权保护的物品或被视为机密的材料，例如商业记录。

由于该类材料是调查的核心，警方不得不承认搜查令是非法的。这些搜查令已于7月被撤销，但直到昨天才公开。

法官补充道，“搜查令被撤销这一事实并不意味着调查就此结束，也不意味着整个调查过程是非法的”。

他将于明年举行听证会，以确定泰晤士河谷警方是否可以根据另一项立法条款保留并使用这些材料。

警方表示：“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。”

安德鲁的一位朋友表示，他对听证会的结果保持“豁达”的态度。

该朋友表示：“我们这些与安德鲁亲近的人，往往比他本人更深刻地感受到他所处境遇的不公正。他依然保持着沉思和

分析

安德鲁·蒙巴顿-温莎在面对警方和法官时赢得了一场道德胜利，但昨天的裁决不太可能导致经济赔偿，也不会影响调查（乔纳森·艾姆斯撰文）。

尽管如此，希利亚德法官在高等法院作出的判决被法律界广泛认为，是由于泰晤士河谷警方做出了一项“相当惊人”的承认，即2月份授予的搜查令存在缺陷。

由于国王的弟弟被指控涉嫌滥用职权（他对此予以否认）并被逮捕，其房产遭到搜查，这些搜查令引发了媒体的疯狂报道。

蒙巴顿-温莎的王室头衔于去年11月被撤销，据称他对调查进度感到沮丧，并寻求许可对授予搜查令的行为进行司法审查。

高等法院法官已裁定该程序非法，这使得蒙巴顿-温莎有可能申请某种形式的赔偿。

那些遭受非法搜查的人有资格获得警方的赔偿金。但问题在于，蒙巴顿-温莎的案件涉及的是一个技术性问题。例如，这与两年前的一起案件形成鲜明对比，当时同一警队的警员获得了一份搜查雷丁市某房产的搜查令。

他们冲进该市某街道的一栋门牌号为25号的房子，使用破门锤砸开了前门。警员在屋内发现了一名男子、他的妻子和三个学龄儿童，并表示想找一名“琼斯先生”。该男子告知他们，他认识琼斯先生——琼斯先生住在隔壁的25A号。那次非法执行的搜查令导致泰晤士河谷警方支付了5.7 万英镑的损害赔偿金。

蒙巴顿-温莎案件的情况则截然不同。

Grosvenor Law 律师事务所合伙人安德鲁·吉尔莫表示：“警方承认他们获得的搜查令存在缺陷，这相当惊人，并且让人质疑泰晤士河谷警方的公信力，以及他们执行此类高调且敏感行动的能力。”

他补充说，蒙巴顿-温莎“可能仍有权获得赔偿，但由于违规行为属于技术性问题，赔偿金额将有限”。

蒙巴顿-温莎的王室头衔去年被国王剥夺

豁达。而我们很多人呢？并非如此。他的朋友和盟友对他过去15年所遭受的对待感到震惊，泰晤士河谷警方的表演式执法、大张旗鼓的生日搜查以及有缺陷的程序，仅仅是长期以来通过公众舆论进行审判的最新案例。这与我们在这个国家本应享有的自然正义相去甚远。”

英国皇家检察署（CPS）前特别犯罪部门负责人尼克·瓦莫斯（Nick Vamos）表示，这对泰晤士河谷警方来说是一件“令人尴尬”的事情，但这属于技术性错误，法院可能会裁定他们可以使用这些材料。

新闻

记忆之海 亨利·马蒂斯的 《大洋洲，大海》 预计将在 10月14日 于伦敦的一场 佳士得拍卖会上 拍出高达 250 万英镑 的价格。 这位艺术家在 1946年曾表示， 这幅亚麻布丝网印刷画 灵感源自一次 大溪地之旅， 他从中 回忆起 “鹿角珊瑚、 珊瑚、鱼类、鸟类、 水母”

治愈痴呆症是首相关注的切身之痛

奥布里·阿莱格雷蒂 (Aubrey Allegretti) 首席政治记者

安迪·伯纳姆 (Andy Burnham) 在宣布一项旨在纪念演员芭芭拉·温莎 (Barbara Windsor) 的 4800 万英镑 合作伙伴关系时表示，英国应致力于成为找到痴呆症治愈方法的国家。

政府和制药公司已承诺提供资金，以方便人们加入测试治疗方案的临床试验。

伯纳姆的父亲罗伊 (Roy) 上个月因阿尔茨海默症去世，预计他将于今日宣布该合作伙伴关系。

政府将投入 3300 万英镑 用于痴呆症研究。另有 1500 万英镑 将由制药公司葛兰素史克 (GSK)、百时美施贵宝 (Bristol Myers Squibb) 以及投资公司盖茨风投 (Gates Ventures) 提供。

“芭芭拉联盟” (The Barbara Alliance) 是一个覆盖全英国的非营利合作伙伴关系，汇集了政府、工业界、学术界、慈善机构以及具有痴呆症生活经验的人士。这些资金将用于帮助该联盟创建一个统一的平台，以连接健康数据、研究和临床试验能力。该平台旨在让研究人员更容易地为研究寻找参与者。

缺乏研究参与者是痴呆症研究最大的瓶颈之一。痴呆症是一种与大脑功能下降相关的综合征，阿尔茨海默症是其中的一种特定类型。

在今天与商业领袖举行的“创新国家”会议之前，伯纳姆表示：“痴呆症是一种极其残酷的疾病，不仅对于患者如此，对于照顾他们的家庭同样如此。”

“我希望英国能成为取得突破并提供全世界期待的痴呆症治愈方法的国家。这就是为什么我将痴呆症研究列为国家优先事项，通过支持国民医疗服务体系 (NHS)、大学、研究人员和工业界，来推动我们迫切需要的突破。”

伯纳姆曾承诺制定跨党派计划以解决社会护理问题，他表示此次投资将补充更广泛的改革。他已要求露易丝·凯西 (Dame Louise Casey) 领导的成人社会护理委员会将报告的发布时间提前一年，于 2027 年夏季发布。

他说：“这项投资与我们建立国家护理服务的计划相辅相成，有助于确保痴呆症患者获得所需的护理和支持，并让家庭放心，他们的亲人将得到照顾。”

温莎的慈善基金会表示，这笔资金将有助于资助改变生活的研究。这位《东区人》(EastEnders) 的演员在 2014, 被诊断出患有阿尔茨海默症，在她去世前六年。

任何 18 岁以上的人——无论是否被诊断出患有痴呆症或是否有记忆担忧——都可以通过政府的“加入痴呆症研究” (Join Dementia Research) 服务注册参加临床试验。

英国有近一百万人患有痴呆症，政府估计约 50% 的英国人在一生中会受到影响，无论是通过诊断、护理还是两者兼有。唐宁街表示，痴呆症每年给英国造成超过 420亿英镑 的损失。绝大部分成本由社会护理和无偿护理人员承担，NHS 承担 70亿英镑。

芭芭拉·温莎爵士痴呆症目标计划 (Dame Barbara Windsor Dementia Goals programme) 主席兼英国阿尔茨海默症研究中心 (Alzheimer's Research UK) 首席执行官希拉里·埃文斯-牛顿 (Hilary Evans-Newton) 表示：“我们知道，受痴呆症影响的人希望有机会参与寻找更好的治疗方法。”

“在我们调查的人员中，超过 90% 的人告诉我们，他们希望参与研究，帮助为所有受此病症影响的人塑造更好的未来。”

“通过解决痴呆症研究的障碍并加快临床试验的招募，这笔资金将帮助更多人为诊断和治疗的突破做出贡献。”

学界对 Arday 调查范围表示质疑

乔治亚·兰伯特 (Georgia Lambert) 教育记者

剑桥大学的学者们发出警告，称针对杰森·阿尔代 (Jason Arday) 之死的独立调查将使一些“根本性”问题无法得到解答。

在致大学校长芬斯伯里史密斯勋爵 (Lord Smith of Finsbury) 及大学理事会成员的一封信中，40 名学者呼吁，必须就阿尔代被任命后的决定以及导致其 8 月 14 日死亡的事件，建立一个“明确的责任链”。

尽管签署者对剑桥大学副校长德博拉·普伦蒂斯 (Deborah Prentice) 上个月公布的两部分审查参考条款表示欢迎，但他们认为关键问题仍未得到解决。

这封与《泰晤士报》分享的信函中写道：“我们欢迎参考条款中目前提供的更多细节。然而，我们认为重要且更根本的问题依然存在。”

“目前尚不清楚，此次审查的整体范围和治理结构是否能让这些问题得到解答，从而实现所需的全面机构问责。”

阿尔代在 2023 年成为剑桥大学最年轻的黑人教授，当时他 37 岁。今年，他因涉嫌抄袭而受到审查，但他对此予以否认。阿尔代于 8 月辞职，九天后被发现死在伦敦的家中。

剑桥大学已收到置评请求。

杰森·阿尔代在抄袭指控后去世

三姐妹约定自杀溺亡

Lara Wildenberg, Eleanor Tait

一名验尸官裁定，三名在布赖顿海滩附近海域溺亡的姐妹是因约定自杀而死。

来自伦敦的简·阿德托罗（Jane Adetoro，36岁）、克里斯蒂娜·沃尔特斯（Christina Walters，32岁）和丽贝卡·沃尔特斯（Rebecca Walters，31岁）于5月13日在水中被发现。

高级验尸官佩内洛普·斯科菲尔德（Penelope Schofield）昨日认定，她们是“故意进入水中，意图结束自己的生命”。

死因研讯会获悉，她们在事发前一天晚上前往伯明翰，走访了母亲曾居住的地址，其母亲于2010年溺亡。

在法庭上宣读的一份悼词中，这些女性的父亲表示，她们将“在上帝永恒的关怀中与母亲团聚”。通过网络参加听证会的约瑟夫·雅各布森（Joseph Jacobson）表示：“没有任何词语能充分表达失去孩子的痛苦。失去我三个珍贵的女儿——简、克里斯蒂娜和丽贝卡，这种心碎超出了我能想象的一切。”

他形容自己的女儿们是“美丽、聪明且优秀的女性，每个人都有自己的个性、梦想、抱负，在我心中占据着特殊的位置”。

他描述了简和克里斯蒂娜曾担任会计师，而丽贝卡从事人力资源工作的情况。雅各布森还提到了他的妻子珍妮丝（Janice），她死于伯明翰的布鲁克韦尔湖（Brookvale Lake）。

他说：“我们曾共同分享将三个女儿带到这个世界的祝福。她的生命和影响一直是她们故事的一部分。”

他继续说道：“简、蒂娜和贝基，我想让世界知道你们被深深地爱着。我很荣幸能成为你们的父亲，我为你们每一个人感到无比自豪。你们是我的女儿，永远是我的女儿，我将在余生中爱你们。愿你们美丽的灵魂安息。”

法庭听取的证据显示，克里斯蒂娜患有“焦虑症和抑郁症”，警方在其笔记本电脑的搜索记录中发现了227次关于水的记录和179次关于自杀的记录。

这些姐妹还清空了银行账户，且她们合租的公寓被“彻底打扫干净”。

在伍德韦尔（Woodvale）验尸法庭主持程序的斯科菲尔德表示：“我必须考虑，为什么她们会在黑暗的时段，在她们并不熟悉且不会游泳的情况下进入水中。我认定，这些姐妹是故意进入水中，意图结束自己的生命。”

她补充道：“这三姐妹生活得非常隐秘……我们不知道她们为什么采取这种行动，或者究竟为什么选择在布赖顿这样做。遗憾的是，这些细节可能永远无法得知。”

一名验尸官助理宣读了尸检报告，其中包括来自

从左起， 简·阿德托罗， 克里斯蒂娜 ·沃尔特斯，以及 丽贝卡·沃尔特斯 小时候与 父亲约瑟夫以及，左侧， 母亲珍妮丝的合影。这三姐妹 在布赖顿 海滩附近 溺亡

克里斯蒂娜全科医生的医疗记录。记录显示，在2024年10月，她被诊断为“混合型焦虑和抑郁障碍”。

来自萨塞克斯郡警方的首席督察马克·库利莫尔（Mark Cullimore）在听证会上告知，这些姐妹在去世前一天乘坐出租车前往伯明翰，并在其母亲珍妮丝·阿德托罗（Janice Adetoro）曾居住的街道被放下。法庭获悉，这些姐妹在伯明翰停留了一个半小时，时间在5月11日晚上11.36分至5月12日凌晨1.28分之间。5月12日，她们乘坐预订的出租车前往布赖顿，并于晚上10.21分抵达海滨附近。库利莫尔表示，司机除了注意到“缺乏交谈”外，没有发现任何异常。

据信，这些姐妹最后一次在海滩的闭路电视（CCTV）中被看到还活着是在5月13日凌晨2.42分。

死因研讯会获悉，简被皇家国家救生艇协会（RNLI）船员救回岸边，并在现场被宣布死亡。克里斯蒂娜由救生艇从海中救起，而丽贝卡则被冲上了布赖顿海滩的岸边。

(Numeric Anchors: 36, 32, 31, 13, 2010, 227, 179, 2024, 11., 11, 1., 12., 12, 10., 2.)

卡利莫尔表示，三姐妹在去世时都结清了账户并偿还了债务。他说道，简在5月11日，即去世前仅两天，全额偿还了一笔贷款。 可通过电话 116 123 匿名联系撒玛利亚会（Samaritans），或访问 samaritans.org 获取更多信息。

王室全科医生丈夫涉嫌“殴打并勒死”妻子

马克·卢德洛（Mark Ludlow）、安德鲁·杨（Andrew Young）

一名王室全科医生的丈夫昨日出庭，被指控通过击打其头部并将其勒死而将其杀害。

45岁的汉娜·特里（Hannah Terry）医生的尸体于周日被发现。此前，应急服务部门接到报案，前往她与丈夫马克·凯恩（Mark Cain）在桑德灵厄姆庄园（Sandringham Estate）附近的德辛厄姆（Dersingham）共同居住的家中。

事发当晚，屋内有五名8至13岁的儿童，其中包括这对夫妇的三个儿子，另外两名儿童当时在屋内参加过夜聚会。

凯恩通过视频链接在金斯林刑事法院（King's Lynn crown court）出庭。检方代表史蒂文·鲍尔（Steven Ball）告诉法庭，被描述为“此前品行良好”的凯恩被指控在10月3日夜间至10月4日凌晨之间谋杀了他的妻子。

鲍尔表示，特里被“发现昏迷且无反应地躺在楼上卧室的地板上”。他补充道：“初步尸检结果详细记录了其头部的钝器伤，以及与颈部受压一致的颈部损伤。”

预计将于12月3日举行认罪及潜在审判准备听证会。

特里在希查姆医疗诊所（Heacham Medical Practice）工作了九年，随后于去年搬至格里姆斯顿（Grimston）。据报道，她当时在负责为桑德灵厄姆的王室成员提供医疗覆盖的轮值名单中。她与丈夫于2021年9月共同购买了他们的住宅，价格为76 万英镑，花园连接着一片300英尺长的原野。该房屋被王室20,000英亩的桑德灵厄姆庄园环绕，距离桑德灵厄姆府（Sandringham House）仅一英里多。

她还是一家名为 Norfolk Sky Aesthetics 公司的董事，该公司由她与一名常驻德辛厄姆的注册护士共同经营，专门提供除皱和填充治疗。

她的家人通过警方表达了对她的悼念，称：“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。我们为她成为这样的人感到无比自豪，也为她对所有将其视为特里医生的患者所付出的极尽细心的照顾感到自豪。我们请求人们在这个困难时期尊重我们的隐私。”

她的家门外摆放着几束鲜花。患者们也在格里姆斯顿医疗诊所外为特里留下了鲜花和信息。一张附在长椅上泰迪熊上的卡片写道：“我们的全科医生汉娜·特里医生。我们在思念您，思念您的家人、您的孩子、您的朋友，更在思念格里姆斯顿医疗诊所的所有员工和同事。”

伦敦警察厅长拒绝就“帕特尼推人案”施压一事道歉

大卫·布朗 首席新闻记者

伦敦警察厅（Metropolitan Police）局长拒绝就“帕特尼推人案”（Putney Pusher）嫌疑人在自杀前所承受的任何压力道歉。

马克·罗利爵士（Sir Mark Rowley）表示，44岁的退伍军人尼古拉斯·布兰德拉姆（Nicholas Brandram）仍在该事件的调查范围内。该事件发生于2017年，当时一名慢跑者在伦敦西部帕特尼桥上将一名女性推向一辆巴士。

布兰德拉姆于今年6月在伦敦西部奇斯威克的家中被捕。他的家人坚称他是清白的，并指责侦查人员在他上个月自杀前对他施加了“巨大的压力”。

罗利昨日在LBC电台《早餐》节目中告诉尼克·费拉里（Nick Ferrari）：“该案件一直处于激活状态，我们获得了一些新信息，这导致我们将该男子视为嫌疑人。当然，每个刑事嫌疑人都承受着压力，这是显而易见的。我不会为此道歉。家属所说的是：‘警察厅，你们不合理。他显然是清白的’。我并不一定同意这一点，但我们必须在继续调查的同时，审查并研究他们的投诉。”

他补充道：“因此，我们正在调查此案。我们有一名嫌疑人，他去世了，家属提出了投诉。我们需要继续……他可能就是我们要调查的那个人。所以请让我们彻查清楚。”

独立警察行为监察局（IOPC）已要求伦敦警察厅的专业标准部门调查该案件的处理情况。

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Deliveroo 将解雇超速行驶的电动自行车骑手

劳伦斯·斯莱特 (Laurence Sleator) 交通记者

他们已成为城市街道上的常客，将食物或购物订单送到数百万人的门前。

但在一个速度至上的行业中，一些配送骑手一直在使用非法手段以更快地到达目的地。时速可达 30 英里以上的电动自行车经常被危险地驾驶。

如今，在英国拥有超过 100,000 名配送骑手、服务于 70,000 家餐厅和杂货店网络的 Deliveroo，已开始打击任何其怀疑在道路上非法行驶的人员。

利用新的速度和 GPS 技术，该公司计划监控其平台上的骑手，并查看他们配送订单的速度。如果配送所需的时间与账户注册的自行车不相符，该公司将联系该用户并发出警告；如果此类行为持续存在，该用户将被禁止使用该平台。

Deliveroo 政策与可持续发展总监保罗·贝德福德 (Paul Bedford) 告诉《泰晤士报》：“速度技术通过分析持续速度，帮助我们更好地检测非法电动自行车的使用。一旦我们发现持续速度处于非法状态，我们将禁用该骑手的账户。”

“GPS 数据本身有其局限性，例如在下坡路段或信号较不可靠的密集市区，因此我们的政策侧重于‘持续’速度超过合规车辆所能达到的范围。我们正在设计一套方案，旨在识别持续性的模式，以避免惩罚遵守规则的骑手。”

Deliveroo 将使用 GPS 技术监控其电动自行车骑手的速度

要在英国合法行驶，电动自行车必须配备功率不超过 250 瓦的电动机，并且在骑手速度达到 15. 英里 / 小时时停止踏板辅助。任何不符合这些要求的电动自行车实际上都被视为摩托车，必须办理登记、缴纳税款并购买保险。

今年前七个月，伦敦大都会警察局没收了 2,500 辆以上的非法电动自行车和电动滑板车。通常从国外购买的改装套件被用于改装踏板车和电动自行车，使其变得非法且时速可达 70 英里。

“我们将剔除使用不合规车辆的骑手，而我们正在试点的速度技术将增强我们检测此类案例的能力，”贝德福德表示。

此举得到了伦敦交通局（TfL）和伦敦消防局的支持。改装套件中的锂离子电池也存在火灾风险。

英国自行车行业的贸易团体——自行车协会 (The Bicycle Association) 表示：“我们同意 Deliveroo 的观点，即这些将踏板自行车变成危险且不符合道路法律的电动车辆的改装套件应当被禁止销售。”

“将这些车辆非法用于配送骑行，使骑手、电池存放地的居民以及其他道路使用者面临风险。这也损害了合法的英国电动自行车产业，其经过安全测试且完全符合道路法律的产品经常被一概而论。”

政府表示：“经过改装而速度更快、功率更强且超出规则允许范围的电动自行车就是摩托车，除非它们办理了登记、缴纳了税款并购买了保险，否则它们不应该出现在我们的道路上。”

“我们已赋予警方更强的权力来没收车辆……并且我们正在打击在线销售的不安全产品。”

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“疼痛主管”在针对NHS的膝伤之战中获胜

乔纳森·艾姆斯 (Jonathan Ames) 法律编辑

NHS（英国国家医疗服务体系）的管理人员在一名资深顾问因膝盖疼痛请假后，剥夺了她“疼痛临床主管”的头衔，此举被认定为歧视。

凯瑟琳·格雷迪 (Kathryn Grady) 博士在医疗服务部门工作了 40 年。她在疫情期间患病后膝盖变得虚弱，随后向曼彻斯特大学 NHS 基金会信托基金 (Manchester University Foundation Trust) 请病假。

就业法庭获悉，她在休假期间被告知被多支付了近 20 万英镑 的薪水，这给她带来了“巨大的焦虑”。

由于膝盖问题和心理健康状况，格雷迪博士（当时 63 岁）再次请假，随后被告知她的头衔将被取消。

她起诉了该信托基金，曼彻斯特的法庭裁定她因残疾而遭受了不利对待，有权获得赔偿。

格雷迪博士于 1983 年加入 ，12 年后被南曼彻斯特大学医院 基金会信托基金任命为专门从事疼痛医学的顾问麻醉师。她于 1996 年成为疼痛临床主管，并担任该职务至 2004 年。

十年后，格雷迪博士同意重新担任该职务，并在 2017 年的一次合并后继续留任。从那时起，她一直担任合并后疼痛服务的临床主管，直到 2023 年其头衔被取消。

法庭获悉，2020 年初，由于疫情，整个疼痛服务实际上处于停滞状态，格雷迪及其他工作人员被重新部署。当团队在 2021-22 年恢复正常服务时，格雷迪在一次审查中受到赞扬，审查结果显示她“继续成功领导了一个充满活力且复杂的跨学科团队”。

但在 2022 年底，管理人员针对疼痛顾问缺乏定制化培训的问题召开了“危机会议”。到了次年春天，格雷迪因与新冠相关的疾病请假——她在执行一项长时间的手术清单时，右膝脱力。

她在听证会上表示，当时她的右膝无法承重，在扫描后被建议使用拐杖，且该周不再执行手术清单。

大约在同一时间，该信托基金的麻醉部门负责人对其疼痛服务进行了审查，这一过程最终导致格雷迪被撤除疼痛主管职务。

这位顾问还被告知她被多支付了 190,328 英镑 的薪水，这让她“感到极大的震惊”，并且是“巨大的焦虑之源”。

当时，格雷迪是疼痛服务领导团队中唯一一名 60 岁以上的人员。

法庭支持了格雷迪关于不公正解雇以及因残疾而遭受不利对待的指控。

在裁决中，法官罗德里·麦克唐纳 (Rhodri McDonald) 指出，信托基金管理人员在“没有任何预先警告”的情况下取消了格雷迪的头衔，这一举动“可能会破坏或严重损害雇佣关系”。

法庭裁定，她被任命为该职务是“无固定期限的”，格雷迪本应预期在被撤职前收到“关于她自身存在严重失职的某种迹象”。

麦克唐纳补充说，“并没有出现这种迹象”，且取消其头衔“意味着地位的丧失，而且当其他人比 [格雷迪博士] 更早知道此事时，将是双倍的羞辱”。

12 岁女孩死于过敏反应，“将永远被铭记”

一名 12 岁女孩在饮用被榛子污染的奶昔后死于过敏反应。随着对其死亡原因的死因研讯结束，她的父母表示她“将永远被铭记”（彼得·查佩尔 (Peter Chappell) 报道）。

2023 年 8 月，来自西登汉 (Sydenham) 的米娅·谢·圣希莱尔 (Mia Shay St Hilaire) 与她的姨妈和姐姐在伦敦东南部伯蒙德赛 (Bermondsey) 的 Pop Inn 咖啡馆饮用 Twix 奶昔后，出现了严重的过敏反应。米娅对榛子过敏。

她所饮用的饮料中含有之前用搅拌机制作奶昔时留下的榛子残留物。视频显示，咖啡馆经营者巴里斯·尤塞尔（Baris Yucel）在准备该饮料前并未清洗搅拌机。

助理验尸官布里奥妮·巴拉德（Briony Ballard）表示，米娅饮用了一些 Twix 奶昔，“而该奶昔已被之前在同一台未清洗的搅拌机中制作的 Kinder Bueno 奶昔中的榛子残留物交叉污染。她迅速出现了过敏性休克，并……在姑姑家中昏迷。”

12 岁的米娅·谢伊·圣希莱尔（Mia Shay St Hilaire）在伦敦东南部伯蒙德西（Bermondsey）的 Pop Inn Cafe 饮用 Twix 奶昔后，出现了严重的过敏反应。

尽管被紧急送往医院并转入埃维莉娜伦敦儿童医院（Evelina London Children's Hospital）的重症监护室，米娅还是去世了。

她的父母阿德里安（Adrian）和香奈儿（Chanel）在声明中表示：“为了保护患有食物过敏的人群，需要做出重大改变。消费者在决定哪里可以安全用餐时依赖于食品卫生评级，但这些评级并没有告诉我们食品企业运行过敏管理系统的方式。

“应该像食品卫生评级一样，设立一个单独且清晰显示的过敏管理专用评级。这意味着过敏人群可以就用餐地点做出知情选择。”

南华克区议会（Southwark council）对该咖啡馆提起诉讼，去年 1 月，尤塞尔承认所有六项罪名。这些罪名包括未向消费者提供过敏原建议、在食品生产过程中未能管理好污染，以及提供含有不应存在的过敏原成分的食物。他被处以 1.8 万英镑 罚款，并被判处 100 小时的社区服务令。

聆听心仪曲目可缓解疼痛

新研究表明，聆听最喜爱的音乐可以减轻医疗操作过程中的疼痛。

科学家发现，在进行核磁共振（MRI）扫描前插入留置针时，播放患者偏好的曲目能最大限度地减轻疼痛和压力。而播放随机曲目则没有镇静效果。

尽管此前有报道称音乐干预有助于缓解疼痛和压力，但不同音乐流派的效果各异。

瑞士科学家为即将进行 MRI 静脉留置针操作的患者播放了不同类型的音乐：莫扎特的作品、放松音乐或他们最喜爱的歌曲。这项发表在《疼痛研究前沿》（Frontiers in Pain Research）杂志上的研究结果显示，播放患者最喜爱的音乐效果最显著。

首席作者、苏黎世大学医院的安德烈-克里斯蒂内尔·德拉尼亚（Andrei-Cristinel Dragnea）博士表示：“虽然针刺是一个微小的操作，但……疼痛在每个人之间可能存在显著差异。”

研究人员招募了 204 名接受非紧急脑部、脊柱或头颈部 MRI 扫描的患者。这些操作需要通过留置针将对比剂注入静脉，这一过程可能会产生疼痛。

四分之一的患者作为对照组，即不听任何音乐。其他三组分别聆听他们最喜爱的音乐、专为放松设计的音乐，或莫扎特的《双钢琴奏鸣曲》中的一个乐章（此前多项研究表明该曲目可能具有治疗特性）。

在留置针插入后 30 秒和两分钟，聆听最喜爱音乐的患者感受到的疼痛较少。

在报告过留置针插入前疼痛的患者亚组中，聆听最喜爱的音乐还能减轻针刺时的疼痛，而聆听莫扎特的音乐则在针刺两分钟后减轻了疼痛。

莫扎特的音乐似乎仅对那些在留置针插入前就感到疼痛的患者有效。而聆听放松音乐或不听音乐的患者则没有感受到任何变化。

该研究的高级作者、同样来自苏黎世大学医院的梅里切尔·加西亚·阿尔萨莫拉（Meritxell Garcia Alzamora）博士表示：“在我们研究的四种情况中，只有最喜爱的音乐和莫扎特的音乐显示出积极效果。最喜爱的音乐在有无基线疼痛的患者中均表现出显著的减痛效果……而莫扎特的音乐仅在已有疼痛的患者中显示出显著的缓解作用。”

“我会建议患者聆听音乐，尤其是那些普遍喜爱音乐的患者。鉴于我们的研究结果，我们将增加在放射科静脉穿刺操作中应用音乐，特别是针对焦虑或患有幽闭恐惧症的患者。”

林肯郡发现“英国最古老宠物犬”骨骸

彼得·查佩尔 (Peter Chappell)

考古学家发现了可能属于英国最古老宠物犬的遗骸，他们认为这只狗曾被一位富有的罗马主人抱在膝上。

这具来自小型犬种的完整骨架，是英国境内关于狗被作为家养动物饲养的最早证据。此前发现的所有其他犬类都被认为是工作犬。

这只狗是由 Wessex Archaeology 团队在林肯郡帕特尼村 (Partney) 附近的一块田地挖掘过程中发现的，体型大约与博美犬相当。

分析该遗骸的动物考古学家洛林·希格比 (Lorrain Higbee) 告诉《电讯报》：“虽然它只有五到八个月大，但从骨骼尺寸可以清楚地看出，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，如果这只幼犬能存活到成年，其身高将达到 8 英寸。

遗骸被送去进行了放射性碳定年法检测，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，并且喜欢饲养膝上犬作为宠物。

希格比表示：“它提供了一个罕见且日期明确的案例，证明在农村环境下也饲养体型极小的膝上犬作为家庭宠物……这揭示了这一时期人类与狗之间关系的转变。”

这些发现尚未经过同行评审或在期刊上发表，但独立专家表示，这只动物可能是英国发现的最早已知宠物犬。

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仇恨犯罪创纪录引发警告

芬坦·霍根 (Fintan Hogan)、乔治·威洛比 (George Willoughby) 高级数据记者

种族和宗教仇恨犯罪已达到创纪录水平，这被描述为对偏见日益严重的“严峻警告”。

内政部统计数据显示，在截至 2026 年 3 月的一年里，英格兰和威尔士的警方记录了 146,825 起仇恨犯罪，比前 12 个月增长了 7%。

整体增长主要源于种族相关事件的显著增加，此类事件增长了 9%，达到约 108,000 起。近四分之三的仇恨犯罪是由种族动机驱动的。

内政部将这一增长部分归因于犯罪记录方式的改进。然而，警察事务大臣莎拉·琼斯 (Sarah Jones) 表示，这些数据发出了“严峻警告，表明仇恨继续玷污着我们的社区”。

针对犹太人的仇恨犯罪增加了 10%，达到 3,162 起，尤其是在 2025 年 10 月“希顿公园犹太会堂 (Heaton Park Synagogue) 恐怖袭击后发生的一系列反犹太主义犯罪”之后有所上升。

内政部补充道，自以色列-哈马斯冲突开始以来，反犹太主义一直“处于高位”。

数据显示，犹太人成为宗教仇恨犯罪受害者的可能性几乎是穆斯林的十倍。每 10,000 名犹太人口中有 117 起记录在案的宗教仇恨犯罪，而每 10,000 名穆斯林中则有 13 起。

监测反犹太主义的社区安全信托基金 (CST) 表示，数据表明反犹太行为处于“不可接受的高水平”。

马克·帕斯莫尔 (MARK PASSMORE)

达特穆尔国家公园的小马俱乐部小马在查格福德市场 (Chagford Market) 进行拍卖，这是最后一场拥有木门、围栏和草地的传统“漂移销售” (drift sales)。国家公园的这些半野生小马在每年秋季的“漂移”中被聚集起来进行健康检查。其中一些被出售，另一些则被送回荒原繁育。

“特权感”警务主管因婚外情被裁定违规

威尔·汉弗里斯 (Will Humphries) 西南地区特派记者

一名掩盖与两名下属警官婚外情并试图破坏对其行为调查的警务主管，被违规行为审查小组认定为具有欺骗性、不诚实且具有特权感。

汉普郡及怀特岛的前警务主管斯科特·奇尔顿 (Scott Chilton) 被裁定犯有严重违规行为。他在就任最高职务仅数周后便与一名女性督察发生婚外情，并在执勤期间与一名警长发生性关系。

他在该岗位任职两年后，于去年 4 月退休。奇尔顿的离职是在一名原侦查总督察在其自身的违规听证会上指控他有婚外情之后发生的。

昨日，一个警察违规审查小组表示，53 岁的奇尔顿在两段关系中“蓄意欺骗”，并在试图掩盖婚外情时变得“专横且具有攻击性”。

审查小组认定他面对的指控成立，裁定他为了“自身的性满足”而“滥用职权”。小组还发现他“采取了精心计算和操纵的手段，以破坏正在进行的违规程序，并试图阻挠对他本人的调查”。

奇尔顿没有出席在伊斯特利 (Eastleigh) 举行的听证会。在听证会的第一天，他撤回了对律师的委托，律师表示其委托人因“违规处理过程导致的医疗问题”将不会出席。审查小组获悉，奇尔顿拥有 33 年的经验，并于 2023 年成为汉普郡的警务主管。

斯科特·奇尔顿曾任汉普郡警务主管，现被禁止从事警务工作。

他被裁定在 2008 年至 2012 年期间与一名被称为“警官 A”的警长发生婚外情，并在其家中执勤期间与其发生性关系。

他多次否认这段关系，称两人从未在执勤期间发生性关系，并否认在申请成为警务主管期间未披露该关系。

警官 A 表示：“我知道斯科特·奇尔顿在婚外情期间已婚且有一个儿子。我当时是单身。”

担任审查小组主席的陛下警察与消防救援服务首席监察官米歇尔·斯基尔 (Michelle Skeer) 表示，

奇尔顿被认定为“多次通过不披露性关系而蓄意不诚实”。

奇尔顿的第二段婚外情是与一名督察发生的，始于他就任最高职务数周后。斯基尔表示：“他的行为是由其自身的特权感驱动的。”

审查小组发现，奇尔顿未能披露这段婚外情，并向对方施压要求删除信息。当对方披露两人的关系时，他随后“通过频繁联系来霸凌她”。

审查小组裁定，奇尔顿试图“阻挠”针对一名同事性违规行为的调查，因为他担心这会暴露他自己的婚外情。小组结论称：“他的行为是对警察与犯罪专员及同事的一次严重的、蓄意的且持续的误导企图，旨在消除任何对他产生的负面影响。”

“所有警察都处于信任之位。然而，奇尔顿处于最高信任之位 [且] 他本可以接触到关于同事、安全和国家警务事务的机密及敏感信息。”

“有证据表明，他在通过 WhatsApp 消息与‘警官 B’交流时，讨论了他不应该讨论的问题。”

审查小组表示，如果奇尔顿没有在调查期间辞职，他将在每项指控中被立即解雇且不获通知。

他已被列入警察学院 (College of Policing) 的禁职人员名单，这意味着他无法再次成为警官。

医院工作人员“无视”母亲担忧，导致婴儿死亡

一名五个月大女婴在医院死亡，其母亲在昨天的死因研讯中表示，在抢救时机错过之前的 15 小时内，医生“多次”无视她的担忧。

2023 年 10 月 31 日，林赛·卡尔（Lynsey Carr）和里昂·海（Leon High）因女儿埃斯塔（Esta）发高烧并呕吐，将其送往利兹综合医院（Leeds General Infirmary）的急诊部门。

韦克菲尔德（Wakefield）验尸法庭获悉，该女婴的新冠病毒（Covid-19）检测呈阳性，夫妇二人被告知将其带回家，但他们拒绝了，因为孩子体温超过 40 度且病情在恶化。

来自利兹的卡尔表示，家人被安置在医院儿童评估与治疗（Cat）单元的一个侧室里，工作人员似乎更关心如何隔离埃斯塔，而不是倾听父母的诉求。卡尔告诉陪审团，她的女儿出现了皮疹，手臂开始颤抖，她担心那是癫痫发作。她说，“我们极其担心”，“我们一直在寻求帮助”，但“工作人员态度粗鲁，不听取我们的担忧”。

卡尔形容埃斯塔在 Cat 单元度过的时光是“充满错失机会的 15 小时”。她说，如果值班的初级医生能“表现出更多的紧迫感”，或者寻求资深同事的意见，“这本可以挽救埃斯塔的生命”。

到 11 月 2, 傍晚，埃斯塔已无法被唤醒，扫描和其他检测显示有脑膜脑炎的证据，并检测出肺炎链球菌（Streptococcus pneumoniae），这是一种可引起大脑炎症的细菌。卡尔说：“在经历了 55 小时完全没有被重视之后，医生们突然疯狂地在房间里跑进跑出。房间里挤满了试图挽救我们女儿生命的医生和护士。”

她告诉陪审团：“不幸的是，由于我们的女儿被搁置且未接受治疗长达 55 小时，挽救我们亲爱的女孩已经太迟了。”

此次死因研讯预计将持续 10 天。

上个月，政府宣布将“玛莎规则”（Martha's Rule）扩展到英格兰的所有急诊（A&E）部门。该规则允许工作人员和家属紧急请求医疗护理的第二诊疗意见。该规则是在 2021 年 13, 岁的玛莎·米尔斯（Martha Mills）去世后制定的，它提供 24 / 7 全天候的紧急审查渠道，并在各医院内进行公示。

玛莎在医院患上败血症后死亡。她的父母梅罗普·米尔斯（Merope Mills）和保罗·莱蒂（Paul Laity）表示，他们对女儿的担忧被反复无视，验尸官裁定，如果她能更早被送入重症监护室，本可以幸存。

该规则目前正在住院病房实施，在试点计划成功后，国民医疗服务体系（NHS）将将其扩展至急诊部门。

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特朗普如何在网络上依然拥有最终话语权

马克·塞尔曼 (Mark Sellman)

科技记者

这是十多年来互联网地址规模最大的一次变革——其结果可能是你输入 .fart 就能访问某个网站。

控制网络地址的组织公布了一份新的域名“顶级域”名单，其中包括 .trump、.meow 和 .zzz。已有超过 1,600 个新地址提交了申请。其中一些，如 .agi、.superintelligence 和 .chatgpt，显示出 AI 公司正试图抢占域名。

负责控制该流程的美国非营利组织——互联网名称与数字地址分配机构（Icann），上一次扩展网络域名是在 2012 年，由此产生了 .app、.web、.pizza 和 .babysitting 等域名。而这一次，.fart、.bro、.maga 和 .god 都在申请之列。

那些被 Icann 授予域名的机构将成为注册局，获得对该后缀的控制权，他们可以保留该后缀，或将该后缀下的注册权出售给第三方。像 .uk 这样的国家级域名则不受 Icann 控制。

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苏埃拉·布雷弗曼很少错过抨击保守党的机会，但她确实欠一位前党魁一份情。在她的回忆录《爱国者》（Patriot）中，布雷弗曼回顾了 2017 年访问切克斯别墅（Chequers）的一次经历。她描述了晚餐后，特蕾莎·梅在长廊里向她和她的伴侣拉埃尔（Rael）招手示意：“你们一定要看看这枚美丽的戒指。它曾由伊丽莎白一世佩戴。”梅毫无含蓄地补充道：“戒指真是太神奇了。不是吗，拉埃尔？年轻人，你应该考虑买一枚了。”布雷弗曼反思道：“我倾向于认为特蕾莎在让我成为一名已婚女性的过程中发挥了作用，为此我将永远心存感激。”尽管如此，她并没有感激到愿意投票支持梅的脱欧协议。

梅伊是顶级的媒人

AI 的高光时刻 议员们经常偷偷依赖 AI 来撰写演讲稿，但下周这项技术将在上议院被用于更崇高的目的。萨比顿的坎贝尔男爵夫人（Baroness Campbell of Surbiton）——她通常需要助手大声朗读她的演讲稿——将在健康法案辩论中使用 AI 语音克隆：这是残障议员的一个重要里程碑。这证明了 AI 可以助力无障碍环境，而不仅仅是帮助那些缺乏灵感的后座议员。

大卫·麦克洛斯基（David McCloskey）在研究他的新惊悚小说《伦敦站》（London Station）时，花费数月时间向军情六处（MI6）和兰利（Langley）的官员请教。特工们向他讲述了竞争对手之间为了跟踪同一目标而互相干扰的趣闻。然而，他最丰富的灵感并非来自阴影之中，而是来自 FBI 的卡什·帕特尔（Kash Patel）。在塑造 Stu 这一角色时

这一切都并非廉价：申请一个顶级域名需要花费 $227,000 (171,500 英镑)，而且如果某个后缀存在竞争，拍卖可能会引发竞价大战。

Nu Dot Co 此前为 .web 支付了 1.35亿美元，谷歌则在 .app 上花费了 2500万美元。然而，拥有一个热门域名可以带来丰厚利润，.com 每年为全球技术公司 Verisign 创造 15亿美元 的收入。

一家比利时非营利组织希望拥有 .meow，该域名旨在为 LGBT 群体提供，但也将成为全球猫奴们欢迎的地址

AI 在这一轮申请中扮演了重要角色，OpenAI 申请了 15 个域名，包括 .openai、.chatgpt 和 .codex。它也是 13 家竞争 .agent 地址的公司之一，并且是 7 家竞争 .agi（代表通用人工智能）的公司之一。

.fart、.slop 和 .itiswhatitis 的申请属于一个团体寻求的数百个新奇地址的一部分，该团体获得了域名投资者约尼·贝洛索夫（Yoni Belousov）提供的 3600万美元 资金。

Meta 申请了 21 个域名，包括 .aiglasses、.wearables 和 .muse（其 AI 代理的名称）。

布里克（Bricker）——一名以“纯粹不外交的美国式要求”著称的 CIA 走狗——麦克洛斯基直接借鉴了帕特尔据称对办公室会议的厌恶，以及他更倾向于在观看英超比赛和玩喷气滑雪时与军情五处（MI5）谈论工作。麦克洛斯基承认：“现实比小说更离奇。如果是我编造的，我的编辑会因为太荒唐而将其否决。”

活在当下，解开拉链 拍摄詹姆斯·邦德电影不再像以前那样了，下面这位罗杰·摩尔的第一任邦女郎玛德琳·史密斯（Madeline Smith）感叹道。她向我在《老顽童》（The Oldie）午餐会上表示，如今的 CGI 和风险评估“太乏味且完全被管控”，她怀念 20 世纪 70 年代的拍摄现场，那时“完全没有健康与安全规定”，剧组人员“经常放火烧东西”。她说，看到人们“真正跳过鳄鱼”要有趣得多。史密斯在《活在当下》（Live and Let Die）中的出场涉及摩尔用一块磁力表拉开她的裙子拉链，她同样对现代的亲密行为协调员不屑一顾：“在我的时代，没有人凑到我身边问：‘你介意我们将拉链再拉低一点吗？’”

正如我们本周报道的，罗温·艾特金森（Rowan Atkinson）将让“憨豆先生”回归西区演出。然而，全球知名度并不保证能被认出来。《日记》的一名编辑回想起艾特金森曾在彼得伯勒的一家路虎车店里，被告知：“你简直和那个憨豆先生一模一样。”当艾特金森说：“事实上，我就是扮演憨豆先生的演员”时，那个人笑了：“I bet you wish you were!” 艾特金森越是抗议，那个人就越不相信他，甚至建议他去做替身工作。随着购物者对这种坚持感到厌烦，艾特金森最终放弃了：“他

艾特金森最终放弃了：“他认为我是一个彻头彻尾的混蛋，到处声称自己是憨豆先生。”

ED HALFORD 全世界。Icann 将在 11 月 17 日对其批准的地址做出最终决定。

互联网安全安全专家约翰·卡尔（John Carr）对 Icann 提出了批评，称其为“一场针对公共利益的阴谋”。他表示：“他们完全没有兴趣让注册局或注册商的生活变得困难或利润降低，因为他们基本上完全依赖于从这些机构那里获得的资金。”

“根据 Icann 的规则，他们本应该核查购买域名人员的真实身份……但他们没有这样做，因为一旦你开始放慢速度，要求提供这样或那样的证明，你就会引入管理成本并降低交易量，从而减少收入，所以他们根本不去执行。”

DNS 研究联合会（DNS Research Federation）在 2023 年的一份报告中得出结论，

由 Icann 控制的域名比在欧盟管理的域名产生了更多的恶意活动。该报告发现，Icann 在 2012 年颁发的域名 ac。

特朗普总统，其姓名可用作后缀

注册量约占 8%，但恶意活动占比达 27%。

相反，欧盟国家代码域名注册量占 14%，但滥用率仅为 3%。作者得出结论，原因之一是欧洲注册机构经常核实域名所有者提供的姓名和联系详情是否准确。Icann 已被要求就此发表评论。

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胆量十足 一只白尾海雕在马尔岛海岸捕鱼。这种英国最大的猛禽曾被驱至灭绝，直到 1975 年的一项重新引入项目

电动汽车先驱呼吁放宽转型目标

劳伦斯·斯利特 (Laurence Sleator) 交通记者 这项技术的“教父”表示，英国应放缓向电动汽车的转型。

安迪·帕尔默博士 (Dr Andy Palmer) 提出了一项引发行业分歧的建议。这位曾领导首款大众市场电动汽车——日产 Leaf (Nissan Leaf) 上市的英国高管表示，应放宽 2030 年的目标，以帮助汽油和柴油汽车行业。

根据政府的零排放车辆 (ZEV) 指令，到 2035 年，所有汽车销售必须全部为电动汽车，制造商预计每年需销售更高比例的电动汽车，否则将面临罚款。其目标是到 2030 年，电动汽车将占所有新车销售额的 80%，而届时新汽油车和柴油车的销售也将结束。

这一时间表目前正在审查中，行业部分人士认为，在消费者需求不足的情况下，该目标无法实现且成本过高。帕尔默建议将 80% 的数字下调至 60%。作为回报，他表示政府应在四年后对混合动力汽车采取更强硬的措施，禁止销售任何没有充电插头的车型。

随着政府咨询的展开，曾任阿斯顿·马丁 (Aston Martin) 首席执行官且目前深度参与电动汽车转型的帕尔默呼吁达成妥协。他说：“到 2030 年达到 80% 的目标在展厅里注定会很艰难。60% 是行业可以盈利地实现的目标，而一个盈利的行业才会进行投资。”

“但降低目标必须换取某些条件。没有插头的混合动力车就是一台焊上了电池的汽油车。它行驶的每一英里都在燃烧燃料，因此在零排放转型中没有立足之地。”

他表示，作为该方案的一部分，没有插头的全混合动力车在 2030 年后不应再销售。带有插头的混合动力车只有在能提供至少 60 英里电动续航里程的情况下才能继续销售，且经销商应被强制要求向每位混合动力车客户提供关于如何为车辆充电的指导。

“经销商希望将目标降低到 50%。我提出 60%

安迪·帕尔默博士希望将 2030 年电动汽车销售目标从 80% 降低到 60%

并且我要求他们为每位开走插电式混合动力车的客户提供十分钟的时间。在交付时的指导无需成本，却能改变该车在整个生命周期中的使用方式，”他说。“这是一次交易。行业得到了一个可以实现的目标。政府得到了真实的而非理论上的减排效果。驾驶者得到了能节省油费的汽车。”

帕尔默因在 2010 年推出日产 Leaf（首款可在家中充电且价格实惠的大众市场车型）而被称为“电动汽车教父”。他目前经营一家电池储能业务。

电动汽车购买与建议网站 Electrifying.com 的总编辑金妮·巴克利 (Ginny Buckley) 表示：“安迪呼吁对混合动力车采取更严格的规定是正确的。我的不同意见在于将零排放目标削减至 60%。驾驶者和行业需要的是确定性，而不是又一次改变目标。”

交通部的一位发言人表示：“拥有电动汽车从未如此简单或便宜，在我们在该市场投入 75 亿英镑 (75亿英镑) 投资的支持下，9 月份的销量增长了 36%……我们正在审查该指令，以确保其继续为英国消费者和行业提供价值。”

BBC 就对 PinkNews 的虚假指控道歉

亚历克斯·法伯 (Alex Farber) 媒体通讯员

BBC 已就对 PinkNews 网站创始人及其丈夫做出“非常严重、虚假且具有诽谤性的指控”表示道歉。

在承认错误后，该广播公司已撤下了一篇新闻文章，以及随附的 20 分钟纪录片《PinkNews：闭门之后》(PinkNews: Behind Closed Doors)。

相关报道包含此类指控：前第四频道新闻 (Channel 4 News) 记者本杰明·科恩 (Benjamin Cohen) 和安东尼·詹姆斯 (Anthony James) 纵容并助长针对初级员工的性不端行为，并向年轻女性员工施压，要求她们为其担任代孕母亲。

已同意支付本案产生的法律费用及赔偿金。这对夫妇将把这笔“数额巨大”的款项捐赠给多发性硬化症协会 (Multiple Sclerosis Society) 和贝德福德郡医院 NHS 慈善基金会 (Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Charity)。詹姆斯曾任贝德福德郡医院 NHS 基金会信托委员会成员，但在指控出现后辞职。

科恩，44, 和詹姆斯，37, 表示，这些指控在他们的儿子仅六个月大时出现。

他们表示：“本应是我们生命中最幸福的时光之一，却陷入了混乱。 将我们虚构成参与性不端行为并就代孕问题向女性员工施压，这强化了一种最具破坏性的恐同刻板印象：即男同性恋者是威胁他人的性掠夺者。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。”

该文章基于对 30 多名 PinkNews 现任及前任员工的采访，以及包括书面投诉、私人电子邮件和 WhatsApp 消息在内的证据。 的法律顾问简·菲利普斯 (Jane Phillips) 告诉高等法院， “接受”这对夫妇律师提出的所有论点，并补充道：“ 对这些诽谤性指控撤回并毫无保留地道歉。”

演员被《叛徒》踢出，弗赖表示欣喜

在昨晚播出的剧集中，理查德·E·格兰特 (Richard E Grant) 被逐出《名人叛徒》(The Celebrity Traitors)，而汉娜·弗赖 (Hannah Fry) 被招募为接替他的叛徒。

这位演员获得了其他参赛者的多数票，其中包括他的两名叛徒同僚玛雅·贾马 (Maya Jama) 和詹姆斯·阿卡斯特 (James Acaster)。

当格兰特站在参赛者面前揭露身份时，他说：“我是一名……不忠的叛徒。”在面对镜头时，他补充道：“我被彻底摧毁了。我竟然成功地让自己陷入了将死之局，据我所知，这种情况从未发生过。”

在第一集中，格兰特曾告诉其他参赛者他是一名叛徒。

贾马和阿卡斯特没有选择谋杀，而是选择诱导数学家弗赖，使她成为第三名叛徒。在圆桌会议后，这位教授接受了他们的加入邀请。

在第一次见到她的叛徒同僚后，她说：“我敢肯定你们是忠诚者，你们简直是传奇。噢，这将会非常有趣！”

上周播出时，该节目的第一集成为了该节目在英国所有系列中观看人数最多的首播集。其平均观众人数为 890 万，最高峰值达到 910 万。

在这部由克劳迪娅·温克尔曼 (Claudia Winkleman) 主持的 系列节目中，共有 21 名名人参赛，被分配为“忠诚者”的人员试图找出那些被设定为“叛徒”的人，而后者则会“除掉”参赛者。

Radio 4 削减开支意味着《你与你我》节目终结

亚历克斯·法伯 (Alex Farber)

BBC Radio 4 的消费者事务节目《你与你我》(You and Yours) 被誉为“空中公民咨询局”，在播出五十多年后即将停播。

随着 BBC 语音广播部门寻求削减 10% 的预算（这是该机构更广泛的 5 亿英镑 节省目标的一部分），该节目将与劳里·泰勒 (Laurie Taylor) 的《允许思考》(Thinking Allowed)、艺术节目《自由思考》(Free Thinking) 以及人工智能系列节目《人工智能人类》(The Artificial Human) 一同被砍掉。

《你与你我》于 1970 年推出，由温妮弗雷德·罗宾逊 (Winifred Robinson) 和彼得·怀特 (Peter White) 主持，将被一个全新的消费者节目所取代。

该节目因其消费者保护报道而获得多项赞誉，包括在 2021 年揭露了特许贸易标准协会 (Chartered Trading Standards Institute) 的新冠疫苗接种诈骗案。

约翰·韦特 (John Waite) 在 2008, 之前主持该节目长达 22 年，其他主持人还包括《犯罪观察》(Crimewatch) 的苏·库克 (Sue Cook) 和《食品计划》(The Food Programme) 的德里克·库珀 (Derek Cooper)。其制片人之一大卫·贝里 (David Berry) 在 1990 年根据该节目撰写了《如何投诉》(How to Complain)。

BBC 表示，替代节目将旨在同时适用于广播和点播，并将“在……原创报道、实用建议以及追究机构责任的基础上进行构建”。

BBC Sounds 总监乔纳森·沃尔 (Jonathan Wall) 表示：“我们需要在为未来投资的同时实现大幅削减。我们正在重塑 BBC 的语音音频，以构建一个强大的未来。”

总干事马特·布里廷 (Matt Brittin) 周三告诉公司员工，他希望 BBC 能更加灵活高效。

跨界诗人获奖时正“倾听风声”

大卫·桑德森 (David Sanderson) 艺术记者

新任诺贝尔文学奖得主在瑞典学院致电通知其获奖时，正身在冰岛“倾听风声”。

76, 岁的加拿大诗人、散文家兼翻译家安妮·卡森 (Anne Carson) 昨日成为最新的获奖者，学院赞扬她能够融合不同的体裁与风格，并提供“相互交织的不同声音”。

卡森拥有众多仰慕者，包括爱丽丝·门罗 (Alice Munro)、迈克尔·翁达杰 (Michael Ondaatje) 和苏珊·桑塔格 (Susan Sontag)。她于 1986 年凭借评论集《苦甜之爱》(Eros the Bittersweet) 文坛出道，随后在 1998 年凭借诗体小说《红色的自传》(Autobiography of Red) 获得了更广泛的赞誉。

她还翻译了古希腊文学作品，这些作品

格雷姆·理查森评论

在许多同行眼中，安妮·卡森（Anne Carson）是一位“诗人之诗”。文学评论家哈罗德·布鲁姆（Harold Bloom）赞誉她是一位拥有“显而易见的天赋”的作家。这种赞誉的原因之一在于她广博的知识面以及对形式的创新方法。

在《苦甜之爱：随笔》（Eros the Bittersweet: An Essay，1986年）中，卡森模糊了学术散文与诗歌之间的界限，探讨了爱情的悖论。她随后的作品将广泛的引用与对单个词汇的关注相结合。其中充满了讽刺和双关。这一切的底层是她多年学术研究和教学所构建的深厚的古典语言与文学基础。荷马、萨福、卡图卢斯、欧里庇得斯……列举她尚未翻译或改编的古典诗歌和剧作反而更容易。

1998年的诗体小说《红之自传》（Autobiography of Red）在某种程度上是一次突破。它是斯泰西科罗斯（Stesichorus）的一首碎片化诗歌与一个当代同性之爱故事之间的“俏皮对话”。

艾米莉·威尔逊（Emily Wilson）对荷马作品的翻译将古典文学带给了新的现代观众。她欠卡森的先驱性工作一份情。格雷姆·理查森（Graeme Richardson）是一位诗歌评论家，学院表示其作品应被视为“独立且自成一体的作品”。她的最后一部出版物是2024年的诗集《错误的诺玛》（Wrong Norma）。

瑞典学院常任秘书英格丽德·卡尔伯格（Ingrid Carlberg）表示，卡森在被通知获得桂冠时正身在冰岛“聆听风声”。“她感到非常惊讶，”卡尔伯格补充道。

卡森去年在《伦敦书评》（London Review of Books）中写道自己被诊断出患有帕金森病，她表示该奖项可能会有助于书籍销售。“我的书封面上会贴上一个贴纸，贴纸很有帮助，”她告诉冰岛广播公司 RUV。她还表示，她认为诗歌“现在可能比散文更有用，因为它更快捷，而每个人都行色匆匆。所以基本上我认为这很好，因为它很

安妮·卡森表示她喜欢诗歌，因为诗歌简短且“每个人都行色匆匆”

简短。除了荷马。荷马并不简短。”

诺贝尔文学委员会主席安德斯·奥尔森（Anders Olsson）表示，卡森广泛的影响力——包括古希腊人、约翰·济慈（John Keats）和弗吉尼亚·伍尔夫（Virginia Woolf）——促成了“那些不仅在古典诗歌与现代诗歌之间，而且在不同体裁之间穿梭的俏皮且充满讽刺的作品”。

奥尔森表示，卡森融合了体裁与风格，提供了“相互博弈的不同声音”。

学院表示，卡森“大胆且富有创造力的作品集，在与古典传统的俏皮对话中，为……文学创造了新形式”。

卡森出生于多伦多，父亲是银行家，母亲是家庭主妇。她最初在学术上并未立即获得成功，曾两次大学辍学，随后才返回完成博士学位。此后，她在包括密歇根大学在内的多所大学教授古典学。卡森及其伴侣、艺术家罗伯特·库里（Robert Currie）于2022年获得冰岛公民身份。

卡森将于12月在斯德哥尔摩的颁奖典礼上正式领取奖章和证书，还将获得超过 90 万英镑 的奖金。

帕梅拉·雷思（PAMELA RAITH）

《出租公寓》（Rent）的演员阵容，中间为盖登·马塔拉佐（Gaten Matarazzo），下方为比利·内弗斯（Billy Nevers）和吉万·布雷奇（Jeevan Braich），在西区重现其活力

30年历史音乐剧焕发新生

克莱夫·戴维斯剧院（Theatre Clive Davis）

出租公寓（Rent）

伦敦汤姆·斯托帕德剧院 (165分钟)

★★★★☆

距离《Rent》（租房），这部由乔纳森·拉森将《波希米亚》更新至纽约背景并在外百老汇首演，真的已经过去 30 年了吗？你会好奇，如果那些生活在市中心的角色被释放到当今世界，他们现在会在做什么？他们是否依然生活在边缘，还是已经开上了特斯拉，并向孩子们展示东村那些旧日聚集地的残迹？

当你回想起拉森在 1996 年 1 月观看最后一次彩排后数小时便去世时，很难不去思考这些“如果当初”的可能性。《Rent》是一部不完美的剧作，情节线交织混乱，但其配乐依然能产生超乎常人的肾上腺素激增。

现在，这部剧应该会赢得更多新信徒。导演卢克·谢泼德在疫情期间曾在曼彻斯特微小的希望磨坊剧院（Hope Mill Theatre）执导了一次亲密的小规模复排，如今他在旧的约克公爵剧院（现已更名为汤姆·斯托帕德剧院以纪念他）再次点燃了这部剧的活力。

很难相信这里就是去年那部被过度炒作、节奏拖沓的怪异摇滚录音室剧《Stereophonic》上演的同一个剧院。

演员们在舞台周围呈半圆形就座（部分观众也坐在其中），希望磨坊剧院版本的舞美设计大卫·伍德海德和编舞汤姆·杰克逊·格里夫斯营造出了一种摇滚俱乐部式的社区感。

在演出早期，你会瞥见一张 CBGB 的海报：虽然氛围可能不像那时那样颓废，但它依然唤起了往昔纽约的记忆。

凯蒂·理查森的乐队半隐藏在舞台后方的一个高台上，音量足够大且风格随性。

诚然，音量有时会掩盖歌词。尽管如此，在《怪奇物语》演员盖登·马塔拉佐饰演的书呆子、 aspiring 电影导演马克带领下，演员们为这些寥寥数笔的形象注入了深度。特拉维斯·罗斯将一个真实地处于痛苦中的罗杰演绎得淋漓尽致——这位挣扎的音乐家爱上了亚历克萨·洛佩兹饰演的妖娆米米，一个永远在寻找下一次药瘾的致命女人。艾滋病、贫困和无家可归的阴影笼罩其中。

每当马克拿起相机试图捕捉周围的旋风时，一组电视屏幕便会闪烁亮起。饰演安杰尔的吉万·布莱奇成功塑造了一个注定悲剧的变装皇后。化名为 Lazy Violet 的另类摇滚歌手为莫琳与丹妮尔·菲亚曼亚饰演的乔安妮的二重唱《Take Me or Leave Me》带来了粗犷的锋芒。华金·佩德罗·瓦尔德斯为本尼增添了一抹反派光泽，这个年轻的职场精英房东突然意识到了真理。即便这部剧的结局乐观得令人难以置信，这部音乐剧依然燃烧得灿烂夺目。

演出至 5 月 29 日。

OpenAI “解决”数学界最大难题

Will Rogers

OpenAI 发布了 372 个此前未解数学问题的全部或部分解决方案，一些人将其称为“数学末日”（mathpocalypse）。

在 ChatGPT 的开发商发布这些拟议解决方案后，专家们开始质疑该领域的未来。

这些已发布的证明分布在 722 篇论文中，其复杂程度之高且数量之多，以至于许多证明尚未得到验证。

数学家们对 AI 进步的速度感到震惊，因为在不到两年前，AI 还在与 GCSE 级别的数学题作斗争。德克萨斯大学计算机科学系主任斯科特·亚伦森（Scott Aaronson）告诉天空新闻（Sky News）：“如果你想感受现在数学界的情况，可以想象一个猎人采集者，他一生都在学习如何在残酷的热带雨林深处生存，然后在他身边突然出现了一家带有直升机停机坪、加热泳池和 Airbnb 的巨型度假酒店。”

一些数学家对此表示怀疑或拒绝接受这一消息。麻省理工学院的安德鲁·萨瑟兰（Andrew Sutherland）告诉《科学美国人》（Scientific American）：“除非他们发布该模型且人们能够复制其结果，否则我认为任何关于单个智能体能一次性解决问题的说法都应被视为未经证实的。”

人类数学协会（Association for Human Mathematics）表示：“我们敦促数学家停止与 OpenAI 的合作，回归以人类理解为中心的科学愿景。”

OpenAI 可能需要让其 帮其计算自身的财务数据——《金融时报》报道称，其年化收入比向投资者暗示的低了约 200亿美元。

Mumsnet 首席执行官在 生成帖子引发争端后道歉

认为该帖子证明了 Mumsnet 正在更广泛地使用 。

Mark Sellman

技术记者

的首席执行官就该网站使用 一事表示道歉。

在人工智能工具似乎出现故障并引发争端时，贾斯汀·罗伯茨（Justine Roberts）介入处理。

一名寻求家庭困境建议的用户在使用该工具（旨在帮助生成讨论标题），结果该工具却返回了关于如何回复该帖子的指令。用户

的初步回应称，该 帖子“并非出自我们”。在遭到质疑后，罗伯茨表示，该工具将帖子的草稿发送给了 OpenAI，“而 OpenAI 本应返回一个建议的标题……看起来是他们那边出了错。但这仍然是我们的工具。”她表示，草稿未被用于训练模型，且 没有因这些草稿获得报酬。 已暂停该工具，“在我们将其改为……选择性加入（opt-in）期间”。

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村庄因树木遮挡而见不到阳光

愤怒的村民表示，高达 60 英尺的树木遮挡了进入家中的阳光，使他们陷入阴暗之中。

1988 年，学生们在格雷特伍德社区小学（Great Wood Community Primary School）周边种植了数十棵挪威枫、悬铃木和白桦树苗。但斯塔福德郡（Staffordshire）蒂恩（Tean）的居民表示，这些树现在使房间和花园处于近乎永久的阴影之中。他们还担心树木在风暴中可能会倾倒并砸在自家的房屋上。

79 岁的退休咖啡店主凯·米切尔（Kay Mitchell）表示：“它遮挡了我花园的光线，但最主要的问题是这些树不健康，无法维持太久……我们被告知可以修剪树枝，但这里没有人能爬到 60 英尺高去触及它们。”

退休酒店业主莫琳·福赛斯（Maureen Forsyth）表示：“树冠距离我的烟囱只有 1 英尺。如果烟囱起火，火势会更容易蔓延。”

凯·米切尔，一名退休咖啡店主，表示这些树遮挡了她位于斯塔福德郡蒂恩花园的光线。

安德鲁·伊博特森（Andrew Ibbotson）表示：“我们简直住在森林里。我认为这些树需要被砍掉。”

该学校隶属于穆尔兰斯小学联盟（Moorlands Primary Federation），校方表示其“严肃”对待树木管理，并定期进行安全检查。校方补充道：“学校很乐意与居民会面，努力在尊重专业建议、安全及环境责任的前提下，寻求一个令各方满意的解决方案。”

海峰（High Peak）自治市议会和斯塔福德郡穆尔兰斯（Staffordshire Moorlands）区议会表示，由于这些树木未被认定为“危险”，因此无法采取行动。

议会补充道：“这些树木不受树木保护令（tree preservation order）的保护，也不在保护区内，因此议会在该方面没有法定职责。”

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消防局长：立即采取行动以防止致命火灾

亚当·沃恩 (Adam Vaughan) 环境编辑

消防员警告称，由于今年成为有记录以来草地火灾最严重的一年，如果不对此采取更大规模的行动，野火可能会导致更多人员死亡。

“如果我们就这样无所作为，等到 2027 年，我们是否可能会在讨论那些死于野火的人们？”国家消防局长委员会主席菲尔·加里根 (Phil Garrigan) 问道，“这确实是一种可能性，也是我们正竭力避免的情况。”

加里根表示，今年在格洛斯特郡 (Gloucestershire)，一名人员在试图扑灭一场野火时死亡。在西米德兰兹郡的斯图尔布里奇 (Stourbridge)，另有数人死里逃生。

这位消防局长在即将由首相安迪·伯纳姆 (Andy Burnham) 主持的野火峰会前发表讲话，他表示深感担忧，气候变化与厄尔尼诺现象的结合可能会为明年的更多重大野火埋下伏笔。

“我们的冬季更加潮湿，夏季无疑更加炎热，”他说道。冬季更潮湿意味着植被生长更茂盛，而剧烈的高温则会使水分降低到足以燃烧的程度。

今年草地爆发的野火数量达到了前所未有的 405 起，而此前最高纪录是 2022 年的 397 起，其中包括 8 月 13 日在西米德兰兹郡发生的九场“重大”火灾。其中一场发生在斯图尔布里奇的一家高尔夫球场附近，摧毁了 19 栋房屋，现场被描述为“末日景象”。

昨天公布的政府数据显示，英国今年的野火数量在记录中排名第二高。今年共有 1,354 起，而四年前气温首次达到 40℃ 时，数量接近 1,600 起。今年总计有 50 处以上房产被毁。

从历史上看，荒原和石南地曾发生过规模最大且最剧烈的野火。在追溯到 2010 年的数据中，草地火灾在大多数年份都维持在两位数。这一数字在 2022 年激增至 397 起，今年则达到 405 起。

按土地类型划分的野火数量 英格兰，2026 年 草地、牧场、放牧地等 / 405 农作物（生长中或堆叠 / 捆扎） / 216 其他 / 207 秸秆 / 茬口焚烧 / 154 灌木地 / 147 石南地或荒原 / 137 林地 / 森林 / 88 来源：Gov.UK

草地通常紧邻住宅：这就是消防员所称的“城乡接壤地带”。适应草地火灾意味着在围栏线周围创建“可防御空间”。加里根建议清理边界围栏附近的干枯植物和生长物。

“如果你的房子背靠农田，或许可以与农民沟通，以确保农作物与你的房产之间有一定的可防御空间，”他补充道。他还提醒人们注意引发野火的风险，并表示他注意到今年夏天在高温期间，仍有人在后花园焚烧垃圾。

乡村土地与商业协会 (Country Land and Business Association) 的一项信息自由请求显示，超过一半的消防部门没有专门用于野火的个人防护装备。调查还发现了一些培训不足的例子。

加里根表示，需要直升机和其他空中能力，以及扩大野火培训，并组建经过培训的“焚烧小组”，以便在火线推进前清理植被。

最重要的是，他表示需要更多消防员：自 2010 年至 2015 年实施紧缩措施以来，消防员人数已下降了 11,000 至 12,000 人。“灭火的是消防员，而不是消防车，”加里根说道。他补充说，希望此次峰会能带来更好的准备工作。

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巴德诺放弃保守党的“红墙”之梦

在追求前劳工党选民而经历十年的不适之后，本周的信号表明保守党正退回到脱欧前的熟悉状态

帕特里克·马奎尔 (Patrick Maguire)

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在凯米·巴德诺 (Kemi Badenoch) 向保守党大会发表演讲进行到大约一半时，她做了一个类比，而这个类比在随后人们对其演讲其他部分所进行的细致且大多是赞美式的分析中被忽略了。她认为，保守党就像马莎百货 (Marks & Spencer) 一样。“马莎是一个拥有100年历史的品牌，”巴德诺说，“不久前，批评者说他们有点古板且停留在过去。有些人质疑这个品牌是否能生存下去……而现在，马莎又重新流行了起来。”

她没有说错。他们是怎么做到的？“以实惠的价格提供出色的外观。他们针对当今市场调整了风格，人们正大量回归，包括我在内，正如你们本周可能注意到的那样。”而这就是保守党需要吸取的教训：“就像马莎一样，我们必须从错误中学习，赢回信任，让人们再次对我们的政党产生好感。”她说，人们正透过保守党的店面向内看，并且喜欢他们所看到的。“但坦白说，目前购买的人还不够多。”

这是一个近乎完美的隐喻，尽管原因并非巴德诺所说的。让我们考虑一下那些没有人会渴望地望着马莎橱窗的街道，因为那里根本没有马莎。已故的 BBC 电台权威史蒂夫·赖特 (Steve Wright) 曾将大城镇定义为拥有自己电台的城镇。今天，我们可能会通过高街上是否有马莎百货来定义一个繁荣的镇中心。在过去的十年里，他们离开了巴恩斯利、布莱克本、博尔顿、波士顿、切斯特菲尔德、克拉克顿、达灵顿、伊尔福德、凯特灵、尼思、圣海伦斯、斯托克顿-蒂斯、桑德兰、沃尔索尔和韦斯顿-超级马尔的镇中心。这并不是一个完整的名单。但引用巴德诺的话说：“大会的各位，你们明白我想表达什么了吗？”

我应该补充一点，在这些地方及其周边仍然可以找到分店。他们可能扩大了规模并搬到了绕道公路上的零售园区，或者在路边开了一家不错的食品大厅。你可能能在附近的加油站找到售卖 Percy Pigs 糖果、精致三明治和罐装金酒的店。消费习惯已经改变，马莎也随之改变。但这已经是一个新世界，而那个旧世界——那些被遗忘的省级高街——正经历着他们曾经熟知的品牌有意识的抛弃。这次保守党大会传递了许多

有一段时间，他们甚至对借贷表现得颇为轻松

向全国发出了同样的信号。

巴德诺赫拒绝将改革英国党（Reform UK）视为潜在的执政伙伴，这被宣布为该演说的分水岭，且确实具有重大意义。但她同时也为一段更长久的故事画上了句号。她的演说，以及她的影子内阁在公开和私下场合所说的一切，标志着一个时代的结束——在过去十年中，保守党的选举策略、意识形态的模糊性以及战略重点一直由欧盟公投的结果所定义。在2016年启动了英国政治的大规模重新洗牌后，保守党现在已经放弃了这一路线。

想想她的前任们。特蕾莎·梅谈到了那些勉强维持生活的人们的宽慰、“无根之民”以及令人愤慨的不公正。在2018年的预算案中，她的财政大臣菲利普·汉蒙德表示：“紧缩时代终于要结束了。”在新冠疫情介入之前，鲍里斯·约翰逊计划以一种类似于“英国戴高乐主义者”的方式执政。其经济政策带有指导主义色彩，且不避讳国家干预——这样能更好地实现那些煤矿城镇的“升级”，这些城镇在脱欧的助力下，已经忘却了祖辈的仇恨并投票给了保守党。斯坎索普的钢铁工人举着“投票给鲍里斯”的标语；对于工党脆弱且自满的敏感神经来说，这就像史密斯菲尔德的搬运工游行前往威斯敏斯特并高喊支持伊诺克·鲍威尔一样令人震惊且冒犯。

至少在一段时间内，保守党政府甚至对借贷表现得颇为轻松。约翰逊重写了财政部的投资规则，以促进地区性的新基础设施项目。2020年6月，他将自己对国家的雄心比作罗斯福的“新政”。他甚至希望救赎那些被“比钦之斧”牺牲的社区，好让每个人都能告诉史蒂夫·赖特，他们住在拥有火车站的大城镇里。萨吉德·贾维德在担任财政大臣期间告诉《旁观者》杂志，低利率意味着保守党可以在伦敦及其周边地区之外，开启一个由国家支持发展的“新经济时代”。“你不再追求过去在东南部获得的那种高水平回报，”贾维德解释道，“但你可以放眼全国，我们可以进行更多投资。”

随后而来了大流行病、失控的通货膨胀、利率上升、利兹·特拉斯以及

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在2016年脱欧投票后，鲍里斯·约翰逊旨在成为一名英国戴高乐主义者

以及其他种种。这种“新保守主义”几乎没有一项得以实现，很大程度上是因为在2019年后被委以执行任务的议员们大多是保守派人物。回想一下，里希·苏纳克辞去约翰逊财政大臣一职，并非因为“派对门”，而是因为财政责任；几周后，他被镜头拍到在汤布里奇韦尔向那些保守的老年群体保证，他已将资金从“贫困城市地区”转移回了郡区。

尽管如此，脱欧创造了一幅要求保守党采取不同政治路线、优先级和姿态的选举地图——即便只有少数人能自然地适应这一点。突然之间，他们开始权衡像曼斯菲尔德和哈特尔普尔这样城镇的选票，就像权衡阿伦德尔和德维齐斯一样；而且就像旧时代的工党一样，保守党领导人

必须管理他们自己那由汉普斯特德和赫尔组成的、难以驾驭的联盟。

这就是鲍里斯在2016年构建的国家。接任的保守党首相们在重新洗牌的浪潮中冲浪，对其感到不适，否认它，最后被它击败。当他们未能兑现承诺时，奈杰尔·法拉奇作为其天然的捍卫者回归。那些不喜欢保守党现状的选民——他们认为保守党与其说是右翼，不如说是混乱

保守党再次成为富裕英格兰的政党

——转向了自由民主党。基尔·斯塔默爵士，或者更准确地说，摩根·麦克斯威尼，随后对工党实施了残酷且异常的惩罚，希望能以此扭转局面。两年的地方选举结果告诉我们，他们也失败了。

安迪·伯纳姆最好的希望在于将进步左翼团结在亲欧和反法拉奇的政治周围，但作为梅克菲尔德的议员，这位具有阶级意识的工党领导人也在深层英格兰的旧战场上战斗，希望为全民公投引发的问题找到一个社会民主主义的答案。

但巴德诺赫呢？她甚至没有假装愿意参与那场战斗，而在台下，她的前排议员们则更加直白。红色之墙，或者现在的青色之墙，再次耸立：那只不过是一个阶段。保守党再次成为了富裕英格兰的政党。与工党或改革英国党（Reform UK）不同，这个政党不再挣扎于假装自己是为了博尔索弗或巴塞特劳。那张地图已被扔进垃圾桶，其通往多数席位的清晰路径亦然。就像玛莎百货（M&S）一样，保守党进行了精简。这将形成一个更具连贯性的选举联盟。但不要误会：这个联盟的规模也更小了。

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为什么剥夺海军上将的勋衔，却保留可疑的贵族头衔？

许多勋爵虽被定罪或被指控犯罪，却依然保留其头衔。现在是时候进行改革了。

艾玛·邓肯 (Emma Duncan)

与大多数在网上对该报道发表评论的 600 多名读者一样，我认为对本·基 (Ben Key) 的处理是不公平的。他在担任第一海务大臣期间，因与一名下属军官发生婚外情而被解职，随后被剥夺了骑士勋衔和 CBE 司令级勋章。

四天后，杰弗里·阿彻 (Jeffrey Archer) 去世。他是一名被定罪的伪证者，但直到去世仍保留着其贵族头衔。一个人遭受的严厉对待与另一个人的宽大处理，鲜明地揭示了我们在荣誉与道德问题上采取的不一致做法。

在我看来，基失去工作是公平的。虽然英国皇家海军的规定并不禁止现役人员之间的性关系，甚至在高级军官与低级军官不在同一指挥链时也不禁止，但第一海务大臣实际上管理着所有人。如果老板与下属上床，这对士气毫无好处。

然而，剥夺这位海军上将的勋衔则走得太远了。就我们所知，除了婚外情中常见的欺骗行为外，并没有涉及更阴暗的情况。没有任何迹象表明存在犯罪行为。揭露这段婚外情的并非该女性的投诉，而是其丈夫的投诉。这一切看起来对基夫人尤其残酷，她不仅要原谅（或不原谅）她出轨的丈夫，还失去了自己的“夫人”头衔。她可能会想给自己也来一次“剥夺勋衔”的快感。

是否撤销荣誉的决定由没收委员会 (forfeiture committee) 做出。该委员会调查荣誉持有者被专业机构谴责或除名的情况，并决定该个人是否“使荣誉体系名誉受损”。它向首相和国王提交建议，而国王是最终裁决者。

你可能会认为，那个

阿彻的伪证案是他所见过的最严重案例

委员会或许会对基（Key）表现出一定的宽容。他似乎一直是一名模范军官，而且在海军高层中，通奸有着历史先例——尽管不可否认，艾玛·汉密尔顿并非纳尔逊的直接下属。

你可能会认为，国王或许也会倾向于表现出一些宽容，毕竟他在担任海军指挥官和空军联队长时，曾与一名陆军军官的妻子有过私情。好吧，那些并非真正的职务，所以他不必在某个遥远且尘土飞扬的战场上与安德鲁·帕克·鲍尔斯（Andrew Parker Bowles）发生令人社交尴尬的遭遇，但完全可以说他从事了《海军纪律法》中所定义的“不符合军官身份的……丑闻行为”。如果我是他，考虑到“身在玻璃房中不应投石”的道理，我会倾向于将委员会的建议直接扔进垃圾桶。

在我看来，这位海军上将与国王之间的类比仅仅是讽刺，但我发现将此与那些保留头衔的刑事罪犯贵族并列简直令人愤慨。

阿彻（Archer）现在被广泛视为一个可爱的无赖，他曾贿赂一名男子以 1.2 万英镑 为其提供虚假的不在场证明，以赢得一场诽谤诉讼。在判处其四年监禁时，法官表示这是他所见过的最严重的伪证案。阿彻保留了他的头衔。

纳齐尔·艾哈迈德（Nazir Ahmed）被判定在青少年时期企图强奸一名 13 岁以下儿童并性侵另一名儿童。他在担任贵族期间利用一名寻求帮助的弱势女性，随后被逐出上议院，但他保留了头衔。布罗基特勋爵（Lord Brocket）被指控强奸并将于明年受审，他曾因一项 £450 万 的保险诈骗被判入狱五年。他保留了头衔。沃里克泰勒勋爵（Lord Taylor of Warwick）因操纵报销款被判入狱 12 个月。他保留了头衔。我可以列举很多。

曼德尔森勋爵（Lord Mandelson）是目前这批名声狼藉的贵族中最臭名昭著的，但我个人最“欣赏”的是可爱的米歇尔·莫恩（Michelle Mone），政府目前正在起诉她，试图追回支付给 PPE Medpro 公司的 £1.22 亿，该公司在疫情期间供应了缺陷设备。国家犯罪调查局（NCA）正在对该公司进行刑事调查。莫恩正请假离开上议院，但保留了她的头衔。

基与这些可疑贵族之间的差异，不仅在于前者受到了严厉对待，还在于荣誉制度与立法机构之间的联系。

贵族头衔不仅是一项荣誉，它还赋予持有者在第二议院（上议院）的一个席位。政党的赞助权力意味着，上议院和荣誉制度的最高等级不仅充斥着政治投机分子，还充斥着将购买头衔和少量权力视为资金良好用途的人。如果其中一些人被证明是骗子，这并不令人惊讶。

遗憾的是，他们很难被清除。这是历史遗留问题，源于贵族曾是制约国王权力的主要力量的时代。为了保护他们免受君主权力的过度扩张，只有通过议会法案才能剥夺他们的贵族身份。

这是一个国家级的尴尬。我们需要废除这一过时的宪法规定，使剥夺贵族头衔变得更容易。在曼德尔森丑闻之后，基尔·斯塔默爵士（Sir Keir Starmer）曾表示他将创建相关机制，但似乎什么都没有发生。我们还应该将荣誉制度与立法机构分离，创建一个法式荣誉军团（Légion d'honneur），并以一种让政党无法再出售席位的方式选出第二议院的成员。这个激进的想法如何！

马丁·塞缪尔笔记本

一个小坑：一连串巨大的决策

日常生活的烦心事。马丁·刘易斯（Martin Lewis）想要解决它们。他启动了“小创意倡议”（Small Ideas Initiative），这是一个邀请提供实用解决方案，并尝试将其中最优秀的方案转化为政府政策的项目。比如修补路面坑洞。但修补坑洞并非什么微小的挫折，而是一个涉及地方交通基础设施、地方预算和国家支出优先级的巨大且复杂的问题。这不仅仅是给这里的查理一把铲子和一桶碎石，然后告诉他赶紧干活那么简单。

日常的烦心事往往是那些看起来很小、实则巨大的问题。通勤上班、下班回家，以及在国土上移动的成本。它们表现为抱怨——火车取消、铁轨上有落叶、道路施工、自行车道——但其实是巨大的交通政策决策的一部分。换句话说，是大问题。交通部雇佣了大约 18,000 人。根据计算方法的不同，英国从事交通运输业的人数高达 270 万。所以，这并不小。

绝望之线

关于现代旅行，有三条需要记住的规则：他们不在乎你如何到达目的地，不在乎你如何回家，而且他们真的不在乎这要花多少钱。

几十年来，西海岸主线（west coast main line）让通勤者们近乎疯狂，但现在之所以能采取行动，唯一的原因是我们有一位对曼彻斯特情有独钟且直接受到其低效影响的首相。这是一个长期存在的丑闻。我以前几乎每个周末都乘坐 Avanti 铁路。到最后，记录它正常运行的时间反而更容易。即便是有车，也经常是退役的旧车。

一次最令人难忘的曼彻斯特之行是：到达尤斯顿车站（Euston）时，出发公告牌是一片空白；我不得不冲回国王十字车站（King's Cross），因为那是前往北方的唯一途径；在利兹换乘，然后乘坐一辆向西行驶的跨国破旧火车，简直像《齐瓦哥医生》里的场景。车厢里只能站立，挤满了来自奔宁山脉两端的足球迷。利兹和曼彻斯特的人们互不相容。

幸运的是，每个人都被这次经历搞得精疲力竭，没有发生肢体冲突。当然，也没空间挥拳。

离机抢劫

几周前，我开车把两个人送到斯坦斯特机场（Stansted airport）乘坐度假航班。那是周日，时间非常早。据说有火车服务，但在那个时间点没有任何接驳车。又是一个日常烦心事。就像那 10 英镑的落客费。

斯坦斯特机场在去年三月将该费用提高了 40%，从 £7 起步。天知道乘客中是否有老人或残疾人。15 分钟后，费用上涨至 £28，30 分钟后再次跳涨。

主要的国外机场——巴黎夏尔·戴高乐机场、法兰克福机场、里斯本机场、罗马菲乌米奇诺机场——都不征收此类费用。当然，官方的理由是这是一个环保问题，旨在减少汽车出行。那么，为什么在公共交通接驳根本不可能的时间点依然维持这项收费？这仅仅是一个烦心事，还是合法的抢劫？

绕弯路

之后，我行驶在空旷的 M25 高速公路上，车速被强制限制在 50 英里 / 小时。没有事故，没有道路施工，没有解释，就这么在 17 英里长的路段限速。到最后，司机们开始失去耐心，加速，然后在看到固定摄像头时猛踩刹车。这很危险。在高速公路上限制速度有充分的理由，但如果每个人都认为公路局（Highway Agency）在虚报警情，事故就会发生。过了 AI 监控区后，限速标志像出现时一样神秘地消失了。也许他们从中捞了几个钱，我不知道。

恐惧之晨

总之，这个周末又要回到西北部，而且情况没有任何改变。原本只需两个多小时的路程，现在将接近四个小时；得在黎明时分出发，而且如果我错过了回程的接驳车，下一班将在伍尔弗汉普顿站经历一个方便的六小时中转后，于周一早上 7.03am 抵达。首相认为，我们将在北部举办奥运会。他这么做可能会惹恼相当多的人。

伦敦无法承受失去更多大型房屋建筑商 萨姆·杜米特里乌 (Sam Dumitriu)

英国最大的房屋建筑商之一 Taylor Wimpey 已退出伦敦。它并非孤例。Berkeley Homes 曾负责本报位于瓦平 (Wapping) 前印刷厂的 1,800 套住宅重新开发项目，该公司已于 4 月停止在首都购买土地。

大型企业可以将繁文缛节和延误带来的成本分摊到数千套房屋的销售中。它们还能以优惠的利率借款。如果像 Taylor Wimpey 这样的巨头都无法让账目平衡，那么小型企业还有什么希望？如果它们还没有放弃的话，希望很渺茫。自金融危机以来，伦敦已经失去了超过三分之二的中小型建筑商。

很难夸大伦敦住房市场的崩溃程度。房价虽然从近期的历史高点有所回落，但首都的住房依然是全国最昂贵的。平均而言，伦敦一套一居室的租金高于英格兰其他任何地区一套三居室的租金。当开发商在这样一个平均一套小型一居室公寓售价为 42 万英镑 的城市里，觉得建房不再划算时，说明情况严重出错了。

砖块、砂浆和人工成本均有所增加，但即便如此，在需求像首都这样强劲的地方，开发商本应获得可观的回报。伦敦的领导者显然认为如此，他们坚持认为开发商能够负担得起以低廉价格出售三分之一的新房。如果这曾经是事实，那么现在已经不再是了。

伦敦的开发商需要向上建设。但格伦费尔 (Grenfell) 事件后引入的初衷良好的规定正使之变得更加困难。高度在 18 米或以上的建筑需要获得反应迟缓的建筑安全监管机构 (Building Safety Regulator) 的批准，并且必须设有两道楼梯，这以牺牲宝贵的楼层空间为代价，而带来的安全提升却很小。从本月起，开发商还必须缴纳一项新税，用于修复他们从未安装过的劣质外墙覆层。这项建筑安全征收金在伦敦的金额是英格兰其他地区的两倍半。

Taylor Wimpey 的负责人珍妮·戴利 (Jennie Daly) 特别指出了伦敦后期的可行性审查。如果时机恰到好处，开发商有望获得丰厚利润，那么这些利润将通过市议会提高“经济适用房”配额的形式被收回。

资本主义依赖于风险和回报。如果没有丰厚的回报，开发商以及任何其他企业都不会拿自己的资金去承担巨大的风险。市长似乎并不理解这一点。

伦敦对于劳工党 150 万 套住房的承诺至关重要。首都被预期将提供英格兰新建房屋的四分之一以上。除非伦敦的建筑成本大幅降低，否则他们根本无法接近这一目标。

萨姆·杜米特里乌 (Sam Dumitriu) 是 Britain Remade 的政策负责人

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美国曾是犹太人的避风港：如今他们感到不安

犹太移民在塑造现代美国的过程中发挥了巨大作用，但极左翼正将他们重新定义为国内敌人

杰拉德·贝克 (Gerard Baker)

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在本周全球纪念 10 月 7 日哈马斯恐怖分子屠杀 1,200 名以色列人三周年之际，除以色列外拥有全球最大犹太人口的城市市长发表了看法。

纽约市年轻的市长佐兰·马姆达尼 (Zohran Mamdani) 在 X 上发布的声明开头看起来还算有诚意。他谴责了当天发生的“恐怖战争罪行”。但随后他迅速转移了话题。他谴责以色列在加沙实施的“种族灭绝”，描述以色列国防军向“医院外等待的救护车”投弹，以及无人机“瞄准一座住宅楼”。他用了 48 个词来谴责哈马斯，却用了 142 个词来谴责以色列。到最后很明显，他最初提及这场自大屠杀以来最大规模的犹太人屠杀，仅仅是为马姆达尼愤怒的主体——犹太国家——所做的铺垫。

他以提及周年纪念作为结尾，正如他开始时那样，但却利用这次对反犹主义野蛮行径的纪念，来要求一次将犹太人视为反派的清算。“三年之后，我们必须拒绝接受一个占领和种族隔离继续存在、战争罪行不受惩罚，且我们的联邦政府继续通过每一次武器运输而共谋的世界。”

马姆达尼是美国政坛的一股崛起力量。当全国各地的现任官员几乎普遍受到厌恶时，他却拥有稳健的支持率。在年轻选民中，他尤其受到推崇：根据最近的一项民调，30 岁以下的纽约人中有 64% 对他表示认可。

因此，当他歪曲词语和统计数据的本意，以发出“种族灭绝”这种荒诞的诽谤时；当他将那些试图谋杀每一个能找到的无辜犹太人的人，与为民族生存而战的犹太人进行道德等同时；当他暗示以色列国防军采取行动保护其公民的安全，竟然比那些将同胞视为祭品牺牲的哈马斯成员更具有罪责时，我们应当仔细倾听并予以记录。

我们应当倾听，是因为虽然我们已经习惯了那些不择手段的欧洲政客发表此类言论，但从一个美国人嘴里听到这些却是新鲜事，而且许多人认为，此人代表了一个将在几周后掌控国会的政党。

在世界上最古老的仇恨那漫长而阴森的历史中，美国——相对而言——一直是一座闪耀的希望灯塔。当然，在其充满种族和民族冲突的痛苦历史中，一直存在着一条卑劣的反犹主义脉络。针对犹太人的公开和私人歧视一直屡见不鲜。在去年向 FBI 报告的 2,400 起仇恨犯罪事件中，63% 是反犹太人的；而反穆斯林的事件不足 10%。

对以色列的仇恨与对犹太人的蔑视之间已产生混淆

然而，尽管存在诸多缺陷，美国自建国以来一直是数百万逃离迫害的犹太人的避风港。1790年，在就任总统一年后，乔治·华盛顿写信给罗德岛州纽波特的一个犹太会堂，热情地认可他们对这个新国家的贡献，并肯定“美国政府……不对偏见给予认可，不对迫害提供协助”。

美国不仅是一个相对宽容的地方，其天才之处还在于它允许自己被拥有多种信仰和背景的人们所塑造，其中犹太人发挥了举足轻重的作用。在商业、艺术、文学和政治领域，犹太人无论是个人还是群体，构建了世界所熟知的美国之大部分。尼尔·盖布勒在其著作《他们自己的帝国：犹太人如何发明好莱坞》中记录了美国流行文化的图腾——即电影中所描绘的典型美国人形象——在很大程度上是由20世纪初将加利福尼亚作为家园的东欧犹太难民所创造的。“犹太人可以直接创造一个新国家——可以说是一个他们自己的帝国……一个父亲强壮、家庭稳定、人们富有魅力、坚韧、机敏且体面的美国”。

这种犹太人的创造力，不仅在于融入和同化，更在于塑造和形成美国生活的自我认同，这曾是他们被政治光谱两端所接纳的核心原因。但情况正在发生变化。在大学校园、电视演播室、社交媒体、市政厅，甚至在国会的部分区域，一个支持率不断增长的极左政治运动将犹太人视为国内敌人。

当然，这在很大程度上仍被定义为反锡安主义，加沙地带的战争加剧了对以色列政府的愤怒。但在对以色列的仇恨与对数百万支持以色列的美国犹太人的蔑视之间，已经出现了一种持续的混淆。

正如近期在 X 上，与部分民主党国会议员关系密切的领先左翼评论员哈桑·皮克尔（Hasan Piker）所言：“如果美国犹太人继续散布他们唯独投资于以色列这种想法，最终会有人采取行动——请注意，不是针对以色列国，而是针对美国犹太人。”

民主党领导层意识到了这种危险。如果民主党在下个月赢得众议院，将出任议长的哈基姆·杰弗里斯（Hakeem Jeffries）已经谴责了这种言论；目前，左翼中的仇犹者仍是极少数，尽管其人数在增加。

没有人否认批评以色列政府是正当的。但当一个政治阶层用“以色列的行为是种族灭绝”这种荒谬的说法来贬低大屠杀，且美国犹太人仅仅因为支持犹太国家就被认为应对罪行负责时，他们开始感到不安——即便是在美国——也就不足为奇了。

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反无人机防御

先生：

关于应对弹道导弹和无人机需求的讨论中存在大量谬论（见10月 6 日“100亿英镑 ‘Britannia shield’ to guard against aerial threat”）。英国位于欧洲的最西端，任何来自俄罗斯或伊朗的弹道导弹都必须飞越整个欧洲的北约国家。至于无人机，新的威胁似乎是代表国家行事的实体所发起的短程突袭。一个统筹性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。如果俄罗斯或伊朗开始向我们发射弹道导弹，我认为我们将处于战争状态，并承担随之而来的所有后果。针对大气层外弹道导弹的城市防御极其困难，且会对核威慑产生影响。还有更多更重要的领域需要增加国防开支。 斯皮特黑德的西斯特勋爵海军上将，上议院

先生：

保守党提出的针对导弹和无人机的保护盾几乎毫无意义。它只能覆盖极少数关键资产，且需要时间部署；考虑到现代战争技术变革的速度，该系统在投入运行前可能就已经过时。至关重要的是，它无法震慑任何严重的侵略者。核威慑运行良好，但目前的优先级应该是常规进攻性威慑。乌克兰对俄罗斯燃料供应和物流的袭击已经指明了方向。西欧和英国需要的不是一个临时凑合的盾牌，而是一套能够精确打击俄罗斯或伊朗目标的非核弹道导弹库，并辅以用于打击次要目标的高速无人机。虽然成本确实很高，但这部分费用应由北约（美国除外）共同分担。 菲利普·汉密尔顿-格里尔森 威尔特郡，马尔堡

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巴登诺克对卓越的毫不妥协之追求

先生，朱丽叶·塞缪尔的文章清晰地分析了自撒切尔主义以来盛行的对平庸的接纳、令人窒息的监管以及雄心的缺失，并为保守党的哲学更新指明了方向（《巴登诺克邀请卓越回归政党》，10月 8 日）。或许，保守党也可以向那些在托尼·布莱尔政府时期开始的、关于多样性、平等和包容性的灾难性口号宣战，这些口号对我们国民生活所有领域的标准产生了毁灭性的影响。它们正是她所描述的平庸之源。 马丁·托马斯 蒙茅斯郡，拉格兰

先生，凯米·巴登诺克的遗产税提案（报道，10月 8 日）肯定会鼓励老年人“扩大”住房规模，以便最大限度地保护其资产免受遗产税（IHT）的影响，而不是通过缩小住房规模来释放急需的住房空间。 艾德里安·格里米特 格洛斯特郡，迪德布鲁克

先生，右翼思维的原则包含在“水涨船高”这句话中。但事实并非如此。正如朱丽叶·塞缪尔所言，20世纪80年代和90年代急需的增长确实惠及了奋斗者和冒险家。但它遗漏了太多人，以至于不能成为整个国家的解决方案。我们需要的是回归巴登诺克所建议的撒切尔主义政策，并结合对人才投资的思维，以便每个人都能登上上涨的船只。 迈克·里弗斯 萨里郡，萨顿

先生，大多数人都理解遗产税的不公平之处，因为它在很大程度上应用于那些通过已纳税来源积累的资产。虽然家庭住宅通常是用纳税后的收入支付的，但在业主买卖过程中，资产增值部分并不征税。保守党废除遗产税的雄心是合理的，但作为一项临时措施，更好的做法是除了家庭住宅以外的所有资产全部免税，并对超过一定价值的住宅征收遗产税。这样将鼓励人们缩小住房规模。 斯图尔特·索瑟尔 萨里郡，东霍斯利

先生，如果凯米·巴登诺克希望废除遗产税，她应该参考加拿大，那里没有这种税。相反，死亡会触发一种“视同处置”：资产被视为按市场价值出售，任何应税收益都将计入死者的最终所得税申报单中。银行账户中的现金仅因所有者死亡而不会被征税，而投资和其他资产的收益则可能需要纳税。常规的豁免和减免继续适用，包括主要住所、符合条件的小型企业和农田。转移给生存配偶的资产通常可以免税，税责予以递延。在我看来，这比巴登诺克的方法更简单，在道德上也更站得住脚。 西塞莉·利姆豪斯 伦敦 SE21

先生，我对吉莉安·戴维斯关于遗产税以及无子女者的来信（10月 8 日）感到非常欣慰。答案肯定应该是允许无子女者指定最多两人免税继承其遗产。

也许我应该一石二鸟，将这个建议也提交给马丁·刘易斯（《金融专家出资试图解决“琐碎小事”》，10月 8 日）。 克莱尔·阿特金森 白金汉郡，阿默舍姆

剖腹产率上升

先生：

英国剖腹产率惊人的上升（见10月 7 日报道《英国如何成为西方剖腹产之都》及10月 8 日读者来信），是20世纪90年代针对产科服务的《改变分娩》（Changing Childbirth）报告后进行改革的结果。讽刺的是，该报告原本旨在降低剖腹产率（当时为20%）。

其逻辑在于，剖腹产是由医生实施的，因此应将医生移出产房，将护理权交还给助产士——而且助产士不再需要具备护士资格，因为分娩并非一种疾病。

这种浅薄推理的结果出现得较为缓慢，因为需要时间让老一代员工退休，且人员配置水平下降到完全不足的地步。

现在再次需要激进的改革，英国皇家助产士学院和英国皇家产科与妇科医师学会的主席们正准备共同促成此事。遗憾的是，他们正受到卫生部的误导（gaslighted），该部门只听取管理人员和外行人的意见，从未听取临床医生的意见。

詹姆斯·欧文·德赖夫 (James Owen Drife) 利兹大学产科与妇科荣休教授

癌症筛查

先生：

切丽·布莱尔（Cherie Blair）关于乳腺癌筛查72岁截止年龄的评论，同样适用于结直肠癌筛查，后者的截止年龄为74岁（见10月 8 日《雷鸣报》：“当我们年满$70^{\circ}$ 岁时，乳腺筛查不必停止”）。筛查能够让癌症被早期发现，从而改善预后，但这两种癌症筛查的上限年龄数十年未曾改变。这种年龄歧视从未得到充分解释。癌症是一种发病率随年龄增长而增加的疾病，而令人悲哀的事实是，你患癌的可能性越大，接受筛查的可能性反而越小。随着数字病理学和应用于临床影像的AI等新技术的即将到来，现在是时候让老年人更多地参与到NHS癌症筛查计划中了。

吉尔·克拉克 (Jill Clark) CancerWatch 主席

作为一名 78, 岁的退休护士，我在72岁之后一直定期进行乳腺癌筛查，因为我知道只要申请就可以获得。我于今年6月被诊断出患有乳腺癌。虽然没有人摸到肿块，但由于乳腺 X 线摄影技术的提高，它在早期阶段就被发现了。经过治疗，我现在已康复。虽然结直肠癌筛查在 74, 岁停止，但同样可以通过申请获得。这两项服务都要求个人采取主动，但无需通过全科医生（GP）即可获得。

特里莎·韦勒 (Trisha Weller) 德文郡，乔治汉姆

恍然大悟的时刻

当我们住在英国皇家空军（RAF）的军属住宅时，令我家人担忧的不不仅是军用住房本身的标准，还有翻修的质量（见10月 8 日读者来信）。当时我和两个年幼的孩子坐在厨房餐桌旁，我注意到最近现代化改造后的管道导致顶部的灯泡里充满了水。随后，我们决定从厨房进行“战略撤退”。

菲尔·梅森 (Phil Mason) 北约克郡，诺索尔顿

挑战者因开球失误而落败

摘自《泰晤士报》1926年10月9日

莫莉·古莱小姐（Miss Molly Gourlay）昨日在伍德霍尔水疗地（Woodhall Spa）赢得了英格兰女子锦标赛冠军。在36洞的决赛轮中，她以领先6洞（且还剩4洞未赛）的优势击败了埃尔西·科莱特小姐（Miss Elsie Corlett）。

此次夺冠符合外界预期，并为她极其成功的一个赛季画上了圆满句号。她的记录非常出色。她赢得了法国锦标赛；连续第二年持有比利时锦标赛冠军；并且持有萨里郡锦标赛冠军。除此之外，她在全年的萨里郡队比赛中一直处于领先地位且未输过一场比赛；自从首次代表其郡参赛以来，她仅被击败过四次。她目前唯一尚未征服的领域是公开赛和美国锦标赛，如果她能像过去那样持续提升技艺，这些目标并非遥不可及。古莱小姐现在的球技无疑比她高尔夫生涯中的任何时期都要好，尤其是在使用铁杆时的表现，而昨天的胜利将赋予她一项伟大成就所带来的自信。

科莱特小姐证明了自己是一个各方面都非常优秀的亚军。在首次尝试中，就能在漫长且考验耐力的锦标赛中一路杀入决赛轮，这本身就是一项伟大的成就；而且在开球距离始终处于劣势的情况下，能将一名真正熟练且经验丰富的球员牵制住27洞，这同样令人赞赏。被击败并不丢人，而且如果分差看起来很大，很大程度上要归咎于下午从第九洞起倾盆而下的大雨，因为只有那些必须戴眼镜比赛的人才能意识到雨水会带来怎样的阻碍。

昨日她的开球失误，部分原因是她的左手起水泡，但很大程度上是因为她倾向于下沉右肩，这即便没有其他影响，也必然会缩短击球距离。她在接近球洞时的短杆表现极佳，经常化险为夷，而她的一些勺杆（spoon shots）击球会让希尔顿先生（Mr Hilton）感到欣喜，这一点并未逃过随行观战的塞西尔·莱奇小姐（Miss Cecil Leitch）的注意。这是极高的赞誉，但实至名归，人们期待在未来看到科莱特小姐成功地带领她的郡队。

失败的处决

先生：

田纳西州克里斯塔·派克（Christa Pike）处决失败一事（见10月8日新闻）在我们自己的历史上已有诸多先例。安妮·格林（Anne Greene，1650年）、“半吊死”的约翰·史密斯（John "Half-hanged" Smith，1705年）、玛格丽特·迪克森（Margaret Dickson，1724年）、威廉·杜埃尔（William Duell，1740年）以及约翰·李（John Lee，1885年）据报道都曾在司法绞刑中幸存。这些案例的不同之处在于，没有人试图第二次执行判决。在接受医疗救治后，竟然有人以正义之名试图第二次处决你，这是令人厌恶的，在多年前人们也将其视为如此。

有些人可能会说，处决派克的失败表明上天不愿看到这种情况发生。人们只能希望那些在美国大声疾呼支持这种令人厌恶的死刑的人能意识到，这次失败或许表明上帝在这场辩论中并不站在他们一边。

詹姆斯·伍德 (James Wood KC) 多蒂街律师事务所 (Doughty Street Chambers) 伦敦 WCI

定论的科学

先生：

埃拉·吉尔伯特博士（Dr Ella Gilbert，见10月7日来信）在将人类活动与气候变化联系起来时，使用了这样一个表达：“科学已经定论。”如果她是指关于此问题的压倒性科学共识，我不会有任何异议，但使用这个正迅速变成陈词滥调的短语是极其不科学的，无论研究的主题是什么，这只会起到扼杀进一步探究和辩论的作用。科学探索的历史充满了那些曾经被认为“已定论”的事物随后变得“极不稳定”的例子。

梅里克·莫斯利 (Merrick Moseley) 伦敦大学城市圣乔治学院 (City St George's, University of London) 荣誉高级研究员

在学校被痛斥

先生：

珍妮丝·特纳的专栏（《笔记本》，10月8日，“并非我们所有人，都觉得杰弗里·阿彻那么讨人喜欢”）唤醒了我30年前的一段记忆。当时阿彻在我的学校做演讲，结束时，他突然发难，指责一名大约14岁的男孩，因为该男孩竟胆敢询问他将如何回应那些不认为其著作是伟大文学作品的批评者。据我回忆，他厉声答道：“我来这里不是为了回答这种愚蠢问题的。”

在那之后，在场的我们许多人也不太喜欢他了。

珍妮·肯扬 伦敦 SW9

屋顶上的小家伙

先生：

关于在不寻常地方生长的植物（读者来信，10月7日及8日），今天我以为在邻居的烟囱口上看到了一只巨大的鸟。仔细观察后发现，那竟然是一棵生长旺盛的朱蕉棕榈树，也被称为卷心菜树。

詹姆斯·洛根 伦敦德里郡，波特斯图尔特

糟糕的贴标

马修·帕里斯在给他的“铅果冻”（plumb jelly，此处为原作者拼写错误，应为plum李子）贴错标签（《笔记本》，10月7日），他可能会觉得很有趣地知道，我们一位朋友的女儿也同样地将好几个罐子误贴成了“垃圾苹果果冻”（crap apple jelly，此处为原作者拼写错误，应为crab crabapple山楂）。我至今还珍藏着一个罐子。

卡罗琳·刘华斯 萨默塞特郡，蒙塔丘

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自然笔记

胸脯宽阔的木鸽看起来并不像为了速度而生。当它们在房屋附近筑巢时，飞行距离似乎很少超过一次直接扑向下一个屋顶的俯冲；而在它们短暂的非交配周、成群结队地取食冬季油菜籽时，它们似乎只有在被气枪惊吓时才会飞向天空——随后便迅速落回原处继续大快朵颐。然而，凭借强大的胸肌，在有顺风的情况下，木鸽在短时间爆发中时速可达90英里，在较长距离上的平均时速甚至能接近60英里。这种出人意料的对速度的偏好源自其大家族。赛鸽正是因其强劲且快速的飞行能力而深受喜爱。

乔纳森·图洛克

今日生日

奇平诺顿的戴维·卡梅伦勋爵（Lord (David) Cameron of Chipping Norton，如图），首相（2010-16），60岁；斯科特·巴库拉（Scott Bakula），演员，《星际迷航：企业号》（2001-05），72岁；布莱恩·布莱斯特（Brian Blessed），演员，《Z Cars》（1962-78），90岁；

杰克逊·布朗（Jackson Browne），创作歌手，《Take It Easy》（1972, 为老鹰乐队共同创作），78岁；萨莉·伯吉斯（Sally Burgess），次女高音，73岁；吉尔莫·德尔·托罗（Guillermo del Toro），电影导演，《弗兰肯斯坦》（2025），62岁；约翰·道布莱戴（John Doubleday），雕塑家，79岁；特蕾莎·埃斯佩迪（Thérèse Esperdy），帝国品牌（烟草公司）董事长，66岁；鲁珀特·弗兰德（Rupert Friend），演员，《国土安全》（2012-17），45岁；贝拉·哈迪德（Bella Hadid），超级名模，30岁；奥利弗·哈特爵士（Sir Oliver Hart），经济学家，诺贝尔经济学奖共同获得者（2016），78岁；PJ 哈维（PJ Harvey），音乐家兼词曲作者，《Let England Shake》（2011），57岁；爱德华·肯普（Edward Kemp），皇家文学基金首席执行官，皇家戏剧艺术学院院长（2008-21），61岁；肯特公爵爱德华王子（Prince Edward, Duke of Kent），91岁；斯图尔特·兰开斯特（Stuart Lancaster），英格兰橄榄球联盟队主教练（2011-15），57岁；肖恩·列侬（Sean Lennon），音乐家，51岁；罗迪·刘易林爵士（Sir Roddy Llewellyn），景观设计师，79岁；唐·麦卡林爵士（Sir Don McCullin），摄影记者，91岁；史蒂夫·麦奎因（Steve McQueen），电影导演，《十二年奴隶》（2013），57岁；布莱恩·莫伊尼汉（Brian Moynihan），

美国银行（金融服务）董事长兼首席执行官，67岁；克里斯·奥多德（Chris O'Dowd），演员兼喜剧演员，《IT狂人》（2006-13），《大门奖》（2023-24），47岁；莎伦·奥斯本（Sharon Osbourne），音乐经理兼推广人，74岁；史蒂夫·奥维特（Steve Ovett），运动员，奥运会800米金牌得主（1980），71岁；杰斯·菲利普斯（Jess Phillips），伯明翰亚德利选区工党议员，保障大臣（2024-2026年5月），45岁；休·罗伯逊爵士（Sir Hugh Robertson），英国奥林匹克协会主席（2016-25），Camelot（2018-23, 国家彩票运营商）主席，64岁；凯特·罗克男爵夫人（Baroness (Kate) Rock），保守党副主席（2011-16），58岁；约翰·罗斯爵士（Sir John Rose），罗尔斯-罗伊斯首席执行官（1996-2011），74岁；彼得·萨维尔（Peter Saville），平面设计师，为Joy Division和New Order设计Factory唱片封面，71岁；安妮卡·索伦斯坦（Annika Sorenstam），高尔夫球手，八次美国女子职业高尔夫协会巡回赛年度最佳球员，56岁；安娜·特利（Anna Turley），雷德卡选区工党议员，边境安全与庇护大臣，

48岁。

历史上的今天

1941年，富兰克林·D·罗斯福批准了曼哈顿计划的资金，该计划促成了原子弹的研发。

最后一言

“我们人口中的每一个群体，以及每一个个体，都有权期待政府给予公正的对待。”——哈里·杜鲁门，美国总统，国情咨文演说（1949）

心灵关注

一项关于英格兰心理健康、ADHD（注意力缺陷多动障碍）和自闭症的审查发现，年轻人中的痛苦情绪正在上升。但诊断与应对措施却出现了偏差

彼得·福纳吉教授（Professor Peter Fonagy）主持了一项关于英格兰心理健康、注意力缺陷多动障碍和自闭症的独立审查，他是一位卓越的临床心理学家和精神分析学家。在职业生涯中，他一直致力于检测和缓解心理痛苦，因此深知正确诊断和治疗的重要性。在采访中，他回忆起 17 岁时在没有父母陪伴的情况下从匈牙利搬到伦敦后，曾产生过自杀念头。他说，正是当地服务机构提供的治疗挽救了他的生命。

这项审查是由时任卫生大臣韦斯·斯特里廷（Wes Streeting）在去年 12 月委托开展的，以应对对心理健康、ADHD 和自闭症服务需求的剧增。审查委员会的两名副主席分别是英国皇家精神科医师学会前任会长西蒙·韦塞利爵士教授（Professor Sir Simon Wessely）和专门研究自闭症的儿科顾问医生吉莉安·贝尔德教授（Professor Gillian Baird）。在审视这一敏感领域时，该审查在广泛的顾问小组支持下，并不缺乏洞察力或专业知识。

基于此，这份长达 607 页的福纳吉审查报告得出的结论对政策具有重大影响。其中一个信息是，将年轻人称为“雪花”（snowflakes）是不恰当的：年轻人心理痛苦的增加是真实的，其中大部分源于现代时代特有的因素。新冠疫情封锁的影响加剧了年轻人的孤独感，而智能手机和社会媒体的成瘾性普及则恶化了不良习惯。沉溺于屏幕，年轻人往往失去了现实生活中的互动和接触自然的时间，且睡眠和运动不足。再加上对工作和住房的不安全感，绝望的配方进一步增强：福纳吉教授表示，这是自第二次世界大战以来，年轻人首次缺乏一种希望，即他们的生活会比父母一代更好。

在应对和诊断领域，情况也出现了偏差。ADHD 和自闭症曾一度被诊断不足，但审查报告指出，我们现在正达到一个“向误诊和过度诊断风险增加”的临界点。例如，根据医学文献估计，约 1.2% 的儿童患有自闭症。但在英格兰，在 6 至 11 岁的男孩中，被诊断为自闭症的比例已从 2000 年的 0.4% 上升到去年的 6% 以上。在一定程度上受意识提升运动的推动，“自我认定”为自闭症或患有 ADHD 的年轻人数量也激增。该审查的民意调查发现，约 18% 的 16 至 29 岁人群自我认定为自闭症，而 55 至 99 岁人群中这一比例仅为 1%。审查报告还重点指出了私人 ADHD 诊所及其在过度诊断中可能扮演的角色。报告认为，应禁止这些诊所进行直接广告宣传。

审查报告称，对于某些人来说，诊断在临床上是必要的，且在个人层面是有帮助的。但当诊断“不准确或使用不当”时，它可能会“造成伤害”，因为它用一个人的困难而非其优势和潜力来定义这个人。被诊断为 ADHD 的儿童成为尼特族（Neets）——即未在学、未就业、未接受培训的人群——的可能性是其他人的四倍。因此，任何误用的早期诊断都将对英国低迷的生产力以及激增的劳动年龄人口福利开支产生巨大影响，预计艾伦·米尔本（Alan Milburn）的审查将在秋季预算案后对此进行探讨。

该报告建议，不要采取“依赖诊断”的方法，而应在识别出“需求”时（如自残或瘫痪性焦虑等行为所揭示的心理痛苦）更迅速地提供心理帮助。随后，这一路径可能会——也可能不会——伴随一项诊断。这样一个事实似乎是不言而喻的：资源应当流向那些处于明显痛苦中的人，旨在帮助其康复并增强韧性。年轻人首先必须获得及时的治疗，而不是一个伴随终生的标签。

快之则快

关于杰克道（Jackdaw）和罗斯班克（Rosebank）北海项目的犹豫必须结束

挪威石油天然气集团 Equinor 的首席执行官安德斯·奥佩达尔（Anders Opedal）揭示了一个残酷的事实。如果英国政府不尽快采取行动并批准北海的罗斯班克和杰克道项目，英国可能不再具备投资价值。Equinor 通过 Adura 公司共同拥有这些项目，而 Adura 是与北海第二大生产商壳牌（Shell）共同成立的合资项目。这些项目合计涉及近 £11 的投资，并将支撑数百个就业岗位。奥佩达尔先生表示，如果其中任何一个项目被取消，都将是一个“重大挫折”，且进一步的投资可能会被取消。

他是正确的，这次警告不应被忽视。在罗斯班克和杰克道钻探油气的计划已经筹备了一段时间。Adura 已投入数十亿资金用于开发。但由于政治上的犹豫不决，这两个项目都处于不确定状态。在上一届保守党政府期间，杰克道项目于 2022 年获得开发批准，罗斯班克项目于 2023. 年获得批准。去年，一名法官以未能充分考虑排放影响为由，撤销了这两个项目的许可。现在，正如奥佩达尔先生所言，是否推进是一个“政治选择”。

不出所料，基尔·斯塔默爵士（Sir Keir Starmer）的政府在是否批准其中任何一个项目上含糊其辞。人们普遍认为，在劳工党于夏季陷入领导权之争之前，时任能源大臣的埃德·米利班德（Ed Miliband）即将批准杰克道油田。据称，他的继任者米亚塔·法恩布勒（Miatta Fahnbulleh）倾向于在霍本与圣潘克拉斯（Holborn & St Pancras）的补选之后最终批准杰克道项目，在该选区，劳工党正与绿党展开竞争。为了党派目的而推迟此类关键项目显得目光短浅。

这两个项目之间存在重要差异，可能会影响法恩布勒女士的决定。杰克道是两个项目中规模较小的一个，生产周期约为十年。其生产的天然气仅占英国排放量的 0.8%，但将有助于提高国家的自给自足能力。当家门口就有现成供应时，从大西洋彼岸进口液化天然气毫无意义。罗斯班克项目规模要大得多，将在未来数十年生产石油，峰值日产量可达 69,000 桶。由于是油田而非气田，其排放量将更高。

尽管如此，两者对于提高能源韧性和经济都至关重要。Equinor 并非唯一警告政府可能阻碍投资的公司。另一家北海生产商 Ithaca Energy 首次在加拿大进行投资。该公司指出，加拿大 30% 的企业税率比英国更有利于投资，而在英国，利润税率可高达 78%。BP 今年在表示出售其北海业务时，就预示了 Equinor 的警告，称税制已使该盆地变得“不可投资”。

罗斯班克和杰克道已准备就绪。在接受英国未来数年需要石油和天然气这一显而易见的前提下，利用所有可用资源是合理的。新钻探也将有利于国家的国际收支。英国在可再生能源生产方面取得了进展，现在有机会在成本、排放和安全性方面拥有欧洲最佳的能源组合之一。这两个项目是将其变为现实的关键。无论补选结果如何，安迪·伯纳姆（Andy Burnham）都应拿出精力来结束这种悬而未决的状态。

疲惫不堪

让宠物上床对你的睡眠有益，但对它们不利

英国大约有 1500 万 只狗，其中大约一半到四分之三（统计数据有所不同）与主人同床共枕。这一趋势正在增长。15 年前，英国有 1050 万 只狗，其中只有四分之一被允许在夜间进入卧室。新一代的主人——更年轻、更都市化、更倾向于独居——比过去那些硬核的犬类饲养者更容易心软。即便如此，这些纵容宠物的新晋狗主们确实获得了更好的睡眠。

研究表明，人类与狗（或者事实上是与其他宠物，可能不包括鹦鹉）一起睡眠时，睡眠质量更高。也许是因为我们感到更有安全感。然而，狗的休息质量则比单独睡眠时要差。

即便如此，狗对主人的陪伴与温暖的渴望，以及讨好主人的热忱，超过了睡眠质量下降带来的影响。也许狗觉得在主人身边时需要保持警觉，而如果睡在其他地方，它会觉得可以下班休息。又或者，人类所有的打鼾、喃喃自语和拍打枕头的声音让狗心烦意乱，但忠诚战胜了一切。

而这种陪伴是被感激的。夜晚那七或八个小时（青少年为十个小时）对我们来说至关重要：

我们人类很难补回失去的睡眠。与此同时，一只狗每天会昏睡 12 到 14 小时，如果是幼犬、老犬或大型犬，时间则更长。同样的情况——甚至程度更深——也适用于猫，它们的目标是每天 24 小时中至少花 16 小时打盹。

不幸的是，鉴于猫是晨昏性动物，在黄昏和黎明时分最活跃，它们的 16 小时并不包括早晨 6 点前后的时间，而那时正是大多数人类渴望延长睡眠的时候。为了大局而忍受个人不适的概念对猫来说完全是外星语言——这与狗不同，狗是人类那位虽然眼神有些迷离但最忠诚的好友。

世界

“那是痛苦而美丽的……连狱卒都哭了”

两名在伊朗入狱的抗议者在不同的牢房中结婚。几小时后，新郎被绞死。作者：Fatemeh Jamalpour

没有白色婚纱，没有新娘花束，也没有婚礼派对。新郎和新娘甚至不在同一个房间里。他们被关在伊斯法罕不同的监狱牢房中，其中一人正等待被执行死刑。

尽管如此，阿里雷扎·塞帕希（Alireza Sepahi）和马赫沙德·凯沙尼（Mahshad Keshani）仍决定结婚。

塞帕希是一名25岁的抗议者，面临四项死刑判决；凯沙尼则是一名22岁的学生活动人士，被判处五年监禁。他们在被捕前就彼此相识并相爱。上周日，随着塞帕希可能在数小时内被执行死刑的担忧日益增加，他们决定结婚，并请求德黑兰的人权律师阿米尔萨拉尔·达武迪（Amirsalar Davoudi）提供帮助。

虽然双方父亲未能到场，但在达武迪宣读誓言时，他们通过电话参与其中，并在适当的时机祝福这段结合。他们的象征性嫁妆是一本《古兰经》、一根藏红花岩糖和一支红玫瑰。

“这不是我的主意——我只是执行者，”达武迪在德黑兰接受《泰晤士报》采访时表示，“这是马赫沙德的主意。直到现在，我仍在惊叹一个年轻女性怎能拥有如此巨大的勇气。她给我们上了一堂非凡的一课。”

塞帕希在1月份伊朗全国性的抗议活动中被捕，并在“阿里哈尼广场”审判中被定罪。在该审判中，十多名年轻人被指控参与导致伊斯法罕安全人员死亡的事件。周日，他的家人被传唤至伊斯法罕中央监狱，律师担心这可能是最后一次探视。

达武迪表示希望这场婚礼能引起国际社会对塞帕希案件的关注并阻止执行死刑。“我希望爱能战胜那根该死的绳索，”他说，“如果他们今晚处决这个年轻人，我将失去对上帝的信仰。”

但这场婚礼并没有正式权力推翻塞帕希的死刑判决，而伊朗当局执意执行。周一早晨，在婚礼结束仅数小时后，他被绞死。“即使在朝鲜，他们也会允许这些年轻人见面并等待半天，”达武迪说，“我不知道该如何面对这件事。该政权正在通过报复无辜的年轻人，来发泄其在国际上遭受的屈辱。”

这并非塞帕希第一次被押往绞刑架。7月28, 他被准备在阿里哈尼广场进行公开绞刑，当局在那里搭建了巨大的橙色起重机作为绞刑架。他的表兄阿博法兹尔·塞帕希（Abolfazl Sepahi）和另一名被告阿米尔侯赛因·萨法里（Amirhossein Safari）在人群面前被绞死。

阿里雷扎·塞帕希在预定执行死刑前不久心脏病发作，被送往医院。据达武迪称，他昏迷了数日。

“他的姐姐告诉我：‘请祈祷我的哥哥不要醒来。如果他醒了，他们就会处决他’，”达武迪说，“这就是他们把我们逼到了什么样的地步：一个年轻女性祈祷她的哥哥保持昏迷，因为醒来就意味着被送上绞刑架。”

在塞帕希恢复意识并被送回监狱后，凯沙尼从多拉塔巴德（Dolatabad）监狱联系了达武迪，表示她希望将两人的关系正式化。

“起初，我认为她是冲动之举——认为她在牺牲自己，”达武迪说，“我告诉她：‘亲爱的，你明白这件事一旦完成就无法简单撤销吗？’她说：‘达武迪先生，我爱阿里雷扎。’”

凯沙尼是独生女，曾多次因政治活动被捕。她第一次被拘留是在 2023 年7月，当时她与22名学生及公民社会活动人士一同被捕。今年1月的反政权抗议期间，她再次被捕，并被指控“宣传反对体制”、“扰乱公共秩序”和“煽动人们杀人”，被判处五年监禁。

马赫沙德·凯沙尼（Mahshad Keshani）和阿里雷扎·塞帕希（Alireza Sepahi）在因参加1月份席卷伊朗的全国性抗议活动而被捕前坠入爱河。她被判处五年监禁，而他被判处死刑。

她的判决在上诉中被维持，目前被关押在伊斯法罕的多拉塔巴德监狱（Dolatabad prison）。

当达武迪（Davoudi）意识到两名囚犯都决心结婚后，他派了一名助手去获取他们的法律同意书。

塞帕希起初难以相信这个请求是真的。“当他意识到她是认真的时，他开始哭泣并签署了文件，”他说。“马赫沙德完全下定了决心。阿里雷扎在哭泣，发生了一件既深切痛苦又美丽的事情。甚至监狱管理人员也开始流泪。”

凯沙尼的父亲也表示同意，尽管他知道女儿要嫁给一个随时可能被执行死刑的男人。“他告诉我：‘达武迪先生，她是我唯一的女儿，’”这位律师说。“她已经在监狱里了，这就是她选择表达爱的方式。”

仪式持续了大约九分钟。两家人是通过1月份镇压示威活动后，抗议者及其亲属之间形成的社区而结识的。

塞帕希于1月10日在其家中被捕。据一名前室友称，他在突袭中被散弹枪弹丸击中，随后在伊斯兰革命卫队（IRGC）的拘留中心被审讯并遭受了26天的酷刑。

公民社会活动人士梅迪·马哈茂迪安（Mehdi Mahmoudian）指称，塞帕希和其他被告遭受了酷刑，并受到性暴力的威胁，以强迫他们互相指控。

伊朗当局称，被告应对1月8日在阿里哈尼广场（Alikhani Square）动乱期间导致四名安全人员死亡负责。达武迪表示，15名戴面具的伊斯兰革命卫队审讯员出席了审判，且法官和检察官除了被告称在酷刑下被迫做出的供词外，没有提供任何证据。

达武迪说，塞帕希否认在警员被杀时在场，而法院拒绝审查能够证明其位置的视频资料。“这些年轻人没有杀任何人，”他说。“他们不是杀人犯。”

人权组织表示，塞帕希是阿里哈尼广场案中第六个被执行死刑的被告。根据伊朗人权组织的数据，自3月19日以来，至少有32名抗议者因1月份的抗议活动被执行死刑。

达武迪曾因人权工作在德黑兰的埃温监狱（Evin prison）度过了大约五年时间，他拒绝使用描述这些杀戮的官方措辞。

“我们不应该使用‘执行死刑’这个词，”他说。“‘执行死刑’暗示经过了合法的程序。这些是基于酷刑逼供的国家杀戮。”

暴徒警察在与示威者的冲突期间发射了催泪瓦斯和水炮，地点在

为马里卡门而行：未来冲突的预兆

西班牙

大卫·沙罗克 马德里报道

一名 87 岁老人被用担架从她居住超过 70 年的家中驱逐，这一画面引发了数千人走上街头，抗议西班牙的住房危机。如今，玛丽亚·德尔·卡门·阿巴斯卡尔（María del Carmen Abascal）两周后在医院去世，这引发了一场将主导竞选活动的政治斗争。

昨日，左翼和右翼政治人物互相辱骂并指责对方，与此同时，抗议者和其他民众在马德里那栋强行驱逐马里卡门的建筑门口摆放鲜花并留下留言。

这场争端波及到了马德里市政厅和参议院，两机构均由人民党（PP）执政，该党拒绝举行一分钟默哀。作为回应，反对党在两处机构外的街道上举行了悼念活动，而人民党和极右翼的 Vox 党拒绝参加。

左翼“更多马德里”（Más Madrid）党魁丽塔·马埃斯特雷（Rita Maestre）指责市长何塞·路易斯·马丁内斯-阿尔梅达（José Luis Martínez-Almeida）未能利用其权力阻止驱逐。她引用贝尔托尔特·布莱希特的话说：“死亡有多种方式，杀人亦然。”

阿尔梅达回应道：“你们最终会因为马里卡门而说[伊莎贝尔·迪亚斯]阿尤索（Ayuso，大区主席）和阿尔梅达是杀人犯。”他指责反对派利用这位养老金领取者来实现选举目的。

中国觊觎刚果的金矿。随后埃博拉袭来 第 28 页

巴黎街道的改造是一场时尚失误 第 30 页

巴士底广场，这里曾是 1789 年革命期间被攻占的监狱所在地

学生抗议者“夺回”巴士底狱

随着法国青少年要求改善学校条件的抗议活动升级，他们与警方发生冲突并誓言将继续抗议，过去三周内已有数百人受伤，此次事件导致 500 多人被捕（大卫·查赞撰文）。

警方在巴黎的巴士底广场发射催泪瓦斯并使用水炮喷射。极左翼政党“不屈法国”的领导人梅朗雄在 X 上写道，“巴士底狱已被夺回”，这指的是 1789 年法国大革命期间对该监狱的冲击。

波尔多和马赛等其他城市也爆发了暴力冲突。据内政部称，近 50 名警察受伤。

示威活动始于 9 月 18 日，抗议者要求为那些面临建筑破旧困境的学校提供额外资金。

学生会发言人萨布琳·卡巴什表示，只要“100亿欧元 没有被摆在谈判桌上”，他们就将继续抗议。

昨天，教育部长爱德华·热弗雷表示，部长们将实施一项紧急计划以填补教师缺席的空缺，这也是抗议者的诉求之一。

补充道：“在这里，秃鹫和食腐者就是你们。”

抗议者宣布今晚将从他们在太阳门广场（Puerta del Sol）的营地游行至阿巴斯卡尔被驱逐出境的大楼。在地区议会上，“更多马德里”（Más Madrid）的发言人曼努埃拉·贝尔热罗表示，马德里的街道将“没有安宁”。

阿巴斯卡尔的案件迫使政府制定措施以应对住房危机，但这些措施在上周五的议会投票中未能通过。首相佩德罗·桑切斯本周宣布将于 11 月 29 日举行大选。

尽管她成为了住房危机愤怒情绪的导火索，但阿巴斯卡尔并不完全符合围绕她构建的政治叙事。

她于 1956, 年搬入该公寓，当时她的父亲在弗朗哥时代的租金管制制度下签署了租赁合同。租赁权首先传给了她的母亲，随后在 2005, 年传给了阿巴斯卡尔。业主在多年时间里一直接受她支付的租金。

2018, 年该建筑被出售时，她获得了以约 €250,000 购买该公寓的机会，但她负担不起。她一直住在该房产中，直到法院裁定她的第二次租赁继承权已过期。

抗议者在马德里市中心玛丽亚·德尔·卡门·阿巴斯卡尔曾居住的公寓外向政客们发出辱骂。

这段历史为右翼提供了攻击的弹药。该租赁始于独裁时期，而限制继承权的 1994 年法律是由社会党政府通过的。

前 Vox 党高级成员伊万·埃斯皮诺萨·德洛斯蒙特罗斯将阿巴斯卡尔描述为一名“厚颜无耻之人”（jeta），即一个毫无廉耻地利用他人的人，并指责左翼将一名在受保护租金制度下、在俯瞰丽池公园（El Retiro Park）的高价值公寓中住了几十年的女性塑造为受害者。

在被驱逐前不久的一次采访中，阿巴斯卡尔批评了桑切斯、阿尤索和阿尔梅达，称首相既不知道也不想知道有多少人被驱逐。

关于她住所的争议实际上已经得到解决。拥有该公寓的公司 Urbagestión 已同意签署一份为期八年的租赁合同，且租金上限为其养老金收入的 30%。阿巴斯卡尔在原定签署合同前几小时去世。在最后一次接受 Antena 3 电视台采访时，她表示：“我的家就是我的生命。”

前德国情报局长“向北京泄露秘密”

德国

伊丽莎白·鲁什顿（Elizabeth Rushton）发自柏林

据一份报告称，德国对应于军情六处（MI6）的情报机构前负责人因涉嫌向外国间谍机构传递高度机密信息而被捕，目前人们担心他可能还向一名中国军队高级官员提供了敏感细节。

80岁的奥古斯特·汉宁（August Hanning）在1998年至2005年期间领导联邦情报局（BND）。在二战以来德国最严重的间谍丑闻之一中，他正面临企图叛国罪以及代表外国从事间谍活动的指控。

他被指控在2010年至2012年期间，通过其前幕僚长、64岁的曼弗雷德·丹克斯赖特（Manfred Dankesreiter）获取了近2,000份内部文件。据称，他利用其中部分文件为一名来自外国情报机构（据报道为阿塞拜疆）的官员准备了一份分析报告。

德国联邦检察官办公室还声称，汉宁与另一家外国间谍机构的一名雇员保持着“密切接触”，并在数年间向其提供了部分基于BND文件的机密“政治信息”。

昨日，《镜报》（Der Spiegel）报道称，此人是王建正（Wang Jianzheng），一名退休的中国陆军少将，他曾在德国、奥地利和瑞士担任军事外交官23年。

王建正最初于1987-90年（即社会主义德意志民主共和国末期）被派驻东柏林，并在两德统一后两次返回，最近一次是在2009年至2013年期间。

他现在被认为是北京方面最具有影响力的德国问题专家之一，继续在中国国际战略研究所工作，这是一个在中国军队领导下的国家智库。

王建正在其2017年出版的一本书的序言中感谢了汉宁提供的“见解和解释”，两人似乎曾在多次会议上会面。他们还共同担任中国东部青岛一个德中“生态园”的顾问委员会成员。

汉宁表示自己受到了“不公正的迫害”。他的辩护律师告诉《镜报》，他确实持有BND的机密文件，但否认将这些信息传递出去是为了“损害德国利益，更不用说为了钱”。王建正则表示他很久没见到汉宁了，并拒绝进一步评论。

然而，具有情报监督经验的国会议员和前高级官员表示，汉宁案是德国安全部门深层“文化问题”的缩影，这可能会令其部分合作伙伴感到不安。

退休官员在建立独立咨询公司或为可能从这类信息中获益的私营公司工作时，习惯于随时掌握原机构或部门的内部动态，这种情况十分普遍。

这些做法不仅被容忍，在某些情况下甚至得到了官方认可：据《镜报》报道，丹克斯赖特曾获得BND上级的明确批准，在业余时间继续为汉宁工作。

1997年至2003年期间担任英国驻德国大使的保罗·利弗爵士（Sir Paul Lever）表示，BND需要向其国际合作伙伴保证，汉宁案并非冰山一角。

他说：“如果这表明BND存在一种将敏感报告交给熟人的文化，人们确实会感到担忧。德国确实存在一种文化，即前公务员会保持联系并希望听到最新动态。”

不过，利弗补充说，汉宁似乎是为了解决其被广泛报道的财务问题而“越界”了，这些财务问题与他曾担任监事会成员的一家拉脱维亚银行的倒闭有关。

他说：“利用见解和过往经验赚钱并不新鲜，但涉及到机密信息时，有一条明确的分界线。”

绿党议员兼联邦议院情报监督小组副主席康斯坦丁·冯·诺茨（Konstantin von Notz）表示，要解决向前公务员

奥古斯特·汉宁（August Hanning），80岁，1998年至2005年期间领导联邦情报局（BND）

流向信息的问题，需要进行一次“彻底的清理”。他说：“这是一个结构性问题。”

内政部昨日宣布将对其任职期间进行调查，汉宁曾于2005年至2009年在该部门担任国务秘书。

然而，冯·诺茨表示，这对于修复与联邦情报局盟友机构之间的信任而言“远远不够”。由于该局前内部安全主管卡斯滕·林克（Carsten Linke）因涉嫌将情报泄露给俄罗斯而被捕，这种信任已经严重受损。林克在柏林的审判仍在继续。

“鉴于过去发生此类事件，如果接连不断地出现丑闻导致信任进一步被侵蚀，那将是毁灭性的，”冯·诺茨说。“考虑到友好国家对我们的明确期望，必须完全消除任何关于德国情报机构工作诚信的疑虑。”

曾在2021年至2025年担任总理奥拉夫·朔尔茨（Olaf Scholz）幕僚长的沃尔夫冈·施密特（Wolfgang Schmidt）表示，目前已经有“非常严格”的立法来规范前高级公务员在私营部门的活动。施密特说：“我们必须小心，不要在倒洗澡水时把孩子也一起倒掉。在某种程度上，更多的限制实际上意味着我们无法招募到某些我们迫切需要的专业人才进入公务员队伍，因为他们会认为这是一种职业禁令。”

国际

Cowabunga！总统的母牛以 £293k 成交

南非

简·弗拉纳根（Jane Flanagan）发自开普敦

拉马福萨总统以创纪录的价格出售了一头怀孕的安科莱（Ankole）母牛，使其成为南非拍卖会上成交价格最高的任何品种母牛。

在拉马福萨位于林波波省农场的拍卖会上，名为“女王阿鲁莎”（Queen Arusha）的母牛以 R6400万 (29.3 万英镑) 的价格被一名匿名竞买者买下。这头三岁大的母牛正怀着她的第一个胎儿，是此次拍卖会的焦点。此外，从她的兄弟——巨牛“擎天柱”（Optimus Prime）身上提取的两管精液在出售时每管价格从 R250,000 起，同样创下了纪录。

拉马福萨在 2004, 访问乌干达时接触到了安科莱牛，随后从穆塞韦尼总统那里购买了 40 头母牛和 3 头公牛。

这些动物的胚胎被引入南非，构成了拉马福萨安科莱种牛场的基石。该品种原产于大湖地区，以其巨大的弧形牛角而闻名。

法拉法拉（Phala Phala）农场此前曾登上头条——涉及一起一直困扰拉马福萨总统任期的盗窃案。2020, 该农场沙发垫中塞入的 $580,000 以上资金被盗，引发了关于资金来源、是否已依法申报以及为何没有立即向警方报案的质疑。

拉马福萨否认有任何不当行为，但随着南非在 11 月 4, 迎来地方选举，这场所谓的“沙发门丑闻”依然挥之不去，民调显示人们对非洲国民大会党的支持率有所下降。

展现克制之美 戴西·埃德加-琼斯（Daisy Edgar-Jones）在《理智与情感》洛杉矶首映礼上穿着一套来自 Stella McCartney 1999 年春季为 Chloé 设计的双色紧身胸衣套装，随后在庆功宴上换上了一件 Dilara Findikoglu 迷你裙

中国觊觎刚果的金矿，随后埃博拉疫情爆发

诺埃拉·姆万扎（Noella Mwanza）写道，面对一种传播速度快于防控措施的病毒，刚果民主共和国（DRC）已被弃之不顾，只能自救。

大卫·卡约姆托（David Kayomtho）最近才回到那些满目疮痍的泥坑中。在那里，刚果的矿工们在赭色的土地上挖掘黄金，而贸易商则靠出售挖掘出的矿产维持生计。

今年早些时候，卡约姆托请了一周假去埋葬他的儿子。“在那之后，我变得沉默寡言。我不再说话，不再出门。我感到很愧疚，因为我觉得我儿子是因为我才死掉的，”他说道。在过去的五个月里，埃博拉病毒一直在刚果民主共和国（DRC）东部的矿工中潜伏。疫情始于一座金矿小镇，拥挤的矿坑和糟糕的卫生条件助长了病毒的传播。很快，中国开始警惕矿工脚下的黄金。矿坑的工作停止了，在矿产资源丰富的伊图里省（Ituri）部分地区，由中国资助的采矿作业陷入停滞。

中国公司此前已面临当地社区的敌意以及武装团体的袭击。随后，北京方面建议其国民离开受这种致命病毒影响的地区。

当卡约姆托失去在一家中资矿山担任机械师的工作后，他接手了当地唯一能找到的工作：在伊图里省省会布尼亚（Bunia）靠近其家的一家埃博拉治疗中心负责患者筛查。入职九天后，他病倒了。他出现了所有症状：腹泻、头痛、肌肉疼痛和高烧。

不久，他的妻子里齐基（Riziki）以及四个儿子中的两个——11岁的格拉德尔（Gradel）和7岁的埃本尼泽（Ebenezer）也病重了。卡约姆托康复后回到诊所，这时他被告知埃本尼泽已经去世。他的妻子和格拉德尔仍在康复中。“我加入防疫工作是为了养家糊口，结果却把疾病带回了家，”38岁的卡约姆托在接受《泰晤士报》电话采访时说道。

人们日益愤怒的是，官方的防疫响应难以跟上病毒的传播速度，而东刚果（DRC）长期冲突导致的局势不稳和人口流离失所、社区的猜忌以及针对治疗中心的袭击，进一步阻碍了防控工作。

周二，肯尼亚卫生部门确认该国出现了首例埃博拉病例。一名曾在刚果民主共和国（DRC）生活和工作的肯尼亚公民在周末携带病毒返回内罗比。世界卫生组织已多次警告，该疾病的传播速度快于追踪和遏制能力，并预测这将成为记录以来最致命的一次疫情。

刚果官员表示，这场危机需要国际社会的响应。而中国的援助力度低于预期。在2014年的埃博拉疫情期间，北京成为了主要的捐助者，在西非与最终夺走11,000多条生命的疫情作斗争时，迅速派遣了专家并提供资金。

对于北京而言，2014年的响应与其疫苗研究挂钩。当时的中国科学家正在研发一种疫苗，而疫情让他们获得了数据、现场样本，据称还获得了建立和运行移动生物安全实验室的宝贵经验。

十多年后，情况发生了变化。“国内处理国际危机的兴趣降低了，”中国-全球南方项目（China-Global South Project）智库研究负责人科布斯·范·斯塔登（Cobus van Staden）表示。“我们看到普通中国民众对援助全球南方国家的反应出现了一些负面情绪，因为人们普遍认为中国国内的人也在受苦，需要获得帮助。在经济压力巨大的时期，这种情况变得更加剧烈。”

范·斯塔登表示，自从美国解散美国国际开发署（USAid）以来，“人们一直在讨论中国是否会挺身而出取代美国”，并补充道：“我认为主要的结论是，中国并不感兴趣以那种一对一的方式取代美国。[中国]正在选择自己的战场。”

在受影响地区，卫生工作者报告称数月未拿到工资。罢工波及了包括卡约姆托工作过的布尼亚综合医院在内的埃博拉治疗设施。世界卫生组织驻刚果民主共和国代表安妮·安西亚表示：“我们正在建设埃博拉治疗中心，但并不总是拥有运行这些中心所需的人力资源。这些卫生工作者必须获得报酬。”

梅洛尼赢得选举制度改革通过

意大利 议会昨日通过了对选举制度的全面改革，这为总理乔治亚·梅洛尼赢得了一场政治胜利，但同时也可能引发一场关于该改革的宪法之争。

新法被视为旨在加强意大利政治体系，同时提高由梅洛尼领导的中右翼联盟的选举前景。该联盟上个月庆祝其成为意大利自第二次世界大战以来任期最长的政府。

支持者表示，该法律旨在使选举结果更加明确，并在一个以政府频繁更迭而闻名的国家建立更稳定的政府。但中左翼反对派将其称为“骗局法”，并认为其违宪。反对派已承诺在法律生效后对其提出挑战，并将其提交至意大利宪法法院。

众议院通过秘密投票通过了该项措施，票数为 227 票赞成，164 票反对。

此次改革引入了巨大的“多数奖金”机制，只要选前联盟获得至少 42% 的全国选票，即可在议会两院获得额外席位。该法废除了意大利之前的混合选举制度（在该制度下，约三分之一的议会席位通过领先者当选制选区产生），并将其替换为完全的比例代表制。

马杜罗被控酷刑罪

美国 被推翻的委内瑞拉总统尼古拉斯·马杜罗及其妻子西莉亚·弗洛雷斯在 1 月份被美国军事突袭抓获后，除贩毒和枪支犯罪外，现又被指控犯有酷刑罪。这对夫妇将于 6 月受审，据称他们利用酷刑来“镇压和惩罚政治反对派”。

鼠疫检测结果为“阴性”

俄罗斯 卫生监管机构表示，已完成对西伯利亚一家鼠疫研究设施一名已故实验室工作人员所有接触者的健康检查，在近 5,000 份样本中未发现危险病原体。尽管受到国际卫生机构的压力，但官员们尚未确认 28, 岁的达里亚·希皮洛娃（Darya Shipilova）之死是否由鼠疫引起。

胡塞武装袭击利雅得

也门 与伊朗结盟的胡塞武装升级了对沙特阿拉伯的打击行动，试图关闭其领空和石油设施。该组织表示已袭击了利雅得机场，目击者称一架飞机起火。汉莎航空和印度航空已暂停航班。沙特官员表示，一枚导弹的碎片击中了一所幼儿园。

侏罗纪哺乳动物

中国 在内蒙古发现了一件被认为是已知最古老的半水生哺乳动物化石。这种名为 Megacauda sungei 的生物生活在约 1.65 亿 年前的侏罗纪时期，是一种体长约 20 英寸的有毛生物，游泳方式像鸭嘴兽，捕猎方式像水獭。

CLAUDIO VILLA, JACOPO MRAULE / GETTY IMAGES; GIANMARCO MARAVIGLIA 为《泰晤士报》拍摄

演员迈克尔·法斯宾德（Michael Fassbender）和凯拉·奈特莉（Keira Knightley）在 2024 年于朱塞佩·西尼加利亚体育场（右图）为科莫 1907 队加油。随着这座湖畔小镇在名人中的受欢迎程度提升，该俱乐部的运气也随之好转，但这令部分当地居民感到不满。

球迷感到被抛弃，俱乐部则在追求星光

意大利

詹姆斯·伊曼（James Imam）报道于科莫

本尼迪克特·康伯巴奇的出现，究竟是开端的终结，还是终结的开端？是基拉·奈特莉、安德鲁·加菲尔德、凯特·贝金赛尔，还是那位科莫湖的“皇太子”乔治·克鲁尼？

就在七年前，这家位于迷人湖畔、曾被人们略微忽视的小足球俱乐部还徘徊在意大利第四级别联赛中，除了少数死忠球迷外，并不受宠。本月晚些时候，科莫将在其首次欧冠联赛征程中面对曼联。在任何一个比赛日，看台上很有可能同样会出现名人们的身影。

然而，在科莫的一家游艇俱乐部外，资深球迷们并不确定这一切成功是否真的是件好事。

48岁的圭多·布兰迪尼（Guido Brandini）表示，在看了近40年球队在低级别联赛中苦苦挣扎后，俱乐部的崛起简直“不可思议”。他说：“我很难想象我们能和曼联交手。”

他的母亲则没有那么热情。77岁的季票持有者弗洛里亚娜·科隆博（Floriana Colombo）说：“首先是旅游业到来，然后演员们渐渐多了起来，现在哈托诺兄弟也加入了进来。这是一个小镇，一个偏僻之地，现在我们面临交通和停车问题。当地人都在抱怨。”

这对兄弟——罗伯特·布迪·哈托诺（Robert Budi Hartono）和迈克尔·班邦·哈托诺（Michael Bambang Hartono）是来自印度尼西亚的亿万富翁兄弟，他们通过生产香烟积累了财富。他们于2019年买下这家俱乐部，最初是为了给印度尼西亚电视台拍摄一部纪录片。此前已经出现了一系列关于俱乐部所有权的纪录片，包括《Class of '92: Out of Their League》（92班：出格），该片记录了前曼联球员加里·内维尔、瑞安·吉格斯、菲尔·内维尔、保罗·斯科尔斯和尼基·巴特接管非联赛球队索尔福德城的过程。

科莫1907（Como 1907，俱乐部的全称）的新管理层很快发现，该俱乐部在国际上的追随者日益增多，其中包括“科莫格子军团”（Como Tartan Army）这一苏格兰支持者团体，以及一个位于怀特岛的分会——该分会是由一群在未能买到米兰比赛门票后，转而前往科莫的球迷所组建的。

“科莫的独特之处在于，所有地方距离体育场都只有五分钟路程，”科莫1907的印尼裔主席米尔万·苏瓦索（Mirwan Suwarso）说道，“我们意识到我们的辅助收入来自旅游业。”

与曼联的对决将成为该俱乐部转型为全球最受欢迎的足球旅游目的地之一的巅峰时刻。在这里，体育上的成功与销售品牌商品和服务（从游船之旅到住宿和当地啤酒）同样重要。

然而，随着创纪录的游客涌入科莫，一些当地人要求管理部门限制足球俱乐部的扩张，而为了建造停车场可能关闭当地一所学校的问题已成为冲突点。

“这已经变成了一个象征，”44岁的特蕾莎·明尼蒂（Teresa Minniti）说道，她是 Nova Como 协会的副主席，该协会旨在保护小镇及其居民免受过度旅游的破坏。“当你剥离历史中心像学校这样的服务设施时，这个小镇就变成了一家酒店。”

印度尼西亚的资金帮助俱乐部签下了阿根廷中场尼科·帕斯（Nico Paz）以及知名西班牙教练塞斯克·法布雷加斯（Cesc Fàbregas）——这位前阿森纳球员帮助科莫在2024年首次在二十多年间升入意大利顶级联赛意甲（Serie A），并随后进入欧冠联赛。俱乐部的受欢迎程度之高，以至于在8月份，它引入了一项规定：缺席三场以上比赛的季票持有者将被暂停资格，这是为了防止门票黄牛行为而采取的措施之一。

科莫曾是一个安静的湖畔小镇，自从克鲁尼在2002年于湖边买了一栋别墅后，这里的知名度一直在上升。去年，湖区记录的过夜游客超过500 万，而前一年为430 万。名人们似乎在争相观看比赛。

“科莫改变了很多，我想

米尔万·苏瓦索表示俱乐部有望在 2028-29 赛季实现盈利

“俱乐部的成功是其结果，”46, 岁的达妮埃莱·马里亚尼说道。她是一位出生于巴西、现居里约热内卢的律师，目前正在访问她曾居住过的科莫。“这座城镇现在没那么像个小地方了。它有了一种氛围。”苏瓦索试图通过建立一个具有全球影响力的科莫 1907 商业周边帝国来利用这座城市的知名度。该公司销售一系列产品——从航海、徒步和跑步装备到当地制造的丝绸产品——这些产品都围绕着将科莫湖打造为生活方式目的地的概念而构建。

“我们试图模糊科莫足球与科莫目的地之间的界限，”苏瓦索说，并补充道，今年的周边商品收入可能会与广播权收入持平。“这座湖比足球队更出名。”

苏瓦索表示，该企业的年度周边商品销售额从最初的 €53,000 增长到去年的 1000万欧元 以上，公司今年的目标是在 3400万欧元 到 4000万欧元 之间。其中只有 38% 的周边商品与足球相关。

此外，俱乐部还提供包括游艇之旅、礼宾服务和 Vespa 租赁在内的旅游套餐。它计划与 Uber 合作推出水上出租车服务，并在球队获胜时，在合作酒吧为球迷免费提供一品脱由俱乐部自产的丝绸过滤啤酒 La Comasca。

苏瓦索表示，该模式参考了迪士尼娱乐集团，后者通过电影和电视、周边商品以及娱乐度假区赚钱。“足球队就是你可以来此体验的地方。那就是我们的迪士尼乐园。”这位主席补充说，俱乐部依然植根于社区，强调客队球迷的门票价格不超过 €25，并重点介绍了各项慈善和社区计划。俱乐部在 2024-25 赛季（重返意甲的首个赛季）亏损了 1.32亿欧元，但苏瓦索表示，俱乐部有望在 2028-29 赛季实现盈利。

在市政厅办公室接受采访时，该镇市长亚历山德罗·拉皮内塞承认，高游客量带来了挑战——需要更好的垃圾收集、更多的警力以及道路基础设施的重新规划——但同时也指出旅游业创造了就业机会。

他为拆除体育场附近的一所小学以腾出空间建设停车场的计划进行了辩护，该学校由市议会所有并租赁给科莫 1907,。

在市长与居民之间的法律斗争之后，意大利最高行政法院国务委员会上个月暂时暂停了市议会的命令（该命令此前已获得下级法院支持），该命令要求将这所学校的 200 名学生搬迁至城市中世纪城墙之外。

拉皮内塞认为，关闭部分学校并确保其余学校满员是纳税人资源更好的利用方式。

“我们在其他学校有 1,540 个空余名额，”他说。“我们至少还可以关闭另外 15 所学校，因为已经没有更多孩子了。”

来自 Nova Como 的明尼蒂表示，科莫在足球上的成功是这座城镇的一个机遇，但必须得到妥善管理。“我们不希望科莫变成迪士尼乐园。我们希望科莫能够保留其历史、真实性和身份认同。”

小唐纳德的前未婚妻“要求特朗普捐赠者支付$100k信用卡账单”

美国

乔治·格里尔斯 华盛顿报道

根据泄露的短信显示，唐纳德·特朗普二世的前未婚妻在准备被任命为美国驻希腊大使期间，曾要求一名捐赠者为其支付$100,000的美国运通（American Express）信用卡账单。

Kimberly Guilfoyle, 57, 在准备参加确认其被派驻雅典的国会听证会时，向来自肯塔基州的特朗普捐赠者埃里克·德特斯（Eric Deters）发送了请求付款的消息。根据《华尔街日报》获取的消息，她在加密通信应用 Signal 上写道：“如果你把钱电汇给美国运通，任何地方都不会显示。”她还对德特斯说：“亲爱的，请帮我在今天把这件事办好。”

吉尔福伊尔是 MAGA 运动的坚定支持者，在 2020 到 2024. 年期间与特朗普总统的长子订婚。她此前曾与民主党籍的加利福尼亚州州长加文·纽森（Gavin Newsom）结婚。

她的律师杰西·宾纳尔（Jesse Binnall）对与肯塔基州律师德特斯之间交换的消息的真实性提出质疑，但拒绝提供具体细节。宾纳尔告诉《华尔街日报》，吉尔福伊尔在被提名之前参加了一些活动，“在前往并支持这些爱国活动的过程中产生了一笔应付余额”。

在与 Deters, 63, 的短信中，吉尔福伊尔吹嘘自己能够接触到特朗普政府的高级官员。她说：“你知道的，国防部、交通部、财政部、商务部的所有部长，以及国税局（IRS）局长，每个人都会立刻回复我。”随后她又提到了 FBI 局长卡什·帕特尔（Kash Patel），但拼错了他的名字：“噢对了，我忘了 cash Patel。”

德特斯在 2020, 年首次与吉尔福伊尔见面后，共向其支付了$300,000的演讲费；当时他在肯塔基州创办了“自由节”（Freedom Fest）以抗议新冠肺炎（Covid-19）强制令。他还向特朗普二世支付了$200,000的演讲费，向埃里克·特朗普（Eric Trump）支付了$100。此外，他还向一个支持特朗普的政治行动委员会捐赠了$125,000。

金伯利·吉尔福伊尔是美国驻希腊大使 19

在他们的通信过程中，吉尔福伊尔担心德特斯的短信会留下书面记录。她说：“埃里克，我真的希望你停止把所有这些事情都写在纸面上，”随后要求他使用 Signal。

美国国务院已收到置评请求。

世界

巨型蛞蝓能否让小镇名声大噪？

尽管很难准确说明澳大利亚对巨型物件的痴迷始于何时，

但可以确定始于何地（丽莎·克雷菲尔德撰文）。1964年，艾伦·查普曼的“大香蕉”落户考夫斯港，引起了轰动。

这座由查普曼设计的40英尺高水果纪念碑甚至吸引了皇室成员。“人们成群结队地涌来；停车场不够大，商店不够大，店里的员工也不够，”其共同开发者约翰·埃内沃尔森在1991年的一部纪录片中说道。

埃内沃尔森表示，1970年女王的车队经过时，女王甚至赞赏了他的香蕉。“爱丁堡公爵对整个作品非常感兴趣，脸上带着灿烂的笑容。”

于是，一条路径被开辟了：如果你建造一个完全没有实用目的的巨型物件，人们就会随之而来。“香蕉模式”从此延续，随后出现了昆士兰州伍姆比52英尺高的“大菠萝”；新南威尔士州巴利纳里弗街35吨重的“大虾”；以及北领地汉普蒂杜的“大拳击鳄鱼”。

现在，内陆地区一个名为纳拉布里郡（Narrabri Shire）的小镇正提议在地标清单中增加一只巨型蛞蝓。

然而，这并非一只普通的蛞蝓。这座可能长达65英尺的雕像将代表

濒危的卡普塔山粉红蛞蝓。这种蛞蝓仅分布在卡普塔山，该山是新南威尔士州北部纳拉布里以东一座死火山的残迹。据纳拉布里郡市长达雷尔·蒂门斯介绍，这种蛞蝓生长可达20cm，呈鲜艳的粉红色，且只能在较凉爽的日子里被看到。

“在某个阴沉、雾蒙蒙的雨天，就在山顶下方的一处特定岩壁上，这些粉红色的蛞蝓会出来活动，”他说。“它们的颜色令人惊叹，更像是一种西瓜粉，几乎是荧光的。它们确实非常引人注目。”

卡普塔山粉红蛞蝓雕像可能的模样。下方为新南威尔士州巴利纳35吨重的“大虾”。

在2019-20年的“黑色夏季”山火后，人们曾担心这种蛞蝓已经灭绝，但它们幸存了下来，尽管目击记录十分罕见。

蒂门斯表示，蛞蝓雕像尚未进行正式的成本核算，但“我们讨论的是六位数（金额）”。

纳拉布里位于墨尔本和布里斯班之间主要の内陆公路上。该镇希望巨型蛞蝓能吸引更多旅行者，尤其是热爱园艺的英国人，停下来参观卡普塔山国家公园和锯岩（Sawn Rocks）等景点，后者是一处看起来像管风琴的悬崖。

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批评者称：翻新工程是时尚界的失礼之举

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亚当·塞奇（Adam Sage） 巴黎报道

路易威登（Louis Vuitton）在香榭丽舍大街已经拥有一家光鲜的旗舰店。但目前，一家规模更大、更奢华的门店正在其隔壁建设中。

有传闻称，新店将设有餐厅和咖啡馆，以及销售手袋、旅行箱、配饰和服装的商店，该时尚品牌旨在诱使购物者在店内花费数小时——以及数千欧元。

然而，相邻道路的铺路石开裂且不平整，这与该高端区域的格调不符。该区域还设有雨果博斯（Hugo Boss）商店和 Raspoutine 夜总会，后者曾是阿加汗（Aga Khan）和玛琳·黛德丽（Marlene Dietrich）等名流经常光顾之地，那里的一瓶香槟价格高达 €120,000。

巴黎市议会本周宣布，旗下拥有路易威登等品牌的奢侈品集团 LVMH 已同意翻修巴萨诺街（Bassano Street），该街道将未来的路易威登门店与现有门店分隔开。集团还将翻修新店另一侧的加利略街（Galilée Street）。该集团将拓宽人行道，放置花箱并安装自行车停放架。

该市的社会党市长埃马纽埃尔·格雷瓜尔（Emmanuel Grégoire）大肆宣扬纳税人将节省 €2 成本。但如果他认为自己会因此获得赞赏，那就错了。批评者对他允许 LVMH 主导工程表示不满，称该集团将可以随心所欲地塑造街道面貌。

遗产协会“SOS Paris”指责市长允许“奢侈品集团殖民香榭丽舍大街”。

“市议会本应代表巴黎市民，但其卑躬屈膝的态度令人费解且令人恐惧，”该协会主席克里斯蒂娜·内德莱克（Christine Nedelec）告诉当地广播电台 ICI Paris Île-de-France。

地标建筑 亟需维修

大卫·查赞（David Chazan） 巴黎报道

凯旋门由拿破仑于 1806 年委托建造，以纪念其战胜俄罗斯和奥地利军队的胜利。如今，它是国家纪念的圣地，也是公共仪式的中心。

自 1921, 年起，这座纪念碑内就设有无名烈士墓，但对于每年 180 万 名游客中的许多人来说，主要景点是顶层露台。那里可以俯瞰巴黎的壮丽景色，包括香榭丽舍大街、埃菲尔铁塔以及拿破仑安葬地——荣军院（Les Invalides）。

由于 1997 年安装且每天有 3,000 名乘客使用的电梯已损坏，游客现在必须攀登 280 级台阶才能到达顶层。更换电梯预计将花费 €5，包括更换新电机、机械设备、钢缆和门。预计工程将持续数月，其中大部分工作将在夜间进行，以便该地标能保持开放。

“这一切或许能为城市带来资金，但不能这样继续下去。很快，将没有任何东西属于巴黎人。这是反乌托邦的。他们正将巴黎装在银盘中奉上……而没有得到任何回报。”

激进左翼议员埃米尔·梅尼耶（Emile Meunier）谴责这是一个“危险的先例”，并补充道：“我们的道路绝不能成为大品牌的展示厅。”

路易威登正在其香榭丽舍大街门店旁建造一家超级商店

格雷瓜尔称这些批评为“荒谬”。他指出目前是“公共财政的挑战时刻”——考虑到法国拥有近 €3.6 的债务，而巴黎市的债务估计为 €10.6，这是一种委婉的说法——他表示，只要有可能就使用私人资金是有意义的。“我对自己能做到这一点感到自豪，”他补充道。

官员们对此更加感到困惑，因为这并非首次由私人公司资助街道翻修。位于圣奥诺雷郊区街（Faubourg Saint-Honoré Street）的零售商们（该街拥有爱丽舍宫和英国大使馆）去年曾共同出资帮助支付当地的翻修费用。

这次的批评之所以如此激烈，可能是因为活动人士早已将目光锁定在新的路易威登（Louis Vuitton）店铺上。当该品牌用一个仿制的路易威登旅行箱覆盖外墙，以掩盖背后的施工时，他们感到震惊。许多人认为这简直是免费广告。

这场争论虽然激烈，但尚未达到该新艺术风格建筑历史上那些争端的高度。这座建筑建于 1899 年，最初是一家酒店，在 18 年后玛塔·哈里（Mata Hari）在其中的一间卧室被捕后而闻名。这位荷兰情色舞者兼交际花在被判定为德国间谍后，被法国当局处决。据说她在面对行刑队时面带微笑。

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信用卡违约率连续上涨，创2008年金融危机以来最长纪录

海伦·卡希尔 (Helen Cahill) 金融记者

英国信用卡债务违约人数已连续六个季度增加，这是自2008年金融危机以来首次出现这种情况。

根据英格兰银行的调查数据，在第三季度，认为信用卡违约率上升的贷款机构数量多于认为下降的机构，净余额为26个百分点。违约率目前已连续18个月上升，且银行预计今年最后三个月将再次增加。

英格兰银行在9月公布的另一项数据显示，8月份消费者借款增加了24.6亿英镑，为1993年有记录以来的最大增幅。该金额涵盖了所有形式的零售借款，包括汽车金融和个人贷款。信用卡贷款增加了11.8亿英镑，增速为2004年以来最快。

今年，抵押贷款利率和能源价格的上涨影响了消费者财务状况，而通货膨胀预计将在明年年初达到4%。8月份通胀率升至3.1%，高于7月份的2.9%，为伊朗战争爆发以来的最高水平。

中东地区旷日持久的冲突推高了石油、天然气和其他精炼产品的价格，使布伦特原油交易价格涨至每桶\$100以上。由于一场即将到来的飓风导致美国多家供应商削减产量，昨日油价微涨，突破了\$105。

英格兰银行在9月警告称，伊朗冲突正给全球经济带来“持久的负面供应冲击”。其金融政策委员会的一份报告指出：“这导致许多发达经济体的国债收益率持续上涨，达到了2008年以来未见之水平。”

报告称，尽管英国的GDP增长证明比预期更具韧性，但与战争相关的不利因素（包括更高的能源价格和更紧缩的金融条件）依然存在。虽然这些条件可能会继续给家庭和企业带来压力，但财务困境的指标仍然较低。家庭和企业的资产负债表在总体上保持强劲，且整体债务水平相对于历史平均值仍然较低。

“Libor替罪羊”将起诉巴克莱银行

交易员成为最新一批上诉获胜者

本·马丁 (Ben Martin) 金融编辑

一名巴克莱银行的前交易员计划起诉该银行，指控其在 Libor 丑闻中将其作为“替罪羊”。

杰伊·默钱特 (Jay Merchant) 在 2016 年曾因共谋欺诈被判处六年半监禁，上诉后减刑至五年半。他被指控操纵现已废除的 Libor 利率基准。

默钱特是周三成功推翻操纵利率定罪的五名前巴克莱员工之一。默钱特告诉

杰伊·默钱特，55, 岁，曾入狱两年多

《泰晤士报》，他现在打算对其前雇主提起民事诉讼。他说：“巴克莱银行培训、指示并监督了那些它后来试图撇清关系的做法”，并声称该银行“让几个初级员工成了替罪羊，而我们为此付出了代价”。

爆发于 2012, 年的 Libor 丑闻核心在于，银行和交易员被指控操纵 Libor 和欧元银行间同业拆借利率 (Euribor) 基准，而这些基准曾是金融系统的基石。

这给全球金融业带来了剧烈冲击，并在金融危机之后激起了公众对银行家的愤怒。贷款机构和经纪公司向全球监管机构支付了近 100亿美元 的罚款。巴克莱银行在 2012. 年向英国和美国当局支付了约 4.5亿美元，以解决操纵利率的指控。四年后，该银行还与美国 44 个州达成 1亿美元 的和解，以解决一项关于 Libor 操纵的调查。

55, 岁的默钱特在监狱中度过了两年多时间，他声称巴克莱银行通过指责他和其他人从而降低了罚款金额。他说：“在法庭上作证反对我的主管，正是那些培训我们并要求我们这么做的人。”“巴克莱银行负有责任，我希望让他们承担责任。”

巴克莱银行拒绝置评。

该丑闻导致英国出现了九起定罪，但目前大多数已被推翻。曾就职于瑞银 (UBS) 和花旗银行 (Citigroup) 的汤姆·海耶斯 (Tom Hayes) 以及曾在巴克莱银行工作的卡洛·帕隆博 (Carlo Palombo) 的定罪已于去年 7 月被撤销。

最高法院发现，海耶斯的审判法官以及随后的法官给陪审团提供的“指示在法律上是不准确且不公平的”。这导致上诉法院推翻了默钱特、乔纳森·马修 (Jonathan Mathew)、菲利普·莫里尤塞夫 (Philippe Moryoussef)、亚历克斯·帕邦 (Alex Pabon) 和科林·伯明汉姆 (Colin Bermingham) 的定罪。

在监狱中度过五年半的海耶斯正在美国起诉瑞银，就恶意起诉的指控要求至少 4亿美元 的赔偿。这家瑞士银行正寻求撤销在康涅狄格州提交的这项诉讼。

海耶斯并未被最高法院完全洗清嫌疑，最高法院在判决中表示，如果有正确的指示，陪审团有“充足的证据”认定他与帕隆博犯有共谋欺诈罪。

斯塔福德郡伯顿-昂-特伦特 (Burton upon Trent) 的该遗址，拍摄于 1921. 年。Pedigree 啤酒的创始人于 2024 年被嘉士伯 (Carlsberg) 收购。

马斯顿酿酒厂敲响丧钟

杰西卡·纽曼 (Jessica Newman) 休闲产业记者

在位于伯顿-昂-特伦特 (Burton upon Trent) 的马斯顿酿酒厂 (Marston's Brewery) 的所有者提议关闭这座已运营近 200 年的历史遗迹后，超过 300 个工作岗位面临风险。

嘉士伯-必瑞 (Carlsberg Britvic) 表示，计划在明年夏天关闭该酿酒厂及其物流运营，是为了应对桶装艾尔啤酒 (cask ale) 贸易所面临的“残酷现实”。

这家丹麦酿酒商的英国分公司表示，它仍将生产某些艾尔啤酒，如 Hobgoblin 和 McEwan's，但将寻求出售部分品牌。

约翰·马斯顿 (John Marston) 于 1834 年创立了他的酿酒厂。该公司在 2020 年与嘉士伯达成协议，成立了嘉士伯-马斯顿酿酒公司 (Carlsberg Marston's Brewing Company)，其中包括马斯顿的酿酒厂和配送中心，但不包括其酒吧。四年后，嘉士伯买断了马斯顿在该合资企业中的股份。

嘉士伯-必瑞首席执行官保罗·戴维斯 (Paul Davies) 表示：“残酷的现实是，英国桶装艾尔啤酒的销量在不到十年的时间里减少了一半以上，且这一趋势看来将继续下去……尽管如此，小型艾尔品牌深受部分消费者的喜爱，我们将尽一切努力确保它们在未来的专业化或本地所有权下能够繁荣发展。”

真实艾尔运动组织 (Campaign for Real Ale) 将关闭酿酒厂的计划描述为“绝对的耻辱”。该组织全国主席艾什·科贝特-柯林斯 (Ash Corbett-Collins) 表示：“我在伯顿出生长大，我为我们处于英国酿酒业中心的位置感到自豪……不幸的是，嘉士伯关于理解该酿酒厂对这座城镇重要性的声明，对大多数人来说已经太迟了。”

马斯顿是该行业一系列高知名度受害者的最新成员。一年前，同样由嘉士伯-马斯顿酿酒公司拥有的、拥有 150 年历史的伍尔弗汉普顿 (Wolverhampton) 班克斯酿酒厂 (Banks's Brewery) 已被关闭。

大约十年前，精酿啤酒运动达到了顶峰，最初分散的家庭酿造追求演变成了一场改变行业的现象，使酿酒厂的数量自 20 世纪 30 年代以来首次突破 2,000 家。由于新冠疫情、成本上升和口味变化，该数量随后回落至约 1,550 家。

特易购 (Tesco) 为何不担心圣诞节消费低迷的影响，见第 32-33 页

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1 一名巴克莱银行的前交易员计划起诉该银行，指控其在 Libor 丑闻中将其作为“替罪羊”。杰伊·默钱特 (Jay Merchant) 因共谋欺诈于 2016 年被判处六年半监禁，上诉后减为五年半。他和其他四名前巴克莱员工的定罪在本周被撤销。第 31 页

2 在位于伯顿-昂-特伦特的马斯顿酿酒厂的所有者提议关闭这座已运营近 200 年的历史遗迹后，超过 300 个工作岗位面临风险。嘉士伯-必瑞表示，计划明年关闭是为了应对桶装艾尔啤酒贸易面临的“残酷现实”。第 31 页

3 特易购上调了全年利润预期，因为它预测“具有韧性”的购物者在今年圣诞节将增加支出，尽管在酒精饮料上的花费有所减少。该超市表示，预计下一年的调整后营业利润将在 31.5亿英镑 至 33亿英镑 之间，高于 4 月份指导的 30亿英镑 至 33亿英镑 范围。

4 根据旨在避免流动性危机的新规则，投资于房地产和其他难以出售资产基金的投资者将必须等待三个月才能提取资金。英国金融行为监管局 (FCA) 表示，将向零售投资者明确此类基金属于长期投资。第 34 页

5 全球最大的内存芯片供应商三星预计利润将增长近九倍，因为构建支持人工智能基础设施的热潮推高了该组件的价格。第 36 页

6 德勤公司（Deloitte）因“极其令人担忧的失败模式”导致一名客户非法保留数百万英镑的纳税人资金而遭到巨额罚款。财务报告理事会（Financial Reporting Council）在对巴士和火车运营商 Go-Ahead Group 的审计中发现了“多项违规行为”。第 37 页

7 英国皇家航空学会（Royal Aeronautical Society）已向安迪·伯纳姆（Andy Burnham）发出警告，称将英国军事卫星的合同交给美国主承包商可能会损害英国的国防工业基础。第 38 页

我们很少有比嘲笑他人消费偏好更令我们愉快的事情了

哈里·沃洛普（Harry Wallop），第 35 页

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特易购：圣诞节将趋于清淡

特易购（Tesco）首席执行官肯·墨菲（Ken Murphy，见左下图）表示，他预计许多购物者在圣诞节期间仍会“尽情享受”。该连锁店已增加了

尽管预计节日消费将趋于克制，但该超市仍上调了其预测，伊莎贝拉·费什（Isabella Fish）报道

特易购上调了全年利润预期，因为其预测尽管消费者在酒精饮料上的支出将减少，但“具有韧性”的购物者在今年圣诞节仍将增加消费。

这家英国最大的超市连锁店表示，预计下一年度的调整后营业利润将在 31.5亿英镑 至 33亿英镑 之间，高于其在 4 月份指导的 30亿英镑 至 33亿英镑 范围。

在提高业绩指引以及将股票回购计划从 7.5 亿英镑 扩大至 9.5 亿英镑 之后，这家食品零售商的股价昨日上涨 24½p，即 5.2%，至 500½p。

首席执行官肯·墨菲表示：“在不确定的环境下，英国的消费者表现出了相当强的韧性；考虑到世界上正在发生的一切，人们感觉到顾客希望享受圣诞节。”

这家同时拥有 Booker 批发业务的特易购掌门人预测，由于减肥药物的兴起以及消费者追求更健康的生活，从酒精饮料的角度来看，这将是一个“更为克制的圣诞节”。

“我们认为低酒精和无酒精产品将迎来强劲增长，”他说道，并补充称他预计许多购物者仍然希望能够“尽情享受”。

该零售商已采购了更多关键的圣诞商品，并将在线配送的时段增加了 10%。

在截至 8 月底的过去六个月中，特易购在英国的同店销售额增长了 1.5，而去年同期为 4.9。集团同店销售额增长了 1 ，总营收增长 3.7 ，达到 374亿英镑。调整后营业利润增长 6.5 ，至 18亿英镑。

在此期间，在线销售额增长了 8，这得益于其一小时杂货配送服务 Whoosh 的强劲增长。Whoosh 在半年内的销售额增长了 37，并有望在今年实现超过 5亿英镑 的销售额。

墨菲表示，在线购物在“所有指标上都在增长”，包括其自身的快速电商服务、杂货居家购物以及与 Uber 和 Deliveroo 的合作伙伴关系。

集团旗下的批发业务 Booker 的同店销售额下降了 2.6，部分原因是烟草市场的持续下滑。

烟草市场。

由于降价销售和折扣增加，家居和服装的同店销售额下降了 0.6。在家居类别中，家用纺织品的表现疲软，但这在一定程度上被世界杯和其他夏季体育赛事对电视和收藏品的强劲需求所抵消。

首相安迪·伯纳姆（Andy Burnham）表示，他计划在下一次英欧峰会前后，就英国与欧盟未来的关系阐明相关方案。当被问及对英国重新加入欧盟的看法时，特易购的首席执行官表示，他欢迎“任何能让食品获取变得更便捷的举措”。

“特易购始终适应英国公众和英国政府所做的任何决定，我们在整个脱欧过程以及过去五年的新冠疫情、乌克兰战争中都展现了这种灵活性，”他说道。“因此，我们非常乐意响应现任政府决定采取的任何行动，无论那是什么。显然，任何能让食品变得更加便捷的举措都是一件好事。”

加拿大皇家银行资本市场（RBC Capital Markets）的分析师表示，他们将特易购视为“英国食品零售领域顶尖的参与者，拥有强大的商业模式和卓越的——”

Asos 遭黑客攻击，对方“冒充信任联系人”

Isabella Fish 零售编辑

Asos 遭受了一次严重的网络攻击，一名黑客通过冒充信任联系人，诱骗一名员工交出了登录凭据。

网络犯罪分子利用窃取的访问权限，在本周通过 应用程序直接向数百万客户的手机发送了推送通知。黑客声称已攻破 使用的第三方云数据存储服务 Snowflake，但 Snowflake 表示，尚未发现其平台被攻破的证据。

昨天表示，一名“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”。这家富时 250 (FTSE 250) 指数公司补充称，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”。黑客

股价

访问了包括客户姓名、联系方式以及非个人账户信息在内的数据。不过， 昨天确认，没有密码或支付卡详情被泄露。

该公司表示：“受影响的平台已被立即锁定，以确保无法进一步访问信息，并在内部和外部网络专家的支持下启动了全面调查。我们正……与相关的执法部门和监管机构合作。” 向购物者保证，其网站和应用程序“仍然可以安全使用”，但建议他们“对声称来自 的意外消息或电话保持警惕”。

自称对此负责的组织自称为“Xuanye group”（译为“玄烨”或“神秘光辉”），该名称与任何已知的黑客组织都不匹配。

此次事件发生在去年 Marks & Spencer、Co-op 以及捷豹路虎 (Jaguar Land Rover) 遭受网络攻击之后。网络安全专家 Trevor Dearing 表示， “需要做大量工作才能赢回客户的信任，可能比去年受影响的零售商需要做的工作更多。对于纯在线零售商以及任何组织而言，重点必须是遏制攻击，确保关键系统和敏感信息永远不会被访问。”

在疫情期间的在线购物热潮结束后曾陷入困境，但在首席执行官 José Antonio Ramos Calamonte 的领导下取得了显著进步，过去一年股价上涨了约 80%。在最近的一份交易更新中，该公司表示，预计今年的调整后税前利润将高于此前预测的 1.5 亿英镑 和 1.8 亿英镑 范围的中值。

昨天，高盛 (Goldman Sachs) 将其在 的持股比例提高至总投票权的 5.28%，高于此前通知的 5.04%。

股价昨天上涨 10½便士，即 2.3%，至 461½便士；而在周二发送警报时，股价最高曾下跌 14%。

不会 dampen spirits

故事背后 在线配送时段增加 10%

经验丰富的管理团队。该业务执行力出色，这使其在近年来获得了强劲的市场份额增长。我们注意到，近期市场份额的增长有所放缓，鉴于英国的竞争对手正开始稳定其销量损失，我们预计这一趋势将持续。”

对特易购（Tesco）持有“持有”评级的 Shore Capital 表示：“虽然我们欢迎其将下限指引上调至 £3.15-33亿 的新区间，但我们感觉到英国即将迎来一个竞争异常激烈的节日贸易期。”

消费者普遍在减少饮酒，因为减肥药物的兴起与向更健康生活方式的广泛转变相结合（Isabella Fish 撰文）。

在国民饮酒习惯转变的过程中，酒精饮料制造商一直陷入苦战，而像 Lucky Saint 这样较新的无酒精饮料品牌则经历了爆发式增长。

根据英国啤酒与酒吧协会（British Beer & Pub Association）的数据，去年无酒精和低酒精啤酒的消费量约为 2 亿 品脱，高于之前的 1.7 亿 品脱。

中期营收 374亿英镑 增长 3.7% 中期税前利润 15亿英镑 增长 11.5 中期股息 5.05p 增长 5.2 中期自由现金流 16亿英镑 增长 21 中期净债务 100亿英镑 下降 1.5

2024. GLP-1 抗肥胖治疗带来的连锁反应正开始在更广泛的经济领域显现，包括超市、餐厅和零售商。市场研究公司 Lumina Intelligence 的数据显示，在目前的 GLP-1 使用者中，啤酒和咖啡是市场份额下降的饮料类别，而无酒精和低酒精饮料、茶以及乳基饮料则在 gaining ground。

特易购首席执行官肯·墨菲（Ken Murphy）表示，特易购观察到了一个“向更健康生活方式转变的普遍趋势”。为了在节日期间兼顾两类需求，公司在其 Finest 奢华自有品牌系列中增加了一系列预调即饮鸡尾酒——包括含酒精和无酒精两种。

墨菲补充道：“你可以看到顾客普遍在寻找更健康的饮食，追求更高蛋白质、更高纤维、营养更均衡的餐食，更小的分量，以及低酒精或无酒精的替代品和健康甜点。”

他表示，这类模式往往“从年轻人开始，然后逐渐向上蔓延，因此这是我们正在应对的一种趋势”。

星巴克可能完成对 Chipotle 的收购

Louisa Clarence-Smith 美国商业编辑

据称，星巴克一直在探讨收购 Chipotle Mexican Grill 的可能性，此举将使该咖啡集团首席执行官布莱恩·尼科尔（Brian Niccol）与其此前执掌的这家卷饼连锁店重新团聚。

根据新闻网站 Semafor 的报道，这家咖啡连锁店在近几个月内一直与顾问合作，就收购 的提案进行研究。

的市值约为 410亿美元，其股价昨晚在纽约收盘上涨 $1.88，涨幅 6.1%，报 $32.65。星巴克股价下跌 37美分，跌幅 0.4%，至 $93.21，市值约为 1060亿美元。两家公司均已收到置评请求。

在星巴克连续两个季度报告销售额下降后，公司在 2024 年采取了一项出人意料的举措，聘请尼科尔负责经营。尼科尔曾因扭转 Mexican Grill 的局面而备受赞誉，他承诺将星巴克重新打造为“社区咖啡馆”。

此后，由于消费者削减可选消费，同时食品和劳动力成本上升给行业利润率带来压力， 一直在应对客流量下滑的问题。今年以来，其股价下跌了约 11%。Semafor 上周报道称， 已接触银行家以抵御潜在的收购。

分析师表示，一项交易可能会加速 的国际扩张。Northcoast Research 分析师吉姆·桑德森（Jim Sanderson）表示：“我对这一潜在可能感兴趣的地方在于，首席执行官布莱恩·尼科尔将有机会利用星巴克在欧洲的特许经营合作伙伴关系，更积极地扩张 。”

截至去年年底， 在美国拥有近 4,000 家餐厅，在国际上拥有约 100 家 餐厅。星巴克在全球拥有约 40,000 家门店，其中约 18,000 家位于北美。

尼科尔执掌 六年，期间因在食品安全危机后主导企业转型并扩大数字化业务而受到称赞，助力公司实现了多年的强劲销售增长。他被引入星巴克是为了扭转业务局面，并在过去两年中致力于提升客户体验。作为回报，他实现了连续四个季度的可比销售额增长。

在公司上调年度销售额和利润预测后，尼科尔在 7 月表示：“我们还有更多工作要做。”

Annex Wealth Management 首席经济战略师布莱恩·雅各布森（Brian Jacobsen）表示：“考虑到星巴克正处于转型之中，且尚未展现出投资者可能期待的利润率改善，此时进行收购的时机会有点奇怪。”

商业

英国已无力应对首相的政治作秀

商业评论 阿利斯泰尔·奥斯本 (Alistair Osborne)

不能再有借口了。我们这位标榜“务实而非意识形态”的新任首相，竟然能轻描淡写地为了一个本应是威斯敏斯特政治作秀的事件——即“星合并之灾”爵士（Sir Starmergeddon）席位的补选——而推迟一项关于北海至关重要的决定，这始终显得很愚蠢。

当然，这是政治。但工党的胜算极大——赔率高达 1 / 25 ——其唯一的真正对手是来自“丰胸党”的扎克·波兰斯基 (Zack Polanski)。安迪·伯纳姆 (Andy Burnham) 真的对自己的候选人如此缺乏信心吗？

无论如何，当你读到这篇文章时，霍尔本和圣潘克拉斯 (Holborn & St Pancras) 的投票应该已经结束。假设波兰斯基没有使用大规模催眠术将其得票率吹到像充气一样夸张，工党应该已经获胜了。

那么，伯纳姆现在对于在杰克多 (Jackdaw) 和罗斯班克 (Rosebank) 油气田问题上犹豫不决的借口又是什么？这些项目已成为对其首相任期的试金石：衡量他是否能够为了国家利益做出艰难决定的尺度。

诚然，这个决定其实不应该很艰难——即便这些项目被他的前任以及现任外交部官员埃德·米利班德 (Ed Miliband) 留在意识形态的尴尬境地中。杰克多（主要是天然气）和政治上更棘手的罗斯班克（英国北海最大的未开发油田，其中 10% 为天然气）都已在 2022 和 2023. 年获得了保守党的批准。但那是发生在一次法律裁决给工作进度设置临时障碍之前。

这些油气田由壳牌 (Shell) 与挪威 Equinor 的合资企业 Adura 拥有，目前已具备接受总计 108亿英镑 投资的条件。根据 Adura 的数据，在建设高峰期，这些项目将创造 3,500 个就业岗位，并在最高产量时期每年贡献 7.2 亿英镑-plus 的税收，其中大部分来自罗斯班克。

至关重要的是，它们将增强英国的能源安全，而伊朗战争再次凸显了这一点的重要性。根据托尼·布莱尔研究所 (Tony Blair Institute) 的数据，在峰值时期，杰克多可占英国天然气供应的 6%，从而取代“至少 15 的液化天然气进口”。而 Ithaca Energy 持有五分之一股份的罗斯班克，则可占英国石油产量的 10 和天然气的 4 。

没错，它们是化石燃料。但考虑到英国 75 的能源需求仍依赖石油和天然气，在本地生产比从全球进口要环保得多。英国如此依赖的美国页岩气液化天然气 (LNG) 到底有多环保？以牺牲英国就业机会和税收收入为代价，从相邻的挪威北海油田进口天然气同样毫无意义。

当然，Equinor 首席执行官安德斯·奥佩达尔 (Anders Opedal) 有其既得利益。但你可以理解为什么他本周表示，封锁这两个油田将导致他及其他公司“质疑英国是否还具备投资价值”。你也能感觉到，伯纳姆明白这一点。

正如经济学家迪特·赫尔姆 (Dieter Helm) 在 6 月指出的，英国那种“加速关闭北海天然气生产”以转向以波动价格进口的疯狂政策，已经产生了“可怕的”工业后果。高电价在炼油厂、“大部分钢铁工业”以及“化肥和玻璃纤维工业”的关闭中起到了重要作用，同时给“陶瓷和玻璃制造带来了严重问题”——其中许多工厂位于“北方之王”核心地带附近的英国部分地区。

尽管如此，仅批准这两个项目是不够的。伯纳姆还必须为目前对北海产量征收 78 税率的财政制度带来长期稳定性。更快地转向原定于 2030 年实施且与油气价格挂钩的油气收入税也将受到欢迎。既然杰克多在伯纳姆获知补选结果后这个冬天就能启动，那么也没有理由继续拖延。

回到老路

欢迎登上“大布尔什维克铁路”。没错，政府更倾向于用别的称呼。不过无论如何，这一切已经酝酿了四分之一个世纪。本周标志着前工党政府在扭转铁路私有化方面迈出的第一步——当时的交通大臣斯蒂芬·拜尔斯（Stephen Byers）将 Railtrack 公司推向崩溃边缘——已届 25 周年。

这一举动终结了他的职业生涯，惊扰了全球投资者，并引发了一场持续四年的法律激战。虽然政府赢得了股东发起的诉讼，但这并非毫无代价。高等法院的听证会揭露了那些心机深沉的部长们，他们让纳税人为 Railtrack 的继任者——国家铁路公司（Network Rail）承担了责任。

这家私有化的网络所有者在拜尔斯接手时，背负着 65亿英镑 的债务和其他负债。而现在，国家铁路公司在公共账目上的净债务是多少？620亿英镑。

因此，人们深感担忧，因为如今的工党政权正将所有火车运营商纳入国家控制，而铁路与道路办公室（Office of Rail and Road）则以“容量限制”为由，阻止 Lumo 等私营“开放接入”服务引入新的竞争。私营运营商并非完美。但对于一个去年不得不为铁路提供 119亿英镑 补贴、囊中羞涩的政府来说，除了滚动资产外，将私有资本排挤在外是否明智？

在一位近距离目睹了拜尔斯的混乱局面并试图阻止它的人看来，这并不明智：他就是当时的铁路监管机构负责人汤姆·温莎爵士（Sir Tom Winsor）。正如他所言：“大不列颠铁路（Great British Railways）带来的国家控制将比在英铁（British Rail）时期还要多，并将使该行业重新回到每年被英国财政部（HM Treasury）剥夺资本和维护资金的状态，最终导致恢复成本高得惊人，就像 25 年前那样。有些人永远学不乖。”确实如此。

代价高昂的欺瞒

真是令人惊讶：Kingspan 在经过欧盟四年的调查后被罚款 4000万欧元，调查发现该公司“隐瞒或歪曲事实”。是的，这很吸引人。然而，这是否就是那家爱尔兰建材集团，其绝缘材料被用于格伦费尔塔（Grenfell Tower），导致一场火灾造成 72 人死亡？确实如此。调查组对 Kingspan 在该事件中行为的看法是：“根深蒂固且持续的不诚实”。

alistair.osborne@thetimes.co.uk

商业

房地产基金投资者将面临资金提取延迟

本·马丁 (Ben Martin) 金融编辑

根据城市监管机构旨在防止破坏性流动性危机的新规定，投资于房地产及其他难以出售资产的基金的投资者，在提取资金时将需要等待三个月。

英国金融行为监管局（FCA）昨日表示，其拟议的改革将向零售投资者明确，持有房地产、基础设施或非上市公司等资产的基金属于长期投资。

此前几年发生了一系列事件，开放式房地产基金遭到投资者的挤兑。这增加了投资组合经理可能被迫以不理想的价格贱卖资产以筹集现金，从而满足激增的赎回需求的风险，进而促使他们采取暂停赎回的措施。

这种流动性错配（即基金提供定期交易，但其持有的资产需要时间才能出售）所带来的难题，部分由于私募市场的快速扩张而变得日益重要。专注于该领域的基金正越来越多地将目标转向零售投资者。

英国金融行为监管局（FCA）表示，其关于赎回需提前 90 天通知以及禁止每月一次以上的赎回交易日的提案，应意味着投资者收到资金将“更加确定”。

该局表示：“目前，其中一些基金允许人们在无需通知期的情况下每日提取资金。”

“在压力或波动时期，由于缺乏可用现金，某些基金可能面临暂停所有支付的风险。一些基金还持有额外的现金，导致投入到预期资产中的资金减少。”

“仓促出售可能会降低价格，损害继续持有投资的投资者，并给市场带来压力。”

该局表示，其改革将“给管理人员时间以有序地出售资产，并降低由流动性驱动的暂停赎回的可能性”。

规则变更将适用于那些投资组合中很大一部分为“固有非流动性资产”，但一直向客户提供定期流动性的零售基金。在 2016 年脱欧投票后以及 2020 年新冠疫情爆发期间，流动性错配问题成为关注焦点，当时房地产基金设置了“门禁”并暂停赎回，将那些急于离场的恐慌投资者锁在了基金内部。

2019 年尼尔·伍德福德（Neil Woodford）规模为 £37 亿英镑的股票收益基金（Equity Income fund）爆发危机并最终导致该基金崩溃，也为开放式基金中的非流动性资产敲响了警钟。因该事件而名誉扫地的伍德福德曾将股票收益基金的部分资金投资于难以出售的非上市公司股票。

这导致在赎回请求增加时投资组合被设置“门禁”，并促使时任英格兰银行行长的马克·卡尼（Mark Carney）警告称，持有非流动性资产但提供每日交易的开放式基金是“建立在谎言之上的”。

英国金融行为监管局（FCA）昨日表示，“基金暂停赎回的风险增加不利于提升对英国金融市场的信心”。

该局目前正在就相关变更进行磋商，并计划给受此次改革影响的现有基金两年时间来执行新规。

该局曾在 2020 年提出 90 天至 180 天通知期的想法，但由于行业担忧，以及国际证券监督管理组织（IOSCO）和金融稳定委员会（FSB）当时正在制定应对流动性风险的新标准，暂停了此次磋商。

Ovo交易助力Eon排名上升

能源公司Eon已完成对Ovo Energy的收购，

超越英国天然气公司（British Gas），成为英国第二大居民能源供应商（Emily Gosden报道）。

根据能源咨询公司Cornwall Insight的数据，这次交易意味着这家德国公司Eon目前供应了英国国内市场约25 per cent的份额，仅次于占据26 per cent份额的Octopus。

多年来一直担任英国最大国内供应商的英国天然气公司目前排名第三，份额为23%，这意味着前三大供应商合计占据了近四分之三的市场。

Eon英国首席执行官克里斯·诺伯里（Chris Norbury）表示：“在竞争激烈的市场中，灵活性和规模使我们能够现在就为客户提供服务，并为未来的能源系统进行转型。我们的工作是让新型能源服务于每一个人。”

Cornwall的数据是基于一家公司供应的天然气和电力家庭账户数量，因此双燃料客户被计算两次。该公司认为，与仅查看家庭数量相比，这种方式能更准确地反映投资组合的总规模，因为部分家庭仅从一家供应商处购买单一燃料。

Octopus在十年间从一家初创公司成长为英国最大的居民能源供应商，该公司表示其拥有约1450 万个账户，分布在约819 万个家庭中。

根据Cornwall的数据，Eon供应了近1350 万个账户。如果改为以其供应的家庭数量来衡量，Eon将成为英国最大的供应商。

该公司的一位发言人表示，其在Eon Next品牌下已经为英国“大约”560 万个家庭提供服务，并增加了“大约400万”个家庭，在收购后，这些家庭将继续在Ovo品牌下获得供应。

英国天然气公司表示，截至6月底，其为750 万个英国家庭提供服务。

由贝尔法斯特出生的企业家斯蒂芬·菲茨帕特里克（Stephen Fitzpatrick）于2009.年创立的Ovo，是首批成功挑战曾经主导市场的旧有“六大”供应商的公司之一。随后一批初创公司进入市场，其中许多在2021-22年的能源危机中崩溃。

此后市场进一步整合，在Ovo尝试筹集资金以维持独立运营的长期努力失败后，Eon的收购案于5月达成协议。

Cornwall表示，包括EDF和Scottish Power在内的五大供应商目前控制了90 per cent的市场。

Eon表示，Eon Next或Ovo的客户将“不会立即发生变化”。

该公司表示：“现有资费将得到全面执行，客户服务渠道保持不变，任何影响客户的未来变更都将提前给予充分通知。”

大西洋飓风冲击产量，油价突破 $105

西蒙·弗里曼 (Simon Freeman) 商业新闻编辑 由于大西洋飓风季延迟到来，导致主要生产商关闭墨西哥湾的平台，油价大幅上涨。

壳牌 (Shell)、英国石油 (BP)、雪佛龙 (Chevron) 和港口能源 (Harbour Energy) 在应对飓风“伊赛亚斯” (Isaias) 时均缩减了运营规模。

全球基准布伦特原油价格一度上涨超过 5%，达到每桶 $105.50，随后回落至 $104.28, 上涨 4.1%。

美国对应指标西德克萨斯中间原油 (WTI) 上涨 3.6%，至 $91.49.

在特朗普总统表示美国在 11 月中期选举前不会对伊朗发动袭击后，涨幅有所回落。他表示，华盛顿正与德黑兰进行富有成效的讨论。

塔斯尼姆 (Tasnim) 通讯社报道，伊朗外交部长阿巴斯·阿拉格齐 (Abbas Aragchi) 表示，该政权正在审查美国对其提案的反应，根据该提案，霍尔木兹海峡可在七天内重新开放。

作为本季大西洋首个被命名的飓风，“伊赛亚斯”预计将于周六早些时候在纽奥良以东登陆。

墨西哥湾沿岸占据了美国一半以上的原油炼油能力。根据海洋矿产管理局 (Marine Minerals Administration) 的数据，美国企业已暂停了约 25% 的当前石油产量和 16% 的天然气产量。

投资银行瑞穗证券 (Mizuho Securities) 的能源期货主管罗伯特·约格 (Robert Yawger) 表示，“伊赛亚斯”可能成为一个“巨大的事件”，并补充道：“这是 25 年来发生此类事件最糟糕的时机。”

根据海运情报公司 Kpler 的数据，墨西哥湾的石油流量在 9 月份已恢复至战前水平的 80% 以上。伊朗对此的回应是升级对航运的袭击。根据航运情报服务机构 Marisks 的报道，过去一周至少发生了七起涉及油轮的事件。

分析机构 MST Marquee 的能源主管索尔·卡沃尼克 (Saul Kavonic) 表示：“伊朗袭击船只的频率目前处于战争爆发以来的最高点，且可能会进一步加剧。”

“产品流量受限、极高的物流成本以及伊朗升级局势的高度可能性，使得价格维持在高位。”

在英国，首相安迪·伯纳姆 (Andy Burnham) 试图解释对汽油价格上涨的担忧，他在 X 上写道：“当你来到加油站，看着数字攀升，会好奇为什么现在比以前贵这么多。现实情况是，全球事件正在推高成本，国内的家庭正感受到其影响。”

他重点介绍了一项 Google 地图的新功能，该功能可引导驾驶员前往附近最便宜的加油站，并补充道：“这是一个微小的改变，但如果有实际的方法能帮助人们省钱，我会去做。”

航空业感受到的影响尤为明显，航空公司支付的航空燃料费用比冲突前高出 50%。瑞安航空 (Ryanair) 首席执行官迈克尔·奥利利 (Michael O'Leary) 表示，他预计价格在未来 12 to 18 个月内将维持在这一水平。

哈里·沃洛普 (Harry Wallop)

选民的超市购物习惯反映了我们“随心挑选”式政治的兴起

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你会在 Iceland 超市购物吗？你是否偏爱那些可以用空气炸锅直接加热的 Toby Carvery 裹面培根卷，或是 Boursin 大蒜香草酥皮小圆盒？如果是，那么你可能支持死刑，并认为任何不会说英语的人都应该被驱逐出英国。

你是 Co-op 的顾客吗？那么你很有可能热爱风力涡轮机和财富税。

如果你正感到困惑，不明白为什么对大品牌冷冻食品的喜爱会让你显得右翼得惊人，而为什么在 £6 优质套餐中选一份 Yo! 三文鱼波奇饭会让你支持波兰斯基，那么你可以把这归咎于民调公司 More in Common。该公司衡量政党的受欢迎程度，被认为相当可靠。偶尔，它也会提出一些略带恶作剧的问题，通过人们偏好的薯片品牌或喝茶咖啡的方式来勾勒英国人的投票意向：不出所料，绿党支持者偏好燕麦奶，而保守党人则热爱 Tyrrells 薯片。

本周，该公司询问了选民选择的超市。工党选民不成比例地倾向于去 Asda 和 Aldi，以及（程度较低的）Waitrose。保守党人最可能去 Marks & Spencer，其次是 Sainsbury's。改革英国党（Reform UK）的选民则去 Lidl 和（较少去）Morrisons。鲁珀特·洛（Rupert Lowe）领导的 Restore 党主张资本刑，并主张将任何不会说英语的外国公民（无论合法与否）驱逐出境，该党的民调支持率为 7%，但 12% 的 Aldi 顾客支持 Restore 党，而 18% 的 Iceland 购物者是其粉丝。用专业术语来说，绿党在 Co-op 和 Lidl 的占比高于平均水平。

我曾写过一整本书，探讨购物如何滋养阶级制度，并花费大量时间分析为什么 Asda 的购物者在统计学上更有可能玩宾果游戏，所以对我来说，这非常有意思。英国人没有什么比嘲笑同胞的消费偏好更令他们愉悦的事情了。然而，这些新数据揭示了一些有趣的异常现象，例如为什么 Waitrose 的购物者倾向于支持工党。Ottolenghi 的橙色哈里萨辣酱的诱惑力，是否足以让 Waitrose 的购物者忍受子女私立学校学费被征收增值税？为什么 Lidl 既非常“改革”又非常“绿色”？也许这家德国折扣店能为全国提供 65 便士的可颂面包，从而结束我们所有的政治分歧。

这些古怪现象背后有一些技术原因。主要在于地理位置。Aldi 的总部位于北华威克郡的埃瑟斯通（Atherstone），在成为全国性连锁之前，它在英国最初主要是一家中部地区的超市；而总部位于利兹的 Asda 花了很长时间才向南扩张，这解释了为什么这两家店吸引了这么多工党购物者——因为他们就住在那里。

但这里还有一个奇怪的事实：Aldi 虽然是第四大超市，规模不到 Tesco 的一半，但其销售的和牛和起泡酒比任何其他连锁店都要多。对于长期因为优质葡萄酒选择和体面牛排而光顾该超市的 Aldi 信徒来说，这可能并不令人惊讶。但这表明，简单的分类（例如 Aldi 和 Lidl 仅吸引预算有限的购物者）已不再成立。

上周，我在 Worldpanel 组织的一次会议上发表了演讲。这家市场研究公司几十年来一直通过让 30,000 户家庭扫描他们从商店带回家的每一盒麦片和每一包波本饼干来监测行为。本月他们调整了技术：购物者现在可以使用手机拍摄超市收据。他们还将家庭样本数量扩大到了 55,000 户。部分原因是他们承认，由于

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购物者的行为发生了变化。大规模的每周采购早已成为过去，现在人们经常采取日日采购的方式，有时甚至使用 Deliveroo 或 Uber Eats 来配送紧急需要的茶包或缺失的食材。许多家庭使用亚马逊购买如卫生纸和洗漱用品等枯燥且体积庞大的商品。

现在已经不存在所谓的 Asda 忠实拥趸或 Tesco 部落式购物者了。在过去一年中，英国增长最快的三家超市分别是 M&S、Ocado 和 Lidl。其中两家属于高端超市，一家属于廉价超市。

Ocado 增长了 14%，M&S 增长了 15%，考虑到整体杂货市场处于停滞状态且增长主要来自价格上涨，这一成绩令人印象深刻。但根据 Worldpanel 的数据，这种增长的 70% 来自于 AB 社会经济群体之外的人群：即那些拿着写字板的老派市场调研员所称的“工人阶级”。相反，超过一半的 M&S 购物者在过去 12 周内光顾过 Lidl。

这有助于解释 More in Common 那些不稳定的民调结果。它还揭示了英国现状的另一面，这反映在我们对政治奇怪的“混搭”态度上：许多人在税收问题上认同保守党，在移民问题上认同改革英国党（Reform UK），在水务公司国有化问题上认同工党，但没有人能就如何为这些计划提供资金达成一致。

生活成本危机意味着我们的超市购物变得像我们的政治一样碎片化且反复无常。人们减少在餐厅消费，但决定在周末在家里挥霍。如果你检查人们的购物篮，在所有包含自有品牌廉价商品的购物篮中，有 38% 同时包含自有品牌的高端产品。我们想要便宜的食物，我们也想要犒劳自己，这两者可以同时成立。但试图将我们归类为整齐的经济单位已经不再

有任何意义了。 无论是在政治 还是在超市方面， 我们都在货比三家。

Harry Wallop 是一位消费者记者和广播员。可在 X 上关注他 @hwallop

商业

Wise 将为客户税务发票错误买单

克里斯·多雷尔 (Chris Dorrell) 技术商业记者

一家金融科技公司正与英国税务海关总署（HMRC）协商达成一项和解协议，此前软件错误导致其部分投资客户缴纳了错误的税款。

Wise 已通知约 4,000 名使用其 Assets 服务的英国用户，该公司在 2021 年至 2025 年期间提供了错误的税务报表。

《金融时报》报道称，这家总部位于伦敦的公司正与 HMRC 就一项“批量和解”方案进行谈判，由公司而非客户来补缴任何税款缺口，且 还将向多缴税款的客户提供补偿。

自行报告了该问题。该问题源于第三方供应商的软件故障，公司通过内部检查发现了这一情况，这意味着约 4,000 名用户在进行自我评估纳税申报时，获得了错误的资本利得和收入数据。

表示：“我们已经修复了该问题，向受影响的客户发放了更正后的报表，并正在积极补救潜在的债务，客户目前不存在持续风险。”该公司未对潜在债务的规模发表评论。

此次软件错误是 面临的最新挫折。该公司在 5 月将其主上市地转移至纽约。7 月，由于在反洗钱检查方面存在“长期缺陷”，该公司被拒绝授予美国银行执照。6 月，有消息称该公司正受到布鲁塞尔当局的调查，原因是其账户涉嫌被用于洗钱。

其首席执行官克里斯托·卡尔曼 (Kristo Kaarmann) 在 2024 年被英国金融行为监管局（FCA）处以 35 万英镑 罚款，原因是他在接受是否为经营公司“合适且恰当”人员的评估期间，未能向监管机构通报“重大税务问题”。2021 年，由于他在 2017 年出售价值 1000 万英镑 的股份时未向 HMRC 通报资本利得税债务，被该部门处以 365,651 英镑 罚款。

在全球拥有 1900 万 名客户，由卡尔曼及其爱沙尼亚同胞塔韦特·辛里库斯 (Taavet Hinrikus) 于 2011 年创立，业务已从跨境汇款供应商扩展至投资产品和借记卡。

Assets 于 2021 年推出，旨在将其业务从国际汇款中多样化。该服务允许用户投资股票和货币市场基金，同时仍能消费其持仓。

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AI 热潮推动三星预期利润增长 783%

克里斯·多雷尔 (Chris Dorrell)

科技商业记者

全球最大的内存芯片供应商预计其利润将增长近九倍，因为全球范围内构建人工智能底层基础设施的热潮推高了这一关键组件的价格。

这家韩国财团三星预计，截至 9 月的三个月内，营业利润将达到 800亿美元 [107.4trn won] 左右，同比增长 783%，并将连续第四个季度创下季度纪录。销售额预计将增长 126%，达到 1457亿美元。

这些结果将于本月底全文公布，反映了全球数据中心繁荣给供应链带来压力，导致内存芯片出现严重的全球短缺。

三星生产了全球约三分之一的高带宽内存 (HBM) 芯片（AI 所需的高度专业化组件），以及 38% 的动态随机存取内存 (DRAM) 芯片（消费电子产品的必需品）。

由于供应商转向利润率更高的 AI 芯片，这两类芯片的价格都大幅上涨。Douglas Research Advisory 的分析师道格拉斯·金 (Douglas Kim) 估计，三星的 HBM 芯片出货量将环比增长近 50%。三星已成为 AI 供应链中的主要受益者之一，其他内存供应商还包括美光 (Micron) 和 SK 海力士 (SK Hynix)。其股价今年翻了一倍多，市值在 5 月份突破了 $1trn。

内存行业传统上具有高度周期性，但投资者希望 AI 需求能帮助该行业过渡到结构性的更高需求阶段。三星的高管表示，芯片短缺将持续到 2028 年，且有报告显示，该公司已将其约 70% 的内存生产能力预订至 2031 年。

作为由韩国政府主导的 8800亿美元 投资计划的一部分，该公司正与竞争对手 SK 海力士一起大规模扩大制造能力，以满足增长的需求。

尽管利润大幅增加，但部分投资者对预测感到失望，三星股价下跌 2.4%。未来资产证券 (Mirae Asset Securities) 的分析师金硕焕 (Kim Seok-hwan) 表示：“关注点已转移到一年前开始的利润激增是否具有可持续性。”

在许多领先的 AI 实验室呼吁放缓前沿开发速度后，投资者对 AI 繁荣可持续性的信心受到了打击。

三星上个月在上海的一次活动上推广其智能手机的 AI 功能

内存价格的上涨速度预计也将慢于今年早些时候。市场研究公司 TrendForce 预计，第四季度的 DRAM 合约价格将比前三个月上涨 10% 至 15%，远低于第二季度约 60% 的涨幅。

DRAM 价格的上涨也给消费电子行业带来了问题，包括三星自己的智能手机和家用电器业务。在上个季度，该部门出现了有史以来首次季度营业亏损，这在很大程度上是由于组件成本上升所致。

苹果公司前首席执行官蒂姆·库克 (Tim Cook) 在该公司今年被迫提高产品价格时表示，内存市场正经历一场“百年一遇的洪水”。

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杰西卡·纽曼 (Jessica Newman)

Subway 正准备在全英国开设数百家三明治店，这将对 Greggs 和 Pret A Manger 等便捷午餐店构成新威胁。

这家美国三明治连锁店的目标是在未来五年内，将其在欧洲、中东和非洲的门店数量几乎翻倍，达到 10,000 家。它还计划翻新现有门店，使顾客可以通过人工柜台、自助服务机或应用程序下单。

除了升级早餐系列，它还在测试一项新的晚间服务。目前在荷兰试行的 “ After Dark” 从下午 6 点开始，届时门店将开始提供 12 英寸披萨、配料华夫薯条和芝士通心粉。

该公司表示，这些变更将于 1 月起在所有新开的 店铺中生效。“ After Dark” 将根据当地需求在个别门店引入。

在全球拥有 35,000 家门店，其中包括在英国的 2,000 家。该公司成立于 1965 年，当时彼得·巴克 (Peter Buck) 借给 17 岁的弗雷德·德卢卡 (Fred DeLuca) $1,000，以便他在康涅狄格州开设一家三明治店。这两个家族一直拥有该公司，直到 2024, 将其出售给美国私募股权公司 Roark Capital，该公司还支持包括 Dunkin 和 Arby's 在内的连锁品牌。

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高盛首席执行官将获得 1亿美元 奖金

露易莎·克拉伦斯-史密斯 (Louisa Clarence-Smith) 美国商业编辑

高盛的高管们有望获得价值超过 5亿美元 的特别股权奖励。

奖金池的最终价值将根据该银行在 10 月底相对于竞争对手的股市表现而定。

这笔巨额支出反映了高盛在过去五年中表现优于大多数竞争对手的情况。

包括再投资的股息在内，高盛的股票在过去五年中回报率约为 150%。

约 20 名高管有望获得这些奖励，预计将于本月晚些时候最终确定。

这些特别奖励授予于 2021 年 10 月，高盛在 2021 年底和 2022. 年初开始的各项文件中披露了细节。这些奖励最早由彭博社报道。

高盛首席执行官大卫·所罗门 (David Solomon) 将获得超过 1亿美元。被视为所罗门继任者的这家美国投资银行总裁约翰·沃尔德伦 (John Waldron) 也在获奖名单之列，此外还包括业务主管阿肖克·瓦拉丹 (Ashok Varadhan)、丹·迪斯 (Dan Dees) 和马克·纳赫曼 (Marc Nachmann)。

高盛预计将于下周公布第三季度财报。分析师预计该银行的季度营收将增长 10.9%，达到 168亿美元，而净利润预计将小幅增长 0.2%，至 39亿美元。

高盛在过去二十年一直被评为顶尖的并购顾问，目前专注于扩大其全球银行与市场部门，以及财富与资产管理业务。其第二季度利润超过了预。

大卫·所罗门，64, 自 2018 起掌管该公司

随着交易活动的增加。美伊战争期间的市场波动助力股票业务收入创下历史新高。首次公开募股（IPO）的改善提升了投资银行费用。高盛目前正就联合利华计划将其食品业务与美国香料制造商 McCormick 合并以创建一家 660亿美元 的公司，以及 Equitable 拟与 Corebridge Financial 结合成立一家 220亿美元 的保险公司提供咨询。

所罗门，64, 于 2018. 被任命为首席执行官。在他任职期间，他通过剥离资产，大幅缩减了高盛在消费银行领域失败的尝试。

自 2018, 10月起担任总裁兼首席运营官的沃尔德伦，负责监督该银行主要部门的负责人。

高盛表示：“董事会设立这些奖励是为了实现三个主要目标：使薪酬与严格的绩效门槛挂钩，确保领导层的连续性，并在竞争日益激烈的市场中增强对顶尖人才的留任。众所周知，我们公司在随后的几年中表现异常出色。”

肯特郡阿什福德国际站的东南部铁路列车。Go-Ahead 在运营通往伦敦的线路期间，未能偿还纳税人补贴和超额利润。

德勤因审计失职被罚款 600万英镑

汤姆·霍华德 (Tom Howard) 专业服务记者

由于出现“令人深感不安的失败模式”，导致一家客户错误地留存了数百万英镑的纳税人资金，德勤（Deloitte）受到了来自会计行业监管机构的史上第二高额罚款。

财务报告理事会（FRC）发现，在 2016 和 2020 之间，德勤在对巴士和火车运营商 Go-Ahead 集团的财务报表进行审计时存在“多项违规行为”。

监管机构谴责德勤未能发现“明显可疑”的会计操作，并就其失职行为对这家“四大”会计师事务所处以 1100 万英镑 的罚款。由于德勤表现出“极高的配合度”并承认错误，该罚款金额被削减至 600 万英镑.05m。即便如此，这也是德勤自 2020 因在签署迈克·林奇（Mike Lynch）的软件公司 Autonomy 账目时出现“严重且连续的失败”而被罚款 1500 万英镑 以来，所面临的最大一笔罚款。

监管机构于 2022, 4月开始审查德勤对 Go-Ahead 集团的审计工作。就在一个月前，该交通集团因处理前伦敦和东南部铁路（London and South Eastern Railway）特许经营权不当，被英国交通部（DfT）罚款 2350 万英镑。

交通部表示，-“故意隐瞒了超过 2500 万英镑 与高速铁路（HSI）相关的历史纳税人资金，而这笔资金本应返还给纳税人”。

在长达 35 页的报告中，FRC 承认，在德勤于 2016 接任审计师之前，- 就已经开始留存部分资金并将其作为利润计入账目。

然而，监管机构表示，德勤本可以采取更多措施，而由于未能这样做，它“使数额巨大的英国纳税人资金处于风险之中”。

调查人员表示，第二个铁路特许经营权——伦敦和伯明翰铁路（London & Birmingham Railway）同样利用本应支付给交通部的资金来增加利润。他们发现，-“试图通过在财务报表相关注释中的措辞方式来掩盖这一点”。

FRC 批评审计人员未能对 - 旗下伦敦和东南部铁路特许经营权的“行为进行充分询问”，且未能运用“足够的专业怀疑态度”。

另一项违规行为涉及 - 的德国子公司。该公司最初提供的信息显示，其合同亏损约 €800 万。随后提供的新信息则表明，这些合同实际上可以产生少量利润。

“这些违规行为表明，德勤在对 - 那些明显可疑的决策和行为进行审查时，存在一种令人深感不安的失败模式，”FRC 执行法律顾问彭罗斯·福斯（Penrose Foss）表示。

“其中一些决策和行为使数额巨大的英国纳税人资金处于风险之中，这一事实尤其令人不安，这也体现在所施加的高额财务制裁中。”

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2021 年10月，在被揭露在运营伦敦与肯特郡之间英法隧道连接线的“捷箭”（Javelin）快车期间，未偿还补贴和超额利润后，- 被剥夺了东南部铁路（Southeastern）的合同。

部长们发现，- 旗下的东南部铁路公司隐瞒了应付款项信息，违反了合同透明度和“诚信”协议。该集团首席财务官埃洛迪·布莱恩（Elodie Brian）随后辞职。

一项独立审查揭露了其伦敦和东南部铁路特许经营权存在的“严重错误”，- 向政府表示道歉。该集团在次年，2022, 夏天被一家澳大利亚-西班牙财团以 6.48 亿英镑 收购。

德勤表示：“我们对审计工作的某些方面未能达到预期标准感到遗憾，并已从中吸取教训。我们致力于持续改进并提供高质量的审计服务。”

西海岸主线两项竞标被否决

罗伯特·利亚 (Robert Lea) 工业编辑

铁路行业监管机构似乎挫败了任何在进出伦敦尤斯顿车站的西海岸主线上引入私营部门竞争的尝试。

两家公司此前已申请在目前未由 Avanti West Coast 运营的路线上开行伦敦直达服务。Avanti West Coast 是一家预计在明年春天前被国有化，并并入新成立的国家运营机构——大不列颠铁路公司（Great British Railways）的火车运营商。

然而，铁路与道路办公室（ORR）表示，拟议的新“开放准入”（open access）服务不能获准，因为西海岸主线过于拥挤。监管机构称，这一点导致了该线路的运行表现不佳，而 Avanti 在该线路上运营前往伯明翰、曼彻斯特、利物浦和格拉斯哥的服务。

“新的服务、目的地和更多的选择能为乘客和社区带来实实在在的利益，”ORR 战略、政策与改革总监斯特凡妮·托宾（Stephanie Tobyn）表示。“但西海岸主线已经承受了巨大的压力，其运行表现反映出在铁路网络这一高负荷路段的韧性有限。”他表示，增加列车数量将降低可靠性。

开放准入运营商独立于交通部运行服务，自行承担成本和风险，并保留利润。他们在东海岸主线上取得了显著成功，在那里，第一集团（First Group）旗下的 Lumo 和 Hull Trains，以及 Arriva 旗下的 Grand Central 与主运营商（且已国有化）LNER 并行运营。

火车制造商阿尔斯通（Alstom）曾竞标启动“雷克瑟姆、什罗普郡及中地铁路”（Wrexham, Shropshire & Midlands Railway），提供前往北威尔士以及伯明翰以北和以西农村地区的直达服务。

同样运营 Avanti 的第一集团曾计划在尤斯顿与曼彻斯特以北的罗奇代尔之间开行每日四班往返服务，利用时刻表中的空隙提供更低廉的票价——这正是 Lumo 在国王十字车站、纽卡斯尔和爱丁堡之间采用的模式。

尽管在不到 20 年前进行过一次大修，但 ORR 似乎判定西海岸主线的韧性不足。第一集团在去年夏天启动的尤斯顿至斯特灵的 Lumo 服务，似乎是最后一项赶在截止日期前获批的开放准入运营项目。

阿尔斯通表示对此感到失望，因为他们为一个获得广泛当地支持的项目投入了两年半的工作。第一集团也表达了失望之情，尤其是该公司在收到 ORR 的反馈后还修改了竞标方案。

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皇家航空学会就洛克希德·马丁公司问题发起抨击

ing 担忧英国国防工业基础正被“掏空”。

罗伯特·利 (Robert Lea) 工业编辑

皇家航空学会（Royal Aeronautical Society）已向安迪·伯纳姆（Andy Burnham）发出警告，称将英国军事卫星的合同交给美国主承包商可能会损害英国的国防工业基础，并面临将主权能力交给“一个波动且不稳定的美国政府”的风险。

作为新任首相对国家“再工业化”承诺的首批重大考验之一，唐宁街原定于本周决定是将一项新的 60亿英镑 合同授予空中客车英国公司（Airbus UK）——即 Skynet 军事卫星的现任承包商，还是将其交给其美国竞争对手洛克希德·马丁公司（Lockheed Martin）。

这一问题已经引发了广泛讨论。工会和后座议员援引了对 3,000 个空中客车英国公司就业岗位以及军事主权的威胁；而另一方则主张采用美国技术，这将使英国与全球最顶尖的超级大国紧密结合。

现在，作为英国最权威的工程机构之一，皇家航空学会也发表了看法。

该学会研究主管基思·海沃德（Keith Hayward）教授在内部杂志《航空航天》（Aerospace）中写道，英国航天部门的未来取决于首相的决定。

海沃德表示：“这将成为政府致力于捍卫主权国防工业基础的一个测试案例。”他认为，在“建立英国 / 欧洲资产已成为重要考量”的时刻，存在着“日益增加的依赖美国核心国防能力的风险”，尤其是在面对“一个波动且不稳定的美国政府”的情况下。

他表示，这一决定还将迎合一种“更广泛、长期以来——

洛克希德·马丁公司表示，将在英格兰东北部的新设施中组装这些卫星。

海沃德表示，洛克希德·马丁公司在创造就业和性价比标准上可能与空中客车公司竞争，但他补充道：“在现实中……空中客车 Skynet 6 看起来是维持国家主权能力关键要素的更好选择。”

“最糟糕的结果将是空中客车国防与航天公司决定止损并离开英国。即使空中客车公司仅在投资方面进行小幅削减，也将对英国航天部门产生严重影响，而该部门经常被赞誉为市场价值数十亿英镑的关键战略产业。”

据了解，首相原定于本周就该合同做出决定，一些人认为国防部更倾向于洛克希德·马丁公司的竞标。然而，据信该决定目前已被推迟。

● 如果空中客车公司想要实现 2026 年生产 860 架商业飞机的目标，其客机生产将在第三季度需要创纪录的表现。

这家总部位于图卢兹的制造商在英国雇佣了 14,000 人，主要在北威尔士的布劳顿（Broughton）和贝尔法斯特为其所有机型制造机翼。该公司报告称，9 月份交付了 72 架飞机。

这意味着今年前九个月的交付量为 547 架，这意味着在最后一季度，该公司每月平均需要交付 104 架以上的飞机。该公司表示，软件故障影响了 A321 的生产，而 A321 是空中客车所有机型中订单量最多的。

百事公司下调利润预期，软饮料业务表现低迷

Louisa Clarence-Smith 美国商业编辑

百事公司（PepsiCo）下调了利润预期，并将原因归结为软饮料销售面临挑战，其在北美的转型计划所需时间比预期更长。

该公司表示，正在削减包括公司管理层在内的多个业务领域的成本，以便将资金重新投入到美国的饮料和零食业务中。

百事公司首席财务官史蒂夫·舒密特（Steve Schmitt）表示：“我们对饮料业务的感觉并不乐观。”

他指出，虽然公司在补水饮料和能量饮料市场竞争有力，但在“软饮料领域竞争乏力”。因此，“我们正将业务的所有紧迫感和重心放在提高软饮料的业绩上。”

作为多力多滋（Doritos）和佳得乐（Gatorade）的制造商，百事公司表示，预计本财年核心恒定货币每股收益增长将在 1% 至 2% 之间，而此前预测的增长率为 4% 至 6% 的低端区间。

该公司面临着更高的投入成本（尤其是在北美地区），这正压低其利润率。挑战还包括受通货膨胀影响而持谨慎态度的消费者，以及 GLP-1 减肥药日益增长的威胁，这类药物会降低用户对零食的食欲。

第三季度整体营收同比增长 5.6%，达到 \253亿美元。净利润增长 17%，达到 \31亿美元。

该公司在 2 月份将乐事（Lay's）和多力多滋等产品的价格最高下调了 15%，但上个月表示，将提高部分薯片的价格，以跟上投入成本的通胀速度。通用磨坊（General Mills）、麦考密克（McCormick）和康纳格品牌（Conagra Brands）等包装食品制造商也在增加促销和可负担性计划的支出，以在应对更高投入成本的同时恢复需求。

百事公司对此采取了创纪录的生产力成本节约措施，且目前承诺将进一步加大力度。百事公司首席执行官拉蒙·拉瓜塔（Ramon Laguarta）表示：“我们正在确定额外的结构性成本削减措施，并将在未来几个月内实施，以帮助资助旨在加速有机营收增长并减轻投入成本通胀影响的投资。”

昨晚在纽约股市，百事公司股价强劲收盘，上涨 \$4.61，涨幅 3.7%，收于 \$128.34。

学生房东通过降低租金吸引租客

汤姆·霍华德 房产记者

英国最大的学生房东在除疫情期间外，本世纪首次不得不降低租金，以填补其学生宿舍的空缺。

由于来英留学的国际学生减少，且更多英国本土学生选择在学习期间住在家里，Unite Group 报告称，上个月开始的本学年年度租金下降了 0.3%。

除大多数大学课程转为在线教学的 2020, 年外，今年是本世纪以来 Unite 首次出现此类下降。

的股价昨日下跌 22 $^{1 / 2}$ 便士，即 5.1%，至 419 $^{3 / 4}$ 便士。在过去 12 个月里，其市值已缩水三分之一。

早在今年春季，公司高层曾希望本学年的租金平均上涨 2% 至 3%。甚至在最近的 7 月，他们仍目标实现小幅的同比增长。

然而，虽然 在拥有“高门槛”大学的城镇和城市填满房间毫无压力，但在诺丁汉、莱斯特和谢菲尔德等学生公寓供应量超过需求的地区，公司不得不采取“针对性的价格下调”。

通过削减租金， 成功填满了其在全国约 72,000 个房间中的 95.6%，超过了上一学年 95.3% 的入住率。

这几乎抵消了平均周租金的下跌，使得 在 2026-27 年实现了 0.6% 的同类收入增长——处于管理层指导预期的底端。

首席执行官乔·利斯特表示：“随着学生需求和大学行为在本次销售周期中的演变，我们的预订情况符合预期。”

Group 1991, 年成立于布里斯托，是英国规模最大的学生房东，领先幅度很大。其在主要城市一些最豪华的房间周租金超过 £500。

在疫情封锁结束后的两年里，由于大学住宿短缺，以及学生（尤其是海外学生）渴望回归面对面学习而产生的积压需求，该公司能够激进地提高租金。

然而，这种失衡在过去 18 个月左右的时间里发生了转变。某些城镇和城市的供应量显著增加，而签证规则的变更使得英国变得不那么有吸引

改进空间

对国际研究生具有吸引力，而这类学生通常更愿意支付昂贵的租金。此外，尽管国内学生人数保持稳定，但更多学生选择住在家里，以降低大学就读成本。

租赁速度的放缓，加上更高的利率，严重影响了其投资组合的估值。该估值在 7 月至 9 月期间下降了近 4%，至 47亿英镑 出头；而在整个 2026 年，其跌幅约为 8%。

Lister，54, 面对疲软的学生住房市场，采取的对策是尝试处置靠近低分录取院校的学生宿舍，以便将重心更多地转向高分录取大学。他预计，鉴于后者在学生中持久的人气，将能“提供更卓越的运营表现”。

资产处置的速度比投资者希望的要慢一些，但他有信心 Unite 在年底前将出售 3 亿英镑 至 4 亿英镑 的建筑，目前在 2026 年已脱手 2 亿英镑 的物业。

Unite 的房产包括布里斯托一座由大教堂改造而成的建筑的一部分。其房间入住率高于去年。

Stifel 的房地产行业分析师 John Cahill 表示：“在我们看来，这是正确的策略，但我们估计，由于租客需求减少以及处置资产导致的租金损失，[今年] 的收益将下降 12%，且在接下来的两年里增长将非常低——年增长率低于 3%。”

沃达丰在£4.3bn交易后加大成本削减力度

艾玛·鲍威尔 媒体与电信编辑 在富时100指数电信集团从Three的香港所有者手中全面接管其合资企业五个月后，沃达丰（Vodafone）将加快在英国的成本削减进程。

VodafoneThree 将其成本节省目标从之前的十年末实现7 亿英镑，提高至2032年前实现10亿英镑。

沃达丰通过一项比预期更早达成的£4.3bn交易，买断了Three在英国合资企业中的股份。这次价值£16.5bn的合并创建了英国最大的移动运营商，是首席执行官玛格丽塔·德拉·瓦莱（Margherita Della Valle）对沃达丰进行剧烈重组的一部分。她加强了公司对英国、德国和非洲的关注，出售了其意大利和西班牙业务，并通过股票回购向投资者返还了数十亿英镑。

该公司还设定了一个目标，旨在使调整后收益的复合年增长率达到中高个位数，并在2032年前将经营自由现金流增加到三倍以上。

VodafoneThree 的首席执行官马克斯·泰勒（Max Taylor）表示，调整后收益去年增长了4.5%，但在本财年，该业务将“突破计划的关键阶段”。预计到3月将实现约1 亿英镑m的协同效应，这主要来自门店合并以及在采购、销售和营销成本方面的节省。

沃达丰将在未来十年投资£11bn升级其英国移动网络。其目标是到2034年为英国99.95%的地区提供5G独立组网覆盖。

今年5月，在集团报告的全年利润处于指导范围上限时，德拉·瓦莱承诺将开启“作为一个更简单、更强大企业的全新篇章”。去年，整体有机服务收入增长了5.4%，而扣除利息、税项及其他项目后的调整后利润增长了4.5%，达到116亿欧元，这主要得益于土耳其和非洲市场的快速增长。

然而，在英国，第四季度的有机服务收入下降了0.2%，公司将其归因于企业移动业务的价格压力以及部分合同的到期。

法国电信大亨泽维尔·尼尔（Xavier Niel）在同意于7月购买该公司18%的股份（尚需监管批准）后，将成为沃达丰的最大股东。

该股在过去12个月中上涨了48%，收盘下跌 $3 \frac{1}{4} p$ ，或 2.6%，报 $124 \frac{1}{2} p$ 。

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MFS老板称因公司破产面临“骚扰”

詹姆斯·赫利 (James Hurley) 商业助理编辑

一名被指控“掠夺”其企业的破产抵押贷款机构老板，批评了多组追讨他的破产管理从业人员之间所谓的“内斗”。

Market Financial Solutions 前首席执行官帕雷什·拉贾 (Paresh Raja) 在法律文件中表示，他面临着“多重诉讼”。目前有五起诉讼正在进行，且来自该集团不同部门的“第六起诉讼威胁”也已出现。

拉贾在法庭文件中声称，来自数家 MFS 实体的索赔金额重复，且是“针对几乎相同的涉嫌违规行为”。“这些实体完全没有努力协调这些诉讼。”

拉贾被指控挪用了集团巨额资金，并受到一项价值 13亿英镑 的全球资产冻结令。

华尔街和伦敦金融城机构以及私人投资者均在 MFS 中有风险敞口。 在巴克莱银行冻结其账户后于 2 月份破产，这引发了对私人信贷行业标准的审查。在针对拉贾的一项民事诉讼中，来自 Alix-Partners 的管理人员指控他“系统性地掠夺”了 。

的破产案是英国近代史上最复杂的案件之一，其中 200 多家关联公司倒闭，数组破产事务所参与其中。

拉贾的律师在与 London Bridging Limited 相关的诉讼法庭文件中提出了这些主张，该公司是目前由 FRP 破产管理从业人员监管的集团的一部分。

帕雷什·拉贾否认挪用公司资金

文件中写道：“似乎存在很大程度的内斗，其结果是在每个阶段通过日益‘紧急’的申请以及在各种论坛上骚扰拉贾先生，因为每个实体都试图获得其显然认为‘领先’于其他实体的利益。”

拉贾表示，在 12 月份举行的 London Bridging 简易判决申请听证会之前，应举行一次案件管理听证会以考虑此类问题。

简易判决申请——一种由法官在无需完整审理的情况下决定问题的法律程序——旨在就针对拉贾涉嫌“挪用”公司资金的 2.42 亿英镑 索赔做出裁定，尽管 London Bridging 正寻求将其修改为 5100 万英镑。

拉贾否认他“挪用”或导致、允许挪用集团资金，否认他行为不诚实或恶意，或违反了其作为董事的职责。

他要求由一名法官进行案件管理。London Bridging 对此表示支持，但希望先审理其简易判决申请。

作为集团关键实体的 Market Financial Solutions Ltd 的管理人员指控拉贾通过对同一房产进行抵押担保（即所谓的“双重抵押”）从 中提取“巨额资金”，据称这导致可回收资产出现巨大缺口。

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约翰·费塞内克 (John Ficenec) Tempus 买入、卖出或持有：今日最佳股票建议

为砖块制造商构建投资案例

IBSTOCK, FORTERRA, MICHELMERSH 以及 MARSHALLS

合计市值 £1.1

英国年产量 15 亿加元 块砖

英国砖块制造商的股价处于十多年来的最低水平。但在上个月政府宣布“你的首套房”（Your First Home）计划后，这些股票出现了波动。

因此，现在值得重新审视。因为从历史上看，如果建筑业回暖，砖块制造商的表现通常会优于大盘，且该行业已吸引了一些资深的专业投资者。

为首次购房者提供更多资金，可能正是该行业启动复苏所需的关键。砖块制造商的固定成本很高，因此一旦订单回归，利润可以迅速恢复到更正常的运行速率，约为当前水平的 1. 三倍。建筑业已准备就绪，规划已到位，许多示范屋也已建成。目前缺失的拼图碎片是客户需求。

预计明年的新房建设和房屋扩建增长将达到当前水平的两倍。国内砖块产量目前低迷，每年约为 15 亿加元 块，比通常超过 20 亿块的正常水平低 30。

首要担忧的是砖块制造商能否生存足够长的时间以迎来复苏。在这方面有一些好消息。尽管交易水平非常低迷，但它们目前仍保持盈利，能够产生现金流并支付股息。

一个很好的例子是 Forterra，这家

经得起考验？

投资建议：持有 为什么英国住房市场的积压需求将在预算案中获得助力

……此前是综合企业 Hanson 的建筑产品部门，2016. 年的上市价格为 180 便士。截至 6 月底的资产负债表显示，净债务从去年的 6900 万英镑 增加至 7500 万英镑。但由于已达成一项有效期至 2030, 年的 1.7 亿英镑 借款额度，管理层有足够的信心继续进行 2000 万英镑 的股票回购，且股息依然维持。

Ibstock 的情况与之类似，该公司是由贝恩资本（Bain Capital）支持的 2015 年管理层收购结果，当年上市价格为 190 便士。最新的

来源：Ibstock, Forterra, Michelmersh, Marshalls

结果显示，净债务为 1.51 亿英镑，高于一年前的 1.45 亿英镑。然而，其中 1亿英镑 是 2021, 年以低得多利率锁定的长期融资，且 Ibstock 还可以使用另一项 1.25 亿英镑 额度。在半年报阶段，股息被大幅削减了三分之二，但依然存在。

生产砖块、花园铺路石和屋顶瓦片的 Marshalls 预计今年剩余时间不会有所改善，但仍实现了盈利并增加了股息。净债务下降至 1.37 亿英镑，且拥有为期三年的 2.7 亿英镑 担保借款。

Michelmersh 是一家规模小得多的公司，专注于东南部地区，该公司在半年报阶段实现了盈利并维持了股息。净债务从去年的 150 万英镑 净现金增加至 500万英镑，但已就未来两年达成了 2,000 万英镑的借款协议。虽然房屋建筑商的股票在市场复苏时可能会翻倍，但砖块制造商的回报可能是其两倍。这一点并未被一些资深投资者忽视。浏览股东名册可见，其中包含 Jupiter、Lansdowne Partners、M&G 和 JO Hambro 等股票专家。房地产开发商埃里克·加兹登（Eric Gadsden）持有 Michelmersh 四分之一的股份，另一位长期持有者是马拉松资产管理公司（Marathon Asset Management）的创始人杰里米·霍斯金（Jeremy Hosking），他持有约 10% 的股份。

在安迪·伯纳姆（Andy Burnham）宣布重新修订“购房援助”（Help To Buy）计划后，该行业股价最初出现了一次激增，但由于细节匮乏，股价随后有所回落。我们还需等待三周才能看到相关的预算案，但如果该计划能为房屋建筑业注入活力，那么砖块制造商将迅速做出反应。

砖块制造商在工厂减产期间一直投资于生产现代化，目前已占据有利位置。Forterra 的负责人尼尔·艾什（Neil Ash）认为，政府的一些帮助和支持是解决问题的第一块拼图，同时还需要抵押贷款利率的稳定和能源价格的缓解来修复信心。

虽然不可能精准预测底部，但我们现在比五年前要接近得多。砖块行业足够强韧，能够生存下来，这一点已在过去六年应对需求下降、能源价格飙升和全球疫情的过程中得到了证明。过程可能会有波动，但那些精明的专业人士可能发现了机会。在四家公司中，Ibstock 和 Marshalls 由于债务水平较高，看起来风险稍大，而 Michelmersh 则因规模较小而波动性更强。Forterra 看起来是一个不错的平衡选择。

Standard Life投资者为拆分买单

市场报告

在爱丁堡资产管理公司（Aberdeen）将其在富时 100 指数成分股保险公司 Standard Life 的持股减半并导致股价大跌后， Life 的投资者们恐怕在想，当初要是给自己的股票买份保险就好了（西蒙·弗里曼撰文）。

爱丁堡公司抛售了其前合作伙伴的 5200 万 股股票，将其持股比例降低至约 5.2%。

爱丁堡公司的首席执行官杰森·温莎（Jason Windsor）正在精简这家资产管理公司，并使其核心业务更加聚焦于财富管理和投资平台。

此次交易标志着一段复杂关系的进一步解耦。两家公司于 2017 年合并成立 Aberdeen（后更名为 Abrdn），但最终分道扬镳，给爱丁堡公司留下了一笔遗留股权，温莎目前正在将其清算。

总部位于爱丁堡的爱丁堡公司以每股 839p 的价格出售股票，较 此前收盘价折价 3.7%，筹集资金总额约 4.4 亿英镑。 的股价一度下跌 9 ，随后收窄跌幅，收盘下跌 33p，即 3.8 ，报 838½p。爱丁堡公司上涨 2½p，即 1.11 ，报 237p。

此次抛售发生在股市艰难的一天，一场飓风正向石油资源丰富的墨西哥湾袭来，且相关报告

华尔街报告

由墨西哥湾飓风引发的油价上涨为整个交易日奠定了基调，市场整体走势低迷，AI 相关股及其他科技股遭受打击。存储产品制造商 Sandisk 下跌 4.9 ，芯片设计公司英伟达（Nvidia）下跌 2.9 。纳斯达克指数跌幅最大，下跌 345.35 点，即 1.3 ，至 27,193.34；标普 500 指数下跌 36.41 点，即 0.5 ，至 7,765.36。道琼斯工业平均指数小幅上涨 51.77 点，即 0.1 ，至 51,231.64。

当日波动最大的股票

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爱丁堡公司正在清算其在前合作伙伴 中的遗留持股

白宫计划在伊朗开展新一轮轰炸行动的报道，威胁将进一步考验全球供应。

布伦特原油价格跳涨超过 5 ，触及每桶 \$105，创下一个月多来最大单日涨幅。重新出现的通胀压力拖累全球股市并挤压债券市场。10 年期英国国债收益率升至 5.53 ，为 2009 年以来最高水平。

在石油巨头壳牌（Shell）和英国石油（BP）的支撑下，富时 100 指数表现优于欧洲同行，最终下跌 16.90 点，即 0.2 ，报 10,441.60。此外，特易购（Tesco）公布的业绩广受好评，股价上涨 24½p，即 5.2 ，报 500½p，这也带动了同业公司 J Sainsbury 上涨 4¾p，即 1.5 ，报 332½p。烟草制造商帝国品牌（Imperial Brands）在表示计划开展一项新的 15亿英镑 股票回购后，股价上涨 126p，即 5.1 ，报 £26.14。

在富时 250 指数方面，Unite Group 在交易更新中警告学生宿舍难以填满，股价下跌 22p，即 5.1 ，报 419 $^{3 / 4}$ p。这推动中盘股指数下跌 92.87 点，即 0.4 ，报 23,943.88。

市场商业

简讯

北海天然气发现

Equinor 宣布在挪威北海再次发现天然气。这家挪威国家能源集团表示，在卑尔根西北 120 英里的 Gullfaks South 油田发现了天然气。天然气量相当于 330 万 至 1030 万 桶石油，从行业标准来看，这属于一次规模较小的发现。

Equinor Gullfaks 油田副总裁 Gunnar Egge 表示：“能够通过如此具有成本效益的勘探井实现这一规模的发现是非常积极的。这些将是能够产生利润的油桶，有助于维持 Gullfaks 油田的活动和产量。”该勘探井与一口新生产井同步钻探。

Equinor 正在游说英国政府批准其在英国北海的两个大型油气田。其首席执行官 Anders Opedal 本周警告称，如果政府未能批准其 Jackdaw 和 Rosebank 开发项目，英国可能不再具有“投资价值”。

Jackdaw 已建成，可能在几周内开始生产天然气；而 Rosebank 已部分建成，预计将于明年年初准备好开始生产石油。这些项目此前已获得前保守党政府的批准，但去年被法院推翻，原因是部长们未考虑这些油气田在燃烧油气时产生的排放。

欧盟对 Kingspan 处以 4000万欧元 罚款

爱尔兰绝缘材料制造商 Kingspan 因在对其放弃收购一家斯洛文尼亚竞争对手的调查过程中提供错误且具有误导性的信息，被欧盟反垄断监管机构处以 €40 罚款。欧盟反垄断负责人 Teresa Ribera 在欧盟委员会进行为期四年的调查后表示：“在披露和透明度方面绝不能妥协。”Kingspan 在 2021 年宣布计划收购 Trimo，但在监管机构警告此次收购可能会提高价格并降低质量后，于次年取消了交易。Kingspan 已被联系以寻求评论。

Imperial 提供一笔资金

香烟制造商 Imperial Brands 宣布 2027 年将进行 15亿英镑 的股票回购，并重申了全年预测。此次回购是其“常青”计划的一部分，此前五年内已向股东返还了近 130亿英镑（包括股息）。该公司预计，截至 9 月 30 日的年度烟草净收入将以低个位数增长率增长，美国和德国目标区域的价格上涨和市场份额增加抵消了集团整体的销量下降。调整后的集团营业利润增长预计将在 3% 至 5% 的目标范围内。

法院驳回柴油车上诉

伦敦高等法院拒绝原告就 7 月份的一项裁决提出上诉，该裁决大致倾向于一些全球最大汽车制造商关于柴油排放的争议。然而，代表 160 万 名原告的律师表示，他们将直接向上诉法院申请，以试图重启在大众“柴油门”丑闻后发起的诉讼。在去年开始的审理后，关于梅赛德斯-奔驰、福特、日产、雷诺、标致和雪铁龙生产的 20 辆样本车安装了非法“作弊装置”的大部分指控均被驳回。

免熨烫斜纹衬衫。 极致低调。

CHARLES TYRWHITT

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<><><>< / ><>卖出价< / ><>买入价< / ><>+ / -< / ><>收益率 %< / >< / ><>< colspan="3">英国机遇基金 A 分红 ‡101.3< / ><>...< / ><>1.79< / >< / >

ARTEMIS 基金管理公司

0800 092 2051

授权投资资金

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AXA FRAMLINGTON 单位管理公司

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AXA 基金管理公司

行政与查询 0117 989 0808

<><><>全球增长累积 R ‡< / ><>288.1< / ><>...< / ><>0.52< / >< / ><><>日本累积 A ‡< / ><>162.3< / ><>...< / ><>1.51< / >< / >

CIS 单位管理公司

汇丰全球资产管理（英国）

08457 46 46 46

<><><>欧洲增长 ‡< / ><>280.2< / ><>-1.06< / ><>1.15< / >< / ><><>可持续领导者 ‡< / ><>985.5< / ><>-0.50< / ><>1.50< / >< / ><><>英国增长 ‡< / ><>843.7< / ><>-0.59< / ><>1.73< / >< / ><><>英国收益 @< / ><>249.1< / ><>-0.36< / ><>4.07< / >< / >

查询：0845 745 6123 交易：0845 745 6126 周一至周五：8-6

汇丰指数追踪投资资金 (OEIC)

<><><>温彻斯特 ‡< / ><>5655.63< / ><>+12.98< / ><>0.60< / >< / >

份额类别 1-零售

<><><>欧洲增长与收益 ‡< / ><>1508< / ><>-21< / ><>0.10< / >< / ><><>富时全股追踪 ‡< / ><>577< / ><>-3.1< / ><>2.80< / >< / ><><>全球增长 SCI ‡< / ><>403.1< / ><>-3.3< / ><>...< / >< / ><><>战略债券 ‡< / ><>222.5< / ><>-0.1< / ><>4.10< / >< / >

汇丰投资资金 (OEIC) 零售份额类别

HALIFAX 投资基金管理公司

EDENTREE 投资管理

可持续欧洲股票 A 分红 ✉< / td><>469.7< / ><>-4.20< / ><>1.94< / >< / tr><><>可持续全球股票 A 分红 ✉< / ><>459.6< / ><>-3.60< / ><>0.53< / >< / ><><>可持续管理收益 @< / ><>133.5< / ><>-0.80< / ><>4.21< / >< / ><><>可持续英镑债券 A 分红 ✉< / ><>82.27< / ><>-0.21< / ><>5.11< / >< / ><><>可持续英国股票 A 分红 ✉< / ><>246.3< / ><>-1.10< / ><>1.82< / >< / ><><>可持续英国股票机会 A 分红 ✉< / ><>318< / ><>-1.20< / ><>1.53< / >< / table>

<><><>公司债券 ‡< / ><>36.62< / ><>...< / ><>4.70< / >< / ><><>国际增长 ‡< / ><>218.8< / ><>...< / ><>0.60< / >< / ><><>英国富时 100 信息技术 ‡< / ><>104.6< / ><>...< / >< / ><><>英国富时全股信息技术 ‡< / ><>116.4< / ><>...< / >< / >

0800 358 3010

<><><>授权投资资金< / >< / >

01296 386 386

富达国际 (FIDELITY INTERNATIONAL)

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<><><>美国特选 ‡< / ><>2861< / ><>...< / >< / ><><>美国 ‡< / ><>8357< / ><>...< / >< / ><><>欧洲机会 ‡< / ><>702.7< / ><>...< / ><>0.51< / >< / ><><>欧洲 ‡< / ><>4206< / ><>...< / ><>0.81< / >< / ><><>全球焦点 ‡< / ><>3726< / ><>...< / >< / ><><>全球高收益债券 A 分红 ‡< / ><>21.7< / ><>...< / ><>6.44< / >< / ><><>全球特殊情况 ‡< / ><>8972< / ><>...< / >< / ><><>日本 ‡< / ><>1004< / ><>...< / ><>0.33< / >< / ><><>Moneyblder 平衡 ‡< / ><>47.34< / ><>...< / ><>3.64< / >< / ><><>Moneyblder 收益 ‡< / ><>27.61< / ><>...< / ><>5.12< / >< / ><><>Moneyblder 英国指数 ‡< / ><>195.23< / ><>...< / ><>2.56< / >< / ><><>特殊情况 ‡< / ><>7343< / ><>...< / ><>1.68< / >< / >

<><><>公司债券累积 ‡< / ><>305.4< / ><>-0.9< / ><>4.10< / >< / ><><>收益累积 ‡< / ><>1062< / ><>...< / ><>3.28< / >< / ><><>月度收益累积 @< / ><>313.4< / ><>...< / ><>3.75< / >< / ><><>月度收益收益 @< / ><>155.9< / ><>...< / ><>4.02< / >< / ><><>英国增长与收益零售 B 累积 ‡< / ><>213.1< / ><>-0.8< / ><>3.15< / >< / ><><>英国增长与收益零售 B 投资 ‡< / ><>82.61< / ><>-0.31< / ><>3.22< / >< / >

汇丰专业投资资金 (OEIC)

<><><>美国指数零售收益 $1301< / ><>-3< / ><>0.73< / >< / >

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Invesco 基金

公司债券 ‡< / td><>226.97< / ><>...< / ><>4.19< / >< / tr><><>高收益分红 ‡< / ><>415.38< / ><>...< / ><>3.49< / >< / ><><>收益与增长分红 ‡< / ><>489.11< / ><>...< / ><>3.20< / >< / ><><>收益累积 ‡< / ><>1577.63< / ><>...< / ><>3.26< / >< / ><><>货币累积 ‡< / ><>108.49< / ><>...< / ><>3.67< / >< / ><><>月度收益增强分红 ‡< / ><>89.16< / ><>...< / ><>5.96< / >< / ><><>英国机遇英国累积 ‡< / ><>1333.69< / ><>...< / ><>1.54< / >< / ><><>英国小盘股权益累积 ‡< / ><>1329.42< / ><>...< / ><>1.24< / >< / table>

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OEIC 系列 I, ii, iii & iv

American A Acc ‡< / td><>860.42< / ><>-5.57< / ><>...< / >< / tr><><>Cautious Managed A Acc ‡< / ><>464.79< / ><>-1.01< / ><>2.64< / >< / ><><>Cautious Managed A Inc ‡< / ><>262.94< / ><>-0.57< / ><>2.56< / >< / ><><>Diversified Growth A ‡< / ><>326.42< / ><>-1.63< / ><>0.21< / >< / ><><>Diversified Growth Inc ‡< / ><>118.55< / ><>-0.6< / ><>0.96< / >< / ><><>Diversified Income A ‡< / ><>373.5< / ><>-0.61< / ><>3.93< / >< / ><><>Diversified Income A ‡< / ><>66.66< / ><>-0.11< / ><>5.36< / >< / ><><>Emerging Mkts Blended Debt A ‡< / ><>141.41< / ><>-0.35< / ><>5.71< / >< / ><><>Emerging Mkts Blended Debt A ‡< / ><>64.34< / ><>-0.16< / ><>7.43< / >< / ><><>Emerging Mkts Equity A ‡< / ><>297.87< / ><>-5.02< / ><>0.04< / >< / ><><>Emerging Mkts Leaders A ‡< / ><>1241.62< / ><>-19.18< / ><>...< / >< / ><><>Global Equity A ‡< / ><>295.93< / ><>-2.2< / ><>...< / >< / ><><>Global Franchise A ‡< / ><>393.11< / ><>+1.26< / ><>...< / >< / ><><> Free Enterprise A ‡< / ><>2132.75< / ><>-21.46< / ><>...< / >< / ><><> Gold A ‡< / ><>553.09< / ><>-15.93< / ><>...< / >< / ><><> Special Situations A ‡< / ><>533.18< / ><>-6.76< / ><>...< / >< / ><><> Special Situations A ‡< / ><>409.04< / ><>-5.19< / ><>< / >< / table>

<><>< / ><>卖出< / ><>买入< / ><>+ / -< / ><>收益率 %< / >< / ><>< colspan="3">UK Special Situations A ₽2548.31< / ><>-11.26< / ><>1.07< / >< / ><>< colspan="3">UK Special Situations A ₽866.34< / ><>-3.83< / ><>1.09< / >< / table>

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<><>All Stcks Credit A ‡< / ><>110< / ><>...< / ><>4.60< / >< / ><><>Asian Div U Trust ‡< / ><>102.2< / ><>...< / ><>5.60< / >< / ><><>Cautious Managed Fd A ‡< / ><>345.1< / ><>...< / ><>3.80< / >< / ><><>Cautious Managed A ‡< / ><>148.1< / ><>...< / ><>3.90< / >< / ><><>China Opp Fund A ‡< / ><>1255< / ><>...< / ><>0.10< / >< / ><><>Emg Mkts Opps Fd A ‡< / ><>304.8< / ><>...< / >< / ><><>Erp Sel Opps Fd A ‡< / ><>3046< / ><>...< / ><>0.20< / >< / ><><>Fix IntMnthly Fd ‡< / ><>32.49< / ><>...< / ><>6.20< / >< / ><><> Equity Fund ‡< / ><>6562< / ><>...< / >< / ><><> Equity Income A ‡< / ><>85.91< / ><>...< / ><>2.60< / >< / ><><> Tech A ‡< / ><>7554< / ><>...< / >< / ><><>Inst! UK idx Opps A ‡< / ><>172.5428< / ><>...< / ><>2.30< / >< / ><><>M-Asset Abs Rtn A ‡< / ><>190< / ><>...< / ><>2.70< / >< / ><><>M-Man Active Fd A ‡< / ><>337.3< / ><>-1.3< / ><>1.70< / >< / ><><>M-Man Grth A ‡< / ><>160.2< / ><>...< / ><>2.60< / >< / ><><>M-Man Fd Grth A ‡< / ><>230.8< / ><>...< / ><>2.60< / >< / ><><>Sterling Bond U Trst ‡< / ><>224.7< / ><>...< / ><>4.30< / >< / ><><>Sterling Bond U Trst ‡< / ><>54.28< / ><>...< / ><>4.30< / >< / ><><>Strategic Bond A ‡< / ><>92.08< / ><>...< / ><>6.10< / >< / ><><>UK Abs Ret Fd A ‡< / ><>206.2< / ><>...< / ><>2.10< / >< / ><><>UK Alpha Fund A ‡< / ><>192.9< / ><>...< / ><>0.90< / >< / ><><>US Growth Fund A ‡< / ><>3148< / ><>...< / >< / table>

摩根资产管理 (J.P. MORGAN ASSET MANAGEMENT)

<><>UK Equity Core E Net ‡@686.0000< / ><>-3.3000< / ><>2.61< / >< / table>

< / td><>卖出价< / ><>买入价< / ><>+ / -< / ><>收益率 %< / >< / tr><><>Extra Income Inc ‡< / ><>798.77< / ><>< / ><>...< / ><>5.28< / >< / ><><>Gilt & Fxd Int Inc ‡< / ><>64.83< / ><>< / ><>...< / ><>4.84< / >< / ><><>GI Hi Yd Bd ‡< / ><>38.61< / ><>< / ><>...< / ><>6.58< / >< / ><><>Index Linked Bd ‡< / ><>100.22< / ><>< / ><>...< / ><>1.59< / >< / ><><>Index Trckr ‡< / ><>101.17< / ><>< / ><>-0.54< / ><>3.11< / >< / ><><>Short Dated Corp Bd ‡< / ><>25< / ><>< / ><>...< / ><>4.39< / >< / ><><>UK Select A ‡< / ><>3194.72< / ><>< / ><>...< / ><>2.74< / >< / table>

英镑 A 类投资资金 3

JUPITER UT TRUST MANAGERS LTD 020 7581 3020 MARKS & SPENCER UNIT TRUST 0808 005 5555

<>< colspan="3">英镑 A 类投资资金 4< / >< / ><><>Episode Allocation A ‡157.71< / ><>...< / ><>3.89< / >< / table>

<><>Corp Bd A ‡< / ><>31.63< / ><>...< / ><>5.32< / >< / ><><>Dividend ‡< / ><>64.29< / ><>...< / ><>5.56< / >< / ><><>Recovery A ‡< / ><>135.26< / ><>...< / ><>3.00< / >< / ><><>Sml Cos ‡< / ><>364.62< / ><>...< / ><>2.81< / >< / table>

<><>Distribution & Growth< / ><>123.13< / ><>...< / ><>2.93< / >< / ><><>Euro Special Sits< / ><>567.19< / ><>...< / ><>0.71< / >< / ><><>European< / ><>3773.72< / ><>...< / ><>0.61< / >< / ><><>Financial Opps< / ><>1251.09< / ><>...< / ><>1.01< / >< / ><><>Global Macro Bd L GBP ACC< / ><>429.03< / ><>...< / ><>3.65< / >< / ><><>Merlin Bal Acc< / ><>345.5< / ><>...< / ><>2.26< / >< / ><><>Merlin Growth < / ><>831.79< / ><>...< / ><>0.16< / >< / table>

<><>High Income ‡< / ><>85.69< / ><>...< / ><>4.60< / >< / ><><>High Income ‡< / ><>292.4< / ><>...< / ><>4.60< / >< / ><><>UK 100 Comp ‡< / ><>711.6< / ><>...< / ><>3.10< / >< / ><><>UK 100 Comp ‡< / ><>314.4< / ><>...< / ><>3.10< / >< / ><><>UK Select Port ‡< / ><>472.8< / ><>...< / ><>2.90< / >< / ><><>UK Select Port ‡< / ><>1081.5< / ><>...< / ><>2.90< / >< / ><><>W'wide Mgd ‡< / ><>1349.78< / ><>-3.28< / ><>0.20< / >< / ><><>Worldwide Mgd ‡< / ><>751.24< / ><>-1.82< / ><>0.20< / >< / table>

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A类股< / td>< / tr><>< colspan="3">股票< / >< / ><><>全球平衡收益基金 F F 累积型 ‡< / ><>1049.40< / ><>... 1.54< / >< / ><><>全球平衡收益基金 F F ‡< / ><>938.65< / ><>... 1.55< / >< / ><><>全球平衡基金 I ‡< / ><>936.69< / ><>... 1.49< / >< / ><><>全球平衡基金 I 累积型 ‡< / ><>1046.53< / ><>... 1.47< / >< / ><><>全球平衡可持续基金 F F 累积型 ‡< / ><>1036.68< / ><>... 1.65< / >< / ><><>全球平衡可持续基金 F I ‡< / ><>989.88< / ><>... 1.66< / >< / ><><>全球平衡可持续基金 F I 累积型 ‡< / ><>1034.12< / ><>... 1.57< / >< / ><><>全球平衡可持续基金 F I ‡< / ><>989.45< / ><>... 1.60< / >< / ><><>全球英国股票基金 F ‡< / ><>1100.64< / ><>... 4.34< / >< / ><><>全球英国股票基金 I 累积型 ‡< / ><>1748.12< / ><>... 4.27< / >< / ><><>全球英国股票基金 I ‡< / ><>1162.86< / ><>... 4.43< / >< / ><>< colspan="2">全球英国基金 I 累积型 (PH) §4146.75< / ><>... 0.32< / >< / table>

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<><>Merlin 累积型 ‡< / ><>467.6< / ><>...< / ><>3.40< / >< / ><><>Merlin 全球 ‡< / ><>613.31< / ><>...< / >< / ><><>英国动态股票 L 分红型 ‡< / ><>280.68< / ><>...< / ><>1.75< / >< / ><><>英国增长 ‡< / ><>272.42< / ><>...< / ><>0.64< / >< / ><><>英国收益信托 ‡< / ><>992.16< / ><>...< / ><>4.58< / >< / table>

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<><>欧洲指数累积型 ‡< / ><>762< / ><>-7.7< / ><>2.00< / >< / ><><>欧洲指数 ‡< / ><>455< / ><>-4.6< / ><>2.00< / >< / ><><>固定收益累积型 ⌊@< / ><>147.4< / ><>-0.4< / ><>4.70< / >< / ><><>固定收益分红型 ⌊@< / ><>60.2< / ><>-0.17< / ><>4.80< / >< / ><><>全球健康 ‡< / ><>124.7< / ><>-1.1< / ><>0.90< / >< / ><><>全球科技累积型 ⌊@< / ><>259.8< / ><>-0.9< / ><>...< / >< / ><><>高收益累积型 ⌊@< / ><>151.3< / ><>-0.3< / ><>5.90< / >< / ><><>日本指数累积型 ‡< / ><>116.7< / ><>-1.6< / ><>1.20< / >< / ><><>太平洋指数累积型 ⌊@< / ><>444.3< / ><>-7.3< / ><>1.30< / >< / ><><>英国指数信托累积型 ⌊@< / ><>520.6< / ><>-2.7< / ><>2.50< / >< / ><><>英国指数信托分红型 ⌊@< / ><>222.1< / ><>-1.2< / ><>2.60< / >< / ><><>美国指数累积型 ‡< / ><>1470< / ><>...< / ><>0.50< / >< / ><><>全球累积型 ‡< / ><>468.9< / ><>-2.6< / ><>0.90< / >< / table>

<><>全球英国基金 I (PH) ₽1612.09< / ><>...< / ><>0.45< / >< / ><><>全球英国基金 I 累积型 () ₽1718.27< / ><>...< / ><>0.45< / >< / ><><>全球英国基金 I () ₽3805.02< / ><>...< / ><>0.32< / >< / ><><>全球质量基金 F 累积型 () ₽1522.26< / ><>...< / ><>0.49< / >< / ><><>全球质量基金 F ₽1505.52< / ><>...< / ><>0.51< / >< / ><><>全球质量基金 I 累积型 ₽1546.81< / ><>...< / ><>0.34< / >< / ><><>全球质量基金 I 累积型 () ₽1516.58< / ><>...< / ><>0.34< / >< / ><><>全球质量基金 F 累积型 ₽1563.51< / ><>...< / ><>0.51< / >< / ><><>战略公司债券基金 F F 累积型 ₽ 142.05< / ><>...< / ><>5.07< / >< / ><><>战略公司债券基金 F F ₽ 95.51< / ><>...< / ><>5.11< / >< / ><><>战略公司债券基金 F I ₽ 1356.26< / ><>...< / ><>4.92< / >< / ><><>战略公司债券基金 F I 累积型 ₽ 3004.5< / ><>...< / ><>4.92< / >< / ><><>美国优势基金 F F 累积型 ₽ 2527.19< / ><>...< / >< / ><><>美国优势基金 F F 累积型 () ₽ 1484.99< / ><>...< / >< / ><><>美国优势基金 F I 累积型 ₽ 2659.61< / ><>...< / >< / ><><>美国优势基金 F I 累积型 () ₽ 1536.77< / ><>...< / >< / table>

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M&G SECURITIES

Equity Inc Inc ‡< / td><>226.3< / ><>...< / >< / tr><><>Stkmkt 100 Tkr ‡< / ><>230.8000< / ><>...< / >< / ><><>UK Growth I Acc ‡< / ><>626.9< / ><>...< / >< / ><><>UK Growth ‡< / ><>301.0< / ><>...< / >< / table>

<><><>Charifund ‡< / ><>1855.21< / ><>-12.94< / ><>5.26< / >< / >

SCOTTISH MUTUAL INV MNGRES LTD

Sterling Class A Investment Funds 2

<><><>Far Eastern < / ><>617.0700< / ><>649.4700< / ><>...< / >< / ><><>Mutual Far Eastern< / ><>1391.5400< / ><>1468.6400< / ><>-26.22< / ><>0.39< / >< / ><><>Mutual UK Eq< / ><>1429.4900< / ><>1508.7000< / ><>...< / ><>7.81< / >< / >

<><><>< / ><>卖出< / ><>买入< / ><>+ / -< / ><>收益率 %< / >< / ><><>UK Equity < / ><>562.2300< / ><>593.3800< / ><>...< / ><>7.81< / >< / >

SCOTTISH WIDOWS UNIT TRUST MNGRS

<><>< colspan="4">追踪与专项投资基金< / >< / ><><>UK Trkr A Acc @< / ><>589.1< / ><>-2.10< / ><>2.50< / >< / ><><>UK Trkr A @< / ><>264.5< / ><>-1.00< / ><>2.50< / >< / >

英国及收益投资基金

<><><>Corp Bond A @< / ><>323.8< / ><>-1.00< / ><>4.20< / >< / ><><>Corp Bond A @< / ><>105.4< / ><>-0.40< / ><>4.20< / >< / ><><>Envir Invtr A @< / ><>450.2< / ><>-4.80< / ><>2.10< / >< / ><><>Hi Bond A Ac @< / ><>294.6< / ><>+1.30< / ><>6.20< / >< / ><><>Hi Bond A @< / ><>68.69< / ><>+0.32< / ><>6.20< / >< / ><><>Hi Res A @< / ><>544.6< / ><>-4.20< / ><>3.70< / >< / ><><>Hi Res A @< / ><>146.0< / ><>-1.10< / ><>3.80< / >< / ><><>Strat In A @< / ><>224.2< / ><>-0.70< / ><>4.30< / >< / ><><>Strat In A @< / ><>83.90< / ><>-0.26< / ><>4.30< / >< / ><><>UK Eq Trckr A @< / ><>132.1< / ><>-1.20< / ><>2.50< / >< / >

OEIC B 类

<><><>UK Trkr B @< / ><>652.8< / ><>-2.30< / ><>2.60< / >< / ><><>UK Trkr B @< / ><>263.0< / ><>-0.90< / ><>2.60< / >< / >

<><><>UK Eq Tkr C *@< / ><>127.3< / ><>-1.10< / ><>2.60< / >< / >

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投资基金 (OEIC)-零售份额

<><><>Amer Eq Gth ‡< / ><>276.60< / ><>...< / >< / ><><>Glb Advtg CAT ‡< / ><>200< / ><>...< / ><>1.32< / >< / ><><>Glob Advtg ‡< / ><>263.60< / ><>...< / >< / ><><>Higher ‡< / ><>181.60< / ><>...< / >< / ><><>Higher ‡< / ><>46.35< / ><>...< / >< / ><><>Managed ‡< / ><>509< / ><>...< / ><>1.83< / >< / ><><>UK Ethical ‡< / ><>249.10< / ><>...< / >< / ><><>UK Smlr Cos ‡< / ><>800.00< / ><>...< / >< / >

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<><><>Balanced A ‡< / ><>186.99< / ><>...< / ><>2.02< / >< / ><><>Blanced A ‡< / ><>157.78< / ><>...< / ><>2.07< / >< / ><><>Cautious A ‡< / ><>131.87< / ><>...< / ><>2.44< / >< / ><><>Cautious A ‡< / ><>103.58< / ><>...< / ><>2.48< / >< / ><><>Dynamic A ‡< / ><>504.14< / ><>...< / ><>1.40< / >< / ><><>Dynamic A ‡< / ><>439.67< / ><>...< / ><>1.41< / >< / ><><>Growth A ‡< / ><>495.51< / ><>...< / ><>1.63< / >< / ><><>Income A ‡< / ><>317.83< / ><>...< / ><>2.17< / >< / >

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零售份额 1 类

Threadneedle HY Bd Rtl Inc '38.1339< / td><>-31.26< / ><>...< / >< / tr><><>Threadneedle Mthlly Etr Inc '97.4195< / ><>-69.13< / ><>...< / >< / ><><>Threadneedle SterlingCorp Bd '53.1621< / ><>-16.01< / ><>...< / >< / ><><>Threadneedle SterlingCorp Acc '53.0812< / ><>-16.03< / ><>...< / >< / ><><>Threadneedle Stg Bd Ret '37.787< / ><>-13.41< / ><>...< / >< / ><><>Threadneedle Strat Bd Ret '40.5152< / ><>-22.61< / ><>...< / >< / ><><>Threadneedle UK Eq Rtl '113.5545< / ><>-69.6< / ><>...< / >< / ><><>Threadneedle UK Growth & '105.0125< / ><>-62.22< / ><>...< / >< / ><><>Threadneedle Istl '241.473< / ><>-164.91< / ><>...< / >< / ><><>Threadneedle Mthly

'85.4104< / ><>-80.8< / ><>...< / >< / ><><>Threadneedle '319.4856< / ><>-66.69< / ><>...< / >< / ><><>Threadneedle U Smaller Cons '410.231< / ><>-228.31< / ><>...< / >< / table>

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<><>IFSL Marlborough Eur A Dis @948.7< / ><>948.7< / ><>...< / ><>1.29< / >< / table>

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英国基金

长期 (15 年以上)

<>< colspan="3">12 个月< / >< rowspan="2">价格(£)< / >< rowspan="2">+ / -< / >< rowspan="2">年收益率%< / >< rowspan="2">总收益率< / >< / ><><>最高< / ><>最低< / ><>股票< / >< / table>

指数挂钩

73.08< / td><>62.31< / ><>Tr IL 0< / ><>45.50< / ><>62.57< / ><>-.06< / ><>0.80< / ><>2.65< / >< / ><><>66.33< / ><>55.43< / ><> IL 0< / ><>45.52< / ><>55.85< / ><>-.01< / ><>0.45< / ><>2.64< / >< / ><><>101.91< / ><>98.40< / ><> IL 0< / ><>45.28< / ><>99.70< / ><>+.03< / ><>0.13< / ><>0.29< / >< / ><><>100.99< / ><>97.50< / ><> IL 0< / ><>45.29< / ><>98.16< / ><>-.02< / ><>0.13< / ><>0.89< / >< / ><><>98.88< / ><>94.73< / ><> IL 0< / ><>45.31< / ><>95.20< / ><>-.08< / ><>0.13< / ><>1.15< / >< / ><><>88.33< / ><>81.89< / ><> IL 0< / ><>45.36< / ><>82.20< / ><>-.15< / ><>0.15< / ><>2.09< / >< / ><><>82.85< / ><>75.76< / ><> IL 0< / ><>45.39< / ><>76.10< / ><>-.17< / ><>0.16< / ><>2.35< / >< / ><><>79.32< / ><>70.96< / ><> IL 0< / ><>45.41< / ><>71.40< / ><>-.14< / ><>0.18< / ><>2.43< / >< / ><><>74.05< / ><>65.25< / ><> IL 0< / ><>45.44< / ><>65.54< / ><>-.19< / ><>0.19< / ><>2.59< / >< / ><><>71.23< / ><>61.52< / ><> IL 0< / ><>45.46< / ><>61.91< / ><>-.14< / ><>0.20< / ><>2.64< / >< / ><><>68.00< / ><>57.99< / ><> IL 0< / ><>45.48< / ><>58.39< / ><>-.05< / ><>0.21< / ><>2.65< / >< / ><><>60.61< / ><>48.78< / ><> IL 0< / ><>45.56< / ><>49.29< / ><>-.01< / ><>0.25< / ><>2.55< / >< / ><><>58.90< / ><>48.29< / ><> IL 0< / ><>45.58< / ><>48.63< / ><>-.06< / ><>0.26< / ><>2.49< / >< / ><><>54.25< / ><>42.88< / ><> IL 0< / ><>45.65< / ><>44.28< / ><>+.04< / ><>0.28< / ><>2.29< / >< / ><><>53.89< / ><>41.56< / ><> IL 0< / ><>45.68< / ><>43.32< / ><>+.12< / ><>0.29< / ><>2.23< / >< / ><><>57.66< / ><>42.83< / ><> IL 0< / ><>45.73< / ><>45.54< / ><>+.18< / ><>0.27< / ><>1.89< / >< / ><><>97.88< / ><>92.64< / ><> IL 0< / ><>45.84< / ><>92.86< / ><>-.10< / ><>0.81< / ><>1.78< / >< / ><><>79.12< / ><>69.68< / ><> IL 0< / ><>45.47< / ><>69.81< / ><>-.06< / ><>1.07< / ><>2.62< / >< / ><><>62.70< / ><>50.78< / ><> IL 0< / ><>45.62< / ><>52.06< / ><>+.04< / ><>0.72< / ><>2.39< / >< / ><><>87.38< / ><>79.58< / ><> IL 0< / ><>45.40< / ><>79.72< / ><>-.15< / ><>0.78< / ><>2.40< / >< / ><><>84.28< / ><>75.00< / ><> IL 0< / ><>45.42< / ><>75.29< / ><>-.16< / ><>0.83< / ><>2.50< / >< / ><><>104.16< / ><>100.95< / ><> IL 1< / ><>45.27< / ><>101.67< / ><>+.06< / ><>1.23< / ><>< / >< / ><><>103.67< / ><>98.72< / ><> IL 1< / ><>45.32< / ><>98.89< / ><>-.10< / ><>1.26< / ><>1.44< / >< / ><><>86.56< / ><>72.39< / ><> IL 1< / ><>45.54< / ><>72.96< / ><>-.10< / ><>1.71< / ><>2.61< / >< / ><><>85.60< / ><>72.50< / ><> IL 1< / ><>45.55< / ><>72.72< / ><>-.05< / ><>1.72< / ><>2.59< / >< / ><><>99.52< / ><>93.16< / ><> IL 1< / ><>45.35< / ><>93.26< / ><>-.13< / ><>1.21< / ><>1.95< / >< / ><><>97.09< / ><>89.56< / ><> IL 1< / ><>45.37< / ><>89.65< / ><>-.18< / ><>1.25< / ><>2.18< / >< / ><><>102.53< / ><>94.69< / ><> IL 1< / ><>45.38< / ><>94.80< / ><>-.14< / ><>1.85< / ><>2.25< / >< / ><><>99.42< / ><>86.58< / ><> IL 1< / ><>45.49< / ><>87.24< / ><>+.04< / ><>2.15< / ><>2.62< / >< / ><><>248.27< / ><>237.14< / ><> IL 2< / ><>35< / ><>239.66< / ><>-.26< / ><>0.83< / ><>1.96< / >< / ><><>349.35< / ><>338.55< / ><> IL 4< / ><>30< / ><>341.20< / ><>-.10< / ><>1.21< / ><>1.12< / >< / table>

26.99< / td><>21.43< / ><>Tr 0 $\frac{1}{2}$ %< / ><>61< / ><>21.76< / ><>-14< / ><>2.30< / ><>5.66< / >< / ><><>65.04< / ><>54.28< / ><> 0 $\frac{1}{2}$ %< / ><>51< / ><>54.77< / ><>+03< / ><>0.23< / ><>2.65< / >< / ><><>38.39< / ><>31.76< / ><> 0 $\frac{1}{2}$ %< / ><>50< / ><>32.03< / ><>-12< / ><>1.95< / ><>6.00< / >< / ><><>47.60< / ><>39.77< / ><> 1 $\frac{1}{2}$ %< / ><>53< / ><>40.06< / ><>-14< / ><>3.74< / ><>6.04< / >< / ><><>45.88< / ><>38.50< / ><> 1 $\frac{1}{2}$ %< / ><>51< / ><>38.76< / ><>-16< / ><>3.22< / ><>6.05< / >< / ><><>33.04< / ><>26.72< / ><> 1 $\frac{1}{2}$ %< / ><>73< / ><>27.31< / ><>-10< / ><>4.12< / ><>5.40< / >< / ><><>48.44< / ><>40.58< / ><> 1 $\frac{1}{2}$ %< / ><>57< / ><>40.79< / ><>-13< / ><>4.29< / ><>5.98< / >< / ><><>48.36< / ><>40.67< / ><> 1 $\frac{1}{2}$ %< / ><>54< / ><>40.94< / ><>-14< / ><>3.97< / ><>6.01< / >< / ><><>41.45< / ><>34.74< / ><> 1 $\frac{1}{2}$ %< / ><>71< / ><>35.06< / ><>-11< / ><>4.63< / ><>5.58< / >< / ><><>57.14< / ><>48.65< / ><> 2 $\frac{1}{2}$ %< / ><>65< / ><>48.78< / ><>-12< / ><>5.13< / ><>5.86< / >< / ><><>74.02< / ><>63.19< / ><> 3 $\frac{1}{2}$ %< / ><>68< / ><>63.52< / ><>-16< / ><>5.51< / ><>5.84< / >< / ><><>81.50< / ><>70.51< / ><> 3 $\frac{1}{2}$ %< / ><>52< / ><>70.76< / ><>-22< / ><>5.30< / ><>5.99< / >< / ><><>80.90< / ><>69.53< / ><> 3 $\frac{1}{2}$ %< / ><>53< / ><>69.87< / ><>-21< / ><>5.37< / ><>6.02< / >< / ><><>88.15< / ><>75.91< / ><> 4 $\frac{1}{2}$ %< / ><>55< / ><>76.16< / ><>-23< / ><>5.58< / ><>5.99< / >< / ><><>83.52< / ><>71.62< / ><> 4 $\frac{1}{2}$ %< / ><>60< / ><>71.92< / ><>-23< / ><>5.56< / ><>5.95< / >< / table>

中期（5-15年）

<><>83.19< / ><>79.47< / ><> 1 $\frac{1}{2}$ 3%< / ><>80.22< / ><>-.21< / ><>0.31< / ><>4.92< / >< / ><><>86.27< / ><>82.79< / ><> 0 $\frac{1}{2}$ 3%< / ><>83.65< / ><>-.20< / ><>0.45< / ><>4.89< / >< / ><><>72.25< / ><>66.85< / ><> 0 $\frac{1}{2}$ 3%< / ><>67.02< / ><>-.22< / ><>0.93< / ><>5.37< / >< / ><><>79.97< / ><>75.17< / ><> 0 $\frac{1}{2}$ 3%< / ><>75.37< / ><>-.25< / ><>1.16< / ><>5.22< / >< / ><><>48.97< / ><>41.71< / ><> 0 $\frac{1}{2}$ 4%< / ><>41.98< / ><>-.17< / ><>2.08< / ><>5.98< / >< / ><><>54.44< / ><>46.65< / ><> 1 $\frac{1}{2}$ 4%< / ><>46.93< / ><>-.17< / ><>3.20< / ><>6.00< / >< / ><><>61.88< / ><>54.57< / ><> 1 $\frac{1}{2}$ 4%< / ><>54.80< / ><>-.22< / ><>2.28< / ><>5.79< / >< / ><><>66.75< / ><>60.00< / ><> 1 $\frac{1}{2}$ 3%< / ><>60.25< / ><>-.25< / ><>1.87< / ><>5.65< / >< / ><><>75.83< / ><>68.94< / ><> 1 $\frac{1}{2}$ 3%< / ><>69.16< / ><>-.25< / ><>2.53< / ><>5.94< / >< / ><><>55.77< / ><>47.91< / ><> 1 $\frac{1}{2}$ 4%< / ><>48.11< / ><>-.20< / ><>3.64< / ><>6.00< / >< / ><><>85.07< / ><>81.01< / ><> 1 $\frac{1}{2}$ 3%< / ><>81.23< / ><>-.21< / ><>1.23< / ><>5.08< / >< / ><><>82.54< / ><>72.66< / ><> 3 $\frac{1}{2}$ 4%< / ><>72.99< / ><>-.20< / ><>4.84< / ><>5.94< / >< / ><><>95.49< / ><>89.61< / ><> 3 $\frac{1}{2}$ 3%< / ><>89.74< / ><>-.26< / ><>3.62< / ><>5.18< / >< / ><><>80.41< / ><>71.14< / ><> 3 $\frac{1}{2}$ 4%< / ><>71.30< / ><>-.28< / ><>4.56< / ><>5.93< / >< / ><><>100.00< / ><>84.41< / ><> 3 $\frac{1}{2}$

3%< / td> 84.58< / ><>-.30< / ><>4.43< / ><>5.61< / >< / tr> <>102.40< / ><>94.75< / ><> 4 $\frac{1}{2}$ 3%< / ><>94.95< / ><>-.29< / ><>4.74< / ><>5.29< / >< / ><><>101.93< / ><>0.01< / ><> 4 $\frac{1}{2}$ 3%< / ><>94.15< / ><>-.31< / ><>4.78< / ><>5.37< / >< / ><><>96.45< / ><>85.71< / ><> 4 $\frac{1}{2}$ 4%< / ><>86.05< / ><>-.30< / ><>5.23< / ><>5.85< / >< / ><><>102.33< / ><>0.01< / ><> 4 $\frac{1}{2}$ 3%< / ><>96.05< / ><>-.26< / ><>4.43< / ><>5.06< / >< / ><><>100.56< / ><>93.14< / ><> 4 $\frac{1}{2}$ 3%< / ><>93.31< / ><>-.28< / ><>4.55< / ><>5.31< / >< / ><><>99.39< / ><>91.15< / ><> 4 $\frac{1}{2}$ 3%< / ><>91.37< / ><>-.30< / ><>4.65< / ><>5.43< / >< / ><><>100.00< / ><>86.64< / ><> 4 $\frac{1}{2}$

3%< / ><>86.92< / ><>-.32< / ><>4.89< / ><>5.69< / >< / ><><>100.00< / ><>0.01< / ><> 4 $\frac{1}{2}$ 4%< / ><>85.65< / ><>-.32< / ><>4.96< / ><>5.74< / >< / ><><>90.97< / ><>79.78< / ><> 4 $\frac{1}{2}$ 4%< / ><>80.17< / ><>-.30< / ><>5.30< / ><>5.95< / >< / ><><>89.58< / ><>78.14< / ><> 4 $\frac{1}{2}$ 4%< / ><>78.54< / ><>-.27< / ><>5.41< / ><>5.97< / >< / ><><>101.49< / ><>96.41< / ><> 4 $\frac{1}{2}$ 3%< / ><>96.46< / ><>-.23< / ><>4.20< / ><>5.03< / >< / ><><>100.70< / ><>94.11< / ><> 4 $\frac{1}{2}$ 3%< / ><>94.24< / ><>-.28< / ><>4.38< / ><>5.19< / >< / ><><>104.72< / ><>99.22< / ><> 4 $\frac{1}{2}$ 3%< / ><>99.34< / ><>-.26< / ><>4.78< / ><>4.97< / >< / ><><>103.33< / ><>95.06< / ><> 4 $\frac{1}{2}$

3%< / ><>95.26< / ><>-.29< / ><>4.99< / ><>5.42< / >< / ><><>102.00< / ><>0.01< / ><> 4 $\frac{1}{2}$ 3%< / ><>92.22< / ><>-.33< / ><>5.15< / ><>5.64< / >< / ><><>102.58< / ><>98.02< / ><> 4 $\frac{1}{2}$ 3%< / ><>98.13< / ><>-.20< / ><>4.46< / ><>4.98< / >< / ><><>97.07< / ><>87.10< / ><> 4 $\frac{1}{2}$ 4%< / ><>87.44< / ><>-.32< / ><>5.00< / ><>5.74< / >< / ><><>100.37< / ><>97.66< / ><> 4 $\frac{1}{2}$ 3%< / ><>97.75< / ><>-.28< / ><>4.73< / ><>5.10< / >< / ><><>100.00< / ><>92.67< / ><> 4 $\frac{1}{2}$ 3%< / ><>92.88< / ><>-.33< / ><>4.98< / ><>5.53< / >< / ><><>100.99< / ><>95.19< / ><> 4 $\frac{1}{2}$ 3%< / ><>95.42< / ><>-.32< / ><>5.11< / ><>5.48< / >< / ><><>105.68< / ><>94.52< / ><> 5 $\frac{1}{2}$

4%< / ><>94.89< / ><>-.34< / ><>5.53< / ><>5.78< / >< / ><><>105.44< / ><>90.86< / ><> 5 $\frac{1}{2}$ 5%< / ><>91.46< / ><>-.25< / ><>5.88< / ><>6.00< / >< / table>

短期（5年以下）

91.87< / td><>89.31< / ><>Tr 0 $\frac{1}{2}$ $ 3%< / ><>29< / ><>90.73< / ><>-< / ><>12< / ><>0.55< / ><>4.79< / >< / ><><>98.67< / ><>91.91< / ><> 0 $\frac{1}{2}$ %< / ><>28< / ><>94.71< / ><>-< / ><>06< / ><>0.13< / ><>4.32< / >< / ><><>99.90< / ><>96.58< / ><> 0 $\frac{1}{2}$ %< / ><>26< / ><>99.88< / ><>-< / ><>01< / ><>0.38< / ><>3.68< / >< / ><><>91.00< / ><>0.01< / ><> 0 $\frac{1}{2}$ %< / ><>29< / ><>88.86< / ><>-< / ><>17< / ><>0.98< / ><>4.86< / >< / ><><>97.71< / ><>95.53< / ><> 1 $\frac{1}{2}$ %< / ><>27< / ><>97.60< / ><>-< / ><>03< / ><>1.28< / ><>4.43< / >< / ><><>95.46< / ><>92.89< / ><> 1 $\frac{1}{2}$ %< / ><>28< / ><>93.99< / ><>-< / ><>11< / ><>1.73< / ><>4.76< / >< / ><><>101.17< / ><>97.61< / ><> 4 $\frac{1}{2}$

%< / ><>29< / ><>97.77< / ><>-< / ><>17< / ><>4.09< / ><>4.92< / >< / ><><>101.39< / ><>99.44< / ><> 4 $\frac{1}{2}$ %< / ><>27< / ><>99.63< / ><>-< / ><>06< / ><>4.27< / ><>4.58< / >< / ><><>101.88< / ><>97.79< / ><> 4 $\frac{1}{2}$ %< / ><>29< / ><>97.96< / ><>-< / ><>17< / ><>4.21< / ><>4.92< / >< / ><><>100.70< / ><>99.60< / ><> 4 $\frac{1}{2}$ %< / ><>27< / ><>99.99< / ><>-< / ><>...< / ><>4.13< / ><>4.10< / >< / ><><>101.65< / ><>99.35< / ><> 4 $\frac{1}{2}$ %< / ><>28< / ><>99.50< / ><>-< / ><>08< / ><>4.40< / ><>4.74< / >< / ><><>99.51< / ><>98.67< / ><> 4 $\frac{1}{2}$ %< / ><>30< / ><>98.79< / ><>-< / ><>21< / ><>4.68< / ><>5.00< / >< / ><><>107.07< / ><>102.38< / ><> 6 $\frac{1}{2}$

%< / ><>28< / ><>102.61< / ><>-< / ><>14< / ><>5.85< / ><>4.71< / >< / table>

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股票价格

股息率 请注意，股息率由 ICE Data Services 提供。股息率是指公司年度 12 个月的股息支付总额除以最后一交易日的收盘股价。

12 个月最高价和最低价 英国股票和投资信托的最高 / 最低价基于日内数据。

12 个月< / td>< colspan="2">价格< / >< colspan="3">预测< / >< / tr><><>最高< / ><>最低< / ><>公司< / ><>(p)< / ><>+ / -< / ><>股息率%< / ><>市盈率< / ><>< / >< / ><><> $2621\frac{1}{4}$ < / ><> $1864\frac{1}{8}$ < / ><>National Australia< / ><> $1989{1}{8}$ < / ><>-< / ><> $32{1}{4}$ < / ><>4.5< / ><>17.1< / >< / ><><>726< / ><> $504{1}{8}$ < / ><>NatWest Group< / ><> $639{1}{8}$ < / ><>-< / ><>10< / ><>5.5< / ><>12.0< / >< / ><><> $832{1}{8}$ < / ><> $438{1}{8}$ < / ><>PayPoint< / ><>655< / ><>+< / ><>13< / ><>6.1< / ><>11.1< / >< / ><><>1238< / ><> $867{1}{8}$ < / ><>Prudential‡< / ><> $887{1}{8}$ < / ><>+< / ><> $6{1}{8}$ < / ><>2.4< / ><>7.6< / >< / ><><>1< / ><> $0{1}{4}$ < / ><>Quantum Blockchain◆< / ><> $0{1}{4}$ < / ><>< / ><>...< / ><>-1.3< / >< / ><><>209< / ><> $163{1}{4}$ < / ><>Quilter< / ><> $174{1}{8}$ < / ><>-< / ><> ${1}{8}$ < / ><>3.7< / ><>19.6< / >< / ><><>2500< / ><>1490< / ><>Rathbones Group< / ><>1518< / ><>-< / ><>14< / ><>6.6< / ><>14.1< / >< / ><><>329< / ><>245< / ><>Rockwood Strategic< / ><>307< / ><>-< / ><>1< / ><>...< / ><>0.0< / >< / ><><> $2458{1}{2}$ < / ><>1620< / ><>S & U§< / ><>1850< / ><>-< / ><>50< / ><>6.3< / ><>9.5< / >< / ><><>3< / ><> $0{1}{4}$ < / ><>Sancus Lending◆< / ><> $0{1}{8}$ < / ><>< / ><>...< / ><>5.2< / >< / ><><> $59{1}{8}$ < / ><>39< / ><>Schroder REIT< / ><> $39{1}{8}$ < / ><>-< / ><> ${1}{8}$ < / ><>9.1< / ><>...< / >< / ><><> $1575{1}{2}$ < / ><> $1011{1}{2}$ < / ><>St James's Place1020< / ><>-< / ><>7< / ><>1.8< / ><>10.2< / >< / ><><> $2364$ < / ><> $1351{1}{2}$ < / ><>Standard Chart'd2108< / ><>-< / ><>43< / ><>< / ><>2.4< / ><>14.3< / >< / ><><>960< / ><> $633{1}{2}$ < / ><>Standard Life§< / ><> $838{1}{2}$ < / ><>-< / ><>33< / ><>6.7< / ><>-170.0< / >< / ><><> $6347{1}{8}$ < / ><> $4333{1}{8}$ < / ><>Sun Life Canada< / ><> $5790{1}{8}$ < / ><>+< / ><> $45{1}{8}$ < / ><>3.5< / ><>...< / >< / ><><> $4{1}{4}$ < / ><> $1{1}{4}$ < / ><>Tavistock Invs◆< / ><>2< / ><>< / ><>4.9< / ><>-1.3< / >< / ><><>5490< / ><>3615< / ><>TBC Bank Grp< / ><>4028< / ><>-< / ><>132< / ><>5.5< / ><>6.6< / >< / ><><> $1{1}{4}$ < / ><> $0{1}{4}$ < / ><>Term◆< / ><> $0{1}{8}$ < / ><>< / ><>...< / ><>-1.0< / >< / ><><>60< / ><> $40{1}{8}$ < / ><>Time Finance◆< / ><> $58{1}{8}$ < / ><>< / ><>...< / ><>9.3< / >< / ><><> $0{1}{8}$ < / ><> $0{1}{8}$ < / ><>Tooru◆< / ><> $0{1}{8}$ < / ><>< / ><>...< / ><>-1.4< / >< / ><><>4< / ><> $1{1}{2}$ < / ><>Truetide◆< / ><> $3{1}{8}$ < / ><>< / ><>...< / ><>-5.5< / >< / ><><>132< / ><>67< / ><>Vanquis Banking Gp< / ><> $68{1}{8}$ < / ><>+< / ><> ${1}{8}$ < / ><>...< / ><>21.5< / >< / ><><>2800< / ><>1916< / ><>Volvere◆< / ><>2250< / ><>< / ><>...< / ><>11.9< / >< / ><><> $7239{1}{8}$ < / ><> $5453{1}{8}$ < / ><>Wells Fargo< / ><> $6123{1}{8}$ < / ><>+< / ><> $51{1}{8}$ < / >

< / td> 2.5< / ><>...< / >< / tr> <> $2275\frac{1}{8}$ < / ><> $1755\frac{1}{8}$ < / ><>Westpac Bkg Corp< / ><> $1774{1}{2}$ < / ><>-< / ><> $28{1}{8}$ < / ><>4.6< / ><>16.8< / >< / ><><> $31{1}{4}$ < / ><>23< / ><>Worsley Investors< / ><> $27{1}{8}$ < / ><>< / ><>...< / >< / ><><>57550< / ><> $49947{1}{4}$ < / ><>Zurich Insurance< / ><> $51997{1}{4}$ < / ><>-< / ><> $65{1}{8}$ < / ><>5.2< / ><>17.9< / >< / table>

建筑与地产

<>< colspan="3">12个月< / >< colspan="2">价格< / >< colspan="3">预测< / >< / ><><>最高< / ><>最低< / ><>公司< / ><>(p)< / ><>+ / -< / ><>收益率%< / ><>市盈率< / ><>< / >< / ><><> $143{1}{4}$ < / ><> $71{1}{2}$ < / ><>Ibstock< / ><> $75{1}{8}$ < / ><>-< / ><> $2{1}{4}$ < / ><>2.7< / ><>94.2< / >< / ><><> $148{1}{2}$ < / ><> $112$ < / ><>James Halstead◆< / ><> $125{1}{8}$ < / ><>+< / ><>1< / ><>7.1< / ><>12.9< / >< / ><><>3518< / ><>1404< / ><>Keller< / ><>3176< / ><>-< / ><>18< / ><>2.5< / ><>15.7< / >< / ><><> $8376{1}{4}$ < / ><> $8211{1}{4}$ < / ><>Kingspan Group◆< / ><> $8338{1}{4}$ < / ><>< / ><>0.6< / ><>26.6< / >< / ><><>726< / ><>525< / ><>Land Securities< / ><>601< / ><>-< / ><> $11{1}{2}$ < / ><>6.9< / ><>...< / >< / ><><> $216{1}{4}$ < / ><> $170{1}{4}$ < / ><>LondonMetric Prop172< / ><>-< / ><> ${3}{8}$ < / ><>7.3< / ><>-19.5< / >< / ><><> $17{1}{2}$ < / ><> $4{1}{4}$ < / ><>Macau Prop Opp Fd< / ><> $5{1}{2}$ < / ><>< / ><>...< / ><>-0.3< / >< / ><><> $184{1}{4}$ < / ><>124< / ><>Marshalls< / ><>156< / ><>-< / ><> $4{1}{4}$ < / ><>4.5< / ><>27.4< / >< / ><><>98< / ><>66< / ><>Michelmersh Brick◆< / ><> $73{1}{2}$ < / ><>+< / ><> ${1}{2}$ < / ><>6.3< / ><>18.3< / >< / ><><> $0{1}{2}$ < / ><> $0{1}{4}$ < / ><>Mindflair◆< / ><> $0{1}{2}$ < / ><>< / ><>...< / ><>-1.0< / >< / ><><>5730< / ><>3938< / ><>Morgan Sindall◆< / ><>4068< / ><>-< / ><>10< / ><>4.0< / ><>10.9< / >< / ><><>10200< / ><>8350< / ><>Mountview Estates< / ><>8500< / ><>-< / ><>125< / ><>6.2< / ><>16.3< / >< / ><><>85< / ><> $65{1}{4}$ < / ><>NewRiver REIT< / ><> $75{1}{4}$ < / ><>-< / ><> ${1}{2}$ < / ><>8.9< / ><>...< / >< / ><><>226< / ><>160< / ><>Palace Capital◆< / ><>189< / ><>+< / ><>1< / ><>4.8< / ><>-8.8< / >< / ><><>320< / ><>261< / ><>Panther Securities◆< / ><>290< / ><>< / ><>4.1< / ><>11.8< / >< / ><><>1552< / ><>947 ${1}{2}$ < / ><>Persimmon< / ><> $1205{1}{2}$ < / ><>-< / ><> $16{1}{2}$ < / ><>5.0< / ><>13.5< / >< / ><><>24< / ><>15< / ><>Plaza Centers< / ><> $14{1}{2}$ < / ><>< / ><>...< / ><>-0.1< / >< / ><><> $109{1}{4}$ < / ><>

$87\frac{1}{4}$< / td><>Primary Health Props< / ><>$89\frac{1}{4}$< / ><>< / ><>8.2< / ><>...< / >< / tr> <>$33{1}{8}$< / ><>28< / ><>Real Estate Inv◆< / ><>$31{1}{4}$< / ><>< / ><>4.8< / ><>-62.6< / >< / ><><>$849{1}{2}$< / ><>$486{1}{2}$< / ><>Safestore< / ><>$493{1}{4}$< / ><>-< / ><>$7{1}{2}$< / ><>6.2< / ><>...< / >< / ><><>1142< / ><>$791{1}{2}$< / ><>Savills< / ><>955< / ><>+< / ><>2< / ><>2.5< / ><>18.4< / >< / ><><>$2{1}{2}$< / ><>$0{1}{4}$< / ><>Secure Prop Dev & Inv◆< / ><>$0{1}{2}$< / ><>< / ><>...< / ><>-0.1< / >< / ><><>$997{1}{8}$< / ><>$632{1}{4}$< / ><>Segro< / ><>908< / ><>-< / ><>$5{1}{8}$< / ><>3.5< / ><>...< / >< / ><><>$155{1}{8}$< / ><>$124{1}{4}$< / ><>Shaftesbury Capital< / ><>$134{1}{8}$< / ><>-< / ><>2< / ><>3.2< / ><>7.2< / >< / ><><>11< / ><>$6{1}{4}$< / ><>SIG< / ><>$8{1}{8}$< / ><>-< / ><>${1}{8}$< / ><>...< / ><>-1.6< / >< / ><><>153< / ><>105< / ><>SigmaRock◆< / ><>$122{1}{8}$< / ><>-< / ><>$2{1}{8}$< / ><>...< / ><>16.8< / >< / ><><>113< / ><>$85{1}{8}$< / ><>Sirius Real Estate< / ><>$88{1}{4}$< / ><>+< / ><>${1}{2}$< / ><>6.1< / ><>6.9< / >< / ><><>140< / ><>106< / ><>Smart (J)< / ><>115< / ><>< / ><>2.8< / ><>8.8< / >< / ><><>38< / ><>16< / ><>Steppe Cement◆< / ><>$36{1}{2}$< / ><>+< / ><>${1}{2}$< / ><>...< / ><>32.0< / >< / ><><>$116{1}{2}$< / ><>$74{1}{8}$< / ><>Taylor Wimpey◆< / ><>$74{1}{8}$< / ><>-< / ><>$2{1}{2}$< / ><>5.6< / ><>26.6< / >< / ><><>139< / ><>104< / ><>Town Centre< / ><>$119{1}{2}$< / ><>< / ><>4.2< / ><>...< / >< / ><><>$723{1}{2}$< / ><>$493{1}{8}$< / ><>Travis Perkins◆< / ><>$549{1}{2}$< / ><>-< / ><>14< / ><>2.1< / ><>-6.6< / >< / ><><>175< / ><>$138{1}{2}$< / ><>Tritax Big Box< / ><>$138{1}{8}$< / ><>-< / ><>$2{1}{4}$< / ><>5.9< / ><>...< / >< / ><><>700< / ><>416< / ><>Unite Group◆< / ><>$419{1}{4}$< / ><>-< / ><>$22{1}{8}$< / ><>9.0< / ><>...< / >< / ><><>$746{1}{2}$< / ><>216< / ><>Vistry Group< / ><>$217{1}{4}$< / ><>-< / ><>$7{1}{8}$< / ><>...< / ><>5.1< / >< / ><><>$434{1}{8}$< / ><>312< / ><>Workspace Group< / ><>$351{1}{8}$< / ><>-< / ><>$8{1}{4}$< / ><>7.4< / ><>...< / >< / ><><>930< / ><>785< / ><>Wynnstay Props◆< / ><>900< / ><>< / ><>3.2< / ><>12.5< / >< / table>

<><>345< / ><>181< / ><>Alumasc♦< / ><>$236{1}{2}$< / ><>< / ><>4.7< / ><>11.7< / >< / ><><>$4{1}{2}$< / ><>$4{1}{2}$< / ><>Aseana Properties< / ><>$5{1}{4}$< / ><>< / ><>...< / ><>1.3< / >< / ><><>$21{1}{2}$< / ><>$1{1}{4}$< / ><>Built Cybernetics#< / ><>$1{1}{8}$< / ><>< / ><>...< / ><>-165.0< / >< / ><><>973< / ><>$636{1}{2}$< / ><>Balfour Beatty< / ><>866< / ><>-< / ><>$8{1}{2}$< / ><>1.7< / ><>16.5< / >< / ><><>$410{1}{4}$< / ><>$235{1}{8}$< / ><>Barratt Redrow‡< / ><>$291{1}{8}$< / ><>-< / ><>$8{1}{2}$< / >

< / td> 2.1< / ><>21.4< / >< / tr> <>2890< / ><>1715< / ><>Bellway< / ><>1965< / ><>-< / ><>35< / ><>3.7< / ><>14.8< / >< / ><><>4442< / ><>2796< / ><>Berkeley< / ><>3176< / ><>-< / ><>16< / ><>...< / ><>9.6< / >< / ><><>1208< / ><> $790\frac{1}{2}$ < / ><>Big Yellow Grp< / ><> $795\frac{1}{2}$ < / ><>-< / ><> $21{1}{2}$ < / ><>5.9< / ><>...< / >< / ><><>470< / ><>265< / ><>Billington Hldgs♦< / ><>450< / ><>-< / ><>5< / ><>2.4< / ><>43.3< / >< / ><><>230< / ><> $133{1}{2}$ < / ><>Boot (Henry)< / ><>147< / ><>-< / ><> $1{1}{2}$ < / ><>3.1< / ><>8.4< / >< / ><><>368< / ><> $271{1}{8}$ < / ><>Breedon§< / ><>296< / ><>-< / ><> $8{1}{4}$ < / ><>5.2< / ><>12.2< / >< / ><><> $451{1}{8}$ < / ><> $335{1}{8}$ < / ><>British Land< / ><> $384{1}{8}$ < / ><>-< / ><> $6{1}{8}$ < / ><>6.0< / ><>...< / >< / ><><>2900< / ><>2500< / ><>Cardiff Property< / ><>2750< / ><>< / ><>1.1< / ><>20.7< / >< / ><><>2196< / ><> $1469{1}{2}$ < / ><>Derwent London§< / ><>1749< / ><>-< / ><>37< / ><>4.7< / ><>...< / >< / ><><> $5{1}{2}$ < / ><> $4{1}{8}$ < / ><>DCI Advisors♦< / ><> $4{1}{4}$ < / ><>< / ><>...< / ><>-2.8< / >< / ><><> $19{1}{2}$ < / ><>11< / ><>First Property♦< / ><> $15{1}{2}$ < / ><>< / ><>1.6< / ><>8.6< / >< / ><><>75< / ><> $25{1}{8}$ < / ><>Fletcher King♦< / ><> $31{1}{2}$ < / ><>< / ><>...< / >< / ><><>62< / ><> $31{1}{8}$ < / ><>Foxtons Group< / ><>37< / ><>< / ><>3.2< / ><>8.6< / >< / ><><> $726{1}{4}$ < / ><>466< / ><>Galliford Try Hldgs< / ><>682< / ><>-< / ><>3< / ><>3.4< / ><>16.4< / >< / ><><> $391{1}{2}$ < / ><>241< / ><>Genuit Group< / ><> $272{1}{8}$ < / ><>-< / ><> $6{1}{4}$ < / ><>4.7< / ><>15.0< / >< / ><><>435< / ><>221< / ><>Gleeson (MJ)< / ><> $270{1}{2}$ < / ><>+< / ><>2< / ><>1.8< / ><>-81.5< / >< / ><><>1063< / ><> $788{1}{8}$ < / ><>Grafton Grp Units§< / ><> $921{1}{8}$ < / ><>-< / ><> $11{1}{2}$ < / ><>4.1< / ><>13.1< / >< / ><><> $202{1}{4}$ < / ><> $149{1}{2}$ < / ><>Grainger< / ><> $159{1}{8}$ < / ><>-< / ><>4< / ><>5.3< / ><>...< / >< / ><><>377< / ><>270< / ><>Great Portland Est< / ><> $300{1}{4}$ < / ><>-< / ><> $3{1}{4}$ < / ><>2.7< / ><>0.0< / >< / ><><> $391{1}{4}$ < / ><> $280{1}{8}$ < / ><>Hammerson§< / ><> $321{1}{4}$ < / ><>-< / ><> $5{1}{8}$ < / ><>5.7< / ><>...< / >< / ><><>195< / ><> $116{1}{4}$ < / ><>Harworth Group†< / ><>187< / ><>< / ><>1.0< / ><>64.5< / >< / ><><>400< / ><> $215{1}{2}$ < / ><>Heath (Samuel)♦< / ><>255< / ><>< / ><>5.1< / ><>31.9< / >< / ><><> $236{1}{4}$ < / ><> $170{1}{2}$ < / ><>Helical< / ><>175< / ><>-< / ><>2< / ><>1.5< / ><>36.2< / >< / table>

消费品< / td>< / tr><><>229< / ><>124< / ><>AEP Plantations< / ><> $196\frac{1}{4}$ < / ><>+< / ><> $1\frac{1}{8}$ < / ><>3.1< / ><>11.2< / >< / ><><>30< / ><> $17{1}{8}$ < / ><>Airrea◆< / ><>26< / ><>< / ><>3.8< / ><>10.2< / >< / ><><>2359< / ><> $1729{1}{2}$ < / ><>AB Foods< / ><>1834< / ><>+< / ><>7< / ><>3.4< / ><>13.0< / >< / ><><> $715{1}{8}$ < / ><>538< / ><>Barr (AG)◆< / ><>549< / ><>-< / ><>11< / ><>3.5< / ><>13.0< / >< / ><><>5326< / ><>3677< / ><>British Amer Tob $^{1 / 4}$ < / ><>4161< / ><>+< / ><>77< / ><>5.9< / ><>11.9< / >< / ><><> $1376{1}{2}$ < / ><> $953{1}{8}$ < / ><>Burberry Group< / ><>1007< / ><>-< / ><>9< / ><>...< / >< / ><><> $142{1}{8}$ < / ><> $85{1}{8}$ < / ><>C&C Group< / ><> $95{1}{8}$ < / ><>-< / ><> ${7}{8}$ < / ><>5.1< / ><>...< / >< / ><><> $5{1}{8}$ < / ><> $3{1}{8}$ < / ><>Capital Metals◆< / ><> $3{1}{8}$ < / ><>< / ><>...< / ><>-19.3< / >< / ><><>460< / ><>271< / ><>Churchill China◆< / ><>355< / ><>+< / ><>4< / ><>5.9< / ><>8.9< / >< / ><><>5195< / ><>3326< / ><>Coca-Cola HBC< / ><>4254< / ><>+< / ><>6< / ><>2.4< / ><>19.4< / >< / ><><> $1515{1}{4}$ < / ><>880< / ><>Colefax◆< / ><>1355< / ><>+< / ><>10< / ><>0.5< / ><>9.6< / >< / ><><>5810< / ><>4775< / ><>Cranswick< / ><>5030< / ><>+< / ><>60< / ><>2.2< / ><>17.0< / >< / ><><> $1903{1}{8}$ < / ><> $1295{1}{2}$ < / ><>Diageo< / ><>1622< / ><>+< / ><>11< / ><>2.3< / ><>27.5< / >< / ><><> $0{1}{8}$ < / ><>0< / ><>Distill#< / ><>0< / ><>< / ><>...< / ><>-0.6< / >< / ><><>2260< / ><> $1168{1}{4}$ < / ><>Evans (M.P.)◆< / ><>2020< / ><>-< / ><>40< / ><>3.3< / ><>12.5< / >< / ><><>152< / ><> $114{1}{2}$ < / ><>Fevara< / ><>146< / ><>-< / ><>1< / ><>1.6< / ><>6.3< / >< / ><><>23540< / ><>14280< / ><>Games Workshop16350< / ><>-< / ><>190< / ><>< / ><>3.4< / ><>26.2< / >< / ><><> $2185{1}{8}$ < / ><> $1148{1}{8}$ < / ><>Glanbia< / ><>1610< / ><>-< / ><> $7{1}{8}$ < / ><>2.4< / ><>29.1< / >< / ><><> $307{1}{2}$ < / ><> $191{1}{8}$ < / ><>Greencore< / ><> $252{1}{4}$ < / ><>+< / ><> $3{1}{8}$ < / ><>1.0< / ><>19.1< / >< / ><><> $60{1}{8}$ < / ><> $4{1}{8}$ < / ><>Headlam#< / ><> $10{1}{8}$ < / ><>< / ><>...< / ><>-0.1< / >< / ><><>738< / ><> $447{1}{8}$ < / ><>Hilton Food< / ><>715< / ><>+< / ><>7< / ><>4.9< / ><>8.1< / >< / ><><>3632< / ><>2408< / ><>Imperial Brands< / ><>2614< / ><>+< / ><>126< / ><>6.4< / ><>10.4< / >< / ><><> $7646{1}{8}$ < / ><> $5567{1}{4}$ < / ><>Kerry Group◆< / ><> $7236{1}{8}$ < / ><>-< / ><> $266{1}{8}$ < / ><>1.7< / ><>21.3< / >< / ><><> $2143{1}{8}$ < / ><> $107{1}{8}$ < / ><>McBride< / ><>174< / ><>-< / ><> $1{1}{8}$ < / ><>1.8< / ><>9.8< / >< / ><><>290< / ><>85< / ><>Mulberry Group◆< / ><>236< / ><>< / ><>...< / ><>-18.2< / >< / ><><>1200< / ><>880< / ><>Nichols◆< / ><>1090< / ><>-< / ><>10< / ><>3.6< / ><>18.6< / >< / ><><>374< / ><>261< / ><>Norcros< / ><>292< / ><>-< / ><>3< / ><>3.9< / ><>...< / >< / ><><>372< / ><>309< / ><>Origin Ents◆< / ><>340< / ><>< / ><>4.3< / ><>9.2< / >< / ><><>1< / ><> $0{1}{8}$ < / ><>PACSCo#< / ><> $0{1}{8}$ < / ><>< / ><>...< / ><>-0.0< / >< / table>

12个月< / td>< rowspan="2">价格 (p)< / >< rowspan="2">+ / -< / >< rowspan="2">预测收益率%< / >< rowspan="2">市盈率< / >< / tr><><>最高< / ><>最低< / ><>公司< / >< / ><><>118< / ><>46 $\frac{1}{2}$ < / ><>Portmeirion♦< / ><>47 $\frac{1}{2}$ < / ><>- ${1}{2}$ < / ><>...< / ><>-1.0< / >< / ><><>1 ${1}{2}$ < / ><>0 ${1}{2}$ < / ><>Provexis♦< / ><>1< / ><>< / ><>-47.5< / >< / ><><>114< / ><>65 ${1}{4}$ < / ><>PZ Cussons♦< / ><>95 ${1}{8}$ < / ><>- ${1}{8}$ < / ><>3.9< / ><>20.3< / >< / ><><>138< / ><>92< / ><>REA< / ><>109< / ><>+ 1< / ><>...< / ><>-206.0< / >< / ><><>210< / ><>155< / ><>Tandem♦< / ><>175< / ><>< / ><>1.7< / ><>11.3< / >< / ><><>330< / ><>220< / ><>The Character Grp♦< / ><>315< / ><>< / ><>2.2< / ><>-46.7< / >< / ><><>82 ${1}{4}$ < / ><>5< / ><>Ukproduct Grp♦< / ><>7 ${1}{4}$ < / ><>< / ><>-18.0< / >< / ><><>5542 ${1}{2}$ < / ><>3644< / ><>Unilever< / ><>4626< / ><>+ 3< / ><>3.6< / ><>12.6< / >< / ><><>76 ${1}{2}$ < / ><>19 ${1}{2}$ < / ><>Victoria♦< / ><>43< / ><>- 1< / ><>...< / ><>-0.2< / >< / ><>< colspan="7">工程< / >< / ><><>49 ${3}{4}$ < / ><>10< / ><>Assoc Brit Eng< / ><>20< / ><>< / ><>-6.9< / >< / ><><>2275< / ><>1458< / ><>Avon Technologies< / ><>2255< / ><>+ 65< / ><>0.8< / ><>85.5< / >< / ><><>1527< / ><>871 ${1}{4}$ < / ><>Babcock< / ><>904 ${1}{8}$ < / ><>+ 13 ${1}{3}$ < / ><>0.8< / ><>21.5< / >< / ><><>2360< / ><>1529< / ><>BAE Systems< / ><>1836 ${1}{2}$ < / ><>+ 10 ${1}{2}$ < / ><>2.1< / ><>26.7< / >< / ><><>1500< / ><>500< / ><>Braime A N / V♦< / ><>1275< / ><>< / ><>1.3< / ><>6.8< / >< / ><><>2490< / ><>1376< / ><>Braime Group♦< / ><>2400< / ><>< / ><>0.7< / ><>12.7< / >< / ><><>550< / ><>350< / ><>Caffyns< / ><>500< / ><>< / ><>2.0< / ><>-12.3< / >< / ><><>0 ${1}{8}$ < / ><>0 ${1}{4}$ < / ><>Cap XX Ld♦< / ><>0 ${1}{8}$ < / ><>< / ><>-2.9< / >< / ><><>340< / ><>202 ${1}{4}$ < / ><>Castings< / ><>287< / ><>+ 16< / ><>6.4< / ><>16.5< / >< / ><><>27< / ><>12 ${1}{4}$ < / ><>Checkit♦< / ><>16< / ><>- ${1}{4}$ < / ><>...< / ><>-6.2< / >< / ><><>650 ${1}{4}$ < / ><>446 ${1}{2}$ < / ><>Chemring Group< / ><>499< / ><>- 1< / ><>1.6< / ><>28.0< / >< / ><><>55< / ><>28 ${1}{8}$ < / ><>Chesterfield Spec Cyl♦< / ><>36< / ><>< / ><>-40.0< / >< / ><><>1538< / ><>881 ${1}{4}$ < / ><>Cohort♦< / ><>1192< / ><>+ 10< / ><>1.5< / ><>22.8< / >< / ><><>626< / ><>235 ${1}{4}$ < / ><>Dialight< / ><>570< / ><>- 6< / ><>...< / >< / ><><>15< / ><>5 ${1}{4}$ < / ><>Feedback♦< / ><>6 ${1}{8}$ < / ><>< / ><>-0.2< / >< / ><><>1270< / ><>463 ${1}{4}$ < / ><>Gooch & Housego♦< / ><>1225< / ><>< / ><>89.4< / >< / ><><>28500< / ><>10820< / ><>Goodwin♦< / ><>14140< / ><>- 60< / ><>2.3< / ><>19.1< / >< / ><><>4902< / ><>3268< / ><>Halma< / ><>3500< / ><>+ 22< / ><>0.7< / ><>35.5< / >< / ><><>3345< / ><>1994< / ><>Hill &

Smith< / td> 3000< / ><>- 100< / ><>...< / ><>29.2< / >< / tr> <>4< / ><>1 $\frac{1}{4}$ < / ><>Image Scan♦< / ><>3 $\frac{1}{8}$ < / ><>< / ><>-16.2< / >< / ><><>3202< / ><>2244< / ><>IMI< / ><>3032< / ><>- 20< / ><>1.2< / ><>24.4< / >< / ><><>6300< / ><>3480< / ><>Judges Sci.♦< / ><>3580< / ><>- 20< / ><>3.3< / ><>43.3< / >< / ><><>92< / ><>34< / ><>LPA♦< / ><>82 ${1}{2}$ < / ><>< / ><>-31.2< / >< / ><><>685< / ><>409 ${1}{4}$ < / ><>Melrose< / ><>438 ${1}{4}$ < / ><>- 11 ${1}{2}$ < / ><>1.7< / ><>15.1< / >< / ><><>278< / ><>179 ${1}{4}$ < / ><>Morgan Advanced< / ><>265< / ><>- 5< / ><>4.6< / ><>35.3< / >< / ><><>405< / ><>200< / ><>Mpac♦< / ><>337 ${1}{2}$

< / ><>< / ><>-10.6< / >< / ><><>1800< / ><>1120< / ><>MS Intl♦< / ><>1565< / ><>+ 30< / ><>1.7< / ><>23.2< / >< / ><><>3318< / ><>1682< / ><>Oxford Instruments< / ><>2926< / ><>- 122< / ><>0.8< / ><>34.6< / >< / ><><>2413 ${1}{4}$ < / ><>1779 ${1}{4}$ < / ><>Phillips Elec< / ><>1830 ${1}{8}$ < / ><>+ 5< / ><>3.9< / ><>-43.2< / >< / ><><>4 ${1}{8}$ < / ><>1< / ><>PipeHawk♦< / ><>1 ${1}{8}$ < / ><>< / ><>-2.7< / >< / ><><>6030< / ><>3280< / ><>Renishaw< / ><>5650< / ><>- 115< / ><>1.5< / ><>34.6< / >< / ><><>1586< / ><>990< / ><>Rolls-Royce< / ><>1367< / ><>- 37 ${1}{2}$ < / ><>0.8< / ><>19.7< / >< / ><><>491 ${1}{8}$ < / ><>286 ${1}{8}$ < / ><>Rotork< / ><>491< / ><>+ ${1}{4}$

< / ><>1.7< / ><>35.6< / >< / ><><>99< / ><>60< / ><>SDI Group♦< / ><>95< / ><>< / ><>20.2< / >< / ><><>318 ${1}{8}$ < / ><>161< / ><>Senior#< / ><>297 ${1}{2}$ < / ><>< / ><>0.7< / ><>-291.7< / >< / ><><>2016< / ><>1989 ${1}{4}$ < / ><>SKF Group< / ><>2009 ${1}{8}$ < / ><>< / ><>30.8< / >< / ><><>2885< / ><>2088< / ><>Smiths< / ><>2710< / ><>- 52< / ><>1.8< / ><>4.3< / >< / ><><>215< / ><>135< / ><>Solid State♦< / ><>165< / ><>- 2< / ><>1.7< / ><>22.9< / >< / ><><>270< / ><>170< / ><>Somero Enter♦< / ><>263< / ><>< / ><>3.2< / ><>18.3< / >< / ><><>8050< / ><>5950< / ><>Spirax Group< / ><>7015< / ><>- 125< / ><>2.4< / ><>31.6< / >< / ><><>7 ${1}{2}$ < / ><>3 ${1}{2}$ < / ><>Tanfield♦< / ><>4 ${1}{4}$ < / ><>-

${1}{4}$ < / ><>...< / ><>-4.1< / >< / ><><>320< / ><>240< / ><>Thorpe FW♦< / ><>255< / ><>- 10< / ><>2.9< / ><>10.8< / >< / ><><>142 ${1}{4}$ < / ><>36< / ><>Transense Tech♦< / ><>46 ${1}{2}$ < / ><>- 1 ${1}{2}$ < / ><>...< / ><>-67.4< / >< / ><><>507 ${1}{2}$ < / ><>350< / ><>Vesuvius♦< / ><>452 ${1}{8}$ < / ><>- 1 ${1}{8}$ < / ><>5.2< / ><>21.5< / >< / ><><>710< / ><>342 ${1}{2}$ < / ><>Volex< / ><>680< / ><>- 7< / ><>0.7< / ><>25.6< / >< / ><><>3500< / ><>2254< / ><>Weir♦< / ><>2538< / ><>- 22< / ><>1.7< / ><>26.5< / >< / ><><>2160< / ><>849 ${1}{4}$ < / ><>XP Power< / ><>1946< / ><>- 38< / ><>...< / ><>-46.3< / >< / table>

<>< colspan="4">医疗健康< / >< / ><><> $284{1}{2}$ < / ><>187 Advanced Medical♦< / ><> $282{1}{2}$ < / ><>0.7 61.1< / >< / ><><> $12{1}{8}$ < / ><> $4{1}{2}$ Allergy Therapeutics♦< / ><> $4{1}{4}$ < / ><>... -5.7< / >< / ><><> $3{1}{2}$ < / ><> $0{1}{4}$ CelLBxHealth♦< / ><> $0{1}{8}$ < / ><>... -0.2< / >< / ><><>580< / ><> $391{1}{8}$ Anpario♦< / ><>510< / ><>2.5 12.7< / >< / table>

12个月< / td>< rowspan="2">价格(p)< / >< rowspan="2">+ / -< / >< rowspan="2">预测收益率%< / >< rowspan="2">市盈率< / >< / tr><><>最高< / ><>最低< / ><>公司< / >< / ><><>15732< / ><>9892< / ><>阿斯特鲁善 (AstraZeneca)< / ><>11892< / ><>- 288< / ><>2.0< / ><>23.8< / >< / ><><>3< / ><>< / ><>1 $\frac{1}{4}$ 剑桥营养科学 (Cambridge Nutri Sci)◆< / ><>1 $\frac{1}{2}$ < / ><>< / ><>-0.6< / >< / ><><>259 ${1}{4}$ < / ><>193< / ><>康卫特 (Convatec)< / ><>213< / ><>- 3 ${1}{4}$ < / ><>2.6< / ><>32.8< / >< / ><><>32< / ><>< / ><>Potter & Moore◆< / ><>23< / ><>< / ><>2.4< / ><>7.5< / >< / ><><>116 ${1}{8}$ < / ><>77 ${1}{8}$ < / ><>Eco Animal Health◆< / ><>95 ${1}{2}$ < / ><>< / ><>29.3< / >< / ><><>30 ${1}{4}$ < / ><>21 ${3}{4}$ < / ><>EKF Diagnostics◆< / ><>24 ${1}{4}$ +< / ><> ${1}{4}$ < / ><>...< / ><>51.5< / >< / ><><>3 ${1}{4}$ < / ><>0 ${1}{8}$ < / ><>Futura Medical◆< / ><>0 ${1}{4}$ < / ><>< / ><>-0.1< / >< / ><><>3220< / ><>1943< / ><>Genus< / ><>2222< / ><>+ 14< / ><>1.6< / ><>5.1< / >< / ><><>2282< / ><>1592< / ><>葛兰素史克 (GSK)◆< / ><>1735 ${1}{2}$ -< / ><>55< / ><>4.0< / ><>12.3< / >< / ><><>0 ${1}{4}$ < / ><>0 ${1}{8}$ < / ><>Gunsynd◆< / ><>0 ${1}{8}$ < / ><>< / ><>-2.7< / >< / ><><>416 ${1}{8}$ < / ><>317 ${1}{4}$ < / ><> Haleon< / ><>344 ${1}{4}$ +< / ><>1 ${1}{4}$ < / ><>2.1< / ><>18.5< / >< / ><><>1865< / ><>1187< / ><>Hikma Pharma< / ><>1607< / ><>- 39< / ><>4.0< / ><>11.7< / >< / ><><>246< / ><>< / ><>150 ${1}{2}$ 翰森制药中国 (Hutchmed China)◆< / ><>209< / ><>- 13< / ><>< / ><>5.2< / >< / ><><>14< / ><>< / ><>ImmuPharma◆< / ><>3 ${1}{4}$ < / ><>< / ><>-8.9< / >< / ><><>32< / ><>< / ><>12 ${1}{4}$ Inspiration Health◆< / ><>18 ${1}{2}$ < / ><>< / ><>-15.9< / >< / ><><>14< / ><>< / ><>6 ${1}{4}$ IXICO◆< / ><>7 ${1}{4}$ -< / ><> ${1}{4}$ < / ><>...< / ><>-4.2< / >< / ><><>1< / ><>< / ><>0 ${1}{8}$ Thalia Therapeutics◆< / ><>0 ${1}{8}$ < / ><>< / ><>-3.7< / >< / ><><>76< / ><>< / ><>53 ${1}{8}$ NIOX Group◆< / ><>68 ${1}{4}$ +< / ><>1< / ><>2.3< / ><>40.4< / >< / ><><>132.68< / ><>97.05< / ><>诺华 (Novartis)< / ><>CHF 117.72< / ><>- 2.30< / ><>3.1< / ><>39.0< / >< / ><><>962< / ><>420< / ><>Oxford Biomedica< / ><>513< / ><>- 15< / ><>...< / ><>-19.1< / >< / ><><>0 ${1}{4}$ < / ><>0 ${1}{4}$ < / ><>Physomics◆< / ><>0 ${1}{2}$ < / ><>< / ><>-3.1< / >< / ><><>4 ${1}{8}$ < / ><>1 ${1}{8}$ < / ><>Proteome Sciences◆< / ><>1 ${1}{8}$ < / ><>< / ><>-1.3< / >< / ><><>6522 ${1}{8}$ < / ><>3664< / ><>利洁时宾基 (Reckitt Benck)< / ><>5072< / ><>- 34< / ><>4.3< / ><>10.8< / >< / ><><>31< / ><>< / ><>10 ${1}{2}$ RUA Life Sci◆< / ><>28 ${1}{2}$ +< / ><> ${1}{2}$ < / ><>...< / ><>-122.3< / >< / ><><>40< / ><>< / ><>9 ${1}{2}$ Sareum Holdings◆< / ><>27 ${1}{2}$ < / ><>< / ><>-11.5< / >< / ><><>1426 ${1}{8}$ < / ><>980 ${1}{8}$ < / ><>Smith & Neph ${1}{8}$ < / ><>1003 ${1}{2}$ -< / ><>15 ${1}{2}$ < / ><>3.0< / ><>18.4< / >< / ><><>249< / ><>< / ><>140 ${1}{4}$ Spire Healthcare< / ><>246 ${1}{2}$ -< / ><> ${1}{2}$ < / ><>0.6< / ><>60.1< / >< / ><><>14< / ><>< / ><>Talisman Metals◆< / ><>8 ${1}{2}$ < / ><>< / ><>2.4< / >< / ><><>0 ${1}{2}$ < / ><>< / ><>0 ${1}{8}$ ValRx◆< / ><>0 ${1}{8}$ < / ><>< / ><>-0.2< / >< / table>

工业类 (Industrials)< / td>< / tr><><>79 $\frac{1}{2}$ < / ><>55< / ><>Accsys Tech◆< / ><>55 $\frac{1}{2}$ < / ><>-< / ><>1 ${1}{2}$ < / ><>...< / ><>24.6< / >< / ><><>4780 ${1}{2}$ < / ><>3665 ${1}{4}$ < / ><>BASF< / ><>4386 ${1}{2}$ < / ><>+< / ><>53 ${1}{4}$ < / ><>4.3< / ><>28.4< / >< / ><><>4606 ${1}{4}$ < / ><>2268 ${1}{2}$ < / ><>Bayer< / ><>3620< / ><>-< / ><>108< / ><>0.3< / ><>-11.6< / >< / ><><>98 ${1}{2}$ < / ><>73 ${1}{4}$ < / ><>Coats Group< / ><>81 ${1}{2}$ < / ><>+< / ><> ${1}{4}$ < / ><>3.1< / ><>18.3< / >< / ><><>3520 ${1}{4}$ < / ><>2488< / ><>Croda< / ><>3344< / ><>+< / ><>6< / ><>3.3< / ><>75.3< / >< / ><><>710< / ><>250< / ><>Cropper (James)◆< / ><>670< / ><>-< / ><>15< / ><>...< / ><>21.8< / >< / ><><>195 ${1}{2}$ < / ><>136< / ><>Elementis< / ><>178 ${1}{4}$ < / ><>-< / ><>1 ${1}{8}$ < / ><>1.9< / ><>-30.3< / >< / ><><>110< / ><>6 ${1}{4}$ < / ><>Hardide◆< / ><>104< / ><>< / ><>...< / >< / ><><>3775< / ><>2095< / ><>International Paper< / ><>2355< / ><>-< / ><>20< / ><>5.9< / ><>-5.8< / >< / ><><>3245 ${1}{4}$ < / ><>2192< / ><>Johnson Matthey< / ><>2446< / ><>+< / ><>34< / ><>4.2< / ><>-32.1< / >< / ><><>981 ${1}{4}$ < / ><>660< / ><>Mondi< / ><>765< / ><>-< / ><>11 ${1}{8}$ < / ><>1.6< / ><>24.1< / >< / ><><>144 ${1}{4}$ < / ><>110< / ><>Robinson◆§< / ><>122 ${1}{2}$ < / ><>< / ><>4.9< / ><>9.0< / >< / ><><>1022< / ><>597< / ><>Swire Pacifici< / ><>965 ${1}{4}$ < / ><>-< / ><>13 ${1}{8}$ < / ><>4.0< / ><>46.2< / >< / ><><>10< / ><>5 ${1}{2}$ < / ><>Symphony Enviro◆< / ><>6 ${1}{4}$ < / ><>-< / ><> ${1}{4}$ < / ><>...< / ><>-6.2< / >< / ><><>124< / ><>16 ${1}{4}$ < / ><>Synthomer< / ><>107 ${1}{8}$ < / ><>-< / ><> ${1}{8}$ < / ><>...< / ><>-1.1< / >< / ><><>2858 ${1}{4}$ < / ><>2026 ${1}{4}$ < / ><>Takeda Pharma?< / ><>2779 ${1}{4}$ < / ><>+< / ><>20 ${1}{2}$ < / ><>3.5< / ><>-60.1< / >< / ><><>1024< / ><>515< / ><>Victrex< / ><>924< / ><>-< / ><>5< / ><>3.2< / ><>28.9< / >< / ><><>430< / ><>320< / ><>Wynnstay◆§< / ><>360< / ><>< / ><>5.0< / ><>36.4< / >< / ><><>479 ${1}{4}$ < / ><>318 ${1}{2}$ < / ><>Zotefoams< / ><>437< / ><>-< / ><>7< / ><>1.8< / ><>9.4< / >< / table>

<>< colspan="8">休闲类 (Leisure)< / >< / ><><>434< / ><>231< / ><>Accesso Tech◆< / ><>302< / ><>-< / ><> $1{1}{2}$ < / ><>...< / ><>14.3< / >< / ><><>260< / ><>160< / ><>Celtic◆< / ><> $172{1}{2}$ < / ><>-< / ><> $3{1}{2}$ < / ><>...< / ><>-34.3< / >< / ><><>226< / ><>164< / ><>Domino's Pizza< / ><>223< / ><>-< / ><>3< / ><>5.1< / ><>14.8< / >< / ><><> $878{1}{8}$ < / ><> $405{1}{8}$ < / ><>Entain< / ><> $423{1}{8}$ < / ><>+< / ><> $10{1}{4}$ < / ><>4.7< / ><>-4.1< / >< / ><><>48< / ><> $19{1}{4}$ < / ><>Gvoke< / ><>42< / ><>-< / ><> ${1}{4}$ < / ><>...< / ><>-0.3< / >< / ><><> $47{1}{4}$ < / ><>29< / ><>Gaming Realms◆< / ><> $31{1}{4}$ < / ><>+< / ><> ${1}{4}$

< / td> ...< / ><>15.7< / >< / tr> <>310< / ><>210< / ><>Heavitree◆< / ><>295< / ><>< / ><>2.2< / ><>5.4< / >< / ><><>244< / ><>130< / ><>Heavitree A◆< / ><>$202\frac{1}{2}$< / ><>< / ><>3.3< / ><>3.7< / >< / ><><>175.70< / ><>117.93< / >< colspan="6">InterCont'l Hotels $157.50 - 2.65 1.2 32.1< / >< / ><><>302< / ><>$223\frac{1}{2}$< / ><>Mitch & Butlers< / ><>285< / ><>-< / ><>$2{1}{2}$< / ><>...< / ><>9.6< / >< / ><><>234< / ><>$129{1}{8}$< / ><>On The Beach< / ><>$174{1}{4}$< / ><>-< / ><>$1{1}{8}$< / ><>2.3< / ><>31.8< / >< / ><><>135< / ><>$68{1}{8}$< / ><>Rank Group§< / ><>$71{1}{4}$< / ><>+< / ><>$1{1}{4}$< / ><>4.9< / ><>11.1< / >< / table>

<>< colspan="3">12个月< / >< colspan="2">价格< / >< colspan="2">预测< / >< / ><><>最高< / ><>最低< / ><>公司< / ><>(p)< / ><>+ / -< / ><>收益率%< / ><>市盈率< / >< / ><><>219 ${1}{8}$< / ><>137 ${1}{4}$< / ><>SSP< / ><>188< / ><>-< / ><>3< / ><>2.3 -20.2< / >< / ><><>0 ${1}{2}$< / ><>0 ${1}{4}$< / ><>Bow Street Group◆< / ><>0 ${1}{8}$< / ><>< / ><>... -0.3< / >< / ><><>1002 ${1}{8}$< / ><>530 ${1}{2}$< / ><>Wetherspoon JD< / ><>1002< / ><>+< / ><>12 ${1}{2}$< / ><>1.2 16.8< / >< / ><><>3278< / ><>2098< / ><>Whitbread< / ><>2445< / ><>-< / ><>27< / ><>4.0 19.8< / >< / ><>< colspan="7">媒体< / >< / ><><>90< / ><>51 ${1}{4}$< / ><>Aeorema Comms◆< / ><>85< / ><>< / ><>1.2 67.5< / >< / ><><>29< / ><>18< / ><>Altitude Group◆< / ><>20 ${1}{2}$< / ><>< / ><>... -82.0< / >< / ><><>103 ${1}{2}$< / ><>70 ${1}{4}$< / ><>Arcontech Group◆< / ><>82 ${1}{5}$< / ><>< / ><>4.8 13.2< / >< / ><><>828 ${1}{4}$< / ><>418 ${1}{4}$< / ><>Autotrader< / ><>485 ${1}{2}$< / ><>+< / ><>15 ${1}{2}$< / ><>2.4 14.2< / >< / ><><>690< / ><>435< / ><>Bloomsbury Pub< / ><>669< / ><>+< / ><>22< / ><>2.4 20.2< / >< / ><><>3 ${1}{2}$< / ><>< / ><>Caledonian Hldgs◆< / ><>0 ${1}{8}$< / ><>< / ><>... -0.9< / >< / ><><>60< / ><>40< / ><>Catalyst Media◆< / ><>42 ${1}{2}$< / ><>< / ><>... 23.1< / >< / ><><>0 ${1}{8}$< / ><>0 ${1}{4}$< / ><>Catenai◆< / ><>0 ${1}{8}$< / ><>< / ><>... -2.1< / >< / ><><>15 ${1}{4}$< / ><>9< / ><>Ehiquity◆< / ><>9 ${1}{8}$< / ><>< / ><>... -0.9< / >< / ><><>679< / ><>262 ${1}{4}$< / ><>Future< / ><>297 ${1}{4}$< / ><>+< / ><>5 ${1}{8}$< / ><>5.7 4.7< / >< / ><><>131 ${1}{2}$< / ><>52 ${1}{4}$< / ><>GlobalData◆< / ><>59< / ><>-< / ><>1 ${1}{4}$< / ><>2.5 13.4< / >< / ><><>110< / ><>44< / ><>IG Design Group◆< / ><>92< / ><>-< / ><>1< / ><>1.1 -0.8< / >< / ><><>1000< / ><>719< / ><>Informa< / ><>891< / ><>+< / ><>24 ${1}{4}$< / ><>2.5 ...< / >< / ><><>87 ${1}{8}$< / ><>65 ${1}{4}$< / ><>ITV< / ><>66 ${1}{8}$< / ><>+< / ><>${7}{8}$< / ><>7.5 11.3< / >< / ><><>196< / ><>98 ${1}{2}$< / ><>ME Group< / ><>111

$\frac{1}{2}$ < / td> -< / ><>2< / ><>7.5 7.5< / >< / tr> <>0 $\frac{1}{8}$ < / ><>0 ${1}{8}$ < / ><>Mediazest◆< / ><>0 ${1}{8}$ < / ><>< / ><>... 15.1< / >< / ><><>29< / ><>12< / ><>Mission Group◆< / ><>25 ${1}{5}$ < / ><>< / ><>... -1.2< / >< / ><><>214< / ><>139 ${1}{4}$ < / ><>Mony Group< / ><>185 ${1}{2}$ < / ><>+< / ><>7 ${1}{8}$ < / ><>6.8 12.1< / >< / ><><>2316 ${1}{8}$ < / ><>1624 ${1}{8}$ < / ><>News Corp A< / ><>2177 ${1}{2}$ < / ><>+< / ><>10 ${1}{4}$ < / ><>0.7 ...< / >< / ><><>2615 ${1}{4}$ < / ><>1891 ${1}{2}$ < / ><>News Corp B< / ><>2377< / ><>-< / ><>10 ${1}{8}$ < / ><>0.6 ...< / >< / ><><>439 ${1}{2}$ < / ><>217< / ><>Next 15 Group◆< / ><>297< / ><>-< / ><>33< / ><>5.2

-9.9< / >< / ><><>1337< / ><>874 ${1}{4}$ < / ><>Pearson< / ><>1266 ${1}{2}$ < / ><>+< / ><>23 ${1}{2}$ < / ><>2.0 24.6< / >< / ><><>4 ${1}{2}$ < / ><>3< / ><>Primorus Inv◆< / ><>3 ${1}{8}$ < / ><>< / ><>... 5.0< / >< / ><><>73 ${1}{4}$ < / ><>39< / ><>Reach< / ><>47 ${1}{8}$ < / ><>< / ><>12.5 -1.1< / >< / ><><>59< / ><>40< / ><>React◆< / ><>41 ${1}{2}$ < / ><>< / ><>... -28.6< / >< / ><><>3539< / ><>1991< / ><>Relx< / ><>2595< / ><>-< / ><>4< / ><>2.7 23.0< / >< / ><><>700 ${1}{8}$ < / ><>391 ${1}{8}$ < / ><>Rightmove◆< / ><>502 ${1}{8}$ < / ><>+< / ><>41 ${1}{8}$ < / ><>2.1 17.9< / >< / ><><>270< / ><>130< / ><>SpaceandPeople◆< / ><>165< / ><>+< / ><>2 ${1}{2}$ < / ><>...

7.6< / >< / ><><>124 ${1}{2}$ < / ><>95 ${1}{8}$ < / ><>STV Group< / ><>101< / ><>-< / ><>1< / ><>... -9.4< / >< / ><><>370 ${1}{4}$ < / ><>170 ${1}{2}$ < / ><>System1 Group◆< / ><>350< / ><>< / ><>1.7 33.7< / >< / ><><>4748 ${1}{4}$ < / ><>4680 ${1}{4}$ < / ><>21st Cent Fox A< / ><>4680 ${1}{4}$ < / ><>< / ><>0.9 ...< / >< / ><><>3321 ${1}{4}$ < / ><>3270 ${1}{8}$ < / ><>21st Cent Fox B< / ><>3321 ${1}{4}$ < / ><>< / ><>1.3 ...< / >< / ><><>360< / ><>230< / ><>Wilmington< / ><>270< / ><>-< / ><>4< / ><>4.6 21.8< / >< / ><><>412 ${1}{8}$ < / ><>218 ${1}{2}$ < / ><>WPP◆< / ><>372 ${1}{4}$ < / ><>-< / ><>12 ${1}{4}$ < / ><>4.0 7.4< / >< / ><><>62< / ><>40< / ><>Zinc Media◆< / ><>50 ${1}{2}$

< / ><>< / ><>... -4.9< / >< / table>

自然资源

<><>0 ${1}{8}$ < / ><>0< / ><>ADM Energy ${1}{8}$ < / ><>0< / ><>< / ><>...< / ><>1.2< / >< / ><><>17 ${1}{4}$ < / ><>8 ${1}{4}$ < / ><>H-Power ${1}{8}$ < / ><>9 ${1}{4}$ < / ><>-< / ><> ${1}{8}$ < / ><>...< / ><>-3.9< / >< / ><><>89 ${1}{8}$ < / ><>36 ${1}{4}$ < / ><>Afentra ${1}{8}$ < / ><>72 ${1}{8}$ < / ><>+< / ><>1 ${1}{8}$ < / ><>...< / ><>-68.7< / >< / ><><>0< / ><>0< / ><>Arkadian Strat Metals ${1}{8}$ < / ><>0< / ><>< / ><>...< / ><>-0.8< / >< / ><><>0 ${1}{4}$ < / ><>0< / ><>Alien Metals ${1}{8}$ < / ><>0 ${1}{8}$ < / ><>< / ><>...< / ><>-11.8< / >< / ><><>2 ${1}{8}$ < / ><>0 ${1}{8}$ < / ><>Aminex< / ><>1 ${1}{8}$

< / td> < / ><>< / ><>...< / ><>-20.5< / >< / tr> <>8924< / ><>4189 $\frac{1}{4}$ < / ><>Anglo Amer Plat< / ><>5651 $\frac{1}{8}$ < / ><>+< / ><>55 ${1}{8}$ < / ><>8.0< / ><>21.2< / >< / ><><>4348< / ><>2639< / ><>Anglo Amer< / ><>4040< / ><>-< / ><>19< / ><>0.7< / ><>-16.2< / >< / ><><>435< / ><>173 ${1}{4}$ < / ><>Anglo Asian Mng ${1}{8}$ < / ><>410< / ><>-< / ><>4< / ><>1.8< / ><>35.0< / >< / ><><>4475< / ><>2496< / ><>Antofagasta< / ><>3605< / ><>-< / ><>87< / ><>1.6< / ><>35.4< / >< / ><><>1 ${1}{8}$ < / ><>0 ${1}{8}$ < / ><>Arc Minerals ${1}{8}$ < / ><>0 ${1}{8}$ < / ><>< / ><>...< / ><>-1.3< / >< / ><><>2 ${1}{8}$ < / ><>1 ${1}{4}$ < / ><>Ariana Resources ${1}{8}$ < / ><>1 ${1}{2}$

< / ><>< / ><>...< / ><>-145.0< / >< / ><><>0 ${1}{8}$ < / ><>0 ${1}{4}$ < / ><>Arkle Resources ${1}{8}$ < / ><>0 ${1}{4}$ < / ><>< / ><>...< / ><>-11.4< / >< / ><><>2 ${1}{8}$ < / ><>0 ${1}{4}$ < / ><>Asiamet Resources ${1}{8}$ < / ><>0 ${1}{4}$ < / ><>< / ><>...< / ><>-2.4< / >< / ><><>1133< / ><>609 ${1}{4}$ < / ><>Atalaya Mine< / ><>1016< / ><>+< / ><>10< / ><>1.0< / ><>19.7< / >< / ><><>4 ${1}{4}$ < / ><>2< / ><>Beacon Energy ${1}{8}$ < / ><>2 ${1}{8}$ < / ><>< / ><>...< / ><>-0.6< / >< / ><><>13< / ><>4< / ><>Browulf Mining ${1}{8}$ < / ><>5 ${1}{4}$ < / ><>< / ><>...< / ><>-1.6< / >< / table>

价格

主要指数

纽约< / td>< / tr><><>道琼斯< / ><>51,231.64 (+51.77)< / >< / ><><>纳斯达克< / ><>27,193.34 (-345.35)< / >< / ><><>标准普尔 500< / ><>7,765.36 (-36.41)< / >< / ><>< colspan="2">东京< / >< / ><><>日经 225< / ><>69042.11 (-993.60)< / >< / ><>< ="2">香港< / >< / ><><>恒生< / ><>23785.79 (-344.71)< / >< / ><>< ="2">阿姆斯特丹< / >< / ><><>阿姆斯特丹 AEX< / ><>1121.20 (+3.45)< / >< / ><>< ="2">悉尼< / >< / ><><>澳大利亚 AO< / ><>8823.20 (-71.40)< / >< / ><>< ="2">法兰克福< / >< / ><><>DAX< / ><>24806.97 (-297.39)< / >< / ><>< ="2">新加坡< / >< / ><><>新加坡海峡< / ><>5412.96 (-195.48)< / >< / ><>< ="2">布鲁塞尔< / >< / ><><>布鲁塞尔 BEL20< / ><>5399.40 (-128.47)< / >< / ><>< ="2">巴黎< / >< / ><><>巴黎 CAC< / ><>7729.69 (-39.52)< / >< / table>

<>< ="2">苏黎世< / >< / ><><>苏黎世 SMI< / ><>13637.00 (-171.42)< / >< / ><><>苏黎世 DJ Euro Stoxx 50< / ><>6126.73 (-53.56)< / >< / ><>< ="2">伦敦< / >< / ><><>富时 100< / ><>10441.60 (-16.90)< / >< / ><><>富时 250< / ><>23943.88 (-92.87)< / >< / ><><>富时 350< / ><>5694.94 (-10.60)< / >< / ><><>富时欧洲顶级 100< / ><>4829.01 (-35.25)< / >< / ><><>富时全股指数< / ><>5634.04 (-10.77)< / >< / ><><>富时非金融指数< / ><>6286.88 (+12.72)< / >< / ><><>TechMark Focus< / ><>9420.03 (-79.60)< / >< / ><><>美元< / ><>1.3227 (+0.0007)< / >< / ><><>欧元< / ><>1.1801 (-0.0008)< / >< / ><><>SDR< / ><>0.9776 (+0.0001)< / >< / ><><>CPI Aug (2015=100)< / ><>143.6< / >< / ><><>RPI Aug (1987=100)< / ><>421.6< / >< / ><><>RPIX Aug (1987=100)< / ><>414.6< / >< / table>

伦敦金融期货

<><>< / ><>周期< / ><>开盘< / ><>最高< / ><>最低< / ><>结算< / ><>成交量< / ><>持仓量< / >< / ><>< rowspan="3">长期国债 (Long Gilt)< / ><>26-Dec< / ><>83.78< / ><>83.84< / ><>82.97< / ><>83.35< / ><>266657< / ><>1285238< / >< / ><><>27-Mar< / ><>< / ><>83.33< / ><>0< / ><>2027< / >< / ><><>27-Jun< / ><>< / ><>83.41< / ><>0< / ><>< / >< / ><>< rowspan="3">3-Mth Sonia 指数< / ><>26-Sep< / ><>96.155< / ><>96.145< / ><>96.15< / ><>51382< / ><>400718< / >< / ><><>26-Dec< / ><>95.815< / ><>95.825< / ><>95.785< / ><>95.79< / ><>79028< / ><>525269< / >< / ><><>27-Mar< / ><>95.5< / ><>95.505< / ><>95.45< / ><>95.46< / ><>75366< / ><>387958< / >< / ><>< rowspan="4">3 Mth Sonia 指数< / ><>27-Jun< / ><>95.315< / ><>95.325< / ><>95.255< / ><>95.26< / ><>60298< / ><>409238< / >< / ><><>27-Sep< / ><>95.23< / ><>95.235< / ><>95.155< / ><>95.16< / ><>51866< / ><>274232< / >< / ><><>27-Dec< / ><>95.205< / ><>95.21< / ><>95.125< / ><>95.13< / ><>57566< / ><>350674< / >< / ><><>28-Mar< / ><>95.205< / ><>95.115< / ><>95.125< / ><>41342< / ><>213844< / >< / ><>< rowspan="5">3-Mth Euribor< / ><>26-Dec< / ><>97.125< / ><>97.13< / ><>97.085< / ><>97.095< / ><>185222< / ><>894609< / >< / ><><>27-Mar< / ><>96.875< / ><>96.88< / ><>96.83< / ><>96.835< / ><>158480< / ><>619993< / >< / ><><>27-Jun< / ><>96.73< / ><>96.74< / ><>96.675< / ><>96.685< / ><>137960< / ><>555777< / >< / ><><>27-Sep< / ><>96.675< / ><>96.685< / ><>96.61< / ><>96.62< / ><>131259< / ><>456430< / >< / ><><>27-Dec< / ><>96.665< / ><>96.675< / ><>96.6< / ><>96.61< / ><>156078< / ><>584055< / >< / ><>< rowspan="7">3-Mth Saron [...OMITTED...]

指数< / td> 26-Sep< / ><>100.0475< / ><>100.045< / ><>100.0475< / ><>226< / ><>82614< / >< / tr> <>26-Dec< / ><>99.995< / ><>100< / ><>99.975< / ><>99.98< / ><>8938< / ><>52926< / >< / ><><>27-Mar< / ><>99.875< / ><>99.88< / ><>99.83< / ><>99.835< / ><>6347< / ><>38330< / >< / ><><>27-Jun< / ><>99.725< / ><>99.73< / ><>99.655< / ><>99.665< / ><>7137< / ><>30377< / >< / ><><>27-Sep< / ><>99.585< / ><>99.505< / ><>99.52< / ><>3622< / ><>31709< / >< / ><><>27-Dec< / ><>99.5< / ><>99.505< / ><>99.415< / ><>99.425< / ><>2653< / ><>21762< / >< / ><><>28-Mar< / ><>99.435< / ><>99.35< / ><>99.36< / ><>1684< / ><>20612< / >< / ><><>

rowspan="2">FTSE100< / ><>26-Sep< / ><>< / >< / ><><>26-Dec< / ><>10518.5< / ><>10544< / ><>10407.5< / ><>10486.5< / ><>60644< / ><>464404< / >< / ><>< rowspan="2">FTSEurofirst 80< / ><>26-Sep< / ><>< / >< / ><><>26-Dec< / ><>< / ><>8466.5< / ><>0< / ><>< / >< / table>

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大宗商品

天然气 $< / td>< / tr><><>3.158< / ><>-0.059< / >< / ><>< colspan="2">轻质原油< / >< / ><><>92.8< / ><>+4.57< / >< / table>

原油（美元 / 桶 FOB）

<><><>WTI 26年11月< / ><>92.77< / ><>4.57< / >< / ><><>WTI 26年12月< / ><>91.97< / ><>4.42< / >< / ><><> 27年1月< / ><>90.89< / ><>4.05< / >< / ><><> 27年2月< / ><>89.57< / ><>3.55< / >< / ><><> 27年3月< / ><>87.72< / ><>2.64< / >< / >

<><>< colspan="3">产品< / >< / ><><>燃料油< / ><>572.317< / ><>3.106< / >< / ><><>欧洲石脑油 CIF NWIE< / ><>867.168< / ><>6.259< / >< / >

ICE 期货 柴油

<><><>10月 1517.75-1517< / ><>2月 1308.5-1308.25< / >< / ><><>11月 1446.5-1446.25< / ><>3月 1264.25-1264< / >< / ><><>12月 1397.25-1396.75< / ><>< / >< / ><><>1月 1353.25-1353< / ><>成交量: 317845< / >< / >

布伦特原油

<><><>12月 105.75-105.73< / ><>3月 97.27-97.24< / >< / ><><>1月 102.28-102.26< / ><>4月 95.27-95.24< / >< / ><><>2月 99.5-99.47< / ><>成交量: 803942< / >< / >

<><>< colspan="2">可可< / >< / ><><>12月 4222 +48< / ><>12月 4281 +37< / >< / ><><>3月 4360 +43< / ><>3月 4360 +43< / >< / ><><>5月 4394 +43< / ><>5月 4394 +43< / >< / ><><>7月 4422 +45< / ><>7月 4422 +45< / >< / ><><>9月 4376 +49< / ><>成交量: 42355< / >< / >

罗布斯塔咖啡

<><><>11月 3427 -58< / ><>7月 3358 -79< / >< / ><><>1月 3402 -67< / ><>9月 3344 -80< / >< / ><><>3月 3382 -73< / ><>< / >< / ><><>7月 3358 -79< / ><>成交量: 40360< / >< / >

白糖

<><><>12月 545 -10.7< / ><>10月 542.2 -7.8< / >< / ><><>3月 555 -10.7< / ><>12月 535 -6.5< / >< / ><><>8月 551.6 -9.1< / ><>< / >< / ><><>8月 551.6 -9.1< / ><>成交量: 21774< / >< / >

伦敦谷物期货

LIFFE 小麦（收盘价 £ / t）

<><><>11月 209 +0.5< / ><>5月 217 +0.5< / >< / ><><>1月 209.75< / ><>7月 219.25< / >< / ><><>3月 213.25< / ><>成交量: 4549< / >< / >

<><>< colspan="2">汇率< / >< / ><><>澳大利亚 $< / ><>1.9013 (+0.00466)< / >< / ><><>加拿大 $< / ><>1.88145 (-0.00138)< / >< / ><><>丹麦克朗< / ><>8.82256 (+0.00521)< / >< / ><><>欧元< / ><>1.1799 (+0.0003)< / >< / ><><>香港 $< / ><>10.365 (nc)< / >< / ><><>匈牙利< / ><>431.75 (+0.21)< / >< / ><><>印度尼西亚< / ><>23665.27 (+47.51)< / >< / ><><>以色列< / ><>4.0534 (-0.0004)< / >< / ><><>日元< / ><>209.091 (+0.305)< / >< / ><><>新西兰 $< / ><>2.36148 (+0.00387)< / >< / ><><>挪威克朗< / ><>12.6568 (+0.004)< / >< / ><><>波兰< / ><>5.1696 (+0.00998)< / >< / ><><>俄罗斯< / ><>112.296 (-0.657)< / >< / ><><>南非< / ><>22.00105 (+0.06223)< / >< / ><><>瑞典克朗< / ><>13.21983 (+0.01223)< / >< / ><><>瑞士法郎< / ><>1.10076 (+0.00039)< / >< / ><><>土耳其里拉< / ><>65.0055 (-0.0092)< / >< / ><><>美国 $< / ><>1.3207 (-0.0004)< / >< / >

12个月< / td>< rowspan="2">价格 (p)< / >< rowspan="2">+ / -< / >< rowspan="2">预测收益率%< / >< rowspan="2">市盈率< / >< / tr><><>最高< / ><>最低< / ><>公司< / >< / ><><> $7\frac{1}{4}$ < / ><> $2\frac{1}{2}$ < / ><>Prospex Energy◆< / ><> $5{1}{4}$ < / ><>< / ><>...< / ><>-8.6< / >< / ><><> $4{1}{2}$ < / ><> $0{1}{4}$ < / ><>Quadrise◆< / ><>1< / ><>< / ><>...< / ><>-5.6< / >< / ><><>160< / ><>35< / ><>Reabold Resources◆< / ><> $64{1}{2}$ < / ><>< / ><>...< / ><>-806.2< / >< / ><><>0< / ><>0< / ><>Red Rock Res◆< / ><>0< / ><>< / ><>...< / ><>-0.2< / >< / ><><> $10416{1}{4}$ < / ><> $6040{1}{4}$ < / ><>Rio Tinto Ltd< / ><> $8526{1}{4}$ < / ><>-256< / ><>4.1< / ><>15.8< / >< / ><><>9117< / ><> $4955{1}{2}$ < / ><>Rio Tinto< / ><>7022< / ><>< / ><>5.0< / ><>15.1< / >< / ><><> $0{1}{2}$ < / ><> $0{1}{4}$ < / ><>Rome Resources◆< / ><> $0{1}{4}$ < / ><>< / ><>...< / ><>-10.0< / >< / ><><>375< / ><>195< / ><>Serabi Gold◆< / ><>230< / ><>+6< / ><>2.2< / ><>4.3< / >< / ><><> $302{1}{2}$ < / ><> $162{1}{4}$ < / ><>Serica Energy◆< / ><> $263{1}{2}$ < / ><>+9%< / ><>6.1< / ><>-26.8< / >< / ><><>3784< / ><> $2553{3}{4}$ < / ><>Shell< / ><> $3780{1}{2}$ < / ><>+132%< / ><>3.0< / ><>16.5< / >< / ><><>7< / ><> $2{1}{4}$ < / ><>Shuka Minerals◆< / ><> $3{1}{2}$ < / ><>< / ><>...< / ><>-2.5< / >< / ><><>13< / ><> $1{1}{2}$ < / ><>Sound Energy◆< / ><> $1{1}{2}$ < / ><>< / ><>...< / ><>-1.4< / >< / ><><>27< / ><>7< / ><>Star Energy◆< / ><>20< / ><>< / ><>...< / ><>-3.6< / >< / ><><> $4{1}{2}$ < / ><> $0{1}{4}$ < / ><>Sunda Energy◆< / ><> $1{1}{2}$ < / ><>-1%< / ><>...< / ><>-1.4< / >< / ><><>0< / ><>0< / ><>Sunrise Resources◆< / ><>0< / ><>< / ><>...< / ><>-2.4< / >< / ><><>0< / ><>< / ><>Synergia Energy◆< / ><>0< / ><>< / ><>...< / ><>0.5< / >< / ><><> $0{1}{2}$ < / ><>0< / ><>Tertiary Minerals◆< / ><>0< / ><>< / ><>...< / ><>-6.2< / >< / ><><> $0{1}{2}$ < / ><> $0{1}{2}$ < / ><>Thor Energy◆< / ><> $0{1}{2}$ < / ><>< / ><>...< / ><>-3.9< / >< / ><><>7066< / ><> $4293{1}{2}$ < / ><>Total Eng SE< / ><>6574< / ><>+187%< / ><>4.5< / ><>12.6< / >< / ><><>0< / ><>0< / ><>Tower Resources◆< / ><>0< / ><>< / ><>...< / ><>-0.4< / >< / ><><>25< / ><> $3{1}{2}$ < / ><>Tullow Oil< / ><> $10{1}{2}$ < / ><>-1%< / ><>...< / ><>34.0< / >< / ><><>0< / ><>0< / ><>UK Energy Group◆< / ><>0< / ><>< / ><>...< / ><>-0.2< / >< / ><><>13< / ><> $2{1}{2}$ < / ><>URU Metals◆< / ><> $2{1}{2}$ < / ><>< / ><>...< / ><>-1.8< / >< / ><><> $7{1}{2}$ < / ><> $2{1}{4}$ < / ><>Vast Resources◆< / ><> $4{1}{4}$ < / ><>< / ><>...< / ><>-0.7< / >< / ><><>9< / ><> $1{1}{8}$ < / ><>Westmount Energy◆< / ><> $2{1}{2}$ < / ><>< / ><>...< / ><>-6.7< / >< / ><><> $1{1}{2}$ < / ><> $0{1}{2}$ < / ><>Xtract Resources◆< / ><> $0{1}{2}$ < / ><>< / ><>...< / ><>-4.0< / >< / ><><> $4{1}{2}$ < / ><> $2{1}{4}$ < / ><>Zephyr Energy◆< / ><> $2{1}{2}$ < / ><>< / ><>...< / ><>-6.4< / >< / table>

专业与支持服务< / td>< / tr><><>5135< / ><>2980< / ><>4imprint< / ><>4362< / ><>+< / ><>42< / ><>4.1< / ><>14.3< / >< / ><><>615< / ><>464< / ><>Andrews Sykes♦< / ><> $517\frac{1}{2}$ < / ><>-< / ><> $12\frac{1}{2}$ < / ><>5.0< / ><>12.0< / >< / ><><>130< / ><> $103{1}{2}$ < / ><>BTG Consulting♦< / ><>111< / ><>-< / ><>2< / ><>4.1< / ><>20.9< / >< / ><><>2898< / ><>1981< / ><>Bunzl< / ><>2710< / ><>+< / ><>60< / ><>2.8< / ><>19.2< / >< / ><><>416< / ><> $196{1}{2}$ < / ><>Capita< / ><> $215{1}{2}$ < / ><>+< / ><> $9{1}{2}$ < / ><>...< / ><>-1.5< / >< / ><><> $49{1}{2}$ < / ><>28< / ><>CEPS♦< / ><>39< / ><>< / ><>...< / ><>-11.1< / >< / ><><> $199{1}{2}$ < / ><>90< / ><>Christie Group♦< / ><>180< / ><>< / ><>2.2< / ><>35.4< / >< / ><><> $2581{1}{2}$ < / ><>2000< / ><>Compass< / ><> $2324{1}{2}$ < / ><>+< / ><> $17{1}{2}$ < / ><>2.2< / ><>27.9< / >< / ><><>87< / ><> $64{1}{2}$ < / ><>Croma Security♦< / ><> $71{1}{2}$ < / ><>< / ><>3.4< / ><>12.5< / >< / ><><>6740< / ><>4188< / ><>DCC Energy< / ><>6445< / ><>+< / ><>5< / ><>3.4< / ><>...< / >< / ><><> $38{1}{2}$ < / ><>15< / ><>Diales Grp♦< / ><>30< / ><>-< / ><> $1{1}{2}$ < / ><>5.0< / ><>23.1< / >< / ><><>7980< / ><>4970< / ><>Diploma< / ><>7750< / ><>+< / ><>50< / ><>0.8< / ><>56.2< / >< / ><><>900< / ><>505< / ><>DiscoverIE< / ><>848< / ><>-< / ><>2< / ><>1.5< / ><>28.1< / >< / ><><> $115{1}{2}$ < / ><> $78{1}{2}$ < / ><>Essentra♦< / ><> $111{1}{2}$ < / ><>-< / ><> ${1}{2}$ < / ><>1.9< / ><>...< / >< / ><><>3707< / ><>2203< / ><>Experian< / ><>2574< / ><>+< / ><>31< / ><>2.0< / ><>20.7< / >< / ><><>300< / ><>110< / ><>FIH Group♦< / ><>130< / ><>< / ><>5.2< / ><>2.9< / >< / ><><>880< / ><>588< / ><>Hargreaves Servs♦< / ><>834< / ><>< / ><>4.8< / ><>8.9< / >< / ><><>5900< / ><> $3519{1}{2}$ < / ><>Intertek< / ><>5890< / ><>-< / ><>10< / ><>2.8< / ><>27.0< / >< / ><><> $250{1}{2}$ < / ><> $163{1}{2}$ < / ><>Int'l Workplace♦< / ><> $178{1}{2}$ < / ><>+< / ><> ${1}{2}$ < / ><>0.6< / ><>...< / >< / ><><> $172{1}{2}$ < / ><> $123{1}{2}$ < / ><>Johnson Service♦< / ><> $135{1}{2}$ < / ><>-< / ><> $1{1}{2}$ < / ><>3.7< / ><>14.6< / >< / ><><>560< / ><>360< / ><>Journe♦< / ><>542< / ><>-< / ><>3< / ><>...< / ><>22.3< / >< / ><><> $319{1}{2}$ < / ><> $186{1}{2}$ < / ><>Kier Group< / ><> $288{1}{2}$ < / ><>-< / ><> $3{1}{2}$ < / ><>2.7< / ><>20.5< / >< / ><><>1170< / ><>910< / ><>Latham (J)♦< / ><>1070< / ><>-< / ><>15< / ><>3.4< / ><>11.6< / >< / ><><>3900< / ><>2100< / ><>London Security♦< / ><>3750< / ><>< / ><>2.6< / ><>19.3< / >< / ><><>282< / ><>204< / ><>LSL Property Servs♦< / ><>251< / ><>-< / ><>6< / ><>4.5< / ><>15.1< / >< / ><><> $93{1}{2}$ < / ><> $59{1}{2}$ < / ><>Macfarlane♦< / ><>83< / ><>-< / ><> $1{1}{2}$ < / ><>4.4< / ><>20.8< / >< / ><><>155< / ><>59< / ><>Maintel Holdings♦< / ><> $61{1}{2}$ < / >

< / td> < / ><>< / ><>...< / ><>-5.2< / >< / tr> <>28< / ><> $16\frac{1}{2}$ < / ><>Malvern Intl♦< / ><> $16\frac{1}{2}$ < / ><>< / ><>...< / ><>-2.2< / >< / ><><>460< / ><> $318{1}{2}$ < / ><>Mears Group< / ><> $404{1}{2}$ < / ><>-< / ><>3< / ><>4.5< / ><>7.3< / >< / ><><>260< / ><> $101{1}{2}$ < / ><>Michael Page♦< / ><> $206{1}{2}$ < / ><>-< / ><> $4{1}{2}$ < / ><>2.3< / ><>71.1< / >< / ><><>214< / ><> $134{1}{2}$ < / ><>Mitie Group< / ><> $210{1}{2}$ < / ><>-< / ><> ${1}{2}$ < / ><>2.1< / ><>31.8< / >< / ><><> $19{1}{2}$ < / ><> $0{1}{2}$ < / ><>MobilityOne♦< / ><> $14{1}{2}$ < / ><>+< / ><> $1{1}{2}$ < / ><>...< / ><>-3.1< / >< / ><><>137< / ><> $88{1}{2}$ < / ><>Newmark Security♦< / ><> $107{1}{2}$ < / ><>< / ><>...< / ><>15.2< / >< / ><><>260< / ><>170< / ><>Norman Broadbent♦< / ><>231< / ><>+< / ><>2< / ><>...< / ><>7.2< / >< / ><><>158< / ><> $92{1}{2}$ < / ><>Northern Bear♦< / ><> $102{1}{2}$ < / ><>-< / ><> $3{1}{2}$ < / ><>7.3< / ><>3.4< / >< / ><><> $187{1}{2}$ < / ><>110< / ><>NWF Group♦< / ><>160< / ><>+< / ><>3< / ><>5.4< / ><>8.6< / >< / table>

<><>黄金 / 贵金属（每盎司美元）< / >< / ><><>金锭：开盘 $4113.96< / >< / ><><>收盘 $4111.596 最高 $4143.283< / >< / ><><>最低 $4103.48< / >< / ><><>上午 $4156.90 下午 $4156.40< / >< / ><><>铂金 $1628< / >< / ><><>白银 $58.749< / >< / ><><>钯金 $1120.887< / >< / table>

<>< colspan="3">12个月< / >< colspan="2">价格< / >< colspan="2">预测< / >< / ><><>最高< / ><>最低< / ><>公司< / ><>(p)< / ><>+ / -< / ><>收益率%< / ><>市盈率< / >< / ><><>78< / ><>42< / ><>PCI-PAL◆< / ><> $73{1}{2}$ < / ><>< / ><>...< / >< / ><><> $12{1}{2}$ < / ><>7< / ><>Petards◆< / ><> $8{1}{2}$ < / ><>< / ><>...< / ><>-12.7< / >< / ><><>12< / ><> $6{1}{2}$ < / ><>PHSC◆< / ><> $7{1}{4}$ < / ><>< / ><>...< / ><>-2.6< / >< / ><><> $0{1}{4}$ < / ><> $0{1}{4}$ < / ><>PowerHouse Energy◆< / ><> $0{1}{4}$ < / ><>< / ><>...< / ><>-2.8< / >< / ><><> $60{1}{4}$ < / ><> $41{1}{4}$ < / ><>Record< / ><> $41{1}{4}$ < / ><>< / ><>8.6< / ><>10.6< / >< / ><><>1016< / ><>821< / ><>Renew Holdings◆< / ><>946< / ><>-< / ><>19< / ><>2.1 15.3< / >< / ><><>507< / ><> $293{1}{2}$ < / ><>Rentokil< / ><> $301{1}{4}$ < / ><>+< / ><> $3{1}{2}$ < / ><>3.1 21.4< / >< / ><><>315< / ><>222< / ><>Restore◆< / ><> $307{1}{2}$ < / ><>+< / ><> ${1}{2}$ < / ><>2.4 -65.4< / >< / ><><> $6{1}{2}$ < / ><> $1{1}{2}$ < / ><>River Global A◆< / ><> $1{1}{2}$ < / ><>< / ><>...< / ><>-0.2< / >< / ><><>30< / ><>14< / ><>Roebuck Food Group◆< / ><> $24{1}{2}$ < / ><>-< / ><>1< / ><>...< / >< / ><><>790< / ><> $536{1}{4}$ < / ><>RS Group< / ><>750< / ><>-< / ><> $6{1}{2}$ < / ><>3.1 21.7< / >< / ><><>150< / ><>85< / ><>RTC Group◆< / ><>95< / ><>< / ><>...< / ><>7.1 6.7< / >< / ><><> $142{1}{4}$ < / ><>68< / ><>RWS

Holdings◆< / td> 139< / ><>-< / ><> $3\frac{1}{4}$ < / ><>4.6 -5.1< / >< / tr> <>612< / ><>520< / ><>Science Group◆< / ><>573< / ><>< / ><>...< / ><>1.7 7.6< / >< / ><><> $325\frac{1}{4}$ < / ><> $218{1}{4}$ < / ><>Serco< / ><> $251{1}{2}$ < / ><>+< / ><>3< / ><>1.8 17.5< / >< / ><><> $79{1}{4}$ < / ><> $55{1}{4}$ < / ><>Smiths News< / ><> $74{1}{4}$ < / ><>+< / ><> ${1}{8}$ < / ><>7.5 6.3< / >< / ><><>26< / ><> $13{1}{4}$ < / ><>Software Circel◆< / ><>18< / ><>-< / ><> ${1}{4}$ < / ><>... -85.7< / >< / ><><> $52{1}{2}$ < / ><> $36{1}{4}$ < / ><>Staffline Group◆< / ><>41< / ><>+< / ><> $2{1}{4}$ < / ><>... 10.5< / >< / ><><>324< / ><>143< / ><>SThree< / ><>300< / ><>< / ><>...< / ><>4.8

21.9< / >< / ><><>306< / ><>146< / ><>Synectics◆< / ><> $197{1}{2}$ < / ><>-< / ><>5< / ><>2.5 9.0< / >< / ><><> $3{1}{4}$ < / ><> $0{1}{2}$ < / ><>Thruvision Group◆< / ><> $2{1}{4}$ < / ><>< / ><>...< / ><>-2.2< / >< / ><><>104< / ><>46< / ><>Tribal◆< / ><>103< / ><>+< / ><>2< / ><>... 24.5< / >< / ><><> $74{1}{2}$ < / ><>58< / ><>Vianet◆< / ><>68< / ><>< / ><>3.5 47.6< / >< / ><><>490< / ><> $310{1}{2}$ < / ><>ZIGUP< / ><>432< / ><>-< / ><>5< / ><>6.2 12.8< / >< / table>

<>< colspan="8">零售业 (Retailing)< / >< / ><><>117 ${1}{8}$ < / ><>82 ${1}{2}$ < / ><>AO World< / ><>89 ${1}{4}$ < / ><>-< / ><> ${1}{4}$ < / ><>...< / ><>14.0< / >< / ><><>261 ${1}{8}$ < / ><>140< / ><>B&M European< / ><>257< / ><>+< / ><> $1{1}{8}$ < / ><>3.7< / ><>15.8< / >< / ><><>108 ${1}{8}$ < / ><>58 ${1}{4}$ < / ><>Card Factory< / ><>86 ${1}{2}$ < / ><>+< / ><> ${5}{8}$ < / ><>5.9< / ><>9.6< / >< / ><><>1648< / ><>1062< / ><>CVS Group< / ><>1145< / ><>-< / ><>18< / ><>0.8< / ><>46.9< / >< / ><><>204< / ><>113< / ><>DFS Furniture< / ><>146< / ><>-< / ><>4< / ><>2.1< / ><>9.7< / >< / ><><>1174< / ><>707< / ><>Dunelm< / ><>788< / ><>< / ><>8.9< / ><>10.2< / >< / ><><>849< / ><>598< / ><>Frasers

Group< / ><>835< / ><>-< / ><>14< / ><>...< / ><>9.6< / >< / ><><>2103< / ><>1407 ${1}{4}$ < / ><>Greggs $\ddagger$ < / ><>2094< / ><>+< / ><>16< / ><>3.3< / ><>17.4< / >< / ><><>276 ${1}{8}$ < / ><>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< / >< / ><><>895< / ><>627 ${1}{4}$ < / ><>Inchcape< / ><>658< / ><>+< / ><>14< / ><>5.1< / ><>9.1< / >< / ><><> $1{1}{2}$ < / ><>0 ${1}{8}$ < / ><>Imaging Biometrics< / ><>0 ${1}{8}$ < / ><>< / ><>...< / ><>-5.1< / >< / ><><>104 ${1}{4}$ < / ><>64< / ><>JD Sports< / ><>84< / ><>+< / ><> ${1}{2}$

< / td> 1.5< / ><>9.7< / >< / tr> <>372 $\frac{1}{4}$ < / ><>266 $\frac{1}{8}$ < / ><>Kingfisher $\ddagger$ < / ><>322 ${1}{2}$ < / ><>-< / ><> $6{1}{4}$ < / ><>3.8< / ><>23.0< / >< / ><><>418 ${1}{8}$ < / ><>301 ${1}{4}$ < / ><>Marks & Spencer< / ><>396 ${1}{4}$ < / ><>+< / ><> $2{1}{4}$ < / ><>1.1< / ><>31.2< / >< / ><><> $3{1}{2}$ < / ><>0< / ><>Mothercare $\blacklozenge$ < / ><>0 ${1}{4}$ < / ><>< / ><>...< / ><>-0.3< / >< / ><><>84 ${1}{4}$ < / ><>60 ${1}{4}$ < / ><>Naked Wines $\blacklozenge$ < / ><>60 ${1}{8}$ < / ><>-< / ><> ${5}{8}$ < / ><>...< / ><>-6.6< / >< / ><><>15900< / ><>11695< / ><>Next< / ><>14455< / ><>-< / ><>120< / ><>1.9< / ><>19.0< / >< / ><><>299 ${1}{4}$ < / ><>140 ${1}{4}$

< / ><>Ocado< / ><>283 ${1}{4}$ < / ><>-< / ><> $2{1}{4}$ < / ><>...< / ><>6.0< / >< / ><><>229 ${1}{8}$ < / ><>167 ${1}{4}$ < / ><>Pets at Home< / ><>208 ${1}{2}$ < / ><>+< / ><> ${1}{2}$ < / ><>3.6< / ><>15.1< / >< / ><><>495< / ><>200< / ><>Pinewood Tech< / ><>448 ${1}{2}$ < / ><>+< / ><> ${1}{2}$ < / ><>...< / ><>93.4< / >< / ><><>799< / ><>234 ${1}{2}$ < / ><>Saga< / ><>755< / ><>-< / ><>6< / ><>...< / >< / ><><>380 ${1}{4}$ < / ><>293 ${1}{4}$ < / ><>Sainsbury's< / ><>332 ${1}{2}$ < / ><>+< / ><> $4{1}{4}$ < / ><>4.1< / ><>19.2< / >< / ><><>712< / ><>345 ${1}{8}$ < / ><>WH Smith< / ><>369 ${1}{8}$ < / ><>< / ><>...< / ><>-3.3< / >< / ><><>14< / ><>5< / ><>Sosandar

$\blacklozenge$ < / ><>11 ${1}{4}$ < / ><>-< / ><>1< / ><>...< / ><>80.4< / >< / ><><>512 ${1}{8}$ < / ><>411 ${1}{4}$ < / ><>Tesco< / ><>500 ${1}{4}$ < / ><>+< / ><>24 ${1}{8}$ < / ><>2.9< / ><>18.2< / >< / ><><>50< / ><>30 ${1}{4}$ < / ><>Tops Tiles< / ><>35< / ><>+< / ><> ${5}{8}$ < / ><>8.9< / ><>11.5< / >< / table>

<>< colspan="7">科技< / >< / ><><>240< / ><>140 ${1}{2}$ < / ><>Alfa Financial< / ><>157< / ><>-< / ><>1< / ><>6.1 15.4< / >< / ><><>307< / ><>195< / ><>Aptitude Software $\ddagger$ < / ><>250< / ><>< / ><>2.2 34.2< / >< / ><><>105< / ><>55< / ><>Bango $\blacklozenge$ < / ><>68 ${1}{2}$ < / ><>-< / ><>5 ${1}{4}$ < / ><>... -9.2< / >< / ><><>20< / ><>10 ${1}{2}$ < / ><>BATM Adv Coms< / ><>11< / ><>-< / ><> ${1}{4}$ < / ><>... -3.5< / >< / ><><>33< / ><>19 ${1}{2}$ < / ><>Berkeley Res< / ><>33< / ><>+< / ><>2< / ><>... -32.1< / >< / ><><>3 ${1}{4}$ < / ><>0 ${1}{2}$ < / ><>Blackbird $\blacklozenge$ < / ><>1 ${1}{4}$ < / ><>< / ><>... -2.9< / >< / ><><>170< / ><>53< / ><>Celebus Tech $\blacklozenge$

< / ><>54< / ><>-< / ><>1 ${1}{2}$ < / ><>6.3 -59.0< / >< / ><><>25 ${1}{4}$ < / ><>7< / ><>Cirata $\blacklozenge$ < / ><>7 ${1}{2}$ < / ><>+< / ><> ${1}{8}$ < / ><>... -1.7< / >< / ><><>0 ${1}{4}$ < / ><>0 ${1}{4}$ < / ><>CloudCoCo $\blacklozenge$ < / ><>0 ${1}{4}$ < / ><>< / ><>... 0.6< / >< / ><><>6045< / ><>2578< / ><>Computacenteri< / ><>5485< / ><>+< / ><>35< / ><>1.4 37.4< / >< / ><><>286< / ><>173 ${1}{2}$ < / ><>Concurrent Tech $\blacklozenge$ < / ><>275< / ><>+< / ><>4< / ><>0.4 46.9< / >< / ><><>13 ${1}{2}$ < / ><>6 ${1}{2}$ < / ><>Corero $\blacklozenge$ < / ><>11 ${1}{4}$ < / ><>+< / ><> ${1}{4}$ < / ><>... -148.8< / >< / ><><>2450< / ><>988< / ><>Craneware $\blacklozenge$

< / td> 1082< / ><>-< / ><>4< / ><>3.0 25.3< / >< / tr> <>110< / ><>50< / ><>Crimson Tide $\blacklozenge$ < / ><>97 $\frac{1}{2}$ < / ><>< / ><>... 23.2< / >< / ><><>18< / ><>8< / ><>Dillstone Group $\blacklozenge$ < / ><>16 $\frac{1}{2}$ < / ><>< / ><>... -11.3< / >< / table>

货币利率 % 清算银行基准利率：3.75% 欧洲央行再融资利率：2.65% 联邦基金利率：3.75-4.00% 哈利法克斯抵押贷款利率 (SVR)：7.24%

<>< colspan="3">12个月< / >< rowspan="2">价格 (p)< / >< rowspan="2">+ / -< / >< colspan="3">预测< / >< / ><><>高位< / ><>低位< / ><>公司< / ><>收益率%< / ><>市盈率< / ><>< / >< / ><><> $0{1}{2}$ < / ><>0< / ><>Forgent◆< / ><>0< / ><>< / ><>...< / ><>-0.0< / >< / ><><> $165{1}{4}$ < / ><> $94{1}{2}$ < / ><>FDM Group< / ><> $102$ < / ><>+< / ><>1< / ><>6.9< / ><>19.6< / >< / ><><>480< / ><>125< / ><>Filtronic◆< / ><>321< / ><>-< / ><>9< / ><>...< / >< / ><><> $262{1}{2}$ < / ><> $141{1}{2}$ < / ><>GB Group< / ><> $144{1}{8}$ < / ><>+< / ><> $1{1}{4}$ < / ><>3.0< / ><>-4.7< / >< / ><><>51< / ><>20< / ><>Ilika◆< / ><> $20{1}{2}$ < / ><>< / ><>...< / ><>-5.1< / >< / ><><>138< / ><>56< / ><>Ingenta◆< / ><> $67{1}{2}$ < / ><>+< / ><>1< / ><>6.7< / ><>5.6< / >< / ><><> $175{1}{2}$ < / ><>73< / ><>Intercede◆< / ><> $132{1}{2}$ < / ><>-< / ><>2< / ><>...< / ><>23.2< / >< / ><><> $28{1}{2}$ < / ><> $11{1}{8}$ < / ><>lomart◆< / ><>12< / ><>-< / ><> ${3}{8}$ < / ><>...< / ><>-1.5< / >< / ><><> $72{1}{8}$ < / ><> $4{1}{8}$ < / ><>IQE◆< / ><> $50{1}{8}$ < / ><>-< / ><> $3{1}{8}$ < / ><>...< / ><>-13.4< / >< / ><><> $4453{1}{2}$ < / ><> $912{1}{8}$ < / ><>LG Electronics< / ><> $2132{1}{8}$ < / ><>-< / ><> $61{1}{4}$ < / ><>1.2< / ><>...< / >< / ><><>79< / ><>37< / ><>MTI Wireless◆< / ><>63< / ><>+< / ><> ${1}{2}$ < / ><>3.2< / ><>14.2< / >< / ><><>11< / ><>2< / ><>Nanoco Group< / ><> $2{1}{4}$ < / ><>< / ><>...< / ><>-2.5< / >< / ><><>138< / ><> $94{1}{8}$ < / ><>Netcall◆< / ><> $125{1}{2}$ < / ><>< / ><>0.9< / ><>...< / >< / ><><>36< / ><>22< / ><>Northamber◆< / ><>25< / ><>< / ><>2.4< / ><>-1.7< / >< / ><><> $60{1}{8}$ < / ><> $34{1}{8}$ < / ><>Oxford Metrics◆< / ><> $34{1}{8}$ < / ><>< / ><>9.3< / ><>-63.5< / >< / ><><>34< / ><>17< / ><>Pennant Intl◆< / ><>33< / ><>< / ><>...< / ><>-6.5< / >< / ><><>456< / ><>210< / ><>Playtech< / ><>360< / ><>+< / ><> $1{1}{4}$ < / ><>...< / ><>0.9< / >< / ><><>50< / ><>12< / ><>Pulsar Group◆< / ><> $13{1}{2}$ < / ><>< / ><>...< / ><>-1.7< / >< / ><><> $576{1}{2}$ < / ><> $398{1}{2}$ < / ><>QinetiQ< / ><>454< / ><>+< / ><>1< / ><>2.4< / ><>22.6< / >< / ><><> $117{1}{2}$ < / ><>88< / ><>RM< / ><> $97{1}{8}$ < / ><>-< / ><> $1{1}{8}$ < / ><>...< / ><>37.5< / >< / ><><> $6{1}{2}$ < / ><> $2{1}{8}$ < / ><>Seeing Machines◆< / ><> $3{1}{2}$ < / ><>-< / ><> ${3}{8}$ < / ><>...< / ><>-9.0< / >< / ><><>70< / ><> $35{1}{2}$ < / ><>Shearwater Group◆< / ><>67< / ><>-< / ><>1< / ><>...< / ><>-1.7< / >< / ><><>2134< / ><>1083< / ><>Softcat< / ><>1837< / ><>+< / ><>12< / ><>1.6< / ><>27.6< / >< / ><><> $39{1}{2}$ < / ><>5< / ><>Sorted Group◆< / ><>9< / ><>< / ><>...< / ><>-0.2< / >< / ><><> $1018{1}{2}$ < / ><>

$612\frac{1}{2}$ < / td> Tele Ericsson< / ><> $721\frac{1}{2}$ < / ><>+< / ><> $3{1}{4}$ < / ><>3.1< / ><>11.2< / >< / tr> <>1181< / ><> $771{1}{8}$ < / ><>The Sage Grp< / ><> $1027{1}{2}$ < / ><>+< / ><> $5{1}{2}$ < / ><>2.2< / ><>27.2< / >< / ><><> $89{1}{2}$ < / ><> $52{1}{2}$ < / ><>Touchstar◆< / ><>70< / ><>< / ><>4.3< / ><>-5.3< / >< / ><><>390< / ><>280< / ><>Tracisis◆< / ><>325< / ><>-< / ><> $2{1}{2}$ < / ><>0.8< / ><>...< / >< / ><><>430< / ><>236< / ><>Triad Group< / ><>380< / ><>< / ><>2.4< / ><>38.3< / >< / ><><>360< / ><>210< / ><>Water Intel◆< / ><> $277{1}{2}$ < / ><>-< / ><> $19{1}{2}$ < / ><>...< / ><>12.8< / >< / ><><> $150{1}{4}$ < / ><> $96{1}{8}$ < / ><>Xaar< / ><> $143{1}{2}$ < / ><>-< / ><> $1{1}{2}$ < / ><>...< / ><>-33.4< / >< / ><><>19< / ><> $8{1}{2}$ < / ><>Zoo Digital◆< / ><> $14{1}{4}$ < / ><>< / ><>...< / ><>-5.0< / >< / table>

<>< colspan="7">电信业 (Telecoms)< / >< / ><><>436 ${1}{4}$ < / ><>219< / ><>Airtel Africa< / ><>309 ${1}{8}$ < / ><>-< / ><>3 ${1}{4}$ < / ><>1.7 22.0< / >< / ><><>242 ${1}{8}$ < / ><>173< / ><>英国电信集团 (BT Group)< / ><>197 ${1}{2}$ < / ><>-< / ><>1< / ><>4.2 17.9< / >< / ><><>169 ${1}{2}$ < / ><>116 ${3}{4}$ < / ><>Currys< / ><>147 ${1}{4}$ < / ><>+< / ><>1 ${1}{2}$ < / ><>2.0 9.5< / >< / ><><>1207< / ><>687< / ><>Gamma Comms< / ><>1092< / ><>< / ><>... 15.7< / >< / ><><>247 ${1}{8}$ < / ><>140< / ><>Helios Towers< / ><>216 ${1}{8}$ < / ><>-< / ><>3< / ><>0.8 77.4< / >< / ><><>0 ${1}{8}$ < / ><>0 ${1}{8}$ < / ><>Gana Media◆< / ><>0 ${1}{8}$ < / ><>< / ><>... -3.5< / >< / ><><>1896< / ><>638< / ><>Telecom Plus< / ><>839< / ><>-< / ><>11< / ><>6.0 8.3< / >< / ><><>132 ${1}{8}$ < / ><>83 ${1}{8}$ < / ><>沃达丰 (Vodafone)< / ><>124 ${1}{8}$ < / ><>-< / ><>3 ${1}{8}$ < / ><>3.2 -89.0< / >< / table>

<>< colspan="8">交通运输业 (Transport)< / >< / ><><>249< / ><> $203{1}{8}$ < / ><>Braemar< / ><>235< / ><>< / ><>3.0< / ><>32.5< / >< / ><><>5485< / ><>3365< / ><>Clarkson< / ><>5265< / ><>+< / ><>105< / ><>2.2< / ><>24.6< / >< / ><><> $683{1}{8}$ < / ><> $332{1}{8}$ < / ><>易捷航空 (easyJet)< / ><>681< / ><>+< / ><> $1{1}{8}$ < / ><>1.9< / ><>10.3< / >< / ><><> $222{1}{8}$ < / ><> $152{1}{8}$ < / ><>FirstGroup< / ><>187< / ><>+< / ><> $\%$ < / ><>3.9< / ><>8.7< / >< / ><><>554< / ><>358< / ><>Fisher (James)< / ><>420< / ><>+< / ><>3< / ><>...< / ><>-48.3< / >< / ><><> $492{1}{8}$ < / ><> $332{1}{8}$ < / ><>Intl Cons Air< / ><>420< / ><>-< / ><> $12{1}{4}$ < / ><>1.6< / ><>7.0< / >< / ><><> $699{1}{8}$ < / ><>494< / ><>Irish Cont< / ><>675< / ><>-< / ><> $2{1}{2}$ < / ><>...< / ><>17.1< / >< / ><><> $32{1}{8}$ < / ><>17< / ><>Mobico Group< / ><> $21{1}{8}$ < / ><>-< / ><>1< / ><>...< / ><>-1.0< / >< / ><><>1453< / ><>832< / ><>维兹航空 (Wizz Air)< / ><>1004< / ><>-< / ><>26< / ><>...< / >< / table>

220 $\frac{1}{4}$ < / td><>144< / ><>Centrica< / ><>147< / ><>+< / ><>1 $\frac{1}{6}$ < / ><>3.9< / ><>-98.0< / >< / tr><><>937 ${1}{2}$ < / ><>695 ${1}{4}$ < / ><>Drax Group§< / ><>780 ${1}{2}$ < / ><>+< / ><>4 ${1}{8}$ < / ><>3.9< / ><>37.7< / >< / ><><>485< / ><>420< / ><>Jersey Electricity< / ><>440< / ><>< / ><>5.0< / ><>12.3< / >< / ><><>1428 ${1}{2}$ < / ><>1086 ${1}{4}$ < / ><>National Grid< / ><>1152 ${1}{2}$ < / ><>+< / ><>2 ${1}{8}$ < / ><>4.2< / ><>17.6< / >< / ><><>606< / ><>340< / ><>Pennon< / ><>371< / ><>+< / ><>9 ${1}{4}$ < / ><>7.9< / ><>19.1< / >< / ><><>3335< / ><>2381< / ><>Severn Trent< / ><>3096< / ><>+< / ><>38< / ><>4.1< / ><>25.1< / >< / ><><>2767 ${1}{2}$ < / ><>1760< / ><>SSE< / ><>2437< / ><>-< / ><>22< / ><>2.8< / ><>23.1< / >< / ><><>1497< / ><>1119< / ><>United Utilities< / ><>1416< / ><>+< / ><>18< / ><>3.8< / ><>16.4< / >< / table>

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<>< colspan="3">12个月< / >< colspan="3">价格< / >< colspan="2">预测< / >< / ><><>最高< / ><>最低< / ><>公司< / ><>(p)< / ><>+ / -< / ><>收益率%< / ><>市盈率< / ><>< / >< / ><><>4497< / ><>1825< / ><>3I Group< / ><>2352< / ><>-< / ><>39< / ><>3.6< / ><>4.4< / >< / ><><>399 ${1}{2}$ < / ><>325< / ><>3I Infrastructure< / ><>385< / ><>+< / ><>1< / ><>3.5< / ><>12.0< / >< / ><><>1828< / ><>1408 ${1}{8}$ < / ><>Aberforth Smlr< / ><>1794< / ><>-< / ><>8< / ><>2.7< / ><>28.0< / >< / ><><>1409< / ><>1178< / ><>Alliance Witan< / ><>1397< / ><>-< / ><>5< / ><>2.1< / ><>75.5< / >< / ><><>405< / ><>321< / ><>Artemis UK Future Lead< / ><>388< / ><>+< / ><>1< / ><>4.0< / ><>31.4< / ><>< / >< / ><><>190< / ><>116 ${1}{8}$ < / ><>Athelney Trust< / ><>170< / ><>< / ><>5.9< / ><>14.9< / >< / ><><>273< / ><>235 ${1}{8}$ < / ><>AVI Global< / ><>252 ${1}{2}$ < / ><>-< / ><>2 ${1}{2}$ < / ><>1.8< / ><>49.8< / >< / ><><>194< / ><>154 ${1}{2}$ < / ><>AVI Japan< / ><>179< / ><>-< / ><>2< / ><>1.2< / ><>60.9< / >< / ><><>331< / ><>283< / ><>Baillie Gifford Ch Gr< / ><>283< / ><>-< / ><>3< / ><>0.9< / ><>95.0< / >< / ><><>133< / ><>91 ${1}{8}$ < / ><>Baillie Gifford Eur Gr< / ><>121< / ><>+< / ><>2 ${1}{2}$ < / ><>0.6< / ><>...< / >< / ><><>1114< / ><>811 ${1}{8}$ < / ><>Baillie Gifford Jpn< / ><>1066< / ><>-< / ><>16< / ><>0.9< / ><>...< / >< / ><><>182< / ><>123< / ><>Baillie Gifford SN< / ><>175 ${1}{2}$ < / ><>-< / ><>2 ${1}{2}$ < / ><>0.4< / ><>...< / >< / ><><>231< / ><>180 ${1}{8}$ < / ><>Baillie Gifford UK Gr< / ><>215< / ><>+< / ><>1< / ><>2.9< / ><>34.5< / >< / ><><>157 ${1}{4}$ < / ><>125 ${1}{4}$ < / ><>Bankers Invstmt Tst< / ><>154 ${1}{4}$ < / ><>-< / ><>1< / ><>1.8< / ><>68.8< / >< / ><><>445< / ><>391< / ><>BH Macro GBP< / ><>419< / ><>-< / ><>2 ${1}{2}$ < / ><>...< / ><>19.8< / >< / ><><>1786< / ><>1020< / ><>Biotech Growth< / ><>1364< / ><>-< / ><>66< / ><>...< / ><>-727.9< / >< / ><><>289 ${1}{2}$ < / ><>208 ${1}{8}$ < / ><>BlickRck Amer Inc< / ><>281< / ><>< / ><>5.3< / ><>99.3< / >< / ><><>205< / ><>135 ${1}{2}$ < / ><>BlickRck Eng&Res Inc< / ><>174< / ><>< / ><>3.6< / ><>49.7< / >< / ><><>208< / ><>164 ${1}{2}$

< / td> BlickRck Fro Inv< / ><>187< / ><>-< / ><> $\frac{1}{2}$ < / ><>4.1< / ><>24.4< / >< / tr> <>625< / ><>507< / ><>BlackRock Grt Euro< / ><>569< / ><>-< / ><>8< / ><>1.3< / ><>82.6< / >< / ><><>240< / ><>208< / ><>BlickRck Inc&Grth< / ><>238< / ><>+< / ><>3< / ><>3.2< / ><>32.9< / >< / ><><>288 $\frac{1}{8}$ < / ><>230 ${1}{8}$ < / ><>BlickRck Smlr< / ><>262 ${1}{2}$ < / ><>-< / ><> ${1}{2}$ < / ><>3.0< / ><>30.0< / >< / ><><>1076< / ><>628< / ><>BlickRck Wild Min< / ><>923< / ><>-< / ><>3< / ><>2.6< / ><>38.3< / >< / ><><>1695< / ><>1280< / ><>Brown Adv US Sm< / ><>1657 ${1}{2}$ < / ><>+< / ><>17 ${1}{2}$

< / ><>...< / ><>-33.7< / >< / ><><>1612< / ><>1336< / ><>Brunner< / ><>1550< / ><>-< / ><>6< / ><>1.7< / ><>55.6< / >< / ><><>402< / ><>312< / ><>Caledonia Inv< / ><>382< / ><>-< / ><>4< / ><>2.0< / ><>49.6< / >< / ><><>599< / ><>498< / ><>City of Lon IT< / ><>565< / ><>-< / ><>2< / ><>4.0< / ><>25.1< / >< / ><><>155 ${1}{8}$ < / ><>72 ${1}{8}$ < / ><>Crystal Amber Fd< / ><>75< / ><>-< / ><> ${1}{2}$ < / ><>-54.3< / ><>...< / >< / ><><>592< / ><>439 ${1}{8}$ < / ><>CT Priv Eq Ord< / ><>454< / ><>-< / ><>5< / ><>6.2< / ><>...< / >< / ><><>373< / ><>320< / ><>CT UK Cap & Inc< / ><>336< / ><>-< / ><>1< / ><>4.0< / ><>27.7< / >< / ><><>120< / ><>92< / ><>CT UK HIT

B< / ><>107< / ><>< / ><>5.6< / ><>22.1< / >< / ><><>126< / ><>97< / ><>CT UK HIT< / ><>106< / ><>-< / ><>1< / ><>5.6< / ><>21.9< / >< / ><><>480 ${1}{4}$ < / ><>460< / ><>Dunedin Ent#< / ><>475< / ><>< / ><>...< / >< / ><><>867< / ><>737 ${1}{8}$ < / ><>Edinburgh IT< / ><>819< / ><>< / ><>3.9< / ><>30.8< / >< / ><><>294 ${1}{2}$ < / ><>194 ${1}{4}$ < / ><>Edin Wwide< / ><>277 ${1}{2}$ < / ><>-< / ><>4 ${1}{2}$ < / ><>...< / ><>-250.0< / >< / ><><>1332< / ><>325 ${1}{4}$ < / ><>F&C Inv Trust< / ><>348 ${1}{8}$ < / ><>+< / ><> ${1}{4}$ < / ><>1.2< / ><>77.6< / >< / ><><>672< / ><>546< / ><>Fidelity Asian Val< / ><>606< / ><>-< / ><>2< / ><>3.4< / ><>26.9< / >< / ><><>339< / ><>239

${1}{2}$ < / ><>Fidelity China Sp< / ><>243 ${1}{2}$ < / ><>-< / ><>3< / ><>3.7< / ><>26.4< / >< / ><><>1574< / ><>897 ${1}{8}$ < / ><>FidelityEmrgMkt< / ><>1504< / ><>-< / ><>26< / ><>1.7< / ><>62.2< / >< / ><><>447 ${1}{2}$ < / ><>367 ${1}{2}$ < / ><>Fidelity European Trust< / ><>410 ${1}{2}$ < / ><>-< / ><>4 ${1}{2}$ < / ><>2.5< / ><>36.3< / >< / ><><>479 ${1}{2}$ < / ><>384 ${1}{8}$ < / ><>Fidelity Spec Val< / ><>459< / ><>-< / ><>1< / ><>2.3< / ><>37.4< / >< / ><><>875< / ><>706 ${1}{4}$ < / ><>Fins Gwth & Inc< / ><>776< / ><>-< / ><>4< / ><>2.7< / ><>41.1< / >< / ><><>86 ${1}{4}$ < / ><>69 ${1}{4}$ < / ><>GCP Infrastructure< / ><>80 ${1}{4}$ < / ><>-< / ><> ${3}{4}$

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商业招聘

打通领导力人才管道

ALAMY

简·汉密尔顿（Jane Hamilton）写道，雇主们正意识到培养年轻毕业生对企业的未来至关重要

毕业生招聘的趋势是否正在转变？在大量负面头条新闻以及调查显示学生招聘人数跌至十年最低点的背景下，一小部分但具有代表性的雇主已开始重新评估其对待早期职业生涯的人才方案。

尽管大学毕业后的招聘依然低迷，但学生雇主协会（ISE）的最新数据显示，其三分之一的成员增加了今年录用的毕业生人数。与此同时，中小企业（SMEs）正在抢夺那些可能被知名毕业生计划所吸收的高端毕业生。

ISE联合首席执行官斯蒂芬·伊舍伍德（Stephen Isherwood）表示：“组织通常意识到他们需要不断开发人才管道，其中就包括招聘学生。”

“今天录用的毕业生将在几年后进入管理岗位。在经济充满挑战时过度削减招聘的公司，在经济复苏时可能会面临资源受限的困境，从而阻碍增长。”

虽然人工智能的影响无疑放缓了毕业生招聘，但公司正面临三个关键问题。

首先，正如伊舍伍德所言，扼杀毕业生招聘会导致人才培养出现严重问题，并将在未来几年导致管理层和 C-suite（高管）候选人的短缺。

就业专家警告称，削弱拥有大量基层员工的传统“金字塔”型组织，并将其替换为将初级岗位外包给 AI 的“钻石”型组织，会使其面临风险。

保险公司苏黎世（Zurich）的人才招聘经理米歇尔·兰索姆（Michelle Ransome）表示：“投资毕业生不仅仅是为了填补今天的基层岗位，更是为了培养下一代领导者并建立强大的未来人才管道。”她每年招聘数百名毕业生和学徒。

她补充道：“通过尽早将年轻且有才华的人才引入企业并投资于他们的发展，我们能够构建支持该行业未来多年所需的技能、专业知识和领导能力。”

越来越多的公司也开始关注不招收毕业生所带来的损失。虽然增加 AI 的使用最初可能会节省大量成本，但领导者们已开始强调人类技能的流失，这种现象被称作“共情能力退化”（empathy deskilling）。为了应对这一问题，那些严重依赖建立信任的人际关系的行业正在增加毕业生招聘。

（上图）伊莎贝拉·佩因特（Isabella Painter）建议，不要等到大学最后几个月才开始考虑毕业生计划

六项最佳建议

杰米·马斯拉夫（Jamie Masraff）的职业生涯一直处于转型之中，从企业融资到地方议会。现在，作为全国青年慈善机构 OnSide 的首席执行官，他正通过下个月在克鲁（Crewe）启动的一个价值 1400 万英镑 项目开设其第 20 家青年俱乐部来改变人们的生活。以下是杰米关于提升领导力的建议。

关注目标的重要性：不要假设每个人都能感受到你的组织所产生的影响。我的工作就是提醒每个人，我们的工作对年轻人来说为什么如此重要。

追求不懈的积极心态：这并不意味着要戴上虚伪的微笑，而是鼓励我自己和我的团队在面对任何问题时，紧接着思考如何使其变得更好。

信任你的好奇心：对他人工作保持兴趣，帮助我找到了自己热爱的岗位。它开启了一些我此前甚至不知道存在的大门。

四次职业生涯，而非一次：我曾被建议在相当长的一段时间内全身心地投入到一项职业中，然后切换到不同的领域。这让我保持新鲜感。

及时处理电子邮件：首席执行官将所有时间都花在思考或开会上的想法是荒谬的。电子邮件是我们表达关怀、尊重以及提供方向的主要方式。你的职位越高，这一点就越重要。

对于像我这样喜欢共识与和谐的人来说，这可能很难——但如果这对组织最有利，就不要拖延。

先做困难的事：领导力涉及一些可能会让那些你喜欢且赏识的人感到不快的决定。

“更加积极主动并使优势相匹配”

案例研究

伊莎贝拉·佩因特（Isabella Painter），22岁，是波特曼金融集团（Portman Finance Group）毕业生计划中的一名商业金融经纪见习生。她表示：“人工智能和自动化正在改变许多传统上毕业生可以胜任的入门级岗位的性质。但这种转变也使得沟通和关系建立等人类技能变得日益宝贵。”

“积极主动地思考你的优势与……机会在何处相匹配，这一点至关重要。我的建议是尽早开始。不要等到大学最后几个月才开始考虑毕业生计划。”

“我还鼓励学生不要仅仅关注公司的名称或感知到的名声。要仔细研究该计划的结构、可获得的培训和支持，以及晋升机会。”

给优秀年轻求职者的顶端建议

毕业生市场依然竞争激烈，因此以下是 Bright Network 为获得录用提供的建议。申请所有岗位可能很有诱惑力，但专注于少数、更具针对性的申请，能让你有更多机会使每一份申请个性化。真正了解该组织和该岗位，并展示你为什么对这个特定机会感兴趣。展示你的技能组合。

查看该岗位要求的技能，并思考你在哪里证明过这些技能。雇主看重韧性、沟通和解决问题等素质。兼职工作、大学社团、志愿者活动和副业都可以提供这些技能的证明。关键在于能够解释你做了什么以及从中学习到了什么。 - 智能地使用 AI。它在研究不熟悉的行业、理解专业术语、练习面试问题或检查公司的招聘流程方面非常有用。你可以利用它来帮助构建简历结构，但不要让它代写全文。 - 许多雇主提供洞察环节或辅导，以帮助候选人理解并准备其招聘流程。

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他说：“我们处于一个由关系驱动的行业，与客户之间的个人信任至关重要，为了提供这种服务，我们需要投资于人才。”

最后，一些企业报告称，减少毕业生招聘产生了使组织思维同质化的意外效果。毕业生网络 Bright Network 的首席执行官克斯滕·巴恩斯（Kirsten Barnes）发现，越来越多的公司在考虑这个问题。

候选人应在以下一个或多个领域具备深厚的专业知识，包括相关的食品学术领导力与研究；沟通与宣传；公共事务、国家或地区政治；经济学；以及从基金会筹款和与家族办公室合作。

她说：“年轻人带来了新鲜的视角、新的技能，能以不同的方式看待问题，并挑战既有的做事方式。”

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Z世代求职者陷入了“机会悖论”，81%的人认为雇主期望他们在获得实际机会积累职场经验之前就已经拥有相关经验。来自 Career Ready 的一项研究表明，57%的年轻人难以找到与其理想职业相关的有意义的工作经验，且不足半数的人有信心能在自己心仪的领域获得工作。

预计每年的时间投入为六到八天，以志愿形式提供。会议通常在 Food Foundation 位于伦敦的办公室面对面举行。

员工福祉失效

正值国家职场生活周（National Work Life Week），但专家们警告称，员工福祉正面临危机，因为有超过200万名员工表示他们“讨厌”自己的工作。CharlieHR 的本·盖特利（Ben Gateley）表示：“我们必须停止将员工福祉视为一种‘有了更好’的福利，让企业在员工已经精疲力竭时才将其搬出来。现在发生的事情要严重得多。我们不能简单地告诉人们休一个‘福祉日’就认为问题解决了。”

董事会尚未为未来做好准备

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高管猎头专家 Heidrick & Struggles 的一项研究表明，半数欧洲公司的董事会未能建立长期韧性，且缺乏企业未来成功所需的能力。仅有 42% 的欧洲公司报告称，他们在董事会与执行团队之间、战略与人才储备管理之间，以及领导力开发流程之间实现了协同一致。

Food Foundation 慈善机构招募志愿信托管理人员

慈善机构 Food Foundation 正在招募多名新信托管理人员。该机构致力于为英国每一个人提供负担得起、健康且可持续的饮食。

该慈善机构欢迎具有食品贫困生活经历的人士加入，包括那些处于职业生涯早期的个人。

由于不良饮食和粮食不安全给个人、国民医疗服务体系（NHS）、雇主以及经济带来了沉重成本，该机构的工作重点是向政策制定者、企业和投资者推广基于证据的解决方案。

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主席需在与关键战略利益相关者密切合作的同时，为英国卫生安全局首席执行官提供支持与挑战。他们必须确保董事会高效运作，与领导团队密切协作以实现既定目标，并担任大使，并在需要时与首席执行官合作，作为该机构的公众形象。

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数学家及美国国家航空航天局（Nasa）软件工程师，她的代码挽救了阿波罗 11 号的登月任务，且她创造了其职业的术语

“鹰号”尚未完全着陆，玛格丽特·汉密尔顿站在实验室的监控室里，聆听着尼尔·阿姆斯特朗、巴兹·奥尔德林与Nasa任务控制中心之间的对话。“一切都按计划进行，直到就在宇航员准备在月球着陆的过程中，发生了一些完全出乎意料的事情，”她回忆道。

1969年7月20日，当“鹰号”登月舱下降到布满尘埃和陨石坑的静海时，被称为 1201 和 1202 的晦涩错误代码开始在休斯顿以及距离地球 230,000 英里之处闪烁。阿波罗 11 号的指挥官阿姆斯特朗要求知道发生了什么，任务控制中心仓促应对这一问题，面临着一个关于是否中止任务的重大最后时刻决定。

在一次任务前的模拟演习中，面对类似的警报，Nasa的控制员曾选择放弃下降。而这一次，一名 26 岁的引导员史蒂夫·贝尔斯建议阿姆斯特朗和奥尔德林可以安全地继续执行。当奥尔德林拨动一个雷达开关时，航天器中的中央处理单元出现了过载——但由于软件重启，并且这次通过仅执行高优先级功能来限制工作量，从而避免了一次潜在的严重系统故障。

“很快大家就清楚，软件不仅在告知所有人存在硬件相关问题，而且软件正在对其进行补偿。在仅剩几分钟的时间里，决定继续着陆，”汉密尔顿在 2009 年告诉麻省理工学院新闻网（MIT News）。“接下来的故事已成历史。”

汉密尔顿领导着麻省理工学院（MIT）仪器实验室（现称为德雷珀实验室）的一个部门。该部门为 1961 年至 1972 年运行的阿波罗计划开发了引导、导航和控制系统。

汉密尔顿被认为推广了“软件工程”这一术语。“我是出于绝望才想出这个词的，为了说：‘嘿，我们也在从事工程’。这在很长一段时间里一直是个笑话。然后有一天在一次会议上，一位最受尊敬的硬件大牛向所有人解释说他同意我的看法。那是一个令人难忘的时刻。”

由于大部分注意力都集中在宇航员及其机器上，技术背后复杂的设计和晦涩的编程在太空竞赛的早期阶段经常被公众甚至Nasa的规划者所忽视。

“刚开始，没人认为软件是那么回事。但随后他们开始意识到他们多么依赖它，”汉密尔顿在 2019 年告诉《卫报》。“宇航员的生命危在旦夕。我们的软件需要极高的可靠性，并且需要能够在任务期间随时检测错误并从中恢复。而且这一切都必须适配于硬件。”

在多功能个人电脑将软件变为商品之前的时代，软件产业几乎不存在，程序通常被设计用于在定制机器上完成特定任务。阿波罗引导计算机重 32kg，但仅有 72 kilobytes 的只读存储器和 32 kilobits 的随机存取存储器。现代智能手机的性能是其数百万倍。

与其他技术岗位相比，软件开发岗位对女性相对开放，因为许多管理人员将程序员视为高级打字员。阿波罗计划的编程涉及在纸上手写代码，并将一盒盒打孔卡片喂入一台像衣柜一样大的大型机中，由其在夜间处理数据并进行现实场景的模拟。阿波罗计划的计算结果通过微小的磁芯和在工厂中穿线的电线，被转化为二进制指令的“绳索”，这些工作通常由前纺织工人完成。她们被戏称为 LOLs——“小老太们”（Little Old Ladies），而汉密尔顿则被昵称为“绳索之母”。

她领导着一支由一百名工程师组成的团队。“当我接手时，高层的一位老板说，他毫不怀疑我能胜任这份工作，但担心小组里的男性员工可能会反抗，”她在 2019 年说道。

“结果他们并没有。最重要的是，我们致力于执行任务，肩并肩地解决具有挑战性的问题并赶在关键截止日期前完成。”

汉密尔顿在周末和晚上工作时，有时会把上小学的女儿劳伦带到实验室。有一天，劳伦在指令模块模拟器的键盘上“扮演宇航员”，她的触碰触发了一条错误消息。软件崩溃了，因为劳伦在飞行途中启动了一个名为 P01 的发射前程序。“我想：我的天——这在真实的任务中也可能无意中发生，”汉密尔顿回忆道，她当时提出编写代码以消除这个新发现的缺陷。美国国家航空航天局（Nasa）拒绝了。“我们被告知

她曾打多份工以筹集大学学费，包括售卖烧烤鸡

她说，很多时候宇航员是不允许犯任何错误的，“他们被训练成必须完美”。

阿波罗 8, 是首次绕月飞行的载人任务，于 1968. 12月发射。在任务开始五天后，指令舱飞行员吉姆·洛威尔（Jim Lovell，讣告见 8, 2025 年 8月）的一次误触按键意外启动了P01程序，导致计算机删除了确保宇航员能安全返回地球至关重要的导航数据。

即便有了从劳伦的钻研中获得的认知，汉密尔顿及其团队仍花费了九个小时才解决该问题。此后，她的美国国家航空航天局（Nasa）主管们对她极其详尽的关注细节之精神产生了更高的尊重。

她说：“在使用这种通用系统语言（Universal Systems Language）工作时，我本身就像是在执行一项任务。这有点像根管治疗：你等到最后才处理，[但]其实有些事情可以在事前就做好。这就像是预防性医疗，只不过它是预防性软件。”

玛格丽特·伊莱恩·希菲尔德（Margaret Elaine Heafield） 1936, 年出生于印第安纳州的保利（Paoli）。她是肯尼斯（Kenneth）和露丝（Ruth，原姓帕廷顿）四个孩子中的长女。肯尼斯是一位大学教授、哲学家兼诗人，出生于斯塔福德郡的伯顿-昂-特伦特（Burton upon Trent）；露丝则是一名高中教师。她的祖父曾任校长，也是一名贵格会牧师。

汉密尔顿在学校表现优异，且不仅限于数学。“只要你说出某种爱好，”她回忆道，“我就有那种爱好。我参加过合唱团，在乐队演奏，骑过马，喜欢跳舞，还打棒球。那是一个纯男生的球队，但因为我们的小镇太小，他们需要一名额外的球员，所以问我是否愿意参加。我当时欣喜若狂。”

由于家庭并不富裕，为了上大学，汉密尔顿打了一系列零工，包括在一家烧烤鸡店工作，以及在一家废弃的铜矿担任导游。她说：“如果我们想要什么，就必须通过劳动获得，所以我尽可能地赚取每一分钱。”

她在印第安纳州的一所贵格会附属文理学院——厄尔汉学院（Earlham College）学习数学和哲学，并在那里遇到了她的丈夫，化学系学生詹姆斯·考克斯·汉密尔顿（James Cox Hamilton）。两人于 1958, 结婚，同年她毕业。随后，她的丈夫就读于哈佛法学院，而她在进入麻省理工学院（MIT）工作之前，通过在高中任教来支撑家庭。 1959, 年，她在数学家兼气象学家、被誉为“混沌理论之父”的爱德华·洛伦兹（Edward Lorenz）的实验室里开发天气预报软件。

在洛伦兹的指导下，她对实验性编程产生了浓厚兴趣。“我对此着迷了。”在 1961 至 1963, 年冷战笼罩美国的期间，她在MIT为美国空军编写检测敌机的软件；她是第一个解开所有新程序员都要面对的谜题的人——即解码一个作者用拉丁语和希腊语写了注释的程序。

上图为汉密尔顿在航天模拟器内部；右图为她与 1969. 年阿波罗任务的打印代码合影。左下图为 2016 年她获奥巴马总统颁发的总统自由勋章。

汉密尔顿原计划重返研究生院，此时在波士顿担任公司律师的丈夫在报纸上看到一条MIT的招聘广告，招募开发软件以“将人类送上月球”的人才。

起初，她是德雷珀（Draper）团队中唯一的女性，该公司首先聘请她担任程序员，随后让她担任阿波罗计划和天空实验室（Skylab）空间站的首席软件开发人员。她说：“我被这个纯粹的想法以及它此前从未被实现过的事实所吸引。我是加入的第一名程序员，也是他们雇佣的第一名女性。男性工程师已经在参与该项目，但他们是硬件工程师，这不是他们的专长。而这是我的专业背景。我想（实验室）只是认为我可以应对未知。”

汉密尔顿的方法如此细致，以至于在她 1969 年至 1972 年间参与的所有六次登月任务中，据已知情况没有出现过任何软件漏洞。在 70 年代，她共同创立了一家设计错误预防系统的公司，

Higher Order Software。

1967 年，玛格丽特与詹姆斯·汉密尔顿离婚。两年后，她与丹·利克利结婚，后者是德雷珀实验室（Draper）的一名导航程序主管，也是聘请她参与阿波罗计划的人。他们在 70 年代离婚，随后汉密尔顿与一名名为罗恩·哈克勒的音乐家建立关系，她培训他学习系统工程，并聘用他在她于 1986 年创立的汉密尔顿技术公司（Hamilton Technologies）工作。他于 2025 年去世；汉密尔顿留有一名来自第一段婚姻的女儿劳伦，一名演员。

软件工程师玛格丽特·汉密尔顿出生于 1936 年 8 月 17 日。她于 2026 年 9 月 30 日去世，享年 90 岁。

2017 年，她获得了另一项荣誉：她与宇航员萨莉·赖德、梅·杰米森以及天文学家南希·罗曼一起，作为四位“美国国家航空航天局（Nasa）女性”之一被乐高（Lego）永久纪念（讣告，2019 年 1 月 9 日）。该套装参考了一张著名的照片，其中包含一个戴眼镜的小人像，站在一叠与她一样高的阿波罗 II 号代码旁。“因为软件在当时是一个谜，一个黑匣子，高层管理人员给了我们完全的自由和信任。我们必须找到一条路，而我们确实找到了，”她在 2009 年说道，“除了成为先驱，别无选择。”

2016 年，她被奥巴马总统授予美国最高平民荣誉——总统自由勋章。奥巴马表示：“她代表了那一代帮助人类进入太空的无名女性。我们的宇航员时间不多，但庆幸的是，他们有玛格丽特·汉密尔顿。”

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无畏的下士：在古斯格林清理敌方战壕并赢得军事奖章，随后与创伤后应激障碍、无家可归和监狱作斗争

斯坦迪什在1982年5月的马尔维纳斯群岛冲突期间，作为一名下士表现卓越

随着战斗命令的下达，伞兵团第二营（2 Para）的指挥官“H”琼斯中校告诉他的连长们：“所有之前的证据都表明，如果猛烈打击敌人，他们将会崩溃。”

这些证据来自特种空勤团（SAS）的袭击，他们早在几周前就秘密登陆在东马尔维纳斯群岛。然而，1982, 5月底在达尔文和古斯格林定居点区域随后展开的战斗，被证明是自朝鲜战争以来英国一个营所经历的最激烈的战斗。

莱斯·斯坦迪什（Les Standish）刚满21, 岁一个月，是B连中一名代理步枪班长的下士，带领着一个由八人组成的步枪班，其中一些人更年轻，大多数则年长。B连由约翰·克罗斯兰（John Crosland）少校指挥，后者是阿曼佐法尔战争中的SAS老兵。虽然之前的证据表明阿根廷军队在受到猛烈打击时可能会崩溃，但他们拥有人数优势和预设阵地，部分阵地还设有地雷掩护。克罗斯兰简单地告诉他的士兵们：“那里有他妈的几百个混蛋。”总计有近1,200人，是2 Para人数的两倍，而夜袭是稍微弥补劣势的唯一方法。此外，在南大西洋深冬，白昼时间不足九小时。无论战术领导多么巧妙，最终都要依靠像斯坦迪什这样的非委任军官（NCO）来执行最艰苦的打击。

由于在宽一英里的地峡地带几乎没有侧翼包抄的机会，2 Para 的行动将由其四个步枪连进行一系列攻击。当B连最终到达攻击起跑线时，格林威治标准时间已是5月28, 上午7点之后，距离天亮仅剩三个半小时。虽然黑暗为进攻连队提供了一定的掩护，但它加剧了精确定位敌人和控制部队的困难。沿地峡的推进演变成了近距离的遭遇战。伞兵们有时会撞上敌人的火力战壕，斯坦迪什本人在作为一名步枪兵战斗的同时，还必须控制其班组的移动。

战斗持续了一整天，期间“H”琼斯被击毙（并被追授维多利亚十字勋章），2 Para 逐渐夺取了阿根廷的关键阵地。到黄昏时分，他们已控制了整个半岛并包围了主要定居点，那里囚禁着几名马尔维纳斯群岛居民。次日上午晚些时候，在一次巧妙的战争诡计之后，克里斯·基布尔（Chris Keeble）少校接受了该守备队的投降，人数约为950名士兵。2 Para 损失了17人死亡，60多人受伤，而阿根廷人的损失是该数字的三倍。

斯坦迪什被推荐授予军事奖章（MM）的措辞极其简练，却极具说服力（此次行动共授予九枚该奖章，其中一枚为追授）：“在向古斯格林推进期间，他率领其班组进行了一系列激烈的夜战。必须逐个战壕清理敌人。黎明后不久，敌方火力将他的士兵困在开阔地；他冷静地将他们撤回至掩蔽地。在撤退过程中，一名二等兵受伤。斯坦迪什下士不顾自身安全，顶着敌方火力返回，将其拖至安全地带。在整个战斗过程中，斯坦迪什下士以极高的卓越表现和勇气指挥其班组。”

斯坦迪什在火力下营救伤员的英勇行为是显而易见的，但同样卓越的是，他在下士这一最基层军衔上（通常班长应由正式中士担任）且仅有不到四年的经验情况下，所表现出的对职责的忠诚。

鹅绿岛之战极大地鼓舞了士气，但同时也让人们意识到，阿根廷人绝非易与之辈。两周后，斯坦迪什和第2伞兵营的其余成员在斯坦利港上方的山高地再次经历了一场艰苦的战斗。

莱斯利·詹姆斯·伦纳德·斯坦迪什（Leslie James Leonard Standish，昵称“莱斯”或“斯坦”）1961年出生于兰开夏郡的博尔顿，家中共有四个孩子；他有两个姐姐和一个弟弟。在前一年，他的父亲罗伊（Roy）曾是一名矿工，后来加入了第14 / 20国王骠骑兵团，并在该团服役了18年。因此，斯坦迪什的童年和青少年时期是在塞浦路斯、利比亚、德国和香港度过的。

斯坦迪什体能极佳且热爱橄榄球。1976年入伍时，他志愿加入伞兵团，并在次年进入驻柏林的第2伞兵营B连。1979年，该营在北爱尔兰唐郡的巴利金勒（Ballykinler）担任为期18个月的“省预备队”，期间迈克·杰克逊少校（Major Mike Jackson，后晋升为将军爵士，讣告见2024年10月15日）成为了他的连长。该营的职责覆盖全省，但重点关注敌意尤为强烈的南阿马（south Armagh）地区。杰克逊推荐斯坦迪什晋升为列兵（lance corporal）。

在北爱尔兰第二次服役后，斯坦迪什于1986年以正式下士（full corporal）军衔离开军队，并加入监狱服务部门担任体育训练教练。1990年，在曼彻斯特斯特兰格韦斯监狱（Strangeways Prison）发生的一场持续一个月的大规模骚乱中，他受了重伤；此次骚乱导致一名囚犯和一名狱警死亡，约150名狱警受伤。斯坦迪什开始酗酒，这加剧了后来被诊断为创伤后应激障碍（PTSD）的病情。“我会一直喝到睡着，醒来后继续喝。如果我在酒吧里，有人盯着我看，我就攻击他们。我不知道自己怎么了，而且我也不在乎。”他将自己的军事奖章（Military Medal）卖给了阿什克罗夫特勋章收藏馆（Lord Ashcroft Medal Collection）。

斯坦迪什后来用痛苦的措辞描述他在鹅绿岛的行动：“那是恐惧的眼神，我永远无法忘记。那个人知道自己快死了，而且知道是我要杀了他。这件事一直困扰着我……我不得不射杀很多人。那是一场残酷的战争，会对你产生影响。我可能走在街上，突然就会产生闪回。我开始做噩梦。”

他的婚姻破裂（在阿根廷人入侵时，他正处于蜜月期），随后他陷入了无家可归的境地，情况进一步恶化——因涉毒罪被判处三年监禁。在狱中，他曾计划自缢，直到与他分居的妻子带着孩子们来看他，他才改变主意。

获释后，他被接纳进北威尔士的一家PTSD退伍军人疗养院——蒂格温（Ty Gwyn），并再次结婚。然而六年之后，他的第二次婚姻也结束了，他住在面包车里，直到“街头士兵”（Soldiers off the Street）慈善机构帮他租到了自己的公寓。在这里，他终于开始扭转局面，并自己在一家相关的慈善机构工作。2002年，他在一个退伍军人网站上结识并交好了一名曾经的阿根廷士兵。随后，他们安排了与阿根廷学童的Skype交流，以及与博尔顿学童的面对面交流。

2021年，他与第三任妻子朱莉·诺里斯（Julie Norris）结婚，两人已相识20年。朱莉与他第一段婚姻的两个孩子以及第二段婚姻的两个孩子在世。

斯坦迪什试图面对自己的堕落，对此他从未寻找借口。他回忆起在早年，如果他尝试谈论自己的感受，得到的回答总是：“你是伞兵团的士兵，振作起来。”

莱斯·斯坦迪什（Les Standish MM），士兵，出生于1961年4月2日。他于2026年9月2日因癌症去世，享年65岁。

柯林·鲍尔 (Colin Power)

深受观众喜爱的轻次轻量级拳击手，他与对手克林顿·麦肯齐（Clinton McKenzie）的对决是 era. 最扣人心弦的比赛之一

科林·鲍尔（Colin Power）在 1979 年与克林顿·麦肯齐争夺英国轻次轻量级冠军的几场比赛竞争极其激烈且引人入胜，其中两场被《拳击新闻》（Boxing News）评为那个时代最出色的比赛之列。两人都曾获得冠军，且各自拥有不同的优势，从精准的刺拳到战术智慧不等，但他们的竞争关系过于短暂。他们都来自伦敦，但除了在拳击场上之外从未见过面，在第三次职业交手后便不再会面。

“科林有一颗强大的内心，是一个意志坚定且正直的人，”麦肯齐说道。他在两人第三场也是最后一场职业比赛中获胜，并且像鲍尔一样，成为了欧洲以及英国的轻次轻量级冠军。“我们互不喜欢。但那时我们并不了解彼此。在很多方面他像个幽灵，过着神秘的生活。似乎没人知道他住在哪里；他不与拳击手社交，退休后便销声匿迹。”

“但现在回想起来，我对他的评价只有尊重。没有过任何粗鲁的话语，我们也不想伤害对方。我知道在与他交手时我必须处于最佳状态，而有一次我没能做到，当时我体重稍微超标，他迅速击败了我。我们的对决让双方都精疲力竭，比赛结束后，他会和我握手，说一声‘干得好’，然后就消失了。所以我从未真正了解过他。”

科林·爱德华·鲍尔（Colin Edward Power）出生于 1956, 在伦敦西部的帕丁顿长大。他的父亲尼古拉斯·鲍尔（Nicholas Power）是第二次世界大战中的一名炮手，母亲凯瑟琳·鲍尔（Kathleen Power）是一名家庭帮工。他曾在当时位于埃奇韦尔（Edgware）的圣詹姆斯高中就读。即使在业余时期，他在赛前经常被冠以“Powers”之名，但他似乎并不在意，即便在英国拳击控制委员会（British Boxing Board of Control）裁定单数形式的姓氏才是正确写法后，拼写依然有所变动，他也没有表示反对。在业余时期，他在 1975, 赢得了伦敦西北区赛区冠军，但在决赛中被最终获胜者格雷厄姆·莫顿（Graham Moughton）击败。

鲍尔随即决定转为职业选手，并赢得了前八场比赛。他被视为一名深受观众喜爱、进攻激进的拳手，总是直接向对手发起冲击，试图用一记击倒拳结束战斗。

鲍尔在 24 岁时退休，随后回归。1977 年 3 月，他在梅费尔区帕克巷的希尔顿酒店与麦肯齐进行了八回合的较量。两人在业余时期交手过两次，且麦肯齐两次获胜。当他们转为职业选手后，再次相遇在所难免。鲍尔此前击败了两名前冠军汤米·格伦克罗斯（Tommy Glencross）和乔伊·辛格尔顿（Joey Singleton），势头正盛。他完全压制了对手，在两回合内将其击倒，并为自己的胜利而欢呼。

“我从未如此渴望击败过任何人，”他说。“当我转为职业选手时，我告诉我的经纪人维克·安德雷蒂（Vic Andreetti），如果克林顿转职，他就是我想面对的最强对手。一切都按计划进行。那是段伟大的时光。”

麦肯齐的家人定居在克罗伊登，他曾在前一年的奥运会上与舒格·雷·伦纳德（Sugar Ray Leonard）交手，他回忆道：“在希尔顿酒店的比赛前，我本需要减掉几磅体重，虽然科林对此并不知情。不幸的是，我没能减掉。他用一个漂亮的左勾拳击中了我也，但我内心深处知道我一定会赢回来的。我笑了笑，心想：伙计，下次我一定会让你好看的。”

在那年的10月，鲍尔在东伦敦的约克大厅通过一场他最令人印象深刻的胜利之一，赢得了空缺的英国轻次中量级冠军头衔。他将同样出生于牙买加的德斯·莫里森击倒了三次。这场比赛在第十回合被终止。鲍尔在面对史蒂夫·沃克时成功卫冕，随后在11回合中击败了法国的让-巴蒂斯特·皮埃德瓦什，夺得欧洲冠军。之后，他在与西班牙选手费尔南多·桑切斯的一场艰苦比赛中充满争议地失去了该头衔。

鲍尔随后于1979年在温布利会议中心与麦肯齐交手，并以一回合之差击败对方，正式获得了伦斯代尔腰带。麦肯齐说道：“我使出全力击打他，但他就是不倒下。我们面对面激战了15回合。他的强项依然是他的刺拳，那记漂亮的刺拳——我根本无法让它远离我的脸。我的左眼在第14回合肿了起来。裁判说，如果那不是倒数第二回合的话，他就会终止比赛。”

然而，麦肯齐最终在1979年秋天同一场地的另一场势均力敌的比赛中，击败了他最强劲的对手，夺得英国冠军。这似乎击垮了鲍尔的斗志，当他在四个月后输给西尔维斯特·“大师爆破手”·米蒂时，他在24岁时宣布退役。后来他曾尝试复出，并在几场几乎没有媒体关注的比赛中取得了五场胜利，直到1983年在亚历山德拉宫的一场比赛中，他在六回合内输给了比他年轻六岁的劳埃德·克里斯蒂，导致他再次宣布退役。这一次，他再也没有回归。他的总战绩是在34场比赛中取得28胜、1平、5负。

退役后，鲍尔远离了拳击活动和聚会，并与旧时的同事和对手失去了联系。他的遗属包括妻子艾伦（原姓杜迪，两人在14岁时相识）以及在癌症医院工作的儿子西蒙。麦肯齐打趣道：“我想科林退役是因为我打败了他。对我来说这并不意外，尽管他当时只有24岁。我是最强的——是冠军。德斯·莫里森与我们之间的竞争确实非同寻常。科林曾让我濒临崩溃，他一直留在我的记忆中。”

拳击手科林·鲍尔出生于1956年2月2日。他于2026年9月16日因癌症去世，享年70岁。

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向金融监察员提交的投诉已过时效

王座法院 (King's Bench Division) 发布日期：2026年10月9日 R (巴克莱银行英国公众有限公司及其他方) 诉 金融监察服务有限公司 (Financial Ombudsman Service Ltd)

主审法官：德克斯特·迪亚斯 (Dexter Dias J) [2026] EWHC 1555 (Admin) 判决日期：2026年6月24日

金融监察员的管辖权，以及由此产生的提供救济的能力，仅限于向该服务机构提交投诉之日起六年内发生的事件，并不延伸至债务人与债权人之间的整个信用关系。

然而，金融监察员可以将整个关系作为投诉的背景进行考虑，并在确定针对在时效内发生的行为采取救济是否恰当，以及如果恰当，何为公平合理时予以考虑。

高等法院在允许四家银行（巴克莱银行英国公众有限公司、国民西敏寺银行公众有限公司、Vanquis银行有限公司和桑坦德英国公众有限公司）就金融监察服务局 (FOS) 于2024年7月做出的决定申请司法复核时，做出了上述裁定。

这些决定涉及四名银行客户根据《1974年消费者信用法》第140A条向 FOS 提交的关于不公平信用关系的投诉。客户指控银行向其提供了无法负担的信用额度，形式包括透支或信用卡。除一例之外，所有投诉均在信用额度发放六年之后才提交。

银行方面认为，根据英国金融行为监管局 (FCA) 手册中“争议解决：投诉”章节的限制性测试 (DISP 2.8.2R)，这些投诉已过时效，因此监察员应当拒绝行使管辖权。

FOS 则主张对每项信用关系的整体拥有管辖权，认为银行与原告之间关系中未被纠正的不公平性，意味着就 DISP 2.8.2R 的目的而言，没有任何一项投诉是过时效的。

监察员对其管辖权的解释基于两点理由。首先，它依赖于最高法院在 Smith 诉 英国皇家银行公众有限公司案 ([2023] UKSC 34；《泰晤士报》，2023年12月11日) 中的裁决，而该裁决本身又借鉴了 Plevin 诉 Paragon 个人金融有限公司案 ([2014] UKSC 61；《泰晤士报》，2014年11月28日)，确立了这样一个原则：不公平的债权人-债务人关系会产生一种“纠正责任”，要求债权人将解决不公平问题视为合理行为的一部分；未能这样做则构成一项持续的相关遗漏，并且就 DISP 2.8.2R 中的时效测试而言，构成一项新的“被投诉事件”，从而使整个信用关系处于监察员的管辖范围之内。

第二个理由是，在 DISP 2.8.2R 规定的六年时效期内发生的“被投诉事件”，扩大了监察员管辖权的范围，允许调查整个信用关系期间发生的事件，无论这些事件在时间上多么遥远，也无论救济是否恰当。

英国金融行为监管局 (FCA) 代表银行介入，主张 FOS 的做法在法律上是错误的，且其对管辖权的这种新表述违反了 FCA 作为法定监管机构，根据议会授予其在《2000年金融服务与市场法》下的规则制定权而创建的时效限制。

Javan Herberg KC 和 Ajay Ratan 代表巴克莱银行英国公众有限公司；John Taylor KC 代表国民西敏寺银行公众有限公司和 Vanquis 银行有限公司；Saima Hanif 代表桑坦德英国公众有限公司；James Strachan 和 Adam Boukraa 代表 FOS；Monica Carss-Frisk 和 Celia Rooney 代表 FCA。

德克斯特·迪亚斯法官 (MR JUSTICE DEXTER DIAS) 裁定，FOS 在制定这种新的、扩张的管辖权概念时在法律上犯了错误。

关于金融申诉服务局（FOS）的管辖权，是指调查并在适当情况下在收到投诉后给予救济的权力。必须在上述意义上的管辖权（即对债权人与债务人之间整个关系的调查权和救济权）与通过考量该关系的整体情况来判定其是否公平之间，划定一条清晰的界限。后者并非是对整个信贷关系的管辖权行使，而是利用该关系的历史记录，在判定投诉结果时评估其整体公平性。

在最高法院针对史密斯案（Smith's case）的判决中，莱加特勋爵（Lord Leggatt）针对《1974年消费者信贷法》第140A条和140B条项下的投诉设定了一个两阶段处理方法。第一阶段是分类阶段，要求法院判定基于信贷协议而产生的债权人与债务人之间的关系对债务人是否不公平。如果法院认定该关系不公平，则必须进入第二个补救阶段，并从第140B(1)条的选项列表中决定采取何种补救命令（如有）。

其真正的意义在于

“事件”是指一次性发生的情况，即使像测试赛那样持续一段时间

Smith案和Plevin案判决的真正意义在于确立了债权人“通常”必须对导致信贷关系不公平的疏忽承担责任。更具体地说，Plevin案确立了如果债权人未能采取合理措施纠正该关系中的任何不公平之处，则可能被认定为导致信贷关系不公平。因此，当债权人未能采取此类措施时，他们将面临根据第140A条被判定为不利分类的风险。然而，Plevin案并未将因疏忽而导致不公平信贷关系的责任归属，转化为一种纠正该关系的积极责任。当法院基于某种疏忽将债权人判定为对不公平负责时，随后必须根据第140B条处理一个独立的问题，即针对该分类应做出什么样的补救命令，且法院有权决定完全不做出此类命令。

Plevin案也没有为监察员的主张提供支持，即认为持续未能纠正不公平之处在DISP 2.8.2R的定义下等同于一系列连续的、截然不同的“事件”，其他权威判例亦未提供支持。此外，该主张违背了对“事件”的自然且常规的理解，即“事件”是指一次性发生的情况，即使是像板球测试赛那样可能持续一段时间的情况。选择“事件”一词有力地指向了DISP 2.8.2R的目的，即排除陈旧的索赔，而这一目的应通过要求时效从一个已确定且易于识别的行为或疏忽开始计算来实现。

在对整个信贷关系的管辖权与通过考量该信贷关系以确定其是否公平之间进行区分后，适用DISP 2.8.2R的正确方法应该是：在投诉前超过六年的行为可以被视为该投诉的背景，并用于确定针对一项在时效内的行为采取补救措施是否合适，以及如果合适，什么才是公平合理的。然而，投诉前超过六年的行为不能获得其自身的独立补救。

因此，监察员在主张对银行在客户向金融申诉服务局（FOS）投诉前六年多之前提供的信贷额度行使管辖权时，在法律上犯了错误。

代表律师：Eversheds Sutherland (International) LLP；Pinsent Masons LLP；TLT LLP；Addleshaw Goddard LLP；金融申诉服务有限公司（Financial Ombudsman Service Ltd）；金融行为监管局（Financial Conduct Authority）。

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城市 / 温度 / 天气 / 降水量 / 风速 :--- 布里斯托 (Bristol) / 15 / PC / 0.0 / 1.6 坎伯恩 (Camborne) / 14 / 0.0 / 3.7 加的夫 (Cardiff) / 14 / 0.0 / 2.6 爱丁堡 (Edinburgh) / 11 / C / 0.0 / 8.1 埃斯克代尔缪尔 (Eskdalemuir) / 10 / 0.0 / 7.2 格拉斯哥 (Glasgow) / 13 / B / 1.2 / 6.2 赫里福德 (Hereford) / 14 / C / 0.0 / ** 赫斯特蒙苏 (Herstmonceux) / 13 / S / 2.0 / 0.0 伊普斯威奇 (Ipswich) / 12 / S / 2.6 / 0.0 曼岛 (Isle of Man) / 13 / C / 2.2 / 7.2 14 / C / 0.0 / ** 纽卡斯尔 (Newcastle) / ** / 0.0 / ** 诺丁汉 (Nottingham) / 13 / S / 0.0 / 3.3 奥克尼 (Orkney) / 10 / C / 1.0 / ** 牛津 (Oxford) / 13 / R / 0.0 / ** 普利茅斯 (Plymouth) / 15 / C / 0.0 / ** 波特兰 (Portland) / 15 / 0.0 / ** 圣玛丽, 锡利群岛 (Scilly, St Mary's) / 15 / 0.0 / ** 肖勒姆 (Shoreham) / 13 / ** / 0.4 / 0.0 什鲁斯伯里 (Shrewsbury) / 13 / C / 1.2 / 3.1 斯诺多尼亚 (Snowdonia) / 12 / C / 3.2 / ** 绍森德 (Southend) / 13 / S / 2.0 / 0.0 10 / C / 3.8 / ** 斯托诺韦 (Stornoway) / 10 / C / 2.2 / 3.6 蒂里岛 (Tiree) / 10 / R / 4.6 / 4.8 怀特黑文 (Whitehaven) / 11 / S / 0.2 / 5.6 威克 (Wick) / 11 / S / 0.8 / ** 尤维尔顿 (Yeovilton) / 15 / 0.0 / 1.4

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五日预报

风力增强，天气转不稳定，时有阵雨或降雨

明日

大风天气，伴有晴间多云及分散阵雨，北部和西部地区阵雨频繁且强度较大。南部地区阵雨较为零星，阳光较为充足。

周日

苏格兰和英格兰北部的零星阵雨将消散，随后大部分地区天气干燥且晴朗。南部地区基本干燥，但晚些时候西南地区可能会有少量降雨。

周一

东部地区开始时天气干燥，早晨有阳光，其余地区全天多云，局部有阵雨。 最高 18℃，最低 8℃

周二

风力较大，云层和雨带向东覆盖英格兰、威尔士和苏格兰。晚些时候中部地区有晴间多云，但南部地区降雨可能持续。爱尔兰有阵雨。

周三

一条雨带将移过爱尔兰、苏格兰和英格兰北部。南部地区较为干燥，但仍有阵雨风险。

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洪水预警与警告

周四 17:00，英格兰有两个洪水预警但无警告，威尔士或苏格兰无洪水预警或警告。欲了解英格兰的更多信息和更新，请访问 check-for-flooding.service.gov.uk；威尔士请访问 naturalresources.wales / flooding；苏格兰请访问 SEPA.org.uk

总体情况：英格兰和威尔士的雨势消散，天气转为微风，随后出现晴间多云及强风阵雨。湖区、苏格兰西南部、边境地区、英格兰东北部、马恩岛、北群岛：早晨强降雨后转为晴间多云，伴有强风阵雨。西风中等至清新。最高 15℃ (59F)，最低 6℃ (43F)。威尔士、中英格兰、英格兰西北部、英格兰中北部、英格兰西北部、英格兰东部：开始时多云并伴有阵雨，局部有暴雨。随后天气转晴，伴有零星阵雨。清新西风。最高 18℃ (64F)，最低 8℃ (46F)。爱尔兰共和国、北爱尔兰：早晨降雨后南部地区转为晴间多云及分散阵雨，北部地区阵雨频繁且强度较大。清新至强西风。最高 15℃ (59F)，最低 7℃ (45F)。英格兰西南部、英格兰中南部、英格兰东南部、东安格利亚、伦敦、海峡群岛：早晨多云，有小雨或毛毛雨，随后转为

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downpours in places. Turning brighter later with a scattering of showers. Fresh westerly winds. Maximum 18℃ (64F), minimum 8℃ (46F). Republic of Ireland, N Ireland: Early rain clearing southern areas to leave sunny spells and scattered showers, heavy and frequent in the north. Fresh to strong westerly winds. Maximum 15℃ (59F), minimum 7℃ (45F). SW Eng, Cen S Eng, SE Eng, E Anglia, London, Channel IS: A cloudy morning with light rain or drizzle, becoming

综述情况

一股冷锋将向东南方向移过威尔士和英格兰，带来云层、阵风以及阵雨，局部地区雨势猛烈。冷锋过后，许多地区将受微风北西流影响，出现晴间多云及阵雨，西北部地区阵雨较为普遍。阵雨将持续至明天，随后脊线将从西南方向建立。

随后更为持久。一场强劲且伴有阵风的阵雨带将在傍晚时分前后移过。南西风，风力中等至清新。最高气温 19℃ (66F)，最低气温 8℃ (46F)。苏格兰西北部、爱丁堡和邓迪、格拉斯哥、中部高地、莫雷湾、阿盖尔、阿伯丁、苏格兰东北部：中部和西部地区有强阵雨，东部地区阵雨较为分散，阳光充足。西风，风力中等至清新。最高气温 13℃ (55F)，最低气温 2℃ (36F)。

最高与最低气温 截至昨日下午5点的24小时内 最高温：伯恩茅斯，16.9℃ 最低温：奥特纳哈拉，-1.3℃ 最湿润：塞雷迪基昂，斯威德芬农，14.6mm 最晴朗：贝里克郡，查特霍尔，9.4hrs $^{☆}$

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天气之眼 保罗·西蒙斯

一股秋意已席卷英国，促使各家庭开启暖气并翻出冬装。在经历了数周反常的温暖天气后，南部的气温下降尤为剧烈。周二，萨里郡查尔伍德的最高气温达到了 23.4℃，但次日，该地区的最高气温则降至肯特郡曼斯顿的 18.2℃。

近期一些警告本周气温将“骤降”的头条新闻过于戏剧化，因为天气状况仅仅是回到了10月的平均水平。关于大范围降雪的预测则更具煽动性——小报警告“下周英国降雪量上调至2英寸”以及“早期降雪信号正在显现”。尽管周三在苏格兰高地的凯恩戈姆山确实落下了一层轻微且不足为奇的薄雪，但这在一年中的这个时节很典型。然而，这次小规模降雪是否预示着某篇新闻报道中所描述的“10月雪弹”？

这类猜测很大程度上源于人们担心太平洋地区正在发展的强厄尔尼诺现象可能会导致极地涡旋崩溃。这个涡旋通常是极寒的平流层中，围绕北极向东扫过的强风漩涡。如果这些风力足够减弱，它们可能会反向流动并造成混乱，将极寒空气向南输送，从而引发严酷的冬季天气。

当这种被置换的北极空气滤入低层大气时，它可能会使喷射气流偏离航道。这种干扰会导致极寒的西伯利亚之风涌入欧洲，制造出令人恐惧的“来自东方的野兽”，届时英国和欧洲大部分北部地区将陷入深度冻结，伴随剧烈的霜冻和大雪。

虽然强厄尔尼诺现象可能在冬季末期引发这种大气连锁反应，但这绝非定论。目前，该季节以冰封收尾的情况仍然不是一个可靠的预报。

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升级出现问题，拉塞尔将驾驶旧款梅赛德斯赛车

莫莉·哈德森 (Molly Hudson)

一级方程式特派记者，新加坡

在梅赛德斯车队试图查明升级问题根源之际，乔治·拉塞尔 (George Russell) 将在新加坡大奖赛中驾驶一辆比积分榜领先者基米·安东内利 (Kimi Antonelli) 更旧的梅赛德斯赛车。

梅赛德斯原本预期，上周末在马来西亚举行的巴林大奖赛中引入的升级版底盘、侧箱部分组件以及后悬挂能带来每圈约 0.3 秒的性能提升。然而，他们怀疑这次升级反而导致赛车速度下降。

为了进一步了解该升级方案，安东内利将在新加坡使用升级件，而拉塞尔则不会。无论如何，拉塞尔都知道自己周日将从发车格末尾起跑，因为他在马来西亚遭遇机械故障后被处以发动机处罚，这实际上使他失去了争夺冠军的机会。拉塞尔目前落后于队友 84 分。

“我恢复使用的这辆车在上一场比赛之前的[巴库]站曾以 0.8 秒的优势夺得杆位并赢得了比赛，所以记住这个背景很重要——我并不是在恢复使用首发赛车，”拉塞尔，28, 说道。

“考虑到发车格处罚的情况，这看起来是个无需思考的决定。本周末争夺领奖台的可能性极低，因此更重要的是尝试弄清楚马来西亚的情况是个偶然事件，还是升级方案导致的问题。”更糟糕的是，梅赛德斯的额外开发与升级机会 (ADUO) 发动机尚未准备就绪，因此拉塞尔在本赛季结束前还必须接受另一次后退十位的发车格处罚。

“目前的情况相当残酷，”他补充道，“我今年的[发动机]故障次数可能比过去三个赛季加起来还要多。”

“表现最好的人[安东内利]目前领跑锦标赛，[但]如果把数据和积分加起来，我认为在常规赛季中我依然非常有竞争力。虽然我仍处于劣势，但局势可能会迅速反转。”梅赛德斯渴望彻底解决可靠性问题，而落后 151 分的法拉利已准备好在车队冠军争夺战中趁虚而入。

与此同时，国际汽联 (FIA) 表示有信心已经修复了导致马来西亚分站赛延迟的软件漏洞。车手们抱怨出现了“完全不可接受”的场面，导致赛车失去动力并在赛道上缓慢爬行。

该软件漏洞发生在一场已被恶劣天气延迟的比赛的暖胎圈期间，导致多辆赛车必须通过关闭并重新开启所有系统来停止并重启。所有车手随后返回维修区，由于国际汽联需要更改赛车的能量限制，导致比赛长时间延迟。

博塔斯在社交媒体上记录了他的冒险经历，他表示夜晚骑行穿过森林是他前往新加坡旅程中“最壮观”的部分。

博塔斯在400公里骑行中避开毒蛇

莫莉·哈德森 新加坡

在从上周末的马来西亚分站骑行至新加坡的400多公里旅程中，瓦尔特里·博塔斯见到了蟒蛇和眼镜蛇，跳过了一只鬣蜥，还被一只狗追赶。

这位37岁的凯迪拉克车手是一名骑行爱好者。在捷克的一次资格赛中，他在其年龄组中获得第五名，从而赢得了参加砾石公路世界锦标赛（Gravel World Championships）的名额——但由于比赛时间与周日的新加坡大奖赛冲突，这位芬兰人无法参赛。

这位十次一级方程式赛车冠军在巴林大奖赛第九圈因湿滑赛道打转被迫退赛后，从马来西亚出发。当天晚上，他在两小时零八分钟内骑行了56.60公里（约35英里）。周一，即旅程的第二天，他在车座上度过了五小时四十五分钟，骑行了161.91公里，并在其Strava账户上记录了这段旅程。

在第三天，他又完成了161公里，随后在周三进行了最后的40公里路段。总计行程为419.67公里。“我看到了一些蛇，这让我有点担心，但实际上它们相当淡定——只是在做自己的事情，”博塔斯说道。

“我看到了一条眼镜蛇。看到一条蟒蛇正好从我面前的小路穿过。还看到了一些在这里也能见到的那种大蜥蜴。其中一只在路中间，因为我是最后一刻才发现的，所以我不得不骑车跳过去。我还被一只狗追过。”

“在一条小路上，我被一群牛挡住了。最狂野的部分是在丛林中夜骑。那里的噪音就像……然后你的大脑就开始产生幻觉。谁知道外面有什么，但你只需要咬牙坚持，继续前进。夜晚开着灯在森林里骑行，那大概是最壮观的部分。”

博塔斯补充说，他经常参加耐力赛，周三较低的里程实际上是一次恢复性骑行，这样这次挑战才不会影响他本周末的比赛。许多其他车手在周日晚上乘坐私人飞机抵达这里。

肯普顿公园 罗布·赖特

4.05 Bidsta< / td><>6.45 Valentine Boy< / >< / tr><><>4.38 Soeur De Flash< / ><>7.15 Cancan In The Rain< / >< / ><><>5.15 Captive Beauty< / ><>7.45 Sahm Naif< / >< / ><><>5.45 Lily Pink< / ><>8.15 Yachtsman< / >< / ><><>6.15 Sin City< / ><>< / >< / ><><>场地状况：标准至缓慢；抽签：5f-1m，低号占优< / ><>Racing TV< / >< / table>

<>< colspan="2">4.05< / >< colspan="2">新手赛 (2岁马: 5,400 英镑: 6f) (8)< / >< / ><><>1< / ><>(6)< / ><>21 BIDSTA 23 (D) G Boughey 9-9< / ><>B Loughnane< / >< / ><><>2< / ><>(3)< / ><>50 BLING 15 H Palmer 9-2< / ><>D Probert< / >< / ><><>3< / ><>(7)< / ><>445 HALLIWELL STREAM 23 J Chapple-Hyam 9-2< / ><>< / >< / ><><>< / ><>< / ><>E Greatrex< / >< / ><><>4< / ><>(8)< / ><>05563 LILYWHITE HART 24 D Ivory 9-2< / ><>K O'Neill< / >< / ><><>5< / ><>(2)< / ><>LUCILLE CEE Tom Clover 9-2< / ><>N Callan< / >< / ><><>6< / ><>(4)< / ><>0 SARASOTA BLUE BLUE 43 (BF) Sir M Prescott 9-2< / ><>J Gilligan< / >< / ><><>7< / ><>(5)< / ><>3 THREELITTLEANGELS 16 R Teal 9-2< / ><>J Leavy< / >< / ><><>8< / ><>(1)< / ><>06 WINTOUR 24℃ Cox 9-2< / ><>H Davies< / >< / ><>< colspan="4">赔率：Bidsta 平手, ThreeLittleangels 6-1, Sarasota Blue Blue 7-1, Bling 8-1, Halliwell Stream 10-1, Lucille Cee, Lilywhite Hart 12-1, Wintour 25-1。< / >< / table>

<>< colspan="4">4.38 育马赛 (2岁马: 4,187 英镑: 6f) (12)< / >< / ><><>1< / ><>(9) 00050 WAIT GEORDIE 28 H Palmer 9-9< / ><>L Catton (3)< / ><>< / >< / ><><>2< / ><>(7) 44115 HARRY'S POP 18 (D) D Cunha 9-9< / ><>S M Levey< / ><>< / >< / ><><>3< / ><>(8) 6124 SYDNEY GRACE 21℃ Fellowes 9-9< / ><>Kaiya Fraser< / ><>< / >< / ><><>4< / ><>(4) 4312 LAYLATY 43 (BF,D) Harry Charlton 9-8< / ><>D Probert< / ><>< / >< / table>

5 (2)< / td><>332 SOEUR DE FLASH 18 (T) C Cox 9-6< / ><>B Loughnane< / >< / tr><><>6 (10)< / ><>1300 FRUMOASA 29 (V) C Fellowes 9-5< / ><>H Davies< / >< / ><><>7 (3)< / ><>4205 MINSTER BOY 56 E J-Houghton 9-4< / ><>C Bishop< / >< / ><><>8 (11)< / ><>431 BAHIA BONITA 20 (D) Jack Jones 9-3< / ><>C Shepherd< / >< / ><><>9 (1)< / ><>23434 MAXIMUS MERIDIUS 18 D Loughnane 9-2< / ><>R Scott< / >< / ><><>10 (6)< / ><>06410 YAHAIRA 99 (P,D) T Dascombe 9-1< / ><>W Cox< / >< / ><><>11 (5)< / ><>05613 INVINCIBLE ISAAC 53 (V,BF,CD) Lemos Souza 9-0< / ><>< / >< / ><><>< / ><>< / ><>K O'Neill< / >< / ><><>12(12)< / ><>000 AGENT ROSE 25 S C Williams 8-9< / ><>R Dawson< / >< / ><>< colspan="3">3-1 Laylaty, 7-2 Bahia Bonita, 5-1 Soeur De Flash, 6-1 Sydney Grace, 10-1 Harry's Pop, 12-1 Invincible Isaac, 14-1

others.< / >< / table>

<>< colspan="4">5.15 让磅赛 (3岁马: 3,140 英镑: 1英里) (14)< / >< / ><>< ="2">1 (2) 02030 CAPTIVE BEAUTY 24 R Burdon 9-9< / >< ="2">Kaiya Fraser< / >< / ><>< ="2">2 (6) 36064 POSITIVE THOUGHTS 20 J & S Quinn 9-9< / >< ="2">B Loughnane< / >< / ><>< ="2">3 (13) 0-033 TWILIGHT BABY 38 G Kelleway 9-9< / >< ="2">R Hornby< / >< / ><>< ="2">4 (9) 60624 MISS MAMBO 32 (V,BF) G Kelleway 9-8< / >< ="2">B Sayette< / >< / ><>< ="2">5 (14) 26310 ERNIE MCCREW 11 (P,D) J S Moore 9-8< / >< ="2">E Greatrex< / >< / ><>< ="2">6 (10) 6-604 LIHOU LADY 133 P Evans 9-8< / >< ="2">J Leavy< / >< / ><>< ="2">7 (11) 03600 GRAND VISTA 12 W Muir & C Grassick 9-7< / >< ="2">R Dawson< / >< / ><>< ="2">8 (12) 30550 GREY SANDS 18 (P,T,D) K Bailey & M

Nicholls 9-6< / >< ="2">D Costello< / >< / ><>< ="2">9 (8) 21425 HENFIELD 10 (V,D) K Jewell 9-5< / >< ="2">D Probert< / >< / ><>< ="2">10 (5) 43454 ALICE'S INFLUENCE 42 (D) P Evans 9-4< / >< ="2">Alexandra McDonnell (7)< / >< / ><>< ="2">11 (7) 05400 CALL ALERT 15 (P) W Muir & C Grassick 9-3< / >< ="2">K O'Neill< / >< / ><>< ="2">12 (4) 42522 ARVANA BELLE 12 (BF) B Millman 9-3< / >< ="2">D Keenan< / >< / ><>< ="2">13 (1) 46200 GIRLS ALLOWED 27 J & S Birkett 9-2< / >< ="2">D E Hogan< / >< / ><>< ="2">14 (3) 00046 WILD ROSIE 11 (H) C Dwyer 9-2< / >< ="2">H Davies< / >< / ><>< ="4">7-2 Arvana Belle, 4-1 Miss Mambo, 6-1 Positive Thoughts, 8-1 Captive Beauty, 10-1 Ernie Mccrew, Alice's Influence, 12-1 Henfield, Twilight

Baby.< / >< / table>

5.45 新手赛

<>< ="4">(2岁马: £21600: 1英里) (8)< / >< / ><><>1< / ><>(5)< / ><>1 NEWS 17 G Boughey 9-8< / ><>B Loughnane< / >< / ><><>2< / ><>(1)< / ><>0 BINTWILLSEA 35 J Portman 9-2< / ><>R Hornby< / >< / ><><>3< / ><>(7)< / ><>FIFTH AMENDMENT J Portman 9-2< / ><>R Scott< / >< / ><><>4< / ><>(6)< / ><>64 LADY RANYA 17 Harry Charlton 9-2< / ><>D Probert< / >< / ><><>5< / ><>(8)< / ><>252 LILY PINK 20℃ Johnston 9-2< / ><>C Shepherd< / >< / ><><>6< / ><>(2)< / ><>PLAYHOUSE W Haggas 9-2< / ><>H Davies< / >< / ><><>7< / ><>(3)< / ><>RED CURRY J & T Gosden 9-2< / ><>B Sayette< / >< / ><><>8< / ><>(4)< / ><>33 WATCH PARTY 24 (BF) R Varian 9-2< / ><>R Dawson< / >< / ><>< ="4">7-4 News, 4-1 Lily Pink, 9-2 Watch Party, 5-1 Red Curry, 6-1 Playhouse, 20-1 Lady Ranya, 33-1 Fifth Amendment, Bintwilssea.< / >< / table>

6.15 新手赛 (5,400 英镑: 1英里) (12)< / td>< / tr><><>1< / ><>(9)< / ><>15 SIN CITY 195 (D) K P De Foy 3-9-11< / ><>R Scott< / ><>< / >< / ><><>2< / ><>(3)< / ><>0-624 ASSIRI HEIGHTS 17 (T) A Balding 3-9-4< / ><>Doubtful< / ><>< / >< / ><><>3< / ><>(1)< / ><>BEAUJON B Meehan 3-9-4< / ><>C Bishop< / ><>< / >< / ><><>4< / ><>(2)< / ><>4 EL PRESIDENTE 123 G & J Moore 3-9-4< / ><>B Loughnane< / ><>< / >< / ><><>5< / ><>(10)< / ><>HEART THROB A Carroll 3-9-4< / ><>W Carson< / ><>< / >< / ><><>6< / ><>(7)< / ><>4353 KINETIC IMPACT 76℃ Hills 3-9-4< / ><>C Shepherd< / ><>< / >< / ><><>7< / ><>(6)< / ><>0 NASCONDINO 53 D & C Kubler 3-9-4< / ><>A Voilkansky< / ><>< / >< / ><><>8< / ><>(5)< / ><>05 SCREEN ACTOR 25 M Attwater 3-9-4< / ><>K Fox< / ><>< / >< / ><><>9< / ><>(11)< / ><>THORTHNWAITE H Palmer 3-9-4< / ><>D Probert< / ><>< / >< / ><><>10< / ><>(12)< / ><>0 VIRTUE KING 65 A Perrett 3-9-4< / ><>S M Levey< / ><>< / >< / ><><>11< / ><>(8)< / ><>OPAL ROSE J Tickle 5-9-2< / ><>Taylor Fisher< / ><>< / >< / ><><>12< / ><>(4)< / ><>046 GARTH SPIRIT 38 (T) P Evans 3-8-13< / ><>J Leavy< / ><>< / >< / ><>< colspan="5">赔率：Sin City 平手, 4-1 Kinetic Impact, 11-2 El Presidente, 7-1 Beaujon, 8-1 Thornthwaite, 16-1 Nascondino, 50-1 Virtue King, Opal Rose, Heart Throb.< / >< / table>

6.45 让磅赛 (£4,187: 1英里) (11)

1 (7) 64105 MARSH BENHAM 11 (D) G Baker 7-9-9 P Cosgrave

2 (8) 6/010 A LA NOCHE 15 (D) Oliver Cole 5-9-8 Taryn Langley (5) 3 (1) 56360 EUPATOR 20 (P) R Hannon 4-9-7 S M Levey 4 (2) 12056 MR NUGGET 78 (D) D M Simcock 5-9-7 R Scott 5 (5) 26120 HAVANA TOUCH 22 (CD) J Butler 5-9-6 B Loughnane 6 (4) 22400 HAPPY BANNER 30 (T,C) E Walker 4-9-5 G Downing 7 (6) 64320 POTOMAC RIVER 15 T Kent 4-9-5 R Dawson 8 (3) 02150 LIBERATE 16 J & S Best 4-9-3 J Leavy 9 (9) 00510 TRONIDO 29 (H,C,D) S Dow 5-9-2 T Heard 10(11) 14046 VALENTINE BOY 25 (H,C,D) L Dace 4-8-13 D Keenan 11(10)-6050 CONNIE MOON 31 (V) D Coakley 4-8-8 Rose Dawes (3) 7-2 Havana Touch, 5-1 Marsh Benham, 6-1 A La Noche, 7-1 Potomac River, 8-1 Mr Nugget, Happy Banner, 12-1 Tronido, Eupator.

7.15 让磅赛 (£4,187: 1英里) (10)

1 (1) 50303 ASTEVERDI 30 (P,D) James Owen S-9-5 Oliver Hoodless (7) 2 (6) 40306 CANCIN IN THE RAIN (V,D) Gilan Arnolda 6-9-7 D Keenan 3 (4) 46005 IT'SNEVERJUSTONE 22 (B) D Loughnane 4-9-7 R Scott 4 (3) 44441 BERRY CLEVER 15 (CD) C Dwyer 5-9-6 H Davies 5 (2) 01051 GUNFIGHTER 30 (CD) J Butler 5-9-5 B Loughnane 6 (10) 0-400 LONGLAI 30 (P,CD) G Baker 8-9-5 B Sayette 7 (7) 02031 THE HARE RAIL 18 (H) R Teal 4-9-4 J Leavy 8 (9) 61545 FREDA 16 (CD) P Phelan 4-9-2 M Levey 9 (8) 00504 PORT ERIN 26 (CD) A Carroll 6-9-0 D Probert 10 (5) 62100 KING OF CHARM 15 (D) Martin Dunne 5-8-9 T Heard 72-Gunfirester, 4-1 Berry Clever, 5-1 The Hare Rail, 6-1 Asteverdi, 7-1 Cancan In The Rain, 8-1 It'sneverjustone, 10-1 Freda, 14-1 Port Erin.

7.45 让磅赛 (£4,187: 1英里 4弗隆) (8)

1 (5) 13305 HARLINGTON 77 (D) Charlie Clover 5-10-0 C Shepherd

2 (1) 01404 GALLANT LION 11 (D) I Williams 6-10-0 R Kavanagh (3) 3 (6) -5036 STAR TIME 35 (D) A King 5-9-12 D Probert 4 (8) 25211 MEET ME IN MERAKI 15 (P) E Evans 5-9-12 B Loughnane 5 (3) -1426 MOUNTBATTEN 48 (P, BF,D) Sir M Prescott 3-9-9 J Gilligan 6 (7) 0-125 ITS TYPE 46 (BF) Kathy Turner 4-9-2 Charlie Tucker (7) 4 (7) 15645 SAHM NAIF 24 (P) James Horton 3-9-1 Kaiya Fraser 8 (2) 00-04 TALES OLD AS TIME 43 E Smyth-Osbourne 3-9-0 A Rawlinson 7-4 Mountbatten, 3-1 Meet Me In Meraki, 8-1 Sahm Naif, Star Time, 10-1 It's Life, Gallant Lion, 12-1 Harrington, 14-1 Tales Old As Time.

8.15 让磅赛 (£4,187: 7弗隆) (14)

1	(9) 00-00 ZERO CARBON 156 (P,CD) M Loughnane 7-9-13		B Loughnane
2	(8) 40523 RED HAT EAGLE 25 (P,T,C) W Knight 6-9-13	N Callan
3	(12) 31000 FLASH RASCAL 21 (P) D Loughnane 3-9-12	R Dawson
4	(4) 02240 SANTIAGO BOY 21 C Hills 3-9-12	R Hornby
5	(14) 5-500 REY DE LA BATALLA 30 (C,D) S Dow 5-9-11	A Voikhansky
6	(6) 14032 PHOENIX OF DREAMS 15 (D) J & S Quinn 5-9-10	R Scott
7	(5) 41304 BOLD SHOUT 15 C Cox 3-9-10	J Leavy
8	(7) 53314 ANGELS' SHARE 27 (BF,D) W Knight 3-9-10	Taylor Fisher
9	(2) 26622 STRONG VOICE 27 (P,T) James Horton 3-9-9	D Probert
10	(11) 65000 LOQUILLA 25 C Johnston 3-9-8	C Shepherd
11	(3) 14040 YACHTSMAN 31 (P,T) Jack Morland 3-9-8	Taryn Langley (5)
12	(10) 02051 MAJESTIC WAVE 29 (D) S Dow 4-9-6	H Davies
13	(13) 00000 SAN JUANITO 16 (H) M Murphy 4-9-5	K O'Neill
14	(1) 00120 MANHATTAN CHUTE 53 (BF) J & S Best 4-8-10	G Mangan
4-1 Peakist Wave, 11-2 Strong Voice, 6-1 Bold Shout, Red Hat Eagle, 7-1 Angels' Share, 8-1 Phoenix Of Dreams, 12-1 Santiago Boy, Manhattan Chute.

昨日赛马结果

Ayr（艾尔）

场地状况：沉重（部分区域柔软）

1.45 (1m 2f) 1, Motawaared (Lauren Young, 7-4 热门); 2, Falcon Nine (6-1); 3, Sweet Kiss (10-1)。12 匹参赛。$2 \frac{1}{4}$ 马身, $3 / 4$ 马身。J S Goldie。

2.20 (6f) 1, Alfa Blueburd (Jason Hart, 2-1 热门); 2, Sea Mirage (11-4); 3, Muve On (7-1)。7 匹参赛。ns, 7 $^{1 / 2}$ 马身。I Furtado。

2.55 (7f 50yd) 1, Launch Time (H Crouch, 2-1 热门); 2, Head For Freedom (12-1); 3, Big Apple Jack (11-4)。10 匹参赛。$17\frac{1}{2}$ 马身, $2\frac{1}{4}$ 马身。Cian Hughes。

3.30 (6f) 1, Alpha Magic (Connor Beasley, 11-1); 2, Eye Of Dubai (10-3); 3, Stirrup Cup (12-1)。11 匹参赛。$\frac{1}{2}$ 马身, nk（颈差）。M & D Easterby。

4.05 (7f 50yd) 1, Stanage (Billy Garritty, 5-1); 2, Empirestateofmind (11-8 热门); 3, Ashen (6-1)。10 匹参赛。$\frac{1}{2}$ 马身, 4 马身。M & D Easterby。

4.38 (1m) 1, Ey Up Its Jazz (D Nolan, 17-2); 2, Keats House (5-1); 3, Flying Moonlight (9-2)。13 匹参赛。NR（未参赛）：Myrrh。$^{3 / 4}$ 马身, sh（短头差）。T Coyle & K Wood。

5.13 (1m 5f 26yd) 1, Aighear (P Mulrennan, 4-7 热门); 2, Vampire Slayer (14-1); 3, Furhaan (10-3)。5 匹参赛。5 马身, 2 $^{1 / 2}$ 马身。J S Goldie。

Placepot: £40.50 Quadpot: £11.80 Jackpot 未中奖（奖金池 1.5 万英镑 结转）

Bath（巴斯）

场地状况：良好

1.30 (2m 1f 24yd) 1, Pacific Storm (Jack Dace, 4-1); 2, Calshot Spit (5-1); 3, Individualiste (11-1)。12 匹参赛。NR：Fram Castle。9 马身, 4 马身。D Menuisier。

2.05 (5f 10yd) 1, Urumita (S M Levey, 7-2); 2, Go Go Girl (11-8); 3, Kerry Grey (15-2)。7 匹参赛。NR：Blake's Lass, Debutante。1½ 马身, 17½ 马身。R Hannon。

2.40 (5f 10yd) 1, Hi Lord (Ray Dawson, 4-1); 2, Pedros Dream (5-1); 3, Jojo Rabbit (3-1 热门)。14 匹参赛。$\frac{3}{4}$ 马身, $\frac{1}{2}$ 马身。S Hanlon。

3.15 (1m 6f) 1, Brilliant Star (R Havlin, 11-8); 2, Littlecote (80-1); 3, Little Dorrit (11-2)。12 匹参赛。NR：Personal Best。2 马身, 1 马身。J & T Gosden。

3.50 (1m) 1, Aethelstan Gold (Lewis Edmunds, 11-10); 2, Galimix (4-1); 3, Tarn Hows (250-1)。13 匹参赛。NR：Sidewalking。$3^{1 / 4}$ 马身, 6 马身。Harry Charlton。

4.21 (1m 2f 37yd) 1, Albus Anne (Olivia Haines, 9-2); 2, Oman (2-1); 3, Crimson Road (11-2)。9 匹参赛。NR：Prodigal Son。$\frac{3}{4}$ 马身, $\frac{3}{4}$ 马身。J C Fox。

4.55 (1m 2f 37yd) 1, Sweet Horizon (J Mitchell, 3-1); 2, Boy George (13-2); 3, Ablon (5-1)。8 匹参赛。$^{1 / 2}$ 马身, $^{1 / 2}$ 马身。Tom Clover。

5.25 (5f 160yd) 1, Court Drive (J Mitchell, 6-1); 2, Sound And Vision (15-8); 3, Carefree Dream (28-1)。10 匹参赛。NR：Courageous Sioux。2 $^{1 / 4}$ 马身, 1 $^{1 / 2}$ 马身。Miss Gay Kelleway。

Placepot: £13.60 Quadpot: £3.30

Market Rasen（马凯特拉森）

场地状况：良好

1.56 (2m 125yd) 1. Ballygeary (Joshua Thompson, 8-1); 2, Latin (15-2); 3, Knighton (9-2)。6 匹参赛。17½ 马身, 17½ 马身。M E Sowersby。

2.31 (2m 4f 139yd) 1, Port Glen One (Sam Twiston-Davies, 8-11); 2, Downtown Nashville (7-2); 3, Who's Glen (5-2)。NR：Nightflyer。3 马身, 4 马身。N & W Twiston-Davies。

3.06 (2m 3f 34yd) 1, Cap Ricochet (B S Hughes, 10-1); 2, Hiero Sport (9-2); 3, Blue Du Neuf (33-1)。6 匹参赛。4½ 马身, 6 马身。John Dawson。

3.41 (2m 5f 89yd) 1, Court In A Storm (C Gethings, 7-2); 2, Lermoos Legend (10-3); 3, Shabalko D'herm (11-10 热门)。4 匹参赛。hd（头差）, 10 马身。K Bailey & M Nicholls。

4.16 (2m 7f 16yd) 1, Quick Of The Night (Lee Edwards, 9-2); 2, Spot On Soph (7-4 热门); 3, Mistral Blue (9-1)。8 匹参赛。$37^{1 / 2}$ 马身, 6 马身。Dave Roberts。

4.48 (2m 4f 139yd) 1, Upton's Mighty Oak (Luke Scott, 3-1); 2, Ratemenow (10-11 热门); 3, Slievehill (15-2)。5 匹参赛。$27\frac{1}{2}$ 马身, 22 马身。Dr R Newland。

Placepot: £799.80 Quadpot: £55.90

Southwell（南威尔）

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路况：标准 (Standard)

4.25 (4f 214yd) 1, Lover Girl (Rowan Scott, 7-1); 2, Casino Star (10-1); 3, Roxa Love (5-1). 7 匹参赛。未参赛 (NR)：Dubai Charm。$^{3 / 4}$ 马身, 27 $^{1 / 2}$ 马身。K P De Foy。5.00 (1m 6f 21yd) 1, State Express (Cieren Fallon, 9-1); 2, Sisterandbrother (8-1); 3, Rubellite (12-1). 12 匹参赛。$^{3 / 4}$ 马身, 颈差 (nk)。S Woods。5.30 (1m 3f 23yd) 1, Crown Of Crowns (Cieren Fallon, 6-4 热门); 2, Emtinan (3-1); 3, Master Of The Sky (9-4). 7 匹参赛。1L, 27½L。W J Haggas。 6.00 (1m 13yd), 1 Arlecchino's Moon (C Lee, 12-1); 2, Temple Court (7-1); 3, Casablanca Dream (7-2). 12 匹参赛。¾L, 颈差 (nk)。M D I Usher。 6.30 (1m 13yd), 1 Revoked (Joe Leavy, 9-4 热门); 2, Hello You Ten (10-3); 3, Pen Lan Icon (16-1). 11 匹参赛。2¼L, ½L C G Cox。 7.00 (1m 13yd), 1 Rogue Citation (D Tudhope, 3-1 热门); 2, Lkeness (9-2); 3, Kamaway (4-1). 9 匹参赛。短头 (sh), ½L E Bethell。 7.30 (1m 13yd), 1 Spirit Lead Me (Finley Marsh, 9-4); 2, Shaw Park (22-1); 3, Ernie's Valentine (10-3). 12 匹参赛。未参赛 (NR)：Captain Cess, Moon Beginnings。¼L, ½L R Hughes。 8.00 (6f 16yd), 1 Cool King (S De Sousa, 11-1); 2, Dorigo (1-7 热门); 3, Christmas Is Comin (28-1). 11 匹参赛。¾L, 27½L。M Botti。 8.30 (7f 14yd), 1 Montezin (Cam Hardie, 11-2); 2, Enacting (18-1); 3, Nostrum (10-11 热门). 12 匹参赛。颈差 (nk), 颈差 (nk)。A Brittain。

Placepot: £676.50 Quadpot: £11.70

1< / td><>5D-20 LAAFI 71 (P,D) W Durkan (Ire) 6-11-12< / ><>P Byrnes< / >< / tr><><>2< / ><>3006- KATEIRA 212 (D) D Skelton 9-11-9< / ><>J Andrews< / >< / table>

纽马克特 (Newmarket) Rob Wright

<><>1.15 Flann Sunna (nb)< / ><>3.30 Spyce (nap)< / >< / ><><>1.50 Chasing Daylight< / ><>4.10 The Prettiest Star< / >< / ><><>2.25 Witness Stand< / ><>4.45 On Message< / >< / ><><>2.57 Rogue Passion< / ><>5.20 George Wickham< / >< / ><>< colspan="2">路况：好至坚实 (good to firm)< / >< / ><><>抽签：无优势< / ><>Racing TV< / >< / table>

纽马克特学院 Godolphin ITV Beacon Project Cornwallis Stakes (三级赛：2岁马：42,532 英镑：5f) (13 匹参赛)

<><>1< / ><>(11)< / ><>104200 CARRY THE FLAG 13 (D) A P O'Brien (Ire) 9-3< / ><>D McDonogh< / ><>103< / >< / ><><>2< / ><>(5)< / ><>1153 FLANN SUNNA 28 S & E Crisford 9-3< / ><>W Buick< / ><>104< / >< / ><><>3< / ><>(3)< / ><>2016 MARCO POLO 13 A P O'Brien (Ire) 9-3< / ><>R L Moore< / ><>95< / >< / ><><>4< / ><>(8)< / ><>211 MINSTER MAN 41 (D) R Cowell 9-3< / ><>M Ghiani< / ><>88< / >< / ><><>5< / ><>(1)< / ><>33611 MUSSAB 21 (D) R & P Fahey 9-3< / ><>Oisin Orr< / ><>102< / >< / ><><>6< / ><>(2)< / ><>210 NEVER ENOUGH 49 E Walker 9-3< / ><>K Shoemark< / ><>86< / >< / ><><>7< / ><>(13)< / ><>051 PERFECT STRIKE 28 (D) W Haggas 9-3< / ><>C Fallon< / ><>89< / >< / ><><>8< / ><>(12)< / ><>424111 THIS MOMENT 27 (D) G Boughey 9-3< / ><>Grace McEntee< / ><>98< / >< / ><><>9< / ><>(7)< / ><>12013 ARMOR SUPREME 36 (D) D Dias (Ire) 9-0< / ><>Rossa Ryan< / ><>96< / >< / ><><>10< / ><>(6)< / ><>310100 BINT ARCHANGE 50 (P,D) R Hughes 9-0< / ><>David Egan< / ><>94< / >< / ><><>11< / ><>(4)< / ><>201224 FAST TRACK 28 (T,D) A Balding 9-0< / ><>O Murphy< / ><>101< / >< / ><><>12< / ><>(10)< / ><>105 IN THE BLACK 28 (D) G Oldroyd 9-0< / ><>P J McDonald< / ><>101< / >< / ><><>13< / ><>(9)< / ><>112 ROGUE JEWEL 39 E Bothell 9-0< / ><>C T Keane< / ><>88< / >< / table>

5-2 Flann Sunna, 4-1 In The Black, 7-1 Marco Polo, 8-1 Mussab, Fast Track, 10-1 This Moment, 16-1 Armor Supreme, Minster Man, Never Enough.

Rob Wright 的选择：Flann Sunna 在唐卡斯特比赛时被挤在侧翼且无法找到掩护，最终获得第三名，差距很小。潜在威胁：In The Black, Mussab

1.50 Godolphin Lifetime Care Oh So Sharp Stakes

1< / td><>(11)< / ><>314 CELESTIA 78 (D) Harry Charlton 9-2< / ><>C T Keane< / ><>87< / >< / tr><><>2< / ><>(7)< / ><>1 CHASING DAYLIGHT 24 (D) D M Simcock 9-2< / ><>C Rodriguez< / ><>99< / >< / ><><>3< / ><>(6)< / ><>14024 DARK ISSUE 20 R Hannon 9-2< / ><>P Dobbs< / ><> $\blacklozenge$ 101< / >< / ><><>4< / ><>(14)< / ><>241143 FOREST BERRY 13 (H,D) Sir M Prescott 9-2< / ><>L Morris< / ><>77< / >< / ><><>5< / ><>(2)< / ><>031 GOLDEN RING 7 A P O'Brien (Ire) 9-2< / ><>R L Moore< / ><>80< / >< / ><><>6< / ><>(4)< / ><>321335 GREEK SYMPHONY 34 (D) Oliver Cole 9-2< / ><>Oisin Orr< / ><>73< / >< / ><><>7< / ><>(16)< / ><>3104 LOLA DE VALENCE 18 B Millman 9-2< / ><>S Osborne< / ><>87< / >< / ><><>8< / ><>(5)< / ><>3314 MINKAAS 28 T Kent 9-2< / ><>James Doyle< / ><>91< / >< / ><><>9< / ><>(9)< / ><>1546 MISS KODI 36 (BF) C Cox 9-2< / ><>Rossa Ryan< / ><>95< / >< / ><><>10< / ><>(3)< / ><>1423 NUIT D'ECLAIR 36 K P De Foy 9-2< / ><>David Egan< / ><>100< / >< / ><><>11< / ><>(13)< / ><>112 POLYXENA 13 S C Williams 9-2< / ><>M Ghiani< / ><>82< / >< / ><><>12< / ><>(8)< / ><>166 SEA VENTURE 14 (T) G Scott 9-2< / ><>W Buick< / ><>92< / >< / ><><>13< / ><>(12)< / ><>414 SIENA STORM 40 E Walker 9-2< / ><>K Shoemark< / ><>92< / >< / ><><>14< / ><>(1)< / ><>01 SWELTERING 31 (D) A Balding 9-2< / ><>O Murphy< / ><>77< / >< / ><><>15< / ><>(10)< / ><>5510 THURITHA 29 D M Simcock 9-2< / ><>D Muscutt< / ><>77< / >< / ><><>16< / ><>(15)< / ><>202131 TOPAZ 19 J Channon 9-2< / ><>F Marsh< / ><>83< / >< / table>

4-1 Nuit D'eclair, 9-2 Miss Kodi, 5-1 Siena Storm, 6-1 Chasing Daylight, 8-1 Golden Ring, 12-1 Sea Venture, Dark Issue, 14-1 Minkaas, Celestia, Topaz. Wright choice: Chasing Daylight 在雅茅斯（Yarmouth）的首秀表现极其出色；能够应对这个更高的级别 Dangers: Dark Issue, Nuit D'Eclair

约克 (York)

<><>1.30 Beagle Bay< / ><>3.50 Instant Force< / >< / ><><>2.05 Theheatison< / ><>4.25 Go Vince Go< / >< / ><><>2.40 Gaspacho< / ><>5.00 Diligent Resdev< / >< / ><><>3.18 Sharadd< / ><>< / >< / ><>< colspan="2">场地状况：良好，部分区域良好至柔软< / >< / ><><>抽签：无优势< / ><>Racing TV< / >< / table>

1.30 让赛 (Handicap)

1	(17) 4-1001 POWER FIZZ 33 (C) W Haggas 4-9-11	T Marquand	$\blacklozenge$ 98
2	(14) 551350 NORTHERN EXPRESS 20 (P,C,D) M Dods 8-9-9	P Mulrennan	97
3	(2) 000030 OZAT 35 (T,D) I Williams 5-9-9	S De Sousa	92
4	(9) 2-1411 BEAGLE BAY 118 (D) R Beckett 4-9-8	H Crouch	94
5	(18) 212110 INSPIRED 27 (BF,D) K R Burke 4-9-6	C Lee	92
6	(4) 543315 NIKOVO 34 (D) M Herrington 7-9-6	J Hart	92
7	(7) 000020 MIRSKY 27 (D) O'Meara 7-9-6	M Winn	92
8	(12) 000002 HENLEIN 7 (P) K Ryan 5-9-4	K Stott	93
9	(1) 264313 SPOKEN TRUTH 20 (T,BF,D) D O'Meara 5-9-4	D Tudhope	90
10	(15) 042000 MR SWIVELL 20 (D) K P De Foy 5-9-3	J Mitchell	92
11	(8) 004400 KHAFIZ 33 Roper Fell 4-9-1	Jason Watson	87
12	(11) 000000 NIZAM 13 (D) I Williams 4-9-0	C Hardie	79
13	(16) -11002 EMPIRE OF LIGHT 8 (D) G Tuer 5-8-13	O Stammers	85
14	(3) 610450 POINT OF CONTACT Z3 (V,C,D) A Balding 4-8-13	C Hutchinson	86
15	(5) 222120 MILITARY LEADER 19 (B,D) Phillip Makin 5-8-11	S James	82
16	(13) 360224 FINAL NIGHT 34 (T,D) J Butler 4-8-10	MP Sheehy	80
17	(10) 420105 GLENFINNAN 17 (H,BF,D) M Dods 6-8-9	C Beasley	74
18	(6) D40060 SALAM DUBAWI 13 (P,D) J Goldie 4-8-8	Lauren Young (5)	77
5-2 Beagle Bay, 7-1 Spoken Truth, 8-1 Power Fizz, 10-1 Henlein, Inspired, 12-1 Northern Express, Ozat, 14-1 Point Of Contact.

2.05 英国 EBF 100,000 决赛 (2岁马: £50,960: 7英里) (16)				ITV
1	(3)	4113 WAASIL 29 (D) K R Burke 9-7	S James	86

纯血马产业雇员奖挑战赛 (Group II: £93,572: 7英里) (6)

1 (2) 1-6351 HOLGUIN 40 (D) H Al Jehani (UAE) 6-9-5 C Rodriguez 110 2 (4) 552656 NEVER SO BRAVE 27 (D) A Balding 5-9-5 O Murphy 109 3 (1) 263652 WITNESS STAND 6 (P,T,D) Dr R Newland 5-9-5 K Shoemark ◆115 4 (6) 101-26 TIME TO TURN 89 (D) C Appleby 3-9-3 W Buick 106 5 (5) 101102 FLORA OF BERMUDA 27 (C,D) A Balding 5-9-2 James Doyle 111 6 (3) 6-1051 PINA SONATA 26 (D) J Fanshawe 4-9-2 D Muscutt 107 7-4 Flora Of Bermuda, 9-4 Time To Turn, 5-1 Never So Brave, 7-1 Pina Sonata, 10-1 Holguin, 14-1

Wright 选择：Witness Stand 在 Redcar 获得第二名且差距微小，看来状态正在回升；可能很难被超越 危险因素：Flora Of Bermuda

2.57 bet365 雌马一英里赛 (Fillies' Mile)

1< / td><>(5)< / ><>341223 DANCING DESTINY 26 (D) J P O'Brien (Ire) 9-2< / ><>D McDonogh< / ><>105< / >< / tr><><>2< / ><>(7)< / ><>03343 EXCEPTIONALLY 24 (BF) A P O'Brien (Ire) 9-2< / ><>C T Keane< / ><>88< / >< / ><><>3< / ><>(1)< / ><>11 FORBIDDEN FIRE 28 A Balding 9-2< / ><>O Murphy< / ><>100< / >< / ><><>4< / ><>(3)< / ><>021 HAVEN 14 A P O'Brien (Ire) 9-2< / ><>R L Moore< / ><>83< / >< / ><><>5< / ><>(6)< / ><>11 LEX VICTORIA 30 (T) S & E Crisford 9-2< / ><>James Doyle< / ><>82< / >< / ><><>6< / ><>(8)< / ><>111 MUSICAL TIMES 29 (D) C Appleby 9-2< / ><>W Buick< / ><> $\blacklozenge$ 115< / >< / ><><>7< / ><>(4)< / ><>4211 ROGUE PASSION 33 (D) E Bethell 9-2< / ><>Rossa Ryan< / ><>110< / >< / ><><>8< / ><>(2)< / ><>222122 SCOMMESSA SICURA 29 A Balding 9-2< / ><>S Osborne< / ><>98< / >< / ><>< colspan="5">1-2 Musical Times, 4-1 Rogue Passion, 10-1 Forbidden Fire, 12-1 Lex Victoria, 16-1 Haven, 25-1 Dancing Destiny. 50-1 Exceptionally, 66-1 Scommessa Sicura.< / >< / table>

Wright之选：Rogue Passion 在法国击败了两匹顶尖对手；进步最快，有望再次获胜。潜在威胁：Musical Times, Forbidden Fire

3.30 bet365 奥罗利杯让磅赛 ITV (遗产让磅赛) (Old Rowley Cup Handicap ITV (Heritage Handicap))

<><>1< / ><>(10) 304132 ARCHERS BAY 14 (P,C,D) M Botti 9-9< / ><>R L Moore< / ><>◆104< / >< / ><><>2< / ><>(3) 311242 DECADE OF TIME 34 J Channon 9-6< / ><>G Bass< / ><>98< / >< / ><><>3< / ><>(4) 4-5406 SPYCE 29 A King 9-5< / ><>Rossa Ryan< / ><>98< / >< / ><><>4< / ><>(5) 220100 INTO THE LIGHT 34 (P) C Appleby 9-4< / ><>Toby Moore (7)< / ><>96< / >< / ><><>5< / ><>(1) 21-352 STUDY OF WORDS 77 (C) C Appleby 9-3< / ><>W Buick< / ><>91< / >< / ><><>6< / ><>(7) 341261 TURTY TREE 34 (P,D) A Balding 9-2< / ><>O Murphy< / ><>93< / >< / ><><>7< / ><>(9) 451261 DEVIL'S PEAK 29 (B,D) J & T Gosden 9-0< / ><>James Doyle< / ><>91< / >< / ><><>8< / ><>(11) -21541 HIGH STORM 34 (D) K R Burke 8-9< / ><>P-L Jamin< / ><>86< / >< / ><><>9< / ><>(6) 4321 LIBERATE 51 (D) Harry Eustace 8-6< / ><>L Morris< / ><>78< / >< / ><><>10< / ><>(2) -22224 LORD D'OR 34 (A) A Balding 8-4< / ><>N Currie< / ><>82< / >< / ><><>11< / ><>(8) 042124 KAHIN 34 (P,BF) W Haggas 8-4< / ><>S Osborne< / ><>82< / >< / ><>< colspan="4">7-2 Study Of Words, 5-1 Archers Bay, Devil's Peak, 6-1 Turty Tree, 8-1 Liberate, Decade Of Time, 12-1 Spyce, Lord D'Or, 14- 其他。< / >< / table>

Wright之选：Spyce 在风管手术后首次出赛于唐卡斯特时获得第六名，当时需要通过比赛找回状态；有望提升。潜在威胁：Archers Bay, Turty Tree

4.10 Boadicea Stakes (Listed: 39,697 英镑: 6f) (14)

1< / td><>(11)< / ><>150145< / ><>DANCE IN THE STORM 20 (H) A Balding 4-9-3< / ><>O Murphy< / ><>99< / >< / tr><><>2< / ><>(9)< / ><>12-114< / ><>FORTY YEARS ON 26 (BF) G Scott 4-9-3< / ><>W Buick< / ><>103< / >< / ><><>3< / ><>(2)< / ><>-42240< / ><>MAGIC BASMA 26 (P,D) K Ryan 4-9-3< / ><>P J McDonald< / ><>105< / >< / ><><>4< / ><>(4)< / ><>-01205< / ><>CHERRY BAKER 24 (P,D) James Owen 3-9-2< / ><>R Havlin< / ><>90< / >< / ><><>5< / ><>(5)< / ><>-03000< / ><>GOLDEN PALACE 26 (D) R & P Fahey 3-9-2< / ><>C T Keane< / ><>98< / >< / ><><>6< / ><>(14)< / ><>110-20< / ><>HOLLYWOOD TREASURE 139 K P De Foy 3-9-2< / ><>David Egan< / ><>96< / >< / table>

<><>2< / ><>(10)< / ><>6110 DONTLOOKANYFURTHER 21 (BF) J & S Quinn 9-5< / ><>J Hart< / ><>♦91< / >< / ><><>3< / ><>(8)< / ><>201 REGENCY ROYAL 27 (D) A Balding 9-4< / ><>C Hutchinson< / ><>87< / >< / ><><>4< / ><>(1)< / ><>330510 TURNISTLE 4 T Easterby 9-2< / ><>D Allan< / ><>74< / >< / ><><>5< / ><>(6)< / ><>621 NAKILA SUN 46 A Balding 9-0< / ><>Jason Watson< / ><>81< / >< / ><><>6< / ><>(5)< / ><>1 CAPITANO JOSEPI 40 (D) K Frost 8-13< / ><>J Mitchell< / ><>78< / >< / ><><>7< / ><>(14)< / ><>06201 ONGOMBO 18 (P) C Fellowes 8-13< / ><>P Bradley< / ><>86< / >< / ><><>8< / ><>(11)< / ><>2142 SANBONA WARRIOR 29 (P,D) W Knight 8-13< / ><>D Tudhope< / ><>78< / >< / ><><>9< / ><>(12)< / ><>143252 THEHEATISON 21 Nick Scholfield 8-13< / ><>S De Sousa< / ><>87< / >< / ><><>10< / ><>(4)< / ><>05 SCIENZA 35 A Balding 8-12< / ><>T Marquand< / ><>48< / >< / ><><>11< / ><>(2)< / ><>0231 ALJOON 18 (D) Jack Jones 8-11< / ><>C Beasley< / ><>68< / >< / ><><>12< / ><>(7)< / ><>164 CHAN NOIR 49 J Chapple-Hyam 8-11< / ><>C Lee< / ><>71< / >< / ><><>13< / ><>(15)< / ><>2 ALBERICH 14 (BF) Harry Eustace 8-10< / ><>G Wood< / ><>85< / >< / ><><>14< / ><>(16)< / ><>22 BRUSHSTROKE 35 T Kent 8-8< / ><>S D Bowen< / ><>71< / >< / ><><>15< / ><>(9)< / ><>411020 EVERATEASE 48 (C) E J Houghton 8-8< / ><>J Callan< / ><>82< / >< / ><><>16< / ><>(13)< / ><>002 GOD OF TITANS 22℃ Hobson 8-8< / ><>Jack Doughty< / ><>75< / >< / ><>< colspan="5">7-2 Regency Royal, 4-1 Waasil, 6-1 Dontlookanyfurther, 7-1 Everatease, 10-1 Ongombo, Capitano Josepi, 12-1 Nakilla Sun, 14-1 Theheatison.< / >< / table>

2.40 William Hill Finale Handicap ITV

<><>1< / ><>(5)< / ><>2-3044 TIERRA DEL TORO 48 R Beckett 9-9< / ><>J Hart< / ><>◆96< / >< / ><><>2< / ><>(4)< / ><>-32101 GLORY ROAD 14 (D) R Beckett 9-6< / ><>H Crouch< / ><>93< / >< / ><><>3< / ><>(3)< / ><>231100 MYTHICAL BAY 34 (P,D) A Balding 9-4< / ><>C Hutchinson< / ><>92< / >< / ><><>4< / ><>(1)< / ><>3-41 HARPER VIOLET 30 R Burke 9-0< / ><>C Lee< / ><>87< / >< / ><><>5< / ><>(2)< / ><>232P30 BALTIC FLET 48 (P) I Williams 8-13< / ><>Jason Watson< / ><>84< / >< / ><><>6< / ><>(10)< / ><>512141 BINTKNIGHT 21 Harry Charlton 8-10< / ><>L Edmunds< / ><>83< / >< / ><><>7< / ><>(8)< / ><>303151 PRINCE OF CALYPSO 9 (P) E Bethell 8-10(6ex)< / ><>C Beasley< / ><>83< / >< / ><><>8< / ><>(9)< / ><>-56102 ITICA 14 A Balding 8-8< / ><>J Callan< / ><>83< / >< / ><><>9< / ><>(6)< / ><>511-4 GASPACHO 31 (T,BF) W Haggas 8-7< / ><>Joanna Mason< / ><>73< / >< / ><><>10< / ><>(7)< / ><>-16333 BRIDGE OF EAGLES 34 D Menuisler 8-5< / ><>S De Sousa< / ><>79< / >< / ><><>11< / >< colspan="4">3-1 Glory Road, 7-2 Tierra Del Toro, 7-1 Prince Of Calypso, Mythical Bay, 8-1 Gaspacho, Harper Violet, 10-1 Bridge OF Eagles, 12-1 Bintknight.< / >< / table>

Rogue 状态提升或将爆冷击败热门马

赛马体育

赛马编辑 Rob Wright

Rogue Passion 在每次出赛中状态都在提升，上个月在隆尚（Longchamp）获胜时，她首次尝试一英里距离并表现出色。目前的竞技状态正处于巅峰，在今天纽马基特（Newmarket）举行的 Bet365 雌马一英里赛（2.57）中，她有望击败大热门 Musical Times。

在那场比赛中，她以一个颈长优势击败了随后的 G1 赛冠军 Amusingly，而当时在马塞尔·布萨克奖（Prix Marcel Boussac）中获得亚军的 Data 则名次较远，仅获第三。Rogue Passion 的实力可能足以压制 Musical Times，后者在唐卡斯特（Doncaster）获胜时令人印象深刻，但现在面临的挑战更为艰巨。

Flann Sunna 有望赢得纽马基特学院 Godolphin Beacon 项目康沃利斯锦标赛（Newmarket Academy Godolphin Beacon Project Cornwallis Stakes, 1.15）。他在唐卡斯特获得接近的第三名时有其客观原因，且由于本次参赛马匹中有多匹领跑马，这里应该会出现最适合他的激烈节奏比赛。

Godolphin 终身护理 Oh So Sharp 锦标赛（Godolphin Lifetime Care Oh So Sharp Stakes, 1.50）可能会由 Chasing Daylight 夺得。她在雅茅斯（Yarmouth）的首秀获胜，展现出顶级潜力，在追求更高目标之前，她可以拿下这场 G2 奖项。

Spyce 是 Bet365 奥罗利杯（Bet365 Old Rowley Cup, 3.30）中当日最佳的投注选择。他在纽伯里（Newbury）竞争激烈的伦敦金杯赛中获得出色的第四名，随后接受了一次呼吸道手术，上个月在唐卡斯特结束休整回归，尽管开局过于急躁且跑道受阻，最终获得第六名，但整体表现良好。其血统表明他非常适合此次增加的赛程距离。

7< / td><>(7)< / ><>4-3000 ISLE OF FERNANDEZ 26 (D) K Ryan 3-9-2< / ><>T Eaves< / ><>95< / >< / tr><><>8< / ><>(10)< / ><>1-1320 LADY YOUMZAIN 21 (D) K Ryan 3-9-2< / ><>R L Moore< / ><>96< / >< / ><><>9< / ><>(3)< / ><>0-2066 MIDNIGHT TANGO 6 (T,D) E Walker 3-9-2< / ><>K Shoemark< / ><>107< / >< / ><><>10< / ><>(12)< / ><>-61024 ROUGE ATTRACTION 21 (V,D) E Bethell 3-9-2< / ><>L Morris< / ><>89< / >< / ><><>11< / ><>(1)< / ><>044520 RUBY'S ANGEL 26 (D) H Palmer 3-9-2< / ><>S Osborne< / ><>94< / >< / ><><>12< / ><>(8)< / ><>1P-116 SING THE BLUES 54 (D) Martin Dunne 3-9-2< / ><>C Fallon< / ><>90< / >< / ><><>13< / ><>(13)< / ><>2-4053 THE PRETTIEST STAR 26 (D) E Walker 3-9-2< / ><>James Doyle< / ><>105< / >< / ><><>14< / ><>(6)< / ><>-11011 ZEN DIVA 36 (D) R Beckett 3-9-2< / ><>Rossa Ryan< / ><>95< / >< / ><>< colspan="5">13-8 The Prettiest Star, 10-3 Forty Years On, 13-2 Magic Basma, 8-1 Dance In The Storm, 10-1 Zen Diva, Midnight Tango, 20-1 Rogue Athtraction, Hollywood Treasure, Lady Youmzain. Wright 选择：The Prettiest Star 在此地的 1,000 几尼赛中获得第四名；她在这种较短距离上的潜力尚未完全挖掘。潜在威胁：Midnight Tango, Forty Years On< / >< / table>

4.45 骄傲锦标赛（Pride Stakes，G3：53,874 英镑：1英里2弗隆）(17)

<><>1< / ><>(7)< / ><>-40042< / ><>FRANCOPHONE 69 (C,D) C Johnston 5-9-5< / ><>O Murphy< / ><>100< / >< / ><><>2< / ><>(17)< / ><>0-0656< / ><>MISS WONG 23 D M Simcock 4-9-5< / ><>D Muscutt< / ><>92< / >< / ><><>3< / ><>(1)< / ><>-13461< / ><>NAGA 23 (C,D) J & T Gosden 4-9-5< / ><>R Havlin< / ><>104< / >< / ><><>4< / ><>(15)< / ><>140525< / ><>NOCHE CLASICA 20 (BF) E Bethell 4-9-5< / ><>L Morris< / ><>107< / >< / ><><>5< / ><>(13)< / ><>050401< / ><>PATAGONIA GIRL 20 (D) H Palmer 4-9-5< / ><>S Osborne< / ><>80< / >< / ><><>6< / ><>(2)< / ><>16-356< / ><>SNELLEN 85 (D) G Cromwell (Ire) 5-9-5< / ><>P J McDonald< / ><>104< / >< / ><><>7< / ><>(12)< / ><>4-1200< / ><>LEGACY LINK 50 (D) J & T Gosden 3-9-4< / ><>C T

Keane< / td> 109< / >< / tr> <>8< / ><>(9)< / ><>-24340< / ><>DELLA PACE 41 G Boughey 3-9-1< / ><>Oisin Orr< / ><>95< / >< / ><><>9< / ><>(14)< / ><>1-1203< / ><>FELICITAS 58 (BF,D) E Walker 3-9-1< / ><>K Shoemark< / ><>103< / >< / ><><>10< / ><>(5)< / ><>1-1232< / ><>LIZZANA 14 M Botti 3-9-1< / ><>M Ghiani< / ><>98< / >< / ><><>11< / ><>(11)< / ><>130414< / ><>ON MESSAGE 32 (D) R Beckett 3-9-1< / ><>Rossa Ryan< / ><>104< / >< / ><><>12< / ><>(8)< / ><>-53206< / ><>PACIFIC MISSION 23 (T) A Balding 3-9-1< / ><>C Rodriguez< / ><>101< / >< / ><><>13< / ><>(3)< / ><>1213-< / ><>PREVIOUS 342 K P De Foy 3-9-1< / ><>David Egan< / ><>--< / >< / ><><>14< / ><>(6)< / ><>4-0603< / ><>ROSE GHAIYATH 57 R Hughes 3-9-1< / ><>R L Moore< / ><>98< / >< / table>

3.18 新手赛 (Novice Stakes)

<>< colspan="5">(2-Y-0: 12,885 英镑: 6T) (5)< / >< / ><><>1< / ><>(3)< / ><>14 MUGHEER 24 (BF) K R Burke 9-10< / ><>C Lee< / ><>77< / >< / ><><>2< / ><>(5)< / ><>31 OUR SON OSCAR 22 (D) K Ryan 9-10< / ><>Harry Vigors (5)< / ><>89< / >< / ><><>3< / ><>(4)< / ><>1 SHARADD 36 (D) W Haggas 9-10< / ><>T Marquand< / ><>♦90< / >< / ><><>4< / ><>(1)< / ><>20 MEHMAS STAR 26 K R Burke 9-4< / ><>S James< / ><>77< / >< / ><><>5< / ><>(2)< / ><>00 PETE'S ANGEL 33 R & P Fahey 9-4< / ><>B McHugh< / ><>57< / >< / ><>< colspan="5">8-13 Sharadd, 5-2 Our Son Oscar, 8-1 Mehmas Star, 12-1 Mugheer, 66-1 Pete's Angel.< / >< / table>

<>< colspan="6">3.50 育马赛 (Nursery) (2-Y-O: 12,885 英镑: 5f) (10)< / >< / ><><>1< / ><>(7)< / ><>231 NOBLE RAIDER 146 (D) K P De Foy 9-9< / ><>H Crouch< / ><>82< / ><>< / >< / ><><>2< / ><>(3)< / ><>114 BARNABY RUDGE 63 (H,D) J Fanshawe 9-7< / ><>Doubtful< / ><>73< / ><>< / >< / ><><>3< / ><>(4)< / ><>031122 BLACK VELVET BOY 15 (D) J & S Quinn 9-6< / ><>J Hart< / ><>♦87< / ><>< / >< / ><><>4< / ><>(6)< / ><>221 INSTANT FORCE 25 (P,D) K R Burke 9-3< / ><>C Lee< / ><>83< / ><>< / >< / ><><>5< / ><>(2)< / ><>42140 INFLUENCER MAN 21 (D) A Keatley 9-0< / ><>MP Sheehy< / ><>82< / ><>< / >< / ><><>6< / ><>(10)< / ><>10220 ROTELLE 27 (P,D) C Fellows 8-13< / ><>P Bradley< / ><>80< / ><>< / >< / ><><>7< / ><>(1)< / ><>232142 HARLEY 15 (P) E Bethell 8-11< / ><>C Beasley< / ><>79< / ><>< / >< / ><><>8< / ><>(9)< / ><>414540 BEAR LEE 28 (D) M & D Easterby 8-10< / ><>Joanna Mason< / ><>81< / ><>< / >< / ><><>9< / ><>(5)< / ><>240535 FURTURRA 21 (T) T Easterby 8-10< / ><>T Kiely-Marshall (3)< / ><>79< / ><>< / >< / ><><>10< / ><>(8)< / ><>21655 LAKE MURITZ 15 (D) T Easterby 8-9< / ><>D Fentiman< / ><>73< / ><>< / >< / ><>< colspan="6">2-1 Noble Raider, 11-4 Instant Force, 10-3 Black Velvet Boy, 8-1 Harley, 16-1 Rotelle, Influencer Man, Furturra, 25-1 Lake Muritz.< / >< / table>

4.25 让磅赛 (14,174 英镑: 5f) (18)

1< / td><>(2) 530201 TOCA MADERA 17 (D) D O'Meara 5-9-9< / ><>D Tudhope< / ><>◆96< / >< / tr><><>2< / ><>(6) -32501 TATTERSTALL 27 (P,D) M Dods 6-9-6< / ><>C Beasley< / ><>92< / >< / ><><>3< / ><>(8) -30000 AGAINST THE WIND 27 (K) K Ryan 4-9-5< / ><>K Stott< / ><>76< / >< / ><><>4< / ><>(7) 516100 NOVAMAY 21 (M) Dods 4-9-4< / ><>Rhys Elliott (5)< / ><>92< / >< / ><><>5< / ><>(14) -22100 HALLO SPACEBOY 20 (C,D) E Walker 3-9-3< / ><>T Marquang< / ><>89< / >< / ><><>6< / ><>(17) 265600 SCHRODINGER'S CAT 13 (D) G Tuer 3-9-3< / ><>O Stammers< / ><>93< / >< / ><><>7< / ><>(13) 021020 ETERNAL SUNSHINE 6 (P,D) J Goldie 6-9-2< / ><>Lauren Young (5)< / ><>89< / >< / ><><>8< / ><>(4) 002000 EXCLAMATION 28 (P,D) G Harris 3-9-1< / ><>Ashley Lewis (3)< / ><>95< / >< / ><><>9< / ><>(12) 430040 FORTIFICATION 26 (P,D) B Ellison 3-8-12< / ><>S De Sousa< / ><>84< / >< / ><><>10< / ><>(15) 560260 FIDELIUS 13 (T,D) N Thinkler 5-8-12< / ><>A Jary (3)< / ><>85< / >< / ><><>11< / ><>(11) 041000 KODIAC THILLER 15 (P,D) M Walford 5-8-9< / ><>J Hart< / ><>84< / >< / ><><>12< / ><>(1) 400100 BOSTON DAN 13 (T,D) I Easterby 3-8-9< / ><>C Hardie< / ><>83< / >< / table>

<><>15 (10) 631111 SILVER LAKE 28 (T,D) W Haggas 3-9-1< / ><>James Doyle< / ><>99< / >< / ><><>16 (4) 211 SONG OF THE CLOUDS 25 W Haggas 3-9-1< / ><>C Fallon< / ><>94< / >< / ><><>17 (16)-26242 TOULEEN 26 (P) Owen Burrows 3-9-1< / ><>W Buick< / ><>◆110< / >< / ><>< colspan="3">9-2 Touleen, 11-2 Naga, 13-2 On Message, 7-1 Noche Clasica, Legacy Link, 10-1 Lizzana, 12-1 Snellen, 14-1 Francophone, Silver Lake, Pacific Mission.< / >< / ><>< colspan="3">Wright 选择：On Message 在温莎赛马场获得第四名时，由于前期节奏过慢而未能发挥；之前的状态非常稳健。潜在威胁：Felicitas, Lizzana< / >< / table>

<>< colspan="6">5.20 让磅赛 (15,462 英镑: 7f) (15)< / >< / ><><>1< / ><>(4)< / ><>-16200 BACK TO ME 48 (D) P Chamings 3-9-12< / ><>D Muscutt< / ><>85< / ><>< / >< / ><><>2< / ><>(9)< / ><>1200 MAJESTIC DANE 16 (D) K R Burke 3-9-12< / ><>P-L Jamin< / ><>♦87< / ><>< / >< / ><><>3< / ><>(6)< / ><>100165 WAISTCOAT 20 (T) R Burdon 5-9-11< / ><>Rossa Ryan< / ><>80< / ><>< / >< / ><><>4< / ><>(12)< / ><>003000 RIGHHERE RIGHTNOW 21 (P,D) R Spencer 4-9-11< / ><>S Osborne< / ><>80< / ><>< / >< / ><><>5< / ><>(15)< / ><>0-210 GEORGE WICKHAM 8 G & J Moore 3-9-10< / ><>R L Moore< / ><>82< / ><>< / >< / ><><>6< / ><>(11)< / ><>554210 COMMANDER OF LIFE 32 (D) Jessica Macey 5-9-10< / ><>F Marsh< / ><>78< / ><>< / >< / ><><>7< / ><>(13)< / ><>512210 LION OF MALI 26 (D) J Fanshawe 3-9-10< / ><>David Egan< / ><>80< / ><>< / >< / ><><>8< / ><>(2)< / ><>611210 THE SWEET ESCAPE 34 (T,D) D Loughnane 4-9-8 Laura Pearson< / ><>76< / ><>< / >< / ><><>9< / ><>(8)< / ><>-15623 BINTOLA 20 Harry Charlton 3-9-8< / ><>C Rodriguez< / ><>77< / ><>< / >< / ><><>10< / ><>(7)< / ><>164606 EXPERT AGENT 20 (C) S C Williams 6-9-7< / ><>M Ghiani< / ><>76< / ><>< / >< / ><><>11< / ><>(5)< / ><>-13135 NANOSCIENCE 20 (D) A Balding 3-9-5< / ><>O Murphy< / ><>76< / ><>< / >< / ><><>12< / ><>(3)< / ><>-56213 MISTER MOJITO 55 (T,D) T Kent 5-9-4< / ><>W Buick< / ><>68< / ><>< / >< / ><><>13< / ><>(14)< / ><>000164 LUNARIO 20 (T,V,D) L Dace 6-9-4< / ><>J Dace (5)< / ><>73< / ><>< / >< / ><><>14< / ><>(10)< / ><>0220 ALBEMAGIC 30 Steph Hollinshead 3-9-1< / ><>P J

McDonald< / td> 77< / ><>< / >< / tr> <>15< / ><>(1)< / ><>040034 AKABUSI 20 (C) M Fenton (ire) 3-9-0< / ><>R Havlin< / ><>71< / ><>< / >< / ><>< colspan="6">3-1 Bintola, 11-2 Nanoscience, 13-2 Mister Mojito, 8-1 Akabusi, Lunario, 10-1 Lion of Mali, 12-1 The Sweet Escape, 14-1 Waistcoat, George Wickham, Commander Of Life, Expert Agent.< / >< / table>

Wright choice: George Wickham did not get the rub of the green at Salisbury; will appreciate this extra furlong Dangers: Akabusi, Lion Of Mali

<><>13< / ><>(16)< / ><>200005< / ><>STARGAZED 13 (D) K R Burke 3-8-8< / ><>J Nicholls (3)< / ><>74< / >< / ><><>14< / ><>(3)< / ><>021105< / ><>EQUITY LAW 13 (D,P) T Easterby 5-8-7< / ><>JP Sullivan< / ><>81< / >< / ><><>15< / ><>(10)< / ><>036044< / ><>BALDOMERO 28 (B,D) M Appleby 8-8-6< / ><>Joanna Mason< / ><>77< / >< / ><><>16< / ><>(5)< / ><>043030< / ><>GO VINCE GO 15 (CD) T Easterby 3-8-4< / ><>W Pyle< / ><>78< / >< / ><><>17< / ><>(18)< / ><>200032< / ><>PARISIAC 10 (P,BF,D) J Jardine 7-8-4< / ><>A Mullen< / ><>78< / >< / ><><>18< / ><>(9)< / ><>000010< / ><>COPPER KNIGHT 11 (T,CD) T Easterby 12-8-4< / ><>D Fentiman< / ><>74< / >< / ><><>10-3< / ><>Toca Madera, 6-1< / ><>Parisiac, 7-1< / ><>Equity Law, 8-1 Baldomero, 10-1< / ><>Copper Knight, Tatterstall, 12-1< / ><>Novamay, Stargazed, Go Vince Go.< / >< / table>

5.00 障碍赛 (£12,885: 7f) (22)

1	(4)	550443	OBELIX 17 (BF,CD) J Camacho 6-9-12	Olivia Haines (5)	79
2	(9)	6-0606	DILIGENT RESDEV 36 (V,CD) M & D Easterby 5-9-11	Shay Farmer (3)	78
3	(11)	-24103	MAGIC BOY 55 (BF,C,D) N Tinkler 4-9-11	A Jary	78
4	(21)	623520	SON 7 (P,D) T Easterby 5-9-11	J Nicholls	78
5	(10)	-10003	MELVIN UDALL 33 (P,D) G Harris 4-9-10	Harry Vigors (3)	81
6	(14)	011000	KING OF FURY 17 (D) M Dods 6-9-10	Rhys Elliott	71
7	(20)	303252	QUEST FOR FUN 10 (T,CD) T Easterby 8-9-10	J Dickson (3)	79
8	(16)	633544	FIRST TIME 20 (V) R & P Fahey 3-9-10	W Fentiman	82
9	(2)	302000	STANLEY SPENCER 15 (B) Fionn McSharry 5-9-10	K S McHugh (5)	70
10	(7)	006021	FEEL THE NEED 15 (CD) M Herrington 6-9-9	D J Murphy (5)	70
11	(13)	056-00	BIG CYRIL 23 Roger Fell 4-9-8	J Callan	52
12	(3)	125053	KING'S SCHOOL 20 (P,T,D) G Tutty 5-9-8	Molly Keegan-Price (7)	78
13	(12)	060020	LORD BERTIE 10 (H,D) D O'Meara 6-9-8	C Horgan (3)	75
14	(8)	105324	GOLDEN STRIKE 9 (V,BF,CD) R & P Fahey 5-9-7	W Pyle	75
15	(22)	-10050	INVINCIBLE BOY 4 R & P Fahey 3-9-6	A Redman (6)	66
16	(18)	200030	GOLDEN PHARAOH 6 (P,D) S Dixon 5-9-6	C Howarth	◆89
17	(17)	00-631	MYSTICAL STORM 13 (J Camacho 4-9-6	T Kiely-Marshall	65
18	(1)	-00512	THE CHILDE OF HALE 25 (BF,D) I Furtado 4-9-6	Liam Wright	72
19	(19)	030430	CALYXOH 35 (V,D) P Morris 4-9-4	Ashley Lewis	69
20	(6)	000626	PACKETOFBISCUITS 13 (B,D) J Mackie 4-9-4	Finlay Bassett (7)	73
21	(15)	400010	TOLSTOY 7 (H,CD) B Ellison 7-9-4	Mason Paetel	71
22	(5)	31000	KENNINGTON 16 (P,D) H Morrison 3-9-4	O Carmichael (5)	80
13-2 Feel The Need, 7-1 The Childe Of Hale, Mystical Storm, 15-2 Magic Boy, 8-1 Obelix, Quest For Fun, 10-1 First Time, Golden Strike.

切普斯托 Rob Wright

1.22 Cooltobecareless	3.43 Cosmic Connection
1.57 Saint Jeannais	4.17 Jaminska
2.32 Seven Kites	4.55 Kapitein Kool
3.12 Le Beau Madrik	5.31 Getarose

场地状况：好至软，部分区域良好 Sky Sports Racing

1.22 新手障碍赛 (5,446 英镑: 2英里) (10)

2 254 / 1 KIND INTENTION 140 (D) T Symonds 5-11-7 B Poste 3 / 210- COOLTOBECARELESS 181 (W,D) D Skelton 5-11-0

4 01-11 NO HARD FEELINGS 138 M Sheppard 6-11-0 G Sheehan 5 60-0 TELETIME 140 N Mulholland 5-11-0 R McLernon 6 5- GOLIATH FLIGHT 214 (BF) D Skelton 4-10-13℃ J Todd 7 31- HERBIES SOCK 174 T Lacey 4-10-13 S Sheppard

8 006- JUBILEE JACK 178 (W,H) H Dickin 4-10-13

9< / td><>613- LADY BAM 198 T Ellis 5-10-7< / ><>J Andrews< / >< / tr><><>10< / ><>4-5 POETS PEARL 13 (H) Harry Derham 4-10-6< / ><>Paul O'Brien< / >< / ><>< colspan="3">2-1 Cooltobecareless, 5-2 King's Scholar, 5-1 Kind Intention, 6-1 Herbies Sock, 10-1 Goliath Flight, 12-1 Lady Bam, 20-1 Poets Pearl, 25-1 No Hard Feelings.< / >< / table>

1.57 新手障碍赛 (5,446 英镑: 2英里) (10)

<><>1< / ><>3216- DUTCH CORNER 167 (H,T) D Skelton 5-11-7< / ><>H Skelton< / >< / ><><>2< / ><>14-1 SAINT JEANNAIS 146 (D) N & W Twiston-Davies 6-11-7< / ><>S Twiston-Davies< / >< / ><><>3< / ><>2445- CHEAP SANDWICHES 168℃ Gordon 5-11-0< / ><>F Gordon< / >< / ><><>4< / ><>0-622 SHARU 80℃ J Gray 5-11-0< / ><>Sean Houlihan< / >< / ><><>5< / ><>31-0 SHORT SELL 148 D Skelton 5-11-0< / ><>C J Todd< / >< / table>

<><>6< / ><>1- HIVE RUNNER 243 T Lacey 4-10-13< / ><>S Sheppard< / >< / ><><>7< / ><>000- LOOK DON'T STARE 181 (H) H Dickin 4-10-13< / ><>J Best< / >< / ><><>8< / ><>25-34 MORISSETTE 35 D Summersby 6-10-7< / ><>B Carver< / >< / ><><>9< / ><>4P0- DETROIT BAY 226 (H) J Scott 4-10-6< / ><>L Williams< / >< / ><><>10< / ><>04- SHIRLEYNIGHTINGALE 173 T Ellis 4-10-6< / ><>J Andrews< / >< / ><>< colspan="3">7-4 Dutch Corner, 9-4 Saint Jeannais, 5-1 Sharu, 11-2 Hive Runner, 14-1 Short Sell, 16-1 Morissette, 25-1 Cheap Sandwiches, 33-1 Shirleynightingale.< / >< / table>

2.32 新手障碍赛

(5,446 英镑: 3英里) (7)

<><>1< / ><>4210- CROSSGALES KING 188 S Hosie 6-11-0< / ><>E Collier (5)< / >< / ><><>2< / ><>2-013 LITTLE LADY ROCK 21 Nick Scholfield 5-11-0< / ><>S Bowen< / >< / table>

<><>4< / ><>532- SIMONSBERG 250 Christian Williams 5-11-0< / ><>J Tudor< / >< / ><><>5< / ><>12- SEVEN KITES 190 (BF) T Lacey 4-10-10< / ><>S Sheppard< / >< / ><><>6< / ><>603 ZEROUALI 14 B Lund 4-10-10< / ><>Shane Quinlan (3)< / >< / ><><>7< / ><> / 21-5 SORGEAN 148 (W,T,BF) H Fry 5-10-7< / ><>B Carver< / >< / ><>< colspan="3">7-4 Seven Kites, 7-2 Little Lady Rock, 5-1 Crossgales King, Sorgean, 7-1 Locker Roum. 10-1 Simonsberg. 100-1 Zerouali< / >< / table>

3.12 DragonBet “威尔士冠军”障碍赛 (限额让磅赛) (26,015 英镑: 2英里) (17) ITV

3 202-5 KNICKERBOCKERGLORY 149 (D) D Skelton 10-11-6

4 11P1- LE BEAU MADRIK 177 D Skelton 5-11-5 H Skelton 5 P123- SERIOUS CHALLENGE 187 (D) F O'Brien 6-11-4 L Harrison 6 1F12- CAPTAIN HUGO 174 (D) P Hobbs & J White 6-11-3

<><>7< / ><>500-0 GIBBS ISLAND 153 (H,CD) T Lacey 5-11-0< / ><>S Sheppard< / >< / ><><>8< / ><>433P5 SONY BILL 34 (T,D) Faye Bramley 5-11-0< / ><>H Cobden< / >< / table>

9 F6-1P SAGEBOROUGH 71 (T,D) P Nolan (Ire) 5-10-12

12 1030- LISTENTOYOURHEART 167 (D) D Skelton 7-10-9℃ J Todd 13 1516- QUEENIE ST CLAIR F12 (D) Nick Scholfield 6-10-8 S Bowen 14 44412 MORNING MAYHEM 13 (P,D) Nick Scholfield 5-10-8

16 2165- DOCTOR BLUE 223 (W,P,T,D) S Thomas 6-10-6 D Johnston 17 31P6- TENNESSEE TANGO 186 (W,T,D) J Tizzard 6-10-6

Wright 选择：Le Beau Madrik 在海多克（Haydock）的更长距离比赛中表现出色；能够胜任此次路程。潜在威胁：Captain Hugo, Laafi

3.43 DragonBet 波斯战争 ITV 新手障碍赛

4 03241 HOPEFUL HERO 8 (H) T Hogan (Ire) 5-11-0 J J Burke 5 / 321- LE MOULIN ROUGE 182 (H) P Nolan (Ire) 5-11-0

10 1-311 LA COTE FLEURIE 49 (D) H De Bromhead (Ire) 5-10-7 D J O'Keeffe

11 -2122 OBSESSEDWITHYOU 43 (B) J Snowden 7-10-7 G Sheehan 2-1 Lord Byron, 11-4 Cosmic Connection, 7-2 North Shore, 10-1 Lock Stock, 14-1 Le Moulin Rouge, 16-1 La Cote Fleurie, West Hill Verde, 25-1 Chicker. Wright 选择：Cosmic Connection 上赛季表现稳步提升；仍有潜力 危险因素：Lord Byron, North Shore

4.17 让磅障碍赛 (4,410 英镑: 2英里) (15)

1 201-3 UNJEU ROYAL 142 (D) T Lacey 5-12-2 S Sheppard 2 306-6 JAMINSKA 158 (CD) Mrs J Williams 7-12-0℃ Gethings 3 4 / 21- OPENING BID 513 (W,P,D) J Tizzard 11-12-0 B J Powell 4 3551- KNIGHT TEMPLAR F40 (P,D) R Stephens 5-11-13

6 600-0 CITY OF DIAMONDS 146 (T,D) C Boultbee-Brooks 6-11-11

11 2155- PHOENIX RISEN 176 (B,D) J Scott 9-11-8℃ Bament (5) 12 450- LULLY DU HOUX 234 K Bailey & M Nicholls 5-11-6 J J Burke 13 5430- SIOUX FALLS 207 Mrs C Williams 6-11-4 A Wedge 14 P122- VICTORY SHOUT 180 (BF,D) S Hosie 5-11-3 E Collier (5) 15 35352 RAFFLES NOBU 21 (B,T) Nick Scholfield 6-10-9 J Quinlan 4-1 Typhoon Warrior, 6-1 Unjeu Royal, 7-1 Knight Templar, 8-1 Opening Bid, Victory Shout, 10-1 Raffles Nobu, Lully Du Houx, 12-1 Prairie Diamond.

4.55 让磅障碍赛 (5,281 英镑: 2英里 3弗隆 100码) (15)

1 2153- STEP AHEAD 200 (T) K Bailey & M Nicholls 6-12-2

2 4116- GUCHEN 175 (T,BF) K Bailey & M Nicholls 6-12-2

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14 423P- PEPE LE MOKO 247 Mrs J Williams 8-11-1 Sean Houlihan 15 5-065 TOP COEUR 21 Christian Williams 5-10-10 J Tudor 5-1 Fasol, 11-2 Codetalker, 6-1 Step Ahead, Mostly Sunny, 8-1 Beau Quali, 12-1 Guchen, Marlaccoo, Poet Laureate, Pepe Le Moko.

5.31 障碍赛 (4,225 英镑: 2英里) (11)

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体育 橄榄球联盟

Gallagher Prem 积分榜

格洛斯特队目前在 Gallagher Prem 积分榜上排名第一，但本周那些带着兴奋之情进入金斯霍姆球场的人很快就被泼了冷水。毕竟，赛季才刚刚开始两场比赛，他们已经习惯了这种虚假的曙光。

长期以来，进入镇上的路标——“欢迎来到格洛斯特：世界级橄榄球之乡”——看起来就像是拙劣的营销。在过去的 15 年里，该俱乐部仅一次进入季后赛，并且在 Prem 时代从未赢得过联赛冠军，即便在数十年的成绩不佳期间，Shed 看台依然座无虚席。不过，格洛斯特的运作现在或许终于展现出了一些连贯性。

在本赛季的前两场比赛中，他们先后击败了埃克塞特酋长队和哈莱昆队。去年，他们的排名在哈莱昆队之上一位，处于第八名。上周六，他们以 48-0 大胜对方。格洛斯特已经两年没有连续赢得三场联赛，四年没有连续赢得四场。因此，在面对接下来的极难挑战之前——今晚客场对阵莱斯特老虎队，下周在欧洲赛场对阵波尔多贝格莱队，随后在金斯霍姆主场对阵巴斯队，以及在 11 月测试赛休赛前客场对阵北安普顿圣徒队——他们深知目前的成功还远未到大功告成的时候。

如果你暗示这一切都归功于克里斯·博伊德，他可能会怀疑地挑起眉毛，但显而易见，这位 68 岁的纽西兰人作为技术总监产生了显著影响。

“我可能早就该退休了。我自己已经没有什么想要实现的野心了，”博伊德在金斯霍姆球场吃完一份泰式虾仁咖喱午餐后，坐在沙发上说道，“我只是在享受我现在所做的事情，做出一些贡献。”

与博伊德共处的时间很少会被浪费。哈莱昆队在选择罗比·迪恩斯这位同样睿智的人物担任类似的监督角色之前，曾试探过博伊德。但博伊德选择暂时离开他在惠灵顿当地的业余俱乐部 Tawa 的帮扶工作，离开他那拥有 10 英亩土地、后院养着牛羊的“生活区”住宅，离开他的“咸腥”海钓船以及高尔夫球场，以顾问的身份帮助格洛斯特实现复兴。他将在英国这里和纽西兰之间往返，但很少错过任何一场比赛。

博伊德在北安普顿圣徒队的经历略有不同，他从 2018 年起担任橄榄球总监，随后在菲尔·道森和萨姆·维斯蒂成长为优秀的年轻教练后退居幕后。最终，他在 2022 年离开富兰克林花园球场，当时俱乐部处于一个可持续发展的状态。博伊德在 2024 年还在蒙斯特队有过一段短暂的“救火”经历，与临时教练伊恩·科斯特洛一起担任“绩效顾问”，因此他习惯于执行救援行动。

“这是一个有趣的概念，但在任何行业中——无论是航运、林业还是其他——总会出现这样一种情况：有些人积累了相当丰富的行业经验和见解。而当这些人退休时，这些知识也就随之消失了，”博伊德说道。“我从2003年起就成为一名职业教练，而从1988年起就开始从事教练工作，所以我见多识广。没有什么太令人惊讶的事，我也明白什么是最佳实践。”“这非常

CHRIS FAIRWEATHER / HUW EVANS FOR THE TIMES

这位新西兰远见卓识者离开他的羊群来拯救格洛斯特

北安普顿与蒙斯特或格洛斯特并不相同。我享受的部分是尝试利用你现有的资源，无论是财务还是实物，思考我们如何才能让这台机器高效运转？”博伊德承认自己“不是一个爱读书的人”，但他喜欢吉姆·柯林斯在《从优秀到卓越》一书中的哲学。“关键在于让正确的人上车，让错误的人下车，然后为正确的人找到正确的座位，”他说。博伊德提到的一些问题感觉相当基础——或者至少感觉格洛斯特在没有他的情况下也能解决——但他有一种简化橄榄球业务以及这项运动本身的方法，带着一种典型的年长新西兰人那种干脆利落、低调的方式。

博伊德在上一赛季被空降至此，在做出任何大胆声明之前，他花了几个月时间进行观察。他发现乔治·斯基文顿在兼任前锋教练、主教练和橄榄球总监这三个职位时感到吃力。

“他的脑袋尺寸还可以，但还不足以同时戴三顶帽子，”这是博伊德的总结。他直接询问斯基文顿想要从事什么工作。这位43岁的人回答说他想领导整个计划，于是博伊德告诉他“那就赶紧找个该死的前锋教练来”。

布雷特·迪肯被雇佣，乔尔·汤金斯到任负责领导防守。多姆·瓦尔多克转到了一个更适合其技能集的岗位：帮助年轻人从年龄组过渡到成年橄榄球。

曾在约翰·范·格拉恩领导下负责巴斯队招募工作的罗布·伯吉斯成为了新任总经理。博伊德与他以及斯基文顿的协作最为直接，旨在“消除尽可能多的

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障碍，以防止球员在发挥时受阻”。

博伊德热爱“正统”的英国老牌俱乐部。成立于1873年的格洛斯特无疑就是这样一家，但在2026年，他看到了“球员、俱乐部与球迷之间的脱节”。这或许又是另一个简单的举措，但博伊德鼓励格洛斯特重新与他们的历史建立联系。现在，在更衣室的挂钩旁，每个位置都列出了昔日的偶像。在季前训练中，球员们必须讲述格洛斯特传奇人物的故事，并且在金斯霍姆球场的每个看台上，都要讲述这些看台是如何以及何时建成。

“如果你在这里待上一周，可能会听到‘棚屋’（shed）这个词出现一百次，”博伊德说道。这个词现在被用作格洛斯特在场内外的行为准则：“在‘棚屋’看台上，人们是不会容忍那样的行为的”，或者，“你是在辜负那个花掉辛苦钱来看球的人”。他从根本上认为，他们需要更多来自格洛斯特、切尔滕纳姆及周边地区的人员。他已经与格洛斯特的哈特普里学院（Hartpury College）会面，以重建紧密的联系。

“那些有着深厚情感投入的本土人士会给你更多，”博伊德说，“如果他们在身体和心理上能够适应，我总是支持内部晋升。”

这也适用于教练。博伊德告诉圣徒队（Saints），如果他在离职后他们必须聘请一名外部教练，那么他就失败了。他相信当道森和维斯蒂成为国家队教练时，内部人员将接替他们。“我的贡献止于基础层面。我们打下了一些地基，而菲尔和萨姆在上面建起了一座像样的房子，”他说。

格洛斯特的硬件设施已经到位，但还有更根本的任务需要处理。在夏季，博伊德主导了关于“格洛斯特DNA”的讨论。他们

莱斯特 对阵 格洛斯特 盖勒格尔英超联赛 (Gallagher Prem) 7. 45pm，韦尔福德路球场 电视转播：TNT Sports 1 和 HBO Max

2026- 27 赛季盖勒格尔英超联赛中被判犯规的争球（Scrum）次数

自 2017 / 18 赛季开始以来在盖勒格尔英超联赛中的胜场数* 来源：Oval Insights *仅包括目前仍在联赛中的俱乐部 博伊德并未因格洛斯特的开局而过于乐观，其中插图中的巴顿表现出色

代表什么？正如南非和新西兰在他们的“最强宿敌”系列赛中所证明的那样，具有清晰身份认同的球队才能繁荣发展。

德威·莱克、杰克·摩根、让·克莱恩和乔·乔伊斯等人的加盟，将释放格洛斯特那些令人兴奋的年轻后卫的潜力：考兰·恩格尔菲尔德、查理·阿特金森、塞布·阿特金森和威尔·约瑟夫在进攻教练詹姆斯·莱特富特-布朗的指导下已进入状态。

博伊德轻笑着说，这支“樱桃白”球队传统上热爱滚动推进（rolling maul），但他对格洛斯特如何进化、能变得多么聪明，以及这个项目能否打破他们的历史轨迹感到好奇。在圣徒队时，他授权道森和维斯蒂将球队从一支依赖身体对抗和踢球施压的队伍，转变为英格兰最聪明的进攻球队，因为这符合他们青训人才的特点。

“遵循一套不适合球员的 DNA 是没有意义的，”博伊德说，“如果你将比赛建立在身体对抗的基础上，但有三支球队比你更强壮，那么你就得在袖子里藏点别的招数。”

“在圣徒队，对我们最好的方式与他们的历史相反。在迪兰·哈特利和吉姆·马林德时代，他们效率极高，拥有强大的前锋群。圣徒队的 DNA 已经完全改变了。”

“橄榄球是身体接触与空间结合的艺术。如果你能赢得所有的身体接触，那么你可以用某种方式打球。如果你不能，你就必须打一种要么能让你在接触中获得优势，要么能以某种方式改变接触，从而影响你与对手之间关系的比赛。”

“我钦佩苏格兰队——他们知道自己擅长什么，也知道自己不能做什么，并且他们追求一种适合自己‘牲口’（球员素质）的比赛方式。但归根结底，这可能无法让他们赢得世界杯，因为他们没有足够的‘牲口’。”

“我们能否在面对他人的风格时强加自己的风格并赢得若干场比赛？这将很有趣。获得巨大改变最快的方法就是花一大笔钱买一大堆优秀的球员。”

“没有足够的人才储备（cattle），你根本无法参与竞争，但我并不认为最优秀的个人组合就一定会获胜。看看上周末的 NRL（国家橄榄球联赛）决赛，纽卡斯尔骑士队以 19-18 惜败于悉尼雄鸡队——这场比赛本不该如此接近，但他们将自己的潜力发挥到了极致。

“会有很多没能进入总决赛的球队认为：‘单就球员个人能力而言，我们更强，’但他们并不是一支更好的球队。这里一个真正有趣的挑战在于，我如何让整体的合力大于部分之和？”

格洛斯特队复苏的萌芽将在接下来的一个月里受到严苛的检验，但博伊德的工作无疑培养出了一支坚韧的队伍。如果他能帮助另一家英格兰老牌俱乐部重焕生机，这个国家的这项运动将欠他很多。

体育

新的安全法规流于表面，且有破坏比赛节奏之风险

斯图尔特·巴恩斯 (Stuart Barnes)

初衷是好的。没有人怀疑世界橄榄球联合会（World Rugby）充满了这样的初衷。其主席布雷特·罗宾逊（Brett Robinson）表示：“球员福祉是世界橄榄球联合会所有工作的核心。”球员福祉的重要性是该管理机构传达的核心信息。

当然，全球橄榄球运动员的健康与安全应当被优先考虑，但这种优先是否应该以牺牲其他一切为代价，则是另一个问题。然而，很少有人敢于提出这个问题——这是一种根植于职业比赛中的清教徒式倾向。

球员的享受、球迷的娱乐——这些都很重要。本周关于将“髋部下压”（hip drop）和“膝盖下压”（knee drop）推向头条的新闻，就是一个典型的例子：良好的初衷或许没有导致地狱，但却导致了裁判们在无数令人沮丧的下午破坏橄榄球联盟赛的节奏——在无意中扼杀了世界橄榄球联合会承认的“罕见”违规行为。

“髋部下压”将于11月起被判定为非法，而11月是北半球备受瞩目的国家冠军赛月份；也是从现在到明年世界杯之间最重要的橄榄球月份。该项运动的经济驱动力是测试赛。它需要高质量的精彩呈现。

对于裁判来说，这也是至关重要的一个月。裁判和球员、教练一样，都心怀抱负。他们希望入选世界杯名单，其中一些人甚至渴望执裁决赛。裁判们将寻求给这项运动的决策者留下深刻印象。他们将全力搜寻那些难以捉摸的“髋部下压”——即防守者尝试从侧面或后方进行拦截，并围绕持球者旋转，或将身体重量压在持球者的腿上。

这可能是一项徒劳的任务。在过去两天里，我在网上看到了这种现在被判定为非法拦截的片段。在它成为头条新闻之前，我坦白说，我不记得曾亲眼见过一次。我也不记得有任何一名评论员因为“髋部下压”而责骂球员，也没有人因为这种抓取、旋转、拉扯类型的拦截而赞扬拦截者。朋友们问我：“这到底是个什么东西？”我耸耸肩，一副若无其事且毫无头绪的样子。

直到内森·克莱里（Nathan Cleary）——世界上最伟大的联盟式橄榄球运动员之一——在NRL（国家橄榄球联赛）半决赛中，代表彭里斯豹队（Penrith Panthers）对阵纽卡斯尔骑士队（Newcastle Knights）时，被正是这样的一次拦截导致受伤。这在澳大利亚成了大新闻。可怜的菲尼克斯·克罗斯兰（Phoenix Crossland）因为其“非法”拦截的鲁莽行为而遭到指责。

在事件发生后，需要一位联盟传奇人物比利·斯莱特（Billy Slater）出面来平衡责任。这位前袋鼠队后卫认为，防守者必须在最后一秒采取这种拦截方式，因为NRL的规则过度保护了组织核心。

任何暗示延迟哪怕一秒的行为，最终都会导致不可避免且往往是不公正的针对拦截者的处罚。斯莱特暗示，这是NRL为了追求更华丽的比赛而进行表面化改造的结果。

联盟赛正从阴暗且遥远的防御时代转向进攻、进攻、再进攻。源源不断的达阵（tries）应当是一个警告。伟大的体育运动需要坚韧和决心——以及进攻天才——才能在计分板上制造波动。达阵变得太容易了。无论是五米驱动边线球的规则变更，还是踢球追击者的自由奔跑以及对盒式踢球（box-kick）的单手拍回，规则都在支持进攻打法。就好像在某个地方，有人将不停地达阵等同于卓越。这种平衡出错了。

而随着对“膝盖下压”的关注，天平进一步向持球者倾斜。让我们称之为“膝跳反应”。如果膝盖（或双膝）着地，则不能进行拦截。从技术上讲，如果球员在地面上，则被视为“倒地”且脱离比赛——因此，他们不能自由地进行拦截。

最具有争议且最常见的处罚——头部碰撞——总是判给进攻方，即便持球者在被擒抱时俯身。降低擒抱位置的责任在于防守者。这很公平。这是为了健康与安全而对公正做出的牺牲。在一个不完美的世界里，如果需要通过几次可疑的判罚来给防守者一个教训，那就这样吧。

但如果防守者实际上被阻止以低身体重心开始行动，那么我们正趋向于这样一种局面：攻击目标位于胸骨与大腿之间，而持球者则可以随意地不断变换身体位置。

膝盖着地法（这已包含在规则书中）并不简单。将膝盖落在地面上对擒抱者造成的威胁，与对持球者造成的威胁一样大。卢克·考恩-迪基（Luke Cowan-Dickie）一直以来都有像神风特攻队一样低位直击膝盖下方的习惯。被这位钩手用肩膀猛击的持球者，会被撞得翻滚，完全失去控制。但看到这位塞尔鲨鱼队（Sale Sharks）的钩手穿着狮队（Lions）的球衣被抬下场，或在英超决赛中被撞到脑震荡，也是令人沮丧的熟悉景象。防守者的头部进入了持球者膝盖的攻击范围。

在正面对撞小腿时，是不可能将双臂环绕在持球者身上的。相比之下，一名在试线（tryline）上静止且准备将持球者向后推进的防守者，能够完全掌控自己的技术，从而确保擒抱者和被擒抱者的安全。

如果考恩-迪基在下个月入选英格兰队，我可以想象那样滑稽的一幕：当他猛冲向对方身体进行撞击时，裁判们在检查他的膝盖是否接触了草地，而不是检查那个根本不可能完成的环抱动作。

通过强化这种将安全置于首位的表面说辞，我们正走向更多时长达 100 分钟的测试赛和比分高达 100 分的俱乐部比赛。单凭良好的意愿是不够的。

新西兰橄榄球联盟与 NRL 陷入“酋长”法律之争

约翰·韦斯特比 (John Westerby)

随着双方爆发法律战，新西兰橄榄球联盟 (New Zealand Rugby) 被 NRL 指责在太平洋地区扩大橄榄球联盟 (rugby league) 规模的问题上表现出“令人震惊的虚伪”且“感到受威胁”。

（国家橄榄球联盟）是澳大利亚顶级的 13 人制比赛赛事，在新西兰拥有一支名为“勇士队” (Warriors) 的球队，并且刚刚推出了一支总部位于巴布亚新几内亚、绰号为“酋长队” (the Chiefs) 的第 19 支队伍。

然而，新西兰橄榄球联盟（新西兰橄榄球联盟 / rugby union 的管理机构）表示，其总部位于怀卡托的“酋长队”自 1998 年起就拥有商标权。该联盟正寻求阻止巴布亚新几内亚酋长队在 2028 年加入 时在新西兰使用该名称。

在今年早些时候签署了一份创纪录的 27.6亿英镑 七年电视转播合同。除了在橄榄球联盟作为国民运动的巴布亚新几内亚设立酋长队外，该联盟还在考虑设立第二支总部位于新西兰的特许经营球队，作为联赛的第 20 支球队。

但新西兰橄榄球联盟首席执行官史蒂夫·兰开斯特 (Steve Lancaster) 认为， 的新特许经营球队将通过威胁“酋长队”在超级橄榄球赛 (Super Rugby) 中建立的品牌，从而侵占其领地。

“30 年来，酋长队及其球员建立了一个被广泛认可的极其强大的身份，”兰开斯特说。“我们现在有责任保护酋长队的品牌。”

总部位于怀卡托的酋长队首席执行官西蒙·格拉夫豪斯 (Simon Graafhuis) 表示：“不同运动和市场的球队可以使用相同的名称共存。但这里的问题是，我们的运动非常相似，且在同一个市场竞争，争夺同一批球迷。”

执行主席彼得·弗兰迪斯 (Peter V'landys) 表示，他的组织将在法庭上对这些主张提出异议。“我们将对此进行有力辩护，”他说。“考虑到 1996 年奥克兰蓝队 (Auckland Blues) 在未进行任何协商的情况下就使用了新南威尔士蓝队 (NSW Blues) 的名称，这种虚伪简直令人震惊。在此之前，新南威尔士蓝队已经使用了‘蓝队’这个名字超过 50 年。显然，新西兰的橄榄球联盟 (rugby union) 感受到了橄榄球联盟 (rugby league) 的威胁，因为大多数橄榄球联盟的比赛都售罄了。”

体育板 板球

拉巴达缺席澳大利亚恩怨测试赛

伊丽莎白·阿蒙 (Elizabeth Ammon)

卡吉索·拉巴达 (Kagiso Rabada) 被判定无法参加今天在德班举行的南非对阵澳大利亚、备受期待的揭幕测试赛。这是自 2018 年砂纸球操纵丑闻以来，两队首次在该国进行测试赛。

作为南非顶尖的快球手，拉巴达自 5 月的 IPL 之后就没参加过比赛，因为他在接下来的一个月训练期间腿筋受伤。

尽管拉巴达在周末参加了南非队的内部训练赛，但南非队长滕巴·巴武马 (Temba Bavuma) 确认，这名 31 岁的球员不会在这次测试赛中冒险出场，而这场比赛正唤起人们对那场震惊澳大利亚体育界的臭名昭著的作弊丑闻的记忆。

拉巴达的缺席意味着南非队选择了两名旋转球手，分别是凯沙夫·马哈拉杰 (Keshav Maharaj) 和西蒙·哈默 (Simon Harmer)，而右臂快球手安里奇·诺蒂 (Anrich Nortje) 在离开三年多后回归

南非 对阵 澳大利亚 第一场测试赛 今天开始， 8.30am，德班 电视：Sky Sports 板球

后，诺蒂以 90 英里 / 小时的投球能力，为南非队在其他快球手马尔科·詹森 (Marco Jansen) 和维安·穆尔德 (Wiaan Mulder) 之外提供了一个纯速度选项。

“这不是一个容易的决定，”巴武马说。“我们采取了保守路线，多给他几天时间，让他能更接近 100% 的体能状态。”

预计拉巴达将被考虑参加 10 月 18 日在格克贝哈 (Gqeberha) 开始的第二场测试赛。

马哈拉杰和哈默曾在 2025 年 11 月的一场测试赛中共同出战，但那是印度次大陆的环境，尽管东道主预计德班的沿海球场将适合这对组合。

南非队拥有强大的前七名球员，艾登·马克拉姆 (Aiden Markram) 与瑞安·里克尔顿 (Ryan Rickelton) 共同担任开局击球手。

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诺丁汉郡。与此同时，前澳大利亚开局击球手乌斯曼·哈瓦贾预计将在下个月出版的自传中披露关于“砂纸门”此前不为人知的细节。他请求与帕特·库明斯以及澳大利亚板球协会首席执行官托德·格林伯格就书中的内容进行私下沟通。

人们尤其关注哈瓦贾可能会如何描述 2018 年在南非发生的球体篡改丑闻，当时卡梅伦·班克罗夫特被

自那次调查以来，人们对

据了解，哈瓦贾与澳大利亚队长库明斯在澳大利亚近期对阵孟加拉国的系列赛前，曾在布里斯班一起喝咖啡。

被发现使用砂纸打磨球体，因此被禁赛九个月。在澳大利亚板球协会的调查得出结论，认为沃纳是篡改球体计划的发起者，而时任队长的史蒂夫·史密斯未尝试阻止该行为后，史密斯和戴维·沃纳被禁赛一年。

球队其他成员在多大程度上知晓该计划。

曾是 2018 年队成员的库明斯一直否认事先知晓球体篡改

ANNA WEBBER / GETTY IMAGES 评论员表示，考虑到投球手会对所用球体的状态和情况进行如此细致的研究，很难相信没有一名投球手知情。

纽约网红雷米·巴德是那些在法拉盛公园直播内容的人员之一，但温布尔登可能不会如此宽容

网红崛起将以“温网方式”处理

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参加赛事。全英俱乐部已经禁止携带任何可能干扰比赛的物品进入场内，例如照明设备。

美国网球协会（USTA）为今年的美网认证了 100 名网红——是去年的两倍。虽然温网不直接向网红提供认证，但他们可以通过 Polo Ralph Lauren 等合作伙伴品牌受邀参加。阿特金森承认，网红在推广这项运动方面发挥着作用。

“显然，在 21 世纪的第三个十年里，网红是在全球范围内打造品牌的重要组成部分，”

自萨莉·博尔顿离职后，从 7 月起担任代理首席执行官的阿特金森表示。“你必须做的是让他们在可控范围内。我们的合作伙伴 Polo Ralph Lauren 将会对网红进行严格的陪同引导。”

“我认为这是市场的一部分。我们不再是一个只有报纸和电视的世界。世界已经改变，但真正重要的是你得以‘温网方式’来处理这件事。”

“但如果说‘温网将不再允许网红出现’，那显然是胡说八道。我们的营销团队在细致地工作，以确保他们的行为与我们的品牌保持一致。这实际上是一种自我监管。”

埃姆林阁楼中的珍宝获救

《泰晤士报》摄影师 BRADLEY ORMESHER

保罗·乔伊斯（Paul Joyce）写道，已故利物浦球星的收藏品中包含克鲁伊夫和贝斯特的球衣，在拍卖会上可能拍出 £500k 的高价。

模特身上穿着一件来自 1974 年足总杯决赛的亮红色运动套装上衣，瞬间勾起人们对比尔·香克利率领的利物浦击溃纽卡斯尔联队那一天的回忆，而远处闪现的色彩也同样引人注目。

这里有一件凯文·基根曾穿过的天蓝色汉堡 SV 球衣，一件属于乔治·贝斯特的亮绿色北爱尔兰队球衣，一件约翰·克鲁伊夫的巴塞罗那队上衣，一件曾由弗朗茨·贝肯鲍尔穿过的白色 5 号德国队球衣，以及肯尼·达格利什的蓝色苏格兰队套装。

总而言之，这是一个纪念品的“阿拉丁神灯洞穴”，多年来一直静静地躺在原利物浦及英格兰队长埃姆林·休斯（Emlyn Hughes）子女家的阁楼纸箱中。

现在，这批收藏品预计将在下个月的拍卖会上拍出约 50 万英镑 的价格。休斯职业生涯的这些珍贵纪念品（包括欧冠杯和联赛冠军奖牌）可能会引发巨大的关注。

在 245 件拍品中，甚至还包括他在参加 BBC 问答节目《体育问题》（A Question of Sport）期间穿的套衫，该节目帮助休斯成为了国民偶像。

“这些东西一直被存在箱子里，因为爸爸从不送走任何东西，很多年都放在我们谢菲尔德家中的阁楼里，”他的女儿艾玛（Emma）说道。“爸爸去世后，妈妈把它们给了我和我的哥哥埃姆林，所以我们就把它们放在各自的阁楼里。”

“遗憾的是，我们的母亲去年去世了，我们在清理所有物品时说道：‘我们要怎么处理这些东西？’我已经十到 15 年没看过它们了。我们保留了一些对我们有纪念意义的东西，但我们的孩子们现在会去 YouTube 上看视频 [来看他们的祖父]。”

休斯因其充沛的精力和敢于从防守端冲向进攻端的风格而被昵称为“疯狂之马”，他在 2004 年因脑瘤去世，享年 57 岁。然而，他的遗产依然在 talkSPORT 中延续，昨天的展品预展吸引了一些利物浦球迷参加，对他们而言，仅仅是看到某些球衣就能让他们穿越回几十年前。

在安菲尔德职业生涯中，他赢得了四个联赛冠军、两座欧冠杯和一座足总杯（他后来在伍尔弗汉普顿流浪者队赢得了联赛杯），这些重大里程碑期间穿着的球衣和运动套装上衣均在 BUDDS 拍卖行的拍品之列。

“看到那件球衣，”利物浦球迷兼家庭好友莱斯·劳森（Les Lawson）指着休斯在 1971 年足总杯决赛负于阿森纳时穿的球衣说道，“让我想起第一次意识到成为一名足球支持者会让人心碎的时候。但更多的是美好的回忆。仅仅站在这里，我就能想象出三年后埃姆林脖子上系着围巾，举起足总杯的样子。他是我在七十年代最喜欢的球员。他踢球的样子就像我们中的一员。”由于距离 1977 年 3-1 击败门兴格拉德巴赫夺得首座欧冠杯的 50 周年纪念日日益临近，利物浦俱乐部已收到关于该场比赛相关服饰的咨询。

来自巴罗的男孩休斯曾 62 次代表英格兰队出战。周二，艾玛和小埃姆林在温布利球场参加了对阵捷克共和国的国家联赛，从英足总（FA）手中接过了他们父亲的遗产代表队帽子（第 861 号）。“回顾这个过程感觉很好，因为它唤起了回忆。我出生在 1976 年，他在 1980 年在伍尔夫斯队之后停止了赢球，”小埃姆林说。“我记得《体育问题》那些片段，直到他认错人之前，那些片段都很美好！”（这是指休斯在图片识别环节将安妮公主误认为骑师约翰·里德。）

小埃姆林继续说道：“他是你所能见到的最具有竞争心的人。因为我的差点比他好，他竟然不再和我一起打高尔夫了！无论是打牌还是打多米诺骨牌，他绝不会让你赢，但基本上正是这种动力促使他建立了这个收藏，并赢得了那些奖牌。”

“对于那些在1977年特意前往罗马，或者在1978年前往布鲁日观看比赛的人来说，如果能得到一些东西就太好了。”该目录可在 BUDDS.com 查看，拍卖将于11月2日在利物浦的希望街酒店（Hope Street Hotel）举行。

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詹姆斯·吉尔布兰特 (James Gheerbrant)

“领头羊”埃利奥特令人遗憾的英格兰队下滑之路

很难想象还有比埃利奥特·安德森（Elliot Anderson）和亚历克斯·斯科特（Alex Scott）在英格兰队 7-0 大胜克罗地亚的比赛中并肩掌控中场——而且对手竟然是卢卡·莫德里奇（Luka Modric）和马特奥·科瓦契奇（Mateo Kovacic）！——更令人印象深刻的场景，能更好地证明英格兰足球体系的成功了。而就在 15 个月前，他们才在英格兰 Under-21 对阵德国队的欧洲杯决赛中共同首发。

看着他们如此默契地配合，人们很难不对英格兰足球的能力产生好感：它不仅能培养球员，还能滋养他们，引导他们成长，并在正确的时间给予他们正确的发展机会。

在每一支 under-21 球队中，总有人能达到标准，而有人则不能。上周，前阿森纳和英格兰前锋艾伦·史密斯（Alan Smith）转发了一张 1984 年夺得欧洲杯冠军的 under-21 球队照片，他也是其中的一员。“高质量的阵容，”他写道，事实也的确如此。他、马克·哈特利（Mark Hateley）和史蒂夫·霍奇（Steve Hodge）在英格兰成年国家队的职业生涯都颇有建树，而尼格尔·卡拉汉（Nigel Callaghan）、德里克·蒙特菲尔德（Derek Mountfield）和霍华德·盖尔（Howard Gayle，他在决赛中进球）则从未真正达到那个高度。

尽管人们如此关注路易斯·德·拉·富恩特（Luis de la Fuente）在西班牙青年队的崛起，以及随他一路晋升至成年队并赢得世界杯的核心球员群体，但只要审视那些成功的 under-19 和 under-21 阵容，你就会发现大量未能成功的球员：每出现一个法比安·鲁伊斯（Fabián Ruiz）或丹尼·奥尔莫（Dani Olmo），就会有一个乌奈·努涅斯（Unai Núñez）或安东尼奥·西维拉（Antonio Sivera）。

因此，虽然安德森、斯科特和贾雷尔·宽萨（Jarell Quansah）已从李·卡斯利（Lee Carsley）去年夏天的“年轻之狮”中脱颖而出，成为极具潜力的英格兰球员，但像杰伊·斯坦斯菲尔德（Jay Stansfield）或奥马里·哈钦森（Omari Hutchinson）最终停留在较低的水平，既不令人惊讶，也不值得遗憾。事情就是这样。

即便如此，在里耶卡观看安德森、斯科特和宽萨比赛时，人们很难不去想起那支获胜的 under-21 球队中的某位队友。不久前，他似乎是英格兰成年队的必然之选，但现在看来，他离实现这个目标还很遥远。而他所经历的，必须被列为近期最奇怪且最突然的职业生涯崩盘事件之一。

哈维·埃利奥特（Harvey Elliott）曾是卡斯利 2025 年欧洲杯冠军队的明星。他在对阵捷克共和国的小组赛、对阵西班牙的四分之一决赛中进球，在半决赛击败荷兰队的比赛中攻入两球，并在决赛中打入首球。他被授予本届赛事最佳球员奖，而在该奖项辉煌的历史上，此前曾预示过鲁迪· فول勒（Rudi Völler）、劳伦·布朗（Laurent Blanc）、达沃尔·舒克尔（Davor Suker）、路易斯·菲戈（Luis Figo）、法比奥·卡纳瓦罗（Fabio Cannavaro）、安德烈·皮尔洛（Andrea Pirlo）、蒂亚戈·阿尔坎塔拉（Thiago Alcântara）、鲁伊斯以及安东尼·戈登（Anthony Gordon）等人的巨星之路。他在 under-21 职业生涯中出场 28 场，打入 14 球。

埃利奥特并不像那些从未成功跨越到成年足球的“天才少年”。直到不久前，他的俱乐部生涯似乎还进展得相当顺利。在尤尔根·克洛普（Jürgen Klopp）的最后一个赛季，他正努力争取在利物浦首发阵容中占据一席之地，并在英超赛季结束时，在 1,335 分钟（约 15 场全场比赛）的出场时间里贡献了 3 个进球和 6 次助攻，成绩相当可观。

在阿尔内·斯洛特（Arne Slot）第一个赛季开始时遭遇的足部骨折确实不理想，但他重新夺回了常规替补的身份，并在这一角色中表现出色，尤其是在欧冠联赛中，他连续三场比赛进球，包括在对阵巴黎圣日耳曼的比赛中打入绝杀球。那是 19 个月前的事了。

随后是他那辉煌的欧洲杯之夏；那个夏天，利物浦还签下了弗洛里安·维尔茨和雨果·埃基蒂克。由于感到自己的职业生涯正处于十字路口，并察觉到斯洛特并未将他视为首发球员，他决定寻求转会。他与阿斯顿维拉达成了一项协议：技术上是租借，但只要出场10次就将触发永久转会。穆罕默德·萨拉赫在给埃利奥特的告别信息中预言“你在新俱乐部会大展宏图”，而不仅仅是他一个人将满足该条件的达成以及随之而来的离开利物浦视为一种纯粹的形式。

事实证明并非如此。乌奈·埃梅里并不认可埃利奥特作为球员的水平，尽管这位维拉主教练在谈到他个人时总是语气温和并赞赏他的态度，因此他决定避免触发永久转会，最终让埃利奥特在维拉的出场次数停留在9次。他本可以被送回利物浦，但前提是必须支付一笔终止费，而维拉不愿支付，利物浦也不愿放弃。在足球新闻中，“卡夫卡式”这个形容词很少被用到，但

埃梅里上赛季的困境——在单个赛季内无法代表第三家俱乐部出战，且完全没有进一步获得比赛时间以改变埃梅里想法的前景（尽管他在欧联杯决赛中坐在替补席上），同时也无法返回原俱乐部——就非常接近这种状态。

至少本赛季他再次开始比赛，目前租借自利物浦效力于巴伦西亚。在撰写本文时，这位23岁的球员已出场三次——全部是以替补身份出场，且全部落败——均在本赛季的西甲联赛中。巴伦西亚将于周日对阵桑坦德竞技，目前在积分榜排名第19位，并于近期聘请了曾在世界杯执教墨西哥队的哈维尔·阿吉雷。

当埃利奥特去年夏天加盟维拉时，据报道RB莱比锡对他也很感兴趣——莱比锡作为欧冠常客，与巴伦西亚之间的差距衡量出了埃利奥特在浪费了一年的成长机会且光芒黯淡后，其身价下降了多少。英格兰下一位成年国家队首秀球员将是该队的第1,302位男子球员，而目前埃利奥特离这个目标还很远。目前最有可能入选的人之一是乔什·金，他是富勒姆学院的下一颗明珠，比埃利奥特突破时的年级低四个年级。

这就是埃利奥特面临的问题之一：在英格兰天才球员供应量达到前所未有高度的时代，尤其是在中场和进攻中场位置，像他或者说梅森·芒特这样曾经值得耐心对待和特别关注的球员，现在更容易被直接舍弃。

埃利奥特能回归吗？当然，他仍然可以——而他周日可能面对的一名球员提供了一个乐观的故事。塞尔希奥·卡纳莱斯目前在职业生涯末期效力于桑坦德竞技，他曾是赢得2013年欧洲杯的西班牙Under-21国家队成员，但一次失败的皇马转会和一系列伤病让他淡出了视野。在随under-21s捧杯六年之后，他在皇家贝蒂斯重建了职业生涯，最终才收到了成年国家队的首次征召：在随后的四年里，他为西班牙国家队出战了11次，并参加了2023年欧国联决赛，那是德拉富恩特执教下的首个冠军。

一名足球运动员的职业生涯是由表现与抉择交织而成的格栅。你在球场上的表现，以及你和他人在此之外所做的选择，其本质不过如此。当一切进展顺利时——就像现在的安德森那样——你一定会觉得是表现驱动了抉择：你在诺丁汉森林队表现出色，这促使托马斯·图赫尔决定征召你；你在对阵塞尔维亚的比赛中表现神勇，这迫使他让你成为主力；你在对阵曼彻斯特城的几场比赛中表现惊艳，再加上对其能力的全面评估，让他们认定你是一名价值 1 亿英镑 球员。

而埃利奥特现在感受到的恰恰相反：抉择是如何迅速地脱离你的掌控并领先于你的竞技状态，以及当这种情况发生时，你又是多么无力去扭转局面。他只能希望自己在瓦伦西亚已经触底，并希望阿吉雷能给予他信任和出场时间，好让他开始重新回到他渴望的高度。

狮女军在险峻的世界杯附加赛中没有第二次机会

Kit Shepard 报道（女足记者）英格兰队追求世界杯荣耀的征程现在进入了关键阶段。

预选赛于去年3月开始，而正赛直到6月才开打，但欧足联（Uefa）残酷的赛制将“狮女军”推入了附加赛。现在已经没有第二次机会了——如果输掉即将到来的与希腊队的两回合比赛，英格兰队将无法参加明年夏天在巴西举行的赛事。即便他们获胜，在七周后还必须在两回合比赛中击败斯洛伐克或乌克兰，才能最终锁定参赛资格。

对于欧洲冠军英格兰队来说，如果无法进入正赛，将是令人震惊且耻辱的。他们的目标是在明年夏天捧起女足世界杯冠军奖杯——而这正是英格兰队及其功勋主教练萨里娜·维格曼（Sarina Wiegman）都尚未实现的成就。

英格兰队理应赢得这些附加赛，首场比赛将于今晚在克里特岛客场对阵希腊队。英格兰队在国际足联（Fifa）的排名为第4位，远高于希腊（第59位）和斯洛伐克（第54位），而且他们在预选赛中已经两次以绝对优势击败了乌克兰（第34位）。

“我们以前从未与他们交手，他们在这次预选赛中表现不错，”维格曼在谈到希腊队时表示。

尽管如此，英格兰队必须应对附加赛带来的风险，以及作为热门球队所承受的期望。

他们陷入目前境地的原因既令人宽慰，又令人担忧。

英格兰队在预选赛小组赛的六场比赛中赢了五场，但在6月于马略卡岛的比赛中被西班牙队4-0大败。由于只有小组第一能直接晋级，因此世界冠军西班牙队以牺牲英格兰队为代价获得了前往巴西的资格。

这次糟糕的运气很难说是一场危机，而欧洲冠军和世界冠军竟然要为同一个晋级名额而战，这凸显了欧足联赛制的一个重大缺陷。英格兰队在大部分预选赛期间表现出色，尤其是在温布利球场1-0战胜西班牙队的比赛中。

然而，在温布利获胜之后，在马略卡岛遭遇的那场惨败，

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暴露了英格兰队的脆弱。他们在中场被完全压制，在控球和防守端表现散漫，替补席缺乏火力，看起来不像潜在的世界冠军。

希腊队不会像西班牙队那样考验英格兰队，但今晚的比赛以及周二在莱斯特举行的第二回合比赛，是英格兰队解决自身弱点并证明马略卡岛的失利只是偶然机会的一次机会。

克洛伊·凯利（Chloe Kelly）和埃拉·图恩（Ella Toone）这两位欧洲杯夺冠功臣因状态不佳被剔除出本次大名单，不过图恩随后中断了在西班牙的假期，顶替露西·布朗兹（Lucy Bronze）出战，后者患有维格曼所称的“非常轻微的伤病”。

凯利的缺席为伦敦城市狮女队的弗雷亚·戈弗里（Freya Godfrey）出任“超级替补”铺平了道路。这位21岁的前锋是一个令人兴奋的选择，可以在首发前场三人组（劳伦·詹姆斯、亚莱西亚·鲁索和劳伦·亨普）使对方防线疲惫之后登场。

在乔治亚·斯坦威（Georgia Stanway）和目前在切尔西状态极佳的凯拉·沃尔什（Keira Walsh）之外的第三个中场位置仍不确定。露西亚·肯德尔（Lucia Kendall）、劳拉·布林德基尔德-布朗（Laura Blindkilde Brown）以及尚未入选过国家队的组合莱克西·波特（Lexi Potter）和埃丽卡·梅格-帕金森（Erica Meg Parkinson）都是令人兴奋但缺乏经验的选择，因此图恩可能会重新夺回她的位置。

斯科特受伤打击令罗斯对英格兰队感到“不满”

彼得·鲁茨勒 (Peter Rutzler)

伯恩茅斯主教练马尔科·罗斯表示，俱乐部对英格兰队就亚历克斯·斯科特受伤一事所提供的所有答复“并不满意”，但他拒绝指责国家队，并坚持认为“每个人”都应对这名中场球员的伤停负责。

斯科特在上周六英格兰 7-0 战胜克罗地亚的比赛中完成了正式首秀。他在赛前接受了治疗，并在出场 70 分钟后被替换下场，当时并未感到任何不适，但随后的扫描显示其股四头肌出现问题。罗斯表示，这意味着斯科特可能将缺席至少“四到五”周。

托马斯·图赫尔称这次受伤“很奇怪”，他坚持认为，虽然斯科特在赛前接受了治疗，但医疗人员和球员本人都给出了绿灯。“如果我稍微意识到有风险，我就不会让他上场，”这位英格兰队主教练说道。

罗斯表示他尚未就斯科特的伤势与图赫尔进行沟通，但他呼应了俱乐部对此事的沮丧情绪。这名中场球员将错过伯恩茅斯至关重要的一个月，该队在接下来的四周内有九场比赛。

“我非常失望，这是一个巨大的损失，”罗斯说。“我们很不安，这就是我们的态度。我们提出了一些问题，但对每一个答案都不满意。不过，对我作为一名教练来说，现在事实已经如此。我们必须处理这个局面。这不是为了指责某人，因为我们必须继续前进并寻找解决方案。”

罗斯表示，尽管受伤，斯科特感觉良好，但扫描结果显示他需要时间在场边休养。他还承认，在之前两次入选英格兰队但未能出场后，该球员会“极度渴望”能够上场比赛。

“如果一名球员在国家队比赛日后带着伤病回归，这总是令人失望的，”他说。“如果发生了这种情况，我们（国家队和俱乐部）会开始相互沟通。但如果他作为一名球员——甚至对我——说他感觉良好，感觉可以上场，那么每个人都要负责。”

“现在我们必须处理这个局面。所以这不仅仅是英足总（FA）的问题，也不仅仅是球员的问题，甚至也关乎我们。我们也必须与球员保持联系。因为我们比足协的人更了解他。”

“对我来说，这不是俱乐部与足协对抗的问题。而是：我们现在面临这个局面。下次我们应该更好地解决它。”

当被问及未来国家队与俱乐部之间的沟通渠道是否需要改善时，罗斯补充道：“绝对需要。对我来说，我只是一个教练，最后还有英足总、医疗人员、医生和球员。我唯一要求的是，我们应该从中吸取教训，并在下次改进。”

马泰斯·德利赫特在缺阵 11 个月后，即将为曼联伤愈复出（夏洛特·邓克尔撰文）。据了解，他上周参加了一场对阵洛桑-斯波尔的训练赛。消息人士称，这位后卫感觉良好，人们乐观地认为他很快将回到迈克尔·卡里克率领的球队中。

体育

凯塞多接近复出，阿隆索迎来助力

彼得·鲁茨勒 (Peter Rutzler)

莫伊塞斯·凯塞多（Moisés Caicedo）即将回归切尔西的一线队，这对主教练哈维·阿隆索（Xabi Alonso）来说将是一个及时的助力。

这位厄瓜多尔中场在赛季开始前遭遇小腿受伤，此后仅在英超联赛中出场一次，即 8 月对阵布莱顿（Brighton & Hove Albion）时作为替补登场，但在出场 14 分钟后不得不被替换下场。

阿隆索认为当时让该球员过早复出，因此一直试图避免重复这一错误。在最近的国际比赛日期间，凯塞多没有随厄瓜多尔国家队出战，但在切尔西加快了康复进程。

据了解，他在上周一场不对外公开的对阵朴茨茅斯（Portsmouth）的友谊赛中参加了部分比赛。切尔西在这场被视为训练演习的比赛中 2-0 告负。

目前尚不清楚凯塞多是否会在明天切尔西主场迎战伯恩茅斯（Bournemouth）的比赛中出场。

阿隆索面临的另一个伤病问题是若昂·佩德罗（João Pedro），他缺席了球队 3-0 负于布伦特福德（Brentford）的比赛，并在国际比赛日之前退出了巴西国家队。科尔·帕尔默（Cole Palmer）也因肌肉受伤而退出了英格兰国家队的国际任务。球队队长里斯·詹姆斯（Reece James）则因腿筋受伤而缺阵。

与此同时，切尔西已与萨里郡的埃尔姆布里奇区议会（Elmbridge borough council）就升级其训练基地进行了预申请规划洽谈。

赛果

高尔夫

USPGA Tour Baycurrent Classic 横滨（除非另有说明，否则为美国球员；标准杆 71）：63 J Bridgeman；64 J Smith (英)；65 R Castillo, P Coody, M Homa, M Meissner；66 D Lipsky, K Mitchell, A Putnam, M Thorbjornsen, K Ventura (挪)；67 N Echavarria (哥), R Hisatsune (日), Lee M-w (澳), H Matsuyama (日), C Morikawa；68℃ Bezuidenhout (南非), M Brennan, R Gerard, H Iwata (), J Keefer, M Kim, D McCarthy, J Parry (英), R Yonezawa ()；69 Z Bauchou, D Ghim, B Harman, L Hodges, Im S-j (韩), S Jaeger (德), K Nakajima (), A Scott (澳), K Sunagawa (), J Thomas；70 W Clark, M Greyserman, B Hossler, T Ishizaka (), T Kanaya (), M McCarty, C Phillips, K Roy, X Schauffele, M Wallace (英)。

DP World Tour Open de Espana 马德里（除非另有说明，否则为英国及爱尔兰球员；标准杆 71）：66 E Lopez-Chacarra (西), G Forrest, C Syme；67 S Garcia (西), D Hillier (新西兰), A Ayora (西), J S Olesen (丹)；68 M Lindberg (瑞典), V Perez (法), J Dean, A Otaegui (阿联酋), B Robinson-Thompson, J Girrbach (瑞士), L List (美)；69 O Lindell (芬), R Langasque (法), M Elvira (西), Ko J-w (法), W Ding (中国), S Valimaki (芬)；70 F Molinari (意), H du Plessis (南非), O Guillamoundeguy (法), S Lowry, J Winther (丹), M Couvra (法), J Guerrier (法), J Scrivener (澳), K Aphibarnrat (泰), J Paul (德), R Paratore (意)。

Ladies European Tour Korea Championship 首尔（除非另有说明，否则为英国及爱尔兰球员；标准杆 72）：65 P Mackova (捷克)；67 M Yamashita (), O Cowan (德), S Kemp (澳), L M Humphreys；68 Park S-H (韩), Kim H-j (韩), S Tan (新), G Ding (香港), A Belac (斯洛文尼亚)；69 Ku M-J (韩), S Kouskova (捷克), K Arwefjaell (瑞典), L Hall, A Försterling (德)；70 V Bouvet (法), Kim G-b (韩), K Bennett (澳), N Broch Estrup (丹), L Walsh, P Babnik (斯洛文尼亚), C Herbin-Marshall (法), L Young, M Metraux (瑞士), A Morgan (美), R Liti (意), L Rydqvist (瑞典), H Lee (西)；71 A Lee (美), Lee D-e (韩), Lee J-e (韩), C Alexander (南非), A Huang (加), E Spitz (奥), A Fuller, A Nobilio (意), Y Tseng (台), A Zanusso (意), W Hillier (澳), L Lau (法)。

网球

ATP 上海大师赛

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第一轮：J. 布鲁克斯比 (美) 胜 J. 穆纳尔 (西) 7-5, 6-4；N. 博格斯 (葡) 胜 F. 阿科斯塔 (阿根廷) 7-6(5), 6-2；P. 科托夫 (俄) 胜 T. 格里克斯普尔 (荷) 6-4, 7-6(4)；S. 齐齐帕斯 (希) 胜 K. 考佩扬斯 (比) 6-3, 7-5；C. 乌戈·卡拉贝利 (阿根廷) 胜 I. 西马金 (俄) 2-6, 6-2, 7-5；H. 胡尔卡奇 (波兰) 胜 J. 达克沃斯 (澳) 6-3, 7-6(4)；M. 阿马尔迪 (意) 胜 B. 托米奇 (澳) 6-3, 6-1；T. 蒂兰特 (阿根廷) 胜 H. 梅杰多维奇 (塞) 6-4, 6-2；P. 卡雷诺·布斯塔 (西) 胜 M. 纳沃内 (阿根廷) 4-6, 7-5, 6-3；A. 瓦列霍 (巴拉圭) 胜 V. 罗耶 (法) 6-3, 6-1；S. 巴埃兹 (阿根廷) 胜 M. 吉龙 (美) 1-6, 6-3, 6-4；Z. 斯瓦伊达 (美) 胜 F. 马罗赞 (匈) 6-3, 7-6(2)；J. 塞伦多洛 (阿根廷) 胜 N. 梅希亚 (哥) 6-4, 6-4；B. 范德赞德舒尔普 (荷) 胜

D. 梅里达 (西) 1-6, 6-3, 6-4；J-L. 斯特鲁夫 (德) 胜 M. 兰达卢塞 (西) 6-4, 6-4；Y. 布 (中国) 胜 L. 范·阿舍 (法) 7-6(3), 6-3；Z. 贝尔格斯 (比) 胜 V. 科普里瓦 (捷克) 6-3, 6-1；D. 斯夫尔奇纳 (捷克) 胜 C. 诺里 (英) 6-3, 3-6, 6-4。 WTA 中国公开赛

赛程

四分之一决赛：(26) N·巴图科娃 (捷克) 胜 (7) K·穆霍娃 (捷克) 6-3, 6-0；(4) M·安德烈耶娃 (俄罗斯) 胜 (19) E·亚历山德罗娃 (俄罗斯) 7-6(4), 7-6(3)。

足球

英冠联赛：西汉姆联 对阵 女王公园巡游者 (8.0)。 国家联赛：萨顿联 对阵 博勒姆伍德 (7.45)。

女足世界杯预选赛附加赛：半决赛首回合 阿尔巴尼亚 对阵 威尔士 (5.0)，捷克 对阵 苏格兰 (6.0)，希腊 对阵 英格兰 (5.30)，哈萨克斯坦 对阵 爱尔兰共和国 (正午)，北爱尔兰 对阵 葡萄牙 (7.0)。

篮球

SLB锦标赛 (7.30)：莱斯特 对阵 布里斯托，曼彻斯特 对阵 柴郡。 橄榄球联盟

盖拉格尔超级联赛：莱斯特 对阵 格洛斯特 (7.45)。 锦标赛 (7.45)：考文垂 对阵 布莱克希斯，罗瑟勒姆 对阵 卡尔迪。 联合橄榄球锦标赛 (7.45)： 德拉根斯 对阵 奥斯普雷斯，格拉斯哥 对阵 康诺特。

体育 足球

安菲尔德的“熊坑”将证明一切

保罗·乔伊斯写道，全国各地的球迷已准备好让马雷斯卡的球队知道他们如何看待这家名誉扫地的俱乐部。

佩普·瓜迪奥拉曾说过，世界上没有哪个球场像安菲尔德这样，这是一个能让对手感到渺小的竞技场。他总结道，这里是一个“极其棘手的球场”。

对于曼城来说，本周日再次回到赛场时，感觉将又是如此。这是他们被判定违反财务规则后的首次回归。利物浦的支持者将有机会发泄他们对长期以来一直怀疑的违规行为的愤怒；而现在他们知道，这些行为改变了英超联赛的格局，并可能在这个过程中剥夺了他们创造各种新回忆的机会。

这里有愤慨，将有刻薄的助威歌，将有横幅，而且网上已经出现了大量关于赛前播放列表的建议（也许是 Status Quo 的《Down Down》，或者是 Fleetwood Mac 的《Little Lies》）。人们同时也意识到，主场球迷不能越界，因为他们有自己的球队需要支持，而不仅仅是为了喝倒彩给对手。毕竟，安多尼·伊拉奥拉执掌利物浦的时代正在寻求一个爆发点。

但瓜迪奥拉现在可能会被证明是错误的，那就是他认为安菲尔德是独一无二的这一假设。他的前东家正面临着一种“新常态”，这意味着无论曼城走到哪里，都会遭受猛烈的抨击。

周日之后，曼城在各项赛事中将迎来三场主场比赛，但如果 10 月 24 given how City ended up taking their best players 时没有被针对，那将令人惊讶。因为在 2009-18 年这九年期间（这也是英超针对其“虚假”合同展开调查的时间范围），曼城抢走了维拉最优秀的球员——加雷斯·巴里、詹姆斯·米尔纳和法比安·德尔夫。

在确立霸主地位后，曼城随后斥资 £1 亿 签下杰克·格拉利什。再经过几场主场比赛，11 月 7 it is a trip to Nottingham Forest，而他们刚刚以 £1.16 亿 从对方那里买走了埃利奥特·安德森。11 月 29, it is to the Emirates and Arsenal，在那里，阿尔塞纳·温格将是一个合适的贵宾，因为他在 2011, something he called “financial doping” 7 月有勇气率先公开揭露虚高的赞助协议，他将此称为“财务兴奋剂”。

这种等待着他们的怨恨，是足球现状的一个缩影，利物浦对此也深有体会。在 2021 年 4 月欧洲超级联赛闹剧曝光后，他们是首批参加比赛的所谓“六大”俱乐部之一。

在面对利兹联之前的赛前散步环节中，尤尔根·克洛普的球队遭到了辱骂。当时因为新冠疫情，比赛仍不允许观众入场，但当客队大巴抵达埃兰路球场时，一群 200 人的主场球迷向他们冲去，高喊着“贪婪的混蛋”和“人渣，人渣，人渣”。

利兹联球员在热身时穿着 T 恤——上面写着“在球场上赢得它。足球是属于球迷的”——以此讽刺那些阴谋者。早些时候，来自利兹联支持者信托基金的球迷们从比利·布雷姆纳雕像附近步行前往人群聚集处，携带的一幅横幅上印着主教练马塞洛·比尔萨的一段话：“足球成为世界上最受欢迎的运动的原因之一，是因为弱者可以击败强者。”显然，这是浪漫主义者的信条。

对于对阵曼城的比赛，安菲尔德一直像是一个“熊坑”，

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曼城英超赛程：周日 利物浦（客），10月17日 伊普斯维奇（主），10月24日 阿斯顿维拉（客），10月31日 布莱顿（主），11月7日 诺丁汉森林（客），11月21日 富勒姆（主），11月29日 阿森纳（客），12月2日 利兹联（主），12月5日 布伦特福德（客），12月12日 切尔西（主）。

起初，这是由场外摩擦所驱动的。利物浦对最初与伊蒂哈德签署的协议心存疑虑，随后在一次关于其球探系统被黑客攻击的投诉后，利物浦在2013年向曼城支付了£100 万的赔偿金。

最近，利物浦是四家俱乐部之一——另外三家是曼联、阿森纳和托特纳姆热刺——在面对一起让英超联赛名誉扫地的案件时，保留了向曼城寻求赔偿的权利。

事实上，董事会层面的关系从未威胁到要彻底破裂。利物浦主席汤姆·沃纳预计将出席。鉴于曼城对独立委员会的裁决提出上诉（该裁决认定曼城在绝大多数115项指控中有罪），且曼城坚称自己清白，如果主席哈尔多恩·阿尔-穆巴拉克和首席执行官费兰·索里亚诺出现在董事席前排，也不会令人惊讶。在场上，随着新任主教练恩佐·马雷斯卡试图维持联赛开局五连胜的完美记录，球员们可能会表现出团结一致。

“我很恼火，这是他们回归后的第一场比赛，我其实很希望他们得忍受其他球迷对他们的看法，”来自 The Anfield Wrap 的利物浦支持者尼尔·阿特金森说道。

“然后你来到了安菲尔德。对于（曼城）球员来说，会产生一种被围攻的心理：我们知道情况会如何，我们会为此振作起来。但当你因为这是第四场、第五场或第六场比赛而精疲力竭时，情况就不同了。”

“但他们还拥有在安菲尔德的所有经验。回顾 2018 年 1 月，利物浦在 30 分钟内对瓜迪奥拉率领的曼城队所做的一切——那支球队当时正朝着 100 分的目标前进。利物浦摧毁了他们。球队和球场共同摧毁了他们。这对曼城来说将是非常不愉快的经历。但这种情况之所以发生，部分原因是利物浦球迷在直觉上并不需要独立委员会的报告。这就是我们一直以来的想法：这些家伙不遵守同样的规则。”

人们对 2013-14 赛季将冠军拱手让给曼城感到遗憾。随后是克洛普打造的球队：在 2019 年 2 月至 2020 年 2 月期间，利物浦在联赛中赢了 36 场，平了 2 场，在可能的 114 分中拿到了 110 分。他们为了一个冠军而拼尽全力，此前已为结束那 30 年的等待奠定了基础，并赢得了欧冠冠军。这证明了在遵守规则的情况下，依然可以打造出一支惊人的足球队。

“你可以有力地证明这是利物浦历史上最伟大的球队，”艾特金森说。“我认为球迷之所以愤怒，是因为有一种感觉，即如果曼城不在，我们本可以建立一个王朝。”

“我的反驳是，我认为尤尔根（克洛普）打造了一支能够击败眼前对手的球队。如果你改变他们面对的对手，比如从佩普·瓜迪奥拉的曼城变成奥莱·冈纳尔·索尔斯查尔的曼联，我认为利物浦不会那么强，因为他们不需要那么强。这在体育运动中是很自然的。”

“我们之所以讨论费德勒、纳达尔、德约科维奇和穆雷所在的网球时代是最伟大的，原因之一就是他们一直在互相较量，因此必须时刻寻找自己最好的状态。就利物浦的情况而言，他们必须攀登一座人为创造的高山。但他们依然做到了。”

在全世界等待这场丑陋剧集的下一章以及随之而来的制裁（如果有的话）时，要求曼城的阿布扎比所有者离开的呼声日益高涨。“他们从一开始就不应该被允许收购这家俱乐部，”艾特金森说。“我想要那些冠军吗？有些人想要，有些人不想要。我怀疑球员和教练想要。我几乎希望那些赛季在记录册中被标注为‘英超的耻辱’。这就是我的态度。那是史上最大的星号标注。”

“英超联赛在这一过程中试图做好工作，我认为它确实做得很好。但在很长一段时间里，我无法忘记每一家英超俱乐部（包括利物浦）在（前英超首席执行官）理查德·斯库达莫尔离职时都给了他钱。”

“在（罗曼）阿布拉莫维奇接管（切尔西）时，他掌权；在（他信）西那瓦特拉接管（曼城）时，他掌权；在城市集团随后进入时，他掌权。在（法哈德）莫希里有一天将（在阿森纳的）股份卖给（阿里舍尔）乌斯马诺夫，然后买入埃弗顿 49% 股份时，他同样掌权。”

回顾一下，斯库达莫尔在 2018 年离职时获得的 500 万英镑“金色握手”补偿金，是由所有 20 家顶级联赛俱乐部支付的一笔款项，以奖励他将顶级联赛转型为全球强权。该方案由前切尔西主席布鲁斯·巴克提出。“如果我是理查德·马斯特斯（英超首席执行官），我会拿起电话，”艾特金森补充道。“我能把那笔钱要回来吗？”我最希望看到推动出售的人，是周日那 3,500 名曼城球迷。

“曼城球迷应该是那些说‘这种情况持续得够久了。为了俱乐部的利益和足球的利益，我们需要停止这一切’的人。我不是说这对他们来说很容易，但如果他们敢于公开反对其所有权，他们会惊讶地发现，全国各地的足球支持者会迅速掀起一阵公众支持浪潮。”

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竞争对手主帅对裁决的看法

奥利弗·格拉斯纳 (诺丁汉森林) 格拉斯纳呼吁尽快结案曼彻斯特城的案件，以防止英超联赛失去诚信以及支持者失去兴趣。

这位诺丁汉森林的主教练在执教水晶宫期间，曾有过等待上诉结果的亲身经历。在 2025 年 5 月获得欧联杯资格后，由于欧足联的多俱乐部所有权规则，他们随后被降级至欧协联。

“让我们等待最终裁决公布，但我的愿望只是这件事能尽快[完成]……因为我们在水晶宫时不知道自己是在欧联杯还是欧协联，然后对方说，‘你周四会收到通知’，接着又变成了周一，因为总是被推迟。最后我们在欧协联开始前十天才收到最终裁决，”格拉斯纳说道。

“这就是为什么这件事必须尽快[完成]。这不仅是对英格兰，对整个英超联赛都有损害。这是一个全球性的重大话题，尤其是在欧洲。最重要的是联赛的诚信，因为一旦球迷不再信任它，他们就不会再观看。”

雷吉斯·勒布里斯 (桑德兰) 勒布里斯呼应了格拉斯纳的观点，表示足球管理机构在追究曼城责任时必须“毫不留情”，否则将危及英超联赛的公信力。

“相关部门必须毫不留情，否则你会失去比赛的价值，”这位 50 岁的主教练说道。

“我的立场很简单，足球在场内和场外都有规则。”

“你必须遵守这些规则。当规则被打破时，就应该承担后果，否则这就不[公平]，而我们想要的是公平竞争，想要的是公平竞赛。”

勒布里斯透露，桑德兰的高层一直在讨论针对曼城及其所有者的指控。

“是的，差不多都在讨论，尽管很难准确理解指控的具体内容，而且这件事大约发生在十年前，”他说。“我们当时不在桑德兰，但这关乎对规则的尊重，所以这至关重要，因为如果没有公平竞争，会感觉很奇怪。这就是我们俱乐部内部大致的感受。”

勒布里斯还被问及是否知道什么样的处罚才合适，他回答道：“不知道。”

弗兰克·兰帕德 (科文特里城) 兰帕德认为，如果曼彻斯特城被剥夺英超冠军头衔，那些曾是该阵容一部分的球员仍应有权称自己为冠军。他在 2014-15 赛季效力于伊蒂哈德球场——那一年他们没有赢得联赛冠军——之后在曼城的姐妹俱乐部纽约城结束了球员生涯。

“我和曼城有一点渊源，因为我在那里度过了非常愉快的一年，每个人对我都非常好，”兰帕德说。“关于这件事，我能说的可能也就这么多。我现在不再是这个故事的一部分了。”

“我有（在切尔西期间获得的）冠军头衔，我没有把冠军奖杯挂在家的墙上，但它们在我的脑海里。对于大多数球员来说，你在与英超最顶尖的球员竞争，很多事情是不可控的，无论是什么，但这些冠军很难赢得。所以我认为，从球员个人角度来看，要夺走一个人的冠军头衔会非常困难，因为这些荣誉应该留在你的脑海中，而不是，你知道的，放在那个精美的玻璃柜里，或者其他地方。”

哈兰德敦促球队和球迷：保持积极，团结一致

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处于联赛榜首。球员们正专注于此。他们知道我们能掌控的是足球方面——他们完全不担心其他事情。他们知道自己很专业，也知道外界存在嘈杂的声音，但他们并不太在意这些噪音。

“他们此刻只专注于我们如何击败利物浦，以及如何与球迷一起尝试在安菲尔德球场获胜。”

在给球迷的直接信息中，马雷斯卡补充道：“首先，在安菲尔德的客场，我们将带来我们的激情，带来我们的比赛计划。

“但我们肯定需要他们的呐喊，需要他们的激情。在过去的两天里，我观看了去年在安菲尔德的客场比赛，以及最后时刻那场精彩的庆祝 [当时曼城在落后情况下 2-1 逆转获胜]。

“我们需要团结一致。我多次说过，这家机构在过去 15 年里能处于顶端，是因为从老板、首席执行官、体育总监、主教练、球员到球迷，大家都志同道合。这太棒了。

“我们知道接下来的 2 场比赛将是艰苦的战斗，尤其是安菲尔德的客场。我们将把所有的激情和感受带到那里。但与此同时，我们需要球迷与我们同在。我们需要他们的激情和呐喊，希望在比赛结束时，我们都能感到快乐。”

利物浦 对阵 曼彻斯特城 英超联赛 周日，4.30pm 安菲尔德球场 电视转播：Sky Sports PL

在一次与 Sky Sports 经过精心编排的采访中（其中他仅被问及 1 个关于曼城有罪裁决影响的问题），哈兰德，26, 恳请支持者在俱乐部这段艰难时期与球员们站在一起。

当被问及在周日比赛前是否想对支持者说些什么时，他表示：“我认为他们会度过一段美好的时光。我们必须团结一致，彼此支持，无论生活中发生什么都要保持积极——我们要始终保持微笑。

“我们要保持积极，展望未来，努力赢得足球比赛，然后尝试享受这种局面并赢得比赛。”

当被问及在这种困难环境下与球迷团结一致的重要性时，这位挪威人补充道：“我们要团结一致，向彼此传递爱。团结在一起，享受这段旅程，保持微笑。”

哈兰德是首位就此话题发声的曼城球员。昨天，他和队友们完成了自 29, 裁决结果公布以来的首次训练，而当时他们中的大多数人正处于国家队征召期间。他向驻守在曼城足球学院外的摄影师们挥手致意。

“我很在意这个地方，以及整个英国，”哈兰德说。“我的母亲曾在诺丁汉和利兹住了十年，他们虽然没住在曼彻斯特，但我父亲 [阿尔夫-因格，2000 年至 2003 年期间效力于曼城] 每天都在卡灵顿 [曼城的前训练基地] 训练。

“我在这里度过了最初的 4 年，我哥哥度过了 9 年，我妹妹度过了 6 年，所以这里对我们来说是个特殊的地方。我很在意曼城和球迷，因为我自己也是一名球迷，我也能感同身受。

“对阵利物浦总是很特别。尤其是考虑到佩普和 [尤尔根] 克洛普，我记得在莫尔德、萨尔茨堡和多特蒙德坐着观看比赛，看他们如何互相激励，在那儿总是很特别。”

马雷斯卡表示，他对曼城队本赛季的状态感到非常满意。“当然，感觉很好——七场比赛，七场全胜，”他说。

“但对我来说，最重要的是我每天能看到的东西，有时这些比最终结果更重要。因为我能看到球员们在进步，他们理解我们想要什么。”

“势头当然很好。但休息时间也是恢复体能并尝试思考如何改进的好时机。这是最关键的一点，然后再次出发。

“利物浦客场和主场对阵巴黎圣日耳曼，两场精彩的比赛。我们每天都在为这类比赛而努力，所以我们对接下来的两场比赛感到非常兴奋。”

体育

他离开羊群前往格洛斯特 采访克里斯·博伊德，这位为英超领头羊注入新基因的人，见第 56-57 页

MARTIN RICKETT / PA

上图为曼城主帅马雷斯卡和明星前锋哈兰德，在俱乐部被判定有罪后首次抵达训练场

马雷斯卡：我们感觉棒极了

哈兰德声称，尽管面临因“虚假”赞助而可能被降级的威胁，曼城将团结一致

马特·劳顿 首席体育记者 保罗·赫斯特

在曼城被判定违反英超联赛财务条例超过 100 项后，恩佐·马雷斯卡和埃尔林·哈兰德坚称，球队能够屏蔽“噪音”并“保持积极”，为重返赛场做准备。

曼城正就独立委员会的核心决定提出上诉。该决定于上月在一份长达 40 页的严厉报告中公布，曼城坚称他们拥有“无可辩驳的证据”，证明自己在 2009 年至 2018 年期间并未违规。

但马雷斯卡及其球员现在面临着周日客场挑战利物浦时的敌对氛围。昨天，俱乐部主教练和明星前锋首次就该情况发表了看法。

在今天举行的新闻发布会之前，马雷斯卡在曼城自有频道的一次采访中表示，他完全“信任”雇主，并有信心球员们将继续专注于维持他们在英超积分榜上的领先地位，尽管可能会面临包括大规模扣分甚至被逐出联赛在内的制裁。

“就我个人而言，我很冷静，”他说。“俱乐部的态度非常明确。我们完全信任俱乐部。我们理解外界的嘈杂，但我们的重点仅在于我们能控制的事情，而我们能控制的只有足球方面。”

这是马雷斯卡在委员会决定公布后首次与球员会面。费兰·索里亚诺昨天也出现在训练场，不过俱乐部并未确认其首席执行官是否也向哈兰德及其同事发表了讲话。据了解，索里亚诺整周都一直在办公室里。

在被问及球员们如何应对时，马雷斯卡说：“坦白说，感觉棒极了。球员们对接下来的两场比赛感到兴奋。但他们尤其兴奋是因为在此时此刻我们

温布尔登向网红发出警告

乔·哈斯顿 (Joe Harston)

温布尔登并不担心网络名人会像在美网那样成为一个问题——因为该锦标赛经过军事训练的安全人员“最想做的就是收拾几个网红”。

全英俱乐部临时首席执行官理查德·阿特金森 (Richard Atkinson) 支持 SW19 观众进行“自我监管”，以防止上个月在法拉盛草地公园发生的混乱再次出现，不过他开玩笑说，如果需要，皇家海军陆战队突击队可能会立即采取行动。

在斯坦福桥举行的领导者周 (Leaders Week) 会议上，阿特金森指出了这两项大满贯赛事之间的文化差异，认为网红在伦敦西南部的出现频率不会像在纽约那样高。

“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，带着环形灯出现在那里，并在比赛中途直接开始直播是非常容易的。”

“如果你尝试在温布尔登这样做，可能会有皇家海军陆战队突击队[把你拦住]。我们那里确实有军方人员，我怀疑他们最想做的就是收拾几个网红。”

在美网大坂直美首轮战胜阿纳斯塔西娅·扎哈罗娃 (Anastasia Zakharova) 的比赛中，亚瑟·阿什球场一个款待套房内的一组网红使用明亮的环形灯拍摄 TikTok 视频，导致主裁判暂停比赛。由于观众席上的嘈杂声，裁判又三次要求保持安静。

四次大满贯冠军大坂直美表示，对于初次接触该运动的人来说，阅读相关资料，尤其是礼仪，应该是“基本的礼貌”。（接第 58 页）

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理查德·莫里森：BBC 的《合唱晚祷》已走过 100 年。它能撑过接下来的 10 年吗？

周三下午，在威斯敏斯特教堂。窗外：阴雨、车流、喧嚣，以及充满工作与忧虑的世界。而在这室内的一小时里：是一剂绝妙的慰藉，抚慰着我那伪装成灵魂的东西。我与数百名听众一起，前来聆听由指挥安德鲁·内辛哈（Andrew Nethsingha）引导的卓越教堂合唱团演唱的晚祷（evensong）。演出没有令人失望。诚然，那篇诗篇（如果你手边有《公祷书》，那是第 88, 篇）基调较为阴郁。它宣称：“我的灵魂充满了苦难，我的生命近于阴间。”大卫王有时确实是个悲观主义者，不是吗？

但音乐极其优美。英国新锐作曲家凯伦莎·布里格斯（Kerensa Briggs）受邀创作了一首短曲《全能且永恒的神》（Almighty and Everlasting God），该曲巧妙地扩展了奥兰多·吉本斯（Orlando Gibbons）对同一段文字的设定，而吉本斯在 400 多年前正是这座教堂的管风琴师。这种延续感——这些石墙在数世纪间回荡着数以千计的晚祷咏唱——如此强烈，以至于我几乎能想象吉本斯的幽灵正从管风琴阁楼上欣慰地俯视。

随后，合唱团倾力演绎了两首英国合唱传统的绝对经典之作：赫伯特·豪威尔斯（Herbert Howells）的《格洛斯特礼拜》（Gloucester Service）经常被评为豪威尔斯 20 多首《玛利亚颂》（Magnificat）和《西面颂》（Nunc Dimittis）设定中的最佳之作，而这两首圣咏是晚祷中恒定不变的两个合唱元素。而休伯特·帕里（Hubert Parry）基于约翰·弥尔顿作品的设定《受祝福的塞壬之 pairs》（Blest Pair of Sirens），则像圣潘克拉斯车站一样稳健且具有维多利亚时代风格，但当演唱得如此出色时，却极其令人振奋。

合唱团此次状态巅峰还有一个额外原因。就在这座建筑里，恰好在 100 年前（可能精确到日期，甚至小时），BBC 向全国播出了首场《合唱晚祷》。在经历了约 7,000 次现场直播后，麦克风再次回到威斯敏斯特，以庆祝这一百年纪念日。

在如今这个注意力时长短如蚋、宗教被认为在衰落，且人们对诸多古老英国传统普遍漠不关心甚至近乎轻视的现代世界，《合唱晚祷》的生存简直是一个不可思议的广播现象。然而，统计数据说明了一切。它是世界上最古老的现场室外广播节目。事实上，在运行时间最长的广播节目名单中，它仅次于《航运预报》（Shipping Forecast，BBC 于 1925 年 7 月开始播出）、美国乡村音乐节目《大奥普拉》（Grand Ole Opry，自 1925, 年 11 月起在田纳西州纳什维尔播出），以及名为《广播新闻》（Radioavisen）的丹麦广播新闻节目（于 1926 年 8 月推出）。

威斯敏斯特教堂合唱团

事实上，与《合唱晚祷》相比，大多数那些看起来像存在了永恒之久的广播节目，结果都成了“后起之秀”。《荒岛唱片》（Desert Island Discs）仅有 84 年历史。《女性时间》（Woman's Hour）刚刚满 80. 岁。《园丁问答时间》（Gardeners' Question Time）、《任何问题》（Any Questions）和《阿彻斯》（The Archers）都还处于 70 多岁。而令我震惊——且并非完全高兴——的是，我发现《板球测试赛特别报道》（Test Match Special）比我还年轻。当你翻出约翰·阿洛特（John Arlott）和 E.W. 斯旺顿（EW Swanton）的录音时，你至少会觉得自己被带回了爱德华时代。但也许阅读我文章的人也有同样的感觉。

是什么解释了《合唱晚祷》持久的生命力？首先，我认为，无论是出于运气还是天才，托马斯·克兰默（Thomas Cranmer）在 1549, 年将罗马天主教的晚祷（vespers）和深夜祷告（compline）的部分内容整合，形成了新的圣公会晚祷仪式，从而找到了与英国黄昏时分完美互补的礼拜形式。而且，将一个相信自己能改变世界的少女的狂喜之歌（《玛利亚颂》）与一个临终老人的哀歌式见证（《西面颂》）相结合，这一定是已知礼拜仪式中关于平等、多样性和包容性的首个范例。

“大多数大教堂唱诗班的演唱水准依然很高

此外，还有《钦定版圣经》那庄严的散文体，它

在许多其他教会仪式中已被现代化（即被改得面目全非），但在晚祷仪式（evensong）中通常仍被保留。最后，当然还有音乐。大教堂和修道院的唱诗班近年来经历了一些危机之年。古老的唱诗班学校相继关闭；围绕引入女孩和女性（在许多情况下，她们提升了音乐水准）爆发了毫无意义的争论；许多大教堂在面临严峻经济挑战的情况下，大幅削减了音乐预算。同时，还发起了一场（必要的）行动，旨在从更广泛的社会阶层中招募儿童加入大教堂唱诗班，让他们享受这种极高强度训练所能带来的毋庸置疑的教育和音乐益处。这种在男孩和女孩合唱员招募与教学方式上的剧变，需要时间才能稳定下来。

然而，大多数大教堂唱诗班的演唱水准依然保持在较高水平，且往往极具感染力。令人惊讶的是，得益于 BBC 精湛的录音工程师，在广播中聆听“合唱晚祷”（Choral Evensong）能让你对大教堂的氛围及其音响效果产生一种不可思议的感知。该节目周三下午的直播和周日晚上的重播能吸引 300,000 名听众，这足以证明这一点。为了让这个数字更具参考意义，它大致相当于每周观看西区所有剧院演出的人数。

问题在于：在可能带来种种变革的情况下，“合唱晚祷”能否再延续 100 年，或者仅仅是撑过即将到来的 BBC 特许经营权更新？正如 Radio 3 的主管萨姆·杰克逊（Sam Jackson）所言，很难想象一家商业广播公司会在每个周三下午拖着一台外播设备及其工作人员前往不同的城市，去录制一支唱诗班演唱诗篇和赞美诗。这种情况根本不会发生。

因此，与许多其他事物一样，“合唱晚祷”只能在公共广播的语境下生存，并得到政治家的支持——这些政治家认为，向相当一部分公众免费提供高质量的文化、音乐和精神内容具有价值。在经济大萧条时期、第二次世界大战期间以及此后无数次经济和政治危机中，人们都认为这样做是值得的。如果我们的这一代人决定，保留这份每周一次的、典型的英式宁静过于麻烦，那将是可耻的。

我的伴侣去世了。随后我发现了一条短信：“我们要不要搞外遇？”

埃琳·贝克（Erin Baker）在深陷悲痛之时，发现了伴侣与其前女友的聊天记录——以及他的回复。

“我们要不要搞外遇？”这是你在伴侣去世后（或者说，在去世前，公平地说）最不希望在对方手机上发现的短信。我必须立刻说明，在手机上提出这个问题的人并不是詹姆斯，而是他的一个前女友。一个在 12 年里他从未向我提起过名字的人。但我稍后会再谈到这一点。顺便说一句，他的回答同样不讨喜：“我不确定。我们能给这件事留个余地吗？我很惊讶你依然能让我产生这种感觉。”

我坚持要诚实地分享作为一个 48 岁的寡妇意味着什么，分享如何哀悼与悲痛。更重要的是，我坚持要揭示我们最终最珍视并为其感到悲痛的那类关系和爱。它们并不总是美好的，但它们总是真实的。

如果我们这些曾与死亡擦肩、在生活的灰烬中彻底绝望地打滚的人，不对这一切的现实保持诚实，我们又怎么能感到彼此更紧密、不再那么孤独？如果我们不公开分享创伤、混乱和错误，以及随之而来的和解、爱与希望，我们又如何能像自古以来所有其他社会那样在公开场合哀悼？这些难道不都是我们哀悼的一部分吗？将我们生活的公开版本“净化”对任何人都没有帮助。我们只会继续封闭在私人的悲痛中，在紧闭的门后，以为只有自己的生活是一片灾区。

那么，这就是我的灾区。我不感到羞耻或尴尬，因为我知道结果如何，我知道我们的爱现在身在何处——在面对天空且永不干涸的静池之中。詹姆斯和我只是会犯错、混乱的人类，就像你，和你，还有你一样。

詹姆斯去世大概两周了。我在他的 WhatsApp 中寻找一名还不知道他去世的同事的电话号码。我发现了一个名为“建筑商小组”的聊天记录。我很好奇：这对我来说毫无意义。我开始翻阅，以为是关于工作的讨论，因为他从事房地产行业。

这完全不是关于工作的讨论。

这些对话有时一天五次，有时一周两次，有时一个月两次。记录可以追溯到至少三年前，但很快我就停止了查看，部分原因是我的手抖得厉害，无法滚动屏幕，部分原因是由于我看到的太多了。在上午 9 点，有来自办公室的“早安”；在晚上 10 点，有来自詹姆斯工作房的“晚安”——他每周有三天在异地工作。最让我心痛的是一个词：“Bborred”（想你）。在我们刚开始交往时，他经常在工作时给我发这个词，而现在，他在一周的开始时把它发给了她。

大多数信息是关于她的离婚、她的孩子以及他（没提到我）、他的儿子（没提到他的继子）以及他的工作的平淡交流。在他的信息中，没有出现过一个“我们”。但有一部分非常糟糕：他建议在某个周日开车去北方的途中，在半路见面共进晚餐。然后，有一天早晨，她给他发了一条短信：“你想搞外遇吗？”他回答道：“我不确定。我们能给这件事留个余地吗？我很惊讶你依然能让我产生这种感觉。”几个月后的现在，回想起这件事仍让我感到恶心。

我想，这些信息在 2024 年夏天左右达到了顶峰。我现在无法核实了，因为第二天，我的朋友过来，把手机从我手中拿走，并在发现我绝望地摇晃哭泣、将每条短信的日期与我当天的行踪进行对比后，删除了整个 WhatsApp 聊天记录。我甚至试图将部分信息与同一周拍的我们的照片匹配起来，并批判性地分析他的表情，寻找愤怒、沮丧或悲伤的迹象。

埃琳·贝克与她的伴侣詹姆斯

在那之后，这些信息又渐渐淡化成了朋友间随口而出的闲聊。但它们从未停止，我发现甚至在我儿子于12月的一个夜晚发作、我不得不陪他坐救护车去医院时，晚上10点他还在给她发信息。不过，至少在那条信息中，他承认了自己有家庭，因为他

说道：“这简直像编出来的一样：我的继子刚刚发作，被送往医院了。”看到他提到“继子”这个词，我感到一种可怜至极、卑微至极的感激。

没办法了：我将这段出轨的对话截屏，发信息告诉她詹姆斯已经去世了。我说，如果他们曾经有过外遇，她现在不妨告诉我，因为他已经死了。

她表现得非常体面。事实上，她保住了詹姆斯的名声，所以我希望他能心存感激。而她也挽救了我仅存的理智，那理智已成了破碎的残片，在风中飘摇。

她说，詹姆斯起初告诉她我出轨了，这并非事实，但我知道她指的是什么：在封锁期间，我和一名男同事之间有过一次短暂、愚蠢且带有调情意味的短信交流，当时我和詹姆斯短暂分开了。我想那天总共就发了三条短信。詹姆斯发现了这些短信，由于他具有神经多样性，只能接受非黑即白的逻辑，因此他认定，如果要原谅我，他就必须相信我背叛了他，并且他已经掌握了所有真相。而当我发誓什么都没发生，除了那些短信外别无其他时，选择相信我的这种赌博对他来说太痛苦了。但事实证明，他也无法完全原谅我，所以他留了下来，在数月的时间里陷入精神和情感的剧烈波动中，这让他精疲力竭。最终，他转向她，以寻求自尊和自信的提升。

她告诉我，他们只一起吃过一次晚餐，约会时他们从未陷入爱河，因为他太古板了（现在我知道她在说实话），而且很明显他爱我。她说：“他沉溺于怀旧，”并深信我迟早会离开他，且他配不上我，所以他宁愿先亲手烧掉这座桥。

这一切如此熟悉，对他性格的洞察如此精准，以至于我不怀疑她在说实话。

我被她对他如此了解的事实所震撼，这让我心神不宁，但与她的文字带来的抚慰相比，这只是个小问题。这让我想起有一次我被蜡烛烫伤了头皮（当时喝醉了，典型的二十岁年轻人的故事），以及烫伤膏带来的缓解感。我的头感觉再次像着了火一样，但这次是在内心深处，而她的文字减轻了那种刺痛感。

我决定她必须参加我计划的感恩礼拜：我需要给她一个拥抱。在30分钟内，我从想要杀了她变成了想要亲吻她。欢迎来到悲恸的疯狂世界。

“我不确定，”他回答道，“我们能对此保持开放态度吗？你依然能带给我的感觉让我惊讶”

艾琳·贝克（Erin Baker）的《悲恸明信片》：erinbakergrief.substack.com

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我和我的狗一起睡觉。当然，这对我有好处

一项新研究表明，有犬类陪伴能让人休息得更好，玛丽娜·福格尔（Marina Fogle）如是说

当我思考配偶必须具备的品质时——善良、幽默、聪明和志趣相投都很重要——但有一点毫无疑问至关重要：愿意让狗睡在床上。

这是一个让全国产生分歧的观点。一方是那些如果没有一只轻轻打呼噜的犬类伙伴就根本无法入睡的爱狗人士；另一方则是想到污垢、细菌和早晨黏糊糊的亲吻就打冷战的人。扪心自问，如果本（Ben）和我在这件事上没有达成一致，我的婚姻绝不可能维持至今的二十年。

而且这是有原因的，因为多伦多大学的加拿大研究人员的一项研究发现，人们在床上与狗依偎在一起时睡眠质量更好。对我来说，这并不是什么新闻。我确保一夜好眠的方式既不是洋甘菊茶，也不是加入盐分的温水浴，更不是高支数的床单或丝绸眼罩。不，而是床上的拉布拉多犬那安静且令人安心的存在。

风暴（Storm）和迅捷（Swift）很清楚这个流程。当我关掉楼下的灯时，它们悄悄爬上楼梯，在我刷牙时有目的地在我的床上占据位置。它们蜷缩在我那一侧的床边，这样等我洗完脸、涂好保湿霜、用牙线清理并穿上睡衣时，我的床已经变得温暖舒适。它们比

电热毯更好，因为电热毯会让床太热：而拉布拉多犬能将床温和地加热到完美的温度，且不会导致我们的电费激增。

当我躺下时，它们会挪开位置，安顿下来准备过夜。我发现它们沉稳的存在感带来了巨大的安慰。我的丈夫经常在外出差，所以我经常独自在家，周围是森林和原野，没有邻居。

我有时会做噩梦，醒来时心跳加速，大汗淋漓，以为屋里有个拿枪的人，或者一群蛇正从窗户爬进来。在我的大脑意识到这只是个梦之前的瞬间，我那两个犬类守护者轻柔的呼吸声让我确信，最终并没有蛇。

“但细菌怎么办？”每当我发布狗狗把头靠在我枕头上的照片时，社交媒体上的人们就会这样大喊。我想说，我就是“卫生假说”正确的活证明。这种观点认为，在过于干净的家庭中，过敏和病毒更为常见，因为我们的免疫系统需要通过挑战才能发挥作用，这引起了我的共鸣。我们的孩子们很早就接触了。在婴儿伊奥娜（Iona）出生后的一天内，我就从她的嘴里拔出了一根狗毛。十六年过去了，我相信这并没有对她们造成任何伤害。

不过，也许我们的睡眠安排在伤害这些狗。同一项研究显示，当与人类共同睡眠时，狗的睡眠更容易受到干扰。这很有道理，尤其是对于那些要应对我偶尔噩梦的狗来说。但不可否认的是，我的狗热爱睡在我的床上。

当本在家时，我们一致认为我们的床对于我们两人以及体型巨大的狗来说太小了，所以它们被降级到厨房，狗床紧挨着炉灶以获取温暖。我们从错误中吸取了教训，因为在内心深处，我们都喜欢大家挤在一起的感觉。但偶尔，我们那些狡猾的猎犬会冲出厨房，直奔我们的床而去。它们跳上来，带着终于回到了应有之地的喜悦；而由于它们太舒服了，我们不忍心将它们重新关回厨房，于是我们希望能够

让这一切行得通。但它行得通。但它从未行得通。随着狗进入深睡，它们会伸展身体，占据更多的床位，而本会被一只抓在他脸上的爪子或拍在他鼻子上的尾巴惊醒。尽管听起来很美好，但这种安排并不利于睡眠。

但这究竟是为了舒适，还是为了掌控？我对狗心理学的浅薄理解告诉我，因为狗是群居动物，群体内部的等级制度至关重要。我很自信，作为最经常喂养它们并带它们散步的人，我是这个群体的首领，所以睡在我的床上会让它们觉得自己更有权力。

尽管经过很多鼓励，我的孩子们仍然对狗从未选择和他们一起睡觉感到愤怒。当艾奥娜（Iona）强迫斯威夫特（Swift）上她的床时，斯威夫特能给出的最好回应就是等到她睡着，然后悄悄地退回到我的床上。

坦白说，我对此感到欣喜。虽然我需要更频繁地清洗床单，虽然泥泞的肚子弄坏了一些精美的亚麻布，而且我的衣服或身体没有任何一部分是没有狗毛的，但那种安静、稳固的存在感，以及当你渐渐入睡时，一个沉睡的柔软脑袋压在腰间带来的舒适重量，简直是获得优质睡眠最不为人知的秘密。

封面故事

“遗憾？我希望当年买了一幅霍克尼的作品，而且得是顶尖的那种”

Monsoon 创始人彼得·西蒙将于下周拍卖其艺术收藏品。之后呢？他告诉劳拉·弗里曼，那时将是重新开始购买的时候了。

很少有采访能有一个如此惊艳的开场。在伦敦西部的 Monsoon 总部见到时尚企业家兼艺术收藏家彼得·西蒙（Peter Simon，77岁）后的瞬间，我就被引导穿过中庭，登上了卡斯滕·霍勒（Carsten Höller）的“旋转木马”。霍勒这位艺术家曾用滑梯填满泰特现代美术馆的涡轮大厅，并设计了环绕奥林匹克公园中安尼施·卡普尔（Anish Kapoor）的“轨道”结构的隧道。

我们的双腿在空中晃荡（为了平衡，西蒙的公关主管和收藏品策展人坐在另一侧），我们在旋转木马上转了两圈，然后跳下来回到地面。我们在一个会议室的坚实地面上坐定，那里已经挂好了 Monsoon 2027年春夏季系列的服装架。

我是直接从佳士得拍卖行来到 Monsoon 大楼的，在那里的整个上午，我都在惊叹地凝视着彼得·西蒙的收藏系列。这是一份令人震撼的艺术家名单：弗朗西斯·培根、霍华德·霍奇金、弗兰克·奥尔巴赫、皮特·蒙德里安、威廉·德·库宁、胡安·米罗、埃尔斯沃思·凯利、安迪·沃霍尔、布里奇特·赖利、巴勃罗·毕加索……其中还包括 20 世纪中叶英国艺术大师的作品，如芭芭拉·赫普沃斯、温弗里德·尼科尔森、本·尼科尔森、保罗·纳什、克里斯托弗·伍德、阿尔弗雷德·沃利斯、伊冯·希钦斯以及

下方：杰夫·昆斯，《带蝴蝶结的巴洛克蛋（蓝色 / 青绿色）》，1994-2008年。主图（从左至右）：巴勃罗·毕加索，《头骨，灯，韭菜，水壶》，1945年；彼得·西蒙；弗朗西斯·培根，《运动中的人物》，1978年

昆斯 —— 估价

£200 万

塞德里克·莫里斯，以及当今之星如塞西莉·布朗、赫文·安德森和贝亚特里兹·米尔哈泽斯。

这是佳士得伦敦拍卖行有史以来价值最高的单一所有者收藏。这批包含近两百件作品的收藏预计在下周的一系列拍卖中，成交价将在 8500 万英镑 和 1.3 亿英镑 之间。

如果你资金充裕，可能会想注册竞拍那幅蒙德里安的作品（估价：800 万英镑 到 1200 万英镑），或者西蒙的两幅培根作品之一（《运动中的人物》估价 1400 万英镑 到 1800 万英镑，《人物习作》估价 400万英镑 到 600 万英镑）。而我幻想中的竞拍目标是威廉·尼科尔森的《盘中的蘑菇》（价格在 7 万英镑 到 10 万英镑 之间，简直是捡便宜）。

彼得·西蒙 1949 年出生在斯里兰卡的一场季风（monsoon，请注意）期间。西蒙还是个孩子时，全家回到了他母亲的故乡爱尔兰。那并不是一个特别有创造力的童年：墙上没有艺术品，也没有太多音乐。他记得在西蒙 16 岁左右，全家住在约克郡时，他的母亲“费了很大劲”计划了一次伦敦之行，去参观大英博物馆。

在早年一段不尽如人意的经历中，西蒙曾担任 Birds Eye 公司的冷冻鱼手指销售员，随后他在波托贝洛路（Portobello Road）摆摊，“误打误撞进入了服装行业”。起初，他销售毛茸茸的、羊毛材质的阿富汗风格大衣——“在当时非常流行”，而且“真的很扎人”。然而，直到一次拉贾斯坦邦之行，他才真正意识到自己想要做什么。他爱上了手工木版印花，这是一种面临被现代机器方法取代的古老工艺。

他以每周 £50 的价格在骑士桥的博尚普拉斯（Beauchamp Place）租了一家店，开始销售从印度进口的色彩绚丽、印花夺目的服装。这家店就在 San Lorenzo 餐厅附近。所有人都去那里：演员。

我房间里的画作价值是房子的八倍

电影导演、简·西摩（Jane Seymour）和“戴安娜王妃”都曾光顾。“有一天，西班牙女王在其中一个试衣间，阿加汗的妻子在另一个试衣间，”他说道。Monsoon——西蒙花了三个月时间才定下这个名字——以及后来的 Accessorize，迅速席卷了英国的高街商业区。西摩成为了 Monsoon 早期的模特，并且在一段时间内是西蒙的女友。

他对艺术的兴趣直到 20 世纪 90 年代才开始兴起。当时他在诺丁山的一次晚宴上发现自己“坐在一个非常漂亮的女孩旁边。她问：‘你觉得当代艺术怎么样？’而我完全没概念。我当时简直不知所措。她说：‘我在蛇形画廊工作。你想来看看吗？’其实，我是想去看她，所以我便匆匆赶过去，看了看她展出的作品。”

那是 1994 年，展览名为《此时此刻：1970 年至今蛇形画廊的英国画家》。 “霍华德·霍金（Howard Hodgkin）深深吸引了我，因为我喜欢他绘制所有画框的方式，这并不奇怪，因为我一直痴迷于色彩。然后是弗朗西斯·培根（Francis Bacon），因为那相当……”他发出了一种介于“哇”和“喔”之间的声音。“相当震撼，相当可怕，相当动人。”

不久之后，他被介绍给了艺术交易商伊沃·布拉卡（Ivor Braka），对方说：“过来坐坐吧。我们见个面。你不必买任何东西。”

“于是我去了，当然，离开时我腋下夹着一幅阿尔弗雷德·沃利斯（Alfred Wallis）的作品，”他说道。那是沃利斯的一幅海景画，一幅只有单一的

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培根 —— £1800 万

船。这依然是西蒙不打算出售的少数几幅画作之一，另一幅是温弗里德·尼科尔森（Winifred Nicholson）创作的圣艾夫斯（St Ives）画作。通过沃利斯，他“爱上了整个圣艾夫斯画派”。

他染上了收藏癖。几年后，他有了相应的资金。当 Monsoon 在 1998, 成为一家上市公司时，西蒙发现自己拥有了“一大笔钱”。他开始参加拍卖会和艺术博览会，结识交易商，购买规模更大的作品，买得更加大胆。作为一个起步较晚的人，他在过程中不断学习。他向我展示了他那本破旧的《20世纪画家与雕塑家词典》，书页间夹满了便利贴。他是我见过的最不装腔作势的收藏家，并且对他通过自己的努力赚钱并享受消费过程这一点毫不掩饰。

他购买的是自己热爱的东西，而非出于投资目的。他曾犯过一个明显的错误。“那是一幅艾格尼丝·马丁（Agnes Martin）的作品。它是白色的，非常白，带有非常淡的白色线条。它花了我”——他压低声音，有些尴尬地低语道——“500万英镑，我把它放在工作室里，放在我的贝特里兹·米利亚泽斯（Beatriz Milhazes）和霍奇金斯（Hodgkins）的作品旁边，然后我想，噢，这不协调，于是我把它卖了。我亏钱了。”

哪里出了问题？“我不知道。我想当时我觉得自己应该拥有一些极简主义的作品。但我并不是那么极简主义。”这话一点也不夸张。我仍然沉浸在佳士得的万花筒般的视觉冲击中。有没有哪位艺术家是他错过的？“我本该买一幅格哈德·里希特（Gerhard Richter）的作品，我也希望我买了一幅霍克尼（Hockney）的作品。一幅真正出色的霍克尼。”目前有几幅非常漂亮的霍克尼约克郡 iPad 绘画在出售，但没有特别出色的油画。

他曾几次被推荐一幅霍克尼的作品，但“那是一个男孩躺在床上，露着屁股，完全赤裸。我一直说，‘我没法把这幅画挂起来。很抱歉。我是个非常

安迪·沃霍尔，《钻石尘鞋》，1980. 下方：费尔南·莱热，《虹吸管》，1924

莱热 —— 500 万英镑 million

异性恋。我不能在我的工作室里放那个。”价格一次次下降……“然后突然间它以巨额成交，但那依然不是我的菜。”

在收藏了近三十年后，他为什么现在选择出售？他称之为“人生阶段的问题……我想是想要一些改变。”他在家中（一个由前艺术家工作室改造而成的住所）已经没有墙面空间了，而且他不喜欢将艺术品存放在仓库里。他也担心损坏问题。“我从未担心过盗窃，但我有一个房间里的画作价值是房子的八倍，所以我一直担心火灾。

“而且，尽管我深爱我的孩子们，但我很清楚他们只会把这些东西贱卖并拆散，我更希望在场看着这一切以一种有序的方式完成，就像佳士得现在所做的那样。这给了我一个重新开始购买的机会，虽然我还不知道自己将走向哪个方向。”

他与第一任妻子凯特·西蒙（Kate Simon）育有四个孩子——扎拉（Zara）、杰西卡（Jessica）、卡米拉（Camilla）和乔治（George）；与后来的两位伴侣育有两个孩子——二十多岁的卢卡斯（Lucas）和一名十几岁的少女朱莉娅（Julia）。乔治在 32. 岁时死于一场车祸。西蒙不愿谈论他的家庭。

他将前往弗里兹艺术博览会（Frieze）观展，但并不一定是为了购买。“目前我住在白墙之中，”他说。他以前回家能看到两幅培根、一幅塞西莉·布朗和一幅彼得·多伊格的作品。“现在这里一片空白。

“但我感觉自己就像大卫·霍克尼泳池画作中的一个人物。我正准备跳入一个泳池，池水在阳光下闪闪发光，我在想：我即将激起巨大的水花，但天知道会发生什么。”《季风：彼得·西蒙收藏》将于10月14日至20日由佳士得伦敦分行通过日拍、夜拍及在线拍卖进行出售。

Frieze 艺术博览会必看五件作品

Frieze 周是艺术界齐聚伦敦之时。除了在摄政公园举办的艺术博览会，每家画廊都会举办展览，佳士得和苏富比也会举行规模最大的秋季拍卖会。今年， London（当代艺术展区）有 172 家画廊参展， Masters（古典大师及 20 世纪名家展区）有 140 家画廊参展。以下是值得关注的亮点。

性与讽刺 —— 安德鲁·埃德蒙兹收藏 (The Andrew Edmunds Collection) Daniel Crouch Rare Books ( Masters) 在 50 年的时间里，艺术商兼餐厅经营者安德鲁·埃德蒙兹曾是版画贸易的教父，也是寻找霍加斯、吉尔雷和托马斯·罗兰森作品的首选人物。埃德蒙兹于 2022 年去世，留下了超过 10,000 件作品的收藏。Daniel Crouch Rare Books 将把其展位布置成一家 18 世纪的版画店，出售埃德蒙兹的收藏品。

《贵族肖像》 —— 安东尼·凡·戴克 (Anthony van Dyck) Colnaghi ( Masters) 对于那些穿着黑色天鹅绒马裤且财力雄厚的买家来说，在古典大师画廊 Colnaghi 可以看到一幅极其英俊的安东尼·凡·戴克作品《贵族肖像》（见右图）。

《石瓶花卉静物》 —— 老扬·布鲁盖尔 (Jan Brueghel the Elder) Hauser & Wirth ( Masters) 这幅精美的静物画曾由阿尔方斯·德·罗斯柴尔德男爵所有，于 1939 年被纳粹没收，并在布拉格国家美术馆被保存数十年，直到 2016 年才被归还。它是布鲁盖尔在精准与灵动之间取得平衡的极佳范例，届时将与英国年轻艺术家弗洛拉·尤赫诺维奇（Flora Yukhnovich）的新作共同展出。

大卫·霍克尼 (David Hockney) Annely Juda ( Masters) 几十年来，霍克尼一直由 Annely Juda 代表。该画廊将展出三幅水墨和铅笔肖像，提醒我们他曾是一位多么卓越且洗练的素描大师。霍克尼的素描作品将与安东尼·卡罗、里昂·科索夫和弗兰克·奥尔巴赫的其他具象作品一同展出。

海莉·巴克 (Hayley Barker) Ingleby Gallery ( London) 克劳德·莫奈的水 lilies，塞德里克·莫里斯的鸢尾花，海莉·巴克的玫瑰……巴克是一位常驻洛杉矶的画家，她处理花园题材的方式令人着迷。她的巨幅画布具有一种黄昏之美，以及一种恰到好处的丰盈感。

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凯文·马赫（Kevin Maher）认为，安德鲁·加菲尔德（Andrew Garfield）在这部受脱欧启发的 1381 年农民起义改编剧中表现出色。

这部由保罗·格林格拉斯（Paul Greengrass，曾执导《谍影重重》系列）执导的“历史动作剧”中的关键场景发生在 1381 年的一场伦敦骚乱期间。

当时正值农民起义的高潮，一群愤怒的叛乱者正肆无忌惮地砍头并捣毁店面。他们的领导者是祭司约翰·鲍尔（John Ball，杰米·贝尔 饰）、前士兵沃特·泰勒（Wat Tyler，科斯莫·贾维斯 饰）以及一名富有魅力的耕夫，被称为“耕夫”（Ploughman，安德鲁·加菲尔德 饰）。

然而，在杀戮进行到一半时，愤怒的声音引导暴徒转向城市中日益增多的弗兰德移民。为什么？因为“外国人抢走了我们的工作！”就在这时，人们恍然大悟。等等，这是一部关于脱欧的电影吗？

格林格拉斯确实承认这是一个受脱欧启发的项目。这是一个关于“一个非常典型的英国反叛故事”，背景设定在 14 世纪，但反映的是 2016 年的事件。格林格拉斯最近表示：“当你观察农民起义开始的地方时，全部都是脱欧支持率极高的地方：埃塞克斯、肯特、北埃塞克斯、萨福克，一直延伸到赫尔和林肯郡。所以这其中有一种古老的东西。”

当然，这种寓意是奏效的。加菲尔德、贾维斯和贝尔分别扮演了约翰逊、戈夫和法拉奇的替代角色——他们全部与大卫·卡梅伦对抗，而在格林格拉斯的故事中，卡梅伦则是那个哭哭啼啼且无能的理查二世（伍迪·诺曼 饰）。除了脱欧之外，还有其他平行之处——比如法国目前的学生抗议活动。

加菲尔德等人将那些被当代经济抛弃的人演绎得十分有力。“我们的工作强度已经超过了我们的脊梁和灵魂所能承受的极限，”耕夫在早期说道。格林格拉斯同样运用了他标志性的“摇晃镜头”风格，记录了耕夫从一个悲痛欲绝的农民（最近的瘟疫夺走了他的家人）转变为一个敢于反击的革命者的过程，其紧张的紧迫感通常只出现在马特·达蒙骑着试炼摩托车冲破顶层公寓玻璃窗的场景中。

《起义》（The Uprising） 15, 128分钟 ★★★☆☆

节奏通常令人心惊胆战，对国王委员会的刻画也恰到好处地令人厌恶——汤姆·霍兰德（Tom Hollander）饰演的财政大臣罗伯特·海尔斯（Robert Hales）便是一个例子。然而，这部电影在格林格拉斯通常偏左的受众群体中引起了评价分歧，而那些喜欢他明显带有政治色彩作品（如《血日星期日》）的粉丝可能会感到震惊。这是因为电影中对不受约束的英国民族主义的描绘既诱人又具破坏性，不可避免地留下了一种令人不安的后味。你会爱它，你会恨它，你会陷入两极分化，52% to 48%。 院线公映

经典电影

《24小时派对人民》(24 Hour Party People) (2001)

18, 117分钟 ★★★★★

在2001年，还没有出现过像《24小时派对人民》这样的电影。音乐主题的伪纪录片往往倾向于模仿《脊柱拍档》(Spinal Tap) 的模式，将充满温情的角色刻画禁锢在严密控制的叙事结构中，通常是以某种竞争为线索。

相反，迈克尔·温特博顿 (Michael Winterbottom) 的这部电影风格松散且自由，在不同的年代、场地和国家之间跳跃，讲述了 Factory Records 的经营者托尼·威尔逊 (Tony Wilson，由史蒂夫·库根 Steve Coogan 饰演) 对 Joy Division、New Order 和 Happy Mondays 音乐影响的故事、神话与传闻。

它看起来混乱，似乎是即兴发挥，但剧本却建立在由前儿童文学桂冠诗人弗兰克·科特雷尔-博伊斯 (Frank Cottrell-Boyce) 撰写的大量精辟且犀利的金句之上。它在当年没有找到受众，但随着时间的推移而备受喜爱，其中一些可引用的经典片段被人们深情地铭记，其程度或许不亚于《脊柱拍档》中的“这些能调到11档”。比如？安迪·瑟金斯 (Andy Serkis) 饰演长发、叼烟、戴墨镜、不羁的制作人马丁·汉内特 (Martin Hannett)，他要求 Joy Division 的鼓手斯蒂芬·莫里斯 (Stephen Morris，由蒂姆·霍罗克斯 Tim Horrocks 饰演) 改变音乐风格。“让我们尝试一些简单得多的东西，”汉内特低声诱导道，“快一点。但要慢一点。”

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史蒂夫·库根 饰演 托尼·威尔逊

《动物》(Animals) 15, 106分钟 ★★★☆☆

这部由本·阿弗莱克 (Ben Affleck) 执导的惊悚片，其本质就像是《婚姻故事》(Marriage Story) 与梅尔·吉布森 (Mel Gibson) 的《赎金》(Ransom) 的结合体。该片最初计划由阿弗莱克的前妻詹妮弗·加纳 (Jennifer Garner) 和马特·达蒙 (Matt Damon) 主演。两人原定饰演一对在唯一孩子被绑架后遭受严峻考验、争吵不休的夫妇。随后《奥德赛》(The Odyssey) 出现，达蒙退出，于是阿弗莱克同时担任主演和导演。这意味着加纳也必须离开，因为阿弗莱克最近表示，担心观众看到前任夫妇饰演一对敌对夫妻会带来太多不必要的“心理负担”。

加纳由凯瑞·华盛顿 (Kerry Washington) 接替，这是一次神来之笔的选角，将阿弗莱克饰演的志向远大的洛杉矶政治家马克·金博尔 (Mark Kimball) 与其妻子、教授阿比盖尔 (Abigail) 之间的核心关系，转化为一种纠结且阴暗的美感。

金博尔是一名野心勃勃的市长候选人，他在道德上圆滑且痴迷于形象。阿比盖尔冷淡地指出，他显然很享受拥有一位混血妻子在多元化的洛杉矶选民中为他带来的光环。然而，阿比盖尔在伦理上也存在缺陷，她隐藏了一个在剧情中段爆发的秘密，这威胁到的不仅仅是他们显然正在崩塌的关系未来。

一部关于这两个无赖的电影——由阿弗莱克和华盛顿如此精湛地演绎——本就足够了。而且他们之间一些激烈的争吵确实让人想起《婚姻故事》中斯嘉丽·约翰逊 (Scarlett Johansson) 和亚当·德赖弗 (Adam Driver) 之间那些尖锐的互怼。

凯瑞·华盛顿与本·阿弗莱克 处于一段纠结且阴暗的关系中

但同时担任共同编剧的阿弗莱克，通过一个光鲜的绑架情节以及吉莉安·安德森 (Gillian Anderson) 饰演的阴险黑手党中间人戴尔 (Dayle) 的出现，提高了这部“爆米花电影”的赌注。这是一个典型的廉价犯罪小说式角色，拥有像 Lady Gaga 在《小丑：双疯》(Joker: Folie à Deux) 中那样的大背头，以及像《穿普拉达的恶魔》(The Devil Wears Prada) 中米兰达·普里斯特利 (Miranda Priestly) 那样的低语式语气。

绑架的故事线从未完全合乎逻辑，而电影对反派缺乏兴趣则令人遗憾。但这在很大程度上是一种“罪恶快感”式的娱乐，而阿弗莱克作为一名电影制作人太优秀了（参考《阿尔戈》(Argo) 和《Air》），不会拍出真正的烂片。 Netflix

《黄领带》(The Yellow Tie)

15, 145分钟 ★★☆☆☆

于 1996, 去世的罗马尼亚指挥家兼作曲家塞尔久·切利比达凯 (Sergiu Celibidache) 被拍成了一部奢华的传记片，由约翰·马尔科维奇 (John Malkovich) 主演，由切利比达凯 58 岁的儿子塞尔日 (Serge) 执导，片中经常流露出毫不掩饰的崇拜之情。

《大师》（Maestro）或许是这部电影在电影艺术上最接近的亲戚，但前提是伦纳德·伯恩斯坦必须被剥离其隐秘的同性恋倾向、药物和酒精滥用，以及与妻子费利西亚之间激烈的冲突，从而只剩下一个难以捉摸的主角，且仅具备一项性格特征——擅长音乐。

《黄领带》（The Yellow Tie）开篇于 20 世纪 90 年代，年迈的塞利比达凯（马尔科维奇饰）身处法国一座郁郁葱葱的度假胜地，

在一出关于马克·扎克伯格和社会媒体恶行的辛辣剧作中，一名面对自残青春期女儿而愤怒不已的父亲，清晰地表达了他对 Facebook 的看法，将女儿精神崩溃的责任归咎于该平台。“把这该死的东西拔掉！”他低声嘶吼道。这种义愤填膺的情绪贯穿全片，并得到了其中一名主要角色——举报人弗朗西斯·豪根（由《阿诺拉》中的麦基·麦迪逊饰）的呼应，她恳求道：“采取行动！”

这是《社交网络》迟到的续集，由同一位编剧亚伦·索金（《白宫风云》）执笔并执导，但这部作品要阴郁得多。片中包含了一些反乌托邦的科幻元素，描绘了一个阴雨连绵的“后政府”世界，在那里的政治体制和人类心理已被扎克伯格摧毁。扎克伯格由《继承之战》的杰里米·斯特朗饰演，一名 42 岁的前计算机程序员，演得像《银翼杀手》中一个眼神死寂的复制人。

由大卫·芬奇执导的第一部电影是一部充满阴影的黑色电影，描绘了 Facebook 在 2003 年如何从一个充斥着傲慢、偏见和厌女情绪的精英深渊中诞生。它似乎在问：“可能出什么问题？”而这部电影就是答案。

这部电影同时也是一封写给平面新闻业的情书，像《邮报》、《聚焦》和《总统的男人》一样浪漫，它极力赞美另一位核心角色——《华尔街日报》的王牌记者杰夫·霍维茨（由《熊餐厅》的杰里米·艾伦·怀特饰）。从 2021 年 9 月开始，霍维茨将豪根作为其一系列名为“Facebook 文件”报道的秘密消息源，这些报道揭示了该网站如何“加速”仇恨言论，扰乱青少年的心智，并引发了美国政治体制的崩溃，最终在 1 月 6 日国会山骚乱中达到顶峰。

霍维茨和豪根在世界观上产生冲突（他是模拟时代的，而她是数字时代的），这让索金能够抨击数字文化的空洞。霍维茨同意每个人都应该有发声的机会，但他不认为每个人都应该拥有访问

扎克伯格，被精准击碎

凯文·马赫表示，在这部《社交网络》这部机智且愤怒的续作中，杰里米·斯特朗饰演的脸书创始人眼神空洞

利亚·加洛

一段尽职的闪回将我们带回 20 世纪 20 年代的罗马尼亚，向我们介绍了少年时期的塞利比达切，由本·施内策（《Swiped》）饰演，他正与一名严厉且毫无乐趣的父亲（由肖恩·宾饰演）争吵。我们几乎立即发现，这个年轻版本的塞利比达切是个音乐天才，而且，没错，他一直在抱怨那种痛苦的无能等等。简而言之，这个角色在第一幕结束前就被写进了死胡同。他的开始与结束是一样的：一个厌恶麦克风的音乐奇才。

他从布加勒斯特跳到柏林，从秘鲁跳到费城，期间一直大声叫喊着日益毫无意义的陈词滥调，例如：“永远追求真理！”、“这段音乐不能被

这部大片

对着麦克风；那是必须赢得的。当豪根指责霍维茨具有模拟时代偏见，并怨恨“技术”抢走了“新闻业的工作”时，他回答道：“我的偏见并不是因为技术抢走了新闻业的工作。而是因为你们把这些工作做得太糟糕了。”

如果在这段以及其他无数次来自剧本的反技术毒舌攻击后，你没有兴奋得在空中挥拳——因为剧本说出了我们内心深处的所有感受——那么你要么是过去 20 年一直没在关注，要么就是电影所警告的那 43% 从 Facebook 获取新闻的人之一。

索金强烈的偏见不仅体现在言语中，还体现在对 Facebook 办公室的还原中，扎克伯格那巨大的奥威尔式格言被贴在墙上：“快速行动，打破常规（Move fast and break things）。”这在 2003 年还很可爱，但当被“打破”的“常规”是人们、社区和功能健全的民主制度时，就不再可爱了。或者是 Facebook 内部的会议，最终在毫无灵魂的音乐中结束，穿着连帽衫的员工们疯狂地为自己鼓掌，像一群呆头呆脑的马戏团海豹。

《社交清算》 15 级，112 分钟 ★★★★☆

被崇拜者簇拥着，同时抱怨“现代”技术在捕捉现场音乐表演的超凡本质方面的痛苦无能。

斯特朗的表演或许是对“Facebook 阵营”最残酷的一击。这是一个迷人的诠释，主要描绘了扎克伯格在 2021 年面对国会之前，被其公关团队“准备”时的样子。他们试图将一个明显的机器人人性化。“这就是我们要让我变得讨人喜欢的会议，”扎克伯格冷冷地对他的走狗们说。这是少数几句直接回溯到第一部电影的台词之一，让人想起杰西·艾森伯格饰演的局外人主角——20 岁的扎克伯格，他在开场戏中被警告说女孩们永远不会喜欢他，不是因为他是书呆子，而是“因为你是个混蛋”。

《社交清算》不如芬奇的电影那么出色。那是一部流畅、运转高效的机器，是一部杰作。而这部电影主要是一篇令人振奋的政论——愤怒、激昂且及时。 院线公映

约翰·马尔科维奇饰演罗马尼亚指挥家 塞尔久·塞利比达切

录音！”以及“我拒绝出卖谎言！” 塞利比达切作为导演，是一位天赋异禀的风格主义者，片中有一些精彩的片段，包括柏林的一次轰炸行动和一段抒情的滑冰场景。但很多时候，这感觉像是一部家庭录像，或者仅供家庭成员观看的温馨剪辑片段。 院线公映

“图姆婴儿丑闻”曾在 2017 年的一篇《纽约时报》文章中被报道，此处由丽贝卡·伦基维茨改编，并由弗兰克·贝里敏锐地执导。影片在调查过程中恭敬地推进，随着科莱斯

《图阿姆的失踪儿童》(The Lost Children of Tuam) 12A, 84分钟 ★★★★☆

利亚姆·尼森在这一部关于爱尔兰机构性儿童虐待的冷峻且具有煽动性的剧作中担任制片人和倡导者。莫妮卡·多兰（Monica Dolan，出演过《WIA》）在片中饰演业余历史学家凯瑟琳·科莱斯。科莱斯在 2010 年代发现，图阿姆的一家面向“未婚母亲及其子女”的护理院在四十多年间，将近 800 名死去的婴儿和幼儿掩埋在临时坟墓中。

她拒绝接受经营该护理院的宗教团体——好撒玛利亚修女会（Bon Secours Sisters）以及顽固的天主教建制派的推诿。她揭露了针对婴儿的系统性虐待和近乎不可想象的残酷行为，这些婴儿因其非婚生身份而被视为低于人类。

多兰是一位极具天赋且多变的演员，她在即将上映的《埃尔西诺尔》(Elsinore) 中饰演一名快人快语的剧院经理。她塑造的科莱斯是一个复杂的人物，正从抑郁症中恢复，并被自己年轻时对好撒玛利亚修女会儿童的残酷行为所困扰。她的自我反省提出了一个沉重的问题：一个如此痴迷于高尚历史叙事和纯洁之乐观概念的国家，如何能对最脆弱的灵魂施加如此残暴的行为。这部电影没有快乐的结局，只有对苦难的承认，以及科莱斯静默的英雄主义。 院线公映

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为战争英雄而发出的庄重愤慨

Pet Shop Boys 为密码破译员艾伦·图灵创作的优雅颂歌令威尔·霍奇金森（Will Hodgkinson）着迷

艾伦·图灵是一位天才数学家，也是战争时期的英雄。他曾因性取向被强迫接受化学阉割，直到 2009 年才收到政府的道歉。对于 Pet Shop Boys 来说，他是一个理想的创作主题。

朱丽叶·史蒂文森（Juliet Stevenson）在尼尔·坦南特（Neil Tennant）、克里斯·洛（Chris Lowe）以及曼彻斯特室内八重奏（Manchester's Camerata Octet）的音乐伴奏下讲述这个故事。其中蕴含着机智、同情和一种庄重的愤慨——不仅是为了图灵，也是为了那一整代男性。

“每个孩子都应该知道的自然奇观，”坦南特在让人想起沃恩·威廉姆斯（Vaughan Williams）的弦乐伴奏中唱道，他地引用了一本自然科学书籍的标题，正是这本书开启了十岁图灵的探索之旅。“鸟类、蜜蜂以及花朵如何生长。”

史蒂文森接着讲述了图灵在学校时被一个名叫克里斯托弗·莫科姆（Christopher Morcom）的男孩吸引的故事，以及他如何通过这段友谊发现自己的同性恋倾向和对科学的热情。整个过程充满了戏剧冲突——莫科姆在他们毕业前死于肺结核——但同时也有一种彻头彻尾的英式克制感。

这感觉像是我们所熟知的 Pet Shop Boys 的一次成熟，而非背离。《他梦见机器》（He Dreamed of Machines）在洛的电子波形中律动，而坦南特则描绘了一幅类似《回顾布莱兹黑德》（Brideshead Revisited）风格的画面：年轻的数学家躺在剑桥的一片原野上，凝视着天空，梦想着自动化。

流行音乐 Pet Shop Boys 《来自未来的人》（A Man from the Future） Parlophone 唱片 ★★★★☆

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《谜码》（The Enigma）讲述了图灵如何利用他对机械模式的理解，帮助英国情报部门在布莱切利园（Bletchley Park）破译德国间谍密码，其背景音乐是一段键盘旋律，与 Pet Shop Boys 的经典作品《这是一个罪孽》（It's a Sin）所使用的旋律相差无几。在古典与现代主义交织的背景下，一个关于野心、未来主义、道德和性取向的故事展开，这是一场 20 世纪的悲剧。

在那个时代，图灵罕见地对自己的性取向持开放态度。他在战争期间的一次军队派对上公开宣布了这一点，令他的助手大为震惊。“科学与性，”坦南特在《其他军衔》（Other Ranks）中毫无感情地朗诵道，而史蒂文森则解释了图灵如何将两者都视为不可争辩的生活事实。在讲述图灵在战争结束前后如何构思现代计算机愿景的《记忆与控制》（The Memory and the Control）之后，

是《审判》（The Trial），记录了他 1951 年 12 月在曼彻斯特结识一名年轻男子的经历。这导致了他的被捕、阉割，以及在 6 月 7, 1954 的自杀。他当时 41 岁。

这一切与 70 年代的前卫摇滚专辑（如杰夫·韦恩的《世界大战》或者，恕我直言，里克·韦克曼的《亚瑟王与圆桌骑士的神话与传说》）更为相似，而非现代流行音乐：这是一个配以音乐的戏剧性故事，要求听众完整地聆听，最好是戴着耳机或在长途车旅中。

“除了真理，他对任何事物都缺乏敬畏之心，”史蒂文森在《唯有死后》（Only in His Death）中这样评价图灵。这是一组关于一位成为时代偏见牺牲品的天才人物的电子组曲。它为这张迷人、优雅且令人心碎的“有声书式”专辑画上了恰当的句号。

她在巴赫、鲍伊和凯特·布什的曲风中光彩夺目

杰丝·吉拉姆（Jess Gillam）有一天在笔记本上写道：“巨大的能量。美感。能让人微笑的音乐。能让人振奋的音乐。”这些是她专辑《Shine》的目标，而这位英国最受欢迎的萨克斯风演奏家确实践行了她的计划，尤其是在开篇曲目中——那是对小提琴手鲁内·汤斯高德·索伦森（Rune Tonsgaard Sorensen）作品《Shine You No More》的一次灵动且轻快的演绎。如果这首歌不能让你想要起身起舞，那么没有什么能做到了。这同样是对吉拉姆惊人技巧的绝佳展示，她的手指和呼吸全力运转，产生出长而流畅的音阶，以惊人的速度倾泻而出。

在那首曲目中，她的合作音乐家是由索伦森共同创立的团体：丹麦弦乐四重奏（Danish String Quartet）。在其他曲目中，投入的音乐家们来来去去，就像所演奏的音乐类型一样。古典乐？嗯，有七分钟来自

古典

杰丝·吉拉姆 (Jess Gillam) 《Shine》 Decca 唱片 ★★★★☆

艾德里安·钱德勒 (Adrian Chandler) 《Hell's Angels》 Signum Classics 唱片 ★★★★☆

可靠且随性的 C.P.E. 巴赫（这是最长的一首曲目），以及对科雷利（Corelli）的《拉福利亚》（La Folia）变奏曲，以及芭芭拉·斯特罗齐（Barbara Strozzi）和希尔德加德·冯·宾根（Hildegard von Bingen）古老声乐奇迹的短暂造访。但所有曲目都经过了编曲和改编，通常融入了爵士乐即兴演奏和其他附加元素，有时效果极佳（如斯特罗齐的作品），但希尔德加德的作品则稍逊一筹。

在这些曲目之间，下方的吉拉姆在古老的爱尔兰曲调《Tabhair dom do Lámh》（给我你的手）中发现了深沉的抒情美，并从大卫·鲍伊（David Bowie）、凯特·布什（Kate Bush）、琼尼·米切尔（Joni Mitchell）和西德尼·贝谢（Sidney Bechet）的作品中汲取灵感。她的一些尝试在我看来并未奏效，但人们无法不对吉拉姆令人眩晕的灵活性以及她的高音萨克斯风所产生的惊人音色范围感到敬畏。另一部以维瓦尔第为主题的

合集来自艾德里安·钱德勒的 La Serenissima 乐团。该打哈欠了吗？绝对没有。钱德勒充满活力的演奏者们散发出如此巨大的快乐：对音乐选择的快乐，以及彼此陪伴的快乐，而我确信这种快乐有所增加，是因为录制日期是 2022, 年，就在新冠疫情最糟糕的时期之后不久。

曲目编排也极具吸引力，两首维瓦尔第弦乐奏鸣曲之后是来自法国和意大利同辈音乐家的类似作品，所有这些都预示着器乐呈现方式的时尚变迁。最长的一项，由鲜为人知的路易-加布里埃尔·吉约曼（Louis-Gabriel Guillemain）创作的大键琴与小提琴奏鸣曲，我承认，它将华丽的技巧与一点音乐上的枯燥重复混在了一起。但其他曲目并非如此，钱德勒乐团赋予所有演奏作品的活力只能让你微笑并闪光。 杰夫·布朗 (Geoff Brown)

Greta Van Fleet 《Palace for the People》

Lava / Republic Records ★★★☆☆

自从这支来自密歇根州的兄弟乐队在近十年前崭露头角以来，被指责为齐柏林飞船（Led Zeppelin）模仿者的标签就一直如影随形。这并不完全公平：如果去掉那些成就了齐柏林飞船的危险、药物、性、健康与安全问题以及低卫生标准，你可能会得到一些类似于 Greta Van Fleet 的东西。尽管如此，他们的第四张专辑中有些有趣且不乏荒诞之处，主唱乔什·基兹卡（Josh Kiszka）在《Field of Stars》中以民谣方式演绎出托尔金式的风格，并在力量情歌《Saw You Stand》中倾情嘶吼。这一切感觉有点像孩子们在装扮盒里玩角色扮演，但以其纯真方式显得颇有魅力。

Gabriella Cilmi 《Pure Love》

★★★★☆

这位意裔澳大利亚歌手 Cilmi 在 2008 年凭借《Sweet About Me》获得巨大成功时年仅 16 岁，那是一部纯粹的流行作品，将她推入了一个她并不真正属于商业世界。这次冲击的影响如此之大，以至于 Cilmi 在上一张专辑与本作之间留出了 13 年的空白期；而本作让她回归了最初的热爱——充满灵魂感且质朴的摇滚乐。这张专辑在达特穆尔的一家工作室录制，亮点包括对早期经历进行反思、情绪低沉的《No to a King》，以及灵感来自灾难电影的《Love Me Like It's the End of the World》。整部作品由 Cilmi 那沙哑且富有表现力的唱腔驱动，让人想起一个破坏力较小的珍妮丝·乔普林（Janis Joplin），对于一个被流行工业机器吞噬并幸存下来讲述故事的人来说，这标志着一个罕见的圆满结局。

Chase & Status 《Generic Everything》 Warner Records ★★☆☆☆

“保持冷静。相信我，我不是傻瓜，”J Hus 在《Disgruntled》中命令道，这首鼓打贝斯（drum'n'bass）与金属吉他的轰鸣之作，为这对深受从泰森·富里（Tyson Fury）到蕾哈娜（Rihanna）等各界人士喜爱的组合的最新专辑奠定了基调。这张客串嘉宾众多的专辑确实有一种粗犷的魅力，从表达性欲的《Tension》，到与 Skrillex 合作的狂躁之作《Essa Ta Quente》。但如果能多一点含蓄就更好了；尽管在声音上有所创新，但整部作品让人联想到一些不愉快的情景：一群青少年在雷丁音乐节（Reading Festival）喝了太多野格酒（Jägermeister）后摔倒在地。至少来自佩卡姆（Peckham）的 Giggs（无乳制品牛奶品牌 Oatly 的大使）在《Timber》中说唱到他新女友对黄油酥饼的热爱时，展现出了一定的机智。

谢丽尔·克劳（Sheryl Crow）很清楚自己如今的地位。“如果你曾经成功且现在仍在坚持，那么你就会被归入‘传奇档案’，”她说，“这仅仅意味着你比所有人都活得久。”这也意味着在你还没去世之前，就会有人为你的音乐举办致敬音乐会：在她从纳什维尔家中接受我的采访前几天，她刚参加了一场表彰其音乐成就的颁奖典礼。杰森·伊斯贝尔（Jason Isbell）演唱了《Run, Baby, Run》，梅丽莎·伊瑟里奇（Melissa Etheridge）演唱了《If It Makes You Happy》，而奥利维亚·罗德里戈（Olivia Rodrigo）则专程飞来演绎了一曲《Strong Enough》。

“那就像是一种出窍体验，”克劳告诉我，“这让我哑口无言。我们通常在人们离世后才谈论他们。我们会说出那些他们活着时可能很想听到的话。”

克劳的音乐地位是稳固的——5000 万 张专辑销量、九项格莱美奖以及一系列长盛不衰的热门金曲确保了这一点——但现在她正期待着第 12 张录音室专辑《Pick You Up》的发行，她将其描述为“涂在我们干裂心灵上的舒缓保湿霜”。这张专辑具有一种悠闲的旋律乡村风格，让人想起 20 世纪 70 年代的劳雷尔峡谷（Laurel Canyon）和老鹰乐队（the Eagles）。“在我忧郁的阶段，70 年代后期的加州乡村音乐让我感到充满希望，”她说，“我认为它唤起了一个美国更纯真的时代。我不知道那时是否更好，只是那时我们都团结在一起。我们共同面对。”

“现在公开宣称你的信仰是非常冒险的”

那些只熟悉她热门金曲的粉丝可能不知道，克劳（Crow）无论在舞台上还是舞台下，经常持有尖锐的政治观点。她反对伊拉克战争（在2003年的格莱美奖颁奖礼上，她使用了一条写着“不要战争”的吉他背带进行表演），并在2007年巡访美国大学校园以提高人们对气候变化的认识；她呼吁收紧枪支法律，为了抗议埃隆·马斯克而卖掉了她的特斯拉，并创作了针对唐纳德·特朗普的歌曲。她一直是一位坚定且敢于发声的批评者，称其第一任期为“混乱的”，指责其对2025年“没有国王”（No Kings）抗议活动的反应是“不符合美国精神的”，并要求因其与杰弗里·爱泼斯坦的关系而将其撤职并监禁。

《Pick Me Up》中的歌曲愤怒之情较少。“当你年纪增长时，有些事情会发生，”她说，“你会对事物变得非常哲学化。我看新闻，看我们的领导者如何表现，我并不愤怒，而是感到困惑。”

克劳在密苏里州肯内特（Kennett）长大，那是一个只有三个红绿灯和一所高中的小镇。她学习音乐，后来教授自闭症儿童音乐，在24岁时离开家乡前往洛杉矶。在获得重大突破之前，她做过几份演唱广告歌曲的工作，随后在1987年受邀参加迈克尔·杰克逊的《Bad》巡演。 “在舞台之外，我和他相处的时间很少，”她说，“在他身边总有人保护他，使他远离现实世界的残酷，但每晚站在舞台上，看着他，与他一起唱歌，是一次难以置信的经历。”

1992年，在麦迪逊广场花园举行的鲍勃·迪伦致敬演出中，她作为支持嘉宾与希妮德·奥康纳（Sinéad O'Connor）同台。 “她刚刚在《周六夜现场》中撕掉了[教皇的]照片。观众爆发出了充满恨意的嘘声。那是

随着第12张专辑的发行，谢丽尔·克劳谈论在乳腺癌和脑肿瘤中幸存——以及对抗特朗普。作者：萨夫拉兹·曼祖尔

面对如此多的人向我们方向发出嘘声，这种感觉令人崩溃；而她在那一刻走上前去演唱[鲍勃·马利的]《战争》（War），随后走下舞台呕吐了。她是在为那些遭受天主教会虐待的人发声——她确实是自己信仰之事的战士。那是我见证过的最辉煌的摇滚时刻之一。”

1993年，克劳发行了她的首张专辑《周二晚音乐俱乐部》（Tuesday Night Music Club），该专辑随后售出超过700万张，产生了包括《我只想做》（All I Wanna Do）和《足够强大》（Strong Enough）在内的热门单曲，并赢得了三项格莱美奖，包括年度专辑和最佳新人奖。

随后发行的是三倍白金专辑《谢丽尔·克劳》（Sheryl Crow, 1996年）、《全球会议》（The Globe Sessions, 1998年）以及

克劳与多莉·帕顿 2022年

《快来吧，快来吧》（C'mon, C'mon, 2002年），这一系列唱片产生了《离开拉斯维加斯》（Leaving Las Vegas）、《如果你感到快乐》（If It Makes You Happy）和《我最爱的错误》（My Favourite Mistake）——据传后者是关于她与埃里克·克莱普顿的关系。

她还与许多音乐偶像成为了朋友。“我想成为基思 [理查兹]，我想成为史蒂薇·尼克斯，我想成为琳达·朗斯塔特，我想像迪伦那样写出重要的歌曲，”她说。“我觉得我从他们身上学到了关于如何在音乐界长青以及如何永远热爱音乐的一切。”

她的音乐偶像之一多莉·帕顿于8月下旬去世，克劳仍在悼念这位乡村音乐传奇。“她是某种人的绝佳写照：不仅用音乐让世界变得更好，而且能够在不贬低任何人的情况下表达自己的观点，”她说。“她让每个人都在思考，自己在生命中是否做得足够多。我们离开营地时，是否比发现它时让它变得更美好？”

帕顿支持“黑人的命也是命”（Black Lives Matter）运动，接纳她的LGBT粉丝，并帮助资助 Moderna 疫苗，且没有疏远她的粉丝——她让这一切看起来比实际情况要简单得多。

克劳和我进行这次对话时，正值埃德·希兰在关于麦克勒莫尔对巴勒斯坦评论的争端中，将后者作为开场嘉宾的安排取消。 “在现在的美国，站在舞台上宣布你的信仰是非常冒险的，”她说。“我们正看着我们的言论自由权利受到挑战，但我认为人们将永远向权力说真话，尤其是在音乐中。”

在那些始终向权力说真话的美国艺术家中，布鲁斯·斯普林斯汀便是其中之一；他于6月与克劳一起参加了一场庆祝塑造美国的歌曲的音乐会。“对我来说，仅仅和他一起站在那个舞台上唱歌，感觉就像去教堂一样，”她说。“我们都利用音乐希望能将人们团结起来，但我们现在都足够成熟，可以回顾我们是如何走到今天以及我们将走向何方。”

但克劳依然抱有希望。“我认为现在发生的事情最终会自食其果。选举即将到来，希望人们能开始意识到正在发生的事情并出来投票。”

克劳不敢相信自己已经64岁了。“我对自己的年龄感到震惊，因为对我来说，我大约38岁，”她说，“这已经说得比较勉强了，因为当我登上舞台时，我更像32岁。我花在镜子前的时间很少。我没有在脸上做医美。我只是……忽略它。我懒得管。”

她在2006年被诊断出患有早期乳腺癌，通过乳房肿块切除术和放疗进行了治疗，并在2012年透露自己患有良性脑肿瘤。“你真的无法预测自己能在这里待多久，”她说。“你无法知道今天是否就是你的最后一天。”

她最近一直在思考自己能留下什么——一场致敬演出会让人产生这种想法。“如果我有几首歌能在我的生命结束后继续流传，那就太棒了，”她说，“我会一直这样唱下去，直到我加入天堂的摇滚乐队，能和吉米·亨德里克斯、约翰·列侬以及多莉一起混在一起。”

《Pick You Up》现已由 Old Green Barn Productions 发行

第一晚

视觉艺术

罗伯特·赖曼 (Robert Ryman) 伦敦巴比肯艺术馆 (Barbican Art Gallery, London) ★★★★☆

如果说有哪位艺术家最容易招致晦涩且令人反感的解读，那一定是罗伯特·赖曼。然而，本次展览随附的小册子却以一种温暖、亲切且实事求是的笔触撰写而成。它是如何解读一位表面上“难以捉摸”的艺术家的典范之作。

赖曼 1930 年出生于纳什维尔，在 20 世纪 50 年代中期抽象表现主义的鼎盛时期开始绘画。当时的偶像人物是杰克逊·波洛克、马克·罗斯科和威廉·德·库宁。随后出现了波普艺术、极简主义和概念艺术，但赖曼发现自己处于漂泊状态。他想要做的是“绘画绘画本身”。到 1965 年，他确信白色颜料是揭示“表面、表面的微妙色彩、纹理以及绘画整体”最可靠的媒介。

白色并非只有一种。你越是审视这些坚定且深思熟虑的画作，它们就变得越多样。这种白色可以是冰冷的、刺眼的、严酷的、温暖的、柔软的或包围式的。它可以是纯净的或松散的，是枯燥的或宁静的。赖曼使用了油画颜料和油画棒、树胶水彩和珐琅漆、聚合物颜料和粉彩，并探究它们在画布、木材、玻璃纤维和羽毛板上的表现。光线如何照射，阴影又落在何处？

每一幅画都明显是一件绘画作品，而非生产线上的打印件。它们留有笔触的痕迹，颜料有的涂抹稀疏或干刷，有的开裂或光滑。画笔有时干涸，有时饱满。厚度上存在不一致之处，远看难以察觉，但近看则显露无遗。在如《侍从》(Attendant, 1984) 这样的画作中，几乎像化石一样凝固的笔触旋涡，与《无题》(Untitled, 1960) 中跳跃的点画笔触，或《表面面纱》(Surface Veil, 约 1970) 上半部分的暴风雪截然不同。

一个展示柜让赖曼的工作室栩栩如生：数十支用完的温莎白色颜料管，以及一张艺术家的照片，他的宠物鹦鹉“钳子” (Pliers) 停在他的肩膀上。必须承认，赖曼的画作在复制品中效果糟糕。但当你看到它们在这里集结，冷静而沉稳，即使是你也会为白色而疯狂。 劳拉·弗里曼 (Laura Freeman) 展至 2 月 28 日

马克·布伦纳 (MARC BRENNER)

菲萨约·阿基纳德 (Fisayo Akinade) 饰演西莉亚，乔纳森·格罗夫 (Jonathan Groff) 饰演罗莎琳德

给莎翁伙计们的“酷儿之眼”

克莱夫·戴维斯称，皇家莎士比亚剧团这部欢快的全男性制作，由在莎剧首秀中表现出色的乔纳森·格罗夫领衔

戏剧

《 As You Like It》（原名： As You Like It） 斯特拉特福-upon-Avon，皇家莎士比亚剧院 (165分钟) ★★★☆☆

前往亚登森林的旅程从未如此波折。在导演丹尼尔·埃文斯 (Daniel Evans) 执导的这部欢快且全男性的《 As You Like It》演出半小时后，就在我们即将进入那片葱郁之境时，皇家莎士比亚剧院的舞台机械突然剧烈地停了下来。

在被迫中断一个多小时后，演员们重新回到舞台，观众们为他们喝彩，显然大家都渴望看到更多乔纳森·格罗夫饰演的罗莎琳德，他展现出一种极具吸引力的脆弱感。令人惊讶的是，这是这位美国明星的莎士比亚剧首秀。尽管他的台词语速有时过快，但他逐渐融入了角色，在浪漫纠葛不断累积时，向四面八方投去妖娆的目光。格罗夫散发出一种随和的魅力。虽然这里的女性角色倾向于通过酷儿视角呈现的虚构产物，但在高潮场景中，格罗夫与埃利奥特·巴恩斯-沃雷尔 (Elliot Barnes-Worrell) 饰演的奥兰多之间确实存在着真实的电光火石。

这部剧的其余部分进展得相当愉快，尽管就像在莎士比亚的许多夜晚一样。

早期摔跤场景是对 WWE 盛况的拙劣模仿

环球剧院，它更倾向于在想要引发笑声时，给观众肋骨来上一记精准的重击。早期的摔跤场景变成了对夸张的 WWE 盛况的拙劣模仿，甚至还配有穿着清凉的肌肉男高举着比赛卡片。我不禁惆怅地想起三年前在同一家剧院里，杰拉尔丁·詹姆斯（Geraldine James）和一群老年演员为我们呈现的关于罗莎琳德冒险之旅的、更为抒情的愿景。

尽管如此，演员们能够克服那次致命的长时间中断，值得称赞。菲萨约·阿基纳德（Fisayo Akinade）饰演的西莉亚（Celia）腼腆内向，在背景中傻笑，并在罗莎琳德似乎要走错方向时发出不赞同的声音，赢得了观众的笑声。菲比（Phoebe）这个角色并不总是最引人注目的，但蒂姆·普雷斯顿（Tim Preston）将其塑造得像是一个极度古板的图书管理员的漫画形象。

设计师阿尼莎·菲尔兹（Anisha Fields）为我们呈现了一个灰色且肃穆的宫廷景象，高大的门扉和空白的表面占据主导，随后森林才姗姗来迟。我们面对的不是树木，而是一大团高耸的草皮和芦苇。威尔士口音开始凸显，作曲家西奥·詹米森（Theo Jamieson）插入了温柔的近和声歌曲和赞美诗。我不确定我们是否需要听到加雷斯·斯努克（Gareth Snook）饰演的奥德丽（Audrey）模仿 Raye 的流行热门单曲《我的丈夫在哪里！》（Where Is My Husband!）。不过，在漫长的一晚接近尾声时，观众们似乎很高兴能有机会放松一下。 至 11 月 7 日

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Acosta Danza，伦敦 EC1 萨德勒之井剧院 (90分钟) ★★★☆☆

古巴在最严酷的封锁下生存，日常必需品严重短缺，每天停电时间长达 14 小时，但却能持续培养出一批批令人惊叹的世界级舞者，这实在是个谜。而古巴最成功的文化输出人物卡洛斯·阿科斯塔（Carlos Acosta），则为他创立的 Danza 挑选了最顶尖的人才。这家中型当代舞团是他 2015 年从英国皇家芭蕾舞团退休后成立的。

自那时起， Danza 的每一届舞者都极其出色。遗憾的是，他们通常受困于糟糕的编舞。在 Danza 最新推出的剧目《古巴巴洛克》（Cuban Baroque）的两部作品中，第一部再次陷入了这种困境。

这部由编舞师安多尼斯·福尼亚卡迪斯（Andonis Foniakadis）创作、名为《珍珠》（Pearls）的作品（尽管其命名原因不明），配乐由法国作曲家朱利安·塔里德（Julien Tarride）创作。这是一种令人不悦的巴洛克音乐拼贴，偶尔会被类似于地狱中庞大管弦乐团调音的噪音打断，随后演变为对古巴节奏的打击乐式唤起，最后又回到了伪巴洛克风格的小提琴曲。

在灯光昏暗的舞台上，十名舞者身着不合身的肝脏色服装（未注明设计师），被要求进行狂热、重复且缺乏想象力的动作，在一种令人沮丧的、仿佛永无止境的混乱中舞动。

中场休息后，情况有所改善。由西班牙资深舞蹈创作者戈约·蒙特罗（Goyo Montero）创作的《夏科纳》（Chacona）登场。该剧目采用巴赫的《第二号小提琴组曲》（Partita No 2）中的《夏科纳》作为配乐，现场由钢琴、小提琴和吉他轮番演奏。这是蒙特罗 2017 年作品的最后一部分，他随后将其改编给伯明翰皇家芭蕾舞团，现在又重新修改以适应 Danza。

演出以一段缓慢且充满渴望的双人舞开始，该舞段最初是为阿科斯塔和亚历山德拉·费里（Alessandra Ferri）设计的，此次由梅丽莎·莫雷达（Melissa Moreda，足尖舞）和保罗·布兰多（Paul Brando）以深情的优美演绎，两排身着黑衣的舞者在旁观看。《夏科纳》利用几何形状和对齐方式，配合模仿音乐的精准节奏，由 14 人的舞团重现原版双人舞的关键片段。这部作品构思巧妙，充分展现了舞者的最佳状态。

明日结束；诺里奇皇家剧院，10月 20-21 日

有人在呼吁 Pussycat Dolls 重组吗？或者更准确地说，是半重组，因为原有的六人组中只有一半成员参加了这次虽然充满泡沫般的娱乐感但计算失误的巡演。

粉丝数量显然不足。在美国，门票销售情况如此糟糕，以至于除了在一次骄傲节（Pride festival）上的亮相外，所有场次都被取消了。上周在英国的体育馆演出中，部分座位区被帘子遮挡。OVO Hydro 场馆的门票销售量低得惊人。

这是否分散了 Dolls 的注意力？完全没有。“DEFIANT”（不屈）字样在屏幕上闪现，妮可·谢尔辛格（Nicole Scherzinger）、金伯利·怀亚特（Kimberly Wyatt）和艾希莉·罗伯茨（Ashley Roberts）身着配套的糖果粉色服装登场——这种风格像是海滩装与军装的结合，并点缀了雪纺——她们甩动着华丽的长发，表演着

流行音乐

The Pussycat Dolls 格拉斯哥 OVO Hydro ★★★☆☆

一段激烈的有氧操舞步，并在强劲的背景伴奏中偶尔加入人声。

是组合还是舞团？Pussycat Dolls 一直两者兼而有之。抱怨其缺乏“真正的音乐性”是没抓到重点。在近两个小时的演出中，Pussycat Dolls 证明了他们拥有的热门舞曲比大多数人记得的要多，而且谢尔辛格是一位拥有充沛明星光芒的领导者，当她全力爆发时，拥有极具震撼力的嗓音。在演唱《When I Grow Up》时，她唱道“当我长大，我想出名”，观众们随之齐声呐喊。

他们对《Whatcha Think About That》的演绎融入了肯德里克·拉马尔（Kendrick Lamar）的《DNA》，是一场摇摆臀部的狂欢。《Bottle Pop》借鉴了碧昂丝（Beyoncé），而在演唱《I Don't Need a

这开始了？妮可·谢尔辛格回归

Man》期间，粉色外衣被迅速脱掉，露出比基尼身体紧身衣。

三人都有独唱环节，其中舍尔辛格（Scherzinger）的环节最长，致敬了她在百老汇凭借《日落大道》（Sunset Boulevard）中的《仿佛我们从未道别》（As If We Never Said Goodbye）而赢得托尼奖的辉煌成就，并演唱了几首个人热门单曲。但该团体在合唱时才真正大放异彩。

结尾的一连串曲目包括了榜单冠军单曲《Don't Cha》和《Stickwitu》，虽然不可否认地显得有些荒诞，但非常有趣。在演唱《Buttons》时，娃娃们（Dolls）短暂地再次变回了六人组，从观众席中拉了几名粉丝上台加入。其中一名是穿着豹纹连体衣的《Drag Race》表演者米娅·福克斯（Mya Foxx），这肯定是个预设好的安排。有人在意吗？当然不在意。

丽莎·维里科（Lisa Verrico） 至周二

《大白鲨》遇上《寡妇湾》：一部生态怪兽剧

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詹姆斯·杰克逊（James Jackson）电视评论

《Below》可被概括为 Netflix 的一部新式《大白鲨》风格惊悚剧，讲述了一个带有奇怪爱尔兰口音的新法兰达沿海社区与当地海怪之间发生的麻烦。

乔什·哈奈特（Josh Hartnett）饰演处于事件中心的渔民，他能以十足的信念感演绎这个粗犷的角色，值得称赞，因为对于任何怪兽剧来说，信念感是成功的关键。如果他看起来不像完全相信波涛之下潜伏着一个“大到能把你整栋房子都掀翻！”的宿敌，那么观众也不会相信。而他在努力应对一种似乎需要同时兼顾三种口音的说话方式时还能做到这一点，或许本身就值得获得一项特别认可奖。他口中说着：“天呐，该死的墨菲（Jesus friggin' Murphy），”以及“你们这些家伙在没有工作电台的情况下在这儿干什么？”

由于我从未去过新法兰达，我无法告诉你演员们是精准还原了斯努克斯臂（Snook's Arm）的口音，还是将其搞砸了。但作为当地人，他们的外形确实看起来足够粗犷——男人留着邋遢的胡须，每个人都穿着厚重的毛衣——他们在镇民会议上为是否领取搬迁费而争吵。这个小镇正处于经济衰退之中，但由于潜伏在深海之中的东西，社区的头痛即将演变成一场粉碎颅骨的剧烈偏头痛。

你可能会问，这个怪物到底是什么。揭晓答案可能会稍微剧透。我只能说，一条被撕掉的腿是一个早期线索，表明任何人现在出海都是不明智的。但除了那个阴森的巨兽，岸上也发生了一些奇怪的事情。镇民们出现了奇怪的症状——当你产生关于海巫婆的幻觉时，情况绝不会好转。

怪物的活动与一座漂入海湾的冰山同步发生。哈奈特饰演的卡尔文·彭尼（Calvin Penney）是一名“失业的、丧偶的湾区居民”，他将其视为赚钱的机会，但奇怪的是，这座冰山“散发着臭味”。到第二集结束时，

乔什·哈奈特为主角角色带来了信念感（以及三种口音）

卡尔文在水边的人群中疯狂地大喊：“远离水边！”，就像布罗迪警长当年在阿米蒂海滩上所做的那样。

《Below》并非你预想中那种低俗的 B 级恐怖片。剧集主创杰西·麦基翁（Jesse McKeown）并不只是追求血腥的噱头，因为气候变化在这里同样是一种威胁。当麦肯齐·戴维斯（Mackenzie Davis）饰演的科学家丰达·豪万德（Fonda Howander）出现时——这个名字的奇葩程度仅次于当地警察贾克逊·诺斯沃西（Jaxon Noseworthy）——人们意识到真正的敌人并不在波涛之下。这可能是电视荧幕上的首创：一部生态怪兽剧。

卡尔文是一个充满自责的人物，但他与成年子女之间的温情为剧集注入了不少情感。查理·希顿（Charlie Heaton）饰演他那个不务正业的儿子韦德（Wade），带来了一种令人愉悦的狂野能量，喋喋不休地说道：“父亲管这叫彭尼家族的诅咒，但我不知道我是否相信那个！”

事实上，凭借沿海的设定、喧闹的当地酒吧以及关于海巫婆的谈论，最明显的对比对象其实不是《大白鲨》，而是《寡妇湾》（Widow's Bay）。《Below》没有那部剧的矫揉造作，这六集剧集更多地提供了像巨无霸汉堡一样的即时快感，而到了最后一集，剧情已经失去了我的兴趣。但总的来说，这部剧像 Waterboys 乐队的海事小曲《渔夫之蓝》（Fisherman's Blues）一样吸引人，而这首歌也为剧中所有粗犷的闹剧画上了句号。

《美食计划》Radio 4, 上午11点

那些还记得该节目在周日午餐时间播出的人，会将它与烤肉和肉汁的味道联系在一起，因此吉米·法穆雷瓦（Jimi Famurewa）的调查将会引起共鸣。上述主持人走访了一系列餐厅，从布里斯托的银行酒馆（Bank Tavern）到自称“烤肉之家”的托比烤肉店（Toby Carvery），并采访了食物历史学家安妮·格雷（Annie Gray），由她解释这顿餐食如何成为英国文化的基石。法穆雷瓦还与“烤肉侦探”埃默·麦克莱萨特（Emer McLysaght）和埃丝特·奥摩尔·多诺霍（Esther O'Moore Donohoe）进行了交谈，她们解释了自己为在爱尔兰各地品尝的餐食所制定的评分系统。克莱尔·伍德沃德（Clair Woodward）

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数字广播、网页、智能扬声器、应用程序 5.00am 汤姆·努南 (Tom Nunan) 6.00 罗西·赖特 (Rosie Wright) 与卡勒姆·麦克唐纳 (Calum Macdonald) 主持的《泰晤士广播早餐节目》 10.00 埃德·维齐 (Ed Vaizey) 1.00pm 艾莎·哈扎里卡 (Ayesha Hazarika) 4.00 凯西·纽曼 (Cathy Newman) 主持的《泰晤士广播通勤节目》 7.00 杰夫·诺科特 (Geoff Norcott) 10.00 亨利·邦苏 (Henry Bonsu) 1.00am 《泰晤士广播精选》

Radio 2

FM: 88-90.2 MHz

6.30am 萨拉·考克斯早餐秀 (The Sara Cox Breakfast Show) 9.30 弗农·凯 (Vernon Kay) 12.00 杰里米·Vine (Jeremy Vine) 2.00pm 特雷弗·尼尔森 (Trevor Nelson) 4.00 通勤时间 (Drivetime) 7.00 米歇尔·维萨吉 (Michelle Visage) 9.00 索菲·艾利斯-贝克斯托 (Sophie Ellis-Bextor) 11.00 肖恩·基文尼 (Shaun Keaveny) 主持的《摇滚秀》 12.00 罗梅什·兰加纳森 (Romesh Ranganathan) 1.00am 托尼·布莱克本 (Tony Blackburn) 2.00 Radio 2 公园音乐会 (r) 4.15 安吉拉·格里芬 (Angela Griffin) 主持的《Radio 2 放松时刻》(r)

Radio 3

FM: 90.2-92.4 MHz 6.30am 早餐节目 9.30 经典精选 1.00pm 古典现场 波罗的海海节（Baltic Sea Festival）的精彩片段以及东纽克节（East Neuk Festival）的室内乐。 肖斯塔科维奇（C小调第一钢琴协奏曲，Op 35 —— 钢琴、小号与弦乐协奏曲）； 波罗的海海节 —— 卡瓦利（Incomprensibil nume，《庞培大帝》第二幕中庞培大帝的咏叹调）；帕拉维奇诺（Demetrio —— 交响曲）；东纽克节 —— 莫扎特（《费加罗的婚礼》 —— 序曲）；库普兰（《神秘的路障》）；普朗克（两首间奏曲，FP 71 —— 第二号 降D调，以及《忧郁》）。波罗的海海节 —— 西贝柳斯（《库勒沃》，Op 7）；以及阿尔沃·帕特（《大反唱》）

4.00 本周作曲家：威尼斯学派 唐纳德·麦克劳德（Donald Macleod）探讨三位名为乔瓦尼且受雇于圣马可教堂的不同人物的音乐 5.00 In Tune 7.00 古典混音带 7.30 周五音乐之夜 BBC交响合唱团与BBC音乐会管弦乐团及指挥尼尔·费里斯（Neil Ferris）在萨夫伦大厅（Saffron Hall）共同庆祝作曲家约翰·鲁特（John Rutter）和鲍勃·奇尔科特（Bob Chilcott）的音乐 9.45 论文：走向晚祷 庆祝BBC播送晚祷（Evensong）100周年 10.00 深夜接点 维里蒂·夏普（Verity Sharp）介绍巴恩斯利“放弃正常设备”（Abandon Normal Devices）艺术节的精彩内容 11.30 午夜时分 索韦托·金奇（Soweto Kinch）与先驱贝斯手及爵士音乐家戴夫·霍兰德（Dave Holland）共同出演 12.30am 彻夜聆听

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FM: 92.4-94.6 MHz 5.00am 新闻摘要 5.04 简报室 (1 / 11) (r) 5.34 航运预报 5.43 今日祷告 5.45 今日农业 6.00 Today 9.00 荒岛唱片 嘉宾：胃肠病专家帕文·库马尔女爵教授 (Prof Dame Parveen Kumar) (r) 10.00 女性时间 主持人：安妮塔·阿南德 (Anita Anand) 11.00 精选：美食节目 Jimi Famurewa 评析周日烤肉晚餐 11.45 去还是不去 Sara Wheeler 揭秘其旅行动机 (5 / 5)

12.04pm 反社交 (AntiSocial) (3 / 6) 1.00 一个小时的世界 1.45 转折点 Jacob Dunne 探讨减少青少年暴力的不同方法 (5 / 5) 2.00 弓箭手 (The Archers) (r) 2.15 戏剧：《地下》(Underground) 作者：Chloë Myerson (4 / 5) 2.45 当班克斯来到 town 时 马盖特的 Sam 和洛伊斯托夫特的 Rod 试图为他们的班克斯作品寻找买家 (5 / 5) (r) 3.00 园丁问答时间 3.45 短篇作品 4.00 最后之言 4.30 更多或更少 (More or Less) (5 / 6) (r) 5.00 PM 6.00 六点新闻 6.30 新闻问答 嘉宾：Chloe Petts, Coco Khan 和 Finlay Christie (6 / 8) 7.00 弓箭手：安布里奇告别一位朋友 7.15 屏幕截图：图形小说与电影的关系 (3 / 6) 8.00 有任何问题吗？格洛斯特郡辩论 8.55 本周历史 (r) 9.00 自由思考：历史档案中的女性之声

10.00 今夜世界 10.45 睡前书：《车站》(Stations) 作者：Louise Kennedy (10 / 10) 11.00 美国播报 (Americast) 分析美国最新的文化和社会故事 11.30 安加迪夫妇 Sindhu Vee 将英国首个瑜伽课、一个家庭住宅与披头士乐队联系起来 (r) 12.00 新闻与天气 12.30am 去还是不去：Sara Wheeler 揭秘其旅行动机 (5 / 5) (r) 12.48 航运预报 1.00 转接 BBC 世界服务

Radio 4 Extra 仅限数字广播

8.00am 自然桌 8.30 活着，活着哦！以及其他重要之事 8.45 特里斯特姆·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 幸福写白吗？ 11.00 亚当·达尔格里什：《遮住她的脸》 11.30 深六 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 特里斯特姆·香第 2.00 已预订 2.30 爆款维维安 4.00 灵魂音乐 4.30 幸福写白吗？ 5.00 亚当·达尔格里什：《遮住她的脸》 5.30 深六 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 特里斯特姆·香第 8.00 已预订 8.30 爆款维维安 10.00 喜剧俱乐部：你的母亲 10.30 Masala FM 11.00 一个可怕的时刻 11.15 全部变更 11.30 边缘坠落

Radio 5 Live 中波: 693, 909

5.00am 金钱觉醒 6.00 5 Live 早餐 9.00 Nicky Campbell 11.00 周五的 Chiles 1.00pm Elis James 和 John Robins 2.00 Matt Chorley 4.00 5 Live 驾驶 5.20 现场女子足球：希腊 对 英格兰 (5.30 开球) 7.30 英超开球，嘉宾：Darren Fletcher 10.00 Felicity Hannah 1.00am Kathryn Stanczyszyn

talkSPORT 中波: 1053, 1089 kHz

5.00am 体育早餐 6.00 与 Alan Brazil 共进早餐 10.00 Sam Matterface & Alex Crook

1.00pm Hawksbee 和 Jacobs 4.00 talkSPORT 驾驶 7.00 感谢足球，今天是周五 10.00 体育酒吧周末 1.00am 与 Ben Fletcher 共度额外时间

Talk

仅限数字广播

6.00am Talk 早餐 10.00 Alex Phillips 1.00pm Ian Collins 4.00 Kevin O'Sullivan 7.00 Peter Cardwell 9.00 刚刚发生了什么？嘉宾：Kevin O'Sullivan 10.00 Andre Walker ft. Ash 1.00am Ben Fletcher

6 Music

仅限数字广播

5.00am 与 Emily Pilbeam 共赏混音 5.30 Emily Pilbeam 7.00 Nick Grimshaw 10.00 Lauren Laverne 1.00pm Chris Hawkins 4.00 Huw Stephens 7.00 与 Deb Grant 共赏人民党 9.00 6 Music's Indie Forever 11.00 与 Mary Anne Hobbs 共赏 6 Mix 12.00 狂欢永恒 1.00am 永恒黑暗 2.00 聚焦节拍 4.00 环境聚焦

Virgin Radio 仅限数字广播

6.30am Chris Evans 早餐秀 10.00 Emma B 2.00pm Ben Jones 6.00 Goldierocks 9.00 Paul Oakenfold 12.00 午夜混音 1.00am Jen Thomas

Classic FM FM: 100-102 MHz

6.30am Dan Walker 9.00 The Hall of Fame Hour 10.00 Aled Jones 1.00pm Hannah Scott-Joynt 4.00 Margherita Taylor 6.00 Jonathan Ross 8.00 Classical Spotlight with Alexander Armstrong 10.00 Calm Classics 2.00am Katie Breathwick

电视

今日精选

今日剧场：《打烊时间》 5, 9.05pm

5频道的《今日剧场》（Play for Today）更像是一个有价值的培训项目，而非是对该系列的复兴。该系列曾为我们带来过备受推崇的作品，如迈克·利（Mike Leigh）的《五月之坚果》（Nuts in May）、约翰·麦格拉斯（John McGrath）极具政治冲击力的戏剧《切维奥特，雄鹿与黑色的黑油》（The Cheviot, the Stag and the Black, Black Oil），以及杰里米·桑福德（Jeremy Sandford）令人动容的《酗酒女人埃德娜》（Edna, the Inebriate Woman）。（对于想要对比研究的人，这三部作品均可在 BBC iPlayer 上观看。）今晚的剧集来自米娜·巴伯（Mina Barber），她曾为《JoJo & Gran Gran》、《Beaker Girls》和《Doctors》等风格迥异的节目编写剧本。现在她将执笔这部独立作品，由安东尼奥·阿基尔（Antonio Aakeel，出演过《慢马》、《夏洛克与女儿》）和埃洛拉·托基亚（Ellora Torchia，出演过《仲夏夜惊魂》、《龙之家族》）主演。一名年轻律师在她的单身派对之夜，在一家烤肉店的柜台前坠入爱河，但这段关系是否会让两人陷入危险？——海伦·斯图尔特（Helen Stewart）

今日剧场 (5, 9.05pm)

《夺回它：Cymande的故事》 BBC4, 10.40pm

这部纪录片给予了 20 世纪 70 年代早期英国黑人灵魂乐放克乐队 Cymande 迟到的认可。影片快速地讲述了他们作为伦敦南部“风信子一代”（Windrush generation）子嗣的出身，但他们的才华足以让他们在美国为阿尔·格林（Al Green）担任开场嘉宾，并登上纽约阿波罗剧院的主舞台。该乐队在当时未能进入 BBC 的视野。然而，该乐队的打击乐和贝斯影响力在迪斯科和嘻哈音乐的兴起中得到了体现，因为美国 DJ（尽管美国人很难正确读出该乐队的名字）在幕后分享 Cymande 的音乐并采样他们的曲调。克雷格·查尔斯（Craig Charles）以及英国表演者 Jazzie B、马克·龙森（Mark Ronson）和 Loyle Carner 对该乐队赞誉有加。在 10.10pm，《Cymande 在格拉斯顿伯里》将展示他们 2025 年首次参加该音乐节的情况，因为该乐队目前已再次开启巡演。——HS

BBC1

6.00am Breakfast（早餐节目）

9.30 Morning Live（早间直播）

9.50 Morning Live（早间直播） 10.45 Crimewatch Live（犯罪观察直播） 11.30 Homes Under the Hammer (r) (AD)（房屋拍卖 (重播) (音频描述)） 12.15pm Bargain Hunt (AD)（淘宝猎人 (音频描述)） 1.00 News at One; Weather（一点钟 新闻；天气预报） 1.35 Regional News; Weather（ 地区新闻；天气预报） 1.45 News at One; Weather（一点钟 新闻；天气预报） 2.00 Sister Boniface Mysteries. Minerva Cosmetics ladies arrive in Great Slaughter for a sales promotion, but one of their best saleswomen is murdered in plain sight (AD)（《博尼法斯修女谜案》。米诺娃化妆品的女士们来到格雷特-斯劳特进行促销活动，但其中一名顶尖销售员在众目睽睽之下被谋杀 (音频描述)） 2.45 Escape to the Country. A London artist looks for a home in West Yorkshire (r)（《逃离城市》。一名伦敦艺术家在西约克郡寻找住所 (重播)） 3.45 Garden Rescue. Chris Hull and Florence Headlam transform a garden in Oxford（《花园救援》。克里斯·赫尔和弗洛伦斯·海德兰改造牛津的一座花园） 4.30 Celebrity Bridge of Lies. Radio presenters Tony Blackburn, Katie Thistleton, YolanDa Brown and Lauren Layfield take part in the game show hosted by Ross Kemp (r)（《名人谎言之桥》。电台主持人托尼·布莱克本、凯蒂·西斯尔顿、尤兰达·布朗和劳伦·莱菲尔德参加由罗斯·肯普主持的游戏节目 (重播)） 5.15 Pointless. Quiz show (r)（《毫无意义》。问答节目 (重播)） 6.00 News at Six; Weather（六点钟 新闻；天气预报） 6.30 Regional News; Weather（ 地区新闻；天气预报）

7.00 The One Show Presented by Alex Jones and Lauren Laverne（《综合节目》，由亚历克斯·琼斯和劳伦·拉文主持）

7.30 Would I Lie to You? With panellists Alex Jones, Chris McCausland, Su Pollard and Rav Wilding (1 / 11) (r)（《我会骗你吗？》嘉宾包括亚历克斯·琼斯、克里斯·麦考斯兰、苏·波拉德和拉夫·怀尔丁 (1 / 11) (重播)）

8.00 The Celebrity Traitors As the players go deeper into the game, a new day brings new suspicions amongst the Faithful. The mission forces the celebrities to work in teams under terrifying conditions (4 / 10) (AD)（《名人叛徒》。随着玩家深入游戏，新的一天在“忠诚者”之间带来了新的怀疑。任务迫使这些名人必须在恐怖的条件下进行团队协作 (4 / 10) (音频描述)）

9.05 The Celebrity Traitors: Uncloaked Ed Gamble and guests analyse the latest developments in the castle (4 / 10) (AD)（《名人叛徒：揭秘》。埃德·甘布尔与嘉宾分析城堡中的最新进展 (4 / 10) (音频描述)）

9.30 Have I Got News for You Alex Jones hosts the quiz (2 / 10)（《我有新闻给你吗》，由亚历克斯·琼斯主持问答环节 (2 / 10)）

10.00 News at Ten（十点钟 新闻）

10.30 BBC 地区新闻与天气

10.40 格雷厄姆·诺顿秀 (The Graham Norton Show) 奥利维亚·科尔曼和亚历山大·斯卡斯加德将做客节目，两人共同主演喜剧奇幻片《威克》(Wicker)；此外，约翰·马尔科维奇也将出席，探讨其全新的黑色喜剧《野马九号》(Wild Horse Nine)

11.30 RuPaul 变装皇后秀英国区 (RuPaul's Drag Race UK) 在女团挑战赛中，皇后们将演绎一首节日主题的流行歌曲。流行歌手 Anne-Marie 和舞蹈组合 Booty Luv 将与 RuPaul、米歇尔·维萨奇和艾伦·卡尔共同参与 (6 / 10) (r)

12.40am-6.00 BBC 新闻

BBC2

6.40am 逃离城市 (Escape to the Country) (r) 7.25 花园救援 (Garden Rescue) (r)

8.10 手语区：古宅复兴 (The Great House Revival)。一座位于科克郡的乔治亚风格房屋 (r) (SL) 9.00 BBC 新闻

12.20pm 政治思考 (Political Thinking)，主持人尼克·罗宾逊

12.50 生命线 (Lifeline) (r) (AD)

1.00 不可能 (Impossible)。问答节目 (r) 1.45 无敌 (Unbeatable)。通用知识问答 (r) 2.30 老板 (The Boss)。主持人苏珊·卡尔曼 (r) 3.15 动物之奇 (The Wonder of Animals)。大象的解剖学与生理学 (r) (AD) 3.45 古宅复兴 (The Great House Revival)。两名建筑师修复一座砖砌排屋 (r) 4.35 复古古董路演 (Vintage Antiques Roadshow)。团队在北威尔士评估稀有古董 (r) 5.15 拍卖它！(Flog It!) 拍摄地：莱尔马尼塔 (Layer Marney Tower) (r) 6.00 游戏之屋 (House of Games)。斯蒂芬·曼根、肖娜·麦卡蒂、安迪·彼得斯和妮娜·瓦迪亚参加一系列挑战赛 6.30 舞动奇迹：双人行 (Strictly: It Takes Two)。艾莉·泰勒主持，带来所有幕后八卦

7.30 陆地之向 (Landward) 瑞秋·贝尔学习制作渔网

8.00 花园世界 (Gardeners' World) 蒙蒂·唐修剪玫瑰、储存苹果、种植春季卷心菜，瑞秋·德·萨姆探索支持野生动物的野花。详见当日精选

9.00 露西·沃斯利讲述六位王后 (Six Wives with Lucy Worsley) 纪录片记录了亨利八世妻子们生命中的关键时刻，将戏剧化场景与主持人的当代历史评论相结合，首集讲述阿拉贡的凯瑟琳 (1 / 3) (r) (AD)

10.00 电影：《长腿》(Longlegs) (15, 2024)

一名 FBI 特工发现了一系列神秘线索，她必须破解这些线索以结束一名杀手的大规模杀戮。心理恐怖片，由麦卡·门罗、尼古拉斯·凯奇和布莱尔·安德伍德主演。详见电影选择

11.35 电影：《觉醒》(The Awakening) (15, 2011) 恐怖片，由丽贝卡·霍尔、多米尼克·韦斯特和伊梅尔达·斯汤顿主演

1.20am 手语区：50岁前的癌症：为何在增加？——全景 (Panorama) 探讨为何更多年轻人被诊断出患有癌症 (r) (SL) 1.50-2.50 拜约挂毯之谜：博物馆内部 (Secrets of the Bayeux Tapestry: Inside the Museum)。历史学家和专家揭秘这块刺绣布料的秘密 (r) (AD, SL)

ITV1

6.00am 《早安英国》(Good Morning Britain) 9.30 《洛林》(Lorraine)

10.00 《今晨》(This Morning)

1.00 ITV赛马直播：来自纽马克特。Francesca Cumani和Ed Chamberlin主持报道“未来冠军周末”第一日，包括雌马一英里赛。此外还有来自约克和切普斯托的赛马报道 4.00 《交易或不交易》(Deal or No Deal)。Stephen Mulhern主持，另一名参赛者尝试按正确顺序打开22个红盒子，挑战臭名昭著的“银行家”，以赢取足以改变生活的现金大奖 (r) (AD) 5.00 欧洲女子预选赛直播：希腊 对 英格兰（5.30开球）。Laura Woods主持报道在伊拉克利翁潘克里提奥体育场举行的国际足联世界杯预选赛附加赛半决赛首回合。由Karen Carney和Anita Asante进行分析，Seb Hutchinson和Lucy Ward负责评论，Katie Shanahan负责报道

8.00 《艾默代尔》(Emmerdale) Robert想要坦白，葬礼举行，且一项发现被揭晓 (AD)

8.30 《加冕街》(Coronation Street) Lisa就枪击事件质问David，Kit透露了他的癌症诊断结果 ()

9.00 《击败追逐者》(Beat the Chasers) Bradley Walsh主持，Sinnerman、The Beast、The Governess、The Menace、The Vixen和The Dark Destroyer挑战来自全国的另一组参赛者 (2 / 9) (r)

10.00 ITV十点新闻；天气预报；随后是地区新闻

10.45 电影：《黄金眼》(GoldenEye) (15, 1995) 詹姆斯·邦德追捕一件落入犯罪天才手中的卫星武器。间谍冒险片，由Pierce Brosnan、Sean Bean和Izabella Scorupco主演 ()

1.15am 电视购物 3.00 《失散多年的家人》(Long Lost Family)。Davina McCall和Nicky Campbell主持本系列节目，旨在帮助人们与失散多年的亲人团聚，当线索中断时，调查员将接手搜索 (r) (, SL) 3.50 ITV放松时光 5.05-6.00 《交易或不交易》(Deal or No Deal) (r) (, SL)

Channel 4

6.30am 《奎恩之王》(The King of Queens) (r) () 7.45 《大家都爱雷蒙》(Everybody Loves Raymond) (r) () 9.10 《弗雷泽》(Frasier) (r) ()

11.10 《美国拾荒者》(American Pickers)。包含一段披头士乐队的复古胶片 (r) () 12.05pm Channel 4 新闻摘要 12.10 《翻新国家》(Renovation Nation) (r) () 1.10 《大屋赠送》(The Great House Giveaway)。一对夫妇翻新德比的一栋1960年代房屋 (r) 2.10 《倒计时》(Countdown)。由Maggie Aderin主持 3.00 《阳光之所》(A Place in the Sun)。Sara Damergi帮助一对在西班牙热带海岸寻找宽敞度假屋的夫妇 (r) 4.00 《救命！我们买了个村庄》(Help! We Bought a Village) 5.00 《四人一床》(Four in a Bed)。付款日 5.30 《来我家吃饭》(Come Dine with Me)。一名演员兼灵媒主持最后一晚 (r) 6.00 《阳光之所》(A Place in the Sun)。Danni Menzies帮助一对父女在安达卢西亚内陆寻找度假屋 (r) 6.30 F1新加坡大奖赛冲刺赛排位赛集锦。冲刺赛发车位争夺战的精彩瞬间

8.00 《乔治·克拉克的神奇空间：首套房》(George Clarke's Amazing Spaces: First Home) George发现了一个由改造集装箱制成的独特漂浮住宅，以及荷兰一个令人印象深刻的“四房合一”住宅 (4 / 4) ()

9.05 《沙发评论员》(Gogglebox) 业余评论员分享他们本周观看节目的看法，摄像机捕捉他们的即时反应 ()

10.05 《来自莱塞特酒吧的直播》(Live from the Lycett Arms) Joe Lycett在他的自有酒吧里主持喜剧、名人访谈和混乱场面，由一名客座经理负责维持运转，以及一群星光熠熠的顾客

11.10 电影：《美国派：婚礼》(American Pie: The Wedding) (15, 2003) 朋友们重新聚在一起庆祝Jim和Michelle即将步入婚姻殿堂——但事情很快失控。喜剧续集，由Jason Biggs和Alyson Hannigan主演 ()

1.00am 《违约条款》(Break Clause) (r) (, SL) 1.55 《拉姆齐的酒店噩梦》(Ramsay's Hotel Hell) (r) (, SL) 2.45 电影：《佐拉》(Zola) (18, 2021) 由Taylour Paige和Riley Keough主演的犯罪喜剧剧 (SL) 4.15 《克斯蒂的手工艺之家》(Kirstie's House of Craft) (r) 4.30 《情侣来我家吃饭》(Couples Come Dine with Me) (r) 5.20-6.15 《宏伟设计》(Grand Designs) (r) (, SL)

5

6.00am Milkshake! 9.15 Jeremy Vine 11.30 Storm & Alexis 12.45pm 5 News at Lunchtime 12.50 Matt Allwright

2.20 电影：《无处避风》(No Safe Haven) (PG, TVM, 2023) 一名单身母亲带着女儿搬进了一栋智能房屋，在那里她们被一名潜伏的杀手监视。惊悚片，由 Natalie Brown, Anwen O'Driscoll 和 Morgan Kelly 主演 4.00 阳光下的英国砍价族。在白色海岸 (Costa Blanca)，经理 Grace 正在为她的家庭酒店准备首场婚礼招待会。然而，一次重复预订威胁着将导致灾难 (r) 5.00 5 News，由 Dan Walker 主持 6.00 康沃尔：海边的一年。摄像机探索英国最迷人的郡之一，该郡正准备迎接另一个繁忙的旅游季，包括关注标志性的米纳克剧院 (Minack Theatre)，随着新一季大幕拉开，人们的期待之情日益浓烈 (r) 6.55 5 News 更新

7.00 Angela Rippon 的河上巡游。Angela 完成了她沿着湄公河进入越南的旅程，探索河畔市场、传统工艺、历史遗迹和生态项目。本系列最后一集 (r)

7.55 5 News 更新

8.00 我们的伟大约克郡生活。Peter Wright 加入了在艾尔河和卡尔德运河 (Aire and Calder Canal) 上的利兹赛艇俱乐部，野生动物艺术家 Robert Fuller 帮助失去父母的长耳鸮雏鸟回归家庭 (AD)

9.05 今日剧场：《打烊时间》(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，后者鼓励他隐藏的烹饪野心。剧情片，由 Antonio Aakeel 和 Ellora Torchia 主演。见今日精选 (3 / 6) (AD)

10.05 皮尔斯·摩根：不设限 (Piers Morgan: Uncensored) 由皮尔斯·摩根主持的大胆、观点主导的新闻节目。皮尔斯将新闻报道、辩论和文化评论融合在一起，风格直截了当，毫不掩饰

12.05am 交通警察：精英小队一 (Traffic Cops: Elite Squad One) (r) 1.00 巡航电视 (Cruise TV) (r) 2.00 康沃尔：海边的一年 (r) 2.50 阳光下的英国砍价族 (r) 3.40 巡航：海上爱玩的英国人 (The Cruise: Fun-Loving Brits at Sea) (r) (AD) 4.25 奇妙的巧克力世界 (The Wonderful World of Chocolate) (r) 5.15 娱乐新闻 5.25-6.00 本和霍利 (Ben and Holly) (r) (AD, SL)

花园世界 (Gardeners' World) BBC2, 8pm

一如既往地雾气朦胧、温润且硕果累累，Monty Don 正在 Longmeadow 通过修剪玫瑰、储存苹果和种植春季卷心菜来最大化秋季景观。在访问牛津郡期间有更多季节性色彩，而在什罗普郡，几位修剪艺术师在绿篱间生活。在德文郡，Toby Buckland 分享了他更便宜、更简单的园艺秘诀，而 Rachel de Thame 前往一家专业苗圃探索野花的益处。Victoria Segal

战争 (War)

Sky Atlantic / Now, 9pm

这部法律剧将《分裂》(The Split) 的肥皂剧式阴谋与《行业》(Industry) 的不道德勾当相结合，聚焦于科技大亨 Morgan Henderson (Dominic West) 与其电影明星妻子 Carla Duval (Sienna Miller) 的离婚。当这对夫妇进入过程中毫无意义的调解阶段时，他们相互敌对的律师们在每一秒钟都在策划、阴谋并每隔一个词就爆粗口 VS

流媒体选择

绿洲乐队：不要在愤怒中回头 (Oasis: Don't Look Back in Anger) (15, 2026) Disney+

由《浴血黑帮》创作者 Steven Knight 执导的这部摇滚纪录片记录了 2025 Oasis 重聚，片中出现了牧师、祈祷的粉丝和令人震惊的演唱会亮点，Liam 和 Noel Gallagher 在充满脏话且纵情高歌的体育场演出中，每晚演唱 23 首歌曲。这部电影暗示《Definitely Maybe》和《(What's the Story) Morning Glory?》是从虚空中进入 Noel 的灵魂的，而且也许上帝设计了整个 Gallagher 家族的心理剧以激励我们所有人。“这部电影在讲述巡演的同时，”Knight 告诉《泰晤士报》，“它也在讲述歌曲的来源以及那些被这些歌曲影响生活的人。” (123分钟) Kevin Maher

电视

电影选择

长腿 (Longlegs) (15, 2024) BBC2, 10pm

Osgood Perkins 的这部恐怖片是 2024. 票房最高的独立电影。Maika Monroe 饰演 Lee Harker，一名执行抓捕撒旦崇拜连环杀手任务的 FBI 新手特工——即片名中的“长腿” (Longlegs)，由 Nicolas Cage 饰演，他在俄勒冈州策划了一系列残酷的家庭谋杀自杀事件。(101分钟) Joe Clay

BBC4

7.00pm TOTP: 2000. 包含 Madison Avenue 和 Lonestar 的演出 7.30 TOTP: 2000. Jamie Theakston 主持流行音乐排行榜节目 8.00 TOTP: 1977. Deniece Williams、Steve Gibbons Band 和 the Stranglers 的演出 8.30 TOTP: 1984. 10月11日的一期节目，包含 Kim Wilde、Sade 和 Wham! 的演出 9.10 The Genius of Funk. BBC 档案演出合集 10.10 Cymande at Glastonbury 2025. 英国放克先驱 Cymande 和资深雷鬼乐队 Black Uhuru 在 West Holts 舞台上的演出 10.40 Getting It Back: The Story of Cymande. 见当日精选 12.10am Black British Music at the BBC: Volume 1 2.35 TOTP: 1977 3.10am-3.45 TOTP: 1984

Sky Arts

8.10am 年度艺术家：大师课 (AD) 9.00 意外故事 (AD) 10.00 阿尔弗雷德·希区柯克呈现 (黑白) 11.00 探索：丹尼斯·霍珀 () 12.00 经典专辑 1.00pm 意外故事 () 2.00 阿尔弗雷德·希区柯克呈现 (黑白) 3.00 Bill Bailey 的大师工匠：下一代 () 4.00 探索：西西·斯派塞克 () 5.00 2015 6.00 意外故事 () 7.00 阿尔弗雷德·希区柯克时间 (黑白) 8.00 Genesis: When in Rome 9.50 埃尔顿·约翰：百万美元钢琴。这位音乐家在拉斯维加斯的凯撒皇宫演出 12.15am 布鲁斯·斯普林斯汀：都柏林现场。精选演出 3.00 探索：约翰·列侬 4.00-5.00 艺术走私者：盗自坟墓的宝藏 ()

More4

8.55am Four in a Bed 11.35 来我家吃饭 () 2.15pm Four in a Bed 4.50 汽车救援 () 6.50 狗狗之家 () 7.55 狗狗之家。当一只哈士奇遇到一只兴奋的灵缇幼犬时，风暴即将来临 (7 / 8) () 9.00 沿海单位。Iris 和 Victor 调查一名消防员的可疑死亡，该消防员从消防控制塔顶坠落。法语版 (4 / 8) 10.15 24小时急诊室。一名男子在网球场晕倒后被紧急送往圣乔治医院，复苏小组必须迅速行动以控制其危险的高心率 () 11.20 24小时急诊室。一名女性因疑似中风被紧急送院 () 12.20am 999：前线 1.25 24小时急诊室 () 3.30am-4.00 阳光之所

西汉姆联队的 Jarrod Bowen

实况测试板球赛：南非 对 澳大利亚 Sky Sports Cricket, 7.30am-4.30pm 三场系列赛中第一场测试赛的第一天

今日体育实况

Talking Pictures

6.30am 电影：《Once A Sinner》(PG, 1950) (黑白) 8.10 电影：《The Greed of William Hart》(PG, 1948) (黑白) 9.40 电影：《Where There's a Will》(U, 1955) (黑白) 11.10 电影：《The Glass Mountain》(U, 1949) (黑白) 1.05pm 埃德加·华莱士神秘剧场 (黑白) 2.15 罗宾汉历险记 (黑白) 2.45 电影：《Nurse on Wheels》(U, 1963) (黑白) 4.30 The Cheaters (黑白) 5.00 A Family at War 6.00 Rooms 7.00 Z Cars (黑白) 8.00 Public Eye 9.05 电影：《The Changeling》(15, 1979) 惊悚恐怖片 11.25 电影：《Children Shouldn't Play with Dead Things》(15, 1973) 恐怖片 1.00am 电影：《Blood Thirst》(18, 1971) 惊悚片 (黑白) 2.35 电影：《Captive》(15, 1980) 4.20 Look at Life 4.30 The Vise (黑白) 5.00am-6.00 The Man from UNCLE

Film4

11.00am D-Day: The Sixth of June (PG, 1956) 第二次世界大战剧集，由 Robert Taylor 主演 1.10pm The Yellow Mountain (PG, 1954) 西部片，由 Howard Duff 主演 2.45 Forty Guns (PG, 1957) 西部片，由 Barbara Stanwyck 主演 (黑白) 4.30 The Sheriff of Fractured Jaw (U, 1958) 西部喜剧，由 Kenneth More 主演 () 6.35 Earthquake (PG, 1974) 灾难片，由 Charlton Heston 和 Ava Gardner 主演 9.00 The Green Mile (18, 1999) 一名监狱看守对一名死囚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。超自然剧集，由 Tom Hanks 和 Michael Clarke Duncan 主演 () 12.45am-3.25 Glass (15, 2019) 惊悚片，由 James McAvoy, Bruce Willis 和 Samuel L Jackson 主演 ()

BBC3

7.00pm The Catch Up 7.05 Horrible Histories. 一位热爱恶作剧的罗马皇帝举办了一场晚宴 (r) (AD) 7.35 电影：《史瑞克2》(U, 2004) 由迈克·迈尔斯配音的动画冒险续集 (AD) 9.00 Death in Paradise. 当一名来自塞布教堂的教区居民被一个巨大的十字架砸死，看似是一场悲剧性的意外时，团队展开了调查 (4 / 8) () 10.00 Mrs Brown's Boys. 阿格尼丝感到心情低落 (r) () 10.30 Mrs Brown's Boys. 阿格尼丝尝试快速约会 (r) () 11.00 电影：《布朗太太的男孩电影》(15, 2014) 由布伦丹·奥卡罗尔主演的喜剧 () 12.30am Ice Road Truckers (r) 2.00am-3.55 The Golden Cobra. 动画剧集 (r) ()

ITV2

6.00am Backyard Builds 6.30 Dinner Date () 7.30 The Real Housewives of Potomac 8.20 The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills 9.15 The Only Way Is Essex 10.15 Dawson's Creek 11.10 Charmed 12.05pm 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. AJ Odudu 和 Will Best 将宣布最新一名面临被驱逐的舍友 10.35 Family Guy () 11.35 American Dad! () 12.35am Bob's Burgers () 1.30-2.20 Next Level Chef USA (SL)

ITV3

6.00am Wild at Heart 7.05 Classic Emmerdale () 8.05 Classic Coronation Street () 9.15 Inspector Morse () 11.30 Heartbeat () 1.35pm The Royal () 2.40 Wild at Heart 3.40 Classic Emmerdale () 4.40 Classic Coronation Street () 5.50 Heartbeat () 8.00 Doc Martin. 最终集。村民们为埃林汉姆一家举办了告别派对 (8 / 9) () 9.00 Doc Martin. 由马丁·克鲁内斯主演的喜剧剧集第一集 (1 / 6) () 10.00 Downton Abbey. 2012. 年的圣诞特辑。罗伯特和他的家人前往杜恩伊格尔城堡拜访他的苏格兰表亲 (9 / 9) () 11.55 DCI Banks (1 / 6) () 12.55am DCI Banks () 1.55am-2.20 George and Mildred

一级方程式赛车直播：新加坡大奖赛冲刺赛排位赛 Sky Sports Main Event, Sky Sports F1, 1pm-3.00 (开始时间 1.30)。第17轮赛事报道

国际T20板球赛直播：印度 对阵 西印度群岛 TNT 1, 2.15pm-6.15 五场系列赛中的第二场T20报道

英超橄榄球直播：莱斯特虎队 对阵 格洛斯特橄榄球俱乐部 TNT 1, 7pm-10.00 (开球时间 7.45)。在马蒂奥利·伍兹韦尔福德路体育场进行的比赛报道

英足联直播：西汉姆联 对阵 女王公园巡游者

Sky Main Event, Sky Football, 7.30pm-10.30 (开球时间 8.00)。在伦敦体育场进行的英冠联赛报道

ITV4

6.00am The Protectors (SL) 6.35 American Pickers 8.25 Minder () 9.35 The Champions 10.40 Underwater Grand Fishing Adventure 11.40 The Professionals () 12.45pm The Champions 1.50 American Pickers 3.50 Ice Road Truckers 5.45 Minder () 6.50 Hornblower. 两集航海剧的第一集，由伊恩·格鲁菲德和罗伯特·林赛主演 () 9.00 电影：《失败者》(12, 2010) 精锐士兵被CIA雇主背叛并被弃之死地，但随后回归寻求复仇。由杰弗里·迪恩·摩根和佐伊·索尔达娜主演的动作冒险片 11.05 All Elite Wrestling: Dynamite. 来自 All Elite Wrestling 世界的强力动作对决 1.05am Minder () 2.05am-2.50 Two and a Half Men

U&Drama

6.00am 电视购物 7.35 《比尔》(The Bill) 8.30 《医生》(Doctors) 9.50 经典版《霍比城市》(Holby City) 10.55 《伤员》(Casualty) (AD) 11.55 《比尔》(The Bill) 12.55pm 经典版《东区东街》(EastEnders) 2.15 经典版《邻居》(Neighbours) 2.50 《邻居》(Neighbours) 3.20 《博尼法斯修女谜案》(Sister Boniface Mysteries) (AD) 4.20 《布朗神父》(Father Brown) () 5.20 《岁月如歌》(As Time Goes By) 6.00 《夏日之末》(Last of the Summer Wine) () 7.20 《夏日之末》(Last of the Summer Wine) () 8.00 《马普尔小姐：牧师住宅谋杀案》。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 () 10.00 《新线索》(New Tricks)。在墓地的建筑工程中发现了一个沾血的半身像 (9 / 10) () 11.20 《约翰·迪德法官》(Judge John Deed) (2 / 5) () 1.20am 《博尼法斯修女谜案》(Sister Boniface Mysteries) () 2.25 《岁月如歌》(As Time Goes By) 2.55 《安娜·皮金谜案》(Anna Pigeon Mysteries) (SL) 4.00am-6.00 电视购物

Variations

BBC1 N Ireland 7.30pm-8.00 《福伊尔记录》(Chronicles of Foyle)

BBC1 Scotland

2.45pm 《清理与修复》(Clean It, Fix It) (r) 3.15-3.45 《节俭之移》(Shift the Thrift) (r) 11.30 《看台视角》(A View from the Terrace) (r) 12.00 《鲁保罗变装皇后秀 英国区》(RuPaul's Drag Race UK) (r) 1.05am 下周天气预报 1.10am-6.00 BBC新闻

BBC1 Wales

7.30pm-8.00 《回到过去》(Back in the Day) 11.30 《金眼镜蛇》(The Golden Cobra) (r) 12.00 《鲁保罗变装皇后秀 英国区》(RuPaul's Drag Race UK) (r) 1.05am-6.00 新闻

BBC2 Wales

3.15pm 《古董路演》(Vintage Antiques Roadshow) (r) 4.00 《把它卖了！》(Flog It!) (r) 4.45 威尔士当日现场赛事 7.15 《游戏之家》(House of Games) 7.45 《舞动奇迹：双人行》(Strictly: It Takes Two) 8.15 《园艺世界》(Gardeners' World) 9.15 《比奇格罗夫重新栽种》(Beechgrove Repotted) (r)

9.30-10.00pm 莫蒂默与怀特豪斯：垂钓之旅 (r)

STV

1.00pm-3.59 Live STV Racing: From Newmarket 1.15am-3.00 电视购物 3.50am-5.05 STV放松时光

BBC Scotland

7.00pm 七点新闻 7.30 《塔林的一支队伍》(One Team in Tallinn) 8.00 《现场急救员》(Paramedics on Scene) (r) 9.00 《扑克之王的四条规则》(The Four Rules of the Poker Kings) (r) 10.00 《依然在赛》(Still Game) (r) 10.30 《看台视角》(A View from the Terrace) 11.00 《突破新闻》(Breaking the News) 11.30pm-12.00 《两门之隔》(Two Doors Down) (r)

S4℃

6.00pm 布林·威廉姆斯的克鲁德厨房 (r) 6.30 《今晚》(Heno) 7.00 新闻 7.30 现场橄榄球俱乐部：德拉贡斯 对阵 奥斯普雷斯 (7.45开球) 9.50 国际足球 10.50 《格瓦利亚·阿莱希亚》(Gwalia Aleighcia) (r) 11.20pm-11.55 《三首歌》(3℃ân) (r)

PBS America

8.00am 苏格兰群岛大巡游 8.35 被围困的堡垒，传奇之战 9.40 列宁格勒围城战 10.50 彩色二战：胜利之路 11.50 铁锈地带的兴衰 1.00pm 苏格兰群岛大巡游 1.40 被围困的堡垒，传奇之战 2.50 列宁格勒围城战 3.55 彩色二战：胜利之路 5.00 铁锈地带的兴衰。铁锈地带的衰落如何影响相关地区 6.15 被围困的堡垒，传奇之战

7.25 列宁格勒围城战 8.35 彩色二战：胜利之路 9.40 铁锈地带的兴衰。纪录片 (2 / 2) 10.55 列宁格勒围城战 12.00 彩色二战：胜利之路 1.10am-2.00 苏格兰群岛大巡游

Sky Atlantic

6.00am 《城市秘密》(Urban Secrets) (r) 8.00 《亿万》(Billions) (r) () 10.15 《死木》(Deadwood) (r) 12.25pm 《格莫拉》(Gomorrah) (r) 1.30 《谋杀：街头生活》(Homicide: Life on the Street) (r) 3.30 《亿万》(Billions) (r) () 5.45 《龙之家族》。艾莉森对埃贡的小议会感到担忧 (r) () 6.45 《龙之家族》。雷妮拉质疑戴蒙的忠诚 (r) () 8.00 《法戈》(Fargo)。莫莉做出了一个非传统的决定 (5 / 10) (r) 9.00 《战争》(War)。摩根的一个失误被泰勒和拜恩抓住，将其作为撕毁婚前协议的机会。见当日精选 (2 / 8) (r) () 10.05 《盐沼之下》(Under Salt Marsh)。旧指控再次浮现 (2 / 6) (r) () 11.10 《亢奋》(Euphoria)。凯西追随她的梦想 (5 / 8) (r) () 12.20am 《亢奋》(Euphoria) (r) () 1.30 《龙之家族》(House of the Dragon) (r) () 2.55 《格莫拉》(Gomorrah) (r) 5.05am-6.00 《客房》(The Guest Wing) (r) ()

Sky Docs

U&Yesterday

6.10am 欧洲大陆铁路之旅 8.00 旧车买卖 (AD) 10.00 对抗希特勒的建筑 (AD) 11.00 纳粹崛起：战争中的独裁者 12.00 古董路演 2.00pm 旧车买卖 () 4.00 对抗希特勒的建筑 () 5.00 纳粹崛起：战争中的独裁者 6.00 古董路演 7.00 西蒙·里夫在康沃尔。两部分之一。这位探险家穿越该郡 (1 / 2) 8.00 运河船日记。在一次寒潮期间，罗比在大联合运河上被冰封 (10 / 10) () 9.00 运河船日记 (1 / 10) () 10.00 旧车买卖 (2 / 10) () 11.00 旧车买卖 (3 / 10) () 12.00 旧车买卖 () 1.00am 寻找、修复、出售 2.00 欧洲大陆铁路之旅 3.00am-6.10 电视购物

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双陆棋 克里斯·布雷

WBGF决赛

世界双陆棋联合会 (WBGF) 决赛于8月底在伦敦 Earls Court 的 Mercure 酒店举行，取得了巨大成功。来自世界各地的参赛者超过 400 名，远超预期，并导致了一些后勤问题。

美国大师肯特·古尔丁和我领导了评论团队。在七天的时间里，我们邀请了一些优秀的嘉宾，所有播出的比赛均可在 YouTube 上观看。我们尝试使用新的双陆棋机器人 HedgeHog 作为我们的技术助手，结果很有趣。在我们可以完全依赖它之前，它仍有很长的路要走。

荷兰队赢得了公开组团体赛，而美国队在惊心动魄的女子团体决赛中以微弱优势击败了伊朗队。然而，本场比赛的明星是皮娅·杰普森（丹麦），她是个人世界锦标赛的亚军。冠军弗雷德里克·米克尔森（同样来自丹麦）在 17. 分的决赛中表现出了非常可观的 PR（表现评级）4.67。皮娅则表现出了卓越的 2.44. 在她人生中最重要的比赛中发挥出世界冠军水准是一项惊人的成就。我认为这次表现打破了玻璃天花板。

她已经放弃了全职工作以专注于双陆棋，基于她在伦敦的结果，她可能做出了正确的决定。她对翻倍骰子的处理非常出色。在比赛过程中，她仅犯了 2. 次错误，没有出现严重失误。这确实是世界级的水准。

本周的局面取自决赛的最后阶段。皮娅（黑方）以 12-15 落后于 17. 她应该翻倍吗？如果被翻倍，弗雷德里克应该接受吗？逃离那两个后方棋子比你想象的要难，在金钱赛中，翻倍可能过早。白方在下一次掷骰时有 30% 的概率进入，而黑方的那些后方棋子可能仍然在 24-pt.

然而，如果黑方进展顺利，有大量的 gammon（大胜）机会可以赢得，因此皮娅正确地选择了翻倍。弗雷德里克担心输掉 gammon 导致比分变为 15-16, 因此放弃了翻倍。放弃翻倍是一个巨大的失误，是弗雷德里克在整场比赛中最严重的错误。他在下一局赢得了一场未翻倍的 gammon 从而夺冠。

5 农场动物要正常 (9) 13 14 15 16 17 18 107 19 20 21 22 23 24 15 致胜招法

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白方走。 此局面来自 2026 年 chess.com 的 Titled Tuesday 赛事，Klukin 对阵 Inciroglu。

白方活跃的棋子使其拥有猛烈的进攻，而黑方的王翼被严重削弱。有一个相当明显的暴力获胜方案：1 Nxf7+ Rxf7 2 Rxf7 Bf8 3 RdI，黑方将无法支撑太久。然而，还有另一种更快且更具美感的终结方式。你能发现它吗？

密码题 No 5967

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在这个类似填字游戏的网格中，每个字母由 1 到 26 的数字代表。字母表中的每个字母在网格中至少出现一次。利用已提供的字母推导出其他字母的身份。在主网格和较小的参考网格中填入字母，直到字母表中的所有 26 个字母都被确定。专有名词除外。昨日答案，见右侧线索。在解密码题时遇到困难？如需接收 4 个随机线索，请致电 0901 293 6262 或发送短信 TIMECODE 至 64343。通话费用为 £1 加上您电话公司的网络接入费。短信费用为 £1 加上您的标准网络费用。如需完整答案，请致电 0905 757 0142。如果您持有旧报纸并需要过去 7 天内的线索，请致电 0905 624 0024。拨打 0905 的费用为每分钟 £1 加上您电话公司的网络接入费。SP：Spoke，0333 202 3390（周一至周五，上午 9 点至下午 5 点 30 分）。

词汇游戏 (Lexica) 简单 No 9165

困难 No 9166

将字母水平或垂直地滑回网格中，以完成填字游戏。字母允许滑过其他字母。

铁轨题 No 2992

铺设轨道，使火车能够从 A 村旅行到 B 村。数字表示每行和每列中有多少段轨道。只有直线段和曲线段。轨道不能自我交叉。

五角星谜题 (Quintagram®) No 2699

使用下方的每个字母仅一次，解答所有五个隐晦线索。

用这些极难的文字和数字谜题挑战你的大脑

1 弗洛伊德式的帮助，在反思之后 (3)

2 左轮手枪最初受伤，脚的一部分 (5)

3 让蜜蜂飞出，以及瓢虫之类 (7)

4 个人电脑（PC）或许被置于前位，正确吗？ (8)

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周一、周三和周五在 thetimes.com / puzzles 和 Live 应用上解答 Ponder 填字游戏。

KenKen 困难 No 6959

所有 1 到 6 的数字必须在每行和每列中出现。在每个粗线“区块”中，左上角的目标数字是通过该区块内所有单元格的数字，使用符号指示的运算计算得出的。 填充空白方格，使每行和每列仅包含 1 到 5 的每个数字一次。方格之间的符号表示一个数字比相邻数字大 (>) 还是小 (<)。

卡库罗 (Kakuro) No 4466

仅使用 1 到 9 的数字填充网格。每组水平或垂直白色方格中的数字之和等于其左侧或上方的三角形中的总数。同一个数字在同一行或同一列中可以出现多次，但在同一组白色方格中不能重复出现。

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times2 纵横字谜 No 10,283

横向

1 时髦的，流行的 (4) 3 债权人 (8) 9 墨西哥原住民帝国的成员 (5) 10 走秀表演 (7) 11 持久地 (7) 12 哄骗，诱导 (4) 14 分子颗粒的 (6) 16 斯里兰卡的前称 (6)

18 吸水性强的白色粉末 (4) 19 高级政府部长小组 (7) 22 沿腿延伸的神经 (7) 23 无淫秽内容的 (5) 24 记忆力丧失者 (8) 25 古不列颠人或高卢人 (4)

纵向

1 碳的一种形式 (8) 2 严厉质询 (13) 4 18世纪的繁复设计风格 (6) 5 惨败 (7) 6 对错误视而不见 (4,1,5,3) 7 圣礼，仪式 (4) 8 读取（条形码） (4) 13 直觉反应 (8) 15 挑起（例如暴乱） (7) 17 稀树草原上的树 (6) 20 反对或抵制（某种趋势） (4) 21 人口最多的洲 (4)

纵横字谜 10,282 的答案

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桥牌 安德鲁·罗布森 (Andrew Robson)

二十大约定 11. 罗马关键牌黑木约定 (Roman Key Card Blackwood) 这一 4NT 询问 A 的扩展约定在六十年代和七十年代演变而来，将主牌 K 升级为 A。您还将了解到关于主牌 Q 的情况。

搭档叫 4NT —— 在不确定的情况下将同意最后一次叫的花色，假设是黑桃 (♠)。以下是您的回应。

5♣：拥有 0 个或 3 个“五个 A”（其中 ♠K 被视为 A）。

5♦：拥有 1 个或 4 个上述五个 A。

搭档现在可以叫下一个更高花色（5♣ 之后叫 5♦ / 5♦ 之后叫 5♥）来询问 ♠Q。如果没有 ♠Q，您将在 5♠ 止步；如果拥有女王（♠Q），您将跳叫至 6♠（或者如果可能达成大满贯，则叫一个边牌 K）。

5♥：拥有五个 A 中的两个，无 ♠Q。 5♠：拥有五个 A 中的两个，且有 ♠Q。

有些人会交换 5♣ 和 5♦ 的回应以采用 “1430” 玩法，当红心 (♥) 为主牌时，这种玩法具有微小优势，因为在最常见的“一个 A”回应后，您可以询问 ♥Q。这是一个小细节 —— 让我们坚持传统的 “3041”。

如果（且仅当）对 4NT 的回应表明所有关键牌均在位，并且（且仅当）4NT 的叫牌者对七级叫牌感兴趣时，她可以叫 5NT。据说这是在“询问 K”，但这并不完全准确。

首先且最重要的是，5NT 的叫牌是在说：“你想尝试七级吗？你有能赢墩的来源吗？”如果答案是“是”，您应该跳叫至七级。如果答案是“否”，则在六级止步。如果答案是“不确定，由你决定”（这种情况最常见），则叫出您最便宜的 K。

这就是“特定 K 法” —— 优于“K 数量法”。

(A) 西方 ♠ A9632 ♥ AQ32 ♦ AK ♣ K3 东方 (开叫者) ♠ KQ75 ♥ K5 ♦ 64 ♣ A9762

(E) 1♣, (W) 1♠, (E) 2♠, (W) 4NT, (E) 5♠, (W) 5NT, (E) 6♥, (W) 7♠.

(B) 西方 ♠ K96432 ♥ A32 ♦ AK2 ♣ 3 东方 (开叫者) ♠ A875 ♥ 54 ♦ 64 ♣ AKQJ9

(E) 1♣, (W) 1♠, (E) 3♠, (W) 4NT, (E) 5♥, (W) 5NT, (E) 7♠. 注意，西方不担心缺失 ♠Q，因为有 10 张主牌。

庄家 北 ♠ KJ62 ♥ 74 ♦ K5 ♣ A10543 ♠ 875 ♥ QJ108 ♦ 10942 ♣ 76 北 西 东 南 ♠ 9 ♥ 96532 ♦ QJ86 ♣ KJ8 ♠ AQ1043 ♥ AK ♦ A73 ♣ Q92

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(1) 拥有“五个 A”中的两个（含 ♠ K）；无 ♠ Q。 (2) 尝试大满贯。

(3) 显示 ♦ K，而非 ♣ K（如果对方叫 6 ♣，南家会叫 7 ♠，因为预期对方持有 ♣ AKxxx）。

您用 ♥A 赢下西方的 ♥Q 首攻，出两轮主牌，然后清除方块（♦K, ♦A, 弃掉 ♦7），跨到 ♥K 并出 ♣9。东方赢下 ♣J 但陷入端局。一次利落的部分清除 —— 满贯达成。

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心智游戏 (MindGames)

大脑训练营

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单元格区块 No 5850

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将网格划分为正方形或长方形区块，每个区块仅包含一个数字。每个区块包含的单元格数量必须与其中数字所示的数量一致。

多边形

组合方格 No 4469

利用这些字母组成四个或更多字母的单词，且必须包含中心字母。答案必须出自《牛津简明词典》，不包括大写单词、复数形式、动词变位（如过去式等）、以 LY 结尾的副词、比较级和最高级。评分标准：13个单词为平均水平；18个为良好；22个为优秀；26个为卓越。

昨日答案

aglet, agley, argyle, gale, garth, gate, gather, gear, gelt, ghat, glare, glory, grate, gray, great, grey, gyral, gyrate, gyre, lager, large, lethargy, rage, regal, targe, tergal, yagé

请注意，不适用 BODMAS 运算顺序

在网格中填入 1 到 9 的每个数字，使六组加法成立。我们已经填入了两个数字作为引导。每组加法应从左到右或从上到下计算。

杀手数独 中等 No 10,972

杀手数独 极难 No 10,973

与标准数独一样，填充网格使每列、每行和每个 3x3 宫格都包含数字 1 到 9。由虚线连接的每组单元格之和必须等于其左上角的目标数字。在由虚线连接的每组单元格内，数字不能重复。

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答案

快速隐喻数独 3427

数独 17,166

Tetonor 716 代码字 5966

数和棋 4465

铁轨迷宫 2991

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方块填数 5849 三角填数 4468 数独 17,167

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数独 17,168

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词汇谜题 9163

不等式填数 5506 计算数独 6958

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Lexica 9164 $2 $ 4 $ 3 $ 2 $3 $5

Killer 10,970

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Killer 10,971

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今日答案

简明五字词组 (Concise Quintagram)

隐晦五字词组 (Cryptic Quintagram)

1 Just 2 Like 3 Heaven 4 Charlotte 5 Sometimes

1 Aid 2 Wheel 3 Beetles 4 Computer 5 Livestock

词汇观察

Grossular (a) 石榴石的一种品种 (OED) Kumiss (a) 发酵马奶 (Chambers) Tote (c) 木工刨的把手 (OED)

国际象棋 — 胜招

1 Rxf7! 是最直接的获胜路线，威胁 2 Qg7 将死；若对方 1 ... Rxf7，则以 2 Nxf7 将死应对。唯一的其他尝试是 1 ... Rg8，但此招可被 2 Rxh7+! Kxh7 3 Qh5+ Kg7 4 Qg6+ Kh8 (4 ... Kf8 5 Qf7 将死) 5 Nf7 将死 所破解。

Sakuro 4868 Brain Trainer 简单 120 中等 480 较难 1,936 问答

1 Pen 2 Pepsi 3 皇家歌剧院 4 纽约 5 冠冕 6 1990年代 (1994) 7 《黑暗之心》 8 《周四谋杀俱乐部》 9 香奈儿 10 克里斯托和珍妮-克劳德 11 加布里埃拉·米斯特拉尔，1945年 12 卢卡扬人 13 乔治·格雷 14 三级跳远 15 JRR 托尔金

益智游戏

数独 Mlld No 17,169

困难 No 17,170

极难 No 17,171

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请填充网格，使每一列、每一行以及每个 3x3 宫格都包含数字 1 到 9。

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词汇观察 David Parfitt

Grossular a 石榴石的一种宝石品种 b 整体的，全包容的 c 与喉咙或食道相关的

Kumiss a 发酵的马奶酒 b 带肩带的内胸衣 c 声望，威信

Tote a 早起的人 b 极其令人惊讶的事物 c 木工刨的把手

答案见第 15 页

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1 拉斯洛·比罗（László Biró）发明了哪种书写工具的圆珠笔类型？

2 Pilk 是一种将牛奶与哪种可乐饮料混合的饮品？

3 唐纳德·戈登大层（Donald Gordon Grand Tier）是科文特花园哪个歌剧院的一部分？

4 昆廷·克里斯普（Quentin Crisp）是 Sting 1987 年歌曲《英格兰人住在...》（Englishman in ...）的主角，该歌曲指的是美国哪个城市？

5 玛丽王后的恋人结（Queen Mary's Lover's Knot）属于哪种类型的珠宝头饰？

6 欧洲之星列车是在哪个年代开始运行的？

7 加文·特克（Gavin Turk）的《伪装自画像（像 Mr

8 库珀斯切斯（Coopers Chase）退休社区是哪部 2025 年 Netflix 电影的背景？

9 1996 年，卡尔·拉格斐（Karl Lagerfeld）揭晓了斯特拉·特南特（Stella Tennant）为哪家法国时尚屋的新面孔？

10 1968 年，伯尔尼的艺术馆（Kunsthalle）成为第一座被哪对艺术家夫妇“包裹”的公共建筑？

11 哪位智利诗人是第一位获得诺贝尔文学奖的拉丁美洲人？

12 从伊斯帕尼奥拉岛和古巴迁徙而来的哪个民族是巴哈马的原始居民？

13 哪位

出生于苏格兰的有机化学家开发了使液晶显示器（LCDs）可行化的分子？

14 哪项田径项目有时被称为“跳、跨、跳”（hop, skip and jump）？

15 图中是哪位英国奇幻作家兼语言学家？

答案见第 15 页

Sakuro No 4868

在空格中填入数字 1 到 9，使每个圆圈中的数字等于周围四个空格之和，且每个颜色的总和正确。

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Across（横向） 7 清理墙壁的工人，寺庙、门厅和掩体 (8) 8 精选水果 (4) 9 被法院债券约束的英国小伙 (6) 10 艾伯特偷走了英国帽子 (5) 11 身体的一部分，周期性地非常红？ (3) 12 掉在可怜的基尔嘴里的微小菠菜碎片 (6) 14 替代法官吃猪肉派 (6) 16 令人惊讶地大胆，因此启动仪式 (6) 18 围绕剧院的一部分移动 (6) 19 我很惊讶厨师提前结束 (3) 20 仅节省 1,000 的苦行僧 (5) 21 墨西哥开胃酒包含零食 (6) 23 设计电力网络 (4) 24 地区内激动人心的投票最初受到挑战 (8)

Down（纵向）

1 适合重组的皇家邮政 (8) 2 阴郁的保守派 (4) 3 关于在床上发现的一位伯爵的有趣故事 (6) 4 带有主教打破右腿的病毒式网络内容？ (6) 5 也许在偷大钻石的湾区可疑人物的开始 (8) 6 铜清空了左翼教派 (4) 13 警察乐队主唱最初拿走的卡罗尔·金的服装 (8) 15 埃德加提出的非法药丸的椭圆形部分 (8) 17 来自克里夫的电视片段，最后由马文支持 (6) 18 抓住派遣公狗的轻蔑个体 (6) 20 首先出现在路易·马莱电影中的那些人 (4) 22 伯克希尔学校发送的正式信函 (4) 昨天的答案在第 15 页

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房东如何能在 2030 年前达成新的绿色目标 —— 并避开 3 万英镑 罚款

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每年价值 $10 或以上的住宅销售数量

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17,413 英镑

英格兰搬家的成本 —— 经通货膨胀调整后，比十年前高出 74% 来源：Reallymoving

区域房价

* 2025 年第三季度至 2026 年第三季度的年度变化 来源：Nationwide

16%

工具盗窃量同比上升，每 17 分钟发生一起 来源：Everywhen

封面故事

如何在能源升级截止日期前达成目标

如果租赁房产的 EPC（能源性能证书）评级低于 C 级，房东将面临罚款或禁租。Melissa York 将为您介绍应对新规最廉价的方法。

在您弄清楚《租客权利法案》（Renters' Rights Act）之后，私人房东需要面对的下一个挑战是：新的环保标准。如果租赁房产在 2030 年 10 月之前没有获得至少 C 级（评级范围从 A 到 G）的能源效率性能证书（EPC），房东可能会面临每套房产最高 3 万英镑 的罚款，或者被禁止出租该房产。

根据 Nationwide 建筑协会旗下的买房出租贷款部门 The Mortgage Works (TMW) 的研究，三分之二的私人房东对此毫不知情，而在知情的人中，有四分之三不知道截止日期是什么时候。

买房出租贷款机构 Together 的数据显示，英格兰和威尔士近三分之二的租赁房产——共 373,987 套——需要将 EPC 评级从 D 或 E 级升级，才能在 2030 年前合法出租。

那么，这一切需要花费多少钱？您是否必须妥协并购买热泵？

为了寻找答案，我走访了乔·布伦南（Joe Brennan）位于伦敦西南部的家。他是改造专家 EcoApproach 的合规与认证负责人，身着品牌抓绒衣的他拥有十年的 EPC 评估经验。

为了寻找他那栋维多利亚时代半独立式住宅凸窗内侧的日期印章，我们两人几乎趴在地上。

“如果日期未知、被磨掉或难以辨认，在评估中会被扣分，”布伦南说。难道房东不能直接告诉你他们什么时候买的窗户吗？

“你需要提供发票或某种证明安装时间的书面证据，”他回答道。

布伦南掌握着许多此类实用技巧，因为他的公司专门为私人房东进行最低能源效率标准（MEES）评估。

当布伦南为房东视察房产时，他试图寻找达到 C 级最便宜、最简单的方法。“作为一家公司，我们显然关心清洁能源，并希望每个人都向那个方向迈进，”他说，“但房东们是在玩一场‘合规游戏’，所以我们寻找的是最经济且干扰最小的达成路径。”

标准的 EPC 评估专注于最大限度地降低运行成本，因此其建议往往优先考虑能降低能源账单的大宗改进项目。对于资金紧张的房东来说，这非常昂贵，且通常没有考虑到租赁房产的局限性。

例如，布伦南的 EPC 报告建议安装地板绝缘层，但完全没有提到在租客入住的情况下拆除地板是一场噩梦。

标准 EPC 给布伦南房子的评分是 D 61（满分 100），若要达到 C 76，预计成本高达惊人的 20,500 英镑 至 3.1 万英镑。报告建议采取外墙绝缘（7,500 英镑-1.1 万英镑）、地板绝缘（5,000 英镑-1 万英镑 仅能增加 3 分）以及安装 2.5kW 太阳能电池板（8,000 英镑-1 万英镑）。

然而，他的 MEES 评估规划了一条更便宜、干扰更小的路径，通过几个简单的突破口，仅花费 5,736 英镑 即可达到 C 74：增加 200 毫米的阁楼绝缘层；安装数量更少但功率更高（2.7kW）的太阳能电池板；以及安装恒温散热器阀门（TRVs）。将所有灯具更换为 LED 灯（2 到 3 分），以及对窗户进行防风处理（1 到 2 分），也是提升 EPC 分数简单且经济有效的方法。

布伦南的房子建于 1890 年，是一套带小花园的两居室房产，是英国许多租赁房产的典型代表。实墙结构的维多利亚时代和爱德华时代住宅是英国私人租赁住房存量的骨干，在需要能源升级的房产中，近一半建于 1900 年之前，71% 建于 1930 年之前。

如果您想获得更好的 EPC 分数，不要在 A 级电器（包括嵌入式电器）上浪费钱。布伦南表示，即使是新推出的插电式太阳能电池板也不计入在内。

“人们（在评估中）有一种假设，认为只要不是固定在墙上的东西都可以随身带走。很多人向我展示厚窗帘，我不得不向他们解释，虽然窗帘很漂亮，但它们对（能源评级）的影响微乎其微。”

MEES 评估通常需要 30 到 60 分钟，费用在 £60 到 £140 之间，具体取决于房产的规模或复杂程度，以及交通往来的难易程度。

随着 2030 年截止日期的临近，需求的增加可能会推高执行工程的承包商的价格，并导致评估人员的等待时间延长。布伦南表示：“投资组合房东会将此纳入其商业计划，但那些可能会在不经意间陷入违规状态的小房东则处于危险之中。”

如果这还不足以成为立即采取行动的有力理由，那么 2029 年 10 月即将实施的新评估方法将会是。在名为“家庭能源模型”（Home Energy Model, HEM）的新系统下，房产将根据三个类别进行评判：建筑结构（例如绝缘和窗户玻璃）；供暖和热水（锅炉或热泵）；以及“智能就绪度”（智能恒温器或太阳能电池板）。

任何主要由化石燃料驱动的热源在供暖和热水项上的评级将被限制在 D 级，这将使房产整体达到 C 级变得困难得多。但如果你在 HEM 实施前获得了 C 级评级，该证书在接下来的十年内将有效。

例如，燃气锅炉目前在 EPC 中得分较高，因为其运行成本低。布伦南说：“在 HEM 之下，它的评级将被限制在 D 级，你必须安装类似热泵或太阳能电池板的设备来弥补。因此，如果你有一个旧的燃气锅炉，现在更换一个新的将是提高评级最便宜的方式。”

据 Together 报道，使用燃油或电力供暖的旧石屋最有可能违反新规，此外，由于墙体结构较差或为“非标准”结构，伦敦市中心的排屋和公寓大楼也面临同样风险。

如果房产适宜居住且有独立出入口，则需要 EPC 评级，因此任何出租的附属建筑可能都需要进行独立评估。一名拥有房屋并将楼层分割成独立公寓的房东需要为每套公寓办理 ；但如果是多个无关租客共同居住在 HMO（多人合租房）中的房屋共享或公寓共享，则只需要 1 份 。

对于拥有大量旧房投资组合的房东，或者只有一两处房产且缺乏大额升级储蓄的“业余”房东来说，升级资金可能会出现困难。

根据 TMW 的数据，达到 C 级的成本是 42% 房东面临的主要障碍。TMW 目前正提供一项能源效率进一步推进贷款，其固定利率为 2.99%，期限为两或

373,987

到 2030 年需要从 D 或 E 级升级的租赁房产数量

不要在 A 级电器或新发布的插电式太阳能电池板上浪费钱

（1）根据《中华人民共和国公司法》、《中华人民共和国证券法》、《上市公司收购管理办法》等有关规定，对上述事项进行审核。

詹姆斯·古德曼摄影 (JAMES GOODMAN PHOTOGRAPHY)

五年（最高可达 75% 的贷款价值比），这比其资助翻新工程的标准利率低约两个百分点。TMW 还与 EcoApproach 合作，为 EPC 评级在 D 到 G 之间的现有房东客户提供 1,000 次免费的 MEES 评估。

重要的是，根据新规定，房东提高房产 EPC 评级所需的支出无需超过 1 万英镑（含增值税）；如果房产价值低于 10 万英镑，则支出无需超过房产价值的 10%。

“房东需要花费超过 1 万英镑 的情况相当罕见，”布伦南表示，“在我们评估的房产中，支出远未达到那个数额。”

他表示，平均而言，房产处于 C 级边缘的房东只需花费几百英镑即可获得更安全的评分，但从低 D 级升级大约需要 4,000 英镑。

在目前的市场环境下，进行这些工程可能是亏损与资本增值之间的关键。TMW 报告称，与 D 级住宅相比，A 级或 B 级租赁房产的价格溢价为 12.2%（租金溢价为 8.1%），而 C 级房产的价格提升为 3.7%。

许多银行现在也提供绿色抵押贷款，通过较低的利率来奖励那些提高房产能源效率的借款人。“挑战在于，虽然一些贷款机构为 评级较高的房产提供极具吸引力的抵押贷款，但他们并不总是能提供最初用于支付改进工程所需的资金，”Together 的首席商业官瑞安·埃切尔斯（Ryan Etchells）说道。

目前，大多数房东使用短期过桥贷款，但只有少数贷款机构（Together 是其中之一）提供二抵贷款，允许业主在不影响现有抵押贷款的情况下，利用房产价值进行借款。

即将到来的 截止日期正迫使像 Unity Property Investment 的所有者蒂姆·哈里森（Tim Harrison）这样的房东改变其购买策略。

哈里森在英格兰各地拥有多处租赁房产。其中两处位于肯特郡梅德斯通（Maidstone）的一对破旧排屋，其 评级分别为 E 和 D。

他表示：“如果你在购买需要能源改进工程的房产时没有获得大幅折扣，那么你绝对应该考虑购买更新的房产。”

哈里森计划执行 的建议，而不是进行 MEES 评估，但他预计在将房产提升至合格标准所需的常规翻新工作中，很多建议会被顺便完成。他认为，对于能够负担得起改造的房东来说，这是一个以低于市场价购买低 评级房产的机会。

“我认为（ 要求）是一件好事，因为总体上它将提高租赁房产的标准，”他说，“但这也可能成为一个障碍，潜在地导致房东抛售（其房产）。”

“在当前环境下，这意味着可供出租的房产越来越少，这给租金价格带来了（上涨）压力。”

请在 thetimes.com / newsletters 订阅我们的房产时事通讯，每周二获取最新的分析、内幕、建议和技巧。

275 万英镑 能在……买到什么

萨默塞特郡 (Somerset)

索尔特福德屋（Saltford House）是一栋二级保护建筑，为乔治亚风格住宅，拥有八间卧室，共三层。它位于索尔特福德村，距离巴斯（Bath） 20 分钟车程。宏伟的入口大厅铺有黑白格子地板，设有华丽的拱门、镀金圆柱和吊灯，通往一间绘图室和两间起居室。附属的侧楼还有三间卧室和一间起居室。室外有一英亩带围墙的花园，其中包含一间花园房和一座温室。车道设有两个电动汽车充电桩。 不适用。

优点：乔治亚风格的对称美。 缺点：如果你不喜欢壁纸，那么你将面临一项艰巨的任务。 联系方式：hamptons.co.uk

伦敦 NW8

这座联排别墅位于马尔伯勒广场（Marlborough Place）——一条与圣约翰之林（St John's Wood）著名的披头士艾比路（Abbey Road）垂直的街道。该房产在四层楼中拥有 1,765 平方英尺的居住空间。它靠近备受推崇的伦敦美国学校，步行七分钟即可到达朱比利线（Jubilee Line）的圣约翰之林地铁站。这座四卧室住宅的地面层设有开放式厨房 / 早餐室，并设有通往朝南后花园的门；一楼则是一个双向采光的客厅，连接着一个阳台。 EPC D（潜力 C） 优点 房屋前设有专用停车位。 缺点 天花板上安装了大量射灯。 联系方式 arlingtonresidential.com

275 万英镑

坎布里亚郡

Watermead 位于温德米尔湖（Windermere）东岸一个备受追捧的地址，是一栋美丽的工艺美术风格住宅，拥有私人通道可通往仅 200 米之遥的湖泊。您可以通过电动大门和一条宽阔的车道进入该房产。内部设有四个接待室、五个卧室和三个浴室。面积略低于一英亩的花园经过景观设计，创建了一系列空间，包括遮蔽的休息区和高架露台，以最大限度地利用景观。 EPC D（潜力 B）——评级范围从 A（最佳）到 G（最差） 优点 拥有极佳的桨板冲浪、皮划艇和游泳条件。 缺点 不太适合通勤者。 联系方式 finest.co.uk

或者……格洛斯特郡的一座马术中心

Brockhill Quarry 拥有 50 英亩优质的科茨沃尔德（Cotswold）乡村土地，可俯瞰温德鲁什谷（Windrush Valley）的全景。它拥有超过 9000 平方英尺的现有建筑，包括一座四卧室独立原木小屋和 36 个马厩。马术设施还包括一个五分之一英里（five-furlong）的斜坡和圆形跑道、一个大型室外竞技场以及 12 个可使用的围场。距离斯托-翁-沃尔德（Stow-on-the-Wold）五英里。

EPC E（当前及潜力） 优点 已获得建设一座三卧室住宅以及更多办公室和马术设施的规划许可。 缺点 您最好是个爱马之人。 联系方式 butlersherborn.co.uk

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“我被拒绝贷款——于是我们凭一份薪水在没看房的情况下买了房”

由于无法申请英国抵押贷款，凯特琳·巴特拉姆（Caitlin Bartram）和她的丈夫不得不另辟蹊径。

我在英国被拒绝了抵押贷款，因为我在当地没有信用记录——在贷款机构看来，我简直就像不存在一样。我们当时是为了我丈夫在英格兰的新工作而搬迁。这意味着我们需要仅凭他的薪水来购买住房，因此必须重新考虑我们能负担得起什么样的房产 [凯特琳·巴特拉姆说道]。

我们曾在新西兰的基督城住了七年。基兰（Kieran）出生在达勒姆，在刘易斯岛长大，而我在华盛顿特区郊外的马里兰州长大。我们在我环游苏格兰边境地区时相识——我一直热爱英国并希望搬到这里。但我们的时机很糟糕——基兰是一名岩土工程师，当时他自愿去新西兰工作。我们决定尝试异地恋，但在跨国约会三个月后，他邀请我搬到基督城与他同住，于是我去了。

我们有了一个孩子，儿子阿尔菲（Alfie），现在两岁了。在那几年的早期阶段，工作与生活的平衡非常适合照顾他。在新西兰，如果下雪或者有适合冲浪的浪头，早早离开办公室是非常正常的。但一段时间后，生活变得过于平淡，我们渴望不同的文化。而且那里感觉实在太遥远了。

我们知道自己迟早要回到英国，以便离家人近一些，所以当基兰获得一个工作机会时，搬家就成了顺理成章的选择。

离开最难的部分是我们曾住在海边且非常热爱那里，所以我们希望在英国也能找到同样的环境。这大大缩小了选择范围。基兰在桑德兰有家人，且曾在格拉斯哥上大学，所以我们有一些目标区域。

我们不想短期租房然后再搬家，因为就在蹒跚学步的孩子和爱犬刚刚适应环境时，再次搬家会打扰到他们。资金也很紧张。将所有物品运回英国费用昂贵，耗尽了我们很大一部分积蓄。但我们希望抵达时能拥有稳定性，一次性做出正确的选择，而不是搬两次家。

搬家故事

凯特琳·巴特拉姆与丈夫基兰及儿子阿尔菲

凯特琳·巴特拉姆

我们签署了一份为期三年的租赁合同，并拥有以约定价格购买的选项。

我们寻找传统购房之外的替代方案，并发现了一家名为 BeHomed 公司的“先租后买”计划。我在 Reddit 的一个讨论帖中看到过它，觉得非常适合我们。

时间紧迫，新工作即将开始，于是基兰的家人代表我们进行了看房。我们都相中了一套位于廷威克郡卡勒科茨（Cullercoats, Tyne and Wear）的三卧室复式公寓，那里有海景，距离基兰的家人半小时车程。该房产的挂牌价为 35 万英镑，而我们在从未亲眼看到房子的情况下，以 34 万英镑 的价格将其拿下。我们支付了 1.5 万英镑 的押金，每月支付 1,500 英镑 的租金，外加 £500 用于最终的购房款。这感觉像是一个快速的决定，但却是正确的。我们做事从不拖泥带水。

我们每月存下的 £500 存入了一个个人储蓄账户（Isa），利息归我们所有。我们希望知道这笔钱存放在哪里——知道它在自己的储蓄账户里感觉很好。我们签署了一份为期三年的租赁合同，并拥有在 2029 年 7 月以根据该地区平均水平预先约定的价格购买的选项。如果到时房产未达到该价值，我们可以延长租期。此外，我们还拥有可以随时放弃的安心保障，只需损失一定比例的押金——大约 7,000 英镑。我们认为这是一种解放而非恐惧，而且如果这是最坏的情况，从大局来看，这项罚金是很低的。

另一个极大的优势是，如果房产升值（无论是通过我们的改造还是通过住房市场），升值部分归我们所有。我们依然按照约定的购买价格支付。住在毫无生气且冰冷的租房里不是我们想要的，所以我投入了大量时间让这里感觉像我们的家。

我们真的很喜欢我们的新家。这个地区拥有许多我们之前在纽西兰社区所热爱的东西，而且这里还有更多我们喜欢的地方。东北部的人们非常友好。当我们刚到这里时，我们的儿子在超市里出了点意外，两名身材魁梧的男子走过来帮忙，并告诉我们洗手间在哪里。

我们很享受现在的新生活。我们加入了国民信托（National Trust），几乎每个周末都会去参观一处新的房产。这里的一切都为儿童提供了极好的便利。我也开始习惯吃周日烤肉了。采访人：安妮·海耶斯（Annie Hayes）

量身定制

莫尔顿，林肯郡 一座历史悠久的二级登录乔治亚风格房产，拥有灵活的住宿空间、景观花园，并可俯瞰标志性的莫尔顿风车。 EPC: D / 市政税: F / 产权: 永久产权 指导价 联系电话: 01780 750200 89.5 万英镑

诺顿，萨福克郡 一个绝佳的机会，可购入这座迷人的时期前农舍。该房产在保留其魅力与特色的同时，经过了大规模的翻新与扩建。 EPC: E / 市政税: E / 产权: 永久产权 联系电话: 01284 718822 82.5 万英镑

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◀ 救济风格斑点搪瓷小碗，£5，搭配展示的 Splatter 马克杯 £3.50 Maddie 瓷砖厚实台灯，£65

Interiors

▲ Zoe 细条纹面料方形储物脚凳，£199 ◀ Skylar 羊羔绒双人床（鹅卵石色），£349 起，搭配展示的 Arwen 格纹地毯，£119 起

▲ 威尔士毯效果披毯，£30 ▼ 厨房用品，包括 Bistro 搪瓷面包桶 £35、玻璃竖条纹茶壶 £10 以及铸铝炖锅 £55

Dunelm 对阵 Habitat：秋季的惊喜与巧思

对于高街家居用品的购物者来说，可能会在今天的这两家品牌之间产生某种“阵营之争”。你是 Habitat 的拥趸，还是 Dunelm 的忠实粉丝？概括地来说，两者的区别在于：

卡特里娜·伯勒斯（Katrina Burroughs）将这些高街品牌的新季系列进行对比。条纹还是格纹会胜出？

由特伦斯·康兰爵士（Sir Terence Conran）于 1964 年在切尔西的富勒姆路创立，倾向于精选当代、创意且能解决实际问题的设计；而 Dunelm 起步于 1979 年，最初是莱斯特市场中由阿德利（Adderley）家族经营的一个窗帘摊位，如今拥有极其广泛的产品线，SKU（库存单位）超过 100,000 个，包括大量季节性新奇产品——比如印有戴着圣诞帽的小狗的门垫。

两家公司都占据了性价比与质量相结合的零售黄金点。而且本季，双方都在推出令人瞩目的系列。

对于购物者来说，一个明显的区别是 在 2023 年关闭了其展厅，而 Dunelm 在英国全境拥有约 204 家门店。在过去的十年里， 一直由 Argos（塞恩斯伯里 Sainsbury's 的子公司）所有；其部分设计可在部分塞恩斯伯里门店看到，所有产品均可通过在线订购。因此，虽然你可以轻松逛逛 Dunelm 的门店，试坐沙发或触摸窗帘面料，但 的购物体验通常是虚拟的。Dunelm 给人一种老式家庭百货公司的感觉，而 则更具大都市千禧一代的风格。

这个秋天，有哪些惊喜与巧思在等待？在 的推荐清单首位是 12 件套 Bobbin 炻器晚餐餐具组，售价 £40，其外观看起来远比价格标签昂贵。（相比之下，Astier de Villatte 的 Adélaïde 餐盘单价超过 £100。）黄色的 Matilda 厨房推车延续了 的经典风格，这意味着它有趣且色彩鲜艳，价格仅为 £40，且为小户型提供了巧妙的存储 / 展示方案。

最近， 因其格纹设计而在 Instagram 上走红。上季，该品牌的粉丝们对这种图案趋之若鹜。 的秋冬系列推出了格纹浴室置物架以及 Chesset 咖啡桌和边桌，作为上季走红的饰品托盘（£12）的后续产品，后者自上市以来已售罄七次。

具有强烈设计观点且俏皮的单品是 的经典，但本季该品牌也变得更加……经典。有一系列色彩中性、材质天然、风格沉稳内敛的家具，团队将其称为“月光冬夜”趋势。它给人一种成熟且精致的感觉。这里没有波普艺术或中世纪现代主义的引用，而是向丹麦经典设计致敬。（例如 Scottie 餐椅，£135，以及 Jessie 四人折叠餐桌，£288。）这个拥有 62 年历史的品牌从未停止给人带来惊喜。

▶ 卡其色 Vinny 格纹扶手椅，£235 ◀ Onda 储物床，双人床 £380 起，搭配巧克力色棋盘格床上用品套件，单人床 £16 起，以及 Iro 床头柜，£40 ▶ 黄色 Matilda 厨房推车，£40。推车上放着一个 Harlequin 花瓶，£14，以及蓝色梗葡萄酒杯，四件套 £18 Enzu 金属餐椅，£72 ▼ 12 件套 Bobbin 炻器晚餐餐具组，£40

▼ Geometric Patch 羊毛地毯，£100 起

如果说 Habitat 垄断了格纹市场，那么 Dunelm 长期以来就是条纹爱好者的天堂。季复一季，一种名为 Beatrice 的大胆宽条纹装饰在 Dunelm 最畅销的扶手椅，以及床头柜、储物盒和灯罩上出现。今年秋天，“B女王”出现在浴巾系列中，采用卵石色与白色的色织棉材质，起售价 £6，目前已证明深受消费者欢迎。而 Beatrice 的妹妹 Zoe 则是更窄的条纹，可见于一款实用的方形储物脚凳，售价 £199。

在我看来，Dunelm 本季最出色的新系列是名为 Salvage Yard 的系列。据设计与产品开发负责人 Emma Anthony 介绍，该系列的灵感来自回收材料和带有岁月痕迹的表面。家具和靠垫采用了做旧人造皮革、最柔软的雪尼尔面料和乡村风亚麻的触感混搭。厨房用品包括回收玻璃饮水杯、泼墨图案陶瓷以及斑点搪瓷餐具。此外还有一款名为 Lavina 的时尚瓷砖咖啡桌，其个性之强，远超人们对高街品牌的合理预期。

Dunelm 的灯具一直是秋季更新的重点，本季尤为耀眼，推出了大量带有可调光 LED 的无线设计。

当我们期待炖菜和砂锅料理——即真正的美食——之时，现在正是提到这两个品牌在廉价的“从烤箱到餐桌”系列上具有天赋的时刻。他们那些售价低于 £45 的砂锅——很容易被误认为是某个知名法国铸铁品牌售价 £300 的厨具——尤其值得称赞。

那么，谁的最新系列胜出？我会将两者的竞争描述为“照片级”的险胜（不分伯仲）。条纹、斑点和泼墨图案的爱好者会选择 Dunelm——那些在寻找大件家具且希望在购买前试用的人也会如此。但我支持 Habitat 阵营，因为它擅长创造令人惊喜且愉悦的设计，在经济实惠的小空间解决方案方面极具天赋，并且推出了本季最亮眼的餐具套装。

你愿意花 11,600 英镑 买一件 Zara Home 的沙发吗？

这个高街家居品牌与《请以你的名字呼唤我》的导演卢卡·瓜达尼诺（Luca Guadagnino）合作，其定价达到了 A 级水准。卡特里娜·伯罗斯（Katrina Burroughs）为你挑选了其中的最佳单品。

蓝色和棕色羊毛法兰绒的 Fainting 扶手椅，2,400 英镑

Zara 以其抢眼的时尚大动作而闻名。这个西班牙品牌在 2024 年和 2025 年与凯特·摩丝（Kate Moss）推出了服装系列，并于上周推出了由高级定制设计师约翰·加利亚诺（John Galliano）打造的限量系列，其中包括一件售价 £699 的丝绸连衣裙。

Zara Home 作为室内设计师青睐的高街家居来源，在合作伙伴的选择上一直比其时尚部门更为低调，倾向于与业内人士而非家喻户晓的名人合作。例如，比利时极简主义设计师文森特·范·杜伊森（Vincent Van Duysen）自 2022 年起一直为 Zara Home 设计（可以看看他的 5,000 英镑 Daybed 02）。范·杜伊森是设计界的巨擘，但并非因顶尖的模特生涯或与约翰尼·德普的恋情而闻名。这是一种不同层级的知名度。

然而今年，Zara Home 揭晓了一次 A 级合作：由《请以你的名字呼唤我》和《我是爱》的获奖导演卢卡·瓜达尼诺，以及在《酷儿》和《狩猎之后》中与瓜达尼诺合作的设计师兼建筑师斯特法诺·拜西（Stefano Baisi）共同打造的重量级系列。这个高街品牌与电影双人组的结合堪称天才之举，因为瓜达尼诺和拜西不仅是著名的电影合作伙伴，他们共同经营一家室内设计工作室已有近十年，最初合作设计了一栋科莫湖畔的住宅，随后又设计了酒店和零售空间。而且，谁不想拥有《我是爱》中蒂尔达·斯温顿（Tilda Swinton）那间极具艺术层次感且优雅的米兰客厅呢？

Baisi Guadagnino for Zara Home 系列目前已在网上线，随时可以加入购物车。首先要说的是，整个系列都具有诱人的时尚感。BGxZH 抛光不锈钢 Mbioma 餐具，咖啡勺起售价 £10.99，非常令人心动；象牙色瓷制 Dentata 甜点盘，售价 £15.99，同样如此。我的建议是尽快将这些单品加入购物车，趁它们还有货。

第二个完全合理的反应是……多少钱？如果我敢花 11,600 英镑 买一件快时尚品牌的沙发，请直接叫我“冤大头”。为它辩护的话，Uncollected 沙发——一款带有枫木和高光漆底座的黑色天鹅绒长椅——是一件美丽的限量版作品（在室内设计中，就像在时尚界一样，如果你将其视为一件“艺术品”的话）。一旦你从价格冲击中恢复过来（毕竟这里曾是 £3.99 玻璃杯的聚集地），你会发现座椅、灯具、地毯、餐具、香氛和摆件中充满了令人向往的单品。我最喜欢的是 Fainting 扶手椅，这是一款具有波浪形靠背的标志性座椅，采用蓝绿色或铁锈色羊毛法兰绒面料，售价 2,400 英镑。

抛光不锈钢家具是此次系列的亮点，包括 Cygni 咖啡桌 5,000 英镑、Vanesio 凳子 1,400 英镑 和 Vanesianda 椅子 1,600 英镑；漆面单品同样出彩：Qubit 凳子 £399、Nape 咖啡桌 2,900 英镑 以及 Aldiqua 圆盘 £129.99（其高光漆内侧印有艺术家弗朗切斯科·斯诺特（Francesco Snote）的插画）。这些设计的纯粹魅力提醒我们，家可以是日常生活的灵感背景，而不仅仅是宿舍或杂物堆放地。为此，Baisi Guadagnino for Zara Home 系列值得成为一个“票房大卖”的成功之作。

Quibit 凳子，£399

▼ Uncollected 沙发，11,600 英镑

租赁健康 Sasha Nugara，房产记者

我该如何帮助患有心理健康问题的室友？

从不靠谱的房东到室友纠纷，我们的专栏作家为您解答疑问

问： 最近，我发现自己很难应对室友的心理健康问题。我们在一起住了一段时间，但几个月前他失业了，现在发现很难找到新工作。

他整天被困在公寓里，申请工作已经三个多月了，心理健康状况确实开始恶化。我尽力想让他出门，但我开始真正担心他，这让我感到压力沉重，并分散了我工作和处理人际关系的精力。我该如何在帮助他的同时，保护好自己的心理健康？

答： 当你与朋友同住时，尤其是只有你们两人共处一室时，很容易形成一种强烈且有时是有毒的联系。我经历过好几次这种情况——而且这种情况是双向的。

这些年来，我曾有室友放下所有事情陪在我身边，帮我走出抑郁期；我也曾为他们做同样的事，在他们经历分手、求职和悲痛时给予指导。

当身边的人有如此强烈的需求时，很难将自己放在首位。你的室友所经历的确实很艰难；根据活动团体纳税人联盟（TaxPayers' Alliance）的研究，五分之一的劳动年龄成年人领取通用信贷（universal credit），其中包括 130 万 名二十多岁的人群。

理论上，这意味着有 130 万 名年轻人都在竞争数量有限的毕业生和职业初期岗位，这对于那些不懈寻找工作的人来说并非好兆头。但坚持是关键，好运会眷顾等待的人，所以我为你的室友祈祷。我相信他们的机会很快就会到来。

但目前，在居住空间中维持界限很重要——这是你休息、放松和解压的空间。虽然你关心朋友的心理健康，但这绝不能以损害你自身为代价。我请教了切尔西心理诊所（Chelsea Psychology Clinic）的联合创始人、顾问心理学家埃琳娜·图罗尼（Elena Touroni）博士，请她就如何最好地处理这种情况提供帮助。

她解释说，求职在心理上可能会造成挫伤，因为这是少数几种一个人可以投入巨大努力却几乎得不到任何回报的情况之一。“申请书消失在虚无之中，可能没有反馈，有时甚至连拒绝信都没有，因此在几个月之后，动力、信心和日常生活的结构开始被侵蚀是可以理解的，”图罗尼解释道。

“失去工作也可能意味着失去比收入多得多的东西，因为工作给许多人带来了目标感和日常生活的结构。所以他的行为是非常人性化的。”

“你能做的最有帮助的事情之一就是建立一些固定的共同习惯，”图罗尼建议道。“理想情况下，有些习惯能让他走出公寓，但这些习惯应该足够简单，即使他心情不是特别好也能参与其中。例如，每个周六早晨散步并吃早午餐，或者每周去看一次电影。”

“这些常规活动同时发挥两个作用：既给了他结构感和连接感，又为你的支持创建了一个健康的容器，这样你对他关心、监测或鼓励的行为就不会渗透到你生活的每一个部分，”她说。“你有一个定义明确的时间可以给予他全部的关注，同时依然有权继续处理你生活的其他部分。关心一个人并不意味着要随时随地为对方待命。”

她还建议，将这种支持分摊给其他朋友或家庭成员可能会有所帮助。“你能招募其他人来建立一些额外的常规活动吗？比如另一个人可以带他每周跑步一次，或者每周邀请他来家里吃晚餐，这样他就有几个可靠的连接点，而你也不会觉得他的福祉完全依赖于你。”

“如果您担心他的心理健康状况出现显著恶化，特别是当他显得孤僻或无法像往常那样正常生活时，请寻求他身边其他亲近之人的帮助，并鼓励他寻求专业支持。您可以帮助他获得这些支持，但不应觉得必须独自承担这一切。”

有疑问？请发送电子邮件至 sasha.nugara@the-times.co.uk

梦幻尖顶与太阳能电池板

在牛津历史悠久的圣埃德蒙学院（St Edmund Hall），耗资 4300 万英镑 的新学生宿舍获得了 Passivhaus（被动房）认证，配备了热泵——以及洗碗机。作者：Martina Lees

牛津大学的一所自 13 世纪起就接纳学生的学院经历了一次 21 世纪的改造。现在，首批居民已搬入其最新的住宿区——学院院长对此显然感到非常兴奋。

“如果你往上看，”圣埃德蒙学院院长、生物多样性教授凯西·威利斯男爵夫人（Baroness (Kathy) Willis）说，“你可以看到那个小小的矩形孔。那是一个蝙蝠箱。”她随即改口道，“我想现在应该叫蝙蝠酒店。我只能说，希望我们的学生喜欢蝙蝠。”

在宿舍楼开工建设之前，生态学家在该地块记录到了 12 只蝙蝠。威利斯表示，完工后，学院的一位研究员在某个夜晚“数到了 117 只蝙蝠从蝙蝠箱中飞出”。“这难道不棒吗？”

这座被亲切地称为“Teddy Hall”的学院是牛津大学——事实上也是全球任何大学中——持续为本科生提供住宿时间最长的学术团体（始于约 1278 年）。不过，据信曾任坎特伯雷大主教的阿宾登的圣埃德蒙在 1190-1200 年左右首次在此授课。

在现代，著名的校友包括前首相基尔·斯塔默爵士（Sir Keir Starmer）、菲律宾总统小马科斯（Bongbong Marcos）、蒙提·派森（Monty Python）明星特里·琼斯（Terry Jones）以及《龙之家族》演员艾玛·达西（Emma D'Arcy）。当然，还有那些蝙蝠。

威利斯正带领我参观圣埃德蒙学院位于北牛津诺汉花园（Norham Gardens）的分校区。这里一项耗时三年、耗资 4300 万英镑 的项目于上月完工，共建设了 127 间学生卧室。该项目包括 Passivhaus 建筑群（达到了严格的能源性能认证标准），其能耗比标准新建建筑低 70%；此外还对一座维多利亚时代别墅进行了低能耗改造，为任何想要升级古旧房屋的人提供了实用经验。

项目建筑师 Wright & Wright 公司的奈拉·尤苏夫（Naila Yousuf）表示，居民们对维多利亚别墅的升级“非常感兴趣”。原定于晚上 8 点结束的开放日一直持续到了 11 点，因为居民们不断询问作为“普通人”在自己的古旧房屋中可以尝试哪些措施。

这也启发了威利斯考虑在她位于市郊萨默顿（Summertown）的 1900 年代住宅中安装绝缘层、太阳能电池板和热泵。“我在思考如何在我的房子里，以可承受的成本尝试我们在 here 所做的事情……”威利斯说，她在上议院担任无党派议员。“如果这比你目前支付的能源费用还要贵，而且 20 年内都无法回本，那么任何神志清醒的人都不会这么做，因为他们可能根本不会在那栋房子里住满 20 年。所以你必须找到一个折中点。”

右上插图：一幅描绘该地区约 1860 年维多利亚式房屋的水彩画，据信出自威廉·威尔金森（William Wilkinson）之手。右侧及下方：圣埃德蒙学院的新住宿区，包括绿地和生态池。

五台空气源热泵提供供暖和热水——因此无需燃烧化石燃料。

你知道，（听到预算时）会倒吸一口凉气。”但该项目按时且在预算内完工，精确到“最后一分钱”，这表明“一旦你说某个项目要实现环境可持续发展，并不意味着其预算末尾必须得加上一串零”，她说。

这座别墅建于 1874 年，是北牛津现今保护区内最早建造的大型维多利亚式房屋之一。这意味着规划部门不允许他们在墙外安装绝缘层，因此他们必须在内部进行安装。

这很棘手。如果处理不当，那些美丽的古墙会布满潮气和霉菌。

为了避免这种灾难，设计团队使用了可呼吸的天然材料进行内部绝缘：木纤维绝缘材料、软木和石灰基绝缘抹灰。（现代塑料漆和防水水泥砂浆在旧建筑中是禁忌，因为旧建筑需要呼吸。）

他们还模拟了露点——即墙内温暖潮湿的室内空气冷却到足以将其水蒸气凝结成水滴的精确位置。你绝不希望这种情况发生在墙壁错误的位置。

尤苏夫建议任何升级历史建筑的人首先进行此类水分模拟。“大多数人没有意识到建筑是如何运作的。在某种程度上，它们就像是活的，”她说。

别墅原有的单层玻璃窗被更换为双层玻璃木窗。在气密性极高且超绝缘的新建筑中，窗户采用了丹麦品牌 Idealcombi 的三层玻璃。

带有 74 块太阳能电池板的绿色屋顶（从地面无法看到）提供了该场地 11% 的电力需求。

五台大型空气源热泵隐藏在新建筑顶部的山墙之间，为整个场地提供供暖和热水。这意味着他们不燃烧任何化石燃料。

看起来像大型烟囱的结构内部并非壁炉，而是现代化的清洁升级：机械通风与热回收（MVHR）系统的管道。它将室内污浊的空气泵出，从中提取热量，并用该热量来加热从室外进入的新鲜空气。

这些建筑由正交胶合木（CLT）面板构建，在工厂内制造并由起重机吊装到位。

所有这些的成本“与建造一座现代建筑相同”，威利斯说。“但我们没有削减成本的地方[是]为了让它看起来美观的特性。”

例如 85,000 块萨塞克斯红粘土挂瓦，每块都带有其制作者的手印，这些瓦片来自英国最后一家手工瓦片制造商 Keymer。以及 200,000 块浅红色砖块，在多塞特郡的斯旺基（Swanage）手工抛制，并按传统的佛兰德砌法（Flemish bond）铺设。

上方：新的学生房间

威利斯说，建筑师“知道哪些部分会对建筑外观产生影响”。“你可以使用机器制造的瓦片；它们看起来都一样。你就无法获得与[该地区]其他维多利亚时代别墅相同的感觉。”

他们通过“密切关注额外支出”来节省成本。威利斯说：“最初所有家具都计划定制。我们取消了这一方案。”床、书桌和衣柜等家具来自大宗供应商。“这大大降低了成本。”

所有雨水从屋顶排入一个生态池。一些稀有树木，

人们说：“噢，那会很贵。”然而，它按时完工，且预算精确到最后一分钱。

例如在野外已经灭绝的富兰克林树（Franklinia alatamaha），是从邱园（Kew）和其他植物园采购并种植在圣埃德蒙兹学院（St Edmund Hall）的。

据威利斯称，该场地的生物多样性增加了 88%。 “对我这个生物多样性科学家来说，这绝对是一件乐事。但它也展示了即使在非常小的场地内也能实现什么。”

建筑之间设有宽敞的方形花园，让所有学生居民都能看到绿色景观。涂成 RAL 芦苇绿（Reed Green）色的门将自然气息带入他们 14 平方米（150 平方英尺）的房间中——几乎所有房间都配有独立淋浴间。在每六到十间房共用的厨房里，他们甚至拥有洗碗机（而不是水槽周围堆积如山的霉烂盘子）。

“坦白说，这些学生将生活在天堂里，”威利斯说。

在牛津市中心圣埃德蒙主校区的中世纪四合院周围，那些房间曾是学院最受欢迎的。但威利斯表示：“现在不再是这样了。”在住宿抽签中，新房间被列在“名单首位”，并且“立即被抢光”。

“学生们想要的是带有洗碗机[和]独立卫浴的舒适房间。然后他们可以漫步在美丽的历史四合院中。但事实上，舒适度非常高，理应如此，”她补充道。

首批学生已于周六入住。卧室数量从之前的 56 间增加到现在的 127 间，这意味着圣埃德蒙大厅可以容纳其所有本科生，从而释放出牛津的私人租赁住房。

威利斯说：“我希望每一位住在这里的学生……在前进时都能想到，‘这是可能的。在气候危机和自然危机中，我们可以做到这一点……而且我知道如何实现，因为我就生活在其中。’”

Bricks&Mortar

首置购房者将因“价格上限”而被拒之门外

作者：大卫·拜尔斯 (David Byers)

一项分析警告称，英格兰新推出的类“购房帮扶”（Help to Buy）计划中，针对首置购房者的价格上限需要提高，否则将导致数万名渴望置业的人无法参与。

在工党党代会上公布的“你的首套房”（Your First Home）计划下，拥有最低 2.5% 抵押贷款首付款的首置购房者将获得一项政府支持的贷款，金额为新建房产价值的 20%，以帮助他们弥补负担能力差距。

该计划是“购房帮扶”倡议的重启，后者曾提供 20% 的政府贷款，在伦敦则为 40%。

作为新计划的关键部分，政府将在即将公布的预算案中宣布一系列“当地房产价格上限”，这将决定该倡议下房屋的最高允许价格。在“购房帮扶”计划期间，2013 年至 2021 年间，英格兰全境的上限最高为 60 万英镑，但在最后两年，该计划转而采用区域上限，范围在 186,100 英镑 至 60 万英镑 之间。这些上限被设定为各地区首置购房者平均价格的 1.5 倍。

然而，第一太平绅士（Savills）的研究人员警告称，由于每个区域内超局部的新建房产价格

若上限为 30 万英镑，仅 10% 的议会区可负担

波动，这些当地价格上限阻碍了计划的实施，这意味着在一些高价地区的首置购房者没有可供选择的房产。

例如，第一太平绅士的一项分析发现，在英格兰东部地区，之前的“购房帮扶”房产上限统一为 407,400 英镑，而埃平森林（Epping Forest）一套面积至少 900 sq ft 的三居室新建房平均价格为 65 万英镑，超过了上限；但伊普斯威奇（Ipswich）同样规模的房产价格为 362,450 英镑，则远低于上限。

在伯恩茅斯，三居室新建房的平均价格（46.5 万英镑）远高于该地区 34.9 万英镑 的“购房帮扶”上限，但在其他地区，如格洛斯特郡的迪恩森林（Forest of Dean）（平均 334,995 英镑），价格则低得多。

第一太平绅士建议提高上限，因为现在的首置购房者更倾向于在父母家中居住更长时间，然后为了组建家庭直接购买较大的三居室房屋，而非两居室公寓。

第一太平绅士发现，除了采取智能的局部差异化外，即使政府选择的上限只有微小变动，也会产生显著影响。

例如，如果政府实施一个名义上的英格兰全境统一上限 30 万英镑，首置购房者将仅能在 10% 的地方当局管辖区内购买三居室房屋。然而，将上限提高到 35 万英镑，这一比例将增加到 58%。

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房屋历史

在上次出售时，它被冠以“英国最昂贵的市政房”和“英国最漂亮的市政房”之名。如今，这座位于剑桥市中心的维多利亚时代摆渡人小屋再次上市——这次的价格为 100 万英镑。

位于 Midsummer Common 的 Ferry House 在 2017, 年被投放市场，这座三居室小屋如此受欢迎，以至于采用了密封投标方式。现任业主 Jack Foxall 在赌一个“略显古怪的数字”能吸引卖家注意后，支付了 777,888 英镑。当时，卖家剑桥市议会承诺将用所得款项建造四套市政住房。

这曾是一栋需要大修的房子；它曾租赁给一家慈善机构作为旅舍经营，随后被闲置。“当我们买下它时，它真的非常破旧。我想它已经被空置了一两年。为了走到门口，我们实际上不得不砍掉门前的植被，”Foxall 说道。“花园里长满了高高的杂草；露台被土壤和植被覆盖。室内则是潮湿的地毯和陈旧的家具。它被严重地忽视了。”

Foxall 对这座小屋进行了全面翻新：“我们撕掉了旧地毯，安装了新的踢脚线、新的电路，重新粉刷了墙壁，安装了新厨房和一台木材燃烧炉。我们对其进行了整体的现代化改造和翻新。”

这座独立房屋坐落在 Midsummer Common 边缘的康河（River Cam） towpath 边，距离市中心步行不到 15 分钟。“这里非常安静祥和。你可以在早晨打开窗户，听着划船运动员经过的声音。仲夏集市期间这里会很热闹，但你可以在花园里私享 11 月 5 fireworks 的景观，”Foxall 说道。

如今，这座房子正由 Cheffins 房产中介代理销售，并配有一句耐人寻味的宣传语：“这会是剑桥在售最顶级的历史住宅吗？”在这样一个被认为拥有 1,000 多年历史的城市里，这是一个大胆的主张。至少从 18 世纪早期开始，就有摆渡人在康河上从事这项贸易。

Foxall 认为现在的房子建于 1894, 年，尽管在该地块上名为 Ferry House 的房屋存在的时间要长得多。在 1871 年的人口普查时，一名 43 岁的学院仆人 Frederick Underwood 与他 17, 14 和 11, 岁的三个女儿以及他的嫂子 Emma 住在 Ferry House 中。他的妻子 Ann 在 1862 年去世，享年 36 岁。

十年后，一名曾任砖厂工头的 John Ireland 被登记为住在该房的摆渡人，与他同住的有妻子 Phoebe、六岁的女儿 Henrietta 以及一名同样叫 Phoebe 的 14 岁侄女。不过，摆渡人的工作似乎并不适合 John，不久之后，他便离开这里成为一名 [...OMITTED...]

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上方及右上方：该房产俯瞰康河。右图：Walter Pauley 与其儿子 Ernest 从 1887 年左右起，在 Ferry House（见背景）经营 Fort St George 渡口。

渡船夫小屋现价值100万英镑

剑桥的渡船屋（Ferry House）在上次出售时被誉为“英国最昂贵的市政房屋”。卡罗尔·刘易斯（Carol Lewis）深入探讨了这座维多利亚时代住宅及其居民的历史。

顶部：渡船屋。上方：渡船于1927年沉没。

关键日期

1894 渡船屋重建

1927 人行桥开放

2017 市议会以 100 万英镑 出售该房屋

河对岸切斯特顿（Chesterton）的一家蔬菜店。

“房子旁边有一条小巷，然后是通往水边的台阶，公众在被接走之前在那里排队，”福克斯尔（Foxall）说道。他有一张大约1920年的照片，显示了渡船夫在航行中的样子，背景就是这座房子（见上方）。虽然最初渡船夫是用桨划或用撑杆将人们送过河，但后来安装了轮链系统，渡船夫通过“研磨”方式将乘客送过河。

照片中的渡船夫很可能是沃尔特·保利（Walter Pauley）及其儿子欧内斯特（Ernest）。从1887年左右开始，保利接任了圣乔治堡（St George's Fort）渡船夫的职务，与妻子伊丽莎白（Elizabeth）、女儿比阿特丽斯（Beatrice）以及儿子珀西（Percy）和欧内斯特（Ernest）一起住在渡船屋，后者成为了他的助手。这对父子经营着后来被称为“保利渡船”的业务。

1998年7月16日《剑桥日报》（Cambridge Daily News）的一篇文章引用了保利的孙子（比阿特丽斯之子）雷金纳德·戴（Reginald Dye）的话：“保利经营渡船40年，运送了多达125万名乘客。”文章继续写道：“雷金回忆说，祖父保利通常每次过河收取 1d [一便士]，但每当仲夏集市举行时，他就会将价格翻倍。”

仲夏集市的历史可以追溯到1211年且延续至今，其受欢迎程度体现在1921年的普查中，数据显示家庭数量从平时的寥寥几个增加到了65户，这得益于“巡回表演者”的到来，其中许多人住在公地的房车和帐篷里。

1927年，河上建成了一座人行桥。讽刺的是，旧渡船在桥梁开放前不久就沉没了——一些爱开玩笑的人声称，它是被看到一座旨在取代它的桥梁建成而受打击沉没的。当时船上没有人。保利一家继续住在房子里，尽管

他每次摆渡收费1便士，但在仲夏集市期间会翻倍

他们面临着巨大的搬迁压力。

查尔斯·波特在1928年4月于《剑桥日报》（Cambridge Daily News）发表的一封信中概述了他们的困境：“我抗议将波利先生及其家人从仲夏公地的摆渡房中驱逐出去。他们已尽全力寻找住房但未获成功。这个男人和他的儿子为了方便剑桥的纳税人，不分昼夜，包括周日，且不顾天气地在河上经营摆渡，承担了其中一项最单调的工作；父亲工作了35年，儿子工作了16.。在人行桥完工后，他们被完全抛弃，没有获得任何补偿，也没有养老金。在这种事情上将人们弃之不顾，既不符合道德，也不符合基督教精神。”

在1928, 6月的一次议会会议上（据《萨夫伦沃尔登周报》报道），有人声称：“（剑河）管理委员会已经很慷慨了，允许这个男人（波利）及其家人自2月份起在房子里住了十二个月，无需支付任何租金或税费，而且有些人已尽个人努力为年轻的波利寻找工作，但遗憾的是，他无法胜任道路测量员提供给他的工作。”不过，会议一致认为，没有资金可以向沃尔特·波利支付养老金。

看来波利一家坚持了下来，在沃尔特于1931年去世（享年78, 岁）时，他们仍住在那个房子里，而伊丽莎白在一年之前就已经去世。到1939年调查时，于1924, 年结婚的比阿特丽斯与丈夫詹姆斯·戴（一名剧院舞台木工）以及他们年幼的儿子雷金纳德一起住在城市东北部的拉姆斯登广场。

与此同时，欧内斯特与他的兄弟珀西（一名钢琴调音师）一起住在旧居东边的迪顿菲尔兹，并且仍将自己描述为一名“摆渡工”。

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*仅限部分出发日期可享受折扣，且已从广告价格中扣除。价格在印刷时准确，优惠可随时撤回。所示价格基于双人入住双人房或双床房及经济舱机票，并包含折扣。所有假期视供应情况而定。图片与 Travelsphere 共同使用。由 Travelsphere 运营并受其预订条件约束，ABTA Y6412, ATOL 11266，该公司完全独立于 News UK。

我们对其进行了独家包船，因此船上的乘客将仅有工作人员和其他 Travelsphere 的度假者。

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八天行程起价 2,629 英镑* 每人

松恩峡湾，在郁郁葱葱的山谷中行驶，经过迷人的村庄，并入住风景如画的水边酒店。我们的旅程将在卑尔根结束，这是一座位于峡湾中心的历史名城。

价格包含

从伦敦及地区机场往返的机票，以及海外交通

在为 Travelsphere 独家包租的 MV Adriatic Pearl 号上度过七晚

七顿早餐，四顿午餐，四顿晚餐及欢迎饮品

探索杜布罗夫尼克和斯普利特市

在科尔丘拉岛、姆列特岛、赫瓦尔岛和索尔塔岛登岸

在船上品尝克罗地亚橄榄油

在船上享受船长晚宴和告别晚宴。

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费用包含

从伦敦、曼彻斯特和爱丁堡出发的往返机票，以及海外交通

七晚四星级酒店住宿

七次早餐、三次晚餐及欢迎饮品

奥斯陆和卑尔根的城市观光

乘坐卑尔根铁路和弗洛姆铁路

在松恩峡湾享受令人叹为观止的巡游

果园参观及苹果酒品鉴

穿越哈当厄尔峡谷的景观驾驶

专业 Travelsphere 假日导游服务

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指定出发日期每对夫妇最高可节省 1,000 英镑*

斯里兰卡亮点之旅

2027年1月至2028年10月

精选出发日期，每对夫妇最高可节省 £800*

2027年5月至2028年9月

探索这座充满野生动物、绝美景观和多彩文化的天堂之岛。旅程从斯里兰卡首都科伦坡开始，这座繁华的大都市中，殖民时期的建筑和佛教寺庙与现代摩天大楼并肩而立。在前往参观拥有壮观狮子门的锡吉里亚岩石堡垒之前，先访问米内里亚国家公园，那里是象群、鹿和野猪的家园。接下来，访问康提，这里有您将要参观的 Travelsphere Cares 项目 Sthree 咖啡馆，以及佛牙寺——全球最受推崇的

一条由往返于欧洲和亚洲之间的贸易商使用的道路网络，丝绸之路的惊人历史涵盖了山脉、沙漠以及充满令人惊叹的建筑的古城。在这场卓越的旅行中探索这一切，它将向您展示乌兹别克斯坦丰富的文化和自然亮点的精华。

准备好在塔什干和撒马尔罕市发现蓝色圆顶的清真寺和繁华的巴扎，然后探索迷人的圣城布哈拉和被联合国教科文组织列入名录的希瓦古城。沿途，您将看到克孜勒库姆沙漠起伏的沙丘，并让自己沉浸在数百年的

13 天起 每人 3,029 英镑 $^{*}$

佛教徒的礼拜场所。在斯里兰卡的丘陵地带继续您的探索，您将参观一座茶园，并前往亚拉国家公园。最后一站是贝鲁瓦拉，这里拥有斯里兰卡最长的海滩之一，您可以在旅程结束时在此享受放松时光。

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11 天起 每人 2,749 英镑*

传统。从与当地家庭共进晚餐到观看一场惊艳的舞蹈表演，这一迷人的行程充满了难忘的体验。此外，您还将拥有充足的自由时间，自行探索这片位于中亚十字路口的古老而美丽的土地。

价格包含

伦敦往返机票，以及海外交通

11 晚四星级和五星级酒店，外加一晚飞行时间

11 顿早餐，1 顿午餐，11 顿晚餐及欢迎饮品

访问米内里亚国家公园

探索皇家植物园和佛牙寺

在加勒参观荷兰殖民统治的遗迹

参观香料花园并观看烹饪演示

亚拉国家公园游猎

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从伦敦、曼彻斯特和爱丁堡出发的往返机票，以及海外交通服务

入住九晚三星级酒店，外加一晚飞行时间

九顿早餐、两顿午餐、七顿晚餐及欢迎饮品

探索布哈拉、希瓦、撒马尔罕和塔什干等城市

穿越克孜勒库姆沙漠

布哈拉木偶与微缩模型学校体验

传统面包制作及与当地家庭共进午餐

在历史悠久的茶馆品尝异域名茶

雷吉斯坦广场步行游览

Travelsphere 专家级度假导游服务

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《泰晤士报》旅游合作伙伴

指定出发日期每对夫妇最高可省 £800*

埃及瑰宝 金字塔与尼罗河游轮之旅

2027年2月至11月

准备好在吉萨金字塔前惊叹，探索繁华的开罗，并在为期四晚的尼罗河游轮之旅中放松身心，岛屿神庙、古老王国和埃及的热情款待正等待着您。从英国飞抵后，您将探索金字塔、大狮身像以及大埃及博物馆的瑰宝，同时游览伊斯兰开罗、城堡和汗·哈利利巴扎。随后，飞往卢克索登上游轮，探索卡纳克神庙和卢克索神庙。穿行于西岸的帝王谷、哈特谢普苏特神庙以及

指定出发日期每对夫妇最高可省 £400*

皇家莫鲁比西 (THE ROYAL MORUBISI)

2027年5月至9月

体验极致的野生动物猎游，在追踪“非洲五霸”中度过您的时光。您将入住南非首个稀树草原生物圈保护区的一家精品度假屋，在发现令人惊叹的野生动物群的同时，也有时间尽情放松。您将入住 Kaingo 私人野生动物保护区，这是一个占地 16,400 公顷、拥有崎岖之美的多样化荒野，包含草地、稀树草原和山地灌木丛。度假屋本身隐藏在纯净的保护区内，是

*仅限指定出发日期享有折扣，且该折扣已从广告价格中扣除。价格在印刷时准确，优惠可随时撤回。所示价格基于双人入住双床房或大床房及经济舱机票，并包含折扣。所有假期视供应情况而定。图片由 Travelsphere 提供。由 Travelsphere 运营并受其预订条件约束，ABTA Y6412, ATOL 11266，该公司完全独立于 News UK。

八天行程，每人 2,809 英镑* 起

孟农巨像，随后向南航行。沿着尼罗河继续前往保存完好的埃德富神庙和康翁波，最后在阿斯旺结束行程，游览菲莱神庙、高坝，并在返回家乡的航班前体验日落费卢卡帆船之旅。

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十天行程，每人 3,429 英镑* 起

放松身心。在假期期间，您将参加早晨和下午的野生动物猎游，在向导带领的猎游徒步中近距离接触自然，并在莫科洛河上享受日落野生动物巡航。

费用包含

从伦敦出发的往返机票，以及海外交通

三晚四星级酒店及四晚五星级邮轮住宿

七顿早餐、五顿午餐、四顿晚餐，以及邮轮上的下午茶

参观金字塔和狮身人面像

参观卡纳克神庙和卢克索神庙

参观大埃及博物馆

游览伊斯兰开罗并参观汗·哈利利集市

游览尼罗河西岸，包括国王谷

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费用包含

七晚五星级精品野生动物猎游小屋，以及两晚飞行住宿

七顿早餐、六顿午餐、七顿晚餐及一杯欢迎饮料

在凯因戈（Kaingo）私人野生动物保护区的大多数日子里，提供早晚两次野生动物猎游

在莫科洛河（Mokolo River）上享受日落野生动物巡游

与当地专家进行保护区讲座

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《泰晤士报》旅行合作伙伴

指定出发日期每对夫妇最高可节省 1,500 英镑*

2027年3月至2028年11月

加入我们，有机会探索三个迷人南美国家的壮丽景观。我们的冒险始于智利的圣地亚哥，我们将游览该市的一些主要景点，帮助您熟悉环境。圣地亚哥是一座国际化大都市，拥有许多截然不同的区域和中心，从波希米亚风格的拉斯塔里亚（Lastarria）到富裕的拉斯孔德斯（Las Condes）各具特色。从圣地亚哥出发，我们将跨越巨大的安第斯山脉前往阿根廷的葡萄酒之都门多萨。接下来前往布宜诺斯艾利斯，我们将参观以彩色建筑闻名的拉博卡区（La Boca District）。伊瓜苏瀑布将让您感觉自己

指定出发日期每对夫妇最高可节省 £900*

14 天起价 每人 4,249 英镑*

仿佛置身于侏罗纪时期，葱郁的森林环绕着激流瀑布。最后，在这场令人叹为观止的南美之旅中，我们将访问里约热内卢——看到基督像高耸在城市之上，夜晚闪耀的光芒将成为您永恒的记忆。

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10 天起价 每人 2,649 英镑*

洛基山脉冬季仙境

2027年1月至2028年2月

这场为期九天的加拿大洛基山脉跟团游绝对充满魔力——亲眼见证冰雪赋予这片壮丽景观的生机。我们的跟团游从卡尔加里出发，直接前往被列入联合国教科文组织名录的班夫国家公园。在这里，乘坐班夫缆车将带您登上硫磺山之巅，俯瞰班夫无与伦比的景色——那将是一场令人惊叹且愉悦的视觉盛宴。您还将体验马车雪橇之旅，随后前往班夫天然温泉放松身心。冒险之旅将继续前往贾斯珀国家公园，随后造访如画般完美的露易丝湖——而我们为该行程段安排的酒店让这一切变得更加完美：入住著名的露易丝湖费尔蒙城堡酒店，该酒店就坐落在湖畔。

*仅限部分出发日期享有折扣，且已从广告价格中扣除。价格在印刷时准确，优惠可随时撤回。所示价格基于双人入住双床房或大床房及经济舱机票，并包含折扣。所有假期视供应情况而定。图片由 Travelsphere 提供。由 Travelsphere 运营并受其预订条件约束，ABTA Y6412, ATOL 11266，该公司完全独立于 News UK。

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价格包含

伦敦往返机票及海外交通

11晚四星级和五星级酒店，外加两晚飞行时间

十顿早餐和一顿晚餐

访问智利首都圣地亚哥

游览阿根廷葡萄酒之都门多萨

在科科瓦多山观看著名的救世基督像

从阿根廷侧观看伊瓜苏瀑布

探索国际化大都市布宜诺斯艾利斯

资深 Travelsphere 度假主管的服务

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费用包含

从伦敦出发的往返机票，以及海外交通

在优质酒店入住七晚，外加一晚飞行时间

入住著名的费尔蒙路易斯湖城堡酒店 (Fairmont Chateau Lake Louise)

五次早餐及欢迎饮品

游览班夫、贾斯珀和路易斯湖

马车雪橇体验

贾斯珀国家公园之旅

路易斯湖篝火饮品

在班夫温泉放松身心

Travelsphere 专家级度假导游服务

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指定出发日期每对夫妇最高可节省 £700*

超越金三角

2027 年 1 月至 2028 年 11 月

这是一次非常适合首次访问印度的绝佳假期，本次行程将带您环游“金三角”，涵盖德里、阿格拉和斋浦尔的所有亮点。

您将深入探索这个国家丰富的历史和迷人的文化，并从体验旧德里拥挤街道的喧嚣开始您的冒险。我们将带您参观新德里的殖民时期建筑，欣赏斋浦尔令人惊叹的粉红色建筑，并在日出时分带您前往壮丽的泰姬陵。除此之外，您还将有机会发现更多惊喜。参加野生动物狩猎寻找老虎，在一家迷人的遗产酒店入住两晚，在喧闹的斋浦尔市中心享受一份宁静。在度假导游的全程陪同确保行程顺畅，且包含大部分餐饮和大量观光行程的情况下，这是让自己沉浸在印度迷人魅力中的绝佳方式。

Travelsphere 从我们预订那天起直到我们回到家，真的非常照顾我们。酒店非常棒，提供的食物也一样出色。观光行程令人难忘，尤其是看到老虎和鳄鱼在它们自己的栖息地中。我们每到一个地方都能学到很多东西。 Lisa Trustpilot

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从伦敦、曼彻斯特和伯明翰出发的往返机票，以及海外交通

在四星级和五星级遗产酒店及旅馆入住八晚，外加一晚飞行时间

八次早餐、三次午餐、八次晚餐及欢迎饮品

游览德里、阿格拉和斋浦尔

黎明时分参观泰姬陵

在兰坦博尔早晨狩猎寻找老虎

参观阿格拉堡和伊特马德-乌德-道拉之墓

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指定出发日期每对夫妇最高可节省 2,100 英镑

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澳大利亚之奇

2027年1月至2028年9月

通过一次精心规划的旅程，体验极致的澳大利亚冒险，领略标志性的活力城市、神圣的内陆荒原以及非凡的自然奇观。

对于我们大多数人来说，前往澳大利亚旅行是人生一次的冒险。在前往地球另一端时，您一定会希望尽可能多地参观那些令人惊叹的景点。然而，规划这样一次史诗般的假期可能会让人感到有些不知所措。这正是我们提供帮助的地方。凭借我们的内部知识和多年经验，我们制定了这份面面俱到的史诗级行程。

从世界著名的珀斯、墨尔本、悉尼和布里斯班，到标志性的乌鲁鲁（艾尔斯岩）以及令人惊叹的大堡礁，这一切都包含在这个美妙的假期中。您还将访问内陆小镇爱丽丝泉，并在鲜为人知的袋鼠岛和卡卡杜国家公园探索惊人的自然奇观。

“一次极好的旅行，涵盖了澳大利亚所有的重大亮点。大城市、美丽的海岸线与海滩、令人惊叹的地貌、奇妙的野生动物以及文化体验，这一切都完美融合。 CeeBee ★ Trustpilot

在度假主管的全程协助下，确保一切运行顺畅，所有的规划和组织工作都已处理妥当。不过，您仍然拥有充足的自由时间来定制您的行程，使其更符合您的需求。您可以从一系列可选的远足活动中进行选择，也可以自行探索。

您甚至可以安排在珀斯与朋友共进晚餐，或在悉尼与家人团聚。在这场令人惊叹的全方位之旅中，可能性是无限的。

*仅限部分出发日期享有折扣，且已从广告价格中扣除。价格在印刷时正确，优惠可随时撤回。所示价格基于双人入住双人房或双床房以及经济舱机票，并包含折扣。所有假期视供应情况而定。图片由 Travelsphere 提供。由 Travelsphere 运营并受其预订条件约束，ABTA Y6412, ATOL 11266，该公司完全独立于 News UK。

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价格包含

从伦敦及地区机场往返的机票，以及海外交通

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Chief of defence staff insists UK bases are secure after arrests

Larisa Brown Defence Editor Ali Mitib, Jessica Sharkey

Britain's most senior military officer has insisted that British bases are safe and secure after a spate of arrests at two sites housing American troops.

Air Chief Marshal Sir Richard Knighton, chief of the defence staff, said that the decision to withdraw

US heavy bombers from RAF Fairford in Gloucestershire had been taken to reduce risk to the aircraft after a suspected plot targeting the base.

He spoke hours after two Latvians were arrested on suspicion of committing a national security offence over an alleged break-in at an RAF base in Cambridgeshire, where US and Nato intelligence troops are stationed.

On the same day, a British sailor working in naval intelligence appeared in court charged with spying for a foreign power, understood by The Times to be Russia.

Visiting troops on a military exercise in Wales, Knighton said: "The decision to remove the bombers, which don't ordinarily live there, to take them back, was an operational decision to reduce the risk. But we have enormously close relationships from an intelligence perspective and operationally with the US, and that's what gives me confidence around the safety and security of our bases."

Wes Streeting, the defence secretary, also sought to reassure allies and the public. He wrote on X: "We are highly vigilant about potential threats to our military sites and work closely with the police to keep them secure. The protection of our bases is multi-layered, including physical barriers, patrols, surveillance, monitoring and counterdrone capabilities."

The Pentagon confirmed that the B-1 Lancer bombers had been "redeployed to their home stations in the United Continued on page 5

ADHD label risks 'harm for life' for youngsters

Diagnoses on rise while autism cases up 40-fold

Eleanor Hayward Health Editor Ben Clatworthy Whitehall Editor

The surge in cases of autism and ADHD is reaching a “tipping point” of overdiagnosis that risks causing lifelong harm to children, a government review has concluded.

Experts said that having a diagnostic label from a young age could “close doors” and have “unintended harms” including making it hard to find a job or sustain relationships.

The report, covering England, said that autism and ADHD had historically been underdiagnosed but the trend was shifting towards an increased risk of misdiagnosis and overdiagnosis.

The proportion of young people diagnosed with autism has increased 40-fold since 2000, while ADHD diagnoses have risen 15-fold over the same period.

Potential harms of overdiagnosis of ADHD or autism include it “becoming a child’s identity” and defining them by “their difficulties, not strengths, circumstances and potential”, the report’s authors said. They recommend moving from a diagnosis-first approach to one that focuses on practical support, such as “quiet rooms” at schools for any children who get overwhelmed, even if they do not have a formal diagnosis.

There is a growing concern in Whitehall that the rise in diagnoses is fuelling a surge in benefit claims and contributing to the youth unemployment crisis. The report found that children diagnosed with ADHD were four times more likely to end up not in education, employment or training (Neet).

The review was commissioned by Wes Streeting, the former health secretary and present defence secretary, and led by Professor Peter Fonagy, a psychologist at University College London. It examined the surge in demand for mental health, ADHD and autism services, including the debate over whether the conditions were being overdiagnosed.

The authors said that the data was too uncertain to “establish that overdiagnosis is currently occurring at scale” but that “the trends are going that way” in the young. They identified a mismatch between previous estimates of the “true prevalence” of autism and ADHD in the population, and the numbers of people being diagnosed.

For example, 6 per cent of boys aged 6 to 11 now have a diagnosis of autism. Yet previous studies indicate that 1.2 per cent of the population would be expected to have the developmental disability and this has remained “broadly stable”.

Sir Simon Wessely, vice-chairman of the review, said that the high diagnosis rate in the young was probably “even worse than it looks” because the official figures did not include almost a million people on waiting lists or those who had been diagnosed privately. “We are moving, I think, away from Continued on page 6

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Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor as he left custody in February after his arrest on suspicion of misconduct in public office

Police raids on Andrew homes ruled unlawful

Fiona Hamilton Chief Reporter Kate Mansey Assistant Editor

Thames Valley police are at the centre of an embarrassing blunder after admitting that their high-profile raids on Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor's homes were unlawful.

The High Court quashed the warrants used to search Andrew's homes yesterday, leading to questions over the force's ability to carry out such a significant and sensitive inquiry.

A legal battle over whether police can use the seized material for its investigation into Mountbatten-Windsor's links to the paedophile financier Jeffrey Epstein will continue into next year.

Mr Justice Hilliard found a "significant error" in the force's application for the warrants and the granting of them by a judge at the Old Bailey. Thames Valley police, which conceded the warrants were granted under the wrong provision, have launched a court challenge to try to keep the seized material under a different legal mechanism.

However, legal experts said that although it was embarrassing for the police, it was a technical error and it did not mean the seized items would be inadmissible in a criminal prosecution.

Thames Valley police said detectives would continue their criminal inquiry into Mountbatten-Windsor, who was arrested on his 66th birthday in February on suspicion of misconduct in public office. He was questioned by police for 12 hours before being released under investigation. Detectives also spent days searching his homes at the Sandringham estate and Royal Lodge, his former residence in Windsor. They seized evidence including documents and electronic devices.

The investigation began after the release of millions of documents by the US Department of Justice. The Epstein files indicated that Mountbatten-Windsor had shared sensitive information with the financier when he was the UK's special envoy for international trade and investment from 2001 to 2011.

The judge detailed how the warrants were granted under section 8 of the Police and Criminal Evidence Act, but Continued on page 9

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Tories' inheritance tax plan 'will cost more than £10bn'

Oliver Wright Policy Editor

Kemi Badenoch's pledge to exempt family homes from inheritance tax will distort the housing market and risk costing the Treasury double the amount of revenue claimed by the Tories, tax experts have warned.

The Conservative leader used her conference speech on Wednesday to announce plans to allow children to inherent their parents' homes tax-free, regardless of value. The Tories said the policy would cost the Treasury about £6bn a year and prevent thousands of people being forced to sell their family's home to pay off death duties.

Some tax experts and economists have criticised the proposals, saying that they would disincentivise older people from downsizing, and pull money from assets such as stocks and shares.

An analysis by the tax lawyer Dan Neidle suggested that the policy could cost the Treasury up to £10.9bn a year in lost revenue — as a result of older people holding on to larger homes to reduce the inheritance tax bill. He said some people could even upsize to take full advantage of the loophole.

Arun Advani, professor of economics at the University of Warwick and director of the think tank CenTax, said the change would make it harder and more expensive for young working families to upsize.

"Obviously once main homes are exempt, there is an incentive not only to hang on to your home but to upsize and have a more valuable home to pass on," he said. "Plenty of people already don't want to [downsize], partly because of the current inheritance tax relief for main homes. This reform would further discourage downsizing, particularly for people living where housing is expensive."

He added that the beneficiaries would be mostly from families in London and the southeast, where main homes were more likely at present to be subject to IHT, and people who wanted to move to these areas would lose out because fewer homes were being sold.

The Tories used Oxford Economics to calculate the impact of the policy on the public finances. The consultancy concluded that it would be likely to cost about £6bn a year.

However, Neidle said behavioural impacts could increase the revenue lost to the Treasury by between £1.7bn and £4.9bn. "Today, selling a £1m house and moving to a £400,000 flat won't change your children's inheritance tax bill," Neidle said. "Under the Conservatives' proposal, the £1m house was exempt from IHT, the £400k flat continues to be, but the £600,000 you released is fully subject to IHT."

However, the Conservatives said house price growth over the past 30 years had turned inheritance tax into a postcode lottery in which “perfectly normal houses that were purchased decades ago will now be worth enough to drag families into the tax net”. They denied that their plan would distort the housing market, pointing out that couples would also be able to pass on up to £1m in cash to their children tax free.

Political opponents have criticised the plan. Torsten Bell, the pensions minister, called it an “unfunded tax cut for the wealthiest” and said the Tories had “hugely underestimated the cost of their policy”. Danny Kruger of Reform UK said the policy was proof that the Tories had abandoned the “red wall” of poorer industrial towns in the north. Badenoch gives up on the Tories’ red wall dream, Patrick Maguire, page 21

Bank chief urges credible fiscal policy for markets

Alex Ralph

Chief Business Correspondent

The governor of the Bank of England has urged governments to step up efforts to repair public finances to help guard against shocks amid a rout in global bond markets.

Andrew Bailey said fiscal policy must be “directed towards stability and be seen by markets as credible” at a forum in Istanbul organised by Turkey’s central bank. “Clear frameworks, including fiscal rules, can help contain risk premia when shocks occur,” he said.

Bailey was speaking a few weeks before John Healey is due to give his maiden budget as chancellor and as rising bond yields push up the cost of borrowing and squeeze public finances.

The government's fiscal headroom has narrowed from £23.6bn in March to £11.3bn and may fall further to a £7bn deficit if the conflict in the Middle East continues to restrict energy supply, drive up inflation and weigh on growth, a report from EY forecast this week.

Long-term borrowing costs hit their highest point for decades yesterday as a renewed global bond sell-off was driven by higher oil prices. Brent crude rose 5 per cent to \$105 a barrel, its highest level since late September. Ten-year gilt yields rose to 5.53 per cent, the highest since July 2007.

Bailey said lower economic growth and a quick succession of supply shocks had eroded public finances, increasing pressure on governments to step in. He said: "Governments can ... use their balance sheets to cushion a severe downturn. But when shocks become more frequent, underlying growth is weaker and the succession of shocks leads to a higher level of government debt."

The governor said there was “no quick fix” but it required a combination of higher sustainable growth, credible policy frameworks and ensuring that financial markets could absorb shocks.

Healey and Andy Burnham have sought to reassure markets before the budget. Speaking at Labour's party conference, Healey said he and the prime minister were "lockstep that we will meet the fiscal rules".

In EY's forecast, the narrowing of the fiscal headroom to £11.3bn assumed the Strait of Hormuz would reopen by the end of this year. In its “adverse scenario”, where the strait remains closed into mid-2027 and inflation climbs to 6 per cent by the end of this year, it would lead to a deficit of about £7bn.

Late asylum claims to face extra scrutiny

Emma Yeomans

Migrants who make last-minute claims to frustrate their deportation will face tougher scrutiny under a proposed law.

An amendment to the Immigration and Asylum Bill will mean asylum and protection claims made without good reason could damage a migrant's credibility and make them less likely to succeed. Judges and immigration decision-makers will take into account when a claim was made when ruling on it.

This builds on measures in the bill to fast-track late asylum claims made by migrants facing enforcement.

Under the amendment, a migrant set to be deported from the UK will be served with a claim notice and must submit any grounds they have for remaining by a set deadline. Appeals made after that deadline, or after a person has received notice of their removal, will be treated as late claims.

Anna Turley, the minister for border security and asylum, said: "By closing this route to abuse, we will prevent unnecessary delays, speed up removals and restore order and control to our immigration system."

New Ofsted regime ‘still harms teachers’

Georgia Lambert

Georgia Lambert Education Correspondent

Nearly half of school leaders say their staff's mental wellbeing has been negatively affected by a recent Ofsted inspection, according to research commissioned by the schools regulator.

Forty-eight per cent of leaders said an inspection under Ofsted's new framework had affected staff mental wellbeing “a fair amount” or “a lot”, research by IFF found. The findings come less than a year after Ofsted introduced its report card system in England, replacing single-word judgments.

The changes were prompted by the suicide of Ruth Perry, the head teacher of Caversham Primary School in Reading. An inquest found that an inspection was a contributory factor.

The new framework, introduced under Sir Keir Starmer's government, has garnered criticism from school leaders, teachers and unions. Last week, Lucy Powell, the education secretary, reportedly told Ofsted to "go back to the drawing board" amid concerns that the new framework was creating problems. While she does not want to scrap the ratings, which score schools from "exceptional" to needing "urgent improvement" in six key areas, she wants inspectors to take greater account of the social and economic background of each school.

Her comments came after the NAHT school leaders' union called for a halt to the inspections as it raised fears they still posed a risk to life.

Nearly 700 leaders in schools, early years, further education and skills providers were surveyed by IFF.

Sir Martyn Oliver, chief inspector of Ofsted, said: "When I joined Ofsted, there was a clear need to change the way we inspected to reduce the pressure on education leaders."

New twist to the story of overlooked DNA scientist

Lost note by Rosalind Franklin gives 'justice' to woman who missed out on a Nobel prize, Kaya Burgess writes

The names Francis Crick and James Watson are synonymous with the discovery of the structure of DNA. But “justice” can finally be done by revealing the full role of a third person in the breakthrough, whose significance in the discovery has for decades been mired in allegations of sexism.

For 74 years, there have been claims that Rosalind Franklin, an English chemist, had evidence for the helical structure of DNA in her hands before Watson or Crick, but “had not been able to recognise its significance” and put it to one side. This is why, so the story goes, Franklin failed to beat Crick and Watson to, or share the initial credit for, the discovery that would ultimately win the two men — plus a third, Maurice Wilkins — the Nobel prize.

For decades, the story has attracted accusations of misogyny, fuelling "longstanding tropes about the role of women in science", analysis has found.

The saga focuses on a famous image known as "Photo 51", an x-ray image taken in May 1952 of a fibre extracted from a DNA solution. It showed an x-shaped "diffraction" pattern of dots or dashes.

It was taken by Franklin and her graduate student Raymond Gosling, and was shown to Watson nine months later without their permission or knowledge. The American biologist said he instantly recognised its significance in showing a helical structure.

"The instant I saw the picture, my mouth fell open and my pulse began to race," he wrote in his 1968 memoir.

A new paper, published in the Journal of the History of Biology, notes of Watson: "He went on to insist throughout his life that Franklin had not been a sufficiently good scientist to see in Photo 51 the truths that he had instantly recognised."

Mystery has surrounded why Franklin did not immediately publish the image and why she appeared to have made no notes next to the image in her records. Analysts at King's College London, where Franklin worked at the

time, and in Philadelphia have now gone back through her notes and found the answer. They discovered that earlier on the same day in May 1952, Franklin and Gosling had taken "Photo 49". This showed the same pattern but distorted by a blemish, likely caused by a slip in equipment.

Next to the image, she noted it likely showed how many "bases", the building blocks of DNA, there were "per turn of helix". Later the same day, she retook an x-ray of the same sample for a clearer image. It did not require further notes, as she had made them alongside the earlier photo. "She already understood that the x-ray pattern could reveal important information about DNA's helical structure and planned a new photo to obtain clearer ... evidence," the analysis notes.

Rosalind Franklin, here holidaying in Tuscany, took Photo 51, top left. James Watson and Francis Crick, below, with their DNA model at the Cavendish Laboratory in 1953. Below left, Nicole Kidman as Franklin in the 2015 play Photograph 51

The journal's co-editor, Vassiliki Betty Smocovitis, told the Science news

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website that the finding “adds justice, that’s what it adds”.

After establishing that the crystalline form was probably a double-chained molecule, Franklin returned to Photo 51 to document its evidence, including her suspicion that it showed a “two-chain helix”.

By the time she returned to it in 1953, Crick and Watson were days away from using the image to make their breakthrough announcement in Cambridge.

King's College London said: "[The] findings do not diminish the importance of Watson and Crick's work in developing the double-helix model.

“However, they provide a fuller picture of how Franklin's own experimental work contributed to understanding DNA's structure, and show that she fully appreciated the significance of her work, in particular Photo 51.”

Franklin died aged 37 from ovarian cancer in 1958. Crick, Watson and Wilkins were awarded the Nobel prize in 1962. It is not awarded posthumously.

The 194-year-old tortoise who may hold the key to a longer life

Rhys Blakely Science Editor

When Jonathan the giant tortoise hatched from his egg, Charles Darwin was still a young man and Queen Victoria was a teenager. Medics were yet to establish that germs cause disease, and the discovery of the structure of DNA was more than a century away.

But at the age of 194, Jonathan is still plodding along — and researchers now believe that the world's oldest living land animal could help humans live longer healthier lives.

The Aldabra giant tortoise, who has witnessed the reigns of eight British monarchs, has spent most of his long life in the grounds of the governor's residence on the remote South Atlantic island of St Helena. Scientists have now identified 287 features of his DNA code that appear to have protected him against the ravages of time.

The findings could lead to new treatments to protect against diseases such as cancer in humans and even therapies that slow the ageing process itself.

Dr Stephen Clark, senior author of the study, said: "Our goal is to take these evolutionary insights and immediately translate them into practical affordable treatments for everyday people.

"Ageing is the greatest risk factor for nearly every chronic disease we face. Nature has already solved the puzzle of ageing in remarkable ways and Jonathan's genome provides a blueprint for cellular resilience."

Jonathan's secrets involve not only his genes, but also his body's ability to keep them working properly. As we age, our DNA accumulates damage. Our bodies have repair systems but they become less effective over time.

By contrast, Jonatha appears to be adept at keeping important regions of his genetic code in good order. The researchers found that his DNA includes particular versions of genes linked to repairing damaged DNA,

Jonathan has spent his long life on St Helena controlling inflammation, regulating blood sugar and protecting against cancer. They also discovered that cer-

control the activity levels of his genes have barely changed.

These switches, known collectively as the epigenome, are made up of small molecules that become attached to DNA. They help determine which genetic instructions our cells

follow. In humans, they gradually change as we grow older, contributing to the body's decline. But Jonathan's epigenetic switches, particularly those governing DNA repair and the way cells produce and use energy, often appeared remarkably youthful.

Dr Justin Gerlach, a zoologist at Peterhouse, Cambridge, said: "We found that the gene regulators involved in energy production and DNA repair have remained incredibly stable in Jonathan over almost two centuries."

The question now is whether the biological mechanisms that have kept Jonathan's DNA in a youthful state could be mimicked or targeted to boost human health.

The research, published in the journal Science Advances, was led by Kallel, an American non-profit organisation investigating longevity treatments.

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Treatments extend lives of men with incurable prostate cancer

Eleanor Hayward Health Editor

Men are living longer after being diagnosed with incurable prostate cancer as a result of major advances in treatment, a study has found.

Data from the National Prostate Cancer Audit (NPCA) found that the proportion of patients dying within three years of a diagnosis fell between 2015 and 2022. The increase in survival rates follows the introduction of several treatments on the NHS for advanced prostate cancer, which is when it has spread around the body.

Prostate cancer is the most common cancer in England with 60,800 men diagnosed last year. Of these, 6,300 were diagnosed with advanced prostate cancer.

Researchers from the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine analysed NPCA data from 45,000 men diagnosed with incurable advanced prostate cancer. They found that the proportion of men who died within three years of being diagnosed with advanced prostate cancer had fallen from 56 per cent in 2015 to 47 per cent in 2022.

New, more effective treatments include docetaxel, which is now the most commonly used chemotherapy for men with advanced prostate cancer, as well as novel hormone treatments such as enzalutamide and abiraterone, and prostate radiotherapy.

Natalia Norori, head of data and evidence at Prostate Cancer UK, said: "Behind this data are the stories of many more dads, husbands, brothers and friends living longer, better lives thanks to research breakthroughs. Right now, far too many men get a diagnosis at a later stage when treatment options are more limited and the fact that nearly half of men still die within three years remains a tragedy.

"The number of men living with prostate cancer also continues to rise, so it's vital that we see investment in prostate cancer care to ensure men get access to the best treatments that improve their quality of life, reduces side effects, and gives them longer, happier years with their partners, family and friends."

The report also found that the number of men being diagnosed with prostate cancer in England rose by 7 per cent last year to 60,827. This is linked to growing awareness of symptoms, and more men seeking PSA blood tests which can highlight if they are at risk. Celebrities including Sir Chris Hoy and Jeremy Clarkson have been diagnosed with the disease, and have urged others to look out for symptoms and get tested.

Experts said that there was a more positive picture for prostate cancer patients than at any time in the past due to more targeted, personalised treatment.

Kevin Mortimer is among those who have benefited. Mortimer, 51, from Liverpool, was diagnosed with advanced prostate cancer on his daughter's 11th birthday. He was told the cancer had spread to his bones and lungs, and that his case was "terminal". But three years later, his cancer is undetectable after he had triplet therapy — a new way of treating prostate cancer using three different treatments at once.

“Sitting with my 11-year-old daughter and the toy elephant she has had since she was a baby, to tell her that I had terminal cancer, was one of the most difficult things I have ever had to do,” Mortimer said. “Now, I’ve been able to celebrate two more of her birthdays and we’re looking forward to Christmas, all thanks to the innovative treatment I received.

“Although I know I am a ‘super responder’ and not all men in my position would have had the same outcome, I’m living proof of how far treatments for prostate cancer have come in the past few years thanks to investment, innovation and cutting-edge science.”

NHS warns of ‘ominous’ rise in flu cases before winter

Mark Ludlow

Flu cases last month were at their highest level for four years as the NHS warned of “ominous early signs” of a tough winter for hospitals.

While the number of people with flu is low, the NHS national medical director warned hospital admissions for the virus were the highest she could remember for this time of year.

Professor Frankie Swords said, after a busy summer, the NHS was preparing for an earlier than expected flu season.

"From an NHS perspective, it is very early in the season, but the number of admissions for flu are the highest that I can remember seeing at this time of year, and it coincided with just the start of the expected increase in Covid cases in our hospitals," she said.

"But 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 [there are] slightly ominous early signs of winter pressure."

UK Health Security Agency (UKH-SA) figures showed that hospital admissions for flu were 1.97 per 100,000 people for the week to October 4.

Swords said 3.9 million people had received their flu vaccination since the start of last month. The NHS started vaccinating pregnant women, toddlers and school-age children from September 1, with over-65s and other eligible adults offered the jab from October 1.

Elsewhere, UKHSA data showed that Covid-19 activity was also increasing, but still at low levels. This includes the so-called American strain, or XFG, which is closely related to strains seen in the UK for more than a year.

Dr Alex Allen, consultant epidemiologist at UKHSA, said: "There's nothing ... that suggests that XFG is more severe or more likely to cause severe illness."

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Former model jailed

A former Vogue model has been jailed for seven and a half years for abusing two women, one of whom he threw boiling water at after forcing her to strip. Archie Soames, 30, was sentenced at Isleworth crown court after being convicted of charges including coercive control in June. Judge Christopher Hehir said he had a “profound contempt for women”.

Code to spot a bad AI

When AI chatbots will go “rogue” can be predicted with a formula, according to a new study in the journal Patterns. Scientists at George Washington University said they could work out the “tipping point” when AI models switched from giving useful replies to potentially dangerous ones, and how quickly into a conversation it would happen.

Cyclist rode at prams

A cyclist who rode “furiously” towards a family with babies in prams while fleeing police has been fined £120. Police had spotted Daniel Kennedy, 43, from Liverpool, riding on the pavement while using his phone. He rode into oncoming traffic, then forced the family to jump out of his way. He admitted dangerous cycling at Wirral magistrates’ court.

An explosive donation

Royal Navy bomb disposal experts were called to a British Heart Foundation charity shop in Paignton, Devon, after a 3in high-explosive mortar was found among donated items. After deeming the ordnance to be safe, the specialist explosive ordnance disposal operators from Bravo Squadron took it to the nearby beach and blew it up.

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Royal Navy sailor appears in court accused of spying for the Russians

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A British sailor working in naval intelligence has appeared in court charged with spying for a foreign power, understood to be Russia.

Teddy Young, 24, was arrested at his Bedfordshire home and charged with two offences under the National Security Act.

Young is an able seaman, the most junior rank in the navy, and joined as a warfare intelligence rating with high-level security clearance in April 2024, the court was told.

Young is alleged to have “obtained, copied, recorded or retained protected information” intending to benefit an unnamed foreign power between November 2024 and May last year, the Metropolitan Police said.

This was sensitive information that he “ought reasonably to know was prejudicial to the safety or interests of the United Kingdom” and he “engaged in conduct in preparation for committing an offence of disclosing protected information”, according to the charges.

The Times understands that the allegations include translating a message into Russian, researching the dark web and looking for a web portal that invited people to submit information to Russia.

Young was charged under sections 1 and 18 of the National Security Act. He appeared at Westminster magistrates' court yesterday and spoke only to confirm his personal details. He was not asked to enter any pleas during the short hearing.

Judge Annabel Pilling remanded him in custody to next appear at the Old Bailey next Friday.

Counterterrorism police arrested Young at his home on Tuesday and took him into custody in London.

Neighbours at Young's family home in Clapham, a village on the outskirts of Bedford, described him as a "very nice and polite young man" who was into fitness and video games. They said he lived with his mother.

One neighbour in the cul-de-sac said: "He has always been a quiet, placid lad. He goes to the gym. He likes to keep fit. He's polite to everyone and the kind of guy who would just help anyone out. I'm pretty shocked that this has happened. He had a good career."

Residents told The Times that police arrested Young on Tuesday morning after they were allowed into the home.

The Met confirmed that the arrest was not connected to the investigation into the incident at RAF Fairford last month.

Commander Helen Flanagan, head of Counter Terrorism Policing London, said: “These are very serious charges against a serving member of the armed forces. We have worked extremely closely with relevant operational colleagues within the Ministry of Defence as our investigation has progressed to ensure appropriate measures could be taken to mitigate any potential risks linked to this matter.

"It is important now that any further speculation on this case is avoided so that the case can progress through the courts and the justice process not be impeded in any way."

The Royal Navy 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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Teddy Young, 24, lives with his mother in Clapham, near Bedford. Neighbours described Young, seen above in a court sketch, as a “polite” man who kept fit and played video games

Behind the story

Some of Moscow's most successful operations to recruit British military spies have involved the Royal Navy (Tom Parfitt writes).

Perhaps the most famous is the Portland spy ring, which was active in the UK between 1953 and 1961. A group of two Britons, a KGB sleeper agent living in Britain

under the guise of a Canadian businessman and two American communists conspired to obtain classified research documents from the Admiralty Underwater Weapons Establishment (AUWE), located on the Isle of Portland off Dorset, and pass them to the Soviet Union.

The principal agent working for Moscow was Harry Houghton, a former naval officer who was recruited by Polish

intelligence in the early 1950s when he worked in the naval attaché's office of the British embassy in Warsaw.

When Houghton returned to the UK he got a job at the AUWE, and the KGB provided him with a miniature Minox spy camera with which he photographed thousands of secret files — including details of HMS Dreadnought, Britain's first nuclear-powered submarine. He was aided by Ethel Gee, a filing clerk.

A CIA agent in Polish intelligence informed his handlers about Houghton in 1960, and the Portland spy ring was monitored by MI5 for several months before all five members were arrested and

convicted of espionage. The KGB handler posing as a Canadian, Konon Molody, was released in a spy swap in 1964.

Another infamous case from the same era involved John Vassall, a clerk at the Admiralty, the department in command of the navy.

During a stint with the British naval attaché in Moscow, Vassall, who was gay, became the victim of a honeytrap and was photographed in compromising positions with several men.

Homosexuality was still illegal in the UK, and the KGB blackmailed Vassall into handing over classified documents once he returned to the Admiralty, including information on radar, torpedoes and anti-submarine equipment.

Vassall was exposed by the KGB defector Anatoliy Golitsyn in 1961. He had also aroused suspicion with his flamboyant lifestyle, taking expensive foreign holidays and allegedly buying 36 Savile Row suits. He was arrested in 1962 and confessed. He was sentenced to 18 years in prison, serving ten.

Moscow has also, of course, eyed politicians involved with the military.

John Profumo was forced to resign as the secretary of state for war in 1963 when it emerged that he had had an affair with the model Christine Keeler, who was also sleeping with Yevgeny Ivanov, the senior naval attaché at the Soviet embassy in London.

Ivanov may have hinted to Keeler to ask Profumo about the deployment of nuclear weapons to West Germany, but there is no evidence that she did.

In the post-Soviet era, there are few known examples of Russia's intelligence services targeting UK personnel.

Latvians may have been at base for hours before discovery

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States" but stressed that the US air force still had the ability to strike "anywhere, any time".

The redeployment had been ordered after more details about threats to the base were believed to have emerged at the weekend. President Trump told reporters on Monday that he did not want to tempt “the enemy” by having the bombers at the base.

Knighton rejected suggestions that the suspected terrorist plot at RAF Fairford may have damaged long-term relations with the US.

British counterterrorism police are investigating after two Latvian men were arrested inside RAF Molesworth in Cambridgeshire in the early hours of yesterday morning. The Latvians may have spent up to four hours on the base before they were discovered. The men, aged 32 and 36, were found at about 2am after Ministry of Defence police found an abandoned vehicle during a security patrol and raised the alarm.

RAF Molesworth is used by US personnel and hosts intelligence analysis and command operations, as well as a Nato intelligence centre. It is not used for flying operations.

Police said there was nothing so far to suggest that the incident at RAF Molesworth was linked to the suspected plot against RAF Fairfield, which the US military has used to launch missions against Iran.

Sir Mark Rowley, the Metropolitan Police commissioner, urged the public to “trust” the investigation into the potential terrorist plot at RAF Fairford as a seventh suspect was released on bail. Asked during an LBC phone-in why suspects had been released, he said: “I know this is a really difficult thing in a world where everything is so open and transparent, but please give the police time and trust us.”

The Times understands that security at RAF Molesworth has been increased and a recent visitor said that they had seen "serious" defences against car bombs.

RAF Molesworth in Cambridgeshire

Commander Helen Flanagan, head of the counterterrorism unit at the Metropolitan Police, said: "Our investigation into this incident is at its very early stages. A big part of this is looking at any potential motivation as to why the men were present at the site ... we are keeping an open mind at this stage and inquiries are ongoing."

A spokesman for US European Command said American troops remained “at the highest state of readiness”. He said: “It is inappropriate to discuss matters of intelligence, and we will not discuss specific force protection measures. We will continue to assess the threat environment surrounding our installations and take appropriate actions to protect our people, our platforms, and the bases where our forces operate from.”

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How social media and waiting

Eleanor Hayward Health Editor Ben Clatworthy Whitehall Editor

A landmark review has examined the drastic rise in autism and ADHD diagnoses and warns of the risk of inaccurate labels, while calling for a switch to support based on needs.

Professor Peter Fonagy, chairman of the review into mental health, ADHD and autism, warned of a “turning point” that society must address as more young people feel “they’re going to have a future that’s less hopeful than their parents”.

These are its key findings.

A 40-FOLD INCREASE IN TEENAGERS WITH AUTISM

The 607-page report is sprinkled with graphs illustrating a precipitous increase in diagnoses of autism and ADHD over the past 25 years, a rise that is starkest in the young.

The proportion of teenagers diagnosed with autism has increased 40-fold, from 0.1 per cent in 2000 to 4 per cent last year. More than 6 per cent of boys aged six to eleven have now been diagnosed with autism. In contrast, less than 1 per cent of adults over the age of 25 have been diagnosed with the condition, and just 0.07 per cent of over-65s have a diagnosis.

For ADHD, there has been a 15-fold increase in diagnoses of teenagers, with 5 per cent of teenage boys now diagnosed. Historically, autism and ADHD diagnoses have been concentrated in boys, but this sex gap has narrowed to address “historical under-recognition among women and girls”.

There has also been a substantial rise in anxiety, depression and eating disorders. One in five people aged 16 to 24 have self-harmed. The report said this rise in distress was “real and cannot be explained by greater awareness alone”.

Crucially, there has not been a similar increase in severe mental illness and “population rates of schizophrenia and bipolar disorder, for example, have remained broadly stable”.

ARE PEOPLE BEING OVERDIAGNOSED?

The report acknowledges the “loud and polarised” debate over whether autism and ADHD are overdiagnosed. It says that, historically, both conditions have been underdiagnosed, but that we are reaching a “tipping point” where overdiagnosis may pose a greater risk.

Overdiagnosis is when people are "labelled with a condition they either do not have, or that would not have caused them harm or significant difficulties if left undiscovered".

The authors say that the data is too uncertain to “establish that overdiagnosis is currently occurring at scale”, but that “the trends are going that way” in age groups such as young boys.

The report says that for many people diagnosis is “clinically necessary, personally meaningful and essential to treatment”, but that “diagnosis can also do harm when it is inaccurate or used poorly”.

SWITCH TO NEEDS FIRST

Central to Fonagy's finding is the need to move from a diagnosis-first approach to one that “recognises need earlier and responds sooner”. Formal diagnosis would be prioritised for those who need one most, helping to reduce waiting lists caused by the more than 560,000 ADHD referrals and 254,000 autism referrals already in the system.

"There should be a fundamental shift from a diagnosis-dependent system to a needs-led plus diagnosis system," the report says. It adds that ministers must address two "failures at the same time": people waiting too long for support, diagnosis and treatment, and also the fact that "diagnosis has become the primary gateway to support that could and should be available earlier".

SMARTPHONES FUELLING LONELINESS

Social media and smartphones have contributed to the surge in diagnoses. "More of daily life is spent online, with less opportunity for physical activity, time in nature, play and uninterrupted sleep," the report says.

Teenagers are “doomscrolling for hours” and experiencing poor sleep, contributing to mental distress and damaging their attention span.

The report also highlights that social media sites such as Instagram and TikTok can present misleading symptoms of ADHD and autism, leading to “self-identification” of the conditions. Polling commissioned for the review found that about 18 per cent of 16 to 29-year-olds self-identified as autistic.

BAN ON ADVERTISING ADHD ASSESSMENTS

Private clinics should be banned from advertising ADHD and autism assessments, the report concludes. It highlights examples of billboards on buses and the Tube encouraging people to “see an ADHD specialist tomorrow”.

The report highlights “strong concerns about the consistency and quality of ADHD and autism assessments being carried out by independent providers”. It says all assessments for ADHD and autism should be regulated by the Care Quality Commission.

ADHD AND RISK OF BECOMING NEET The report identifies a strong link between the conditions and the youth unemployment crisis, with almost one million 16 to 24-year-olds not in education, employment or training (Neet). It warns that the proportion of Neets who report having a “work-limiting health condition” has increased from 26 to 44 per cent in the last decade. Among these, 68 per cent identified mental health or autism as their primary work-limiting condition. The most startling statistic is that children diagnosed with ADHD are four times more likely to become Neet. It is a “risk similar to autism and greater than that associated with many other long-term conditions,” the report says.

UNIVERSAL SCHOOL SUPPORT ISN'T WORKING

Schools should be told to abandon universal mental health programmes that “do not improve outcomes and some may unintentionally cause harm”. A trial involving 85 secondary schools found that mindfulness training “produced no overall benefit” and actually caused slightly poorer outcomes for pupils at greater risk of mental health problems. The report says: “This was attributed, in part, to the possibility that asking adolescents already experiencing difficulties to focus closely on their emotions in a classroom setting, without individual support, may heighten rather than relieve distress.”

The report favours mental health support teams, which launched in schools in 2017 and provide “brief, evidence-based interventions” to children and young people experiencing mild-to-moderate anxiety, low mood and behavioural difficulties. They now reach 60 per cent of pupils.

RISE OF SPECIAL EDUCATIONAL NEEDS Children receiving special educational needs support make up about 15 per cent of pupils but account for almost half of permanent exclusions, while 22 per cent end up as Neets, compared with only 7 per cent of their peers. The review found that autism-related Send cases rose from 1.5 per cent of pupils in 2016 to 3.3 per cent in 2024.

Andy Burnham met Friedrich Merz, the German chancellor, in Berlin. Ed Miliband

Diagnoses ‘reaching tipping point’

Continued from page 1 underdiagnosis into a kind of tipping point," he said.

"If these present trends continue, particularly the growing tendency to use diagnosis as a gateway to everything ... then the future risk of overdiagnosis, over-medicalisation is very, very likely."

The review emphasised that for many people diagnosis was “clinically necessary, personally meaningful and essential to treatment”. But “diagnosis can also do harm when it is inaccurate or used poorly”, including overmedicalising “ordinary, healthy life experiences” and making people feel like they are unable to achieve at school or hold down a job.

Fonagy recommends moving from a diagnosis-first approach to one that "recognises need earlier and responds sooner".

Formal diagnoses would be prioritised for those who needed one most, such as children who were selfharming, but everyone should be eligible for support based on their needs.

The review highlighted factors that had driven the surge in diagnoses, including smartphones, social media and Covid lockdowns.

It called for a crackdown on private clinics, which carry out half of all ADHD assessments but have been criticised for poor-quality assessments. It recommends they be banned from advertising their services and tighter regulation of assessment clinics with oversight from the Care Quality Commission.

Fonagy also suggested that too many people were being signed off work by GPs who did not have “detailed knowledge” of the patient’s workplace and did not have time in a ten-minute appointment to discuss adjustments.

Last year 11.2 million fit notes were issued by GPs, although only 2.69 million recorded a diagnosis. Of those, 36 per cent related to mental and behavioural disorders.

The report's findings are due to influence the recommendations of Alan Milburn's report on the almost one million people aged 16 to 24 who are Neet. His final report was expected next week but has been delayed until after the budget.

Yvette Cooper, the health secretary, said: "It is clear that mental health services need to change to focus more on the early support young people need to stay in education or work or keep their lives on track.

“Based on the review findings, we will also take action to strengthen the oversight of mental health and neurodevelopmental services, and make all diagnostic assessments for ADHD and autism Care Quality Commission-regulated, so people can be confident that assessments are high quality and that the NHS is not being overcharged by independent or private providers.”

Young must be offered timely treatment, not a label for life, leading article, page 25

PM vows deeper links with EU ahead of crucial summit

Oliver Wright

Andy Burnham has told European leaders that he is committed to securing “deeper co-operation” between Britain and the EU before a summit at the end of next month.

On his first visit to an EU country since becoming prime minister, Burnham held talks in Berlin with the German chancellor Friedrich Merz yesterday.

The two sides agreed a package of moves including the prospect of Germany joining an international coalition building next-generation fighter jets.

Speaking alongside Merz, Burnham said he was “committed to securing deeper co-operation” with the EU and said he hoped November’s summit would achieve tangible results.

"We've had an excellent discussion today, and we will look to see if we can turn the summit into a good outcome for the EU, but also for the UK as well," he said.

Burnham's spokesman added: "The prime minister said the UK was committed to building a stronger, more ambitious partnership with the EU, focused on delivering practical benefits for citizens and businesses both at home and across the rest of Europe."

Burnham's comments follow his commitment at Labour's conference to set out a path to further integration with the EU. He has not ruled out going into the next election with a pledge to hold a second Brexit referendum.

In Berlin, Burnham announced a joint security partnership with Germany to counter sabotage, cyberattacks and hybrid threats from Russia. The partnership will involve sharing information and co-ordinating action to monitor, deter and disrupt threats.

lists led to crisis for teenagers

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was in Ukraine with survivors of a Russian attack, while Baroness May of Maidenhead appeared at Henley Literary Festival

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Greens reported to equalities watchdog over Zionism policy

Daisy Eastlake Political Reporter

The Green Party is facing an investigation by Britain's equalities watchdog after it adopted a policy stating that "Zionism is racism".

The Campaign Against Antisemitism (CAA), which successfully reported the Labour Party for antisemitism under Jeremy Corbyn's leadership in 2018, said it had written to the Equality and Human Rights Commission about the policy's "real potential to embolden expressions of antisemitism".

The motion, passed at the Green Party conference, declared that Zionism, the movement that led to the creation of Israel as a Jewish state, would be “treated as any other form of racism” by the Greens.

Yesterday Andy Burnham, the prime minister, called on Zack Polanski, the party leader, to reverse the policy. He said on a visit to Berlin: "I think [the passing of the motion] was a completely wrong decision, a terrible judgment on the part of the Green Party.

"In effect, ruling out a two-state solution between Israel and Palestine, and for that reason it shouldn't be supported in any way, shape or form."

He added: “In my view, all political parties in the UK should do everything they can to support the two-state solution between Israel and Palestine, and that certainly will remain the government’s position.”

Gideon Falter, chief executive of the CAA, said the campaign “will not stand idly by as extremists hijack a political party and make antisemitism its openly stated policy”. He added: “The Green Party’s decision to adopt its ‘Zionism is racism’ motion is racist and unlawful because it discriminates against Jews. Whether the party believes itself to be above the law, or — by staggering incompetence — has not bothered to check the legal position, we will ensure it faces the consequences of its actions.

"The Green Party has become and continues to be a party which discrimi-"

nates against Jewish members and associates either in their capacity as Jews, or as persons who are, or are perceived to be, associated with Zionism and the state of Israel."

A Green Party spokesman said that Polanski “has made very clear no one will be made unwelcome because of their background, their faith, or where they worship. We remain committed to upholding our own code of conduct and our duties under the Equality Act, and to ensuring the Green Party continues to be a safe place for all members.”

On Burnham's comments, the party said: "This issue ... has rightly caused much discussion, and needs to be taken in the context that Israel's behaviour has had. Israel has been responsible for a genocide, ethnic cleansing and the killing of children, and we've had a political establishment which has not only turned a blind eye but provided support."

Polanski did not cast a vote on the motion. A Green Party spokesman said this was because he was on the campaign trail for the Holborn & St Pancras by-election, in which he is standing.

Green members also voted down an amendment designed to protect Jewish Greens who attend venues that identify as “Zionist”, such as synagogues or community centres, from being reported to the party for racism.

A spokesperson for the Equality and Human Rights Commission said: "We consider each complaint carefully and take action where appropriate."

They added: "We recognise the right to free speech is fundamental ... and must be protected even when dealing with complex and sensitive issues. Similarly, everyone has a right not to be discriminated against, including on the grounds of race, religion or belief.

"As part of our duty to foster good relations between different groups, we urge those in positions of authority to balance these rights appropriately and respectfully."

US was a refuge for Jews — now they feel unsafe, Gerard Baker, page 23

Britain withdraws 20 diplomats from Israel in compromise deal

Oliver Wright Policy Editor Gabrielle Weiniger Tel Aviv

Ministers have agreed to remove 20 diplomats from the British consulate in Jerusalem to prevent a spiral of escalation with Israel over the UK's trade ban on settlements.

In a compromise deal after a fortnight of negotiations, the UK has agreed to rename its consulate a “mission” but has insisted it retains full diplomatic privileges. Seven staff will remain working from the building with full “privileges and immunities” that apply to diplomats.

However, an Israeli source said that consular work with Palestinians would not be allowed to take place at the former consulate.

Diplomatic sources insisted that the UK was determined to restore the consulate to its previous status but had decided against further escalation before Israeli elections later this month.

They added that if progress was not made in the “coming months”, then further action was still “very much on the table”.

An Israeli source said that Israel had never asked the UK diplomats to leave and was not expelling them. Instead they said that it was a British decision to remove them. They said the diplomats would have been welcome to stay and use the Tel Aviv embassy.

Israel announced that it would force the closure of the consulate last month in retaliation for Ed Miliband's decision to impose sanctions on Israeli settlements in the occupied territories. The consulate provided services to Palestinians out of East Jerusalem and handled British relations with Palestinians in the city, the West Bank and Gaza.

In response, the UK warned Israel that it would retaliate by expelling Israeli diplomats from the country's embassy in London.

In a temporary compromise agreement, Britain has agreed to relocate

20 staff to other embassies in the region and to change the name of the consulate to the UK Mission.

Ministers insisted that the legal status of the outpost was unchanged and the UK retained its historic presence in Jerusalem.

"We are still there in an operational

The British consulate in Jerusalem, which will be renamed a "mission". Seven staff will remain working there with diplomatic privileges

capacity," said one Whitehall source. However, Gideon Saar, the Israeli foreign minister, claimed that the diplomats who remained would only be allowed to operate with a "very limited scope of activity" in the building. He said that 20 diplomats, including the consul general, "are ending their duties and will leave Israel". Saar added: "We did not want to come to this, but the actions of the Labour government led us here."

A British security team that was training Palestinian police in the West Bank has also left the country.

Stephen Doughty, a Foreign Office minister, said that Britain would retain a diplomatic presence through the UK Mission.

He told Times Radio: "The building remains open, we keep a presence in Jerusalem as we have for 200 years. Our diplomats will keep doing their important work."

The decision was taken after an “agreement” with Israel, Doughty said, but he added that “we obviously deeply regret the decisions they’ve set out” and that discussions were continuing.

Doughty played down the significance of the change in status, telling LBC it would amount to “a nameplate changing”. He later insisted to ITV: “Of course Israel is still a friend.”

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Shoplifter who thanked PM back in jail in days

Emma Yeomans

Ollie Cole Times Radio Reporter

A “prolific” shoplifter who praised Andy Burnham as he walked out of prison under the government’s early release scheme has been sent back to jail after going on a crime spree.

Just 24 hours after walking free last Thursday, Michael Bogle went on a shoplifting spree that tied up police for an entire day.

In a letter sent to local partners in north London, Detective Chief Superintendent Luke Williams, local commander for Brent, Barnet and Harrow, said his officers had arrested a man with 16 previous convictions relating to more than 100 cases of theft and a case of indecent exposure, who had been released from Wandsworth last week.

The Times understands the man is Bogle, 38, from Brent, northwest London, who told reporters outside HMP Wandsworth that he had served 78 days in prison after breaching a 32-week suspended sentence for shop-lifting. Asked for his message to Burnham, he told Times Radio: "Keep the early release going. It's good." The former bus driver added that conditions inside the prison were "awful".

Sir Mark Rowley, commissioner of the Metropolitan Police, has warned that early release offenders are breaching their tagging orders 100 times a day in London alone. Rowley said many offenders were breaching an order only to be bailed back into the community on the same conditions with “zero sanction”. He added that the force was arresting “two or three early-release offenders a week”, after the first wave of the latest releases began last week.

Nearly 5,000 prisoners are set to be freed early in stages over the next year as the Sentencing Act 2026 comes into force, in an effort to address prison overcrowding.

Bogle was released last week after serving his fifth sentence for shoplifting. He told reporters that there was a risk he would shoplift again "but hopefully not", adding that he had an approved premises to live in and planned to go to the job centre. However, within two days he was captured on CCTV stealing from supermarkets in northwest London.

Williams wrote: "A team of officers then spent an entire day locating the man and bringing him back into custody, where he was charged with four counts of shoplifting, breaching court orders and commercial burglary."

He pleaded guilty and has been recalled to prison. Williams went on: "The concerning nature of the early-release scheme in this case was a known prolific offender being put back into the community, only to reoffend. Not only does this put communities at risk, but puts demand straight back into policing who must arrest, investigate and put the individual back into custody. In this case, 27 officer hours were needed, leading to a cost of £1,887.

"Putting aside the cost to policing, it is reasonable to ask what else those officers could have been doing. They could have been out in the community, progressing other investigations or targeting high-harm offenders."

Chris Philp, the shadow home secretary, said: "This is an extraordinary and very unusual letter from a senior police officer. Labour let out this prolific offender early last Thursday — and he has already embarked on a crime spree, stealing and creating misery. The gov-

Michael Bogle went on a shoplifting spree after his release from Wandsworth jail

ernment did not even bother to tag all offenders on release, as they said they would, leaving criminals free to commit crime. Labour's reckless and botched release scheme is unleashing a crime wave already.

"They did not need to do this. There are prison places available that could be used now with a little work. And it shows why the Conservative plan to build 50,000 more prison places is so important"

Speaking on LBC yesterday, Rowley said he was worried about the number of offenders being released back into the community only to go on to reoffend. He said: "At the moment we're arresting two or three early-release offenders a week who are being recalled to prison or doing further offending. That's been since the start of August we've been capturing that data.

"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 ... and rising."

Rowley said there was a “revolving door” of offending, adding: “If you’ve been given that chance and then you breach all your conditions, you should be back inside.

"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 condition, so there is zero sanction."

Rowley's comments come after the justice secretary, Alex Norris, admitted on Sunday that he was unable to say how many prisoners freed early had been tagged.

Officials have said there was a presumption that all criminals released early would be fitted with GPS tags, but Norris said it was “too soon” to have the numbers.

A government spokesperson said: "We inherited a prison system on the brink of collapse. If we had failed to act, the police would have been forced to halt arrests, putting communities at untold risk.

"To manage offenders out on licence, we are rolling out the toughest-ever controls, including world-first restriction zones, the largest expansion of electronic tagging, and giving victims a say in licence conditions."

Laundry detergent thief highlights a cycle of failure

Prison and probation experts say the systems are creaking and rates of reoffending soaring, Emily Dugan reports

When Michael Bogle walked out of HMP Wandsworth he told reporters: "I won't end up back inside." Bogle, 38, was one of 700 prisoners across England and Wales who were released early on October 1 to ease overcrowding.

A former bus driver turned prolific shoplifter, Bogle spent 11 weeks in the prison after breaching a 32-week suspended sentence for repeated theft of laundry detergent. As he left just before midday he said there was a risk he would shoplift again "but hopefully not".

By 6.08pm that afternoon Bogle had stolen his first £22 of laundry products from a Sainsbury's in Brent. Before he went to sleep that night he had already committed four crimes involving laundry goods. By Monday that total had reached 11 and on Tuesday he was back in prison.

As the government prepares to let out a second tranche of 650 prisoners under the early release scheme on Tuesday, experts said Bogle's experience was indicative of a justice system trapped in a "dire" cycle of failure. Probation officers, who work with released prisoners to try to prevent reoffending, are buckling under the workload, with staffing levels about 26 per cent below target.

Despite Shabana Mahmood, the home secretary, highlighting the critical importance of probation service staffing when the government first announced early releases in July 2024, numbers have only increased by 3 per cent.

Bogle, who said he had been jailed five times for more than 100 convictions and was being treated with anti-psychotic drugs, told reporters he was heading to a bail hostel in northwest London when he was released.

Every day Bogle was a free man he stole laundry products from Sainsbury's and Tesco shops in northwest London. He said the hauls were to buy money for food after being made homeless but detergents are known currency for drugs because of their high value, long life and ease of resale.

When he was arrested last Monday after stealing £18.24 of laundry products from a Tesco Express in

Wembley he was found with drug paraphernalia on him. A day later he was back in Willesden magistrates' court and sentenced to eight months in prison after committing seven thefts and four breaches of criminal behaviour orders — including an order banning him from all branches of Sainsbury's in the UK — in his five days of freedom.

Bogle's story reflects the experience of many caught in the revolving door of the justice system. He said his family "don't want to know me" and described prison as "terrible" with "too many drugs" inside.

He added: "Prisons are full up. It's sad. A prisoner killed himself this week on D wing." Bogle said he saw the "same people" whenever he was in prison. Describing a previous run of offending he said: "Last November I was homeless and shouting at people and smoking drugs and all this, so police caught up with me. I got released from Wormwood Scrubs and then I was homeless so I had to steal to find the money to eat."

Cassia Rowland: "Prisons can't cope"

Ian Lawrence, general secretary of Napo, the trade union for probation officers, said: "It's pretty dire out there. We've been saying this is the price of an overcrowded prison system and an underfunded probation service and the fact that there's insufficient support available in the community so it is inevitable.

"[Bogle] is probably among many hundreds who will find themselves in the same place. Even without this early release scheme, workloads were going through the roof and morale is through the floor. Our members' sickness rates are at a higher level than they've ever been. There's too much work than they can realistically cope with in their working week."

Napo members will begin voting on a possible strike on October 19 over the government's "failure" to offer "tangible solutions to their workload".

The problem is not new to this government. When Rishi Sunak was prime minister an ad hoc early release scheme saw thousands of prisoners released often with only a few hours' notice. According to the Institute for Government, 14 per cent of people released between February and August 2024 were sleeping rough.

Cassia Rowland, associate director of the institute and author of a report out on Monday on the state of the justice system, said: "Prisons and the probation service simply cannot cope with the demand they are facing and this is having dire consequences: poor rehabilitation, sky-high rates of people being sent back to prison, sentences curtailed and prisons rife with drugs and violence.

"The case of this offender is sadly entirely predictable. With prisons riddled with drugs, poor preparation for release and little support to address the problems that drive people to offend, this cycle will only continue, harming us all."

Rowland said that under Sir Keir Starmer's government there was "progress on these issues, albeit imperfectly". She warned that "the government should urgently prioritise resettlement and rehabilitative support in prisons and for people on probation to address the causes of offending and free up spaces in prison".

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Harry tells of sadness and ten-day rule

Kate Mansey Assistant Editor

The Duke and Duchess of Sussex with Archie, seven, and Lilibet, five. Harry has recorded a video series about unlocking “the resilience that lives within each of us”

The Duke of Sussex “slipped into depression for about two weeks” after leaving the UK to move to Canada before he decided to break away from his royal role.

Prince Harry, 42, said he had been in a “stressful environment” but that as he took time out, he experienced an “adrenaline crash” that made him feel “useless”.

At the end of 2019, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex temporarily stepped back from official duties to take an extended break on Vancouver Island in Canada with their baby son Archie, now aged seven.

In January 2020, a spokesman for Buckingham Palace said: “We understand their desire to take a different approach, but these are complicated issues that will take time to work through.”

Within weeks, the couple had left their roles permanently.

Speaking about his mental health at that time, Harry told Dr Mary-Frances O'Connor, a neuroscientist, that he had wanted to "get some space away from everything".

He added: "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 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 conversation can be seen in a video session called Redefining Grief: Building Resilience through Loss, which was filmed for MasterClass, an online series of lessons in self-improvement.

Subscribers can watch 20 lessons in Harry's series, which aims to "cover new ways to process grief and loss so you can find your way back to you".

In a trailer, Harry talked about his late mother, Princess Diana, and said: "I consider myself a student of grief."

Sitting in a chair wearing a suit with a blue shirt, Harry said: "I couldn't remember my mum's laugh. Couldn't remember what she looked like. I felt like I had to be sad in order to prove to her I missed her.

"In my twenties I went to war twice, thinking I could outrun my feelings. But that's not what happened."

In August, the couple made an unexpected return to the UK, where their two children, Prince Archie and Princess Lilibet, are enrolled in school.

It is understood that Harry filmed the series about grief in California — although not at his home in Montecito

—before his return to the UK. He talks about his grief at losing his mother as a child and the break in Canada that ultimately led to his and Meghan's departure from the royal family.

Speaking about Diana's death, when he was 12, 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 trailer for the video series, O'Connor tells Harry, "You're not crazy."

Speaking to the camera, Harry says: "Nobody told me joy was still allowed. That it wasn't a betrayal. This class will hopefully give you that permission.

"What you've lived through isn't just something to survive, it's the foundation for what comes next."

The duke also said he followed a rule of never being away from his wife and children for longer than ten days.

The MasterClass course promises to "teach the tools to turn loss into growth and unlock the resilience that lives within each of us". MasterClass says that the Duke is uniquely qualified to speak on the subject, having "spent his teenage years and early twenties suppressing grief".

The cost of an annual MasterClass membership ranges from £120 up to £228.

Yesterday the duchess, 45, made a rare public appearance at Claridge's hotel in London, where she was seen with Malala Yousafzai, 29, the Pakistani blogger who survived being shot by the Taliban and became the youngest winner of the Nobel peace prize.

The duchess first met Yousafzai on a Zoom call in 2020 to mark the International Day of the Girl. They spoke about the barriers that prevented millions of young women around the world from accessing education.

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that this did not allow for searches of items covered by legal privilege or material that was considered confidential, such as business records.

As that category of material was central to the investigation, police had to concede the warrants were unlawful. They were quashed in July but only made public yesterday.

The judge added that “the fact that the search warrants were quashed does not bring an investigation to an end or mean that the whole of the investigation was unlawful”.

He will hold a hearing next year to determine whether Thames Valley police can retain and use the material under a separate legislative provision.

The force said: "We continue to pursue all reasonable lines of inquiry to effectively and fairly progress this investigation."

A friend of Andrew said that he remained “philosophical” about the outcome of the hearing.

They said: "Those of us who are close to Andrew tend to feel the injustice of his situation rather more keenly than he does. He remains contemplative and

Analysis

Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor has scored a moral victory over

the police and a judge, but yesterday's ruling is unlikely to lead to financial compensation or affect the investigation (Jonathan Ames writes).

Nonetheless, the judgment from Mr Justice Hilliard in the High Court is widely viewed in legal circles as the result of a “quite extraordinary” admission by Thames Valley police that there were defects in the search warrants granted in February.

Those warrants triggered a media frenzy as the King's brother was arrested over allegations of misconduct in public office — which he denies — and his properties searched.

Mountbatten-Windsor, whose royal titles were removed last November, was said to be frustrated with the pace of the investigation and sought leave for a judicial review of the granting of the warrants.

The judge in the High Court has ruled that the process was unlawful, which raises the prospect of Mountbatten-Windsor being able to claim some form of compensation.

Those who have been subject to unlawful searches are eligible for payouts from the police. The catch is that Mountbatten-Windsor's case revolves around a technicality. For example, it stands in stark contrast to a case two years ago, when officers from the same force obtained a search warrant to search a property in Reading.

They steamed into a house with the address No 25 in a street in the city, using a battering ram to smash through the front door. Officers found a man, his wife and three school-aged children there and said they wanted to speak to a “Mr Jones”. The husband informed them that Mr Jones was known to him — he lived next door at No 25A. That unlawfully executed search warrant cost Thames Valley £57,000 in damages.

The circumstances around Mountbatten-Windsor's case are markedly different.

"The fact that the police have admitted there were defects in the search warrants they obtained is quite extraordinary and calls into question the credibility of Thames Valley police and their ability to conduct such high-profile and sensitive operations," Andrew Gilmore, a partner at Grosvenor Law, said.

He added that Mountbatten-Windsor could “still be entitled to compensation but because the breach is technical, the level of compensation will be limited”.

Mountbatten-Windsor's royal titles were stripped by the King last year

philosophical. Many of us? Not so much. His friends and allies are appalled by the way he's been treated these past 15 years, with Thames Valley police's performative policing, grand-standing birthday police raid and flawed procedures just the latest in a long line of trial by public opinion. It's a very long way from the natural justice that we are all supposed to enjoy in this country."

Nick Vamos, former head of special crime at the Crown Prosecution Service, said it was an “embarrassment” for Thames Valley police but it was a technical error, and that a court would probably rule they could use the material.

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Sea of memories Henri Matisse's Océanie, la mer is expected to fetch up to £2.5m at a Christie's auction in London on October 14. The artist said in 1946 that the screenprint on linen was inspired by a trip to Tahiti, from which he recalled "madrepores, coral, fish, birds, jellyfish"

Curing dementia is a cause close to home for PM

Aubrey Allegretti Chief Political Correspondent

Britain should aim to be the country that finds a cure for dementia, Andy Burnham said as he announced a £48m partnership with an initiative set up in memory of the actress Barbara Windsor.

Funding has been pledged by the government and pharmaceutical companies to make it easier for people to join clinical trials testing treatments.

Burnham, whose father, Roy, died last month with Alzheimer's, is expected to announce the partnership today.

The government will commit £33m to dementia research. Another £15m will be committed by the pharmaceutical companies GSK and Bristol Myers Squibb and the investment company Gates Ventures.

The Barbara Alliance is a UK-wide not-for-profit partnership that brings together government, industry, academia, charities and people with lived experience of dementia. The funds will be used to help it to create a single platform to link health data, research and clinical trial capabilities. The platform is intended to make it easier for researchers to find participants for studies.

The lack of study participants is one of the biggest bottlenecks in researching dementia, a syndrome associated with decline in brain function, of which Alzheimer's is a specific type.

Before an “innovation nation” conference with business leaders today, Burnham said: “Dementia is a devastatingly cruel disease, not only for those who live with it but for the families who care for them.

"I want Britain to be the country that makes the breakthrough and delivers the cure for dementia the world has been waiting for. That is why I am making dementia research a national priority, by backing the NHS, universities, researchers and industry to drive the breakthroughs we desperately need."

Burnham, who has pledged to develop cross-party plans to address social care, said the investment would compliment wider-ranging reforms. He has asked Dame Louise Casey's commission on adult social care to publish its report a year earlier than planned, in summer 2027.

He said: "This investment goes hand in hand with our plans for a national care service, helping ensure that people living with dementia get the care and support they need and giving families peace of mind that their loved ones will be cared for."

Windsor's charitable foundation said that the money would help to fund life-changing research. The EastEnders actress was diagnosed with Alzheimer's in 2014, six years before her death.

Anyone over the age of 18 — with or without a dementia diagnosis or memory concerns — can sign up to be included in clinical trials through the government's Join Dementia Research service.

Nearly a million people in the UK live with dementia and the government estimates that about 50 per cent of Britons will be affected in their lifetime, either through a diagnosis, caregiving or both. Downing Street said that dementia cost the UK more than £42bn per year. The vast majority of the cost falls on social care and unpaid carers, and the NHS shoulders £7bn.

Hilary Evans-Newton, the chair of the Dame Barbara Windsor Dementia Goals programme and chief executive of Alzheimer's Research UK, said: "We know that people affected by dementia want the opportunity to be part of the search for better treatments.

“More than 90 per cent we’ve surveyed told us they would like to take part in research, helping to shape a better future for everyone affected by the condition.

“By tackling the barriers to dementia research and speeding up recruitment to clinical trials, this funding will help more people contribute to breakthroughs in diagnosis and treatment.”

Academics voice doubts on scope of Arday inquiry

Georgia Lambert Education Correspondent

Cambridge academics have warned that the independent inquiry into the death of Jason Arday would leave “fundamental” questions unanswered.

In a letter addressed to Lord Smith of Finsbury, the university's chancellor, and members of the university council, 40 academics called for a "clear chain of responsibility" to be established regarding decisions made after Arday's appointment and in the events leading up to his death on August 14.

While welcoming terms of reference for a two-part review, published last month by Deborah Prentice, Cambridge's vice-chancellor, the signatories argued that key issues remained unaddressed.

"We welcome the greater detail now provided in the terms of reference," the letter, which was shared with The Times, said. "We believe, however, that important and more fundamental questions remain.

"It is not yet clear that the scope and governance of the review as a whole will allow these questions to be answered in a way that delivers the full institutional accountability required."

Arday became Cambridge's youngest black professor in 2023, aged 37. This year he came under scrutiny over accusations of plagiarism, which he denied. Arday resigned in August and was found dead at his London home nine days later.

Cambridge University has been approached for comment.

Jason Arday died after claims of plagiarism

Sisters drowned in suicide pact

Lara Wildenberg, Eleanor Tait

Three sisters who drowned in the sea off Brighton beach died in a suicide pact, a coroner has ruled.

Jane Adetoro, 36, Christina Walters, 32, and Rebecca Walters, 31, from London, were found in the water on May 13.

Penelope Schofield, the senior coroner, found yesterday that they "deliberately entered the water with the intention to end their lives".

They had travelled to Birmingham the evening before to visit the address of their mother, who had died by drowning in 2010, the inquest heard.

In a tribute read to the court, the women's father said that they would be "reunited with their mother in God's eternal care". Joseph Jacobson, who attended the hearing online, said: "There are no words that can adequately express the pain of losing a child. To lose all three of my precious daughters, Jane, Christina and Rebecca, is a heart-break beyond anything I could ever have imagined."

He described his daughters as “beautiful, intelligent and accomplished women, each had their own personality, dreams and ambitions and special place in my heart”.

He described how Jane and Christina had worked as accountants and Rebecca in human resources. Jacobson also mentioned his wife, Janice, who died in Brookvale Lake in Birmingham.

"Together we shared the blessing of bringing three daughters into the world. Her life and influence remained part of their story," he said.

He continued: "Jane, Tina and Becky, I want the world to know you were deeply loved. I was blessed to be your father and I was thoroughly proud of each of you. You were my daughters, you will always be my daughters and I will love you for the rest of my life. May your beautiful souls rest in peace."

The court heard evidence that Christina suffered from "anxiety and depression" and that police had found 227 references to water and 179 references to suicide on her laptop search history.

The sisters also cleared their bank accounts, and the flat they shared had been "thoroughly cleaned".

Schofield, overseeing proceedings at Woodvale coroner's court, said: "I have to consider why they had entered the water in the hours of darkness when they couldn't swim in an area they had no connection with. I find that the sisters deliberately entered

the water with the intention to

end their lives."

She added: "These three sisters lived very secluded lives ... We don't know why they took this course of action or indeed why they chose to do so in Brighton. Sadly these details may never be known."

A coroner's officer read the post-mortem report, which included medical records from

From left, Jane Adetoro, Christina Walters, and Rebecca Walters as children with their father Joseph and, left, their mother Janice. The three sisters drowned off Brighton beach

Christina's GP. The records noted that, in October 2024, she had been diagnosed with “mixed anxiety and depressive disorder”.

Detective Chief Inspector Mark Cullimore from Sussex police told the hearing the sisters travelled by taxi to Birmingham the day before their death and were dropped at the street where their mother, Janice Adetoro, had lived. The court heard the sisters were in Birmingham for an hour and half, between

11.36pm on May 11 and 1.28am on May 12. On May 12, they took a pre-booked taxi to Brighton and arrived near the seafront at 10.21pm. Cullimore said the driver did not notice anything unusual except a "lack of conversation".

The sisters are thought to have last been seen alive on CCTV at the beach at 2.42am on May 13.

Jane was brought to shore by an RNLI crew and declared dead at the scene, the inquest heard. Christina was recovered from the sea by a lifeboat, and Rebecca was washed on to the shore of Brighton beach.

Cullimore said that all three sisters cleared their accounts and debts were paid at the time of the death. Jane repaid a loan in full on May 11, only two days before her death, he said. Contact the Samaritans anonymously on 116 123, or visit samaritans.org for more information

Husband ‘hit and strangled’ royal GP

Mark Ludlow, Andrew Young

The husband of a GP to the royal family appeared in court yesterday accused of killing her by striking her on the head and strangling her.

The body of Dr Hannah Terry, 45, was found on Sunday after emergency services were called to the family home she shared with her husband, Mark Cain, in Dersingham, near the Sandringham Estate.

There were five children aged eight to 13 in the house that night, including the couple's three boys. The other two were there for a sleepover.

Cain appeared by videolink at King's Lynn crown court. Steven Ball, for the prosecution, told the court that Cain, described as “a man of previous good character”, was accused of murdering his wife between the night of October 3 and the early morning of October 4.

Ball said Terry was "found upstairs on the floor of a bedroom unconscious and unresponsive". He added: "The initial findings of a post mortem detailed blunt force injuries to her head and neck injuries consistent with compression to her neck."

A plea and potential trial preparation hearing is expected to take place on December 3.

Terry worked for nine years at the Heacham Medical Practice before moving to Grimston last year. She was reported to be on a rota supplying medical cover to members of the royal family at Sandringham. She and her husband bought their home jointly in September 2021 for £760,000 and had a 300ft-long field attached to their garden. The house is surrounded by the royal family's 20,000-acre Sandringham estate and is just over a mile from Sandringham House.

She was also a director of Norfolk Sky Aesthetics, a company she ran with a registered nurse based in Dersingham that specialised in providing anti-wrinkle and filler treatments.

Her family paid tribute to her through the police, saying: "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."

Several bouquets of flowers have been left outside her home. Patients also left flowers and messages to Terry outside the Grimston Medical Practice. One card attached to a teddy bear on a bench read: "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."

Met chief will not apologise for 'Putney Pusher' pressure

David Brown Chief News Correspondent

The commissioner of the Metropolitan Police has refused to apologise for any pressure placed on the suspect in the "Putney Pusher" case before he killed himself.

Sir Mark Rowley said Nicholas Brandram, 44, an army veteran, was still being investigated over the 2017 incident, when a jogger shoved a woman in front of a bus on Putney Bridge, west London.

Brandram was arrested at his home in Chiswick, west London, in June. His family, who insist he was innocent, accused detectives of placing him under “immense pressure” before he killed himself last month.

Rowley told LBC's Nick Ferrari at Breakfast yesterday: "That case has been live all that time, and we had some new information, and that led us to treating that man as a suspect. Every criminal suspect, of course they're under pressure. That is obvious. I'm not going to apologise for that. The thing that the family are saying is, 'Met, you were unreasonable. He was obviously innocent'. I'm not saying I necessarily agree with that, but we've got to review and look at their complaints alongside continuing the investigation."

He added: "So, we're investigating the case. We have a suspect, he died, the family have complained. We need to continue ... It could be the person we're investigating. So let us work it through."

The Independent Office for Police Conduct has told the Met's professional standards unit to investigate the handling of the case.

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Deliveroo to sack e-bike riders who go too fast

Laurence Sleator Transport Correspondent

They have become a fixture on city streets, bringing orders of food or shopping to the doors of millions.

But in an industry where speed is key, some delivery riders have been using illegal means to get to their destinations faster. E-bikes capable of reaching speeds of more than 30mph are often ridden dangerously.

Now Deliveroo, which has a network of more than 100,000 delivery riders servicing 70,000 restaurants and grocery stores in the UK, has begun a crackdown on any it suspects are on the roads illegally.

Using new speed and GPS technology, it plans to monitor riders on its platform and look at how fast they deliver orders. If the time a delivery takes does not correlate with the bike registered to an account, the user will be contacted, warned and banned from the platform if the behaviour persists.

Paul Bedford, policy and sustainability director at Deliveroo, told The Times: "The speed technology is helping us better detect the use of illegal e-bikes by looking at sustained speeds. Where we see sustained speeds that are illegal, we will disable a rider's account.

“GPS data on its own has its limits, for example on downhill stretches or in dense urban areas where signals are less reliable, hence our policy focusing on ‘sustained’ speeds beyond what is possible on a compliant vehicle. We are designing our approach to identify sustained patterns and avoid penalising riders who are following the rules.”

Deliveroo will use GPS technology to monitor the speeds of its e-bike riders

To be legal in the UK an e-bike must have an electric motor of no more than 250 watts and cut off its pedal assistance when a rider reaches 15.5mph. Any e-bikes that do not meet these requirements are effectively motorbikes and must be registered, taxed and insured.

In the first seven months of this year London's Metropolitan Police seized more than 2,500 illegal e-bikes and e-scooters. Conversion kits, often bought from abroad, are used to modify both pedal and e-bikes, making them illegal and capable of reaching speeds of up to 70mph.

"We will offboard riders using non-compliant vehicles, and the speed technology we are piloting will strengthen our ability to detect these cases," Bedford said.

The move has been backed by Transport for London and London Fire Brigade. The conversion kits' lithium-ion batteries are also a fire risk.

The Bicycle Association, the trade body for the UK cycle industry, said: "We agree with Deliveroo that these conversion kits, which turn pedal cycles into dangerous, non-road-legal electric vehicles, should be banned from sale.

"Their illegal use for delivery riding puts riders, people living where the batteries are stored and other road users at risk. It is also undermining the legitimate UK e-bike industry, whose safety-tested and fully road-legal products are often tarred with the same brush."

The government said: "E-bikes that have been modified to be faster and more powerful than the rules allow are motorbikes, and unless they have been registered, taxed and insured, they have no place on our roads.

"We've given police stronger powers to seize vehicles ... and we are cracking down on unsafe products sold online."

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'Pain director' wins battle of wounded knee against NHS

Jonathan Ames Legal Editor

NHS managers discriminated against a veteran consultant by stripping her of the title “clinical director of pain” after she took time off with a painful knee.

Dr Kathryn Grady, who had a 40-year career with the health service, developed a weak knee after falling ill during the pandemic and took sick leave from Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust.

While on leave she was informed that she had been overpaid by almost £200,000, which caused her “great anxiety”, an employment tribunal was told.

After taking further time off because of her knee and mental health, Grady, who was 63 at the time, was told that her title was going to be removed.

She sued the trust and the tribunal in

Dr Kathryn Grady was the only member of the pain leadership team aged over 60

Manchester ruled that she suffered unfavourable treatment because of disability and is eligible for compensation.

Grady joined the NHS in 1983 and was appointed as a consultant anaesthetist specialising in pain medicine by the University Hospital of South Manchester NHS Foundation Trust 12 years later. She became clinical director of pain in 1996 and held the role until 2004.

A decade later Grady agreed to resume the role, retaining it after a merger in 2017. She was clinical director of the merged pain services from that point until her title was removed in 2023.

The tribunal was told that early in 2020 the entire pain service was effectively halted because of the pandemic and that Grady and other staff were redeployed. When the team returned to its normal service in 2021-22, Grady was praised in a review, which found that she had “continued to successfully lead a dynamic and complex multidisciplinary team”.

But at the end of 2022, managers conducted “crisis meetings” over what was seen as a lack of bespoke training for pain consultants. By the next spring, after Grady had been on leave owing to a Covid-related illness—her right knee gave way while she was conducting a long theatre list.

She told the hearing that she was unable to put weight on her right knee and after a scan was advised to use crutches and do no further theatre lists that week.

Around that time, the trust's anaesthesia head reviewed its pain services, a process that ultimately removed Grady as pain director.

The consultant was also told that she had been overpaid £190,328, which "came as a massive shock" and was a "source of great anxiety".

At the time, Grady was the only member of the pain service leadership team over 60.

The tribunal backed Grady's claim for unfair dismissal and unfavourable treatment due to disability.

In its ruling, the judge, Rhodri McDonald, noted that trust managers had removed Grady's title "without any advance warning", a move that was "likely to destroy or seriously damage the employment relationship".

The tribunal ruled that her appointment to that role had been “open ended” and that Grady would have expected to receive “some indication of serious failings on her part”.

McDonald added that “there had been no such indication” and that the removal of her title “amounted to a loss of status and would be doubly humiliating when others knew before [Dr Grady] did”.

Girl, 12, in allergy death 'will never be forgotten'

he parents of a 12-year-old girl who died from an allergic reaction after

drinking a milkshake contaminated with hazelnuts have said she "will never be forgotten" as an inquest into her death concluded (Peter Chappell writes).

Mia Shay St Hilaire suffered a severe allergic reaction after drinking a Twix milkshake at the Pop Inn Cafe in Bermondsey, southeast London, with her aunt and sister in August 2023. Mia, from Sydenham, had a hazelnut allergy.

The drink she had been given contained traces of hazelnuts from a previous milkshake made in the blender. Video showed that Baris Yucel, the café's operator, had not cleaned the blender before preparing the drink.

Briony Ballard, the assistant coroner, said Mia had consumed some of a Twix milkshake "which had been cross-contaminated with hazelnut residue from a

Mia Shay St Hilaire, 12, suffered a severe allergic reaction after drinking a Twix milkshake at the Pop Inn Cafe in Bermondsey, southeast London

Kinder Bueno milkshake previously prepared in the same unwashed blender. She developed rapidly progressing anaphylaxis and ... collapsed at her aunt's home."

Despite being rushed to hospital and transferred to intensive care at the Evelina London Children's Hospital, Mia died.

Her parents, Adrian and Chanel, said in a statement: "Significant changes are needed to protect people living with food allergies. Consumers rely on food hygiene ratings when deciding where it is safe to eat, but they do not tell us anything about the way a food business runs allergy management systems.

"There should be a separate, clearly displayed rating dedicated to allergy management, like the food hygiene rating. This would mean that people with allergies could make informed choices about where they eat."

Southwark council brought a case against the café and in January last year Yucel pleaded guilty to all six offences. These included not making allergen advice available to consumers, failing to manage contamination during food production, and serving food with an allergenic ingredient that was not supposed to be present. He was fined £18,000 and given a 100-hour community order.

Hearing your top tunes soothes pain

Listening to your favourite music reduces pain during medical procedures, new research shows.

Scientists found that playing patients' preferred tunes while a cannula was inserted before an MRI scan minimised pain and stress. Music did not have a soothing effect when a random piece was played.

Although musical interventions have previously been reported to help with pain and stress, the evidence varies for different genres.

Swiss scientists played different kinds of music for patients about to undergo an intravenous cannula before an MRI: either Mozart, relaxation music or their favourite songs. The findings, published in the journal Frontiers in Pain Research, showed that playing patients' favourite music had the greatest effect.

The lead author, Dr Andrei-Cristinel Dragnea of University Hospital Zurich, said: "Although a needle puncture is a minor procedure, the ... pain can vary significantly from person to person."

The researchers recruited 204 patients undergoing a non-emergency MRI of the brain, spine or head and neck. The procedures called for a contrast agent to be inserted into their veins with a cannula, which can hurt.

A quarter of patients acted as a control group, meaning they listened to no music. The three other groups listened to either their favourite music, music designed for relaxation or a movement of Mozart's Sonata for Two Pianos, which several studies have suggested may have therapeutic properties.

Patients who listened to their favourite music experienced less pain both 30 seconds and two minutes after the cannula was inserted.

In a subgroup of patients that reported pain before cannulation, listening to their favourite music also reduced pain at the time of needle insertion, while listening to Mozart reduced pain two minutes after needle insertion.

Mozart seemed to work only for the patients who reported being in pain before the cannulation. The patients who listened to relaxation music or no music did not experience any change.

The study's senior author, Dr Meritxell Garcia Alzamora, also of University Hospital Zurich, said: "From the four conditions we examined, only favourite music and Mozart showed a positive effect. Favourite music manifested a significant pain reduction effect both in patients with and without baseline pain ... Mozart only showed significant pain relief in patients with pre-existing pain.

"I would recommend listening to music to patients, especially patients who like music in general. In view of our results, we will increase the application of music in venous punctures performed for radiological procedures, especially in anxious or claustrophobic patients."

Bones of ‘Britain’s oldest pet dog’ found in Lincolnshire

Peter Chappell

Archaeologists have found the remains of what might be Britain's oldest pet dog, which they believe would have sat on the lap of a wealthy Roman owner.

An intact skeleton of a pet from a miniature breed is the earliest evidence in the UK of a dog being kept as a domestic animal. All other species found are believed to have been working dogs.

The dog, discovered by a team from Wessex Archaeology during excavations in a field near the village of Partney in Lincolnshire, is around the size of a Pomeranian.

Lorrain Higbee, a zooarchaeologist, who analysed the remains, told The Telegraph: "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 be 8in tall.

The remains were taken for radiocarbon dating, with the animal believed to have lived between 40BC and AD60. The Romans conquered England in AD43 and liked keeping lapdogs as pets.

Higbee said: "It provides an unusual and securely dated example of a very small lapdog kept as a house pet from a rural context ... and points to the changing relationship between people and dogs during this period."

The findings have not yet been peer-reviewed or published in a journal, but independent experts said the animal was probably the earliest known pet dog found in Britain.

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Warning as hate crimes reach record

Fintan Hogan, George Willoughby Senior Data Journalist

Racial and religious hate crimes have reached record levels in what is being described as a "stark warning" over rising bigotry.

Police forces in England and Wales recorded 146,825 hate crimes in the year ending March 2026, up 7 per cent on the previous 12 months, the Home Office statistics show.

The overall increase was mainly due to a significant rise in race-related incidents, which were up 9 per cent to about 108,000. Almost three quarters of hate crimes are motivated by race.

The Home Office partially attributed the rise to improvements in crime recording. However, Sarah Jones, the policing minister, said the data offered “a stark warning that hatred continues to blight our communities”.

Hate crimes against Jews increased by 10 per cent to 3,162, rising particularly “following a series of antisemitic crimes after the Heaton Park Synagogue terror attack” in October 2025.

Antisemitism has “been at an elevated level since the beginning of the Israel-Hamas conflict”, the Home Office added.

Jewish people were almost ten times more likely than Muslims to be the victim of a religious hate crime, the figures showed. There were 117 recorded religious hate crimes per 10,000 members of the Jewish population, compared with 13 per 10,000 Muslims.

The Community Security Trust (CST), which monitors antisemitism, said the data showed an “unacceptably high level” of anti-Jewish behaviour.

MARK PASSMORE

Park pony club Dartmoor ponies are auctioned at Chagford Market, the last of the traditional “drift sales” with wooden gates and rails, and grass underfoot. The semi-wild ponies of the national park are rounded up in the “drift” each autumn for a health check. Some are then sold; others are returned to the moor to breed

'Entitled' police chief guilty of misconduct over affairs

Will Humphries Southwest Correspondent

A chief constable who hid affairs with two junior officers and tried to undermine an investigation into his actions has been found to be duplicitous, dishonest and entitled by a misconduct panel.

Scott Chilton, the former chief constable of Hampshire and the Isle of Wight, was found guilty of gross misconduct after having an affair with a female inspector only weeks after taking the top job, and having sex with a sergeant while on duty.

He retired in April last year after two years in the role. Chilton's departure came after a former detective chief inspector accused him of having an affair during his own misconduct hearing.

Yesterday a police misconduct panel said Chilton, 53, had been “deliberately duplicitous” about the two relationships and became “domineering and abusive” as he tried to cover up the affairs.

The panel found him guilty of the allegations he faced, ruling he “abused his position” for “his own sexual gratification”. It also found that he “demonstrated calculated and manipulative tactics to undermine the ongoing misconduct proceedings and to attempt to frustrate the investigation into him”.

Chilton did not attend the hearing in Eastleigh. On the first day of the hearing he disinstructed his lawyer, who said his client would not be attending because of "medical issues as a result of this misconduct process". The panel was told that Chilton had 33 years of experience and became chief constable of Hampshire in 2023.

Scott Chilton, who was chief constable of Hampshire, is barred from policing

He was found guilty of having an affair with a sergeant, referred to as Officer A, from 2008 to 2012, and having sex with her while on duty at her house.

He repeatedly denied the relationship, saying they had never had sex on duty, and denied failing to disclose the relationship during his application to become chief constable.

Officer A said: "I knew Scott Chilton was married at the time of the affair and he had a son. I was single at the time."

Michelle Skeer, His Majesty's chief inspector of constabulary and fire & rescue services, who chaired the panel, said

Chilton was found to be “deliberately dishonest on multiple occasions by not disclosing the sexual relationship”.

Chilton's second affair, with an inspector, began weeks after he took up the top job. Skeer said: "His actions were driven by his own entitlement."

Chilton failed to disclose the affair and pressured her to delete messages. He then “bombarded her with contact to bully her” when she disclosed their relationship, the panel found.

The panel ruled that Chilton tried to "frustrate the investigation" into a colleague's sexual misconduct because he feared it would expose his own affairs. It concluded: "His conduct was a serious, deliberate and sustained attempt to mislead the police and crime commissioner and colleagues to subvert any negative impact on himself.

"All police officers are in a position of trust. However, Chilton was in the highest position of trust [and] he would have been privy to confidential and sensitive information on colleagues, security and national policing matters.

"There was evidence that he was discussing issues which he shouldn't have been discussing with Officer B during WhatsApp message exchanges."

The panel said Chilton would have been dismissed without notice on each of the allegations if he had not resigned during the investigation.

He has been placed on the College of Policing barred officers list, preventing him from becoming an officer again.

Baby died after hospital staff 'dismissed' mother's concerns

The mother of a five-month-old girl who died in hospital told an inquest yesterday that doctors dismissed her concerns “multiple times” over a 15-hour period before it was too late to save her life.

Lynsey Carr and Leon High took their daughter, Esta, to the emergency department of Leeds General Infirmary with a high temperature and vomiting on October 31, 2023.

She tested positive for Covid-19 and the couple were told to take her home, but they refused because she had a temperature above 40 degrees and her condition was deteriorating, Wakefield coroner's court heard.

Carr said that the family, from Leeds, were put in a side room at the hospital's children's assessment and treatment (Cat) unit and that staff seemed more concerned with isolating Esta than listening to her parents. Carr told a jury that her daughter developed a rash and her arm started shaking, which she feared was a seizure. She said "we were extremely worried" and "we kept asking for help" but "staff were rude and don't listen to our concerns".

Carr described Esta's time on the Cat unit was “15 hours that were filled with missed opportunities”. She said that if the junior doctor on duty had “showed more urgency” or called for an opinion from a more senior colleague “this could have saved Esta's life”.

By late afternoon on November 2, Esta could not be roused and scans, and other tests showed evidence of meningoencephalitis and the presence of Streptococcus pneumoniae, a bacterium that can cause inflammation in the brain. Carr said: "After 55 hours of no concerns at all, there were doctors running in and out of the room in a frenzy. The room was full of doctors and nurses trying to save our daughter's life."

She told the jury: "Unfortunately, as our daughter had been left untreated for 55 hours, it was too late to save our darling girl."

The inquest is expected to last ten days.

Last month the government announced that Martha's Rule, which enables staff and families to urgently request a second opinion of care, will be extended to every A&E department in England. The rule, which was created

Lynsey Carr said that staff were rude when she asked for help for her daughter, Esta

after the death in 2021 of Martha Mills, 13, gives 24/7 access to an urgent review and is advertised throughout hospitals.

Martha died after she developed sepsis in hospital. Her parents, Merope Mills and Paul Laity, said that their concerns about their daughter were repeatedly dismissed, and a coroner ruled that she would have survived had she been taken to intensive care sooner.

The rule is being implemented in inpatient wards, and the NHS will extend it to A&E departments after a successful pilot programme.

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How Trump could still have the last word online

Mark Sellman

Technology Correspondent

It is the biggest shake-up of internet addresses for more than a decade — and could result in you typing .fart to reach a website.

The organisation that controls web addresses has revealed a list of new domain “top-levels” that include .trump, .meow and .zzz. More than 1,600 new addresses have been applied for. Some, such as .agi, .superintelligence and .chatgpt show how AI companies are seeking to grab domains.

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (Icann), a US non-profit organisation that controls the process, last expanded web domains in 2012 resulting in .app, .web, .pizza and .babysitting, among others. This time, .fart, .bro, .maga and .god are among the applications.

Those awarded a domain by Icann become registries, gaining control over the suffix which they can keep, or sell the registrations under it to third parties. Country-level domains such as .uk are not controlled by Icann.

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Suella Braverman rarely misses a chance to bash the Tories, but she owes one former leader a debt of gratitude. Recalling a 2017 visit to Chequers in her memoir, Patriot, Braverman describes how Theresa May beckoned her and her partner, Rael, over in the Long Gallery after dinner: "You must see this beautiful ring. It was worn by Elizabeth I." Showing no regard for subtlety, May added: "Rings are amazing. Aren't they, Rael? You should be thinking about getting one, young man." Braverman reflected: "I like to think Theresa played a part in making a married woman of me and for that I'll always be thankful." Still, she wasn't thankful enough to vote May's Brexit deal through.

May is prime matchmaker

AI'S FINEST HOUR MPs often sneakily rely on AI to write their speeches, but next week the technology will be put to nobler use in the Lords. Baroness Campbell of Surbiton — who usually requires an assistant to read her speeches aloud — will use an AI voice clone during the health bill debate: a significant milestone for disabled parliamentarians. Proof that AI can aid accessibility, rather than just helping uninspired backbenchers.

David McCloskey spent months picking the brains of MI6 and Langley officers while researching his new thriller, London Station. Spooks regaled him with tales of rival spies tripping over each other to tail the same targets. Yet his richest inspiration came not from the shadows, but from the FBI's Kash Patel. When crafting the character of Stu

None of this comes cheap: applying for a domain costs \$227,000 (£171,500) and if there is competition for a suffix, an auction can result in bidding wars.

Nu Dot Co previously paid \$135m for .web, and Google spent \$25m on .app. However, owning a popular domain can be lucrative, with .com generating \$1.5bn annually for Verisign, the global technology firm.

A Belgian non-profit wants to own .meow, which is intended as a domain for the LGBT community, but will be a welcome address for cat lovers around

AI is playing a big role in this round, with OpenAI applying for 15 domains including .openai, .chatgpt and .codex. It is also one of 13 companies vying for the .agent address, and one of seven competing for .agi, which stands for artificial general intelligence.

The .fart, .slop and .itiswhatitis applications are part of hundreds of novelty addresses sought by a group that has received \$36m in funding from Yoni Belousov, a domain investor.

Meta has applied for 21 domains including .aiglasses, .wearables and .muse, the name of its AI agent.

Bricker — a CIA henchman known for “purely undiplomatic American requests”— McCloskey drew directly on Patel’s reputed disdain for office meetings and his preference for talking shop with MI5 over Premier League matches and jet-skiing sessions. “Reality is weirder than fiction,” admits McCloskey. “If I’d made that up, my editor would have rejected it for being too ridiculous.”

LIVE AND LET UNZIP Filming James Bond isn't what it used to be, laments Madeline Smith, below, Roger Moore's first Bond girl. Today's CGI and risk assessments are "so tedious and totally managed", she told me at The Oldie lunch, pining for 1970s shoots where "there was no health and safety whatsoever" and crew "used to set fire to things". It was far more fun, she says, "to see people actually leaping over crocodiles". Smith — whose introduction in Live and Let Die involved Moore unzipping her dress with a magnetic watch — is equally dismissive of modern intimacy coordinators: "In my day, there was nobody leaning in to me asking, 'Do you mind if we lower the zip a little bit?'

As we reported this week, Rowan Atkinson is bringing Mr Bean back for a West End run. However, global fame doesn't ensure recognition. A Diary elf is reminded of the time Atkinson was in a Land Rover shop in Peterborough and was told: "You're the absolute spitting image of that Mr Bean." When Atkinson said, "Actually, I am the actor who plays Mr Bean", the man laughed: "I bet you wish you were!" The more Atkinson protested, the less the man believed him, even suggesting lookalike work. As the shopper grew annoyed by the insistence, Atkinson finally gave up: "Ho

Atkinson finally gave up: "He thought I was this total arse who goes round claiming to be Mr Bean."

ED HALFORD the world. Icann will make a final decision on its approved addresses on November 17.

John Carr, an internet safety expert, is critical of Icann and called it “a conspiracy against the public good”. He said: “They have zero interest in making life difficult or less profitable for registries or registrars because they are essentially wholly dependent on the money that they get from them.

"Checking on the real-world identities of the people buying the domain names, which is what they're supposed to do under Icann's rules ... they don't, because as soon as you start slowing things down, asking for proof of this or that, you're introducing overhead costs and reducing the volumes, therefore reducing your income, and they just don't do it."

A 2023 report by the DNS Research Federation concluded that

domains controlled Icann were the source of more malicious activity than those administered in the EU. It found domains issued in 2012 by Icann ac-

President Trump, whose name may be used as a suffix

counted for about 8 per cent of regis-trations but 27 per cent of mali-cious activity.

Conversely, EU country-code domains accounted for 14 per cent of registrations but only

3 per cent of abuse. One of the reasons was that European registries frequently check that the names and contact details supplied by domain owners are accurate, the authors concluded. Icann was approached for comment.

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Lot of pluck A white-tailed eagle catches a fish off the coast of Mull. The UK's largest bird of prey was driven to extinction until a reintroduction project in 1975

Electric car pioneer calls for relaxation of transition target

Laurence Sleator Transport Correspondent The UK should slow down its transition to electric vehicles, the “godfather” of the technology has said.

In a proposal that has divided the industry, Dr Andy Palmer, the British executive who led the launch of the Nissan Leaf, the first mass-market electric car, said that a 2030 target should be relaxed to help the petrol and diesel car industry.

Under the government's zero-emission vehicle (ZEV) mandate by 2035 all car sales must be fully electric, with manufacturers expected to sell an increasing percentage of them every year or face fines. The aim is for EVs to be 80 per cent of all new car sales by 2030, the same time when the sale of new petrol and diesel cars ends.

This timeline is under review, with parts of the industry arguing that it is unachievable and costs too much when consumer demand is lacking. Palmer suggests cutting the 80 per cent figure to 60 per cent. In return, he said the government should get tougher on hybrid vehicles in four years' time, banning the sales of any which do not have a plug to charge the car.

With the government consultation under way, Palmer, the former CEO at Aston Martin and now heavily involved in the EV transition, called for a compromise. "Eighty per cent by 2030 was always going to be a struggle in the showroom," he said. "Sixty per cent is a target industry can hit profitably and a profitable industry invests.

"But a lower target has to buy something. A hybrid without a plug is a petrol car with a battery bolted on. It burns fuel every mile it drives, so it has no place in a zero-emission transition."

He said that, as part of this, full hybrids without a plug should not be sold after 2030. Hybrids with a plug should stay on sale only if they deliver at least 60 miles of electric range, and dealers should be forced to give tutorials to every hybrid customer on how to charge their cars.

"The dealers want the target cut as low as 50 per cent. I'm offering 60 per

Dr Andy Palmer wants the 2030 target for EV sales reduced from 80 to 60 per cent

cent and I'm asking them for ten minutes with every customer who drives away in a hybrid with a plug. A tutorial at handover costs nothing and changes how that car is used for its whole life," he said. "This is a trade. Industry gets a target it can meet. Government gets emissions cuts that are real, not theoretical. Drivers get cars that save them money at the pump."

Palmer has been described as the “godfather of EVs” because of his role in the launch of the Nissan Leaf in 2010, the first affordable mass market vehicle you could charge at home. He now runs a battery energy storage business.

Ginny Buckley, the editor-in-chief of Electrifying.com, the EV buying and advice site, said: "Andy is right to call for tougher rules on hybrids. Where I differ is on cutting the zero-emission target to 60 per cent. Drivers and industry need certainty, not another round of moving the goalposts."

A Department for Transport spokesperson said: "It has never been easier or cheaper to own an EV, with sales up by 36 per cent in September supported by our £7.5bn investment in the market ... We are reviewing the mandate to ensure it continues to deliver for British consumers and industry."

BBC apologises for false claims about PinkNews

Alex Farber Media Correspondent

The BBC has apologised for making "very serious, false and defamatory allegations" about the founder of the PinkNews website and his husband.

The broadcaster has pulled a news article, which was accompanied by the 20-minute documentary PinkNews: Behind Closed Doors, after its admission.

The reports contained claims that Benjamin Cohen, a former Channel 4 News journalist, and Anthony James tolerated and enabled sexual misconduct towards junior staff and put pressure on young female employees to be surrogates mothers for them.

The BBC has agreed to pay the legal costs incurred in the case, and compensation. The couple will donate the “substantial” sum to the Multiple Sclerosis Society and to Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Charity. James was on the board of Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust but resigned after the allegations.

Cohen, 44, and James, 37, said the allegations had appeared when their son was six months old.

“What should have been one of the happiest periods of our lives was thrown into chaos,” they said. “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 they were false."

The article was based on interviews with more than 30 current and former PinkNews staff and on evidence including written complaints, private emails and WhatsApp messages. Jane Phillips, counsel for the BBC, told the High Court it “accepted everything” argued by the couple’s lawyers, adding: “The BBC retracts and apologises unreservedly for the defamatory allegations.”

Fry's delight as actor gets Traitors boot

Richard E Grant was banished from The Celebrity Traitors and Hannah Fry was recruited as a traitor in his place during last night's episode.

The actor received the majority of votes from the other contestants, including from both of his fellow traitors, Maya Jama and James Acaster.

As Grant stood in front of the players to reveal his identity, he said: "I am ... an unfaithful traitor." Speaking to the camera, he added: "I have been annihilated. I have managed to checkmate myself, which, as far as I'm aware, has never been done."

In the first episode Grant told fellow contestants that he was a traitor.

Rather than murder, Jama and Acaster chose to seduce the mathematician Fry and make her the third traitor. The professor accepted their offer to join following the roundtable.

After seeing her fellow traitors for the first time, she said: "I was sure you were faithfuls, you absolute legends. Oh, it's going to be so fun!"

The first episode was the most watched debut of any series of the programme in the UK when it was broadcast last week. It had an average audience of 8.9 million viewers, peaking at 9.1 million at one point.

In the BBC series, hosted by Claudia Winkleman, 21 celebrity contestants take part, and those assigned as faithfuls attempt to seek out those who have been made traitors, who “kill off” players.

Radio 4 cuts mean end of You and Yours

Alex Farber

BBC Radio 4's consumer affairs programme You and Yours, dubbed "the Citizens Advice Bureau of the air", is to end after more than five decades.

It is being axed along with Laurie Taylor's Thinking Allowed, the arts programme Free Thinking and the artificial intelligence series The Artificial Human as the BBC's speech radio division seeks to save 10 per cent of its budget, part of the corporation's wider £500m savings target.

You and Yours, which launched in 1970 and is presented by Winifred Robinson and Peter White, is to be replaced with a refreshed consumer programme.

It has won a number of accolades for its consumer protection stories, including exposing Covid-19 vaccination scams by the Chartered Trading Standards Institute in 2021.

Hosted by John Waite for 22 years until 2008, other presenters have included Crimewatch's Sue Cook and The Food Programme's Derek Cooper. One of its producers, David Berry, wrote How to Complain based on the show in 1990.

The BBC has said its replacement will be designed to work both on-air and on-demand and will “build on ... original reporting, practical advice and holding organisations to account”.

Jonathan Wall, director of BBC Sounds, said: "We need to make significant savings while investing for the future. We are reshaping BBC speech audio to build a strong future."

Matt Brittin, the director-general, told the corporation's staff on Wednesday that he wanted the BBC to be more fleet-footed.

Genre-bending poet ‘listening to wind’ when she won Nobel

David Sanderson Arts Correspondent

The new Nobel laureate for literature was in Iceland “listening to the wind” when she was called by the Swedish academy to notify her of her success.

Anne Carson, 76, a Canadian poet, essayist and translator, became the latest laureate yesterday as the academy praised for her ability to blend genres and styles and offer “different voices that play off against each other”.

Carson, whose many admirers include Alice Munro, Michael Ondaatje and Susan Sontag, made her literary debut in 1986 with Eros the Bittersweet, a book of criticism, before her 1998 verse novel Autobiography of Red brought her wider acclaim.

She has also translated works of classical Greek literature, which the

Graeme Richardson Comment

For many of her fellows Anne Carson is a “poet’s poet”. The literary critic Harold Bloom lauded her as a writer of “palpable genius”. One reason for the acclaim is her intellectual range and innovative approach to form.

In Eros the Bittersweet: An Essay (1986), Carson blurred the lines between academic prose and poetry, exploring the paradoxes of love. Her subsequent writings combine a wide range of reference with a focus on individual words. Ironies and double meanings abound. Beneath it all is a solid foundation in classical languages and literature, constructed over many years of scholarship and teaching. Homer, Sappho, Catullus, Euripides ... it would be easier to list the classical poems and plays she has not translated or reworked.

Autobiography of Red, a novel in verse from 1998, was something of a breakthrough. It is a “playful dialogue” between a fragmentary poem by Stesichorus and a contemporary story of gay love.

Emily Wilson's translations of Homer have brought the classics to a new, modern audience. She owes a debt to Carson's trailblazing work. Graeme Richardson is a poetry critic academy said should be regarded as "independent works in their own right". Her last publication was the poetry collection Wrong Norma in 2024.

Ingrid Carlberg, the permanent secretary of the Swedish academy, said Carson had been in Iceland “listening to the wind” when she had been notified of her laureateship. “She was very taken by surprise,” Carlberg added.

Carson, who wrote last year in the London Review of Books about her diagnosis of Parkinson's disease, said the award may help with book sales. "I'll get a sticker on the front of my book, stickers help," she told the Icelandic broadcaster RUV. She also said she thought poetry was "probably more useful than prose right now because it's faster, and everybody is in a hurry. So basically I think it's good because it's

Anne Carson said she liked poetry as it was brief and "everybody is in a hurry"

brief. Except Homer. Homer's not brief."

Anders Olsson, the chair of the Nobel Committee for Literature, said Carson's wide-ranging influences including the ancient Greeks, John Keats and Virginia Woolf led "to playful and ironic works that move not only between classical and modern poetry but also between different genres".

Olsson said Carson blended genres and styles, offering “different voices that play off against each other”.

The academy said Carson's "bold and inventive oeuvre that, in playful dialogue with the classical tradition, has created new forms for ... literature".

Carson, who was born in Toronto to a banker and housewife, had not been an immediate academic success, dropping out of university twice before returning to complete her doctorate. She subsequently taught Classics at several universities, including the University of Michigan. Carson and her partner, Robert Currie, an artist, were granted Icelandic citizenship in 2022.

Carson, who will formally receive the medal and diploma at a ceremony in Stockholm in December, will also receive just over £900,000 in prize money.

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The cast of Rent, with Gaten Matarazzo, centre, Billy Nevers and Jeevan Braich, below, rekindle its energy on the West End

New lease of life for 30-year-old musical

Theatre Clive Davis

Rent

Tom Stoppard Theatre, London (165min)

★★★★☆

Can it really be 30 years since Rent, Jonathan Larson's New York update of La bohème, opened off-Broadway? What, you wonder, would his downtown characters be doing today if they were let loose in the world? Would they still be living on the edge, or would they be driving Teslas and showing their children what's left of their old haunts in the East Village?

It is impossible to avoid those what-might-have-beens when you recall that Larson died hours after watching the final dress rehearsal in January 1996. Rent is an imperfect show with a tangle of storylines, but the score still generates superhuman levels of adrenaline.

It should gain a lot more new converts now that the director Luke Sheppard — who mounted an intimate revival at the tiny Hope Mill Theatre in Manchester during the pandemic — has rekindled its energy at the old Duke of York's, newly renamed in honour of Tom Stoppard.

It is hard to believe this is the same theatre where Stereophonic, that weirdly overhyped rock session drama, chuntered along last year.

With cast members seated in a semicircle around the stage (some audience members are up there too), David Woodhead and Tom Jackson Greaves, the designer and choreographer on the Hope Mill production, generate a rock club-style sense of community.

You catch a glimpse of a CBGB poster early on: the mood may not be as grungy as that, but it still evokes the New York of yesteryear.

Katy Richardson's band, half-concealed on a raised platform at the rear of the stage, is suitably loud and loose-limbed.

True, the volume levels sometimes obscure the lyrics. Still, the cast — led by the Stranger Things actor Gaten Matarazzo as nerdy, would-be film auteur Mark — inject depth into the lightly sketched figures. Travis Ross makes an authentically anguished Roger, the scuffling musician who falls for Alexa Lopez's raunchy Mimi, a femme fatale always in search of her next fix. Aids, poverty and homelessness cast their shadow.

A battery of TV screens flicker into life whenever Mark takes up his camera and tries to capture the whirlwind around him. As Angel, Jeevan Braich makes a convincingly doomed drag queen. The altrock singer who goes by the name Lazy Violet brings a raucous edge to Take Me or Leave Me, Maureen's duet with Danielle Fiamanya's

Joanne. Joaquin Pedro Valdes adds a villainous sheen to Benny, the yuppie landlord who suddenly sees the light. Even if the show's ending is improbably upbeat, this musical still burns brightly.

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OpenAI 'solves' maths' biggest puzzles

Will Rogers

OpenAI has published full or partial solutions to 372 previously unsolved maths problems in what some are calling a “mathpocalypse”.

Experts were left questioning the future of the field after the ChatGPT maker released the proposed solutions.

Described in 722 papers, the published proofs are so complex and numerous that many have not been verified.

Mathematicians have been struck by the speed of AI's progress, which struggled with GCSE-level maths problems less than two years ago. Scott Aaronson, chair of computer science at the University of Texas, told Sky News: "If you want some sense of what things feel like now in maths, imagine a hunter-gatherer who's spent his entire life learning to survive deep in an unforgiving rainforest, then a giant resort hotel springs up right next to him with a helipad and heated pools and Airbnbs."

Some mathematicians have expressed scepticism or rejected the news. Andrew Sutherland, of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, told Scientific American: "Until and unless they release the model and people can replicate their results, I think you should treat any claims about one-shotting problems with a single agent as unverified."

The Association for Human Mathematics said: "We urge mathematicians to discontinue their work with OpenAI and to return to a vision of science that centres human understanding."

OpenAI may need to allow its AI to help out with the maths of its own finances — the Financial Times reported that its annualised revenue was about \$20bn less than it had signalled to investors.

Mumsnet chief sorry after row over AI-generated posts

believed the post was evidence that Mumsnet was using AI more widely.

Mark Sellman

Technology Correspondent

The chief executive of Mumsnet has apologised for the site's use of AI.

Justine Roberts intervened in a row that flared up when an artificial intelligence tool appeared to malfunction.

A user seeking advice about a family dilemma was using the tool, designed to help generate titles for discussions. Instead, it returned instructions on how to respond to the post. Users

An initial response from Mumsnet said the AI post “didn’t come from us”. After a sceptical response, Roberts said the tool sent a draft of the post to OpenAI, “which is meant to send back a single suggested title ... it looks like an error on their side. It’s still our tool.” She said the drafts were not used to train models and Mumsnet was not paid for the drafts. Mumsnet suspended the tool “while we look at making it ... opt-in”.

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Village can't see light for the trees

F ed-up villagers say they are being plunged into gloom by 60ft trees that

block sunlight from their homes.

Dozens of Norway maples, sycamores and silver birch saplings were planted by pupils around the perimeter of Great Wood Community Primary School in 1988. But residents of Tean in

Staffordshire say the trees have now left rooms and gardens in near-permanent shade. They also fear the trees could topple in storms and crash down on their homes.

Kay Mitchell, 79, a retired coffee shop owner, said: "It's blocking light from my garden, but the main thing is they aren't healthy and aren't going to stand for very

long ... We are told we can cut the branches but no one around here is able to climb 60ft to reach them."

Maureen Forsyth, a retired hotel owner, said: "The canopy is 1ft from my chimney. If there was a chimney fire, it would make the spread all that easier."

Kay Mitchell, a retired coffee shop owner, says the trees have blocked the light from her garden in Tean, Staffordshire

Andrew Ibbotson said: "We are living in the woods. I think they need to be taken down."

The school, which is part of the Moorlands

Primary Federation, said it took the management of the trees “seriously” and there were regular safety inspections. It added: “The school is happy to meet with residents to endeavour to work respectfully towards a resolution for all parties that is mindful of professional advice, safety and our environmental responsibilities.”

High Peak borough council and Staffordshire Moorlands district council said it was unable to act because the trees were not deemed “dangerous”.

It added: “The trees are not protected by a tree preservation order and are not within a conservation area, therefore there is no statutory role for the council in that regard.”

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Fire chief: Act now to prevent deadly blazes

Adam Vaughan Environment Editor

Firefighters have warned that wildfires could kill more people without greater action after this year became the worst on record for grassland fires.

"Is it feasible that if we don't do anything and 2027 comes then we could be talking about people who have lost their lives to wildfire?" asked Phil Garrigan, chair of the National Fire Chiefs Council. "That's certainly a possibility, and something that we are really striving to avoid."

One person died this year while attempting to stop a wildfire in Gloucestershire. Several others narrowly escaped with their lives in Stourbridge, in the West Midlands, Garrigan said.

The fire chief, who was speaking before a wildfire summit chaired by the prime minister Andy Burnham to be held soon, said he was deeply concerned that the combination of climate change and El Niño could set the stage for more major wildfires next year.

"We're having wetter winters and certainly hotter summers," he said. Wetter winters mean more vegetation growth, while intense heat reduces moisture sufficiently for it to burn.

An unprecedented 405 wildfires broke out on grass this year compared with a previous high of 397 in 2022, including nine “significant” blazes in the West Midlands on August 13. One of those, near a golf course in Stourbridge, destroyed 19 houses in scenes that were described as “apocalyptic”.

Government figures published yesterday show the UK had the second-highest number of wildfires on record this year. There were 1,354, compared with almost 1,600 four years ago when temperatures hit 40C for the first time. More than 50 properties were destroyed this year in total.

Historically, moorlands and heathland have seen some of the biggest and most intense wildfires. Grassland fires had been in double digits for most years in figures going back to 2010. That soared to 397 in 2022 and 405 this year.

Wildfires by land type In England, 2026 Grassland, pasture, grazing etc 405 Crops (standing or stacked/baled) 216 Other 207 Straw/stubble burning 154 Scrub land 147 Heathland or moorland 137 Woodland/forest 88 Source: Gov.UK

Grass is often right next to the homes: what firefighters refer to as the rural-urban interface. Adapting to grass fires would mean creating “defensible space” around fencelines. Garrigan recommended clearing dry plants and growth near boundary fences.

"If you back on to a farm field, maybe have a conversation with the farmer to ensure that there's a degree of defensible space between crops and your property," he added. He also reminded people of the risk of igniting a wildfire, saying he was aware of people still burning rubbish in their back gardens during hot spells this summer.

A freedom of information request by the Country Land and Business Association has revealed more than half of fire services have no wildfire-specific personal protective equipment. It also found examples of limited training.

Garrigan said helicopters and other aerial capability was needed, plus expanded wildfire training and “burn teams” trained to clear vegetation ahead of advancing fire fronts.

Above all, he said more firefighters were needed: numbers have dropped by 11,000 to 12,000 since austerity measures between 2010 and 2015. "It's firefighters who put fires out, not fire engines," Garrigan said. He added that he hoped the summit would lead to better preparedness.

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Badenoch gives up on Tories' red wall dream

After a decade of discomfort in pursuit of old Labour voters, this week signalled a retreat to pre-Brexit familiarities

Patrick Maguire

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About halfway through Kemi Badenoch's speech to Conservative Party conference, she drew an analogy that escaped the close and mostly flattering analysis to which the rest was lovingly subjected. The Tories, she argued, were just like Marks & Spencer. "M&S is a brand that has been around for 100 years," Badenoch said. "Not so long ago, critics said they were a bit stuffy and stuck in the past. Some were questioning whether the brand would survive ... Now, M&S is back in fashion."

She wasn't wrong. How did they do it? "Great looks at affordable prices. They have adapted their style for today's market and people are flooding back, including me, as you've probably noticed this week." And there was the lesson for the Conservative Party: "Just like M&S, we must learn from our mistakes, win back trust and make people feel good about our party again." People were looking through the Tory shopfront, she said, liking what they saw. "But let's be honest, not enough of them are buying yet."

It is a near-perfect allusion, though not for the reason Badenoch gave. Let's consider the streets where nobody is looking longingly through an M&S window, because there's no M&S. Steve Wright, the late doyen of BBC radio, used to define a big town as one that had its own station. Today we might define a thriving town centre by the presence of a

high street M&S. In the past decade they have left the town centres of Barnsley, Blackburn, Bolton, Boston, Chesterfield, Clacton, Darlington, Ilford, Kettering, Neath, St Helens, Stockon-on-Tees, Sunderland, Walsall and Weston-super-Mare. That is not a complete list. But, to quote Badenoch: "Do you see where I'm going with this, conference?"

I should add that you can still find branches in and around some of those places. They may have upsized and moved to a retail park on a bypass or opened a nice food hall down the road. You can probably find a nearby petrol station that sells Percy Pigs and nice sandwiches and gins in tins. Consumer habits have changed and M&S has changed with them. But this is a new world, and the old one — of benighted provincial high streets — is experiencing a conscious desertion by the brands they once knew so well. This Conservative conference sent much

For a little while they even seemed relaxed about borrowing

the same signal to the country.

Badenoch's rejection of Reform UK as a prospective governing partner was declared the speech's watershed, and it was indeed significant. But she also closed the book on a much longer story. Her speech, and everything her shadow cabinet said in public and in private, marked the end of a decade in which the Conservative Party's electoral strategy, ideological ambiguity and strategic priorities have been defined by the result of the EU referendum. Having set in motion a great realignment of British politics in 2016, the Conservatives have now given up on it.

Think about her predecessors. Theresa May spoke of relief for those who were just about managing, citizens of nowhere and burning injustices. In his 2018 budget, her chancellor, Philip Hammond, said: "The era of austerity is finally coming to an end." Before Covid intruded, Boris Johnson planned to govern as a sort of British Gaullist. The economics was dirigiste and unembarrassed by state intervention — all the better to level up the coalfield towns that, thanks to Brexit, had unlearnt their ancestral hatreds and voted for the Tories. Scunthorpe steelworkers held up Vote Boris placards; to Labour's fragile and complacent sensibilities it was as shocking and offensive as the Smithfield porters marching on Westminster chanting in support of Enoch Powell.

For a little while, at least, Conservative governments even seemed relaxed about borrowing. Johnson rewrote the Treasury's investment rules to facilitate new infrastructure projects in the regions. In June 2020, he likened his ambition for the country to Roosevelt's New Deal. He even wanted to reprieve the communities sacrificed by the Beeching Axe so everyone could tell Steve Wright they lived in a big town with a railway station. Sajid Javid, while chancellor, told The Spectator that low interest rates meant the Tories could initiate a "new economic era" of state-backed development outside London and its environs. "You're not looking for those high-level returns that you looked for in the past that you got from the southeast," Javid explained. "But you can look throughout the country, and we can make many more investments."

Then came the pandemic, runaway inflation, rising rates, Liz Truss and

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After the Leave vote in 2016, Boris Johnson aimed to be a British Gaullist

the rest. Almost none of this new Conservatism came to life, not least because the MPs entrusted with delivering it after 2019 were pretty orthodox characters. Recall that Rishi Sunak resigned as Johnson's chancellor not over partygate but over fiscal responsibility, and was caught on camera a few weeks later reassuring the blue rinse brigade in Tunbridge Wells that he had diverted money from “deprived urban areas” and back to the shires.

Nonetheless, Brexit had created an electoral map that demanded different politics, priorities and posture from the Tories — even if they came naturally to only a few of them. All of a sudden they were weighing votes in towns such as Mansfield and Hartlepool as well as Arundel and Devizes and, like the Labour Party of old, Tory leaders

had to manage their own unwieldy coalition of Hampstead and Hull.

That was the country Boris built in 2016. Successive Tory prime ministers surfed the wave of the realignment, chafed against it, denied it and then were defeated by it. When they failed to deliver, Nigel Farage returned as its natural champion. Voters who disliked what it had made the Conservative Party - not so much right-wing as messy

The Conservatives are once again the party of affluent England

— turned to the Liberal Democrats. Sir Keir Starmer, or more accurately Morgan McSweeney, then subjected the Labour Party to cruel and unusual punishment in the hope of undoing it. Two years of local election results tell us they failed too.

Andy Burnham's best hope lies in uniting the progressive left around pro-European and anti-Farage politics but, as the member for Makerfield, the class-conscious Labour leader is fighting on deep England's old terrain too, hoping for a social democratic answer to the questions thrown up by the referendum.

But Badenoch? She did not even pretend to be up for that fight and, offstage, her frontbenchers are even blunter. The red, or now teal, wall stands again: it was just a phase. Once again the Conservatives are the party of affluent England. Unlike Labour or Reform, no longer is this a party struggling with the pretence that it is for Bolsover or Bassetlaw. That map is in the bin, as is its clear path to a majority. Like M&S, the Tories have rationalised. It will make for a more coherent electoral coalition. But make no mistake: it's also a smaller one.

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Why strip the admiral but keep dodgy peers?

Many lords have been convicted or charged with offences but kept their titles. It's time for reform

Emma Duncan

A long with most of the 600-plus readers who commented on the story online, I thought the treatment of Ben Key

was unfair. He was stripped of his knighthood and his CBE after he was sacked for having an affair with a junior officer while serving as first sea lord.

Four days later, Jeffrey Archer died. He was a convicted perjurer who took his peerage to his grave. The harshness of one man's treatment and the leniency of the other's provided a sharp illustration of our inconsistent approach to honours and morality.

It seems to me fair enough that Key lost his job. Although Royal Navy rules don't prohibit sexual relationships between serving personnel, or even between senior and junior officers when they're not in the same chain of command, the first sea lord is in effect in charge of everybody. If the boss is sleeping with one of his underlings, it's not great for morale.

De-gonging the admiral, though, is going too far. So far as we know, no murkier circumstances were involved than the deceptions that adulterous affairs tend to involve. There's no suggestion of criminal behaviour. It wasn't a complaint from the woman that brought the affair to light, but one from her husband. It

all seems particularly rough on Mrs Key who, as well as having to forgive (or not) her errant husband, loses her own title of lady. She might be tempted to do a bit of de-gonging herself.

The decision on whether to remove an honour is that of the forfeiture committee. It looks into cases in which the holder of an honour has been censured or struck off by a professional body and decides whether it thinks an individual has “brought the honours system into disrepute”. It makes a recommendation to the prime minister and the King, who is the ultimate arbiter.

You'd have thought that the

Archer's was the worst case of perjury he had ever come across

committee might have shown Key a bit of leniency. He appears to have been an exemplary officer, and adultery has a historic pedigree in naval high command — though admittedly Emma Hamilton wasn't Nelson's direct report.

You'd have thought that the King might have been inclined to show some, too, what with him having had an affair with the wife of an army officer when he was a commander in the navy and a wing commander in the air force. OK, they weren't real jobs, so he wasn't going to have a socially embarrassing encounter with Andrew Parker Bowles on a distant, dusty battlefield, but he could well be said to have engaged in "scandalous conduct ... unbecoming to the character of an officer", as the Naval Discipline Act puts it. In his shoes, thoughts of stones and glass houses would have encouraged me to slip the committee's recommendation into the bin.

The parallel between the admiral and the King seems to me merely ironic, but I find the juxtaposition with the criminal peers who have kept their titles outrageous.

Archer, now widely regarded as a loveable rogue, bribed a man with £12,000 to give him a false alibi to win a libel suit. In sentencing him to four years in jail, the judge said it was the worst case of perjury he had ever come across. Archer kept his title.

Nazir Ahmed was convicted of the attempted rape of a child under 13 and the sexual assault of another when he was a teenager. He was expelled from the House of Lords after exploiting a vulnerable woman who had come to him for help while he was a peer, but he kept his title. Lord Brocket, who has been charged with rape and is due to be tried next year, was jailed for five years for a £4.5 million insurance fraud. He kept his title. Lord Taylor of Warwick was sentenced to 12 months in jail for fiddling his expenses. He kept his title. I could go on.

Lord Mandelson is the most notorious among the current crop of disreputable peers, but my personal favourite is the lovely Michelle Mone, whom the government is suing in an attempt to recover the £122 million paid to PPE Medpro for faulty equipment supplied during the pandemic. The National Crime Agency is conducting a criminal

investigation into the company. Mone is taking leave of absence from the Lords, but has kept her title.

The disparity between Key and the dodgy peers arises not only from harsh treatment of the former but also from the link between the honours system and the legislature.

A peerage is not just an honour: it also confers on the holder a seat in the second chamber. The parties' power of patronage means that both the House of Lords and the top rank of the honours system are filled not only with political time-servers but also with the kind of person who regards buying a title and a bit of power as a good use of their money. If some of them turn out to be crooks, that's hardly surprising.

Regrettably, they are very hard to get rid of. That's a historical relic from the time when peers were the principal check on the king's power. To protect them from monarchical overreach, only an act of parliament can deprive them of their peerage.

This is a national embarrassment. We need to bin this anachronistic constitutional provision and make it easier to strip peers of their titles. After the Mandelson scandal, Sir Keir Starmer said he would create one, but nothing seems to have happened. We should also separate the honours system from the legislature, creating a French-style Légion d'honneur and selecting members of the second chamber in such a way that political parties can no longer sell seats in it. How about that for a radical notion!

Martin Samuel Notebook

One small pothole: one giant chain of decisions

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veryday annoyances. Martin Lewis wants to solve them. He has launched the Small Ideas Initiative, a project that invites practical fixes

and tries to turn the best of them into government policy. Like fixing potholes. Except pothole fixing isn't some minor frustration. It's a huge, complex problem involving local transport infrastructure, local budgets and national spending priorities. It's not just giving Charlie here a spade and a bucket of gravel, and telling him to get on with it.

Everyday annoyances are, more often than not, big problems that only appear small. Getting to work, getting home from work, the cost of moving around the land. They present as moans — cancelled trains, leaves on the line, roadworks, cycle lanes — but are part of giant transport policy decisions. Big stuff, in other words. The Department for Transport employs roughly 18,000

people. Depending on your method of calculation, as many as 2.7 million people work in transport in the UK. So, not small.

Line of despair

here are three rules to remember about modern travel: they don't care how

you get there, they don't care how you get home and they really don't care how much it costs.

The west coast main line has driven commuters mad for decades, but the only reason anything is getting done about it now is because we have a Manchester-fixated prime minister directly impacted by its uselessness. This was a long-running scandal. I used to travel with Avanti almost every weekend. By the end, it became easier to note the times it did function. What trains existed were often decommissioned.

One of the most memorable Manchester journeys involved arriving at Euston to a blank departure board, sprinting back to King's Cross because

that was the only way to get north, changing at Leeds and then catching a cross-country rattler west, like something out of Doctor Zhivago. It was standing room only and heaving with football fans from both ends of the Pennines. They don't get along, Leeds and Manchester.

Fortunately, everyone was so exhausted by the experience no punches were thrown. Not that there was room to swing one.

Drop-off rip-off

A few weeks back, I dropped two people at Stansted airport for a holiday flight. It was a Sunday, and very early. There is supposedly a train service but nothing

service but nothing connects to it at that hour. Another everyday annoyance. Like the ten quid drop-off charge. Stansted put it up by 40 per cent last March, from £7. Heaven forbid a passenger might be elderly or disabled. After 15 minutes, the charge rises to £28, leaping again after 30 minutes.

Major foreign airports — Paris-Charles de Gaulle, Frankfurt, Lisbon, Rome Fiumicino

— do not levy these charges. The justification, of course, is that this is a green issue to discourage car journeys. So why is it maintained at a time when connections via public transport are impossible? Is that just an annoyance too, or legalised theft?

Round the bend

From there it was round an empty M25, which was compulsorily slowed to 50mph. No accident, no roadworks, no explanation, just a speed restriction for 17 miles. By the end drivers were becoming impatient, accelerating, then braking sharply at the sight of a fixed camera. That's dangerous. There are plenty of reasons to limit speed on motorways but if everyone thinks the Highway Agency is crying wolf, accidents occur. After the AI, the limitations disappeared as mysteriously as they arose. Maybe they nicked a few quid out of it, I don't know.

Dawn of the dread

A nyway, back to the northwest this weekend and nothing has changed. It will be close to a four-hour journey, for one that should take little more than two, a crack of dawn start and if I miss my connection back, the next one gets me in at 7.03am on Monday after a handy six-hour layover on the platform at Wolverhampton. We're going to host an Olympics in the north, the prime minister reckons. He could end up annoying quite a lot of people.

London can't afford to lose any more big housebuilders Sam Dumitriu

Taylor Wimpey, one of Britain's biggest housebuilders, has pulled out of London. It is not alone. Berkeley Homes,

which was behind the 1,800-home redevelopment of this paper's former printing works in Wapping, stopped buying land in the capital in April.

Big businesses can spread the costs of red tape and delay over thousands of home sales. They can also borrow at favourable rates. If giants such as Taylor Wimpey can't make the sums add up, what hope do the smaller businesses have? Little, if they haven't given up already. London has lost more than two thirds of its small and medium-sized builders since the financial crisis.

It is hard to overstate how badly London's housing market has been broken. House prices may have fallen from recent record highs but the capital's housing remains the nation's most expensive. The rent on a London one-bed is higher than the rent on a three-bed in any other region of England, on average. Something is seriously wrong when it isn't worth a developer's while to build a home in a city where an average small one-bed flat sells for £420,000.

Bricks, mortar and labour have all increased in cost but even then developers should make a decent return where demand is as strong as the capital's. London's leaders clearly believe this, insisting that developers can afford to sell a third of new homes at knock-down prices. If this was ever true, it isn't today.

London's developers need to build upwards. But well-intentioned rules introduced after Grenfell are making that much harder. Buildings 18m high or taller need sign-off from the sluggish Building Safety Regulator and must have two staircases, sacrificing valuable floorspace for little safety gain. From this month, developers must also pay a new tax to fix dodgy cladding they never installed. This building safety levy is two and a half times higher in London than elsewhere in England.

Taylor Wimpey's boss, Jennie Daly, singled out London's late-stage viability reviews. If the stars align and a developer is on course to make a tidy profit, it gets clawed back by City Hall in the form of higher "affordable" quotas.

Capitalism relies on risk and reward. Without big rewards, developers, and any other businesses for that matter, won't take big risks with their money. The mayor doesn't appear to understand this.

London is pivotal to Labour's 1.5 million homes pledge. The capital is meant to deliver more than one in four homes built in England. Unless the cost of building in London is radically reduced, they won't get anywhere close.

Sam Dumitriu is head of policy at Britain Remade

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US was a refuge for Jews: now they feel unsafe

Jewish immigrants played a huge role in shaping modern America but the hard left reframes them as domestic enemies

Gerard Baker

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As the world marked the third anniversary this week of the October 7 slaughter of 1,200 Israelis by Hamas terrorists, the mayor of the city with the largest Jewish population in the world outside Israel weighed in.

The statement posted on X by Zohran Mamdani, New York's youthful city boss, began promisingly enough. He condemned the “horrific war crimes” committed that day. But then he moved quickly on. He deplored the “genocide” committed by Israel in Gaza, describing bombs dropped by the Israel Defence Forces on “ambulances waiting outside hospitals” and drones “targeting a residential building”. Having used 48 words to condemn Hamas, he spent 142 words condemning Israel. By the end it was clear his initial reference to the biggest massacre of Jews since the Holocaust was a mere preamble to the main object of Mamdani's anger: the Jewish state.

He concluded, as he began, referring to the anniversary but using the commemoration of this act of antisemitic savagery to demand a reckoning in which Jews were the villains. “Three years later, we must refuse to accept a world in which occupation and apartheid continue, where war crimes are met with impunity, and our federal government continues its complicity with every arms shipment.”

Mamdani is a rising force in American politics. When incumbents across the country are almost universally despised, he has a robust approval rating. Among young voters he enjoys particular admiration: 64 per cent of New Yorkers under 30 approve of him, according to a recent poll.

So we should listen carefully and take note when he corrupts the very meaning of words and statistics to utter the grotesque calumny of genocide, when he offers a moral equivalence between those who seek to murder every innocent Jew they can find and Jews fighting for the survival of their people, when he suggests that the IDF acting to keep its fellow citizens safe is somehow more culpable than the men of Hamas, who use their fellow citizens as sacrificial victims.

We should listen because, while we are used to this sort of rhetoric from unscrupulous European politicians, it is something new to hear it from an American, one many believe speaks for a party that is poised to take control of Congress in a few weeks.

In the long and baleful history of the world's oldest hatred, America has been — relatively speaking — a gleaming beacon of hope. For sure, there has been a vile streak of antisemitism running through its tortured history of racial and ethnic strife. Discrimination, public and private, against Jews has been rife. Of the 2,400 hate crime incidents reported to the FBI last year, 63 per cent were anti-Jewish; fewer than 10 per cent were anti-Muslim.

There's been an elision beween hatred of Israel and disdain for Jews

For all its faults, though, America has been a safe harbour since its inception for millions of Jews fleeing persecution. In 1790, a year into his presidency, George Washington wrote to a Jewish congregation in Newport, Rhode Island, warmly acknowledging their contribution to the new nation and affirming that “the Government of the United States... gives to bigotry no sanction, to persecution no assistance”.

More than being a place of relative tolerance, part of the genius of America has been that it has allowed itself to be shaped by people of many faiths and backgrounds, among whom Jews have played an outsized role. In business, art, literature and politics, Jews, singly and in communities, built much of what the world knows of America. Neal Gabler, in his book An Empire of their Own: How the Jews Invented Hollywood, documents how the iconography of popular American culture — the image of the quintessential American as portrayed in film — was largely the invention of the Jewish refugees from eastern Europe who made California their home at the beginning of the 20th century. “The Jews could simply create a new country — an empire of their own, so to speak... an America where fathers were strong, families stable, people attractive, resilient, resourceful and decent”.

This capacity of Jewish ingenuity, not only to integrate and assimilate but to fashion and form the self-identity of American life, has been central to their acceptance on both sides of the political aisle. But that is changing. On university campuses, in television studios, on social media, in city halls and even in parts of Congress, a hard-left political movement with growing support has singled out Jews as domestic enemies.

It is still mostly framed as anti-Zionism, of course, the war in Gaza fuelling rage at the Israeli

government. But there has been a steady elision between hatred of Israel and disdain for the millions of American Jews who support Israel.

As Hasan Piker, a leading left-wing commentator with close ties to some Democratic members of Congress, put it recently on X: "If Jews in America keep putting this idea out there that they are singularly invested in Israel, eventually someone is going to come around and take action, not against the state of Israel, mind you, but against American Jews."

The leadership of the Democratic Party understands the peril. Hakeem Jeffries, who will become Speaker if Democrats win the House of Representatives next month, has condemned this rhetoric, and for now the Jew-haters on the left are still a small minority, even as their numbers grow.

No one disputes that criticism of the Israeli government is legitimate. But when a political class debases the Holocaust with the absurd claim that Israel's actions are a genocide, and when American Jews are deemed responsible for crimes simply for supporting the Jewish state, it is no wonder they are starting to feel unsafe, even in America.

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Sir, There is a great deal of nonsense being talked about the need to counter ballistic missiles and drones (“£10bn ‘Britannia shield’ to guard against aerial threat”, Oct 6). Britain is at the western edge of Europe and any ballistic missiles from Russia or Iran would have to overfly the whole of Europe’s Nato countries. As regards drones, the new threat seems to be short-range pop-ups 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. Should Russia or Iran start launching ballistic missiles at us, I would suggest we would be at war with all the implications that entails. Defence of our cities against exo-atmospheric ballistic missiles is extremely difficult and has implications for nuclear deterrence. There are more important areas that require enhanced defence spending. Admiral Lord West of Spithead House of Lords

Sir, The protective shield against missiles and drones proposed by the Conservative Party makes little sense. It would cover only a minority of vital assets, take time to set up and, given the pace of technological change in modern warfare, would likely be out of date before becoming operational. Crucially, it would not deter any serious aggressor. The nuclear deterrent has worked well but a conventional offensive deterrent is now the priority. Ukraine's attacks on Russian fuel supplies and logistics have shown the way. Western Europe and Britain do not require a makeshift shield but an arsenal of non-nuclear ballistic missiles capable of hitting precise targets in Russia or Iran, backed up by high-speed drones for lesser targets. The admittedly high cost should be shared across Nato (excluding the US). Philip Hamilton-Grierson Marlborough, Wilts

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Badenoch's unapologetic desire for excellence

Sir, Juliet Samuel's article is a clear analysis of the acceptance of mediocrity, crippling regulation and lack of ambition that have prevailed since Thatcherism, and points to a basis for a philosophical renewal of the Conservative Party ("Badenoch invites excellence back to the party", Oct 8). Perhaps, too, the Tories can wage war on the disastrous mantras of diversity, equality and inclusivity that started in government under Tony Blair and have had a catastrophic effect on standards across all areas of our national life. They have been the engine of the mediocrity she describes. Martyn Thomas Raglan, Monmouthshire

Sir, Kemi Badenoch's inheritance tax proposals (reports, Oct 8) would surely encourage elderly people to "upsize" their homes so as to shield the maximum amount of their assets from IHT, rather than downsizing to free up much-needed housing space. Adrian Grimmitt Didbrook, Glos

Sir, The principle of right-of-centre thinking is contained in the phrase “a rising tide lifts all boats”. Only it doesn’t. The much-needed growth in the 1980s and 1990s worked for strivers and risk-takers, as Juliet Samuel states. But it missed out far too many people to be a solution for the whole country. What we need is a return to Thatcherite policy, as Kemi Badenoch suggests, mixed with a mindset of investment in people so that everyone can board the rising boats. Mike Rivers Sutton, Surrey

Sir, Most people understand the inequity of inheritance tax, which is largely applied to assets that have accumulated from taxed sources. Although a family home has usually been paid for out of taxed earnings, no tax is applied on value appreciation as owners buy and sell. The Conservatives' ambition to scrap IHT is a sensible one, but as an interim measure it would be better to exempt everything but the family home and to apply an inheritance tax to homes above a certain value. That way downsizing would be encouraged. Stuart Southall East Horsley, Surrey

Sir, If Kemi Badenoch wishes to abolish inheritance tax, she should look to Canada, which has no such tax. Instead, death triggers a “deemed disposition”: assets are treated as if they have been sold at their market value, and any taxable gains are included in the deceased’s final income tax return. Cash in a bank account attracts no tax merely because its owner has died, while gains on investments and other assets may be taxable. The normal exemptions and reliefs continue to apply, including those for main residences, qualifying small businesses and farmland. Transfers to surviving spouses can generally be made tax-free, with the liability deferred. This strikes me as a simpler and morally more defensible approach than Badenoch’s. Cicely Leemhuis London SE21

Sir, I was delighted by Gillian Davis's letter (Oct 8) on IHT and those who do not have children. Surely the answer is to allow a childless person to nominate up to two people to benefit from their estate tax-free.

Perhaps I should kill two birds with one stone and suggest this to Martin Lewis too (“Finances guru funds bid to fix ‘the small stuff’”, Oct 8). Clare Atkinson Amersham, Bucks

C-section increase

Sir, The astonishing rise in Britain's caesarean section rate (“How Britain became the C-section capital of the West” (report, Oct 7; letter, Oct 8) is the result of reforms following the “Changing Childbirth” report on maternity services in the I990s, which, ironically, was supposed to reduce the C-section rate (20 per cent at that time).

Its rationale was that doctors were carrying out the C-sections, so doctors should be driven out of the labour ward and care should be given back to midwives — who no longer needed to be nurses because childbirth was not an illness.

The results of this facile reasoning have been slow to appear because it took time for older generations of staff to retire and for staffing levels to fall to totally inadequate levels.

Radical reform is again needed, and the presidents of the Royal College of Midwives and the Royal College of Obstetricians & Gynaecologists, working together, are ready to make it happen. Sadly, they are being gaslighted by the Department of Health, which listens only to

managers and lay people, and never to clinicians. James Owen Drife Emeritus professor of obstetrics and gynaecology, University of Leeds

Cancer screening

Sir, Cherie Blair's comments on the cut-off for breast cancer screening at 72 could equally apply to bowel cancer screening, where the cut-off age is 74 ("Breast screening doesn't have to stop when we turn $70^{\circ}$ , Thunderer, Oct 8). Screening allows cancers to be caught early, improving outcomes, but the upper cut-off ages in screening for both these cancers have not changed for decades. This age discrimination is never adequately explained. Cancer is a disease where the incidence increases as you get older, and it is a sad fact that the more likely you are to get cancer, the less likely you are to be screened. With new technologies such as digital pathology and AI applied to clinical imagery coming down the line, it is time to give elderly people more access to NHS cancer screening programmes. Jill Clark

Chair, CancerWatch

Sir, As a retired nurse aged 78, I have had regular breast cancer screening over the age of 72 because I knew it was available on request. I was diagnosed with breast cancer in June this year. Nobody felt the lump but, because of improved mammography, it was identified at an early stage. After treatment I am cancer-free. Although bowel cancer screening stops at 74, it is also available on request. Both services require the individual to be proactive, but they are available without seeing your GP. Trisha Weller Georgeham, Devon

Lightbulb moment

Sir, It is not just the standard of military accommodation itself but the quality of renovations that caused my family concern when we lived in RAF married quarters (letter, Oct 8). Sitting at the kitchen table with our two young children, I noticed that the recently modernised plumbing had led to the overhead lightbulb being filled with water. A strategic retreat from the kitchen followed. Phil Mason Northallerton, N Yorks

CHALLENGER LET DOWN BY TEE SHOTS

FROM THE TIMES OCTOBER 9, 1926

Miss Molly Gourlay won the English Ladies' Championship at Woodhall Spa yesterday, when she beat Miss Elsie Corlett in the final round over 36 holes by six holes up and four to play.

In doing so she fulfilled expectations, and set the seal to a most successful season. Her record is a very fine one. She has won the French Championship; she is the holder for the second year in succession of the Belgian Championship; and she holds the Surrey Championship. In addition to this she has played throughout the year high up in the Surrey side without losing a match, and she has been beaten only four times since she first represented her county. The only fields left for her to conquer are the Open and American Championships, and if she continues to add to her skill in the same proportion as she has done in the past these are not beyond her grasp. Miss Gourlay is definitely a better player to-day than ever she was before in her golfing career, especially in her play with her iron clubs, and yesterday's victory will give her that self-confidence which a fine achievement brings.

Miss Corlett proved herself in every way a worthy runner-up. It is a great performance to fight one's way into the final round of a long and testing tournament at the first attempt, and, having done that, to hold a really accomplished golfer, and one of experience, for 27 holes in spite of being consistently out-distanced from the tee. It was no disgrace to be

beaten, and if the margin reads big, the rain that fell torrentially from the ninth hole onwards in the afternoon was largely to blame, for only those who must play in spectacles realize what a handicap rain can be.

Yesterday her tee shots failed her partly because her left hand was blistered, but largely because she is inclined to drop her right shoulder, which, if it does nothing else, must diminish length. Her short game up to the hole was excellent, and often saved her, and some of her spoon shots would have delighted the heart of Mr Hilton, a point that did not escape the notice of Miss Cecil Leitch, who was following the play. That is high praise, but well-deserved, and one will expect to see Miss Corlett leading her county successfully in the future.

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Botched executions

Sir, The botched execution of Christa Pike in Tennessee (news, Oct 8) has a number of precedents in our own history. Anne Greene (1650), John "Half-hanged" Smith (1705), Margaret Dickson (1724), William Duell (1740) and John Lee (1885) are all reported to have survived judicial hangings. What is different in their cases is that no one tried to fulfil the sentence a second time. To receive medical treatment, only for others to attempt to execute you a second time in the name of justice, is repugnant and was regarded as such all those years ago.

Some might say that the failure to execute Pike indicates a reluctance to see this happen on high. One can but hope that those in the US who clamour for a repugnant death penalty may realise that this failure perhaps indicates that God is not on their side in this debate. James Wood KC Doughty Street Chambers, London WCI

Settled science

Sir, Dr Ella Gilbert (letter, Oct 7), in linking human activity to climate change, employs the expression: "The science is settled." Had she referred to the overwhelming scientific consensus on this issue I would have no quibbles, but the use of this fast-becoming stock phrase is profoundly unscientific, serving only to stifle further inquiry and debate irrespective of the topic under examination. The history of scientific endeavour is replete with instances of what was settled becoming very much unsettled. Merrick Moseley Honorary senior research fellow, City St George's, University of London

Savaged at school

Sir, Janice Turner's column ("Not all of us found Jeffrey Archer quite so loveable", Notebook, Oct 8) sparked a 30-year-old memory of Archer giving a talk at my school, at the end of which he rounded on a boy aged 14 or so who had the temerity to ask how he would respond to critics who did not consider his books to be great literature. As I recall, he snapped: "I'm not here to answer stupid questions like that."

Many of us in the audience didn't like him much after that either.
Jenny Kenyon
London SW9

Tiddler on the roof

Sir, On the topic of plants growing in unusual places (letters, Oct 7 & 8), today I thought I spotted a very large bird on a neighbour's chimney pot. On closer examination it turns out to be a thriving cordyline palm tree, otherwise known as the cabbage tree. James Logan Portstewart, Co Londonderry

Plumb job

Sir, Matthew Parris, who managed to mislabel his "plumb jelly" (Notebook, Oct 7), might be amused to know that our friend's daughter similarly mislabelled several jars as "crap apple jelly". I still treasure a jar. Caroline Lewars Montacute, Somerset

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Daily Universal Register

UK: Results announced for the Holborn & St Pancras by-election. Norway: Nobel peace prize awarded.

Nature notes

Barrel-chested wood pigeons don't seem built for speed. When nesting near houses, they rarely seem to fly further than a belly flop on

to the next roof, and during their brief non-mating weeks when the birds gather to feed on winter rape, they seem to take to the air only when a gas gun frightens them — after which they quickly settle back down to their feast. Yet with their large breast muscles, a wood pigeon with a tailwind can actually reach up to 90mph in short bursts, and can even average just under 60mph over more substantial distances. This unlikely penchant for velocity is in the extended family. Racing pigeons are loved for their strong, rapid flight. JONATHAN TULLOCH

Birthdays today

Lord (David) Cameron of Chipping Norton, pictured, prime minister (2010-16), 60; Scott Bakula, actor, Star Trek: Enterprise (2001-05), 72; Brian Blessed, actor, Z Cars (1962-78), 90;

Jackson Browne, singer-songwriter, Take It Easy (1972, co-written for the Eagles), 78; Sally Burgess, mezzo-soprano, 73; Guillermo del Toro, film director, Frankenstein (2025), 62; John Doubleday, sculptor, 79; Thérèse Esperdy, chairwoman, Imperial Brands (tobacco company), 66; Rupert Friend, actor, Homeland (2012-17), 45; Bella Hadid, supermodel, 30; Sir Oliver Hart, economist, joint recipient, Nobel prize for economics (2016), 78; PJ Harvey, musician and songwriter, Let England Shake (2011), 57; Edward Kemp, chief executive, Royal Literary Fund, director, Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (2008-21), 61; Prince Edward, Duke of Kent, 91; Stuart Lancaster, head coach, England rugby union team (2011-15), 57; Sean Lennon, musician, 51; Sir Roddy Llewellyn, landscape architect, 79; Sir Don McCullin, photojournalist, 91; Steve McQueen, film director, 12 Years a Slave (2013), 57; Brian Moynihan, chairman and chief executive, Bank of America (financial services), 67; Chris O'Dowd, actor and comedian, The IT Crowd (2006-13), The Big Door Prize (2023-24) 47; Sharon Osbourne, music manager and promoter, 74; Steve Ovett, athlete, 800m Olympic gold medallist (1980), 71; Jess Phillips, Labour MP for Birmingham Yardley, minister for safeguarding (2024-May 2026), 45; Sir Hugh Robertson, chairman, British Olympic Association (2016-25), Camelot (2018-23, National Lottery operator), 64; Baroness (Kate) Rock, vice-chairwoman of the Conservative Party (2011-16), 58; Sir John Rose, chief executive, Rolls-Royce (1996-2011), 74; Peter Saville, graphic designer, Factory record sleeves for Joy Division and New Order, 71; Annika Sorenstam, golfer, eight-time Ladies Professional Golf Association Tour Player of the Year, 56; Anna Turley, Labour MP for Redcar, minister for border security and asylum, 48.

On this day

In 1941 Franklin D Roosevelt approved funding for the Manhattan Project, which led to the development of the atomic bomb.

The last word

"Every segment of our population, and every individual, has a right to expect from our government a fair deal." Harry Truman, US president, state of the Union speech (1949)

Mind Matters

A review of mental health, ADHD and autism in England has found that there is rising distress among the young. But diagnoses and responses are misfiring

Professor Peter Fonagy, who has chaired an independent review of mental health, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and autism in England, is an eminent clinical psychologist and psychoanalyst. Having spent his career detecting and alleviating mental distress, he is aware of the importance of getting diagnosis and treatment right. In interviews he has recalled how, after moving to London from Hungary without his parents, he had suicidal thoughts aged 17. It was therapy from a local service, he said, that saved his life.

His review was commissioned in December by Wes Streeting, then the health secretary, in response to a sharp rise in demand for mental health, ADHD and autism services. The review's two vice-chairs were Professor Sir Simon Wessely, a former president of the Royal College of Psychiatrists, and Professor Gillian Baird, a consultant paediatrician specialising in autism. In scrutinising this sensitive territory, along with a broader advisory group, the review has not lacked insights or expertise.

With that in mind, the conclusions of the 607-page Fonagy review hold serious implications for policy. One message is that talk of “snowflakes” is misplaced: the rise in mental distress among young people is real, much of it arising from factors peculiar to the modern age. The effects of Covid lockdowns exacerbated loneliness among the young, and the addictive ubiquity of the smartphone and social media has worsened bad habits. Immersed in screens, young people often miss out on real-life interactions and time in nature, and do not sleep or exercise enough. Add insecurity about work and housing, and the recipe for despair intensifies: for the first time since the Second World War, Professor Fonagy says, young people lack the hope that their lives will be better than their parents'.

What happens in the realm of response and diagnosis is also going awry. Where ADHD and autism were once underdiagnosed, the review suggests we are now reaching a tipping point “towards an increased risk of misdiagnosis and overdiagnosis”. According to medical literature, for example, about 1.2 per cent of children are estimated to be autistic. But in England, among boys aged 6 to 11, the proportion with diagnoses of autism has risen from 0.4 per cent in 2000 to more than 6 per cent last year. Spurred in part by awareness campaigns, the number of young people “self-identifying” as autistic or having ADHD has also soared. Polling for the review found that about 18 per cent of 16 to 29-year-olds self-identified as autistic, compared with 1 per cent of 55 to 99-year-olds. The review has also strongly singled out private ADHD clinics and their potential role in overdiagnosis. They should, it says, be prevented from direct advertising.

For some, the review says, a diagnosis can be clinically necessary and personally helpful. But it can “do harm” when “inaccurate or used poorly”, defining a person by their difficulties rather than by their strengths and potential. Children with ADHD diagnoses are four times more likely to become Neets — not in education, employment or training. Any misapplied early diagnosis, therefore, has huge implications for the UK’s sluggish productivity and its soaring welfare bill for those of working age, something Alan Milburn’s review is expected to address after the autumn budget.

Instead of a “diagnosis-dependent” approach, this report recommends prompter psychological help in recognition of “need”—mental distress revealed in behaviours such as self-harm, or paralysing anxiety. That pathway may or may not then be followed with a diagnosis. Such a truth seems self-evident: it is to those in clear distress that resources should flow, with a view to recovery and resilience. Young people must first of all be offered timely treatment, not a label for life.

Hurry Up

The dithering must end over the Jackdaw and Rosebank North Sea projects

Anders Opedal, the chief executive of the Norwegian oil and gas group Equinor, has delivered a brutal truth. If the British government does not get a move on and approve the Rosebank and Jackdaw projects in the North Sea, the UK may no longer be investible. Equinor co-owns these ventures through Adura, a joint project with Shell, the second-biggest producer in the North Sea. Together, they account for almost £11bn of investment and will support hundreds of jobs. Mr Opedal has said it will be a “major setback” if either is canned, and further investments may be called off.

He is right, and this warning shot should not be dismissed. The plans to drill for oil and gas in Rosebank and Jackdaw have been in the pipeline for some time. Adura has ploughed billions into developing them. But both have been left in the balance by political dithering. Under the last Conservative government, Jackdaw was approved for development in 2022 and Rosebank in 2023. Last year, consent for both projects was quashed by a judge over a failure to fully consider the emissions impact. Now, as Mr Opedal put it, “it is a political choice” whether to move forward.

True to type, Sir Keir Starmer's government equivocated on whether to approve either. It was widely thought that Ed Miliband, then the energy secretary, was on the cusp of green-lighting the Jackdaw field before Labour fell into a leadership contest over the summer. Miatta Fahnbulleh, his successor, is said to be minded to finally approve the Jackdaw venture — after the by-election in Holborn & St Pancras, where Labour has faced off against the Greens. Delaying such crucial projects for party purposes appears narrow-minded.

There are important differences between these projects that may affect Ms Fahnbulleh's decision. Jackdaw is the smaller of the two projects and has a production life of about a decade. The gas produced would be responsible for a tiny 0.8 per cent of the UK's emissions but would help to make the country more self-reliant. It makes little sense to import liquefied natural gas from across the Atlantic when supplies are readily available closer to home. The Rosebank project is far bigger, producing oil for decades to come with up to 69,000 barrels every day at its peak. Being an oil-field over gas, its emissions will be higher.

That said, both are essential for improving energy resilience and the economy. Equinor is not the only company to have warned that the government risks deterring investment. Ithaca Energy, another North Sea producer, is investing in Canada for the first time. It has pointed out that Canada's corporate tax rate of 30 per cent is more conducive to investment than that of the UK, where profits can be taxed at 78 per cent. BP presaged Equinor's warning this year when it said it was selling its North Sea operations because the tax regime had made the basin "uninvestable".

Rosebank and Jackdaw are ready to go. Accepting the obvious premise that the UK needs oil and gas for years to come, it makes sense to use all resources available. New drilling would be beneficial for the nation's balance of payments too. The UK has made progress with its renewable production and now has the chance to enjoy one of the best energy mixes in Europe in terms of cost, emissions and security. These two projects are essential to making that a reality. Whatever the by-election result, Andy Burnham should find the energy to end the limbo.

Dog Tired

Letting your pet in the bed is good for your sleep, but bad for theirs

There are perhaps 15 million dogs in the UK, and somewhere between half and three quarters of them — statistics vary — bed down with their owners. This trend is growing. Of the 10.5 million dogs in the UK 15 years ago, only a quarter were allowed in the bedroom overnight. The newer breed of owners — younger, more urban, more likely to live alone — are more of a pushover than the hardcore canine keepers of old. That said, these indulgent doggie-come-latelys are getting better kip.

According to research, humans sleep better with their dogs (or indeed, with other pets, probably not including parrots). Perhaps we feel more secure. The dog, however, has poorer-quality rest than it would on its own.

Even so, a dog's desire for the boss's company and warmth, and its eagerness to please, outweigh the shoddier slumber. Maybe the dog feels the need to be on alert in its master's presence where, if sleeping elsewhere, it feels that it can clock off duty. Or maybe all that human snoring, muttering and pillow-plumping drives the dog to distraction, but fidelity conquers all.

And it is appreciated. Those nocturnal seven or eight hours (ten for teenagers) are precious to us:

we humans can rarely catch up on lost sleep. A dog, meanwhile, will be conked out for between 12 and 14 hours a day, and longer if it is a puppy, elderly or large. The same applies — but even more so — to cats, which aim to spend at least 16 of every 24 hours napping.

Unfortunately, given that cats are crepuscular creatures most active at dusk and dawn, their 16 hours do not include those either side of 6am, when most humans are keen to extend their shut-eye. The concept of putting up with personal discomfort for the greater good is entirely alien to cats — unlike dogs, man's somewhat bleary-eyed best friend.

World

'It was painful and beautiful ... even the guards cried'

Two protesters jailed in Iran married in separate cells. Hours later the groom was hanged. By Fatemeh Jamalpour

There was no white dress, bridal bouquet or wedding party. The bride and groom were not even in the same room. They were in separate prison cells in Isfahan, and one of them was waiting to be executed.

Still, Alireza Sepahi and Mahshad Keshani were determined to get married.

Sepahi, a 25-year-old protester facing four death sentences, and Keshani, a 22-year-old student activist serving five years in prison, knew and loved each other before they were arrested. Last Sunday, as fears mounted that Sepahi could be executed within hours, they decided to marry and asked Amirsalar Davoudi, a rights lawyer in Tehran, to help them.

Though they were not present, their fathers were on the phone while Davoudi read the vows, the relatives blessing the union at the appropriate moment. Their symbolic dowry was a copy of the Quran, a stick of saffron rock candy and a single red rose.

"This was not my idea — I only carried it out," Davoudi, speaking from Tehran, told The Times. "It was Mahshad's idea. Even now, I wonder how one young woman can possess such courage. She taught us an extraordinary lesson."

Sepahi was arrested during Iran's nationwide protests in January and convicted in the "Alikhani Square" trial, in which more than a dozen young men were accused of involvement in the deaths of security officers in Isfahan. His family was summoned to Isfahan central prison on Sunday for what lawyers feared could be a final visit.

Davoudi expressed hope that the wedding could draw international attention to Sepahi's case and stop the execution. "I hope love will defeat that cursed rope," he said. "I will lose my faith in God if they execute this young man tonight."

But the wedding had no formal power to overturn Sepahi's death sentences, and the Iranian authorities were set on following through. On Monday morning, only hours after the wedding, he was hanged. "Even in North Korea, they would have allowed these young people to meet and waited half a day," Davoudi said. "I do not know how to come to terms with this. The regime is taking revenge on innocent young people for the humiliation it has suffered internationally."

It was not the first time Sepahi had been led to the gallows. On July 28, he was prepared for a public hanging in Alikhani Square, where the authorities had erected giant orange cranes as gallows. His cousin, Abolfazl Sepahi, and another defendant, Amirhossein Safari, were hanged before a crowd.

Alireza Sepahi suffered a heart attack shortly before he was due to be executed and was taken to hospital. According to Davoudi, he remained unconscious for several days.

"His sister told me, 'Please pray that my brother does not regain consciousness. If he wakes up, they will execute him'," Davoudi said. "This is what they have reduced us to: a young woman praying that her brother remains in a coma because waking up would mean being sent to the gallows."

After Sepahi regained consciousness and was returned to prison, Keshani contacted Davoudi from Dolatabad prison and said she wanted to formalise their relationship.

"At first, I thought she was acting impulsively — that she was sacrificing herself," Davoudi said. "I told her, 'My dear, you understand that this cannot simply be undone?' She said, 'Mr Davoudi, I love Alireza.'"

Keshani, an only child, has been repeatedly arrested for political activity. She was first detained in July 2023 with 22 students and civil-society activists. She was arrested again during the anti-regime protests in January this year and sentenced to five years in prison on charges including “propaganda against the system”, “disrupting public order” and “inciting people to kill”.

Mahshad Keshani and Alireza Sepahi fell in love before they were both arrested for taking part in the nationwide protests that gripped Iran in January. She was jailed for five years while he was sentenced to death

Her sentence was upheld on appeal and she is being held in Dolatabad prison in Isfahan.

Once Davoudi understood that both prisoners were determined to marry, he sent an assistant to obtain their legal consent.

Sepahi initially struggled to believe the proposal was real. “When he understood that she was serious, he began to cry and signed the document,” he said. “Mahshad was completely determined. Alireza was crying, and something deeply painful and beautiful happened. Even the prison officers began to cry.”

Keshani's father also consented, despite knowing that his daughter was marrying a man who could be executed at any moment. "He told me, 'Mr Davoudi, she is my only daughter,'" the lawyer said. "She is already in prison, and this is how she has chosen to show her love."

The ceremony lasted about nine minutes. The families knew each other through the community formed among protesters and their relatives after the January crackdown on demonstrations.

Sepahi was arrested at his family home on January 10. According to a former cellmate, he was struck by shotgun pellets during the raid and then interrogated and tortured for 26 days at an Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) detention centre.

Mehdi Mahmoudian, a civil society activist, has alleged that Sepahi and other defendants were tortured and threatened with sexual violence to force them to implicate one another.

The Iranian authorities say the defendants were responsible for the deaths of four security officers during unrest in Alikhani Square on January 8. Davoudi said 15 masked IRGC interrogators attended the trial and that neither the judge nor the prosecutor presented evidence beyond confessions the defendants said had been extracted under torture.

Sepahi denied being present when the officers were killed, Davoudi said, and the court refused to examine footage that could have established his location. "These young people did not kill anyone," he said. "They are not murderers."

Sepahi was the sixth defendant in the Alikhani Square case to be executed, rights groups said. At least 32 protesters have been executed in connection with the January protests since March 19, according to the Iran Human Rights organisation.

Davoudi, who spent about five years in Evin prison in Tehran because of his human rights work, rejected the official language used to describe the killings.

"We should not use the word execution," he said. "Execution suggests that a lawful process has taken place. These are state killings based on confessions extracted under torture."

Riot police fired tear gas and water cannon during clashes with demonstrators at

March for Maricarmen a sign of strife to come

Spain

David Sharrock Madrid

Images of an 87-year-old woman being evicted on a stretcher from her home of more than 70 years brought thousands out in protest against the housing crisis in Spain. Now María del Carmen Abascal's death in hospital two weeks later has provoked a political battle that will dominate an election campaign.

Politicians of the left and right traded insults and accusations yesterday as protesters and other people left flowers and messages at the door of the Madrid building from which Maricarmen was forcibly removed.

The row reached Madrid city hall and the Senate, both governed by the

Popular Party (PP), which declined to hold a minute's silence. Opposition parties observed a tribute in the street outside both instead, in which the PP and the hard-right Vox party declined to participate.

Rita Maestre, the left-wing Más Madrid leader, accused the mayor, José Luis Martínez-Almeida, of failing to use his powers to prevent the eviction. "There are many ways to die and many ways to kill," she said, quoting Bertolt Brecht.

Almeida responded: "You'll end up saying that [Isabel Díaz] Ayuso [the regional president] and Almeida are murderers because of Maricarmen." He accused the opposition of using the pensioner's for electoral purposes,

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Place de la Bastille, where the prison once stood that was stormed during the revolution of 1789

Bastille 'retaken' by student protesters

More than 500 people were arrested as French

teenagers demanding better school conditions clashed with police and vowed to continue their protests, which have left hundreds injured in the past three weeks (David Chazan writes).

Police fired tear gas and sprayed water cannon at the Place de la Bastille in Paris. Jean-Luc Mélenchon, the leader of France Unbowed, the hard-left party, wrote on X that "the Bastille has been retaken", referring to the storming of the prison there during the French Revolution in 1789.

Violence also broke out in other cities including Bordeaux and Marseille. Nearly 50 police officers were injured, according to the interior ministry.

The demonstrations began on September 18 with protesters demanding additional funding for schools struggling with dilapidated buildings.

Sabrine Kharbach, the spokeswoman for a students' union, said they would continue "for as long as €10bn hasn't been put on the table".

Yesterday Édouard Geffray, the education minister, said ministers would implement an emergency plan to replace absent teachers, which was one of the protesters' grievances.

adding: "Here, the vultures and carrion eaters are you."

Protesters announced a march this evening from their camp in the Puerta del Sol to the building from which Abascal was evicted. At the regional assembly, the Más Madrid spokeswoman Manuela Bergerot said there would be “no peace in the streets of Madrid”.

Abascal's case forced the government to assemble measures to address the housing crisis, but they failed to pass a vote in parliament last Friday. Pedro Sánchez, the prime minister, this week called a general election for November 29.

Though she became a lightning rod for anger over the housing crisis, Abascal did not perfectly fit the political narratives being built around her.

She moved into her flat in 1956, when her father signed a tenancy under a Franco-era rent control system. The tenancy passed first to her mother and then, in 2005, to Abascal. The owners continued to accept her rent for years.

When the building was sold, in 2018, she was offered the chance to buy her flat for about €250,000 but could not afford it. She stayed in the property until the courts ruled that her second succession to the tenancy had expired.

Protesters direct insults at politicians outside the flat in central Madrid where María del Carmen Abascal lived

That history has provided ammunition for the right. The tenancy originated under the dictatorship, and the 1994 law that restricted succession rights was passed by a socialist government.

Iván Espinosa de los Monteros, a former senior Vox member, described Abascal as a “jeta ”, someone shamelessly taking advantage of others, and accused the left of presenting as a victim a woman who lived for decades in a valuable flat overlooking the El Retiro Park under a protected rent regime.

In an interview shortly before her eviction, Abascal criticised Sánchez, Ayuso and Almeida, saying that the prime minister neither knew nor wanted to know how many people were being evicted.

The dispute over her home had effectively been resolved. Urbagestión, the company that owns the flat, had agreed to an eight-year tenancy and rent capped at 30 per cent of her pension income. Abascal died hours before she was due to sign the contract. "My home has been my life," she told the Antena 3 TV channel in her final interview.

Former German spy chief ‘passed secrets to Beijing’

Germany

Elizabeth Rushton Berlin

The former head of Germany's answer to MI6, who has been arrested on suspicion of passing highly classified information to a foreign spy agency, is also feared to have provided sensitive details to a high-ranking Chinese military official, according to a report.

August Hanning, 80, who ran the BND intelligence service from 1998 to 2005, is facing charges of attempted treason and espionage on behalf of a foreign country in one of Germany's most serious spy scandals since the Second World War.

He is accused of obtaining nearly 2,000 internal documents through his former chief of staff, Manfred Dankesreiter, 64, from 2010 to 2012. He is alleged to have used some of them to prepare an analysis for an officer from a foreign intelligence agency, reportedly Azerbaijan.

The German public prosecutor general's office also claimed that Hanning was in "close contact" with an employee from another foreign spy agency and supplied him with confidential "political information", partly based on the BND files, over several years.

Yesterday Der Spiegel reported that this was Wang Jianzheng, a retired Chinese army major general who spent 23 years as a military diplomat in Germany, Austria and Switzerland.

Wang had first been posted to East Berlin in 1987-90, at the end of the socialist German Democratic Republic, and returned twice after reunification, most recently from 2009 to 2013.

Now regarded as one of Beijing's most influential experts on Germany, he continues to work for the China Institute for International Strategic Studies, a state think tank under the aegis of the Chinese military.

Wang, who had thanked Hanning for his “insights and explanations” in the foreword to a 2017 book, appears to have met the former BND president at several conferences. They also sat together on the board of advisers for a German-Chinese “eco-park” in Qingdao, eastern China.

Hanning has said he is being “wrongfully persecuted”. His defence lawyer told Der Spiegel he had been in possession of confidential BND files but denied that he had passed the information on “to Germany’s detriment, let alone for money”. Wang said he had not seen Hanning in a long time and declined to make any further comment.

However, MPs and former senior officials with experience of intelligence oversight said the Hanning case was symptomatic of a deeper “cultural problem” in Germany’s security services that may unsettle some of its partners.

It is common for retired officials to keep themselves abreast of internal developments at their former agencies or ministries while setting up independent consultancies or working for private companies that could benefit from such information.

These practices are not only tolerated but in some cases officially endorsed: according to Der Spiegel, Dankesreiter had received explicit approval from his bosses at the BND to continue working for Hanning in his spare time.

Sir Paul Lever, who was British ambassador to Germany between 1997 and 2003, said that the BND would need to reassure its international partners that Hanning's case was not merely the tip of the iceberg.

"People will indeed be worried if this suggests a culture at the BND that people hand over sensitive reports to their mates," he said. "There is certainly a culture in Germany that former civil servants do keep in touch and like to hear updates."

Lever added, however, that it seemed Hanning had “overstepped the line” in an attempt to solve his widely reported financial problems, linked to the collapse of a Latvian bank where he had served on the supervisory board.

"The idea of making money based on your insights and past experience is nothing new," he said. "But there is a clear dividing line when it comes to classified information."

Konstantin von Notz, a Green MP and deputy head of the Bundestag's intelligence oversight group, said a "tabula rasa" would be needed to address the flow of information to former civil ser-

August Hanning, 80, ran the BND intelligence service from 1998 to 2005

vants. "It is a structural problem," he said.

The interior ministry, where Hanning served as state secretary from 2005 to 2009, announced yesterday that it would investigate his tenure.

However, von Notz said this would be “far from sufficient” to repair trust with the BND’s allied agencies. This had already been severely damaged by the arrest of Carsten Linke, the service’s former head of internal security, on suspicion of linking intelligence to Russia. Linke’s trial in Berlin continues.

"Given past incidents such as this, further erosion of trust through a never-ending string of scandals would simply be devastating," von Notz said. "Given the very clear expectations that friendly nations have of us, any doubt regarding the integrity of the German intelligence services' work must be completely dispelled."

Wolfgang Schmidt, who was the chancellor Olaf Scholz's chief of staff from 2021 to 2025, said there was already "very strict" legislation regulating what former senior civil servants could do in the private sector. "We have to be careful not to throw the baby out with the bathwater," Schmidt said. "At some point, more restrictions will actually mean we can no longer recruit certain people into the civil service whom we urgently need, since they'll say it's a kind of professional ban."

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Cowabunga! President's heifer sells for £293k

South Africa

Jane Flanagan Cape Town

President Ramaphosa has sold a pregnant Ankole heifer for a record-breaking price, making the cow the most expensive female of any cattle breed sold at auction in South Africa.

Queen Arusha sold for R6.4 million (£293,000) to an anonymous bidder during the sale at Ramaphosa's farm in Limpopo province. Carrying her first calf, the three-year-old heifer was the star of the auction. Two straws of semen taken from her brother, the giant bull Optimus Prime, also set a record when they were sold from R250,000 each.

Ramaphosa was introduced to the Ankole on a visit to Uganda in 2004, and went on to buy 40 cows and three bulls from President Museveni.

The embryos from those animals were imported to South Africa and formed the foundation of Ramaphosa's Ankole stud. The breed, native to the Great Lakes region, is known for its enormous sweeping horns.

Phala Phala farm has made headlines before — over a theft that has dogged Ramaphosa's presidency. The farm is where more than \$580,000 stuffed into a sofa cushion was stolen in 2020, raising questions over the source of the money, whether it had been legally declared and why the theft was not immediately reported to police.

Ramaphosa has denied any wrongdoing but the so-called “sofa-gate scandal” lingers as South Africa heads to local elections on November 4, with polls suggesting a drop in support for his African National Congress.

Showing restraint Daisy Edgar-Jones wore a two-toned corset set from Stella McCartney's spring 1999 collection for Chloé for the Los Angeles premiere of Sense and Sensibility before changing into a Dilara Findikoglu minidress for the afterparty

China came for Congo's gold. Then the Ebola outbreak hit

The DRC has been left to fend for itself against a virus spreading faster than attempts to contain it, writes Noella Mwanza

David Kayomtho has only recently returned to the blighted mud pits where Congolese miners scrape at ochre earth for gold and traders make a living selling what they find.

Earlier this year, Kayomtho took a week off to bury his son. "After that I withdrew into myself. I stopped speaking. I stopped going out. I felt guilty, because I believed my son had died because of me," he said. For the past five months, Ebola has stalked the miners of eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). The outbreak began in a gold-mining town, where crowded pits and poor sanitation helped the virus to spread. Soon, China grew wary of the gold beneath the miners' feet. Work in the pits stopped and Chinese-funded mining operations in parts of the mineral-rich Ituri province ground to a halt.

Chinese companies were already facing hostility from local communities and attacks by armed groups. Then

Beijing advised its nationals to leave areas hit by the deadly virus.

When Kayomtho lost his job as a mechanic at a Chinese-run mine, he took the only work there was: screening patients at an Ebola treatment centre near the family's home in Ituri's provincial capital, Bunia. Nine days into the job, he fell sick. He had all the symptoms: diarrhoea, headaches, muscle pains and a high fever.

Soon his wife, Riziki, and two of his four sons, Gradel, Il, and Ebenezer, seven, were also seriously ill. Kayomtho recovered and returned to the clinic, when he was told that Ebenezer had died. His wife and Gradel are still recovering. "I joined the response to provide for my family, and I ended up bringing the disease into my home," Kayomtho, 38, told The Times by phone.

There is growing anger that the official response to the outbreak is struggling to keep pace with its spread, hampered by insecurity and displacement from a protracted conflict in eastern DRC, community suspicion and attacks on treatment centres.

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The body of an eight-month pregnant woman is laid in a coffin by members of the Safe and Dignified Burial team

Health Organisation has repeatedly warned that the disease is spreading faster than the ability to track and contain it, predicting that this will become the deadliest outbreak on record.

Congolese officials say that the crisis needs an international response. China's aid efforts have been more modest than expected. During the Ebola outbreak in 2014, Beijing emerged as a leading benefactor, rapidly sending experts and funding as west Africa fought an outbreak that would eventually claim more than 11,000 lives.

For Beijing, the 2014 response was tied to its vaccine research. Its scientists were working on a vaccine, and the outbreak gave them access to data and field specimens and, allegedly, valuable experience establishing and operating mobile bio-safety laboratories.

More than a decade later, the conditions are different. “There is less interest domestically in dealing with international crises,” Cobus van Staden, head of research at the China-Global South Project think tank, said. “We have seen some negative response among ordinary Chinese over aid to global south countries because there is such a strong perception that people inside China are suffering and need to be helped. In times of economic stress that becomes more acute.”

Since the US dismantled USAid, "there has been a lot of discussion about whether China is going to step up and replace the US", Van Staden said, adding: "I think the main takeaway is that China is not interested in replacing the US in that one-to-one way. [China] is picking its battles."

Across the affected area, health workers have reported going months without wages. Strikes have hit Ebola facilities, including Bunia general hospital, where Kayomtho worked. “We are building Ebola treatment centres but do not always have the human resources needed to operate them,” Anne Ancia, the World Health Organisation’s representative in DRC, said. “Those health workers must be paid.”

Meloni wins approval for electoral reform

Italy The parliament approved an overhaul of the electoral system yesterday, handing Giorgia Meloni, the prime minister, a political victory while setting up a probable constitutional battle over the reform.

The new law is viewed as an attempt to strengthen Italy's political system while improving the electoral prospects of the centre-right coalition led by Meloni, which last month celebrated its record as Italy's longest-serving government since the Second World War.

Supporters say the law is designed to produce clearer election winners and more stable governments in a country known for frequent changes of administration. But the centre-left opposition dubbed it “scam law” and argued that it was unconstitutional. It has pledged to challenge it and bring it in front of Italy’s constitutional court once it takes effect.

The Chamber of Deputies approved the measure in a secret ballot by 227 votes to 164.

The reform introduces a big majority prize that will award bonus seats in both houses of parliament to the winning pre-election alliance, provided it wins at least 42 per cent of the national vote. It abolishes Italy's mixed electoral system, in which about one third of parliamentary seats were elected in first-past-the-post constituencies, and replaces it with a fully proportional system.

Maduro torture charge

United States Nicolás Maduro, the ousted Venezuelan president, and his wife, Cilia Flores, have been charged with torture on top of drug trafficking and firearms offences after they were snatched in a US military raid in January. The couple, who are due to stand trial in June, are alleged to have used torture to “repress and punish political opposition”.

Plague tests 'negative'

Russia The health watchdog says it has completed health checks on all the contacts of a deceased lab worker at a plague research facility in Siberia, with no dangerous pathogens found in nearly 5,000 samples. Officials have not confirmed whether the death of Darya Shipilova, 28, was caused by plague despite pressure from international health bodies.

Houthis target Riyadh

Yemen The Iran-aligned Houthis have escalated their campaign of strikes against Saudi Arabia in an attempt to shut down its airspace and oil facilities. The group said it had struck Riyadh airport, with witnesses saying an aircraft had caught fire. Lufthansa and Air India have suspended flights. Saudi officials said debris from a missile had hit a kindergarten.

Jurassic mammal

China The fossil of what is thought to be the oldest-known example of a mammal with a semiaquatic lifestyle has been discovered in Inner Mongolia. The Megacauda sungei, which lived in the Jurassic period about 165 million years ago, was a furry creature about 20in long that swam like a platypus and hunted like an otter.

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The actors Michael Fassbender and Keira Knightley cheer Como 1907 at the Giuseppe Sinigaglia Stadium, right, in 2024. The club's fortunes have risen alongside the lakeside town's popularity with celebrities, to the chagrin of some locals

Fans feel left behind as club shoots for stars

Italy

James Imam Como

Was Benedict Cumberbatch the end of the beginning or the beginning of the end? Was it Keira Knightley, Andrew Garfield, Kate Beckinsale or even George Clooney, the crown prince of Lake Como?

Just seven years ago, the little football club that was a bit of an afterthought on the banks of the glamorous lake was languishing in Italy's fourth tier, unloved save for a few diehard fans. Later this month, Como will face Manchester United as part of a first Champions League campaign. On any given match day, there is a good chance celebrities will be in the stands, too.

Outside a yacht club in Como, however, veteran fans are not so sure all this success is a good thing.

Guido Brandini, 48, said the club's rise was "unbelievable" after almost 40 years of watching the team scrap in the lower leagues. "I find it difficult to imagine us playing against Manchester United," he said.

His mother was less effusive. “First the tourism arrived, then little by little the actors came, and now the Hartono brothers have joined the mix,” said Floriana Colombo, 77, a season-ticket holder. “It’s a small town, a backwater, and we have traffic and parking problems. Locals are complaining.”

The brothers, Robert Budi Hartono and Michael Bambang Hartono, are billionaire siblings from Indonesia who made their fortune manufacturing cigarettes. They bought the club in 2019 initially to create a documentary for Indonesian TV. It followed a number of documentaries about club ownership, including Class of '92: Out of Their League, which followed the takeover of non-league Salford City by the former Manchester United players Gary Neville, Ryan Giggs, Phil Neville, Paul Scholes and Nicky Butt.

The new management at Como 1907, the club's full title, soon discovered a growing international following, including the Como Tartan Army, a group of Scottish supporters, and a chapter on the Isle of Wight, formed by fans who, after failing to find tickets for a match in Milan, travelled to Como.

“What’s unique about Como is everything is five minutes away from the stadium,” said Mirwan Suwarso, Como 1907’s Indonesian-born president. “We realised our ancillary revenue was tourism.”

The clash with Manchester United will be the crowning moment of the club's transformation into one of the world's most popular football tourism destinations, where sporting success is no more important than selling branded goods and services, from boat tours to accommodation and local beer.

However, as record numbers of visitors descend on Como, some locals are demanding administrators rein in the football club's expansion, with the possible closure of a local school to build a car park becoming a flashpoint.

"It has become a symbol," said Teresa Minniti, 44, vice-president of the Nova Como association, which aims to protect the town and its residents from the ravages of over-tourism. "When you strip the historic centre of services like schools, the town becomes a hotel."

Indonesian cash has helped secure players such as Nico Paz, the Argentinian midfielder, and a high-profile Spanish manager, Cesc Fàbregas — the former Arsenal player — helping Como win promotion in 2024 to Italy's top division, Serie A, for the first time in more than two decades and subsequently enter the Champions League. The club's popularity has become such that in August, it introduced a rule suspending season-ticket holders who miss more than three games, part of an effort to prevent ticket touting.

Once a quiet lakeside town, Como's popularity has been rising ever since Clooney bought a villa on the lake in 2002. Locations on the lake registered more than 5 million overnight stays last year, compared with 4.3 million the year before. Celebrities appear to have made a beeline for matches.

“Como has changed a lot and I guess

Mirwan Suwarso says the club is on track to make a profit by the 2028-29 season

the club's success was a consequence of that," said Daniele Mariani, 46, a Brazil-born lawyer based in Rio de Janeiro who is visiting Como, where she previously lived. "The town is less provincial now. It has a vibe." Suwarso has tried to harness the city's fame by building a Como 1907 merchandising empire with global reach. The company sells an array of products — from sailing, hiking and running gear to locally made silk

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products — built around the concept of Lake Como as a lifestyle destination.

"We try to blur the lines between Como football and Como the destination," Suwaso said, adding that merchandising revenue may match broadcast revenue this year. "The lake is more famous than the football team."

The enterprise grew from an initial €53,000 in annual sales of merchandise to more than €10m last year, Suwarso says, with the company aiming for between €34m and €40m this year. Only 38 per cent of merchandising is football-related.

Additionally, the club offers tourism packages featuring yacht tours, concierge services and Vespa rentals. It plans to launch a taxi boat service with Uber and offers fans a free pint of its own silk-filtered beer, La Comasca, at partnered bars whenever the team wins.

The model, Suwarso said, was the Disney entertainment conglomerate, which makes money through films and television, merchandise and entertainment resorts. “The football team is where you can come and have the experience. That’s our Disneyland.” The president added that the club remains rooted in the community, stressing that away fans do not pay more than €25 for tickets and highlighting various charity and community initiatives. The club made losses of €132m in the 2024-25 season, its first back in Serie A, but Suw arso says it is on track to make a profit by the 2028-29 season.

Speaking in his town hall office, Alessandro Rapinese, the town's mayor, acknowledged that high tourism numbers brought challenges — requiring better waste collection, more policing and a reorganisation of road infrastructure — while noting that tourism created jobs.

He defended plans to knock down a primary school near the stadium, which the council owns and leases to Como 1907, to make way for a car park.

After a legal battle between the mayor and residents, the Council of State, Italy's highest administrative court, last month temporarily suspended the town council's order, which had been upheld by a lower court, to relocate the school's 200 students to beyond the city's medieval walls.

Rapinese argued that closing some schools and ensuring they were full was a better use of taxpayers' resources.

"We have 1,540 open spots at our other schools," he said. "We could close at least another 15 schools, because there aren't any more children."

Minniti, of Nova Como, said that Como's footballing success was an opportunity for the town but must be properly managed. "We don't want Como to become Disneyland. We want Como to preserve its history, its authenticity and its identity."

Don Jr's ex-fiancée ‘asked Trump donor to pay \$100k credit card bill’

United States

George Grylls Washington

The former fiancée of Donald Trump Jr asked a donor to pay off her \$100,000 American Express credit card bill as she prepared to be appointed US ambassador to Greece, according to leaked text messages.

Kimberly Guilfoyle, 57, sent messages to Eric Deters, a Trump donor from Kentucky, requesting the payment as she prepared for her congressional hearing confirming her posting to

Athens. "It won't show up anywhere if you wire money to American Express," she wrote to Deters on Signal, the encrypted messaging app, according to messages obtained by The Wall Street Journal. "Honey please I need you to get this done for me today."

Guilfoyle is a stalwart of the Maga movement and was engaged to President Trump's eldest son from 2020 to 2024. She was previously married to Gavin Newsom, the Democratic governor of California.

Her lawyer, Jesse Binnall, disputed the veracity of the messages exchanged with Deters, a Kentucky attorney, but declined to provide specific details. Binnall told The Wall Street Journal that Guilfoyle had taken part in events before her nomination and “was owed a balance for travelling to and supporting these patriotic events”.

In the messages with Deters, 63, Guilfoyle boasted of her access to top Trump administration officials. "Every secretary of you know defense, transportation, treasury commerce IRS commissioner everyone gets right back to me," she said, before adding the FBI director, Kash Patel, but misspelling his name: "Oh yeah, I'm forgetting cash Patel."

In total, Deters paid Guilfoyle \$300,000 in speaking fees after meeting her first in 2020, when he set up Freedom Fest in Kentucky to protest against Covid-19 mandates. He also gave

Kimberly Guilfoyle is the US ambassador to Greece \$200,000 in speaking fees to Trump Jr and \$100,000 to Eric Trump. He gave \$125,000 to a pro-Trump political action committee.

During their correspondence, Guilfoyle became concerned Deters was leaving a paper trail with his messages. "Eric, I really wish you would stop papering all these things," she said, before asking him to use Signal.

The State Department was approached for comment.

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Can a giant slug put a tiny town on map?

Even if it's hard to say exactly why Australia's craze for giant objects began,

it is possible to say where (Lisa Creffield writes). When it landed in Coffs Harbour in 1964, Alan Chapman's Big Banana was a sensation.

The 40ft monument to fruit designed by Chapman even drew royalty. “The people just came in hordes; the car park wasn’t big enough, the shop wasn’t big enough, and we didn’t have enough people working in the shop,” said its co-developer John Enevoldson in a 1991 documentary.

Enevoldson said the Queen even admired his banana when her motorcade passed by in 1970. "The Duke of

Edinburgh was very taken with the whole thing, he had a big grin on his face."

So the path was set: if you build a big object with absolutely no practical purpose, the people will follow. The banana model has stuck, followed by the 52ft Big Pineapple in Woombye, Queensland; the 35-tonne Big Prawn on River Street in Ballina, New South Wales; and the Big Boxing Crocodile of Humpty Doo in the Northern Territory.

Now a tiny town in the Outback called Narrabri Shire is proposing to add a giant slug to the list of landmarks.

It is no ordinary slug, however. The statue, which could be 65ft long, will represent the

endangered Mount Kaputar pink slug, found only on Mount Kaputar, the remnant of an extinct volcano east of Narrabri in northern New South Wales. The slugs, which grow up to 20cm, are a vivid pink and can only be seen on cooler days, according to the mayor of Narrabri Shire, Darrell Tiemens.

"On a grey, misty, rainy day on a particular rock face just below the summit, these pink slugs come out to play," he said. "They're an incredible colour, more of a watermelon pink, almost fluorescent. They really are very striking."

What the statue of the Mount Kaputar pink slug might look like. Below, the 35-tonne Big Prawn in Ballina, New South Wales

The slugs were feared extinct after the 2019-20 "black summer" bushfires but survived, although sightings are rare.

Tiemens said the slug statue had not been formally costed out, but "we're talking about six figures".

Narrabri is on the major inland highway between Melbourne and Brisbane. The town hopes that the giant slug will encourage more travellers, particularly Britons who like gardening, to stop and visit attractions such as Mount Kaputar National Park and the Sawn Rocks, a cliff face that looks like a pipe organ.

More than 9.1 million overseas visitors arrived in Australia in the year to June, up 8 per cent on the previous year.

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Makeover is a fashion faux pas, claim critics

France

Adam Sage Paris

Louis Vuitton already has a shiny flagship store on the Champs-Elysées. But work is under way to create an even bigger and more luxurious one next door.

There are rumours that the new premises will house a restaurant and a café, as well as a shop selling handbags, trunks, accessories and clothing, as the fashion label tempts shopper to spend hours — and thousands of euros — in the store.

However, the adjacent roads, with cracked and uneven pavements, are not in keeping with a high-end area that also features a Hugo Boss shop and the Raspoutine nightclub, once frequented by the likes of the Aga Khan and Marlene Dietrich and where champagne costs up to €120,000 a bottle.

Paris council announced this week that LVMH, the luxury group that counts Louis Vuitton among its brands, had agreed to renovate Bassano Street, which separates the future Louis Vuitton store from the existing one. It will also refurbish Galilée Street on the other side of the new shop. The group will widen the pavements, put in flower boxes and install bicycle hoops.

Emmanuel Grégoire, the city's socialist mayor, has trumpeted the fact that taxpayers would be spared the €2m cost. But if he thought he would receive plaudits, he was mistaken. Critics rounded on him for allowing LVMH to take charge of the works, saying the group would be free to shape the streets as it liked.

SOS Paris, the heritage association, accused the mayor of allowing "luxury groups to colonise the Champs-Elysées".

"The servile position of the council, which is supposed to represent Parisians, is incomprehensible and frightening," Christine Nedelec, the asso-

Landmark in need of a lift

David Chazan Paris

Commissioned by Napoleon in 1806 to commemorate his victory over the armies of Russia and Austria, today the Arc de Triomphe is a shrine of national remembrance and a focal point for public ceremonies.

The monument has housed the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier since 1921, but for many of its 1.8 million annual visitors, the main attraction is the rooftop terrace. It offers sweeping views across Paris, taking in the Champs-Élysées, the Eiffel Tower and Les Invalides, where Napoleon is buried.

Tourists must now climb 280 steps to the roof as the lift, installed in 1997 and used by 3,000 passengers a day, has broken down. Its replacement is expected to cost €5 million, with a new motor, machinery, cables and door. It is expected to take several months, with much of it carried out at night so that the landmark can remain open.

ciation's chairwoman, told à ICI Paris Île-de-France, the local radio station.

"All this perhaps brings money to the city but it cannot continue. Soon nothing will belong to Parisians. It's dystopian. They are serving up Paris on a silver platter ... without getting anything in exchange."

Emile Meunier, a radical leftist councillor, denounced a “dangerous precedent”, adding: “Our roads must not become showrooms for big brands.”

Louis Vuitton is building a superstore next to its Champs-Elysées outlet

Grégoire described the criticism as “grotesque”. Noting that it was a “challenging moment for public finances” — a euphemism given that France has a debt of almost €3.6trn and the city of Paris an estimated one of €10.6bn — he said it made sense to use private money wherever possible. “I congratulate myself on having done this,” he added.

Officials are all the more bemused since it is not the first time that street overhauls have been funded by private firms. Retailers in Faubourg Saint-Honoré Street, which boasts the Élysée and the British embassy, clubbed together to help pay for a refurbishment there last year.

If criticism has been so strident this time, it may be because campaigners already had the new Louis Vuitton shop in their sights. They were aghast when the brand covered the façade in a mock Louis Vuitton trunk to hide the work going on behind. Many said it was a free advertisement.

The row is fierce, although not on the scale of the arguments that have marked the art nouveau building's history. Erected in 1899, it was initially a hotel that became famous when Mata Hari was arrested in a bedroom there 18 years later. The Dutch erotic dancer and courtesan went on to be executed by the French after being found guilty of spying for the Germans. She is said to have faced the firing squad with a smile.

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Streak of rises in credit card defaults is the longest since 2008 crash

Helen Cahill Financial Correspondent

The number of Britons defaulting on credit card debt has increased in six consecutive quarters for the first time since the 2008 financial crisis.

More lenders saw credit card defaults rise in the third quarter than fall, by a net balance of 26 percentage points, according to Bank of England survey data. Default rates have now been increasing for 18 months and banks anticipate another increase in the final three months of this year.

The Bank published separate data in September showing that consumer borrowing rose by £2.46bn in August, the biggest increase since records began in 1993. The sum covered all forms of retail borrowing, including car finance and personal loans. Credit card lending rose by £1.18bn, the fastest pace since 2004.

Consumer finances have been affected this year by rising mortgage rates and energy prices, while inflation is expected to reach 4 per cent early next year. It rose to 3.1 per cent in August, up from 2.9 per cent in July, its highest level since the start of the Iran war.

Prices for oil, gas and other refined products have been pushed up by the prolonged conflict in the Middle East, which has lifted Brent crude to trade above \$100 a barrel. The price nudged past \$105 yesterday as an impending hurricane caused several suppliers to scale back production in the US.

The Bank warned in September that the Iran conflict was causing a “protracted negative supply shock to the global economy”. A report from its financial policy committee said: “This has contributed to sustained increases in sovereign bond yields across a number of advanced economies to levels not seen since 2008.”

The report said that although UK

GDP growth had proven more resilient than expected, headwinds associated with the war, including higher energy prices and tighter financial conditions, remained. While these conditions were likely to continue to place pressure on households and businesses, indicators of financial distress remained subdued. Household and corporate balance sheets remained strong in aggregate, and overall indebtedness remained low relative to historical averages.

'Scapegoat for Libor' to sue Barclays

Trader among latest to be cleared on appeal

Ben Martin Financial Editor

A former Barclays trader plans to sue the bank for allegedly using him as a "scapegoat" in the Libor scandal.

Jay Merchant was jailed in 2016 for six and a half years, reduced to five and a half on appeal, for conspiracy to defraud. He was accused of manipulating the now-defunct Libor interest rate benchmark.

Merchant was among five former Barclays staff who on Wednesday succeeded in overturning their convictions for rate rigging. Merchant told

Jay Merchant, 55, spent more than two years behind bars

The Times he now intends to bring a civil claim against his former employer. "Barclays trained, instructed and supervised the very practices that later on it distanced itself from," he said, claiming the bank "scapegoated a few junior employees and we paid the price".

The Libor scandal, which erupted in 2012, centred on allegations that banks and traders were rigging the Libor and Euribor benchmarks that acted as the bedrock of the financial system.

It sent shockwaves through the global financial industry and fuelled public anger towards bankers in the wake of the financial crisis. Lenders and broking firms paid almost \$10bn in fines to regulators around the world. Barclays paid about \$450m to British and American authorities to settle allegations of rigging in 2012. The bank also reached a \$100m settlement with 44 US states four years later to resolve an investigation into Libor manipulation.

Merchant, 55, who spent more than two years in prison, claimed that Barclays benefited from reduced fines by blaming him and others. "The supervisors who testified against me in court were the ones who themselves trained us and asked us to do it," he said. "Barclays has a responsibility and I hope to hold them accountable."

Barclays declined to comment.

The scandal led to nine convictions in the UK, but most have now been overturned. Tom Hayes, formerly of UBS and Citigroup, and Carlo Palombo, who worked for Barclays, had their convictions quashed in July last year.

The Supreme Court found the judge in Hayes's trial and those that followed gave juries "directions which were legally inaccurate and unfair". This led to the Court of Appeal overturning the convictions of Merchant, Jonathan Mathew, Philippe Moryoussef, Alex Pabon and Colin Bermingham.

Hayes, who spent five and a half years in prison, is suing UBS for at least \$400m in the US over claims of malicious prosecution. The Swiss bank is seeking to have the complaint, which was filed in Connecticut, dismissed.

Hayes was not entirely exonerated by the Supreme Court, which said in its judgment that there had been “ample evidence” for properly directed juries to have found him and Palombo guilty of conspiracy to defraud.

The site in Burton upon Trent, Staffordshire, in 1921. The creator of Pedigree beer was bought out by Carlsberg in 2024

The bell tolls for Marston's Brewery

Jessica Newman

Leisure Industries Correspondent

More than 300 jobs are at risk after the owner of Marston's Brewery in Burton upon Trent proposed closing the historic site, which has been operating for almost 200 years.

Carlsberg Britvic said plans to shut the brewery and logistics operation next summer were in response to the "stark reality" facing the cask ale trade.

The British arm of the Danish brewer said it would still produce certain ales such as Hobgoblin and McEwan's but would look to sell off some brands.

John Marston established his brewery in 1834. The company struck a deal with Carlsberg to establish the Carlsberg Marston's Brewing Company in 2020, which included Marston's breweries and distribution sites but not its pubs. Carlsberg bought out Marston's stake in the venture four years later.

Paul Davies, chief executive of Carlsberg Britvic, said: "The stark reality is that UK cask ale volumes have more than halved in less than a decade and this trend looks set to continue ... That said, smaller ale brands are much-loved by select consumers and we will do everything we can to ensure they thrive under more specialist or local ownership in the future."

The plan to shut the brewery was described as an “absolute disgrace” by the Campaign for Real Ale. Ash Corbett-Collins, its national chairman, said: “I was born and raised in Burton and I’m proud of our place at the centre of British brewing ... Unfortunately, statements from Carlsberg about understanding the importance of the brewery to the town come far too little too late for most people."

Marston's is the latest in a string of high-profile casualties in the sector. A year ago the 150-year-old Banks's Brewery in Wolverhampton, also owned by the Carlsberg Marston's Brewing Company, was closed.

About ten years ago the craft beer movement reached fever pitch as what started as a scattered pursuit of home brewing evolved into an industry-changing phenomenon, pushing the number of breweries higher than 2,000 for the first time since the 1930s. It has since fallen back to about 1,550 as a result of the Covid pandemic, rising costs and changing tastes.

Why Tesco does not fear effects of a dryer Christmas, pages 32-33

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Need to know

1 A former Barclays trader plans to sue the bank for allegedly using him as a “scapegoat” in the Libor scandal. Jay Merchant was jailed in 2016 for six and a half years, reduced to five and a half on appeal, for conspiracy to defraud. He and four other former Barclays employees had their convictions overturned this week. Page 31

2 More than 300 jobs are at risk after the owner of Marston's Brewery in Burton upon Trent proposed closing the historic site, which has been operating for almost 200 years. Carlsberg Britvic said plans to close next year were in response to the "stark reality" facing the cask ale trade. Page 31

3 Tesco increased its full-year profit outlook as it predicted “resilient” shoppers would spend more this Christmas despite splashing out less on alcohol. The supermarket said it expected to deliver adjusted operating profit of between £3.15bn and £3.3bn for the year ahead, up from the £3bn to £3.3bn range guided in April.

4 Investors in funds focused on property and other hard-to-sell assets will have to wait three months to withdraw their money under new rules aimed at averting liquidity crunches. The Financial Conduct Authority said it would make it clear to retail investors that such funds are for long-term investments. Page 34

5 Samsung, the world's largest memory chip supplier, expects to deliver a near ninefold increase in profit as the rush to build the infrastructure supporting artificial intelligence pushes up prices for the component. Page 36

6 Deloitte has been hit with a huge fine after a “highly concerning pattern of failure” led to a client keeping millions of pounds of taxpayers’ money. The Financial Reporting Council found “numerous breaches” in audits of Go-Ahead Group, the bus and train operator. Page 37

7 Andy Burnham has been warned by the Royal Aeronautical Society that handing contracts for Britain's military satellites to a US prime contractor could damage the UK's defence industrial base. Page 38

There are few things we enjoy more than sneering at others' consumer preferences

Harry Wallop, page 35

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Tesco: Dry Christmas will

Tesco expects many shoppers will still "indulge" at Christmas, its boss Ken Murphy, below left, said. The chain has added

The supermarket has upgraded its forecast despite an expectation of festive moderation, Isabella Fish writes

Tesco increased its full-year profit outlook as it predicted “resilient” shoppers would spend more this Christmas despite splashing out less on alcohol.

The UK's largest supermarket chain said it expected to deliver adjusted operating profit of between £3.15bn and £3.3bn for the year ahead, up from the £3bn to £3.3bn range it had guided to in April.

Shares in the grocer rose 24½p, or 5.2 per cent, to 500½p yesterday after the improved guidance and an expansion of its share buyback programme to £950m, up from £750m.

Ken Murphy, the chief executive, said: “Consumers in the UK have been pretty resilient in an uncertain environment and there is a sense that customers want to enjoy Christmas, given everything that is going on in the world.”

The boss of Tesco, which also owns the Booker cash and carry business, predicted a “more moderate Christmas from an alcohol point of view” due to the rise of weight-loss drugs and consumers attempting to be healthier.

"We think low and no alcohol will see strong growth," he said, adding that he expected many shoppers would still want to "indulge".

The retailer has bought more key Christmas lines and increased slots for online deliveries by 10 per cent.

Tesco's UK like-for-like sales rose 1.5 per cent in the past six months to the end of August, compared with 4.9 per cent in the same period last year. Group like-for-like sales increased 1 per cent, and total revenue rose 3.7 per

cent to £37.4bn. Adjusted operating profit climbed 6.5 per cent to £1.8bn.

Online sales grew 8 per cent over the period helped by strong growth in Whoosh, its one-hour grocery delivery service, which had a 37 per cent rise in sales in the half and is on track to deliver sales of over £500m this year.

Murphy said on-line shopping had been “growing across all metrics”, including its own quick com- merce service, grocery home shopping and partnerships with Uber and Deliveroo.

Like-for-like sales at Booker, the group's cash and carry business, fell 2.6 per cent partly due to the continued decline of the tobacco market.

the tobacco market.

Home and clothing like-for-like sales declined by 0.6 per cent due to higher markdown sales

and discounting. Within home, softer performance in home textiles was partly offset by strong demand for TVs and collectibles for the World Cup and other summer sporting events.

Andy Burnham, the prime minister, has said he will aim to set out options for the UK's future relationship with the EU at about the time of the next UK-EU summit. The boss of Tesco said he would welcome “anything that makes food more accessible” when asked for his thoughts on the UK rejoining the EU.

"Tesco has always adapted to whatever decisions the British public make and the British government make, and we've shown that versatility right through Brexit and through the last five years of Covid, the war in Ukraine," he said. "So we're very happy to respond to what the government of the day decides to do, whatever that may be. And clearly anything that makes food even more accessible is a great thing."

Analysts at RBC Capital Markets said they viewed Tesco as a "best-in-class player in the UK food retail space, with a strong business model and an ex-

Asos hacker ‘impersonated trusted contact’

Isabella Fish Retail Editor

Asos suffered a major cyberattack when a hacker impersonated a trusted contact to trick an employee into surrendering login credentials.

Cybercriminals used the stolen access to send a push notification via the Asos app directly to millions of customers' phones this week. The hackers claimed to have compromised Snowflake, a third-party cloud data storage service used by Asos, but Snowflake said it had found no evidence its platform had been compromised.

Asos said yesterday that an “unauthorised party gained access to an Asos employee account by impersonating a trusted contact to obtain log-in credentials”. These “were then used to access information on certain third-party platforms used by Asos”, the FTSE 250 company added. The hackers

Share price

accessed data including customers' names and contact details, along with non-personal account information. However, Asos confirmed yesterday that no passwords or payment card details were compromised.

The company said: "The affected platforms were immediately locked down, ensuring that no further information could be accessed, and a full investigation was launched with the support of both internal and external cyber experts. We are ... working with the relevant law enforcement and regulatory authorities." Asos reassured shoppers that its website and app "remain safe to use" but advised them to "remain cautious of unexpected messages or calls claiming to be from Asos".

Those claiming responsibility identified themselves as the Xuanye group, a name translating to Mysterious Splendour, which does not match any known hacking group.

The incident follows cyberattacks on Marks & Spencer, Co-op and Jaguar Land Rover last year. Trevor Dearing, a cybersecurity expert, said Asos had “a lot of work to do to win back customers’ trust, likely much more than the retailers hit last year. For online-only retailers, and any organisation, the focus must be containing attacks so that critical systems and sensitive information can never be accessed."

Asos, which struggled after the pandemic-era online shopping boom ended, had made a significant improvement under its chief executive, José Antonio Ramos Calamonte, sending shares up by about 80 per cent over the past year. In a recent trading update, the company said it expected adjusted pre-tax earnings to be above the midpoint of a previously predicted range of between £150m and £180m this year.

Yesterday Goldman Sachs raised its stake in Asos to 5.28 per cent of total voting rights, up from its previous notification of 5.04 per cent.

Shares in Asos rose 10½p, or 2.3 per cent, to 461½p yesterday, having fallen as much as 14 per cent on Tuesday when the alert was sent.

not dampen spirits

Behind the story
10 per cent more online delivery slots

perienced management team. The business has executed well, which has led to strong market share gains in recent years. We are mindful that market share gains have moderated in recent periods, and we expect this trend to continue given competitors in the UK are starting to stabilise their volume losses."

Shore Capital, which has a “hold” rating for Tesco, said: “Whilst we welcome the raise of lower end guidance to make a new range of £3.15-3.30bn, we sense a very competitive period of festive trading ahead in the UK.”

Consumers have generally been drinking

less as the rise of weight-loss drugs combines with a broader shift towards healthier lifestyles (Isabella Fish writes).

While alcohol makers have been struggling amid the shift in the nation's drinking habits, newer non-alcoholic drinks brands such as Lucky Saint have enjoyed barnstorming growth.

About 200 million pints of non-alcoholic and low-alcohol beer were consumed last year, according to data from the British Beer & Pub Association, up from 170 million in

Interim revenue £37.4bn up 3.7 per cent Interim pre-tax profit £1.5bn up 11.5 per cent Interim dividend 5.05p up 5.2 per cent Interim free cash flow £1.6bn up 21 per cent Interim net debt £10bn down 1.5 per cent

2024. The ripple effects from the GLP-1 anti-obesity treatments are starting to emerge throughout the wider economy, including supermarkets, restaurants and retailers. Data from Lumina Intelligence, the market research company, has shown that beer and coffee are among the drinks categories losing share among current GLP-1 users, while no-alcohol and low-alcohol drinks, tea and milk-based beverages are gaining ground.

Tesco's chief executive, Ken Murphy, said Tesco had seen a "general trend towards healthier living". The company has added a range of pre-mixed ready-to-drink cocktails — both alcoholic and non-alcohol — to its Finest luxury own-brand line in preparation for the festive season to cover both bases.

Murphy added: "You're seeing customers generally looking for healthier meals, looking for higher protein, higher fibre, more nutritionally balanced meals, smaller portion sizes, low and no-alcohol alternatives, healthy desserts."

He said that such patterns tend to "start with younger people and kind of work their way up, and so this is a trend we're responding to".

Starbucks could wrap up Chipotle deal

Louisa Clarence-Smith US Business Editor

Starbucks is said to have explored a takeover of Chipotle Mexican Grill in a move that would reunite the coffee group's chief executive Brian Niccol with the burrito chain he formerly ran.

The coffee chain has worked with advisers in recent months on a takeover proposal for Chipotle, according to a report by Semafor, the news website.

Shares of Chipotle, which has a market capitalisation of about \$41bn, closed up \$1.88, or 6.1 per cent, at \$32.65 in New York last night. Starbucks shares were down 37c, or 0.4 per cent, to \$93.21, giving it a market value of about \$106bn. Both companies were contacted for comment.

Niccol was hired to run Starbucks in 2024 in an unexpected move after the company reported two consecutive quarters of declining sales. Niccol, who was credited with transforming the fortunes of Chipotle Mexican Grill, has pledged to re-establish Starbucks as "the community coffee house".

Chipotle has since been contending with softer traffic as consumers ease back on discretionary spending at the same time as higher food and labour costs put pressure on industry margins. Its shares are down about 11 per cent so far this year. Semafor reported last week that Chipotle had tapped bankers to fend off a potential takeover.

A deal could accelerate Chipotle's international expansion, analysts said. Jim Sanderson, analyst at Northcoast Research, said: "What I like about this potential is the opportunity CEO Brian Niccol would have to leverage Starbucks' licensed partnerships in Europe to expand Chipotle more aggressively."

Chipotle had nearly 4,000 restaurants in the United States and about 100 international Chipotle restaurants at the end of last year. Starbucks has some 40,000 outlets globally, including about 18,000 in North America.

Niccol ran Chipotle for six years, where he was praised for overseeing a turnaround after a food-safety crisis and expanding its digital business, helping to drive years of strong sales growth. He was brought into Starbucks to turn around the business, and in the past two years has aimed to improve customer experience. He was rewarded with four straight quarters of comparable sales growth.

"We have more work to do," Niccol said in July after the company raised its annual sales and profit forecasts.

Brian Jacobsen, chief economic strategist at Annex Wealth Management, said: "The timing of this would be a little weird, given Starbucks is in the middle of their transformation and hasn't yet shown the margin improvement investors are probably hoping for."

Business

UK has little energy for PM's sideshow

BUSINESS COMMENTARY Alistair Osborne

No more excuses. It always seemed daft that our new “pragmatic, not ideological” PM could breezily delay a vital

decision on the North Sea for what should be a Westminster sideshow: the by-election for Sir Starmergeddon's seat.

Sure, it's politics. But Labour was heavily odds-on — 1/25 — with its only real opponent Zack Polanski from the Breast Enlargement Party. Did Andy Burnham really have so little faith in his own candidate?

Whatever, by the time you read this, the Holborn & St Pancras poll will have closed. And assuming Polanski hasn't used mass hypnotism to blow up his votes to pneumatic proportions, Labour should have won.

So, what is Burnham's excuse now for prevaricating over the Jackdaw and Rosebank fields? They've become a litmus test of his premiership: a gauge of whether he is capable of taking tough decisions in the national interest.

True, the decision really shouldn't be tough — even if the projects were left in ideological limbo by his predecessor and the bloke now at the foreign office, Ed Miliband. Both Jackdaw, which is largely gas, and the politically trickier Rosebank, the largest undeveloped oil field in the UK North Sea, which is also 10 per cent gas, had already been approved by the Tories, in 2022 and 2023. But that was before a legal ruling threw a temporary spanner in the works.

Owned by Adura, the joint venture between Shell and Norway's Equinor, the fields are now ripe for a total £10.8bn of investment. And, on Adura figures, they would create 3,500 jobs at peak construction and deliver £720m-plus a year in tax revenues at top-whack production: the bulk of those from Rosebank.

Crucially, they'd boost Britain's energy security, just when the Iran war has again underlined the importance of that. At its peak, Jackdaw could account for 6 per cent of UK gas supply, displacing “at least 15 per cent of liquefied natural gas imports”, according to the Tony Blair Institute. Rosebank, in which Ithaca Energy has a one-fifth stake, could make up 10 per cent of UK oil production and 4 per cent of gas.

And, yes, they're fossil fuels. But given Britain still relies on oil and gas for 75 per cent of its energy needs, it's far greener to produce the stuff here than be importing it from around the world. How green is US-fracked LNG on which the UK is so reliant? Neither does it make sense to be importing gas from adjacent Norwegian North Sea fields at the cost of British jobs and tax income.

Of course, the Equinor chief Anders Opedal has a vested interest. But you can see why he said this week that blocking the two fields would lead his and other companies to “ask if the UK is investable”. You sense, too, that Burnham gets that.

As the economist Dieter Helm noted in June, Britain's crazy policy of “accelerating the closure of its North Sea gas production”, in favour of importing it at volatile prices, has had “dire” industrial consequences. High electricity prices have played a big part in the closure of refineries, “most of the steel industry” and the “fertiliser and fibreglass industries”, while causing “severe problems for pottery and for glass-making” — many in parts of Britain close to the heart of the King of the North.

Still, approving the two projects isn't enough. Burnham must also bring long-term stability to the fiscal regime that today taxes North Sea production by 78 per cent. A faster move to the oil and gas revenue levy, due in 2030 and linked to oil and gas prices, would also be welcome. There's no reason to hang about, either, given Jackdaw could start up for this winter — once he's abreast of the by-election result.

Back to the old line

All aboard Great Bolshevik Railways. Yes, the government prefers to call it something else. Whatever, it's been a quarter of a century in the making. This week marked the 25th anniversary of a former Labour administration's first step in reversing rail privatisation: the then transport secretary Stephen Byers slamming Railtrack into the buffers.

It was a move that finished his career, rattled global investors and set in train a four-year legal punch-up. And, while the government won the shareholder court case, this was no free hit. The High Court hearing exposed scheming ministers who'd left the taxpayer on the hook for Railtrack's successor, Network Rail.

The privatised network owner had reached Terminus Byers with £6.5bn of debt and other liabilities. What's the Network Rail net debt now on the public books? £62bn.

Hence the big concern, as the Labour regime of today takes all the train operators under state control, while the Office of Rail and Road stops new competition from private “open access” services such as Lumo, citing “capacity constraints”. The private operators weren’t perfect. But is it smart for a skint government, which had to subsidise the railways by £11.9bn last year, to be squeezing private capital out, apart from for the rolling stock?

Not in the view of a man who saw the Byers farrago up close and tried to stop it: the then rail regulator Sir Tom Winsor. As he puts it: “Great British Railways will bring more state control than even under BR [British Rail], and return the industry to annual capital and maintenance starvation by HM Treasury which will eventually be eye-wateringly expensive to recover from, as it was 25 years ago. Some people never learn.” Quite.

Costly deceit

What a surprise: Kingspan fined €40m after a four-year EU investigation

where it was found to “withhold or distort the truth”. Yes, it is appealing. Still, is this the same Irish building materials group whose insulation was used at Grenfell Tower, where a fire killed 72 people? Indeed it is. The inquiry’s view of Kingspan’s conduct there? “Deeply entrenched and persistent dishonesty”.

alistair.osborne@thetimes.co.uk

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Investors in property funds face delays

Ben Martin Financial Editor

Investors in funds that are focused on property and other hard-to-sell assets will have to wait three months to withdraw their money under new rules from the City regulator aimed at averting damaging liquidity crunches.

The Financial Conduct Authority said yesterday that its proposed overhaul would make it clear to retail investors that funds holding assets such as real estate, infrastructure or unquoted companies are for long-term investments.

It follows a series of incidents in recent years in which open-ended property funds have been hit by investor runs. These raised the risk that portfolio managers could be forced into fire-sales of assets at unattractive prices to generate the cash to satisfy surges in withdrawal demands, prompting them to suspend redemptions instead.

The conundrum posed by these liquidity mismatches, which is when a fund offers regular dealing even though the assets it owns will take time to sell, has risen up the agenda partly because of the rapid expansion of the private markets. Funds focused in this area are increasingly targeting retail investors.

The Financial Conduct Authority said that its proposal for a 90-day notice period for withdrawals and a ban on dealing days for redemptions that are more frequent than once a month should mean it “will be more certain” that investors receive their money.

"Currently some of these funds allow people to take money out daily with no notice period," the authority said.

“During periods of stress or volatility there is a risk that some funds may suspend all payments due to lack of available cash. Some are also holding extra cash, leaving less invested in their intended assets.

“Rushed sales can lower prices, harm investors who stay invested and put pressure on markets.”

It said that its reforms “would give managers time to sell assets in an orderly way and make liquidity-driven suspensions less likely”.

The rule changes will apply to retail funds in which a significant portion of their portfolio is in “inherently illiquid assets” but which have been offering clients regular liquidity. Liquidity mismatches were thrust into the spotlight after the Brexit vote in 2016 and during the onset of the Covid pandemic in 2020, when property funds put up “gates” and suspended withdrawals, locking in panicked investors who had rushed for the exits.

The crisis at Neil Woodford's £3.7bn Equity Income fund in 2019 that eventually led to the vehicle's implosion also rang alarm bells about illiquid assets in open-ended funds. Woodford, who was disgraced by the affair, had invested part of Equity Income in hard-to-sell shares in unlisted companies.

This led to the gating of the portfolio when withdrawals mounted and prompted Mark Carney, who was then the Bank of England governor, to warn that open-ended funds holding illiquid assets but offering daily dealing were "built on a lie".

The FCA said yesterday that “a greater risk of suspended funds does not promote confidence in UK financial markets”.

It is consulting on its changes and plans to give existing funds affected by the overhaul two years to implement the new rules.

The authority previously floated the idea of a notice period of between 90 days and 180 days in 2020, but paused this consultation because of industry concerns and also because the International Organisation of Securities Commissions and the Financial Stability Board were at the time developing new standards to tackle liquidity risks.

Ovo deal powers Eon up rankings

The energy company Eon has completed the acquisition of Ovo Energy,

overtaking British Gas to become Britain's second-biggest household energy supplier (Emily Gosden writes).

The deal means that Eon, a German company, now supplies about 25 per cent of the domestic market in Britain, behind Octopus on 26 per cent, according to Cornwall Insight, the energy consultancy.

British Gas, which for many years was Britain's biggest domestic supplier, ranks third with 23 per cent, giving the top three suppliers combined almost three quarters of the market.

Chris Norbury, chief executive of Eon UK, said: "In a fiercely competitive market, flexibility and scale are what allow us to deliver for customers now and to transform for the energy system to come. Our job is to make new energy work for everyone."

Cornwall's figures are based on the number of gas and electricity household accounts a company is supplying, so a dual-fuel customer is counted twice. It argues that this is a more

accurate reflection of the total size of the portfolio than looking just at the number of households, since some households buy only a single fuel from a supplier.

Octopus, which has gone from a start-up to

Britain's biggest household energy supplier in the space of a decade, says it has about 14.5 million accounts in about 8.2 million households.

Eon supplies almost 13.5 million accounts, according to Cornwall. If it had been measured instead by the number of households it says it supplies, Eon would be the largest supplier in Britain.

A spokesman for the company said it already supplied "around" 5.6 million households

JOSHUA BRATT FOR THE SUNDAY TIMES

in the UK under the Eon Next brand and had added “around four million”, who will continue to be supplied under the Ovo brand following the acquisition.

British Gas said it supplied 7.5 million UK

Stephen Fitzpatrick founded Ovo Energy in 2009. The company had failed to raise the cash it needed to continue operating independently

households as of the end of June.

Ovo, founded in 2009 by the Belfast-born entrepreneur Stephen Fitzpatrick, was one of the first successful challengers to the old "Big Six" suppliers that used to dominate the market. A wave of start-ups followed it into the market, many of which collapsed in the energy crisis of 2021-22.

The market has since consolidated further and Eon's takeover was agreed in May, after the failure of prolonged efforts by Ovo to raise cash to continue operating independently.

Cornwall said that the five biggest suppliers, which also include EDF and Scottish Power, now control 90 per cent of the market.

Eon said there would be “no immediate change” for customers of Eon Next or Ovo.

“Existing tariffs are honoured in full, customer service channels continue as they are, and customers will be given plenty of notice of any future change that affects them,” it said.

Oil tops \$105 as Atlantic hurricane hits production

Simon Freeman Business News Editor The price of oil rose sharply as the late arrival of the Atlantic hurricane season caused major producers to shut down platforms in the Gulf of Mexico.

Shell, BP, Chevron and Harbour Energy all scaled back operations as they braced for Hurricane Isaias.

Brent crude, the global benchmark, rose more than 5 per cent to \$105.50 a barrel at one point before settling at \$104.28, up 4.1 per cent.

The US counterpart, West Texas Intermediate, was up 3.6 per cent at \$91.49.

Gains were pared after President

Trump said the US will not launch an attack on Iran before the midterm elections in November. He said Washington was having productive discussions with Tehran.

The Tasnim news agency reported that Abbas Aragchi, Iran's foreign minister, said the regime was reviewing the US response to its proposal under which the Strait of Hormuz could be re-opened within seven days.

Isaias, the Atlantic's first named hurricane of the season is due to make landfall east of New Orleans early on Saturday.

The Gulf coast accounts for more than half of America's crude oil refining capacity. US outfits have suspended about 25 per cent of current oil production and 16 per cent of natural gas production, according to data from the Marine Minerals Administration.

Robert Yawger, director of energy futures at Mizuho Securities, an investment bank, said Isaias “could be a gigantic event”, adding: “It’s the worst time something like this could happen in 25 years.”

Gulf oil flows recovered to more than 80 per cent of pre-war levels in September, according to the maritime intelligence firm Kpler. Iran has responded by escalating its attacks on shipping. At least seven incidents involving tankers have been reported in the past week, according to Marisks, the shipping intelligence service.

Saul Kavonic, head of energy for the analysts MST Marquee, said: "The frequency of Iranian attacks on ships is now at the highest point since the war began and likely to intensify further.

"Constrained product flows, extreme logistics costs and high likelihood of Iranian escalation are keeping prices elevated."

In the UK, Andy Burnham, the prime minister, sought to explain concerns of rising petrol prices, writing on X: "You get to the pump, watch the numbers climb, and wonder why it's costing so much more than it used to. The reality is that global events are pushing up costs, and families here at home are feeling the impact."

He highlighted a new feature on Google Maps pointing motorists to the cheapest nearby petrol stations, adding: "It's a small change, but if there's a practical way to help people keep more money in their pocket, I'll do it."

The impact is being felt particularly in the airline industry, where carriers are paying 50 per cent more than before the conflict for jet fuel. Michael O'Leary, Ryanair's chief executive, said he expects prices to remain at these levels for the next 12 to 18 months.

Harry Wallop

Voters' supermarket habits mirror the rise of our pick 'n' mix politics

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Do you shop in Iceland? Are you partial to some Toby Carvery battered pigs in

blankets or Boursin garlic and herb vol au vents, which you can air fry from frozen? Then you probably support the death penalty and thinks anyone who can't speak English should be deported from the UK.

Are you a Co-op shopper? Then there's a strong chance you love wind turbines and wealth taxes.

If you are scratching your head as to why a fondness for big-brand frozen food makes you alarmingly right-wing and why picking up a Yo! salmon poke bowl in your £6 premium meal deal makes you pro-Polanski, then you can blame the polling company More in Common. It measures political parties' popularity and is considered pretty reliable. Occasionally, it also asks slightly mischievous questions to delineate the voting intention of the UK by preferred crisp brands or how you take your tea and coffee: oat milk is preferred by Greens, unsurprisingly, and Tories love a Tyrrells crisp.

This week it asked voters about their chosen supermarket. Labour voters disproportionately go to Asda and Aldi and — though to a lesser extent — Waitrose. Conservatives are most likely to go to Marks & Spencer, followed by Sainsbury's. Reform voters go to Lidl and (less so) Morrisons. Rupert Lowe's Restore, in favour of capital punishment and deporting any foreign citizen, legal or illegal, if they don't speak English, is polling at 7 per cent, but 12 per cent of Aldi voters favour Restore and 18 per cent of Iceland shoppers are fans. The Greens out-index — to use the jargon — at Co-op and Lidl.

I once wrote a whole book about how shopping fed the class system and spent a lot of time analysing why Asda shoppers were statistically more likely to play bingo, so for me this is hugely good fun. There are few things Britons enjoy more than sneering at their fellow citizens' consumer preferences. However, this new data throws up some intriguing anomalies, such as why Waitrose shoppers lean Labour. Is the allure of Ottolenghi's orange harissa paste enough to make Waitrose shoppers stomach VAT on their children's private school fees? And why is Lidl both very Reform

and very Green? Maybe the German discounter could supply the nation with its 65p croissants and thereby end all our political differences.

There are some technical reasons for the oddities. Mostly it's geography. Aldi, headquartered in Atherstone, north Warwickshire, started off as a predominantly Midlands supermarket in the UK, before it became national; Asda, based in Leeds, took a long time to spread south, which explains why these two attract so many Labour shoppers — it's where they live.

But here's another curious fact: Aldi, despite being the fourth-biggest supermarket and less than half the size of Tesco, sells more Wagyu beef and sparkling wine than any other chain. This might not surprise Aldi acolytes who have long visited the

supermarket for its good wine selection and decent steaks. But it is an indication that simple categorisations, such as Aldi and Lidl only appealing to budget shoppers, no longer hold true.

Last week I spoke at a conference organised by Worldpanel, a market research company that has for decades monitored behaviour by getting 30,000 households to scan every box of cereal and pack of bourbons they bring home from the shops. This month they tweaked the technology: shoppers can now use their phone to photograph their supermarket receipt. They have also expanded the number of households to 55,000. This was partly done because they acknowledged they were missing data as a result of

shoppers behaving differently. The big weekly shop died long ago and now people are often shopping day-to-day, sometimes using Deliveroo or Uber Eats to courier over emergency tea bags or a missing ingredient. Amazon is being used by many families for boring, bulky items such as loo roll and toiletries.

There's no such thing as an ardent Asda nor a tribal Tesco shopper. Over the last year the three fastest-growing supermarkets in the UK have been M&S, Ocado and Lidl. That's two of the fanciest and one of the budget ones.

Ocado has grown 14 per cent and M&S by 15 per cent, impressive considering the overall grocery market is flatlining, with growth mostly coming from price inflation. But according to Worldpanel, 70 per cent of that growth is from people outside the AB socio-economic group: ie from those whom old-school, clipboard-wielding market researchers would call “working class”. Conversely, over half of M&S shoppers visited a Lidl in the last 12 weeks.

This helps to explain the wonky More in Common polling. It also reveals something else about the state of Britain, which is reflected in our strange pick 'n' mix approach to politics whereby many agree with the Conservatives on taxes, Reform on immigration and Labour on nationalising water companies, but no one can agree on how we're going to fund any of this.

The cost of living crisis has meant our supermarket shopping becoming as fragmented and fickle as our politics. People are trading down from restaurants but deciding to splash out at home at the weekend. If you examine people's baskets, 38 per cent of all those that contain an own-label value item also contain an own-label premium product. We want cheap food, we want to treat ourselves, and both things can be true at the same time. But trying to pigeonhole us into neat economic units no longer

makes any sense. We shop around, both when it comes to politics and supermarkets.

Harry Wallop is a consumer journalist and broadcaster. Follow him on X @hwallop

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Wise to pay for errors in customers' tax invoices

Chris Dorrell

Technology Business Correspondent

A fintech company is negotiating a settlement with HM Revenue and Customs after software errors led some of its investment customers to pay the wrong amount of tax.

Wise notified about 4,000 UK users of its Wise Assets service that it had provided incorrect tax statements between 2021 and 2025.

The Financial Times reported that the London-headquartered company was in talks with HMRC about a “bulk settlement” for the company, rather than customers, to cover any shortfall in taxes and that Wise would also compensate customers who had overpaid.

Wise reported the issue itself. It stemmed from a software failure of a third-party provider that the company found through internal checks, meaning about 4,000 users were given incorrect capital gains and income figures to declare in self-assessment tax returns.

Wise said: “We have fixed the issue, issued corrected statements to affected customers and are proactively redressing potential liabilities, with no ongoing risk to customers.” It did not comment on the potential size of the liability.

The software error is the latest set-back for Wise, which shifted its primary listing to New York in May. It was denied a US banking licence in July due to "longstanding deficiencies" in its anti-money laundering checks. In June it emerged that the company was under investigation by authorities in Brussels over concerns that its accounts had been used for money laundering.

Kristo Kaarmann, its chief executive, was himself fined £350,000 by the Financial Conduct Authority in 2024 after failing to notify the regulator about “significant tax issues” during an assessment of whether he was a “fit and proper” person to run a company. He was fined £365,651 by HMRC in 2021 after he did not inform the department about a capital gains tax liability when he sold shares worth £10m in 2017.

Wise, which has 19 million customers globally, was founded in 2011 by Kaarmann and his fellow Estonian Taavet Hinrikus, and expanded from a provider of cross-border money transfers to investment products and a debit card.

Wise Assets was launched in 2021 as part of efforts to diversify its business away from international transfers. It allows users to invest in stocks and money market funds while still being able to spend their holdings.

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Rush for AI means Samsung expects 783% rise in profits

Chris Dorrell

Technology Business Correspondent

The world's largest memory chip supplier expects to deliver a near ninefold increase in profit as the global rush to build out the infrastructure underpinning artificial intelligence pushes up prices for the crucial component.

The South Korean conglomerate Samsung expects operating profit to be around \$80bn [107.4trn won] for the three months to September, up 783 per cent year-on-year and a fourth consecutive quarterly record. Sales are expected to jump 126 per cent to \$145.7bn.

The results, which will be published in full at the end of this month, reflect the severe global shortage in memory chips, as the global data centre boom strains supply chains.

Samsung produces about a third of the world's supply of high-bandwidth memory (HBM) chips, the highly specialised components needed for AI, as well as 38 per cent of dynamic random access memory chips (DRAM), essential for consumer electronics.

Prices for both types of chips have risen massively as suppliers have pivoted towards the higher-margin AI chips. Douglas Kim, an analyst at Douglas Research Advisory, estimates Samsung shipments of HBM chips will rise by close to 50 per cent quarter-on-quarter. Samsung has emerged as one of the main beneficiaries in the AI supply chain alongside other memory suppliers such as Micron and SK Hynix. Its shares have more than doubled this year and its market capitalisation surpassed \$1trn in May.

Memory has traditionally been highly cyclical but investors hope AI demand will help the industry transition to structurally higher demand. Senior executives at Samsung have said the chip shortage will extend into 2028 and reports suggest the company has tied up about 70 per cent of its memory production capacity until 2031.

The company is massively expanding its manufacturing capacity to cater for the growth in demand alongside its competitor SK Hynix as part of a \$880bn investment plan led by the South Korean government.

Despite the huge increase in profit, some investors were disappointed by the forecasts and shares in Samsung fell 2.4 per cent. Kim Seok-hwan, an analyst at Mirae Asset Securities, said: "Focus has shifted to whether the sharp earnings growth that started a year ago would be sustainable."

Investor confidence in the sustainability of the AI boom has been knocked after many of the leading AI labs called for the pace of frontier development to slow.

Samsung promotes its own smartphones' AI at an event in Shanghai last month

Memory prices are also expected to increase at a slower pace than earlier in the year. TrendForce, a market research firm, expects DRAM contract prices to rise 10 per cent to 15 per cent in the fourth quarter against the preceding three months, much slower than a second-quarter increase of roughly 60 per cent.

The increase in DRAM prices has also posed problems for the consumer electronics industry, including Samsung's own smartphone and home appliances business. In the last quarter, the division posted its first ever quarterly operating loss, largely due to higher component costs.

Tim Cook, Apple's former chief executive, said the memory market was experiencing a “hundred-year flood” when the company was forced to raise prices on its products this year.

Subway has a large appetite for expansion

Jessica Newman

Subway is preparing to open hundreds of sandwich shops across Britain in what would pose a new threat to food-on-the-go lunch spots like Greggs and Pret A Manger.

The American sandwich chain is aiming to almost double its footprint to 10,000 sites across Europe, the Middle East and Africa over the next five years. It also plans to revamp existing outlets so customers can order at a staffed counter, via self-service kiosks or by app.

As well as upgrading its breakfast range, it is also testing a new evening service. Subway After Dark, which is being piloted in the Netherlands, begins at 6pm, when the stores start offering foot-long pizzas, loaded waffle fries and mac 'n' cheese.

The changes will be in effect at all new Subway shops from January, the company said. Subway After Dark will be introduced at individual sites depending on local demand.

Subway has 35,000 sites around the world, including 2,000 in the UK. It was founded in 1965 when Peter Buck loaned \$1,000 to 17-year-old Fred DeLuca so he could open a sandwich shop in Connecticut. The two families owned the company until 2024, when it was sold to Roark Capital, an American private equity firm, which also backs chains including Dunkin and Arby's.

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Goldman Sachs chief executive set to collect a \$100m bonus

Louisa Clarence-Smith US Business Editor

Goldman Sachs executives are in line to receive special equity awards worth more than \$500m.

The final value of the bonus pool will be determined by the bank's stock market performance relative to rival firms at the end of October.

The bumper payout reflects a five-year period in which Goldman outperformed most of its rivals.

Goldman's shares have returned about 150 per cent in the past five years, including reinvested dividends.

About 20 executives are in line for the awards, which are expected to be finalised later this month.

The special awards were granted in October 2021 and Goldman disclosed details in various filings starting in late 2021 and early 2022. The awards were first reported by Bloomberg.

David Solomon, Goldman's chief executive, is set to receive more than \$100m. John Waldron, the president of the US investment bank, who has been tipped as Solomon's successor, is also among the recipients, along with the business heads Ashok Varadhan, Dan Dees and Marc Nachmann.

Goldman is expected to report its third-quarter earnings next week. Analysts expect the bank's quarterly revenue to rise 10.9 per cent to \$16.8bn, while net income is forecast to grow by a modest 0.2 per cent to \$3.9bn.

Goldman, which has been top-ranked mergers and acquisitions adviser for two decades, has focused on growing its global banking and markets division, and wealth and asset management. It beat second-quarter profit expecta-

David Solomon, 64, has been in charge of the company since 2018

tions as dealmaking picked up. Market volatility during the US-Iran war helped drive equities revenue to a record high. An improvement in initial public offerings lifted in-

vestment banking fees. Goldman is advising on Unilever's planned merger of its food business with the US spice maker McCormick to create a \$66bn company and on Equitable's proposed tie-up with Corebridge Financial to form a \$22bn insurer.

Solomon, 64, was named chief executive in 2018. During his tenure he has significantly scaled back Goldman's failed foray into consumer banking by shedding assets.

Waldron, who has been president and chief operating officer since October 2018, oversees the leaders of the bank's main divisions.

Goldman Sachs said: “The board created these awards to achieve three principal objectives: align compensation with rigorous performance thresholds, ensure leadership continuity, and enhance retention of our top talent in an increasingly competitive market. It’s no secret our firm has performed exceptionally well in the years since.”

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Deloitte is fined £6m after travel audits went off track

Tom Howard

Professional Services Correspondent

Deloitte has been hit with its second-biggest ever fine from the accounting industry regulator after a “highly concerning pattern of failure” led to a client wrongly keeping millions of pounds of taxpayers’ money.

The Financial Reporting Council (FRC) found “numerous breaches” in Deloitte’s audits of the financial statements of Go-Ahead Group, the bus and train operator, between 2016 and 2020.

It rebuked Deloitte for not spotting accounting practices that were “clearly questionable” and fined the Big Four firm £11m for its failings. This was cut to £6.05m to reflect Deloitte’s “exceptional co-operation” and admission of wrongdoing. Even so, it was the biggest fine for Deloitte since the £15m penalty it was hit with in 2020 for “serious and serial failures” in its work signing off the accounts of Autonomy, Mike Lynch’s software company.

The regulator began looking at Deloitte's audits of Go-Ahead Group in April 2022, a month after the transport group had been fined £23.5m by the Department for Transport for the mishandling of its former London and South Eastern Railway franchise.

The DfT said Go-Ahead “had deliberately concealed over £25m of historic taxpayer funding relating to HSI, which should have been returned to the taxpayer”.

In its 35-page report, the FRC accepted that Go-Ahead had already started retaining some of the money and putting it through its accounts as profit before Deloitte took over as its auditor in 2016.

However, the watchdog said Deloitte could have done more and that by not doing so, it “put very large amounts of UK taxpayers’ money at risk”.

Investigators said a second rail franchise, London & Birmingham Railway, also used money that should have been paid to the DfT to boost its profits. They found that Go-Ahead “attempted to conceal this by the way it worded the relevant note in its financial statements".

The FRC criticised the auditors for failing to “enquire sufficiently into the actions” of Go-Ahead’s London and South Eastern Railway franchise and for not applying “sufficient professional scepticism”.

Another breach involved Go-Ahead's German subsidiary. Information initially provided by the company suggested its contracts were loss-making to the tune of about €8 million. New information was then provided, indicating that the contracts could actually generate a small profit.

"These breaches show a highly concerning pattern of failure by Deloitte to apply sufficient scrutiny to decisions and actions by Go-Ahead which were clearly questionable," Penrose Foss, executive counsel at the FRC, said.

"The fact that some of those decisions and actions put very large amounts of UK taxpayers' money at risk is particularly troubling, and this is reflected in the high level of financial

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sanction imposed." Go-Ahead was stripped of the Southeastern contract in October 2021 after it emerged that it had not repaid subsidies and excess profits made while running its Javelin fast trains on the Channel Tunnel link between London and Kent.

Ministers found that Go-Ahead's Southeastern trains company concealed information about payments due and broke contractual transparency and "good faith" agreements. Elodie Brian, the group's finance chief, resigned.

An independent review revealed “serious errors” by its London and South Eastern Railway franchise, and Go-Ahead apologised to the government. The group was acquired the following summer, in 2022, for £648m by an Australian-Spanish consortium.

Deloitte said: "We regret that aspects of our audit work did not meet the standards expected and have learnt from this matter. We are committed to continuous improvement and the delivery of high quality audits."

Two bids for west coast main line get a red signal

Robert Lea Industrial Editor

The train industry regulator appears to have derailed any new private sector competition on the west coast main line into and out of London Euston.

Two companies had made applications to run direct London services on routes not currently served by Avanti West Coast, the train operator that is due to be nationalised by next spring and put into the new state-run Great British Railways.

However, the Office of Rail and Road (ORR) has said the proposed new “open access” services cannot be allowed because the west coast main line is too congested, something which the regulator said has contributed to the poor performance on the line where Avanti runs services to Birmingham, Manchester, Liverpool and Glasgow

“New services, destinations and greater choice can bring real benefits for passengers and communities,” Stephanie Tobyn, the ORR’s director of strategy, policy and reform, said. “But the west coast main line is already under significant pressure, with performance reflecting limited resilience on a heavily used part of the rail network.” He said more trains would reduce reliability.

Open access operators run services independently of the Department for Transport, bearing the costs and risks and keeping the profits. They have been a notable success on the east coast main line where First Group's Lumo and Hull Trains and Arriva's Grand Central operate alongside LNER, the main — and already nationalised — operator.

Alstom, the train manufacturer, had bid to launch Wrexham, Shropshire & Midlands Railway, offering direct services to north Wales and rural areas north and west of Birmingham.

First Group, which also operates Avanti, had planned four daily return services between Euston and Rochdale, north of Manchester, using gaps in the timetable to offer cheaper fares — the model used by Lumo between King's Cross, Newcastle and Edinburgh.

The ORR seems to have judged the west coast main line insufficiently resilient despite a major overhaul less than 20 years ago. First Group's Lumo service between Euston and Stirling, launched last summer, appears to be the last open access operation to have got under the wire.

Alstom said it was disappointed, having put two and a half years of work into a project that had much local support. First Group also expressed its disappointment, especially as it had amended its bid after ORR feedback.

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ing concern about the 'hollowing out' of the UK defence industrial base".

Robert Lea Industrial Editor

Andy Burnham has been warned by the Royal Aeronautical Society that handing over contracts for Britain's military satellites to a US prime contractor could damage the UK's defence industrial base and risk giving up sovereign capability to "a volatile and inconsistent US administration".

In one of the first big tests of the new prime minister's commitment to "reindustrialisation" of the country, Downing Street was due to decide this week whether to grant a new £6bn contract to Airbus UK, the incumbent contractor on Skynet military satellites, or instead give it to an American rival, Lockheed Martin.

The issue has already provoked much debate, pitching the threat to 3,000 Airbus UK jobs and military sovereignty — cited by trade unions and backbench MPs — against the argument for US technology that would tie Britain to the world's pre-eminent superpower.

Now the Royal Aeronautical Society, one of the country's most august engineering institutions, has had its say.

Writing in its house magazine Aerospace, its head of research, Professor Keith Hayward, said the future of the UK space sector was dependent on the prime minister's decision.

"It will be a test case for the government's commitment to defending a sovereign defence industrial base," Hayward said. There was a "growing risk of depending on the US for core defence capabilities at a time when building up UK/European assets has become an important consideration", especially in the light of a "volatile and inconsistent US administration".

He said the decision would also play to the narrative "of a wider, longstand-

Lockheed Martin has said it would assemble the satellites in new facilities in the northeast of England.

Hayward said Lockheed Martin might compete with Airbus on job creation and value for money criteria, but he added: "In reality ... Airbus Skynet 6 looks like the better option for maintaining a key element of the nation's sovereign capability.

"The worst outcome would be if Airbus Defence and Space decided to cut its losses and leave the UK. Even a modest cutback in investment on the part of Airbus would have a serious effect on the UK space sector, frequently lauded as a key strategic industry with a market worth billions of pounds."

It is understood that the prime minister was due to have made a decision on the contract this week, with some reckoning that the Ministry of Defence prefers the Lockheed Martin bid. However, it is believed that the decision has now been postponed.

● Airbus will need a record-breaking third quarter for production of its passenger planes if it is to hit its target of producing 860 commercial aircraft in 2026.

The Toulouse-based manufacturer, which employs 14,000 people in the UK, mainly making wings for all its aircraft types at Broughton in north Wales and in Belfast, reported that it delivered 72 planes in September.

That leaves it at 547 in the first nine months of the year and means it will need to average more than 104 planes per month in the final quarter. The company has said that software glitches have affected production of the A321, which has the most orders of any Airbus aircraft-type.

Pepsi cuts profit forecast as its soft drinks fall flat

Louisa Clarence-Smith US Business Editor

PepsiCo lowered its profit outlook and cited challenging soft drink sales as its turnaround plan in North America takes longer than expected.

The company said it is cutting costs in many areas of the business, including the corporate side, to invest back into the US drinks and snacks business.

Steve Schmitt, PepsiCo's chief financial officer, said: "We don't feel good about the beverage business."

While the company was competing well in the hydration and energy drinks market, it was “not competing well in soft drinks”, he said. “So we’re putting all the urgency of the business and the focus in improving our performance in soft drinks.”

PepsiCo, the maker of Doritos and Gatorade, said it expects core constant currency earnings per share to grow between 1 per cent and 2 per cent this fiscal year, after previously forecasting growth at the low end of 4 per cent to 6 per cent.

The company faces higher input costs, particularly in North America, that are weighing on margins. Challenges also include cautious consumers burdened by inflation and the growing threat of GLP-1 weight-loss drugs, which reduce users' appetite for snacks.

Overall third-quarter revenue rose 5.6 per cent year-on-year to \$25.3bn. Net income rose 17 per cent to \$3.1bn.

The company cut prices by up to 15 per cent on products such as Lay's and Doritos in February, but said last month that it would raise some crisps prices to keep pace with input cost inflation. Packaged food makers such as General Mills, McCormick and Conagra Brands are also spending more on promotions and affordability initiatives to revive demand while contending with higher input costs.

PepsiCo has responded with record productivity savings and is now promising more. Ramon Laguarta, chief executive of PepsiCo, said: "Additional structural cost reduction actions are being identified and will be implemented in the coming months to help fund investments that aim to accelerate organic revenue growth and mitigate the impacts of rising input cost inflation."

Shares of PepsiCo closed up strongly with a gain of \$4.61, or 3.7 per cent, at \$128.34 in New York last night.

Student landlord digs in to lure tenants by cutting rent

Tom Howard Property Correspondent

Britain's biggest student landlord has had to reduce its rents to fill its halls of residence for the first time this century, excluding the pandemic.

As fewer international students come to Britain and more domestic students choose to stay at home during their studies, Unite Group reported a 0.3 per cent reduction in annual rents for the current academic year, which began last month.

Outside of 2020, when most university lectures were moved online, this year marks the first time this century that Unite has seen such a decline.

Unite shares fell 22 $^{1/2}$ p, or 5.1 per cent, to 419 $^{3/4}$ p yesterday. They have lost a third of their value over the past 12 months.

Back in the spring, bosses had been hopeful of putting up rents by, on average, between 2 per cent and 3 per cent for this academic year. Even as recently as July they were still aiming for a small year-on-year increase.

However, while Unite has had no trouble filling its buildings in towns and cities with “higher-tariff” universities, it has had to make “targeted price reductions” in places such as Nottingham, Leicester and Sheffield, where the supply of student flats has outstripped demand.

By trimming its rents, Unite was able to fill 95.6 per cent of its 72,000 or so rooms across the country, surpassing the 95.3 per cent occupancy level it delivered in the previous academic year.

That just about offset the fall in average weekly rents, with Unite delivering like-for-like income growth of 0.6 per cent for 2026-27 — towards the bottom end of management's guidance.

"We have delivered reservations in line with our expectations as student demand and university behaviour evolved through this sales cycle," Joe Lister, the chief executive, said.

Unite Group, founded in Bristol in 1991, is Britain's biggest student landlord by some distance. Some of its swankiest rooms in major cities rent out for more than £500 a week.

In the couple of years after the pandemic lockdowns, the company was able to increase its rents aggressively as a result of a shortage of university accommodation and pent-up demand from students, particularly from abroad, wanting to get back to in-person learning.

However, that imbalance has shifted over the past 18 months or so. There has been a marked increase in supply in certain towns and cities, while changes to visa rules have made the UK less ap-

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pealing for international postgraduates, who are generally happier to pay much dearer rents. In addition, while domestic student numbers have held up, more are choosing to stay at home to reduce the cost of going to university.

The slowdown in lettings, combined with higher interest rates, has weighed heavily on the valuation of its portfolio, which fell by almost 4 per cent between July and September to just over £4.7bn and has now declined around 8 per cent across 2026 as a whole.

Lister, 54, has responded to the weaker student housing market by trying to dispose of halls of residence near to lower-tariff sites to focus more heavily on higher-tariff universities, which he expects will “deliver a superior operating performance” given their enduring popularity with students.

Disposals have been a bit slower than investors would have liked, but he is confident that Unite will have sold between £300m and £400m of buildings by the end of the year, having already offloaded £200m of property in 2026.

Unite's estate includes part of a converted cathedral in Bristol. It has filled a higher proportion of rooms than last year

John Cahill, a real estate industry analyst at Stifel, said: "This is the right strategy, in our view, but we estimate that the reduced occupier demand and lost rent from disposals will result in a 12 per cent fall in earnings [this year], with growth very low — sub-3 per cent per annum — for a further two years."

Vodafone steps up cost-cutting after £4.3bn deal

Emma Powell Media and Telecoms Editor Vodafone will speed up its cost-cutting in the UK, five months after the FTSE100 telecommunications group took full control of its joint venture from the Hong Kong owner of Three.

VodafoneThree raised its target for cost savings to £1bn by 2032 from a previous goal of £700m by the end of the decade.

Vodafone bought out Three from the UK joint venture in a £4.3bn deal struck sooner than expected. The £16.5bn merger, which created the UK's largest mobile operator, was part of a dramatic reshaping of Vodafone by Margherita Della Valle, its chief executive. She has sharpened its focus on the UK, Germany and Africa, selling its Italian and Spanish businesses and returning billions to investors in share buybacks.

The company also set a target to grow adjusted earnings at a compound annual rate in the mid to high single digits and more than triple operating free cashflow by 2032.

Max Taylor, VodafoneThree's chief executive, said that adjusted earnings had risen by 4.5 per cent last year, but this financial year the business would "break the back of our plan". About £100m in synergies is set to be realised by March, largely from combining its shops and making savings in procurement and sales and marketing costs.

Vodafone is investing £11bn to upgrade its UK mobile network over the next decade. It aims to provide 5G standalone coverage to 99.95 per cent of the UK by 2034.

In May, Della Valle promised a “new chapter as a simpler and stronger business” as the group reported full-year profits at the top end of its guidance range. Overall organic service revenue rose 5.4 per cent last year, while adjusted profits before interest, taxes and other items were 4.5 per cent higher at €11.6bn, lifted by faster growth in Turkey and Africa.

However, in the UK, organic service revenue declined by 0.2 per cent in the fourth quarter, which it attributed to pricing pressure in business mobile and an end to some contracts.

Xavier Niel, the French telecoms tycoon, is set to become Vodafone's largest shareholder after agreeing to buy an 18 per cent stake in the company in July, subject to regulatory clearances.

The shares, which have risen by 48 per cent over the past 12 months, closed down $3 \frac{1}{4} p$ , or 2.6 per cent, at $124 \frac{1}{2} p$ .

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Boss of MFS says he faces 'harassment' over collapse

James Hurley Assistant Business Editor

The boss of a collapsed mortgage lender who is accused of “plundering” his business has criticised alleged “internecine warfare” between various sets of insolvency practitioners pursuing him.

Paresh Raja, former chief executive of Market Financial Solutions, said in legal filings that he is faced with a "multiplicity of proceedings". Five are under way, with "the threat of a sixth", from different parts of the group.

Claims from several MFS entities are for duplicate sums and are “in respect of almost identical alleged breaches”, Raja claimed in court filings. “These entities have made no effort whatsoever to coordinate these proceedings.”

Raja is accused of misappropriating enormous sums from the group and is subject to a global asset freezing order worth £1.3bn.

Wall Street and City institutions, along with private investors, are exposed to MFS, which collapsed in February after Barclays froze its accounts, prompting scrutiny of standards in the private credit industry. In a civil claim against Raja, administrators from Alix-Partners accused him of the “systematic plundering” of MFS.

The MFS insolvency is one of the most complicated in recent UK history, in which more than 200 related companies have failed and several sets of insolvency firms are engaged.

Raja's lawyers made the claims in court filings related to litigation from London Bridging Limited, part of the group being overseen by insolvency

Paresh Raja has denied misappropriating company funds

practitioners from FRP. "There appears to be a significant degree of internecine warfare, the effect of which has been to harass Mr Raja at every stage with increasingly 'urgent' applications and across a range of fora, as each entity seeks to get what it evidently perceives to be 'ahead' of the others," the filing reads.

Raja said there should be a case management hearing to consider such issues before a hearing on London Bridging's application for summary judgment, which is listed for December.

The application for summary judgment — a legal procedure where a judge decides upon an issue without a full trial — sought determination for a £242m claim against Raja over his alleged “misappropriation” of company funds, although London Bridging is seeking to amend this to £51m.

Raja denies that he “misappropriated” or caused or allowed misappropriation of funds from the group, that he acted dishonestly or in bad faith or that he breached his duties as a director.

He is calling for case management by a single judge. London Bridging supports this, but wants its summary judgment application to be heard first.

Administrators of Market Financial Solutions Ltd, a key entity in the group, have accused Raja of extracting “vast sums” from MFS by securing debt against the same properties, known as “double-pledging”, which was alleged to have resulted in an enormous shortfall in assets available for recovery.

FRP declined to comment.

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IBSTOCK, FORTERRA, MICHELMERSH AND MARSHALLS

Combined market cap £1.1bn

UK production 1.5bn bricks a year

Shares in British brickmakers are at their lowest levels in over a decade. But they jolted into life at the announcement of the

The announcement of the government's Your First Home scheme last month, so it's worth taking another look. That's because brickmakers historically outperform if building picks up, and the sector has attracted some serious professional investors.

More cash for first-time buyers could be just what the sector needs to kick-start a recovery. Brickmakers have high fixed costs, so when orders do return the profits can rapidly recover to a more normal run rate about three times the current level. The building industry is shovel ready, with planning in place and many show homes already built. The missing piece of the puzzle is customer demand.

Growth in new housing and home extensions for next year is forecast to be twice the current level. Domestic brick production is languishing at about 1.5 billion a year, 30 per cent below more normal levels of more than two billion.

The first concern is whether brickmakers will survive long enough to see any recovery. On that front there is some good news. They are all still profitable, cash generative and paying dividends, albeit with trading at very subdued levels.

A good example is Forterra, the

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former building products division of the conglomerate Hanson, which was listed at 180p in 2016. The balance sheet at the end of June showed net debt increased to £75m, from £69m last year. But a £170m borrowing facility is agreed until 2030, the management is confident enough to continue with a £20m share buyback and the dividend is still in place.

Ibstock, which was the result of a 2015 management buyout backed by Bain Capital and listed for 190p that year, is a similar story. The latest

Source: Ibstock, Forterra, Michelmersh, Marshalls

results showed net debt of £151m, up from £145m a year ago. However, £100m of that is long-term finance fixed at much lower rates in 2021, and Ibstock has access to another £125m facility. The dividend received a severe cut, down by two thirds, at the halfway stage, but it's still there.

Marshalls, which makes bricks, garden paving and roof tiles, expects no improvement for the rest of the year, but was profitable and increased the dividend. Net debt was down to £137m, and it has £270m in borrowing secured for three years.

A much smaller player focused on the southeast is Michelmersh, which was profitable and held the dividend at the halfway stage. The net debt increased to £5m, from £1.5m in net cash last year, but it has £20m in borrowing agreed for the next two years. While housebuilders' shares

can double when the market recovers, brickmakers' returns can be twice that. This has not escaped the notice of some serious investors. A glance at the registers shows equity specialists such as Jupiter, Lansdowne Partners, M&G, and JO Hambro. Michelmersh is a quarter owned by the property developer Eric Gadsden, and another long-term holder is Jeremy Hosking, founder of Marathon Asset Management, who has about 10 per cent.

After an initial spike across the sector when Andy Burnham's rehash of Help To Buy was announced, the shares have drifted lower as detail has been sparse. We have to wait three more weeks until the budget for that, but if it can breathe life into housebuilding, then brickmakers will respond quickly.

The brickmakers have been investing in modernising production during factory slowdowns and are now well placed. Neil Ash, the boss of Forterra, believes that some help and support from government is the first piece of the puzzle, alongside stability in mortgage rates and easing energy prices to repair confidence.

It's impossible to pick the bottom, but we're a lot closer now than we were five years ago. The brick sector is robust enough to survive, as it has proved by navigating falling demand, soaring energy prices and a global pandemic during the past six years. It could be a bumpy ride, but the pointy-headed professionals might be on to something here. Of the four, Ibstock and Marshalls look a bit riskier with the higher debt levels, and Michelmersh will be more volatile because of its size. Forterra looks like a decent balance.

Standard Life investors pay price for break-up

MARKET REPORT

Standard Life investors were left wishing they had taken out a policy on its stock after Aberdeen halved its stake in the FTSE 100 insurer, sending shares sliding (Simon Freeman writes).

Aberdeen offloaded 52 million shares in its former partner, reducing its holding to about 5.2 per cent.

Jason Windsor, Aberdeen's chief executive, is streamlining the asset manager and sharpening its focus on core wealth and investment platforms.

The transaction marks a further un-tangling of a complicated relationship. The two firms merged in 2017 to create Standard Life Aberdeen (later Abrdn) but eventually decoupled, leaving Aberdeen with a legacy equity stake that Windsor is now unwinding.

Aberdeen, based in Edinburgh, sold the shares at 839p per share, a 3.7 per cent discount to Standard Life's previous close, raising gross proceeds of about £440m. Shares in Standard Life dropped as much as 9 per cent, before paring losses to close down 33p, or 3.8 per cent, at 838½p. Aberdeen gained 2½p, or 1.11 per cent, to 237p.

The sale came on a difficult day for equities as a hurricane barrelling into the oil-rich Gulf of Mexico and reports

Wall Street report

A jump in oil prices prompted by a Gulf of Mexico hurricane set the tone for a largely negative session as AI-related and other tech stocks took hits. Sandisk, which makes memory storage products, lost 4.9 per cent, while chip designer Nvidia lost 2.9 per cent. The Nasdaq had the worst of it with a fall of 345.35 points, or 1.3 per cent, to 27,193.34 as the S&P 500 shed 36.41 points, or 0.5 per cent, to 7,765.36. The Dow Jones industrial average had a modest gain of 51.77 points, or 0.1 per cent, to 51,231.64.

The day's biggest movers

Company	Change
Tesco	5.2%
Imperial Brands	5.1%
BP	4.1%
Shell	3.6%
Autotrader	3.2%
Metlen Energy & Metals	-2.7%
IAG	-3.0%
GSK	-3.1%
Lion Finance	-3.6%
Standard Life	-3.8%

Aberdeen is unwinding a legacy stake in its former partner Standard Life

of White House plans for a new bombing campaign in Iran threatened to test global supplies further.

The price of Brent crude jumped more than 5 per cent to hit \$105 a barrel, the steepest one-day rise in more than a month. The renewed inflationary pressure weighed on global equity markets and squeezed bonds. The yield on the 10-year gilt rose to 5.53 per cent, its highest since 2009.

The FTSE 100, cushioned by the oil majors Shell and BP, outperformed European peers to end down 16.90 points, or 0.2 per cent, at 10,441.60. It was also shielded by well-received results that boosted Tesco, which gained 24½p, or 5.2 per cent, to 500½p and offered a leg-up to its sector peer J Sainsbury, which rose 4¾p, or 1.5 per cent, to 332½p. The tobacco manufacturer Imperial Brands climbed 126p, or 5.1 per cent, to £26.14 after it said it was eyeing a new £1.5bn buyback.

On the FTSE 250, Unite Group fell 22p, or 5.1 per cent, to 419 $^{3/4}$ p after its trading update warned of a struggle to fill student rooms. That helped push the mid-cap index down 92.87 points, or 0.4 per cent, to 23,943.88.

Markets Business

NEWS IN BRIEF

North Sea gas discovery

Equinor has announced another gas discovery in the Norwegian North Sea. Norway's state energy group said it had struck gas at the Gullfaks South field, 120 miles northwest of Bergen. The amount of gas was equivalent to between 3.3 million and 10.3 million barrels of oil, a modest find in industry terms.

Gunnar Egge, Equinor's vice-president for the Gullfaks field, said: "It is very positive that it is possible to make discoveries of this size with such cost-effective exploration wells. These will be profitable barrels that can help maintain activity and production on the Gullfaks field." The exploration well was drilled at the same time as a new production well.

Equinor is lobbying for approval for two big oil and gas fields in the UK North Sea. Anders Opedal, its chief executive, warned this week that Britain may no longer be “investable” if the government failed to approve its Jackdaw and Rosebank developments.

Jackdaw has been constructed and could start producing gas within weeks, while Rosebank is partially constructed and expected to be ready to start producing oil early next year. The projects were approved by the previous Conservative government but consent was overturned by a court last year because ministers had not considered the emissions the fields would produce from burning the oil and gas.

EU fines Kingspan €40m

Kingspan, the Irish insulation manufacturer, was fined €40m by EU antitrust regulators for providing incorrect and misleading information during an investigation into its abandoned acquisition of a Slovenian rival. “There can be no compromise on disclosure and transparency,” Teresa Ribera, the EU antitrust chief, said after a four-year investigation by the European Commission. Kingspan announced plans to acquire Trimo in 2021 but scrapped the deal the following year after the regulator warned the acquisition could increase prices and reduce quality. Kingspan was contacted for comment.

Imperial offers a packet

Imperial Brands, the cigarette maker, has announced a £1.5bn share buyback for 2027 and reiterated its full-year forecasts. The buyback is part of its “evergreen” programme and follows almost £13bn of returns to shareholders, including dividends, over the past five years. It expects tobacco net revenue for the year to September 30 to have grown at a low single-digit rate, with price rises and market share gains in target areas in the US and Germany offsetting volume declines across the group. Adjusted group operating profit growth is expected to be within its 3 per cent to 5 per cent target range.

Court blocks diesel appeal

The High Court in London has denied claimants permission to appeal against its decision in July which broadly found in favour of some of the world's biggest carmakers over diesel emissions. However, lawyers for some 1.6 million claimants said they would apply directly to the Court of Appeal in an effort to revive the lawsuits brought in the wake of Volkswagen's "dieselgate" scandal. After a trial that began last year, most of the allegations that 20 sample vehicles made by Mercedes-Benz, Ford, Nissan, Renault, Peugeot and Citroën were fitted with unlawful "defeat devices" were rejected.

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Dling: 0845 602 1952 Priv Clients:0845 777 5511

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Corporate Bond ‡	36.62	...	4.70
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Global Special Sits ‡	8972	...	...
Japan ‡	1004	...	0.33
Moneyblder Bal ‡	47.34	...	3.64
Moneyblder Inc ‡	27.61	...	5.12
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Special Sits ‡	7343	...	1.68

Corp Bd Acc ‡	305.4	-0.9	4.10
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UK Grth & Inc Ret B Acc ‡	213.1	-0.8	3.15
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American A Acc ‡	860.42	-5.57	...
Cautious Managed A Acc ‡	464.79	-1.01	2.64
Cautious Managed A Inc ‡	262.94	-0.57	2.56
Diversified Growth A Acc ‡	326.42	-1.63	0.21
Diversified Growth Inc ‡	118.55	-0.6	0.96
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Emerging Mkts Blended Debt A Inc ‡	64.34	-0.16	7.43
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Emerging Mkts Leaders A Acc ‡	1241.62	-19.18	...
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Global Special Situations A Inc ‡	409.04	-5.19

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UK Special Situations A Inc ₽866.34			-3.83	1.09

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All Stcks Credit A Inc ‡	110	...	4.60
Asian Div Inc U Trust Inc ‡	102.2	...	5.60
Cautious Managed Fd A Acc ‡	345.1	...	3.80
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Sterling Bond U Trst Inc ‡	54.28	...	4.30
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UK Equity Core E Net Acc ‡@686.0000

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2.61

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Extra Income Inc ‡	798.77		...	5.28
Gilt & Fxd Int Inc ‡	64.83		...	4.84
GI Hi Yd Bd Inc ‡	38.61		...	6.58
Index Linked Bd Inc ‡	100.22		...	1.59
Index Trckr Inc ‡	101.17		-0.54	3.11
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UK Select A Inc ‡	3194.72		...	2.74

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Episode Allocation A Inc ‡157.71	...	3.89

Corp Bd A Inc ‡	31.63	...	5.32
Dividend Inc ‡	64.29	...	5.56
Recovery A Inc ‡	135.26	...	3.00
Sml Cos Inc ‡	364.62	...	2.81

Distribution & Growth	123.13	...	2.93
Euro Special Sits	567.19	...	0.71
European	3773.72	...	0.61
Financial Opps	1251.09	...	1.01
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Merlin Bal Acc	345.5	...	2.26
Merlin Growth Acc	831.79	...	0.16

High Income ‡	85.69	...	4.60
High Income Acc ‡	292.4	...	4.60
UK 100 Comp Acc ‡	711.6	...	3.10
UK 100 Comp Inc ‡	314.4	...	3.10
UK Select Port ‡	472.8	...	2.90
UK Select Port Acc ‡	1081.5	...	2.90
W'wide Mgd Acc ‡	1349.78	-3.28	0.20
Worldwide Mgd Acc ‡	751.24	-1.82	0.20

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Glob Bal Inc F F Inc ‡	938.65	... 1.55
Glob Bal Inc F I Inc ‡	936.69	... 1.49
Glob Bal Inc F I Acc ‡	1046.53	... 1.47
Glob Bal Sust F F Acc ‡	1036.68	... 1.65
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Glob Bal Sust F I Acc ‡	1034.12	... 1.57
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Glob Br Eq Fund F Inc ‡	1100.64	... 4.34
Glob Br Eq Fund I Acc ‡	1748.12	... 4.27
Glob Br Eq Fund I Inc ‡	1162.86	... 4.43
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Merlin Inc Acc ‡	467.6	...	3.40
Merlin Wwide Inc ‡	613.31	...	...
UK Dynamic Equity L Dis ‡	280.68	...	1.75
UK Growth ‡	272.42	...	0.64
UK Income Trust ‡	992.16	...	4.58

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Euro Ind Acc ‡	762	-7.7	2.00
Euro Ind Inc ‡	455	-4.6	2.00
Fixed Int Acc ⌊@	147.4	-0.4	4.70
Fixed Int Dist ⌊@	60.2	-0.17	4.80
Global Health ‡	124.7	-1.1	0.90
Glob Tech Acc ⌊@	259.8	-0.9	...
High Inc Acc ⌊@	151.3	-0.3	5.90
Japan Ind Acc ‡	116.7	-1.6	1.20
Pacific Ind Acc ⌊@	444.3	-7.3	1.30
UK Index Trust Acc ⌊@	520.6	-2.7	2.50
Uk Index Trust Dist ⌊@	222.1	-1.2	2.60
US Ind Acc ‡	1470	...	0.50
Worldwide Acc ‡	468.9	-2.6	0.90

Glob Br Fund I Inc (PH) ₽1612.09	...	0.45
Glob Br Fund I Acc (PH) ₽1718.27	...	0.45
Glob Br Fund I Inc (PH) ₽3805.02	...	0.32
Glob Quality Fund F Acc (PH) ₽1522.26	...	0.49
Glob Quality Fund F Inc ₽1505.52	...	0.51
Glob Quality Fund I Acc ₽1546.81	...	0.34
Glob Quality Fund I Acc (PH) ₽1516.58	...	0.34
Glob Quality Fund F Acc ₽1563.51	...	0.51
Stg Corp Bond F F Acc ₽ 142.05	...	5.07
Stg Corp Bond F F Inc ₽ 95.51	...	5.11
Stg Corp Bond F I Inc ₽ 1356.26	...	4.92
Stg Corp Bond F I Acc ₽ 3004.5	...	4.92
US Adv F F Acc ₽ 2527.19	...	...
US Adv F F Acc (PH) ₽ 1484.99	...	...
US Adv F I Acc ₽ 2659.61	...	...
US Adv F I Acc (PH) ₽ 1536.77	...	...

SANTANDER UNIT TST MGRS

M&G SECURITIES

Equity Inc Inc ‡	226.3	...	...
Stkmkt 100 Tkr ‡	230.8000	...	...
UK Growth I Acc ‡	626.9	...	...
UK Growth Inc ‡	301.0	...	...

Charifund Inc ‡

1855.21

-12.94

5.26

SCOTTISH MUTUAL INV MNGRES LTD

Sterling Class A Investment Funds 2

Far Eastern Inc	617.0700	649.4700	...	...
Mutual Far Eastern	1391.5400	1468.6400	-26.22	0.39
Mutual UK Eq	1429.4900	1508.7000	...	7.81

	Sell	Buy	+/-	Yld %
UK Equity Inc	562.2300	593.3800	...	7.81

SCOTTISH WIDOWS UNIT TRUST MNGRS

Tracker & Special Investment Funds
UK Trkr A Acc @	589.1	-2.10	2.50
UK Trkr A Inc @	264.5	-1.00	2.50

UK & Income Investment Funds

Corp Bond A Acc @	323.8	-1.00	4.20
Corp Bond A Inc @	105.4	-0.40	4.20
Envir Invtr A Acc @	450.2	-4.80	2.10
Hi Inc Bond A Ac @	294.6	+1.30	6.20
Hi Inc Bond A Inc @	68.69	+0.32	6.20
Hi Res A Acc @	544.6	-4.20	3.70
Hi Res A Inc @	146.0	-1.10	3.80
Strat In A Acc @	224.2	-0.70	4.30
Strat In A Inc @	83.90	-0.26	4.30
UK Eq Trckr A @	132.1	-1.20	2.50

OEIC B Class

UK Trkr B Acc @	652.8	-2.30	2.60
UK Trkr B Inc @	263.0	-0.90	2.60

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127.3

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2.60

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Amer Eq Gth Acc ‡	276.60	...	...
Glb Advtg CAT Acc ‡	200	...	1.32
Glob Advtg Acc ‡	263.60	...	...
Higher Inc Acc ‡	181.60	...	...
Higher Inc Inc ‡	46.35	...	...
Managed Acc ‡	509	...	1.83
UK Ethical Acc ‡	249.10	...	...
UK Smlr Cos Acc ‡	800.00	...	...

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Balanced A Acc ‡	186.99	...	2.02
Blanced A Inc ‡	157.78	...	2.07
Cautious A Acc ‡	131.87	...	2.44
Cautious A Inc ‡	103.58	...	2.48
Dynamic A Acc ‡	504.14	...	1.40
Dynamic A Inc ‡	439.67	...	1.41
Growth A Acc ‡	495.51	...	1.63
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Threadneedle HY Bd Rtl Inc '38.1339	-31.26	...
Threadneedle Mthlly Etr Inc Inc '97.4195	-69.13	...
Threadneedle SterlingCorp Bd Inc '53.1621	-16.01	...
Threadneedle SterlingCorp Acc '53.0812	-16.03	...
Threadneedle Stg Bd Ret Inc '37.787	-13.41	...
Threadneedle Strat Bd Ret '40.5152	-22.61	...
Threadneedle UK Eq Inc Rtl Inc '113.5545	-69.6	...
Threadneedle UK Growth & Inc Rtl Inc '105.0125	-62.22	...
Threadneedle UK Istl Rtl '241.473	-164.91	...
Threadneedle UK Mthly Inc Rtl Inc '85.4104	-80.8	...
Threadneedle UK Rtl Inc '319.4856	-66.69	...
Threadneedle U Smaller Cons Rtl Inc '410.231	-228.31	...

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1.29

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12 month			Price(£)	+/-	Int Yld%	Grs rdyld
High	Low	Stock

Index-Linked

73.08	62.31	Tr IL 0	45.50	62.57	-.06	0.80	2.65
66.33	55.43	Tr IL 0	45.52	55.85	-.01	0.45	2.64
101.91	98.40	Tr IL 0	45.28	99.70	+.03	0.13	0.29
100.99	97.50	Tr IL 0	45.29	98.16	-.02	0.13	0.89
98.88	94.73	Tr IL 0	45.31	95.20	-.08	0.13	1.15
88.33	81.89	Tr IL 0	45.36	82.20	-.15	0.15	2.09
82.85	75.76	Tr IL 0	45.39	76.10	-.17	0.16	2.35
79.32	70.96	Tr IL 0	45.41	71.40	-.14	0.18	2.43
74.05	65.25	Tr IL 0	45.44	65.54	-.19	0.19	2.59
71.23	61.52	Tr IL 0	45.46	61.91	-.14	0.20	2.64
68.00	57.99	Tr IL 0	45.48	58.39	-.05	0.21	2.65
60.61	48.78	Tr IL 0	45.56	49.29	-.01	0.25	2.55
58.90	48.29	Tr IL 0	45.58	48.63	-.06	0.26	2.49
54.25	42.88	Tr IL 0	45.65	44.28	+.04	0.28	2.29
53.89	41.56	Tr IL 0	45.68	43.32	+.12	0.29	2.23
57.66	42.83	Tr IL 0	45.73	45.54	+.18	0.27	1.89
97.88	92.64	Tr IL 0	45.84	92.86	-.10	0.81	1.78
79.12	69.68	Tr IL 0	45.47	69.81	-.06	1.07	2.62
62.70	50.78	Tr IL 0	45.62	52.06	+.04	0.72	2.39
87.38	79.58	Tr IL 0	45.40	79.72	-.15	0.78	2.40
84.28	75.00	Tr IL 0	45.42	75.29	-.16	0.83	2.50
104.16	100.95	Tr IL 1	45.27	101.67	+.06	1.23
103.67	98.72	Tr IL 1	45.32	98.89	-.10	1.26	1.44
86.56	72.39	Tr IL 1	45.54	72.96	-.10	1.71	2.61
85.60	72.50	Tr IL 1	45.55	72.72	-.05	1.72	2.59
99.52	93.16	Tr IL 1	45.35	93.26	-.13	1.21	1.95
97.09	89.56	Tr IL 1	45.37	89.65	-.18	1.25	2.18
102.53	94.69	Tr IL 1	45.38	94.80	-.14	1.85	2.25
99.42	86.58	Tr IL 1	45.49	87.24	+.04	2.15	2.62
248.27	237.14	Tr IL 2	35	239.66	-.26	0.83	1.96
349.35	338.55	Tr IL 4	30	341.20	-.10	1.21	1.12

26.99	21.43	Tr 0 $\frac{1}{2}$ %	61	21.76	-14	2.30	5.66
65.04	54.28	Tr 0 $\frac{1}{2}$ %	51	54.77	+03	0.23	2.65
38.39	31.76	Tr 0 $\frac{1}{2}$ %	50	32.03	-12	1.95	6.00
47.60	39.77	Tr 1 $\frac{1}{2}$ %	53	40.06	-14	3.74	6.04
45.88	38.50	Tr 1 $\frac{1}{2}$ %	51	38.76	-16	3.22	6.05
33.04	26.72	Tr 1 $\frac{1}{2}$ %	73	27.31	-10	4.12	5.40
48.44	40.58	Tr 1 $\frac{1}{2}$ %	57	40.79	-13	4.29	5.98
48.36	40.67	Tr 1 $\frac{1}{2}$ %	54	40.94	-14	3.97	6.01
41.45	34.74	Tr 1 $\frac{1}{2}$ %	71	35.06	-11	4.63	5.58
57.14	48.65	Tr 2 $\frac{1}{2}$ %	65	48.78	-12	5.13	5.86
74.02	63.19	Tr 3 $\frac{1}{2}$ %	68	63.52	-16	5.51	5.84
81.50	70.51	Tr 3 $\frac{1}{2}$ %	52	70.76	-22	5.30	5.99
80.90	69.53	Tr 3 $\frac{1}{2}$ %	53	69.87	-21	5.37	6.02
88.15	75.91	Tr 4 $\frac{1}{2}$ %	55	76.16	-23	5.58	5.99
83.52	71.62	Tr 4 $\frac{1}{2}$ %	60	71.92	-23	5.56	5.95

Mediums (5-15 Years)

83.19	79.47	Tr 1 $\frac{1}{2}$ 3%	80.22	-.21	0.31	4.92
86.27	82.79	Tr 0 $\frac{1}{2}$ 3%	83.65	-.20	0.45	4.89
72.25	66.85	Tr 0 $\frac{1}{2}$ 3%	67.02	-.22	0.93	5.37
79.97	75.17	Tr 0 $\frac{1}{2}$ 3%	75.37	-.25	1.16	5.22
48.97	41.71	Tr 0 $\frac{1}{2}$ 4%	41.98	-.17	2.08	5.98
54.44	46.65	Tr 1 $\frac{1}{2}$ 4%	46.93	-.17	3.20	6.00
61.88	54.57	Tr 1 $\frac{1}{2}$ 4%	54.80	-.22	2.28	5.79
66.75	60.00	Tr 1 $\frac{1}{2}$ 3%	60.25	-.25	1.87	5.65
75.83	68.94	Tr 1 $\frac{1}{2}$ 3%	69.16	-.25	2.53	5.94
55.77	47.91	Tr 1 $\frac{1}{2}$ 4%	48.11	-.20	3.64	6.00
85.07	81.01	Tr 1 $\frac{1}{2}$ 3%	81.23	-.21	1.23	5.08
82.54	72.66	Tr 3 $\frac{1}{2}$ 4%	72.99	-.20	4.84	5.94
95.49	89.61	Tr 3 $\frac{1}{2}$ 3%	89.74	-.26	3.62	5.18
80.41	71.14	Tr 3 $\frac{1}{2}$ 4%	71.30	-.28	4.56	5.93
100.00	84.41	Tr 3 $\frac{1}{2}$ 3%	84.58	-.30	4.43	5.61
102.40	94.75	Tr 4 $\frac{1}{2}$ 3%	94.95	-.29	4.74	5.29
101.93	0.01	Tr 4 $\frac{1}{2}$ 3%	94.15	-.31	4.78	5.37
96.45	85.71	Tr 4 $\frac{1}{2}$ 4%	86.05	-.30	5.23	5.85
102.33	0.01	Tr 4 $\frac{1}{2}$ 3%	96.05	-.26	4.43	5.06
100.56	93.14	Tr 4 $\frac{1}{2}$ 3%	93.31	-.28	4.55	5.31
99.39	91.15	Tr 4 $\frac{1}{2}$ 3%	91.37	-.30	4.65	5.43
100.00	86.64	Tr 4 $\frac{1}{2}$ 3%	86.92	-.32	4.89	5.69
100.00	0.01	Tr 4 $\frac{1}{2}$ 4%	85.65	-.32	4.96	5.74
90.97	79.78	Tr 4 $\frac{1}{2}$ 4%	80.17	-.30	5.30	5.95
89.58	78.14	Tr 4 $\frac{1}{2}$ 4%	78.54	-.27	5.41	5.97
101.49	96.41	Tr 4 $\frac{1}{2}$ 3%	96.46	-.23	4.20	5.03
100.70	94.11	Tr 4 $\frac{1}{2}$ 3%	94.24	-.28	4.38	5.19
104.72	99.22	Tr 4 $\frac{1}{2}$ 3%	99.34	-.26	4.78	4.97
103.33	95.06	Tr 4 $\frac{1}{2}$ 3%	95.26	-.29	4.99	5.42
102.00	0.01	Tr 4 $\frac{1}{2}$ 3%	92.22	-.33	5.15	5.64
102.58	98.02	Tr 4 $\frac{1}{2}$ 3%	98.13	-.20	4.46	4.98
97.07	87.10	Tr 4 $\frac{1}{2}$ 4%	87.44	-.32	5.00	5.74
100.37	97.66	Tr 4 $\frac{1}{2}$ 3%	97.75	-.28	4.73	5.10
100.00	92.67	Tr 4 $\frac{1}{2}$ 3%	92.88	-.33	4.98	5.53
100.99	95.19	Tr 4 $\frac{1}{2}$ 3%	95.42	-.32	5.11	5.48
105.68	94.52	Tr 5 $\frac{1}{2}$ 4%	94.89	-.34	5.53	5.78
105.44	90.86	Tr 5 $\frac{1}{2}$ 5%	91.46	-.25	5.88	6.00

Shorts (Under 5 Years)

91.87	89.31	Tr 0 $\frac{1}{2}$ 3%	29	90.73	-	12	0.55	4.79
98.67	91.91	Tr 0 $\frac{1}{2}$ %	28	94.71	-	06	0.13	4.32
99.90	96.58	Tr 0 $\frac{1}{2}$ %	26	99.88	-	01	0.38	3.68
91.00	0.01	Tr 0 $\frac{1}{2}$ %	29	88.86	-	17	0.98	4.86
97.71	95.53	Tr 1 $\frac{1}{2}$ %	27	97.60	-	03	1.28	4.43
95.46	92.89	Tr 1 $\frac{1}{2}$ %	28	93.99	-	11	1.73	4.76
101.17	97.61	Tr 4 $\frac{1}{2}$ %	29	97.77	-	17	4.09	4.92
101.39	99.44	Tr 4 $\frac{1}{2}$ %	27	99.63	-	06	4.27	4.58
101.88	97.79	Tr 4 $\frac{1}{2}$ %	29	97.96	-	17	4.21	4.92
100.70	99.60	Tr 4 $\frac{1}{2}$ %	27	99.99	-	...	4.13	4.10
101.65	99.35	Tr 4 $\frac{1}{2}$ %	28	99.50	-	08	4.40	4.74
99.51	98.67	Tr 4 $\frac{1}{2}$ %	30	98.79	-	21	4.68	5.00
107.07	102.38	Tr 6 $\frac{1}{2}$ %	28	102.61	-	14	5.85	4.71

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Business

EQUITY PRICES

Dividend yields Please note dividend yields are supplied by ICE Data Services. The yield is the sum of a company's annual 12-month dividend payments divided by the last day's closing share price.

12-month high and low High/low prices for UK equities and investment trusts are based on intra-day figures.

12 month			Price		Forecast
High	Low	Company	(p)	+/-	Yld%	P/E
Automobiles & Part
73 $\frac{1}{4}$	32	Aston Martin Lag	36 $\frac{1}{8}$	-	$\frac{1}{4}$	...	-0.7
Banking & Finance
265	179 $\frac{1}{4}$	Aberdeen Group	237	+	$2\frac{1}{8}$	6.2	11.0
1 $\frac{1}{4}$	0 $\frac{1}{8}$	Acuity RM♦	1 $\frac{1}{8}$	+	$\frac{1}{8}$	...	-7.0
4128	2624	Admiral	3624	-	10	4.0	14.7
662 $\frac{1}{2}$	414 $\frac{1}{8}$	AJ Bell	579 $\frac{1}{2}$	+	$8\frac{1}{2}$	2.5	22.6
2876 $\frac{1}{4}$	20163	AON Corp	20716	+	142 $\frac{1}{8}$	1.2	...
955	755	Arbuthnot♦	790	-	5	7.0	7.2
276 $\frac{1}{2}$	151	Ashmore Group	216 $\frac{1}{4}$	-	5	7.8	13.8
2126 $\frac{1}{2}$	1753 $\frac{1}{4}$	Australia & NZ	1966 $\frac{1}{8}$	-	32 $\frac{1}{8}$	5.8	19.2
740 $\frac{1}{4}$	590 $\frac{1}{8}$	Aviva§	672 $\frac{1}{8}$	-	4 $\frac{1}{8}$	6.0	25.0
1122	709	Banco Santander	1012	-	22	1.7	13.1
554 $\frac{1}{4}$	353 $\frac{1}{8}$	Barclays	426 $\frac{1}{8}$	-	5 $\frac{1}{8}$	2.7	9.7
15	3 $\frac{1}{2}$	Blue Star Capital♦	3 $\frac{1}{8}$			...	-1.9
710	613	BP Marsh & Ptnrs♦	655			5.5	4.9
397 $\frac{1}{4}$	212	Bridgepoint Grp§	382 $\frac{1}{8}$	+	17 $\frac{1}{4}$	2.6	76.5
378	265	Chesnara§	326	-	4	7.0	-64.6
540	349	City of London Grp§	526	+	14	6.5	14.3
556 $\frac{1}{4}$	318 $\frac{1}{8}$	Close Bros	384 $\frac{1}{8}$	-	5 $\frac{1}{8}$	...	-6.7
787	203	CMC Markets	654	-	8	2.1	23.8
3068 $\frac{1}{4}$	2057	Deutsche Bank	2521 $\frac{1}{8}$	-	15 $\frac{1}{8}$	3.4	9.4
93	74 $\frac{1}{2}$	EFG-Hermes Hldgs	75 $\frac{1}{8}$			0.9	...
240 $\frac{1}{4}$	137	EPE Special Opps♦	204			...	8.4
80	52	Fiske♦	67 $\frac{1}{2}$			1.7	5.9
90 $\frac{1}{2}$	70	Foresight Ventures VCT 77 $\frac{1}{2}$				4.6	...
5100	2320	Georgia Capital	4320	-	60	...	2.6
60 $\frac{1}{4}$	43 $\frac{1}{4}$	Hansard Global§	53 $\frac{1}{8}$	-	$\frac{1}{4}$	8.3	11.4
260	194	Helios U/W♦	255			3.9	8.8
1952	1288	Hiscox	1822	-	12	2.1	13.3
1610	959 $\frac{1}{4}$	HSBC	1380 $\frac{1}{8}$	-	27 $\frac{1}{8}$	4.0	15.1
1956	930 $\frac{1}{2}$	IG Group	963	+	13	4.4	6.6
200	90 $\frac{1}{2}$	Impax Asset Mgmt♦	101 $\frac{1}{8}$	-	$\frac{1}{8}$	9.8	6.4
2276	1424 $\frac{1}{4}$	ICG	1735	-	29	5.0	10.4
145 $\frac{1}{4}$	115 $\frac{1}{8}$	Intl Public P'ship	135	-	$\frac{1}{8}$	6.5	-6.3
690	499 $\frac{1}{4}$	Investec	588 $\frac{1}{2}$	-	6 $\frac{1}{8}$	6.5	7.6
78	60	Investment Co	76	-	$\frac{1}{8}$	...	...
76 $\frac{1}{4}$	48	IP Group	69 $\frac{1}{8}$	-	$\frac{1}{8}$	...	9.5
22 $\frac{1}{2}$	6	Jarvis Securities♦	8			43.8	2.5
214 $\frac{1}{2}$	137 $\frac{1}{4}$	Jupiter Fund Mgmt	170 $\frac{1}{8}$	-	$\frac{1}{8}$	3.5	8.9
700	549	Lancashire Hldgs	635	-	6 $\frac{1}{2}$	2.6	6.9
318 $\frac{1}{4}$	217 $\frac{1}{4}$	Legal & General	285 $\frac{1}{2}$	-	2 $\frac{1}{8}$	7.7	28.6
14820	7320	Lion Finance Group	12370	-	460	2.6	8.4
358	223	Liontrust Asset Mgmt	296 $\frac{1}{2}$	-	$\frac{1}{2}$	6.4	19.3
61	35	Livermore Invs Grp♦	38 $\frac{1}{8}$			8.4	16.8
117 $\frac{1}{8}$	81 $\frac{1}{8}$	Lloyds Banking	100 $\frac{1}{8}$	-	1 $\frac{1}{8}$	4.0	14.4
22	14	LMS Capital	15 $\frac{1}{8}$			25.6	...
10140	6684	London Stock Exchange	8470	+	154	1.9	35.5
367 $\frac{1}{4}$	251 $\frac{1}{4}$	M&G§	304 $\frac{1}{8}$	-	3 $\frac{1}{8}$	6.8	24.2
348 $\frac{1}{4}$	183 $\frac{1}{4}$	Man Group	330 $\frac{1}{8}$	+	3 $\frac{1}{8}$	3.8	28.4
33	20	Manx Financial Grp♦	23			2.2	4.2
10	1 $\frac{1}{4}$	Marechale Capital♦	4 $\frac{1}{8}$			...	-5.2
186 $\frac{1}{8}$	98 $\frac{1}{8}$	Metro Bank	157 $\frac{1}{8}$	-	$\frac{1}{8}$	...	20.2

12 month			Price		Forecast
High	Low	Company	(p)	+/-	Yld%	P/E
$2621\frac{1}{4}$	$1864\frac{1}{8}$	National Australia	$1989\frac{1}{8}$	-	$32\frac{1}{4}$	4.5	17.1
726	$504\frac{1}{8}$	NatWest Group	$639\frac{1}{8}$	-	10	5.5	12.0
$832\frac{1}{8}$	$438\frac{1}{8}$	PayPoint	655	+	13	6.1	11.1
1238	$867\frac{1}{8}$	Prudential‡	$887\frac{1}{8}$	+	$6\frac{1}{8}$	2.4	7.6
1	$0\frac{1}{4}$	Quantum Blockchain◆	$0\frac{1}{4}$			...	-1.3
209	$163\frac{1}{4}$	Quilter	$174\frac{1}{8}$	-	$\frac{1}{8}$	3.7	19.6
2500	1490	Rathbones Group	1518	-	14	6.6	14.1
329	245	Rockwood Strategic	307	-	1	...	0.0
$2458\frac{1}{2}$	1620	S & U§	1850	-	50	6.3	9.5
3	$0\frac{1}{4}$	Sancus Lending◆	$0\frac{1}{8}$			...	5.2
$59\frac{1}{8}$	39	Schroder REIT	$39\frac{1}{8}$	-	$\frac{1}{8}$	9.1	...
$1575\frac{1}{2}$	$1011\frac{1}{2}$	St James's Place1020	-	-	7	1.8	10.2
$2364$	$1351\frac{1}{2}$	Standard Chart'd2108	-	43		2.4	14.3
960	$633\frac{1}{2}$	Standard Life§	$838\frac{1}{2}$	-	33	6.7	-170.0
$6347\frac{1}{8}$	$4333\frac{1}{8}$	Sun Life Canada	$5790\frac{1}{8}$	+	$45\frac{1}{8}$	3.5	...
$4\frac{1}{4}$	$1\frac{1}{4}$	Tavistock Invs◆	2			4.9	-1.3
5490	3615	TBC Bank Grp	4028	-	132	5.5	6.6
$1\frac{1}{4}$	$0\frac{1}{4}$	Term◆	$0\frac{1}{8}$			...	-1.0
60	$40\frac{1}{8}$	Time Finance◆	$58\frac{1}{8}$			...	9.3
$0\frac{1}{8}$	$0\frac{1}{8}$	Tooru◆	$0\frac{1}{8}$			...	-1.4
4	$1\frac{1}{2}$	Truetide◆	$3\frac{1}{8}$			...	-5.5
132	67	Vanquis Banking Gp	$68\frac{1}{8}$	+	$\frac{1}{8}$	...	21.5
2800	1916	Volvere◆	2250			...	11.9
$7239\frac{1}{8}$	$5453\frac{1}{8}$	Wells Fargo	$6123\frac{1}{8}$	+	$51\frac{1}{8}$	2.5	...
$2275\frac{1}{8}$	$1755\frac{1}{8}$	Westpac Bkg Corp	$1774\frac{1}{2}$	-	$28\frac{1}{8}$	4.6	16.8
$31\frac{1}{4}$	23	Worsley Investors	$27\frac{1}{8}$			...	...
57550	$49947\frac{1}{4}$	Zurich Insurance	$51997\frac{1}{4}$	-	$65\frac{1}{8}$	5.2	17.9

Construction & Property

12 month			Price		Forecast
High	Low	Company	(p)	+/-	Yld%	P/E
$143\frac{1}{4}$	$71\frac{1}{2}$	Ibstock	$75\frac{1}{8}$	-	$2\frac{1}{4}$	2.7	94.2
$148\frac{1}{2}$	$112$	James Halstead◆	$125\frac{1}{8}$	+	1	7.1	12.9
3518	1404	Keller	3176	-	18	2.5	15.7
$8376\frac{1}{4}$	$8211\frac{1}{4}$	Kingspan Group◆	$8338\frac{1}{4}$			0.6	26.6
726	525	Land Securities	601	-	$11\frac{1}{2}$	6.9	...
$216\frac{1}{4}$	$170\frac{1}{4}$	LondonMetric Prop172	-	-	$\frac{3}{8}$	7.3	-19.5
$17\frac{1}{2}$	$4\frac{1}{4}$	Macau Prop Opp Fd	$5\frac{1}{2}$			...	-0.3
$184\frac{1}{4}$	124	Marshalls	156	-	$4\frac{1}{4}$	4.5	27.4
98	66	Michelmersh Brick◆	$73\frac{1}{2}$	+	$\frac{1}{2}$	6.3	18.3
$0\frac{1}{2}$	$0\frac{1}{4}$	Mindflair◆	$0\frac{1}{2}$			...	-1.0
5730	3938	Morgan Sindall◆	4068	-	10	4.0	10.9
10200	8350	Mountview Estates	8500	-	125	6.2	16.3
85	$65\frac{1}{4}$	NewRiver REIT	$75\frac{1}{4}$	-	$\frac{1}{2}$	8.9	...
226	160	Palace Capital◆	189	+	1	4.8	-8.8
320	261	Panther Securities◆	290			4.1	11.8
1552	947 $\frac{1}{2}$	Persimmon	$1205\frac{1}{2}$	-	$16\frac{1}{2}$	5.0	13.5
24	15	Plaza Centers	$14\frac{1}{2}$			...	-0.1
$109\frac{1}{4}$	$87\frac{1}{4}$	Primary Health Props	$89\frac{1}{4}$			8.2	...
$33\frac{1}{8}$	28	Real Estate Inv◆	$31\frac{1}{4}$			4.8	-62.6
$849\frac{1}{2}$	$486\frac{1}{2}$	Safestore	$493\frac{1}{4}$	-	$7\frac{1}{2}$	6.2	...
1142	$791\frac{1}{2}$	Savills	955	+	2	2.5	18.4
$2\frac{1}{2}$	$0\frac{1}{4}$	Secure Prop Dev & Inv◆	$0\frac{1}{2}$			...	-0.1
$997\frac{1}{8}$	$632\frac{1}{4}$	Segro	908	-	$5\frac{1}{8}$	3.5	...
$155\frac{1}{8}$	$124\frac{1}{4}$	Shaftesbury Capital	$134\frac{1}{8}$	-	2	3.2	7.2
11	$6\frac{1}{4}$	SIG	$8\frac{1}{8}$	-	$\frac{1}{8}$	...	-1.6
153	105	SigmaRock◆	$122\frac{1}{8}$	-	$2\frac{1}{8}$	...	16.8
113	$85\frac{1}{8}$	Sirius Real Estate	$88\frac{1}{4}$	+	$\frac{1}{2}$	6.1	6.9
140	106	Smart (J)	115			2.8	8.8
38	16	Steppe Cement◆	$36\frac{1}{2}$	+	$\frac{1}{2}$	...	32.0
$116\frac{1}{2}$	$74\frac{1}{8}$	Taylor Wimpey◆	$74\frac{1}{8}$	-	$2\frac{1}{2}$	5.6	26.6
139	104	Town Centre	$119\frac{1}{2}$			4.2	...
$723\frac{1}{2}$	$493\frac{1}{8}$	Travis Perkins◆	$549\frac{1}{2}$	-	14	2.1	-6.6
175	$138\frac{1}{2}$	Tritax Big Box	$138\frac{1}{8}$	-	$2\frac{1}{4}$	5.9	...
700	416	Unite Group◆	$419\frac{1}{4}$	-	$22\frac{1}{8}$	9.0	...
$746\frac{1}{2}$	216	Vistry Group	$217\frac{1}{4}$	-	$7\frac{1}{8}$	...	5.1
$434\frac{1}{8}$	312	Workspace Group	$351\frac{1}{8}$	-	$8\frac{1}{4}$	7.4	...
930	785	Wynnstay Props◆	900			3.2	12.5

345	181	Alumasc♦	$236\frac{1}{2}$			4.7	11.7
$4\frac{1}{2}$	$4\frac{1}{2}$	Aseana Properties	$5\frac{1}{4}$			...	1.3
$21\frac{1}{2}$	$1\frac{1}{4}$	Built Cybernetics#	$1\frac{1}{8}$			...	-165.0
973	$636\frac{1}{2}$	Balfour Beatty	866	-	$8\frac{1}{2}$	1.7	16.5
$410\frac{1}{4}$	$235\frac{1}{8}$	Barratt Redrow‡	$291\frac{1}{8}$	-	$8\frac{1}{2}$	2.1	21.4
2890	1715	Bellway	1965	-	35	3.7	14.8
4442	2796	Berkeley	3176	-	16	...	9.6
1208	$790\frac{1}{2}$	Big Yellow Grp	$795\frac{1}{2}$	-	$21\frac{1}{2}$	5.9	...
470	265	Billington Hldgs♦	450	-	5	2.4	43.3
230	$133\frac{1}{2}$	Boot (Henry)	147	-	$1\frac{1}{2}$	3.1	8.4
368	$271\frac{1}{8}$	Breedon§	296	-	$8\frac{1}{4}$	5.2	12.2
$451\frac{1}{8}$	$335\frac{1}{8}$	British Land	$384\frac{1}{8}$	-	$6\frac{1}{8}$	6.0	...
2900	2500	Cardiff Property	2750			1.1	20.7
2196	$1469\frac{1}{2}$	Derwent London§	1749	-	37	4.7	...
$5\frac{1}{2}$	$4\frac{1}{8}$	DCI Advisors♦	$4\frac{1}{4}$			...	-2.8
$19\frac{1}{2}$	11	First Property♦	$15\frac{1}{2}$			1.6	8.6
75	$25\frac{1}{8}$	Fletcher King♦	$31\frac{1}{2}$			...	...
62	$31\frac{1}{8}$	Foxtons Group	37			3.2	8.6
$726\frac{1}{4}$	466	Galliford Try Hldgs	682	-	3	3.4	16.4
$391\frac{1}{2}$	241	Genuit Group	$272\frac{1}{8}$	-	$6\frac{1}{4}$	4.7	15.0
435	221	Gleeson (MJ)	$270\frac{1}{2}$	+	2	1.8	-81.5
1063	$788\frac{1}{8}$	Grafton Grp Units§	$921\frac{1}{8}$	-	$11\frac{1}{2}$	4.1	13.1
$202\frac{1}{4}$	$149\frac{1}{2}$	Grainger	$159\frac{1}{8}$	-	4	5.3	...
377	270	Great Portland Est	$300\frac{1}{4}$	-	$3\frac{1}{4}$	2.7	0.0
$391\frac{1}{4}$	$280\frac{1}{8}$	Hammerson§	$321\frac{1}{4}$	-	$5\frac{1}{8}$	5.7	...
195	$116\frac{1}{4}$	Harworth Group†	187			1.0	64.5
400	$215\frac{1}{2}$	Heath (Samuel)♦	255			5.1	31.9
$236\frac{1}{4}$	$170\frac{1}{2}$	Helical	175	-	2	1.5	36.2

Consumer Goods
229	124	AEP Plantations	$196\frac{1}{4}$	+	$1\frac{1}{8}$	3.1	11.2
30	$17\frac{1}{8}$	Airrea◆	26			3.8	10.2
2359	$1729\frac{1}{2}$	AB Foods	1834	+	7	3.4	13.0
$715\frac{1}{8}$	538	Barr (AG)◆	549	-	11	3.5	13.0
5326	3677	British Amer Tob $^{1/4}$	4161	+	77	5.9	11.9
$1376\frac{1}{2}$	$953\frac{1}{8}$	Burberry Group	1007	-	9	...	...
$142\frac{1}{8}$	$85\frac{1}{8}$	C&C Group	$95\frac{1}{8}$	-	$\frac{7}{8}$	5.1	...
$5\frac{1}{8}$	$3\frac{1}{8}$	Capital Metals◆	$3\frac{1}{8}$			...	-19.3
460	271	Churchill China◆	355	+	4	5.9	8.9
5195	3326	Coca-Cola HBC	4254	+	6	2.4	19.4
$1515\frac{1}{4}$	880	Colefax◆	1355	+	10	0.5	9.6
5810	4775	Cranswick	5030	+	60	2.2	17.0
$1903\frac{1}{8}$	$1295\frac{1}{2}$	Diageo	1622	+	11	2.3	27.5
$0\frac{1}{8}$	0	Distill#	0			...	-0.6
2260	$1168\frac{1}{4}$	Evans (M.P.)◆	2020	-	40	3.3	12.5
152	$114\frac{1}{2}$	Fevara	146	-	1	1.6	6.3
23540	14280	Games Workshop16350	-	190		3.4	26.2
$2185\frac{1}{8}$	$1148\frac{1}{8}$	Glanbia	1610	-	$7\frac{1}{8}$	2.4	29.1
$307\frac{1}{2}$	$191\frac{1}{8}$	Greencore	$252\frac{1}{4}$	+	$3\frac{1}{8}$	1.0	19.1
$60\frac{1}{8}$	$4\frac{1}{8}$	Headlam#	$10\frac{1}{8}$			...	-0.1
738	$447\frac{1}{8}$	Hilton Food	715	+	7	4.9	8.1
3632	2408	Imperial Brands	2614	+	126	6.4	10.4
$7646\frac{1}{8}$	$5567\frac{1}{4}$	Kerry Group◆	$7236\frac{1}{8}$	-	$266\frac{1}{8}$	1.7	21.3
$2143\frac{1}{8}$	$107\frac{1}{8}$	McBride	174	-	$1\frac{1}{8}$	1.8	9.8
290	85	Mulberry Group◆	236			...	-18.2
1200	880	Nichols◆	1090	-	10	3.6	18.6
374	261	Norcros	292	-	3	3.9	...
372	309	Origin Ents◆	340			4.3	9.2
1	$0\frac{1}{8}$	PACSCo#	$0\frac{1}{8}$			...	-0.0

12 month			Price (p)	+/-	Forecast Yld%	P/E
High	Low	Company
118	46 $\frac{1}{2}$	Portmeirion♦	47 $\frac{1}{2}$	- $\frac{1}{2}$	...	-1.0
1 $\frac{1}{2}$	0 $\frac{1}{2}$	Provexis♦	1			-47.5
114	65 $\frac{1}{4}$	PZ Cussons♦	95 $\frac{1}{8}$	- $\frac{1}{8}$	3.9	20.3
138	92	REA	109	+ 1	...	-206.0
210	155	Tandem♦	175		1.7	11.3
330	220	The Character Grp♦	315		2.2	-46.7
82 $\frac{1}{4}$	5	Ukproduct Grp♦	7 $\frac{1}{4}$			-18.0
5542 $\frac{1}{2}$	3644	Unilever	4626	+ 3	3.6	12.6
76 $\frac{1}{2}$	19 $\frac{1}{2}$	Victoria♦	43	- 1	...	-0.2
Engineering
49 $\frac{3}{4}$	10	Assoc Brit Eng	20			-6.9
2275	1458	Avon Technologies	2255	+ 65	0.8	85.5
1527	871 $\frac{1}{4}$	Babcock	904 $\frac{1}{8}$	+ 13 $\frac{1}{3}$	0.8	21.5
2360	1529	BAE Systems	1836 $\frac{1}{2}$	+ 10 $\frac{1}{2}$	2.1	26.7
1500	500	Braime A N/V♦	1275		1.3	6.8
2490	1376	Braime Group♦	2400		0.7	12.7
550	350	Caffyns	500		2.0	-12.3
0 $\frac{1}{8}$	0 $\frac{1}{4}$	Cap XX Ld♦	0 $\frac{1}{8}$			-2.9
340	202 $\frac{1}{4}$	Castings	287	+ 16	6.4	16.5
27	12 $\frac{1}{4}$	Checkit♦	16	- $\frac{1}{4}$	...	-6.2
650 $\frac{1}{4}$	446 $\frac{1}{2}$	Chemring Group	499	- 1	1.6	28.0
55	28 $\frac{1}{8}$	Chesterfield Spec Cyl♦	36			-40.0
1538	881 $\frac{1}{4}$	Cohort♦	1192	+ 10	1.5	22.8
626	235 $\frac{1}{4}$	Dialight	570	- 6	...	...
15	5 $\frac{1}{4}$	Feedback♦	6 $\frac{1}{8}$			-0.2
1270	463 $\frac{1}{4}$	Gooch & Housego♦	1225			89.4
28500	10820	Goodwin♦	14140	- 60	2.3	19.1
4902	3268	Halma	3500	+ 22	0.7	35.5
3345	1994	Hill & Smith	3000	- 100	...	29.2
4	1 $\frac{1}{4}$	Image Scan♦	3 $\frac{1}{8}$			-16.2
3202	2244	IMI	3032	- 20	1.2	24.4
6300	3480	Judges Sci.♦	3580	- 20	3.3	43.3
92	34	LPA♦	82 $\frac{1}{2}$			-31.2
685	409 $\frac{1}{4}$	Melrose	438 $\frac{1}{4}$	- 11 $\frac{1}{2}$	1.7	15.1
278	179 $\frac{1}{4}$	Morgan Advanced	265	- 5	4.6	35.3
405	200	Mpac♦	337 $\frac{1}{2}$			-10.6
1800	1120	MS Intl♦	1565	+ 30	1.7	23.2
3318	1682	Oxford Instruments	2926	- 122	0.8	34.6
2413 $\frac{1}{4}$	1779 $\frac{1}{4}$	Phillips Elec	1830 $\frac{1}{8}$	+ 5	3.9	-43.2
4 $\frac{1}{8}$	1	PipeHawk♦	1 $\frac{1}{8}$			-2.7
6030	3280	Renishaw	5650	- 115	1.5	34.6
1586	990	Rolls-Royce	1367	- 37 $\frac{1}{2}$	0.8	19.7
491 $\frac{1}{8}$	286 $\frac{1}{8}$	Rotork	491	+ $\frac{1}{4}$	1.7	35.6
99	60	SDI Group♦	95			20.2
318 $\frac{1}{8}$	161	Senior#	297 $\frac{1}{2}$		0.7	-291.7
2016	1989 $\frac{1}{4}$	SKF Group	2009 $\frac{1}{8}$			30.8
2885	2088	Smiths	2710	- 52	1.8	4.3
215	135	Solid State♦	165	- 2	1.7	22.9
270	170	Somero Enter♦	263		3.2	18.3
8050	5950	Spirax Group	7015	- 125	2.4	31.6
7 $\frac{1}{2}$	3 $\frac{1}{2}$	Tanfield♦	4 $\frac{1}{4}$	- $\frac{1}{4}$	...	-4.1
320	240	Thorpe FW♦	255	- 10	2.9	10.8
142 $\frac{1}{4}$	36	Transense Tech♦	46 $\frac{1}{2}$	- 1 $\frac{1}{2}$	...	-67.4
507 $\frac{1}{2}$	350	Vesuvius♦	452 $\frac{1}{8}$	- 1 $\frac{1}{8}$	5.2	21.5
710	342 $\frac{1}{2}$	Volex	680	- 7	0.7	25.6
3500	2254	Weir♦	2538	- 22	1.7	26.5
2160	849 $\frac{1}{4}$	XP Power	1946	- 38	...	-46.3

Health
$284\frac{1}{2}$	187 Advanced Medical♦	$282\frac{1}{2}$	0.7 61.1
$12\frac{1}{8}$	$4\frac{1}{2}$ Allergy Therapeutics♦	$4\frac{1}{4}$	... -5.7
$3\frac{1}{2}$	$0\frac{1}{4}$ CelLBxHealth♦	$0\frac{1}{8}$	... -0.2
580	$391\frac{1}{8}$ Anpario♦	510	2.5 12.7

12 month			Price(p)	+/-	ForecastYld%	P/E
High	Low	Company
15732	9892	AstraZeneca	11892	- 288	2.0	23.8
3		1 $\frac{1}{4}$ Cambridge Nutri Sci◆	1 $\frac{1}{2}$			-0.6
259 $\frac{1}{4}$	193	Convatec	213	- 3 $\frac{1}{4}$	2.6	32.8
32		Potter & Moore◆	23		2.4	7.5
116 $\frac{1}{8}$	77 $\frac{1}{8}$	Eco Animal Health◆	95 $\frac{1}{2}$			29.3
30 $\frac{1}{4}$	21 $\frac{3}{4}$	EKF Diagnostics◆	24 $\frac{1}{4}$ +	$\frac{1}{4}$	...	51.5
3 $\frac{1}{4}$	0 $\frac{1}{8}$	Futura Medical◆	0 $\frac{1}{4}$			-0.1
3220	1943	Genus	2222	+ 14	1.6	5.1
2282	1592	GSK◆	1735 $\frac{1}{2}$ -	55	4.0	12.3
0 $\frac{1}{4}$	0 $\frac{1}{8}$	Gunsynd◆	0 $\frac{1}{8}$			-2.7
416 $\frac{1}{8}$	317 $\frac{1}{4}$	Haleon	344 $\frac{1}{4}$ +	1 $\frac{1}{4}$	2.1	18.5
1865	1187	Hikma Pharma	1607	- 39	4.0	11.7
246		150 $\frac{1}{2}$ Hutchmed China◆	209	- 13		5.2
14		ImmuPharma◆	3 $\frac{1}{4}$			-8.9
32		12 $\frac{1}{4}$ Inspiration Health◆	18 $\frac{1}{2}$			-15.9
14		6 $\frac{1}{4}$ IXICO◆	7 $\frac{1}{4}$ -	$\frac{1}{4}$	...	-4.2
1		0 $\frac{1}{8}$ Thalia Therapeutics◆	0 $\frac{1}{8}$			-3.7
76		53 $\frac{1}{8}$ NIOX Group◆	68 $\frac{1}{4}$ +	1	2.3	40.4
132.68	97.05	Novartis	CHF 117.72	- 2.30	3.1	39.0
962	420	Oxford Biomedica	513	- 15	...	-19.1
0 $\frac{1}{4}$	0 $\frac{1}{4}$	Physomics◆	0 $\frac{1}{2}$			-3.1
4 $\frac{1}{8}$	1 $\frac{1}{8}$	Proteome Sciences◆	1 $\frac{1}{8}$			-1.3
6522 $\frac{1}{8}$	3664	Reckitt Benck	5072	- 34	4.3	10.8
31		10 $\frac{1}{2}$ RUA Life Sci◆	28 $\frac{1}{2}$ +	$\frac{1}{2}$	...	-122.3
40		9 $\frac{1}{2}$ Sareum Holdings◆	27 $\frac{1}{2}$			-11.5
1426 $\frac{1}{8}$	980 $\frac{1}{8}$	Smith & Neph $\frac{1}{8}$	1003 $\frac{1}{2}$ -	15 $\frac{1}{2}$	3.0	18.4
249		140 $\frac{1}{4}$ Spire Healthcare	246 $\frac{1}{2}$ -	$\frac{1}{2}$	0.6	60.1
14		Talisman Metals◆	8 $\frac{1}{2}$			2.4
0 $\frac{1}{2}$		0 $\frac{1}{8}$ ValRx◆	0 $\frac{1}{8}$			-0.2

Industrials
79 $\frac{1}{2}$	55	Accsys Tech◆	55 $\frac{1}{2}$	-	1 $\frac{1}{2}$	...	24.6
4780 $\frac{1}{2}$	3665 $\frac{1}{4}$	BASF	4386 $\frac{1}{2}$	+	53 $\frac{1}{4}$	4.3	28.4
4606 $\frac{1}{4}$	2268 $\frac{1}{2}$	Bayer	3620	-	108	0.3	-11.6
98 $\frac{1}{2}$	73 $\frac{1}{4}$	Coats Group	81 $\frac{1}{2}$	+	$\frac{1}{4}$	3.1	18.3
3520 $\frac{1}{4}$	2488	Croda	3344	+	6	3.3	75.3
710	250	Cropper (James)◆	670	-	15	...	21.8
195 $\frac{1}{2}$	136	Elementis	178 $\frac{1}{4}$	-	1 $\frac{1}{8}$	1.9	-30.3
110	6 $\frac{1}{4}$	Hardide◆	104			...	...
3775	2095	International Paper	2355	-	20	5.9	-5.8
3245 $\frac{1}{4}$	2192	Johnson Matthey	2446	+	34	4.2	-32.1
981 $\frac{1}{4}$	660	Mondi	765	-	11 $\frac{1}{8}$	1.6	24.1
144 $\frac{1}{4}$	110	Robinson◆§	122 $\frac{1}{2}$			4.9	9.0
1022	597	Swire Pacifici	965 $\frac{1}{4}$	-	13 $\frac{1}{8}$	4.0	46.2
10	5 $\frac{1}{2}$	Symphony Enviro◆	6 $\frac{1}{4}$	-	$\frac{1}{4}$	...	-6.2
124	16 $\frac{1}{4}$	Synthomer	107 $\frac{1}{8}$	-	$\frac{1}{8}$	...	-1.1
2858 $\frac{1}{4}$	2026 $\frac{1}{4}$	Takeda Pharma?	2779 $\frac{1}{4}$	+	20 $\frac{1}{2}$	3.5	-60.1
1024	515	Victrex	924	-	5	3.2	28.9
430	320	Wynnstay◆§	360			5.0	36.4
479 $\frac{1}{4}$	318 $\frac{1}{2}$	Zotefoams	437	-	7	1.8	9.4

Leisure
434	231	Accesso Tech◆	302	-	$1\frac{1}{2}$	...	14.3
260	160	Celtic◆	$172\frac{1}{2}$	-	$3\frac{1}{2}$	...	-34.3
226	164	Domino's Pizza	223	-	3	5.1	14.8
$878\frac{1}{8}$	$405\frac{1}{8}$	Entain	$423\frac{1}{8}$	+	$10\frac{1}{4}$	4.7	-4.1
48	$19\frac{1}{4}$	Gvoke	42	-	$\frac{1}{4}$	...	-0.3
$47\frac{1}{4}$	29	Gaming Realms◆	$31\frac{1}{4}$	+	$\frac{1}{4}$	...	15.7
310	210	Heavitree◆	295			2.2	5.4
244	130	Heavitree A◆	$202\frac{1}{2}$			3.3	3.7
175.70	117.93	InterCont'l Hotels $157.50 - 2.65 1.2 32.1
302	$223\frac{1}{2}$	Mitch & Butlers	285	-	$2\frac{1}{2}$	...	9.6
234	$129\frac{1}{8}$	On The Beach	$174\frac{1}{4}$	-	$1\frac{1}{8}$	2.3	31.8
135	$68\frac{1}{8}$	Rank Group§	$71\frac{1}{4}$	+	$1\frac{1}{4}$	4.9	11.1

12 month			Price		Forecast
High	Low	Company	(p)	+/-	Yld%	P/E
219 $\frac{1}{8}$	137 $\frac{1}{4}$	SSP	188	-	3	2.3 -20.2
0 $\frac{1}{2}$	0 $\frac{1}{4}$	Bow Street Group◆	0 $\frac{1}{8}$			... -0.3
1002 $\frac{1}{8}$	530 $\frac{1}{2}$	Wetherspoon JD	1002	+	12 $\frac{1}{2}$	1.2 16.8
3278	2098	Whitbread	2445	-	27	4.0 19.8
Media
90	51 $\frac{1}{4}$	Aeorema Comms◆	85			1.2 67.5
29	18	Altitude Group◆	20 $\frac{1}{2}$			... -82.0
103 $\frac{1}{2}$	70 $\frac{1}{4}$	Arcontech Group◆	82 $\frac{1}{5}$			4.8 13.2
828 $\frac{1}{4}$	418 $\frac{1}{4}$	Autotrader	485 $\frac{1}{2}$	+	15 $\frac{1}{2}$	2.4 14.2
690	435	Bloomsbury Pub	669	+	22	2.4 20.2
3 $\frac{1}{2}$		Caledonian Hldgs◆	0 $\frac{1}{8}$			... -0.9
60	40	Catalyst Media◆	42 $\frac{1}{2}$			... 23.1
0 $\frac{1}{8}$	0 $\frac{1}{4}$	Catenai◆	0 $\frac{1}{8}$			... -2.1
15 $\frac{1}{4}$	9	Ehiquity◆	9 $\frac{1}{8}$			... -0.9
679	262 $\frac{1}{4}$	Future	297 $\frac{1}{4}$	+	5 $\frac{1}{8}$	5.7 4.7
131 $\frac{1}{2}$	52 $\frac{1}{4}$	GlobalData◆	59	-	1 $\frac{1}{4}$	2.5 13.4
110	44	IG Design Group◆	92	-	1	1.1 -0.8
1000	719	Informa	891	+	24 $\frac{1}{4}$	2.5 ...
87 $\frac{1}{8}$	65 $\frac{1}{4}$	ITV	66 $\frac{1}{8}$	+	$\frac{7}{8}$	7.5 11.3
196	98 $\frac{1}{2}$	ME Group	111 $\frac{1}{2}$	-	2	7.5 7.5
0 $\frac{1}{8}$	0 $\frac{1}{8}$	Mediazest◆	0 $\frac{1}{8}$			... 15.1
29	12	Mission Group◆	25 $\frac{1}{5}$			... -1.2
214	139 $\frac{1}{4}$	Mony Group	185 $\frac{1}{2}$	+	7 $\frac{1}{8}$	6.8 12.1
2316 $\frac{1}{8}$	1624 $\frac{1}{8}$	News Corp A	2177 $\frac{1}{2}$	+	10 $\frac{1}{4}$	0.7 ...
2615 $\frac{1}{4}$	1891 $\frac{1}{2}$	News Corp B	2377	-	10 $\frac{1}{8}$	0.6 ...
439 $\frac{1}{2}$	217	Next 15 Group◆	297	-	33	5.2 -9.9
1337	874 $\frac{1}{4}$	Pearson	1266 $\frac{1}{2}$	+	23 $\frac{1}{2}$	2.0 24.6
4 $\frac{1}{2}$	3	Primorus Inv◆	3 $\frac{1}{8}$			... 5.0
73 $\frac{1}{4}$	39	Reach	47 $\frac{1}{8}$			12.5 -1.1
59	40	React◆	41 $\frac{1}{2}$			... -28.6
3539	1991	Relx	2595	-	4	2.7 23.0
700 $\frac{1}{8}$	391 $\frac{1}{8}$	Rightmove◆	502 $\frac{1}{8}$	+	41 $\frac{1}{8}$	2.1 17.9
270	130	SpaceandPeople◆	165	+	2 $\frac{1}{2}$	... 7.6
124 $\frac{1}{2}$	95 $\frac{1}{8}$	STV Group	101	-	1	... -9.4
370 $\frac{1}{4}$	170 $\frac{1}{2}$	System1 Group◆	350			1.7 33.7
4748 $\frac{1}{4}$	4680 $\frac{1}{4}$	21st Cent Fox A	4680 $\frac{1}{4}$			0.9 ...
3321 $\frac{1}{4}$	3270 $\frac{1}{8}$	21st Cent Fox B	3321 $\frac{1}{4}$			1.3 ...
360	230	Wilmington	270	-	4	4.6 21.8
412 $\frac{1}{8}$	218 $\frac{1}{2}$	WPP◆	372 $\frac{1}{4}$	-	12 $\frac{1}{4}$	4.0 7.4
62	40	Zinc Media◆	50 $\frac{1}{2}$			... -4.9

Natural Resources

0 $\frac{1}{8}$	0	ADM Energy $\frac{1}{8}$	0			...	1.2
17 $\frac{1}{4}$	8 $\frac{1}{4}$	H-Power $\frac{1}{8}$	9 $\frac{1}{4}$	-	$\frac{1}{8}$	...	-3.9
89 $\frac{1}{8}$	36 $\frac{1}{4}$	Afentra $\frac{1}{8}$	72 $\frac{1}{8}$	+	1 $\frac{1}{8}$	...	-68.7
0	0	Arkadian Strat Metals $\frac{1}{8}$	0			...	-0.8
0 $\frac{1}{4}$	0	Alien Metals $\frac{1}{8}$	0 $\frac{1}{8}$			...	-11.8
2 $\frac{1}{8}$	0 $\frac{1}{8}$	Aminex	1 $\frac{1}{8}$			...	-20.5
8924	4189 $\frac{1}{4}$	Anglo Amer Plat	5651 $\frac{1}{8}$	+	55 $\frac{1}{8}$	8.0	21.2
4348	2639	Anglo Amer	4040	-	19	0.7	-16.2
435	173 $\frac{1}{4}$	Anglo Asian Mng $\frac{1}{8}$	410	-	4	1.8	35.0
4475	2496	Antofagasta	3605	-	87	1.6	35.4
1 $\frac{1}{8}$	0 $\frac{1}{8}$	Arc Minerals $\frac{1}{8}$	0 $\frac{1}{8}$			...	-1.3
2 $\frac{1}{8}$	1 $\frac{1}{4}$	Ariana Resources $\frac{1}{8}$	1 $\frac{1}{2}$			...	-145.0
0 $\frac{1}{8}$	0 $\frac{1}{4}$	Arkle Resources $\frac{1}{8}$	0 $\frac{1}{4}$			...	-11.4
2 $\frac{1}{8}$	0 $\frac{1}{4}$	Asiamet Resources $\frac{1}{8}$	0 $\frac{1}{4}$			...	-2.4
1133	609 $\frac{1}{4}$	Atalaya Mine	1016	+	10	1.0	19.7
4 $\frac{1}{4}$	2	Beacon Energy $\frac{1}{8}$	2 $\frac{1}{8}$			...	-0.6
13	4	Browulf Mining $\frac{1}{8}$	5 $\frac{1}{4}$			...	-1.6

PRICES

Major indices

New York
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Zurich
Zurich SMI	13637.00 (-171.42)
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London
FTSE100	10441.60 (-16.90)
FTSE250	23943.88 (-92.87)
FTSE350	5694.94 (-10.60)
FTSE Eurotop 100	4829.01 (-35.25)
FTSE All Share	5634.04 (-10.77)
FTSE Non Financials	6286.88 (+12.72)
TechMark Focus	9420.03 (-79.60)
US$	1.3227 (+0.0007)
Euro	1.1801 (-0.0008)
SDR	0.9776 (+0.0001)
CPI Aug (2015=100)	143.6
RPI Aug (1987=100)	421.6
RPIX Aug (1987=100)	414.6

London Financial Futures

	Period	Open	High	Low	Sett	Vol	Open Int
Long Gilt	26-Dec	83.78	83.84	82.97	83.35	266657	1285238
	27-Mar				83.33	0	2027
	27-Jun				83.41	0
3-Mth Sonia Index	26-Sep	96.155	96.155	96.145	96.15	51382	400718
	26-Dec	95.815	95.825	95.785	95.79	79028	525269
	27-Mar	95.5	95.505	95.45	95.46	75366	387958
3 Mth Sonia Index	27-Jun	95.315	95.325	95.255	95.26	60298	409238
	27-Sep	95.23	95.235	95.155	95.16	51866	274232
	27-Dec	95.205	95.21	95.125	95.13	57566	350674
	28-Mar	95.205	95.205	95.115	95.125	41342	213844
3-Mth Euribor	26-Dec	97.125	97.13	97.085	97.095	185222	894609
	27-Mar	96.875	96.88	96.83	96.835	158480	619993
	27-Jun	96.73	96.74	96.675	96.685	137960	555777
	27-Sep	96.675	96.685	96.61	96.62	131259	456430
	27-Dec	96.665	96.675	96.6	96.61	156078	584055
3-Mth Saron Index	26-Sep	100.0475	100.0475	100.045	100.0475	226	82614
	26-Dec	99.995	100	99.975	99.98	8938	52926
	27-Mar	99.875	99.88	99.83	99.835	6347	38330
	27-Jun	99.725	99.73	99.655	99.665	7137	30377
	27-Sep	99.585	99.585	99.505	99.52	3622	31709
	27-Dec	99.5	99.505	99.415	99.425	2653	21762
	28-Mar	99.435	99.435	99.35	99.36	1684	20612
FTSE100	26-Sep
	26-Dec	10518.5	10544	10407.5	10486.5	60644	464404
FTSEurofirst 80	26-Sep
	26-Dec				8466.5	0

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Commodities

Natural Gas $
3.158	-0.059
Light Crude Oil
92.8	+4.57

Crude Oils (\$/barrel FOB)

WTI NOV 26	92.77	4.57
WTI DEC 26	91.97	4.42
WTI JAN 27	90.89	4.05
WTI FEB 27	89.57	3.55
WTI MAR 27	87.72	2.64

Products
Fuel Oil	572.317	3.106
Euro Naphtha CIF NWIE	867.168	6.259

ICE Futures
Gas Oil

Oct1517.75-1517	Feb1308.5-1308.25
Nov1446.5-1446.25	Mar1264.25-1264
Dec1397.25-1396.75
Jan1353.25-1353	Volume: 317845

Brent

Dec105.75-105.73	Mar97.27-97.24
Jan102.28-102.26	Apr95.27-95.24
Feb99.5-99.47	Volume: 803942

Cocoa
Dec4222 +48	Dec4281 +37
Mar4360 +43	Mar4360 +43
May4394 +43	May4394 +43
Jul4422 +45	Jul4422 +45
Sep4376 +49	Volume: 42355

Robusta Coffee

Nov3427 -58	Jul3358 -79
Jan3402 -67	Sep3344 -80
Mar3382 -73
Jul3358 -79	Volume: 40360

White Sugar

Dec545 -10.7	Oct542.2 -7.8
Mar555 -10.7	Dec535 -6.5
Aug551.6 -9.1
Aug551.6 -9.1	Volume: 21774

London Grain Futures

LIFFE Wheat (close £/t)

Nov209 +0.5	May217 +0.5
Jan 209.75	Jul 219.25
Mar213.25	Volume: 4549

12 month			Price(p)	+/-	ForecastYld%	P/E
High	Low	Company
01⁄4	0	Bezant Resources◆	01⁄8		...	12.5
3592	1971	BHP Group	3187	- 28	4.0	21.8
14	71⁄4	Border & Sthn Pet◆	81⁄8 +	1⁄4	...	-67.5
1221⁄2	71⁄4	Bougainville	81⁄8		...	-12.4
6091⁄2	3991⁄2	BP	5841⁄4 +	221⁄2	4.3	...
0	0	Buccaneer Energy◆	0		...	-0.8
81⁄4	3	Cadence Minerals◆	41⁄8		...	-9.3
51⁄2	3	Cadogan Energy	4		...	-11.8
2840	1250	Caledonia Mining◆	1800		2.3	8.4
31⁄4	11⁄4	Caspian Sunrise?	11⁄8		...	3.4
244	1251⁄4	Cent Asia Metals◆	1511⁄4 +	11⁄4	10.3	-4.7
31⁄4	11⁄4	Chariot Ltd◆	3 -	1⁄4	...	...
0	0	Clontarf Energy◆	0		...	-5.2
01⁄2	01⁄4	Corcel◆	01⁄2		...	-2.6
181⁄2	8	Crism Therapeutics◆	91⁄4		...	-1.8
3001⁄2	1451⁄2	DRD Gold	1791⁄2 -	1⁄4	4.3	15.2
01⁄2	01⁄4	ECR Minerals◆	01⁄2		...	-2.6
01⁄4	0	Empyrean Energy◆	0		...	-1.2
5620	2900	Endeavour?	4073	- 31	3.3	19.2
281⁄2	91⁄4	EnQuest	281⁄2 +	11⁄4	2.8	...
6	11⁄4	Eurasia Mining◆	21⁄2		...	13.8
21⁄4	1	Europa Oil & Gas◆	11⁄4		...	-8.5
871⁄4	251⁄4	Ferrexpo	311⁄4 -	1⁄4	...	-1.1
4472	2000	Fresnillo	2689 +	1	4.2	18.9
80	31⁄2	Galantas Gold◆	241⁄2 -	7⁄4	...	-6.5
211⁄2	21⁄2	GCM Resources◆	18 +	2	...	-25.7
151⁄2	21⁄2	Gem Diamonds	101⁄2 +	1⁄4	...	-0.2
51⁄4	11⁄4	Getech◆	41⁄2 +	1⁄4	...	-11.0
7071⁄2	3321⁄2	Glencore	5681⁄2 -	1⁄4	2.3	...
01⁄4	0	Geo Exploration◆	0		...	-2.6
45821⁄4	23101⁄4	Gold Fields	27061⁄4 +	68	5.8	...
22	71⁄4	Goldplate‡	191⁄4		3.4	32.9
2	01⁄2	Goldstone Res◆	01⁄2		...	-0.7
800	320	Greatland Resources◆	528		...	7.8
3531⁄4	178	Griffin Mining◆	301 -	101⁄2	...	32.9
235	1601⁄4	Gulf Keystone	1991⁄4 +	71⁄4	3.9	37.8
858	3091⁄4	Hochschild	5101⁄2 -	91⁄4	1.3	17.3
553	300	Hunting‡	3841⁄2 +	7	2.7	19.4
0	0	Ironveld◆	0		...	-2.0
2191⁄4	571⁄4	ITM Power◆	92 +	21⁄2	...	-12.4
51⁄4	11⁄4	Jubilee Metals◆	21⁄4 +	1⁄4	...	-2.9
11⁄4	01⁄4	Karel Diamond Res◆	01⁄4		...	-4.3
21⁄4	01⁄4	KEFI Gold and Copper◆	01⁄4		...	-5.6
3191⁄4	1711⁄4	Kenmare Res	238 +	101⁄2	...	-0.9
51⁄4	11⁄4	Landore Res◆	11⁄2		...	-1.6
01⁄4	01⁄4	Lansdowne Resources◆	01⁄4		...	-1.2
41⁄4	21⁄2	Lexington Gold◆	21⁄4		...	-24.4
191⁄4	101⁄4	Metals Exploration◆	161⁄4 -	1⁄4	...	20.7
01⁄4	01⁄4	Native Resources◆	01⁄4		...	-0.2
41⁄2	01⁄2	Nostrum Oil & Gas	01⁄4		...	-0.0
01⁄2	01⁄4	Oriole Resources◆	01⁄4		...	-13.2
		Ormonde Mining			...	...
41	121⁄2	Orosur Mining◆	141⁄4 +	1⁄4	...	...
1901⁄4	761⁄2	Pan African Res	1141⁄2 +	1⁄4	3.1	8.6
31	61⁄4	Pantheon Res◆	101⁄2 +	1⁄4	...	-36.5
27	121⁄2	Parkmead Group◆	191⁄2 +	1⁄4	...	2.9
211⁄4	21⁄2	Petra Diamonds	31⁄4		...	-0.1
11⁄4	01⁄2	Petrel Resources◆	01⁄4		...	-3.8
11⁄4	01⁄2	Petro Matad◆	01⁄4		...	-3.7
81⁄2	21⁄2	Plexus Holdings◆	31⁄4		...	-1.2
938	6781⁄2	Porvair	886 +	6	0.8	22.5

Exchange rates
Australia $	1.9013 (+0.00466)
Canada $	1.88145 (-0.00138)
Denmark Kr	8.82256 (+0.00521)
Euro	1.1799 (+0.0003)
Hong Kong $	10.365 (nc)
Hungary	431.75 (+0.21)
Indonesia	23665.27 (+47.51)
Israel	4.0534 (-0.0004)
Japan Yen	209.091 (+0.305)
New Zealand $	2.36148 (+0.00387)
Norway Kr	12.6568 (+0.004)
Poland	5.1696 (+0.00998)
Russia	112.296 (-0.657)
S Africa	22.00105 (+0.06223)
Sweden Kr	13.21983 (+0.01223)
Switzerland Fr	1.10076 (+0.00039)
Turkey Lira	65.0055 (-0.0092)
USA $	1.3207 (-0.0004)

12 month			Price (p)	+/-	Forecast Yld%	P/E
High	Low	Company
$7\frac{1}{4}$	$2\frac{1}{2}$	Prospex Energy◆	$5\frac{1}{4}$		...	-8.6
$4\frac{1}{2}$	$0\frac{1}{4}$	Quadrise◆	1		...	-5.6
160	35	Reabold Resources◆	$64\frac{1}{2}$		...	-806.2
0	0	Red Rock Res◆	0		...	-0.2
$10416\frac{1}{4}$	$6040\frac{1}{4}$	Rio Tinto Ltd	$8526\frac{1}{4}$	-256	4.1	15.8
9117	$4955\frac{1}{2}$	Rio Tinto	7022		5.0	15.1
$0\frac{1}{2}$	$0\frac{1}{4}$	Rome Resources◆	$0\frac{1}{4}$		...	-10.0
375	195	Serabi Gold◆	230	+6	2.2	4.3
$302\frac{1}{2}$	$162\frac{1}{4}$	Serica Energy◆	$263\frac{1}{2}$	+9%	6.1	-26.8
3784	$2553\frac{3}{4}$	Shell	$3780\frac{1}{2}$	+132%	3.0	16.5
7	$2\frac{1}{4}$	Shuka Minerals◆	$3\frac{1}{2}$		...	-2.5
13	$1\frac{1}{2}$	Sound Energy◆	$1\frac{1}{2}$		...	-1.4
27	7	Star Energy◆	20		...	-3.6
$4\frac{1}{2}$	$0\frac{1}{4}$	Sunda Energy◆	$1\frac{1}{2}$	-1%	...	-1.4
0	0	Sunrise Resources◆	0		...	-2.4
0		Synergia Energy◆	0		...	0.5
$0\frac{1}{2}$	0	Tertiary Minerals◆	0		...	-6.2
$0\frac{1}{2}$	$0\frac{1}{2}$	Thor Energy◆	$0\frac{1}{2}$		...	-3.9
7066	$4293\frac{1}{2}$	Total Eng SE	6574	+187%	4.5	12.6
0	0	Tower Resources◆	0		...	-0.4
25	$3\frac{1}{2}$	Tullow Oil	$10\frac{1}{2}$	-1%	...	34.0
0	0	UK Energy Group◆	0		...	-0.2
13	$2\frac{1}{2}$	URU Metals◆	$2\frac{1}{2}$		...	-1.8
$7\frac{1}{2}$	$2\frac{1}{4}$	Vast Resources◆	$4\frac{1}{4}$		...	-0.7
9	$1\frac{1}{8}$	Westmount Energy◆	$2\frac{1}{2}$		...	-6.7
$1\frac{1}{2}$	$0\frac{1}{2}$	Xtract Resources◆	$0\frac{1}{2}$		...	-4.0
$4\frac{1}{2}$	$2\frac{1}{4}$	Zephyr Energy◆	$2\frac{1}{2}$		...	-6.4

Professional & Support Services
5135	2980	4imprint	4362	+	42	4.1	14.3
615	464	Andrews Sykes♦	$517\frac{1}{2}$	-	$12\frac{1}{2}$	5.0	12.0
130	$103\frac{1}{2}$	BTG Consulting♦	111	-	2	4.1	20.9
2898	1981	Bunzl	2710	+	60	2.8	19.2
416	$196\frac{1}{2}$	Capita	$215\frac{1}{2}$	+	$9\frac{1}{2}$	...	-1.5
$49\frac{1}{2}$	28	CEPS♦	39			...	-11.1
$199\frac{1}{2}$	90	Christie Group♦	180			2.2	35.4
$2581\frac{1}{2}$	2000	Compass	$2324\frac{1}{2}$	+	$17\frac{1}{2}$	2.2	27.9
87	$64\frac{1}{2}$	Croma Security♦	$71\frac{1}{2}$			3.4	12.5
6740	4188	DCC Energy	6445	+	5	3.4	...
$38\frac{1}{2}$	15	Diales Grp♦	30	-	$1\frac{1}{2}$	5.0	23.1
7980	4970	Diploma	7750	+	50	0.8	56.2
900	505	DiscoverIE	848	-	2	1.5	28.1
$115\frac{1}{2}$	$78\frac{1}{2}$	Essentra♦	$111\frac{1}{2}$	-	$\frac{1}{2}$	1.9	...
3707	2203	Experian	2574	+	31	2.0	20.7
300	110	FIH Group♦	130			5.2	2.9
880	588	Hargreaves Servs♦	834			4.8	8.9
5900	$3519\frac{1}{2}$	Intertek	5890	-	10	2.8	27.0
$250\frac{1}{2}$	$163\frac{1}{2}$	Int'l Workplace♦	$178\frac{1}{2}$	+	$\frac{1}{2}$	0.6	...
$172\frac{1}{2}$	$123\frac{1}{2}$	Johnson Service♦	$135\frac{1}{2}$	-	$1\frac{1}{2}$	3.7	14.6
560	360	Journe♦	542	-	3	...	22.3
$319\frac{1}{2}$	$186\frac{1}{2}$	Kier Group	$288\frac{1}{2}$	-	$3\frac{1}{2}$	2.7	20.5
1170	910	Latham (J)♦	1070	-	15	3.4	11.6
3900	2100	London Security♦	3750			2.6	19.3
282	204	LSL Property Servs♦	251	-	6	4.5	15.1
$93\frac{1}{2}$	$59\frac{1}{2}$	Macfarlane♦	83	-	$1\frac{1}{2}$	4.4	20.8
155	59	Maintel Holdings♦	$61\frac{1}{2}$			...	-5.2
28	$16\frac{1}{2}$	Malvern Intl♦	$16\frac{1}{2}$			...	-2.2
460	$318\frac{1}{2}$	Mears Group	$404\frac{1}{2}$	-	3	4.5	7.3
260	$101\frac{1}{2}$	Michael Page♦	$206\frac{1}{2}$	-	$4\frac{1}{2}$	2.3	71.1
214	$134\frac{1}{2}$	Mitie Group	$210\frac{1}{2}$	-	$\frac{1}{2}$	2.1	31.8
$19\frac{1}{2}$	$0\frac{1}{2}$	MobilityOne♦	$14\frac{1}{2}$	+	$1\frac{1}{2}$	...	-3.1
137	$88\frac{1}{2}$	Newmark Security♦	$107\frac{1}{2}$			...	15.2
260	170	Norman Broadbent♦	231	+	2	...	7.2
158	$92\frac{1}{2}$	Northern Bear♦	$102\frac{1}{2}$	-	$3\frac{1}{2}$	7.3	3.4
$187\frac{1}{2}$	110	NWF Group♦	160	+	3	5.4	8.6

Gold/precious metals(US dollars per ounce)

Bullion: Open $4113.96

Close $4111.596 High $4143.283

Low $4103.48

AM $4156.90 PM $4156.40

Platinum $1628

Silver $58.749

Palladium $1120.887

12 month			Price		Forecast
High	Low	Company	(p)	+/-	Yld%	P/E
78	42	PCI-PAL◆	$73\frac{1}{2}$		...	...
$12\frac{1}{2}$	7	Petards◆	$8\frac{1}{2}$		...	-12.7
12	$6\frac{1}{2}$	PHSC◆	$7\frac{1}{4}$		...	-2.6
$0\frac{1}{4}$	$0\frac{1}{4}$	PowerHouse Energy◆	$0\frac{1}{4}$		...	-2.8
$60\frac{1}{4}$	$41\frac{1}{4}$	Record	$41\frac{1}{4}$		8.6	10.6
1016	821	Renew Holdings◆	946	-	19	2.1 15.3
507	$293\frac{1}{2}$	Rentokil	$301\frac{1}{4}$	+	$3\frac{1}{2}$	3.1 21.4
315	222	Restore◆	$307\frac{1}{2}$	+	$\frac{1}{2}$	2.4 -65.4
$6\frac{1}{2}$	$1\frac{1}{2}$	River Global A◆	$1\frac{1}{2}$		...	-0.2
30	14	Roebuck Food Group◆	$24\frac{1}{2}$	-	1	...
790	$536\frac{1}{4}$	RS Group	750	-	$6\frac{1}{2}$	3.1 21.7
150	85	RTC Group◆	95		...	7.1 6.7
$142\frac{1}{4}$	68	RWS Holdings◆	139	-	$3\frac{1}{4}$	4.6 -5.1
612	520	Science Group◆	573		...	1.7 7.6
$325\frac{1}{4}$	$218\frac{1}{4}$	Serco	$251\frac{1}{2}$	+	3	1.8 17.5
$79\frac{1}{4}$	$55\frac{1}{4}$	Smiths News	$74\frac{1}{4}$	+	$\frac{1}{8}$	7.5 6.3
26	$13\frac{1}{4}$	Software Circel◆	18	-	$\frac{1}{4}$	... -85.7
$52\frac{1}{2}$	$36\frac{1}{4}$	Staffline Group◆	41	+	$2\frac{1}{4}$	... 10.5
324	143	SThree	300		...	4.8 21.9
306	146	Synectics◆	$197\frac{1}{2}$	-	5	2.5 9.0
$3\frac{1}{4}$	$0\frac{1}{2}$	Thruvision Group◆	$2\frac{1}{4}$		...	-2.2
104	46	Tribal◆	103	+	2	... 24.5
$74\frac{1}{2}$	58	Vianet◆	68			3.5 47.6
490	$310\frac{1}{2}$	ZIGUP	432	-	5	6.2 12.8

Retailing
117 $\frac{1}{8}$	82 $\frac{1}{2}$	AO World	89 $\frac{1}{4}$	-	$\frac{1}{4}$	...	14.0
261 $\frac{1}{8}$	140	B&M European	257	+	$1\frac{1}{8}$	3.7	15.8
108 $\frac{1}{8}$	58 $\frac{1}{4}$	Card Factory	86 $\frac{1}{2}$	+	$\frac{5}{8}$	5.9	9.6
1648	1062	CVS Group	1145	-	18	0.8	46.9
204	113	DFS Furniture	146	-	4	2.1	9.7
1174	707	Dunelm	788			8.9	10.2
849	598	Frasers Group	835	-	14	...	9.6
2103	1407 $\frac{1}{4}$	Greggs $\ddagger$	2094	+	16	3.3	17.4
276 $\frac{1}{8}$	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
895	627 $\frac{1}{4}$	Inchcape	658	+	14	5.1	9.1
$1\frac{1}{2}$	0 $\frac{1}{8}$	Imaging Biometrics	0 $\frac{1}{8}$			...	-5.1
104 $\frac{1}{4}$	64	JD Sports	84	+	$\frac{1}{2}$	1.5	9.7
372 $\frac{1}{4}$	266 $\frac{1}{8}$	Kingfisher $\ddagger$	322 $\frac{1}{2}$	-	$6\frac{1}{4}$	3.8	23.0
418 $\frac{1}{8}$	301 $\frac{1}{4}$	Marks & Spencer	396 $\frac{1}{4}$	+	$2\frac{1}{4}$	1.1	31.2
$3\frac{1}{2}$	0	Mothercare $\blacklozenge$	0 $\frac{1}{4}$			...	-0.3
84 $\frac{1}{4}$	60 $\frac{1}{4}$	Naked Wines $\blacklozenge$	60 $\frac{1}{8}$	-	$\frac{5}{8}$	...	-6.6
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
229 $\frac{1}{8}$	167 $\frac{1}{4}$	Pets at Home	208 $\frac{1}{2}$	+	$\frac{1}{2}$	3.6	15.1
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 $\frac{1}{4}$	Sainsbury's	332 $\frac{1}{2}$	+	$4\frac{1}{4}$	4.1	19.2
712	345 $\frac{1}{8}$	WH Smith	369 $\frac{1}{8}$			...	-3.3
14	5	Sosandar $\blacklozenge$	11 $\frac{1}{4}$	-	1	...	80.4
512 $\frac{1}{8}$	411 $\frac{1}{4}$	Tesco	500 $\frac{1}{4}$	+	24 $\frac{1}{8}$	2.9	18.2
50	30 $\frac{1}{4}$	Tops Tiles	35	+	$\frac{5}{8}$	8.9	11.5

Technology
240	140 $\frac{1}{2}$	Alfa Financial	157	-	1	6.1 15.4
307	195	Aptitude Software $\ddagger$	250			2.2 34.2
105	55	Bango $\blacklozenge$	68 $\frac{1}{2}$	-	5 $\frac{1}{4}$	... -9.2
20	10 $\frac{1}{2}$	BATM Adv Coms	11	-	$\frac{1}{4}$	... -3.5
33	19 $\frac{1}{2}$	Berkeley Res	33	+	2	... -32.1
3 $\frac{1}{4}$	0 $\frac{1}{2}$	Blackbird $\blacklozenge$	1 $\frac{1}{4}$			... -2.9
170	53	Celebus Tech $\blacklozenge$	54	-	1 $\frac{1}{2}$	6.3 -59.0
25 $\frac{1}{4}$	7	Cirata $\blacklozenge$	7 $\frac{1}{2}$	+	$\frac{1}{8}$	... -1.7
0 $\frac{1}{4}$	0 $\frac{1}{4}$	CloudCoCo $\blacklozenge$	0 $\frac{1}{4}$			... 0.6
6045	2578	Computacenteri	5485	+	35	1.4 37.4
286	173 $\frac{1}{2}$	Concurrent Tech $\blacklozenge$	275	+	4	0.4 46.9
13 $\frac{1}{2}$	6 $\frac{1}{2}$	Corero $\blacklozenge$	11 $\frac{1}{4}$	+	$\frac{1}{4}$	... -148.8
2450	988	Craneware $\blacklozenge$	1082	-	4	3.0 25.3
110	50	Crimson Tide $\blacklozenge$	97 $\frac{1}{2}$			... 23.2
18	8	Dillstone Group $\blacklozenge$	16 $\frac{1}{2}$			... -11.3

Money rates % Base Rates Clearing Banks: 3.75% ECB Refi 2.65% Fed Fund 3.75-4.00% Halifax Mortgage Rate (SVR) 7.24%

12 month			Price (p)	+/-	Forecast
High	Low	Company			Yld%	P/E
$0\frac{1}{2}$	0	Forgent◆	0			...	-0.0
$165\frac{1}{4}$	$94\frac{1}{2}$	FDM Group	$102$	+	1	6.9	19.6
480	125	Filtronic◆	321	-	9	...	...
$262\frac{1}{2}$	$141\frac{1}{2}$	GB Group	$144\frac{1}{8}$	+	$1\frac{1}{4}$	3.0	-4.7
51	20	Ilika◆	$20\frac{1}{2}$			...	-5.1
138	56	Ingenta◆	$67\frac{1}{2}$	+	1	6.7	5.6
$175\frac{1}{2}$	73	Intercede◆	$132\frac{1}{2}$	-	2	...	23.2
$28\frac{1}{2}$	$11\frac{1}{8}$	lomart◆	12	-	$\frac{3}{8}$	...	-1.5
$72\frac{1}{8}$	$4\frac{1}{8}$	IQE◆	$50\frac{1}{8}$	-	$3\frac{1}{8}$	...	-13.4
$4453\frac{1}{2}$	$912\frac{1}{8}$	LG Electronics	$2132\frac{1}{8}$	-	$61\frac{1}{4}$	1.2	...
79	37	MTI Wireless◆	63	+	$\frac{1}{2}$	3.2	14.2
11	2	Nanoco Group	$2\frac{1}{4}$			...	-2.5
138	$94\frac{1}{8}$	Netcall◆	$125\frac{1}{2}$			0.9	...
36	22	Northamber◆	25			2.4	-1.7
$60\frac{1}{8}$	$34\frac{1}{8}$	Oxford Metrics◆	$34\frac{1}{8}$			9.3	-63.5
34	17	Pennant Intl◆	33			...	-6.5
456	210	Playtech	360	+	$1\frac{1}{4}$	...	0.9
50	12	Pulsar Group◆	$13\frac{1}{2}$			...	-1.7
$576\frac{1}{2}$	$398\frac{1}{2}$	QinetiQ	454	+	1	2.4	22.6
$117\frac{1}{2}$	88	RM	$97\frac{1}{8}$	-	$1\frac{1}{8}$	...	37.5
$6\frac{1}{2}$	$2\frac{1}{8}$	Seeing Machines◆	$3\frac{1}{2}$	-	$\frac{3}{8}$	...	-9.0
70	$35\frac{1}{2}$	Shearwater Group◆	67	-	1	...	-1.7
2134	1083	Softcat	1837	+	12	1.6	27.6
$39\frac{1}{2}$	5	Sorted Group◆	9			...	-0.2
$1018\frac{1}{2}$	$612\frac{1}{2}$	Tele Ericsson	$721\frac{1}{2}$	+	$3\frac{1}{4}$	3.1	11.2
1181	$771\frac{1}{8}$	The Sage Grp	$1027\frac{1}{2}$	+	$5\frac{1}{2}$	2.2	27.2
$89\frac{1}{2}$	$52\frac{1}{2}$	Touchstar◆	70			4.3	-5.3
390	280	Tracisis◆	325	-	$2\frac{1}{2}$	0.8	...
430	236	Triad Group	380			2.4	38.3
360	210	Water Intel◆	$277\frac{1}{2}$	-	$19\frac{1}{2}$	...	12.8
$150\frac{1}{4}$	$96\frac{1}{8}$	Xaar	$143\frac{1}{2}$	-	$1\frac{1}{2}$	...	-33.4
19	$8\frac{1}{2}$	Zoo Digital◆	$14\frac{1}{4}$			...	-5.0

Telecoms
436 $\frac{1}{4}$	219	Airtel Africa	309 $\frac{1}{8}$	-	3 $\frac{1}{4}$	1.7 22.0
242 $\frac{1}{8}$	173	BT Group	197 $\frac{1}{2}$	-	1	4.2 17.9
169 $\frac{1}{2}$	116 $\frac{3}{4}$	Currys	147 $\frac{1}{4}$	+	1 $\frac{1}{2}$	2.0 9.5
1207	687	Gamma Comms	1092			... 15.7
247 $\frac{1}{8}$	140	Helios Towers	216 $\frac{1}{8}$	-	3	0.8 77.4
0 $\frac{1}{8}$	0 $\frac{1}{8}$	Gana Media◆	0 $\frac{1}{8}$			... -3.5
1896	638	Telecom Plus	839	-	11	6.0 8.3
132 $\frac{1}{8}$	83 $\frac{1}{8}$	Vodafone	124 $\frac{1}{8}$	-	3 $\frac{1}{8}$	3.2 -89.0

Transport
249	$203\frac{1}{8}$	Braemar	235			3.0	32.5
5485	3365	Clarkson	5265	+	105	2.2	24.6
$683\frac{1}{8}$	$332\frac{1}{8}$	easyJet	681	+	$1\frac{1}{8}$	1.9	10.3
$222\frac{1}{8}$	$152\frac{1}{8}$	FirstGroup	187	+	$\%$	3.9	8.7
554	358	Fisher (James)	420	+	3	...	-48.3
$492\frac{1}{8}$	$332\frac{1}{8}$	Intl Cons Air	420	-	$12\frac{1}{4}$	1.6	7.0
$699\frac{1}{8}$	494	Irish Cont	675	-	$2\frac{1}{2}$	...	17.1
$32\frac{1}{8}$	17	Mobico Group	$21\frac{1}{8}$	-	1	...	-1.0
1453	832	Wizz Air	1004	-	26	...	...

220 $\frac{1}{4}$	144	Centrica	147	+	1 $\frac{1}{6}$	3.9	-98.0
937 $\frac{1}{2}$	695 $\frac{1}{4}$	Drax Group§	780 $\frac{1}{2}$	+	4 $\frac{1}{8}$	3.9	37.7
485	420	Jersey Electricity	440			5.0	12.3
1428 $\frac{1}{2}$	1086 $\frac{1}{4}$	National Grid	1152 $\frac{1}{2}$	+	2 $\frac{1}{8}$	4.2	17.6
606	340	Pennon	371	+	9 $\frac{1}{4}$	7.9	19.1
3335	2381	Severn Trent	3096	+	38	4.1	25.1
2767 $\frac{1}{2}$	1760	SSE	2437	-	22	2.8	23.1
1497	1119	United Utilities	1416	+	18	3.8	16.4

INVESTMENT COMPANIES

12 month			Price			Forecast
High	Low	Company	(p)	+/-	Yld%	P/E
4497	1825	3I Group	2352	-	39	3.6	4.4
399 $\frac{1}{2}$	325	3I Infrastructure	385	+	1	3.5	12.0
1828	1408 $\frac{1}{8}$	Aberforth Smlr	1794	-	8	2.7	28.0
1409	1178	Alliance Witan	1397	-	5	2.1	75.5
405	321	Artemis UK Future Lead388	+	1	4.0	31.4
190	116 $\frac{1}{8}$	Athelney Trust	170			5.9	14.9
273	235 $\frac{1}{8}$	AVI Global	252 $\frac{1}{2}$	-	2 $\frac{1}{2}$	1.8	49.8
194	154 $\frac{1}{2}$	AVI Japan	179	-	2	1.2	60.9
331	283	Baillie Gifford Ch Gr	283	-	3	0.9	95.0
133	91 $\frac{1}{8}$	Baillie Gifford Eur Gr	121	+	2 $\frac{1}{2}$	0.6	...
1114	811 $\frac{1}{8}$	Baillie Gifford Jpn	1066	-	16	0.9	...
182	123	Baillie Gifford SN	175 $\frac{1}{2}$	-	2 $\frac{1}{2}$	0.4	...
231	180 $\frac{1}{8}$	Baillie Gifford UK Gr	215	+	1	2.9	34.5
157 $\frac{1}{4}$	125 $\frac{1}{4}$	Bankers Invstmt Tst	154 $\frac{1}{4}$	-	1	1.8	68.8
445	391	BH Macro GBP	419	-	2 $\frac{1}{2}$	...	19.8
1786	1020	Biotech Growth	1364	-	66	...	-727.9
289 $\frac{1}{2}$	208 $\frac{1}{8}$	BlickRck Amer Inc	281			5.3	99.3
205	135 $\frac{1}{2}$	BlickRck Eng&Res Inc	174			3.6	49.7
208	164 $\frac{1}{2}$	BlickRck Fro Inv	187	-	$\frac{1}{2}$	4.1	24.4
625	507	BlackRock Grt Euro	569	-	8	1.3	82.6
240	208	BlickRck Inc&Grth	238	+	3	3.2	32.9
288 $\frac{1}{8}$	230 $\frac{1}{8}$	BlickRck Smlr	262 $\frac{1}{2}$	-	$\frac{1}{2}$	3.0	30.0
1076	628	BlickRck Wild Min	923	-	3	2.6	38.3
1695	1280	Brown Adv US Sm	1657 $\frac{1}{2}$	+	17 $\frac{1}{2}$	...	-33.7
1612	1336	Brunner	1550	-	6	1.7	55.6
402	312	Caledonia Inv	382	-	4	2.0	49.6
599	498	City of Lon IT	565	-	2	4.0	25.1
155 $\frac{1}{8}$	72 $\frac{1}{8}$	Crystal Amber Fd	75	-	$\frac{1}{2}$	-54.3	...
592	439 $\frac{1}{8}$	CT Priv Eq Ord	454	-	5	6.2	...
373	320	CT UK Cap & Inc	336	-	1	4.0	27.7
120	92	CT UK HIT B	107			5.6	22.1
126	97	CT UK HIT	106	-	1	5.6	21.9
480 $\frac{1}{4}$	460	Dunedin Ent#	475			...	...
867	737 $\frac{1}{8}$	Edinburgh IT	819			3.9	30.8
294 $\frac{1}{2}$	194 $\frac{1}{4}$	Edin Wwide	277 $\frac{1}{2}$	-	4 $\frac{1}{2}$	...	-250.0
1332	325 $\frac{1}{4}$	F&C Inv Trust	348 $\frac{1}{8}$	+	$\frac{1}{4}$	1.2	77.6
672	546	Fidelity Asian Val	606	-	2	3.4	26.9
339	239 $\frac{1}{2}$	Fidelity China Sp	243 $\frac{1}{2}$	-	3	3.7	26.4
1574	897 $\frac{1}{8}$	FidelityEmrgMkt	1504	-	26	1.7	62.2
447 $\frac{1}{2}$	367 $\frac{1}{2}$	Fidelity European Trust	410 $\frac{1}{2}$	-	4 $\frac{1}{2}$	2.5	36.3
479 $\frac{1}{2}$	384 $\frac{1}{8}$	Fidelity Spec Val	459	-	1	2.3	37.4
875	706 $\frac{1}{4}$	Fins Gwth & Inc	776	-	4	2.7	41.1
86 $\frac{1}{4}$	69 $\frac{1}{4}$	GCP Infrastructure	80 $\frac{1}{4}$	-	$\frac{3}{4}$	8.7	37.6
370	318	Global Opps Tst	324			3.2	41.5
108	104 $\frac{1}{2}$	Golden Prospect	106 $\frac{1}{4}$			-15.9	...
68 $\frac{1}{8}$	57 $\frac{1}{4}$	Greencoat Renew	66 $\frac{1}{2}$	-	$\frac{5}{8}$	-16.7	...
117	92 $\frac{1}{4}$	Greencoat UK Wind	112 $\frac{1}{4}$	+	$\frac{1}{4}$	9.5	-12.9
346	250	Hansa Investment Co	330	-	4	1.3	75.0
340	244	Hansa Inv Co A	335			1.3	76.1
3500	2807 $\frac{1}{8}$	Hrvest Glbl Pt Eq	3205	-	30	...	-53.0
214	173 $\frac{1}{4}$	Hend High Inc	198	-	$\frac{1}{2}$	5.6	17.6
998	769	Hend Smlr	945	-	7	3.1	36.2
3290 $\frac{1}{2}$	2285	Herald Inv Trust	2935	-	35	...	...
512	318 $\frac{1}{4}$	HgCapital Trust	365 $\frac{1}{2}$	-	7 $\frac{1}{2}$	1.4	...
141	107 $\frac{1}{4}$	HICL Infra	131			6.5	9.5
1611 $\frac{1}{2}$	1288 $\frac{1}{4}$	ICG Ent Tr	1380			3.0	-388.7
494 $\frac{1}{4}$	379	Impax Env Mkts	454	+	1 $\frac{1}{2}$	1.1	91.9

12 month			Price		Forecast
High	Low	Company	(p)	+/-	Yld%	P/E
520	395	Invesco Asia Dragon Tr	493	-	6	3.9 50.2
$178\frac{1}{2}$	$150\frac{1}{8}$	Invesco Bond Inc	168	-	1	7.3 12.9
427	318	Invesco Glbl Eq Inc	392	-	4	4.1 68.4
1258	1041	JPM American	1246			0.9 ...
652	426	JPM Asia Gro & Inc	578	-	22	5.7 ...
313	250	JPM China	$250\frac{1}{2}$	-	4	4.6 64.4
986	800	JPM Claverhs	924			4.0 27.4
310	196	JPM Emrg EMEA Sec	229			0.3 ...
$181\frac{1}{4}$	$126\frac{1}{4}$	JPM Em Mkts	$168\frac{1}{4}$	-	$3\frac{1}{2}$	4.5 56.6
666	548	JPMorgan Euro	599	-	4	2.7 32.9
222	$155\frac{1}{2}$	JPM Em Mkts Div Inc	214	-	2	2.8 37.6
641	$529\frac{1}{8}$	JPM GG&I	613	-	$\frac{1}{2}$	4.0 74.1
1098	799	JPM India	818	-	16	5.2 ...
867	668	JPM Japan	830	-	10	1.0 81.8
463	365	JPM Smlr Co	410	-	5	0.8 ...
1290	991	Law Debenture	1192	-	24	3.1 32.0
$191\frac{1}{2}$	148	Lowland Inv	182	-	2	3.8 27.0
$141\frac{1}{4}$	$140\frac{1}{8}$	Marwyn Val Inv	141			15.6 ...
$290\frac{1}{2}$	$234\frac{1}{8}$	Mercantile IT	268	-	2	3.1 29.0
691	$536\frac{1}{4}$	Merchants Trust	648	-	9	4.6 21.2
814	682	Mid Wynd	796	-	2	1.1 ...
$1687\frac{1}{4}$	1366	Monks Inv Trust	1674	+	4	0.1 ...
189	142	Montanaro Eur Sml	$174\frac{1}{2}$	-	$1\frac{1}{2}$	0.9 89.9
1036	$854\frac{1}{8}$	Murray Income Trust	952	-	2	4.3 23.4
376	$296\frac{1}{2}$	Murray Intl	353	-	4	3.6 25.4
409	339	Pantheon Intl	$379\frac{1}{2}$	-	2	... ...
5095	$3582\frac{1}{4}$	Pershing Sqr	3734	-	16	1.5 3.5
558	515	Personal Assets	541	-	1	1.0 89.7
$743\frac{1}{2}$	420	Polar CapTech	$705\frac{1}{2}$	-	$6\frac{1}{2}$	... -839.9
$80\frac{1}{2}$	$63\frac{1}{4}$	Renewables Infra	$75\frac{1}{8}$	-	$\frac{1}{4}$	10.0 -14.0
2645	$1985\frac{1}{4}$	RIT Cap Ptnr	2450	-	15	1.8 ...
$990\frac{1}{8}$	490	Riverstone	585	-	15	... -356.6
746	530	Schroder TotRt	700	-	13	1.6 71.4
892	$641\frac{1}{8}$	Schrd Asia Pac	832	-	17	1.6 63.0
380	314	Schrod Inc Gwth	352	+	1	4.3 28.0
$402\frac{1}{2}$	276	Schrod Jap Gwth	385	-	5	3.5 56.7
790	652	Schrod UKMid	750	+	2	3.0 30.0
$18\frac{1}{8}$	$12\frac{1}{8}$	Schroder UK PP Tr	$15\frac{1}{8}$			... -64.2
572	$480\frac{1}{8}$	Scot American	552	-	1	3.0 35.3
$1651\frac{1}{2}$	$1015\frac{1}{4}$	Scot Mortgage	1623	-	3	0.3 ...
88	$75\frac{1}{2}$	Sequoia Eco	$83\frac{1}{8}$	-	$\frac{1}{4}$	8.2 12.2
247	212	STS Glbl Inc Growth	215	-	1	3.9 33.1
352	$218\frac{1}{2}$	Temp Emg Mkt	332	-	4	1.6 61.6
$429\frac{1}{2}$	$345\frac{1}{4}$	Temple Bar	410	+	$\frac{1}{2}$	3.8 29.7
$198\frac{1}{8}$	$162\frac{1}{8}$	The Glbl Smaller	$189\frac{1}{8}$	-	$\frac{1}{2}$	1.7 64.2
9	$0\frac{1}{8}$	Potentially AI	$4\frac{1}{4}$			-1.1 ...
$364\frac{1}{2}$	$267\frac{1}{2}$	TR Property	$268\frac{1}{2}$	-	$2\frac{1}{2}$	6.0 17.0
212	210	UIL	211			12.0 ...
302	243	Utilico Emerging Mkt	295	+	2	3.3 21.7
865	682	Vietnam Ent Inv	718	-	4	... 4.6
$401\frac{1}{2}$	$322\frac{1}{2}$	Ww Health	358	-	$13\frac{1}{2}$	0.7 ...

Mkt Rates for	Range	Close	1 month	3 month
Copenhagen	8.8226	8.8172	-135.579	-419.217
Euro	1.1799	1.1797	-13.3	-43.11
Montreal	1.8815	1.8828	-25.91	-80.66
New York	1.3207	1.3210	1.88	4.11
Oslo	12.6568	12.6550	73.63	170.69
Tokyo	209.0910	208.7400	-48.25	-151.04
Zurich	1.1008	1.1003	-37.98	-117.14

Other sterling
Argentine peso	2005.78735-2005.78931
Australian dollar	1.90130-1.90142
Bahrain dinar	0.49790-0.49990
Brazilian real	6.61230-6.61430
Euro	1.17990-1.18070
Hong Kong dollar	10.36500-10.36900
Indian rupee	127.90440-127.98440
Indonesian rupiah	23665.26953-23705.26953
Kuwaiti dinar	0.40990-0.41190
Malaysian ringgit	5.40270-5.40470
New Zealand dollar	2.36148-2.36185
Singaporean dollar	1.69282-1.69366
South African rand	22.00105-22.01173
UAE dirham	4.85080-4.85280

♦AIM company; # Price at suspension; † Ex dividend; ✱ Ex scrip; ▲ Ex rights issue; ▼ Ex all; § Ex capital distribution; * figures or report awaited; . . . No significant data. Companies in bold are constituents of the FTSE 100 Index. Investment Cos sector Nav Dis or Prm supplied by ICE Data Services.

Dollar rates
Australia	1.43900-1.43980
Canada	1.42482-1.42492
Denmark	6.68023-6.68129
Euro	0.89350-0.89390
Hong Kong	7.84840-7.84850
Japan	158.32401-158.32899
Malaysia	4.08800-4.09500
Norway	9.58462-9.58737
Singapore	1.28204-1.28216
Sweden	10.01060-10.01320
Switzerland	0.83353-0.83358

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Business Recruitment

Unblocking the leadership pipeline

ALAMY

Employers are realising that nurturing young graduates is crucial for the future of business, writes Jane Hamilton

Could the tide be turning on graduate recruitment? Amid a slew of negative headlines and surveys suggesting student hiring has fallen to its lowest level for a decade, a small but significant cohort of employers have begun reassessing their approach to early careers.

While post-university recruitment remains depressed, fresh figures from the Institute of Student Employers (ISE) show a third of its members have increased the number of graduates they have taken on this year. Meanwhile, small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are snapping up top-level graduates who may have been absorbed by the big-name graduate schemes.

“Organisations are often aware that they need to continually develop their talent pipelines, which includes hiring students,” Stephen Isherwood, joint chief executive of the ISE, says.

"The graduates hired today are those who will be in management positions in a few years' time. Firms that cut back hiring too much when the economy is challenging can face limiting resource constraints when the economy recovers, which can stall growth."

While the impact of artificial intelligence has undoubtedly slowed graduate hiring, companies are facing up to three key problems.

First, as Isherwood states, choking off graduate recruitment causes severe problems in talent development and will lead to a shortage of management and C-suite candidates in the coming years.

Employment experts have warned that eroding traditional “pyramid” shaped organisations rich in entry-level staff and replacing them with “diamonds”, where junior roles are outsourced to AI, leaves them at risk.

“Investing in graduates is not simply about filling entry-level roles today, it's about building the next generation of leaders and creating a strong pipeline of future talent,” Michelle Ransome says. As talent acquisition manager at Zurich, the insurer, she recruits hundreds of graduates and apprentices each year.

“By bringing young, talented people into the business early and investing in their development, we build the skills, expertise and leadership capabilities needed to support the industry for years to come,” she adds.

More companies are also focusing on what's being lost by not bringing in graduates. While increased AI use may save big costs initially, leaders have begun highlighting the erosion of human skills, in what is being termed “empathy deskilling”. To combat it, companies in industries that rely heavily on building trusted interpersonal relationships are increasing graduate recruitment in

Isabella Painter, top, says don't wait until your final few months at university to start thinking about graduate schemes

Six from the best

Jamie Masraff has had a career in transformation, from corporate finance to local councils. Now, as CEO of OnSide, the

national youth charity, he's transforming lives by opening its 20th youth club next month in a £14m

project in Crewe. Here are Jamie's tips to transform your leadership.

Focus on why purpose matters: Don't assume everyone feels the impact your organisation has. It's

my job to remind everyone why our work is so important to young people.

Strive for relentless positivity: That doesn't mean wearing a fake smile, but encouraging myself and

my team to follow up any issue with how to make it better.

Trust your curiosity: Being interested in other people's work has helped me find roles I love. It opened doors it have known existed.

Four careers in a lifetime, not one: I was once advised to apply myself fully to one career for a good chunk of

time, then switch into something different. It keeps me fresh.

Stay on top of emails: The idea of chief executives spending all their time thinking or in meetings is nonsense. Emails are our main way to show care and respect, and provide direction. This becomes more important the more senior you become.

It can be hard for someone like me who likes consensus and harmony – but if it's best for the organisation, don't put it off.

Do the hard things first: Leadership involves decisions that can upset people you like and rate.

'Be more proactive and align strengths'

Case study

Isabella Painter, 22, is a trainee commercial finance broker on the Portman Finance Group graduate scheme. She said: "AI and automation are changing the nature of many entry-level roles that would traditionally have been

accessible to graduates. But this shift is also making human skills, such as communication and relationship-building, increasingly valuable.

"[It is] important to be proactive and thoughtful about where your strengths align with ... opportunities. My advice would be to start early. Don't wait until your final few months at university to start thinking about graduate schemes.

"I would also encourage students not to focus solely on the name or perceived reputation of a company. Look closely at the structure of the scheme, the training and support available, and what opportunities there are for progression."

Top tips for bright young job-hunters

The graduate market remains competitive, so here is Bright Network's advice to get hired. It can be tempting to apply for everything, but focusing on fewer, more targeted applications gives you more opportunity to personalise each one. Really understand the organisation and the role and show why you are interested in that particular opportunity. Show your skill set.

Look at the skills the role is asking for and think about where you've demonstrated them. Employers value qualities like resilience, communication and problem-solving. Part-time jobs, university societies, volunteering and side hustles can all provide evidence of those skills. The key is being able to explain what you did and what you learnt from it. - Use AI intelligently. It can be useful for researching an unfamiliar industry, understanding the terminology or practising questions, or checking a company's recruitment process. You can use it to help structure your CV, but don't ask it to write the whole thing. - Plenty of employers offer insight sessions or coaching to help candidates understand and prepare for their recruitment process.

order to give them a competitive edge.

As chief executive of the Portman Finance Group, which offers finance to SMEs, Alex Read upped the number of graduate hires to a record level this year.

"We're in a relationship-led industry where personal trust with our clients is critical and to provide that service, we need to invest in people" he says.

Finally, some businesses report that reducing graduate recruitment has had the unintended effect of homogenising organisational thinking. It's an issue that Kirsten Barnes, chief executive at Bright Network, the graduate network, is seeing more companies consider.

Candidates should bring deep expertise across one or more of the following areas including relevant food academic leadership and research; communications and campaigning; public affairs, national or regional politics; economics; and fundraising from foundations and working with family offices.

"Young people bring fresh perspectives, new skills, look at problems differently and challenge established ways of doing things," she says.

Working week

The rewards of failure

It may go against management instincts to tell an employee they did a good job when something failed, but OC Tanner's Global Culture Report suggests it boosts performance. The data shows when employees are rewarded for trying new things, even when they fail, they are seven times more likely to act on new ideas in the future. They have a 13-fold increase in engagement and are 12 times more likely to remain with their employer.

Experience paradox

Gen Z candidates are stuck in an “opportunity paradox” as 81 per cent believe employers expect them to have workplace experience before they have had a realistic opportunity to gain it. The study from Career Ready suggests 57 per cent of young people have struggled to find meaningful work experience related to the career they want, and less than half feel confident they will be able to get a job in their preferred sector.

The expected time commitment is six to eight days a year, offered on a voluntary basis. Meetings typically take place in person at the Food Foundation's office in London.

Wellbeing not working

It's National Work Life Week but experts are warning of an employee wellbeing crisis, because more than two million workers say they "hate" their job. Ben Gateley of CharlieHR said: "We've got to stop treating employee wellbeing like a nice-to-have perk that businesses can wheel out when someone is already burnt out. Something much bigger is happening. We can't just tell people to take a wellbeing day and call it fixed."

Boards not ready for future

Appointment of the week

Half of European boards are failing to build long-term resilience and lack the capabilities their businesses need for future success, a study from Heidrick & Struggles, the executive search specialist, suggests. Only 42 per cent of European companies report that they achieve alignment across the board and executive team, between strategy and talent pipeline management, and across leadership development processes.

Food Foundation charity seeking voluntary trustees

The Food Foundation, a charity, is recruiting a number of new trustees. It focuses on delivering affordable, healthy and sustainable diets to everyone in the UK.

The charity would welcome individuals bringing lived experience of food poverty, including those who are earlier on in their careers.

With poor diets and food insecurity imposing substantial costs on individuals, the NHS, employers and the economy, its work focuses on promoting evidence-based solutions to policymakers, businesses and investors.

Apply by November 2 at appointments.thetimes.com

Bring your Psychiatry career to Guernsey

Join a highly collaborative mental health team, make a meaningful difference to patients' lives, and enjoy an exceptional quality of life in one of Europe's most unique island communities.

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Consultant Psychiatrist in Adult Psychiatry to join our well-resourced Specialist Mental Health Service in the Islands of Guernsey.

Working within a small, dynamic team of psychiatrists, you'll have the opportunity to provide truly patient-centred care, supported by experienced colleagues and multidisciplinary teams who know the value of collaboration and continuity.

With lower patient volumes than many larger services and an integrated approach to care, you'll have the time and professional freedom to build meaningful therapeutic relationships and help shape service development.

Why Guernsey?

Life in Guernsey offers the rare combination of a rewarding consultant career and an outstanding quality of life.

Imagine an average commute of less than 20 minutes. Coastal walks before work. Sea swimming after clinic. Excellent schools, a safe and welcoming community, and direct links to the UK and Europe.

What We Offer

• Salary £119,908 to £167,028 per annum

- Generous relocation package

- Long-Term Employment Permit for eligible candidates and their immediate family

• GMC, MDU, Medical Indemnity and Royal College fees paid

- Generous study leave and study allowance

• 30-32 days annual leave

• Excellent pension scheme

• Opportunities to influence and develop services within an integrated health and care system

Discover a more rewarding way to practise psychiatry

For an informal discussion, contact:

Dr Dominic Bishop, Clinical Director, Dominic.Bishop@gov.gg

Stephen Parker, Associate Director, Mental Health, Stephen.Parker@gov.gg

Closing Date: 23 October 2026. Apply online at gov.gg/endofshift

Chair – UK Health Security Agency

The Secretary of State for Health and Social Care is looking to appoint a new Chair to the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA). UKHSA is responsible for protecting the UK against infectious diseases and environmental hazards. It is an executive agency of the Department of Health and Social Care.

The Chair is required to provide support and challenge to the Chief Executive of UKSHA whilst working closely with key strategic stakeholders. They must ensure that the board functions well, work closely with the leadership team to achieve agreed objectives, act as an ambassador and where required, as a public face of the organisation in partnership with the Chief Executive.

Candidates must have a strong career track record of significant delivery and leadership at a senior level within the private, public or voluntary sectors and be able to demonstrate an understanding of the pivotal role UKHSA and other key stakeholders play in the prevention, detection and response to infectious diseases and other threats to the nation's health.

You must also have excellent communication skills, possessing sound judgement and a demonstrable ability to lead the board of a high profile, national public body, delivering robust governance and accountability, and developing executive and board performance.

Remuneration will be £21,000 per annum for a time commitment of 3 to 4 days per month. The Secretary of State for Health and Social Care determines the length of appointment, which may be for up to a maximum of 4 years.

For more information, please visit the Public Appointments website. If you require an alternative format, please call Ralph Cabrega on 0113 254 5481 or Ben Jones on 0113 254 6557 quoting the reference VAC-9298.

The closing date for applications is midday on Tuesday, 20 October 2026.

The Department of Health and Social Care values and promotes diversity. We encourage applications from talented individuals from all backgrounds and across the whole of the United Kingdom. Boards of public bodies are most effective when they reflect the diversity of views of the society they serve.

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Obituaries

Margaret Hamilton

Mathematician and Nasa software engineer whose code saved the Apollo 11 moon landing and who coined the term for her profession

The Eagle had not quite landed and Margaret Hamilton stood in the monitoring room of her laboratory listening to conversations between Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Nasa mission control. "Everything was going according to plan until something totally unexpected happened, just as the astronauts were in the process of landing on the moon," she recalled.

Obscure error codes known as 1201 and 1202 alarms began flashing in Houston and 230,000 miles from Earth as the Eagle lunar module descended to the dusty cratered Sea of Tranquillity on July 20, 1969. The Apollo II commander, Armstrong, demanded to know what was happening and mission control scrambled to address the problem, facing a momentous last-minute decision on whether to abort.

Nasa controllers had chosen to abandon the descent when dealing with a similar alert during a pre-mission simulation. This time, a 26-year-old guidance officer, Steve Bales, advised that Armstrong and Aldrin were safe to proceed. The central processing unit in the spacecraft had become overloaded when Aldrin flicked a radar switch — but a potentially serious system failure was avoided because the software restarted, this time limiting its workload by performing only high-priority functions.

"It quickly became clear that the software was not only informing everyone that there was a hardware-related problem, but that the software was compensating for it. With only minutes to spare, the decision was made to go for the landing," Hamilton told MIT News in 2009. "The rest is history."

Hamilton led a division of the instrumentation laboratory (now known as the Draper Laboratory) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). It developed the guidance, navigation and control systems for the Apollo programme, which ran from 1961 to 1972.

Hamilton was credited with popularising the term software engineering. "It was out of desperation I came up with the term, to say: 'Hey, we're engineering too'. It was an ongoing joke for a long time. Then one day in a meeting, one of the most respected hardware gurus explained to everyone that he agreed with me. It was a memorable moment."

With most attention on the as tronauts and their machines, the complex designs and arcane programming behind the technology were often overlooked by the general public and even by Nasa planners in the early stages of the space race.

"At the beginning, body thought software was that big a deal. But then they began to realise how much they were relying on it," Hamilton told The Guardian in 2019. "As-tronauts' lives were at stake. Our software needed to be ultra-reliable and it needed to be able to detect an error and recover from it at any time

during the mission. And it all had to fit on the hardware."

In an era before versatile personal computers turned software into a commodity, the software industry barely existed and programs were usually designed to accomplish specific tasks on bespoke machines. The Apollo Guidance Computer weighed 32kg but had only 72 kilobytes of read-only memory and 32 kilobits of random-access memory. Modern smartphones have millions of times more power.

Software roles were relatively open to women compared with other technology jobs, since many managers viewed programmers as glorified typists. Programming for Apollo entailed handwriting code on sheets of paper and feeding boxes of hole-punched cards into a wardrobe-sized mainframe that processed data overnight, performing simulations of real-life scenarios. Apollo calculations were turned into "ropes" of binary instructions using tiny magnetic cores and wires threaded in a factory, often by former textile workers. They were dubbed LOLs — "Little Old Ladies" — while Hamilton was pickwhile Hamilton was nicknamed "rope mother".

She directed a hundred-strong team of engineers. "When I took over, one of the bosses at the top said he had no doubt I could do the job but was worried the men working in the group might rebel," she said in 2019.

"Well, they didn't. More than anything, we were dedicated to the missions and worked side by side to solve the challenging problems and to meet the critical deadlines."

Hamilton sometimes brought her primary school-age daughter, Lauren, to the laboratory when working weekends and evenings. One day, Lauren was “playing astronaut” with the keyboard on the command module simulator and her touches generated an error message. The software crashed because Lauren had initiated a pre-launch program called P01 in mid-flight. “I thought: my God — this could inadvertently happen in a real mission,” recalled Hamilton, who offered to write code to eliminate this newly discovered flaw. Nasa refused. “We had been told

She worked several jobs to reach college, including selling barbecue chicken

many times that astronauts would not make any mistakes. They were trained to be perfect," she said.

Apollo 8, the first crewed mission to orbit the moon, launched in December 1968. Five days into the mission an errant keystroke by the command module pilot, Jim Lovell (obituary, August 8, 2025), accidentally started P01, causing the computer to erase navigation data that was vital to ensure the astronauts could return home safely.

Even with the benefit of the awareness gleaned from Lauren's tinkering, Hamilton and her team spent nine hours fixing the problem. After that, her Nasa managers had greater respect for her exhaustive attention to detail.

"I've been on a mission in its own right, working with this Universal Systems Language," she said. "It's kind of like a root canal: you waited till the end, [but] there are things you could have done beforehand. It's like preventative healthcare, but it's preventative software."

Margaret Elaine Heafield was born in Paoli, Indiana, in

1936, the eldest of four children to Kenneth, a college professor, philosopher and poet who was born in Burton upon Trent, Staffordshire, and Ruth (née Partington), a high school teacher. Her grandfather was a head teacher and Quaker minister.

Hamilton excelled at school, and not only in maths. "You name the hobby," she recalled, "I had that hobby. I was in a choir, I played in a band, I went horseback riding, liked dancing, playing baseball. It was an all-boys team but we were in such a small town that they needed an extra player, so they asked me if I would do it. I was thrilled".

The family was not wealthy so to get to college Hamilton worked a series of jobs, including at a barbecue chicken joint and as a guide at an abandoned copper mine. "If we wanted something, we had to earn it," she said, "so I earned everything possible."

She studied mathematics and philosophy at Earlham College, a Quaker-affiliated liberal arts institution in Indiana, where she met her husband, a chemistry student, James Cox Hamilton. They married in 1958, the year she graduated. Her husband then attended Harvard Law School while she supported the family teaching at a high school before landing a job at MIT in 1959, developing weather-prediction software in the laboratory of Edward Lorenz, the mathematician and meteorologist known as the “father of chaos theory”.

Under Lorenz she became fascinated by experimental programming. "I caught the bug." Between 1961 and 1963, as the Cold War gripped America, she coded software to detect enemy aircraft for the US air force at MIT; she was the first to crack a puzzle given to all new programmers — decoding a program whose author had left notes in Latin and Greek.

Hamilton, above, inside a spacecraft simulator, and right, with the printed code for the Apollo missions in 1969. Below left, she was awarded the the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Obama in 2016

Hamilton was planning to resume graduate school when her husband, who became a corporate lawyer in Boston, spotted a newspaper advert from MIT recruiting people to develop software to "send man to the moon".

She was initially the first woman on the team at Draper, which employed her first as a programmer then as lead software developer for Apollo and the Skylab space station. "I was attracted both by the sheer idea and the fact that it had never been done before," she said. "I was the first programmer to join and the first woman they hired. Male engineers were already working on the project, but they were hardware engineers and it wasn't their thing. I had it as my background. I think [the lab] just figured that I could handle the unknown."

Hamilton's approach was so meticulous that no software bugs were known to have occurred during any of the six lunar landing missions she worked on from 1969 to 1972. In the Seventies she co-founded a company that designed error-prevention systems,

Higher Order Software.

In 1967 Margaret and James Hamilton divorced. Two years later she married Dan Lickly, a guidance programmes director at Draper who hired her to work on Apollo. They divorced in the 1970s and Hamilton began a relationship with a musician named Ron Hackler, whom she trained in systems engineering and employed at her firm Hamilton Technologies, which she founded in 1986. He died in 2025 and she is survived by a daughter from her first marriage, Lauren, an actress.

Margaret Hamilton, software engineer, was born on August 17, 1936. She died on September 30, 2026, aged 90

Another honour followed in 2017 when she was immortalised in Lego as one of four “women of Nasa”, alongside the astronauts Sally Ride and Mae Jemison and the astronomer Nancy Roman (obituary, January 9, 2019). In a reference to a well-known photograph, the set features a bespectacled figurine standing next to a stack of Apollo II code as tall as she is. “Because software was a mystery, a black box, upper management gave us total freedom and trust. We had to find a way and we did,” she said in 2009. “There was no choice but to be pioneers.”

She was awarded the United States' highest civilian decoration, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, by President Obama in 2016. "She symbolises that generation of unsung women who helped send humankind into space," Obama said. "Our astronauts didn't have much time, but thankfully they had Margaret Hamilton."

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Les Standish

Fearless NCO who won the Military Medal clearing enemy trenches at Goose Green before battling PTSD, homelessness and prison

Standish excelled as a lance corporal during the Falklands conflict in May 1982

As his orders for battle came to an end, the commanding officer of 2nd Battalion Parachute Regiment (2 Para), Lieutenant Colonel "H" Jones, told his company commanders: "All previous evidence suggests that if the enemy is hit hard, he will crumble."

The evidence was from raids by the SAS, who had landed clandestinely on East Falkland weeks earlier. However, the battle that followed, in the area of the settlements of Darwin and Goose Green at the end of May 1982, turned out to be by far the most kinetic that a British battalion had fought since the Korean War.

Les Standish, just a month turned 21, was a lance corporal in acting command of a rifle section of eight men, some younger, most older, in B Company, which was commanded by Major John Crosland, an SAS veteran of the Dhofar war in Oman. But if previous evidence suggested that Argentinian troops might crumble if hit hard, they had the advantage of numbers and prepared positions, some covered by mines. Crosland told his men simply: "There are f***ing hundreds of the bastards." In all, there were nearly 1,200, twice 2 Para's number, and a night attack was the only way of levelling the odds a little. Besides, there was less than nine hours of daylight in the depths of the South Atlantic winter. No matter how deft the tactical leadership, it would fall to NCOs such as Standish to do the hard hitting.

With little or no opportunity for flanking moves down the mile-wide isthmus, 2 Para's operation would be a sequence of attacks by its four rifle companies. As B Company eventually reached the start line for their attack, it was past 7am GMT on May 28, with only three and a half hours to go before daylight. Although darkness gave the assaulting companies some concealment, it exacerbated the problem of locating the enemy precisely, and of control. The move down the isthmus developed into a running fight at close quarters. The Paras at times stumbled on the enemy's fire trenches, Standish himself having to control the movement of his section while at the same time fighting as a rifleman.

The battle continued all day, during which "H" Jones was killed (and awarded a posthumous Victoria Cross) as 2 Para gradually took key Argentinian positions. By last light they had secured the entire peninsula and surrounded the main settlement, where several Falkland islanders were held captive. Late the following morning, after a clever ruse de guerre, Major Chris Keeble took the surrender of the garrison, which amounted to some 950 troops. 2 Para had lost 17 killed and more than 60 wounded, while Argentinian losses were three times that number.

The wording of Standish's recommendation for the award of the Military Medal (MM), one of nine won during the action (one posthumously), was telling in its terseness: "During the advance on Goose Green he led his section in a series of ferocious night actions. The enemy had to be cleared trench by trench. Shortly after dawn, enemy fire caught his men in the open; he calmly withdrew them to dead ground. In withdrawing, a private soldier was wounded. Disregarding his own safety, Lance Corporal Standish returned through enemy fire to drag him to safety. Throughout the battle, Lance Corporal Standish commanded his section with the utmost distinction and courage."

Standish's gallantry in rescuing the wounded under fire was demonstrable, but it was his devotion to duty in the most junior rank of lance corporal, when a section commander was meant to be a full corporal, and with barely four years' experience, that was the equal distinction at least.

Goose Green was a significant boost to morale but also a dose of reality that the Argentinians were not going to be a pushover. A fortnight later, Standish and the rest of 2 Para would have another hard battle to fight, on the heights above Port Stanley.

Leslie ("Les", alternatively "Stan") James Leonard Standish was born in Bolton, Lancashire, in 1961 into a family of four children; he had two older sisters and a younger brother. The year before, his father, Roy, a former miner, had joined the 14th/20th King's Hussars and would serve 18 years with them. Standish's childhood and youth were spent in Cyprus, Libya, Germany and Hong Kong as a result.

Exceptionally fit and a keen rugby player, when Standish enlisted in 1976, he volunteered for the Parachute Regiment, joining B Company in 2 Para in Berlin the following year. In 1979 the battalion moved to Ballykinler, Co Down, Northern Ireland, for 18 months as “Province Reserve”, where Major (later General Sir) Mike Jackson (obituary, October 15, 2024) became his company commander. The battalion's remit was province-wide, but the focus was on south Armagh, which was particularly hostile. Jackson recommended Standish's promotion to lance corporal.

Standish left the army in 1986 in the rank of full corporal after a second tour of duty in Northern Ireland and joined the prison service as a physical training instructor. He was badly injured in the month-long riots in Strangeways Prison, Manchester, in 1990, in which a prisoner and a prison officer died, and some 150 officers were injured. Standish took to drinking, exacerbating what was later diagnosed as post-traumatic stress disorder. "I'd drink until I fell asleep and carried on when I woke. If I was in a pub and someone looked at me, I'd attack them. I didn't know what was happening to me and I didn't care." He sold his Military Medal to the Lord Ashcroft Medal Collection.

Standish spoke later of his action at Goose Green in anguished terms: "It was the look of fear, and I'll never forget it. The guy knew he was going to die, and that I was going to kill him. It has haunted me ever since ... I had to shoot a lot of men. It was a violent war, and that has an effect on you. I could be walking down the street, and I would suddenly have a flashback. I started having nightmares."

His marriage broke down (he had been on honeymoon when the Argentinians had invaded) and he spiralled into homelessness and worse — a three-year prison sentence for drug-related offences. In prison, he planned to hang himself, only changing his mind after his estranged wife brought his children to visit him.

On release, he was admitted to a home for veterans with PTSD in north Wales, Ty Gwyn, and remarried. Six years later, however, his second marriage was over, and he lived in a van until the charity Soldiers off the Street got him into his own flat. Here he finally began to turn things round, working for a connected charity himself. In 2002 on a website for war veterans, he met and befriended a former Argentinian soldier. They later arranged Skype sessions with schoolchildren in Argentina, and face-to-face sessions with schoolchildren in Bolton.

In 2021 he married his third wife, Julie Norris, whom he had known for 20 years. She survives him, along with two children from his first marriage and two from his second.

Trying to come to terms with his descent, for which he never made excuses, Standish recalled how in the early years if he tried talking about how he felt, the reply would be: "You're a Parachute Regiment soldier, pull yourself together."

Les Standish MM, soldier, was born on April 2, 1961. He died of cancer on September 2, 2026, aged 65

Colin Power

Crowd-pleasing light welterweight boxer whose fights with his rival Clinton McKenzie were among the most gripping of the era

Colin Power's bouts with Clinton McKenzie for the British light welterweight title in 1979 were so closely fought and so compelling that two of these would be named by Boxing News as among the best fights of that era. Each became champion, and each had different strengths, ranging from precise jabbing to tactical intelligence, but their rivalry was all too short-lived. They were from London, but never saw each other outside the ring and after their third professional tussle did not meet again.

“Colin had a big heart and was a very strong-minded, decent fellow,” said McKenzie, who won their third and final fight as professionals and who became, like Power, European as well as British light welterweight champion. “We didn’t like one another. But then we didn’t know each other. He was a ghost in many ways, leading a mysterious life. No one seemed to know where he lived; he did not mix with boxers, and when he retired, he disappeared.

“Yet when I look back, I have nothing but respect for him. There was no bad language, and we did not want to hurt each other. I knew I had to be at my best when I was in the ring with him and the one time I wasn’t, when I was carrying a little weight, he swiftly beat me. Our bouts took an awful lot out of us both, and when they were over, he shook my hand, said 'well done', and then he would vanish. So I never got to know him."

Born in 1956, Colin Edward Power grew up in Paddington, west London, the son of Nicholas Power, a gunner in the Second World War, and Kathleen Power, a home help, and was educated at St James' High School, then in Edgware. He was often billed before a fight, even as an amateur, as "Powers", but did not appear to object, not even when the spelling varied after the British

Boxing Board of Control decreed that the singular surname was correct. As an amateur, he won a northwest London divisional title in 1975, but in the finals was defeated by the eventual winner, Graham Moughton.

Power immediately decided to turn professional and won his first eight fights. He was seen as a crowd-pleasing, swarming fighter who would go straight at his oppo-

Power retired at the age of 24 before returning nent with an attempted knockout punch. In March 1977 he came up against McKenzie over eight rounds at the Hilton Hotel on Park Lane, Mayfair. The two had fought twice as amateurs and McKenzie triumphed on both occasions. When they turned professional, it was inevitable they would meet again. Power had beaten two former champions in Tommy Glencross and Joey Singleton, and the momentum was with him. He completely outfought his opponent, knocking him out in two rounds and exulting in his triumph.

"I have never wanted to beat anybody so much," he said. "When I turned pro I told my manager, Vic Andreetti, that if Clinton ever went pro he was the one I wanted to fight most of all. Everything went to plan. They were great days."

McKenzie, whose family had

settled in Croydon and who had boxed in the Olympics the previous year against Sugar Ray Leonard, recalled: "I had to lose a few pounds before the Hilton fight, although Colin didn't know that. Unfortunately I didn't do so. He caught me with a beautiful left hook, but I knew in my heart I was going to get him back. I smiled and thought I'm going to let you have it, mate, next time."

In October of that year, Power won the vacant British light welterweight title at York Hall in east London through one of his most impressive triumphs. He floored Des Morrison, Jamaican-born like McKenzie, three times. Their fight was stopped in the tenth round. Power defended the title against Steve Walker and then defeated Jean-Baptiste Piedvache of France in 11 rounds to gain the European title. He controversially lost it in a hard fight with Fernando Sanchez of Spain.

Power next fought McKenzie at Wembley Conference Centre in 1979 and defeated him by a one-round margin, gaining a Lonsdale belt outright McKenzie said: "I hit him with everything, and he would not go down. We were toe-to-toe for 15 rounds. His strength was still his jab, his beautiful jab—I could not keep it out of my face. My left eye came up in the 14th round. The referee said if that hadn't been the penultimate round he would have stopped the fight."

McKenzie, however, finally van- quished his hardest opponent in another close fight at the same venue in the autumn of 1979 for the British title. This appeared to quash Power's spirit, and when he lost to Sylvester "the Master Blaster" Mittee four months later, he retired aged 24. He later made a comeback and achieved five victories in fights that merited scant media attention before a defeat in six rounds at Alexandra Palace in 1983 to Lloyd Christie, who was six years younger, led to another proclaimed retirement. This time there was no going back. His overall record was 28 wins from 34 contests with one draw and five defeats.

After he retired, Power, who is survived by his wife, Ellen (née Doody), whom he met when they were 14, and their son, Simon, who works in a cancer hospital, stayed away from boxing functions and reunions and lost touch with his old colleagues and opponents. "I suppose Colin retired because I beat him," McKenzie quipped. "It was not a surprise to me, even though he was only 24. I was the best — the champion. The rivalry between Des Morrison and us was something. Colin brought me to the brink of collapsing, and he never leaves my mind."

Colin Power, boxer, was born on February 2, 1956. He died of cancer on September 16, 2026, aged 70

Law Report

Complaints to financial ombudsman were out of time

King's Bench Division Published October 9, 2026 R (Barclays Bank UK plc and others) v Financial Ombudsman Service Ltd

Before Dexter Dias J [2026] EWHC 1555 (Admin) Judgment June 24, 2026

The financial ombudsman's jurisdiction, and therefore its capacity to provide remedies, was limited to events that occurred within six years of a complaint to the service and did not extend to the whole credit relationship between the debtor and creditor.

The financial ombudsman could, however, consider the whole relationship as background to a complaint as well as in determining whether a remedy for an act that occurred in time was appropriate, and if so, what was fair and reasonable.

The High Court so held in allowing the claims by four banks, Barclays Bank UK plc, NatWest Bank plc, Vanquis Bank Ltd, and Santander UK plc, for judicial review of decisions made in July 2024 by the Financial Ombudsman Service (FOS).

The decisions related to complaints that four bank customers had brought to the FOS about unfair credit relationships pursuant to section 140A of the Consumer Credit Act 1974. The customers alleged that the banks had extended unaffordable credit facilities to them, whether by way of overdraft or credit card. In all but one instance, the complaints were made more than six years after the extension of the credit facilities.

The banks submitted that the complaints were time-barred under the limitation tests in the Dispute Resolution: Complaints section of the Financial Conduct Authority Handbook (DISP 2.8.2R) and that the ombudsman ought therefore to refuse jurisdiction.

The FOS claimed jurisdiction over the entirety of each credit relationship, holding that the uncorrected unfairness in the relationship between the bank and the claimant meant that none of the complaints was out of time for the purposes of DISP 2.8.2R.

The basis for the ombudsman's interpretation of its jurisdiction was twofold. First, it relied on the Supreme Court's decision in Smith v Royal Bank of Scotland plc ([2023] UKSC 34; The Times, December 11, 2023) which itself drew on Plevin v Paragon Personal Finance Ltd ([2014] UKSC 61; The Times, November 28, 2014), establishing the principle that an unfair creditor-debtor relationship gave rise to a "corrective responsibility", which required the creditor to address the unfairness as a matter of reasonable conduct, with failure to do so constituting an ongoing relevant omission and a fresh "event complained of" for the purposes of the time limit tests in DISP 2.8.2R, to bring the credit relationship as a whole within the ombudsman's jurisdiction.

The second justification was that “events complained of” occurring within the six-year limitation period under DISP 2.8.2R extended the range of the ombudsman's jurisdiction to permit investigation of events during the entire credit relationship, irrespective of how remote in time the events were or whether redress would be appropriate.

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) intervened on behalf of the banks, contending that the FOS's approach was mistaken in law, and that the new formulation of its jurisdiction was contrary to the time limit that the FCA had created as statutory regulator under its rule-making powers conferred by Parliament in the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000.

Javan Herberg KC and Ajay Ratan for Barclays Bank UK plc; John Taylor KC for National Westminster Bank plc and for Vanquis Bank Ltd; Saima Hanif KC for Santander UK plc; James Strachan KC and Adam Boukraa for the FOS; Monica Carss-Frisk KC and Celia Rooney for the FCA.

MR JUSTICE DEXTER DIAS held that the FOS had erred in law in formulating the new, expanded conception of its jurisdiction.

Jurisdiction in relation to the FOS referred to the power to investigate and, if appropriate, to grant redress following a complaint. A sharp distinction had to be drawn between jurisdiction in that sense, as the investigative and redress power over the entire relationship between creditor and debtor, and the consideration of that relationship as a whole to determine whether it was fair. The latter was not an exercise of jurisdiction over the whole credit relationship, but used the history of the relationship to assess its overall fairness at the point of determination of a complaint.

In the Supreme Court judgment in Smith's case, Lord Leggatt set out a two-stage approach to complaints under sections 140A and 140B of the Consumer Credit Act 1974. The first stage was classificatory, and required the court to determine whether the relationship between the creditor and debtor arising out of a credit agreement was unfair to the debtor. If the court were to find that the relationship was unfair, it then had to move on to the second, remedial stage, and decide what remedial order, if any, to make from the list of options in section 140B(1).

The true significance of the

An ‘event’ is a one-off occurrence, even stretching over time like a Test match

judgments in the Smith and Plevin cases lay in their establishing that a creditor must “normally” be held responsible for omissions that made the credit relationship unfair. More specifically, Plevin established that creditors could be held responsible for making a credit relationship unfair if they failed to take reasonable steps to correct for any unfairness in that relationship. When a creditor failed to take such steps, they therefore risked an adverse classification under section 140A. However, Plevin did not convert the attribution of responsibility for creating an unfair credit relationship by omission into a positive responsibility to correct it. Where a court classified a creditor as responsible for unfairness based on an omission, it then had to address the separate question under section 140B of what remedial order to make in relation to that classification, and it had the discretion not to make such an order at all.

Plevin also provided no support for the ombudsman's proposition that an ongoing failure to correct unfairness amounted to a continuing series of distinct and discrete “events” for the purposes of DISP 2.8.2R, nor did any other authority. Moreover, that proposition offended against the natural and ordinary understanding of an “event” as a one-off occurrence, even if one that could stretch over time such as a cricket Test match. The choice of the term “event” pointed strongly to the purpose of DISP 2.8.2R, which was to exclude stale claims, and that purpose was to be achieved by requiring time to begin to run from an identified and readily identifiable act or omission.

Applying the distinction between jurisdiction over an entire credit relationship and consideration of that credit relationship to determine whether it was fair, the proper approach to DISP 2.8.2R was that acts exceeding six years before a complaint could be considered as background to that complaint and in determining whether a remedy for an in-time act was appropriate, and if so, what was fair and reasonable. However, the acts exceeding six years before a complaint could not receive a separate remedy of their own.

The ombudsman had therefore erred in law in asserting jurisdiction over the banks' extensions of credit facilities that occurred more than six years before customers' complaints to the FOS.

Solicitors: Eversheds Sutherland (International) LLP; Pinsent Masons LLP; TLT LLP; Addleshaw Goddard LLP; Financial Ombudsman Service Ltd; Financial Conduct Authority.

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Heights in metres. All times in local time

Today Heavy, blustery showers in the north and west. Cloud and rain in southern Britain. Max 19C (66F), min 2C (36F)

Around Britain

Key: b=bright, c=cloud, d=drizzle, pc=partly cloudy du=dull, f=fair, fg=fog, h=hail, m=mist, r=rain, sh=showers, sl=sleet, sn=snow, s=sun, t=thunder *=previous day **=data not available

	Temp C		Rain mm	Sun hr*
	midday yesterday		24 hrs to 5pm yesterday
Aberdeen	11	S	0.2	6.9
Aberporth	13	**	0.4	4.0
Anglesey	13	PC	0.6	6.7
Aviemore	10	PC	1.0	4.6
Barnstaple	15	C	1.2	**
Bedford	13	S	0.0	**
Belfast	11	C	3.8	6.5
Birmingham	13	PC	0.0	**
Bournemouth	16	PC	0.2	1.5
Bridlington	14	PC	0.6	**
Bristol	15	PC	0.0	1.6
Camborne	14	PC	0.0	3.7
Cardiff	14	PC	0.0	2.6
Edinburgh	11	C	0.0	8.1
Eskdalemuir	10	PC	0.0	7.2
Glasgow	13	B	1.2	6.2
Hereford	14	C	0.0	**
Herstmonceux	13	S	2.0	0.0
Ipswich	12	S	2.6	0.0
Isle of Man	13	C	2.2	7.2
Isle of Wight	15	PC	0.0	**
Jersey	15	C	0.8	0.0
Keswick	13	PC	0.2	**
Kinloss	11	**	1.4	7.8
Leeds	11	S	0.0	**
Lerwick	9	C	3.2	4.5
Leuchars	12	PC	0.0	8.4
Lincoln	12	S	0.0	2.7
Liverpool	13	C	1.0	**
London	14	S	0.0	0.0
Lyneham	12	C	0.0	1.4
Manchester	13	C	0.2	5.5
Margate	13	PC	9.2	0.1
Milford Haven	14	C	0.0	**
Newcastle	**	PC	0.0	**
Nottingham	13	S	0.0	3.3
Orkney	10	C	1.0	**
Oxford	13	R	0.0	**
Plymouth	15	C	0.0	**
Portland	15	PC	0.0	**
Scilly, St Mary's	15	PC	0.0	**
Shoreham	13	**	0.4	0.0
Shrewsbury	13	C	1.2	3.1
Snowdonia	12	C	3.2	**
Southend	13	S	2.0	0.0
South Ulist	10	C	3.8	**
Stornoway	10	C	2.2	3.6
Tiree	10	R	4.6	4.8
Whitehaven	11	S	0.2	5.6
Wick	11	S	0.8	**
Yeovilton	15	PC	0.0	1.4

The world

All readings local midday yesterday

Madeira	22	PC
Madrid	19	PC
Malaga	26	PC
Mallorca	24	PC
Malta	28	PC
Melbourne	21	PC
Mexico City	19	C
Miami	30	B
Milan	18	B
Mombasa	29	PC
Montreal	14	C
Moscow	12	S
Mumbai	36	**
Munich	19	SH
Nairobi	24	B
Naples	18	T
New Orleans	29	PC
New York	18	PC
Nice	24	PC
Nicosia	29	PC
Oslo	5	R
Paris	15	PC
Perth	18	B
Prague	18	S
Reykjavik	7	R
Riga	17	S
Rio de Janeiro	26	M
Riyadh	40	S
Rome	25	PC
San Francisco	23	PC
Santiago	20	B
São Paulo	23	PC
Seoul	22	S
Seychelles	30	PC
Singapore	32	**
St Petersburg	13	PC
Stockholm	12	B
Sydney	18	PC
Tel Aviv	29	S
Tenerife	26	R
Tokyo	22	PC
Vancouver	14	B
Venice	21	PC
Vienna	22	S
Warsaw	19	S
Washington	21	PC
Zurich	15	R

Alicante	27	PC
Amsterdam	14	SH
Athens	26	S
Auckland	18	PC
Bahrain	35	PC
Bangkok	32	PC
Barbados	29	B
Barcelona	22	B
Beijing	23	S
Beirut	**	**
Belgrade	26	S
Berlin	19	B
Bermuda	24	R
Bordeaux	16	S
Brussels	15	SH
Bucharest	23	S
Budapest	22	S
Buenos Aires	18	T
Cairo	27	B
Calcutta	31	**
Canberra	16	PC
Cape Town	18	S
Chicago	26	PC
Copenhagen	14	R
Corfu	23	D
Delhi	32	**
Dubai	42	S
Dublin	11	R
Faro	25	PC
Florence	20	SH
Frankfurt	15	C
Geneva	13	R
Gibraltar	23	B
Helsinki	12	PC
Hong Kong	30	PC
Honolulu	**	**
Istanbul	20	B
Jerusalem	29	S
Johannesburg	23	S
Kuala Lumpur	33	**
Kyiv	**	**
Lanzarote	28	PC
Las Palmas	27	PC
Lima	23	C
Lisbon	26	S
Los Angeles	28	PC
Luxor	34	S

Five days ahead

Turning windier and more unsettled with showers or outbreaks of rain at times

Tomorrow

A blustery day with sunny spells and scattered showers, heavy and frequent in the north and west. Showers isolated in the south with the best of the sunshine there.

Sunday

Any isolated showers across Scotland and northern England clearing to leave a largely dry and sunny day. Mainly dry further south, although some rain may nudge into the southwest later.

Monday

A dry start in the east with some early brightness, otherwise it will be a fairly cloudy day with patchy rain in places. Max 18C, min 8C

Tuesday

Rather windy with cloud and rain spreading eastwards across England, Wales and Scotland. Sunny spells in central areas later, but rain may linger in the south. Showers in Ireland.

Wednesday

A band of rain will move over Ireland, Scotland and northern England. Drier further south, although with the risk of showers.

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Wind speed

Sea state

Temperature

Calm Slight Moderate Rough

28 (degrees C)

Flood alerts and warnings

At 17:00 on Thursday there were two flood alerts but no warnings in England, and no flood alerts or warnings in Wales or Scotland. For further information and updates in England visit check-for-flooding.service.gov.uk, for Wales naturalresources.wales/flooding and for Scotland SEPA.org.uk

General situation: A breezy day with rain clearing across England and Wales, leaving sunny spells and heavy, blustery showers following astern. Lake District, SW Scotland, Borders, NE Eng, IoM, N Isles: Early heavy rain clearing to leave bright periods and heavy, blustery showers. Moderate to fresh westerly winds. Maximum 15C (59F), minimum 6C (43F). Wales, Midlands, NW Eng, Cen N Eng, NW Eng, E Eng: A cloudy start with spells of rain, and locally torrential

Tides

Heights in feet. All times in hour time
	Today		Ht	Ht
Aberdeen	---:--	--	13:29	4.2
Avonmouth	07:02	12.9	19:20	13.5
Belfast	11:06	3.3	23:14	3.7
Cardiff	06:53	12.0	19:11	12.5
Devonport	05:39	5.3	17:50	5.6
Dover	11:06	6.7	23:35	6.6
Dublin	11:45	3.9	23:51	4.2
Falmouth	05:07	5.0	17:19	5.2
Greenock	---:--	--	12:38	3.4
Harwich	11:26	4.0	23:56	4.2
Holyhead	10:17	5.4	22:26	5.8
Hull	05:48	7.5	18:30	7.4
Leith	02:08	5.5	14:37	5.5
Liverpool	11:06	9.2	23:18	9.5
London Bridge	01:29	6.9	13:51	6.8
Lowestoft	08:48	2.6	21:50	2.5
Milford Haven	06:04	6.9	18:21	7.2
Morecambe	11:17	9.2	23:29	9.6
Newhaven	11:06	6.7	23:22	6.6
Newquay	04:57	6.7	17:13	7.1
Oban	05:49	3.7	17:53	4.1
Penzance	04:31	5.3	16:47	5.6
Portsmouth	11:35	4.8	23:27	4.6
Shoreham	11:15	6.3	23:34	6.3
Southampton	11:23	4.6	23:08	4.4
Swansea	06:13	9.1	18:30	9.5
Tees	03:17	5.5	15:49	5.4
Weymouth	06:35	2.0	18:48	2.2

downpours in places. Turning brighter later with a scattering of showers. Fresh westerly winds. Maximum 18C (64F), minimum 8C (46F). Republic of Ireland, N Ireland: Early rain clearing southern areas to leave sunny spells and scattered showers, heavy and frequent in the north. Fresh to strong westerly winds. Maximum 15C (59F), minimum 7C (45F). SW Eng, Cen S Eng, SE Eng, E Anglia, London, Channel IS: A cloudy morning with light rain or drizzle, becoming

Synoptic situation

A cold front will move southeastwards across Wales and England, bringing cloud, blustery winds and outbreaks of rain, locally torrential in places. Behind the front, a breezy northwesterly flow will affect many places with sunny spells and showers, widespread in the northwest. Showers will persist tomorrow, before a ridge builds from the southwest.

more persistent later. A band of heavy and gusty showers will move through around late afternoon. Moderate to fresh southwesterly winds. Maximum 19C (66F), minimum 8C (46F). NW Scotland, Edinburgh and Dundee, Glasgow, Cen Highland, Moray Firth, Argyll, Aberdeen, NE Scotland: Heavy showers in central and western areas, more isolated further east with the best of the sunshine. Moderate to fresh westerly winds. Maximum 13C (55F), minimum 2C (36F).

Highs and lows 24hrs to 5pm yesterday Warmest: Bournemouth, 16.9C Coldest: Altnaharra, -1.3C Wettest: Swyddffynnon, Ceredigion, 14.6mm Sunniest: Charterhall, Berwickshire, 9.4hrs $^{☆}$

Sun and moon For Greenwich Sun rises: 07.14 Sun sets: 18.20 Moon rises: 05.46 Moon sets: 17.35 New moon: October 10

Hours of darkness
Aberdeen 18:52-07:01
Belfast 19:10-07:13
Birmingham 18:56-06:54
Cardiff 19:03-06:58
Exeter 19:05-06:59
Glasgow 19:02-07:08
Liverpool 19:00-06:59
London 18:50-06:46
Manchester 18:57-06:57
Newcastle 18:52-06:56
Norwich 18:43-06:41
Penzance 19:13-07:06
Sheffield 18:54-06:53

Weather Eye Paul Simons

A n autumnal chill has swept across the UK, prompting households to switch on their heating and dig out winter

clothing. The temperature drop has been especially jarring in the south after weeks of unseasonably warm weather. On Tuesday the temperature reached a high of 23.4C at Charlwood in Surrey, but on the next day the regional high fell to 18.2C in Manston, Kent.

Recent headlines warning that temperatures will “plunge” this week are overdramatic because conditions have simply returned to the October average. Predictions of widespread snowfall are even more sensational — tabloids warn “UK snow next week upgraded to 2 inches” and “Early Snow Signals Are Emerging”. Although a light, unsurprising dusting of snow did fall on Cairngorm in the Scottish Highlands on Wednesday, it is typical for this time of year. However, could this small snowfall herald what was described in one news report as an “October snow bomb”?

Much of this speculation is fuelled by fears that a powerful El Niño developing in the Pacific could cause a collapse of the polar vortex. This vortex is normally a whirlpool of strong winds sweeping eastwards around the Arctic in the bitterly cold stratosphere. If these winds weaken sufficiently, they can reverse direction and create havoc, sending extreme cold southwards to create severe winter weather.

When this displaced Arctic air filters down into the lower atmosphere, it can knock the jet stream off course. This disruption results in bitterly cold Siberian winds streaming down into Europe, creating the dreaded “Beast from the East”, when Britain and much of northern Europe are plunged into a deep freeze that comes with intense frosts and heavy snowfalls.

Although a strong El Niño can cause this atmospheric chain reaction towards the end of winter, it is by no means a foregone conclusion. At present, a frozen finale to the season remains far from a credible forecast.

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Molly Hudson

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George Russell will drive a Mercedes older than that of championship leader Kimi Antonelli at the Singapore Grand Prix as the team attempt to get to the bottom of their upgrade issues.

Mercedes were expecting the upgraded floor and elements of the sidepods and rear suspension that they brought to last weekend's Bahrain Grand Prix in Malaysia to bring about 0.3 seconds per lap of improved performance. Instead, they suspect it may have made them slower.

In an effort to understand more about the package, Antonelli will run the upgrades in Singapore while Russell will not. Russell knows he will start from the back of the grid on Sunday regardless, because of an engine penalty after his mechanical failure in Malaysia which effectively ruled him out of the title fight. Russell is now 84 points behind his team-mate.

"The car I'm reverting to is a car that was on pole by eight tenths and won the race [in Baku] prior to the last race, so it's important to remember the context — it's not like I'm reverting to the launch car," Russell, 28, said.

"Given the circumstances of the grid penalty as well, it just seemed like a nobrainer. Fighting for a podium this weekend is exceptionally unlikely, so it's more important to try to understand if Malaysia was a one-off or if it was the upgrade." To compound matters, Mercedes' additional development and upgrade opportunities (ADUO) engine is not ready, so Russell will have to take another grid penalty of ten places before the end of the season.

"It's pretty relentless at the moment," he added. "I've probably had more [engine] failures this year than I've had in the last three seasons put together.

"The guy [Antonelli] who has performed the best is the guy who's leading the championship, [but] you add up the numbers and the points, I still think I'd be very much in the game in an ordinary season. I'd still be on the back foot, but in the game for it to flip very quick." Mercedes are keen to get to the bottom of their reliability issues, with Ferrari — 151 points behind — ready to capitalise in the constructors' championship.

Meanwhile, the FIA is confident it has rectified the software bug that delayed the race in Malaysia. Drivers complained of “totally unacceptable” scenes which led to cars losing power and crawling around the circuit.

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Bottas dodges snakes on 400km ride

Molly Hudson Singapore

Valtteri Bottas saw pythons and cobras, jumped over an iguana and was chased by a dog on his bike ride of more than 400km from last weekend's race in Malaysia to Singapore.

The Cadillac driver, 37, is a keen cyclist and earned a spot at the Gravel World Championships after finishing fifth in his age group at a qualifying event in the Czech Republic — but the Finn cannot compete there as it clashes with Sunday's Singapore Grand Prix.

The ten-times Formula 1 race winner set off from Malaysia after he was forced to retire on lap nine of the Bahrain Grand Prix after a spin on the wet track. That evening he covered 56.60km (about 35 miles) in two hours and eight minutes. On Monday, day two of his trip, he spent five hours and 45 minutes in the saddle, covering 161.91km and documenting the journey on his Strava account.

On day three he completed another 161km, before the final 40km stint on Wednesday. In total, the journey was 419.67km. "I saw some snakes, which I was a little bit worried about, but actually they were pretty chill — they were just doing their thing," Bottas said.

"I saw one cobra. Saw one python just crossing the path in front of me. Saw some of those big lizards that you also see here. One was on the path, I had to jump over it with the bike because I saw it last minute. I got chased by one dog.

"I got stuck behind a group of cows on a small track. The wildest part was the riding at night in the jungle. The noise in there is like... then your mind starts to play games. Who knows what is out there, but then you just need to crack on and keep going. Riding with your lights at night, that was probably the most epic part, in the forest."

Bottas added that he often competes in endurance events and his lower mileage on Wednesday was effectively a recovery ride so that the challenge would not impact him this weekend. Many of the other drivers flew here by private jet on Sunday evening.

Kempton Park Rob Wright

4.05 Bidsta	6.45 Valentine Boy
4.38 Soeur De Flash	7.15 Cancan In The Rain
5.15 Captive Beauty	7.45 Sahm Naif
5.45 Lily Pink	8.15 Yachtsman
6.15 Sin City
Going: standard to slowDraw: 5f-1m, low numbers best	Racing TV

4.05		Novice Stakes (2-Y-O: £5,400: 6f) (8)
1	(6)	21 BIDSTA 23 (D) G Boughey 9-9	B Loughnane
2	(3)	50 BLING 15 H Palmer 9-2	D Probert
3	(7)	445 HALLIWELL STREAM 23 J Chapple-Hyam 9-2
			E Greatrex
4	(8)	05563 LILYWHITE HART 24 D Ivory 9-2	K O'Neill
5	(2)	LUCILLE CEE Tom Clover 9-2	N Callan
6	(4)	0 SARASOTA BLUE BLUE 43 (BF) Sir M Prescott 9-2	J Gilligan
7	(5)	3 THREELITTLEANGELS 16 R Teal 9-2	J Leavy
8	(1)	06 WINTOUR 24 C Cox 9-2	H Davies
Evens Bidsta, 6-1 ThreeLittleangels 7-1 Sarasota Blue Blue, 8-1 Bling, 10-1 Halliwell Stream, 12-1 Lucille Cee, Lilywhite Hart, 25-1 Wintour.

4.38 Nursery (2-Y-O: £4,187: 6f) (12)
1	(9) 00050 WAIT GEORDIE 28 H Palmer 9-9	L Catton (3)
2	(7) 44115 HARRY'S POP 18 (D) D Cunha 9-9	S M Levey
3	(8) 6124 SYDNEY GRACE 21 C Fellowes 9-9	Kaiya Fraser
4	(4) 4312 LAYLATY 43 (BF,D) Harry Charlton 9-8	D Probert

5 (2)	332 SOEUR DE FLASH 18 (T) C Cox 9-6	B Loughnane
6 (10)	1300 FRUMOASA 29 (V) C Fellowes 9-5	H Davies
7 (3)	4205 MINSTER BOY 56 E J-Houghton 9-4	C Bishop
8 (11)	431 BAHIA BONITA 20 (D) Jack Jones 9-3	C Shepherd
9 (1)	23434 MAXIMUS MERIDIUS 18 D Loughnane 9-2	R Scott
10 (6)	06410 YAHAIRA 99 (P,D) T Dascombe 9-1	W Cox
11 (5)	05613 INVINCIBLE ISAAC 53 (V,BF,CD) Lemos Souza 9-0
		K O'Neill
12(12)	000 AGENT ROSE 25 S C Williams 8-9	R Dawson
3-1 Laylaty, 7-2 Bahia Bonita, 5-1 Soeur De Flash, 6-1 Sydney Grace, 10-1 Harry's Pop, 12-1 Invincible Isaac, 14-1 others.

5.15 Handicap (3-Y-O: £3,140: 1m) (14)
1 (2) 02030 CAPTIVE BEAUTY 24 R Burdon 9-9		Kaiya Fraser
2 (6) 36064 POSITIVE THOUGHTS 20 J & S Quinn 9-9		B Loughnane
3 (13) 0-033 TWILIGHT BABY 38 G Kelleway 9-9		R Hornby
4 (9) 60624 MISS MAMBO 32 (V,BF) G Kelleway 9-8		B Sayette
5 (14) 26310 ERNIE MCCREW 11 (P,D) J S Moore 9-8		E Greatrex
6 (10) 6-604 LIHOU LADY 133 P Evans 9-8		J Leavy
7 (11) 03600 GRAND VISTA 12 W Muir & C Grassick 9-7		R Dawson
8 (12) 30550 GREY SANDS 18 (P,T,D) K Bailey & M Nicholls 9-6		D Costello
9 (8) 21425 HENFIELD 10 (V,D) K Jewell 9-5		D Probert
10 (5) 43454 ALICE'S INFLUENCE 42 (D) P Evans 9-4		Alexandra McDonnell (7)
11 (7) 05400 CALL ALERT 15 (P) W Muir & C Grassick 9-3		K O'Neill
12 (4) 42522 ARVANA BELLE 12 (BF) B Millman 9-3		D Keenan
13 (1) 46200 GIRLS ALLOWED 27 J & S Birkett 9-2		D E Hogan
14 (3) 00046 WILD ROSIE 11 (H) C Dwyer 9-2		H Davies
7-2 Arvana Belle, 4-1 Miss Mambo, 6-1 Positive Thoughts, 8-1 Captive Beauty, 10-1 Ernie Mccrew, Alice's Influence, 12-1 Henfield, Twilight Baby.

5.45 Novice Stakes

(2-Y-O: £21600: 1m) (8)
1	(5)	1 NEWS 17 G Boughey 9-8	B Loughnane
2	(1)	0 BINTWILLSEA 35 J Portman 9-2	R Hornby
3	(7)	FIFTH AMENDMENT J Portman 9-2	R Scott
4	(6)	64 LADY RANYA 17 Harry Charlton 9-2	D Probert
5	(8)	252 LILY PINK 20 C Johnston 9-2	C Shepherd
6	(2)	PLAYHOUSE W Haggas 9-2	H Davies
7	(3)	RED CURRY J & T Gosden 9-2	B Sayette
8	(4)	33 WATCH PARTY 24 (BF) R Varian 9-2	R Dawson
7-4 News, 4-1 Lily Pink, 9-2 Watch Party, 5-1 Red Curry, 6-1 Playhouse, 20-1 Lady Ranya, 33-1 Fifth Amendment, Bintwilssea.

6.15 Novice Stakes (£5,400: 1m) (12)
1	(9)	15 SIN CITY 195 (D) K P De Foy 3-9-11	R Scott
2	(3)	0-624 ASSIRI HEIGHTS 17 (T) A Balding 3-9-4	Doubtful
3	(1)	BEAUJON B Meehan 3-9-4	C Bishop
4	(2)	4 EL PRESIDENTE 123 G & J Moore 3-9-4	B Loughnane
5	(10)	HEART THROB A Carroll 3-9-4	W Carson
6	(7)	4353 KINETIC IMPACT 76 C Hills 3-9-4	C Shepherd
7	(6)	0 NASCONDINO 53 D & C Kubler 3-9-4	A Voilkansky
8	(5)	05 SCREEN ACTOR 25 M Attwater 3-9-4	K Fox
9	(11)	THORTHNWAITE H Palmer 3-9-4	D Probert
10	(12)	0 VIRTUE KING 65 A Perrett 3-9-4	S M Levey
11	(8)	OPAL ROSE J Tickle 5-9-2	Taylor Fisher
12	(4)	046 GARTH SPIRIT 38 (T) P Evans 3-8-13	J Leavy
Evens Sin City, 4-1 Kinetic Impact, 11-2 El Presidente, 7-1 Beaujon, 8-1 Thornthwaite, 16-1 Nascondino, 50-1 Virtue King, Opal Rose, Heart Throb.

6.45 Handicap (£4,187: 1m) (11)

1 (7) 64105 MARSH BENHAM 11 (D) G Baker 7-9-9 P Cosgrave

2 (8) 6/010 A LA NOCHE 15 (D) Oliver Cole 5-9-8 Taryn Langley (5) 3 (1) 56360 EUPATOR 20 (P) R Hannon 4-9-7 S M Levey 4 (2) 12056 MR NUGGET 78 (D) D M Simcock 5-9-7 R Scott 5 (5) 26120 HAVANA TOUCH 22 (CD) J Butler 5-9-6 B Loughnane 6 (4) 22400 HAPPY BANNER 30 (T,C) E Walker 4-9-5 G Downing 7 (6) 64320 POTOMAC RIVER 15 T Kent 4-9-5 R Dawson 8 (3) 02150 LIBERATE 16 J & S Best 4-9-3 J Leavy 9 (9) 00510 TRONIDO 29 (H,C,D) S Dow 5-9-2 T Heard 10(11) 14046 VALENTINE BOY 25 (H,C,D) L Dace 4-8-13 D Keenan 11(10)-6050 CONNIE MOON 31 (V) D Coakley 4-8-8 Rose Dawes (3) 7-2 Havana Touch, 5-1 Marsh Benham, 6-1 A La Noche, 7-1 Potomac River, 8-1 Mr Nugget, Happy Banner, 12-1 Tronido, Eupator.

7.15 Handicap (£4,187: 1m) (10)

1 (1) 50303 ASTEVERDI 30 (P,D) James Owen S-9-5 Oliver Hoodless (7) 2 (6) 40306 CANCIN IN THE RAIN (V,D) Gilan Arnolda 6-9-7 D Keenan 3 (4) 46005 IT'SNEVERJUSTONE 22 (B) D Loughnane 4-9-7 R Scott 4 (3) 44441 BERRY CLEVER 15 (CD) C Dwyer 5-9-6 H Davies 5 (2) 01051 GUNFIGHTER 30 (CD) J Butler 5-9-5 B Loughnane 6 (10) 0-400 LONGLAI 30 (P,CD) G Baker 8-9-5 B Sayette 7 (7) 02031 THE HARE RAIL 18 (H) R Teal 4-9-4 J Leavy 8 (9) 61545 FREDA 16 (CD) P Phelan 4-9-2 M Levey 9 (8) 00504 PORT ERIN 26 (CD) A Carroll 6-9-0 D Probert 10 (5) 62100 KING OF CHARM 15 (D) Martin Dunne 5-8-9 T Heard 72-Gunfirester, 4-1 Berry Clever, 5-1 The Hare Rail, 6-1 Asteverdi, 7-1 Cancan In The Rain, 8-1 It'sneverjustone, 10-1 Freda, 14-1 Port Erin.

7.45 Handicap (£4,187: 1m 4f) (8)

1 (5) 13305 HARLINGTON 77 (D) Charlie Clover 5-10-0 C Shepherd

2 (1) 01404 GALLANT LION 11 (D) I Williams 6-10-0 R Kavanagh (3) 3 (6) -5036 STAR TIME 35 (D) A King 5-9-12 D Probert 4 (8) 25211 MEET ME IN MERAKI 15 (P) E Evans 5-9-12 B Loughnane 5 (3) -1426 MOUNTBATTEN 48 (P, BF,D) Sir M Prescott 3-9-9 J Gilligan 6 (7) 0-125 ITS TYPE 46 (BF) Kathy Turner 4-9-2 Charlie Tucker (7) 4 (7) 15645 SAHM NAIF 24 (P) James Horton 3-9-1 Kaiya Fraser 8 (2) 00-04 TALES OLD AS TIME 43 E Smyth-Osbourne 3-9-0 A Rawlinson 7-4 Mountbatten, 3-1 Meet Me In Meraki, 8-1 Sahm Naif, Star Time, 10-1 It's Life, Gallant Lion, 12-1 Harrington, 14-1 Tales Old As Time.

8.15 Handicap (£4,187: 7f) (14)

1	(9) 00-00 ZERO CARBON 156 (P,CD) M Loughnane 7-9-13
		B Loughnane
2	(8) 40523 RED HAT EAGLE 25 (P,T,C) W Knight 6-9-13	N Callan
3	(12) 31000 FLASH RASCAL 21 (P) D Loughnane 3-9-12	R Dawson
4	(4) 02240 SANTIAGO BOY 21 C Hills 3-9-12	R Hornby
5	(14) 5-500 REY DE LA BATALLA 30 (C,D) S Dow 5-9-11	A Voikhansky
6	(6) 14032 PHOENIX OF DREAMS 15 (D) J & S Quinn 5-9-10	R Scott
7	(5) 41304 BOLD SHOUT 15 C Cox 3-9-10	J Leavy
8	(7) 53314 ANGELS' SHARE 27 (BF,D) W Knight 3-9-10	Taylor Fisher
9	(2) 26622 STRONG VOICE 27 (P,T) James Horton 3-9-9	D Probert
10	(11) 65000 LOQUILLA 25 C Johnston 3-9-8	C Shepherd
11	(3) 14040 YACHTSMAN 31 (P,T) Jack Morland 3-9-8	Taryn Langley (5)
12	(10) 02051 MAJESTIC WAVE 29 (D) S Dow 4-9-6	H Davies
13	(13) 00000 SAN JUANITO 16 (H) M Murphy 4-9-5	K O'Neill
14	(1) 00120 MANHATTAN CHUTE 53 (BF) J & S Best 4-8-10	G Mangan
4-1 Peakist Wave, 11-2 Strong Voice, 6-1 Bold Shout, Red Hat Eagle, 7-1 Angels' Share, 8-1 Phoenix Of Dreams, 12-1 Santiago Boy, Manhattan Chute.

Yesterday's racing results

Ayr

Going: Heavy (soft in places)

1.45 (1m 2f) 1, Motawaared (Lauren Young, 7-4 fav); 2, Falcon Nine (6-1); 3, Sweet Kiss (10-1). 12 ran. $2 \frac{1}{4} l$ , $3/4$ l. J S Goldie.

2.20 (6f) 1, Alfa Blueburd (Jason Hart, 2-1 fav); 2, Sea Mirage (11-4); 3, Muve On (7-1). 7 ran. ns, 7 $^{1/2}$ l. I Furtado.

2.55 (7f 50yd) 1, Launch Time (H Crouch, 2-1 fav); 2, Head For Freedom (12-1); 3, Big Apple Jack (11-4). 10 ran. $17\frac{1}{2}\mathrm{l}, 2\frac{1}{4}\mathrm{l}$ . Cian Hughes.

3.30 (6f) 1, Alpha Magic (Connor Beasley, 11-1); 2, Eye Of Dubai (10-3); 3, Stirrup Cup (12-1). 11 ran. $\frac{1}{2}$ l, nk. M & D Easterby. 4.05 (7f 50yd) 1, Stanage (Billy Garritty, 5-1); 2, Empirestateofmind (11-8 fav); 3,

Ashen (6-1). 10 ran. $\frac{1}{2}$ l, 4l. M & D Easterby. 4.38 (1m) 1, Ey Up Its Jazz (D Nolan, 17-2);

2, Keats House (5-1); 3, Flying Moonlight (9-2). 13 ran. NR: Myrrh. $^{3/4}$ l, sh. T Coyle & K Wood.

5.13 (1m 5f 26yd) 1, Aighear (P Mulrennan, 4-7 fav); 2, Vampire Slayer (14-1); 3, Furhaan (10-3). 5 ran. 5l, 2 $^{1/2}$ l. J S Goldie. Placepot: £40.50 Quadpot: £11.80 Jackpot not won (pool of £15,000 carried forward)

Bath

Going: Good

1.30 (2m 1f 24yd) 1, Pacific Storm (Jack Dace, 4-1); 2, Calshot Spit (5-1); 3, Individualiste (11-1). 12 ran. NR: Fram Castle. 9l, 4l. D Menuisier. 2.05 (5f 10yd) 1, Urumita (S M Levey, 7-2); 2, Go Go Girl (11-8); 3, Kerry Grey (15-2). 7 ran. NR: Blake's Lass, Debutante. 1½l, 17½l. R Hannon.

2.40 (5f 10yd) 1, Hi Lord (Ray Dawson, 4-1); 2, Pedros Dream (5-1); 3, Jojo Rabbit (3-1 fav). 14 ran. $\frac{3}{4}$ L, $\frac{1}{2}$ L. S Hanlon. 3.15 (1m 6f) 1, Brilliant Star (R Havlin, 11-8); 2, Littlecote (80-1); 3, Little Dorrit (11-2). 12 ran. NR: Personal Best. 2l, 1l. J & T Gosden.

3.50 (1m) 1, Aethelstan Gold (Lewis Edmunds, 11-10); 2, Galimix (4-1); 3, Tarn Hows (250-1). 13 ran. NR: Sidewalking. $3^{1/4}$ l, 6l. Harry Charlton.

4.21 (1m 2f 37yd) 1, Albus Anne (Olivia Haines, 9-2); 2, Oman (2-1); 3, Crimson Road (11-2). 9 ran. NR: Prodigal Son. $\frac{3}{4}$ l, $\frac{3}{4}$ l. J C Fox.

4.55 (1m 2f 37yd) 1, Sweet Horizon (J Mitchell, 3-1); 2, Boy George (13-2); 3, Ablon (5-1). 8 ran. $^{1/2}$ L, $^{1/2}$ L. Tom Clover. 5.25 (5f 160yd) 1, Court Drive (J Mitchell, 6-1); 2, Sound And Vision (15-8); 3, Carefree Dream (28-1). 10 ran. NR: Courageous

Sioux. 2 $^{1/4}$ l, 1 $^{1/2}$ l. Miss Gay Kelleway. Placepot: £13.60 Quadpot: £3.30

Market Rasen

Going: Good

1.56 (2m 125yd) 1. Ballygeary (Joshua Thompson, 8-1); 2, Latin (15-2); 3, Knighton (9-2). 6 ran. 17½L, 17½L. M E Sowersby. 2.31 (2m 4f 139yd) 1, Port Glen One (Sam Twiston-Davies, 8-11); 2, Downtown Nashville (7-2); 3, Who's Glen (5-2). NR: Nightflyer. 3L, 4L. N & W Twiston-Davies. 3.06 (2m 3f 34yd) 1, Cap Ricochet (B S Hughes, 10-1); 2, Hiero Sport (9-2); 3, Blue Du Neuf (33-1). 6 ran. 4½L, 6L. John Dawson.

3.41 (2m 5f 89yd) 1, Court In A Storm (C Gethings, 7-2); 2, Lermoos Legend (10-3); 3, Shabalko D'herm (11-10 fav). 4 ran. hd, 10l. K Bailey & M Nicholls.

4.16 (2m 7f 16yd) 1, Quick Of The Night (Lee Edwards, 9-2); 2, Spot On Soph (7-4 fav); 3, Mistral Blue (9-1). 8 ran. $37^{1/2}$ l, 6l. Dave Roberts.

4.48 (2m 4f 139yd) 1, Upton's Mighty Oak (Luke Scott, 3-1); 2, Ratemenow (10-11 fav); 3, Slievehill (15-2). 5 ran. $27\frac{1}{2}\mathrm{l}$ , 22l. Dr R Newland.

Placepot: £799.80 Quadpot: £55.90

Southwell

Going: Standard

4.25 (4f 214yd) 1, Lover Girl (Rowan Scott, 7-1); 2, Casino Star (10-1); 3, Roxa Love (5-1). 7 ran. NR: Dubai Charm. $^{3/4}$ l, 27 $^{1/2}$ l. K P De Foy. 5.00 (1m 6f 21yd) 1, State Express (Cieren Fallon, 9-1); 2, Sisterandbrother (8-1); 3, Rubellite (12-1). 12 ran. $^{3/4}$ l, nk. S Woods. 5.30 (1m 3f 23yd) 1, Crown Of Crowns (Cieren Fallon, 6-4 fav); 2, Emtinan (3-1); 3, Master Of

The Sky (9-4). 7 ran. 1L, 27½L. W J Haggas. 6.00 (1m 13yd), 1 Arlecchino's Moon (C Lee, 12-1); 2, Temple Court (7-1); 3, Casablanca Dream (7-2). 12 ran. ¾L, nk. M D I Usher. 6.30 (1m 13yd), 1 Revoked (Joe Leavy, 9-4 fav); 2, Hello You Ten (10-3); 3, Pen Lan Icon (16-1). 11 ran. 2¼L, ½L C G Cox. 7.00 (1m 13yd), 1 Rogue Citation (D Tudhope, 3-1 fav); 2, Lkeness (9-2); 3, Kamaway (4-1). 9 ran. sh, ½L E Bethell. 7.30 (1m 13yd), 1 Spirit Lead Me (Finley Marsh, 9-4); 2, Shaw Park (22-1); 3, Ernie's Valentine (10-3). 12 ran. NR: Captain Cess, Moon Beginnings. ¼L, ½L R Hughes. 8.00 (6f 16yd), 1 Cool King (S De Sousa, 11-1); 2, Dorigo (1-7 fav); 3, Christmas Is Comin (28-1). 11 ran. ¾L, 27½L. M Botti. 8.30 (7f 14yd), 1 Montezin (Cam Hardie, 11-2); 2, Enacting (18-1); 3, Nostrum (10-11 fav). 12 ran. nk, nk. A Brittain.

Placepot: £676.50 Quadpot: £11.70

1	5D-20 LAAFI 71 (P,D) W Durkan (Ire) 6-11-12	P Byrnes
2	3006- KATEIRA 212 (D) D Skelton 9-11-9	J Andrews

Newmarket Rob Wright

1.15 Flann Sunna (nb)	3.30 Spyce (nap)
1.50 Chasing Daylight	4.10 The Prettiest Star
2.25 Witness Stand	4.45 On Message
2.57 Rogue Passion	5.20 George Wickham
Going: good to firm
Draw: no advantage	Racing TV

Newmarket Academy Godolphin ITV Beacon Project Cornwallis Stakes (Group III: 2-Y-O: £42,532: 5f) (13 runners)

1	(11)	104200 CARRY THE FLAG 13 (D) A P O'Brien (Ire) 9-3	D McDonogh	103
2	(5)	1153 FLANN SUNNA 28 S & E Crisford 9-3	W Buick	104
3	(3)	2016 MARCO POLO 13 A P O'Brien (Ire) 9-3	R L Moore	95
4	(8)	211 MINSTER MAN 41 (D) R Cowell 9-3	M Ghiani	88
5	(1)	33611 MUSSAB 21 (D) R & P Fahey 9-3	Oisin Orr	102
6	(2)	210 NEVER ENOUGH 49 E Walker 9-3	K Shoemark	86
7	(13)	051 PERFECT STRIKE 28 (D) W Haggas 9-3	C Fallon	89
8	(12)	424111 THIS MOMENT 27 (D) G Boughey 9-3	Grace McEntee	98
9	(7)	12013 ARMOR SUPREME 36 (D) D Dias (Ire) 9-0	Rossa Ryan	96
10	(6)	310100 BINT ARCHANGE 50 (P,D) R Hughes 9-0	David Egan	94
11	(4)	201224 FAST TRACK 28 (T,D) A Balding 9-0	O Murphy	101
12	(10)	105 IN THE BLACK 28 (D) G Oldroyd 9-0	P J McDonald	101
13	(9)	112 ROGUE JEWEL 39 E Bothell 9-0	C T Keane	88

5-2 Flann Sunna, 4-1 In The Black, 7-1 Marco Polo, 8-1 Mussab, Fast Track, 10-1 This Moment, 16-1 Armor Supreme, Minster Man, Never Enough.

Rob Wright's choice: Flann Sunna was caught on the flank and unable to find cover when a close third at Doncaster Dangers: In The Black, Mussab

1.50 Godolphin Lifetime Care Oh So Sharp Stakes

1	(11)	314 CELESTIA 78 (D) Harry Charlton 9-2	C T Keane	87
2	(7)	1 CHASING DAYLIGHT 24 (D) D M Simcock 9-2	C Rodriguez	99
3	(6)	14024 DARK ISSUE 20 R Hannon 9-2	P Dobbs	$\blacklozenge$ 101
4	(14)	241143 FOREST BERRY 13 (H,D) Sir M Prescott 9-2	L Morris	77
5	(2)	031 GOLDEN RING 7 A P O'Brien (Ire) 9-2	R L Moore	80
6	(4)	321335 GREEK SYMPHONY 34 (D) Oliver Cole 9-2	Oisin Orr	73
7	(16)	3104 LOLA DE VALENCE 18 B Millman 9-2	S Osborne	87
8	(5)	3314 MINKAAS 28 T Kent 9-2	James Doyle	91
9	(9)	1546 MISS KODI 36 (BF) C Cox 9-2	Rossa Ryan	95
10	(3)	1423 NUIT D'ECLAIR 36 K P De Foy 9-2	David Egan	100
11	(13)	112 POLYXENA 13 S C Williams 9-2	M Ghiani	82
12	(8)	166 SEA VENTURE 14 (T) G Scott 9-2	W Buick	92
13	(12)	414 SIENA STORM 40 E Walker 9-2	K Shoemark	92
14	(1)	01 SWELTERING 31 (D) A Balding 9-2	O Murphy	77
15	(10)	5510 THURITHA 29 D M Simcock 9-2	D Muscutt	77
16	(15)	202131 TOPAZ 19 J Channon 9-2	F Marsh	83

4-1 Nuit D'eclair, 9-2 Miss Kodi, 5-1 Siena Storm, 6-1 Chasing Daylight, 8-1 Golden Ring, 12-1 Sea Venture, Dark Issue, 14-1 Minkaas, Celestia, Topaz.
Wright choice: Chasing Daylight was mightily impressive on her debut at Yarmouth; can handle this higher grade Dangers: Dark Issue, Nuit D'Eclair

York

1.30 Beagle Bay	3.50 Instant Force
2.05 Theheatison	4.25 Go Vince Go
2.40 Gaspacho	5.00 Diligent Resdev
3.18 Sharadd
Going: good, good to soft in places
Draw: no advantage	Racing TV

1.30 Handicap

1	(17) 4-1001 POWER FIZZ 33 (C) W Haggas 4-9-11	T Marquand	$\blacklozenge$ 98
2	(14) 551350 NORTHERN EXPRESS 20 (P,C,D) M Dods 8-9-9	P Mulrennan	97
3	(2) 000030 OZAT 35 (T,D) I Williams 5-9-9	S De Sousa	92
4	(9) 2-1411 BEAGLE BAY 118 (D) R Beckett 4-9-8	H Crouch	94
5	(18) 212110 INSPIRED 27 (BF,D) K R Burke 4-9-6	C Lee	92
6	(4) 543315 NIKOVO 34 (D) M Herrington 7-9-6	J Hart	92
7	(7) 000020 MIRSKY 27 (D) O'Meara 7-9-6	M Winn	92
8	(12) 000002 HENLEIN 7 (P) K Ryan 5-9-4	K Stott	93
9	(1) 264313 SPOKEN TRUTH 20 (T,BF,D) D O'Meara 5-9-4	D Tudhope	90
10	(15) 042000 MR SWIVELL 20 (D) K P De Foy 5-9-3	J Mitchell	92
11	(8) 004400 KHAFIZ 33 Roper Fell 4-9-1	Jason Watson	87
12	(11) 000000 NIZAM 13 (D) I Williams 4-9-0	C Hardie	79
13	(16) -11002 EMPIRE OF LIGHT 8 (D) G Tuer 5-8-13	O Stammers	85
14	(3) 610450 POINT OF CONTACT Z3 (V,C,D) A Balding 4-8-13	C Hutchinson	86
15	(5) 222120 MILITARY LEADER 19 (B,D) Phillip Makin 5-8-11	S James	82
16	(13) 360224 FINAL NIGHT 34 (T,D) J Butler 4-8-10	MP Sheehy	80
17	(10) 420105 GLENFINNAN 17 (H,BF,D) M Dods 6-8-9	C Beasley	74
18	(6) D40060 SALAM DUBAWI 13 (P,D) J Goldie 4-8-8	Lauren Young (5)	77
5-2 Beagle Bay, 7-1 Spoken Truth, 8-1 Power Fizz, 10-1 Henlein, Inspired, 12-1 Northern Express, Ozat, 14-1 Point Of Contact.

2.05 British EBF 100,000 Final (2-Y-O: £50,960: 7f) (16)				ITV
1	(3)	4113 WAASIL 29 (D) K R Burke 9-7	S James	86

Thoroughbred Industry Employee Awards Challenge Stakes (Group II: £93,572: 7f) (6)

1 (2) 1-6351 HOLGUIN 40 (D) H Al Jehani (UAE) 6-9-5 C Rodriguez 110 2 (4) 552656 NEVER SO BRAVE 27 (D) A Balding 5-9-5 O Murphy 109 3 (1) 263652 WITNESS STAND 6 (P,T,D) Dr R Newland 5-9-5 K Shoemark ◆115 4 (6) 101-26 TIME TO TURN 89 (D) C Appleby 3-9-3 W Buick 106 5 (5) 101102 FLORA OF BERMUDA 27 (C,D) A Balding 5-9-2 James Doyle 111 6 (3) 6-1051 PINA SONATA 26 (D) J Fanshawe 4-9-2 D Muscutt 107 7-4 Flora Of Bermuda, 9-4 Time To Turn, 5-1 Never So Brave, 7-1 Pina Sonata, 10-1 Holguin, 14-1

Wright choice: Witness Stand shaped as though returning to form when a close second at Redcar; could be tough to pass Danger: Flora Of Bermuda

2.57 bet365 Fillies' Mile

1	(5)	341223 DANCING DESTINY 26 (D) J P O'Brien (Ire) 9-2	D McDonogh	105
2	(7)	03343 EXCEPTIONALLY 24 (BF) A P O'Brien (Ire) 9-2	C T Keane	88
3	(1)	11 FORBIDDEN FIRE 28 A Balding 9-2	O Murphy	100
4	(3)	021 HAVEN 14 A P O'Brien (Ire) 9-2	R L Moore	83
5	(6)	11 LEX VICTORIA 30 (T) S & E Crisford 9-2	James Doyle	82
6	(8)	111 MUSICAL TIMES 29 (D) C Appleby 9-2	W Buick	$\blacklozenge$ 115
7	(4)	4211 ROGUE PASSION 33 (D) E Bethell 9-2	Rossa Ryan	110
8	(2)	222122 SCOMMESSA SICURA 29 A Balding 9-2	S Osborne	98
1-2 Musical Times, 4-1 Rogue Passion, 10-1 Forbidden Fire, 12-1 Lex Victoria, 16-1 Haven, 25-1 Dancing Destiny. 50-1 Exceptionally, 66-1 Scommessa Sicura.

Wright choice: Rogue Passion beat two classy rivals in France; most progressive, she can strike again Dangers: Musical Times, Forbidden Fire

3.30 bet365 Old Rowley Cup Handicap ITV (Heritage Handicap)

1	(10) 304132 ARCHERS BAY 14 (P,C,D) M Botti 9-9	R L Moore	◆104
2	(3) 311242 DECADE OF TIME 34 J Channon 9-6	G Bass	98
3	(4) 4-5406 SPYCE 29 A King 9-5	Rossa Ryan	98
4	(5) 220100 INTO THE LIGHT 34 (P) C Appleby 9-4	Toby Moore (7)	96
5	(1) 21-352 STUDY OF WORDS 77 (C) C Appleby 9-3	W Buick	91
6	(7) 341261 TURTY TREE 34 (P,D) A Balding 9-2	O Murphy	93
7	(9) 451261 DEVIL'S PEAK 29 (B,D) J & T Gosden 9-0	James Doyle	91
8	(11) -21541 HIGH STORM 34 (D) K R Burke 8-9	P-L Jamin	86
9	(6) 4321 LIBERATE 51 (D) Harry Eustace 8-6	L Morris	78
10	(2) -22224 LORD D'OR 34 (A) A Balding 8-4	N Currie	82
11	(8) 042124 KAHIN 34 (P,BF) W Haggas 8-4	S Osborne	82
7-2 Study Of Words, 5-1 Archers Bay, Devil's Peak, 6-1 Turty Tree, 8-1 Liberate, Decade Of Time, 12-1 Spyce, Lord D'Or, 14- others.

Wright choice: Spyce needed the run when sixth at Doncaster on his first start after a wind operation; can improve Dangers: Archers Bay, Turty Tree

4.10 Boadicea Stakes (Listed: £39,697: 6f) (14)

1	(11)	150145	DANCE IN THE STORM 20 (H) A Balding 4-9-3	O Murphy	99
2	(9)	12-114	FORTY YEARS ON 26 (BF) G Scott 4-9-3	W Buick	103
3	(2)	-42240	MAGIC BASMA 26 (P,D) K Ryan 4-9-3	P J McDonald	105
4	(4)	-01205	CHERRY BAKER 24 (P,D) James Owen 3-9-2	R Havlin	90
5	(5)	-03000	GOLDEN PALACE 26 (D) R & P Fahey 3-9-2	C T Keane	98
6	(14)	110-20	HOLLYWOOD TREASURE 139 K P De Foy 3-9-2	David Egan	96

2	(10)	6110 DONTLOOKANYFURTHER 21 (BF) J & S Quinn 9-5	J Hart	♦91
3	(8)	201 REGENCY ROYAL 27 (D) A Balding 9-4	C Hutchinson	87
4	(1)	330510 TURNISTLE 4 T Easterby 9-2	D Allan	74
5	(6)	621 NAKILA SUN 46 A Balding 9-0	Jason Watson	81
6	(5)	1 CAPITANO JOSEPI 40 (D) K Frost 8-13	J Mitchell	78
7	(14)	06201 ONGOMBO 18 (P) C Fellowes 8-13	P Bradley	86
8	(11)	2142 SANBONA WARRIOR 29 (P,D) W Knight 8-13	D Tudhope	78
9	(12)	143252 THEHEATISON 21 Nick Scholfield 8-13	S De Sousa	87
10	(4)	05 SCIENZA 35 A Balding 8-12	T Marquand	48
11	(2)	0231 ALJOON 18 (D) Jack Jones 8-11	C Beasley	68
12	(7)	164 CHAN NOIR 49 J Chapple-Hyam 8-11	C Lee	71
13	(15)	2 ALBERICH 14 (BF) Harry Eustace 8-10	G Wood	85
14	(16)	22 BRUSHSTROKE 35 T Kent 8-8	S D Bowen	71
15	(9)	411020 EVERATEASE 48 (C) E J Houghton 8-8	J Callan	82
16	(13)	002 GOD OF TITANS 22 C Hobson 8-8	Jack Doughty	75
7-2 Regency Royal, 4-1 Waasil, 6-1 Dontlookanyfurther, 7-1 Everatease, 10-1 Ongombo, Capitano Josepi, 12-1 Nakilla Sun, 14-1 Theheatison.

2.40 William Hill Finale Handicap ITV

1	(5)	2-3044 TIERRA DEL TORO 48 R Beckett 9-9	J Hart	◆96
2	(4)	-32101 GLORY ROAD 14 (D) R Beckett 9-6	H Crouch	93
3	(3)	231100 MYTHICAL BAY 34 (P,D) A Balding 9-4	C Hutchinson	92
4	(1)	3-41 HARPER VIOLET 30 R Burke 9-0	C Lee	87
5	(2)	232P30 BALTIC FLET 48 (P) I Williams 8-13	Jason Watson	84
6	(10)	512141 BINTKNIGHT 21 Harry Charlton 8-10	L Edmunds	83
7	(8)	303151 PRINCE OF CALYPSO 9 (P) E Bethell 8-10(6ex)	C Beasley	83
8	(9)	-56102 ITICA 14 A Balding 8-8	J Callan	83
9	(6)	511-4 GASPACHO 31 (T,BF) W Haggas 8-7	Joanna Mason	73
10	(7)	-16333 BRIDGE OF EAGLES 34 D Menuisler 8-5	S De Sousa	79
11	3-1 Glory Road, 7-2 Tierra Del Toro, 7-1 Prince Of Calypso, Mythical Bay, 8-1 Gaspacho, Harper Violet, 10-1 Bridge OF Eagles, 12-1 Bintknight.

Improving Rogue can shock favourite

Racing Sport

Rob Wright Racing Editor

Rogue Passion is improving with every start and she relished a first try at a mile when winning at Longchamp last month. That form is proving red-hot and she can see off hot favourite Musical Times in the Bet365 Fillies' Mile (2.57) at Newmarket today.

She beat subsequent group one winner Amusingly by a neck there, with Data — who was then a close second in the Prix Marcel Boussac—a well-beaten third. Rogue Passion can prove too good for Musical Times, who was most impressive when winning at Doncaster but now faces a stiffer task.

Flann Sunna can take the Newmarket Academy Godolphin Beacon Project Cornwallis Stakes (1.15). He had excuses when a close third at Doncaster and, with several frontrunners in this field, he should get the strongly run race that suits him best here.

The Godolphin Lifetime Care Oh So Sharp Stakes (1.50) can go to Chasing Daylight. She looked a top-class prospect when making a winning debut at Yarmouth and can take this group two prize before aiming even higher.

Spyce is the best bet of the day in the Bet365 Old Rowley Cup (3.30). An excellent fourth in the always competitive London Gold Cup at Newbury, he was given an operation to help with his breathing before returning from a break at Doncaster last month, shaping well considering he raced too keenly early on and did not get the clearest of runs as he finished sixth. He is bred to relish this step up in trip.

7	(7)	4-3000 ISLE OF FERNANDEZ 26 (D) K Ryan 3-9-2	T Eaves	95
8	(10)	1-1320 LADY YOUMZAIN 21 (D) K Ryan 3-9-2	R L Moore	96
9	(3)	0-2066 MIDNIGHT TANGO 6 (T,D) E Walker 3-9-2	K Shoemark	107
10	(12)	-61024 ROUGE ATTRACTION 21 (V,D) E Bethell 3-9-2	L Morris	89
11	(1)	044520 RUBY'S ANGEL 26 (D) H Palmer 3-9-2	S Osborne	94
12	(8)	1P-116 SING THE BLUES 54 (D) Martin Dunne 3-9-2	C Fallon	90
13	(13)	2-4053 THE PRETTIEST STAR 26 (D) E Walker 3-9-2	James Doyle	105
14	(6)	-11011 ZEN DIVA 36 (D) R Beckett 3-9-2	Rossa Ryan	95
13-8 The Prettiest Star, 10-3 Forty Years On, 13-2 Magic Basma, 8-1 Dance In The Storm, 10-1 Zen Diva, Midnight Tango, 20-1 Rogue Athtraction, Hollywood Treasure, Lady Youmzain.Wright choice: The Prettiest Star was fourth in the 1,000 Guineas here; she is unexposed at this shorter trip Dangers: Midnight Tango, Forty Years On

4.45 Pride Stakes (Group III: £53,874: 1m 2f) (17)

1	(7)	-40042	FRANCOPHONE 69 (C,D) C Johnston 5-9-5	O Murphy	100
2	(17)	0-0656	MISS WONG 23 D M Simcock 4-9-5	D Muscutt	92
3	(1)	-13461	NAGA 23 (C,D) J & T Gosden 4-9-5	R Havlin	104
4	(15)	140525	NOCHE CLASICA 20 (BF) E Bethell 4-9-5	L Morris	107
5	(13)	050401	PATAGONIA GIRL 20 (D) H Palmer 4-9-5	S Osborne	80
6	(2)	16-356	SNELLEN 85 (D) G Cromwell (Ire) 5-9-5	P J McDonald	104
7	(12)	4-1200	LEGACY LINK 50 (D) J & T Gosden 3-9-4	C T Keane	109
8	(9)	-24340	DELLA PACE 41 G Boughey 3-9-1	Oisin Orr	95
9	(14)	1-1203	FELICITAS 58 (BF,D) E Walker 3-9-1	K Shoemark	103
10	(5)	1-1232	LIZZANA 14 M Botti 3-9-1	M Ghiani	98
11	(11)	130414	ON MESSAGE 32 (D) R Beckett 3-9-1	Rossa Ryan	104
12	(8)	-53206	PACIFIC MISSION 23 (T) A Balding 3-9-1	C Rodriguez	101
13	(3)	1213-	PREVIOUS 342 K P De Foy 3-9-1	David Egan	--
14	(6)	4-0603	ROSE GHAIYATH 57 R Hughes 3-9-1	R L Moore	98

3.18 Novice Stakes

(2-Y-0: £12,885: 6T) (5)
1	(3)	14 MUGHEER 24 (BF) K R Burke 9-10	C Lee	77
2	(5)	31 OUR SON OSCAR 22 (D) K Ryan 9-10	Harry Vigors (5)	89
3	(4)	1 SHARADD 36 (D) W Haggas 9-10	T Marquand	♦90
4	(1)	20 MEHMAS STAR 26 K R Burke 9-4	S James	77
5	(2)	00 PETE'S ANGEL 33 R & P Fahey 9-4	B McHugh	57
8-13 Sharadd, 5-2 Our Son Oscar, 8-1 Mehmas Star, 12-1 Mugheer, 66-1 Pete's Angel.

3.50 Nursery (2-Y-O: £12,885: 5f) (10)
1	(7)	231 NOBLE RAIDER 146 (D) K P De Foy 9-9	H Crouch	82
2	(3)	114 BARNABY RUDGE 63 (H,D) J Fanshawe 9-7	Doubtful	73
3	(4)	031122 BLACK VELVET BOY 15 (D) J & S Quinn 9-6	J Hart	♦87
4	(6)	221 INSTANT FORCE 25 (P,D) K R Burke 9-3	C Lee	83
5	(2)	42140 INFLUENCER MAN 21 (D) A Keatley 9-0	MP Sheehy	82
6	(10)	10220 ROTELLE 27 (P,D) C Fellows 8-13	P Bradley	80
7	(1)	232142 HARLEY 15 (P) E Bethell 8-11	C Beasley	79
8	(9)	414540 BEAR LEE 28 (D) M & D Easterby 8-10	Joanna Mason	81
9	(5)	240535 FURTURRA 21 (T) T Easterby 8-10	T Kiely-Marshall (3)	79
10	(8)	21655 LAKE MURITZ 15 (D) T Easterby 8-9	D Fentiman	73
2-1 Noble Raider, 11-4 Instant Force, 10-3 Black Velvet Boy, 8-1 Harley, 16-1 Rotelle, Influencer Man, Furturra, 25-1 Lake Muritz.

4.25 Handicap (£14,174: 5f) (18)

1	(2) 530201 TOCA MADERA 17 (D) D O'Meara 5-9-9	D Tudhope	◆96
2	(6) -32501 TATTERSTALL 27 (P,D) M Dods 6-9-6	C Beasley	92
3	(8) -30000 AGAINST THE WIND 27 (K) K Ryan 4-9-5	K Stott	76
4	(7) 516100 NOVAMAY 21 (M) Dods 4-9-4	Rhys Elliott (5)	92
5	(14) -22100 HALLO SPACEBOY 20 (C,D) E Walker 3-9-3	T Marquang	89
6	(17) 265600 SCHRODINGER'S CAT 13 (D) G Tuer 3-9-3	O Stammers	93
7	(13) 021020 ETERNAL SUNSHINE 6 (P,D) J Goldie 6-9-2	Lauren Young (5)	89
8	(4) 002000 EXCLAMATION 28 (P,D) G Harris 3-9-1	Ashley Lewis (3)	95
9	(12) 430040 FORTIFICATION 26 (P,D) B Ellison 3-8-12	S De Sousa	84
10	(15) 560260 FIDELIUS 13 (T,D) N Thinkler 5-8-12	A Jary (3)	85
11	(11) 041000 KODIAC THILLER 15 (P,D) M Walford 5-8-9	J Hart	84
12	(1) 400100 BOSTON DAN 13 (T,D) I Easterby 3-8-9	C Hardie	83

15 (10) 631111 SILVER LAKE 28 (T,D) W Haggas 3-9-1	James Doyle	99
16 (4) 211 SONG OF THE CLOUDS 25 W Haggas 3-9-1	C Fallon	94
17 (16)-26242 TOULEEN 26 (P) Owen Burrows 3-9-1	W Buick	◆110
9-2 Touleen, 11-2 Naga, 13-2 On Message, 7-1 Noche Clasica, Legacy Link, 10-1 Lizzana, 12-1 Snellen, 14-1 Francophone, Silver Lake, Pacific Mission.
Wright choice: On Message was unsuited by a slow early pace when fourth at Windsor; previous form is really solid Dangers: Felicitas, Lizzana

5.20 Handicap (£15,462: 7f) (15)
1	(4)	-16200 BACK TO ME 48 (D) P Chamings 3-9-12	D Muscutt	85
2	(9)	1200 MAJESTIC DANE 16 (D) K R Burke 3-9-12	P-L Jamin	♦87
3	(6)	100165 WAISTCOAT 20 (T) R Burdon 5-9-11	Rossa Ryan	80
4	(12)	003000 RIGHHERE RIGHTNOW 21 (P,D) R Spencer 4-9-11	S Osborne	80
5	(15)	0-210 GEORGE WICKHAM 8 G & J Moore 3-9-10	R L Moore	82
6	(11)	554210 COMMANDER OF LIFE 32 (D) Jessica Macey 5-9-10	F Marsh	78
7	(13)	512210 LION OF MALI 26 (D) J Fanshawe 3-9-10	David Egan	80
8	(2)	611210 THE SWEET ESCAPE 34 (T,D) D Loughnane 4-9-8 Laura Pearson	76
9	(8)	-15623 BINTOLA 20 Harry Charlton 3-9-8	C Rodriguez	77
10	(7)	164606 EXPERT AGENT 20 (C) S C Williams 6-9-7	M Ghiani	76
11	(5)	-13135 NANOSCIENCE 20 (D) A Balding 3-9-5	O Murphy	76
12	(3)	-56213 MISTER MOJITO 55 (T,D) T Kent 5-9-4	W Buick	68
13	(14)	000164 LUNARIO 20 (T,V,D) L Dace 6-9-4	J Dace (5)	73
14	(10)	0220 ALBEMAGIC 30 Steph Hollinshead 3-9-1	P J McDonald	77
15	(1)	040034 AKABUSI 20 (C) M Fenton (ire) 3-9-0	R Havlin	71
3-1 Bintola, 11-2 Nanoscience, 13-2 Mister Mojito, 8-1 Akabusi, Lunario, 10-1 Lion of Mali, 12-1 The Sweet Escape, 14-1 Waistcoat, George Wickham, Commander Of Life, Expert Agent.

Wright choice: George Wickham did not get the rub of the green at Salisbury; will appreciate this extra furlong Dangers: Akabusi, Lion Of Mali

13	(16)	200005	STARGAZED 13 (D) K R Burke 3-8-8	J Nicholls (3)	74
14	(3)	021105	EQUITY LAW 13 (D,P) T Easterby 5-8-7	JP Sullivan	81
15	(10)	036044	BALDOMERO 28 (B,D) M Appleby 8-8-6	Joanna Mason	77
16	(5)	043030	GO VINCE GO 15 (CD) T Easterby 3-8-4	W Pyle	78
17	(18)	200032	PARISIAC 10 (P,BF,D) J Jardine 7-8-4	A Mullen	78
18	(9)	000010	COPPER KNIGHT 11 (T,CD) T Easterby 12-8-4	D Fentiman	74
10-3	Toca Madera, 6-1	Parisiac, 7-1	Equity Law, 8-1 Baldomero, 10-1	Copper Knight, Tatterstall, 12-1	Novamay, Stargazed, Go Vince Go.

5.00 Handicap (£12,885: 7f) (22)

1	(4)	550443	OBELIX 17 (BF,CD) J Camacho 6-9-12	Olivia Haines (5)	79
2	(9)	6-0606	DILIGENT RESDEV 36 (V,CD) M & D Easterby 5-9-11	Shay Farmer (3)	78
3	(11)	-24103	MAGIC BOY 55 (BF,C,D) N Tinkler 4-9-11	A Jary	78
4	(21)	623520	SON 7 (P,D) T Easterby 5-9-11	J Nicholls	78
5	(10)	-10003	MELVIN UDALL 33 (P,D) G Harris 4-9-10	Harry Vigors (3)	81
6	(14)	011000	KING OF FURY 17 (D) M Dods 6-9-10	Rhys Elliott	71
7	(20)	303252	QUEST FOR FUN 10 (T,CD) T Easterby 8-9-10	J Dickson (3)	79
8	(16)	633544	FIRST TIME 20 (V) R & P Fahey 3-9-10	W Fentiman	82
9	(2)	302000	STANLEY SPENCER 15 (B) Fionn McSharry 5-9-10	K S McHugh (5)	70
10	(7)	006021	FEEL THE NEED 15 (CD) M Herrington 6-9-9	D J Murphy (5)	70
11	(13)	056-00	BIG CYRIL 23 Roger Fell 4-9-8	J Callan	52
12	(3)	125053	KING'S SCHOOL 20 (P,T,D) G Tutty 5-9-8	Molly Keegan-Price (7)	78
13	(12)	060020	LORD BERTIE 10 (H,D) D O'Meara 6-9-8	C Horgan (3)	75
14	(8)	105324	GOLDEN STRIKE 9 (V,BF,CD) R & P Fahey 5-9-7	W Pyle	75
15	(22)	-10050	INVINCIBLE BOY 4 R & P Fahey 3-9-6	A Redman (6)	66
16	(18)	200030	GOLDEN PHARAOH 6 (P,D) S Dixon 5-9-6	C Howarth	◆89
17	(17)	00-631	MYSTICAL STORM 13 (J Camacho 4-9-6	T Kiely-Marshall	65
18	(1)	-00512	THE CHILDE OF HALE 25 (BF,D) I Furtado 4-9-6	Liam Wright	72
19	(19)	030430	CALYXOH 35 (V,D) P Morris 4-9-4	Ashley Lewis	69
20	(6)	000626	PACKETOFBISCUITS 13 (B,D) J Mackie 4-9-4	Finlay Bassett (7)	73
21	(15)	400010	TOLSTOY 7 (H,CD) B Ellison 7-9-4	Mason Paetel	71
22	(5)	31000	KENNINGTON 16 (P,D) H Morrison 3-9-4	O Carmichael (5)	80
13-2 Feel The Need, 7-1 The Childe Of Hale, Mystical Storm, 15-2 Magic Boy, 8-1 Obelix, Quest For Fun, 10-1 First Time, Golden Strike.

Chepstow Rob Wright

1.22 Cooltobecareless	3.43 Cosmic Connection
1.57 Saint Jeannais	4.17 Jaminska
2.32 Seven Kites	4.55 Kapitein Kool
3.12 Le Beau Madrik	5.31 Getarose

Going: good to soft, good in places Sky Sports Racing

1.22 Novices' Hurdle (£5,446: 2m) (10)

2 254/1 KIND INTENTION 140 (D) T Symonds 5-11-7 B Poste 3 /210- COOLTOBECARELESS 181 (W,D) D Skelton 5-11-0

4 01-11 NO HARD FEELINGS 138 M Sheppard 6-11-0 G Sheehan 5 60-0 TELETIME 140 N Mulholland 5-11-0 R McLernon 6 5- GOLIATH FLIGHT 214 (BF) D Skelton 4-10-13 C J Todd 7 31- HERBIES SOCK 174 T Lacey 4-10-13 S Sheppard

8 006- JUBILEE JACK 178 (W,H) H Dickin 4-10-13

9	613- LADY BAM 198 T Ellis 5-10-7	J Andrews
10	4-5 POETS PEARL 13 (H) Harry Derham 4-10-6	Paul O'Brien
2-1 Cooltobecareless, 5-2 King's Scholar, 5-1 Kind Intention, 6-1 Herbies Sock, 10-1 Goliath Flight, 12-1 Lady Bam, 20-1 Poets Pearl, 25-1 No Hard Feelings.

1.57 Novices' Hurdle (£5,446: 2m) (10)

1	3216- DUTCH CORNER 167 (H,T) D Skelton 5-11-7	H Skelton
2	14-1 SAINT JEANNAIS 146 (D) N & W Twiston-Davies 6-11-7	S Twiston-Davies
3	2445- CHEAP SANDWICHES 168 C Gordon 5-11-0	F Gordon
4	0-622 SHARU 80 C J Gray 5-11-0	Sean Houlihan
5	31-0 SHORT SELL 148 D Skelton 5-11-0	C J Todd

6	1- HIVE RUNNER 243 T Lacey 4-10-13	S Sheppard
7	000- LOOK DON'T STARE 181 (H) H Dickin 4-10-13	J Best
8	25-34 MORISSETTE 35 D Summersby 6-10-7	B Carver
9	4P0- DETROIT BAY 226 (H) J Scott 4-10-6	L Williams
10	04- SHIRLEYNIGHTINGALE 173 T Ellis 4-10-6	J Andrews
7-4 Dutch Corner, 9-4 Saint Jeannais, 5-1 Sharu, 11-2 Hive Runner, 14-1 Short Sell, 16-1 Morissette, 25-1 Cheap Sandwiches, 33-1 Shirleynightingale.

2.32 Novices' Hurdle

(£5,446: 3m) (7)

1	4210- CROSSGALES KING 188 S Hosie 6-11-0	E Collier (5)
2	2-013 LITTLE LADY ROCK 21 Nick Scholfield 5-11-0	S Bowen

4	532- SIMONSBERG 250 Christian Williams 5-11-0	J Tudor
5	12- SEVEN KITES 190 (BF) T Lacey 4-10-10	S Sheppard
6	603 ZEROUALI 14 B Lund 4-10-10	Shane Quinlan (3)
7	/21-5 SORGEAN 148 (W,T,BF) H Fry 5-10-7	B Carver
7-4 Seven Kites, 7-2 Little Lady Rock, 5-1 Crossgales King, Sorgean, 7-1 Locker Roum. 10-1 Simonsberg. 100-1 Zerouali

3.12 DragonBet 'Welsh Champion' Hurdle (Limited Handicap) (£26,015: 2m) (17) ITV

3 202-5 KNICKERBOCKERGLORY 149 (D) D Skelton 10-11-6

4 11P1- LE BEAU MADRIK 177 D Skelton 5-11-5 H Skelton 5 P123- SERIOUS CHALLENGE 187 (D) F O'Brien 6-11-4 L Harrison 6 1F12- CAPTAIN HUGO 174 (D) P Hobbs & J White 6-11-3

7	500-0 GIBBS ISLAND 153 (H,CD) T Lacey 5-11-0	S Sheppard
8	433P5 SONY BILL 34 (T,D) Faye Bramley 5-11-0	H Cobden

9 F6-1P SAGEBOROUGH 71 (T,D) P Nolan (Ire) 5-10-12

12 1030- LISTENTOYOURHEART 167 (D) D Skelton 7-10-9 C J Todd 13 1516- QUEENIE ST CLAIR F12 (D) Nick Scholfield 6-10-8 S Bowen 14 44412 MORNING MAYHEM 13 (P,D) Nick Scholfield 5-10-8

16 2165- DOCTOR BLUE 223 (W,P,T,D) S Thomas 6-10-6 D Johnston
17 31P6- TENNESSEE TANGO 186 (W,T,D) J Tizzard 6-10-6

Wright choice: Le Beau Madrik won well over further at Haydock; can handle this trip Dangers: Captain Hugo, Laafi

3.43 DragonBet Persian War ITV Novices' Hurdle

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Gallagher Prem table

Gloucester are top of the Gallagher Prem table, but those who entered Kingsholm with an excitable look this week were quickly shot down. The season, after all, is only two games old and they have grown familiar with false dawns.

For a long time, the sign on the road into town — “Welcome to Gloucester: home of world-class rugby” — has looked like dodgy marketing. The club have made just one play-off appearance in 15 years and they have not won the league title in the Prem era, even if the Shed has stayed full through decades of underachievement. Perhaps, though, there is finally some coherence about the Gloucester operation.

In their first two matches of the campaign they have beaten Exeter Chiefs and Harlequins. Last year they finished one spot above Quins, in eighth. Last Saturday they trounced them 48-0. It is two years since Gloucester won three league games in a row and four years since they won four in succession. So, before a devilishly difficult run — Leicester Tigers away tonight, Bordeaux Bègles in Europe next week, and then Bath at Kingsholm and Northampton Saints away before the November Test break — they know the cherries are hardly on top of the cake yet.

Chris Boyd would lift a sceptical eyebrow if you suggested this was all down to him, but it is obvious that the 68-year-old New Zealander has made an impact as technical director.

"I probably should've retired already. I don't have any ambition to achieve anything more myself," Boyd says, sitting on a sofa at Kingsholm after a prawn Thai curry lunch. "I'm just enjoying what I'm doing, making a contribution."

Time spent with Boyd is rarely time wasted. Harlequins sounded him out before choosing another wise-owl figure in Robbie Deans for a similar overseeing role, but Boyd chose to peel himself away from helping Tawa, his local amateur club in Wellington, his “lifestyle block” house with ten acres, cows and sheep out the back, his “briny” sea-fishing boat, and the golf course, to help Gloucester’s revival as an adviser. He will flit between here and New Zealand, but rarely miss a game.

Boyd did this slightly differ at Northampton Saints, where he was the director of rugby from 2018 before stepping back as Phil Dowson and Sam Vesty emerged as fine young coaches. Eventually he departed Franklin's Gardens with the club in a sustainable place in 2022. Boyd also had a brief firefighting stint at Munster in 2024 as a "performance consultant" alongside interim coach Ian Costello, so is used to rescue operations.

"It's an interesting concept, but in any game — shipping, forestry or whatever — you have situations where people have developed a fair amount of experience and understanding of their industry. Those people retire and the knowledge dies with them," Boyd says. "I've been a

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professional coach since 2003 and been coaching since 1988, so I've seen a fair bit. There aren't too many surprises, and I understand what best practice is. "It does very

Northampton's not the same as Munster or Gloucester. The bit that I enjoy is trying to work out with the resources you've got, both financial and physical, and how can we get this machine purring?" Boyd admits

he's "not a huge reader", but likes the philosophy of Jim Collins, in his book Good to Great. "It's about getting the right people on the bus, the wrong people off the bus, then finding the right seat for the right people," he says. Some of the issues Boyd cites feel quite basic — or at least feel like Gloucester could have worked them out without him

— but he has a way of simplifying the business of rugby, and the sport itself, with a classic no-nonsense, low-key manner typical of elder Kiwis.

Boyd was parachuted in last season and spent a few months observing before making any bold proclamations. He saw that George Skivington struggled juggling three jobs as forwards coach, head coach and director of rugby.

"He's got a decent-sized head but not big enough for three hats," is Boyd's summation. He asked Skivington directly what job he desired. The 43-year-old replied he wanted to lead the programme, so Boyd told him to "get a bloody forwards coach then".

Brett Deacon was employed and Joel Tomkins arrived to lead the defence. Dom Waldouck moved to a role that suited his skillset better: helping youngsters transition from age-grade to senior rugby.

Rob Burgess, who led Bath's recruitment under Johann van Graan, is the new general manager. Boyd works most directly with him and Skivington to "remove as many

	P	W	D	L	F	A	B	Pts
Gloucester	2	2	0	0	93	24	2	10
Bristol	2	2	0	0	75	50	2	10
Bath	2	2	0	0	73	51	2	10
Northampton	2	1	0	1	85	67	2	6
Leicester	2	1	0	1	62	59	2	6
Saracens	2	1	0	1	57	59	2	6
Sale	2	1	0	1	45	51	0	4
Exeter	2	0	0	2	58	85	3	3
Newcastle	2	0	0	2	45	83	2	2
Harlequins	2	0	0	2	17	81	0	0

obstacles to prevent the players delivering".

Boyd loves “proper” old English clubs. Gloucester, founded in 1873, are certainly that, but in 2026 he saw a “disconnect between the players, club and fans”. Another simple move, maybe, but Boyd has encouraged Gloucester to reconnect with their history. Now, by the dressing-room pegs, old icons are listed for each position. In pre-season, players had to present stories of Gloucester legends, and on each of Kingsholm’s stands, how and when they were built.

"If you spend a week here you'd probably hear the word 'shed' a

hundred times," Boyd says. The word is now used as an anchor for how Gloucester act on and off the field: "They wouldn't put up with that on the Shed," for example, or, "You're letting down the bloke who's spent his hard-earned cash." He fundamentally believes that they need more men from Gloucester, Cheltenham and the surrounding area. He has met with Hartpury College, in Gloucester, to re-establish tight links.

"Homegrown people who are deeply emotionally invested will give you more," Boyd says. "If they can cope physically and mentally then I'd always be in favour of promoting from within."

This counts for coaches too. Boyd told Saints that if they had to appoint an external coach when he departed, he would have failed. He believes that when Dowson and Vesty become Test coaches, someone internal will replace them. "My contribution stopped at ground level. We put some foundations in and Phil and Sam have built a decent house on top," he says.

Gloucester's bricks and mortar are in but there are more fundamental tasks to tackle. Over the summer Boyd led discussions about the Gloucester DNA. What will they

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Boyd is not getting carried away about Gloucester's start, in which Barton, inset, has impressed

stand for? As South Africa and New Zealand proved in their Greatest Rivalry series, teams with clear identities thrive.

The signings of Dewi Lake, Jac Morgan, Jean Kleyn and Joe Joyce will unlock Gloucester's exciting young backs: Caolan Englefield, Charlie Atkinson, Seb Atkinson and Will Joseph are well-grooved by attack coach James Lightfoot-Brown.

As Boyd chuckles, the Cherry and Whites traditionally love a rolling maul, yet he is intrigued about how Gloucester evolve, how smart they can become and if this project can defy their history. He empowered Dowson and Vesty at Saints to change them from a physical, kick-pressure team to the most intelligent attacking side in England, as it suited their academy talent.

"There's no point following a DNA that doesn't suit your players," Boyd says. "If you base your game on physicality but there are three teams more physical than you, then you've got to have something else up your sleeve.

"At Saints the best way for us was contrary to their history. In the Dylan Hartley and Jim Mallinder era they were extremely efficient, with a

physical forward pack. The DNA at Saints has changed completely.

“Rugby is about a combination of contact and space. If you’re going to win all the contacts then you can play a certain way. If you can’t, you’ve got to play a game that either gives you an advantage in the contact, or changes that in some way to influence the relationship between you and your opposition.

"I admire Scotland — they know what they're good at and what they can't do, and they've chased a game that suits their cattle. But at the end of the day it's probably not going to win them a World Cup because they haven't got the cattle.

"Can we impose our style against somebody else's and win a number of games? It will be interesting. The quickest way to get a massive change is to spend a shiteload of money for a whole lot of good players.

"You can't play the game without cattle, but I don't necessarily think that the best group of individuals wins. Look at last weekend's NRL final. Newcastle Knights, who got beaten 19-18 by the Sydney Roosters — it should never have been so close, but they maximised every ounce of their potential.

"There will be a lot of teams that didn't make the Grand Final that would go, 'Man for man, we've got better players,' but they're not a better team. One of the real fun challenges here is, how can I make the sum of the parts better than the parts?"

Gloucester's green shoots of recovery will be fiercely examined over the next month but Boyd's work has surely nurtured a hardy squad. If he can help revitalise another old English club, the sport in this country will owe him a lot.

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New safety laws are cosmetic and risk killing game's rhythm

Stuart Barnes

Good intentions. No one doubts that World Rugby is full of them. "Player welfare [is] at the heart of everything that World

Rugby does," says Brett Robinson, its chairman. The importance of player welfare is at the core of the governing body's messaging.

And, of course, the health and safety of rugby players worldwide should be a priority, but whether it should be at the cost of everything else is another question. However, it is a question few dare ask — a puritanical strain embedded in the professional game.

Enjoyment for players, entertainment for fans — these are important. This week's announcement that brought the "hip drop" and "knee drop" into the headlines is a classic case of good intentions leading perhaps not to hell, but to endlessly frustrating afternoons of referees killing the rhythm of rugby union — inadvertently stamping out matters which World Rugby admitted were "rare" indiscretions.

The hip drop becomes illegal in November, which is the northern hemisphere's high-profile month of Nations Championship matches; the most important month of rugby between now and next year's World Cup. The sport's economic driver is Test-match rugby. It requires high-quality showpieces.

This is a big month for officials too. Referees, like players and coaches, are ambitious. They want to make the cut for the World Cup, some of them have ambitions to referee the final. Officials will look to impress the sport's decision-makers. They are going to be on the hunt for the elusive hip drop — when the defender attempts a tackle from the side or behind and swings around the ball-carrier, or drops their body weight on the legs of the carrier.

This could be a forlorn task. In

Cleary suffered a compound fracture and dislocation to his left ankle following a hip-drop tackle from Crossland

the past two days I have seen snippets of this now-illegal tackle online. Before it made the headlines, I'll confess I don't remember seeing one with my own eyes. Nor do I recall a single commentator berating a player for a hip drop. Nor praising a tackler for this grabbing, spinning, pulling type of tackle. "What the hell is that?" friends ask me. I shrugged my shoulders, nonchalantly clueless.

Only until Nathan Cleary, one of the world's greatest rugby league players, was injured by just such a tackle in the NRL preliminary final, playing for Penrith Panthers against Newcastle Knights. It has been big news in Australia. Poor Phoenix Crossland was harangued for the temerity of his “illegal” tackle.

It took a league legend, Billy Slater, to balance the blame after the incident. The former Kangaroos full back reckons defenders have to make this type of tackle at the very last second because NRL rules overprotect the playmakers.

Anything suggestive of being even a split-second late ends up with the inevitable and often unfair penalty against the tackler. Slater is intimating that this is a consequence of the NRL's cosmetic quest for a more glittery game.

Union is shifting from the dim and distant days of defence to attack, attack, attack. The endless stream of tries should be a warning. Great sport requires grit and determination — as well as attacking genius — to rattle the scoreboard. Tries are too easy. Whether it is law changes from the five-metre driving lineout, or the kick-chaser's free run and one-handed slap back from the box-kick, the laws are supporting attacking

play. It is as if somebody, somewhere, has equated non-stop tries with excellence. The balance is wrong.

And it has become further loaded in favour of the ball-carrier with the focus on the knee drop. Let's call it the "knee jerk". If the knee, or knees, are on the ground, the tackle cannot be made. Technically the player is "down" and out of play if on the ground — therefore, they are not free to tackle.

The most controversial and common of penalties — head on head — is always awarded to the attacking side even if the ball-carrier dips into the tackle. The responsibility is on the tackler to lower their tackle position. Fair enough. That's a sacrifice of justice for health and safety. In an imperfect world, if it takes a few dubious penalties to teach defenders a lesson, so be it.

But if a defender is effectively being prevented from starting in a low body position, we are approaching the situation where the target is between the sternum and the thighs, with a ball-carrier free to constantly shift his body position.

The knee-drop law (it is already part of the lawbook) is not straightforward. To drop the knee to the ground is as much a threat to the tackler as it can be to the carrier. Luke Cowan-Dickie has a history of going kamikaze low and straight below the knees. Ball-carriers, smashed by the shoulder of the hooker, can be seen to flip-flop, out of all control. But the sight of the Sale Sharks hooker being carried off in Lions colours, of being concussed in Premiership finals, is also depressingly familiar. Defenders bring their heads within range of the carrier's knees.

It's impossible to wrap the arms around the carrier when hitting head-on around the shins. In contrast, a defender on the tryline, static and ready to drive the ball-carrier backwards, is in full control of his technique and, therefore, the safety of both tackler and tackled.

If Cowan-Dickie is part of the England squad next month, I can imagine the ludicrous sight of the officials checking to see if his knee has made contact with the grass as he hurtles into the body hit, rather than checking for the impossible wrap.

By enhancing cosmetic claims to put safety first and foremost, we are heading for more 100-minute Tests and 100-point club matches. Good intentions alone are not good enough.

NZ Rugby and NRL in ‘Chiefs’ legal battle

John Westerby

New Zealand Rugby has been accused by the NRL of “mind-blowing hypocrisy” and “feeling threatened” over the expansion of rugby league in the Pacific as a legal battle broke out between the two sides.

The NRL (National Rugby League) is the premier Australian 13-man competition, which has a team, the Warriors, based in New Zealand, and has just launched a 19th outfit based in Papua New Guinea, nicknamed “the Chiefs”.

However, NZ Rugby, the governing body for rugby union in New Zealand, said it has owned trademark rights for its Waikato-based Chiefs since 1998. It is seeking to prevent the use of the moniker in New Zealand by the PNG Chiefs when they join the NRL in 2028.

The NRL signed a record £2.76bn seven-year television deal earlier this year and along with the Chiefs in Papua New Guinea, where rugby league is the national sport, it is considering a second New Zealand-based franchise as the league's 20th team.

But Steve Lancaster, the NZ Rugby chief executive, feels the NRL's new franchise would be encroaching on its territory by threatening the brand developed in Super Rugby by the Chiefs.

"For 30 years the Chiefs and their players have built an incredibly strong identity that is widely recognised," Lancaster said. "We now have a responsibility to protect the Chiefs brand."

Simon Graafhuis, chief executive of the Waikato-based Chiefs, said: "Teams in different sports and markets can exist alongside one another with the same name. But the issue here is the similarity of our sports competing in the same market, for the same fans."

Peter V'landys, executive chairman of the NRL, said his organisation would contest the claims in court. "We will defend this vigorously," he said. "The hypocrisy is mind-blowing considering Auckland Blues in 1996 used the NSW Blues name without any consultation. The NSW Blues had been the Blues for in excess of 50 years before that. Rugby union is obviously feeling threatened by rugby league in New Zealand, with sell-outs at most rugby league games."

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Rabada out of Aussie grudge Test

Elizabeth Ammon

Kagiso Rabada was ruled out of South Africa's much-anticipated opening Test against Australia in Durban today, the first time the sides have met in a Test in the country since the sandpaper ball-tampering scandal of 2018.

Rabada, South Africa's leading fast bowler, has not played a match since the IPL in May, having sustained a hamstring injury during training the following month.

Although Rabada did take part in South Africa's intra-squad training match at the weekend, Temba Bavuma, the South Africa captain, confirmed that the 31-year-old would not be risked for the Test, which is reviving memories of the infamous cheating scandal that rocked Australian sport.

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ket after more than three years away. However, Nortje's ability to bowl at 90mph provided South Africa with a raw pace option alongside the other seam bowlers, Marco Jansen and Wiaan Mulder.

"It wasn't an easy decision," Bavuma said. "We did go the conservative route, to give him a couple of extra days to

get closer to where he can be at 100 per cent fitness."

Rabada is expected to be considered for the second Test in Gqeberha, which starts on October 18.

Maharaj and Harmer played together in a Test in November 2025, but that was in subcontinental conditions in India, although the hosts expect that the coastal wickets in Durban will suit the duo.

South Africa have a solid top seven, with Aiden Markram opening the batting alongside Ryan Rickelton.

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Nottinghamshire. Meanwhile the former Australia opener Usman Khawaja is expected to reveal previously unknown details about "Sandpaper-gate" in his autobiography, which is due out next month. He asked to speak privately to Pat Cummins and Todd Greenberg, the Cricket Australia chief executive, about the contents of the book.

There is particular interest in what Khawaja may say about the 2018 ball-tampering scandal in South Africa, when Cameron Bancroft was

Since that investigation, questions have been raised about to what extent

Khawaja and Cummins, the Australia captain, are understood to have met for coffee in Brisbane before Australia's recent series against Bangladesh.

caught using sandpaper on the ball, earning a nine-month ban. Steve Smith and David Warner were suspended for a year after an investigation by Cricket Australia concluded that Warner was the instigator of the plan to tamper with the ball and Smith, captain at the time, did not attempt to stop it happening.

other members of the team knew about the plan.

Cummins, who was part of the 2018 side, has consistently denied any prior knowledge of the ball-tampering

ANNA WEBBER/GETTY IMAGES tators have said they find it hard to believe none of the bowlers knew anything, given how closely the attack study the state and condition of the ball they are using.

Remi Bader, a New York-based influencer, was among those streaming content from Flushing Meadows but Wimbledon is unlikely to be so accommodating

Influencers' rise to be dealt with 'in a Wimbledon way'

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attending tournaments. The All England Club already has a ban on taking any items into the grounds which may cause a disruption to play, such as lighting.

The USTA accredited 100 influencers for this year's US Open — twice as many as last year. While Wimbledon does not offer accreditation directly to influencers, they can be invited by one of its partner brands, such as Polo Ralph Lauren. Atkinson did concede that influencers have a role to play in promoting the sport.

“Clearly influencers are a crucial part of building a brand around the world in the third decade of the 21st century,”

Atkinson, who has been acting chief executive since July after Sally Bolton stepped down, said. "What you have to do is keep them under control. Our partners Polo Ralph Lauren will have influencers tightly chaperoned.

"It's a piece of the market, I think. We are not a world of just newspapers and television any more. The world has changed but it's just really important that you deal with it in a Wimbledon way.

"But to say, 'We are not going to be having influencers at Wimbledon,' is obviously nonsense. Our marketing team work meticulously to make sure that they're doing things in a way that's consistent with our brand. It's self-policing, it really is."

Emlyn's treasures rescued from attic

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Cruyff and Best shirts in late Liverpool star's collection that could fetch £500k at auction, writes Paul Joyce

The mannequin was dressed in a bright red tracksuit top from the 1974 FA Cup final, instantly conjuring memories of the day Bill Shankly's Liverpool dismantled Newcastle United, but the flashes of colour in the distance also caught the eye.

There was a sky blue Hamburg SV shirt once worn by Kevin Keegan, a bright green Northern Ireland jersey that belonged to George Best, Johan Cruyff's Barcelona top, a white No5 Germany shirt that once adorned Franz Beckenbauer and Kenny Dal-glish's blue Scotland kit.

All in all, an Aladdin's cave of memorabilia which for years lay untouched in cardboard boxes in the attics of the children of the former Liverpool and England captain Emlyn Hughes.

Now the collection is expected to fetch about £500,000 at auction next month, with the treasure trove of mementos from Hughes's career that includes European Cup and league championship winners' medals likely to generate huge interest.

There are even jumpers from his stint on A Question of Sport, the BBC quiz show which helped to transform Hughes into a national treasure, among the 245 lots.

"They were all stored in boxes, because Dad never gave anything away, and in the loft of our family home in Sheffield for many years," his daughter, Emma, says. "When Dad died, Mum gave them to me and my brother, Emlyn, so we had them in our attics.

"Our mum sadly passed away last year and we were decluttering everything and said, 'What are we gonna do with it all?' I'd not looked at them for ten to 15 years. We've kept a few things that are memories to us, but our children go on YouTube now and they watch videos [to see their grandad]."

Hughes, nicknamed “Crazy Horse” on account of his boundless energy and willingness to charge out of defence and into attack, died aged 57 in 2004 after suffering from a brain tumour. His

talkSPORT legacy lives on, however, and a preview of the items yesterday was attended by some Liverpool fans for whom the very sighting of certain shirts took them back through the decades.

The jerseys and tracksuit tops for all the major milestones in an Anfield career that brought four league titles, two European Cups and an FA Cup (he would later win the League Cup with Wolverhampton Wanderers) are among those being auctioned by BUDDS.

"Seeing that shirt," says Liverpool fan and family friend Les Lawson, pointing to the jersey Hughes wore in the 1971 FA Cup final defeat by Arsenal, "reminds me of the first time I realised being a football supporter breaks your heart. But there were more good memories. Just being here, I can picture Emlyn lifting the FA Cup three years later, a scarf tied round his neck. He was my favourite player in the

Seventies. He played like he was one of us." Liverpool have been contacted about apparel relating to the club's first European Cup final success in 1977 given the 50th anniversary of that 3-1 triumph over Borussia Mön-chengladbach looms.

Hughes, the boy from Barrow, played for England 62 times and Emma and Emlyn Jr were at Wembley on Tuesday to receive their father's legacy cap (No 861) from the FA at the Nations League match against the Czech Republic. "It has been nice going through the process because it brings back memories. I was born in 1976, he stopped winning stuff in 1980 with Wolves," Emlyn Jr says. "I remember the Question of Sport stuff, which was nice until he got people wrong!" (That is a reference to Hughes mistaking Princess Anne for the jockey John Reid in the picture board round.)

Emlyn Jr continues: "He was the most competitive man you could ever meet. He stopped playing golf with me because I got a better handicap! A game of cards he wouldn't let you win, a game of dominoes he wouldn't let you win, but that's basically what drove him on to have this collection and to win the medals that he won.

"It would be nice for the people who made the effort to go to Rome in 1977, for example, for the Bruges game in 1978, to maybe get something." The catalogue is available to view at BUDDS.com with the auction taking place on November 2 at Hope Street Hotel, Liverpool.

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Head boy Elliott's sad England descent

It's hard to imagine a better, more impressive vindication of the English system than the sight of Elliot Anderson and Alex Scott, in tandem, running midfield in England's 7-0 win against Croatia — against Luka Modric and Mateo Kovacic, no less! — only 15 months after they started together for England Under-21 in the Euros final against Germany.

Watching them work so beautifully together, it was hard not to feel good about English football's ability not only to produce players, but also to nurture them, bring them on, give them the right opportunities at the right times.

In every under-21 team there will be those who make the grade and those who don't. Last week Alan Smith, the former Arsenal and England striker, reposted a photo of the 1984 Euros-winning under-21 team of which he was a part. "Quality squad," he wrote, and it was. He, Mark Hateley and Steve Hodge had senior England careers of note, whereas Nigel Callaghan, Derek Mountfield and Howard Gayle (who scored in the final) never quite got there.

For all the attention given to Luis de la Fuente's rise through Spain's junior teams and the core of players who journeyed on with him to the senior group who won the World Cup, look through those successful under-19 and under-21 sides and you'll find plenty of players who didn't make it: for every Fabián Ruiz and Dani Olmo, there is an Unai Núñez, an Antonio Sivera.

So, while Anderson and Scott and Jarell Quansah have emerged as England players of real promise from Lee Carsley's Young Lions of last summer, it is not a surprise or a shame that, say, Jay Stansfield or Omari Hutchinson have settled at a level below that. This is simply how it goes.

That said, it was hard, watching Anderson, Scott and Quansah in Rijeka, not to think about one of their teammates in particular from that victorious under-21 side, someone who not long ago seemed a shoo-in to play for England at senior level but now looks far from assured of reaching that goal, after what must rank as one of the strangest and most sudden career derailments in recent times.

Harvey Elliott was the star of Carsley's 2025 Euros-winning team. He scored in the group game against the Czech Republic, the quarter-final against Spain, both goals in the semi-final victory against the Netherlands, and the opener in the final. He was awarded the prize for Player of the Tournament, which, in its distinguished history, has previously marked for stardom the likes of Rudi Völler, Laurent Blanc, Davor Suker, Luis Figo, Fabio Cannavaro, Andrea Pirlo, Thiago Alcântara, Ruiz and Anthony Gordon. He finished his under-21 career with 14 goals in 28 games.

It's not like Elliott was one of those boy wonders who just never made the jump to senior football. Up until quite recently, things seemed to be going pretty well in his club career. In Jürgen Klopp's final season he was pushing for a place in the

Liverpool XI and ended the Premier League campaign with a very respectable three goals and six assists from 1,335 minutes (about 15 90s).

A broken foot at the start of Arne

Slot's first season was hardly ideal but he reclaimed the status of a regular substitute and did well in that role, especially in the Champions League, where he scored in three consecutive games, including a late winner against Paris Saint-Germain. That was 19 months ago.

Then came his brilliant summer at the Euros; a summer in which Liverpool also signed Florian Wirtz and Hugo Ekitike. Feeling that his career had reached a crossroads and sensing that Slot didn't see him as a starter, he decided to push for a move. A deal was struck with Aston Villa: technically a loan, but one where ten appearances would trigger a permanent transfer. Mohamed Salah, who posted a farewell message to Elliott predicting "you'll do big things at your new club", was far from alone in treating the meeting of that condition, and his consequent departure from Liverpool, as a mere formality.

It proved not to be so. Unai Emery didn't rate Elliott as a player, though the Villa head coach always spoke warmly of him as a person and praised his attitude, so he made up his mind to avoid triggering the permanent move and in the end left Elliott dangling on nine Villa

appearances. He could appearances. He could have been sent back to Liverpool but only with the payment of a termination fee that Villa weren't willing to pay and Liverpool weren't willing to waive. The adjective Kafkaesque seldom has a place in football journalism, but

Emery's predicament last season — unable to represent a third club within the course of a single season, without the faintest prospect of any further game time in which he might change Emery's mind (even though he was on the bench in the Europa League final), and not able to return to his parent club either — comes close.

At least this season he is playing again, on loan from Liverpool at Valencia. At the time of writing the 23-year-old has made three appearances — all as a

When Elliott joined Villa last summer RB Leipzig were also reportedly interested in him — the difference between Leipzig, a perennial Champions League qualifier, and Valencia is a measure of how much Elliott's stock has fallen after a year of squandered development and dulled shine. England's next senior international debutant will be their 1,302nd men's player, and right now Elliott is very far from the picture. One of those most in the frame is Josh King, who was the next jewel of the Fulham academy, four year-groups after Elliott's breakthrough.

substitute, all defeats — in La Liga this season. Valencia, who play Racing Santander on Sunday, are 19th in the table and recently hired Javier Aguirre, who managed Mexico in the World Cup.

This is part of the problem for Elliott: in an era when England's supply of brilliantly talented players has never been better, not least in midfield and attacking midfield, players who would once have merited patience and special monitoring, like him or, say, Mason Mount, are easier to draw a line under.

Can Elliott get back? He still can, of course — and one of the players he could face on Sunday offers an optimistic tale. Sergio Canales, now playing for Racing Santander in the twilight of his career, was part of the Spain Under-21 squad that won the 2013 Euros, but a failed move to Real Madrid and a series of injuries dropped him out of the picture. Only six years after lifting the trophy with the under-21s, having rebuilt his career at Real Betis, did he finally receive his first call-up to the senior squad: he went on to play 11 times for La Roja over four years, and played in the 2023 Nations League finals, Spain's first title under De la Fuente.

A footballer's career is a lattice of performances and decisions. The things you do on the pitch, and the choices made, by you and others, off it. That's all it really is. When things are going well, as they are now for Anderson, it must feel like your performances are driving the decisions: you play well for Nottingham Forest, which persuades Thomas Tuchel to give you a call-up; you have a great game against Serbia, which forces him to make you a regular; you have a couple of terrific games against Manchester City, which, together with a wider appraisal of your abilities, convince them to make you a £100m player.

What Elliott must be feeling now is the opposite: how quickly the decisions can get ahead of you and your game, and how powerless you can be to arrest it when they do. He can only hope that he has bottomed out at Valencia, and that Aguirre gives him the trust, and the game time, to begin getting back to where he wants to be.

No second chances for Lionesses in perilous World Cup play-off

Kit Shepard Women's Football Reporter England's quest for World Cup glory now gets serious.

Qualifying started last March and the tournament does not begin until June, but Uefa's unforgiving format has dropped the Lionesses into the playoffs. There are no more second chances — lose the forthcoming two-leg tie against Greece, and England would not play in next summer's tournament in Brazil. And if they do prevail, they must then defeat either Slovakia or Ukraine over two legs in seven weeks' time to seal qualification.

Failure to reach the tournament would be shocking and humiliating for England, the European champions, who aim to lift the women's World Cup next summer — a feat neither England nor their decorated head coach, Sarina Wiegman, have achieved.

England should win these play-offs, starting with the first leg away to Greece in Crete tonight. Their Fifa ranking of fourth is far ahead of Greece (59th) and Slovakia (54th), while they have already convincingly beaten Ukraine (34th) twice in qualifying.

"We've never played them before and they've done well in their campaign," Wiegman said of Greece.

Still, England have to handle the jeopardy of a play-off and the expectations imposed by the favourites tag.

The reason they are in this spot is both comforting and concerning.

England won five of their six games in their qualifying group but were hammered 4-0 by Spain in Mallorca in June. Only the group winners qualified automatically, so the world champions made it to Brazil at England's expense.

This harsh hand is hardly a sign of crisis, and that the European and world champions had to fight for one qualifying place highlights a big flaw in Uefa's format. England played really well for much of the campaign, particularly in the 1-0 win against Spain at Wembley.

However, that thrashing in Mallorca,

Greece v England Women's World Cup qualifying play-off first leg 5pm, Pancretan Stadium, Crete TV: ITV1 which came after the victory at Wembley, displayed England's frailties. They were overwhelmed in midfield, sloppy

in possession and defence, had little firepower off the bench and did not look like potential world champions.

Greece will not test England like Spain but tonight's match, alongside the second leg in Leicester on Tuesday, is a chance for England to address their weaknesses and offer evidence that the Mallorca loss was a one-off.

Chloe Kelly and Ella Toone, two heroes of the Euros triumphs, were axed from this squad for unsatisfactory form, though Toone has since left her holiday in Spain to replace Lucy Bronze, who has what Wiegman called a “really small injury”.

Kelly's omission paves the way for Freya Godfrey, of London City Lionesses, to take on the supersub role. The forward, 21, is an exciting option once the first-choice front three (Lauren James, Alessia Russo and Lauren Hemp) have tired the opposition defence.

The third midfield position next to Georgia Stanway and Keira Walsh, who is in fine fettle for Chelsea, remains uncertain. Lucia Kendall, Laura Blindkilde Brown and the uncapped duo of Lexi Potter and Erica Meg Parkinson are exciting but inexperienced options, so Toone could regain her spot.

Rose ‘upset’ with England about Scott injury blow

Peter Rutzler

Bournemouth head coach Marco Rose has said the club were “not happy” with all of the answers they received from England concerning the injury suffered by Alex Scott, but he declined to blame the national side, insisting “everyone” was responsible for the midfielder’s injury layoff.

Scott made his full debut for England in last Saturday's 7-0 win in Croatia. He had received treatment before the match and was substituted after 70 minutes without feeling any issues, but subsequent scans revealed a quad muscle problem which Rose says means Scott could miss at least "four or five" weeks.

Thomas Tuchel called the injury a “strange one”, insisting that while Scott had treatment before the game, he had received green lights from medical staff and the player. “If I had the slightest idea of a risk, I would not have taken it,” the England head coach said.

Rose said he had not spoken to Tuchel about Scott's injury but echoed the club's frustrations over the issue, with the midfielder set to miss a big month for Bournemouth, who have nine games in the next four weeks.

"I'm very disappointed, and it's a big loss," Rose said. "We are upset, and that's what we said. We had some questions. We were not happy with every answer. But, again, for me as a coach, now, it is what it is. We have to deal with the situation. It's not about blaming someone because we have to continue and we have to find solutions."

Rose said that Scott feels comfortable despite his injury, but that scans showed he would need time on the sidelines. He acknowledged too that the player would have been “desperate” to play after he was called up to the England squad on two previous occasions but did not make an appearance.

"If a player is coming back injured from a national break, then it's always disappointing," he said. "If it happens, we [the national side and the club] start to talk to each other. But if he says as a player — even to me — that he feels fine, that he feels comfortable to play, everyone is responsible.

"Now we have to deal with the situation. So it's not just about FA. It's not just about the player. It's even about us. We have to be in touch with the player [too]. Because we know him better than the guys from the federation.

"For me, it's not a thing about the club against the federation. It's: we have the situation now. Next time we should solve it better."

Asked whether communication lines need to be better between the national side and the club in future, Rose added: "Absolutely. For me, I'm just a coach, there are the FA, medical staff, doctors, and the player at the end. That's the only thing I demand, that we should learn from it and should do it next time."

Matthijs de Ligt is close to returning from injury for Manchester United after 11 months out (Charlotte Duncker writes). It is understood he played in a training match against Lausanne-Sport last week. Sources say the defender is feeling positive and there is optimism he'll be back in Michael Carrick's side soon

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Alonso boost as Caicedo nears return

Peter Rutzler

Moisés Caicedo is close to a return to first-team action with Chelsea in what would be a timely boost for their manager, Xabi Alonso.

The Ecuador midfielder suffered a calf injury before the season started and has since made only one Premier League appearance, as a substitute against Brighton & Hove Albion in August, when he had to be replaced after 14 minutes.

Alonso felt that he had rushed the player back and has therefore tried to avoid repeating that mistake. Caicedo did not join up with the Ecuador squad during the recent international break, but he has stepped up his recovery at Chelsea.

It is understood that he played some part in a behind-closed-doors friendly against Portsmouth last week. Chelsea lost 2-0 in a fixture that was regarded as a training exercise.

It is unclear whether Caicedo will feature tomorrow, when Chelsea host Bournemouth.

Another injury concern for Alonso has been João Pedro, who missed the club's 3-0 defeat by Brentford and withdrew from the Brazil squad before the international break. Cole Palmer also withdrew from international duty, with England, owing to a muscular injury. Reece James, the club captain, has been absent with a hamstring injury.

Meanwhile, Chelsea have held pre-application planning talks with Elmbridge borough council, in Surrey, about upgrading their training ground.

Results

Golf

USPGA Tour Baycurrent Classic Yokohama (US unless stated; par 71): 63 J Bridgeman; 64 J Smith (Eng); 65 R Castillo, P Coody, M Homa, M Meissner; 66 D Lipsky, K Mitchell, A Putnam, M Thorbjornsen, K Ventura (Nor); 67 N Echavarria (Col), R Hisatsune (Japan), Lee M-w (Aus), H Matsuyama (Japan), C Morikawa; 68 C Bezuidenhout (SA), M Brennan, R Gerard, H Iwata (Japan), J Keefer, M Kim, D McCarthy, J Parry (Eng), R Yonezawa (Japan); 69 Z Bauchou, D Ghim, B Harman, L Hodges, Im S-j (S Kor), S Jaeger (Ger), K Nakajima (Japan), A Scott (Aus), K Sunagawa (Japan), J Thomas; 70 W Clark, M Greyserman, B Hossler, T

Ishizaka (Japan), T Kanaya (Japan), M McCarty, C Phillips, K Roy, X Schauffele, M Wallace (Eng).

DP World Tour Open de Espana Madrid (GB & Ire unless stated; par 71): 66 E Lopez-Chacarra (Sp), G Forrest, C Syme; 67 S Garcia (Sp), D Hillier (NZ), A Ayora (Sp), J S Olesen (Den); 68 M Lindberg (Swe), V Perez (Fr), J Dean, A Otaegui (UAE), B Robinson-Thompson, J Girrbach (Swit), L List (US); 69 O Lindell (Fin), R Langasque (Fr), M Elvira (Sp), Ko J-w (Fr), W Ding (China), S Valimaki (Fin); 70 F Molinari (It), H du Plessis (SA), O Guillamoundeguy (Fr), S Lowry, J Winther (Den), M Couvra (Fr), J Guerrier (Fr), J Scrivener (Aus), K Aphibarnrat (Thai), J Paul (Ger), R Paratore (It).

Ladies European Tour Korea Championship Seoul (GB & Ire unless stated; par 72): 65 P Mackova (Cz Rep); 67 M Yamashita (Japan), O Cowan (Ger), S Kemp (Aus), L M Humphreys; 68 Park S-H (S Kor), Kim H-j (S Kor), S Tan (Sing), G Ding (HK), A Belac (Slvn); 69 Ku M-J (S Kor), S Kouskova (Cz Rep), K Arwefjaell (Swe), L Hall, A Försterling (Ger); 70 V Bouvet (Fr), Kim G-b (S Kor), K Bennett (Aus), N Broch Estrup (Den), L Walsh, P Babnik (Slvn), C Herbin-Marshall (Fr), L Young, M Metraux (Swit), A Morgan (US), R Liti (It), L Rydqvist (Swe), H Lee (Sp); 71 A Lee (US), Lee D-e (S Kor), Lee J-e (S Kor), C Alexander (SA), A Huang (Can), E Spitz (Aut), A Fuller, A Nobilio (It), Y Tseng (Tai), A Zanusso (It), W Hillier (Aus), L Lau (Fr).

Tennis

ATP Shanghai Masters

First round J. Brooksby (US) bt J Munar (Sp) 7-5, 6-4; N Borges (Por) BT F Acosta (Arg) 7-6(5), 6-2; P Kotov (Russ) bt T Griekspoor (Neth) 6-4, 7-6(4); S Tsitsipas (Gre) bt K Coppejans (Bel) 6-3, 7-5; C Ugo Carabelli (Arg) bt I Simakin (Russ) 2-6, 6-2, 7-5; H Hurkacz (Pol) bt J Duckworth (Aus) 6-3, 7-6(4); M Amaldi (It) bt B Tomic (Aus) 6-3, 6-1; T Tirante (Arg) bt H Medjedovic (Serb) 6-4, 6-2; P Carreno Busta (Sp) bt M Navone (Arg) 4-6, 7-5, 6-3; A Vallejo (Pry) bt V Royer (Fr) 6-3, 6-1; S Baez (Arg) bt M Giron (US) 1-6, 6-3, 6-4; Z Svajda (US) bt F Marozsan (Hun) 6-3, 7-6(2); J Cerundolo (Arg) bt N Mejia (Col) 6-4, 6-4; B van de Zandschulp (Neth) bt

D Merida (Sp) 1-6, 6-3, 6-4; J-L Struff (Ger) bt M Landaluce (Sp) 6-4, 6-4; Y Bu (China) bt L Van Assche (Fr) 7-6(3), 6-3; Z Bergs (Bel) bt V Kopriva (Cz Rep) 6-3, 6-1; D Svrcina (Cz Rep) bt C Norrie (GB) 6-3, 3-6, 6-4. WTA China Open

Fixtures

Quarter-finals (26) N Bartunkova (Cz Rep) bt (7) K Muchova (Cz Rep) 6-3, 6-0; (4) M Andreeva (Russ) bt (19) E Alexandrova (Russ) 7-6(4), 7-6(3).

Football

Championship: West Ham United v Queens Park Rangers (8.0). National League Sutton United v Boreham Wood (7.45).

Women's World Cup qualifying play-offs: Semi-final first leg Albania v Wales (5.0), Czech Republic v Scotland (6.0), Greece v England (5.30), Kazakhstan v Republic of Ireland (Noon), Northern Ireland v Portugal (7.0).

Basketball

SLB Championship (7.30): Leicester v Bristol, Manchester v Cheshire. Rugby union

Gallagher Prem Leicester v Gloucester (7.45). Championship (7.45): Coventry v Blackheath, Rotherham v Caldy. United Rugby Championship (7.45): Dragons v Ospreys, Glasgow v Connacht.

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Anfield bear pit will show

Fans around country are poised to let Maresca's men know what they think of disgraced club, writes Paul Joyce

Pep Guardiola once said there is no stadium in the world quite like Anfield, an arena with the potential to make opponents feel small. It was, he concluded, "a bugger of a ground".

It will feel like that again on Sunday for Manchester City, as they return to the pitch for the first time since being found guilty of financial rule breaches. Liverpool supporters will have an opportunity to vent their anger at the malpractice they always suspected was taking place and which they now know changed the landscape of the Premier League, potentially denying them the chance to create all manner of new memories in the process.

There is indignation, there will be caustic chants, there will be banners and there have been plenty of suggestions online for the make-up of the pre-match playlist (Down Down by Status Quo, maybe Little Lies by Fleetwood Mac). There is also a recognition that the home fans cannot cross the line and that they have their own team to support and not just a rival to barrack. Andoni Iraola's Liverpool reign is seeking a moment of ignition, after all.

But where Guardiola could now be proved wrong is in the presumption that Anfield is unique. There is a new normal awaiting his former club, which suggests the vitriol will rain down on City wherever they go.

Three home games in all competitions follow Sunday, but it would be a surprise if they were not targeted at Aston Villa on October 24 given how City ended up taking their best players

— Gareth Barry, James Milner, Fabian Delph — during the nine-year period between 2009-18 that framed the Premier League investigation into their “sham” contracts.

Once established as a force, City then returned to pay £100 million for Jack Grealish. A couple more home games and then on November 7 it is a trip to Nottingham Forest, from whom they have just bought Elliot Anderson for £116 million. On November 29, it is to the Emirates and Arsenal, where Arsène Wenger would make a fitting guest of honour, having had the courage to be the first to speak out about inflated sponsorship arrangements in July 2011, something he called “financial doping”.

The rancour that awaits is a symptom of what football has become as Liverpool, too, know from experience. They were one of the first so-called “big six” clubs to play after the European Super League fiasco was exposed in April 2021.

Jürgen Klopp's squad were abused as they went on a pre-match walk before facing Leeds United. It was a time when crowds were still not allowed at games because of Covid, yet when the visiting team buses arrived at Elland Road, a group of 200 home fans charged towards them, chanting “greedy twats” and “scum, scum, scum”.

Leeds wore T-shirts in their warm-up — “Earn it on the pitch. Football is for the fans” — in a dig at the conspirators. Earlier, fans from the Leeds United Supporters’ Trust had walked from near the Billy Bremner statue down to join the throng, carrying a banner upon which was emblazoned a quote from Marcelo Bielsa, the head coach. “One of the reasons football is the most popular sport in the world is because the weak can beat the powerful,” it read. Clearly, that was a mantra for the romantics.

Anfield has always resembled something of a bear pit for games against City,

How they stand

	P	W	D	L	F	A	GDPts
Man City	5	5	0	0	13	5	8 15
Arsenal	5	4	0	1	8	4	4 12
Brighton	5	3	1	1	16	5	11 10
Brentford	5	2	3	0	10	4	6 9
Leeds	5	2	3	0	7	3	4 9
Liverpool	5	2	3	0	7	4	3 9
Everton	5	2	3	0	6	3	3 9
Hull	5	2	2	1	6	4	2 8
Newcastle	5	2	2	1	9	9	0 8
Chelsea	5	2	1	2	10	12	-2 7
Ipswich	5	2	0	3	7	11	-4 6
Man United	5	1	2	2	8	8	0 5
Nott'm Forest	5	1	2	2	4	5	-1 5
Sunderland	5	1	1	3	6	10	-4 4
Crystal Palace	5	1	1	3	6	11	-5 4
Aston Villa	5	1	1	3	4	9	-5 4
Bournemouth	5	0	3	2	6	8	-2 3
Coventry	5	1	0	4	1	10	-9 3
Fulham	5	0	2	3	5	8	-3 2
Tottenham	5	0	2	3	2	8	-6 2

Manchester City's Premier League schedule Sunday Liverpool (a), Oct 17 Ipswich (h), Oct 24 Aston Villa (a), Oct 31 Brighton (h), Nov 7 Nott'm Forest (a), Nov 21 Fulham (h), Nov 29 Arsenal (a), Dec 2 Leeds (h), Dec 5 Brentford (a), Dec 12 Chelsea (h).

fuelled, initially, by off-field friction. There was Liverpool's suspicion over the original deals with Etihad followed by the £1 million settlement they paid City in 2013 after a complaint that their scouting system had been hacked.

More recently, Liverpool are one of four clubs — Manchester United, Arsenal and Tottenham Hotspur the others — who reserved the right to seek compensation from City in light of a case that has dragged the Premier League through the mud.

In truth, boardroom relations have never threatened to boil over. The Liverpool chairman Tom Werner is expected to be present and, given City's appeal against the ruling of the independent commission which found them guilty of the overwhelming majority of Il5 charges and the insistence they are innocent, it would be no surprise if chairman Khaldoon Al Mubarak and chief executive Ferran Soriano were visible in the front row of the directors' box. A closing of ranks could follow on the pitch as new manager Enzo Maresca attempts to maintain a flawless start to a league campaign which has brought five successive victories.

"I'm annoyed it is the first game back in that I would have quite liked them to have had to put up with what other sets of supporters are going to think of them," Liverpool supporter Neil Atkinson, from The Anfield Wrap, says.

"And then you get Anfield. For the [City] players, there will be a siege mentality: we know how this is going to be, we're going to get up for it. When you're exhausted because this is the fourth, fifth, sixth game, it's different."

"But also they've got all the experience of Anfield. What Liverpool did to the Guardiola City team that was going to get 100 points in January 2018 for 30 minutes. They destroy them. The team, the ground, destroys them. It'll be really unpleasant for City, but also part of why that's been the case is that, intuitively, Liverpool supporters didn't need the independent commission report. It's what we've all thought. These fellows don't play by the same rules."

There is regret at missing out on the 2013-14 title to City. Then there is the team Klopp built: between February 2019 and February 2020, Liverpool won 36 and drew two league games, taking

110 points from a possible 114. They pushed breathlessly for one title, having earlier laid the groundwork to end that 30-year wait, and won the Champions League. It was proof that a sensational football team could be forged while abiding by the rules.

"You can make a strong case that it's the greatest Liverpool team ever," Atkinson says. "Where there's anger among supporters, I believe, is because there's a feeling of we would have got a dynasty if City hadn't been around.

"My counter to that is, I think Jürgen built a team to beat what was in front of him. If you change what was in front of them, from, say, Pep Guardiola's Manchester City to Ole Gunnar Solskjaer's Manchester United, I don't think Liverpool are as good because they don't need to be. And that's natural within sports.

"One of the reasons why we talk about the era of tennis with Federer, Nadal, Djokovic and Murray being the greatest is because they were constantly playing each other, so they had to find the best versions of themselves all the time. In Liverpool's instance they were having to scale a mountain that was artificially created. But they still did it."

While the world waits to see the next instalment in an ugly saga and what sanctions, if any, follow, the clamour for City's Abu Dhabi owners to be moved on grows. "They should never have been allowed to buy the club in the first place," Atkinson says. "Do I want the titles? Some people do, some people don't. I suspect the footballers and the managers do. I almost want the seasons to sit there in the record books as 'shame on the Premier League'. That's my attitude. The biggest asterisks ever.

"The Premier League through this process is trying to do a really good job and I think it's doing a really good job. But for a long period I couldn't get out of my head that every Premier League club, including Liverpool, gave [former Premier League chief executive] Richard Scudamore money when he left.

"He's in charge when [Roman] Abramovich takes over [at Chelsea]. He's in charge when [Thaksin] Shinawatra takes over [at City] and he's in charge when the City Group then comes in. He is in charge when [Farhad] Moshiri sells his shares [in Arsenal] to [Alisher] Usmanov one day, and then buys 49 per cent of Everton."

To recap, that £5 million “golden handshake” to Scudamore when he left in 2018 consisted of a £250,000 payment from all 20 top-flight clubs as reward for transforming the top flight into a global powerhouse. It was proposed by the former Chelsea chairman Bruce Buck. “If I was Richard Masters [the Premier League CEO], I’d be on the phone,” Atkinson adds. “Can I have that money back?” The people I’d love to see driving and pushing for a sale is 3,500 Manchester City supporters on Sunday.

"The Manchester City supporters should be the ones who were saying, 'This has gone on long enough. We need this to stop for the good of the club and the good of football.' I'm not saying it's easy for them at all, but if they were to speak out against their ownership, they would be astonished how quickly there'd be a wave of public support from football supporters across the country."

City their brutal new reality

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What rival managers had to say on verdict

Oliver Glasner

Oliver Glasner (Nottingham Forest) Glasner has called for the Manchester City case to be concluded quickly to prevent the

Premier League losing integrity and supporters switching off.

The Nottingham Forest head coach had first-hand experience of waiting for the outcome of an appeal when he was manager at Crystal Palace. After qualifying for the Europa League in May 2025 they were then demoted to the Conference League due to Uefa's multi-club ownership rules.

"Let's wait until the final verdict is spoken, but my wish is just that this is

Régis Le Bris (Sunderland) Le Bris echoed Glasner, saying the football authorities must be relentless" in their pursuit of City, or risk the credibility of the Premier League.

"The relevant authorities have to be relentless, otherwise you lose the value of your competition," the 50-year-old said.

"My position is simple, football has rules on and off the pitch.

"You have to respect those rules. When they are broken, you should have consequences, otherwise it's not

Frank Lampard (Coventry City) Lampard believes that if Manchester City are stripped of their Premier league titles, the players

who were part of those squads should remain entitled to call themselves champions. He spent the 2014-15 season at the Etihad — they did not win the league that year — before seeing out his playing career at their sister club in New York.

"I have a small affiliation with City because I had a great time there for a year and everybody treated me amazingly," Lampard said. "That's

quick ... because we didn't know with Palace if we were in the Europa League or Conference League and then it was, 'You will hear on Thursday', and then that became Monday, because it was always delayed. Then we got the final verdict ten days before the Conference League started," Glasner said.

"And that's why this must be [completed] as soon as possible. There is still damage for the Premier League, not just in England. It's a big topic all over the world, especially in Europe. The most important thing is the integrity of the league because as soon as the fans can't trust it, they won't watch it any more."

fair and we want fair competition, we want fair play."

Le Bris revealed senior figures at Sunderland had been discussing the charges against City and their owners.

"Yes, more or less, even [though] it is hard to understand exactly what the charges are, and it happened ten years ago, more or less," he said. "We were not here in Sunderland, but it is about respecting rules, so it's key because if you don't have fair competition it's a bit weird. That's more or less the feeling we have in the building."

Le Bris was also asked if he knew what would be an appropriate punishment and replied: "No, I don't."

probably about as much as I've got to say about it. I'm not part of this story now.

"I have titles [while at Chelsea] and I don't have my titles hanging on my wall at home, but I have them in my head. And most players that have played, you're competing against the best in the Premier League and lots of things that are out of control, or whatever it is, but they're very hard to win. So I think it would be very hard to take someone's title away as a player individually because they should be in your head as opposed to, you know, in this beautiful glass cabinet, or whatever."

Haaland urges team and fans: stay positive and stick together

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are top of the league. The players are just focused on that. They know what we can control is the football side — they are not worried at all about different things. They know they're professional and they know that the noise is there, but they don't care too much about the noise.

"They are just focused in this moment on how we can beat Liverpool and how, together with the fans, we can try to win in Anfield."

In a direct message to fans, Maresca added: "First of all, Anfield away, we're going to bring our passion, we're going to bring our game plan.

"But for sure we need their voice, their passion. In the last two days I watched last year's game at Anfield away and the celebration at the end was fantastic [when City came back to win 2-1].

"We need to be all together. I've said many times the reason why this organisation in the last 15 years was top was because from the owner, the CEO, the sporting director, the manager, players, fans, they are all on the same page. And this is fantastic.

"We know that the next two games are going to be battles, especially Anfield away. We're going to bring all our passion, feeling there. But at the same moment we need our fans with us. We need their passion and their voice and hopefully at the end of the game we can all be happy."

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In a carefully choreographed interview with Sky Sports, in which he was asked only two questions about the impact of City's guilty verdict, Haaland, 26, implored the supporters to stay with the players during a tough time for the club.

When asked if he had a message for supporters before Sunday's match, he said: "I think they'll have a good time. We have to stick together, we have to stay with each other and we have to stay positive no matter what happens in life — we always have to have a smile.

"We have to stay positive, look ahead and try to win football games and then try to enjoy the situation and win the game."

When asked about the importance of unity with the

fans in such difficult circumstances, the Norwegian added: "We have to stick together and we have to spread the love to each other. Stick together and enjoy the ride and smile."

Haaland is the first City player to speak on the subject. He and his teammates yesterday completed their first training session since news of the verdict was delivered on September 29, while most of them were on international duty. He waved to photographers who were stationed outside the City Football Academy.

"I care a lot about this place and the UK generally," Haaland said. "My mother lived here as well for ten years in Nottingham and Leeds, they never lived in Manchester but my father [Alf-Inge, who played for City from 2000 to 2003] trained at Carrington [City's former training ground] every day.

"I spent my first four years [here], my brother nine and my sister six, so it's a special place for us. I care a lot about City and the fans because I'm a fan myself, I feel with them as well.

"It's always special to play against Liverpool. Especially with Pep and [Jürgen] Klopp, I remember sitting in Molde, Salzburg and Dortmund and watching the games and how much they pushed each other, it's always special there."

Maresca said he was delighted with the form of his City team this season. "For sure, it's been a good feeling — seven games, seven wins," he said.

"But for me the most important thing is the things that I can see day by day, sometimes they are more important than the final product. Because I can see that the players are improving, they are understanding what we want."

"The momentum, for sure, was good. But also the rest was a good moment to recover energy and to try to understand what we can do better. That is the main thing, and go again.

"Liverpool away and PSG at home, two nice games. We work every day for these kinds of games so we're very excited for the next two games."

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City manager Maresca and star forward Haaland, above, arrive at training for the first time since the guilty verdict against club

Maresca: We feel fantastic

Haaland claims City will stick together despite threat of relegation for ‘sham’ sponsorships

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Enzo Maresca and Erling Haaland have insisted that Manchester City can shut out “the noise” and “stay positive” as they prepare for a return to action after the club were found guilty of more than 100 breaches of the Premier League’s financial regulations.

City are appealing against the independent commission's core decision, published last month in a damning

40-page report, insisting they have "irrefutable evidence" that they did not break the rules between 2009 and 2018.

But Maresca and his players are now facing a hostile reception away to Liverpool on Sunday, and yesterday both the club's manager and star striker spoke for the first time about the situation.

In an interview with City's own channel, before a press conference he is due to give today, Maresca said he had full "trust" in his employers and was confident his players would remain focused on maintaining their position at the top of the Premier League table despite the possibility of sanctions that could include a massive points deduction or even expulsion from the league.

“Personally, I’m very calm,” he said. “The club has been quite clear. We trust completely the club. We understand the noise but the focus for us is just what we can control and we can control just the football side.”

Maresca met his players for the first time since news broke of the commission's decision. Ferran Soriano was also at the training ground yesterday, although the club would not confirm if their chief executive also addressed Haaland and his colleagues. It is understood Soriano has been in his office all week.

Asked how his players were coping, Maresca said: "The feeling is fantastic, to be honest. The players are excited for the next two games. But especially they are excited because in this moment we Continued on page 63

Wimbledon's warning to influencers

Joe Harston

Wimbledon is not worried about online celebrities becoming a problem like they were at the US Open — because the championships' military-trained security "would love nothing more than to sort out some influencers".

Richard Atkinson, the interim chief executive of the All England Club, backed the "self-policing" of the SW19 crowd to prevent a repeat of the disruption caused at Flushing Meadows last month, though joked that Royal Marines Commandos may spring into action if required.

Speaking at the Leaders Week conference at Stamford Bridge, Atkinson pointed out the cultural differences between the two grand-slam events, suggesting influencers won't be as much of a presence in southwest London as they were in New York.

"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 the ring lights and start broadcasting literally in the middle of the match.

"If you try to do that at Wimbledon, you'd probably have some Royal Marines Commando [stopping you]. We do have military there and they would like nothing more, I suspect, than to sort out some influencers."

At the US Open, in Naomi Osaka's first-round victory over Anastasia Zakharova, a group of influencers in a hospitality suite in the Arthur Ashe Stadium used a bright ring light to record a TikTok video, which caused the chair umpire to stop play. He called for quiet on three more occasions because of chatter in the crowd.

The four-times grand-slam winner Osaka said it should be “common courtesy to read up on the sport, especially the etiquette” for people new to Continued on page 58

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Richard Morrison The BBC's Choral Evensong is 100 years old. Will it survive the next 10?

W ednesday afternoon in Westminster Abbey. Outside: rain, traffic, hassle

and the world of work and worry. Inside, for an hour: a sublime balm for what masquerades as my soul. Along with hundreds of others I had come to hear the superb Abbey choir sing evensong under the guidance of its director, Andrew Nethsingha. It didn't disappoint. True, the psalm (88, if you have the Book of Common Prayer handy) was on the grim side. "For my soul is full of trouble," it declared, "and my life draweth nigh unto hell." King David really was a glass-half-empty kind of guy at times, wasn't he?

But the music was beautiful. A rising British composer, Kerensa Briggs, had been commissioned to write a short piece, Almighty and Everlasting God, that ingeniously elaborated a setting of the same words by Orlando Gibbons, who was the organist in this very abbey just over 400 years ago. The sense of continuity, of these stones echoing to thousands of sung evensongs over centuries, was so strong I almost imagined the ghost of Gibbons beaming down from the organ loft.

Then the choir let rip with two absolute belters from the English choral tradition: Herbert Howells's Gloucester Service is regularly voted the best of all Howells's 20-odd settings of the Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis canticles, which are the two unchanging choral elements of evensong. And Hubert Parry's John Milton setting, Blest Pair of Sirens, is as sturdy and Victorian as St Pancras station, but stirring when sung as well as this.

There was an extra reason for the choir to be at the top of its game. In this building exactly 100 years earlier (to the day, possibly even the hour) the BBC had broadcast its first Choral Evensong to the nation. Some 7,000 live broadcasts later, the microphones were back in Westminster to celebrate that centenary.

Choral Evensong's survival is a broadcasting phenomenon that scarcely seems possible in our modern world of gnat-sized attention spans, supposed religious decline and a general indifference bordering on contempt for so many venerable British traditions. Yet the statistics speak for themselves. It is the world's oldest live outside-broadcast programme. Indeed, in the list of longest-running radio programmes it is surpassed only by the Shipping Forecast (the BBC started that in July 1925), the American country music show Grand Ole Opry, which has been broadcast from Nashville, Tennessee, since November 1925, and a Danish Radio news programme called Radioavisen, launched in August 1926.

The Westminster Abbey choir

In fact, compared with Choral Evensong, most of the radio programmes that seem to have been around for ever turn out to be Johnny-come-latelys. Desert Island Discs is a mere 84 years old. Woman's Hour has just turned 80. Gardeners' Question Time, Any Questions and The Archers are all still in their seventies. And I am shocked — not entirely happily — to find Test Match Special is younger than I am. When you dig out those recordings of John Arlott and EW Swanton you imagine yourself transported back to Edwardian times, at least. But perhaps people reading my articles feel the same thing.

What explains Choral Evensong's abiding power? First, I think that, by luck or genius, Thomas Cranmer hit on the perfect liturgical format to complement the English twilight hours when, in 1549, he pulled together bits from the Roman Catholic evening services of vespers and compline to form the new Anglican service of evensong. And balancing the ecstatic song of a teenage girl who believes she can change the world (the Magnificat) with the elegiac testimony of a dying old man (the Nunc Dimittis) must be the first known liturgical example of equality, diversity and inclusiveness.

“ The singing quality of most cathedral choirs remains high

Then there's the majestic prose of the King James Bible, which

has been modernised (ie mangled) in so many other church services but generally still tolerated at evensong. And finally, of course, there's the music. Cathedral and abbey choirs have been through some crisis years recently. Ancient choir schools have closed; senseless battles have been fought over the introduction of girls and women (who have, in many cases, lifted musical standards), and many cathedrals, facing severe economic challenges, have slashed their music budgets. There's also been a (necessary) drive to recruit children from a wider social span to sing in cathedral choirs and enjoy the undoubted educational and musical benefits that this extraordinarily intense training can bring. That upheaval in how boy and girl choristers are recruited and taught will take time to settle down.

Yet the singing quality of most cathedral choirs remains consistently high, and often utterly inspiring. And it's startling how, thanks to the BBC's ingenious sound engineers, listening to Choral Evensong on the radio can give you an uncanny sense of a cathedral's aura as well as its acoustics. That the programme draws 300,000 listeners for its Wednesday afternoon live broadcasts and Sunday evening repeats attests to that. To put that figure in context, it's roughly the same number of people who attend all the West End's theatres in any week.

The question is: can Choral Evensong last another 100 years, or even just beyond the impending renewal of the BBC's charter, with all the changes that might bring? As Sam Jackson, Radio 3's controller, has said, it's impossible to imagine a commercial broadcaster lugging an outside broadcast unit and its staff to a different city each Wednesday afternoon to record a choir singing psalms and canticles. It just wouldn't happen.

So, like much else, Choral Evensong can survive only in a public broadcasting context, backed by politicians who see the value of making high-quality cultural, musical and spiritual content freely available to a significant minority of the public. People thought that was worth doing throughout the Great Depression, during the Second World War and through innumerable economic and political crises since. It would be shameful if our generation decided that preserving this weekly dose of quintessential British serenity was too much bother.

My partner died. Then I found a text: 'Shall we have an affair?'

Erin Baker was deep in grief when she discovered messages from her partner's ex-girlfriend — along with his replies

hall we have an affair?" Texts you don't want to find on your partner's phone after they've died (or before, to be fair). I have to say straight away that it wasn't James asking

that question on his phone, it was an ex-girlfriend of his. One whose name he'd never mentioned to me in 12 years. But I'll come back to that in a minute. His response, by the way, was no more appealing: "I'm not sure. Can we keep the door open on it? I'm surprised by how you still make me feel."

I'm adamant about honestly sharing what it means to be a 48-year-old widow, to mourn and to grieve. More importantly, I'm adamant about shining a light on the sort of relationships and love that we end up prizing and grieving over the most. They aren't always pretty, but they are always true.

If we, the people who have kissed death and rolled around in the ashes of our lives in complete despair, are not honest about the reality of it all, how will any of us ever feel more connected and less alone? How can we mourn in public, like every other society before us has done since time immemorial, if we don't share publicly the traumas, the mess and the mistakes alongside the reconciliations, the love and the hope? Are they not all part of our mourning? Sanitising the public version of our lives helps no one. We just stay shuttered in private grief, behind closed doors, thinking our life alone is the disaster zone.

Well, here's my disaster zone. I'm not ashamed or embarrassed, because I know how it all turns out, and I know where our love lies now, in the still pools that face the sky and never run dry. James and I are just fallible, messy humans, like you, and you, and you.

It is maybe two weeks since James died. I am looking on his WhatsApp for the number of a colleague who doesn't know he has died. I find a chat called "Builder Group". I'm curious: it means nothing to me. I start thumbing through, expecting a work discussion as he was in the property industry.

It is very much not a work discussion.

The exchanges are sometimes five times a day, sometimes twice a week, sometimes twice a month. They go back at least three years, but soon I stop looking, partly because my hand is shaking so much that I cannot scroll, and partly because I have seen too much. There are “Mornings” at 9am from the office and “Nights” at 10pm from James’s work house when he worked away three times a week. The one that stings the most is one word: “Bborred”. He used to text that to me from work when we started going out and now he is texting it to her at the start of the week.

Most messages are innocuous exchanges about her divorce, her kids and him (no mention of me), his sons (no mention of his stepsons) and his work. There is not a single “we” or “us” in his messages. But a bunch are awful: he suggests meeting halfway for supper on one of his Sunday drives up north for work. Then, one morning, she texts him the words: “Do you want to have an affair?” He answers: “I’m not sure. Can we keep the door open on it? I’m surprised by how you still make me feel.” It makes me sick, months on, recalling it.

The messages peak around the summer of 2024, I think. I cannot now check because the next day, my friend came round, took his phone away from me and deleted the entire WhatsApp chat after she found me hopelessly rocking and crying, comparing the date of each text against where I was on that day. I even tried to match up some of the messages to photos of us taken the same week and to critically analyse his expression for signs of anger, frustration or sadness.

Above and below: Erin Baker with James, her partner

After that the messages more or less fade again into the passing comments of a friendship. But they never stop, and I find he even messaged her at 10pm on the December night my son had a seizure and I had to go in the ambulance with him to hospital. At least, however, in that one there is recognition that he has a family, as he

says: "You couldn't make this up: my stepson has just had a seizure and gone to hospital." I am pathetically, pathetically grateful to see the reference to a stepson.

There is nothing for it: I screenshot the affair exchange and text her to tell her James has died. I say that she might as well tell me if they had an affair, because he's dead now.

She is wonderful. She saves James's arse, in fact, so I hope he's grateful. And she saves what's left of my sanity, which is just ragged remnants, fluttering in the wind.

She says he initially told her I had an affair, which isn't true but I know what she is referring to: a short, stupid, flirty text exchange between me and a male colleague during lockdown, when James and I briefly split up. I think it amounted to three texts one day. James found the texts and, being neurodiverse, could only deal with black and white, so decided that to forgive me, he had to believe I cheated on him and he knew all there was to know. The gamble of believing me when I swore nothing happened and there was no more than those texts

was too torturous for him. But he couldn't fully forgive me either, it transpires, so he stayed, locked in mental and emotional vacillations for months, which tired him out. In the end he turned to her for an ego and confidence boost.

She tells me they only met for dinner once, they were never in love when they went out as he was too grumpy (now I know she's telling the truth) and it was clear he loved me. She says, "He was leaning into nostalgia," and was convinced I was going to leave him at some point, and that he was not worthy of me, so he would rather burn down the bridge first.

It is all so familiar and so accurate an insight into him that I don't doubt she is telling the truth.

I am struck by how well she knows him, which makes me wobble, but that is a minor issue compared with the salve her words bring. It reminds me of when I burnt my scalp on a candle (pissed, a twenties tale) and the relief the burn cream brought. My head feels like it's on fire again, but this time on the inside, and her words take the sting out of it.

I decide she must come to the thanksgiving service I am planning: I need to give her a hug. In 30 minutes I have gone from wanting to kill her to wanting to kiss her. Welcome to the madness of grief.

‘I’m not sure,’ he answers. ‘Can we keep the door open on it? I’m surprised by how you still make me feel’

Erin Baker's Postcards from Grief: erinbakergrief. substack.com

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I sleep with my dogs. Of course it's good for me

A new study shows that people get better rest with canine company, says Marina Fogle

When I think about the qualities a spouse must possess — kindness, humour, intelligence and

like-mindedness are all important — there is one that is unquestionably crucial: a willingness to let dogs sleep on the bed.

It's a view that divides the nation. On one side is a group of dog lovers who simply cannot sleep without a gently snoring canine companion; on the other, those who shudder at the thought of the dirt, the germs, the slobbery morning kisses. Hand on heart, there is no way my marriage would have lasted the two decades it has, had Ben and I not been aligned on this.

And for good reason, because a study by Canadian researchers at the University of Toronto has found that people sleep better with a dog snuggling up in bed with them. This is not news for me. The way I ensure a sound night's slumber is not a camomile tea or a warm bath infused with salts, nor high-thread-count sheets or a silky sleep mask. No, it's the quiet, comforting presence of labradors in bed with me.

Storm and Swift know the drill. As I turn off the lights downstairs, they creep up the stairs and purposefully establish themselves on my bed as I brush my teeth. They nestle into my side of the bed so that by the time I've washed and moisturised my face, flossed and put on my pyjamas, my bed is perfectly warm. They're better than an

electric blanket, which just gets the bed too warm: a labrador warms the bed gently to the perfect temperature with no spike in our electricity bill.

As I get in, they shuffle aside and settle down for the night. I find their heavy presence a huge comfort. My husband spends a lot of time away, so often I'm alone in the house, surrounded by woods and fields and devoid of neighbours.

I sometimes get night terrors where I wake with my heart pounding, sweat dripping off me, thinking there is a man with a gun in the house or an army of snakes coming through the window. In the moments before my brain realises that this is a dream, the gentle breathing of my two canine protectors reassures me that there are no snakes after all.

"But what of the germs?" This is what people on social media cry when I post a picture of my dogs with their heads on my pillow. I'd say that I'm living proof that the hygiene hypothesis is true. The idea that allergies and viruses are more common in homes that are too clean, because our immune system needs to be stretched to be effective, resonates with me. Our children were initiated early. I pulled a dog hair out of baby Iona's mouth within a day of her being born. Sixteen years on, I'm confident it hasn't done them any harm.

Maybe, though, our sleeping arrangement is harming the dogs. This same study revealed that when co-sleeping with their humans, the dogs were more likely to have their sleep disturbed. Fair point, especially for my dogs coping with the odd night terror. But there is no denying that my dogs love sleeping on my bed.

When Ben is home we agree that our bed is too small for both of us and our sizeable dogs, so they're relegated to the kitchen with their dog beds nestled against the stove for warmth. We have learnt from our mistakes because we both, deep down, love the idea of all piling in together. But occasionally our wily hounds break out of the kitchen and head straight for our bed. They leap up with the joy of finally being where they deserve to be and, too comfy to re-confine them to the kitchen, we hope instead we can

make it work. But it make it work. But it never does. As the dogs sleep more deeply they stretch out, they take up more of the bed and Ben will be woken with a paw scraping his face or a tail thumping on his nose. As lovely as it sounds, this arrangement is not conducive to sleep.

But is this about comfort or control? My crude understanding of dog psychology suggests that because dogs are pack animals, hierarchy within that pack is hugely important. I'm pretty confident that as the person who feeds and walks them most consistently, I'm the head of their pack, so sleeping on my bed makes them feel more powerful.

My children are furious that the dogs never choose to sleep with them, in spite of much encouragement. The best Swift will offer when Iona forces her onto her bed is to wait until she's asleep, then silently retreat back to my bed.

And honestly, I'm delighted. While I need to wash my sheets more often, while muddy tummies have wrecked some lovely linen and not one item of my clothing or part of my body is free from dog hair, that quiet, sturdy presence, the comforting weight of a soft head heavy with sleep resting on your waist as you drift off is simply the worst-kept secret of excellent sleep.

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'Regrets? I wish I'd bought a Hockney, a really good one'

Peter Simon, the Monsoon founder, will auction off his art collection next week. And then? Well, it'll be time to start buying again, he tells Laura Freeman

R arely has an interview got off to such a flying start. Within moments of meeting the fashion entrepreneur and art collector Peter Simon, 77, at his Monsoon HQ in west London, I am being ushered across the atrium and on to Carsten Höller's Carousel. Höller is the artist who filled Tate Modern's Turbine Hall with slides and designed the tunnel that wraps around Anish Kapoor's Orbit structure in the Olympic Park.

With our legs swinging in the air (and with Simon's PR chief and collection curator on the other side for balance) we do two rounds of the carousel before coming back down to earth with a jump. We settle on solid ground in a conference room where the Monsoon spring/summer 2027 collection is already hanging on rails.

I arrive at the Monsoon building straight from Christie's auction house, where I have spent the morning gawping at the Peter Simon collection. It's a knock-out roster of artists: Francis Bacon, Howard Hodgkin, Frank Auerbach, Piet Mondrian, Willem de Kooning, Joan Miró, Elsworth Kelly, Andy Warhol, Bridget Riley, Pablo Picasso... There are works by mid-century British greats such as Barbara Hepworth, Winifred Nicholson, Ben Nicholson, Paul Nash, Christopher Wood, Alfred Wallis, Ivon Hitchens and

Below: Jeff Koons, Baroque Egg with Bow (Blue/Turquoise), 1994-2008. Main, from left: Pablo Picasso, Crâne, lampe, poireaux, pichet, 1945; Peter Simon; Francis Bacon, Figure in Movement, 1978

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Cedric Morris and by present stars such as Cecily Brown, Hurvin Anderson and Beatriz Milhazes.

It is the highest-value single-owner collection to come to auction at Christie's London. The collection of almost two hundred works is expected to sell for somewhere between £85m and £130m across a series of sales next week.

If you are feeling flush, you might like to register to bid for that Mondrian (estimate: £8m to £12m) or one of Simon's two Bacons (£14m to £18m for the Figure in Movement, £4m to £6m for the Study for a Figure). My fantasy bid would be for William Nicholson's Mushrooms on a Plate (a steal at £70,000 to £100,000).

Peter Simon was born during a monsoon (take note) in Sri Lanka in 1949. The family came back to his mother's native Ireland when Simon was a boy. It wasn't a particularly creative childhood: no art on the walls, not much music. He remembers his mother making a "big effort" when Simon was 16 or so and the family

were living in Yorkshire to plan a trip to London and visit the British Museum.

After an early,

unsatisfactory stint as a frozen fish fingers salesman for Birds Eye, Simon "fell into the clothing business" with a stall on the Portobello Road. At first he sold shaggy, woollen, Afghan-style coats — "very fashionable at the time" and "really itchy". It wasn't until a trip to Rajasthan, however, that he really saw what he wanted to do. He fell in love with hand-block printing, an ancient craft in danger of being replaced by modern machine methods.

He rented a shop on Beauchamp Place in Knightsbridge for £50 a week and started selling clothes in glorious colours and dazzling prints imported from India. The shop was just down the road from the restaurant San Lorenzo. Everyone went there: actors,

I had a room with pictures worth eight times the value of the house

film directors, Jane Seymour and "Lady Di". "One day we had the queen of Spain in one changing room, the Aga Khan's wife in another," he says. Monsoon — it took three months for Simon to alight on the name — and later Accessorize took the British high street by, well, storm. Seymour became an early Monsoon model and, for a time, Simon's girlfriend.

His interest in art didn't take off until the 1990s, when he found himself at a Notting Hill dinner party "sitting next to a really pretty girl. She said, 'What do you think of contemporary art?' and I had absolutely no idea. I was just flummoxed. She said, 'Well, I'm working at the Serpentine. Do you want to come and have a look?' Really, I wanted to go and see her, so I trotged on down and saw what she had on show."

It was 1994 and the show was Here and Now: British Painters at the Serpentine Gallery from 1970 to the Present. "I was really struck by Howard Hodgkin because I loved the way he painted all the frames and it wasn't surprising because I was into colour. And then Francis Bacon because it was quite..." He makes a sound somewhere between a "wow" and a "whoa". "Quite shocking, quite scary, quite moving."

Soon after that he was introduced to the art dealer Ivor Braka, who said: "Come round. Let's meet. You don't have to buy anything."

"So I went along and of course I left with an Alfred Wallis under my arm," he says. It was one of Wallis's seascapes, a tiny picture with a single

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Bacon — £18 million

boat. It remains one of only a handful of pictures Simon isn't selling, along with a Winifred Nicholson painting of St Ives. Through Wallis he "fell in love with the whole school of St Ives".

He had got the collecting bug. A few years later he had the cash to go with it. When Monsoon became a public company in 1998, Simon found himself with “a ton of money”. He started going to auctions and art fairs, meeting dealers, buying bigger things, buying more bravely. A late starter, he has learnt along the way. He shows me his battered copy of Dictionary of 20th Century Painters and Sculptors interleaved with Post-its. He is about the most unpseudy collector I’ve met and unapologetic about having made his own money and had a good time spending it.

He bought what he loved rather than with an eye to an investment. He had one definite mistake. "It was an Agnes Martin. It was white, very white, with very faint white lines. It cost me" — he lowers his voice to a sheepish whisper — "£5m and I put it in my studio next to my Beatriz Milhazes, my Hodgkins, and I thought, oh, this doesn't work, and I sold it. I lost money."

What had gone wrong? “I don’t know. I think I thought I should have something minimalist. But I’m not that minimalist.” You can say that again. I’m still reeling from the Christie’s kaleidoscope. Was there an artist that got away? “I should have bought a Gerhard Richter and I wish I’d bought a Hockney. A really good Hockney.” There are some lovely Hockney Yorkshire iPad drawings for sale, but not a standout painting.

He was offered one Hockney a few times, but "it was a boy on a bed with his butt showing, totally naked. And I kept on saying, 'I cannot hang this picture. I'm sorry. I am very

Andy Warhol, Diamond Dust Shoes, 1980. Below: Fernand Léger, Le siphon, 1924

Léger — £5 million

hetero. I am not having that in my studio." The price came down and down... "Then suddenly it went for a huge sum, but it still wasn't my thing."

After almost thirty years of collecting, why is he selling now? He calls it a “time of life thing... I think it’s wanting a change.” He is out of wall space at home, a converted former artist’s studio, and he doesn’t like to keep art in storage. He frets about damage too. “I’ve never worried about theft but I had one room in which the pictures were worth eight times the value of the house and I was always worried about fire.

"Also, although I love my children as I do, I know very well that they're just going to flog this and break it up and I prefer to be around to see it done in an orderly way as Christie's are doing. It gives me an

opportunity to go and start buying again and I don't know what direction I'm going in."

He had four children — Zara, Jessica, Camilla and George — with his first wife, Kate Simon, and two more — Lucas, in his twenties, and Julia, a teenager — with two younger partners. George died in a car accident when he was 32. Simon prefers not to speak about his family.

He is going to Frieze to look, but not necessarily yet to buy. "I'm living with bare walls at the moment," he says. He used to come home and see two Bacons, a Cecily Brown and a Peter Doig. "Now it's just blank.

"But I feel like I'm a figure in a David Hockney swimming pool picture. I'm about to do a high dive into a swimming pool and it's all glittering with sunlight and I'm thinking: I'm about to create a big splash, but God knows what's going to happen." Monsoon: The Peter Simon Collection will be sold by Christie's London at day, evening and online sales from Oct 14 to 20

Five to see at Frieze

Frieze Week is when the art world descends on London. As well as the art fair in Regent's Park, every

gallery puts on a show and Christie's and Sotheby's host their biggest autumn auctions. This year there are 172 galleries at Frieze London (the contemporary tent) and 140 at Frieze Masters (old masters and 20th-century stars). Here's what to look out for.

Sex and Satire — The Andrew Edmunds Collection Daniel Crouch Rare Books (Frieze Masters) For 50 years the dealer and restaurateur Andrew Edmunds was the godfather of the print trade, the go-to guy for Hogarth, Gillray and Thomas Rowlandson. Edmunds died in 2022, leaving a collection of more than 10,000 works. Daniel Crouch Rare Books will turn its stand into an 18th-century print shop selling the Edmunds collection.

Portrait of a Nobleman — Anthony van Dyck Colnaghi (Frieze Masters) For buyers with deep pockets in their black velvet breeches, there's a supremely handsome Portrait of a Nobleman by Anthony van Dyck, right, at the old-master dealers Colnaghi.

Still Life of Flowers in a Stoneware Vase — Jan Brueghel the Elder Hauser & Wirth (Frieze Masters) This exquisite still life, once owned by Baron Alphonse de Rothschild, was seized by the

Nazis in 1939 and held for decades in the National Gallery in Prague before its restitution in 2016. It is a particularly ravishing example of Brueghel's balance of precision and looseness and will be paired with a new work by the young British artist Flora Yukhnovich.

David Hockney Annely Juda (Frieze Masters) Hockney was for many decades represented by Annely Juda. Her gallery will show three ink and pencil portraits reminding us what a brilliant, lean draughtsman he could be. The Hockney drawings will be shown

alongside other figurative works by Anthony Caro, Leon Kossoff and Frank Auerbach.

Hayley Barker
Ingleby Gallery (Frieze London)
Claude Monet's water lilies, Cedric Morris's irises, Hayley Barker's roses... Barker is a Los Angeles-based painter with a bewitching way with a garden. Her large-scale canvases have a twilight beauty and a sense of abundance just going over.

THE CRITICS

More thrilling than revolting

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Andrew Garfield is excellent in this Brexit-inspired take on the 1381 Peasants' Revolt, says Kevin Maher

The key scene in this "historical action drama" from Paul Greengrass (the Bourne films) occurs during a London riot in 1381.

We're at the height of the Peasants' Revolt and a throng of furious rebels are chopping heads and trashing shopfronts with abandon. Their leaders are the priest John Ball (Jamie Bell), the former soldier Wat Tyler (Cosmo Jarvis) and a charismatic ploughman, called Ploughman (Andrew Garfield).

Midway through the carnage, however, angry voices direct the mob to the city's growing population of Flemish immigrants. Why? Because "the foreigners are taking our jobs!" And that's when the penny drops. Wait, is this a Brexit film?

Greengrass has indeed admitted this is his Brexit-inspired project. It's about "a very English rebellion story" that's set in the 14th century but reflecting the events of 2016. "When you looked at the places where the Peasants' Revolt began," Greengrass said recently, "it was all the big Brexit places: Essex, Kent, north Essex, Suffolk, all the way up to Hull, Lincolnshire. So there was something ancient about it."

The allegory works, of course, with Garfield, Jarvis and Bell as stand-ins for, respectively, Johnson, Gove and Farage — all pitted against David Cameron, who, in Greengrass's tale, is the mewling and ineffective Richard II

Garfield as the charismatic leader Ploughman

(Woody Norman). There are parallels beyond Brexit — see France's current student protests.

Garfield et al deliver strong performances as people abandoned by contemporary economics. “We are working beyond what our backs and souls can take,” Ploughman says early on. Greengrass, too, deploys his trademark “shaky camera” style, charting Ploughman’s journey from a grief-stricken farmer (the recent plague has taken his family) to an arse-kicking revolutionary with the kind of jittery urgency normally reserved for Matt Damon riding a trials bike through a plate-glass penthouse window.

The Uprising 15, 128min ★★★☆☆

The pacing is often thrilling, and the depiction of the King's council is suitably boo-hiss repellent — step forward Tom Hollander as the treasurer Robert Hales. The film, however, has been critically divisive among Greengrass's normally left-leaning constituency, while fans of his overtly political work, say Bloody Sunday, may be appalled. And that's because the movie's portrait of unfettered English nationalism is so seductive and so destructive that it inevitably leaves an unsettling aftertaste. You'll love it, you'll hate it, you'll be split down the middle, 52 per cent to 48 per cent. In cinemas

the classic film

24 Hour Party People (2001)

18, 117min ★★★★★

In 2001 there simply hadn't been a movie like 24 Hour Party People. Music-themed mockumentaries tended to emulate the Spinal Tap template, with affectionate character portraits trapped within a tightly controlled narrative structure, normally a competition.

Instead, Michael Winterbottom's film was loose and free-ranging, jumping decades, venues and countries to tell the story, the myth and the rumour of the influence of the Factory Records impresario Tony Wilson (Steve Coogan) on the music of Joy Division, New Order and the Happy Mondays.

It looked chaotic, it seemed improvised and yet the script was built upon a plethora of epigrammatic zingers written by Frank Cottrell-Boyce, a former children's laureate. It didn't find an audience back then, but it's become beloved over time, with quotable set pieces remembered as fondly, arguably, as the "these go to eleven" of Spinal Tap. Such as? Andy Serkis, as the long-haired, ciggie-wielding, shades-wearing, reprobate producer Martin Hannett, demanding the Joy Division drummer Stephen Morris (Tim Horrocks) change his musical style. "Let's try something a lot simpler," Hannett purrs. "Faster. But slower."

In cinemas from Friday; 4K UHD from Oct 26

Steve Coogan as Tony Wilson

Animals 15, 106min ★★★☆☆

Marriage Story meets Mel Gibson's Ransom is the essence of this Ben Affleck-directed thriller that was originally earmarked for Affleck's ex-wife Jennifer Garner and Matt Damon. The pair were to play a bickering married couple sorely tested when their only child is kidnapped. Then The Odyssey came along and Damon was out and so Affleck was in, as both star and director. That meant Garner had to go too, for fear that the sight of the former Mr and Mrs Affleck playing a warring couple would burden an audience, Affleck said recently, with lots of unnecessary "baggage".

Garner was replaced by Kerry

Washington, a casting masterstroke that transforms the central relationship between Affleck's aspirational LA politician Mark Kimball and his wife, Abigail, a professor, into a thing of knotty and nasty beauty.

Kimball, an ambitious mayoral candidate, is morally slippery and image-obsessed and, Abigail drily notes, clearly enjoys the cachet that a mixed-race wife buys him among the diverse LA electorate. Abigail, however, is also ethically

challenged, and hides a secret that erupts midway through the drama, threatening more than the future of their clearly imploding relationship.

A film about these two scoundrels, so deftly played by Affleck and Washington, would have been enough. And some of their vitriolic arguments indeed have echoes of Scarlett Johansson and Adam Driver's searing smackdowns in Marriage Story.

Kerry Washington and Ben Affleck in a knotty, nasty relationship

But Affleck, also a co-writer, raises the popcorn stakes with a glossy kidnapping plot and the arrival into the movie of Gillian Anderson's sinister mafia fixer, Dayle. She's a pulp crime creation with Lady Gaga's slicked-back Joker: Folie à Deux haircut and the whispering delivery of Miranda Priestly from The Devil Wears Prada.

The kidnapping story never fully makes sense, while the film's lack of interest in the villain is shameful. But this is mostly guilty pleasure fun, and Affleck is too good a film-maker (see Argo and Air) to produce a genuine misfire. Netflix

The Yellow Tie

15, 145min ★★☆☆☆

The Romanian conductor and composer Sergiu Celibidache, who died in 1996, is treated to a lavish biopic starring John Malkovich and directed by Celibidache's 58-year-old son, Serge, often with unapologetic adoration.

Maestro is probably its nearest cinematic cousin, but only if Leonard Bernstein had been divested of his closeted homosexuality, his drug and alcohol abuse and his fiery conflicts with his wife, Felicia, leaving only an inscrutable protagonist with a single character trait — good at music.

The Yellow Tie begins with an aged Celibidache (Malkovich) in a lush French retreat in the 1990s,

A seething father of a self-harming teenage girl makes his feelings clear about Facebook in this excoriating drama about Mark Zuckerberg and

social media villainy, blaming the platform for his daughter's mental disintegration. "Just unplug the goddam thing!" he hisses. That mood of righteous ire permeates the film and is echoed by one of the main characters, the whistleblower Frances Haugen (Anora's Mikey Madison), who pleads: "Take action!"

This is the belated sequel to The Social Network, written by the same writer, Aaron Sorkin (The West Wing), who also directs, but it's a far bleaker beast. There are dystopian sci-fi elements about a rain-drenched "post-government" world where political systems and human psychology have been decimated by Zuckerberg, a 42-year-old former computer programmer played by Jeremy Strong of Succession like a dead-eyed replicant from Blade Runner.

The first film, directed by David Fincher, was a shadow-filled noir that depicted Facebook emerging in 2003 from a snarky pit of elitism, bigotry and misogyny. It seemed to ask: "What could possibly go wrong?" This film is the answer.

It's also a love letter to print journalism, as romantic as The Post, Spotlight and All the President's Men, that swoons before its other central character, the ace Wall Street Journal reporter Jeff Horwitz (Jeremy Allen White from The Bear). He makes Haugen his secret source for a series of articles known as the Facebook Files, beginning in September 2021, which show how the site "turbocharged" hate speak, scrambled the minds of teenagers and set in motion a breakdown in the US political system that climaxed with the January 6 Capitol riots.

Horwitz and Haugen clash over their world views (he's analogue, she's digital), which allows Sorkin to rage against the vapidity of digital culture. Horwitz agrees that everyone should have a voice, but doesn't believe everyone should have access

Zuckerberg, superbly zapped

Jeremy Strong is dead-eyed as the Facebook founder in this witty, angry sequel to The Social Network, says Kevin Maher

LEAH GALLO

A dutiful flashback to Romania in the 1920s introduces us to the teenage Celibidache, now played by Ben Schnetzer (Swiped) and sparring with a stern and joyless father, played by Sean Bean. Almost immediately we discover that this younger version of Celibidache is a musical genius who, oh yes, rails about the painful inability etc. In short, the character is written into a dead end before the first act is done. He begins as he ends: a musical savant with an aversion to microphones.

He pings from Bucharest to Berlin, Peru to Philadelphia, all the while barking out increasingly pointless bromides such as, “Always the truth!”, “This music cannot be

the big film

to a microphone; that has to be earned. When Haugen accuses Horwitz of analogue bias and of resenting “tech” for taking “journalism jobs”, he replies: “My bias isn’t because tech is taking journalism jobs. It’s because you are doing them so badly.”

If you're not punching the air after this and umpteen other anti-tech

burns from a screenplay that's saying what we all feel deep down, you either haven't been paying attention over the past two decades or else you're one of the 43 per cent who, the film warns, get their news from Facebook.

Sorkin's robust bias isn't just expressed in words. It's in the recreation of Facebook offices, with Zuckerberg's giant Orwellian motto plastered over the walls: "Move fast and break things." That was cute in 2003 but not when the "things" are people, communities and functional democracies. Or the in-house Facebook meetings that culminate in soulless music and hoodie-clad employees clapping themselves madly, like gormless circus seals.

The Social Reckoning 15, 112min ★★★★☆

surrounded by admirers while railing about the painful inability of “modern” technology to capture the transcendental essence of a live music performance.

Strong's performance is perhaps the cruellest cut for Team Facebook. It's a captivating interpretation, mostly depicting Zuckerberg as he is "prepped" by his PR team before facing Congress in 2021. They're attempting to humanise an apparent automaton. "This is the meeting where we make me likeable," Zuckerberg coldly says to his lackeys. It's one of the few lines that reaches directly back to the first film and recalls Jesse Eisenberg's outsider protagonist, Zuckerberg at 20, who is warned in the opening scene that girls will never like him, not because he's a nerd but "because you're an asshole".

The Social Reckoning is not as good as Fincher's film. That was a slick, rolling machine, a tour de force. This is mainly a thrilling polemic — furious, invigorating and timely. In cinemas

John Malkovich as the Romanian conductor Sergiu Celibidache
recorded!" and "I refuse to sell a lie!" Celibidache, as director, is a gifted stylist and there are some bravura sequences, including a bombing run in Berlin and a lyrical ice-skating scene. But too often this feels like a home movie, or cosy clips montage, for family members only. In cinemas

The “Tuam babies scandal” was featured in a 2017 New York Times article, adapted here by Rebecca Lenkiewicz and sensitively directed by Frank Berry. It advances respectfully through the investigation, as Corless

The Lost Children of Tuam 12A, 84min ★★★★☆

Liam Neeson turns producer and advocate with this chilling, incendiary drama about institutional child abuse in Ireland. Monica Dolan (WIA) stars as the amateur historian Catherine Corless who, in the 2010s, discovered that a care home in Tuam for “unmarried mothers and their children” had, over four decades, hidden nearly 800 dead babies and toddlers in makeshift graves.

refuses to accept the evasions of the religious order that ran the home, the Bon Secours Sisters, and the intransigent Catholic establishment. She uncovers systemic abuse and near inconceivable levels of cruelty aimed at infants who were regarded as subhuman due to their illegitimacy.

Dolan is a gifted, chameleonic actress who plays a wisecracking theatre manager in the upcoming Elsinore. Her Corless is a complex creation, recovering from depression and haunted by her cruelty to Bon Secours children in her youth. Her self-criticism asks difficult questions about how a nation so obsessed with noble historical narratives and cheery concepts of purity could direct such brutality against its most vulnerable souls. There's no happy ending. Just an acknowledgment of misery, and Corless's quiet heroism. In cinemas

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Dignified outrage for a wartime hero

Pet Shop Boys' elegant ode to the codebreaker Alan Turing captivates Will Hodgkinson

A s a brilliant mathematician and a hero of the war effort who was forced to undergo chemical castration on account of his sexuality, only to

receive an apology from the government in 2009, Alan Turing is an ideal subject for Pet Shop Boys.

Juliet Stevenson narrates the story against music by Neil Tennant, Chris Lowe and Manchester's Camerata Octet and within it is wit, sympathy and a dignified outrage, not just for Turing but for a generation of men.

“Natural wonders every child should know,” Tennant sings against strings reminiscent of Vaughan Williams, reciting the title of a book on natural science that set the ten-year-old Turing off on his journey. “Birds and bees and how the flowers grow.”

Stevenson goes on to tell the story of Turing's attraction to a boy at school called Christopher Morcom, and discovering through their friendship his homosexuality and his passion for science. There's high drama to it all — Morcom died of tuberculosis before they finished school — but also a sense of restraint that is thoroughly British.

It feels like a maturing of, rather than a departure from, the Pet Shop Boys we know. He Dreamed of Machines pulses with Lowe's electronic waves as Tennant paints a Brideshead Revisited-style picture of the young mathematician staring at the sky

pop

Pet Shop Boys A Man from the Future Parlophone ★★★★☆

EVA PENTEL

while lying in a field in Cambridge, dreaming of automation.

The Enigma, about Turing using his understanding of mechanised patterns to help British intelligence to crack German spy codes at Bletchley Park, is backed by a keyboard melody not a million miles from the one used on the Pet Shop Boys classic It's a Sin. Against a classical/modernist backing, a tale of ambition, futurism, morality and sexuality unfolds, and it is a 20th-century tragedy.

Unusually for his time, Turing was open about his sexuality. He announced it at an army party during the war, much to the shock of his assistant. "Science and sex," Tennant recites, unemotionally, in Other Ranks, as Stevenson explains how Turing viewed both as inarguable facts of life. After The Memory and the Control, which tells of how Turing conceived a vision of the modern computer around the time the war ended,

comes The Trial, a document of him picking up a young man in Manchester in December 1951. It led to his arrest, castration and, on June 7, 1954, suicide. He was 41.

All this has more in common with Seventies progressive rock albums such as Jeff Wayne's War of the Worlds or, dare I say it, Rick Wakeman's The Myths and Legends of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table than anything in modern pop: a dramatic story set to music, demanding to be listened to in full, ideally on headphones or over a long car journey.

"He had a lack of reverence for everything except the truth," Stevenson says of Turing on Only in His Death, an electronic suite about a brilliant figure who was a victim of his era's prejudice. It forms a fitting conclusion to this captivating, elegant, quietly devastating audiobook of an album.

She can dazzle in Bach, Bowie and Kate Bush

ess Gillam wrote in her notebook one day: "Big energy. Beauty. Music to make people smile. Music to lift people up." These were the goals for her

album Shine, and Britain's most popular saxophone player has kept to her agenda, especially in the opening track, a wriggling scamper through the violinist Rune Tonsgaard Sorensen's Shine You No More. If that one doesn't make you want to get up and dance, nothing will. It is also a terrific advertisement for Gillam's awesome technique, with fingers and breathing working overtime to generate long, liquid runs of notes, tumbling out at phenomenal speed.

In that number her fellow musicians are the group Sorensen cofounded: the Danish String Quartet. Elsewhere the musicians deployed come and go, just like the kinds of music played. Classical? Well, there are seven minutes of the

classical

Jess Gillam Shine Decca ★★★★☆

Adrian Chandler Hell's Angels Signum Classics ★★★★☆

dependably wayward CPE Bach (it's the longest track), and shorter visits to Corelli's La Folia variations and the old vocal wonders of Barbara Strozzi and Hildegard von Bingen. But everything comes arranged and adapted, often infused with jazzy improvisations and other add-ons, sometimes to brilliant effect, as with Strozzi, but less so with Hildegard.

In between, Gillam, below, finds deep lyrical beauty in the old Irish tune Tabhair dom do Lámh (Give Me Your Hand) and draws inspiration from the output of David Bowie, Kate Bush, Joni Mitchell and Sidney Bechet. Some of her wanderings fell on stony ground with me but it's impossible not to be awed by Gillam's dazzling agility and the amazing range of colours produced from her soprano saxophone. Another Vivaldi-themed

collection from Adrian Chandler's group La Serenissima. Time for a yawn? Absolutely not. Chandler's energetic players radiate such joy: joy in their choice of music, joy too in each other's company, increased I'm sure because the recording's date is 2022, not long after the worst of the Covid pandemic.

The repertoire too is most engaging, with two Vivaldi string sonatas followed by similar fare from French and Italian contemporaries, all indicating changing fashions in the presentation of instrumental music. The longest item, a harpsichord and violin sonata by the scarcely known Louis-Gabriel Guillemain does, I admit, mix its fireworks with a little musical thumb-twiddling. But that's not the case with anything else, and the bounce Chandler's ensemble give to everything they play can only make you smile and shine. Geoff Brown

Greta Van Fleet Palace for the People

Lava/Republic Records ★★★☆☆

Accusations of being Led Zeppelin copyists have dogged this Michigan band of brothers since they broke through almost a decade ago. Which is not quite fair: remove the danger, drugs, sex, health and safety issues and low hygiene standards that made Led Zep who they were, and you might get something akin to Greta Van Fleet. Nonetheless there is something fun and not a little ridiculous about their fourth album, as the singer Josh Kiszka gets Tolkienesque in a folk fashion on Field of Stars and shrieks his heart out on the power ballad Saw You Stand. It all feels a bit like kids in a dressing-up box, but is charming in its own innocent way.

Gabriella Cilmi Pure Love

V2 ★★★★☆

The Italian-Australian Cilmi was only 16 when she scored an enormous hit with 2008's Sweet About Me, a slice of pure pop that thrust her into a commercial world she really didn't belong to. The fallout was significant enough for Cilmi to leave a 13-year-gap between her previous album and this one, which returns to her first love of soulful, earthy rock'n'roll. Recorded in a studio on Dartmoor, highlights include the moody No to a King, a reflection on those early experiences, and the disaster movie-inspired Love Me Like It's the End of the World. The whole thing is driven by Cilmi's throaty, expressive vocal style which brings to mind a less destructive Janis Joplin, marking a rare happy ending for someone chewed up by the pop machine and living to tell the tale.

Chase & Status Generic Everything Warner Records ★★☆☆☆

"Keep it so cool. Trust me, I'm no fool," J Hus commands on Disgruntled, a bombastic blast of drum'n'bass and metal guitar that sets the basic tone of the latest by a duo loved by everyone from Tyson Fury to Rihanna. Their guest-packed album does have a certain brash charm, from Tension, an expression of sexual lust, to the frantic Skrillex team-up Essa Ta Quente. But a bit of subtlety wouldn't go amiss, and for all its sonic innovations the whole thing brings to mind unwelcome images of teenage boys drinking too much Jägermeister at Reading Festival before falling over. At least Peckham's Giggs, an ambassador for the dairy-free milk brand Oatly, displays a certain wit when he raps about his new girlfriend's love of shortbread on Timber.

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heryl Crow knows what her status is these days. "If you have had success and you're still doing it then you get put into the legacy file," she says. "It just means you're outliving everybody." It also means

there will be tribute concerts for your music before you've even died: a few days before she talks to me from her Nashville home, she had been at an award ceremony honouring her musical legacy. Jason Isbell had performed Run, Baby, Run, Melissa Etheridge sang If It Makes You Happy and Olivia Rodrigo had flown in especially to deliver a rendition of Strong Enough.

"It was like an out-of-body experience," Crow tells me. "It rendered me speechless. We usually talk about people after they're gone. We say the things that they probably would have loved to have heard when they were alive."

Crow's musical legacy is secure — 50 million album sales, nine Grammy awards and a string of evergreen hits have seen to that — but right now she is looking forward to the release of her 12th studio album, Pick You Up, which she has described as “a soothing moisturiser on our chapped hearts”. The album has a laid-back melodic country sound that evokes 1970s Laurel Canyon and the Eagles. “I’m at a point in my melancholy where music from the late Seventies, California country, feels hopeful to me,” she says. “I think it evokes a more innocent time in America. I don’t know that it was better then, it’s just that we were all united. We were all in it together.”

'Proclaiming what you believe in is very risky now'

Fans only familiar with her biggest hits might not be aware that Crow has often been sharply political both on and off stage. She opposed the Iraq war (performing with a “No war” guitar strap at the 2003 Grammys) and toured US college campuses in 2007 to raise awareness of climate change; she called for tighter gun laws, sold her Tesla in protest against Elon Musk and has written songs directed at Donald Trump. She has been a consistent and vocal critic, calling his first term “chaotic”, branding his response to the 2025 No Kings protests “un-American” and calling for him to be removed and jailed over his connection to Jeffrey Epstein.

The songs on Pick Me Up are less angry. "Something happens when you get older," she says. "You get very philosophical about things. I watch the news and how our leaders are conducting themselves and I'm not angry, I'm perplexed."

Crow grew up in Kennett, a small town in Missouri with three stop lights and one high school. She studied music, later teaching it to autistic children before leaving for Los Angeles when she was 24. She got a few jobs singing jingles before getting her big break with an invitation to join Michael Jackson on the Bad tour in 1987. “I spent very little time with him off stage,” she says. “There were always people around him protecting him from the reality of the world, but standing on stage every night, watching him, singing with him, was an incredible experience.”

In 1992 she was on stage supporting Sinéad O'Connor when she performed at a tribute to Bob Dylan at Madison Square Garden. "She had just torn up the picture [of the Pope] on Saturday Night Live. The audience opened up with this hateful booing. It was

As she releases her 12th album, Sheryl Crow talks about surviving breast cancer and a brain tumour — and standing up to Trump. By Sarfraz Manzoor

overwhelming to have that many people booing in our direction, and to have her step into that moment and sing [Bob Marley's] War and then she walked off stage and vomited. She was standing up for people who had been abused by the Catholic Church — she really was a warrior for the things that she believed in. It was one of the most brilliant rock'n'roll moments I've ever borne witness to."

In 1993 Crow released her debut album, Tuesday Night Music Club, which would go on to sell more than seven million copies, produce hit singles including All I Wanna Do and Strong Enough, and win three Grammys, including record of the year and best new artist.

It was followed by the triple platinum Sheryl Crow (1996), The Globe Sessions (1998) and

Crow with Dolly Parton in 2022

C'mon, C'mon (2002), a run of records that yielded Leaving Las Vegas, If It Makes You Happy and My Favourite Mistake — which was rumoured to be about her relationship with Eric Clapton.

She also became friends with many of her musical idols. "I wanted to be Keith [Richards], I wanted to be

Stevie Nicks, I wanted to be Linda Ronstadt, I wanted to write important songs like Dylan," she says. "I feel like I've learnt

everything from them about how to have longevity in music and how to never stop loving doing it."

One of her musical idols, Dolly Parton, died in late August and Crow is still mourning the country legend. "She was a beautiful illustration of somebody who made the

Sheryl Crow performing with Bruce Springsteen in New York in 2019

world a better place, not just with her music, and also was able to make her point without ever belittling anyone," she says. "She has everyone thinking about whether they're doing enough in their lives. Do we leave the campground nicer than we found it?"

Parton backed Black Lives Matter, embraced her LGBT fans and helped to fund the Moderna vaccine without alienating her fans — something she made look easier than it is.

Crow and I are talking shortly after Ed Sheeran dropped Macklemore as his support act amid the row over the latter's comments on Palestine. "Standing on stage and proclaiming what you believe in is, in America right now, very risky," she says. "We're watching our right to free speech become challenged, but I think people will always speak truth to power and especially in music."

Among those American artists who have consistently spoken truth to power is Bruce Springsteen; he joined Crow in June to sing at a concert celebrating the songs that shaped America. "Just standing on that stage with him singing felt a bit like going to church to me," she says. "We have both used music to hopefully unite, but we are both now old enough to look back at how we got here and where we are going."

But Crow remains hopeful. "I think what's happening right now will eventually blow up in its face. We have elections coming up and hopefully people will start recognising what's happening and turn out to vote."

Crow can't believe she is 64. "I'm in shock that I am my age because to me I'm right around 38," she says, "which is pushing it, because when I get on stage I'm more like 32. I spend very little time in the mirror. I don't get work done on my face. I just... ignore it. I can't be bothered."

She was diagnosed with early-stage breast cancer in 2006, which was treated with a lumpectomy and radiation, and in 2012 she revealed that she had a benign brain tumour. "You can't really predict how long you're going to be here," she says. "You can't know if today's your last day."

She has been thinking about her legacy lately — a tribute gig will do that. “If I have a few songs that outlive me then that’s great,” she says. “I will keep doing this until I join the heavenly rock’n’roll band and get to go hang out with Jimi Hendrix, John Lennon and Dolly.”

Pick You Up is out now on Old Green Barn Productions

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visual art

Robert Ryman Barbican Art Gallery, London ★★★★☆

f any artist was likely to attract opaque and off-putting interpretation it would be Robert Ryman. Yet the

I accompanying booklet at this show is written in a warm, approachable, matter-of-fact manner. It is a masterclass in how to make sense of an ostensibly “difficult” artist.

Ryman, born in Nashville in 1930, began to paint in the mid-1950s in the heyday of abstract expressionism. The gods of the time were Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko and Willem de Kooning. Pop art, minimalism and conceptual art followed but Ryman found himself adrift. What he wanted to do was “paint the paint”. By 1965 he was convinced that white paint was the surest medium by which to shine light on “the surface, the subtle colours of the surface, the texture, the painting as a whole”.

There is no one white. The more you look at these determined, deliberate paintings, the more varied they become. The white is chilly, blinding, harsh, warm, soft or enveloping. It is pristine or loose, sterile or serene. Ryman used oil paint and oil stick, gouache and enamel, polymer paint and pastel, and asked how they behaved on canvas, wood, fibreglass and feather board. How did the light hit and where did the shadows fall?

Each one is very visibly a painting, not a print-out off a production line. They bear the traces of brushstrokes, the paint sparely applied or scumbled, cracked-up or slick. The brush is sometimes starved, sometimes loaded. There are inconsistencies in the thickness, imperceptible at a distance, but revealing themselves closer up. The almost fossilised whorls of brushstrokes in a painting such as Attendant (1984) are very different from the dancing, stippling brushstrokes of Untitled (1960) or the blizzard in the upper portion of Surface Veil (c 1970).

A display case brings Ryman's studio to life: dozens of empty tubes of Winsor white, and a photograph of the artist with his pet parrot Pliers perched on one shoulder. Ryman's paintings are, it must be said, lousy in reproduction. But see them assembled here, cool and collected, and even you would go wild for white. Laura Freeman To Feb 28

MARC BRENNER

Fisayo Akinade as Celia and Jonathan Groff as Rosalind

Queer eye for the Bard guys

The RSC's frolicking all-male production boasts a winning Jonathan Groff in his Shakespeare debut, says Clive Davis

theatre

As You Like It Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon (165min) ★★★☆☆

The journey to the Forest of Arden has never been so fraught. Half an hour into the director Daniel Evans's frolicking, all-male version of

As You Like It, the set machinery at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre came to a juddering halt just as we were about to enter the verdant realm.

After an enforced break of more than an hour the actors returned to the stage, cheered on by an audience that was clearly anxious to see more of Jonathan Groff's winningly vulnerable

Rosalind. This was, remarkably enough, the American star's Shakespearean debut. Although his delivery was overly brisk at times, he settled into the role, darting vampish glances in all directions as the romantic complications piled up. Groff exudes easygoing charisma. And while the women here tend to be confections viewed through a queer lens, there's genuine electricity between Groff and Elliot Barnes-Worrell's Orlando in the climactic scenes.

The rest of the production romps along enjoyably enough, even if, like many an evening at Shakespeare's

The early wrestling scene was a parody of a WWE spectacle

Globe, it prefers to administer a sharp jab in the ribs when it wants to raise a laugh. The early wrestling scene becomes a parody of an over-the-top WWE spectacle, complete with scantily clad hunks holding ring cards aloft. I found myself thinking wistfully of the much more lyrical vision of Rosalind's adventures that Geraldine James and a troupe of senior citizens gave us at this same theatre three years ago.

Still, all praise to the cast for overcoming that fatally long interruption. Fisayo Akinade won laughs with a shy and retiring Celia who simpers away in the background and makes disapproving noises when Rosalind seems about to take a step in the wrong direction. Phoebe isn't always the most eye-catching of roles but Tim Preston turns her into something resembling a caricature of an ultra-prim librarian.

The designer Anisha Fields gave us a grey and austere vision of the court, dominated by tall doors and blank surfaces, before the forest made its long-delayed appearance. Instead of trees, we were confronted with a towering mass of turf and reeds. Welsh accents came to the fore, and the composer Theo Jamieson inserted gentle close-harmony songs and hymns. I'm not sure we needed to hear Gareth Snook's Audrey channel Raye's pop hit Where Is My Husband! Still, towards the end of a long evening, the audience seemed glad of a chance to let its hair down. To Nov 7

dance

Acosta Danza Sadler's Wells, London EC1 (90min) ★★★☆☆

t's a mystery how Cuba, subsisting under the harshest of blockades, with severe shortages of everyday essentials and blackouts for up to

14 hours a day, continues to produce a stream of thrilling, world-class dancers. And Carlos Acosta, Cuba's most successful cultural export, has the pick of the best for his Acosta Danza, the mid-scale contemporary company that he founded on retiring from the Royal Ballet in 2015.

Every cohort of Acosta Danza since then has been tremendous. Unfortunately, though, they've been generally ill-served by bad choreography. And so it is again with the first of the two pieces that make up Cuban Baroque, Acosta Danza's latest bill.

The work of the choreographer Andonis Foniakadis, entitled Pearls — though it's unclear why — is set to a score by the French composer Julien Tarride. It's a grating pastiche of baroque music, occasionally interrupted by noise akin to a vast orchestra tuning up in hell, which eventually turns into a percussive evocation of the rhythms of Cuba, only to return to cod-baroque violins.

On a darkly lit stage ten dancers clad in unflattering liver-coloured costumes (designer uncredited) are required to engage in feverish, repetitive, unimaginative movement, in a dispiriting flurry that feels as if it will never end.

Things improve after the interval with Chacona, by the veteran Spanish dance-maker Goyo Montero. Set to Bach's Chaconne for the Violin Partita No 2, here played live in turn by piano, violin and guitar, this is the final part of a 2017 work by Montero, which he subsequently adapted for Birmingham Royal Ballet and has now reworked to suit Acosta Danza.

It starts with a slow, longing pas de deux, originally set for Acosta and Alessandra Ferri, here danced with yearning beauty by Melissa Moreda, en pointe, and Paul Brando, watched by two lines of dancers costumed in black. Chacona plays on geometries and alignments, with precise rhythms that mimic music, its 14-strong ensemble reprising key passages of the original duet. It's clever shows off the dancers at their best.

Ends tomorrow; Norwich Theatre Royal, Oct 20-21

Did anyone call for a Pussycat Dolls reunion? Or rather, a semi-reunion, as only half of the original sextet are on board for this miscalculated if frothily entertaining tour.

Not enough fans, that's for sure. In America so few tickets sold that every date (bar an appearance at a Pride festival) was cancelled. At arenas here last week, sections of seats were curtained off. OVO Hydro was alarmingly undersold.

Did it distract the Dolls? Did it heck. "DEFIANT" flashed up on screens as Nicole Scherzinger, Kimberly Wyatt and Ashley Roberts arrived in matching candy-pink costumes — think beachwear meets military, with added chiffon — flinging their magnificent manes while performing

pop

The Pussycat Dolls OVO Hydro, Glasgow ★★★☆☆

a fierce aerobics routine and adding occasional vocals to a thumping backing track.

Group or dance troupe? The Pussycat Dolls have always been both. To moan about “real music” is missing the point. Over almost two hours, the Pussycat Dolls proved that they have more cracking dance hits than most remember and, in Scherzinger, a leader with star power to spare and, when she unleashed it, a powerhouse voice. “When I grow up, I wanna be famous,” she sang on When I Grow Up and the crowd howled it back.

Their delivery of Whatcha Think About That worked in Kendrick Lamar's DNA and was a booty-shaking blast. Bottle Pop borrowed from Beyoncé and, during I Don't Need a

Is this on? Nicole Scherzinger is back

Man, the pink outfits were whipped off to reveal bikini body stockings.

All three had solo spots, Scherzinger's the longest, with a nod to her Tony award-winning triumph on Broadway with Sunset Boulevard's As If We Never Said Goodbye and some of her solo hits. But it was together that the troupe shone.

A closing run that included the chart-toppers Don't Cha and Stickwitu was undeniably daft but great fun. For Buttons, the Dolls briefly became a sextet again, pulling fans from the crowd to join them on stage. That one was the Drag Race performer Mya Foxx, in a leopard-print onesie, was surely a set-up. Did anyone care? Of course not.

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Jaws meets Widow's Bay in an eco-creature feature

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James Jackson TV review

Below Netflix ★★★☆☆

Below can be summed up as Netflix's new Jaws-ish thriller in which a Newfoundland coastal community with strange Irish accents have

trouble with a local sea monster.

Josh Hartnett is the fisherman at the heart of things, and he can be commended for playing his salty role with full conviction, because full conviction is essential for any creature feature to work. If he didn't look as if he was completely buying the idea of a nemesis under the waves "big enough to take down ye whole house!", we wouldn't either. That he does this while wrestling with an accent that

requires him to straddle about three at once perhaps deserves its own special recognition award. "Jesus friggin' Murphy," he utters, and "what in the Jesus are you b'ys doin' out here without a workin' radio?"

Having never been to Newfoundland, I can't tell you if the actors are nailing the accents of Snook's Arm or mangling them. But certainly, as the locals, they look convincingly rugged — the men have scrappy beards, everyone wears chunky jumpers — as they bicker at a town meeting about whether to take a relocation fee. The town is in economic decline, but the community's headache is about to turn to a skull-shattering migraine thanks to what lurks beneath.

What is the monster, you ask. To reveal that might be to slightly spoil things. I'll just say that a torn-off leg is an early clue that it's not advisable for anyone to go out on the water. But aside from any clammy leviathan, there are strange things afoot on shore too. Town members are experiencing strange symptoms — it's never good when you hallucinate a sea hag.

The monster's activity has coincided with an iceberg that has rolled into the bay. Hartnett's Calvin Penney, an "unemployed, widower bayman", sees it as an opportunity for some money, except that, oddly, the iceberg's "got a stink to it". By the end of episode two

Josh Hartnett brings conviction (and three accents) to the lead role

Calvin is tearing through waterside crowds wildly yelling, "Get back from the water!", much like Chief Brody once did on the beaches of Amity.

Below isn't quite the pulpy B-horror you might expect. The showrunner Jesse McKeown isn't just going for gory gags, because climate change is as much a threat here. When Mackenzie Davis shows up as a scientist called Fonda Howander — a name topped only by the local cop Jaxon Noseworthy — it becomes apparent that the real enemy isn't below the waves. This could be a TV first: an eco-creature feature.

Calvin cuts a self-recriminating figure, but the warmth between him and his grown-up children gives things a fair amount of heart. As his feckless son Wade, Charlie Heaton brings a welcome wild energy, gabbling, "Father call it the Penney curse, but I don't know if I believes in tha!"

Actually, with the coastal setting, roistering local bar and talk of sea hags, the most obvious comparison isn't actually Jaws but Widow's Bay. Below doesn't have that show's pretensions, the six episodes offering more the instant enjoyment of a Big Mac, and by the last episode the plot had lost my interest. But largely the series is as appealing as the Waterboys' maritime ditty Fisherman's Blues, which bookends all the salty shenanigans within.

The Food Programme Radio 4, 11am

Those who remember when this show was broadcast at Sunday lunchtime will associate it with the smell of roasties and gravy, so Jimi Famurewa's investigation will resonate. The presenter, above, visits a range of restaurants, from the Bank Tavern in Bristol to a Toby Carvery, self-styled "home of the roast", and meets the food historian Annie Gray, who explains how the meal became a bedrock of British culture. Famurewa talks to the "roast detectives" Emer McLysaght and Esther O'Moore Donohoe, who explain their scoring system to rate meals they have eaten across Ireland. Clair Woodward

Times Radio

Digital, web, smart speaker, app 5.00am Tom Nunan 6.00 Rosie Wright and Calum Macdonald with Times Radio Breakfast 10.00 Ed Vaizey 1.00pm Ayesha Hazarika 4.00 Cathy Newman with Times Radio Drive 7.00 Geoff Norcott 10.00 Henry Bonsu 1.00am The Best of Times Radio

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6.30am The Sara Cox Breakfast Show 9.30 Vernon Kay 12.00 Jeremy Vine 2.00pm Trevor Nelson 4.00 Drivetime 7.00 Michelle Visage 9.00 Sophie Ellis-Bextor 11.00 The Rock Show with Shaun Keaveny 12.00 Romesh Ranganathan 1.00am Tony Blackburn 2.00 Radio 2 in the Park (r) 4.15 Radio 2 Unwinds with Angela Griffin (r)

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FM: 90.2-92.4 MHz 6.30am Breakfast 9.30 Essential Classics 1.00pm Classical Live Highlights from the Baltic Sea Festival and chamber music from the East Neuk Festival. Shostakovich (Piano Concerto No 1 in C minor, Op 35 – Concerto for Piano, Trumpet and Strings); Baltic Sea Festival – Cavalli (Incomprensibil nume. Pompeo Magno's aria from act 2 of 'Pompeo Magno'); Pallavicino (Demetrio – Sinfonia); East Neuk Festival – Mozart (The Marriage of Figaro – Overture); Couperin (Les Barricades mystérieuses); Poulenc (Deux Intermezzi, FP 71 – No 2 in D flat, and Mélancolie). Baltic Sea Festival – Sibelius (Kullervo, Op 7); and Arvo Pärt (Greater Antiphons)

4.00 Composer of the Week: The Venetian School Donald Macleod explores the music of three different men called Giovanni employed by St Mark's
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Jacob Dunne examines different approaches to reducing youth violence (5/5)
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PICKS OF THE DAY

Play for Today: Closing Time 5, 9.05pm

Channel 5's Play for Today is a worthy training project rather than a revival of the strand that gave us highly regarded work such as Mike Leigh's Nuts in May, the hard-hitting political theatrics of John McGrath's The Cheviot, the Stag and the Black, Black Oil and Jeremy Sandford's affecting Edna, the Inebriate Woman. (All three are on

BBC iPlayer, for those who wish to compare and contrast.) Tonight's drama comes from Mina Barber, who has written scripts for shows as diverse as JoJo & Gran Gran, The Beaker Girls and Doctors. She now graduates to this standalone piece starring Antonio Aakeel (Slow Horses, Sherlock & Daughter) and Ellora Torchia (Midsommar, House of the Dragon). A young lawyer on her hen night falls in love across the counter of a kebab shop, but will the relationship put them both in danger? Helen Stewart

Play for Today (5, 9.05pm)

Getting It Back: The Story of Cymande BBC4, 10.40pm

This documentary gives overdue credit to the early-1970s black British soul funk band Cymande. Their origins as children of the Windrush generation in south London is dealt with quickly, but they were good enough to support Al Green in the US and headline New York's Apollo Theatre. The band didn't make it on to the BBC at the time. However, the

impact of the band's percussion and bass would be felt in the emergence of disco and hip-hop as US DJs (though Americans struggled to pronounce the band's name correctly) shared Cymande's music behind the scenes and sampled their tunes. Craig Charles and the British performers Jazzie B, Mark Ronson and Loyle Carner sing the band's praises. At 10.10pm, Cymande at Glastonbury features their 2025 festival debut, as the band is now on tour again. HS

BBC1

6.00am Breakfast

9.30 Morning Live

9.50 Morning Live 10.45 Crimewatch Live 11.30 Homes Under the Hammer (r) (AD) 12.15pm Bargain Hunt (AD) 1.00 BBC News at One; Weather 1.35 BBC Regional News; Weather 1.45 BBC News at One; Weather 2.00 Sister Boniface Mysteries. Minerva Cosmetics ladies arrive in Great Slaughter for a sales promotion, but one of their best saleswomen is murdered in plain sight (AD) 2.45 Escape to the Country. A London artist looks for a home in West Yorkshire (r) 3.45 Garden Rescue. Chris Hull and Florence Headlam transform a garden in Oxford 4.30 Celebrity Bridge of Lies. Radio presenters Tony Blackburn, Katie Thistleton, YolanDa Brown and Lauren Layfield take part in the game show hosted by Ross Kemp (r) 5.15 Pointless. Quiz show (r) 6.00 BBC News at Six; Weather 6.30 BBC Regional News; Weather

7.00 The One Show Presented by Alex Jones and Lauren Laverne

7.30 Would I Lie to You? With panellists Alex Jones, Chris McCausland, Su Pollard and Rav Wilding (1/11) (r)

8.00 The Celebrity Traitors As the players go deeper into the game, a new day brings new suspicions amongst the Faithful. The mission forces the celebrities to work in teams under terrifying conditions (4/10) (AD)

9.05 The Celebrity Traitors: Uncloaked Ed Gamble and guests analyse the latest developments in the castle (4/10) (AD)

9.30 Have I Got News for You Alex Jones hosts the quiz (2/10)

10.00 BBC News at Ten

10.30 BBC Regional News and Weather

10.40 The Graham Norton Show Graham is joined by Olivia Colman and Alexander Skarsgård, who star in comedy fantasy Wicker, and John Malkovich, talking about his dark new comedy Wild Horse Nine

11.30 RuPaul's Drag Race UK The queens take on a holiday novelty pop song for the girl group challenge. Pop star Anne-Marie and dance duo Booty Luv join RuPaul, Michelle Visage and Alan Carr (6/10) (r)

12.40am-6.00 BBC News

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6.40am Escape to the Country (r) 7.25 Garden Rescue (r)

8.10 Sign Zone: The Great House Revival. A Georgian house in Co Cork (r) (SL) 9.00 BBC News

12.20pm Political Thinking with Nick Robinson

12.50 Lifeline (r) (AD)

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3.15 The Wonder of Animals. The anatomy and physiology of the elephant (r) (AD)
3.45 The Great House Revival. Two architects restore a brick terraced house (r)
4.35 Vintage Antiques Roadshow. The team values rarities in north Wales (r)
5.15 Flog It! From Layer Marney Tower (r)
6.00 House of Games. Stephen Mangan, Shona McGarty, Andi Peters and Nina Wadia take part in a series of challenges
6.30 Strictly: It Takes Two. Ellie Taylor presents all the backstage gossip

7.30 Landward Rachel Bell has a lesson in making fishing nets

8.00 Gardeners' World Monty Don prunes roses, stores apples, plants spring cabbages, and Rachel de Thame explores wildflowers that support wildlife. See picks of the day

9.00 Six Wives with Lucy Worsley Documentary charting key moments in the lives of Henry VIII's wives, combining dramatised scenes with the presenter's own contemporary historical comment, beginning with Catherine of Aragon (1/3) (r) (AD)

10.00 FILM: Longlegs (15, 2024)

An FBI agent uncovers a series of mysterious clues that she must solve to end a murderer's killing spree. Psychological horror starring Maika Monroe, Nicolas Cage and Blair Underwood. See film choice

11.35 FILM: The Awakening (15, 2011) Horror starring Rebecca Hall, Dominic West and Imelda Staunton

1.20am Sign Zone: Cancer Before 50: Why Is It Rising? — Panorama A look at why more younger people are being diagnosed with cancer (r) (SL) 1.50-2.50 Secrets of the Bayeux Tapestry: Inside the Museum. Historians and experts unravel the secrets of the embroidered cloth (r) (AD, SL)

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6.00am Good Morning Britain 9.30 Lorraine

10.00 This Morning

1.00 Live ITV Racing: From Newmarket. Francesca Cumani and Ed Chamberlin present coverage of day one of Future Champions Weekend, including the Fillies' Mile. Plus, racing from York and Chepstow 4.00 Deal or No Deal. Stephen Mulhern hosts as another contestant tries to open the 22 red boxes in the right order, taking on the infamous Banker for the chance to win a life-changing cash prize (r) (AD) 5.00 Live Women's European Qualifier: Greece v England (Kick-off 5.30). Laura Woods presents coverage of the first leg of the Fifa World Cup qualifying play-off semi-final, held at Pankritio Stadium in Heraklion. With analysis from Karen Carney and Anita Asante, commentary by Seb Hutchinson and Lucy Ward, and reports from Katie Shanahan

8.00 Emmerdale Robert wants to make a confession, the funeral takes place and a discovery is made (AD)

8.30 Coronation Street Lisa questions David about the shooting and Kit reveals his cancer diagnosis (AD)

9.00 Beat the Chasers Bradley Walsh hosts as the Sinnerman, the Beast, the Governess, the Menace, the Vixen and the Dark Destroyer take on another group of contestants from across the country (2/9) (r)

10.00 ITV News at Ten; Weather; followed by Regional News

10.45 FILM: GoldenEye (15, 1995) James Bond goes in pursuit of a satellite weapon that has fallen into the hands of a criminal mastermind. Spy adventure with Pierce Brosnan, Sean Bean and Izabella Scorupco (AD)

1.15am Shop on TV 3.00 Long Lost Family. Davina McCall and Nicky Campbell present a series that aims to help people reunite with long-lost relatives, with investigators picking up the search when the trail has gone cold (r) (AD, SL) 3.50 Unwind with ITV 5.05-6.00 Deal or No Deal (r) (AD, SL)

Channel 4

6.30am The King of Queens (r) (AD) 7.45 Everybody Loves Raymond (r) (AD) 9.10 Frasier (r) (AD)

11.10 American Pickers. Featuring a vintage reel of Beatles' footage (r) (AD) 12.05pm Channel 4 News Summary 12.10 Renovation Nation (r) (AD) 1.10 The Great House Giveaway. A pair renovate a 1960s house in Derby (r) 2.10 Countdown. With Maggie Aderin 3.00 A Place in the Sun. Sara Damergi helps a couple who are looking for a spacious holiday home on Spain's Costa Tropical (r) 4.00 Help! We Bought a Village 5.00 Four in a Bed. Payment day 5.30 Come Dine with Me. An actor and spiritualist hosts the final night (r) 6.00 A Place in the Sun. Danni Menzies helps a father and daughter search for a holiday home in inland Andalucía (r) 6.30 Formula 1 Singapore Grand Prix Sprint Qualifying Highlights. Action from the battle for grid positions for the sprint race

8.00 George Clarke's Amazing Spaces: First Home George discovers a unique floating home made from a repurposed shipping container, and an impressive four-homes-in-one in the Netherlands (4/4) (AD)

9.05 Gogglebox The armchair critics share their opinions on what they have been watching during the week with cameras capturing their instant reactions (AD)

10.05 Live from the Lycett Arms Joe Lycett presents comedy, celebrity chat and chaos from his own pub with a guest manager on hand to keep things ticking over and a star-studded gang of punters

11.10 FILM: American Pie: The Wedding (15, 2003) The friends reunite to celebrate Jim and Michelle's forthcoming trip to the altar – but events quickly spiral out of control. Comedy sequel with Jason Biggs and Alyson Hannigan (AD)

1.00am Break Clause (r) (AD, SL) 1.55 Ramsay's Hotel Hell (r) (AD, SL) 2.45 FILM: Zola (18, 2021) Crime comedy drama starring Taylour Paige and Riley Keough (SL) 4.15 Kirstie's House of Craft (r) 4.30 Couples Come Dine with Me (r) 5.20-6.15 Grand Designs (r) (AD, SL)

5

6.00am Milkshake! 9.15 Jeremy Vine 11.30 Storm & Alexis 12.45pm 5 News at Lunchtime 12.50 Matt Allwright

2.20 FILM: No Safe Haven (PG, TVM, 2023)
A single mother moves with her daughter into a smart house, where they are observed by a hidden killer. Thriller starring Natalie Brown, Anwen O'Driscoll and Morgan Kelly
4.00 Bargain-Loving Brits in the Sun. On the Costa Blanca, manager Grace prepares for her family hotel's first wedding reception. However, a double booking threatens disaster (r)
5.00 5 News with Dan Walker
6.00 Cornwall: A Year by the Sea. Cameras explore one of Britain's most captivating counties as it prepares for another bustling tourist season, including a look at the iconic Minack Theatre where anticipation builds as the curtain rises on a new season (r)
6.55 5 News Update

7.00 Angela Rippon's River Cruises Angela finishes her journey into Vietnam along the Mekong River, exploring riverside markets, artisanal crafts, historic sites and eco projects. Last in the series (r)

7.55 5 News Update

8.00 Our Great Yorkshire Life Peter Wright joins Leeds Rowing Club on the Aire and Calder Canal, and wildlife artist Robert Fuller helps orphaned tawny owl chicks join a family (AD)

9.05 Play for Today: Closing Time A gifted

migrant begins a passionate affair with an engaged lawyer, who encourages his hidden culinary ambitions. Drama starring Antonio Aakeel and Ellora Torchia. See picks of the day (3/6) (AD)

10.05 Piers Morgan: Uncensored The bold, opinion-led news show hosted by Piers Morgan. Piers blends journalism, debates and cultural commentary that is unapologetically direct

12.05am Traffic Cops: Elite Squad One (r) 1.00 Cruise TV (r) 2.00 Cornwall: A Year by the Sea (r) 2.50 Bargain-Loving Brits in the Sun (r) 3.40 The Cruise: Fun-Loving Brits at Sea (r) (AD) 4.25 The Wonderful World of Chocolate (r) 5.15 Entertainment News 5.25-6.00 Ben and Holly (r) (AD, SL)

Gardeners' World BBC2, 8pm

Misty, mellow and fruitful as ever, Monty Don is autumn-maxxing at Longmeadow by pruning roses, storing apples and planting out spring cabbages. There's more seasonal colour during a visit to Oxfordshire, while in Shropshire a couple of topiarists live life on the hedge. In Devon, Toby Buckland shares his secrets for cheaper and easier gardening, and Rachel de Thame heads for a specialist

nursery to explore the benefits of wildflowers. Victoria Segal

War

Sky Atlantic/Now, 9pm

Merging The Split's soapy intrigue with the amoral shenanigans of Industry, this legal drama focuses on the divorce of the tech magnate Morgan Henderson (Dominic West) and his film-star wife, Carla Duval (Sienna Miller). As the couple hit the pointless mediation stage of the process, their warring lawyers scheme, plot and swear every second word VS

STREAMING CHOICE

Oasis: Don't Look Back in Anger (15, 2026)
Disney+

The Peaky Blinders creator Steven Knight's rockumentary following the 2025 Oasis reunion features priests, praying fans and gobsmacking concert highlights, as Liam and Noel Gallagher crack

through 23 songs per night during expletive-filled full-throated stadium gigs. It's a film that implies that Definitely Maybe and (What's the Story) Morning Glory? arrived into Noel's soul from the ether, and that perhaps God had designed the entire Gallagher psychodrama to inspire us all. "As much as the film is about the tour," Knight told The Times, "it's also about where the songs come from and the people whose lives have been affected by them." (123min) Kevin Maher

television

FILM CHOICE

Longlegs (15, 2024) BBC2, 10pm

Osgood Perkins's horror was the highest-grossing independent feature of 2024. Maika Monroe plays Lee Harker, a rookie FBI agent on a mission to catch a Satanic serial killer — the titular "Longlegs", played by Nicolas Cage, who orchestrates a series of brutal family murder-suicides across Oregon. (101min) Joe Clay

BBC4

7.00pm TOTP: 2000. Featuring Madison Avenue and Lonestar
7.30 TOTP: 2000. Jamie Theakston presents the pop chart programme
8.00 TOTP: 1977. Performances by Deniece Williams, Steve Gibbons Band and the Stranglers
8.30 TOTP: 1984. An edition from October 11 featuring performances by Kim Wilde, Sade and Wham!
9.10 The Genius of Funk. A compilation of performances from the BBC archives
10.10 Cymande at Glastonbury
2025. Performances on the West Holts stage by British funk pioneers Cymande and veteran reggae band Black Uhuru
10.40 Getting It Back: The Story of Cymande. See picks of the day
12.10am Black British Music at the BBC: Volume 1 2.35 TOTP: 1977
3.10am-3.45 TOTP: 1984

Sky Arts

8.10am Artist of the Year: Masterclass (AD) 9.00 Tales of the Unexpected (AD) 10.00 Alfred Hitchcock Presents (b/w) 11.00 Discovering: Dennis Hopper (AD) 12.00 Classic Albums 1.00pm Tales of the Unexpected (AD) 2.00 Alfred Hitchcock Presents (b/w) 3.00 Bill Bailey's Master Crafters: The Next Generation (AD) 4.00 Discovering: Sissy Spacek (AD) 5.00 Landscape Artist of the Year 2015 6.00 Tales of the Unexpected (AD) 7.00 The Alfred Hitchcock Hour (b/w) 8.00 Genesis: When in Rome 9.50 Elton John: Million Dollar Piano. The musician plays at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas 12.15am Bruce Springsteen: Live in Dublin. A selection of performances 3.00 Discovering: John Lennon 4.00-5.00 Art Traffickers: Treasures Stolen from the Tombs (AD)

More4

8.55am Four in a Bed 11.35 Come Dine with Me (AD) 2.15pm Four in a Bed 4.50 Car SOS (AD) 6.50 The Dog House (AD) 7.55 The Dog House. A storm is brewing when a husky meets an excitable lurcher puppy (7/8) (AD) 9.00 Coastal Unit. Iris and Victor investigate the suspicious death of a firefighter, who fell from the top of a fire control tower. In French (4/8) 10.15 24 Hours in A&E. A man is rushed to St George's after collapsing on a tennis court, and the resus team has to work quickly to get his dangerously high heart rate under control (AD) 11.20 24 Hours in A&E. A woman is rushed in to hospital following a suspected stroke (AD) 12.20am 999: On the Front Line 1.25 24 Hours in A&E (AD) 3.30am-4.00 A Place in the Sun

West Ham United's Jarrod Bowen

Live Test Cricket: South Africa v Australia Sky Sports Cricket, 7.30am-4.30pm The first day of the First Test in the three-match series

Live sport today

Talking Pictures

6.30am FILM: Once A Sinner (PG, 1950) (b/w) 8.10 FILM: The Greed of William Hart (PG, 1948) (b/w) 9.40 FILM: Where There's a Will (U, 1955) (b/w) 11.10 FILM: The Glass Mountain (U, 1949) (b/w) 1.05pm The Edgar Wallace Mystery Theatre (b/w) 2.15 The Adventures of Robin Hood (b/w) 2.45 FILM: Nurse on Wheels (U, 1963) (b/w) 4.30 The Cheaters (b/w) 5.00 A Family at War 6.00 Rooms 7.00 Z Cars (b/w) 8.00 Public Eye 9.05 FILM: The Changeling (15, 1979) Spooky horror 11.25 FILM: Children Shouldn't Play with Dead Things (15, 1973) Horror 1.00am FILM: Blood Thirst (18, 1971) Thriller (b/w) 2.35 FILM: Captive (15, 1980) 4.20 Look at Life 4.30 The Vise (b/w) 5.00am-6.00 The Man from UNCLE

Film4

11.00am D-Day: The Sixth of June (PG, 1956) Second World War drama starring Robert Taylor
1.10pm The Yellow Mountain (PG, 1954) Western starring Howard Duff
2.45 Forty Guns (PG, 1957) Western starring Barbara Stanwyck (b/w)
4.30 The Sheriff of Fractured Jaw (U, 1958) Comedy Western starring Kenneth More (AD)
6.35 Earthquake (PG, 1974) Disaster movie starring Charlton Heston and Ava Gardner
9.00 The Green Mile (18, 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)
12.45am-3.25 Glass (15, 2019) Thriller with James McAvoy, Bruce Willis and Samuel L Jackson (AD)

BBC3

7.00pm The Catch Up
7.05 Horrible Histories. A prank-loving Roman emperor hosts a dinner party (r) (AD)
7.35 FILM: Shrek 2 (U, 2004)
Animated adventure sequel with the voice of Mike Myers (AD)
9.00 Death in Paradise. The team investigate when a parishioner from Seb's church is killed by a large cross in what seems like a tragic accident (4/8) (AD)
10.00 Mrs Brown's Boys. Agnes is feeling down in the dumps (r) (AD)
10.30 Mrs Brown's Boys. Agnes tries out speed-dating (r) (AD)
11.00 FILM: Mrs Brown's Boys D'Movie (15, 2014) Comedy starring Brendan O'Carroll (AD)
12.30am Ice Road Truckers (r)
2.00am-3.55 The Golden Cobra. Animated drama (r) (AD)

ITV2

6.00am Backyard Builds 6.30 Dinner Date (AD) 7.30 The Real Housewives of Potomac 8.20 The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills 9.15 The Only Way Is Essex 10.15 Dawson's Creek 11.10 Charmed 12.05pm Deal or No Deal (AD) 1.05 Supermarket Sweep 2.05 Ant & Dec's Limitless Win (AD) 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 (AD) 7.00 Ant & Dec's Limitless Win (AD) 8.00 The 1% Club (AD) 9.00 Big Brother: Live Eviction. AJ Odudu and Will Best announce the latest housemate to face eviction 10.35 Family Guy (AD) 11.35 American Dad! (AD) 12.35am Bob's Burgers (AD) 1.30-2.20 Next Level Chef USA (SL)

ITV3

6.00am Wild at Heart 7.05 Classic Emmerdale (AD) 8.05 Classic Coronation Street (AD) 9.15 Inspector Morse (AD) 11.30 Heartbeat (AD) 1.35pm The Royal (AD) 2.40 Wild at Heart 3.40 Classic Emmerdale (AD) 4.40 Classic Coronation Street (AD) 5.50 Heartbeat (AD) 8.00 Doc Martin. Final episode. The villagers throw the Ellinghams a farewell party (8/9) (AD) 9.00 Doc Martin. First episode of the comedy drama starring Martin Clunes (1/6) (AD) 10.00 Downton Abbey. Christmas special from 2012. Robert and his family visit his Scottish cousins at Duneagle Castle (9/9) (AD) 11.55 DCI Banks (1/6) (AD) 12.55am DCI Banks (AD) 1.55am-2.20 George and Mildred

Live Formula 1: Singapore Grand Prix Sprint Qualifying Sky Sports Main Event, Sky Sports F1, 1pm-3.00 (Start-time 1.30). Coverage from the 17th round

Live International T20 Cricket: India v West Indies
TNT Sports 1, 2.15pm-6.15
Coverage of the second T20 in the five-match series

Live The PREM: Leicester Tigers v Gloucester Rugby TNT Sports 1, 7pm-10.00 (Kick-off 7.45). Coverage of the match from Mattioli Woods Welford Road Stadium

Live EFL: West Ham United v Queens Park Rangers

Sky Sports Main Event, Sky Sports Football, 7.30pm-10.30 (Kick-off 8.00). Coverage of the Championship match from The London Stadium

ITV4

6.00am The Protectors (SL) 6.35 American Pickers 8.25 Minder (AD) 9.35 The Champions 10.40 Underwater Grand Fishing Adventure 11.40 The Professionals (AD) 12.45pm The Champions 1.50 American Pickers 3.50 Ice Road Truckers 5.45 Minder (AD) 6.50 Hornblower. First of a two-part seafaring drama, starring loan Gruffudd and Robert Lindsay (AD) 9.00 FILM: The Losers (12, 2010) Elite soldiers are betrayed and left for dead by their CIA employers, but return to seek revenge. Action adventure starring Jeffrey Dean Morgan and Zoe Saldana 11.05 All Elite Wrestling: Dynamite. Hard-hitting action from the world of All Elite Wrestling 1.05am Minder (AD) 2.05am-2.50 Two and a Half Men

U&Drama

6.00am Teleshopping 7.35 The Bill
8.30 Doctors 9.50 Classic Holby City 10.55 Casualty (AD) 11.55 The Bill 12.55pm Classic EastEnders
2.15 Classic Neighbours 2.50 Neighbours 3.20 Sister Boniface Mysteries (AD) 4.20 Father Brown (AD) 5.20 As Time Goes By
6.00 Last of the Summer Wine (AD)
7.20 Last of the Summer Wine (AD)
8.00 Miss Marple: The Murder at the Vicarage. An unpopular colonel is found dead in the vicarage of St Mary Mead (AD)
10.00 New Tricks. A bloodstained bust is found during construction work in a cemetery (9/10) (AD)
11.20 Judge John Deed (2/5) (AD)
1.20am Sister Boniface Mysteries (AD) 2.25 As Time Goes By 2.55 Anna Pigeon Mysteries (SL)
4.00am-6.00 Teleshopping

Variations

BBC1 N Ireland 7.30pm-8.00 Chronicles of Foyle

BBC1 Scotland

2.45pm Clean It, Fix It (r)
3.15-3.45 Shift the Thrift (r) 11.30
A View from the Terrace (r) 12.00
RuPaul's Drag Race UK (r) 1.05am
Weather for the Week Ahead
1.10am-6.00 BBC News

BBC1 Wales

7.30pm-8.00 Back in the Day 11.30 The Golden Cobra (r) 12.00 RuPaul's Drag Race UK (r) 1.05am-6.00 News

BBC2 Wales

3.15pm Vintage Antiques Roadshow (r) 4.00 Flog It! (r) 4.45 Live Match of the Day Wales 7.15 House of Games 7.45 Strictly: It Takes Two 8.15 Gardeners' World 9.15 Beechgrove Repotted (r)

9.30-10.00pm Mortimer & Whitehouse: Gone Fishing (r)

STV

1.00pm-3.59 Live STV Racing: From Newmarket 1.15am-3.00 Shop on TV 3.50am-5.05 Unwind with STV

BBC Scotland

7.00pm News at Seven 7.30 One Team in Tallinn 8.00 Paramedics on Scene (r) 9.00 The Four Rules of the Poker Kings (r) 10.00 Still Game (r) 10.30 A View from the Terrace 11.00 Breaking the News 11.30pm-12.00 Two Doors Down (r)

S4C

6.00pm Cegin Clwyd Bryn Williams (r) 6.30 Heno 7.00 News 7.30 Live Clwb Rygbi: Dragons v Ospreys (Kick-off 7.45) 9.50 Pêl-Droed Rhyngwladol 10.50 Gwalia Aleighcia (r) 11.20pm-11.55 3Cân (r)

PBS America

8.00am Grand Tours of the Scottish Islands 8.35 Besieged Fortresses, Legendary Battles 9.40 The Siege of Leningrad 10.50 WWII in Colour: Road to Victory 11.50 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. How the decline of the Rust Belt affected the areas involved 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. Documentary (2/2)
10.55 The Siege of Leningrad
12.00 WWII in Colour: Road to Victory 1.10am-2.00 Grand Tours of the Scottish Islands

Sky Atlantic

6.00am Urban Secrets (r) 8.00
Billions (r) (AD) 10.15 Deadwood (r)
12.25pm Gomorrah (r) 1.30
Homicide: Life on the Street (r)
3.30 Billions (r) (AD) 5.45 House of the Dragon. Alicent is concerned by Aegon's Small Council (r) (AD)
6.45 House of the Dragon. Rhaenyra questions Daemon's loyalty (r) (AD)
8.00 Fargo. Molly makes an unorthodox decision (5/10) (r)
9.00 War. A slip-up by Morgan is seized on by Taylor & Byrne as a chance to tear up the prenup. See picks of the day (2/8) (r) (AD)
10.05 Under Salt Marsh. Old accusations resurface (2/6) (r) (AD)
11.10 Euphoria. Cassie follows her dreams (5/8) (r) (AD)
12.20am Euphoria (r) (AD) 1.30
House of the Dragon (r) (AD) 2.55
Gomorrah (r) 5.05am-6.00
The Guest Wing (r) (AD)

Sky Docs

U&Yesterday

6.10am Great Continental Railway Journeys 8.00 Bangers & Cash (AD) 10.00 The Buildings That Fought Hitler (AD) 11.00 Rise of the Nazis: Dictators at War 12.00 Antiques Roadshow 2.00pm Bangers & Cash (AD) 4.00 The Buildings That Fought Hitler (AD) 5.00 Rise of the Nazis: Dictators at War 6.00 Antiques Roadshow 7.00 Cornwall with Simon Reeve. Part one of two. The explorer travels through the county (1/2) 8.00 Canal Boat Diaries. During a cold snap Robbie gets iced in on the Grand Union Canal (10/10) (AD) 9.00 Canal Boat Diaries (1/10) (AD) 10.00 Bangers & Cash (2/10) (AD) 11.00 Bangers & Cash (3/10) (AD) 12.00 Bangers & Cash (AD) 1.00am Find It, Fix It, Flog It 2.00 Great Continental Railway Journeys 3.00am-6.10 Teleshopping

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Backgammon Chris Bray

WBGF finals

The World Backgammon Federation (WBGF) finals, held at the Mercure Hotel in Earls Court, London, at the end of August, were a huge success. There were over 400 entrants from all over the world, far exceeding expectations and causing a few logistical problems.

The US master Kent Goulding and I led the commentary team. We had some great guests over the seven days, and all the matches broadcast are available on YouTube. We trialled using the new backgammon bot HedgeHog as our technical assistant, with some interesting results. It still has some way to go before we can completely rely on it.

Netherlands won the open team event, and the USA just edged out Iran in a thrilling women's team final. However, the star of the show was Pia Jeppesen (Denmark), the losing finalist in the individual world championship. The winner, Frederik Mikkelsen (also Denmark), played with a very respectable PR (performance rating) of 4.67 in the 17-point final. Pia played with an outstanding 2.44. To play at world championship standard in the biggest match of her life was an incredible achievement. I think she broke a glass ceiling with that performance.

She has given up her day job to focus on backgammon and, based on her result in London, she has probably made the right decision. Her handling of the doubling cube was superb. During the match, she made only two errors and no blunders. That really is world-class play.

This week's position is taken from the closing stages of the final. Pia (Black) trails 12-15 to 17. Should she double? Should Frederik take if doubled? It is harder than you might think to escape those two rear checkers, and in a money game a double would be premature. White will enter on his next roll 30 per cent of the time and those Black rear checkers may still be on the 24-pt.

However, there are plenty of gammons to be won if things go well for Black, so Pia correctly doubled. Frederik, fearful of losing a gammon and going behind 15-16, dropped the double. Dropping is a massive blunder, Frederik's worst mistake in the whole match. He won an undoubled gammon in the next game to take the title.

5 Be normal for farm animals (9)
13 14 15 16 17 18 107 19 20 21 22 23 24 15/17
Winning Move

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White to play. This position is from Klukin-Inciroglu, Titled Tuesday, chess.com 2026.

White's active pieces give him a vicious attack and the black kingside is horribly weakened. There is a fairly obvious brute force win with 1 Nxf7+ Rxf7 2 Rxf7 Bf8 3 RdI and Black will not last long. However, there is also another finish that is quicker and more aesthetically pleasing. Can you spot it?

Codeword No 5967

1I	2	3	4	5T	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13
14	15	16N	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	25	26

Every letter in this crossword-style grid is represented by a number from 1 to 26. Each letter of the alphabet appears in the grid at least once. Use the letters already provided to work out the identity of further letters. Enter letters in the main grid and the smaller reference grid until all 26 letters of the alphabet have been accounted for. Proper nouns are excluded. Yesterday's solution, right Cluelines Stuck on Codeword? To receive 4 random clues call 0901 293 6262 or text TIMECODE to 64343. Calls cost £1 plus your telephone company's network access charge. Texts cost £1 plus your standard network charge. For the full solution call 0905 757 0142. If you have an old newspaper and need clues from the past 7 days, call 0905 624 0024. Calls to 0905 cost £1 per minute plus your telephone company's network access charge. SP: Spoke, 0333 202 3390 (Mon-Fri, 9am-5.30pm).

Lexica Easy No 9165

Hard No 9166

Slide the letters either horizontally or vertically back into the grid to produce a completed crossword. Letters are allowed to slide over other letters

Train Tracks No 2992

Lay tracks to enable the train to travel from village A to village B. The numbers indicate how many sections of track go in each row and column. There are only straight sections and curved sections. The track cannot cross itself.

Quintagram®No 2699

Solve all five cryptic clues using each letter underneath once only

Challenge your mind with these fiendish word and number puzzles

1 Help from Freudian after reflection (3)

2 Revolver originally wounded part of foot (5)

3 Let bees out, and ladybirds perhaps (7)

4 PC perhaps placed in advance, right? (8)

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E	E	E	E	H	I	I	K
L	L	L	M	O	O	P	R
S	S	T	T	T	U	V	W

Solve Ponder crossword on Monday, Wednesday and Friday at thetimes.com/puzzles and on Live app

KenKen Difficult No 6959

All the digits 1 to 6 must appear in every row and column. In each thick-line "block", the target number in the top left-hand corner is calculated from the digits in all the cells in the block, using the operation indicated by the symbol.
Fill the blank squares so that every row and column contains each of the numbers 1 to 5 once only. The symbols between the squares indicate whether a number is larger (>) or smaller (<) than the number next to it.

Kakuro No 4466

Fill the grid using the numbers 1 to 9 only. The numbers in each horizontal or vertical run of white squares add up to the total in the triangle to its left or above it. The same number may occur more than once in a row or column, but not within the same run of white squares.

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times2 Crossword No 10,283

Across

1 Stylish, fashionable (4)
3 Person owed money (8)
9 Member of an indigenous Mexican empire (5)
10 Floorshow entertainment (7)
11 Persisting for a long time (7)
12 Wheedle, cajole (4)
14 Of molecular particles (6)
16 Former name of Sri Lanka (6)

18 Absorbent white powder (4)
19 Group of senior government ministers (7)
22 Nerve that runs down the leg (7)
23 Free from obscenities (5)
24 Memory loss sufferer (8)
25 Ancient Briton or Gaul (4)

Down

1 Form of carbon (8)
2 Close questioning (13)
4 Elaborate 18th-century design style (6)
5 Fiasco (7)
6 Overlook wrongdoing (4,1,5,3)
7 Sacrament, ceremony (4)
8 Read (a barcode) (4)
13 Intuitive responses (8)
15 Provokes (a riot, eg) (7)
17 Savanna tree (6)
20 Oppose or resist (a trend) (4)
21 Most populated continent (4)

Solution to Crossword 10,282

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Bridge Andrew Robson

Top Twenty Conventions 11. Roman Key Card Blackwood Evolving in the Sixties and Seventies, this extension to the 4NT ace-ask upgrades the king of trumps to an ace. You'll also find out about the queen of trumps.

Partner bids 4NT — which in doubt will agree the last bid suit, let's say it's spades. Here are your replies.

5♣: Zero/three of "five aces" where ♠K is an ace.

5♦: One/four of those five aces.

Partner can now bid the next suit up (5♦ over 5♣ / 5♥ over 5♦) to ask for ♠Q. You'll sign off in 5♠ without ♠Q; you'll jump to 6♠ with her majesty (or bid a side-king if a grand slam may be on the cards).

5♥: Two of the five aces, no ♠Q. 5♠: Two of the five aces with ♠Q.

Some swap the 5♣ and 5♦ replies to play “1430”, which has the slender advantage when hearts are trumps that you can ask for ♥Q after the most common one-“ace” reply. It’s a small thing — let’s stick to the traditional “3041”.

If (and only if), the reply to 4NT indicates that all the key cards are present, and if (and only if) the 4NT bidder is interested in Seven, she can bid 5NT. It is said that this “asks for kings” but that’s not quite right.

First and foremost, the 5NT bid says, "Do you fancy Seven? Do you have a source of tricks?" If the answer is "Yes", you should jump to Seven. If it's "No", sign off in Six. If it's "Not sure, you're in charge" (this will be most of the time), bid your cheapest king.

This is the "Specific Kings Method" — superior to No of kings.

(A) West ♠ A9632 ♥ AQ32 ♦ AK ♣ K3 East (opener) ♠ KQ75 ♥ K5 ♦ 64 ♣ A9762

(E) 1♣, (W) 1♠, (E) 2♠, (W) 4NT, (E) 5♠, (W) 5NT, (E) 6♥, (W) 7♠.

(B) West ♠ K96432 ♥ A32 ♦ AK2 ♣ 3 East (opener) ♠ A875 ♥ 54 ♦ 64 ♣ AKQJ9

(E) 1♣, (W) 1♠, (E) 3♠, (W) 4NT, (E) 5♥, (W) 5NT, (E) 7♠. Note, West doesn't worry that ♠Q is missing as there are ten trumps.

Dealer N ♠ KJ62 ♥ 74 ♦ K5 ♣ A10543 ♠ 875 ♥ QJ108 ♦ 10942 ♣ 76 N W E S ♠ 9 ♥ 96532 ♦ QJ86 ♣ KJ8 ♠ AQ1043 ♥ AK ♦ A73 ♣ Q92

S	W	N	E
		1♣	Pass
1♠	Pass	2♠	Pass
4NT	Pass	5♥(1)	Pass
5NT(2)	Pass	6♦(3)	Pass
6♠	End

(1) Two of "five aces" (incl ♠ K); no ♠ Q. (2) Grand slam try.

(3) Showing ♦ K, not ♣ K (South would bid 7 ♠ over 6 ♣, expecting ♣ AKxxx opposite).

You win West's ♥Q lead with ♥A, draw just two trumps then eliminate diamonds (♦K, ♦A, ruff ♦7), cross to ♥K and run ♣9. East wins ♣J but is endplayed. A neat partial elimination — slam made.

andrew.robson@thetimes.co.uk

MindGames

Brain Trainer

	x5	DOUBLE IT	-10	÷4	x7	DOUBLE IT	÷5	+4	DOUBLE IT		ANSWER
MEDIUM 8	+8	x2	TRIPLE IT	+26	DOUBLE IT	+12	+1/4 OF IT	TRIPLE IT	-50% OF IT
HARDER 43	+12	÷5	SQUARE IT	x4	DOUBLE IT	-7/8 OF IT	+11	-2/3 OF IT	SQUARE IT		ANSWER

Cell Blocks No 5850

			4
2		3
		3			10
			5
4				4
	8
						6

Divide the grid into square or rectangular blocks, each containing one digit only. Every block must contain the number of cells indicated by the digit inside it.

Polygon

Set Square No 4469

From these letters, make words of four or more letters, always including the central letter. Answers must be in the Concise Oxford Dictionary, excluding capitalised words, plurals, conjugated verbs (past tense etc), adverbs ending in LY, comparatives and superlatives. How you rate 13 words, average; 18, good; 22, very good; 26, excellent

Yesterday's answers

aglet, agley, argyle, gale, garth, gate, gather, gear, gelt, ghat, glare, glory, grate, gray, great, grey, gyral, gyrate, gyre, lager, large, lethargy, rage, regal, targe, tergal, yagé

Please note, BODMAS does not apply

Enter each of the numbers from 1 to 9 in the grid, so that the six sums work. We've placed two numbers to get you started. Each sum should be calculated left to right or top to bottom.

Killer Moderate No 10,972

Killer Deadly No 10,973

As with standard Sudoku, fill the grid so that every column, every row and every 3x3 box contains the digits 1 to 9. Each set of cells joined by dotted lines must add up to the target number in its top-left corner. Within each set of cells joined by dotted lines, a digit cannot be repeated.

Cluelines Stuck on Sudoku, Killer or KenKen? Call 0901 293 6263 before midnight to receive four clues for any of today's puzzles. Calls cost £1 plus your telephone company's network access charge. SP: Spoke, 0333 202 3390 (Mon-Fri 9am-5.30pm).

Solutions

Quick Cryptic 3427

Sudoku 17,166

Tetonor 716
Codeword 5966

Kakuro 4465

Train Tracks 2991

82			40			330			48
4	+	78	20	+	20	15	x	22	8	x	6
41			210			37			312
35	+	6	6	x	35	22	+	15	78	x	4
160			26			400			14
10	x	16	16	+	10	20	x	20	8	+	6
44			336			15			62
11	x	4	56	x	6	4	+	11	56	+	6

1	4	6	8	3	9	5	7	2
8	3	9	2	5	7	1	4	6
2	7	5	6	1	4	3	8	9
5	1	3	4	7	6	2	9	8
7	8	4	3	9	2	6	5	1
9	6	2	1	8	5	4	3	7
4	5	7	9	6	1	8	2	3
3	2	1	7	4	8	9	6	5
6	9	8	5	2	3	7	1	4

Cell Blocks 5849
Set Square 4468
Sudoku 17,167

6	5	7	8	9	4	1	2	3
9	1	8	3	2	7	6	4	5
2	3	4	6	1	5	7	8	9
5	9	6	7	4	3	8	1	2
8	4	3	2	5	1	9	7	6
7	2	1	9	6	8	5	3	4
4	8	9	5	7	2	3	6	1
3	6	2	1	8	9	4	5	7
1	7	5	4	3	6	2	9	8

Sudoku 17,168

4	+	7	+	9
+		-		-
6	-	1	+	5
-		$\div$		$\div$
8	-	3	×	2

Lexica 9163

Futoshiki 5506
KenKen 6958

3	5	2	4	1
1	< 2	5	>3	4
5	>4	1	2	< 3
2	< 3	< 4	1	5
4	>1	3	5	2

8	2	6	7	4	3	1	9	5
5	3	7	1	6	9	4	8	2
9	4	1	8	5	2	7	3	6
6	7	2	4	1	8	9	5	3
1	5	3	9	2	7	8	6	4
4	9	8	6	3	5	2	1	7
2	8	9	5	7	6	3	4	1
7	6	4	3	8	1	5	2	9
3	1	5	2	9	4	6	7	8

24×6	30×2	5	10+1	3	$2 \frac{1}{2}$ 4
	$2 \frac{1}{2}$ 3	1	1-5	6	2
1	6	3	4	$2 \frac{1}{2}$ 2	55
15×5	9+1	6	2	4	$3 \frac{1}{2}$ 3
3	96×4	2	11+6	5	1
$3-2$	5	4	3	$5-1$	6

Lexica 9164

Killer 10,970

1	2	4	5	8	7	9	3	6
8	6	3	9	2	4	7	5	1
9	5	7	1	3	6	4	2	8
2	9	6	8	1	3	5	4	7
3	8	5	7	4	9	6	1	2
7	4	1	6	5	2	3	8	9
4	7	2	3	6	8	1	9	5
6	1	8	4	9	5	2	7	3
5	3	9	2	7	1	8	6	4

Killer 10,971

6	7	2	5	1	3	8	9	4
3	5	4	8	7	9	6	1	2
1	8	9	4	2	6	5	3	7
2	3	8	6	9	4	1	7	5
7	4	5	1	3	8	2	6	9
9	1	6	7	5	2	3	4	8
4	2	1	9	6	5	7	8	3
5	9	7	3	8	1	4	2	6
8	6	3	2	4	7	9	5	1

Today's solutions

Concise Quintagram

Cryptic Quintagram

1 Just
2 Like
3 Heaven
4 Charlotte
5 Sometimes

1 Aid 2 Wheel 3 Beetles 4 Computer 5 Livestock

Word watch

Grossular (a) A variety of the gemstone garnet (OED) Kumiss (a) Fermented mares' milk (Chambers) Tote (c) The handle of a carpentry plane (OED)

Chess — Winning Move

1 Rxf7! is the most direct route to victory, threatening 2 Qg7 mate and meeting 1 ... Rxf7 with 2 Nxf7 mate. The only other try is 1 ... Rg8 but this is met by 2 Rxh7+! Kxh7 3 Qh5+ Kg7 4 Qg6+ Kh8 (4 ... Kf8 5 Qf7 mate) 5 Nf7 mate

Sakuro 4868

Brain Trainer Easy 120 Medium 480 Harder 1,936
Quiz

1 Pen 2 Pepsi 3 Royal Opera House 4 New York 5 Tiara 6 1990s (1994) 7 Heart of Darkness 8 The Thursday Murder Club 9 Chanel 10 Christo and Jeanne-Claude 11 Gabriela Mistral, in 1945 12 Lucayan people 13 George Gray 14 Triple jump 15 JRR Tolkien

MindGames

Sudoku Mlld No 17,169

Difficult No 17,170

Fiendish No 17,171

						8
		9				4
		4		8			6	5
	8	6	2	4
			5		3	7
		7		1	6
			7		5	6	9
9					1
	1

Fill the grid so that every column, every row and every 3x3 box contains the digits 1 to 9.

		3			8	7
1					7
		7					9	5
	4		9	7			6
	9					2
	8		3	2			7
		5					2	4
4					3
		9			4	3

Word watch David Parfitt

Grossular a A variety of the gemstone garnet b Taken as a whole, all inclusive c Pertaining to the throat or oesophagus

Kumiss
a Fermented mares' milk
b An underbodice with shoulder straps
c Prestige, cachet

Tote
a An early riser
b An utterly astonishing thing
c The handle of a carpentry plane

Answers on page 15

The Times Daily Quiz Olav Bjortomt

FRANK HERRMANN/TIMES NEWSPAPERS LTD

Kurtz) references which Joseph Conrad novella?

1 László Biró invented a ballpoint type of which writing instrument?

2 Pilk is a drink that combines milk and which cola beverage?

3 The Donald Gordon Grand Tier is part of which opera venue in Covent Garden?

4 Quentin Crisp is the subject of Sting's 1987 song Englishman in ... which US city?

5 What type of jewelled headpiece is the Queen Mary's Lover's Knot?

6 Eurostar trains began running in which decade?

7 The title of Gavin Turk's Camouflage Self-portrait (a Man Like Mr

8 Coopers Chase retirement village is the setting for which 2025 Netflix film?

9 In 1996, Karl Lagerfeld unveiled

Stella Tennant as the new face of which French fashion house?

10 In 1968, the Kunsthalle in Bern became the first public building to be "wrapped" by which artist couple?

11 Which Chilean poet was the first Latin American winner of the Nobel prize in literature?

12 Migrating from Hispaniola and Cuba, which people were the original inhabitants of the Bahamas?

13 Which

Scottish-born organic chemist developed the molecules that made liquid crystal displays (LCDs) viable?

14 Which athletics event is sometimes referred to as the hop, skip and jump?

15 Which English fantasy writer and philologist is pictured?

Answers on page 15

Sakuro No 4868

Place the numbers 1 to 9 in the spaces so that the number in each circle is equal to the sum of the four surrounding spaces, and each colour total is correct

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The Times Quick Cryptic No 3428 by Bjorn

Across
7 Worker clearing walls of temple, foyer and den (8)
8 Choice piece of fruit (4)
9 English blokes bound by court bond (6)
10 Albert steals English hat (5)
11 Part of the body that is very red periodically? (3)
12 Tiny bit of spinach stuck in poor Keir's mouth (6)
14 Replacement judge eats pork pie (6)
16 Amazingly bold, so initiates using ritual (6)
18 Move round part of theatre (6)
19 I'm surprised chef finishes early (3)
20 Ascetic mendicant just saving 1,000 (5)
21 Mexican aperitif includes a snack (6)
23 Design power network (4)
24 Thrilling vote in region is challenged initially (8)

Down

1 Royal Mail ripe for restructuring (8)
2 Dismal Conservative (4)
3 Funny story about earl one found in bed (6)
4 Viral internet content with bishop breaking right leg? (6)
5 Beginning to suspect person in Bay Area maybe stealing large diamond (8)
6 Copper cleared out leftist sect (4)
13 Garment of Carole King's originally taken by lead singer of the Police (8)
15 Oval part of illicit pill Edgar brought up (8)
17 Televise bits from Cliff, supported by Marvin finally (6)
18 Caught scornful individual dispatching male dog (6)
20 Those first to feature in Louis Malle movie (4)
22 Formal letter Berkshire school sent over (4)
Yesterday's solution on page 15

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Buy. Sell. Move. Improve. Your weekly property guide

Energy boost

How landlords can meet new green targets by 2030 — and dodge £30,000 fines

Bricks&Mortar

PROPERTY BAROMETER

Prime performance

The number of residential sales worth \$10 million or more each year

	2022	2023	2024	2025
Dubai	227	426	426	499
2026*				541
Hong Kong	124	166	223	232
		324
New York	241	213	265	326
	278
Los Angeles	237	212	214	261
	220
London	285	277	236	163
	163
Singapore	114	101	89	123
	155
Source: Knight Frank			*12 months to Q2 2026

£17,413

The cost of moving home in England — 74 per cent more than a decade ago after adjusting for inflation Source: Reallymoving

Regional house prices

*Annual change from Q3 2025 to Q3 2026 Source: Nationwide

16%

Rise in tool thefts year-on-year, with one every 17 minutes Source: Everywhen

Cover story

How to beat the energy upgrade deadline

Landlords will face fines or bans if their rental property hasn't got an EPC rating of at least C. Melissa York explains the cheapest ways to get on top of the new rules

Now you've got your head around the Renters' Rights Act, it's time to face the next challenge for private landlords: new eco standards. If a rental property

does not have an energy efficiency performance certificate (EPC) rating of at least C (on a scale from A to G) by October 2030, the landlord could face a fine of up to £30,000 per property — or be banned from letting it out.

Two thirds of private landlords have no idea this is happening, and three quarters of those that are aware do not know when the deadline is, according to research from The Mortgage Works (TMW), the buy-to-let lending arm of Nationwide building society.

Nearly two thirds of rental properties in England and Wales — 373,987 — need upgrading from an EPC D or E to be rented out legally by 2030, figures from buy-to-let lender Together show.

So how much is all this going to cost? And are you going to have to cave in and buy a heat pump?

I visited the family home of Joe Brennan in southwest London to find out. He is the head of compliance and certification at the retrofit specialists EcoApproach and has ten years of EPC assessment under his branded fleece.

We are both almost horizontal trying to find a date stamped on the inside of the bay window of his Victorian semi.

"If the date is unknown or has rubbed off or is too hard to read, it is marked down on the assessment," Brennan says. Can't the landlord just tell you when they bought the window?

"You would need to provide an invoice or some sort of documentary evidence of when they were fitted," he replies.

Brennan is full of these useful nuggets because his firm carries out Minimum Energy Efficiency Standard (MEES) assessments for private landlords.

When Brennan is looking around a property for a landlord, he's trying to find the cheapest, easiest way to get to a C. "As a company, we obviously care about clean energy and we want everyone to move towards that," he says, "but landlords are playing the compliance game, so we find the most cost-effective and least disruptive route to getting there."

A standard EPC assessment is preoccupied with minimising running costs, so its recommendations tend to prioritise big ticket improvements that will lower energy bills. This is expensive for cash-strapped landlords and often doesn't take the limitations of rental properties into account.

Brennan's EPC, for example, recommends installing floor insulation but it says nothing of the nightmare of ripping the floors up with tenants in situ.

The standard EPC scores Brennan's house at D 61 (out of 100), with potential to reach C 76 at a staggering estimated cost of £20,500 to £31,000. The report suggests external wall insulation (£7,500-£11,000), floor insulation (£5,000-£10,000 to gain just three points), and 2.5kW solar panels (£8,000-£10,000).

His MEES assessment, however, maps out a cheaper, less disruptive route, reaching C 74 for £5,736 through a handful of easy wins: adding 200mm of loft insulation; fitting fewer, more powerful 2.7kW solar panels; and installing thermostatic radiator valves

(TRVs). Replacing all the lights with LEDs (two to three points), and draught-proofing windows (one to two points) are also simple yet cost-effective ways to boost an EPC score.

Brennan's house, a two-bedroom property with a small garden built in 1890, is typical of many of the rental properties in Britain. Solid-walled Victorian and Edwardian homes are the backbone of Britain's private rented housing stock, with nearly half of those needing energy upgrades built before 1900 and 71 per cent before 1930.

If you're looking to get a better EPC score, don't waste money on A-rated appliances, including integrated ones. Even the newly released plug-in solar panels won't count, Brennan says.

"There's an assumption [in the assessment] that anything that isn't bolted down could be taken with you. The number of times people have shown me heavy curtains and I've had to explain that, while they are lovely, they will have very little impact [on the energy rating]."

The MEES assessment typically takes between 30 and 60 minutes and costs from £60 to £140 depending on how large or complex the property is and how difficult it is to travel to.

As the 2030 deadline approaches, the increased demand could ramp up prices for contractors who carry out the work, and lead to long wait times for assessors. "Portfolio landlords will have this baked into their business plan, but it's the smaller landlords who may accidentally drift into non-compliance that are in danger," Brennan says.

And if that isn't a compelling reason to act now, the new assessment methodology coming in October 2029 will be. Under the new system, called the Home Energy Model (HEM), properties will be judged on three categories: building fabric (insulation and window glazing, for example); heating and hot

water (boilers or heat pumps); and "smart readiness" (smart thermostats or solar panels).

Any heat source that is primarily fuelled by fossil fuels will be capped at a D for heating and hot water, making it far harder for the property to achieve a C overall. But if you get a C rating before HEM comes in, the certificate will be valid for the next ten years.

Gas boilers, for example, at present get a high score on the EPC because they are cheap to run. “Under HEM, it will be capped at a D rating and you’ll have to get something like a heat pump or solar panels to make up for it.” Brennan says. “So if you’ve got an old gas boiler, getting a new one now is going to be the cheapest way to up the rating.”

Old stone cottages that are heated using oil or electricity are most likely to fall foul of the new regulations, Together reports, alongside inner London terraced houses and mansion blocks due to poor or “non-standard” wall construction.

If it's habitable and has its own access point, then it needs an EPC rating, so any outbuildings that are rented out could need their own assessment. A landlord who owns a house and splits the floors up into self-contained flats will need an EPC for each flat, but a houseshare or flatshare, where multiple unrelated tenants live together in an HMO, only needs one EPC.

Financing upgrades may be difficult for landlords with large portfolios of older housing, or “hobby” landlords with one or two properties and few savings for big upgrades.

The cost of reaching EPC C is a major obstacle for 42 per cent of landlords, according to TMW, which is offering an Energy Efficiency Further Advance loan fixed at 2.99 per cent interest for two or

373,987

Number of rental properties that need upgrading from an EPC D or E by 2030

Don't waste money on A-rated appliances or newly released plug-in solar panels

（1）根据《中华人民共和国公司法》、《中华人民共和国证券法》、《上市公司收购管理办法》等有关规定，对上述事项进行审核。

JAMES GOODMAN PHOTOGRAPHY

£4,000

five years (up to 75 per cent loan-to-value), around two percentage points lower than its standard rates for funding renovation work. TMW is also funding 1,000 free MEES assessments with EcoApproach for existing landlord customers with properties rated EPC D to G.

Importantly, under the new rules, landlords will not be required to spend more than £10,000 (including VAT) to improve a property's EPC rating, or more than 10 per cent of the property's value if it is worth less than £100,000.

"It's quite rare that landlords will have to spend more than £10,000," Brennan says. "We're not getting anywhere near that on the properties we are assessing."

On average, he said, landlords whose properties are borderline C-rated spend a few hundred pounds to get into a safer score, but upgrading from a low D is about £4,000.

Doing the works could be the difference between a loss and a capital gain in the present market. TMW reports that A or B-rated rental properties command a 12.2 per cent price premium (and an 8.1 per cent rental premium) over D-rated homes, while C-rated properties achieve a 3.7 per cent price uplift.

Many banks now offer green mortgages that reward borrowers who make properties more energy efficient with lower rates too. "The challenge is that while some lenders offer attractive mortgages for properties with strong EPC ratings, they don't always provide the funding needed to pay for the improvement work in the first place," says Ryan Etchells, chief commercial officer at Together.

At present most landlords use short-term bridging loans, but there are only a handful of lenders, Together being one of them, that offer second-charge loans that allow owners to borrow against the value of the property without affecting the existing mortgage.

The forthcoming EPC deadline is forcing landlords like Tim Harrison, the owner of Unity Property Investment, to change their buying strategies.

Harrison owns ll rental properties that are scattered across England. Two of them, a pair of run-down terraced houses in Maidstone, Kent, have EPC ratings of E and D.

He says: "If you're not getting a substantial discount on a property that requires energy improvement work, you should definitely be looking to acquire newer properties."

Harrison plans to carry out the EPC recommendations, rather than get an MEES, but expects a lot of them will be ticked off in the routine renovation work he will need to do to bring the properties up to scratch. He sees an opportunity for landlords who can afford to retrofit to buy low EPC-rated properties for below market value.

"I do think [the EPC requirement] is a good thing, because overall it's going to improve the standard of rental property," he says. "But it can be a roadblock, which is potentially leading landlords to sell [their properties] off.

"In the current climate, this means there are fewer and fewer properties available for rent and that's putting [upwards] pressure on rental prices."

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What £2.75m buys you in ...

Somerset

Saltford House is a grade II listed Georgian home with eight bedrooms and three storeys. It's in the village of Saltford, a 20-minute drive from Bath. The grand entrance hall has black and white chequered floors, an ornate archway, gilded columns and a chandelier, leading to a drawing room and two sitting rooms. The attached annexe has three more bedrooms and a sitting room. Outside, in the walled acre of gardens, there is a garden room and a greenhouse. The driveway has two EV charging points. EPC N/A

Upside Georgian symmetry.
Downside If you don't like wallpaper you have a big job ahead of you.
Contact hamptons.co.uk

London NW8

On Marlborough Place — a street running perpendicular to the Beatles-famous Abbey Road in St John's Wood — this townhouse has 1,765 sq ft of living space on four floors. It is close to the well-regarded American School in London and is within a seven-minute stroll of St John's Wood Tube station for the Jubilee Line. The four-bedroom house has an open-plan kitchen/breakfast room on the ground floor with doors to the south-facing rear garden and a first-floor double-aspect living room opening to a balcony. EPC D (potential C) Upside A dedicated parking space in front of the house. Downside A rash of ceiling spotlights. Contact arlingtonresidential.com

£2.75m

Cumbria

A sought-after address on the eastern shoreline of Windermere, Watermead is a beautiful Arts and Crafts house with private access to the lake, only 200 metres away. You approach the property via electric gates and a sweeping driveway. Inside are four reception rooms, five bedrooms and three bathrooms. The gardens of just under an acre have been landscaped to create a series of spaces, including sheltered seating and elevated terraces to make the most of views. EPC D (potential B) — on a scale of A (best) to G (worst) Upside Paddleboarding, kayaking and swimming galore. Downside Not ideal for a commuter. Contact finest.co.uk

Or... an equestrian centre in Gloucestershire

Brockhill Quarry has 50 acres of prime Cotswold countryside and panoramic views of the Windrush Valley. It features more than 9000 sq ft of existing buildings, including a four-bedroom detached log cabin and 36 stables. The equestrian facilities also include a five-furlong hill and round gallop, a large outdoor arena and 12 useable paddocks. It is five miles from Stow-on-the Wold.

EPC E (current and potential)
Upside Planning permission for a three-bedroom home, plus further offices and equestrian facilities, has been granted.
Downside You had better be a horse lover.
Contact butlersherborn.co.uk

Bricks&Mortar

'I was refused credit — so we bought our house unseen on one salary'

Barred from a UK mortgage, Caitlin Bartram and her husband had to think outside the box

was denied a mortgage in the UK because I had no credit history here — as far as the lenders were concerned I may as well not have existed. We were relocating for my husband's new job in England. Needing to buy our home on his salary alone meant rethinking the kind of property we could afford [says Caitlin Bartram].

We'd lived in Christchurch, New Zealand, for seven years. Kieran was born in Durham and grew up on the Isle of Lewis, while I was brought up in Maryland, just outside Washington DC. We met while I was travelling around the Scottish Borders — I've always loved the UK and wanted to move here. But our timing was terrible — Kieran, who is a geotechnical engineer, had volunteered for a job in New Zealand. We decided to go long-distance, but three months into dating across borders he asked me to move in with him in Christchurch, and I did.

We had a baby, our son Alfie, who is now two, and the work-life balance suited those early years with him. It's entirely normal to leave the office early in New Zealand if it's snowing or the surf is up. But after a while, it became too pedestrian and we yearned for a different culture. It also felt so far away.

We knew we wanted to get back to the UK at some point to be closer to family, so when a job came up for Kieran, it made sense to go for the move.

The hardest part of leaving was that we'd lived by the beach and loved it, so we wanted the same here,. That narrowed the options considerably. Kieran has family in Sunderland, and he went to university in Glasgow, so we had some areas to aim for.

We didn't want to rent short-term and then move again, disrupting our toddler and dog just as they were settling in. Money was tight too. Shipping ourselves back to the UK was expensive and took a chunk of our savings. But we wanted stability when we arrived, and to make the right move rather than move twice.

Moving stories

Caitlin Bartram with her husband, Kieran, and their son, Alfie

CAITLIN BARTRAM

We have a three-year lease with the option to buy at an agreed price

We looked for an alternative to traditional buying, and found a rent-to-own scheme from a company called BeHomed. I'd seen a Reddit thread about it and thought it seemed perfect for us.

Time was short and the new job was about to start, so Kieran's family did a viewing on our behalf. We all fell for a three-bedroom maisonette with sea views in Cullercoats, Tyne and Wear, half an hour from Kieran's family. It was marketed at £350,000 and we secured it, without ever seeing it ourselves, for £340,000. We put down a £15,000 deposit and pay £1,500 a month, plus £500 towards the eventual purchase. It felt like a quick decision, but the right one. We don't sit on things.

The £500 a month that we put aside goes into an Isa, and the interest is ours. We wanted to know where that money was sitting — it's good to know it's in our own savings account. We have a three-year lease with the option to buy in July 2029, at a price pre-agreed on the average for the area. If the house doesn't meet that value when the time comes, we can extend the lease. We also have the peace of mind of being able to walk away, losing a percentage of the deposit — about £7,000. We've decided that's liberating rather than frightening, and the penalty is low in the grand scheme of things if that's the worst-case scenario.

The other great element is that if the property appreciates, whether through improvements we make or through the housing market, that's ours to keep. We stick to the agreed purchase price. Living in a sterile rental isn't what we want, and I've put a lot of time into making it feel like ours.

We really love our new home. The area has so much of what we loved about our community in New Zealand, and there is more of what we love here too. People in the northeast are so friendly. When we first got here, our son had an accident in the supermarket and two burly men came over to help and showed us where the toilets were.

We're loving our new life. We've signed up to the National Trust and go to a new property most weekends. Everything here is set up so well for children. I've also embraced the Sunday roast. Interview by Annie Hayes

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SKETTY SWANSEA An extensively renovated Edwardian home, built in 1905 and positioned on a plot of 0.69 acres, boasting exceptional Swansea Bay views and period character. EPC: C | Council Tax: G | Tenure: Freehold offers over Contact: 01792 367301 £1,500,000

EAST MALLING KENT A distinguished detached five bedroom Edwardian home in a peaceful setting, offering elegant contemporary interiors, a substantial sun terrace and generous parking. EPC: D | Council Tax: G | Tenure: Freehold guide price Contact: 01732 222272 £1,200,000 - £1,250,000

ALNWICK NORTHUMBERLAND Nestled within glorious, mature gardens of approximately an acre, this exceptional home represents a rare opportunity to acquire a property of this calibre. EPC: F | Council Tax: G | Tenure: Freehold OIEO Contact: 01665 200080 £1,100,000

LAGGAN HIGHLAND A substantial former Highland shooting lodge, with three ancillary units, set in the Cairngorms and extending to approximately 7 acres of grounds. EPC: G | Council Tax: G | Tenure: Freehold offers over Contact: 01738 354110 £1,100,000

LAKE WINDERMERE LAKE DISTRICT Unrivalled luxurious lake frontage with two boathouses, 9,400 sq. ft. of accommodation, open-plan living, a bar, cinema and games rooms, with six en suite bedrooms. EPC: B | Council Tax: H | Tenure: Freehold guide price Contact: 01539 733500 £8,500,000

OADBY LEICESTERSHIRE
A distinguished six bedroom residence offering 6,151 sq. ft., gated grounds, extensive cellars, outbuildings and exceptional potential on prestigious Knighton Grange Road.
EPC: E | Council Tax: H | Tenure: Freehold
Contact: 0116 296 7777 £2,300,000

BROADSTAIRS KENT A stunning property that has been extended and completely refurbished by the current owners and includes a self-contained annexe and a heated outdoor swimming pool. EPC: C&C | Council Tax: G | Tenure: Freehold Contact: 01227 379417 £2,000,000

EMSWORTH WEST SUSSEX A new Georgian country house within Millwood, boasting an imposing 24-metre frontage, high ceilings and light-filled interiors, with 2,610 sq. ft. of accommodation. EPC: B | Council Tax: TBC | Tenure: Freehold Contact: 01243 908077 £1,750,000

EXETER DEVON Mol's House is a remarkable, beautifully renovated late medieval home in Exeter's historic Cathedral Quarter, enjoying exceptional views across Exeter Cathedral. EPC Exempt | Council Tax: G | Tenure: Freehold Contact: 01392 573900 £1,250,000

ASKHAM RICHARD NORTH YORKSHIRE A Victorian conversion set in private parkland, offering four bedrooms, over 3,000 sq. ft. and a rare blend of character and contemporary design, just 10 minutes from York. EPC: C | Council Tax: G | Tenure: Freehold guide price Contact: 01904 571195 £1,100,000 - £1,200,000

MOULTON LINCOLNSHIRE A historic Grade II Listed Georgian property with flexible accommodation, landscaped gardens and views of the iconic Moulton Windmill. EPC: D | Council Tax: F | Tenure: Freehold guide price Contact: 01780 750200 £895,000

NORTON SUFFOLK A wonderful opportunity to acquire this charming period former farmhouse, which has been extensively refurbished and extended, whilst retaining its charm and character. EPC: E | Council Tax: E | Tenure: Freehold Contact: 01284 718822 £825,000

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MARK EXCELL PHOTOGRAPHY

◀ Salvage speckled enamel nibble bowl, £5, shown with Splatter mug £3.50
Maddie tile chunky table lamp, £65

Interiors

▲ Zoe pinstripe fabric square storage footstool, £199
◀ Skylar bouclé double bed in Pebble, from £349, shown with Arwen check rug, from £119

▲ Welsh blanket effect throw, £30
▼ Kitchenware including Bistro enamel bread bin, £35, glass ribbed teapot, £10, and cast aluminium casserole, £55

Dunelm v Habitat: autumn tricks and treats

hoppers for high street homewares will probably feel a tribal pull towards one or the other of today's pair. Are you a Habitat hun or a Dunelm devotee? To broad- brush the distinctions: Habitat, founded by Sir

Katrina Burroughs pits the high street brands' new season collections against each other. Will stripes or checks win?

Terence Conran in 1964, on the Fulham Road, Chelsea, tends towards an edit of contemporary, creative, problem-solving designs; Dunelm, which started life in 1979 as a curtain stall in Leicester market, run by the Adderley family, has a spectacularly wide range of more than 100,000 SKUs (stock keeping units), including heaps of seasonal novelties — think doormats printed with dogs wearing Santa hats.

Both occupy the retail sweet spot where affordability meets quality. And this season both are in the process of launching remarkable collections.

One clear difference for the shopper is that Habitat closed its showrooms in 2023, while Dunelm has about 204 stores across the UK. For the past decade Habitat has been owned by Argos (a subsidiary of Sainsbury's); a selection of its designs can be seen in

some Sainsbury's stores, and all can be ordered online. So, while you can easily browse one of Dunelm's stores, try out a sofa and feel a curtain fabric, Habitat purchases are typically virtual experiences. Dunelm has the vibe of an old-fashioned family department store, while Habitat feels more metropolitan-millennial.

This autumn, what tricks and treats await? Top of my treat list, at Habitat, is the 12-piece Bobbin stoneware dinner

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set, £40, which looks far more expensive than its price tag. (Compare to Astier de Villatte's Adélaïde dinner plates that sell for over £100 each.) The yellow Matilda kitchen trolley is vintage Habitat style, meaning it's fun and colourful, and affordable at £40, and provides a clever storage/display solution for small homes.

Lately Habitat has become Insta-famous for its checks. Last season, fans of the brand couldn't get enough of this pattern. Habitat's autumn/winter

offering introduces chequered bathroom shelving and Chesset coffee and side tables as a follow-up to last season's viral trinket tray, £12, which has sold out seven times since it launched.

Playful pieces with a strong design point of view are classic Habitat, but this season the brand is also going more... classic. There is a collection of calm, understated furniture, in neutral colours and natural materials, which the team is calling the “moonlit winter” trend. It feels grown-up and refined. Instead of pop art or mid-mod references, there are nods to Danish classics. (Witness the Scottie dining chair, £135, and the Jessie four-seater folding dining table, £288.) This 62-year-old brand never fails to surprise.

▶ Vinny chequered armchair in khaki, £235
◀ Onda ottoman bed, from £380 for a double, made up with chequerboard chocolate bedding set, from £16 for a single, with Iro bedside table, £40
▶ Yellow Matilda kitchen trolley, £40. On the trolley is a Harlequin vase, £14, and blue stem wine glasses, £18 for a set of four
Enzu metal dining chair, £72
▼ 12-piece Bobbin stoneware dinner set, £40

▼ Geometric Patch wool rug, from £100

If Habitat has cornered the market in checks, Dunelm has long been stripe heaven. Season after season, a big bold stripe called Beatrice adorns Dunelm's bestselling armchairs, as well as bedside tables, storage boxes and lampshades. This autumn, Queen B is putting in an appearance on bath linens, in Pebble and white yarn dyed cotton, from £6, which are already proving popular. And Beatrice's little sister, Zoe, a narrower stripe, can be seen on a handy square storage footstool, £199.

For my money, the standout new collection at Dunelm this season is the range called Salvage Yard. It takes inspiration from reclaimed materials and time-worn surfaces, according to Emma Anthony, the head of design and product development. Furniture and cushions are in a tactile mix of distressed faux leather, softest chenille and rustic linen. Kitchenware includes recycled glass tumblers, splatter pattern ceramics and

speckled enamel serveware. There is a stylish tiled coffee table called Lavina, which has way more character than can reasonably be expected from a high street collection.

Dunelm's lighting, always a top autumn update, is particularly dazzling this season, featuring plenty of wireless designs, with dimmable LEDs.

And as we look forward to stews and casseroles — aka proper food — now is the moment to mention that both brands have a genius for inexpensive oven to tableware, and that their under-£45 casseroles — which could be mistaken for cookware that would set you back £300 at a popular French cast-iron label — deserves a particular shout-out.

So whose latest collection comes out on top? I'd describe the race between as ending in a photo finish. Stripe, speckle and splatter enthusiasts will plump for Dunelm — as will home improvers in the market for larger items of furniture who want to try before they buy. But I'm team Habitat, for its knack for creating designs that surprise and delight, and genius for affordable small space solutions — and for delivering the star dinner set of the season.

Would you buy a Zara Home sofa for £11,600?

The high street homeware brand's collaboration with the Call Me by Your Name director Luca Guadagnino comes with A-list prices. Katrina Burroughs selects the best

The Fainting armchair in blue and brown wool flannel, £2,400

ara is renowned for its flashy fashion coups. The Spanish brand created apparel collections with Kate Moss in 2024 and 2025, and last week launched a limited-edition range by the couturier John Galliano, including a £699 silk dress.

Zara Home, the interior designers' favourite high street source for homeware, has always been more stealthy than the fashion division in its partnerships, working with industry insiders rather than household names. For example, the Belgian minimalist Vincent Van Duysen has been designing for Zara Home since 2022 (check out his £5,000 Daybed 02). Van Duysen is a design world luminary, but is not famous for a high-flying modelling career or for dating Johnny Depp. It's a different level of renown.

This year, however, Zara Home has unveiled an A-list collab: a blockbuster collection by Luca Guadagnino, the award-winning director of Call Me by Your Name and I Am Love, and the designer and architect Stefano Baisi, who worked with Guadagnino on Queer and After the Hunt. The high street label and the film duo make for a genius pairing, since Guadagnino and Baisi are not just famous as cinematic partners; they have run an interiors practice together for almost a decade, first working on a Lake Como home, then hotels and retail spaces. Also, who hasn't wanted to shop Tilda Swinton's artfully layered, elegant Milanese sitting room in I Am Love?

Baisi Guadagnino for Zara Home is online and trolley-ready right now, and the first thing to say is how seductively stylish it all is. The BGxZH polished stainless steel Mbioma cutlery, from £10.99 for a coffee spoon, is utterly covetable, as is the ivory porcelain Dentata dessert plate, £15.99. My advice is add these to basket asap, while they are still available.

The second perfectly reasonable response is... how much? Or call me by the name "sucker" if I ever drop £11,600 on a couch from a fast fashion brand. In its defence, the Uncollected sofa, a black velvet settee with a sycamore and high gloss lacquer base, is a beautiful, limited-edition piece (it helps in interiors, as

▲ Polished stainless steel Mbioma cutlery, from £10.99

The Vanesianda chair, £1,600

in fashion, if you think of it as a “piece”). Once you rally from the price shock (this is the home of the £3.99 glass tumbler after all), there are heaps of objects of desire among the seating, lighting, rugs, tableware, fragrance and objects. My favourite is the Fainting armchair, a statement seat with a wavy profile back, upholstered in teal blue or rust wool flannel, costing £2,400.

The polished stainless steel furniture is the star turn, including

the Cygni coffee table, £5,000, Vanesio stool, £1,400, and Vanesianda chair, £1,600, as are the lacquered objects: the Qubit stool, £399, the Nape coffee table, £2,900, and the Aldiqua round tray, £129.99, with a glossy lacquered interior featuring an illustration by the artist Francesco Snote. The sheer glamour of these

designs reminds us that our homes can be inspiring backdrops to our daily lives, rather than dormitories/dumping grounds. And for that, the Baisi Guadagnino for Zara Home collection deserves to be a box office hit.

The Quibit stool, £399

▼ The Uncollected sofa, £11,600

Rental Health Sasha Nugara, Property Reporter

How do I help a flatmate with mental health issues?

From dodgy landlords to housemate dramas, our columnist answers your questions

Q Recently, I've found that I'm struggling to cope with my flatmate's mental health issues. We've been living together for a while, but a few months ago he lost his job and is finding it difficult to get another one.

He's been trapped inside the flat all day, applying for jobs for more than three months, and his mental health is really starting to deteriorate. I'm doing my best to get him out of the house, but I'm starting to really worry about him, and it's weighing on me and distracting me from my work and relationships. How do I help him while also protecting my own mental health?

A When you live with a friend, especially when there's just the two of you under one roof, it can be easy to form a strong and sometimes toxic connection. I've been there several times — and it can work both ways.

Over the years I've had housemates drop everything to stay with me and talk me out of depressive episodes, and I've done the same for them, coaching them through break-ups, job hunts and grief.

It can be hard to put yourself first when someone around you is in such strong need. What your housemate is going through is tough; research has found that one in five working age adults are on universal credit, including 1.3 million people in their twenties, according to the campaign group TaxPayers' Alliance.

In theory, that's 1.3 million young people all applying for the same limited number of graduate and early career roles, which doesn't bode well for those tirelessly hunting. But perseverance is key and good things come to those who wait, so my fingers are crossed for your housemate. I'm sure their time will come soon.

But for now, maintaining boundaries in your living space is important — it's your space to rest, relax and unwind. While you care about your friend's mental health, it should never be to your own detriment. I asked Dr Elena Touroni, a consultant psychologist and cofounder of the Chelsea Psychology Clinic, for her help on how best to approach this.

She explains that job-hunting can be psychologically bruising because it is one of

the few situations where someone can put in a huge amount of effort and receive almost nothing back. "Applications disappear into a void and there may be no feedback, sometimes not even a rejection, so after several months it is understandable that motivation, confidence and daily structure can begin to erode," Touroni explains.

“Losing a job can also mean losing much more than income, because work gives many people a sense of purpose and a structure to daily life. So his behaviour is very human.

"One of the most helpful things you can do is build in a few fixed shared habits," Touroni suggests. "Ideally some will get him out of the flat, but they should be low friction enough that he can go along even if he isn't particularly in the mood. A walk and brunch every Saturday morning for example, or a weekly cinema trip.

"These routines serve two functions at once, as they give him structure and connection, while creating a healthy container for your support, so that caring about, monitoring or encouraging him doesn't leak into every part of your own life," she says. "You have a defined time when you can give him your full attention while still having permission to get on with the rest of your life. Caring about someone does not mean being continuously available to them."

She also suggests that it may help to spread that support among other friends or family members. "Can you recruit others to develop some additional routines? Someone else might take him for a weekly run or have him over for dinner each week, so that he has several reliable points of connection and you don't feel that his wellbeing rests on you.

"If you become concerned that his mental health is deteriorating significantly, particularly if he seems withdrawn or unable to function as he normally would, involve other people close to him and encourage professional support. You can help him access that support, but you should not feel that you have to carry the situation by yourself."

Got a query? Email sasha.nugara@the-times.co.uk

Dreaming spires and solar panels

At the historic St Edmund Hall in Oxford, new £43m student digs have Passivhaus certification, heat pumps — and dishwashers. By Martina Lees

A University of Oxford college that has been home to students since the 13th century has been given a 21st-century makeover. Now the first

residents have moved into its newest accommodation — and the college principal is palpably excited.

"If you look up there," says Baroness (Kathy) Willis, principal of St Edmund Hall and professor of biodiversity, "you can see that little rectangular hole. It's a bat box." Scratch that, "I think it is a bat hotel now. I just hope our students like bats, is all I can say."

Before construction of the accommodation blocks began, ecologists recorded 12 bats on the site. Afterwards, one of the college fellows “counted 117 bats emerging from the bat box” on one evening, Willis says. “Isn’t that brilliant?”

Teddy Hall, as it is affectionately known, is the oldest academic society at the University of Oxford — and, indeed, at any university in the world — to have continuously housed undergraduates (since about 1278). Although it is believed St Edmund of Abingdon, who became Archbishop of Canterbury, first taught here circa 1190-1200.

In modern times, famous alumni have included the former prime minister Sir Keir Starmer, Philippine president Bongbong Marcos, the Monty Python star Terry Jones and the House of the Dragon actress Emma D'Arcy. And, of course, the bats.

Willis is giving me a tour of St Edmund's satellite site at Norham Gardens in north Oxford, where a £43m, three-year project to build 127 student bedrooms completed last month. It includes Passivhaus blocks (which reach a strict certified standard for energy performance) that use 70 per cent less energy than a standard new-build, and a low-energy makeover of a Victorian villa offering practical lessons for anyone wanting to upgrade a period home.

Residents were “very interested” in the upgrades to the Victorian villa, says Naila Yousuf, of Wright & Wright, the project architects. An open day scheduled to finish at 8pm went on to Ilpm as residents kept asking questions about measures you might try as “a normal person” at your own period home.

It inspired Willis, too, to consider insulation, solar panels and a heat pump at her own 1900s home in Summertown, a suburb of the city. "I'm thinking about what I do in my

Inset top right: a watercolour depicting the area's Victorian houses c 1860, attributed to William Wilkinson. Right and below: the new accommodation at St Edmund Hall, including green spaces and an ecology pond

Five air source heat pumps provide heating and hot water — so no fossil fuels are burnt

house, to try and do what we've done here... at an affordable cost," says Willis, who sits in the House of Lords as a crossbencher. "If it's going to cost you even more money than you're already paying on your energy and you're not

going to get it back for 20 years, nobody in their right mind is going to, because they won't even live in that house for 20 years probably. So you have to find that middle ground."

you know, sharp intake of breath." Yet it was completed on time and within budget to "the last penny", which shows "it doesn't have to have all the noughts added on the end the minute you say it's going to be environmentally sustainable", she says.

Dating from 1874, the villa was among the first large Victorian houses built in what is now a conservation area in north Oxford. This meant planners would not allow them to insulate walls on the outside, so they had to do so on the inside.

This is tricky. Get it wrong and you'd leave those lovely old walls riddled with damp and mould.

To avoid such disaster, the design team used breathable, natural materials to insulate internally: wood fibre insulation, cork and lime-based insulating plaster. (Modern plastic paints and waterproof cement mortar are a no-no in old buildings, which need to breathe.)

They also modelled the dew point — the exact spot inside the wall where warm, humid indoor air cools down enough to condense its vapour into water droplets. You don't want that to happen in the wrong part of the wall.

Yousuf advises anyone upgrading a period home to first do such moisture modelling. "Most people don't realise how buildings work. They're kind of living, in a way," she says.

The villa's old single-glazed windows were replaced with double-glazed wooden sashes. In the highly airtight and super-insulated new buildings,

windows are triple glazed, from the Danish brand Idealcombi.

Green roofs with 74 solar panels, invisible from ground level, supply 11 per cent of the site's electrical demand.

Five large air source heat pumps, hidden between gables at the top of the new buildings, supply heating and hot water for the whole site. It means they burn no fossil fuels.

What look like large chimneys contain not fireplaces but a clean, contemporary update: ducting for the mechanical ventilation and heat recovery (MVHR) system. It pumps out stale indoor air, extracts heat from it and uses that to warm fresh incoming air from outdoors.

The buildings were constructed from cross-laminated timber panels, built in a factory and craned into place.

All this was done “at the same cost as putting up a modern build”, Willis says. “But things that we didn’t cut costs on [were] features to make it look beautiful.”

Like 85,000 hung tiles of Sussex red clay, each bearing the handprint of its maker at Keymer, Britain's last manufacturer of handmade tiles. And 200,000 light red bricks, hand-thrown in Swanage, Dorset, and laid in a traditional Flemish bond pattern.

Above: the new student rooms

The architects “knew the bits that would make a difference” to how the buildings look, Willis says. “You could have got machine-made tiles; they would have all looked the same. You wouldn’t have had that same feeling as the other Victorian villas [in the area].”

They saved by keeping “a really beady eye on the extras. Originally all the furniture was going to be custom made. We did away with that,” Willis says. Furniture such as beds, desks and wardrobes came from bulk suppliers. “That kept the cost down considerably.”

All rainwater drains from the rooftops to an ecology pond. Rare trees,

People said, 'Oh, that'd be expensive.' Yet it was completed on time and in budget to the last penny

such as the Franklin tree (Franklinia alatamaha) which is extinct in the wild, were sourced from Kew and other botanical gardens to grow at St Edmund Hall.

Biodiversity on the site increased by 88 per cent, according to Willis. “For me as a biodiversity scientist, it’s an absolute delight. But it also shows what’s possible even on a really small site.”

Generous garden squares sit between the buildings, giving all the student residents a green view. Doors painted in the RAL colour Reed Green bring nature into their 14 sq m (150 sq ft) rooms — almost all with en suite showers. They even have dishwashers (rather than teetering piles of mouldy plates around sinks) in the kitchens shared between every six to ten rooms.

"Honestly, these students are going to live in heaven," Willis says.

Rooms around the medieval quadrangle at St Edmund's main site in central Oxford used to be the college's most popular ones. "Not any more," Willis says. The new rooms "went immediately" in the ballot for accommodation, where they were "top of the list".

"The students want the nice, comfortable rooms with the dishwashers [and] en suites. Then they can walk through the lovely historical quads. But actually, comfort is very high, as it should be," she adds.

The first students moved in on Saturday. Increasing the bedrooms from the 56 formerly on site to 127 now means St Edmund Hall can house all its undergraduates, freeing up homes for private rent in Oxford.

Willis says: “I hope that every student who lives here... will go forward thinking, ‘This is possible. We can do this... in the climate crisis and the nature crisis. And I know how because I’ve lived in it.’”

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First-time buyers 'will be locked out by price caps'

By David Byers

Price limits for first-time buyers using the new Help to Buy-style scheme in England will need to be raised or they will lock out tens of thousands of aspiring

homebuyers, an analysis has warned.

Under the Your First Home scheme, unveiled at the Labour Party conference, first-time buyers with a minimum 2.5 per cent mortgage deposit will be given access to a government-backed loan of 20 per cent of the value of a new-build property to help them bridge the affordability gap.

The scheme is a resurrection of the Help to Buy initiative, which offered a 20 per cent government loan, or 40 per cent in London.

As a key part of the new scheme, the government will announce in the upcoming budget a series of “local property price caps” that will dictate the maximum permitted price of homes under the initiative. Under Help to Buy, the cap was a maximum of £600,000 between 2013 and 2021 across England, but the scheme switched to regional caps ranging between £186,100 and £600,000 for the final two years. These caps were set at 1.5 times every region’s average first-time buyer price.

Researchers at Savills, however, warned that these local price caps hampered the scheme because of hyperlocal new-build property price

10% of council areas would be affordable under a £300,000 cap

variations within each region, which meant first-time buyers in some higher-priced areas had no available properties to choose from.

For example, a Savills analysis found that within the east of England region, where the previous Help to Buy property cap sat at a uniform £407,400, a three-bedroom new-build home measuring at least 900 sq ft in Epping Forest, with an average price of £650,000, busted the cap, but the same-sized property in Ipswich, at £362,450, fell well below it.

In Bournemouth, the average price for a three-bedroom new-build home (£465,000) rose well above the Help to Buy cap for this region of £349,000, but in other areas, such as the Forest of Dean in Gloucestershire (average £334,995), it was much lower.

Savills suggested the caps should be higher because first-time buyers are now more likely to live at home for longer and leap straight to larger three-bedroom homes, rather than two-bedroom flats, in order to start families.

As well as having intelligent local variations, Savills found even small differences to the cap chosen by the government would go a long way.

For example, if the government were to impose a notional England-wide cap of £300,000, first-time buyers would only be able to purchase a three-bedroom home in 10 per cent of local authority areas. However, raising it to £350,000 would increase this to 58 per cent.

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House histories

t was dubbed “Britain’s most expensive council house” and “Britain’s prettiest council house” when it last sold. Today the Victorian ferryman’s cottage in the centre of Cambridge is on the market again — this time for £1m.

Ferry House, on Midsummer

Ferry House, on Midsummer Common, was put on the market for £750,000 in 2017, and so popular was the three-bedroom cottage that it went to sealed bids. Jack Foxall, the present owner, paid £777,888 after gambling that the "slightly odd figure" would catch the seller's eye. When it was put on the market, the seller, Cambridge city council, promised to build four council homes with the proceeds.

It was a doer-upper; it had been leased to a charity and run as a hostel before being left empty. "When we purchased it, it was really, really, run-down. I think it had been left empty for a year or two. We had to actually cut our way through the vegetation at the front to get to the door," Foxall says. "There were high weeds in the garden; soil and vegetation covered the patio. Inside there were damp carpets and old furnishings. It was very neglected."

Foxall completely renovated the cottage: "We ripped out the old carpet, put in new skirting, new electrics, replastered walls, put in a new kitchen and a wood-burner. We generally modernised and refreshed it."

The detached house sits on the towpath of the River Cam on the edge of Midsummer Common, less than a 15-minute walk from the centre of the city. "It is very quiet and peaceful. You can open the windows in the morning and listen to the rowers going by. It can be busy when the midsummer fair is on, but you get a private viewing from the garden of the November 5 fireworks," Foxall says.

Today the house is

Today the house is being marketed by the estate agency Cheffins with the intriguing line: "Is this the most exclusive historic home for sale in Cambridge?" A bold claim in a city that is thought to be more than 1,000 years old. There have been ferrymen plying their trade across the Cam since at least the early 1700s.

Foxall believes that the present house was built in 1894, although there has been a house called Ferry House on the site for much longer. At the time of the 1871 census a 43-year-old college servant called Frederick Underwood lived in Ferry House with his three daughters, aged 17, 14 and 11, and his sister-in-law, Emma. His wife, Ann, had died at the age of 36 in 1862.

Ten years later, a former brickworks foreman, John Ireland, was registered as the ferryman living at the house with his wife, Phoebe, six-year-old daughter, Henrietta, and a 14-year-old niece, also called Phoebe. Being a ferryman didn't seem to suit John, though, and not long after, he moved on to become a

CHEFFINS; CAPTURINGCAMBRIDGE.ORG/MUSEUM OF CAMBRIDGE

Above and above right: the property overlooks the Cam. Right: Walter Pauley operated the Fort St George crossing from Ferry House (seen in the background) with his son Ernest from around 1887

Ferryman's cottage now worth £1m

Ferry House in Cambridge was dubbed ‘Britain’s most expensive council house’ when it was last sold. Carol Lewis delves into the history of the Victorian home and its residents

Top: Ferry House. Above: the ferry sank in 1927

Key dates

1894 Ferry House rebuilt

1927 The footbridge opens

2017 The city council sells the house for £777,888

greengrocer across the river in Chesterton.

“Beside the house there is an alleyway, then steps down to the water, where members of the public queued before being taken across,” Foxall says. He has a photograph from about 1920 that shows the ferryman on his journey, with the house in the background (above). While originally the ferryman would have rowed or poled people across, later a wheel and chain

system was installed and the ferryman would "grind" passengers across.

The ferryman pictured is likely to be Walter Pauley, with his son Ernest. From about 1887 Pauley took over the role of St George's Fort ferryman and lived at Ferry House with his wife, Elizabeth, his daughter, Beatrice, and his sons Percy

and Ernest, who became his assistant. The father-and-son team operated what came to be known as "Pauley's ferry".

An article in the Cambridge Daily News on July 16, 1998, quotes Reginald Dye, Pauley's grandson (Beatrice's son): "Pauley operated the ferry for 40 years and carried up to one and a quarter million passengers." The piece continues: "Reg recalls that grandfather Pauley usually charged Id [a penny] a crossing but used to double it whenever the midsummer fair was in operation."

The popularity of the midsummer fair, which dates back to 1211 and continues today, is reflected in the 1921 census,

which shows the number of households rose from the usual handful to 65, boosted by “travelling showmen”, many living in caravans and tents on the common.

In 1927 a footbridge was built across the river. Ironically, the old ferry sank just before it opened — with some wags claiming it was overcome by the sight of the bridge being built to replace it. No one was aboard. The Pauley family continued to live at the house, although

He charged 1d [a penny] a crossing but doubled it when the midsummer fair was in operation

they were under great pressure to move.

A letter published in April 1928 in the Cambridge Daily News by a Charles Porter outlines their plight: "I protest against the ejection of Mr Pauley and his family from the ferry house, Midsummer Common. They have done their best to find a house without success. The man and his son worked the ferry over the river, night and day, including Sundays, and in all weathers for the convenience of the Cambridge ratepayers, thus filling one of the most monotonous jobs; the man for 35 years and the boy for 16. On the completion of the footbridge they are completely cast over, no compensation being paid and no pension. To send people adrift in this matter is neither a moral or Christian act."

At a council meeting in June 1928, which was reported in the Saffron Walden Weekly News, it was claimed: "The conservators [of the River Cam] had been generous, and allowed this man [Pauley] and his family to live in the house since February [for] twelve months without any payment of rent or rates, and some had personally done their best to get a job for the younger Pauley, but unfortunately he was unable to do the work offered him by the road surveyor." It was agreed, though, that there was no money to pay a pension to Walter Pauley.

It seems the Pauley family persevered and were still living at the house when Walter died in 1931 aged 78, Elizabeth having died a year before. By the time of the 1939 survey, Beatrice, who had married in 1924, was living in Ramsden Square in the northeast of the city with her husband, James Dye, a theatre stage carpenter, and their young son, Reginald.

Meanwhile, Ernest was living with his brother Percy, a piano tuner, in Ditton Fields, to the east of their old home, and still described himself as a "ferry worker".

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